Static Presentation Processing (e.g., Processing Data For Printer, Etc.) Patents (Class 358/1.1)
  • Patent number: 10115194
    Abstract: Provided is a method for training a neural network to detect features in a retinal image. The method may include the steps of: combining and randomizing feature images into a Training data set; combining and randomizing the feature images into a testing dataset; training a plurality of neural networks having different architectures using a subset of the training dataset while testing on a subset of the testing dataset; identifying the best neural network based on each of the plurality of neural networks performance on the testing data set; inputting images to the best neural network and identifying a limited number of false positives and false negative and adding the false positives and false negatives to the training dataset and testing dataset; and repeating the foregoing steps until an objective performance threshold is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: IDx, LLC
    Inventors: Meindert Niemeijer, Ryan Amelon, Warrent Claride, Michael D. Abramoff
  • Patent number: 10116814
    Abstract: A second display control section of a multifunction printer switches from a first display process in which an external browser screen is displayed on a display section to a second display process in which an internal browser screen is displayed on the display section, and displays the internal browser screen on the display section according to the state of a paper feeding cassette and a cover member which are operated, when a change in state of the paper feeding cassette and the cover member is sensed by an event generation section while executing the first display process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 10116818
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of displaying icons that are arranged properly without causing user's time and effort. A display unit displays icons for selecting a function from among mounted functions. A memory device stores a set of instructions. At least one processor executes the instructions to display various icons including a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of functions that are extended by installing at least one application in a display area of the display unit, and to collect the plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of functions extended into a predetermined icon in a case where the number of icons displayed in the display area exceeds a display upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KAUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10116826
    Abstract: A document printing system may include one or more print devices, each is capable of detecting a portable memory device, and also detecting a document file and associated configuration file stored in the portable memory device, where the configuration file may contain information about an interruption of a print job associated with the document file. The interruption may have occurred previously on any of the print devices. Each print device may extract and use the information from the configuration file, to automatically resume the previously interrupted print job. Each print device may also be capable of detecting an interruption of a current print job and recording information about the interruption in the configuration file stored in the portable memory device. In some embodiments, the information about the interruption of the print job may include a page number, cause of the interruption and/or job attributes of the interrupted print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Bondugula Ravikiran, Sainarayanan Gopalakrishnan, Srinivasarao Bindana, Sivanandha Reddy Padiri, Muralidaran Krishnasamy, Sathish Kumar Annamalai Thangaraj, Narayan Kesavan
  • Patent number: 10108394
    Abstract: An output device for providing output service to a mobile information apparatus without requiring a device specific output driver installed at the mobile information apparatus. The wireless output device may include an operating system, a wireless communication unit for radio frequency communication, a display screen, and a user interface over the display screen, the output device may include features for installing one or more application software at the output device for expanding the capabilities of the output device, registering the output device with a control point over a network and providing an identification of the output device for enabling one or more mobile information apparatuses to transmit output data to the output device. Subsequent to registering the output device and providing the identification information of the output device, the output device receives output data associated with the identification information from the mobile information apparatus for rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: William Ho Chang, Christine Ying Liu
  • Patent number: 10102460
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical filling system for a high volume pharmacy is described. The system can include a paper feed device and method. The system may include a paper collator with at one selectively openable shelf. A control device may monitor the capacity of the selectively openable shelf, and instruct a printer to hold printing additional print jobs. The selectively openable shelf may then be opened to allow the printed literature resting thereon to fall to a lower shelf, and the printer can then be restarted. Sheets of printed literature may be drawn from the paper collator, collected with any other sheets of printed literature associated with a prescription order, and mated with the prescription order for shipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10104261
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a memory, a receiving unit, and a printing unit. The memory stores print schedule information indicating regular time information concerning a time at which printing is regularly performed and also stores print settings information in association with the print schedule information. The receiving unit receives print data. The printing unit prints the print data received by the receiving unit in accordance with the print settings information if a time at which the print data is received matches the regular time information indicated in the print schedule information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiemi Miyata, Noriyuki Suzumura, Shinichi Takano, Daichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10092166
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image from an endoscope, an adjustment information acquisition unit configured to acquire color calibration information about color calibration performed in a display device on which the captured image is displayed, a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a printing device, print data corresponding to the acquired captured image, and a correction value acquisition unit configured to acquire a correction value used for performing, on the print data, correction that is corresponding to the color calibration of the acquired color calibration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroe Honma
  • Patent number: 10095963
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical filling system for a high volume pharmacy is described. The system can include a paper feed device and method. The system may include a paper collator with at one selectively openable shelf. A control device may monitor the capacity of the selectively openable shelf, and instruct a printer to hold printing additional print jobs. The selectively openable shelf may then be opened to allow the printed literature resting thereon to fall to a lower shelf, and the printer can then be restarted. Sheets of printed literature may be drawn from the paper collator, collected with any other sheets of printed literature associated with a prescription order, and mated with the prescription order for shipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10088982
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus employs an operating system providing a first user interface (UI) environment appropriate for a touch panel and a conventional desktop UI environment, and, according to display of a pop-up dialog associated with secure print function of a printer driver in the desktop UI environment, if a toast prompting a user to change display from the first UI environment to the second UI environment is displayed for a predetermined period of time by the OS in the first UI environment, and, if a user's operation on the dialog is not performed for a predetermined period of time in the desktop UI environment, the printer driver deletes the dialog and displays the dialog again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Hasama
  • Patent number: 10091365
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image formation unit that forms an image based on a job; and a control unit that controls the image formation unit, the control unit having an image quality verification/adjustment function to compare an image quality of the scanned image and a predetermined image quality standard, and to carry out an image quality adjustment such that the image quality of the image is within an allowable range of the predetermined image quality standard when the image quality of the scanned image is not within the allowable range, the control unit comparing a required image quality for the job and the predetermined image quality standard before a carrying-out procedure to carry out the image quality verification/adjustment function before execution of the job as necessary, and deciding whether the image for the job satisfies the required image quality by the image quality verification/adjustment function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shimura
  • Patent number: 10063721
    Abstract: This invention relates to an information processing apparatus being able to execute first and second functions and set the processing conditions of each function by using a user interface, and a control method of the information processing apparatus. In a case that either of the first and second functions is selected, an application common to both the first and second functions is launched, and a user interface window generated based on common data corresponding to the application is displayed. The processing conditions of the selected function can be set from the user interface window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10062019
    Abstract: Print data generated in a page description language can be processed using a processor. The processing can include checking whether conditions specified in trigger information are satisfied for at least one page of the document and/or for the entire document. Based on the checking, an action associated with the trigger information can be executed that changes the print data. The print data supplied as input print data can be output as output print data after the execution of the action. For example, images, text, barcodes, and/or graphics may be inserted via in the action. Finishing options may also be added, or fonts may be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Cam Hung Mach, Robert Wallner, Adelheid Wiringer
  • Patent number: 10061548
    Abstract: Provided is information processing apparatus with possibly-making an optimal printing for an image forming apparatus perform. A job property acquiring part acquires a job property. A driver-settings acquiring part acquires driver settings at time of a job being outputted. A throughput time estimating part calculates estimated throughput time from a job property and driver settings. An optimized-settings calculating part calculates an optimized driver settings in which an output is possible in time shorter than estimated throughput time for the job property. A job output part makes a job output to the image forming apparatus by the calculated optimized driver settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Documents Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Qi Luo
  • Patent number: 10055421
    Abstract: A data processing method comprises using an application server computer of an application service provider (ASP), establishing computerized shared multi-tenant data storage in which tenant data that is associated with a plurality of different tenants of the ASP is stored together in a first database associated with a distributed computation system that is separate from the application server computer, receiving an analytics request, determining, based on at least one attribute of the analytics request, the application server computer will process at least the analytics request, sending, to the distributed computation system, a first query for data needed by the analytics request, receiving, from the distributed computation system, an interim result set of data resulting from processing the first query against the first database, processing, by the application server computer, the interim result set of data for the analytics request to generate and digitally store a first result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: XACTLY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nirav Patel, Gowri Shankar Ravindran
  • Patent number: 10057443
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a control method for an image processing apparatus including a reading unit configured to read a document image and a printing unit configured to print the document image read by the reading unit is provided. The control method includes detecting an error in process of reading by the reading unit, causing the reading unit to perform reread processing for rereading the document image based on the error being detected, and refraining, in a case where the image processing apparatus operates in a mode in which the printing unit starts printing without waiting for the reading unit to complete reading a document image, from causing the reading unit to perform the reread processing based on the error being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyomi Hirao
  • Patent number: 10042849
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates transferring data from multiple data sources to desired data targets. In one embodiment, meta-data specifying multiple use cases is maintained, with each use case indicating an import procedure and a corresponding condition to be satisfied by a set of import parameters such that the import procedure is executed for importing of data upon satisfaction of the corresponding condition. In response to receiving an import connector requesting transfer of data from data sources to data targets, a use case is selected having the condition which is satisfied by the respective values for the corresponding import parameters received in the import connector. The execution of the import procedure indicated by the selected use case is then initiated to import data from the data sources to the data targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Subrata Sarkar, Aditya Gadgil
  • Patent number: 10044891
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of processing devices, and a power controller. The power controller is configured to control power supply fed to each of the processing devices. Each of the processing devices includes a detector configured to detect occurrence of an anomaly and a notifier configured to send a notification of the occurrence of the anomaly. Upon receiving the notification from the notifier, the power controller restarts the electronic apparatus by turning off and thereafter turning on the power supply of the plurality of processing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Sunagawa
  • Patent number: 10043115
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Fumiaki Hirose
  • Patent number: 10037180
    Abstract: A method for providing a user interface screen in a device includes receiving a user input for manipulating a user interface of a printer driver installed in the device, determining a type of an input used for the received user input, determining a display style of the user interface corresponding to the determined type of the input, and providing the user interface presented in the determined display style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-myung Joo, Young-soo Han
  • Patent number: 10038824
    Abstract: According to exemplary methods, a print job is received into a computerized device that includes a marking device. The print job specifies an imposition template defining multiple logical pages for a single sheet of print media according to an electronic document. The print job attributes also contain a first print colorant order and a different second print colorant order. Groups of logical pages are defined for each print colorant order, and buffers are created in which raster data associated with each group of logical pages are merged and untouched pixels are marked as negative pixels. The information from each buffer is printed on a single sheet of print media. Following printing of each buffer, the sheet of print media is returned to the marking device, so that information from the next buffer can be printed on the same side of the sheet of print media, using the marking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Arindam Das, Chiranjib Basu, Michael A. Wiegand
  • Patent number: 10031435
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is an electrophotographic image forming apparatus that forms an image onto a print medium based on input image data. The image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set, based on component values of multiple colors acquired for each pixel of the image data, a limiting value on a toner amount to use in the image formation for each pixel, and an image forming unit configured to form an image onto the print medium with an amount of toner less than or equal to the set limiting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Michihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 10019209
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image input unit configured to input image data; one or more applications configured to process the image data that has been input by the image input unit; an analysis unit configured to analyze a characteristic of the input image data; and a processing selection unit configured to select one or more of the applications suitable for processing the input image data, based on an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Shunichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 10021256
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an item-management unit for, in a first screen including a list of setting items whose values are input at a workflow execution time, when an operation is performed for a first setting item of the setting items, including a first item corresponding to the first setting item in a second screen, and an input unit for, when another operation is performed for applying the first item included in the second screen to a setting area of a value of a second setting item of a first process of one or more processes of the workflow included in a third screen, inputting a character string to the setting area of the value of the second setting item, the character string indicating that the value input at the workflow execution time is referred to as the value of the second setting item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10015348
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which appropriately avoids a resource conflict in the image forming apparatus. A checking unit checks whether a type of an application program execution of which has been ordered is a specific type. A control unit allows execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as being the specific type, and restricts execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as not being the specific type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takao Ikuno
  • Patent number: 10002651
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a valid command generation circuit and a training control circuit. The valid command generation circuit may be configured to latch an internal chip selection signal and an internal control signal in synchronization with a division clock signal to generate a latch chip selection signal and a latch control signal. The valid command generation circuit may be configured to generate a valid command for executing a predetermined function from the latch control signal. The training control circuit may be configured to generate a training result signal from the latch chip selection signal or the latch control signal based on a flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Geun Ho Choi, Dong Kyun Kim, Jae Il Kim
  • Patent number: 9990169
    Abstract: Provided is a print controller connectable to each of a cut paper printer and a continuous paper printer, the print controller including a receiving unit that receives a print job in a job ticket format from a print work flow system, a test print instruction unit that generates a print job of a new test print based on the print job and instructs the cut paper printer to execute a print process to execute a test print using print data included in the print job, a holding notification unit that notifies the print work flow system of an effect that the print job is held, and a real print job instruction unit that sends the print data included in the print job and a print parameter to the continuous paper printer and instructs the continuous paper printer to execute a real print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Wakamatsu
  • Patent number: 9989875
    Abstract: In the conventional toner save processing, in the case where the color of each element, such as a character, a graphics, and an image, constituting an image is a pale color or bright color, visual recognizability will be degraded even by maintaining the density of an edge portion of each element. An image processing apparatus that performs color material save processing to perform color printing while suppressing a color material consumption compared to that at the time of normal printing, includes an edge detection unit configured to detect an edge pixel constituting an edge of an object within input image data, and a density adjustment unit configured to convert the color of a detected edge pixel into an achromatic color and to decrease the density of the color of a non-edge pixel, which is a pixel other than the edge pixel of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Nakano
  • Patent number: 9986117
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to control a Reprint function/Resend function so as not to confuse a user of an image processing device in a case where a job complete delete function is enabled. An image processing device having a reperform function to reperform an already-performed job and a delete function to delete data used in an already-performed job by overwriting the data used in the already-performed job by real data, the image processing device including a job security setting unit configured to set whether to enable the delete function, and in the case where the delete function is set to be enabled by the job security setting unit, the already-performed job is not reperformed by the reperform function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 9977793
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and one or more terminal devices. The information processing system includes: an image transmitting unit configured to transmit an image; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the image transmitted by the image transmitting unit, and assign unique identification information to the acquired image; a feature information extracting unit configured to extract feature information from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit; a first image storage unit configured to store therein the feature information and the identification information in an associated manner; and a managing unit configured to, when an amount of the feature information stored in the first image storage unit exceeds a threshold, change the first image storage unit into a second image storage unit, generate a new first image storage unit, and prohibit the second image storage unit from storing therein new feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9979775
    Abstract: An MFP includes a processor following a user instruction to execute a browser and cause a display device to display a designated web page. In doing so, the processor obtains user information and stores it to a memory. The processor determines that the user information stored in the memory is deleted at a point of time at which the processor determines that the MFP presents a predefined state allowing the MFP to end displaying a web page or at a point of time at which the processor determines that a user operation is done that is predefined to cause the MFP to end displaying the web page. At the earlier one of these points of time, the processor deletes the user information stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ayumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 9973657
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that is able to prevent a security environment from being changed due to maintenance work without an administrator user noticing. The image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus that performs image formation, and includes a setting receiving unit that receives settings such as settings related to maintenance of the image formation, settings related to security, and an administrator user setting. The setting receiving unit receives all of the settings by a maintenance worker when the administrator user setting is unset, and prohibits receiving settings related to security by the maintenance worker when the administrator user setting is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Iwashima
  • Patent number: 9965635
    Abstract: Provided is an image tagging device including: a first functional unit in which an image including an object that is a target of privacy protection is stored and that removes privacy information by changing part of the master image; a second functional unit that acquires the changed image from the first functional unit and changes a region image of an object that is not to be tagged in the first image; a function that distributes the changed image from the second functional unit to a tagging operation terminal device and receives image tag information from the tagging operation terminal device over a network; and a tagged image generator that generates a tagged image on the basis of the master image and the image tag information. This makes it possible to collect tagged images while achieving both privacy protection and an improvement in efficiency of a tagging operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Sotaro Tsukizawa, Yasunori Ishii, Reiko Hagawa
  • Patent number: 9965235
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores computer-readable instructions which are readable by a controller of a device provided with a communication interface and a notification interface. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the controller, cause the device to perform determining whether pre-operations defined in multiple jobs contained in a workflow have successfully completed. In response to determination that the pre-operations have successfully completed, the device is caused to execute a main-process in which main-operations respectively defined in the multiple jobs contained in the workflow in order. In response to determination that at least one of the pre-operations has abended, the notification interface is caused to notify that the multiple jobs defined in the workflow are inexecutable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Susumu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9952849
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an installing unit configured to acquire a program from an information processing apparatus coupled to a network and install the acquired program on the apparatus, an acquiring unit configured to acquire setup information applied to the apparatus at an installing destination, to which the program is installed, the acquiring unit acquiring first setup information sent to the information processing apparatus from the apparatus or another apparatus before installing the program, and an applying unit configured to apply the first setup information to the apparatus in response to installing of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji Araki
  • Patent number: 9952525
    Abstract: In the conventional toner save processing, in the case where the color of each element, such as a character, a graphics, and an image, constituting an image is a pale color or bright color, visual recognizability will be degraded even by maintaining the density of an edge portion of each element. An image processing apparatus that performs color material save processing to perform color printing while suppressing a color material consumption compared to that at the time of normal printing, includes an edge detection unit configured to detect an edge pixel constituting an edge of an object within input image data, and a density adjustment unit configured to convert the color of a detected edge pixel into an achromatic color and to decrease the density of the color of a non-edge pixel, which is a pixel other than the edge pixel of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Nakano
  • Patent number: 9953252
    Abstract: A printer includes a receiver, an inserter, and a sort controller. The receiver receives print data. In response to detection of a change in a reception condition for receiving the print data by the receiver, the inserter inserts separator information between a print data portion received before the detection and a print data portion received after the detection, and thereby generates print data including the separator information inserted thereinto. In response to detection of the separator information from the print data including the separator information inserted thereinto that is sequentially input from the inserter, the sort controller performs control to sort a printout of a print data portion after the detected separator information from a printout of a print data portion before the detected separator information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hosana Kimura, Noriyuki Suzumura, Kazuya Takahashi, Shinichi Takano, Kazutoshi Kondo, Daichi Takahashi, Yuta Nakayama, Chiemi Miyata
  • Patent number: 9946961
    Abstract: An image printing apparatus including a communication interface, a printer, a user interface including an operation panel, a controller configured to control the printer and the user interface is provided. The controller is configured to receive preliminary data sent from an information processing apparatus through the communication interface; control the printer to perform a warm-up action; receive job data including image data through the communication interface; control the user interface to perform a receipt-notification and control the printer to start printing based on the image data; during a period from the receipt of the preliminary data until start of receiving the job data, withhold from accepting a cancellation command sent in response to user entering a cancellation operation; and after the start of receiving the job data, accept the cancellation command and cancel printing of the image based on the job data associated with to the entered cancellation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Oguchi
  • Patent number: 9930197
    Abstract: An information converter includes an acquisition part for acquiring execution information of a specific function mode, the specific function mode being included in customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user and not being installed in a specific image forming apparatus; and a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in the specific function mode into a plurality of jobs which can be executed in the specific image forming apparatus and converting the execution information of the specific function mode into converted execution information described by using combination of the plurality of jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Eiichi Yoshida, Takuya Okada, Takeshi Hibino, Toshimi Shinchi, Kenichi Komaba
  • Patent number: 9924145
    Abstract: An image display apparatus that enables easy setting of an adjustment parameter of an image quality setting item according to user preference includes an adjustment unit configured to adjust a display image based on an adjustment parameter, a display unit configured to generate a plurality of adjustment parameter candidates different from each other and display a list of a plurality of adjusted images adjusted by the adjustment unit based on the plurality of adjustment parameter candidates, and a selection unit configured to select an adjusted image from the displayed list. The adjustment parameter is set based on the adjusted image selected from the plurality of adjusted images and the plurality of adjustment parameter candidates when displaying an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Teruya Kusuda
  • Patent number: 9917984
    Abstract: Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus, including: an image forming part to form an image made of plural pixels by using plural printing colors and a special color different from the plural printing colors; an input part of image data of the image; an image processing part to output component data of the plural printing colors from the image data for each of the pixels; a user interface to specify a condition for converting the component data of the plural printing colors into component data of a multi color in which the special color is added to the plural printing colors; and a conversion part to convert the component data of the plural printing colors from the image processing part into the component data of the multi color to the image forming part based on the condition of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takehisa Ishida
  • Patent number: 9892199
    Abstract: An apparatus for setting up a specialized personal electronic assistant on an electronic device includes a processor, a display, a language module, a tracking module, a knowledge module, and a rendering module. The language module interprets a communication from a user into a data request. The tracking module stores the data request as one of a plurality of stored data requests. The knowledge module determines a response to the data request. The rendering module displays the response in a tiled area on an image display of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, John Weldon Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9894222
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory and an output unit. The memory stores setting-related information related to a setting generated as a result of a setting process performed by a user for commanding an image forming unit to perform an image forming process. The output unit outputs the stored setting-related information in accordance with an operation performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuya Yamguchi
  • Patent number: 9886221
    Abstract: Terminating a wireless connection is simplified. A printer has a print unit that prints on recording media; a wireless communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly; and a control unit. When print data with a specific command appended is received from the external device unit, the control unit executes a terminate communication process that cuts the wireless connection based on the specific command after controlling the print unit to print based on the print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 9876936
    Abstract: An imposition device includes an imposing unit that imposes images of plural document pages in a same page order as a pamphlet; a rotation selecting unit that selects whether or not to rotate, by 180 degrees, one of the images that corresponds to a back cover of a pamphlet obtained from a printed material on which the images have been imposed by the imposing unit; and a rotation processing unit that rotates the image that corresponds to the back cover by 180 degrees in a case where rotation of the image that corresponds to the back cover is selected by the rotation selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukui, Shingo Tajima
  • Patent number: 9876939
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an information obtaining portion that obtains association information indicating an association between a first and second portable terminal apparatus from an association information storage, the first portable terminal apparatus having a proper permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from the first portable terminal apparatus, the second portable terminal apparatus having a temporary permission to use the function from the second portable terminal apparatus in place of the first portable terminal apparatus; a data storage that stores data caused by a process between the image processing apparatus and the second portable terminal apparatus; an online terminal detector that detects the first portable terminal apparatus as being online; and a data provider that provides the data to the first portable terminal apparatus from the data storage when the online terminal detector detects the first portable terminal apparatus as being online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Junichi Hase, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Yosuke Taniguchi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9870524
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section that periodically forms a color calibration image which is used for color adjustment along with an image on a recording material, a color information obtaining section that periodically obtains color information of the color calibration image which is formed on the recording material before color adjustment which is periodically performed, and a color adjusting section that, based on plural pieces of the color information that is obtained by the color information obtaining section, performs color adjustment on an image formed by the image forming section such that a difference between a color of an image which is supposed to be output and a color of an image which is output is reduced by a next color adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuhiro Togashi
  • Patent number: 9869956
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses are connected through a network, the image forming system including a control unit that controls the image forming apparatuses, wherein when a plurality of image forming apparatuses output a job requested in an arbitrary image forming apparatus, the control unit compares image quality parameters, such as a tone, a density balance, and a line width, in the image forming apparatuses, selects image forming apparatuses that have image quality parameters similar to each other and that can output the job, and causes the selected image forming apparatuses to output the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Masaya Ikuta
  • Patent number: 9864558
    Abstract: A method of controlling an image reproduction system, wherein a process duration is estimated on the basis of a measured time (D) for the processing of a number (n) of pages that have been processed already, the method comprising storing a digital table which contains a number of pre-defined job types as well as a respective correction factor (A4) for each job type; when a job is received (S1), assigning (S2) a job type to the received job; calculating (S3) a first estimate (D1) for a time needed for processing at least a specified collection of pages from the job; calculating (S4) a second estimate (D2) by multiplying the first estimate (D1) with the correction factor (A4); when said specified collection of pages has been processed, calculating a deviation of the first estimate (D1), and updating (S9) the correction factor (A4); and storing the updated correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: OCÉ HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Edy I. H. C. Klomp, Tim F. P. Paffen
  • Patent number: 9866714
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to creation of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) including a scheme name associated with a print application. Examples include acquisition of print content, creation of a URI including URI scheme name associated with a print application and a reference to a user-privileged storage location of a computing device for the print content. Examples further include performing an application programming interface (API) call including the URI to cause an operating system to launch the print application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kristofer Erik Metz, Richard Erben, Brian Hiatt, Jeffrey P Beery