Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 11/07

20070273896 - Multi-function peripheral and information acquisition system including a plurality of the multi-function peripherals: An acquisition condition of information can automatically be determined based on data processed by a multi-function peripheral to acquire information from other multi-function peripherals in accordance with the condition while maintaining security. When an MFP performs a printing process or an image reading process by scanner in a system connecting... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070273911 - Image forming device: A method for providing an image forming device with a user-friendly application program. A program of the image forming device includes a basic service program and a simple text language processing program. The basic service program has an operation panel control module, image input and image output modules. If a... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070273909 - Method and system for providing job listing affinity utilizing jobseeker selection patterns: A method and system of establishing affinity of job listings is disclosed. A first job listing for which a jobseeker has applied is determined. The first job listing has a first job attribute. A second job listing for which the jobseeker has applied is also determined. The second job listing... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070273910 - Print control apparatus and print controlling method: Stop of print operation in the middle of printing is prevented from causing a stripe or unevenness on a print medium. A print control apparatus for creating print data for printing with a printing apparatus, and transmitting the created print data to the printing apparatus, includes: judging means for judging... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273914 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and program: When the second job to be processed by interrupting the first job is input, a blank area is discriminated where the first image based on the first job is not laid out on a printing medium. It is determined whether the second image based on the second job can be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273913 - Information processing apparatus and data output management system: An information processing apparatus acquires print data to be printed by a printing apparatus and restriction information for restricting an output process of the print data. The information processing apparatus converts a format of the acquired print data and the restriction information based on information regarding a processing capability of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273915 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program thereof: An information processing apparatus according to this invention acquires function restriction information used to restrict the use of functions of an image processing apparatus. The apparatus acquires job log data of a job which is processed using the functions of the image processing apparatus. The apparatus changes the acquired function... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273912 - Prediction of consumable usage in a mail processing system: A mail processing system includes one or more processing devices operative to perform executable operations. The system further includes or accesses numerous devices containing consumable items used therein. In the mail processing system, the operating speed of the system is calculated using one or more various profile techniques. The system... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070273921 - Image processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing system includes a thin-client machine, a management server configured to manage the thin-client machine, an image processing apparatus configured to process job information, and a job management apparatus configured to manage a processing result of the job information. In the data processing system, when the job information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273923 - Information processing apparatus, print controlling method, program, and computer-readable storage medium: For example, when a large number of printer objects is registered in a Windows® system, a large amount of resources is consumed. Thus, a single computer is not sufficient, so that a plurality of computers is used. This results in an increased cost. With an output port of a first... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273922 - Information processing apparatus, printing system, monitoring method, program, and storage medium: A printing device monitoring method includes sequentially registering, in a monitored device queue, printing devices to which print jobs are to be output, monitoring the printing devices in accordance with the order of registration in the monitored device queue, determining if predetermined conditions are satisfied (S1803), interrupting monitoring of a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273920 - Printer, system, method and computer program for printing: A printer, system, method and computer program for printing, the printer comprising: a media database arranged to store print media data; a web service system arranged to implement a web service; and communication means for communicating data stored in the media database to a user via the web service. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070273924 - Recording medium storing printing program, printing apparatus, printing method, and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave: A computer readable recording medium storing a printing program for causing a computer included in a printing apparatus having a printing out section to execute a process, the process which includes storing apparatus information about the printing apparatus; generating a job execution ticket including the stored apparatus information on receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070273925 - Remote stored print job retrieval: A technique is disclosed for printing, at a local printing device, a print job that was previously stored at a remote printing device. According to one aspect of the technique, a command is received through a console of a local printing device at which a particular print job is not... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070273926 - Device and method for switching between image data objects: An image controller is provided which comprises a switching unit configured to change image data objects on the screen of a monitor in the following steps. The switching unit first assigns priorities to image data objects for display on the screen. The switching unit next compares the priorities between a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070273897 - Print systems and methods: Print systems and methods that repeatedly print a file on an output medium. The system comprises a user interface, a driver and a printer. The user interface receives a setup option comprising a column number, a row number and a copy number. The driver calculates a reduction/magnification ratio according to... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070273899 - Ink jet printing apparatus and printing method: By suppressing deviation of dot-formation positions stemming from insufficient accuracy in conveying a printing medium due to eccentricity of a conveying roller, a printed image in which unevenness is less visible is obtained. An accumulated amount of conveyance errors is reduced by narrowing a nozzle-use range and by reducing a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273901 - Calibration code strip with permutative grey scale calibration pattern: A calibration strip for use with a package of test strips includes a substrate with and a permutative grey scale calibration pattern disposed on a surface of the substrate with the permutative grey scale calibration pattern including more than one grey scale region. Moreover, the grey scale regions of the... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070273905 - Display apparatus and method for controlling function of the display apparatus: A display apparatus and a method for controlling the function of a display apparatus are disclosed. The display apparatus comprises a first memory, a second memory, a color module, and a switch. The first memory stores the first setting data. The second memory stores the second setting data. The color... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070273906 - Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus and image processing method: Color production with high chroma in a low lightness portion is realized by using an appropriate complementary color ink to a particular color ink reproducing the low lightness portion. More specially the device secondary color G-K is reproduced with ink of the pure color component composed of the color mixture... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273908 - Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus, image processing method, color correction table setting method, and printing method.: An image processing method of processing color image data includes: holding a correction object color which is a color to be corrected and a correction value of the correction object color at least at a time when starting an operation of correcting the color image data; generating a correction area... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070273900 - Method and apparatus for calibration of a color printer: A color reproduction system with drift correction that includes a storage module, an image processing module, a printer, a scanner, and a calibration module. The storage module stores one or more current linear response halftones and a set of device independent color signals representative of a calibration target. The image... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070273904 - Method for determining a test strip calibration code for use in a meter: A method for determining a test strip calibration code for use in a meter includes inserting a test strip into the meter. The inserted test strip having a substrate with a working surface for receiving the body fluid sample and a reverse surface that is in opposition to the working... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070273903 - Method for determining a test strip calibration code using a calibration strip: A method for determining a test strip calibration code for use in a meter includes inserting a calibration strip into the meter, with the calibration strip having a substrate and a permutative grey scale calibration pattern disposed on the substrate. In addition, the permutative grey scale calibration pattern includes more... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070273902 - System for analyte determination that includes a permutative grey scale calibration pattern: A system for measuring an analyte in a body fluid sample includes a meter, with a grey scale photodetector module, and a memory module. The system also includes a test strip. The test strip has a substrate with a working surface for receiving the body fluid sample and a reverse... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070273927 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes: an acceptance section; an edge detection section; and a screen processing section, wherein the edge detection section includes: a first edge determination section that subjects a pixel of interest to edge determination by reference to information about a density of the pixel of interest and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070273928 - Test strip with permutative grey scale calibration pattern: A test strip for the determination of an analyte, such as glucose, in a body fluid sample (for example, a whole blood sample) includes a substrate with a working surface for receiving the body fluid sample and a reverse surface that is in opposition to the working surface. The test... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070273929 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus includes a quantization threshold value to convert input image data of an N value to output image data of an M value based on random dither processing. A flag to designate addition of a non-periodic component to a quantization threshold value can be set for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070273931 - Image enhancing method and image enhancing apparatus: An image enhancing method includes: (A) classifying a plurality of target frames that are to be output into at least one group based on a predetermined criterion, the target frames being determined from among a plurality of frames constituting a file; and (B) performing image enhancement on the target frames... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070273932 - Method for providing a self-designed image on a clock via a digital printer: A method for providing a self-designed image on a clock surface includes the steps necessary to form the image on the clock surface. The user chooses any kind of image he/she likes to be printed on the clock surface. After the image is chosen, the image is digitized and processed... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070273895 - Efficient whole page printing: Disclosed are methods of printing documents comprising a plurality of pages sourced from a computer network. The methods provide a zoom property attribute to scale the document (FIG. 10). In one implementation a preview window (1702,1703) is displayed which shows the pages in the document scaled based on the zoom... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273916 - Image processing apparatus, count management server, and count management method: An image processing apparatus for executing a process based on a count available for each group is disclosed, including: a remaining count acquisition part acquiring a remaining count available for a group to which a user authenticated by a user ID belongs, from a count management server which manages the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070273917 - Methods, apparatus and software for printing location pattern and printed materials: A print control system adapted to control a digital printer having a first machine-readable ink of a first colour and a second ink that is not machine readable at the same wavelength as said first ink and that is of substantially the same colour, said system being adapted to control... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070273919 - Network device management apparatus and its control method, computer program and computer-readable storage medium: The present invention makes other devices on a network recognize a device that does not support the network compatible Plug and Play function as a device that supports the network compatible Plug and Play function, and makes that device serve as the device with the function. To this end, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273918 - Printing digital documents: A method of printing a digital document comprises providing a first document for printing, the first document comprising at least one functional area in which pattern markings are to be printed, generating from the first document a second document in which at least one of the shape and or size... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070273898 - Apparatus and system for managing form data obtained from outside system: Example embodiments of the present invention relate generally to an apparatus and system for managing form data obtained from an outside system, which may be combined with image data to be printed.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070273907 - Modular printer system with logically and physically interconnected modules: A modular printer system includes a number of modules that are capable of being logically and physically connected together. The modules include a printer module having a body that defines a print media feed path extending from an input end to an output end and a pagewidth printing mechanism positioned... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070273930 - Method and system for super-resolution of confocal images acquired through an image guide, and device used for implementing such a method: A method for increasing the resolution of confocal images acquired through an image guide whereof the distal end is associated with an optical head for focusing the laser beam emitted by the image guide in an observation object. For a given position of the optical head, the method includes the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070273933 - Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, image processing method, and information processing method: An image processing apparatus obtains registration information associated with an information processing apparatus at a transmission destination to which an image read by an image reader is to be transmitted. Based on the registration information, the image processing apparatus determines whether the information processing apparatus requires executing image rotation at... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273934 - Image editing device and method thereof: An image editing device which includes: display means for displaying an image having a plurality of pixel value regions including an attention region; setting means for setting a graphic passing through the attention region and at least one region different from the attention region on the image; and control means... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070273935 - Image reading apparatus, mfp, and document detecting method: An MFP includes a scanner to read an image, and a printer to form the image on a sheet, in which the scanner includes a document table on which a document as an image reading object is placed, a platen cover that holds the document to the document table, a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070273937 - Image reading device and multifunction machine: An image reading device is provided equipped with a first light source provided at the same side of a pickup device with respect to a manuscript table and a second light source provided at the opposite side of the pickup device with respect to the manuscript table. The image recording... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070273936 - Document processing device, and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language, a document processing apparatus 100 displays the document content. In a case of reception of an instruction from a user to add an annotation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070273938 - Image formation device and support body: An image formation device is provided with an image formation section, an image acquisition section, a paper supply cassette and a support body. The image formation section forms images at a recording medium and is supported at a base surface. The image acquisition section is disposed at an upper side... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070273939 - Image pick-up apparatus for microscopes: The image pick-up apparatus for microscopes according to the present invention is constituted such that an image pick-up apparatus is used as a calibration tool, and a predetermined image-for-calibration displayed on a display screen of a desired display apparatus is photographed. By referring to chromaticity information-for-calibration obtained by photographing mentioned... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070273940 - Color adjusting apparatus and method for light source: Color adjusting apparatus and method for a light source. A reflector of a required color is added to a light source of a scan module, a plating film of the required color is formed on a lens, or the lens is dyed with the required color. Or alternatively, the color... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070273941 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a toner image forming unit, a color forming information applying unit, a transfer unit, a fixing unit and a color forming unit, the color forming information applying unit exposing a toner image formed on a surface of the image holding member... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070273942 - Image forming apparatus, host apparatus and computer readable medium: An image forming apparatus includes an image data correcting unit, an image forming unit, a setting designation unit, a color conversion information storing unit and an adjusting screen displaying unit. The image data correcting unit is configured to correct image data based on color conversion information. The image forming unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070268506 - Autonomous auto-configuring wireless network device: Automatically configuring network device, network system architecture, and method for configuring one or a plurality of devices on a network. Device and network system architectures and methods for automatically self-initiating and configuring one, a plurality, or hundreds of wired or wireless network devices. Autoconfiguring wireless Local Area Network switch and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070268504 - Enhanced imaging spooler: An enhanced imaging spooler, providing a utility capable of imaging any number of files, in any number of formats (with or without the native program present), across any number of imaging devices with minimal user involvement and time expense.... Agent: Neil J. Coig

20070268507 - Method and system for printing content according to print capabilities of image forming apparatuses using a device: A method and system are provided for printing content according to print capabilities of a network of image forming apparatuses using a device. At least one image forming apparatus forming a network with the device is searched and a list is provided of at least one extensible hyper text markup... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070268505 - Producing postscript bitmap images with varying degrees of transparancy: Embodiments herein include a method of combining a graphic image with other data to be printed, such as text or other graphics. One embodiment receives image data and document data and applies a mask to the image data to produce an image snippet. The mask adjusts a transparency of the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, LLC

20070268508 - Image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed which includes an interrupt job display unit, an interrupt job selection unit, and an interrupt control unit. The interrupt job display unit will display details of an image forming job (an interrupt job) in an interrupt job window that is requested while another image... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070268512 - Printing control apparatus, authenticated printing system, and recording medium storing printing control program: A printing control apparatus, which includes a storage section that stores a printing job; a transfer section that transfers the stored printing to a printing apparatus according to a transfer request based on an authentication and changes a state of the printing job from a printing suspended state to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070268511 - Secure document printing: A method and system for printing documents with one or more embedded security features is provided. Security features are embedded in the document by co-printing first and second toner on a receiver before fixation by a fixing station. The combination of first and second toners in the image results in... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070268510 - Service dialog system supporting user reporting of printing errors: A method for notifying a printing error, comprising: providing a GUI for a user to store printer settings into a temporary file; creating an error report comprising the temporary file; specifying a method of sending the error report; and sending the error report to a printer manufacturer. Users often have... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070268509 - Soft failure detection in a network of devices: In a method for monitoring hardware devices of the hardware devices network to detect failures, past logged jobs are analyzed to determine a pattern of past usage of hardware devices by users of the hardware devices network. A failure of a hardware device is inferred based on a deviation in... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20070268519 - Automated job submitter for submitting a print job to a printer: A method for processing a document that includes image data to be printed includes analyzing the document and identifying image attributes based on the analysis of the document. The method further includes automatically assigning appearance features to the document according to pre-defined rules, which take into account the identified image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268516 - Automated policy-based network device configuration and network deployment: Automatically configuring network device, network system architecture, and method for configuring one or a plurality of devices on a network. Device and network system architectures and methods for automatically self-initiating and configuring one, a plurality, or hundreds of wired or wireless network devices. Autoconfiguring wireless Local Area Network switch and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070268518 - Information processing apparatus, printing system, job processing method, and program used therewith: The present invention provides, to an image forming apparatus that cannot interpret access control information representing permission to execute printing, a mechanism for flexibly restricting a print job by using the access control information. Specifically, a proxy server verifies whether the access control information is valid. If the proxy server... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070268514 - Method and business model for automated configuration and deployment of a wireless network in a facility without network administrator intervention: Automatically configuring network device, network system architecture, and method for configuring one or a plurality of devices on a network. Device and network system architectures and methods for automatically self-initiating and configuring one, a plurality, or hundreds of wired or wireless network devices. Autoconfiguring wireless Local Area Network switch and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070268513 - Method and system for print production conflict visualization: A method for document print production conflict visualization and resolution selects a document and a job ticket for printing, with the job ticket including various document publishing requirements. Conflict analysis is performed to identify at least one conflict among the document publishing requirements and a visualization of each identified conflict... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070268515 - System and method for automatic configuration of remote network switch and connected access point devices: Automatically configuring network device, network system architecture, and method for configuring one or a plurality of devices on a network. Device and network system architectures and methods for automatically self-initiating and configuring one, a plurality, or hundreds of wired or wireless network devices. Autoconfiguring wireless Local Area Network switch and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070268522 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus which performs variable printing processing to print by inserting different contents data into a variable area of document data for each predetermined unit, comprises a setting unit configured to set variable area information for defining at least a position and size of a variable area laid... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070268499 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer readable medium, and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus that generates a reduced image from input image data, which includes: a reducing process dividing section that divides a reducing process applied to get the reduced image from input image data into a first and second reducing process; and an image reducing section that executes the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070268503 - Image processing system: An image processing system 1 comprises: a buffer 2 for storing a target pixel oo that is an object of image processing and a group of pixels surrounding the target pixel oo, such that the pixels are aligned in horizontal and vertical directions; a maximum value detector 31 for obtaining... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070268501 - Line or text-based image processing tools: In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure, apparatus are provided, including an image processor, a unique image processing mechanism, and a unique image processing activation mechanism. The image processor includes the unique image processing mechanism, which processes a certain type of image. The unique image processing activation mechanism causes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070268502 - Reprinting: Consistency of document reprints is improved by recording characteristics of a reference printing system used to produce a reference printing of a document, determining related characteristics of a reprint printing system, retrieving the recorded characteristics and compensating for differences between the reference system and the reprint system in the reprint... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20070268524 - Display device, display panel driver and method of driving display panel: An LCD device according to the present invention has: an LCD panel; an operation and correction circuit configured to perform a correction operation with respect to an input gray-scale data of a target frame image by using an arithmetic expression to generate an output gray-scale data; a data line driver... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070268525 - Simultaneous individual and coupled error diffusion: A system for halftoning an color image that includes first and second primary colors is disclosed. The system includes a first input-dependent threshold generator that generates a threshold based on the first color. The system further includes a second input-dependent threshold generator that generates a threshold based on sum of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070268517 - Control device, image processing device control system, method of controlling control device, program, and computer-readable recording medium: An image processing device control system, in which a function that a predetermined image processing device operated by the user cannot execute is executable by a substitute device and the user can input to the predetermined image processing device the setting information in regard of the function, can be realized.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070268520 - Method of delivering interactive publications: A method of delivering an interactive publication is provided. The interactive publication has interactive elements which each encode an identity of the publication and a position of the respective interactive element on the publication. In the method the interactive elements are associated in a computer system with a digital description... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070268521 - Method of generating interactive document: A method of generating an interactive document is provided having the steps of allocating and recording a document identity in a computer system, associating the document identity with a page description for the document in the computer system, and communicating at least part of the page description and the document... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070268523 - Method for providing transaction card customization image review via an online extranet: The present invention provides a method for providing transaction card customization image review, wherein image review is performed by an image reviewer using an online extranet provided by a transaction card franchiser. The method comprises the steps of logging onto the online extranet using a web browser, selecting an image... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070268500 - Tetrastitch screening process for cmyk printing: The present invention refers to a halftone screening method for printing systems, where the square dots for each color of the four subtractive colors CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) are disposed in different vertices of the square printing cell. The screens of the different colors are not rotated: that... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070268526 - Network facsimile apparatus and network facsimile system: a storage section for storing information for identifying the own network facsimile apparatus, and identifying information for identifying a network facsimile apparatus other than the own apparatus; and a registration section for registering proxy destination information in a SIP server arranged on a network, the proxy destination information links the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070268527 - Image forming device: A method, program product, and system that enables to control a restriction the user may face in using an image forming device when a printer driver or utility software is not installed on a data input device and that successfully allows outputting an image. A printer that acquires print document... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070268529 - Image reading apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an image reading apparatus including: a first plate including a stationary document reading region; an image reader configured to scan a document on the first plate; a carriage supporting the image reader in a state that the carriage keeps the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070268528 - Multifunction device: A multifunction device includes an image scanning unit that scans an image on a sheet and creates a first file based on the scanned image, an interface that communicates with an external device and transmits and receives a second file to and from the external device, an image forming unit... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070268530 - Linear imager rescaling method: A system and method for removing perspective distortion from an image of an object (112) moving along a transport device (114) having a top surface (124) is disclosed. A line scanner (110) to create a first image of an object. The first image is composed of a plurality of scan... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070268531 - Image forming apparatus having removable external memory and its control method: Memory interface means which can be easily removed by a user is included, use of a generally-available general-purpose memory is made possible and increase of the capacity of a memory which can be used by an image forming apparatus, image electronic data stored in a memory in the image forming... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070268532 - Color adjusting apparatus and method for light source: Color adjusting apparatus and method for a light source. A reflector of a required color is added to a light source of a scan module, a plating film of the required color is formed on a lens, or the lens is dyed with the required color. Or alternatively, the color... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070268533 - Image sensor with improved light sensitivity: An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the first group of pixels has individual... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070268534 - Histogram adjustment for high dynamic range image mapping: A method of automatic mapping of image data includes representing image data for an image as luminance values, determining a key value as a function of an average luminance value of the image and of minimum and maximum luminance values of the image, generating offset-adjusted luminance values including applying an... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070268535 - Imaging apparatus, image recording medium, and method of setting quality of captured image: An imaging apparatus operating on the basis of setting information determining quality of a captured image. The apparatus includes: imaging means for performing image processing in accordance with the setting information; image-signal processing means for performing signal processing of the image captured in accordance with the setting information; when a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070263232 - Image forming system: To provide an image forming system composed of an image forming apparatus having a plurality of connected post-processing apparatuses wherein the plurality of post-processing apparatuses can be used independently and the image forming apparatus has a control device for permitting independent use of a post-processing apparatus connected with and on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070263240 - Image-forming apparatus, image-forming control method, image-forming control program storage medium, image-forming control data signal, and image-forming control apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes an image output unit that outputs an image, wherein the image output unit has its output controlled with output target indication data that indicate a file capable of embedding a font as an output target, auxiliary output target indication data that indicate an attribute value related... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070263241 - Printing system and method, and recording medium: A printing system and method and recording medium are provided. In the printing system that directly prints file data described in PDL (Page-Description Language), a client generates an additional pattern, selects a print pattern, analyzes a PDL file to be processed and appends the additional pattern to the print layout... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070263243 - Image forming apparatus for managing application and control method therefor: A control method for an image forming apparatus having means for managing a software application includes the steps of: detecting that a job is generated in the image forming apparatus; obtaining notification information of the detected job; and sending the notification information of the job to the application.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070263242 - Printing system, control method, storage medium, program, and printing device: In a printing system including an MFP, a memory unit pre-stores attribute information of paper sheets. In the MFP, a control panel allows the user to copy or change attribute information of a paper sheet via a key input unit or touch panel unit. An MFP controller included in the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070263250 - Electronic control device, control method therefor, and program therefor: An electronic control device that operates at a set operation clock frequency includes a power supply device connector that allows connection with a power supply device so that electric power is received from the power supply device; a power supply device information acquisition unit that acquires via the power supply... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070263252 - Multiple-port print device: A method that enables a multiple-port print device to perform efficient job management for each job even if the multiple-port print device is provided with parallel-processing-enabled multiple interfaces. The multiple-port print device includes a job boundary detection unit, a spool buffer, and a job management unit. By reading print job... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070263254 - Remote instruction system, remote instruction method, and program product therefor: A remote instruction system comprising an annotation forming portion that: overlay-displays an image of a target taken by an image taking portion, in a display area of application software; displays an edited image in the display area by use of the application software; extracts the edited image displayed according to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070263235 - Apparatus being connectable to a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus, and control method thereof, and computer program: An apparatus being connectable to a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus, comprising, a reception unit adapted to receive identification information used to identify the printing apparatus and used to specify a printer driver in the information processing apparatus, from the printing apparatus after connection to the printing apparatus,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070263239 - Image forming apparatus, print control program, application program and printing system: An image forming apparatus includes a calibration information generating unit that generates calibration information, an identification information generating unit that generates identification information associating the generated calibration information, a receiving unit that receives identification information from an external device, and a print control unit that controls the image forming apparatus... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070263255 - System and method for remote monitoring of print systems: A system and method for remotely monitoring and servicing user's print system including the ability to diagnose a problem with a user's print system based on properties monitored from such system and creating a query that predicts the source of the problem based on past history for this print system... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070263256 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: The invention distinguishes not only character areas and halftone dot areas in an image, but also makes highly accurate decisions concerning characters present in halftone dot areas. A decision signal generating unit generates a decision signal having luminance as a main component from a signal indicating inputted image data, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070263244 - Image forming device, printer complex system and medium conveying device for the device, information processing unit for supplying image data to the image forming device, and image forming system and image forming method provided with these: To meet a demand for changing a print medium size, particularly for increasing the size of print medium while at the same time satisfying the demand for higher printing speed. To that end, a plurality of printer units (116), which are spatially independent of each other (separate from each other)... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070263251 - Information processing apparatus having printer driver and sheet parameter setting method for printer driver: It is necessary to switch print settings and color processing tables to optimum ones in accordance with a type of sheet which is used in a printer. In the case of enabling a new sheet to be used, a setting can be easily added without newly forming a whole printer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070263245 - Integration of job control and synchronization with printer controller data exchanges: Methods and systems for synchronization and control of multiple processes in a printer controller using headers associated with data and exchanged among the processes of the printer controller. A first feature hereof provides a method for job control and synchronization among a plurality of processes operable in a printer controller.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070263246 - Method and system for controlling printer utilization in a networked environment: A method for controlling a printer in a networked environment utilizes printer usage statistics and document features to determine whether to print a document or portion of a document. The networked environment includes printers, devices permitting the submittal of print job requests, a print server, and a document repository. The... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070263248 - Network plug-and-play compliant network relay device: A network relay device, which is compliant with network plug-and-play, is used for relaying between a network and a device unit having one or more service devices that provide a service in response to a request from a client on the network. The network relay device includes a data conversion... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070263253 - Network scanner system: An image input section pre-inputs an image. A temporary storage section temporarily stores the image input by the image input section. An attribute control section controls at least attribute information of the input information temporarily stored in the temporary storage section. A selection section permits a user at the origin... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070263247 - Printing program, printing method, and host device: A printing program, which causes a host device to execute a process of saving a printing file, which is printable by a printer, to a removable memory which is attachable with respect to the printer; causes the host device to execute: receiving an operation of dropping an icon, which is... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070263249 - System and method for managing electronic transmission of color data: The present invention relates to a system and method for electronically communicating, coordinating and disseminating product designs, specifications and production-related data between a plurality of parties. More particularly, the invention relates to the coordination of parties that create color and graphic designs, including manufacturers, designers, suppliers and printers for new... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070263233 - Edge based auto order supporting rotation algorithm: A method is provided to automatically arrange scanned images so they can be stitched into a composite image. Initially the scanned images are reduced to low resolution and a gradient filter is applied. One scanned image is selected as a possible first image in a stitching order. The possible first... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070263234 - Systems, methods and devices for rotating images: An embodiment generally relates a device for rotating images. The device includes an image memory configured to store an image and a plurality of buffers. The plurality of buffers are configured to interface with the image memory to read data words of the image from the image memory and to... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group

20070263236 - Automatic discovery of print media attributes: A technique is provided for automatically discovering the values of attributes of print media disposed in input bins of a printing device. A driver process associated with the printing device queries a configuration file to retrieve information pertaining to the input bins. Based on the information, a request is generated... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070263238 - Automatic image quality control of marking processes: A first series of control patches is printed with a first marking engine. A second series of control patches is printed with a second marking engine. Relative reflectance values of the patches printed with the first and second marking engines are measured with respective first and second engine response sensors.... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070263237 - System and method for selecting a proof printer for a given production printer: A method for selecting a printing device for printing a proof is provided. The method entails providing a production printer and a plurality of remote proof printers and computing a native color gamut covered by the production printer and the plurality of remote proof printers. The method includes calculating a... Agent: George Likourzos, Esq. Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070263257 - Hybrid frame rate control method and architecture for a display: A hybrid frame rate control method and architecture used in a display are disclosed, in which each dot is divided into a plurality of sub-dots including a large sub-dot and several small sub-dots. Each sub-dot has a predetermined area ration. A scanning signal is transmitted through a scanning line to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070263258 - Image transmitting apparatus, image receiving apparatus, and image transmitting and receiving apparatus and system: An image transmitting apparatus includes an image reading unit that reads image data, a decision unit that decides whether recipient address information included in the image data read by the image reading unit matches recipient address information specified as a destination, a processing unit that processes the recipient address information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070263259 - E-mail transmission system: An e-mail transmission system is provided, in which an overflow of the storage capacity of a second server device by attached files can be prevented, and the attached file within the e-mail can be surely transferred from a first server device to a client connected to a second server device.... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070263260 - Print record management device, print record management method, print record management program storage medium, and print record management system: A print record management device includes a comparison unit that compares print image data produced on the basis of stored document data with the stored document data, and a determination unit that determines, from a result of the comparison, which of the print image data and association data showing association... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070263261 - Effective coding of page boundary for mrc/mecca segmentation: A method and system is provided for segmenting scanned image data in accordance with mixed raster content processing for more efficient processing of non-uniform color page borders. A first processing method partitions the border so that resulting segments can be coded efficiently by cutting the border into segments along cut... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP.

20070263262 - Image transmitting apparatus and image transmitting method: An image transmitting apparatus includes a reading condition determining unit that determines whether a first reading condition is satisfied that the first reading conditions contain compulsory information indicating compulsory use of that condition, and a second condition is satisfied that the first reading conditions are contradicting to each other. When... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070263263 - Method and device for proofing raster print data while maintaining the raster information: The screened printing data are subjected to a filtering method, the raster information being maintained. Intermediate tonal values are produced by the filtering method, using the binary tonal values, the intermediate tonal values being configured in such a way that, by means of a color space transformation, transformed tonal values... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070263265 - Color processing apparatus and method thereof: A spectral reflectance, corresponding to multiple quantities of coloring materials, is obtained, and a target spectral reflectance, corresponding to data of a color of interest, calculated based on the spectral reflectance. The target spectral reflectance is calculated in a manner that makes the spectral reflectance change contiguously, across an interval... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070263264 - Low noise color correction matrix function in digital image capture systems and methods: An image processing system includes a filtering arrangement configured to receive incoming pixel information and filter at least a first portion of the information to thereby pass a second portion of the information for further processing; circuitry configured to apply a first color correction function to the incoming pixel information... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070263266 - Method and system for annotating photographs during a slide show: The present invention relates to a method and system for annotating photographs during a slide show. The method comprises displaying the at least one photograph during the slide show and recording a voice-description corresponding to the slide show. Further, the method comprises transcribing the voice-description to form at least one... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070263267 - Method for the positionally correct assignment of two medical image data records of an object: A method for the positionally correct assignment of two medical image data records of an object is disclosed. In at least one embodiment of the method, at least two partial regions corresponding with respect to the object are respectively selected in the two image data records. Further, a local measure... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070258106 - Communication terminal device with timestamp function: A communication terminal device using timestamp technology officially certifies transmission completion time. When a start key is pressed, and e-document scan is instructed, scanned image data is stored as an e-document along with a timestamp received from a Time Stamping Authority (TSA). When facsimile transmission is carried out, and log... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070258109 - Image forming device, image forming method, and computer readable storage medium storing image forming program: A printer receives printing data and sets the area of an external memory as the area that is usable for processing the received printing data when it is judged that memory shortage status has occurred concerning a shortage of vacant areas in the internal memory built into the printer and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070258103 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: Image formation free from quality degradation is achieved by selecting whether to perform correction of color shift before or after a halftone process. When the amount of color shift is determined as larger than a predetermined threshold value, the halftone process is executed before a color shift correction process. On... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070258098 - Image forming device and application execution method: An image forming device is disclosed that is able to simplify function customization or function expansion. The image forming device includes one or more input units that input image data for image processing; one or more output units that output resulting data of the image processing; a first filter that... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070258097 - Information processing apparatus, print data forming method, print control program, and memory medium: An information processing apparatus for forming print data to be print-processed by a printer is constructed by: designation receiving means for receiving designation of a duplex printing, discriminating means for discriminating the number of pages in the case where data to be printed has been arranged on a recording paper,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070258107 - Image forming device: The present invention provides an image forming device that forms visible images by scanning in a first scan direction and a slow scan direction that is perpendicular to the first scan direction, image data that are arranged in the first scan direction and the slow scan direction. The image data... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070258108 - Image network system, network server, and language setting method: There are provided a network server connected to an order entry channel for receiving image data and an order and a lab system for creating a product according to the order through a communication network. The network server includes an order receiving function section which accepts the order from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070258105 - System and method for embedding a printer and a card swipe in a hand held device: Described is a handheld device for performing a transaction. The device includes a first receiving means for receiving first information via a first input device, the input device being one of an optical reader module, a card swipe module, a touch-sensitive screen, and a key pad. The device further includes... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070258099 - Self-aligning color optical print head: This invention relates to a self aligning optical printing system, comprising: an electromagnetic energy beam source capable of emitting a plurality of electromagnetic energy beams of differing wavelengths; a plurality of lenses located substantially adjacent to each other such that each of the plurality of electromagnetic energy beams interacts with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070258100 - Document processing device and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language, a document processing apparatus 100 detects an element which is included in the document, and which has been defined so as to indicate the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070258101 - Method and system for improved copy quality in a multifunction reprographic system: A method and system reconstructs a contone image from a binary image by first tagging pixels to identify one of a multiplicity of image content types. The tag information and the pattern of bits surrounding the pixel to be converted to a contone value are used to reconstruct a contone... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070258104 - Method of driving pixels of and displaying images on a display device: A method for driving a pixel includes driving the pixel with a first gray level and a second gray level within a first sub-frame period and a second sub-frame period of a first frame period, respectively, driving the pixel with a third gray level and a fourth gray level within... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070258102 - Proof printing adjustment system and method: A proof printing system and method comprises a printer and supporting firmware for the printer, the printer comprising spectrophotometer integrated with the printer, which printer may be a commercial printer. The supporting firmware comprises color adjustment tables an/or algorithms. The system is capable of color confirmation and color calibration. The... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070258110 - Fast generation of dither matrix: The invention provides a dither matrix generating method. This method generates a dither matrix for determining a status of dot formation on each of print pixels of a print image to be formed on a print medium in response to input image data. The method comprising: determining a targeted threshold... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070258111 - Sip adapter and sip communication system: Facsimile devices having no SIP function or operating based on different protocols are allowed to easily perform good facsimile communication over a SIP network, only with a telephone number input. A SIP adapter is connected to a facsimile device and enables the facsimile device to perform direct facsimile communication with... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070258112 - Cost recovery system and method for walk-up office equipment: A cost recovery system for a multi-functional photocopier device. The cost recovery system comprises a plurality of workstations interconnected by a communications network, as well as a controller adapted to control the operation of the photocopier device, the controller being connected to the network. The cost recovery system further comprises... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070258113 - Camera and method for creating annotated images: the supply with the camera of an operating mode enabling a user to select one image (12) to be annotated, and to capture at least one additional previewed image; the automatic extraction (20) of an annotation (A) from the additional image; and the creation (22) of a new image by... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070258114 - Method and device for optically scanning a sample: The invention relates to a method and a device for optically scanning a sample. The basic structure of the device comprises at least one adjustment unit and at least one scanning device. The sample is displaced in relation to the scanning device by means of the adjustment unit impinged upon... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070258115 - Method of shortening multiple-image scanning duration: A method of shortening multiple image-scanning duration including setting the scanning parameters of each images in a pre-scanning operation, categorizing the images into groups, assigning images belonging to the same group to a scanning region and finally initializing the scanning operation.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070258116 - Multifunction device having parallel processing function for data compression and expansion: A multifunction device has a plurality of functions. The multifunction device includes an input unit, a general-purpose process unit, a single specific process unit, and an output unit. The input unit receives image data. The general-purpose process unit implements a plurality of tasks for each of the plurality of functions.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070258117 - Image forming system and image forming apparatus: An image forming system includes an electronic device and image forming device. The electronic device has a recording unit for recording a target image together with a recording condition of the target image and an output unit for outputting an image and a recording condition recorded by the recording unit.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070253011 - Printing system and method: A printing method is disclosed. A document including at least one type of object is provided. An object selection menu is provided for designating at least one type of object as a print target. According to the object selection menu, the object within the document corresponding to the print target... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070253013 - Image forming apparatus performing image formation on print data, image processing system including plurality of image forming apparatuses, print data output method executed on image forming apparatus, and print data output program product: In order to prevent leakage of confidential information, MFP includes a communication I/F to receive print data, an image forming portion to perform image formation on print data, and a CPU to prohibit the image forming portion from performing image formation on the print data before the print data is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070253015 - Job executing device, job executing and processing method, and job executing and processing program: The Job executing device comprises a Job executing unit of executing a job concerning image data, an execution instruction-receiving unit of receiving an instruction for job execution sent to the Job executing unit by a user who is authenticated by an authentication unit, a memory unit of storing the notification... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070253014 - Printing system and method therefor, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program: A printing system which realize a finely-tuned print function limitation and hence achieve efficient reduction in cost. The printing system comprises a printing apparatus that executes a print job, a print control apparatus that controls the printing apparatus, a print authority management server that manages an print authority of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070253022 - Communication terminal device: A communication terminal device includes a receiving unit, a printer unit, a selection registering unit, an extracting unit, and a determining unit. The receiving unit receives data. The printer unit prints an image onto printing paper according to the data received by the receiving unit. The selection registering unit registers... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070253018 - Data processing system suited for transmitting and receiving data among plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to network, data processing method, and data processing program product: MFP accepts designation of user identification information as a destination of data, accepts designation of data to be delivered to the destination, accepts a transmission source process procedure that defines a plurality of processes to be executed on the designated data, and generates related data having them related to each... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070253021 - Identification of devices in a medical device network and wireless data communication techniques utilizing device identifiers: A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070253019 - Image forming apparatus and electronic document management method: An image forming apparatus includes a document-image forming section, a code-image forming section and an acquisition section. The document-image forming section forms a document image on a medium. The code-image forming section forms on the medium a code image containing position information, which is used to specify a position on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070253025 - Image viewer: In an image viewer, a lot of image data files are registered in a database. In each image data file, positional data is attached to image data, indicating a camera location at which the image data is captured. An image arrangement decider gets the positional data from the image data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070253029 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: Layout candidates to lay out and print a plurality of input jobs on one print sheet are created. Cutting lines on the print sheet and the number of times of rotation of the print sheet necessary in the cutting process are decided for a layout defined by each created layout... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070253027 - System and method for on-press merging of variable data printing documents: A digital printing press system for variable data printing (VDP) includes a front end and a press. The front end processes a static template and transmits the processed static template to the press. The press merges variable data processed subsequently by the front end with the static template to produce... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070253007 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus forming an image of image data on a recording medium, is characterized by, when forming the image by synthesizing the image data with specific information including an image different from the image data, varying the number of pieces of the specific information according to a size... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070253009 - User generated tonal reproduction curve (trc) control for monochrome printers: A tool to create a TRC (Tonal Reproduction Curve) file on an monochrome image formation device that relates “input” grayscale values of a source file and the desired “output” (printed) grayscale values. By adjusting this curve, i.e., mapping selected input values to new output values, the file will be reproduced... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070253006 - Print user interface: In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure, apparatus are provided. A stored shape representation and stored status information are each provided. The stored shape representation is a representation of a shape of a marking device. The marking device includes subsystems including one or more paper trays, one or more... Agent: Miele Law Group PC

20070253005 - Ringtone, voice, and sound notification of printer status: A method for ringtone, voice, and sound notification of printer status, comprising obtaining status information of a printer, converting it into an audible report, and delivering the audible report. The method is especially useful for visually-impaired users and for shared printers in crowded situations where it is difficult for each... Agent: Kyocera Tecnology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070253010 - Approach for managing printer driver settings: An approach is provided for managing printer driver settings. According to the approach, printer driver settings specified by a user for electronic data are maintained as a “print tag”. Print tags may be stored, either local to a client device or remotely to a client device, and later retrieved when... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070253012 - Image forming system, image forming device, function setting method and storage medium: An image forming system is provided which significantly improves the operability in setting functions relating to image formation in an individual destination device selecting mode or an automatic destination device selecting mode. The image forming system includes a plurality of image forming devices with a plurality of functions relating to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070253016 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: If a determination result obtained using software in a scanner CPU is not identical to a determination result obtained using hardware in a determination section, error processing is performed to prevent image forming of a particular document.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070253023 - Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program for recognizing characters in a url: The digital copying machine 11 obtains an image data by reading a document, applies a character recognition process on its URL, and transmits an HTML file transfer request to the Web server 20 corresponding to said URL. If it receives an HTML file from the Web server 20, it generates... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070253017 - Printer output coverage estimation system: A printer output coverage estimation system permits a user of print services to obtain an accurate estimate of the amount of toner required by a print job. Providers of print services, including coverage estimations, may be identified through the Internet and selected by the user from a web interface. The... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070253020 - System and method for visual representation and manipulation of page features on a production printer: A graphic user interface for controlling a production printer is disclosed. The graphic user interface displays representations of the document to be produced by the production printer. Further, the interface provides visual indicators to indicate the page features applied to the pages of the document. The graphic user interface allows... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070253024 - Shared library in a printing system: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture wherein device configuration information is stored in a shared library. An application programming interface is provided to allow a plurality of page description language interpreters to access the device configuration information stored in the shared library. At least one of the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070253028 - Collage generation with occlusion costing: In a computer implemented method of creating a collage of images, a first image is seeded into a viewing region to start the collage. A plurality of trial layout arrangements are provided with an additional image added to the collage. An occlusion cost is generated for a trial layout arrangement.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070253026 - Frame printing device and frame printing system: A communicator is connected, through a network, to a predetermined server including first frame image data and to a display device operable to select the first frame image data in association with first selection screen information linked to the first frame image data. An acquirer is adapted to acquire the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070253008 - Maintenance of accurate visual color performance of displays: A system and a method are provided for maintaining accurate visual color performance of displays. In particular, various embodiments of the present invention described herein provide a system wherein partial color certification is incorporated into the calibration procedure. In the event that the partial color certification is out of tolerance,... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070253030 - Wavelet-based image processing path: A system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an image processing path and a print engine coupled to the image processing path. The image processing path processes an input image in a wavelet domain.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070253031 - Image processing methods, image processing systems, and articles of manufacture: Image processing methods, image processing systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, an image processing method includes defining an image dimension corresponding to a common size of data content of a plurality of images which are associated with one another, determining a plurality of image boundaries... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070253032 - Systems and methods for simultneous and automatic digital images processing: The systems and methods of the present invention enable the simultaneous and automatic corrections of digital images. The systems and methods of the present invention contain an Intelligent Expert-System (IES) for processing a single digital image, selected group of digital images and a batch of digital images. The expert-system analyzes... Agent: Iiana Keydar

20070253034 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes: a key operation unit including a plurality of keys; a display screen; a first storage unit that stores an image data; and a processor that performs a processing. The processing performed by the processor includes displaying a first image corresponding to the image data on... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070253033 - Image quality via multi-wavelength light: A method and apparatus to improve image quality in images captured via monochromatic cameras using multi-wavelength lighting. A contrast optimization algorithm determines which particular wavelength among those available is most suitable to maximize contrast. The quality of the image can be further improved through active noise cancellation by determining the... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070253035 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and parameter setting method for image processing apparatus: Provided is an image processing apparatus that provides a client terminal with a web contents file upon request by the client terminal. The client terminal displays a setting window based on the web contents file, and transfers to the image processing apparatus a file that has been dragged and dropped... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070253036 - Image reading apparatus, control program thereof, and method for reading an image by using the apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes: a reading device for reading an image of a document; a moving mechanism for moving one of the reading device and the document; an operable portion capable of being inputted a specific command; a read-controlling portion for conducting a reading operation while scanning the document... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070253038 - Sheet-fed image-scanning apparatus: A sheet-fed image-scanning apparatus for scanning an object on a tray is disclosed and includes a rigid mainframe, a carriage module, a second light source, a transmission module, and a holding module. The rigid mainframe provides a moving route for the tray to be moved into or out from the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070253037 - Separator: Various embodiments of a separator are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070253040 - Color scanning to enhance bitonal image: A method for obtaining bitonal image data from a document obtains scanned color image data from at least two color channels and identifies, in the scanned color image data, at least one region of interest (R1) containing foreground content and background content. At least one threshold data value is obtained... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070253039 - Image processing apparatus: Color components are converted into full colors to be output. An achromatic color among the color components is converted into black. The achromatic color among the color components is converted into a mixed color of two colors including black and another color to be output. One of the conversion outputs... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500