Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 09/07

20070223022 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus for continuously printing first and second image data onto first and second recording media has: a data forming portion which forms blank data corresponding to an interval between the first and second image data and couples those data; a detecting section which detects positions of the media;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070223023 - Printing apparatus and printing system: The printing apparatus includes: a printing device which prints onto a prescribed print medium; a print result prediction device which predicts a print result on the print medium and accordingly outputs print result prediction data including image region print result prediction data for an image region and text region print... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223025 - Printing apparatus and method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal: A printing apparatus includes a print request reception section that receives a print request including PDL data; a data conversion section that converts the received PDL data into an electronic document file; and an electronic document storage section that stores the converted electronic document file into a memory device.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070223026 - Printing system, information-processing apparatus and method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal: A printing system has an information processing apparatus and a printing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus includes: an extraction section that extracts a cross reference table and a trailer from a PDF file to be printed; and a transmission section that first transmits the extracted cross reference table and... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070223030 - Printing apparatus and information processing apparatus: A printing apparatus including a reception unit configured to receive print data, a first identification unit configured to identify user information contained in the received print data, a first determination unit configured to determine whether there is any user currently logged onto the printing apparatus, a second identification unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070223029 - Printing system, job processing method, printing device, and storage medium: A printing system adapted to be able to perform a processing concerning a job to be processed by a post-processing device, the post-processing device having a movable component openable by an operator, the system comprising: a controller that enables the printing device to execute the print process of a job... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070223034 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus, image forming method, image processing method, program, and storage medium: Version information set at a client terminal apparatus (110) is received. Identification data and print data generated at the client terminal apparatus (110) based on a file set at the client terminal apparatus (110) are received. Identification data of the file of the version indicated by the version information received... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070223032 - Printer, method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal: A printer includes an instruction book specification unit that accepts a specification of an instruction book in which print instructions are described; a document specification unit that accepts a specification of a document to be printed; and a print processing unit that prints the specified document in accordance with the... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070223037 - Content list display method, content list display apparatus, content selecting and processing method, and content selecting and processing apparatus: A content list display method includes the step of displaying a list of private content owned by a user and public content not owned by the user on a screen by using a predetermined common attribute as a search key attribute for search and display such that a difference between... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070223036 - Medium processing apparatus with queue management function: A medium processing apparatus with queue management function includes a queue managing unit, and a connection port, an operation interface and a medium processing unit, all of which are connected to the queue managing unit. The queue managing unit receives, through the connection port, and stores a plurality of job... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223040 - Apparatus, method and program for image display: When images classified into groups of similar images are displayed, the similar images are efficiently displayed. For this purpose, a selection unit selects representative images representing the respective groups from the images classified into the groups. A display control unit displays a catalog of thumbnails of the representative images on... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070223038 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus and an image forming system of the invention have: a discriminating section which discriminates necessity of a security pattern for suppressing illegal use of image creation data on the basis of a security level; a security pattern forming section which forms security pattern data on the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070223039 - Optimization of ad selection and/or placement in media objects: Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for determining optimal selection and/or placement of advertisements in various media objects, based on features of the advertisements and media objects, are described herein.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070223013 - Information processing device: an information processing device includes an acquiring unit, a reducing unit, and an outputting unit. The acquiring unit acquires at least two files each including a page on which at least one of character and image is carried The reducing unit generates a reduced-size page. If the file includes a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, PC

20070223020 - Hue dividing and judging device: The invention discloses a hue dividing and judging device including a memory unit, a calculation module, and a judgment module. The memory unit is used for storing a look-up table, and the look-up table records N boundaries, wherein the N boundaries includes j+1 operative boundaries for defining j color areas.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223021 - Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided, in which one of color component images forming an image is predicted from a different color component image using a correlation between the color component images. A first color component image selected from the color component images is encoded by intra prediction,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223017 - Image processing apparatus: Storage areas for storing four types of correction data tables for each color, which are configured by data to which gradation level data of a color is corrected, are provided as RAM1 to RAM4. A first selector selects three types of correction data tables, from which correction data for gradation... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070223019 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device has: an image-holding member; a charging unit, an electrostatic latent image forming unit, a toner image forming unit that forms a toner image on the image-holding member using a toner that is in a first state that can form a specific color when color forming information is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070223043 - Image data processing device and image data processing method: An image data processing device for converting original data containing gradation-value data, into processed data containing multilevel-value data. The processing device includes: (a) a processed-image gradation-value data generator for generating, based on the original data, gradation-value data relating to each pixel of the processed image, by causing a plurality of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070223041 - Image processing apparatus and method of the same: The invention discloses an image processing apparatus and method thereof capable of preserving a great deal of light and dark details, so as to improve the contrast of each image. Furthermore, when calculating the value of gray level, the gray levels may be divided into equal parts, each of which... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070223012 - Lid structure, apparatus and method for displaying graphical information: A lid structure, apparatus and method for displaying graphical information uses beams of coherent light that are emitted in a scanning manner to project the beams of coherent light onto a display surface to form the graphical information on the display surface.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20070223024 - Computer-readable recording medium storing program for setting function in printer driver, method of setting the same, and print request device: In a device requesting a printing process of a printer, when information relating a printer driver with a setting for a function concerning a printing operation is input, the setting is stored in a storage region for storing a setting of a function concerning a printing process for the printer... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070223027 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming images by outputting plural image data in an order corresponding to an input order of plural input data is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a data receiving part for receiving the input data, a priority determining part for determining priority of outputting the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070223028 - Adjustment of sleep timeouts in printers: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein printer usage corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day is determined for a plurality of days. Sleep timeout periods corresponding to the plurality of time periods of the day are set based on the determined printer usage.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070223031 - Bi-directional status and control between image capture device and backend device: Apparatuses and methods are provided for bi-directional status and control between image capture devices and backend devices in a document processing system.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070223033 - Method and device for processing a sequence of digital images with a scalable format: The method of processing a sequence of digital images, in the context of coding according to a bit stream comprising compressed output images organized according to at least two temporal hierarchy levels in accordance with a predetermined scalable format, comprises the following steps: obtaining and storing original images, and generating... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223035 - Image forming system and control method thereof: The invention provides an image forming system including a plurality of image forming apparatuses and a storage device to be connected thereto, and a method of controlling the same, and the image forming apparatuses and the storage device are connected to each other through a dedicated interface.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070223015 - Device and system for information management: An interactive notebook is provided which facilitates an interaction with a computer system. The notebook comprises: (i) one or more sheets having a position-coding pattern disposed thereon; (ii) at least one input field accepting: first markings from an optically-imaging pen which digitally records information entered in the input field, and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070223014 - Thermotransfer printer with single sheet intake means: The present invention concerns a thermotransfer printer for printing print media having RFID labels, comprising a thermotransfer printing unit, and a single sheet intake means. The invention is further characterised by an RFID reading unit for reading items of information from the RFID labels, wherein the RFID reading unit is... Agent: Jonathan A. Platt Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar

20070223018 - Method for processing color image data: A method for processing color image data that enables to optimally render a color image on a target device. The method incorporates a color gamut mapping step, where the amount of gamut mapping is adapted dynamically, in dependence of at least a color saturation value of the input pixel. Preferably,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223016 - Method of generating color conversion table, information generation apparatus, recording medium, and image processing apparatus: A color conversion table for converting M color signals of an input system into N color signals of an output system is disclosed. The color conversion table is prepared by and obtained based on a calculation target point corrected by moving a position of the maximum gradation of each fundamental... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070223042 - Method and apparatus for adjusting gray level distribution of an image displayed on liquid crystal display device: A method for adjusting the gray level distribution of an image displayed on a liquid crystal display includes the steps of determining a first relatively large gray level, a first maximum gray level, and a gain based on a gray level distribution of an image, and adjusting gray levels of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070223044 - Halftone edge enhancement for production by an image forming device: Digital images that are produced by an image forming device may be processed using an edge enhancement technique to reduce the effects of halftone color depth reductions. For each element in the original image, certain detail elements are classified by examining the magnitude of pixel intensity gradients between elements of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070223045 - Method and apparatus for user reproducing a user-preferred document out of a plurality of documents: The developments in mass storage devices show a fast increase of the storage capacity. This allows for the recording of huge digital archives with audio, video, text, still picture, etc. documents. It's getting more and more difficult for the user to keep an overview about all these archived documents and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070223046 - Camera, printer, print system, control method, memory medium and program therefor: The invention provides a system capable of printing in a simple manner by detecting the connection of a printer and shifting to a print mode in response to the detection of the printer.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223047 - Image trimming method, apparatus and program: When trimming is performed on a photograph image obtained by a photography apparatus, a plurality of trimming range candidates is set by analyzing the photograph image. A judgment is made as to whether the zoom magnification ratio of the photography apparatus during photography corresponds to a predetermined limit, the limit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223048 - Remote control apparatus, system and method: According to a remote control apparatus of the present invention, the selection of the control content such as power on or power off to be commonly practiced for each devices is accepted, and the control signal corresponding to the accepted control content is transmitted to all or part of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223049 - Method, apparatus, and program for displaying data: Recognition of the contents of data, such as still images obtained by digital cameras, is facilitated. A plurality of images obtained by a digital camera are read out from a memory card. A classifying section classifies the plurality of images into groups, each of which corresponds to a date. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223050 - Document management apparatus, document management system, control method of the apparatus and system, program, and storage medium: A document management apparatus includes a storage unit that stores first document information and second document information each including multiple pages in units of pages; a comparison unit that compares any page in the first document information stored in the storage unit with the multiple pages in the second document... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070223052 - Terminal device and medium for the same: A terminal device having at least one function utilizable by a plurality of external devices interconnected with the terminal device via a network comprises an occupation setting system that sets an intended function in a state occupied by an external device specified as an occupation device that is an occupation... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070223051 - Method and system for modified document transfer via computer network transfer protocols: A method transmitting a facsimile or scanned image to an electronic destination address includes receiving the facsimile or scanned image including a digitized instruction page including an optical representation of the electronic destination address, wherein the digitized instruction page is encoded in a first format, determining the electronic destination address... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070223053 - Method for realizing facsimile service and facsimile service and signal processing device: A method for realizing facsimile service includes: upon receiving a signal of the high-speed facsimile service transmitted by the high-speed facsimile terminal at the receiving side, changing, by a gateway, the signal of the high-speed facsimile service to a signal of the common facsimile service; sending, by the facsimile terminal... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070223054 - Data communication apparatus and method: A document transmission apparatus reduces troublesome labor of an operator when transmitting document data, inputted from a scanner or the like, by various transmission methods such as electronic mail, facsimile, remote printing and file transfer. An address book containing a receiver and a plurality of transmission methods for transmitting document... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223056 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a display and a display controller that controls the display to display thereon a page. When a first processing is currently performed on the page, the page includes: a first part, on which the first processing has not yet been performed; and a second part,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070223055 - Multifunction apparatus: A multifunction apparatus is provided with a printer unit having a discharge tray disposed on a top face thereof and a scanner unit disposed on the image recording unit with a space being defined between the image reading unit and the discharge tray. The scanner unit has a casing. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223057 - Method of estimating noise in spatial filtering of images: A noise prediction scheme provides a method of predicting an output noise variance resulting from a spatial filtering transformation. For a given input image signal with a known input noise variance, a periodic model is developed. The periodic model defines periodic boundary conditions for the input image signal based on... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070223058 - Multispectral scanner with enlarged gamut, in particular a single-pass flat-bed scanner: The scanner comprises an integrated photosensitive linear sensor (20) comprising N parallel lines of photosites, where N≧4, and preferably N≧6, with each line of photosites being associated with a respective bandpass optical filter. For each scanning step and for each pixel of the analyzed line, it delivers N corresponding quantized... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070223059 - Image pickup apparatus and a method for producing an image of quality matching with a scene to be captured: An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor in which main and auxiliary pixels are bidimensionally arranged for outputting a high and a low output signal, respectively. The user of the camera is allowed to select a desire image quality mode appearing on a monitor by operating a control panel.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223061 - Image reading apparatus, image reading unit thereof, and reference member thereof for shading correction: An image reading apparatus which is capable of performing accurate shading correction with simple arrangement while preventing a reference member from being scratched and paper powder and the like dust from being deposited on the reference member. The image reading apparatus comprises an image reading unit. In the image reading... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223062 - Image reading apparatus, shading correction method therefor, and program for implementing the method: An image reading apparatus including a shading correction mechanism that can be formed by fewer component parts than conventional ones, and is increased in the degree of freedom of design, thereby enabling reduction of the size and weight thereof. A contact glass guides an original to an image reading position.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223060 - Image reading device: An image reading device includes: an original table having a stationary original reading area and a moving original reading area on its top surface; an image reading unit provided inside the original table and moving the reading line in the direction of the width of the stationary original reading area... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223063 - Paper pressing device: A paper pressing device disposed on one side of a paper track of a sheet feed scanner, corresponding to a scanning module on the other side of the paper track is provided. The paper pressing device includes two pivot seats, a pressing block, and an elastic element. The two pivot... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070223064 - Image reading apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable recording medium: Disclosed is an image reading apparatus, which comprises: (1) an image reading section which scans a calibration sheet for calibration and reads image information thereof; and (2) a correction section which calibrates a brightness tone correction table based on the image information read from the calibration sheet by the image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070223066 - Scanning apparatus: A scanning apparatus includes a body, a transparent plate, a scanning module, and a color reference slice. A paper-feeding track is formed within the body, and a scanning window is formed at a side wall of the paper-feeding track. A coupling groove is formed at an edge of the scanning... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070223065 - Clamping apparatus capable of fixing a film and image processing apparatus utilizing the same: A clamping apparatus capable of fixing a roll film is disclosed. The clamping apparatus includes: a carrier comprising a slot; a cover positioned in the slot; and a cannelure formed between the cover and the carrier, for guiding the film inserted from the first film door to a predetermined position.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070223067 - Image processing apparatus and method of the same: The invention discloses an image processing apparatus for adjusting the saturation of an input image. The input image also has lightness and hue. The image processing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a third processing unit, and a converter. According to the lightness, hue, and a... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070223068 - Image forming apparatus, image display apparatus, image forming method, image display method, image display system, and storage medium: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a display unit information obtaining unit configured to obtain display unit information regarding a display unit; and a display image generating unit configured to generate a display image to be displayed on the display unit based on the display unit information obtained by the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070223069 - Image pickup apparatus for minimizing variation in black level correction between plural outputs and a method of driving the same: An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor for photoelectrically converting light incident from a field to produce an image signal via al least two output portions. The temperature of the image sensor is sensed. The image sensor is driven such that the image signal is output via one of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216913 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and image forming method: An image forming system includes an external device that stores therein an image, and an image forming apparatus that is directly connected to the external device and outputs the image. The image forming apparatus includes an fetching unit that fetches the image from the external device; a receiving unit that... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070216928 - Driver program, printing apparatus control method and printing control apparatus: There is provided a driver program for controlling a printing apparatus. The driver program causes a computer to perform operations of obtaining one or more pieces of image data of one or more virtual pages from an image processing application, where the pieces of image data are in a one-to-one... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070216925 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and program: It is analyzed on the basis of received print data whether the print data is print data generated via a process path formed from a combination of the first application and first printer driver, or print data generated via a process path formed from a combination of the second application... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216926 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: It is determined whether a combination of an output requesting application and a printer driver designated as an output destination is a combination of the first application and first printer driver or a combination of the second application and second printer driver. When it is determined that the combination of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216929 - Printer, printer system, and firmware rewriting method: Firmware stored in a printer such as an inkjet printer can be rewritten by executing a firmware rewriting process which is not dependent upon the internal processing status of the printer. A printer 1 for executing a printing process based on print data sent from a host computer has a... Agent: Anderson Kill & Olick P.C.

20070216927 - System and method for an improved merge utility: Software application that interfaces with a main frame operating a job control language so as to overcome the file limit for processing in the job control language, by dividing files or other data sets into batches that are equal to or less than the limit of the job control language.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216937 - Image forming apparatus capable of using security code for communication: On receiving FAX image data, an image forming apparatus determines whether or not a security code is superimposed on the image data. If superimposed, the image forming apparatus stored the content of the security code and erases the superimposed security code from the image. Thereafter, the image forming apparatus creates... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070216935 - Image forming apparatus, printing system, job execution system, and job execution method: An image forming apparatus includes an authentication unit that authenticates an authorized user; a ticket generating unit that generates a job execution ticket including conditions for allowing execution of a job, a data acquiring unit that outputs the job execution ticket and an acquirement request for data selected by the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216941 - Image processing device: An image processing device is connectable to a host device through a network. In the image processing device, a storage unit stores an identifier capable of distinguishing the image processing device, a communication unit receives data from the host device, a data control unit analyzes the received data, and if... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070216939 - Information processing apparatus and method thereof: An information processing apparatus which has a first drawing conversion unit which converts first drawing information generated by an application of a first type into first print information which can be processed by a printer driver of a first type, and a second drawing conversion unit which converts second drawing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216944 - Information processing apparatus and print setting reflection method pertaining to an information processing apparatus: An apparatus includes a first graphics processing unit and a second graphics processing unit for converting graphics data from applications to print data capable of being processed by printer drivers. The apparatus determines whether a first printer driver is suitable for an application, and enables selection of a second printer... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070216938 - Information processing apparatus for transmitting print data to printer, printing instruction method, and storage medium storing computer program: Disclosed are an information processing apparatus, a printing instruction method, and a storage medium storing a computer program, that can improve the operability. When dragging and dropping of a first icon that indicates a printer onto a second icon that indicates a document to be printed is detected, or dragging... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070216945 - Information processing device: An information processing device is disclosed that is able to extend functions without performing installation and enables easy function settings. The information processing device is able to communicate with an image forming device, and includes a storage unit for storing basic information of the information processing device; an information acquisition... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070216940 - Information processing device, image processing device, job processing method, and storage medium: An information processing device, capable of communicating with an image processing device, has: an acceptance unit to accept an instruction as to whether or not to add, to a print job, browsing management information corresponding to an original file of the print job; and a transfer unit to, in a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216936 - Method and apparatus for printing using synchronization signal: A method and apparatus for printing using a synchronization signal are provided. Printing processes are performed in the apparatus by determining points in time for performing the printing processes based on a synchronization signal so that it is possible to reduce a waiting time for printing.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070216943 - Multifunction peripheral and method of selecting processing functions thereof: The present invention provides a multifunction peripheral unit, including a list transmission section that creates a list of devices connected to a network and transmits the list to a user terminal; a device information reception section that receives information on a device selected by the user from a user terminal... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070216946 - Network printing apparatus: The network printing apparatus is adapted to connection with an external information apparatus through a network. The network printing apparatus includes: a print data acquisition device which acquires print data outputted by the external information apparatus through the network; and a print data storage device which stores the print data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216934 - Print information processing apparatus: A print information processing apparatus for performing a printing process is disclosed. The print information processing apparatus is connected to a printer via a network and includes an interface configured to connect a removable recording medium; a data storage unit configured to store encrypted data; a decryption unit configured to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070216942 - Print management system, data management device and data management method: A print management system, which is used for managing printing of document data using a printing unit adapted to form a print image on a printing medium, comprises a schedule storage unit adapted to store, on a per-event basis, schedule information containing the time and date of an event and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070216947 - Printing via kickstart function: A method of controlling document processing in a networked system and a digital image reproduction device for document processing are described. The system has workstations for submitting processing jobs of a user, and a memory unit that manages the jobs that are waiting to be executed. The method includes providing,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216950 - Image display system and server device: An image display system includes: a storage section that stores plural image data sets and layout information indicating layout of one or plural sub images forming, as a whole, a background image behind a main image; a main image select section that selects one image data as a main image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216915 - Black-level feedback device, image reading device, and black-level feedback control method: A first set-value calculating unit calculates a first set value of a black-level feedback based on a reflection amount that increases a speed of tracking to a black-level target value in a black-level feedback control. A second set-value calculating unit calculates a second set value of a black-level feedback based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216917 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus prints a first image data rendered at a first number of halftone levels based on a second image data rendered at a second number of halftone levels larger than the first number of halftone levels. A dot forming section forms lines of pixels on a print... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070216923 - Image processing device: An image processing device 100 has a reading unit 2, a density measuring unit 81, and an extraction unit 82. The reading unit reads a plurality of samples 9. The density measuring unit 81 measures the density of the background image of the plurality of samples 9 having been read... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070216916 - Image processing system capable of recovering details of images and related image processing method thereof: An image processing system includes: a motion detector, for determining whether a decoded pixel data corresponds to a still image; an encoder, for encoding the decoded pixel data when the decoded pixel data corresponds to a still image to generate an encoded pixel data; and a decoder, coupled to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216920 - Print data generating apparatus and computer usable medium therefor: A print data generating apparatus to generate print data which is used for printing in a printing apparatus based on image data by using a white colorant and at least one non-white colorant is provided. The print data generating apparatus comprises an image data inputting system, whereby white image data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216921 - Print data generating apparatus and computer usable medium therefor: A print data generating apparatus, comprising a background color designating system, wherein at least one background color of pixels in a background area of the image to be printed is designated, a usable color designating system, wherein a color to be used to print the at least one background color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216924 - Print data generating apparatus and computer usable medium therefor, and image processing apparatus and computer usable medium therefor: A print data generating apparatus to generate print data used for printing in a printing apparatus based on image data representing an image to be printed on a recording medium is provided. The print data generating apparatus comprises a data inputting system, by which application color setting data is inputted... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216922 - Printer: A printer which outputs and records a test pattern onto a recording medium and evaluates quality of an image produced by the printer based on the test pattern recorded on the recording medium, wherein: the test pattern comprises: a pattern for visual evaluation; and a quality control pattern including an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070216918 - Virtual ink desk and method of using same: A printing machine includes a high-speed print device configured to receive a print media and discharge a printed product that includes a printed image. An image capturing device is positioned adjacent the print device and is configured to capture an image of the printed image on the printed product. A... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070216954 - High quality halftone process: The invention provides a printing method of printing on a print medium. This method comprises: performing a halftone process on image data representing a tone value of each of pixels constituting an original image to generate dot data representing a status of dot formation on each of print pixels of... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070216953 - Setting method, image recording apparatus, program, and recording medium: A disclosed method for setting multiple tones in a halftone process upon recording an image using ink includes the steps of: dividing the image into plural dot areas; and setting the multiple tones such that at least one dot area to which the ink is not attached is present between... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070216956 - Method and apparatus for adjusting contrast of image: This invention relates to an apparatus for processing an input image including M input pixels. Each of the M input pixels respectively has an input gray scale. The apparatus includes a gain generating module, a contrast enhancing module, and a Gamma adjusting module. The gain generating module generates a contrast... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070216931 - Image authentication system, image authentication method, printed image, and computer product: In an image authentication system, a printing unit prepares a code in a form of an image of a different density in any two adjacent blocks, and prints the code onto a recording medium as a printed image. A storage unit stores therein image data corresponding to printed images and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070216930 - System and method for estimating toner usage for a printing system: A method for determining a toner usage estimate for a print job to be performed by a printing system having at least one print engine and at least one controller includes determining a set of print conditions for the print job and selecting a set of parameters associated with the... Agent: George Likourezos, Esq. Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070216932 - Printing device management based on topics of interest and object locators: A system for managing printing device related objects on a network, comprising a GUI, by first selecting a topic of interest from a category of interests; then selecting a predefined object locator, which filters objects based on associated criteria. The system enables graceful scaling, wherein the number of topics of... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070216933 - Server system: A server system has a shared storage device including a job queue storage area, a job queue registration request storage area and a job assignment storage area, a first server including a job queue registration processing unit registering the job execution request in the job queue storage area according to... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070216948 - System and method for enabling the fast extraction of interleaved image data: An improved system and method for deinterleaving a data unit containing chunks of two or more different data types. In an embodiment of the invention, both a device MPU and DMA hardware are used to deinterleave a data unit containing chunks of both compressed data and uncompressed data. The device... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070216949 - System and method for processing graphic data in a printer device: A system and method for processing graphic data in a printer device. A full frame is divided into a plurality of to-be-printed sub-images and a valid region is determined from each of the to-be-printed sub-images and marked. The information about the valid region and an area of the full frame... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070216914 - Method for providing a substrate with a printed pattern: A machine (1) is equipped for printing a pattern on a substrate (20). The machine (1) comprises a table (10) for supporting and moving the substrate (20), and a print head (30) for firing ink droplets towards the substrate (20). Further, the machine (1) comprises a cover plate (40) which... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070216919 - Printing method and printing system: The present invention provides a printing method including: (A) converting a tone value indicating a tone of a certain color to a first light tone value indicating a tone of a light color using a predetermined number of tones, and a first dark tone value indicating a tone of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070216951 - Method for removing color noise and image-capturing device that uses this method: A method for removing color noise on a slowly varying component contained in color difference component image data of image data which is imported from an image sensor and converted to brightness and the color difference component image data, includes the steps of: sampling pixels of said color difference component... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070216952 - Image processing system and method for halftoning tuning: An image processing system and method using the technique of halftoning. It first inputs into a second printer the image color scale data of a standard color test chart, on which the second printer performs halftoning using its built-in halftone table, in order to output a set of second image... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070216955 - Image processor and method for selecting a procedure of dithering thereof: Selecting a corresponding procedure of dithering according to a general pattern of gray levels of sub-pixels of each color of an input image. This will enable the input image to be displayed on a display with a lower bit depth.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216957 - Image capturing apparatus: There is described an image capturing apparatus, which makes it possible to unify the gradation characteristics all over the captured image into the same characteristic. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that is provided with a first photoelectric conversion characteristic, a second photoelectric conversion characteristic being different from... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070216958 - Image pick-up apparatus, exposure controlling method, and computer program: An embodiment of the invention provides an image pick-up apparatus having a function of setting an exposure correction value, which may include a control portion and a display portion. The control portion may perform control for generating or acquiring reference images having a plurality of images having a plurality of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070216959 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system and program thereof: Notification of upload of a fixed point observation image to a server. A response program captures a fixed point observation image upon controlling a camera through a camera control program. An image analysis program analyzes the captured image and sends the result of analysis to the response program that, then,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216960 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus communicates with an information processing apparatus externally connected through a network. The image processing apparatus includes a converting unit that converts a search result of the information processing apparatus into device-specific data, and a user control unit that generates intermediate data to be displayed to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216962 - Image reader, image processor, and computer program product: An image processor includes a reading unit that moves a scanning optical system toward a reference white sheet to read the reference white sheet from a direction along which the scanning optical system returns to the carried document reading glass before reading one sheet of a document mounted on a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216961 - Shading compensation circuit and control method thereof: A shading compensation circuit is provided which is capable of storing correction coefficients for shading compensation having optimal bit lengths, so that the data size of the correction coefficients can be reduced. The shading compensation circuit 10 for correcting the shading properties with respect to a horizontal direction and a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070216965 - Image processing apparatus, customizing method of user interface screen, and computer-readable recording medium storing program for executing the method: An image processing apparatus capable of displaying a user interface screen (UI screen) is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an input/output controlling unit to which customization information for customizing the UI screen is input by a user when the user inputs a customization request of the UI screen; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216964 - Image-scanning apparatus capable of cleaning dust therein: An image-scanning apparatus is disclosed. The image-scanning apparatus includes a casing, a transparent platform, a scanning module, and a cleaning module. The transparent platform is mounted on the casing and has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface of the transparent platform allows an object to be... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216963 - Method and arrangement for imaging a primarily two-dimensional target: For imaging a two-dimensional target and ensuring scanning, photography and digitalization of the surface of a museum piece book opened at an angle slightly exceeding 45°, a method includes matching at least one optical unit adapted for influencing the direction of light rays falling onto it with the target, illuminating... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070216966 - Optical scanner and image forming apparatus: A disclosed optical scanner includes a light source, a deflector that deflects a light beam emitted by the light source, a scanning imaging element that images and scans the deflected light beam as a light spot on an imaging surface, and an optical box that contains at least the deflector... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216967 - Image scanning apparatus and image copying apparatus: An image copying apparatus includes a scanner for scanning an image of a document and a printer for forming the image, the scanner has a document table for mounting a document to be an image scanning target, and a carriage mounting one of a contact image sensor and a module... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070216968 - Multifunction device: The multifunction device includes a first mode device, a second mode device, an operating unit, a detecting unit, and a switching unit. The first mode device provides a reading mode that reads image information with using a first type medium. The second mode device provides a writing mode that writes... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070216969 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes: a document placement glass; an illumination system configured to illuminate the document; an image forming optical system configured to image reflected light of the document; a sensor configured to perform photoelectric conversion of an image of the document; and a controller configured to move the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216970 - Two-branch outputting solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a semiconductor substrate having a two-dimensional array of photoelectric conversion elements, each storing a signal charge in accordance with a received amount of light; a charge transfer path that transfers the signal charge read out of the photoelectric conversion elements toward an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216971 - Color correction circuit, image display apparatus including the same, and color correction method: A color correction circuit includes a 3D-LUT, an off data generation circuit, an image signal switchover circuit, and an interpolation operation circuit. The off data generation circuit substitutes respective lower (k−n) bits of input R, G, and B signals R2, G2, and B2 with a value ‘0’ and outputs processed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216972 - Method and apparatus for adjusting contrast of image: An apparatus for processing an input image including M image units is provided. Each of the M image units respectively includes N pixels. Each of the pixels respectively has an original gray scale. The apparatus includes a converting module, a gain generating module, and a contrast enhancing module. The converting... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070216973 - Image processing apparatus and preview image displaying method: An image processing apparatus which previews a read image is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a preview image processing unit in which a user is allowed to set a processing condition for the read preview image by operating on the read preview image and a preview image processed by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216974 - Digital palm pc having pagewide inkjet printer: A digital palm PC is provided which has a housing, a digital storage device to store digitally text and/or image data, and a pagewide inkjet printer located within the housing to receive digital information from the digital storage device. The printer is configured to print an image on media external... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211276 - Information processing apparatus with print preview function: A printer apparatus of this invention includes a reception unit which receives print job from a host apparatus, a preview information generation unit which generates preview information that indicates layouts of logical pages and finishing processing for respective physical pages to be printed in accordance with job control information and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211277 - Image forming apparatus and image processing method: An image forming apparatus with a saving mode in which imaging materials to be used are reduced, includes: an image processing part that converts image data from which an image will be formed into corresponding image data in an output color space; and an image forming part that forms the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070211278 - Printing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving a control command including first identification information; an identification information obtaining unit for obtaining the first identification information from the control command thus received; a storage unit for storing second identification information related to a specific user; an identification information... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070211283 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving image data including graphic data and hatching specifying data; a data analyzing unit for analyzing the image data to detect the hatching specifying data; a pattern forming unit for forming a hatching pattern according to the hatching specifying data when... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070211281 - Multifunction device: A multifunction device includes a memory reading unit for reading file information in a memory, a selecting unit for selecting an executable function based on said file information, a printing unit for printing out on a printing medium information bringing said file information into correspondence with said executable function, a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070211282 - Printing apparatus, printing method therefor, and program for implementing the method: A printing apparatus which is capable of eliminating a burden on an operator in managing a copy number on a printout and improving security for the printout when a function for printing the copy number on the printout is realized. Printing based on a print job is performed, and a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070211287 - Image forming apparatus with high operability: A job including image data to be subjected to printing is transmitted from a user PC to an image forming apparatus. Upon execution of printing in the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus notifies the user PC of completion of printing. The image forming apparatus also saves the job... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070211295 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a first image obtaining portion which obtains an image of a medium as a first image, a second image obtaining portion which can continuously obtain each image of a plurality of originals as a second image, and an image output section which outputs the image... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070211294 - Image forming apparatus, printing control method, recording medium, and data signal: There is provided an image forming apparatus including an added image detecting section that detects added image data contained in image data by analyzing input image data to be printed; an added image determination section that, when added image data is detected by the added image detecting section, determines whether... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070211296 - Information processing apparatus with print preview function: In a print system of this invention, upon issuance of a preview instruction from an application (201), print data is spooled in a spool file (303). A printer driver (203) despools the spooled data and transmits the despooled data to a printer (2000) as a preview job together with job... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211265 - Print control system, print control method, print control program storage medium, and printing system: There is provided a print control system including a receiving unit that receives from a client a print request relating to saved document data, an acquisition unit that acquires print set data which specify whether respective pages of the document data are to be printed in color or in monochrome... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070211272 - Apparatus and method for image-adaptive color reproduction: An apparatus and method for image-adaptive color reproduction is provided. The apparatus includes an information-extraction unit, an image-compression unit and an image-information-reproduction unit. The information-extraction unit inputs image information of a first color space model, converts the input image information into image information of a second color space model, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211274 - Color chart for adjusting colors and color adjusting method: A color chart that enables exact color adjustments without being influenced by distortion or peripheral light loss is provided. The color chart has a plurality of colored regions each being of a different color, separated by line segments that radiate outward from a predetermined point. A plurality of achromatic colored... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211269 - Print presentation: A method of providing a print representation of a document which, when printed, has at least one region the appearance of which is dependent on viewing conditions. The method comprises generating a representation of the document and then modifying the appearance of the at least one region to thereby simulate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211273 - Printed tone control method and representative point determining apparatus: A printed tone control method for adjusting a printed color tone by comparing image data serving as a reference and image data obtained by reading an image from a print actually made by a printing machine. The method includes a representative point setting step for setting a representative point for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070211270 - Printer and print system: A printer for executing printing on the basis of tone data representing a tone of one of a plurality of colors of ink, includes an input unit that inputs first tone data for a color represented by N bits per pixel and second tone data for a color represented by... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070211271 - Process control strip and recording method: A process control strip, for the visual checking of an exposure process for a recording material, includes coarse signal elements having a size which is substantially constant in the event of process fluctuations, and fine signal elements having a size which changes in the event of process fluctuations. In known... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070211298 - Image processing method and apparatus: The generation of an N-dimension look-up table used (N≧2) in conversion processing of input image data includes acquiring a value of the input image data for every channel corresponding to a respective dimension of the N-dimension look-up table by analyzing the input image data to be processed, determining an input... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070211262 - Image forming apparatus: A draft size detecting function detects a size and a setting direction of a draft set in a scanner which reads an image of the draft, a display unit displays, in a selectable state, an icon corresponding to the draft setting direction detected by the draft size detecting function, and... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070211263 - Image forming apparatus: A first display area and a second display area are disposed in each setting screen concerning setting of photocopy processing, a draft graphical image and a finished graphical image are set in which present set contents are reflected every time the set contents are changed in response to user's operation,... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070211264 - Image forming apparatus: An operation device for use in a photocopier displays a draft setting key for setting a direction of an image in a draft in a basic screen displayed in a display unit which can display an icon selectable by an operation unit, further displays the draft setting key in a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070211286 - Compositing pages from page components: Sets of pixel data defining parts of rasterized portions of an image are received. At least one of the parts of one of the rasterized portions of the image overlaps another part of that portion of the image. The pixel data that defines the overlapping part includes mask data that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070211280 - Method and apparatus for assigning candidate processing nodes in a stream-oriented computer system: A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070211284 - Method and apparatus for controlling printing of electronic applications: Method and apparatus for controlling printable content from textual and graphical sources, and reducing consumable print medium such as toner, ink, and paper. The method and apparatus include a print medium formatting program for configuring data identification options and print options via at least one graphical user interface (GUI) generated... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070211285 - Print engine having authentication device for disabling memory writing upon power drop: A print engine comprising at least one print controller and at least one associated authentication device is provided. Each authentication device having a processor, a memory that the processor can access, a memory access unit for controlling accesses to the memory, an input for receiving power for the authentication device... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211279 - System and method for notification of multi-function peripheral receive job: Methods, systems, and software for notification of multi-function peripheral (MFP) receive jobs are disclosed. A system provides a MFP configured to store at least one remote communication identifier, to process a MFP job associated with the at least one remote communication identifier, and to transmit, in response to an event... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070211288 - Document management system, document disposal management system, document management method, and document disposal management method: A document management system manages a printed document with document management information. The document management system includes an electronic document generating unit, a time-information acquiring unit, a storage-information acquiring unit and a management-information storing unit. The electronic document generating unit generates an electronic document. The time-information acquiring unit acquires information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070211291 - Method of storing bit-pattern in plural printer cartridges: A method of storing a bit-pattern in each of a plurality of printer cartridges, each having a memory, of a printing system is provided, in which a first memory location is determined which is different than a first memory location in at least a plurality of the other printer cartridges,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211292 - Method of storing code segements in plural printer cartridges: A method of storing at least one functionally identical code segment in each of a plurality of printer cartridges, each having a memory, of a printing system is provided, in which a first memory location is determined which is different than a first memory location in at least a plurality... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211289 - Print program, information recording medium and print system: A method for making a computer device function as a print data generation module and a relevant information generation module is described. The method may be stored on computer-readable medium. The print data generation module creates print data based on target data to be stored on a storage unit. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070211290 - Printer control apparatus and method of controlling the same, printer and method of controlling the same, reader and method of controlling the same, and image forming system: There is provided a printer control apparatus which can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enable efficient transfer of image data from the reader to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070211293 - Document management system, method and program therefor: To provide a technology that can contribute to improvements in convenience in document management by enabling management in units of component elements of contents of documents to be managed. The system is provided with: an extraction unit that extracts component elements forming contents of a document to be managed from... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070211297 - Information processing apparatus, print data generating method, print control program, and computer-readable recording medium: When an Offset or rotation sort output is designated as an output style, whether document data of one copy is printed to one paper (physical sheet) and outputted or not is discriminated. When it is printed to one paper, it is intended to enable the print such that the Offset... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211268 - Method of creating 4x4 luts using a source and destination icc profile: A 4×4 LUT comprises a K to K LUT merged with a CMYK to CMYK LUT with values ranging from [0, 0, 0, 0] to [0, 0, 0, 255], said 4×4 LUT written to a known file format. A method for creating 4×4 look up tables (LUTs) uses the source... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070211275 - Methods and apparatus for colorimetrically characterizing color deviation in color imaging devices: Methods and apparatus are provided that print a set of similar color patches using a color output device, determine colorimetric values for each color patch, calculate a standard deviation value for each of the calorimetric values, and calculate a numerical value that is a function of the standard deviation values... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070211266 - System and method for extracting grayscale data in accordance with a prescribed tolerance function: In accordance with the present invention, a system and method are described for producing pure gray tones on a multi-color document output device that includes a system for operating on device independent color data having multiple color components, which color data corresponds to one or more associated electronic documents. The... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070211267 - System and method for extracting grayscale data within a prescribed tolerance: In accordance with the present invention, a system and method are described for producing pure gray tones on a multi-color document output device that includes a system for operating on device independent color data having at least three color components, which color data corresponds to one or more associated electronic... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070211300 - Cover of an office machine: A cover of an office machine utilized for pressing a document on a glass plate is provided. The cover has a platform, a film, and a handle. The platform has a compressible layer for pressing the document on the glass plate. The film is located on a lower surface of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070211299 - Image communication portable terminal and method for carrying out image communication using the same: Disclosed are an image communication portable terminal and a method for carrying out an image communication using an image communication portable terminal. The image communication portable terminal includes a memory for storing a large amount of image and sound data which are combined with video and audio data to be... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070211301 - Image transmitting apparatus, method of controlling image transmitting apparatus, and computer program product: An image transmitting apparatus receives a first reading condition relating to an image from an external apparatus via a network. The image transmitting apparatus compares the first reading condition with a pre-set second reading condition, if the two conditions are different, decides one of the first reading condition and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070211302 - Method for synchronously implementing media switch in gateways used for fax over ip network: A method for synchronously implementing media switch in gateways used for IP FAX is disclosed. The method comprises sending a message for notification of fax event from a media gateway which firstly detects a fax event to the other media gateway of the fax event; implementing a media switch in... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070211303 - Multi-function device for performing at least telephone communication and facsimile functions: A multi-function device for performing, at least, telephone communication and facsimile functions, comprising: a main unit, a wireless telephone, and a charger for charging a battery of the wireless telephone. The charger can be fixed to the main unit and can be separated from the main unit. When the charger... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070211304 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus comprising: an image obtaining member which obtains an original image and outputs original image data of the original image; a first merging member which merges unique additional image data to the original image data so as to form merged image data in a page... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070211305 - Image forming apparatus and data management apparatus: There is described an image forming apparatus and a data management device, which make it possible to suppress the injustice use of the outputted recording medium, without employing the special paper sheet onto which the ID is attached in advance. The image forming apparatus for outputting an image, connected with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211306 - Image forming apparatus and double-sided image forming method: An image forming apparatus including: an image forming section which has a writing head, each head having a plurality of writing elements arranged in a line, and forms images on both sides of a paper sheet; and an image processing section which sends image data to each of the writing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211307 - Image processing apparatus and method for reducing noise in image signal: An image signal processing apparatus to remove noise included in an image signal includes a GR-GB correction unit, a threshold calculation unit, and a preprocessing and interpolation unit. The GR-GB correction unit detects a first area in response to the difference between a correction threshold and the absolute value of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070211310 - Scanner control system and scanner driver program: A scanner control system including: a first communication interface which communicates with a first device group including a scanner; a second communication interface which communicates with a second device group including a scanner, the second communication interface being different in specifications from the first communication interface; a storage device which... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070211309 - Automatic static image capturing device and method: A method and a device for automatic capturing of a static image. The automatic static image-capturing device is a scanner. The method includes the following steps. Any changes on a scanning platform are monitored. If a change in the static image on the scanning platform is detected, the change is... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070211308 - Image sensor optimization: A method and apparatus are described for image sensor optimization. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises capturing an image with an image sensor, the image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels; obtaining an output relating to the image from a first pixel of the plurality of... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070211311 - Cvt document scanner contamination diagnostic routine: In a document handling system for moving documents for imaging over a transparent platen that is subject to contamination, and having a shared repositionable document illumination system that is normally positioned in a park position substantially spaced from this moving documents imaging platen area, wherein in response to lifting the... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070211312 - Image forming apparatus: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image forming apparatus having an automatic document carrier device including a plurality of sensors arranged in a path where source documents to be read are carried; a plurality of motors configured to detect the positions of the source documents by these... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070211313 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus enabling a user to flexibly select one of plural reading modes, for example, for continuously reading two-sided images of stacked document sheets or reading pages of a book or a large document exceeding a platen. In a first reading mode, a reading unit scans a document... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070211314 - Electronic paper system, log management apparatus, information processing apparatus, computer readable medium, method of image processing and computer data signal: An electronic paper system that uses an electronic paper comprising a display section displaying an image in a no-power supply state, which includes: a retention unit that stores a display image in association with at least one of the document data and the electronic paper, the display image being generated... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070211315 - Apparatus, method, and program product for color correction: A color correction apparatus includes a correction unit to correct a color of an input pixel having a color included in a specified region of a color space, a correction range selector to select a range with a center in a grayscale to the specified region. With this color correction... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070211316 - Image processing device with a csa accumulator for improving image quality and related method: An image processing device includes a CSA accumulator, a first register, a CPA adder and a central processing unit. The CSA accumulator includes a first input for receiving a processing signal and a second input for receiving a previous result of the CSA accumulator. The first register includes an input... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070206209 - Pos network including printing and highlighting: The invention provides for optional printing at a pont of sale (POS). The invention provides a system and computer implemented method for printing information at a POS relating to a purchase transaction at the POS, comprising printing a second alternative instead of a default print, or printing both a default... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20070206214 - Image formation instruction apparatus, image formation instruction program, image formation instruction method, image formation server, image formation server program, processing method for image formation server, image formation control apparatus, progra: User identification information which is acquired from an originating portable terminal and identifies the originating portable terminal and a destination portable terminal after a wireless communication session is carried out between these portable terminals is registered in a print job database in correlation with print image data to be subjected... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070206218 - Image forming device and host terminal connected to the image forming device: In an image forming device, an identification data input unit receives a first user-identification data which identifies a user of the image forming device and is inputted by the user. A data comparison unit detects whether the first user-identification data matches with a second user-identification data received from a host... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070206219 - Information processing apparatus, computer program product, and computer-readable storage medium: A printer-information control section outputs printer information of printers found by a search to a UI control section. The UI control section displays a li