Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 04/07

20070091329 - Printing: In one embodiment of a method of printing in a network, a connection is established from a user equipment to a printing system. A secure connection is established between the user equipment and a server. From the user equipment, a file on the server is selected. From the user equipment,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091341 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium storing image processing: An image processing apparatus has a processing condition setting section, a reference image processing section and a processing condition registration section. The processing condition setting section sets an image processing condition to input image data. The input image data is subjected to image processing according to the image processing condition.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070091342 - Image forming device and control method for image forming device: A printing unit 13, and a control unit 1 for controlling the printing unit so as to print document images on the same face of printing paper sheets for a necessary number of printing paper sheets, on a printing region partitioned beforehand, following a pre-established printing order from a first... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091344 - Image forming method, information processing apparatus, image forming system, computer program, and computer readable storage medium: To speedily accomplish print processing, a computer produces print data processible in a printing apparatus based on application data if the application data is created, regardless of user's print instruction. The produced print data is stored in a storage region corresponding to a folder that stores the created application data.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070091343 - Image processor, image forming device, method for image processing and storage medium for strong image processing program: An image processor is provided with an acquisition unit; a discriminating unit; a decomposing unit; and a rearranging unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data and layout information of an original document which are obtained by reading the original document in which the layout information is recorded in advance. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091353 - Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus controller and image forming system: An image forming apparatus, which is connected to an image forming apparatus controller via a network and is capable of performing image forming in response to an image forming request received from the image forming apparatus controller. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores limitation information, which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091347 - Image forming device: During initialization, functions displayed at power-on are set, and an ON or OFF setting is made with regard to the need for warm up when these functions are set, so that at power-on, set functions are displayed on the display unit 5, and whether or not to perform warm up... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091348 - Image forming device: In an image forming device that does not authorize a copy operation when a predefined sheet limit is exceeded, if the count value of prints by a printing unit is detected to have reached 90% of a predefined limiting count (YES in S12), a copier automatically performs memory copy, in... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091349 - Image forming device: It is assumed that an image forming device has a function such that, while a specific resource is in a state of occupancy, users other than the user who gave instructions for occupancy start are prevented from using the resource. In such an image forming device, a storage unit stores... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091351 - Image processing apparatus: Input images are efficiently judged to speed up image processing. A document with images recorded on both sides is automatically fed, and the images on the front side and the backside are individually read. Image data for each side is stored in memory. Two judgment sections judge whether the images... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070091352 - Image processing apparatus and a control method therefor: A method of controlling an apparatus which is capable of determining a dot disposition of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is disclosed. The copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image has a latent image area in which a number of first dots and a number of second dots smaller than the first dots are disposed... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070091350 - Information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and information processing method: In an information processing apparatus, a first display screen is displayed to allow for specifying whether to form a copy-forgery-inhibited unit pattern or an array of copy-forgery-inhibited unit patterns, and a second display screen is displayed to allow for specifying a position at which to form the copy-forgery-inhibited unit pattern... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070091345 - Method to leverage a secure device to grant trust and identity to a second device: According to one embodiment of the invention a system is utilized to leverage the security arrangement between a first and second device to establish a secure link between the first device and a third device. One embodiment of the invention is particularly suitable for loading security data on a set... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070091346 - Network print system: Upon executing private print processing, an image forming apparatus acquires a list of spoolers from an IC card which registers information of spoolers which save a print job of a private print mode, and simultaneously requests the acquired spoolers to send a list of print jobs of the user of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070091364 - Apparatus, system and method of providing internet print service via home network: Provided are an apparatus, system and method for providing an Internet print service in a home network, more particularly, an apparatus, system and method for more conveniently providing an Internet print service via a UPnP printer in a home network. The apparatus includes a UPnP printer managing unit supplying an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070091359 - Content transmission device, content transmission method, and computer program used therewith: A content transmission device for transmitting content, whose copying is controlled, includes an authentication section for performing an authentication procedure between the content transmission device and a content receiving device, a first copy-control-information processing section for processing first copy control information describing copy control information concerning the content, a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091354 - Image forming device and image forming method: A document input from a scanner is used as input image data and is stored in image memory in page number order. A control unit prints the input image data and receives instruction data showing the cutting edge when cutting on the center line of the printing paper from the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091363 - Image storage apparatus and method: An image storage apparatus and method are provided, in which a docking unit is connected with an image capturing device, a reader reads image data generated by the image capturing device from the image capturing device, a data storage unit stores the read image data, and a print controller controls... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070091360 - Information processing apparatus and print control method: An information processing apparatus determines whether data to be printed has an attribute indicating that printing is required to be performed according to a printing function in which data received from an external device is printed after a user input is received via an operation unit of the printing device.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070091357 - Information-processing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, communication method and computer program: An information-processing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, communication method and computer program are disclosed wherein an evaluation value can be added automatically to contents stored in a storage apparatus or medium. The information-processing apparatus comprising an acquisition section which acquires, from a portable reproduction apparatus which is capable of reproducing contents data,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091366 - Method and system for managing images over a communication network: A method and system for managing digital image media files. A server is provided for managing access to a digital image media collection stored on a remote user computer of a user. The digital image media collection has at least one digital media file having at least one image file... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070091358 - Method for transmitting and printing a facsimile: A method for transmitting and printing a facsimile is provided. The method is implemented in an electronic device, for example, a multifunctional peripheral. When the electronic device transmits a facsimile, a control unit is activated initially. Next, a scanner unit generates a piece of facsimile data, and then a facsimile... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070091362 - Multifunction peripheral: A multifunction peripheral including a control panel, a scan unit, a print engine, a connect interface and a control unit is provided. When the multifunction peripheral transmits a facsimile to a receiver, the control unit controls the connection interface to transmit facsimile data and a facsimile number of the receiver... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070091365 - Printer driver system for remote printing: A server for connection to a client via a network, the client being operable to transmit user-input to the server over the network and to receive user-output from the server over the network. The server comprises a network interface for connection to the network; and a processor coupled to the... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070091361 - Printer, print control method, and program for executing print control method: According to the present invention, a printer connected to a network, comprises a search instruction unit for searching for a print job which satisfies specified conditions from among print jobs executed or scheduled to be executed by another printer connected to the network; a job acquisition instruction unit for acquiring... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070091355 - System and method for dynamically reconfiguring one or more autonomous cells in a print shop environment: A method and system for processing jobs in a print shop is provided. The print shop includes at least two autonomous cells, and each autonomous cell includes a resource for performing an operation relative to at least one of the jobs. In one approach, the number of jobs requiring an... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070091356 - System and method for extending printing functionality to multiple printers: In a system and a method for extending printing functionality implemented for a first printer to a second printer, a first set of functions applicable to the first printer is identified, and a second set of functions applicable to the second printer is identified. Functions in the first set of... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070091367 - Method and device for managing images stored in a plurality of storage media included in or connected to image forming apparatus: A method and device for managing images stored in a plurality of storage media by using a display unit included in an image forming apparatus to prints the images are provided. The method includes: displaying identification names of a plurality of storage media included in or connected to the image... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070091370 - Image forming device: The present invention comprises a combined image generating unit 24 which reduces each document images and generates a combined image, so that multiple document images captured by a document image capturing unit 11 fit on a single sheet of printing paper in accord with the type of combined printing selected... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091371 - Image forming device: A photocopier 1 according to this embodiment of the invention automatically detects the position of a staple 52 from the image data of the front page 51 of a bound original document 50; automatically sets a replacement area for the staple 52 portion or binding margin 54 portion to be... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091372 - Image forming device and print control program: An image forming device having a Nup printing function for reducing and printing a plurality of images on a single sheet, comprising: display means for displaying a layout preview for each sheet in the case of Nup printing; and input means for increasing/decreasing the number of images to be printed... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091373 - Medium processing method, copying apparatus, and data filing apparatus: A medium processing method is provided that includes the steps of inputting images of a first medium and a second medium, recognizing first area information of the first medium and second area information of the second medium, determining a correspondence between the first area information and the second area information... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070091369 - Printer and printing method: A printer comprises a print engine and a print head. The print engine separates combined image/dot pattern data into image data and dot pattern data. The print engine separately processes the image data and the dot pattern data and merges the separately-processed image data and dot pattern into print data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091368 - Systems and methods for creating and using overlay files that are application independent and device independent: In an exemplary method, a request is received to save an overlay document that comprises content for an overlay. Graphics commands for the overlay document are also received. The graphics commands are stored in an overlay file. The format of the overlay file is both application independent and device independent.... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070091330 - Printing control method and apparatus for preventing data loss: A printing control method and apparatus for printing an entire document on printing paper without data loss is provided. A virtual paper size and document data having the virtual paper size are received, a document corresponding to the document data is displayed, and the document data of the virtual paper... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070091331 - Printing support system, printing support program, storage medium, and printing support method: A printing support system that supports performing a printing process on the basis of document data allowing paper width and paper height to be set for each of a plurality of pages includes: a document data acquisition unit that acquires the document data; a finish paper size information acquisition unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070091332 - System and method for employing color illumination and color filtration in a symbology reader: This invention provides a system and method for employing and analyzing images that are illuminated in different colors depending upon the type of illumination being employed. In an illustrative embodiment, a color image sensor is used to acquire images of subjects of interest, and each of the direct bright field,... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070091333 - Image forming device: A bottom plate 25 is formed so as to open and close over substantially the entire bottom side of a document transport device 2, which is provided on the top of an image forming device, the bottom face of the bottom plate 25 being a pressure face for pressing against... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091337 - Color mapping: A method of mapping colors which are outside a reproduction device's color gamut to reproducible colors uses a boundary of a reduced gamut. In a three-dimensional color space the reduced gamut is derived from the reproduction device's gamut by reducing its size in all three dimensions. Reduced-gamut clipping-vectors are determined... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091336 - Digital swatch book: A system for generating digital swatch books, comprising a simulation component for generating, based on a set of standard reference colors and based on at least one reproduction system profile representing a reproduction system's color reproduction characteristics, digital swatch book information representing a simulated set of reference colors associated with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091335 - Gamut boundary mapping: Methods, computer readable media, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and computing devices including program instructions are provided for gamut boundary mapping. One method embodiment includes defining a region of interest inside a color exchange space by a region boundary, which is formed, at least in part, by a gamut boundary... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091339 - Image processing method, system and apparatus, and storage medium: A rasterizer generates bitmap images of RGB on the basis of object data inputted from a printer driver and stores the result in an image memory. The rasterizer brings attribute information representing attributes of the input object data into correspondence with each pixel of the generated bitmap images to store... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070091338 - Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof: In an image sensing apparatus, the color value of a conversion destination is acquired from a code image included in the image data captured by an image sensing unit. A frame is displayed on an electronic viewfinder screen, which is displayed based on the image data output from an image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070091340 - Method and program for image processing: If a profile ID data is attached to image data inputted from an application program, this means that profile conversion has been performed on the image data in the application program. Thus, the image data is directly sent to a printer without the profile conversion being performed on the image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070091334 - Method of calculating correction data for correcting display characteristic, program for calculating correction data for correcting display characteristic and apparatus for calculating correction data for correcting display characteristic: A method of calculating correction data for correcting display characteristic includes generating test pattern data, displaying, based on the test pattern data, a test pattern on an image display device, obtaining capture data by capturing the test pattern, and calculating, based on the capture data, correction data for correcting display... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070091374 - Determining composite grays: Embodiments for determining composite grays.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091375 - Optimum character string placing program: An optimum character string placing program causes a computer to place a character string so as not to overlap another character string in a demarcated region. The program causes the computer to perform horizontal placement to place the character string along a prospective guide line that is located at the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070091376 - Active images through digital watermarking: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus employing digital watermarking and/or steganography. In one implementation a printer includes watermarking capabilities to facilitate image management. Other implementations are detailed herein as well.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070091377 - Real-time auditing of covert data marks: A system and method is provided for the real time auditing of covert data marks. Specific information relating to a product or document is entered into an information cell or shell from a product data file. A high definition, high resolution, high speed inline video system is provided to take... Agent: James G. Coplit, Esq. Grimes & Battersby, LLP

20070091378 - Universal fixed-pixel-size isp scheme: An Image Signal Processing unit (ISP) has at least one fixed-size line buffer which is smaller than the width of the image buffer. To handle the image data, the image buffer is divided into regions which are sequentially loaded into the at least one fixed-size line buffer of the ISP... Agent: George O. Saile

20070091379 - Universal fixed-pixel-size isp scheme: An Image Signal Processing unit (ISP) has a fixed-size line buffer which is smaller than the width of the image buffer. To handle the image data, the image buffer is divided into regions which are sequentially loaded into the fixed-size line buffer of the ISP for processing. Since functions of... Agent: George O. Saile

20070091380 - Automatic generation of a quick dial reference sheet: A method for the automatic generation of a quick dial reference sheet includes associating each of a plurality of quick dial buttons of an apparatus with a respective entry of a plurality of entries in a quick dial database; defining a layout of the quick dial reference sheet to have... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070091381 - Image processing apparatus, method and program: An image processing apparatus (110), which is equipped with multiple image processing functions, processes an input image using an image processing function set at the time of image input. An image processing apparatus (100) registers setup information relating to processes of respective ones of the multiple image processing functions to... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070091384 - Apparatus, method and ink jet printer for utilizing reflected light from printing media to determine printing media material: An apparatus for determining a printing media material, includes a light source for exposing the printing media to light; an image sensor for sensing reflected light from the printing media to form at least one image corresponding to the printing media; and an image-analyzing unit, electrically connected to the image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091385 - Method of conversion of a hard-copy document containing text or image data into the electronic document: 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... Agent: Attn. Sergey Platonov Abbyy Software Ltd.

20070091382 - Scanner/copier based on organic materials: A device (2) for scanning or copying a document and for storing a scanned image or image to be copied, includes a document support (4), a reader (6) and a storage device (8). The storage device (8) includes bi-stable components. The bi-stable components consist of several alternating layers of organic... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070091383 - Synchronization of two asics for dual-sided scanning of a document: A method and system for performing dual-sided scanning of an original document in a device having an automatic document feeder uses two application specific circuits (ASICs), each ASIC configured to control an associated scanning element. A first of the two ASICs receives position information about a motor associated with the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070091386 - Apparatus and method for improving detected resolution and/or intensity of a sampled image: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a detection aperture that varies the effective aperture index of refraction or provides scattering structures to improve the detected resolution and/or intensity of a sampled image. In at least one exemplary embodiment a medium is inserted into the aperture, to match transmittance... Agent: Canon U.s.a., Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070091389 - Automatic original document transport device and image forming device equipped with the same: In an automatic original document transport device, there are provided a contact image sensor 10 for scanning an image of an original document 34, and an original document guide member 11 for guiding the original document 34 to the original document scanning surface 13a so as to incline with respect... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091388 - Original document reading device: When a plurality of sets of a document with an image formed on one side thereof is read, the plurality of sets (341, 342, and 343) of the document is stacked and arranged in a document tray (33), in a state with front and back sides of each set mutually... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091387 - Switching device: The automatic document transport device 2 comprises a device main body 4, an opening and closing body 20 pivotally supported by the device main body 4 about a support shaft 22 between a closed position and an open position, and a helical torsion coil spring 30 that urges the opening... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091390 - Adjustment mode control method and apparatus of performing the same: An adjustment time reduction mode of reducing adjustment operation time is provided such that a user can set the adjustment time reduction mode in which a user arbitrarily reduces the adjustment operation time, depending on the user's situation. An apparatus performing adjustment operation at a predetermined timing, monitors a timing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070091391 - Image forming device: An image forming device comprises a document image capturing unit 11 for reading a document and capturing a document image; an advertisement image memory unit 32 for storing advertisement images to be printed in addition to the document image; a first color setting unit 22 for a user to set... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091392 - Data-providing apparatus, data-providing method and program-sorting medium: In the present invention, image data is edited in response to a demand transmitted from a data-processing apparatus through a network. A moving-picture server (3) acquires a scenario consisting of a plurality of scenes, each lasting for a given time, is acquired in response to a demand made by a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091394 - Image processing apparatus and computer program product: An image processing unit executes an image process on a target image based on process-setting contents, and generates a processed image. An area extracting unit compares the processed image with the target image, and extracts a partial area of a predetermined size showing a notable effect of the image process... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091393 - Writing image acquisition apparatus, writing information extraction method, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus is provided with a writing-present document reading processing portion that executes processing for reading a plurality of page images that are images of pages constituting a document, a writing page determining portion that determines whether or not there is a writing in each of the pages... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070086022 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an interface detachably connecting a portable recording medium and a first writing part writing setting information stored in a storage unit internally mounted in the image forming apparatus to the portable recording medium with identification information of the image forming apparatus.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086023 - Image processing program product: An image processing program product enables an image processing apparatus to perform operations including the steps of: storing a plurality of image information to be transmitted by a facsimile apparatus; sequentially outputting the stored image information; reading a mode list from a mode list recording unit on which a list... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070086024 - Late binding of tab image context to ordered tab stock: To allow for the flexibility of printing the tab contents on any one of the tab pages of an ordered tab set, a flag or marker indicating that a page contains a tab plus the information that needs to be rendered on the tab inside the PDF page is stored... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070086031 - Printer having a direct printing function and printing method thereof: A printer having a direct printing function and a printing method thereof include memory that stores font information about an embedded font type, a font processor that compares font information embedded in a PDF file with the font information stored in the memory, and determines which font information embedded in... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070086033 - Media distribution methods and systems with quality degradation: Methods and apparatus are provided for copying digital content, such as videos and feature-length movies, that introduce a degree of degradation into each successive copy generation. The introduced degradation can take many different forms, from noise that emulates the noise introduced by analog copying, to reductions in the numbers of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070086032 - Printing of documents with position identification pattern: A system for printing documents 100 having a position identifying pattern 108 on them comprises a memory 403 arranged to have a document definition 410 stored therein which defines a document having at least one pattern area 107 and a printing control system 400, 408, 306, 307, 309 arranged to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086037 - Apparatus comprising plurality of operation units and image forming apparatus: An apparatus is provided that can perform. distributed control for a plurality of operation units, without concentrating control in a single device. The apparatus includes a plurality of modules that respectively correspond to a plurality of operation units, each module including a communication device, a functional block setting device and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070086036 - Image forming device, image forming method, image processing device, and computer readable storage medium storing image forming program: Disclosed is an image forming device including a connecting unit for connecting a recording medium in a removable manner; and a writing unit for writing printing data containing setup information concerning a printing condition into the recording medium connected to the connecting unit.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070086038 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: According to an information processing method of generating print data to be processed by a printing apparatus, when data is stored in a storage area, the data is transmitted to the printing apparatus by applying a printing attribute corresponding to the storage area. The printing attribute corresponding to the storage... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086035 - Printer controller apparatus implemented as a system in a package: A printer device includes a printer engine controller in communication with a print mechanism and a printer formatter. The printer formatter includes a quad flat pack (QFP) package having an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mounted and a memory device mounted therein. The printer device further includes a substrate having... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20070086039 - Standard data format of printing data: A standard data format of printing data is provided. The data format of printing data stored or transmitted to an image forming apparatus printing the printing data includes: page data information containing pure data of the printing data; and page header information, which is information on the pure data and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086034 - System and method for updating the test print page of a printer driver of an information handling system: A system and method is disclosed for updating the test print page of a computer system. The test print page is saved to nonvolatile memory and is accessible by the printer driver of the computer system. The test print page includes areas of content that are modifiable. The computer system... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070086040 - Printing system: A camera in which is stored a unique ID is directly or indirectly connected to a printing service site, to which log-in is performed using the ID, whereupon an image from the camera is uploaded to the printing service site, and a printing server distinguishes from the ID which camera... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070086042 - Apparatus, system, and method for selecting ordered files for printing: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for selecting ordered files for printing. A file selection module receives a plurality of file selections from a file selection window of a web-based graphical user interface. The file selection module receives the file selections in a file order that comprises the order... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070086046 - Image forming apparatus and a method for processing printing data: An image forming apparatus for receiving and processing printing data includes a data transceiver unit that receives printing data including recipient information from an external client personal computer (PC), a detection unit that detects the recipient information from the printing data, a storage unit, and a control unit that stores... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070086051 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same: Access-destination information specified by a mobile information terminal is received and an access decision unit (108) determines whether it is possible to access a WWW server on a network specified by the access-destination information. If it has been determined that the WWW server is accessible, the WWW server is accessed... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070086044 - Image forming apparatus device having fax function and method for receiving fax data thereof: An image forming device having a fax function and a method for receiving fax data thereof are provided, in which a printing hue mode determining unit determines a preset printing hue mode, a developing agent determining unit determines usability of a developing agent corresponding to the determined printing hue mode,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070086045 - Image forming system and method of controlling image forming system: A configuration of an image forming system that includes an image forming apparatus and at least one of a paper feed apparatus and a post-process apparatus is defined based on system configuration information including a combination of identification information for the apparatuses and setting information for the order of arrangement... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070086049 - Image forming system and method using authentication information, image forming apparatus, authentication information providing device and method of using image forming apparatus: An image forming system and method using authentication information, an image forming apparatus, and an authentication information providing device and method to use an image forming apparatus. The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus to generate and to output authentication information and at least one host device to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070086047 - Image forming system, host device, image forming apparatus and image forming method using the same: An image forming system including an image forming apparatus having a radio frequency identification tag in which printer information is stored, and a host device having a first radio frequency identification reader to read the printer information stored in the radio frequency identification tag and to monitor the image forming... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086053 - Information processing apparatus, distributed printing control method, storing medium and program: Control is effected to produce a plurality of child print jobs for a plurality of printers from data to be printed, on the basis of inputted instruction for distributed print, and information regarding a parent print job is produced on the basis of information regarding the plurality of child print... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086050 - Information processing apparatus, image processing method, and machine-readable medium: An apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a content of change in a print setting when a change in the print setting is set between pages of print data, a determination unit configured to determine whether there is a discrepancy in a relationship between the content of change... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070086048 - Method for correcting a control of an optical scanner and the optical scanner: In a method for correcting a control of an optical scanner (14) which has a beam deflecting element (31) for deflecting a beam of optical radiation and a drive unit (30, 30′) for moving the beam deflecting element (31), said drive unit deflecting a beam of optical radiation directed at... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070086052 - Network compliant output device, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, computer-readable storage medium, and network system: According to this invention, when a network device is made to leave from a network, the network device transmits a network leaving message containing information specifying an alternative network device inputted in advance. This makes it possible for a client using the network device to automatically install a printer driver... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086043 - System and method for creating personalized laminated structures from dissimilar substrates: A system and method for creating personalized printed laminates from dissimilar substrates is described and enables the traditional manufacturers of business communications to produce a series of highly individualized imaged materials at a relatively high resolution level. The system and method of the present invention permits the creation of unique... Agent: Ward/kraft, Inc.

20070086041 - System and method for monitoring the distribution of information from a multi-function peripheral device: A method and system for tracking and controlling the distribution of information on a networked system. The method includes scanning at least one job on a multi-function peripheral device, sending the at least one job to a destination device, sending the at least one job to a storage remote from... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070086054 - Information processing apparatus and printing apparatus, and their control method: This invention relates to a printing apparatus or information processing apparatus, which is connected to a peripheral device management apparatus and holds updatable resource data. The printing apparatus or information processing apparatus asynchronously receives an output job and resource data used upon processing the output job from the peripheral device... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086055 - Information processing apparatus and program product: An information processing apparatus that includes: a layout area acquisition unit which obtains in order to output a plurality of images of a same size for a single page of a recording sheet, a size of a layout area on the recording sheet on which the images are to be... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070086025 - Method for judging achievability of density correction of image and printing apparatus: A method for judging achievability of density correction of an image, the density correction being performed by a printing apparatus during printing of the image, the printing apparatus including a plurality of nozzle groups each consisting of a plurality of nozzles that are lined up in a predetermined direction, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086030 - Color data conversion apparatus and method: A color conversion apparatus receives red-green-blue color data, calculates characteristic information and first hue region data from the color data, adjusts the first hue region data according to the characteristic information to obtain second to N-th hue region data, N being an integer equal to or greater than three, generates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086028 - Gamut mapping method and apparatus: A gamut mapping method and apparatus are provided which allow a reproduction device to properly represent colors that are not within a gamut boundary of the reproduction device but within in a gamut boundary of a source device. The gamut mapping method includes (a) setting a cut-off rate for a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086029 - Method for estimating white point shift for auto white balance: A method of estimating shift of white balance point. According to characteristics of a photograph sensing apparatus, a white-point plane of a YIQ color coordinate is determined. The white-point plane has a normal direction pointing one of the axis of the YIQ color coordinate. The white-point plane is thus perpendicular... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070086026 - Method of selecting inks for use in imaging with an imaging apparatus: A method of selecting inks for use in imaging with an imaging apparatus includes establishing a high fidelity colorant cube having a plurality of vertex lines pertaining to a corresponding plurality of basic inks, and at least one other vertex line pertaining to at least one high fidelity ink; determining... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070086027 - Multi-shelled gamut boundary descriptor for an rgb projector: Construction and use of a multi-shelled gamut boundary descriptor for an RGB display device in which one shell is an outer “plausible” shell and another shell is an inner “reference” shell. The outer shell is coterminous with a unit RGB cube. The inner shell is constructed based on eight reference... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086056 - Method of image processing for heat accumulation of a thermal printer: A method of image processing for heat accumulation of a thermal printer refreshes grayscale output of printing pixels that lie in correction regions with smear phenomena caused by heat accumulation of a thermal printer. The actual grayscale output of the printing pixels of the correction regions is lower than the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070086057 - Method of driving printer: When it is activated a printer provided with a print data generator operable to convert inputted image data into print data, and a printing mechanism operable to perform, upon receipt of a print instruction, printing an image with respect to a print medium based on the print data, the print... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070086058 - Method and system for denoising pairs of mutually interfering signals: In various embodiments of the present invention, a number n of mutually interfering signals are denoised by selecting a discrete universal denoiser method that denoises n mutually interfering signals, tuning the discrete universal denoiser to denoise the n mutually interfering signals, and denoising the n mutually interfering signals by applying... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086059 - Image sharpness device and method: An image sharpness method is provided. The image sharpness method includes the steps of determining a plurality of sharpness gray level increments for a current pixel in accordance with a non-linear visual function and gray level differences between the current pixel and the neighboring pixels of the current pixel, using... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070086060 - Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, encoding method, computer product, and printed material: A first encoder splits an image into a plurality of blocks, and embeds a first data into the image based on a difference between feature amounts in a combination of the blocks. A second encoder encodes a second data in a form of a combination of image patterns. A disposing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070086061 - Supplementing facsimile image data: Among other things, in connection with rendering fax image data representing an image of a document for transmission, supplemental data is also provided, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document. The supplemental data identifies the document and is not part of the image of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070086062 - Image forming device having unified address book and method for transmitting scan-data thereof: A image forming device having a unified address book and method for transmitting a scan-data thereof includes a scanning part to scan a document and create a scan-data, a storing part to store an address book including an address information of a recipient, an user interfacing part to display the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086064 - Communication terminal, reception notifying method, and computer-readable recording medium: A mobile communication terminal obtains analysis result from analysis of various information included in a received e-mail. The mobile communication terminal determines whether the received e-mail satisfies a notification condition based on the analysis result, and analyzes the importance degree of the received e-mail. If the received e-mail is an... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070086065 - Image data transmitting apparatus: An image data transmitting apparatus, which comprises transmitting means for transmitting image data to outside and setting means for setting one or a plurality of destinations of image data to be transmitted by the transmitting means, for transmitting image data to one or a plurality of set destinations, comprising means... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070086063 - Network facsimile apparatus: A communication apparatus is connected to a terminal apparatus via a network and includes a memory that stores TIFF files, a generator that generates a list HTML file for a list page indicating a first list of TIFF files stored in the memory and a server that transmits the list... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070086066 - Mounting structure for inverter circuit board for light source lamp of image reader: A mounting structure for an inverter circuit board for a light source lamp of an image reader in which mounting means for mounting the inverter circuit board for a light source lamp of an image reader onto a carriage is located to be operated from the direction in which the... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20070086067 - Imaging apparatus having output circuits selectably operative dependant upon usage and a method therefor: An image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of output channels and appropriately operates depending on use situation. The image pickup apparatus includes a system control for determining whether a condition is set on a resolution representing a first speed mode, a resolution representing a second speed mode faster than VGA... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086070 - Full color scanning protection of a document: A document containing lines printed at an interference scanning frequency which causes conventional scanning and copying devices to introduce distortions in a copy of the document and prevents color separating copies of the document. The document bears an image which has lines printed at a line frequency which is an... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20070086069 - Image printing using order sheet: A printing method for printing an image based on image data, the printing method includes: loading the image data from a storage medium in which the image data is stored; printing an order sheet, wherein the order sheet includes an index image representing the loaded image data to receive from... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070086068 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an image scan unit configured to scan a document to produce electronic image data, a check unit configured to make determination as to whether the document is a color document or a monochrome document based on the image data scanned by the image scan unit,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070086071 - Imaging methods, imaging device calibration methods, imaging devices, and hard imaging device sensor assemblies: Imaging methods, imaging device calibration methods, imaging devices, and hard imaging device sensor assemblies are described. According to one aspect, an imaging method includes forming a hard color image upon media using image data, the hard color image corresponding to the color image, and after the forming, sensing an optical... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086073 - Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing system: An image processing apparatus has a printing function. A preview original-image creation part creates an original image for preview based on print data. A preview parts-image creation part creates a parts image for preview peculiar to each equipment. A preview image synthesis part synthesizes a preview image from the original... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086072 - Method for automatically identifying scan area: In accordance with the present invention, a method for automatically identifying a scan area by a scanner is disclosed. The method comprises steps of scanning an original comprising an object, identifying the original to establish a location and a profile of the object in the original, displaying a preview window... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070081171 - Method of determining a number of sequentially ordered pages of an ordered media set: A method of determining a number of sequentially ordered pages in an ordered media set. The method includes associating the ordered media set with an entry in a paper catalog in response to an input on an interface. The method also includes reading an identifier for the ordered media set... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070081179 - Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program product: A first area extracting unit extracts a first document area from document image data by dividing the document image data in units of a document area. A language determining unit determines a type of a language used in the document image data. A second area extracting unit extracts a second... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070081180 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same: It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus capable of appropriately processing a job for case binding without depending on the sequence of page data constituting the job, a method for controlling the apparatus and a program. To accomplish this, a job for case binding is inputted, and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070081182 - Printer and image processing apparatus: An input unit inputs RAW data. An image generating unit generates an image from the RAW data using a demosaicking processing. A print unit that prints the image.... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070081181 - Printer and method of controlling the same: A printer is provided with: a detector, operable to output an output signal in accordance with a state of a printing medium transported within the printer; and a control signal generator, operable to generate a control signal in accordance with a level of the output signal relative to a threshold.... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070081183 - Printing apparatus consumable data communication: Methods for communicating data with a circuit associated with a consumable of a printing apparatus, wherein a signal used to communicate data comprises one of at least two states at an object associated with the signal. For example, one method involves receiving N signals and indicating a state on a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070081186 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, for forming an image on recording material based on an input print job, includes an input unit adapted to receive user information for a second user while a first user is logged in with the image forming apparatus, and a processing unit adapted to perform, while... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070081185 - Image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and program product for controlling image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus with increased convenience of setting an operation panel includes a touch panel LCD, an LCD controller, a video RAM, a control RAM, a panel CPU performing an operation for realizing the image forming apparatus based on data input from outside, a nonvolatile RAM a backup power... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070081187 - Mobile telephone with printer and print media dispenser: A mobile telephone has a support structure and a camera device positioned on the support structure for electronically capturing and processing an image. A receptacle of the telephone body receives a detachable printing mechanism. The body engages a print media dispenser which dispenses print media to the printer.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070081184 - System and method for releasing multiple document processing operations: This invention is directed to a system and method for releasing multiple document processing operations. A document processing device first receives data representing a plurality of pending document processing operations. Identification data is then input by an associated user representing the identification of the user associated with the pending document... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070081188 - Device and method for controlling initialization of image forming apparatus using nand flash memory: A device and method for controlling the initiation of an image forming apparatus are provided using a NAND flash memory. The device for controlling initiation of an image forming apparatus includes: a NAND flash memory for storing a boot program and system control programs for initiating the image forming apparatus;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070081190 - Banded compositor for variable data: A method and apparatus for Variable Data Printing that adds performance requirements to a raster image processor (RIP) memory optimization that employs memory bands within the page composition process. Documents containing both recurring elements as well as non-recurring elements are sorted into element lists depending on their frequency of recurrence... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070081189 - Image processing device, image processing system including image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium storing program product for controlling image processing device: There is provided an image processing device which encourages a person who views an image to perform the following operations, thereby displaying information enabling execution of the operations. An image processing device 100 includes an input part 402 which accepts input of data, a detection part 404 which detects input... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070081172 - Swapping resolution factors for direct marking printing: A method for printing including an image at a first resolution in a first direction, selecting pixels from the prepared image, reordering the selected pixels to create a translated image having a second resolution in the first direction, where the second resolution is different from the first resolution, and printing... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070081173 - Image capturing apparatus performing filtering process with variable cut-off frequency: An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system having distortion aberration for expanding a central part and compressing a peripheral part of an object; a filtering device for cutting low-frequency components of each image signal; a filter setting device for assigning: first coefficients for cutting frequencies equal to or lower... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070081175 - Hollow dot printing apparatus and methods: A printing device in which dots are made to implode, rather than explode when transformed into dye-laden gas. Each of the plurality of dots having a smaller cross-section on the object than on the source and each have a concave silhouette. The plurality of dots also have a ring-shaped surface... Agent: Hani Z. Sayed, Esq. C/o Rutan & Tucker, LLP

20070081174 - Image reproduction machine book support structure: A book support apparatus for use with a copier machine having a scanner that has a top support surface and including a housing having a top, horizontally disposed planar opened wall constructed and arranged for receiving and supporting a glass sheet upon which a page is placed for copying, a... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20070081176 - Computation of gamut boundary by sampling device-independent color space: The present invention provides for determining a gamut boundary description for a color device, the color device being characterized at least by a destination transform which converts colors from a device-independent color space to a device-dependent color space and which reports out-of-gamut colors. A set of sample values is determined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070081177 - Intelligent color gamut management method: An intelligent color gamut management method. The intelligent color gamut management method performs a saturation mapping and a luminance mapping separately according to a characteristic of a target device, thereby enabling the target device to represent a natural color image. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce color reproduction distortion of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081178 - Method and apparatus for converting input color space into cmyk color space: A method and apparatus for converting an input color space into a CMYK color space are provided. The method includes converting a color signal of a predetermined input color space into an sRGB color space, converting the color signal of the sRGB color space into an sRGB L*a*b* color space,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081191 - Tone characteristics-conversion determining apparatus, tone characteristics-conversion determining method, tone characteristics-conversion determining program, image processing apparatus, and image display apparatus: A tone-conversion-characteristic determining apparatus determines tone-conversion characteristics for use in converting tone characteristics of original data so that targeted tone characteristics are obtained when display is performed by a display device. The apparatus includes a tristimulus value determining unit that, on the basis of tristimulus values corresponding to a tone... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070081192 - Gray level halftone processing: An image processing method and apparatus for generating a gray level rendered pixel value that has been subjected to a halftoning process. In the method and apparatus a gray level pixel value of the pixel to be rendered by the halftoning process is provided as one input to a lookup... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070081193 - Method and apparatus for expanding bit resolution using local information of image: A method and apparatus for expanding bit resolution using local information of an image receives an input image. First, second and third threshold value used to enhance bit resolution, to detect a texture and to detect a pattern, respectively, are determined considering global information of the input image. A texture... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081194 - Flexographic printing: A method of screening a continuous tone image into a halftone representation for a flexographic printing operation can compensate for characteristic printing problems in highlight areas by selectively placing non-printing dots or pixels proximate highlight dots. The non-printing dots or pixels raise the printing relief floor in the highlight areas... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff, Eastman Kodak Company

20070081195 - Digital photographic display device: The disclosure is directed to a digital photographic display frame including a processor, a telephone module, and a touch screen display. The touch screen display is responsive to the processor to display a digital photographic image and to provide a touch screen number pad interface. The telephone module is configured... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070081196 - Digital photographic display device: A digital photographic display frame includes a processor, a communication module responsive to the processor, and a touch screen display. The touch screen display is responsive to the processor to display a digital photographic image and to provide a touch screen number pad interface. The processor is configured to initiate... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070081197 - System and method for semantic knowledge retrieval, management, capture, sharing, discovery, delivery and presentation: The present invention is directed to an integrated implementation framework and resulting medium for knowledge retrieval, management, capture, sharing, discovery, delivery and presentation. The system is responsible for maintaining semantic information.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070081198 - Facsimile device and a facsimile device monitoring system: The invention relates to a facsimile device and a facsimile device monitoring system. The result of a transmission can be promptly informed to the user. When an error occurs, the file of the memory transmission can be simply erased, or the address and the transmission property of the memory transmission... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070081199 - Sheet supplying apparatus and image recording apparatus including same: A sheet supplying apparatus, comprising a sheet accommodating portion which accommodates stacked recording sheets such that the recording sheets are supported by a support surface thereof; a sheet supplying arm which is supported by a frame such that the sheet supplying arm is pivotable about a first axis line, and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070081200 - Lensless imaging with controllable apertures: Embodiments of the present invention provide a lensless optical device for acquiring an image. The device can include a light attenuating layer having a plurality of elements, where transmittance of each of the plurality of elements is controllable, and an image detector disposed at a distance from the light attenuating... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20070081201 - Method and apparatus for scanning: Disclosed is a scanner for the scanning of articles comprising a scanning apparatus (10) having a scanning device (18) and a rotatable sample mount (14,420) whereby, the scanning device and mount are relatively displaceable along the rotary axis (48) of the mount, a receptacle (40,140,240,400) mounted on the sample mount,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070081202 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus includes (A) an image forming section, (B) a document reading section, and (C) a controller. The image forming section is for forming an image. The document reading section is capable of reading a document concurrently with an operation of the image forming section. The document reading... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070081203 - Image device:

20070081204 - Method for determining color and/or density values and printing apparatus configured for the method: In a method for determining color and/or density values for use in monitoring and regulating a printing process in a printing apparatus, specifically in a sheet-fed offset printing press, measuring areas of a printed sheet are measured photoelectrically during the printing process, directly in or on the running printing apparatus.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070081205 - Image recording apparatus and method providing personalized color enhancement: An image processing method and system wherein an operator may provide adjustments to tweak color saturation of a particular color in an image. In the method and operation of the system a first signal representing color separation continuous tone gray level image data of pixels is provided as one input... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070076227 - Electronic apparatus with server device for managing setting data: An electronic apparatus and a method for managing access to data for a setting. The electronic apparatus includes a server device and at least one client device that is adapted to interact with the server device to access data for a setting. The data is stored in a memory device.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070076229 - Image forming device and printing system having selective printing function of address book and printing method thereof: Provided is an image forming device and a printing system having a selective printing function of an address book and a printing method thereof. The image forming device having a selective printing function of an address book comprising a storage part for storing an address book; a user interface for... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070076226 - Smart clipper for mobile displays: An apparatus and method for primary color correction and clipping is provided that is particularly suited for application in mobile displays. It is a combination of a brightness reduction, and a ‘smart’ clipping algorithm and is based on the perceptual attribute “colorfulness”, in which images that are brighter seem to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070076228 - System and method for providing data services via a network: A client management system receives from an operator, through a dedicated workspace, an operator request to retrieve, transmit, store, generate and/or process specified data. The client management system analyzes the operator request and generates a job profile specifying one or more activities to be performed in accordance with the operator... Agent: Kaye Scholer LLP

20070076234 - Generating user defined marking settings to print marks to control post-processing devices: Provided are a method, system, and program generating user defined marking settings to print marks to control post-processing devices. A user interface is generated to enable user input to define at least one marking setting comprising a name of the marking setting, a dimension of a marking, and a location... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070076235 - Image forming apparatus and printing method thereof: An image forming apparatus according to this invention comprises: a printer unit for printing and outputting image data; a mode setting unit for setting a print mode to the printer unit, said mode setting unit having an operating unit that can be operated by a user; a submitting unit for... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070076237 - Image input/output control device, network system and program: An image input/output control device comprises: a first acquisition unit which acquires information on image input processing capabilities of each image input device from each image input device via a network; a second acquisition unit which acquires information on image output processing capabilities of each image output device from each... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070076236 - Print system, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and printer driver program thereof: An image forming system having a server apparatus disposed on a network, a printer disposed on the network, an image processing apparatus disposed on the network, and a printer driver program including means for installing the printer driver program on the server apparatus together with a file containing address information... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070076239 - Copy detection system using correlations of copy detection patterns: Systems and methods for detecting copies of documents are described. In one example, a system and method for detecting copies of documents utilizes multiple correlations of original and scanned copy detection patterns. The system captures a CDP that may be skewed or improperly sized. The system also retrieves or reconstitutes... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070076238 - Image forming apparatus and data protection method: The image forming apparatus of this invention comprises an image processing unit that has a storage device capable of storing image data, and processes and outputs the image data stored in said storage device; and a data protection unit that sets security levels respectively for time slots which are scheduled... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070076240 - Image processing system: An image processing apparatus performs user authentication, and the user whose authentication has succeeded selects document data to which an image is to be appended from document data which are being edited by that user or templates of document data that can be used by the user. An image of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070076241 - Multi function peripheral: There is provided a multi function peripheral which has a plurality of functions which includes a communication unit that communicates with an external storage device which has a connection with the multi function peripheral, and a registration information acquisition unit that acquires registration information stored in the storage device indicating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070076242 - Printing apparatus, job processing method, printing system, storage medium, and program: A job processing method in a printing system having a printing apparatus which can accept a plurality of kinds of print jobs, wherein a print stop request of a print job which is to be printed by the printing apparatus is enabled by a user via a user interface section;... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070076254 - Centralized queue in network printing systems: A centralized queue for a network printing system is provided for allowing clients of a network printer to make job requests and enter a spot in a job queue without transmitting the actual print job data to the network. More particularly, an imaging device protocol (IDP) is provided which operates... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll, PC

20070076244 - Electronic apparatus, electronic apparatus system, control method and computer-readable storage medium: An electronic apparatus is adapted to execute an operation using an application, and is provided with an communicating part for communicating with an external apparatus via a communication line, and a controlling part for executing an operation using an application within the external apparatus by communicating with the external apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076247 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, program, and image forming system: This invention makes it possible to provide an image forming apparatus capable of causing an information processing apparatus to install a driver desired by a user by selecting an appropriate PDL and presenting device information to the information processing apparatus, and increasing the convenience for the user, a control method... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070076246 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus of the invention includes: a plurality of processing units which share image processing; a parameter memory unit which holds a parameter specifying an operation of each of the processing units; and a control unit which controls the plurality of processing units, and the control unit includes:... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070076249 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product: An information processing apparatus that calculates importance of data based on a print log. A print-log database stores therein a print log of data printed. A calculating unit refers to the print log to check the number of times of printing the data, and calculates importance of the data based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076245 - Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method: There is provided an information processing device for realizing interactive viewing in which a plurality of users thereof share an image, and an operation performed on the image by any user among the plurality of users is shown in real time on the image viewed by another user. A plurality... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070076252 - Method of printing over a network: The invention proposes a scheme in which even in the case where a lot of print sites each of which provides a printing service by secure network communication are constructed on a network the print sites can be managed easily, as well as a system as an implementation of such... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076253 - Method of printing over a network: The invention proposes a scheme in which even in the case where a lot of print sites each of which provides a printing service by secure network communication are constructed on a network the print sites can be managed easily, as well as a system as an implementation of such... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076243 - Method, interface and network for cyclical sending of ethernet telegrams: When data are sent in the form of Ethernet messages on an Ethernet transmission link using an interface to link a node to the Ethernet transmission link, the data to be sent are converted using a conversion unit in line with a transmission standard of the Ethernet protocol in order... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070076248 - Printing apparatus having broadcast receiver and operating method thereof: A printing apparatus including a broadcast receiver to receive broadcast information and an operating method thereof. The printing apparatus can include: a central controller to convert received input data to printable output data; a display unit to display the input data or print settings of the printing apparatus; a printing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070076251 - System and device for image reading: There is provided a network system, which comprises an image reading device and an image display device connected to the image reading device via a network. In the network system, the image reading device comprises a reading unit to read an image from an original and to generate image data,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070076250 - System for providing device information, and device, method and computer program for the system: There is provided a server provided in a network system in which a router intervenes between different networks to allow at least one device on the different networks to perform one-to-one communication. The server comprises a first device information acquisition unit configured to perform one-to-one communication with a device on... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070076256 - Image forming apparatus and method of the same: When a USB memory 10 is set to a host USB port 8a and back-up processing is set on a control panel 4, data in the hard disk drive 25 is read out based on a program in the USB memory 10 and stored in the USB memory 10. The... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070076255 - Image output apparatus, image output method, and image display method: When an image data to be displayed is held in a cache memory 602, an image output apparatus 101 reads out the image data from the cache memory 602 and displays the read image data (S61, S65). When the image data is not held in the cache memory 602, the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070076258 - Album creating system, album creating method and creating program: A layout information generating apparatus is provided, for automatically selecting an original image appropriate to be laid out in a template based on information on an output device. The layout information generating apparatus according to the present invention includes: a low-capacity image receiving section for receiving a low-capacity image obtained... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076257 - Method for using an imaging apparatus to generate image panels for assembly as a poster: A method to generate a plurality of image panels for assembly as a poster includes determining an individual image boundary for each of a plurality of image data portions; associating a corresponding incising boundary with each individual image boundary, wherein at least a portion of each individual image boundary is... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070076230 - Dual-desktop remote control system and method: A dual-desktop remote control system is provided. The remote control system includes: a connection module for connecting a local computer to a remote computer, wherein the local computer is a default master computer, and the remote computer is a default secondary computer; an image extracting module for extracting an image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070076231 - Order processing apparatus and method for printing: An order processing apparatus is combined with a photographic printer, and processes an order of printing according to image data. Size reduced images are produced according to the image data. The size reduced images are displayed in a predetermined arrangement. A search query is entered. Retrieval information of the image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076232 - Microscope system and method for shading correction of lenses present in the microscope system: A microscope system includes at least one lens that defines an illumination field and at least one light source that emits an illuminating light beam for illuminating a specimen through the lens. At least one detector is provided for, pixel-by-pixel, detecting a detection light beam coming from the specimen. An... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070076233 - Nano-engineered transparent and fluorescent colorants: A method is provided for manufacturing a new class of transparent and fluorescent colorants, such as printing inks suitable for use in process printing or non-process printing. The method includes generally two steps. In one embodiment, first, one or more types of fluorescent nanodots, or nanocrystal fluorophores, are selected for... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20070076259 - Position detector and liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the same: A liquid ejecting head is operable to eject liquid toward a target medium. A light emitter is operable to emit light. A light receiver is adapted to receive the light emitted from the light emitter, and operable to output a signal in accordance with an amount of the received light,... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070076260 - Color management system tool and method: A system method and apparatus includes logic to render a first image corresponding to a first process image, and a second image corresponding to a second process image, in the same instantiation in the same graphical user interface. The second image may correspond to the first image in that it... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070076261 - Image copying device and image processing system: An image copying device includes: a setting section setting an image processing condition specified by a user; a determination section determining whether or not an image processing condition is embedded in a read image obtained by reading out a sheet; and a control section that, if the determination section determines... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070076262 - Image processing apparatus and method, computer program, and recording medium: This invention is an image processing apparatus capable of adding a reference frame for accurately specifying an image region printed on a printing medium. An image forming unit (13) converts an input image for printing into that of a predetermined resolution. An additional information multiplexer (14) embeds additional information in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070076263 - Image printing using order sheet: A printing method for printing an image based on image data, the printing method includes: loading the image data from a storage medium in which the image data is stored; printing an order sheet, wherein the order sheet includes an index image representing the loaded image data to receive from... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070076268 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a document table for placing a document whose image is to be acquired and an image acquiring unit fixed at a position above the document table for acquiring an image of the document from above. The image forming device further includes a display unit for... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070076269 - Imaging unit and image sensor: There is provided an imaging unit: including an image sensor with a number of pixels arranged in a matrix, the pixels having color pixels where color filters are disposed, and white pixels where the color filters are not disposed; a sampling circuit section for sampling pixel signals generated in the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070076264 - Method and apparatus for partitioning industrial control data: An industrial controller includes a processing unit and a memory. The industrial controller is operable to communicate using an optimized connection packet including I/O data from a plurality of I/O modules arranged as an unstructured data block. The processing unit is operable to operate on the I/O data within the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20070076265 - Method of bit depth reduction for an apparatus: A method of bit depth reduction for an apparatus includes establishing a human visual response versus relative luminance, the human visual response being defined by 2M levels; determining a scanner response versus the relative luminance for at least one channel of scanner data, the scanner response being represented by N-bit... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070076267 - Multi-rate optimized connection between industrial control scanner and industrial controller: An industrial controller may communicate with a number of input/output (I/O) modules using an optimized connection packet assembled by a scanner communicating directly with the I/O modules and forwarding the optimized connection packet to the industrial processor. The optimized connection packet is communicated over a connection as part of a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20070076266 - Scanning unit: A scanning unit includes first and second carriages, a first wire to make a closed loop supported by a plurality of first pulleys and connected to the first carriage to move the first carriage, a second wire to make an open loop supported by a plurality of second pulleys installed... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070076271 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus that includes: a document delivering unit; a switchback delivering unit that pulls a document into a switchback delivery path extended to an opening formed on an external surface of an apparatus housing from a predetermined position of the document delivery path; an image reading unit that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070076270 - Single pass duplex document path for a digital scanner: A document handling system includes an imaging area; a light source located in proximity to the imaging area; a raster imaging scanning system located in proximity to the imaging area; and a looped document path, located in proximity to the imaging area, having an entrance and an exit. The exit... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070076272 - Inkjet printer and recovery method for a print head: A recovery process starting unit extracts a low print demand period, and sets the extracted low print demand period as the start time for the print head recovery process. When the start time comes, the recovery process starting unit activates the head recovery drive control unit. When the start signal... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070076274 - Image reading device: By reading an image of a reference plate, whether or not a likeliness that a linear abnormal image is occurred in the image of the document due to a foreign matter and the like attached on a contact glass exists is determined. In the case where there is the likeliness... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070076273 - Pitch to pitch online gray balance calibration with dynamic highlight and shadow controls: An automatic gray balance control system to produce TRCs for all primary colors in a reproduction device and for each pitch of a photoreceptor system by printing target patches for each pitch, measuring the output colors, and automatically readjusting the tone reproduction curves until a satisfactory level of accuracy is... Agent: Shlesinger & Fitzsimmons

20070076275 - Optical scatter correction for film scanners: A film scanner of the type which uses diffuse illumination and an array sensor such as a line array or area array CCD includes an integrating optical element in the form of an integrating sphere to provide diffuse illumination to film. The diffuse illumination ensures that light is provided to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070076276 - Color optimization of displayed image for pc projectors: An image processing engine receives an image data input and provides an image data output, which is displayable on a screen as the projected colored image. A camera is positioned to capture the projected colored image as a feedback data input. The feedback data input is provided by the camera... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070076277 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus that can determine an optimal registration color according to an acquired image is provided. An image processing unit 6 receives a sample image from an imaging unit 2 and acquires a hue with respect to each of pixels arranged two-dimensionally that constitute the sample image and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070076278 - Systems and methods for printing on pre-printed forms: Embodiments herein provide methods and systems for copying and printing completed template documents. For example, one method provides information regarding a document template sheet. The document template sheet comprises a media sheet having template markings thereon. The method scans a completed document to produce a scanned image. The completed document... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC