Scanning Patents (Class 358/474)
  • Patent number: 12081900
    Abstract: A portable, collapsible video production system includes a case having a top lid connected to a bottom lid, a lift rigidly secured within the case to the top lid or the bottom lid, and a collapsible camera system rigidly secured to a top of the lift. The camera system includes a bottom frame member housing a computer with a screen, a middle frame member housing a transparent substrate that, when angled with respect to the bottom frame member, is configured to project an image of the screen to a user facing the case, and a top frame member housing a camera that, when angled with respect to the bottom frame member, is configured to aim the camera through the transparent substrate at a user facing the case. The bottom frame, the middle frame, and the upper frame are pivotably connected to each other along a hinge axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hidden Content LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Gentile, Adam Donald, Jacob Wasserman, Jay Shapiro
  • Patent number: 12056850
    Abstract: An image processing device includes at least one processor configured to acquire target data as an image processing target and a designated parameter designated by a user to receive a request for image processing from the user, extract, from a storage unit in which subjects of processed image data previously subjected to the image processing and applied parameters applied to the processed image data are accumulated in association with each other, the applied parameter applied to the processed image data having a subject similar to the target data, derive a use frequency of the designated parameter among the extracted applied parameters based on parameter values of the extracted applied parameters, and output the use frequency of the designated parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Terada
  • Patent number: 12051152
    Abstract: A method for generating a colored tridimensional map of an environment surrounding a device, including the steps of receiving a first stream including a plurality of N point cloud frames from a tridimensional sensor, receiving a second stream including a plurality of M images from a camera, generating a global tridimensional map by merging the plurality of N point cloud frames in a reference coordinate system, and determining the colored tridimensional map by assigning a calculated color to each tridimensional data point of global tridimensional map, the calculated color being determined from color values of pixels of the plurality of M images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: OUTSIGHT
    Inventor: Raul Bravo Orellana
  • Patent number: 12033012
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, upon input of first identification information through an identification information input device and a first document image through an image input device, a control device functioning as a controller recognizes a first text in the first document image, extracts a plurality of words constituting the first text, selects first symbols or characters from the first identification information in a predetermined first order, selects first words from the plurality of words in a predetermined second order, inserts, upon each selection of the first symbol or character and the first word, a predetermined sign and the first symbol or character between the first word and the next first word to generate a first character string, converts the first character string to a first 2D barcode, and assigns the first 2D barcode to the first document image. An output device outputs the first 2D barcode-assigned first document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Peter James Bulat-Ag
  • Patent number: 12010278
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a document bed on which a document is placed, an automatic document feeder (an example of an opening/closing member) configured to be opened/closed with respect to the document bed, a rotational supporting section provided at one end of the document bed and rotatably supporting the automatic document feeder with respect to the document bed, and a height adjustment mechanism that adjusts the height of the automatic document feeder relative to the document bed. The rotational supporting section has a holding section fixed to the document bed and a rotary fulcrum section attached to the holding section and being movable in the up-down direction relative to the holding section. The height adjustment mechanism adjusts the height of the rotary fulcrum section relative to the holding section to adjust the height of the automatic document feeder relative to the document bed and overlaps the holding section and the rotary fulcrum section in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kawabata, Kazunori Mori, Masato Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12001737
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to communicate with a first cloud cooperation system receives selection of a file stored in a cloud storage service, acquires the selected file via the first cloud cooperation system, performs control to execute printing of the acquired file, receives input of authentication information to be used for connection to a second cloud cooperation system different from the first cloud cooperation system, and transmits information about a result of the executed printing to the second cloud cooperation system via the first cloud cooperation system by using the input authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuto Terashima
  • Patent number: 12003685
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an input device that inputs a document image; and a controller, wherein the controller removes a streak from the image by a first method, removes a streak from the image by a second method that differs from the first method, and executes crop processing on the image from which the streaks have been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Sakamoto, Akihito Yoshida, Yasutaka Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11991327
    Abstract: An image reading device includes first glass, an adjacent portion adjacent to the first glass, a reading unit, and a position reference portion. The first glass enables an document to be placed on a front surface side of the document. The reading unit is capable of being in contact with at least one of the adjacent portion and the first glass and reads, from a back surface side of the first glass, the document placed on the first glass by using a sensor while moving from the adjacent portion side in a movement direction. The position reference portion is disposed on the front surface side of the first glass and serves as a reference of a position of the reading unit in the movement direction. When the position reference portion is read by the reading unit, the reading unit is in contact with the adjacent portion and the first glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeru Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11985274
    Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus includes reading an original document, analyzing code information in image data generated by reading of the original document, acquiring authentication information for logging in to an external apparatus by analyzing the code information, logging in to the external apparatus using the acquired authentication information, and transmitting the image data to the external apparatus to which the logging in is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kyosuke Nakano
  • Patent number: 11973914
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a scanning unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductor by scanning the photoconductor with one or more scanning beams in a main scanning direction based on an image signal, repetitively in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction; a generating unit configured to perform halftone processing on image data to generate the image signal; and a storage unit configured to store correction information. The correction information is set such that start positions of a plurality of scanning lines are linearly displaced to either a negative side or a positive side of the main scanning direction along the sub-scanning direction, in accordance with a direction of a first vector forming a smaller angle with the sub-scanning direction among two vectors in the halftone processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Go Araki, Mitsuhiro Obara
  • Patent number: 11969824
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a laser processing apparatus includes controlling an X-axis galvanometer scanner and a Y-axis galvanometer scanner on the basis of X coordinates and Y coordinates recorded in a coordinate recording section to apply a pulsed laser beam to a workpiece, thereby processing the workpiece, actuating an X-axis moving mechanism and a Y-axis moving mechanism on the basis of the X coordinates and the Y coordinates recorded in the coordinate recording section and causing an image capturing unit to capture an image of processed marks on the workpiece, and detecting shifts between X coordinates and Y coordinates of the processed marks whose image has been captured in the processed mark image capturing step and the X coordinates and the Y coordinates recorded in the coordinate recording section, and recording corrective values in a corrective value recording section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ida, Tetsuya Mizutani, Junya Mimura
  • Patent number: 11905137
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a first feeding roller pair, an upstream feeding roller pair, a downstream feeding roller pair, a second feeding roller pair, a first detecting portion, a second detecting portion, a third detecting portion, and a controller. The controller calculates a sheet feeding speed on the basis of a first time and a first distance. The controller calculates a length of the sheet with respect to the sheet feeding direction on the basis of the sheet feeding speed, a second time, and a second distance. The controller controls a sheet feeding timing by the second feeding roller pair on the basis of information of the length of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuma Inui
  • Patent number: 11907910
    Abstract: Sharing content includes verifying occurrence of an event, determining participants of the event, gathering related content generated by the participants, where the related content corresponds to the event, and disseminating the related content to the participants. The event may be a business meeting. Verifying occurrence of an event may include determining scheduled participants, scheduled location, and scheduled time of the event using an electronic calendar of one of the scheduled participants. Participants may include the scheduled participants and other participants that are not listed in the electronic calendar where the other participants attend the event. Verifying occurrence of an event may also include confirming that at least an event organizer is at the scheduled location at the scheduled time and there is at least one other one of the participants. The content may include documents, photos, scanned images, audio clips, video clips, typed notes, and/or handwritten notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EVERNOTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Phil Libin
  • Patent number: 11889032
    Abstract: An apparatus for acquiring an image includes an image sensor, a light compensator, and a light filter assembly. The image sensor is on a light output side of the light filter assembly, and is configured to generate and output a first image signal and a second image signal by a plurality of exposures. The first image signal is generated according to a first preset exposure and the second image signal is generated according to a second preset exposure, and they are two of the plurality of exposures. The light compensator includes a first light compensation apparatus, the first light compensation apparatus is configured to perform near-infrared light compensation, and the near-infrared light compensation is performed in at least part of an exposure period of the first preset exposure but is not performed in an exposure period of the second preset exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Fan, Hai Yu, Shiliang Pu
  • Patent number: 11870960
    Abstract: Before reading of a document, an image processing control portion makes an image reading portion perform pre-scanning operation, which is scanning operation performed with a document cover open without a document placed on a placement surface, and checks the incident condition of external disturbance light on the image sensor. If it is judged that the incident condition is a predetermined state, the image processing control portion makes a control device perform a countermeasure process to make the room dimmer than it currently is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11868717
    Abstract: Techniques to capture document data are disclosed. It is determined that a sequence of pages in a stream of document page images comprise a single multi-page document. Data is extracted from two or more different pages included in the sequence. The data extracted from two or more different pages included in the sequence of pages is used to populate a data entry form associated with the multi-page document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventor: Ming Fung Ho
  • Patent number: 11834285
    Abstract: A medium conveying apparatus includes an imaging unit provided to be movable in a direction perpendicular to a conveying surface for conveying a medium, to image the medium, a roller pair provided on an upstream side of the imaging unit in a medium conveying direction, the roller pair including a first roller provided to be movable in a direction perpendicular to the conveying surface, and a second roller facing the first roller, and a conveyance guide provided on a rotation shaft of the first roller, to move in conjunction with a movement of the first roller. The conveyance guide includes a guide surface extending at least from a downstream end portion of a nip portion of the roller pair to an upstream end portion of the imaging unit in the medium conveying direction and being flush with a lower surface of the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomofumi Kumahashi, Seiki Awazu, Takayuki Mori
  • Patent number: 11831825
    Abstract: A document scanner includes a casing and a document cover disposed above the casing. The casing includes a document glass and houses an image scanner. The document cover has one end portion and the other end portion opposite to the first end portion in a first direction and is configured to pivotally move about the one end portion between a closed position in which the other end portion covers the document glass and an open position in which the other end portion uncovers the document glass. The other end portion has an end surface that intersects, when the document cover is at the closed position, with an upper surface of the document glass. The end surface has an indication indicating a location to which an external device is to be brought into proximity to establish short-range wireless communication between the document scanner and the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11831838
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing device; and a data processing server. A first controller of the printing device is configured to perform: a reading process to read a reading target to generate image data; a determination process to determine whether to transmit the image data to the data processing server according to at least one of available capacity information and capacity-related information; and a data transmission process to transmit the image data to the data processing server. A second controller of the data processing server is configured to perform: a payment-related process related to a fee payment for printing based on the image data. The first controller is configured to further perform, after the fee payment is completed: an acquisition process to acquire print data corresponding to the image data; and a printing process to form an image corresponding to the print data on a printing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayaka Hotta, Haruka Azechi, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Yushi Deura
  • Patent number: 11800205
    Abstract: Provided is a camera system to obtain high resolution imagery on multiple regions of interest even when the regions of interest are ate different focal depths and in different viewing directions. Embodiments include a high speed camera that operates by reflecting a beam of interest corresponding to a scene of interest into a high-speed passive sensor from a dynamic optical modulator. Embodiments described herein provide a foveating camera design that distributes resolution onto regions of interest by imaging reflections off a scanning micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) mirror. MEMS mirrors are used herein to modulate viewing direction. Embodiments include a camera capturing reflections off of a tiny, fast moving mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sanjeev Jagannatha Koppal, Zaid Tasneem, Dingkang Wang, Huikai Xie, Brevin Jeffery Tilmon
  • Patent number: 11782925
    Abstract: In some examples, the database system maintains metadata for a plurality of data objects, the metadata containing ranges of values of an attribute for the plurality of data objects, where the ranges of values of the attribute comprise a respective range of values of the attribute for each corresponding data object of the plurality of data objects. The database system generates a data structure tracking quantities of ranges of values of the attribute that have a specified relationship with respect to corresponding different values of the attribute. The database system receives a database query comprising a predicate specifying a condition on a given value of the attribute, and computes, for the database query, a selectivity of filtering based on the metadata, the selectivity computed based on the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Ahmed Yassin Eltabakh, Eugene Szedenits, Jr., Chengzhu Zhang, Mohammed Al-Kateb
  • Patent number: 11762316
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transferer that transfers a toner image on an image carrier formed by an image former onto a paper sheet; a fixer that heats and thereby fixes the toner image on the paper sheet; a read image acquisitor that acquires read image data of the paper sheet on a downstream side of the fixer in a conveyance direction, the read image data being generated by a reader that reads an image of the paper sheet; and a hardware processor that: controls a conveyance speed of the paper sheet in the transferer and/or the fixer, and changes or updates the conveyance speed based on an image of the acquired read image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Youichirou Nishi
  • Patent number: 11763079
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for extracting structure and headers from a body of text. This computational extraction is based on the visual and logical similarities between portions of text. Structure is derived from a programmatic and methodic computation of similarities between header pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH
    Inventor: Richard Anthony Pito
  • Patent number: 11755259
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes printing control software capable of generating print data of a first format and is capable of communicating with a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus obtains print data of a second format containing print setting information from OS-standard printing software which runs in the information processing apparatus, the second format being different from the first format, obtains a settable list, and displays a predetermined screen in a case where print setting information contained in the print data meets a predetermined condition. A screen containing information on usage is displayed as the predetermined screen where the predetermined condition is that a particular print setting is contained in the print setting information and information as an indication to display the predetermined screen is displayed in an item in the settable list corresponding to the particular print setting and the predetermined condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukiyasu Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11736629
    Abstract: A mobile terminal improved in operability concerning fax transmission. A CPU of the mobile terminal sets information indicative of a fax transmission destination, sets reading and transmission information concerning fax transmission and original reading, and sends a request for fax transmission, to an image forming apparatus. When a response notifying capability of fax transmission is received from the apparatus, the CPU causes a message for prompting a user to set an original, to be displayed on a display section. When the original has been set and an instruction for fax transmission from the user is received, the CPU sends an instruction for reading the original and executing fax transmission, together with the transmission destination information, and the reading and transmission information, to the apparatus. The CPU causes a result of fax transmission by the apparatus to be displayed on the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Utsumi, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Patent number: 11592570
    Abstract: A system and method for using high-end perception sensors such as high-end LIDARs to automatically label sensor data of low-end LIDARs of autonomous driving vehicles is disclosed. A perception system operating with a high-end LIDAR may process sensed data from the high-end LIDAR to detect objects and generate metadata of objects surrounding the vehicle. The confidence level of correctly identifying the objects using the high-end LIDAR may be further enhanced by fusing the data from the high-end LIDAR with data from other sensors such as cameras and radars. The method may use the detected objects and metadata of the detected objects processed from the data captured by the high-end LIDAR and other sensors as ground truth to label data of a same scene captured by a low-end LIDAR mounted on the vehicle. A neural network may use the labeled sensor data from the low-end LIDAR during offline supervised training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11588947
    Abstract: An image scanning device includes a casing, a paper feeding wheel, a transparent plate, a light bar, and an elastic support member. The transparent plate includes a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface faces the paper feeding wheel. The light bar is located on the second surface of the transparent plate and includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. A position at which the paper feeding wheel is tangent to the first surface defines a tangent position, a position at which the light-emitting elements are projected onto the first surface in a normal direction of the first surface defines a scanning position, and a scanning spacing exists between the tangent position and the scanning position. The elastic support member pushes the light bar and the transparent plate toward the paper feeding wheel. An image scanning equipment with an image scanning device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AVISION INC.
    Inventor: Min-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: 11573748
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information apparatus configured to process information and a lighting apparatus configured to emit light. The information apparatus includes a reading unit, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a generation unit. The reading unit is configured to read an image including predetermined information. The first acquisition unit is configured to acquire first illumination information from the predetermined information read by the reading unit. The second acquisition unit is configured to acquire second illumination information, which indicates capability information about the lighting apparatus. The generation unit is configured to generate third illumination information, which is to be transmitted to the lighting apparatus, based on the first illumination information and the second illumination information. The lighting apparatus controls emitting the light based on the third illumination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichirou Haruta
  • Patent number: 11575808
    Abstract: A camera is usable to observe a switched position of a switch contact of a switchgear apparatus. In an embodiment, the camera includes a light source to illuminate the switch contact, an image sensor, and a lens to focus light beams emanating from the switch contact onto the image sensor. In an embodiment, the camera additionally includes an elastic light protection cap to seal off a beam path, from the lens to the image sensor, from the light source in a lightproof manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Hild, Stefan Kern
  • Patent number: 11570317
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which eliminates the need for a paper thickness detection sensor and saves time and effort for a user when performing remote scanning. An image reading unit of the image forming apparatus is connectable to an external client via a network and generates image data by reading an original. In the remote scanning, the image reading unit reads the original conveyed by a conveying unit in accordance with an instruction from an external client. A conveying speed at which the original is conveyed by the conveying unit when the remote scanning is performed is set in accordance with an original thickness setting. A first original thickness setting made on the image forming apparatus and a second original thickness setting made on the external client are obtained. When the second original thickness setting is different from the first original thickness setting, the original thickness setting is set to the second original thickness setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eri Sato
  • Patent number: 11518634
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a first roller pair, a second roller pair provided downstream of the first roller pair, a light transmitting member, a reading portion and an opposing member. The transmitting member is disposed between the first and second roller pairs in a sheet feeding direction and on a first side in a vertical direction with respect to a nip line of the first roller pair. The opposing member is disposed on a second side opposite to the first side with respect to the transmitting member. As seen in a sheet widthwise direction, a surface of the second side of the transmitting member in the vertical direction is inclined, with respect to the nip line, to the second side toward downstream of the sheet feeding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Tokuma
  • Patent number: 11520926
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of encrypting, by a transport, received data based on a first biometric associated with an occupant, unencrypting, by the transport, the encrypted data, based on a verification of a second biometric, wherein the second biometric is a continuum of the first biometric, and providing, by the transport, the unencrypted data to the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11503171
    Abstract: An inspection system includes: an inspection part that compares a scanned image obtained by scanning a sheet on which an image is formed on the basis of a job with a reference image prepared in advance and thereby performs inspection of the scanned image; and a hardware processor that sets an inspection target page to be a target of inspection and a non-inspection target page to be excluded from inspection, for the job, wherein the hardware processor causes the inspection part to perform inspection for the inspection target page and not to perform inspection for the non-inspection target page on the basis of the setting of the hardware processor, and the hardware processor creates an inspection report including scanned images of all pages of the job including the non-inspection target page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takao Kurohata
  • Patent number: 11496631
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a light irradiator that irradiates a measurement target with light and a processor that controls the light irradiator, in which the processor is configured to irradiate a specific place of the measurement target with the light from plural places having different positions in one direction, and irradiate the specific place of the measurement target with the light from the plural places having different positions in a direction intersecting the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Hiramatsu, Jungo Harigai, Hirokazu Ichikawa, Yoshitaka Kuwada
  • Patent number: 11496665
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, wherein the plurality of pixels output focus detection signals based on light flux that has passed through an imaging optical system, a shifting unit that shifts an incident position of the light flux on the image sensor; and a focus detection unit that performs focus detection using the focus detection signals. The shifting unit shifts the incident position by a predetermined distance which is equal to or less than a distance between the pixels of the image sensor corresponding to the focus detection signals during a charge accumulation period in the image sensor for acquiring the focus detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Saito
  • Patent number: 11463601
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a platen on which a document is to be placed, an image sensor configured to read an image of the document on the platen, an opening/closing member configured to cover and uncover the platen, a document pressing layer disposed on a surface of the opening/closing member and configured to press the document on the plate when the opening/closing member covers the platen, elastic layers located between the document pressing layer and the opening/closing member and spaced apart from each other on a surface of the document pressing layer, and connection layers connecting the elastic layers to the opening/closing member. An area of the elastic layer is larger than an area of the connection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Migita, Yutaro Kajitani, Masato Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11463598
    Abstract: A reading device includes: a reader; and a controller. The reader is configured to read both of a sheet of paper and a card as an original. The controller is, when the card having four original corners is set as the original, configured to perform for implementing a card reading function: (a) reading; and (b) acquiring. The (a) reading reads the original with the reader to acquire original image data corresponding to an original image area having four corner regions. The (b) acquiring acquires edge information of a first original corner from the original image data to estimate a round shape of the first original corner using the edge information. The first original corner being one of the four original corners in the original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiki Motoyama
  • Patent number: 11445087
    Abstract: An example image scanning device includes an image sensor to scan a manuscript, a memory, and a processor to generate a scan image corresponding to the manuscript, perform rotation processing for the generated scan image using a scale factor, perform scaling processing for the rotated scan image, and store the scale-processed scan image in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Eul Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11438474
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a support portion in contact with a mount surface on which the apparatus is mounted, an apparatus body portion that is provided so that a position thereof is changeable by being rotated relative to the support portion, and a discharge tray provided so as to be openable/closeable relative to the apparatus body portion, the discharge tray receiving the original. The apparatus body portion is switchable between a first position that is a position while not in use, and a second position in which reading of the original is performed. When the apparatus body portion is in the first position and when the discharge tray is opened from the closed state, the discharge tray switches the apparatus body portion from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Tokujiro Okuno
  • Patent number: 11422593
    Abstract: A system can include a display housing that includes a planar display; a planar stand; and a hinge assembly that operatively couples the display housing and the planar stand and that includes an accessory socket that defines a plane that is maintained fixed for rotation of the display housing with respect to the planar stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Perelli
  • Patent number: 11405518
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing a character string included in image data, a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to store the image data in a folder including a name containing the character string acquired by the character recognition processing, and a reception unit configured to receive an instruction from a user. In a case where a result of the character recognition processing by the character recognition unit does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the transmission unit does not transmit the image data until the reception unit receives the instruction from the user. In a case where the result of the character recognition processing by the character recognition unit satisfies the predetermined condition, the transmission unit transmits the image data without receiving the instruction from the user by the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shu Kumahashi
  • Patent number: 11399145
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a image processor that reads out image data which is captured by an imaging element and transferred to a memory and on which optical noise is superimposed, as region image data for each of a plurality of divided regions of the memory, and that reads out data of a predetermined region again after reading for each region image data is finished, and an display processor that outputs corrected image data obtained by correcting captured image data for each of the plurality of regions in accordance with optical noise decided in accordance with the data read out again by the image processor, the captured image data being captured by the imaging element and stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kawai
  • Patent number: 11399109
    Abstract: Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Taniyama, Rei Tsutsui, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Yuji Takase
  • Patent number: 11399104
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires document data; an analysis unit that analyzes the document data acquired by the acquisition unit; a storage unit that stores destination information in which a destination of the document data and information for transmission are associated with each other; a determination unit that determines, based on an analysis result of the analysis unit and the destination information stored in the storage unit, a candidate for the destination of the document data; a processing unit that executes processing based on the candidate; and a transmission unit that transmits, based on the processing, the document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoki Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11394837
    Abstract: A system and a method using matrix barcode information to process documents are provided. A document-processing apparatus generates matrix barcode information and establishes a wireless link with a mobile apparatus through the matrix barcode information. When the document-processing apparatus establishes the wireless link with the mobile apparatus, the document-processing apparatus creates a file transfer zone, performs a corresponding automatic document-processing action, such as scanning or printing, according to a driving command received from the mobile apparatus, and exchanges the generated image information with the mobile apparatus through the file transfer zone. Given the matrix barcode information, the document-processing apparatus can be directly controlled by the mobile apparatus to achieve direct information exchange and enhanced efficiency and security of the document-processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: AVISION INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Cheih Liao, Hung-Jen Lin, Chun-Ping Huang
  • Patent number: 11388299
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a plurality of instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus comprises a display, an operation unit, and a communication interface. The information processing apparatus stores a first execution program and a second execution program. The information processing apparatus displays a setting screen including a first particular setting capable of being designated in scan processing executed by the first execution program and incapable of being designated in scan processing executed by the second execution program, and determines to adopt the first execution program as the execution program that executes the scan processing in a case where the first particular setting is designated on the setting screen by an operation to the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Aiko Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11368594
    Abstract: Conveyance modes include a registration mode accompanied with skew correction and a registrationless mode unaccompanied with skew correction. When a jam occurs, the controller interrupts a job, and invokes blank-feed processing starting from a state with all sheets re-set. On invoking blank-feed processing, the controller checks the conveyance mode and recognizes the number of jams. If the conveyance mode is the registration mode and in addition the number of jams has not reached a threshold number of jams, the controller invokes blank-feed processing in the registrationless mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shota Urase, Ryota Maeda, Taro Kurahashi, Koji Fujii, Masahiro Nakao, Takuro Murata
  • Patent number: 11343406
    Abstract: A control portion performs a predetermined detection process on a first image from a first reading portion and a second image from a second reading portion. When the detection process on the each image is successful, the control portion performs, based on a value of an image processing variable specified from a detection result, predetermined image processing on the each image, When the detection process on the image of one side fails, a value of an image processing variable for the image of one side is specified based on a value of an image processing variable specified from the detection result for the image of the other side for which detection is successful. Based on the specified value of the image processing variable, image processing is performed on the image of one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11336793
    Abstract: A multi-function printer includes a generating section, an image recognition section, a speaking section, and a transmitting section. The generating section scans an original document to generate scan data. The image recognition section performs image recognition on the scan data. The speaking section causes a word corresponding to a recognition result of the image recognition section and corresponding to a drawing, a photograph, or the like included in the original document to be spoken from a speaker circuit. The transmitting section transmits the scan data generated by the generating section to a specific destination when a specific operation is performed during speaking performed by the speaking section or within a certain period of time after completion of the speaking performed by the speaking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Omuro
  • Patent number: 11328421
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a storage medium that can distinguish an anomaly while reducing influence of an individual difference of images. The image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit that uses a part of an inspection image including an inspection target to generate an estimation image including at least a predetermined region of the inspection target; a comparison unit that compares the estimation image generated by the generation unit with the inspection image; and an output unit that outputs a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Oi