Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 02/07

20070041025 - Printing apparatus: The printing apparatus includes an image forming section for preparing prints and a packer which gathers the prints and packages them in a print pack or print packs. The image forming section prepares for each print pack an order print that shows information relevant to one order and supplies the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041029 - Image forming apparatus with an image editing function and a method thereof: An image forming apparatus with an image editing function and a method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a touch screen unit to display an image and to receive an editing command for the image by touch, a main control unit to edit image data that corresponds to the image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070041030 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus 1 comprises an imaging unit that obtains an image signal by a first imaging operation, a recording medium M that stores an image data corresponding to the image signal in a RAW file format, and a control unit that performs a development operation of the image data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070041033 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a printing unit that performs a printing operation; a printing possibility determination unit that determines whether printing is possible, at the time of starting the printing operation; a printing stop unit that stops the printing operation, when the printing possibility determination unit determines that printing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070041032 - Image reading apparatus and control method therefor: An image reading apparatus that reads an original document and transmits image data to a printing apparatus after writing the image data in a predetermined page description language, wherein the image reading apparatus reads the image data from the original document on a line-by-line basis; performs pattern recognition at the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070041031 - Print management method, recording medium storing a program, and print management apparatus: Disclosed is a print managing method including: managing a plurality of files created by at least one application program as one print unit; setting usage restriction information to the print unit; and restricting a user usage of each file contained in the print unit according to the usage restriction information.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041036 - Image forming apparatus: In a digital multi-function peripheral, a network button (Available Network) is provided on a liquid crystal display section of an operator panel. When a user presses a currently available network button, a wireless communication control unit provides a main CPU 10 with an SSID that is used in a connectable... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070041038 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image development unit of an MFP executes an interpretation process for a rendering command of data that is received by a data receiving unit. If a result of the interpretation process shows that the received data is print data, the image development unit executes a rendering process using a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070041040 - Image forming apparatus enabling performing direct print and recording medium storing program: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus equipped with a terminal to which an external device is connected to enable performing direct print; a print unit executing print; and a control unit controlling the image forming apparatus. The control unit judges whether the device connected to the terminal is a mass-storage... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041043 - Image forming apparatus, image processing system, method for expanding function of image forming apparatus and method for forming virtual network: An image forming apparatus is provided with an attribution information obtaining portion for obtaining application module list information on a function that resides in another image forming apparatus when the image forming apparatus is connected to the other image forming apparatus via a communication line, an unequipped function determining portion... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070041047 - Image forming device and authentication charging method: In an image forming device including a hardware resource used in image formation processing and an application program performing the image formation processing, an application-specific authentication unit is specifically adapted for control of one of a plurality of authentication/changing methods. A common authentication unit provides the application program with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041042 - Image processing method and apparatus: In a system, first and second image processing apparatuses are connected to each other via a network, and each of the first and second image processing apparatuses having a storage device for storing a job or jobs, each of which includes image data and attribute information including its output format.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070041045 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: Disclosed is a technique which aims to suitably limit access to stored information from an external apparatus which is not permitted to access the information. An information processing apparatus such as an MFP authenticates a portable information terminal, and stores information input within a predetermined period after the authentication in... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070041041 - Method and computer program product for conversion of an input document data stream with one or more documents into a structured data file, and computer program product as well as method for generation of a rule set for such a method: In a method, a computer program product and a system for conversion of an input document data stream with one or more documents into a structured data file, source data fields in an input document data stream are automatically positioned for readout of data to be extracted, whereby their positioning... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070041046 - Network printing system and data processing method using the same: A method of processing data in a network printing system having a network printer and at least one host computer connected thereto, the method including adding an address list of a host computer that is designated as allowed to print through the network printer to predetermined document data according to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070041048 - Network system, data processing device, and data transmission device: A network system comprising a data processing device with a communication circuit connected to a telecommunication line, and a communication device internally communicably connected to the data processing device via a network is provided. The data processing device is provided with a receiver system to receive mail data transmitted from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070041044 - Print order system, print order terminal, print order receiving server and print order program: An order terminal transmits print order information including image information and identification information of an image editing software used for image editing to an order receiving server. The order receiving server calculates charging amount for an image editing software supplier in accordance with the print order information and the identification... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070041039 - Print system control method notifying user before job information is transmitted that print request is permitted, and information processor, information terminal and program product for controlling the same: A print system includes a printer, an information terminal and an information processor. The information terminal stores driver identification information, which is information for identifying a driver generating job information for operating the printer. The information processor receives job information transmitted from the information terminal, and causes the printer to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070041035 - System and method for producing variable information documents using undetermined data sources: A system and method is provided for printing variable information documents including processing a VI request which has a dynamic reference and uses a namespace and schema, wherein the dynamic reference specifies information to be integrated into a resolved document. The processing includes mapping between respective namespaces and schemas used... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP Suite 225

20070041037 - Systems and methods for confirmed document transmission: Techniques are provided for determining a document, an authenticated document sender and an intended document recipient. The intended recipient of the document is optionally notified of new documents available for review. A non-optional delivery confirmation is recorded when an authenticated recipient reads, prints, forwards or otherwise accesses the document. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041034 - Wireless workflow system: A wireless workflow system for a print shop having multiple printing components includes a workflow controller and a positioning systems associated with each printing component. A wireless local area network provides communications between the workflow controller and each positioning system, such that each positioning system provides a relative position of... Agent: Clifford P. Kelly Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20070041049 - Image forming system: An image forming system includes: a first image forming device forming an image on continuous paper fed from a first feeding device; and a turn bar device provided on downstream of the first image forming device and wrapping the continuous paper around a turn bar arranged at approximately 45°, with... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041050 - Memory management method and system: A memory management method applied to a storage device is disclosed. The storage device has a plurality of storage units. The memory management method includes: providing a buffer storage device comprising a buffer space, wherein the size of the buffer space is equal to the size of each storage unit;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070041052 - Hand-held modular system with printer and memory modules: A printer module for a compact printer system has an elongate body having a longitudinal axis and a stationary printhead housed within the body. Two opposing slots are interconnected by a paper path which passes through the body. An ink reservoir within the body provides ink to the printhead. Images... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070041051 - Position information management system, image forming apparatus, position information management method and storage medium: A position information management system, including: a document acquisition unit that acquires an electronic document to be printed; a layout acquisition unit that acquires layout information for printing the electronic document on a medium in a layout different from a layout for ordinary printing; and an information generation unit that... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041027 - Conversion method, apparatus and computer program for converting a digital image obtained by a scanner: An image conversion method and an apparatus for converting a digital image obtained by a scanning unit into a converted digital image includes the steps of acquiring statistics for at least some pixels of the digital image, extracting characteristic values of a background color using the acquired statistics, operating a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070041026 - Effecting gamut operations using boundary line elements: The present invention provides for a performing a type of gamut operation for a color device given a color input value, the color device being characterized by a gamut boundary comprising a collection of gamut boundary triangles. Boundary line elements are determined that correspond to a subset of the collection... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070041028 - Image data converter, printer, method of converting image data, method of printing image, and method of preparing color conversion table: It is disclosed a method of generating mapping data for converting first image data adapted to be reproduced by a first imaging device having a first gamut to second image data adapted to be reproduced by a second imaging device having a second gamut which is different from the first... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070041053 - Apparatus and method for error diffusion with dither: The input pixels in an image to be halftoned using error diffusion are dithered using a first type of passband dither. A second type of passband dither may also be added to a thresholding matrix used in halftoning. This second type of passband dither may be the same as the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070041054 - Image output control system, image output device, and image processing device: The technique of the invention ensures high-speed output of an image including a large number of pixels. In an image output control system of the invention, an image processing device makes image data subjected to a preset series of image processing and supplies processed image data to an image output... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070041055 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes four operation modes: a copy mode, a fax mode, an e-mail mode and a scanner mode. The image forming device can set a processing content of each operation mode for each prescribed setting item. The image forming device includes a favorite keys group to which... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070041056 - Object operation apparatus and object operation method: Objects processed in a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected over a network to an object operation apparatus are caused to be displayed on screens of a display device of the object operation apparatus in correspondence with the information processing apparatuses. Then, operations on the displayed objects on the screens... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070041057 - Method for simultaneously capturing images of multiple areas and image processing device: A method for simultaneously capturing images of multiple areas is applied to an image processing device. The method includes scanning a document and obtaining a preview image of the document; providing N scan windows for selecting N to-be-scanned areas from the preview image, wherein N is an integer; setting N... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070041058 - Device and a method for identifying movement patterns: A device for converting digital images taken along a predefined movement pattern into a control signal. The device comprises an image input device having a connection to a image sensor. The image input device is adapted to receive the digital images captured during the displacement of the image sensor and... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070041060 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus includes: an image processing section for performing tone correction of an image signal; and an image output section for outputting an image in accordance with an image recording signal output, wherein the image processing section includes: a tone correction processing unit which, in accordance with an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070041059 - Image scanning device and method for controlling scanner output: A method for generating a quality scan by predicting scanner lamp output whenever a scanner operation is initialized. Lamp output is measured within a duration after powering on the lamp and prior to a point at which maximum lamp output is reached. The lamp output for the remaining duration of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070041061 - Image scanner with a light source for starting a cold cathode fluorescent tube: An image scanner with a light source for starting a cold cathode fluorescent tube comprising a cold cathode tube for generating light projected on a document, a light source installed around one end of the cold cathode tube, and a control circuit connected to the cold cathode tube and the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070041063 - Image sensor: An image sensor 1 includes a glass substrate 10, a plurality of photoelectric converting elements 20 made of an organic material, a plurality of IC chips 30 on which driving circuits made of single crystal silicon are respectively mounted, and wirings 40 which connect the plurality of photoelectric converting elements... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070041062 - Method and apparatus for shielding correction pixels from spurious charges in an imager: A barrier for isolating the dark correction pixels from spurious charges within an image sensor. The barrier comprises a charge absorbing region in a substrate electrically connected to a voltage source terminal. The charge absorbing region completely surrounds the dark correction region of a pixel array. The charge absorbing region... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070041064 - Image sampling method for automatic white balance: Pixels from an image are sampled for auto white balance (AWB) statistics. To avoid the effects of monochromatic regions, pixels located at or near edges between monochromatic regions and neighboring regions are sampled for computation of the AWB gains. A sampling criteria is applied to each pixel that automatically excludes... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070041065 - Image processor, image formation apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processor for suppressing color variations includes a correction unit and a gradation adjustment unit. The correction unit converts input image data to have higher gray level than that of the input image data, and performs correction processing on the converted image data. The gradation adjustment unit decreases the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070035746 - Computerized prepress: Computerized prepress is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized prepress system includes three components: a server, a client and a printer. The server has stored thereon an authoring program to create a document, and a translation program to translate the document to a suitable prepress format. The client downloads the... Agent: Vista Print Usa Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20070035745 - Information processing method, information processing program, information processing device, and remote controller: A user interface unit (30) that specifies a copy area including plural objects from copy source information displayed on a display unit (20) at copy timing, and that specifies a past area from past target information at past timing, a semantic analysis performing unit (42) that performs a semantic analysis... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070035757 - Control apparatus, program and operation interface: A control apparatus includes a print control unit for judging a print function unfamiliar to a user among print functions owned by an image forming apparatus to make the image forming apparatus perform sample print by the print function unfamiliar to the user.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070035756 - Image forming apparatus: There is disclosed an image forming apparatus that can reduce the burden of an image scanning device when executing a test proof mode, and as well as can reduce the burden of a user. The image forming apparatus according to the present invention forms images on sheets based on setup... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070035758 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus, printing medium, image processing method and storage medium readable by computer: An image forming apparatus includes: a document image generating portion that generates a document image which is instructed to be printed; a code image generating portion that generates a code image indicating a position on a medium; an accepting portion that accepts information indicating at least one of a first... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070035760 - Image printing apparatus and method of controlling the same: This invention provides an apparatus and a method capable of improving the throughput, reducing the apparatus cost, and executing marginless copy with a natural impression. According to this invention, a multi-function printer executes marginless copy in the following. Marginless copy and a printing paper size are instructed. The position and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035759 - Print controlling method and print controlling device: In order to control printing of at least one of a plurality of digital images, zero or no value is set as a default value for a number of print copy of every one of the digital images. If any, an instruction for setting the number of print copy of... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070035762 - System and method for multiparty payment for print jobs: A system for effecting payment for a print job includes a mobile device interfacing contactlessly with a document machine having a print engine, and a processor in communication with the mobile device. The processor is configured to authorize a print job and effect payment for the print job. A method... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070035761 - System for detecting and avoiding printing of solid black areas: A method for processing a print page, by detecting if the page contains black areas exceeding a user-customizable coverage percentage, and providing a GUI for canceling, printing, and converting the print page. Printing presentation slides, for example, sometimes results in too many unattractive solid black sections, wasting toner or ink.... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070035766 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program and computer readable storage medium: This invention controls a printer to download using either a nonsecure protocol or a secure protocol depending on as to whether or not the printer is included in a network segment to which an information processing apparatus generating print control information belongs. When, on an application executed by the apparatus,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070035767 - Information processing device, counting method, and computer program: There is provided an information processing device which counts a use amount at a time when a user uses a data processing device, as the use amount corresponding to the relevant user. The information processing device comprises: an input unit for inputting discrimination information of a first user; an acquisition... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070035768 - Network display apparatus and control method thereof: A network display apparatus includes a display unit, a network module to be connected to a server computer through a network, and a connector to which an external device is connected. The network display apparatus also includes a file browser to retrieve a file stored in the external device, a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070035763 - Print job management method and system: A printing system includes a job management server and multiple remote print stations. The print stations have user input capability, and a user may enter identification information and request that a document stored by the job management server be printed at the print station.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070035764 - System and method for uploading files: According to various aspects and examples described herein, systems and methods for uploading/transferring files are provided. In one aspect, an upload manager is provided, the upload manager for coordinating a transfer of an image file to a remote location. In one example, the upload manger includes logic for creating a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070035765 - System and method of scanning a job to a group of printers from a multi-function peripheral device: A system and method, for communicating data between a multi-function peripheral (MFP) device and a plurality of networked printing entities, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting, at an MFP device, a plurality of networked printing entities, wherein information associated with printing, being compatible with the MFP device,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070035769 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner, a hard disk drive in which a region at which data is stored is divided into a plurality of regions by partitions, a pointer setting unit in which a first pointer for storing image data generated on the basis of an image read... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070035771 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: According to this invention, information desired by the user can be properly printed when index printing is performed. An information processing method of printing image and additional information added to the image on one printing medium by a printing unit includes a first display step of displaying a window for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035770 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: A backstrip alignment position serving as the print position of a backstrip in manuscript page data is set. A print position where the manuscript page data is printed on a print sheet is calculated on the basis of the set backstrip alignment position.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070035747 - Image printing apparatus and method of controlling the same: This invention relates an image printing apparatus capable of copying by executing enlargement/reduction (E/R) processing optimum to an instructed mode. According to the apparatus, a copy mode and an enlargement rate are input. The use priority order of each enlargement/reduction (E/R) unit of the apparatus is decided. The enlargement rate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035749 - Color compensation of images: A color correction method includes for each of a plurality of color separations of a digital image, establishing a tone reproduction curve in the form of a vector. The vector is a function of a plurality of basis vectors. The basis vectors account for colorant interactions between a primary colorant... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070035748 - Color correction of images: A color transformation method which accounts for colorant interactions includes establishing a plurality of tone reproduction curves (TRCs), for one or more of the color separations forming a digital image. Each TRC accounts for colorant interactions between a primary colorant with which the first color separation is to be rendered... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070035755 - Composite image forming system: A composite image forming system includes a color reduction unit, operable to form a background image which is a raster image by reducing a color gamut of a user image which is a raster image and is stored in a recording medium; an order form printing control unit, operable to... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070035750 - Configurable device model for n-channel device: The present invention provides for a device model that transforms color image data between a device independent color space and a device dependent color space having n colorants. When transforming color from a device independent color space to a device dependent color space, a plurality of colorant sets is obtained,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035751 - Gamut shape dependent color management system: A color management system is provided for mapping color data from a source device gamut to a destination device gamut using information regarding a gamut shape for the source device and the destination device. The color management system includes a gamut shape determining component that is capable of determining the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070035752 - Hardware-accelerated color data processing: Methods for mapping color data having at least one color associated therewith to an output device based on an input device profile and an output device profile, each profile having a tone curve and a color matrix, are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving color data from an... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070035754 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and method for producing a table: An image processing method is used to converting a color within a first color reproduction range that is a device-independent color space into a color within a second color reproduction range that is a color reproduction range of an output device. The image processing method includes defining, within the first... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070035753 - Method of producing a color conversion table, image processing apparatus, method of image processing, image forming apparatus and recording media: A method for producing a color conversion table by which a color image signal to be handled in an image input system is converted to a N bit color image signal to be handled in an image output system, comprising the step of producing a color conversion table from which... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035772 - Image processing apparatus for carrying out multi-value quantization in multiple-pixel units: The present invention provides an image processing method of processing image data representing an image expressed by a prescribed number of tones to perform multi-value quantization for each pixel making up the image, using a smaller number of tones than the prescribed number of tones, the image processing method comprising:... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070035773 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, program and method of image processing: An image processing apparatus comprising a halftone processing section which executes a halftone process for input image data, wherein the halftone processing section executes the halftone process, by using a dither matrix, the order of producing the dots in the halftone process is consecutive in a main scanning direction, in... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035775 - Information processing device: There is provided an information processing device, which comprises a determination unit to analyze a main image and a watermark image to be added to the main image to determine an overlap part of the main image and the watermark image, a transparency adjustment unit to adjust transparency of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070035776 - Information processing device: There is provided an information processing device which comprises a transparency adjustment unit to adjust transparency of a watermark image which is to be added to a main image to prepare data of a first image having first transparency and data of a second image having second transparency, wherein each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070035774 - Print system, print apparatus, print processing method, and program: A print system includes: a print instruction unit that outputs a print instruction for the electronic document and print instruction specification information for specifying the print instruction; a print unit that prints the electronic document pertinent to the print instruction outputted from the print instruction unit, together with specification information... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070035777 - Portable bottomless laser engraver: A portable bottomless laser engraver includes a lower housing with a bottom defining an area and an aperture defining an area through the bottom substantially the same as the area of the bottom. An upper housing is interconnected to the lower housing. A laser assembly with a laser is mounted... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd

20070035778 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an imaging device. The imaging device carries out an exposing operation for exposing an object scene and an amplifying operation for amplifying a raw image signal generated by the exposing operation, according to a set imaging parameter. A CPU selects one program chart satisfying a parameter... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070035779 - Method and system for facsimile delivery using dial-up modem pools: A method and system for communicating a facsimile (fax) message over a computer network. A user initiates the sending of the fax to a recipient fax transceiver located outside the user's local-toll area of a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). A first fax transceiver transmits the fax to a first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070035780 - System and method for defining characteristic data of a scanned document: A system and a method for providing characteristic data associated with a scanned document is provided. The characteristic data of the document may include a title, a creation date, a scan date, an author, a subject matter, a total page count, a starting page number, an ending page number, a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070035781 - Communication apparatus, transmission program, computer readable medium storing a transmission program, transmission method and communication system for reliably transmitting image data: A communication apparatus includes receiving means for receiving image data and accompanying communication information, primary storage means for temporarily storing them, secondary storage means having a greater storage capacity than the primary storage means, forwarding means for converting the image data to a standard format and forwarding it with the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070035782 - Image processing apparatus and control method of image processing apparatus: An object of the present invention is to enable an image processing apparatus to correspond to plural kinds of data, and to easily and surely perform printout and management of various kinds of and large quantity of data. In the image processing apparatus which includes image printing means, image reading... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035784 - Image processing method and apparatus: The present invention discloses an image processing method for correcting shading based on the approximated surface of a brightness distribution of an image acquired with a digital camera. In the image processing method, a function describing the approximated surface is transformed into a shading correction function to correct the shading... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Sully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070035783 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: There is provided a technique that, when shading compensation is performed in an image reading apparatus, is less prone to be influenced by a smudge or the like adhered to a document glass or a white reference plate to be read by an optical reading system, and hence is able... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070035785 - Contact image sensor module: A contact image sensor module for scanning a document includes a light source, a photosensing array and a lens assembly. The light source emits a light beam to the document, thereby generating an optical signal. The photosensing array is used for converting the optical signal into an electronic signal. The... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070035786 - Optical carriage of scanner and method of the same: An optical carriage of scanner has a mirror assembly and a device assembly, the mirror assembly has a mirror mount, some mirror holder, and some supporters, and the device assembly has a chassis. In this invention, the mirror assembly and the device assembly are mechanically connected after separately formation. Further,... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070035787 - Method of compensating a zipper image by a k-value and a method of calculating a k-value: A method of compensating a zipper image by a K-value, and a method of calculating the K-value. Whether the nth primitive pixel of the mth line is obtained by primary line scan is determined. If the nth primitive pixel of the mth line is obtained by primary line scan, the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070035788 - Transparency scanning module: The present invention is an improved transparency scanning module, which is applied on a cover of scanning device. The transparency scanning module and the cover can be taken apart for different consuming groups. The features of the invention are that transparency scanning module is embedded in cover, and a slot... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070035789 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method and recording medium: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: an image memory section to store an image data obtained by reading an image of an original manuscript; an external light memory section to store a data of external light entering to a stage for the original manuscript and to form histograms of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035790 - Image editing apparatus and control method for the same, computer program, storage media: The present invention enables dust removal to be effectively performed even when using operation history on images containing different pictures. An image editing apparatus including a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data to be edited and a display unit for displaying the image data to be edited,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035791 - Multifunction printer and method for controlling the same: A multifunction printer which can erase image data, which is specified by using a sheet on which a list of image data in a memory card printed, from the memory card. It is also a multifunction printer which can erase specified image data from a memory card after the specified... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030507 - Print management method, recording medium storing a program, and print management apparatus: Disclosed is a print management method includes: managing a printing condition of a plurality of files created by at least one application program; and controlling an instruction for print execution corresponding to the at least one application program according to the printing condition when performing print output of the plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070030508 - Access to printing material container: The present invention provides a storage device that enables identification data to be readily rewritten and ensures normal completion of a data writing operation in a short time period. In the storage device of the invention, an ID comparator determines whether or not identification data transmitted from a host computer... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030514 - Control for execution of distributed printing: A printing controller is incorporated in at least one of a plurality of printing apparatuses connected to a network. the printing controller comprises a receiving module, a distribution destination specification module, a page assignment module, a sending module. The receiving module receives a first print job requesting a plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030518 - Data processing apparatus: In local memory that stores image data, the image data is invalidated to prevent leakage of the image data. Input image data is stored in local memory 10 and subjected to image processing, and then it is saved in a hard disk device 4. The image data that is read... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070030515 - Electronic document having authentication function: A method of creating an electronic document is disclosed that is able to maintain confidentiality and prevent leakage (unauthorized disclosure) of contents of the electronic document. The method includes the steps of sustaining plural combinations of first data sets and second data sets respectively corresponding to the first data sets... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070030511 - Image forming apparatus to supply a file transmission and reception list and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus to supply a file transmission and reception list, and a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus may include a storing part and a controlling part to store a list of transmission and reception for transmitted and received files using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070030513 - Image output apparatus and image output method: An image output apparatus includes a first communicator, operable to receive a first image output request transmitted from a first image output request apparatus by a first communication method; a second communicator, operable to receive a second image output request transmitted from a second image output request apparatus by a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030510 - Image processing apparatus, image output method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of image processing units and an output-form specifying unit which specifies an output form of an input image. A processing-units selecting unit selects at least two of the image processing units for processing the input image based on the specified output form and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030516 - Image transfer system: An image transfer system includes a printer connected to a network and an information terminal device, which transfers photographed image data to the printer, the information terminal device having a wireless broadcasting device, which broadcasts to the printer, and the printer having a wireless response device, which responds at least... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030512 - Image transfer system and image transfer method: In an image transfer system that an information terminal device and a plurality of printers are connected to a network to be able to output image data in the information terminal device to any of the printers through the network, the information terminal device broadcasts a searching inquiry request to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030517 - Smart wireless dongle: Communicating is disclosed. A communication exchanged between an image source and a print destination is intercepted. The print destination is configured to support a wired Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection between the image source and the print destination and there is no wired USB connection between the image source and... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070030509 - System and method for performing selective off-loading of document processing operations: A system and method for selectively outsourcing document processing operations from a document processing device. The document processing device analyzes a submitted document processing job from a user and determines whether external devices are available and capable of performing some or all of the requested document processing operations. When external... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070030520 - Apparatus, method, and program for laying out images: A user decides images to be laid out on one image. For each image showing presence of face among the decided images, a resion decision means decides a display region including at least one face in the corresponding image, according to the number of faces therein and according to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030519 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program: Printed material is electronically read, and electronic data of that printed material is input as a comparison source image. From the comparison source image, a plurality of partial regions are extracted. Layout comparison between partial regions of the comparison source image and a comparison destination image stored in a storage... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070030494 - Image forming apparatus: In a copier 1, when RFID wireless communication is performed between a first transmitter-receiver 18 and a wireless tag 21 fitted to a toner container 20, based on a table in which different transmission output values of the first transmitter-receiver 18 are written from the lower limit value to the... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070030495 - Image forming apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium: An image forming apparatus has a connection terminal for connecting and disconnecting a plug-in device, which is configured to be plugged into the connection terminal. The image forming apparatus includes a driver controller that activates a device driver corresponding to the plug-in device in accordance with detection of insertion of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030496 - Optical beam scanning device and image forming apparatus: For preventing a formed image from being degraded in picture quality thereof, because a reflection light upon a window portion of a cover surrounding a polygon mirror, for entering/emitting a light therethrough, turns into a fixed stray light, an optical beam scanning device, according to the present invention, includes: a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070030497 - Optical beam scanning device, image forming apparatus and lens: An optical beam scanning device of the invention includes a single light deflection device, a pre-deflection optical system which causes a light beam emitted from a light source to be incident to the light deflection device, and a post-deflection optical system which images the light beam, reflected from the light... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070030498 - Color processing method and apparatus: The gamut of a printer has poor saturation reproducibility in a low-lightness region, often has a shape from which the gamut is cut away, and sometimes locally forms a part having extremely low color reproducibility. Hence, upon converting colors on a first gamut onto those on a second gamut, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030499 - Color processing method and apparatus: In order to implement satisfactory color reproduction which effectively uses the gamut of an output device without causing any tone burning-out in only a specific gamut, a gamut that can attain colorimetrically approximate mapping must be set in consideration of the characteristics of colors and gamuts. Hence, upon converting a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030500 - Image processing apparatus and method therefor: When color materials of more than four colors are used, a signal for the amount of toner used within a range appropriate for the apparatus and toner characteristic is generated using a color separation table. However, a printer receives print data of various formats, such as image data separated into... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030501 - Image processing apparatus for displaying colors included in a color image and an image processing method, and a storage medium therefor: The present invention enables a user to easily identify individual colors included in a color image. Specifically, a color image is divided into two or more areas based on colors, and based on the feature values for the individual areas obtained by division, the order of the colors is changed.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070030503 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus generates color signals corresponding to respective color materials for forming a color image using a grayscale color material for at least one of a plurality of colors based on image data. A color converting unit generates a color signal corresponding to each of the color materials... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070030504 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: When first image data, which is in a first color space, is converted into second image data, which is in a second color space corresponding to an image output unit. Upon converting the image data, if the first image data is color data, background removal process is switched OFF. Otherwise,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070030506 - Image retouching program: Provided is photo retouching software which is easy for photo studio personnel to use. Upon opening photo image(s), special photo retoucher 11 converts photo image data thereof to working color space image data. At such time(s), if working ICC profile(s) is/are set which is/are different from ICC profile(s) previously embedded... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030505 - Production of profile: A method for producing a profile specifying the correspondence relationship of values in different color spaces, includes a step of acquiring a first correspondence relationship that is a correspondence relationship of a plurality of ink amounts and color values, a step of acquiring a plurality of grid points that are... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070030502 - Zebratext: Zebratext describes systematic alterations in alternate whole lines of continuous text, or in lists, designed so that readers can locate easily and accurately the next line, and thereby increase their reading speed. The invention is about a production method to for printed or virtual text which will produce, in most... Agent: J-th. Van Cauwenberghe

20070030521 - Printed matter processing system, watermark-containing document printing device, watermark-containing document read device, printed matter processing method, information read device, and information read method: In a watermarked document printing apparatus, secret information is divided, error correction encoding is performed to each divided pieces of information, and the secret information is converted into a pattern image and embedded in paper. In a watermarked document reading apparatus, after extracting signals from the pattern image on the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070030522 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing method according to the invention includes: an image read step for reading an image produced by a color imaging device (S1); a first coordinate transformation step for rotating the image read by the image read step by 45 degrees in a predetermined direction to generate a rotated... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070030524 - Information providing method, information providing apparatus, program for information providing method, and recording medium storing program for information providing method: An information providing method for accessing a recording unit and providing information recorded on the recording unit includes the steps of detecting an oldness standard indicating oldness of the information, and providing the information to a user according to a setting based on the detected oldness standard so that the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070030523 - System and method for identifying a submitter of a printed or scanned document: A device and a method for identifying a submitter of a printed document to a hardcopy device are provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, receiving an identification image of a printed document, wherein the identification image corresponds to at least a portion of the printed document; comparing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070030525 - Calibration system and calibration method: A calibration system includes: an image formation unit that outputs a patch sheet having a plurality of patch patterns based on different gradation values for each color of color material that is used; a selection unit that receives an instruction to select a device from among a plurality of color... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030527 - Apparatus and method for generating an image file with a color layer and a monochrome layer: An apparatus and method for generating an image file having a color layer and a monochrome layer comprises reading an original image, generating color image data from the read original image, and generating monochrome image data from the read original image. First image processing is performed on the color image... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070030526 - Integrated multi-functional recognition device for use in public and private offices: An integrated multi-function device comprising a processor electrically coupled to an input device operable by a user, a device for weighing items of postage, a device for capturing image, a visual display, a printing system, and a communication device. The processor is configured to receive input from the weighing device,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070030529 - Image processing and analysis framework: A system and method for processing and analyzing virtual microscopy digital images (“virtual slides”) is provided. The system comprises an algorithm server that maintains or has access to a plurality of image processing and analysis routines. The algorithm server additionally has access to a plurality of virtual slides. The algorithm... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070030528 - Method and apparatus to provide a unified redaction system: A method comprising enabling a user to define a redaction of a part of a document in a corpus of documents, the redaction definition including a scope defining a range of documents in the corpus to which the redaction applies.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070030532 - Apparatus for image forming of contributing to an effective utilization of a space therein: An image reading apparatus includes a housing having a bottom plate, a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert an optical signal of light reflected by an original document to an electrical signal, and a circuit board configured to implement a circuit controlling the signal sent from the photoelectric conversion element,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070030530 - Image reading apparatus and power control method: There are provided an image reading apparatus capable of turning on the light source of a display such as an LCD during an image reading operation even when the apparatus operates upon power supply from an external apparatus via a USB bus, and a power control method applied to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030531 - Method and device for contact images sensor (cis) identification: A method and device of contact image sensor (CIS) identification of a scanner is disclosed in the invention. First, a CIS type is selected. A driving method associated to the selected CIS type is used to drive the CIS, and the scanner performs a predetermined scan action. When the output... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070030533 - Scanning method for an image acquisition apparatus: An image acquisition method for an image acquisition apparatus is provided. The image acquisition method includes the steps of exposing an image acquisition platform and moving an optical module from an initial position to a hiding position. The hiding position is located at an opaque area of the image acquisition... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030534 - Image reading device: An image reading device, including: an image sensor which includes a case having an elongate configuration and light-receiving elements arranged in a row in a lengthwise direction of the case and which reads an image; a carriage on which is mounted the image sensor; a guide member which supports the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070030535 - Data scan system and data scan method using ddr: The present invention relates to a data scan system and a data scan method using DDR. The data scan system includes an input section receiving data; first and second DDR memories that stores the data by using a page in which the col address increases horizontally; a DDR controller that... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070030536 - Method of conversion of a hard-copy document containing text or image data into the electronic document and a device therefore.: A method of obtaining graphical information from a single-or multi-page document printed on a hard media where reading out of the position of the document elements is performed by using a method of volumetric scanning of a document (even closed) is described. Processing of scanning results, comprises joining up the... Agent: Abbyy Software Ltd. Attn: Sergey Platonov

20070030537 - Back-light module for image scanning device and method for calibrating illumination with the back-light module: A back-light module for an image scanning device includes a casing, a pair of tubular lamps, a light guide plate, and a frosted transparent plate. The image scanning device includes a document supporting plate and an optical scanning module movable in a longitudinal direction. A calibration of illumination with the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070030538 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus: A light source part has a light source unit in which the plurality of light sources respectively emitting the light beams at angles different in a sub-scanning direction with respect to an optical standard plane, parallel to a main scanning direction and passing through a standard axis of a surface... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030539 - System and method for automatically altering device functionality: A system and method for automatically altering device functionality based on the occurrence of certain predetermined conditions. A link may be established between a device and a trusted server to provide an association between various conditions that may be detected at the device and actions that are to be taken... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070030540 - Image scanning: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a image scanning may be performed on one or more documents.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070024873 - Image forming apparatus, program for printing with marks added, and method for printing with marks added: There is disclosed an image forming apparatus, a program for printing with marks added, and a method for printing with marks added, which facilitate adding of marks to print data and reediting thereof. The image forming apparatus performs printing of data constituted by print data added with marks, and comprises:... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070024872 - Method and device for intermixing hardcopy pages in a print job: A document generation system includes a printing system and a computer. The printing system includes a print engine, a scanner, a controller and a user interface. The computer is remotely located from but coupled to the printing system. The computer includes software for generating an electronic document and software for... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20070024885 - Apparatus and method for printing plurality of pages on one page in pdf direct printing: An apparatus and a method of printing a plurality of pages on a single page in a portable document format (PDF) direct printing, the apparatus including: a data input module to receive a PDF document; a user interface to receive an input number of pages to be printed on a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070024883 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus constructing a color table corresponding to a kind of recording material, provided is an image forming apparatus which includes an engine controlling unit for outputting a vertical synchronizing signal in consideration of a time required for a controller to construct the color table. The engine... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070024884 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing apparatus having an interface with a removable medium is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an image data input part configured to input image data, an image processing part configured to process the input image data, an image data storing part configured to store the processed image... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070024882 - Systems and methods for magnetic and color ink printing: Systems and methods of rendering images may include rendering images by coupling a first rendering device and a second rendering device, obtaining electronic image data comprising a first image data and a second image data, and providing at least the first image data to the first rendering device and providing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070024891 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof that provides a convenient print resume when printing is halted. The control method of the image forming apparatus includes obtaining image data to be printed which are selected among image data stored in a memory card, printing the selected image data,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070024890 - Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control program, and image forming apparatus control method: There is disclosed an image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control program, and image forming apparatus control method which facilitate permission to access a document file. The image forming apparatus comprises: a document file registration section which creates a document file according to an instruction from a first user and... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070024887 - Image forming device, storage medium for storing a program, and image forming device control method: An image forming device is disclosed which prevents the user from abandoning printed matter in a paper discharge tray when printing is executed by transmitting a print command from a terminal. The image forming device includes an identification unit, a determination unit, a decision unit, and a processing unit. The... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070024893 - Image forming system, information processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An image forming system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. A user registers biometric information at the information processing apparatus. When the user subsequently gives a printing command at the information processing apparatus, print data and the registered biometric information are sent to the image forming... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070024886 - Image processing device: An image processing device determines, based on an IP address received from an external device, whether any processing according to information received from the external device should be performed or not. A path of communication with the external device is examined from a network address. When the external device that... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070024889 - Method and system for maintaining device specific image corrections for printers utilizing remote raster image processing: An embodiment of the invention generally relates to a method for providing printing services. A database is configured to store data related to a plurality of print engines. The data includes static and time-varying characteristics for each of the print engines of the plurality of print engines. A first print... Agent: Anderson I. Chen Min, Hsieh & Hack, LLP

20070024888 - Protecting valuable media: A system and methods enable the protection of valuable media from theft or other improper access by people who might use the media for dishonest, illegitimate, or criminal purposes. An evaluation of a print job results in a determination regarding whether the print job is suspected of being an attempt... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024892 - Security printing control method and apparatus, and printing system thereof: A security printing control method and apparatus using the location of a user, and a printing system thereof are provided. The printing system allows a print operation to be performed only when the user is in a print allowance area around a printing apparatus. The security printing control method includes... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024899 - Method and system for combining separate digitized representations of documents for retransmission via computer network transfer protocols: A method for a computer system includes receiving a first facsimile transmission from a user, wherein the first facsimile transmission includes a digitized representation of a first document transmitted using a facsimile transmission format, processing the digitized representation of the first document with an optical character recognition process to determine... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070024900 - Method and system for transmitting scanned data to host from network scanner: A method and system for transmitting scanned data from a network scanner to a host are provided, in which a port is set in the host to receive the scanned data when the host and the scanner are connected via a network, the host is accessed from the scanner to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024897 - Printer directed image decompression: Descriptions can describe or contain document contents and layout. Some contents can be images and, instead of being included as image data in the description, can be image references. An image reference can be used to obtain an image, in the form of image data, from an image server. A... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070024896 - Printer mapping system: The present application relates to a printing system in which a location of each printer can be displayed with a graphic map showing a layout of an office.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070024902 - Printing device, system and method for image forming: There is provided a recording device provided with a communication unit configured to receive image data and a print execution instruction from an external device, a display unit, a printing unit, a storage unit; and a controller that stores the image data in the storage unit and displays an image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070024903 - Printing request apparatus, printing system and printing request method: A printing request apparatus includes a first printing request generator, operable to generate a first printing request for printing information by a direct printing method; a second printing request generator, operable to generate a second printing request for printing information by an HTML-based printing method; and a printing controller, operable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070024894 - Printing system: A printing system and method is provided. The printing system includes one or more printing system modules, at least one media sheet path interfacing the printing system modules, and a job scheduler for executing one or more printing system print jobs. The job scheduler routes a media sheet to one... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070024901 - Printing system, information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, control methods thereof, and program: An information processing apparatus transmits job data to be printed to a-printing apparatus, and modifies the print data stored in storage means in accordance with a modification notification from the printing apparatus to transmit the modified job data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus stores job data to execute... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070024895 - Push forward print tasking in a computer network: In a network system having a plurality of computers and a plurality of commonly accessible printers, at least two printers are enabled to selectively forward at least a portion of a print task to an alternative printer. The forwarding is an automated response to a comparison of current print capabilities... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070024898 - System and method for executing job step, and computer product: A batch processing system includes a plurality of executing servers and a scheduling server. The scheduling server causes the executing servers to perform distributed execution of a batch job. The scheduling server selects one executing server to execute the first job step in the batch job. The selected executing server... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070024904 - Imaging serial interface rom: Imaging serial interface ROM (ISIROM). An integrated circuit imaging device presents to external circuitry as a read-only memory (ROM) with a serial interface. The ISIROM contains internal memory which stores data from the imaging array. When active, the imaging array automatically fills an image buffer in the internal memory with... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070024905 - Information management system, information processing device, and program: An information management system is provided, which includes: an external device having an output unit that performs a predetermined process; an information processing device connected to the external device; and a second storage unit that stores utilization data, which is accessed by the external device and the information processing device.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070024908 - Automated image framing: Cropping and sizing operations are performed on master frame images to create a plurality of component frame images for a content image. The component frame images are positioned relative to the component image so as to form a frame image for the content image.... Agent: Vista Print Usa Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20070024909 - Automated image sizing and placement: Versions of user-selected content images are automatically created, sized, and positioned within a template such that all versions are simultaneously displayed without overlapping in a defined acceptable image area of the template. Creating the content image versions may include creating a frame image for the content image. A predefined anchor... Agent: Vista Print Usa Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20070024907 - Method for managing desired print content of a print job: A method for producing a content data file for a desired print job including a plurality of customized versions of a printable work includes the step of receiving an electronic template of the printable work including a common portion and a customizable portion. A form accessible via a network is... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070024906 - Ratioing algorithm for a label printing system using plates: A system and method of producing labels at remote locations worldwide in communication with a server and central database via the internet is shown and described. The present invention accommodates vastly different printing methods including thermal printing, lithographic printing, etc. For lithographic printing or other printing methods using plates, a... Agent: Mcandrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. 34th Floor

20070024910 - Secure serial data communication dual path method: A method and apparatus is provided for validating a plurality of variable data transmitted in an automobile, comprising generating a control copy and a redundant copy of the variable data, calculating a pre-transmittal cross-check measure using the redundant copy of the variable data, and generating a transmittal message using the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070024874 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and print control program: An information processing apparatus that can operate under the control of an operating system configured to allow changing an enlargement rate in units of job and can generate print data corresponding to a plurality of pages to be printed by a printing apparatus. A setting input unit inputs borderless print... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070024875 - User terminal device, and a system and method for setting a borderless function: A user terminal device implemented with a system for and method of setting a borderless function includes an object extracting part extracting the object including font and image from the data to be printed; a driver creating printing data by either enlarging or reducing the image corresponding to the paper... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070024876 - Printer: A printer that includes a multi-colorant print cartridge is described. The printer can determine if a level of a most depleted colorant in the multi-colorant cartridge and a level of a least depleted colorant in the multi-colorant cartridge meet predetermined criteria. The printer can, if the criteria are met, perform... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024878 - Enhanced image printing system: The present application relates to a printing system in which a printing apparatus can produce print data utilizing image enhanced data stored in the printing apparatus without complicated calculation on the side of the printing apparatus.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070024880 - Image processing apparatus and method therefor: There is known a technique of inputting the contents of image data and the use purpose of a print material and automatically selecting a combination of color materials appropriate for them. However, it cannot be confirmed before printing whether improvement of image quality commensurate with the cost and labor to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070024877 - Method and program for teaching color existence for color-sense abnormal person, and color name information acquisition system: A co-punctual center color (such as co-punctual point PTD) is set from a color which cannot be seen or is hardly seen. A gray scale gradation value corresponding to a color difference of the color of the pixel for the co-punctual center color is calculated on pixel unit form the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070024879 - Processing color and panchromatic pixels: A method for forming a final digital color image includes capturing an image using an image sensor having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses; providing from the captured image a digital panchromatic image and an intermediate digital color image; and using the digital panchromatic... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070024881 - Semiconductor laser drive control device: The present invention further improves gradation characteristics from a highlight region to a high-density region. First, the correction processing receives image data, and an image attribute discrimination discriminates whether the data are related to a character/thin line or others on the basis of attribute information on a pixel of interest.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070024911 - Bandless halftone design for multiple beam printers employing non-orthogonal halftones: A multiple beam printer system having N laser beams receives print job information from a print host. A rendering application uses a threshold array to generate halftone image data from the print job. The threshold array is defined based on a spot function. The defined screen is non-orthogonal and includes... Agent: Lally & Lally, L.L.P.

20070024912 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device includes an image generating section that generates an image based on input information, an image processing section that performs a grayscale screen process on the image generated by the image generating section, a line head, to which grayscale data for every pixel output from the image... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070024913 - N-up display method and apparatus, and image forming device thereof: A display method and an apparatus to display a plurality of images on a screen, and an image forming apparatus to performs the N-up display method, wherein the image display method includes: classifying the images according to the similarities in their shapes on the basis of horizontal length information and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070024914 - Screen designing method and screen designing device providing a reduction of moire pattern: A screen designing method and a screen designing device for reducing a moire pattern are provided. In the screen designing method, screen parameters corresponding to a preset screen frequency, a preset screen angle, and a preset resolution are detected first. Then, the coordinates of dot centers being the centers of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024915 - Printed substrate having embedded covert information: A method for embedding covert information on a printed substrate is provided. The method can include the steps of printing overt indicia on a substrate and generating a pattern of microtext representative of at least a portion of the overt indicia. Such microtext is capable of being printed in at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024916 - Method of displaying wallpaper and apparatus for displaying wallpaper: A method of displaying wallpaper and an apparatus for displaying wallpaper includes displaying an input image to be displayed on wallpaper as a background image and a wallpaper displaying frame containing the entire image or a part of the input image on a wallpaper setting window, modifying a wallpaper displaying... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070024917 - Device access area illumination in an imaging apparatus: An imaging ap