Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 10/07

20070247643 - Display control apparatus, image processing apparatus, and display control method: A display controller for controlling display of a plurality of objects to be displayed, comprises: an importance information acquisition section 203 that acquires information concerning the importance levels in the screen display which are associated with respective objects to be displayed; and a control section 206 that displays objects to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070247642 - Display control device, image processing apparatus and display control method: A display control device is provided, which can display, on a screen, a plurality of display objects related to a process object to undergo a predetermined process. The device comprises: an object-information acquisition unit that acquires information for identifying the process object; an extraction unit that extracts, from the display... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070247641 - Display control device, image processing device and display control method: A display control device is provided, which comprises: a selection information acquisition unit 201 that acquires selection information representing which process mode has been selected from a plurality of process modes in which different processes are performed; and a control unit 202 that displays display objects corresponding to set items... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070247651 - Image forming system capable of quickly determining whether to convey succeeding recording medium toward recording head: A data processor controls an image-forming device as the control target. The image-forming device is capable of recording images on a recording medium conveyed one sheet at a time from a feeding unit based on image data transmitted from the data processor. The data processor controls the image-forming device to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070247653 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus communicatable with other image processing apparatus, determines whether the other image processing apparatus has image data corresponding to application data and whether the image data is processible itself. If the apparatus determines the other apparatus has the image data and the data is processible itself, the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070247652 - Image processing apparatus that can maintain security: When an image of a read out document is acquired, an MFP obtains information of a read out state of the image (document orientation or the like) or a copy setting information (magnification and the like), qualified as the copy permissive condition embedded in the image. Copying is permitted only... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070247661 - Image processing apparatus, function offering method and computer program product: An image forming apparatus includes a user set data storage portion for storing user set data indicating contents of processing that a user lets the image forming apparatus perform, the user using the image forming apparatus primarily, a new apparatus detection portion for detecting a new image forming apparatus that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070247663 - Image saving method and computer-readable medium thereof: An image saving method and a computer-readable medium thereof. First, an image with a first image resolution is saved to a memory unit. Next, a parameter corresponding to the image is requested to be inputted. Then, a saving status of the memory unit is judged. Finally, when the saving status... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070247664 - Print system: A print system in which one or more printers are connected to a print server through a network is disclosed, including: a part acquiring printer information indicating a state of the printer from each of the one or more printers at an appropriate timing; a part generating and distributing metadata... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247666 - Device, system and method for creation and dissemination of customized postcards: The device includes computer hardware and software that allows a user to create and disseminate a customized postcard, in either physical or electronic form. The user uses the device to select various design elements, which may include a template, a photograph/image taken with the user's digital camera and transmitted to... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20070247665 - Interactive paper system: A printer, scanner device and methods for using same are described herein. A printer device may include a dedicated input that, when actuated, generates and sends a request to a computer for known data or a predetermined print job, e.g., schedule information from a personal information management (PIM) application. A... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070247644 - Image processing system: The image processing system of the present invention comprises: a built-in type memory in which the number of bits per address is L×M×N bits or more, where L is an integer of 1 or larger, M is an integer of 2 or larger, and N is an integer of 2... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247646 - Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof: When a folder icon is dropped on a scanner icon, a scan application determines a reference folder. The scan application searches the reference folder and, if necessary, a folder in an upper hierarchical layer for a read control information file. In accordance with the contents of the read control information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247649 - Ink jet printing apparatus and image processing method: An ink jet printing apparatus that improves the visibility of a character and its background in different colors or of outline characters is provided. Specifically, outline character bold data is inverted and each of the pixels in the data is expanded to adjacent eight pixels. Then, the expanded outline character... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247654 - Managing the processing of print data at printing devices based upon available consumable resources: An approach is provided for managing the processing of print data at a printing device based upon available consumable resources. A printing device includes a print process configured to determine consumable resources that are currently available at the printing device. The print process is further configured to determine which print... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070247660 - Approach for implementing locked printing with remote unlock on printing devices: An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with remote unlock. The printing device includes a locked print process that is configured to examine print data received by the printing device and determine whether locked printing is to be used for the print data. Print data... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070247656 - Document production workflow cost estimation system: Methods are disclosed that include receiving information regarding a print order, generating a plurality of possible workflows to complete the print order, determining what materials and resources will be required to complete the print order, estimating a cost for completing the print order for each workflow including estimating costs for... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070247655 - Dynamic printer system: A printer, scanner device and methods for using same are described herein. A printer device may include a dedicated input that, when actuated, generates and sends a request to a computer for known data or a predetermined print job, e.g., schedule information from a personal information management (PIM) application. A... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070247657 - Print job management system: A method is provided for managing the scheduling of a plurality of print jobs for a print shop. The method includes obtaining a print job input stream including the plurality of print jobs. Each of the plurality of print jobs is scheduled for processing unless at least one of the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070247659 - Print job management system: A method is provided for managing the scheduling of a plurality of print jobs for a print shop. The method includes obtaining a print job input stream including the plurality of print jobs. Each of the plurality of print jobs is scheduled for processing unless at least one of the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070247658 - Systems and methods for dynamically re-configuring imager and caching modules to optimize processing performance: Systems and methods for generating a dynamic re-configuration with a DFE imager and caching modules to optimize RIP performance by analyzing pages within the job that collect page with job heuristics and statistics. Enabling the functionality to assess the information, thereby re-configuring a digital printer's imager and caching module dynamically... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070247662 - Processing image data for printing: An image processing apparatus for printing includes an analysis unit, a correction unit, a print-data generating unit, and a storage unit. When first analysis data corresponding to target image data has been generated, the analysis unit does not perform analysis processing on the target image data. When first analysis data... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070247667 - Data generating device capable of appending different watermarks to corresponding pages: A computer is provided with an application and a printer driver. A user of the computer generates image data using the application. When the image data is for a plurality of pages, the user selects a desired watermark for each of the plurality of pages. The printer driver converts the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070247645 - Method for automatically editing video sequences and camera for implementing the method: A method for automatically editing video sequences to produce lenticular grid hardcopies, includes the selection of a first set of images in a shot image sequence; the assignment to each image of the image set of an individual quality factor as a function of image characteristics; the selection of at... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070247647 - 3d lut techniques for color correcting images: The disclosed implementations relate generally to three-dimensional look-up table (3D LUT) techniques for color correcting digital images. In some implementations, a method of correcting images includes: receiving a request to correct a digital image; and in response to the request, correcting at least a portion of the digital image using... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070247650 - Adjustment for output image of image data: If a memory card MC is inserted in a slot 34, a control circuit 30 of a color printer 20 acquires image output control information GI from the memory card MC and analyzes this information. A CPU 31 modifies a brightness standard value Bstd corresponding to a brightness parameter by... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070247648 - Method for tetrahedral interpolation computations using data-level parallelism: A system and method for tetrahedral interpolation computations using data-level parallelism that takes advantage of data-level parallelism in media processors. If the tetrahedron points in a 3D lookup table are packed together in a memory, the interpolation computation can be implemented without extra instructions to unpack them. An algebraic manipulation... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070247668 - Printed fourier filtering in optical inspection tools: A spatial mask printer may be used in conjunction with an optical inspection tool. The tool can be used to obtain a Fourier image of an inspected object, and a filter mask image can be designed to block certain aspects of the object's image in the Fourier plane corresponding to... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070247669 - Fax server, method for managing fax servers, and computer program product: An image forming device having a function to provide a fax server service based on requests from clients in a segment is provided with a high function server detection portion for detecting a high function fax server having a higher communication function than the image forming device itself and having... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070247670 - Facsimile apparatus, facsimile communication method, and facsimile communication system: A facsimile apparatus 1 is provided, which can access a latest database 6a associating facsimile numbers and destination names. The apparatus includes a storage unit 20 for storing a destination table 12a in which button information such as one-touch dial buttons, facsimile numbers, and destination names are associated, an input... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070247671 - Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing therein control program for image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus which can execute an image process which is desired by a client while minimizing a connection time and an interactive communication between the client and the image processing apparatus is provided. To accomplish the above object, according to the invention, there is provided an image processing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247672 - One-dimensional lens shading correction: In one embodiment, a method for correcting image data for a captured image for lens shading artifacts is provided. The method comprises determining a plurality of one dimensional correction curves that can be applied to the image data to correct for lens shading artifacts therein; and correcting the image data... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20070247673 - Dynamic scanner system: A printer, scanner device and methods for using same are described herein. A printer device may include a dedicated input that, when actuated, generates and sends a request to a computer for known data or a predetermined print job, e.g., schedule information from a personal information management (PIM) application. A... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070247674 - Scanning methods for scanners: A scanning method for a scanner is provided. The scanner comprises a first charge coupled device (CCD) and a second CCD. First, the scanner is set to scan at a first resolution. A first pixel matrix with the first resolution is obtained by the first CCD, and a second pixel... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070247675 - Image forming apparatus and sheet medium processing apparatus: A sheet medium processing apparatus includes a guiding passage connected to a passage branch section which can branch a part of a medium passage directed to a discharge tray section positioned on an image forming apparatus side when a sheet medium is output from the image forming apparatus, and a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070247676 - Paper pressing device for a scanning apparatus: A paper pressing device for a scanning apparatus is provided, which include a scanning module and a paper track corresponding to the scanning module, wherein the paper track is provided for a paper sheet passing through. The paper pressing device includes a film and a pressing block. The film is... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070247677 - Document illuminator with parabolic optical element: An apparatus for illuminating a document comprises an optical element defining an entry surface and an exit surface opposite the entry surface. A first substantially parabolic surface and a second substantially parabolic surface are defined between the entry surface and the exit surface.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070247678 - Color separation method and image processing device: A dark and light color separation of four fundamental colors into color materials containing light ink is realized at high speeds. A cross patch where a discrete color material amount with regard to two kinds of color materials having a different density is distributed in a cross pattern is printed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247679 - Workflows for color correcting images: The disclosed implementations relate generally to improved workflows for color correcting digital images. In some implementations, a method of correcting images includes: presenting a user interface on a display device, the user interface including a display area; presenting a digital image in the display area; overlaying a correction interface on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070247680 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A gradation pattern is printed, the gradation pattern is corrected with a gamma correction table TO based on a result in which the printed gradation pattern is read, the corrected gradation pattern is printed on a photosensitive drum or the like, and a measured density of the printed gradation pattern... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070247681 - Method for correcting scanner non-uniformity: A method for identifying and correcting for spatial variation within scanning bars includes performing diagnostic scans of at least one sheet, in which a sheet(s) is scanned in various orientations and translations, with each of the orientations identified. The diagnostic scans are registered with one of the individual diagnostic scans... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070247682 - Device to edit documents for printout and method thereof: A device and method of editing documents created in different application programs and stored in a storage unit of a printer to create a new document according to a minimum unit.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070242299 - Document management apparatus, document management method and document management program: A document management apparatus 101 that manages saving of an original electronic document and an additional electronic document to which additional information is added to the original electronic document includes an original registration unit 10131 that acquires the additional electronic document inputted by a user, and a saving format determination... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070242300 - Electronic device, and external device control method using said electronic device: The present invention realizes lower power consumption of an entire system in a case in which a battery operated electronic device such as an image pickup apparatus is used as a USB host machine. When a battery powered electronic device is connected via a cable to an external device that... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070242301 - Printing apparatus: A multifunction apparatus performs a printing process when the apparatus succeeds in user authentication upon receiving a print request from a PC. The multifunction apparatus calculates an expected print start time based on past usage data thereof, that is, an elapsed time required in the past from the print request... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070242307 - Control method for a print media processing apparatus, and a print media processing apparatus: A control method for a print media processing apparatus that prints on a print medium based on print data supplied from a host computer, comprising converting the print data supplied from the host computer to the print media processing apparatus before a print command is asserted to print image data... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070242304 - Image processing apparatus with multiple storage devices, and image data storing method executed by image processing apparatus: To reduce power consumption, an MFP includes first to third HDDs of different storage capacities to store data, a writing portion to write received data to one of the first to third HDDs, a mode switching portion to change operating modes including the normal, stand-by, and sleep operating modes, each... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070242306 - Image storage system and image forming system: A printing device is directly connected to a digital still camera via a USB and connected to a host PC over the Ethernet. Image data captured by the digital still camera is stored in a memory card and is directly transferred to the printing device using a specific communication format... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242305 - Writing information processing apparatus, writing information processing method and computer readable medium storing program for implementing writing information processing: A writing information processing apparatus includes a writing obtaining unit that obtains writing information that is an electrified information of a writing on a medium that a document image is printed on, a document creating unit that creates a second electronic document from a first electronic document in accordance with... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070242282 - Image forming apparatus for detecting index data of document data, and control method and program product for the same: An image forming apparatus is disclosed, in which the index data of a document data is detected, and based on the particular index data, the contents of each index are displayed. Based on this display, an index is selected and the portion of the document data corresponding to the selected... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070242283 - Printing apparatus and control method of the same: In a printing apparatus that stores a sheet conveying distance correction value every sheet kind, the sheet conveying distance correction correcting a sheet conveying distance of a sheet to be printed; detects the sheet kind to be printed; prints a test chart for measuring the sheet conveying distance; determines the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242285 - Method and system for printing full images using device: A method and system for printing full images using a device. The method includes determining print target information according to transmission conditions existing between the device and the image forming device in response to a request sent from the device to the image forming device; transmitting the determined print target... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070242286 - Method and system for printing personal management information: A method and system for printing personal management information is provided with creating extensible hyper text markup language (XHTML)-data of the personal management information using an XHTML-template defining a layout for printing the personal management information and transmitting the created XHTML-data to an image forming device, and analyzing the transmitted... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070242291 - Color adjustment apparatus, color adjustment method, color-conversion-parameter generating apparatus, color conversion parameter generation method, color converting apparatus, color conversion method, computer readable medium and data signal: A color adjustment apparatus includes a pair generating section, a vector generating section, a weight calculating section, a synthesized-vector generating section and a color converting section. The pair generating section generates pairs of colors in a first color gamut and corresponding colors in a second color gamut. One of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070242297 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided that can accurately and rapidly perform color/monochrome judgment for print image data. In the image forming apparatus, a command analyzing unit interprets externally received PDL data, and a first color/monochrome judging unit performs the color/monochrome judgment based on an attribute of an image object.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070242290 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes an input section, and a screen processing section. The input section inputs image information. The screen processing section performs screen processing on the input image information with a threshold matrix. A plurality of threshold values are arranged in the threshold matrix so that if the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070242294 - Image processing device, image processing method, image forming apparatus, image processing program, and storage medium: The present invention includes a plurality of color correction tables respectively corresponding to a plurality of groups into which a page-background color is sorted. It is determined which group a page-background color of image data in a block that belongs to a page-background region belongs to. Consequently, color correction processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242309 - Method and apparatus for generating xhtml data: A method of generating extensible hypertext markup language (XHTML) data includes setting printing-related options in relation to one or more image data items desired to be printed; generating XHTML extension data to be inserted into XHTML basic data prepared in advance according to the set printing-related options; and generating XHTML... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070242310 - Method and apparatus to generate xhtml-print contents: A method and apparatus to generate XHTML data in a terminal, the method and apparatus including setting printing-related parameters to determine contents to be printed from among the contents of one or more standard data items desired to be printed, generating XHTML extension data that can be inserted into XHTML... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070242298 - System and method for supporting printer features in an ipds printing environment: A system and method are provided for supporting printer-based features in an IPDS printing environment. The system and method enable the printer to assign logical page identifiers to IPDS pages and track them internally. The printer only reports status to the host computer for pages flagged as host generated pages.... Agent: George Likourezos, Esq. Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070242303 - Apparatus and methods for distributing print jobs: Apparatus and methods for distributing print jobs. A print job is generated at an application node of a network, and has associated therewith print parameters. The print job is routed to a distribution node on the network. The parameters are then parsed from the generated print job and the print... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070242302 - Using a resource context to access resources and source data for a transform: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using a resource context to access resources and source data for a transform. A transform receives a request to transform source data and calls a resource context. The resource context initializes a resource object for the transform and acquires associations... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070242308 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus for printing a heat shrinkable flattened plastics tubing or other elongate printable medium, the apparatus comprising: means for feeding at least one printable medium over a printer head; and a control means to control the sequence of printing operations on the medium, wherein the apparatus further comprises... Agent: Bradley N. Ruben, PC

20070242284 - Photo album printing system and method: A photo album is edited and printed distributed over a client server system. A server system stores low quality and high quality digital representations of photographs. The server system sends low quality digital representations to a client computer remote from the server system in association with respective identifiers of the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070242287 - Marking engine selection: A multi-functional multi-engine print platform engines schedules and processes job in order to minimize visibility of image defects. The print platform includes at least two marking engines that process jobs, a marking engine analyzer that determines image quality defects of the at least two marking engines, and a scheduler that... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070242292 - Image generating apparatus and image generating program product: An image is generated by performing area coverage modulation to express a halftone color according to a gross area of dots displayed in a pixel of the image. The image is generated in such a manner that the halftone color is expressed with a selected one of dither patterns corresponding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242293 - Method for creating a color transform relating color reflectances produced under reference and target operating conditions and data structure incorporating the same: A printer is operated under a first set of conditions to create a first set of M number of samples and under a target set of conditions to create a second set of K samples. Each sample is produced using the same colorant(s). The actual spectral reflectance for each sample... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070242296 - Method for producing a table of predicted reflectances under target operating conditions and data structure and pringting system incorporating the table: A printer is operated under a first set of conditions to create a first set of M number of samples and under a target set of conditions to create a second set of K samples. Each sample is produced using the same colorant(s). The actual spectral reflectance for each sample... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070242295 - Method for selecting a sample set useful in relating color reflectances producible under reference and target operating conditions and the sample set produced thereby: A transform useful for predicting a reflectance value producible by a printer while operating under a predetermined target set of operating conditions using reflectance values produced by the printer while operating under a predetermined reference set of operating conditions is generated using an efficient sample set that contains the minimal... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070242289 - System and method to generate multiprimary signals: System and method for generating multiprimary signals for use in display devices. A preferred embodiment comprises converting a color signal into an intermediate color space representation of the color signal, converting one of a plurality of multiprimary signals that is a representation of the color signal into an intermediate color... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070242288 - System for processing and classifying image data using halftone noise energy distribution: A method and system is provided for processing scanned data representative of a document image for classifying portions of the data into contone, low frequency halftone or high frequency halftone regions. The method comprises identifying an image data value of an original pixel within a portion of a document image.... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070242311 - Image processing method for execution externally and internally to a printer: A method for image processing data representing a page to be printed includes the step of respectively receiving, in a data processing apparatus, external to a printer, data representing a bi-level black layer and a contone layer of a page to be printed. In the data processing apparatus, a halftoning... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242312 - Image forming apparatus capable of using security code for communication: On receiving Fax data, an image forming apparatus determines whether or not a security code is superimposed on the Fax image and, if it is superimposed, stores the content of the security code. The Fax image data is stored in a memory or a hard disk drive. The image forming... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070242313 - Digital camera and controlling method therefor: In a digital camera performing wireless communication, the communication speed of the wireless communication is changed according to the state of the wireless communication, and a clock frequency associated with producing packet data according to the changed communication speed is also changed.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242314 - Image signal processing device and television receiver using the same: There is provided an image signal processing device including: a compositing unit that masks a peripheral portion of an image by superimposing a mask signal on an image signal in under-scan where an entire image signal is set to and displayed on a matrix display.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070242317 - Alignment unit and image recording apparatus using same: Disclosed is an image recording apparatus configured with: a first camera, mounted via a movement adjusting mechanism on one face side portion of a base member of an alignment unit for capturing a first mark provided on a recording medium; and a second camera, mounted via a movement adjusting mechanism... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070242315 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a light source for which intervals between spots formed on the photosensitive member by respective beams emitted from a plurality of light-emitting portions are narrower than a predetermined resolution, and a rotating polygonal mirror having a plurality of mirror plane each of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070242316 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, image scanning apparatus, and control method and program for image processing system: To store image data scanned by an image scanning unit in a way that corresponds to each page group, an image processing system scans an original and generates image data, and stores the image data in a storage unit separately from image data previously stored in the storage unit if... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242319 - Document reading apparatus and image processing method: A document table is provided with a first chart portion and a second chart portion. In each of the first chart portion and the second chart portion, a reference chart is formed. The first chart portion is disposed at an upstream chart position, and the second chart portion is disposed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070242318 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner motor and a rotary polygonal mirror which is driven by the scanner motor to rotate, and reflects a modulated beam emitted from a light source by a plurality of reflection surfaces. The image forming apparatus includes a rotation and carrier unit which, while... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070242320 - Imaging system and image recording medium as well as image processor, image processing program and recording medium thereof: The invention provides an imaging system for recording digitalized signals from an imaging device comprising a lens system (100) to CCD (103) in a recording medium at a processed image output block (119). The imaging system comprises a noise characteristics generation means (noise estimation block 112) for generating characteristics of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070236717 - Printer, print data output device, method, computer readable medium, and computer data signal: A printer includes a file input section that receives an input PDF file that holds change history; a change history extraction section that extracts the change history from the input PDF file; and a print processing section that prints the extracted change history.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070236720 - Image forming apparatus suitable for recycling sheets of paper with images formed thereon, and method and program product for adding recycling information: To facilitate sorting sheets of paper for recycling, a MFP includes an image data accepting portion to accept image data output from an image reader, a recycling information determining portion to determine recycling information corresponding to the image data, and an image forming portion to form an image of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070236721 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus performs a processing of checking periodically whether data addressed to the image processing apparatus exist in a server apparatus while suppressing power consumption as much as possible. The NIC communicates with the server apparatus to check whether a storage unit of the server apparatus stores object... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070236729 - Image organizing device and method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image organizing program: An organizing condition for organizing a plurality of inputted images based on at least one of a content of each inputted image and an associated attribute of each inputted image is stored for each user. When a plurality of newly inputted images are organized, the stored organizing condition associated with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236728 - Information processing apparatus for setting process condition for allowing any of plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to network to form image, image formation condition setting method, and image formation condition setting program stored on: In order to facilitate an input of a process condition for allowing any of a plurality of image forming apparatuses to form an image, a PC communicative to a plurality of MFPs connected via a network obtains function information defining a function held by each of a plurality of MFPs,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070236724 - Print job management system: A system for managing the size of a print job to be processed in a print shop is provided. The print shop includes a plurality of autonomous cells and the job size management system includes a scheduling tool for generating a list including a plurality of jobs. A processor is... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070236731 - Printer device, server device and method for preparing printed matter: A printer device can acquire data for printing pertinent to a file recorded on a recording medium and printing so acquired data as necessary. Printer device 10 includes readout unit 20, connection unit 16 connecting the printer device to server device on Internet, and downloading unit. Readout unit 20 reads... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236727 - Transport medium selection to optimize device operation: Selective transport medium selection is provided. A first device and a second device exchange descriptions. The descriptions identify available services on each device and all available transport mediums for each service. At least one of the available services is chosen and one of the available transport mediums is selected to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070236734 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus executes the processing of updating control information kept in the controlling units included in it without suspending an on-going processing and delaying the execution of a new processing request with less power consumption. When the controlling units are in a sleep mode or in non-energized state,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236709 - Image processing apparatus for generating mark-sense sheet and method of the image processing apparatus: An image scanning unit scans a mark-sense sheet to read editing information for specifying edit modes for editing image data to be output as one page of print data. On the basis of the read editing information, print data is generated from the image data. The editing information is read... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070236710 - Information processing apparatus and processing method thereof: In an information processing apparatus that uses a stamp function to register and edit a stamp, the stamp function is used to set a variable character string or image as variable stamp information. When a document is printed in a printer, print data is generated by affixing the preset variable... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070236714 - Data processing apparatus and method of expanding dot arrangement patterns: In a binarization process employing dot arrangement patterns, the deviation of formed dots is prevented from occurring. Specifically, the arrangements of the dot arrangement patterns of each of four planes, which correspond to the groups of the four species of dot arrangement patterns of one certain level of five-valued data,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236713 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image output apparatus, and image processing system: The present invention is provided with a storage section that holds characteristic data, a predicted output value calculating section that calculates predicted PCS values (XP, YP, ZP) in a predetermined designated color space, an error calculating section that calculates an error from the difference between the PCS values (X, Y,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236738 - Image processing device, image processing method, storage medium for storing program and data signal: An image processing device includes: a blank profile storing unit that stores data of a plurality of blank profiles; a threshold storing unit that stores a threshold matrix; a blank profile adding unit that generates blank added image data; a blank added binarization unit that binarizes the plurality of pixels... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070236745 - Data processor, data processing method and program: Provided are a data processing method and a data processor for ink jet printing, which are capable of achieving uniform and high-quality images while stabilizing density and color development in each of pixels. To this end, a mask pattern for setting permission and non-permission to print dots in each area... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236748 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus that enables to embed a secure pattern code in an output image with an inexpensive configuration. An image reader has a color reference plate and reads image data of an original. An image forming apparatus forms an image on an image carrier based on the image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070236718 - Apparatus and method for managing a printed document and apparatus for managing information: An apparatus for managing a printed document includes a storage medium capable of reversibly storing and erasing information, a printing/erasure device for executing printing to the storage medium and erasing a printed record, a document management server for managing information and security of the information, a write device for adding... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070236716 - Concurrent ipds and non-ipds print processing: Concurrent IPDS and non-IPDS print processing is provided. Because an IPDS print session may not usually be interrupted, non-IPDS print data is received through a separate, non-IPDS channel in the printer control unit. The non-IPDS data is rasterized (“ripped”) using spare processing cycles and stored in a rip spool. At... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070236719 - Presence management proxying methods and devices: A network comprises agents which act as proxies on behalf of devices, such as wireless game devices, phones and personal digital assistants. Each agent collects information concerning a “presence status” of a device. An agent determines whether to forward messages on to a device depending on the collected presence status... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC Attn: John Curtin

20070236722 - Recording medium processing device, printing method, and computer program: A recording medium processing device includes a printing section capable of printing visible information on a non-recording side of a recording medium, a data processing section for retrieving print data in which one recording medium and visible information printed and/or to be printed on the non-recording side of the recording... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070236723 - Determining a restart point or reprint range for reprinting a print job: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for determining the restart point for reprinting of a print job, such as for continuous forms printers. A method of the invention includes a step of processing the print job to identify logical pages in the print job. Another step includes mapping... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070236730 - Display screen controlling apparatus, an electronic apparatus, a display screen controlling method, and a screen displaying method: A display screen controlling apparatus, an electronic apparatus, a display screen controlling method, and a screen displaying method are disclosed. The display screen controlling apparatus controls display of a screen on a console panel of an electronic apparatus connected through a network, the display screen controlling apparatus including: a determining... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070236732 - Methods and apparatus for compositing facsimile transmissions to electronic storage destinations: A method for a computer system includes receiving a facsimile including a digitized transmission page including an optical representation of the electronic destination address encoded in a facsimile format, determining the electronic destination address from the optical representation of the electronic destination address, combining the transmission page with a graphics... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070236726 - Print enhancement method and system: A method, computer program product, and printing system for monitoring an object to be printed at a defined location within a printed page. The object is printed at the defined location within the printed page. The object may then be printed at an alternate location within the printed page. The... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070236725 - Print job management method and apparatus with grouping function: An efficient and effective method for managing a plurality of print jobs is implemented on a print job management apparatus. The method includes receiving a plurality of print jobs, prescribing grouping criteria, grouping the plurality of print jobs into one or more of groups in accordance with the grouping criteria,... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070236733 - Systems and methods for display list management: Systems and methods consistent with some embodiments of the present invention provide data structures and methods for the automatic storing, manipulating and processing of a intermediate printable data generated from a first printable data are presented. In some embodiments, the first printable data may take the form of a PDL... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236735 - Print by object for hand printers: Methodology for preparing print jobs for hand printer. Pages are parsed into objects that are printed separately and thus reduce the requirement for navagational accuracy that is required for printing complete pages. When each object is printed, a target mark applied to the page allows the user to position the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070236706 - Image data processing apparatus and method: There is provided a decoding apparatus and a decoding method which are for using compressed data efficiently by making the resolutions of the individual components differ from one another. A decoding apparatus decodes compressed data that represents an image signal composed of a plurality of components as a compressed code... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070236707 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: To provide a technology that can contribute to realization of both of reproduction of a fine line in low density and reduction of noise at an outline portion of a patch area of a uniform density, which could not be consistent in the related art. A reducing unit for executing... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070236708 - Customer-configurable workflow system: Methods, systems, and apparatus for flexible, configurable job workflow processing. Features and aspects hereof provide for generating workflow models from configurable templates. The workflow models may include one or more phases, each comprising one or more processes, each process comprising one or more steps. The Phases, processes, and steps may... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070236712 - Image classification based on a mixture of elliptical color models: A method of classifying images based on elliptical color models is utilized in a number of applications. One or more color models are generated from a set of images with a region of interest. Then, sets of images are utilized for training. One set of images has regions of interest,... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070236711 - Image data conversion apparatus, image forming apparatus, image data conversion method and program: A technology that contributes to improvement of visibility of an image containing an achromatic color is provided. A color space information acquiring unit for acquiring color space information of a pixel contained in image data; a saturation determination unit for determining the saturation of the pixel whose color space information... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070236715 - Image pickup apparatus and its light source estimating apparatus: A light source estimating apparatus for estimating a type of a light source used when an input image was picked up, the apparatus including: distribution retaining means which retains a distribution, in a predetermined space, of pixel data picked up under a first or second light source; coordinate determining means... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236736 - Method of making a multilevel halftone screen: A three-dimensional halftone screen is provided that is suited for multilevel printing. The three-dimensional halftone screen includes a plurality of planes each corresponding to one or more input intensity levels of an input RIPped pixel. Within the planes are screen dots, each associated with one or more output exposure intensity... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070236737 - System and method for determination of gray for cie color conversion using chromaticity: 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

20070236740 - Bitmapped based trapping: A bitmap based trapping method that extends the dot pattern of a lighter color into a darker color is disclosed. For selected pixels with the darker color and not the lighter color, correspondingly located pixels in neighboring halftone cells are identified. If any of these correspondingly located pixels contains the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070236739 - Method and apparatus for image processing: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which can improve the output image quality by replacing characters and line drawings of intermediate density difficult to reproduce in view of the characteristics of a printer with a density, line width, or screen which can be reproduced stably.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070236741 - Multilevel halftone screen and sets thereof: A three-dimensional halftone screen is provided that is suited for multilevel printing. The three-dimensional halftone screen includes a plurality of planes each corresponding to one or more input intensity levels of an input RIPped pixel. Within the planes are screen dots, each associated with one or more output exposure intensity... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070236742 - Document processor and re-aggregator: A method and system for implementing a document processor and re-aggregator is described herein. A document is divided into one or more sections and formatting is removed. A condensed document is generated that includes one or more links to the one or more sections. The condensed document is transmitted to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070236743 - Generating threshold values in a dither matrix: Provided are a method, system, and program for generating threshold values in a dither matrix. A dither matrix of threshold values is generated. The threshold values in the dither matrix are filtered to generate a filtered dither matrix of filtered dither values by performing for dither values in the dither... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070236744 - Time-efficient generation of color look-up table: Color management which uses a color conversion LUT for transformation from an N-dimensional source device color space (N≧4) to a destination device color space, in which the color conversion LUT is constructed in a two-step process. In the first step, an intermediate color conversion LUT is constructed that converts colors... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236746 - Storing modification data for recreating modifications: A solution for managing a set of artifacts is provided in which modification data is captured while an artifact is modified and is stored. A proxy agent is generated for a framework agent that manages a set of modifications for an artifact. The proxy agent receives a modification message from,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070236747 - Systems and methods to measure banding print defects: A defect once around signal time period of a defect source inherent in a marking device is determined, the defect source having one or more banding frequencies. A reference scanline time delay, which is a time between a page sync signal and a writing of a reference scanline, is determined.... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070236749 - Methods and apparatus for authenticating facsimile transmissions to electronic storage destinations: A method for a computer system comprises receiving the facsimile or scanned image comprising a digitized instruction page and document, wherein the instruction page includes an optical representation of an electronic destination address, and wherein the document is encoded in a first format, determining the electronic destination address from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070236750 - Methods and apparatus for facilitating facsimile transmissions to electronic storage destinations: A method for sending an e-mail message comprises receiving a transmission instruction page, entering a plurality of text entries from a user on the transmission instruction page to form a filled-in transmission instruction page, wherein the plurality of text entries includes an e-mail address, and sending a facsimile to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070236751 - Image display device: An image display device for displaying a plurality of original images aligned in a specified sequence is provided. The image display device comprises a display unit, a display control module, and a user interface. The display control module control the display unit to display a display image of an original... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070236753 - Apparatus and method for image processing: An image processing apparatus can generate reduced images such as a preview image and a thumbnail image, which are used for performing check of an image and selection of an image, with a small-sized circuit. The generation of the reduced image is performed substantially simultaneously with image reading. The image... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070236752 - Image data processing circuit and image forming apparatus having the same: To provide an image data processing circuit with high productivity and a color image forming apparatus using the same by enabling sharing of the image data processing circuit between a four-rotation machine and a quadruple tandem machine, and reduction of registers for four colors arranged for the four-rotation machine to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070236754 - Image forming apparatus and resist adjusting method thereof: A system controller includes an optical sensor that is arranged on a carriage and detects a tip and an edge of recording paper. The system controller moves, according to a detection signal, the carriage in a main scanning direction and the recording paper in a sub-scanning direction at predetermined timing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236755 - Method of generating an image of a single document: A method of generating an image of a single document includes the steps of: transporting a plurality of documents across a scan position one by one; starting reading the documents at the scan position before a first document of the documents reaches the scan position and reading the documents continuously... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236756 - Image reading apparatus: To provide an image reading apparatus that can be reduced in size in the width direction by making common an ADF conveying reading area and an FBS reading area. An image reading apparatus includes a platen glass having a common reading area in which ADF scanning and FBS operation are... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070236757 - Rich color image processing method and apparatus: Techniques for rich color image processing are disclosed. The techniques include using an array of tunable optical filter elements to define pixels of an image. The tunable optical filter elements are tuned over a range of optical frequencies to control the color filtering of the individual pixels. Exemplary embodiments for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070236759 - Color processing method: To generate conversion data enabling to appropriately control a colorant amount, a profile for storing correspondence between device color data and a colorimetry value and control information for controlling a colorant amount is acquired, and inverse conversion data for converting device independent data into device dependent data is generated based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236758 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus 1, a LDLUT generation unit generates LDLUT data, and the obtained input value is stored as normalized data similarly to pixel data of an input image. A 3DLUT generation unit generates first 3DLUT data. Based on the LDLUT data and the first 3DLUT data and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070236760 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: an image forming apparatus including: an outputting section to output a chart which has a gradation pattern in a low-density area, the gradation pattern including patches, each of the patches having a density; a reading section to read-in the density of each of the patches; a calculating section to calculate,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070236761 - Gamut mapping with saturation intent: Techniques for use in gamut mapping processes are presented, including a method for mapping cusp points using hue wheels to obtain a source relative hue angle, and interpolating a lightness value at the source point hue. A maximum chroma value is determined at the source hue and the interpolated lightness,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236762 - Automatic trimming method, apparatus and program: Trimming is automatically performed on an image by inferring a person and a background in which the photographer of the image has interest. Facial images FP1 and FP2 are detected in a whole image P, and the vertical direction of the whole image P is judged based the facial images... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229857 - Printing apparatus, image data file processing apparatus, method of selecting image data file, method of assisting selection of image data file, and computer program: A printing apparatus that selects and prints images represented by candidate image data files to be output among a plurality of image data files includes an image data file acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image data files, each having image data regarding an image and additional data regarding... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229872 - Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and image forming system: An image forming system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a conversion information forming unit for creating object specifying information and object conversion information; a conversion information combining unit for creating combined print data; and a transmission unit for transmitting the... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070229871 - Image processing device, and control method of image processing device: An image processing device, having plural functions and executing at least any one of the plural functions based on a request from an application program, includes: a storage to store, from among plural setting information selectable to one of the plural functions, simultaneous use possible/impossible information being information concerning a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070229874 - Device managing system, information process apparatus, and control method thereof: A method of controlling an information processing apparatus, which counts process amounts in the device for each user, in a system for processing print jobs within a range of access limitation information. The information processing apparatus specifies a user who requests access authority information for a job, and a job... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229873 - Information processing apparatus and printing apparatus communicating with information processing apparatus: An apparatus identifies one of a plurality of users or one of a plurality of groups that has issued a printing request and enables selection of one of printing purposes associated with the identified user or the identified group. The apparatus acquires printing format restriction information corresponding to the selected... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229876 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method: An object of this invention is to implement a user-friendly proxy process in a network system in which a plurality of devices connect to each other. According to this invention, an information processing method for an information processing apparatus which manages a license for a job process and communicably connects... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229875 - Print system, image sensing apparatus, print apparatus, and control methods thereof: A print apparatus which prints image data on a recording sheet, comprises a first calculation unit adapted to calculate the number of printable sheets from a battery remaining amount of the print apparatus, a second calculation unit adapted to calculate the number of printable sheets from a recording sheet remaining... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229877 - Technology for dealing with errors in printing device: A printing device configured to print on the basis of a given print job includes an error detector configured to detect an error indicating the possibility that printing of the print job will not be completed under a printing condition that is set for the print job and a printing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229886 - Device-managing system, managing apparatus, information-processing apparatus, image-processing apparatus, and control method thereof: The managing apparatus (14) issues device-control information of the device to a user of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus (1) determines whether or not the device-control information has been received. If the device-control information has not been received, device-control information prepared in advance is obtained. If the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229885 - Image forming apparatus and information processing method: An object of the invention is to simplify the setting of a printing condition when printing an object displayed by a browser. The invention is an information processing method in an image forming apparatus capable of printing an object displayed by a browser that includes the steps of searching, if... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070229888 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: When rasterized text is pasted on a picture image included in a print image, image processing for a picture region is applied to the print image, thus deteriorating the image quality of a text region. Print data is input from the exterior, and objects included in the print data are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229891 - Location information management device, data output system, and program: A location information management device comprises an output device information receipt unit receiving output device identification information and output device location information, a terminal device information receipt unit receiving terminal device identification information and terminal device location information, and a correspondence setting unit which specifies a data output device having... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229887 - Managing system, image processing apparatus, managing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: This invention provides a managing system capable of achieving a low operational cost and high process efficiency of a system made up of a plurality of devices connected to each other via a network, an image processing apparatus, a managing apparatus, a control method therefore, and a program. To accomplish... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070229878 - Method for managing and executing print jobs by using sub-jobs: A method used in a print shop for managing a print job submitted by a customer is described. The print shop includes a plurality of printers connected to a server and a client computer. The server generates a main job ticket based on the customer-submitted print job, and generates a... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229879 - Print management method and apparatus with destination panel: A method for managing printers, implemented in a print job management apparatus, is provided. The method includes displaying a list of the printers and a list of one or more virtual printing devices on a display monitor, each virtual printing device being defined by designating one or more of the... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229883 - Print shop management method and apparatus for printing documents using a plurality of devices: A method is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of printers are connected to and managed by a server. The server receives a print job including a job ticket and source document to be printed, and generates two or more sub-jobs each including a sub-job... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229897 - Duplicate setting prevention system for image processing apparatus: A duplicate setting prevention system for an image processing apparatus includes a setting file, a set of history information, a determination unit, a setting unit, a prohibiting unit, and a history information recording unit. The setting file is stored in a removable memory removably mounted on an image processing apparatus... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229898 - Image forming apparatus: The objective of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus that can print material by which specific information is not revealed without prohibiting printing, even where the printing data contains information that causes problems by printing specific information. By detecting information to be restricted in the printing... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070229899 - Image forming apparatus for printing image data in removable storage: The contents of a print-file-selection settings file “SELFL.TXT” have folder path “/FLD1” and print attribute settings file path “/PTYFL.TXT” which are provided to print file decision section 122 and file detection section 121, respectively. The section 122 successively provides the contents of each of PDF files in folder “FLD1” to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070229895 - Print job management method and apparatus using virtual queues: Print management apparatus and method for managing a print shop system are described. A server defines one or more virtual queues as a virtual printing device to which print jobs may be submitted. Each virtual queue designates a physical printer and has a set of pre-defined job parameters (parameters that... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229900 - Systems and methods for display list management: In some embodiments, a data structure for storing a intermediate printable data generated from a first printable data may comprise at least one memory pool, which may further comprise a plurality of uniformly sized segments to store the intermediate printable data; at least one global structure for storing information related... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070229906 - Automated production control method: In a method for operating at least one machine with a computer, it is possible for at least one task for the production of a printed product to be stored in the computer, which task is processed on the machine. Parameters for setting the machine are stored as parameter sets... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070229902 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program: Bleed widths are set for finishing pages. An imposition method that requires to execute binding processing of sheets is set. Bleed regions including the finishing pages are determined based on the set bleed widths for the finishing pages, and the size of the finishing page. The allocation of manuscript data... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229903 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program: Bleed widths are set for finishing pages. Bleed regions including the finishing pages are determined based on the set bleed widths for the finishing pages, and the size of the finishing page. The allocation of manuscript data is determined to align the center of the manuscript data to be allocated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229901 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An apparatus selects a cover layout type to be used during bookbinding processing from among a plurality of cover layout types, and determines page data to be laid out in a cover area, from among page data included in original data. The apparatus lays out the determined page data in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229905 - Plate making/printing system and plate inspection method for use in same: A hash value generation section at a plate making site, which is a first site, generates a hash value based on edit layout data. A reference image data output section outputs reference image data to a folder named after the hash value. The reference image data is transmitted from the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229904 - Print data generation apparatus and control method therefor, computer program, and storage medium: A print data generation apparatus that accepts a setting as to whether or not to control the position of trimming marks for document data to be printed, determines the imposition setting of the document data to be printed, and decides the position of the trimming marks on the printing paper... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229858 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus in which multiple image forming units for forming a developer image arranged along a prescribed medium feeding path are disposed in a manner to contact and face a belt component, the image forming apparatus includes an image formation driving unit for driving said multiple image forming... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070229864 - Color processing method and apparatus thereof: When the color gamut of a printer is further expanded, if the same gamut expansion processing as in the prior art is applied, the chroma level becomes too high beyond necessity, resulting in extremely vivid colors. Hence, less than a favorable image is obtained. To solve this problem, information of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229867 - Color processing method and apparatus thereof: A gamut mapping mode is input in accordance with a user instruction. A color gamut of an output device is obtained. A moving range of a focal point is set in accordance with the gamut mapping mode. Gamut mapping is performed based on the color gamut of the output device... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229861 - Dynamically generating darker and lighter color options from a base color in a color picker user interface: Methods, systems, and computer program products generate lighter or darker color options from one or more base colors to apply to a document. A method involves enabling a color picker user interface (UI) according to developer specifications, receiving a user request to view the color picker UI, and determining a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070229865 - Image data processing apparatus: An image data processing apparatus includes an execution device, a use determination device, an identification device, an execution determination device, and a control device. The execution device executes a predetermined data processing of image data. The use determination device determines at least one used amount in at least one specified... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229870 - Image output controller: An image output controller is capable of directly or indirectly controlling a printer printing a color chart and a color measuring apparatus carrying out color measurement for the color chart. When color authentication is executed for an optionally set image, a process is carried out in relation to user's setting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229869 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus of the present invention compares a first proof image and a second proof image, to detect a different portion, and displays the different portion on a display part. Therefore, an operator can check the second proof image after subjected to an automatic trap processing in respect... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229868 - Image processing device, color conversion table creating device, display device, image processing method, color conversion table creating method, and method of manufacturing display device: An image processing device carries out color conversion of a color value on a first color space into a color value on a second color space. The device includes a first color conversion unit that does not convert a color value corresponding to a gray axis in the first color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229866 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An image processing method and image processing apparatus which can execute vector conversion processing by appropriately dividing a clipart image including gradation into regions are provided. To this end, a color document image including a clipart image having an area of gradation is input, the clipart image is selected, and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070229907 - Image processing apparatus, error diffusion processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a dividing portion that divides input multivalue image data into a plurality of bands, an error diffusion process portion that carries out an error diffusion process on each divided band to quantize each pixel, and a controlling portion that controls the dividing portion and error... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229908 - Method for registering image, and image processing apparatus: A method for registering an image data of an image of a registration object by storing in a storage device. The method may include: obtaining an image data of the image of the registration object; analyzing the obtained image data; specifying a kind of the image of the registration object,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229856 - Printer apparatus, printing method, and printer system: To make it possible to print the document data having been revised a multiple number of times with emphasis (different property) added only on parts which have been revised at a specific revision, so that an operator can easily recognize the parts having been changed at the specific revision, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229882 - Job managing apparatus performing process of passing printed material to recipient: A supplier PC transmits a print job together with information on the recipient of the print job and print setting to a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus receives the print job, transmits a notification that print preparation is completed to the recipient PC to accomplish notification. The recipient PC displays... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070229893 - Method and system for information management: A method of managing information input via a sensor device and a position-coding pattern printed on a product is provided. The method comprises: (i) generating position data for the sensor device based on movement of the sensor device relative to the position-coding pattern, the position-coding pattern including marks that code... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229889 - Method and system for pay per use document transfer via computer network transfer protocols: A system includes a portion for receiving a transmission comprising a digitized document including a digitized computer network destination associated with a recipient from a user using a facsimile device, a portion for determining a telephone number for the facsimile device, an OCR portion for determining the computer network destination... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070229881 - Method for printing mixed color and black and white documents: A method is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of printers are connected to and managed by a server. When a document to be printed contains both color and black and white pages, the server splits the print job into a color and a black... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229892 - Method for processing information: A method for generating a message that is intended to be sent to a destination is provided. The method comprises: (i) sending a page identity to a printer unit, the page identity being indicative of an address that corresponds to the destination; (ii) printing on a sheet of paper, using... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229890 - Methods and apparatus for manipulating and providing facsimile transmissions to electronic storage destinations: A method for a computer system for transmitting a facsimile to an electronic destination, includes receiving the facsimile comprising an instruction page with an optical representation of the electronic destination address and an optical representation of a user selection of an option, and a document encoded in a fax format,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070229880 - Print job analyzing method and apparatus: A useful method for analyzing a print job in a multiple-printer environment is provided. The method includes receiving a print job, the print job specifying values of job parameters, reading out values of the job parameters specified in the print job, determining whether the printer settings of the plurality of... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229884 - Printer/storage integrated system, controller, control method, control program: A printer/storage integrated system, capable of using both printer and storage device from host devices with a single connection setting, is provided. A controller is connected with a first network with which host devices are connected, and a second network with which a printer and a storage device shared by... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070229894 - Method and system for processing print data of at least one print page: In a method or system for processing of print data, a print data stream with print data of a plurality of print pages is generated wherein at least one first object property is associated with at least one region of the print pages. The print data are processed wherein at... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070229896 - Print management method and apparatus with multiple views: A method for managing a plurality of pint jobs is implemented in a print job management apparatus connected to printers. The method includes receiving print job, and visually presenting a display screen to a user, the display screen including first, second and third panels for classifying the received print jobs... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229859 - Method of printing a second document via a first document: A method of printing a second document from a computer system is provided. The method makes use of a first document and a handheld optically imaging sensor. The first document includes an interface, the interface including visible textual information and substantially invisible first coded data in the form of one... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229862 - Gamut maximizing black generation for printers: Gamut maximizing black generation for printers. Generating device dependent data from device independent data uses both chromatic curves and achromatic curves, which are independently controllable and which each include a color space curve and a black curve. The achromatic and chromatic curves are generated using a set of input parameters.... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070229860 - Print shop management method and apparatus for printing mixed color and black and white documents: A method is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of printers are connected to and managed by a server. When a document to be printed contains both color pages and black and white pages, the server makes a determination as to whether to submit the... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20070229863 - Tone correction apparatus, mobile terminal, image capturing apparatus, mobile phone, tone correction method and program: The present invention relates to a technique for correcting tones of a digitized image, for use in a mobile terminal or the like. The use of a conventional image tone correction technique to backlight correction imposes a limit on improvement in local contrast in a bright region or a dark... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229909 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, control method, program, and storage medium: An apparatus stores first document information including a plurality of feature information, which are extracted from an image of a first document and respectively extracted based on a plurality of different orientations, and second document information including feature information extracted from an image of a second document from at least... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229910 - Method and apparatus for communicating fax data over the internet: A fax transmission method is provided for transmitting fax related data over packet switched network. The may include using a first streaming protocol to encapsulate a fax data set, and further encapsulating the fax packet using a second streaming protocol. The method may also include receiving a packet and de-encapsulating... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070229911 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus of the present invention compares the density value of K-color at each position around a blank character with a reference density value, thereby deciding whether it is necessary to remove other color components. Based on the result of a decision, the apparatus removes the color components.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229912 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, image processing system and image processing control apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing section that performs a predetermined image processing on the image; a first performance information acquiring section that acquires a first performance information including information regarding a time for which the image processing section performs the predetermined image processing on the image; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229913 - Apparatus and method for transmitting image: A printing apparatus creates and prints an order sheet on which a list of image data is placed. By filling in marking fields on the order sheet a user can select image data for transmission. Once the order sheet has been scanned by the scanner, the printing apparatus creates an... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070229916 - Image processing apparatus and method for printing and plate making, and recording medium having image processing program recorded therein for printing and plate making: For page data containing shadow-casting objects, trap graphics are generated according to the following procedure. First, an ID drawing process is performed for all objects within a page, and based on the process result, a related graphic list indicating relative positional relationships between the objects is generated. Thereafter, an ID... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229914 - Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: An OCR process is executed for image data read by an image reading unit. First date information in the image data is acquired based on the OCR process result. Current second date information is acquired. The acquired first date information is compared with the second date information. Time stamp information... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070229915 - Scanner control device and scanner device: A scanner device includes a function for generating image data by rotating an image scanned from an original document according to necessity. The scanner device includes a display processing unit and a confirmation accepting unit. The display processing unit displays a first image pattern indicating a set status of a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070229917 - Image signal reproduction apparatus: The image signal reproduction apparatus of the present invention for reproducing a main image signal including either a first type of image signal obtained by converting a film material image into an electrical signal or a second type of image signal including a video signal as a material thereof, using... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070229918 - Light-channeling apparatus and method: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments light may be channeled via a light-channeling apparatus during scanning.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070229919 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes: a light source; an image capturing device, opposed to the light source through a document table adapted to support a document and operable to receive light emitted from the light source; a detector, operable to detect a light-reception state of the image capturing device when... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229920 - Image processing apparatus, system, information processing apparatus, and program: The image processing apparatus comprises a document reading portion that optically reads an original document and inputs image data, a digital signature adding control portion that adds a digital signature to the read image data, a reading condition value setting portion that sets reading condition values by the kind of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229921 - Image forming device, method for adjusting toner concentration, programs, and recording media of the same: An image forming device has image forming units 3-6, a transfer belt 7, a position detection unit 19, a concentration sensor 23, and an adjustment unit. A toner image is formed on the surfaces of the image forming units 3-6, and transferred onto the transfer belt 7. The position detection... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070229922 - Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system: An information processing device is disclosed that is able to distribute a processing workload, and allow easy confirmation of an output image of processed images. The information processing device includes an engine unit, a controller unit, and an operational unit; the controller unit includes a first memory, a first calculation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229923 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method: An image forming apparatus has a calibration mode in which a calibration image is formed on a print medium to correct image forming conditions. The image forming apparatus detects print medium information to determine, on the basis of the print medium information, whether the print medium is a sheet recommended... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070229924 - Display device using single-panel diffractive light modulator: Disclosed herein is a display device using a single-panel diffractive light modulator. The display device includes a light source unit, a condensing unit, an illumination unit, a diffractive light modulator, a projection unit, and a filter unit.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070229925 - 4-line ccd sensor and image input apparatus using the same: A 4-line CCD sensor according to one embodiment of the present invention has a monochromic reading line sensor section and a color reading line sensor section. This 4-line CCD sensor is characterized in that amplification factors for amplifiers 1 to 4 are set so that the amplitude of an output... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070229926 - Communication device capable of displaying preview of transmission data: An image data is generated by scanning an original. The image data is converted and stored into a RAM. Preview data is generated from the converted data and then displayed on a display unit. When a transmission command is received after the display unit displays the display data, the converted... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760