Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 12/06

20060290949 - Image forming apparatus, computer, communication system, and program: An image forming apparatus capable of at least one of reading an image to generate image data representing the image and printing an image represented by image data is provided. The image forming apparatus comprises a detecting system to detect an error occurred in the image forming apparatus, a requesting... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060290948 - Undesirable output detection in imaging device: A method for detecting and managing undesirable output in the operation of an imaging system which includes an imaging job format interpreter, an output engine downstream from the interpreter, and a processing region intermediate the interpreter and the engine. The method operates in the processing region, and involves independently examining... Agent: Robert Varitz

20060290960 - Image printing system and image printing method: An image printing system PS of the invention includes a digital still camera as a moving image data generation device and a printer as a printing device that are mutually connected by a cable. In response to the user's operation of an OK button during reproduction of a selected moving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290965 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program: A data processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores print history data, and a display unit that displays a screen for introducing recommended software based on the print history data.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060290963 - Image forming apparatus and image operating apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a receiving unit to receive PDL data, an image manipulating unit to create bitmap data according to the PDL data, a memory unit to store the bitmap data, and when the PDL data contains a first password, a control unit to create a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060290964 - Image processing system and image processing method, and computer program: An image processing system includes a modified area deciding unit, a modified area correlation deciding unit, a display selecting unit and a displaying unit. The modified area deciding unit executes processing of deciding a modified area containing a pixel area, which is distinguished as postscript information, based on input image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290966 - Print system: A print data generation unit generates print data including data which represent a print object character string. A print image data generation unit generates raster image data pertaining to the image to be printed based on the print data. A processing detail determination unit determines processing details pertaining to the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20060290962 - Printer/copier having universal pointing device interface: What is disclosed is a printer/copier having a Universal Pointing Device Interface (UPDI) for accepting a variety of different pointing devices. The UPDI includes a connector for connecting to a pointing device and a controller having a cursor movement controller for receiving cursor moving signals from the pointing device and... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060290961 - System and method for conveying rendering intents: A system enables a rendering intent to be specified for an object in a page description language that does not support the specifying of rendering intents. Such a system includes a user interface for receiving a rendering intent and an identification of an object associated with the received rendering intent,... Agent: David M. Lockman Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20060290969 - Image forming device management system: An image forming device management system includes a plurality of image forming devices, a central service station which provides a maintenance service for the image forming devices, and a communication control unit which is connected to each of the image forming devices by a signal line, the communication control unit... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060290968 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium readable by computer: An image processing apparatus includes: a change region judging unit that performs a judging process including a pixel area discriminated to represent additional writing information on a change region according to input image data; a change region state judging unit that performs image analysis on an area judged by the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290967 - Image processing system and apparatus and approval server: An image processing apparatus relating to the present invention outputs a document, which a user has commanded for output, and includes a rule storage section that stores an approval rule to determine a document which requires approval to be output, and information of an authorizer who determines whether or not... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20060290980 - Character entry system: A system that allows everyone to readily enter a desired character into a machine with a limited character entry capability, such as a shop front printing service machine and the like. The system includes, for example, a shop front printing service machine, a cell phone, and a character entry server,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290981 - Data management method and apparatus: A method of managing data contained in a file includes extracting locality information contained in a printing data file; determining whether the same locality information exists between the extracted locality information and input locality information; and analyzing printing data contained in the printing data file if it is determined that... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060290978 - Dynamic workspace for organizing digital content: A computer-based method and system for organizing, modifying, viewing, annotating and sharing digital content items. In a preferred embodiment, a modifiable dynamic workspace displays digital content items which are low resolution proxies of high resolution digital content items. In one embodiment the workspace provides the user the ability to organize,... Agent: Craig K. Sherburne

20060290973 - Extending the foreign device interface for mfds using snmp or other network protocols: An extended Foreign Device Interface (FDI) to external devices provides point of sale accounting for use of a Multi-Function Device (MFD). Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can be used, in addition to the very limited page oriented interface used on copiers, to access much more detailed information about a job,... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20060290974 - Image communication apparatus: There is described an image communication apparatus capable of supplying a user with the information for making a decision in taking a step against the current network quality. The image communication apparatus includes: a transmission section which transmits image data to an external device via a network; a network quality... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060290972 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus determines whether or not facsimile data with transmission terminal identification data added thereto is transferred on the basis of received transmission terminal identification data when receiving the facsimile data with the identification data. The apparatus retrieves whether or not a box to which the identification data... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20060290975 - Image output system having image log recording function, and log recording method in image output system: An image output system includes input section for inputting an image or data, instruction acceptance section for accepting an instruction of outputting the input image or an image generated from the input data, image output section for outputting the instructed image, and log-recording section for recording an image log, including... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20060290970 - Information dissemination multifunction device: An information dissemination system that obtains information from a multifunction document production device that is programmed to store documents along with user provided dissemination level authorizations and with one or more keywords extracted from the document, and to disseminate such documents according to persons authorized to receive the documents based... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060290979 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: Pieces of device information of a plurality of printing apparatuses, including about paper feed stages provided in the printing apparatuses, are acquired. On the basis of the acquired device information and print data to be processed which includes pages to be printed on different types of paper sheets, a printing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290982 - Markup language edit method, record medium recording browser, and print system: To display an HTML document on a display (51), a browser interprets only display tags and ignores print tags. To interpret the tags and display the HTML document, the browser transmits a request for transferring four image files (A1, B1, C1, and D1) to a WWW server (40) and displays... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290976 - Method for printing a web page: A method for printing a web page is provided. The method includes requesting for printing a web page of a web site connected to a web server after a user executes a web browser, downloading a web printing exclusive viewer on a personal computer of the user from the web... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20060290971 - Printer having remote transmission capabilities: A printer includes a printing module, a system status module, and a transmitter. The transmitter is in communication with the system status module. The transmitter is adapted to transmit a signal in response to a code generated by the system status module. A method for providing a code to an... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060290977 - Request routing system for and method of request routing: A request router manager receives information of one or more objects associated with the request. Each object belongs to an object class. One or more objects have one or more routing hints assigned to the objects. The request router manager groups the associated objects into one or more object sets... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20060290983 - Data access apparatus and method: A data access apparatus has a memory portion including plural memory banks. A data storage control portion stores the pixel data in the plural memory banks with the pixel data being divided into the plural memory banks based on information on an access pattern of plural pixels set on a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060290984 - Image processing apparatus, and control method and program of the same: It is intended to provide an image composition apparatus, a control method and program of an image processing apparatus which, when a user wants to combine a photo image and a handwritten image, even if the image processing apparatus is used for other purposes or even if the power of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290985 - Method and apparatus for printing on a label side of a disc medium: A method for printing an image on a disc medium, which includes determining which section of a non-image inner section or a non-image outer section requires a longer processing time on a label side of the disc medium, and printing the image starting from an outermost circumference of a print... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290986 - Method and apparatus for processing and dividing images into finished prints: The invention provides a method and apparatus for processing and setting individual image as one or more image pages; combining, transferring and dividing image pages into the final finished individual photos or cards. The present invention allows images to be selected and quantities of each image needed to be defined... Agent: K. Clive Liu

20060290950 - Image superresolution through edge extraction and contrast enhancement: A technique for generating high-resolution bitmaps from low-resolution bitmaps. A low-resolution bitmap is magnified to form a magnified image. Edge detection is performed on the magnified image to find high contrast edges. A plurality of image patches of the magnified image are generated. These images patches are analyzed by performing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20060290951 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotary unit that has a rotary shaft, and a plurality of development devices each of which has a constituent unit, the development devices provided around the rotary shaft; and a plurality of state detection units that detects at least one of states of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060290952 - Print system: A print system, and a computer-readable program product for causing a computer to function as a print system, causes a printer to produce a printout of an image based on print data generated by any one of a plurality of programs. The print system includes: a print image data generation... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20060290956 - Apparatus and method for converting color signal, and computer-readable recording medium for storing computer program for controlling the apparatus: An apparatus and a method for converting a color signal and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus converts an input color signal including first through mth input color components into an output color signal including first through nth (n>m) output color components.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060290957 - Apparatus, medium, and method with automatic white balance control: An automatic white balance control image apparatus, medium, and method. The automatic white balance control imaging apparatus may include a color space conversion unit converting the input image data into color space data having a chromatic component, a gray region extraction unit extracting a gray region for the input image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060290954 - Icc consistent chromatic adaptation: Systems and methods for providing consistent chromatic adaptation to a workflow comprising a number of International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles is provided. In accordance with an exemplary method of the present invention, the profiles within the workflow that require chromatic adaptation are identified. A control profile, whose chromatic adaptation method... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060290955 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for printing print data described in a page description language in a specific format has a multi-dimensional Lut color conversion processing unit configured to carry out color conversion processing of a device color space by using a multi-dimensional lookup table.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20060290959 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling image processing apparatus, and program product: An image processing apparatus for simulating a print output of a printing machine. The image processing apparatus firstly acquires color value information for converting color value information of image data so that a color reproduced on one surface of a recording medium by the printing machine based on the color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290958 - Method and apparatus for setting color profile corresponding to user's preferred color when driver of image forming apparatus installed on computer: A method and apparatus for setting a color profile corresponding to a user's preferred color when a driver of an image forming apparatus is installed on a computer are provided. The method includes the steps of displaying a dialog box in which a user can input information regarding the user's... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060290953 - Method for closed loop characterization: A method for modifying a transformation from a first space to a second device dependent colorant space of a second color reproduction device, wherein the first space is selected from the group of a first device dependent colorant space of a first color reproduction device and a first device independent... Agent: Agfa Corporation Law & Patent Department

20060290987 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An image processing method for deciding the quantization data on each image plane of the image data composed of at least first and second image planes includes performing a quantization process for the sum total value of pixel values existing at the same position on the first and second image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290989 - Image processor and image processing program for binary processing: An image processor for converting input multi-grayscale image data, into binary data for each of the pixels has a binary unit. If a grayscale value of the multi-grayscale image data of a target pixel is lower than a reference value less than ½ of a maximum grayscale value, the binary... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20060290990 - Rotation dependent halftone rendering in scanning: A method and system for rotation-dependent halftone rendering. An image input is received from a scanning system or other source, the received image being either a contone image or an error-diffused mage. If a following right-angle image rotation is to be performed, the image is clustered by a clustering method... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060290991 - Device to effect micro-displacements of a display for digital images: Device to effect micro-displacements of a support for digital images, in which the digital images are formed by a determinate matrix of pixels arranged in lines and columns perpendicular to each other. Each pixel has a determinate lateral size and between adjacent pixels a free space of determinate amplitude. The... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20060290988 - Methods for setting frequency rate and angle difference between screens where moire pattern is not generated: A method of setting frequency rate and angle differences between screens where moire patterns are not generated is provided. The method of setting the frequency rate and angle differences of the screens includes forming a binary image using at least two overlapped screens, and low-pass filtering the binary image to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060290993 - Image reading apparatus and image processing method therefor, image formation apparatus, image processing system and image processing method therefor: An image reading apparatus connected to an image formation apparatus generates an image data for each page of an original document and instructs to add an additional object to the image data. When the addition of the additional object is instructed, an additional object image is generated according to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290992 - Watermarking: A watermark is provided for use with images or image portions, such as saturated text. The watermark is provided as a modulation to the optical density of a public image or image portion wherein both modulated and unmodulated portions of the public image or image portion have an optical density... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060290994 - Electrostatic recording medium having reading-side photoconductive layer of inorganic oxide: An electrostatic recording medium includes: a first conductive layer which is transparent to radiation for recording; a recording-side photoconductive layer which is formed above the first conductive layer and becomes conductive when the recording-side photoconductive layer is exposed to the radiation for recording; a charge-accumulation region which is formed above... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290995 - Photographic pack and print system: A photographic pack includes photographic prints in one order, an order information print for the one order having index images recorded on a first side and at least a fee recorded on a second side, and a bag having at least a transparent area, and for accommodating a stack formed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290996 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording paper fed from a paper cassette, the apparatus comprises: a housing that accommodates the paper cassette to be drawn toward the front side of the housing and has an opening in the side surface of the housing; and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060290997 - Mail server and method for transmitting electronic mail: A mail server includes: first storage means that stores a model identifier and a data size corresponding to the model; receiving means that receives an electronic mail and original image data; first converting means that converts the original image data into intermediate image data; second storage means that stores the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060290998 - Apparatus and method of controlling scanner: An apparatus and a method of controlling a scanner include a transmission speed detector and a controller. The transmission speed detector detects data transmission speed information between a host and the scanner. The controller controls a scanning speed of the scanner based on a scan resolution and the detected transmission... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290999 - Image processing apparatus and network system: An image processing apparatus includes an image reading portion that reads an image of an original to obtain image data; an extraction portion that extracts original attribute information for representing format type of the original from the image data; an information storage portion that stores the original attribute information; a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060291000 - Image combining apparatus, and control method and program therefor: In combining a handwritten image with an arbitrary image in an image processing apparatus, a sheet is prepared so as to allow confirmation a positional relationship of the arbitrary image and the handwritten image.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060291001 - Apparatus and method for detecting occluded face and apparatus and method for discriminating illegal user using the same: Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting an occluded face and an apparatus and method for discriminating an illegal user using the same. The apparatus for detecting an occluded face includes a smoothing unit, a region division unit, a first region detection unit, a second region detection unit, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291002 - Image forming apparatus, method and computer program product capable of detecting a copy-prohibited manuscript: This patent specification describes an image forming apparatus which can effectively check and prevent the unauthorized image processing so that the obtained image data may not be different from the content which a user demands. In one example, an image forming apparatus includes a defining mechanism, a reader, a detector,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291007 - Compensation apparatus for image scan: A compensation apparatus for image scan, applied to an optical scanner with a platform, on which an object to be scanned is disposed. The optical scanner has a photosensitive apparatus with a set of scan photosensitive devices and a storage apparatus. When the object is scanned by the set of... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060291004 - Controlling scanning and copying devices through implicit gestures: A scanning machine (10) includes a scan surface (12) for receiving a page or pages to be scanned. A motion detector (20) monitors the copy surface to detect movement of the pages. In response to detecting a cessation of motion on the scan surface, the motion detector generates a trigger... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060291006 - Image sensor and image reading apparatus: An object of this invention is to provide a structure which meets a high-quality reading requirement and realize high-speed color reading when the reading section of a color image forming apparatus adopts a color contact image sensor using CCDs as reading elements. In order to achieve this object, the image... Agent: Brian W. Brown Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060291005 - Method of setting image reading conditions for an image reading apparatus and an image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus which communicates with another image reading apparatus through a network has a reading device to read document images and generate image data, a CPU (reading control device) to control the reading device according to a reading condition, and a communication device. A local image reading apparatus... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060291003 - Tabbed document copying systems and methods: Embodiments herein add tab information to a tab template. The tab template is then printed and inserted between pages of a printed document by the user. Then this tab template-containing document can be scanned in a single pass to identify the location of the tab template within the pages of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20060291008 - System for adjusting a reference voltage in a photosensor chip: In an imaging apparatus such as a scanner or digital camera, a plurality of photosensors read image data onto a video line. The video line is periodically associated with a correction signal of predetermined magnitude, such as on a correction capacitor on the video line. A digital-analog converter (DAC) precisely... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060291009 - System for selecting a format for control data in an imaging device: An imaging apparatus, such as used in a digital camera or scanner, includes at least one photosensor chip. The chip includes subsystems thereon that control the integration periods of the photosensors according to different control data formats. A selector is used to adapt the chip to accept control data of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060291010 - Scanning speed control device and method: A control device and a method for controlling scanning speed of a scanner. The control device includes a decision device and a driving device. The decision device further includes an image buffer, an up-down counter and a comparator. The decision device receives the input image data and utilizes the up-down... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060291011 - Linear guiding apparatus: A linear guiding apparatus at least has a shaft and a shaft holding apparatus. The shaft holding apparatus is adapted to slide along the shaft. The shaft holding apparatus includes a body, an elastic member and an adjusting member. The body has a V-shape supporting surface, wherein the V-shape supporting... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060291012 - Image forming apparatus and reading method of two-sided document: An image reading apparatus for reading a document image includes: a document feeding tray for placing the document thereon; a first document reading position for reading the first face of the document ejected and conveyed each from the document feeding tray; a document reverse tray for storing the document so... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291013 - Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and program for executing the image reading method: An image reading apparatus that is capable of reading a two-sided document is configured to prevent an increase in a size of an image processing circuit and also an increase in a capacity of a memory for temporarily storing data, in reading the two-sided document by using two reading units,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060291014 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: An information processing system includes a projection unit that projects at least image data for calibration, an image data capturing unit that captures projection image data projected by the projection unit, a specifying unit that specifies positions of points to be calibrated with the image data captured by the image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291015 - Applying multiple imaging processes to digital images: Present systems and methods enable user-defined image processing parameters to be applied as intended in some regions of a scanned image without applying them in other regions. More specifically, present systems and methods enable a digital reproduction system to automatically adjust for any inherent interactions between separate image processing modules.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060291016 - Image processing apparatus, method, program and image pickup apparatus: An amplifier gain setting section estimates a light source parameter which relies upon a spectral distribution of an image pickup light source based on an image signal. Then, a first adjustment control value for each color signal when adjustment is to be performed so as to establish a white balance... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060291017 - Systems and methods that provide custom region scan with preview image on a multifunction device: A multifunction device having a user interface that enables the selection of a particular region of a document image after an initial scan of a document that creates a preview (thumbnail) image of the document. Using a display on the multifunction device, a desired region of the image may be... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20060291018 - Mixed output print control method and system: A merging module connects two printing systems at approximately 90 degrees to one another. The merging module includes a sheet rotator in a plane that is common to the paper paths of both print engines and a buffer. It also includes two bypass paths (one above and one below the... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060285128 - Apparatus and method of selecting a plurality of print settings in a print setup operation: An apparatus and method of selecting a plurality of print settings, the apparatus including a user interface unit to display a plurality of first print settings to allow a user to select a plurality of second print settings from the displayed first print settings, a storage unit to store the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060285126 - Machine setup by scanning a configuration sheet: A method, system, and computer program for configuring a device provides the capability for a user to easily enter complex configuration settings by scanning sheets or documents having information defining the configuration settings into the device. A method for configuring a device comprises imaging a document, extracting configuration data from... Agent: Edward A. Pennington, Esq. Swidler Berlin LLP

20060285127 - Printing system, image reading device and control method thereof: A printing system including a printing device which has a cancel instruction unit that instructs cancellation of a current job being processed from an operation panel, and an image reading device that describes original image data read from an original in a page description language and sends to the printing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060285138 - Method of determining unicode values corresponding to text in digital documents: A method of determining Unicode values corresponding to the text in digital documents includes: providing a digital document containing information related to the text in the document, the information including at least one set of data selected from the group consisting of: the numerical character code comprised by a single... Agent: Jansson, Shupe, Munger & Antaramian, Ltd

20060285139 - Mixed-size copy printer system and method: A mixed-size copy printer system and method may include a scanner for collecting raw image data from and detecting a length of an original page from among a plurality of original pages of different lengths, a printer for printing an image scanned from an original page on a copy page,... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060285146 - Apparatus and method to select and print emulation by pages: An apparatus and method to select and print emulation by pages. The apparatus includes a storage unit to store an enhanced meta file (EMF) of a whole document and data obtained by measuring the performance of a printer controller; and a controller to select the emulation to be printed based... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060285143 - Driver call apparatus and method using shortcut key: A driver call method for use with a system in which a host device is connected to more than one peripheral device. The method includes detecting a performance of a shortcut key operation, recognizing that the performance of the shortcut key operation is a command to call a target peripheral... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285144 - Efficient implementation of raster operations flow: According to one aspect, a printer supports transparency operations by generating mask data at interpretation stage which indicates whether each bit of a page content would be determined by the result of a raster operation or a prior destination value. The mask data can be used to complete quickly rendering... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20060285145 - Efficient implementation of raster operations flow: According to one aspect, a printer supports transparency operations by generating mask data at interpretation stage which indicates whether each bit of a page content would be determined by the result of a raster operation or a prior destination value. The mask data can be used to complete quickly rendering... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20060285140 - Image forming apparatus with selective display of image data: An image forming apparatus includes: a memory configured to store image data; a display unit to display at least one of information and a view of image data; a condition setting unit to receive designating information by which a designation is made of at least a subset of the image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060285142 - Print option setting method and print option setting device: A print option setting method for a print option setting device to set print options for a document, comprising requesting a printout of the document, determining whether first setting information as print options that are set when the document was previously printed exists, and printing the document based on the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285141 - Printing control device and method thereof: A printing control device and method are provided. The printing control device comprises an application for receiving a print command with respect to an image, an auxiliary program for providing a user interface for setting a print option on an execution window of the application, and a printer driver for... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060285148 - Printing method and printing device: A printing device receives print data for confidential printing, and decides the output destination of the print data received for confidential printing either to be a lockable output bin that can be opened by a key so that the print data can be outputted in a format of being printed... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060285147 - System and method for controlling the storage and destruction of documents: This invention relates to a method and system that only destroys documents that a party wants destroyed. The system also maintains a record of destroyed documents and saved documents. The foregoing may be accomplished by: placing information directly on a document that uniquely identifies the document; placing information in a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20060285155 - Adapter and method of controlling the same: An adapter capable of communicating with an image supply device and an image output device and allowing direct printing even when a plurality of images are transferred at the same time from image supply devices. The adapter transmits a print request associated with a first image to the image output... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060285157 - Host device and image forming device and printing control method thereof: A printing system, printing method, a host device and an image forming device are provided. The printing system includes: an image forming device to print a test pattern per each object to measure and transmit a required time to print the test pattern per each object; and a host device,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285154 - Host device, image-forming device, and print system having automatic classification function, and print control method therefor: A host device having an automatic classification function, including at least one first application program unit to issue a print command over plural print data for printout, and a print control program unit to input and temporarily store the plural print data, and, if the plural print data is found... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285149 - Image data distribution control method, device, system and program: An image data distribution device (101) includes an image coded data 1 transmission unit (105), an image coded data 2 transmission unit (106), and a session management unit (103). A plurality of image coded data of the same image is distributed in different sessions or image data having different types... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060285153 - Image forming apparatus having an integrated camera unit: An image forming apparatus with integrated camera is disclosed. A camera unit and a printing unit are integrated into the image forming apparatus, thus the image forming apparatus is capable of taking a picture of an object, printing an image of the object, and storing the image of the object.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060285151 - Image forming system and conversion module device: An image forming system comprises an image forming device to form an image on a recording medium; a peripheral device that transmits and receives data in a data communication system, the data communication system of the peripheral device is different from a data communication system of the image forming device;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060285152 - Method and system for embedding native shape file and mapping data within a portable document format file: This invention relates to a system and method for embedding and maintaining native shape file and cartographic, or mapping data from a Geographic Information System within a portable document format file. Once this data has been embedded, it can be viewed and worked with using PDF applications such as Adobe... Agent: E.j. Asbury Iii, Esq. Taylor, Busch, Slipakoff & Duma, LLP

20060285156 - Printing system that outputs a photographic print from acquired image data: A printing system comprises a processing unit provided in a printing portion B for performing print processing by transmitting image data acquired by a receiving terminal A to the printing portion B. The necessary present processing can be performed by logging on to the present system by inputting authentication information... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20060285150 - Regional proximity for shared image device(s): Different aspects of the disclosure relate to either transmitting at least one portion of at least one image representation from, or receiving at least one portion of the at least one image representation at, a shared image device in a manner at least partially relying on a positioning of the... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20060285160 - Document processing apparatus, document processing system and recording medium: A document processing apparatus provided with boxes for storing various information in a sorted manner, the boxes including at least a private box having a box function of allowing an access from a specific user and/or group, includes a notification portion. The notification portion is configured such that when a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060285158 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention allows a portable type external storage medium that can store image data to be attached to or detached from the apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus has a data protection means. In a normal operation, the data protection means allows... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20060285159 - Method of ordering job queue of marking systems: A method of ordering a job queue includes providing a marking system that includes a first marking engine and a storage device storing first and second print jobs in queue. The first marking engine includes first and second metrics. The method includes determining a present state value of the first... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060285162 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: an image forming section for forming images on both surfaces of a recording medium; and a control section for controlling the image forming section to form, on each surface of the recording medium, a first image and image each including a test chart image for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060285161 - Overlay printing device: An overlay data processing method of the invention controls a printer to print a calibration pattern at a predetermined printing position on preset printing paper set in the printer, and controls a scanner to scan the printing paper with the printed calibration pattern. The overlay data processing method then computes... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060285163 - Print system and method: A system and method to select a print area to be printed from a document, to search the selected print area for blank areas, and to print and/or store the selected print area, having a size of the searched blank areas turned into a predetermined size or other space marker.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285129 - Image output apparatus, image input/output system, image capturing apparatus, and program: An image output apparatus for outputting an image to an image capturing apparatus comprises a first acquisition part for acquiring information concerning a display resolution of a display of the image capturing apparatus, a change part for changing an output resolution of the image in accordance with the display resolution,... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20060285130 - Storage medium storing image processing program, image processing apparatus and image processing method: A storage medium readable by a computer, stores a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for executing an image processing on an image defined by vector data containing a plurality of lines having different line widths, the function including calculating the line widths of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060285131 - Componsation for malfunctioning jets: A method of modifying a single color bi level bitmap including selecting a marked pixel, determining whether the selected marked pixel is in a half-toned uniform region, marking a first unmarked pixel of a first sequence of potential destination pixel locations if the selected marked pixel is in a half-toned... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060285132 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a main body; an image formation unit removably mounted to the main body and having at least two cartridges disposed adjacently to each other; a plurality of memory members disposed on each cartridge to face one another; and a communication unit disposed among the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285133 - Scheduling for a dual engine printer: A dual engine color printer has two print engines, one for printing each side of the sheet. Each engine comprises a single multi-color set of printing drums—a set meaning a PIP drum, a blanket and an impression drum. A scheduling method is provided for imbalanced duplex printing of sheets in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060285136 - Color reproduction apparatus having plural color reproduction ranges and a color signal-processing method therefor: A color-processing method includes: selecting a target color gamut to produce an input color signal; calculating a mixture ratio enabling primary colors of the target color gamut to be created by mixing primary colors of a color gamut of the color reproduction apparatus to reproduce the input color signal therewith;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060285137 - Image processing method and apparatus: It is difficult to adjust a black plate while maintaining accurate color reproduction in a color printer that forms an image using C, M, Y, and K color agents. Upon generating a conversion condition used to convert a signal on a uniform color space into a CMYK signal which depends... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060285135 - System and method for dynamically generated uniform color objects: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to render spatially uniform memory colors when images printed with CMYK primaries are not rendered uniformly due to output device quality errors. The disclosed method uses an array of sensors to scan a test image. Colors of interest are printed... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20060285134 - System and method for spatial gray balance calibration using hybrid sensing systems: The method and system for printer color calibration use a combination of a full-width array (FWA) or similar page-scanning mechanism in conjunction with an spectrophotometer color measurement system in the output path of a color printer for measuring colors (e.g., on printed test sheets, banner/separation pages, etc.) with or without... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20060285164 - Method for processing multi-layered image data: A method for processing multi-layered image data by utilizing a modified alpha blending algorithm. The method includes detecting whether mask values of image data are within a predetermined range and generating new image data according to the image data and the mask values. An image processing device capable of adding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285165 - Image processing system, image processing device, dot data processing device, and method and program product therefor: Pixels are grouped into groups of pixels, comprising a plurality of pixels each, and representative tone values are determined for each of a plurality of regions into which the groups of pixels are split. Decisions are made as to whether or not to output dots to the individual pixels in... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20060285166 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes: a data conversion unit; an isolated-dot size determining unit; and an image-forming unit. The data conversion unit converts, for each of a plurality of pixels in an image to be formed, original image data indicative of a multilevel density into dot data indicative of whether or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20060285167 - Image processing method and a recording medium storing image processing program: Disclosed is an image processing method that includes: discriminating whether a target pixel of an image to be processed is a contour pixel which is part of a contour of an object; and determining, in case of discriminating that the target pixel is a contour pixel, an output value of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060285168 - Copy system, image forming apparatus, server, image formation method, and computer program product: A copy system comprises: a server identifying a second electronic document corresponding to a first electronic document; and an image forming apparatus that forms a second code image on a medium instead of a first code image in accordance with an instruction to copy the medium, the second code image... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060285169 - System and method for digital image identification and distribution: Digital image create equipment is provided for insetting identified original information into an original to create a digital image, including identified original information insetting position moving unit for moving the identified original information from a reference position to a position different from the reference position according to a rule to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060285170 - Optical unit and image forming apparatus: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an optical unit adapted to irradiate image exposure light to an image carrier comprises a frame containing optical parts arranged therein and having an opening, and a cover adapted to cover the opening. The cover can be fixed by fixing members to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060285171 - Method of performing fax in next generation network: The invention discloses a method of implementing a fax in a next generation network, comprising steps of: either of two media gateways notifying a media gateway controller upon detection of a Fax Start signal when they communicate with each other; the media gateway controller sending in parallel a Modify command... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060285172 - Method and system for document fingerprint matching in a mixed media environment: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060285173 - Scanning apparatus and scanning method: The invention provides a scanning apparatus, including an information storage unit to store information on a size of a recording medium on which an image is formed, a scanning unit to scan the image and to generate a corresponding image signal, a driving unit to drive the scanning unit to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285174 - Shading profile value correction method and image scanning device: A shading profile value correction method and an image scanning device are disclosed. The shading profile value correction method comprises generating and storing reference shading profile values by scanning a reference white color, regenerating the reference shading profile values, and checking whether difference values between the stored reference shading profile... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060285176 - Image reading apparatus and image processing method: An image reading apparatus includes a document positioning plate configured to have a document positioned thereon, a conveyance belt configured to convey the document to the document positioning plate, an image reading unit configured to read an image of the document positioned on the document positioning plate, and an image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060285175 - Scanner for penetrative documents: The present invention provides a scanner for penetrative documents including a scanning housing, a feeding housing disposed on the scanning housing and a conveyor tray disposed between the scanning housing and the feeding housing. The scanning housing has a scanning window disposed thereon and a scanning base disposed therein. The... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20060285177 - Return light adverse effect suppressing optical unit, image forming apparatus, and printing system: An optical light source unit includes a light source that emits a beam, and a collimate lens that collimates the beam and executes imaging on an imaging surface. The beam substantially has light intensity of Gauss distribution in a cross section after passing through the collimate lens. A radius of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285178 - Stagger sensor and method for improving modulation transfer function: A stagger sensor and a method for improving modulation transfer function. The method of using the stagger sensor for improving modulation transfer function can be applied to scan an object. The stagger sensor includes a plurality of sensing modules. The method of increasing scanning resolution includes retrieving reference digital data... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060285179 - Image reading device, method of controlling the same, control program, storage medium and image forming apparatus provided with the image reading device: An image reading device includes a memory unit for storing positional information of a sensor for moving by a drive unit to read an image of a document and a control unit for controlling the drive unit to move the sensor based on the positional information stored in the memory... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060285180 - Imaging system and method: An imaging system comprises a scanning device adapted to scan a front surface of a media object and an automatic document feeder (ADF) adapted to scan a back surface of the media object. The system also comprises a universal serial bus (USB) hub adapted to transfer data between the scanning... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060285181 - Printing control scale, printing system and printing method: A printing control scale for use in printing in two or three color inks with a printing machine capable of multicolor printing using four color inks. The printing control scale includes two or three types of detecting patches printed in the two or three color inks. These detecting patches are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060285182 - Image postion correcting method, image position correcting jig, and image formation device: Paper (41) on which a first reference image (31) is formed in an image forming section (300), and a correction instrument (1) on which a second reference image (33) is formed, are placed at predetermined positions on an original platen (210). Reference images (31, 33) are read as an image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060285183 - Semiconductor memory device with debounced write control signal: A semiconductor memory device having a memory cell array, an input buffer, an output buffer, and an input-output control circuit that receives a write control signal and controls the input and output buffers. The output buffer generates a commencement signal indicating commencement of output. A mask generating circuit generates a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20060279758 - Imaging device, control method, and program: A printing control method comprises a rendering step for rendering a description language document, a color matching step for converting color information specified in the description language document into color information for a printing device which is to print the description language document, and a control step for controlling whether... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060279759 - Method and apparatus to set print options: A method of setting print options of an image forming apparatus using a driver user interface in a terminal, such as a PC, connected to the image forming apparatus. The apparatus may include a user input unit to receive the print options, a name generating unit to automatically-generate setting names... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060279757 - Printing apparatus, printer control method, printer control program, and printing system: A processing mode appropriate to the cause of the error is selected when an error occurs in a printer, thereby avoiding wasting processing time and consumables. The printing apparatus has a normal processing mode control unit for printing based on data sent from a host device; a deletion processing mode... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20060279760 - Approach for securely printing electronic documents: An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic documents with remote user authentication and secure printing of electronic documents with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20060279761 - Approach for securely printing electronic documents: An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic documents with remote user authentication and secure printing of electronic documents with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20060279762 - Document processing system, printing system, document file, document processing method and computer program product: A document processing system includes a document acquiring unit that acquires document data, an information acquiring unit that acquires information used to generate a code image printed with an image of the document data on a medium, and a file generating unit that generates an information-added document file by adding... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060279763 - Image copying device, image copying system, and image copying method: An image copying device and an image copying system are arranged to read an image of a document and to acquire copyright information on each area regarding the image of the document from an IC chip embedded in the document. Then, based on the read image data and the acquired... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060279765 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus receives print data per a print job from an external device, and stores the print data. Then, the image forming apparatus performs a printing operation in a specific printing order. The image forming apparatus comprises: a print alarm detection unit for detecting a print interruption cause;... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20060279764 - Image processing system and image processing method: In an image processing system for executing a job for an image, when security recording processing for an image to be processed is set valid, the image and the information related to a job to be executed for the image are stored in a predetermined unit. The state of storage... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279766 - Information processing apparatus and its control method: An information processing apparatus manages distributed processing by a plurality of devices which are connected to a computer network and have a power-saving mode. The apparatus includes a retriever, arranged to retrieve device information and operation states of the plurality of devices, and a selector, arranged to select target devices... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060279767 - Method and apparatus for detecting specific pattern and copying machine including the same: A specific pattern detection method and apparatus for detecting whether an input image includes a specific pattern included in a bill, which may not be copied, and a copying machine including the same are provided. The specific pattern detection method includes extracting objects corresponding to marks of a specific pattern... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060279768 - Approach for securely printing electronic documents: An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic documents with remote user authentication and secure printing of electronic documents with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20060279775 - Distributed printing control apparatus and print job distribution method: This invention provides a control method for a distributed printing system equipped with a display which is capable of distributing print jobs to a plurality of printing apparatuses connected to a network. The control method includes: a candidate destination display control step of displaying candidate destinations selected from the plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279777 - Grid computing system, and job allocation method in grid computing system: When distributed processing is to be performed in a computer system, a processing node subjected to the distributed processing is properly selected. For this purpose, when distributed processing is to be performed between a plurality of computer apparatuses which are connected via a network and include a management node (501)... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279781 - Image forming job managing apparatus, method of same, and program for same: An image forming job management apparatus includes a virtual job assignment unit, a real job assignment unit, and a schedule managing unit. The virtual job assignment unit assigns an image forming job for forming images to a plurality of image forming apparatuses. The real job assignment unit assigns an image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060279773 - Information processing apparatus and control method therefor: Print job data is generated in accordance with a printing instruction from an application. When encryption of the print job data is designated, the generated print job data is encrypted, and the generated or encrypted print job data is output. When a printing apparatus serving as an output destination to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279780 - Information processing apparatus, controlling method, and control program for the same: A program causes a computer to function as a specification unit configured to, with respect to data to be output that is stored in a predetermined output storage area, specify an order of outputting the data to be output, a state switching unit configured to switch the output storage area... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060279774 - Method and apparatus for providing device information: An apparatus for providing device information on devices arranged on a network includes a registering unit, a discovering unit, a database, and a providing unit. The registering unit is configured to register device information on a first device that does not support an automatic discovery scheme with which a device... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20060279778 - Method and apparatus to upgrade driver of image forming apparatus: A method and apparatus to upgrade a driver of an image forming apparatus. The method includes accessing a website having a website driver program useable by the image forming apparatus, converting a class mode of the image forming apparatus from an original class mode to a predetermined class mode that... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060279776 - Print control apparatus, print control system, print control method, and recording medium having print control program: A print control apparatus which transmits print data to a printing apparatus according to a print instruction for a logical printer. The print control apparatus includes a logical printer information management unit which manages logical printer information that is provided for each logical printer and is used to store information... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279779 - Printer for printing labels, tags or the like: A printer which is configured to automatically transmit data, such as critical and non-critical printer data, and route that data through at least one of a plurality of communication channels and services, such as via e-mail or mobile wireless equipment (e.g. an Internet-ready pager, a Personal Communications Service (PCS) phone... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20060279770 - Printing system and method: The printing system in accordance with the present invention includes a computer with a print setup program displaying a print command window on a monitor screen and at least one printer, each with two or more paper source cassettes, connected to the computer, wherein the print setup program detects all... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20060279772 - Secure web based system for generating a printed document at a remote printer: A system for generating a document at a remote printer includes a print services server, an application server, and a print control executable. The print services server stores a plurality of binary objects each in association with a unique identifier. Each binary object includes a print formatted object representing a... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20060279771 - Server for generating a print object and making the pint object available for secure printing at a remote location: A system for interfacing with an application server and generating a print command file for secure download and printing of a document at a remote client comprises image template storage, binary object storage, a print command object, and a return object. A plurality of document templates are stored in the... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20060279769 - System and method for secure printing of a transaction document at a remote location: A system for generating a document at a print system under the control of a remote client comprises a document image template, a print command object, and a print control executable. The document template comprising a document image and a plurality of data fields. The print command object receives a... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20060279782 - Apparatus and method for selecting files from a plurality of recording media and printing files: An apparatus and method for selecting and printing files from a plurality of recording media. The apparatus includes: an input unit to connect to the recording media and input thumbnail information from image files stored on the recording media; a storage unit to store the thumbnail information; a displayer to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060279783 - Apparatus and method for determining and setting finishing parameters for a document being printed: An apparatus and method for determining finishing parameters for a document having one or more pages includes performing a layout analysis that determines a location and type of at least one object for each page of the document. At least one rule is applied to results of the layout analysis,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060279784 - Handheld printer: A handheld printer that provides an appropriate application of ink to a print medium without a bulky and complex mechanical system for positioning a print head with respect to the print medium. A handheld printer according to the present teachings includes a navigation subsystem that tracks a motion of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20060279785 - Image generating apparatus, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, printing medium, image generating method, and program: An image generating apparatus includes a position information acquiring unit that acquires position information indicating each of positions on a medium, an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information identifying an electronic document or the medium, the electronic document being a basis of a document image formed on the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060279748 - Apparatus and method for compensating for resolution differences of color and monochrome sensors: An apparatus and method for processing image data includes generating color image data and monochrome image data from an original image, the color image data and the monochrome image data having a first resolution, the color image data including RGB data. Multiples of pixels of the color image data are... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060279750 - Apparatus and method for converting image display mode: An image display mode conversion apparatus and method, the apparatus having a display unit displaying image data included in an image signal, an image characteristic parameter detector detecting an image characteristic parameter which is information regarding whether the image data included in the image signal represents a two-dimensional (2D) image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279749 - Super resolution encoding: A method for encoding high resolution data to a form having a reduced number of bits can include predefining a plurality of high-output-resolution output patterns, associating respective output-resolution output patterns of the plurality with respective encoded resolution bit patterns, receiving a block of input-resolution input data, determining a respective difference... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich &mckee, LLP

20060279751 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming section that forms a visible toner image, a second toner image forming section that forms an invisible toner image, in which a resolution of the invisible toner image is lower than a resolution of the visible toner image, and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060279752 - Printing machine: A printing machine comprises a transfer device including a conveyor having suction holes formed therethrough for transferring cardboard sheets one by one, a suction device for applying a suction force on one of the two surfaces of each of the cardboard sheets, which one of two surfaces faces the conveyor,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060279755 - Apparatus and method for image processing of digital image pixels: A method for image processing of digital image pixels. Pixels are preferably filtered spatially and dithered, and the value for at least one colour component is bit reduced. The space freed by the bit reduction is used to allocate a look-up table selection bit that indicates which look-up table (LUT),... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060279753 - Color printing: A method of operating a color printer including using a first set of one-dimensional TRCs or a second set of one-dimensional TRCs with a single set of color tables.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279756 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided in which the frequency of undesired delay of the image output can be reduced. The image processing apparatus comprises an image processor for performing a process defined by a parameter on the image data of the received job, a decision portion for deciding a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060279754 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program product: A set value input screen used for a user to input set values is displayed on a display unit for parameters when a manual setting mode is set. A list box of the set value input screen is for designating an arbitrary object to be set out of the parameters,... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20060279786 - Display device and driving apparatus thereof: A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a signal controller that is configured to convert an input image signal having a first frequency into a plurality of output image signals having a second frequency and provide the plurality of output image signals at an output,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060279788 - Automatic generation of supercell halftoning threshold arrays for high addressability devices: The automatic generation and use of halftone supercell threshold arrays suitable for high addressability output devices, particularly ones with constraints on sub-pixel combinations or geometries is disclosed. An example of a high addressability device is a laser printer using a pulse width modulator. The invention can further extend the usefulness... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20060279789 - High-image-quality halftone process: This invention provides a method for generating a dither matrix includes: setting an evaluation function for calculating an evaluation value of the dither matrix; providing a dither matrix as an initial state which stores in respective elements each of a plurality of threshold values for deciding presence or absence of... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20060279787 - Method and system for designing multilevel halftone screens using spot functions: A method and system for generating halftone tables, using a spot function, subdivides the pixels within the halftone cell of a halftone matrix into a plurality of sub-pixels, determines the value of the spot function corresponding to the position of each of the sub-pixels within the halftone matrix, repeats the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20060279791 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus which performs multicolored printing by overlaying a plurality of printing materials using an electrophotographic process is provided. The apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate bitmapped data of each of the plurality of printing materials, a detection unit configured to compare bitmapped data of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279790 - Image processing system: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a first recognition component, a second recognition component and a conversion component. The first recognition component recognizes input side unevenness information representing unevenness of an image depending on an image inputting apparatus to which an image inputted and image data representing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279792 - Pattern overlapping device, method thereof, and program storage medium: A pattern overlapping device is disclosed for overlapping a pattern in a sheet-like medium or document data to be printed on the sheet-like medium that enables detection of the pattern without a delay. The pattern overlapping device has an overlapping unit for overlapping the pattern at an edge of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20060279793 - Printing form processing with a plurality of engraving tool tracks forming lines: In a method for engraving of line patterns or text by use of processed tracks which accept printing ink on a processing surface of a printing form, a printing screen is provided with screen elements for the processing surface. With at least one engraving tool, the line patterns or text... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060279794 - Printing form processing with fine and coarse engraving tool processing tracks: In a method for forming printing indicia to accept printing ink on a processing surface of a printing form associated with a printing cylinder, a first engraving tool is provided directed onto the processing surface of the printing form which creates a fine processing track. A second engraving tool is... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060279795 - Program recording medium recorded with facsimile driver program: A facsimile driver program recorded in a program recording medium is installed in a client device for a user to enter the type of process requested of a multifunction device. A first transmission unit transmits a command to the multifunction device asking for a screen corresponding to the entered type... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20060279797 - Dispersed input and output system: There is disclosed a dispersed input and output system adapted to instruct the execution of a dispersed divided input operation at a document input and output device, perform control to cause a plurality of document input and output devices other than the document input and output device to cooperatively carry... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060279796 - Document delivery system: A mail terminal senses insertion of a document into the terminal, scans the document in response to the sensed document insertion, and transmits the scanned document electronically over a telephone network. A host server receives the document over the telephone network, determines the name of the addressee from the received... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Department

20060279798 - Coversheet manager application: A method, and a system using the method, of managing and using a profile to be associated with a document. The method includes generating an identifier based on the profile and printing the identifier for use in scanning documents to be associated with the profile.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060279799 - System and method for retrieving and displaying information relating to electronic documents available from an informational network: A method of displaying information relating to a plurality of electronic documents available from an informational network including the steps of: retrieving information relating to location of each of the plurality of documents available on the informational network; identifying a plurality of elements in each of the plurality of documents,... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20060279801 - Image processing apparatus and method: If a larger number of pieces of attribute information are prepared so as to attain advanced input image processing and output image processing, the number of bits of each attribute signal increases, thus increasing the data size of the signal. For this reason, the storage capacity consumed by a storage... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279800 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes a map generation unit, a temporary area arrangement unit and a target area detection unit. The map generation unit acquires a map of scores in which each score pertaining to a degree—to which a corresponding unit area of image data is likely to be contained... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279802 - Methods of identifying the type of a document to be scanned: Methods for establishing or configuring imaging device settings use the luminance and chrominance values of an original document. The document is identified as either a text document or a photograph based at least in part on the luminance values of the document's pixels, and identified as black and white or... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060279803 - Calibration system for a scanner for recording images from sheets: An image input scanner having two scan heads for simultaneous scanning of both sides of a sheet includes two calibration surfaces. A first calibration surface is disposed on the carriage on which a first scan head is mounted. A second calibration surface is disposed on the document handler.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279804 - Document presentation device: A document presentation device comprising an imaging unit that takes images of documents and a display unit that displays the images of documents taken by the imaging unit.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060279805 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a scanning module reading an image of a document while sliding, a guide module guiding the scanning module to slide along an axis, and a drive module including first and second timing belts respectively coupled to both ends of the scanning module, first and second... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060279806 - Method and apparatus for guiding a cable in a scanner: A scanning apparatus includes a housing with a flatbed. A loading glass is installed at the scan flatbed for loading a to-be-scanned document. A photoelectric sensing device is disposed in the housing for sensing the light signals corresponding to the to-be-scanned document to generate electric signals. The electric signals are... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060279807 - Flat bed scanner: A flat bed scanner having a transparent platform and a scanning mechanism is provided in the present invention. The transparent platform is used to support the objects that wait for scanning. The scanning mechanism is movably placed under the transparent platform along the length direction of the transparent platform. The... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20060279808 - Full-zone optical image addressing apparatus: A full-zone optical image addressing apparatus, including an addressing device, an image extraction converter, a comparator, an AND gate and a counter. The addressing device is located at the enclosure of the scanner and includes a plurality of geometric patterns. Each of the geometric patterns includes a plurality of rows... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060279809 - Film scanning device (1): This is a Film Scanning Device having an object to use the same CCD light sensor is used for pictures of strip film with a slid mount in order to delete any unnecessary work. The film scanning device includes body and a first opening located in the body in which... Agent: Harold L. Novick Nath & Associates PLLC

20060279810 - Electronic device display device: A display device of an electronic apparatus according to the present invention is a display device of an electronic apparatus for setting a plurality of conditions for a process of the electronic apparatus through an input portion 57 while displaying the conditions before the electronic apparatus performs the process in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060279811 - Method for adjusting colors of image: A method for adjusting color images is disclosed, which adjusts color signals within predetermined adjust regions without conversion of color model. The adjust effects are gradual and the possibility of occurrence of error profiles is low. The adjust regions are defined and selected. It is judged whether color signals of... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20060279812 - System and method for adjusting the reproduction of original images: A system and method for reproducing original images in an image forming apparatus includes determining a size of a binder area, a size of at least two original images, and a size of a paper upon which the at least two original images are reproduced, and calculating an image reduction... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060279813 - Image processing apparatus and method: In order to improve print image quality, attribute information is generated for each pixel of a bitmap image generated according to a drawing command, and the bitmap image and attribute information are written in a memory. However, when this is done, data amount to be written in the memory increases,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279814 - Apparatus, method and program for processing an image: An image processing apparatus includes a comparison unit adapted to compare a color of a first master page and a color of an edge area of an object in a variable page, and a change unit adapted to, when the color difference between the first master page and the edge... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060274331 - Printing-apparatus control method and information processing apparatus and program for performing the same method: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention determines whether a slip sheet should be inserted after a page of interest has been printed according to at least one of the paper type for the page and the size of an object on the page. If it is determined... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060274343 - Print system: A print system includes a first printer and a print data output device that is communicably connected to the first printer. The print data output device is adapted to output to the first printer print data generated based on internal print data generated by any of a plurality of programs.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20060274344 - Hand-held printer assembly with detachable media feed mechanism: A hand-held printer assembly includes a print media cartridge configured to store a stack of sheets of print media. A printer is configured to releasably engage with the print media cartridge and print on respective sheets of the print media passing there-through. A print media transporter is arranged to transport... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060274345 - Adaptive driver for choosing hybrid raster and pdl format output: An adaptive print driver receives printing instructions relating to a document and outputs print data pages to an imager. The adaptive printer driver includes a printing instruction parser for parsing printing instructions, a format controller for assigning a data format to the parsed print instructions and transferring the parsed print... Agent: Law Office Of Karen Dana Oster, LLC

20060274350 - Apparatus and methods for selectively distributing print pages in multiple print engine systems: A multiple print engine configuration allows a plurality of workstations to create individual print jobs and then transfer them to a distributing processor. The distributing processor spools the jobs in a print spooler and then performs a software raster image processing (“RIP”) operation on the print jobs. The RIP operation... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20060274347 - Interface and print control apparatus: In one embodiment of an interface that displays icons or indicators corresponding to a plurality of functions on a screen and selectively points each icon or indicator on the screen, the interface includes a function-list display portion that displays a list of each icon or indicator on the screen, and... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060274346 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for viewing on a client computer documents data to be printed: A method, an apparatus and a computer program enable viewing of data of documents to be printed on a client computer. A client computer includes a version y of a conversion function for converting document data into raster image data and a version z of a client viewer application. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274349 - Method, apparatus, and program for processing image description data: An image description data processing method is provided for execution in an apparatus including a holding unit configured to hold image description data described in an image description language including one of a page description language and a structured language. The method includes acquiring first image description data from the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060274348 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus having a standby mode and an energy saving mode, the standby mode being capable of receiving data to be printed and of starting printing processing for the received data without requiring warming-up and the energy saving mode being capable of receiving the data and of starting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274352 - Copying machine, server device, shredder apparatus, information terminal, and copy control method: A device and a method using an RFID on a stapler needle or a holder provide mechanisms of: relating RFID information and printed information automatically, when a paper document is printed or copied; prohibiting to copy a secret or an expired document; and detecting a paper document bound by a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060274353 - Image forming apparatus, method of controlling same and control program: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus in which even in the event that a print job is suspended by reason of payment of an insufficient fee, image formation continues effectively and appropriately. The image forming apparatus, which charges for image formation processing, has determination means for determining whether or not... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20060274351 - System and method for tracking conditions during document processing operations: A system and method for tracking errors in a document processor during document processing operations. The system uses a job monitor that monitors the document processing operations performed by an associated document processing device. The job monitor periodically receives job status data indicating the status of the job being processed.... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20060274354 - Automated proofing for digital presses: A method of automatic proofing a document submitted for printing on a press having a digital front end includes inputting the document into a raster image processor to produce a post-RIP file. A copy of the post-RIP file is saved as a proofing file in a proofing file storage location... Agent: Clifford P. Kelly Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20060274363 - Communication apparatus, system, and method: Device detection is performed by using a second detection unit which uses unicast transmission with a destination address being changed in addition to a first detection unit which uses broadcasting/multicasting. When unicast transmission can be normally performed, detection using the first detection unit is performed to determine whether broadcasting/multicasting at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274365 - Communication device and communication method: A communication device, which receives data from outside, reads identification information from a storage medium in a noncontact manner, and determines whether or not the identification information has been read. When a determination is made that the identification information has been read, the communication device retrieves a processing mode stored... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20060274370 - Control technology used in distributed printing for printing control device and printer: To achieve a smooth distributed printing process, the printer includes a communication module, a job receiving module and a print executing module. The communication module maintains connections to perform communication using a connection-type protocol. The job receiving module receives print jobs through the connections. The number of the print jobs... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274368 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing system includes a wireless terminal and first and second data processing apparatuses. The first data processing apparatus, responsive to receiving from the wireless terminal data including identification information identifying the second data processing apparatus, sends to the second data processing apparatus a shift signal for shifting the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060274367 - Document management server, information terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus, document managing method, and program: When a certain file is updated, a document management server determines whether a “registration state information mail” is set for that file, and after that, performs “self information mail” setting processing. Computer requests the document management server to transmit an electronic file, and prints and displays the electronic file according... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060274369 - Document-management device and document-management method: In a document-management device which supports a task of electronizing paper documents and registering electronic data of the documents to an existing system having a user interface provided to register electronic data, a request receiving unit receives a code assignment request from a user when a user interface screen corresponding... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274362 - Image forming system and image forming apparatus: To provide an image forming system and image forming apparatus with improved operability, allowing control, for example, such as operation and status monitoring among image forming apparatuses. In an image forming system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses are communicably connected via a network, the image forming apparatus... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060274358 - Image processing system having a plurality of users utilizing a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to network, image processing apparatus, and image processing program product executed by image processing apparatus: An image processing system includes a plurality of MFPs connected to a network, and each of the plurality of MFPs is provided with an HDD to store registered user information associating user identification information for identifying a user and personal information related to that user, and when the user identification... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060274359 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing program product suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image processing apparatuses: To allow inputting and outputting of data using any apparatus of a plurality of MFPs, each of the plurality of MFPs includes a HDD to store user data including user identification information for identifying a plurality of users, a job attribute information generating portion to generate job attribute information which... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060274360 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing program product suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image processing apparatuses: In order to share user identification information among a plurality of MFPs without using a server, each of a plurality of MFPs forming an image processing system stores in a HDD registered user information which at least includes the user identification information for identifying a user, requests another MFP to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060274371 - Information processing apparatus, device, control method thereof, computer program, and storage medium: Identification information of a user who performs search is shared between an information processing apparatus and a device. When search from the user having the identification information is accepted, the device responds. At this time, when the condition for sending back a response can be set from both the information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274361 - Network image processing system, network image processing apparatus, and network image processing method: A network image processing system that includes a plurality of apparatuses connected to a network and performs jobs in a linkage process in which an upstream apparatus passes a workflow specifying a job to be completed, together with image data to be processed, to a downstream apparatus according to a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060274366 - Printing system, printing method, printing apparatus, and driver: This invention relates to a printing system, printing method, printing apparatus, and driver capable of printing at high-speed even when a transfer data amount increases. According to the system, in a host apparatus, a compression pattern of image data is generated. Image data corresponding to one print scan of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274364 - Process for automatic determination of an end value: The present invention relates to a process for automatic determination of an end value which has a lower calculability than those of the state of the art in order to minimize faulty operation. The inventive process consists of the steps of starting with an initial value and waiting for an... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20060274355 - Secured release system to transmit and image a print job: An effective method for securing the release of the transmission, rendering, and outputting of an imaging/print job at an imaging device, for imaging/print jobs that originate in traditional print/spooling subsystems include the following steps. A print job header is associated with an imaging/print job to form a headed imaging/print job.... Agent: Law Office Of Karen Dana Oster, LLC

20060274356 - System and method for controlling brand integrity in a network environment: A networked system for enabling geographically-spaced common-brand users to publish locale-specific, content-controlled messages is provided. The networked system comprises an online publishing portal providing selective access to pre-constructed, digital, plate-ready macrotemplates. A dynamic document server stores the macrotemplates and authorizes selective access thereto based upon user-supplied credentials. The user, having... Agent: Meroni + Meroni

20060274357 - Systems and methods for digital image printing: Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide a method for the direct printing of images from digital imaging devices. In some embodiments, an image is received from a digital imaging device and sent to a computer for processing. In some embodiments, after the computer has completed... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060274372 - Fault recovery in concurrent queue management systems: A method for fault tolerance and fault recovery in multiprocessor systems that concurrently manage queues is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment comprises a plurality of servers, a queue of jobs to be assigned to the servers, and two queue managers—a primary unit and a secondary unit—such that the secondary fills in... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20060274373 - Image storing device, image storing system and image data control apparatus: An image storing device includes: a first memory section for storing counted value of a first counter that counts a first serial number given across jobs each including at least one image; a first control section for superimposing the first serial number of the first counter as an image onto... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060274332 - Image processing system, a method thereof, and a recording medium thereof: An image processing system, a method thereof, and a recording medium thereof are disclosed. The image processing system includes a command converting unit for reading object information contained in a drawing command, and generating an attribute image; a resolution reducing unit for generating a low-resolution attribute image and a mixture... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060274333 - Image forming device: An image forming device has a radiation element for emitting a light, a mirror motor for reflecting the light emitted from the radiation element, a lens for focusing and irradiating the reflected light to the photosensitive drum, and a light exposure unit including a first and a second control modules... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060274334 - Low cost adjustment method for printing systems: A method of adjusting a printing system includes providing a printing system including a plurality of marking engines that include first, second and third actuators. The method includes setting each of the actuators of each marking engine to predetermined values, and generating a plurality of printed samples having a visually... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060274342 - Color management system using measured device data: Managing color data to transform source color image data from a source device into destination color image data for rendering by a destination device, including accessing a source color data file corresponding to the source device, the source color data file containing source device color characteristic data, constructing a source... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274341 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A rendering of objects described by description language into bitmap data is performed. As color space compression, the bitmap data in which the rendering has been performed is compressed in a color reproduction range.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274340 - Image processing method, profile generation method, and image processing apparatus: An image processing method according to the present invention achieves gamut mapping between devices having different color reproduction ranges in gamut compression, and enables good color reproduction without reversal of tonal change. An image processing method converts a color signal representing a color in a first color gamut to a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060274337 - Inter-separation decorrelator: Spatially dependent colorant interaction effects are identified and isolated from other aspects of spatially dependent colorant appearance nonuniformities. A decorrelating function for compensating for the identified spatially dependent colorant interaction effects is determined. Spatially dependent single colorant compensating functions for compensating for the other aspects of the spatially dependent colorant... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060274339 - Method and apparatus for detecting image area, and computer product: An apparatus detects an area specified based on a mark of a specific color out of three primary colors in pigment or three primary colors in light from an image. An other-color-information eliminating unit eliminates information of other colors from a tone level of the specific color by correcting the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060274336 - Method and apparatus for improving the performance of a host-based color printing system: A host-based color printing system having a color printing accelerator module that assists the host processor in order to speed up the rate at which color formatting tasks are performed by the host. The color printing accelerator module has an I/O interface that connects to a first I/O port of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20060274335 - Method and apparatus for lossless and minimal-loss color conversion: A method and apparatus for perfectly lossless and minimal-loss interconversion of digital color data between spectral color spaces (RGB) and perceptually based luma-chroma color spaces (Y′CBCR) is disclosed. In particular, the present invention provides a process for converting digital pixels from R′G′B′ space to Y′CBCR space and back, or from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274338 - Method and system for inter-channel clock frequency selection with periodic halftoning: At least two different pixel clock frequencies or pixel pitches are used when generating an image. They are used with periodic halftone patterns in a color scanning printing process. By using different clock frequencies for the different color separations, more options for screen geometry are available, and therefore new screen... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20060274374 - Image processing device, image processing method, image creating device, computer software and record medium: A halftone reproduction processing section (29) of an image processing apparatus (13) has a control part that conducts a halftone processing of input image data by subjecting it to an error diffusion processing, selects input image data on at most one, namely, one or no input image data from the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060274375 - Image/document analysis tool and method for multi-station image forming device: A document analysis tool may generate a halftone image corresponding to the output of an image forming device and may display the generated halftone image for a document designer. The halftone image may include halftone dots displaced from each other, depending on a misregistration between image forming stations in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20060274377 - Image alignment method and image forming apparatus employing the same: An image alignment method and an image forming apparatus employing the same are provided. The apparatus includes a test mark detector for detecting first and second test marks printed on a printing medium, an encoder output pulse generator for generating encoder output pulses, an absolute position determiner for determining absolute... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060274376 - Method for image background detection and removal: A method for photocopying an original color document reduces the amount of color in the resulting photocopy. This is accomplished by scanning bands of the original document to create image bands, detecting a background color in one or more margins of the document that are within the scanned image bands,... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060274378 - Color image enhancement apparatus and method: A color image enhancement apparatus has a color attribute interpreter and a color attribute adjuster. The color attribute interpreter generates an adjust signal according to a Hue, a Saturation and a Brightness of a pixel data. Of the adjust signal, each adjustment for each of the Hue, the Saturation and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274379 - Image processing apparatus: An apparatus that embeds data in an image includes a mark embedding unit that embeds a feature that forms a predetermined pattern in the image, as a mark to be used to specify an area in which the data is embedded, and a data embedding unit that embeds the data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060274380 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus capable of improving positional accuracy of a bearing of a side plate with respect to a chassis is obtained. In this thermal transfer printer (image generating apparatus), a round hole receiving a platen roller bearing of a side plate is provided on a side surface of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060274381 - System and method facilitating document image compression utilizing a mask: A system and method facilitating document image compression utilizing a mask separating a foreground of a document image from a background is provided. The invention includes a pixel energy analyzer adapted to partition regions into a foreground and background. The invention further provides for a merge region component adapted to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060274382 - Scanner: A scanner. The scanner comprises a main body having a scanning area, a cover rotatably connected to the main body, a baffle detachably disposed between the main body and the cover and comprising a flange abutting the edge of the scanning area to hold a document, and at least one... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20060274384 - Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus incorporating the same, image reading control method therefor, and program implementing the method: An image reading apparatus which improved the development efficiency and is capable of reducing the development cost. The image reading apparatus comprises a specific unit 1001 and an alignment unit 1002. The specific unit 1001 has an CPU 1501 that informs the alignment unit 1002 of identification information for identifying... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20060274383 - Scanner and image forming apparatus having the same: A scanner includes a document feed plate on which one or more documents to be read are stacked, an image sensor disposed adjacent to the document feed plate to read a lower surface of the one or more documents, a plurality of document output rollers arranged vertically adjacent to each... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274385 - Imaging system for multiple document types: A system for scanning more than one type of document, including documents on generally opaque media such as plain paper, and those on semi-transparent media such as exposed X-ray film. For scanning a document on generally opaque media, a light source in front of the document is activated as the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20060274387 - Color adjustment method: The first color difference between the second color space value showing the second color tone and the first color space value showing the first color tone is found when the first color tone is a target of color adjustment and the second color tone is a output of the target,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060274386 - Imaging device and method of processing imaging result in imaging device: The present invention relates to an imaging device and a method of processing an imaging result in an imaging device, and is applied to e.g. an electronic still camera to thereby allow the camera to correct image quality readily and flexibly with avoiding the deterioration of the image quality effectively.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060274388 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus includes a preview generating unit configured to generate, based on image data, a preview image that is expected to be output; an attribute extracting unit configured to extract an attribute of at least one portion in the image data; a display unit configured to display the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274389 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes: an image signal generating part reading a plurality of color components of image data from an original, and generating corresponding image signals for the respective color components; an image processing part carrying out predetermined image processing on the image signal for each of the plurality... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274390 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program product allowing reproduction of information lost in printing: An extraction unit included in an image processing device extracts specific information that may be lost from a document image to be printed. The extracted information is converted into a two-dimensional bar code as additional information at an additional information generation unit. A print unit forms the document image on... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP