Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 12/07

20070296981 - Method of providing print preview of print document: A method of providing a print preview of a print document allows a user to preview the print document on a user interface (or a registration window) of a printer driver, thereby allowing the user to intuitively recognize a print preview function and execute the print preview function without being... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070296991 - Stacker, post-finishing apparatus incorporating the stacker, and image forming system connected to the post-finishing apparatus: A stacker, including a sheet stacking section which receives sheets and stacks the sheets, a stopping member which stops the top edge of the sheet and aligns the sheet, plural paddle-wheels which press against the sheet and convey the sheet to the stopping member, and a control section which controls... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070296995 - Information processing apparatus, print setting method, and computer-readable program: An apparatus stores a setting value for each print setting item as a basic print setting for a print job according to an instruction of operation from an operator entered via a print setting screen, and sets a setting value for one specific print setting item as exception setting, according... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070296996 - Printing apparatus: The printing apparatus includes a language determining unit for determining whether print data is described in a first description language or a second description language; a first language conversion unit for converting the print data described in the second description language to the print data described in the first description... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070296992 - Printing system, printing method and storage medium: A system outputs image data created by a computer apparatus to an image forming apparatus and performs a print processing, the computer apparatus having a data conversion unit to convert, when image data created by a data creation unit is outputted to the image forming apparatus and the print processing... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070296994 - Reprographic submission and tracking system and method: A reprographic submission and tracking system, apparatus, and method are disclosed. In one embodiment a reprographic client module includes providing a summary of at least one previously completed request associated with a reprographic submission, generating a reproduction request that can be customized based on a set of configurable parameters and... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Bryan H. Wyman

20070296993 - System and method for providing robust information tags to image files: A system that generates an electronically readable image file that represents an image. In one embodiment, the system comprises an image input, an encoding module, and a tag module. The image input obtains color information representative of an image. The encoding module encodes the color information representative of the image... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070296998 - Image processing apparatus: Image processing apparatus, appropriate administration of the depletion load of the apparatus and confidential data can be facilitated without victimizing the convenience by combining use restriction of the job processing functions and causing another image processing apparatus as a substitute to execute the job processing without victimizing the convenience. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070296997 - Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium: A piece of information is obtained from an encoded image on each of pages, and the transmission of the pages is controlled on the basis of the coincidence between the pieces of information obtained from the pages. Therefore, during transmission of images to a certain destination, the transmission of a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297002 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium having computer executable program stored therein: An image processing apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a destination designation receiving unit that receives a designation of a destination to which image data is transmitted; a security information acquiring unit that acquires security information of the destination; and an image data transmitting unit that transmits the image... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070297004 - Information-processing device, information-processing method, and information-processing program: When generating an output result by using content data and form data of various types, the form data of the same number of types as that of the content data should be prepared and form data adaptable to the current target content data should be selected for every output result.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297001 - Multi-function peripheral remote alert notification system and method: A remote alert notification system and method is disclosed. An alert condition is detected in a multi-function peripheral (MFP) having a communications interface. An alert message indicative of the alert condition is assembled. Information associated with one or more recipients that have registered with the MFP to be notified when... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070297008 - Recording apparatus, control method therefor, program, and computer-readable storage medium: A recording apparatus comprises a writing unit adapted to write data on a recording medium, a selection unit adapted to select data to be written on the recording medium from a storage medium configured to store a plurality of data, and a display control unit adapted to cause a display... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070297009 - Print data generating apparatus, print data generating method, and computer-executable program: An apparatus generates print data based on a print form having a plurality of field areas defined therein into which data can be inserted and outputs the print data to a printing apparatus. The apparatus receives a setting of a condition concerning changing of a layout of at least one... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070296982 - Controlling the print quality levels of images printed from images captured by tracked image recording devices: A host on the World Wide Web acquires a variety of facilities as subscribers and then proceeds to undertake control of the printing of images captured at the various subscribing facilities. A user is enabled to select the quality of image content captured by a digital camera. An implementation for... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070296987 - Apparatus and method for color adjustment: The present invention relates to a color adjustment apparatus and a method thereof. The color adjustment apparatus according to the present invention includes a calculation unit and an adjustment unit. The calculation unit receives an input color signal, and divides the input color signal into color groups and performs a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070296988 - Color conversion definition creating method, profile creating method, color conversion definition creating apparatus, profile creating apparatus, color conversion definition creating program storage medium, and profile creating program storage medium: A color reproduction range excellent in a printing step on an L*a*b* color space is extracted using a B2A1 profile and an A2B1 profile in this order, a dummy RGB gamut for a virtual device obtained by tracing the color reproduction range is created, and, using the dummy RGB gamut,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070296990 - High quality halftone process: The invention provides printing method of printing on a printing medium. The method includes: generating dot data representing a status of dot formation on each of print pixels of a print image to be formed on the print medium, by performing a halftone process on image data representing, a input... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070296985 - Method and apparatus for converting a color representation of an image to a grayscale representation: A method and apparatus for converting a color representation of an image to a grayscale representation are disclosed. For a color image, a location of each color within a device-independent color space is initially determined. Then, a color difference of each color is determined by applying an appropriate perceptual-based color... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20070296989 - Printing device, image data file processing device, method of selecting image data file, and computer program product: With a minimal process load, to determine level of the image of an image data file, for image data files of a format that saves images in the form of coefficients of discrete frequency components. Image data that includes a plurality of coefficients representing the pattern of change of color... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070296986 - Recording medium and color adjusting apparatus: With a recording medium causing a computer to execute a color adjustment program used for the color adjustment of a display, weights are assigned to the adjustment amounts of colors included in an adjustment range in correspondence with a positional relationship with a target color in color space, and the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070296984 - System and method for device specific color space conversion: The subject application is directed generally to color conversions and more particularly, to color space conversions for electronic images. The subject application is particularly applicable to conversions made prior to rendering of images by output devices, such as printers, wherein an image encoded in a first multidimensional color space is... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070297011 - Estimation of lighting conditions based on near-gray pixel detection using cylindrical boundaries: This disclosure describes image processing techniques that facilitate the determination of the lighting condition associated with an image. Once the lighting condition is determined, white balance can be performed on the image such as by applying white balance gains defined for the lighting condition. According to the techniques of this... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070297012 - Hierarchical minature security marks: A system for generating a security mark includes a data reception component that receives information. A security mark generation component in communication with the data reception component generates at least one security mark configuration based at least in part upon the received information. The at least one security mark configuration... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20070297014 - Image processing system and image processing method: There is provided an image processing system in which a management server, a host computer, and a printer are connected via a network, and said host computer prints image data received from said management server based on a printing parameter indicating a printing condition set by a user using said... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070297013 - Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading method: An image reading apparatus, including: a scanner unit to read an original image to generate image data; an input unit to accept a direction to perform or not to perform predetermined image processing which affects image density to the image data; and a control unit to perform the predetermined image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070297000 - Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, option function setup method, option function setup method for information processing apparatus, option function setup method for image forming apparatus, program, and storage: In a case where only one image forming apparatus ID stored in a PC coincides with an own ID of an image input/output system itself stored in this system, it is controlled to set up the option function of the image input/output system according to information concerning validation and invalidation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070296999 - Printer, control method for the same, and control device: When the printer is off-line and receives a large volume of data, the receive buffer is not filled and the communication interface with the host computer does not enter a busy state. A receive buffer temporarily stores data, including control commands, from the host computer, and the printer operates according... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070297006 - Output management device setting apparatus and setting method: It is an object of the present invention to install a print server simply. In the present invention, a port monitor, an IP address and a data sending method corresponding to an installed logical printer are acquired and stored in an installed logical printer information storage module, by an installed... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070297007 - Printer formatter in a cable: A printer cable that is configured for coupling to a printer having an enclosure and a printer port. The printer cable includes a first connector for connecting to the printer port and a second connector for coupling to a host device (e.g., a personal computer (PC)). The printer cable includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20070297003 - Printing system, process apparatus, job management apparatus, a control method therefor, and program: In a printing system having a plurality of process apparatuses for executing processes from printing to bookbinding, each process apparatus receives, from an upstream process apparatus, a merged job obtained by merging a plurality of jobs. The process apparatus processes the merged job on the basis of job management information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070297005 - Wireless system-in-package and image processing control apparatus: A wireless printer system includes a wireless transceiver that generates a baseband signal based on a received radio frequency signal. A first system on a chip communicates with the wireless transceiver and includes a system on a chip. The system on a chip includes a wireless interface module and an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070297010 - Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program: In conventional technique, a layout result is displayed on only one page, and a print result cannot be roughly observed by reduced display of all pages. For this reason, a specific image printed on a specific page cannot be overlooked, and a user must print the image while imaging an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070296983 - Method and apparatus for recording digital data on image-receiving medium: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for recording digital data on an image-receiving medium (20). The recording head (71) is transported along a slow-scan-direction (Y) and digital image data is recorded along a fast-scan-direction (X). The recording head (71) is decoupled from its drive (60) during recording of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070297015 - Image forming apparatus, warm-up method thereof and image forming method: In the invention, a fixing unit of an image forming apparatus having plural image forming units, which can be driven simultaneously, is warmed up according to a state of a request for a print job of the image forming apparatus to reduce warm-up time. After the warm-up is completed, supply... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070297016 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and computer-readable storage medium: A digital camera 100 groups items of image data matching in their image pickup condition into a group and generates a list of the grouped image data. The digital camera 100 selects a representative image from the grouped image data and transfers the representative image and the list to a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070297017 - Image-forming apparatus, image-processing method, and control program for executing the same: An image-processing method for an image-forming apparatus communicating with a peripheral device is disclosed. The method includes scanning a document; generating data corresponding to the scanned document; obtaining data held by the peripheral device; forming display data for displaying the generated data and the data obtained from the peripheral device... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297018 - System and method for generating an image document: A system for generating an image document. The system comprises means for receiving image edit sequence information from an image editor indicative of a sequence of changes made to an image using the image editor. Means generate an image edit tree using the recorded image edit sequence information, and using... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20070297019 - Apparatus, method, mobile station and computer program product for noise estimation, modeling and filtering of a digital image: An apparatus, method, mobile station and computer program product are provided for filtering noise from a digital signal. In particular, a signal-dependent noise model is used that provides the pointwise (or pixelwise) standard deviation of the temporal noise of raw data outputted from a digital imaging sensor as a function... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070297020 - Image-sensing module using white leds as a light source thereof: An image-sensing module using white LEDs as a light source thereof comprises a printed circuit board, a contact image-sensing element, a rod lens, and a white LED element, wherein the contact image-sensing element is mounted on the printed circuit board, the rod lens provided above the contact image-sensing element, and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070297022 - Image forming apparatus, method applicable to the image forming apparatus, and control program: A method for controlling an image forming apparatus includes: storing data in which pages are defined; specifying insertion data to be inserted into the data; providing instructions to insert the insertion data specified at a specific page of the data stored; determining whether the insertion data specified has been input... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297021 - Imaging scanner with multiple image fields: Disclosed are embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for providing multiple image fields or regions on an imaging array. In certain preferred embodiments, a high density imaging array may be partitioned into two or more regions, each of which may be used to render a separate view of the scan... Agent: Datalogic - Stoel Rives LLP C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070297023 - Scanning method and an image-processing device including the same: An original comprises a first page and a second page as disposed face-down on the platen surface of an image-processing device. The platen is scanned to form a platen image. The positions of two diagonally-opposite corners of the original are determined based on a fixed platen reference point. An original... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070297024 - Light scanning unit and electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the same: Provided are a light scanning unit and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the light scanning unit. The light scanning unit includes a light source, a polygonal mirror deflecting light emitted from the light source in a main scanning direction, an imaging lens transmitting the deflected light to a photoconductor... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070297025 - Solid-state image-pickup device and method of processing signal of solid-state image-pickup device: A solid-state image-pickup device including a multiplier configured to perform digital-gain processing for a sensor signal output from an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal of an image sensor into a digital signal is provided. The solid-state image-pickup device includes a signal generator configured to generate randomly distributed... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070297026 - Image capture device with rolling band shutter: A device and method for compensating for motion in image capture are provided. A processor (205) initiates partially concurrent scanning sweeps (208,209) across a digital image sensor (203) to obtain sets of digital values (210,211). At least a first set of digital values (210) and a second set of digital... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070297027 - Modular spring system: A modular spring system has a module body to accommodate a cam shaft holder on one end and a blocking surface on the other end. The cam shaft holder has a well to accommodate a cam shaft, allowing the cam shaft to rotate therein. The well has an open section... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070297028 - System and device for monitoring a computing device: Described is a system and device for monitoring a computing device. The system comprises a mobile host computing device and a portable peripheral device detachably coupled to the host device. The peripheral device includes a microprocessor and a sensor. When the peripheral device is coupled to the host device, the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070297029 - Providing a document preview: A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for generating a document preview. According to one method, a preview handler is provided that exposes interfaces that may be called by a host application to generate a document preview without launching the application program that created the document. The interfaces... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070291284 - Image forming apparatus and thumbnail image generating method: The invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of executing plural jobs and capable of generating a thumbnail image representing a history of execution of the jobs. The image forming apparatus includes a condition setting unit that sets a condition for generating the thumbnail image and a log generating... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070291295 - Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus control method thereof, printing system, and program: From an external device, a print job which includes application data generated by an application on the external device and print data printable by a printing apparatus is received. The print data in the received print job is rasterized into bitmap data. The application data in the received print job... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070291294 - Printing apparatus, print control method, program, and storage medium: Document data received via a network is analyzed to detect the presence/absence of external reference data to be acquired from a reference destination on the network, and a reference count of the external reference data. Based on the analysis result, external reference data is acquired from the reference destination on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070291296 - Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and computer program: Application data is extracted based on a read document image. A license for a function of printing the application data is permitted in accordance with a license key based on the read document image. After permission, the extracted application data is printed.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070291303 - Digital camera with communication function: In a digital camera having a wireless communicator with a server, a storage controller treats full size image data and display size image data unequally if the full size image data has been already sent to the server. For example, the display size image data is not allowed to be... Agent: Masahide Tanaka

20070291297 - Online publishing tools: Online publishing tools, which provide browser-based publishing services available through the Internet for preparing content for publication, include a preview interface which generates and displays an accurate representation of the client's work, with proportionately correct size, font, format and positioning, as well as an edit interface which generates a less... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070291299 - System and method for generating location based content: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating location based content via a document processing device. Location data representing the location of the document processing device is first stored in an associated storage, along with data representing services associated with the document processing device. A user... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070291298 - System and method for visually encoding related functions on a multi-function document output device control interface: A system and method for visually encoding related functions on a multi-function document output device control interface is provided. A set of main functions are configured as hardware buttons, capable of being distinguished from each other through the use of backlighting. The color associated with the backlighting for each function... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070291307 - Image forming method and system to perform overlay: An image forming method and an image forming system to perform an overlay function. The method includes selecting a page that is to be overlaid from among pages in a document that is to be printed; generating a printing data, to which an overlay is applied, by applying the selected... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070291308 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes a first selection unit configured to select a first object from a plurality of objects displayed on an operation screen, a second selection unit configured to select a second object which is an object different from the first object and is used as a reference... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070291309 - Layout planning apparatus, layout planning method, layout planning program, and recording medium storing layout planning program: When a composite signature includes two intermediate signatures imposed thereon, a first table generating section generates a first table showing the page composition of an intermediate signature imposed on the left side of each composite signature, on the basis of initial information entered by a user. A second table generating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070291285 - Printing processing apparatus, method, and system, and computer readable recording medium: A printing processing apparatus comprises an analyzing unit that analyzes the components of print data; a first raster processing unit that, based on the analysis result of the analyzing unit, performs raster processing at a first resolution for the print data of a portion of the components of the print... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070291286 - Printing system, job processing method, and storage medium: A printing system includes a receive controller that enables by using a user interface unit an input of an instruction during performing of first print processing with a print apparatus, and an operation controller that enables the print apparatus to perform check processing before completion of the first print processing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070291287 - Customer-based visual printer color-to-monitor color matching: A method for printer to monitor color matching includes displaying a target color pattern corresponding to a source color pattern and printing a plurality of reference color patterns, each reference color pattern corresponding to a color corrected source color pattern. The method includes comparing the reference and target color patterns... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070291289 - Image control system and method: A color image control system and method are provided for improving the image control of printing systems, including digital front-end processors, color printers and post-finishing system. This automatic image control system, including measurement and calibration, by registering the captured reproduced document with the extracted virtual device document and automatically locating... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070291288 - Methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070291291 - Printing device, carriage and color measurement method: The invention relates to a color printing device, whereby the color printing device comprises a reciprocating color measurement device and a reciprocating optical density sensor, to a mobile carriage comprising a color printhead, a color measurement device and an optical density sensor and to a color measurement method comprising the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070291290 - System and method for file-based configuration of a document output device: A system and method for file-based configuration of a document output device is provided. Following the receipt of electronic document data and instruction data from an associated workstation, DEVMODE data is retrieved from an XML data file. The instruction data is then compared with the DEVMODE data to determine whether... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070291311 - Image processing apparatus and printing apparatus: To provide a prepared color separation table for an inkjet printing apparatus that suppresses unevenness due to differences in the color of regular reflected light when a printing medium surface used for printing pigment-based inks is irradiated with light and which can output a high quality image. It is a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070291312 - Production of color conversion profile for printing: A system is configured to calculate an evaluation index of sample ink amount data from a color difference evaluation index and an image quality evaluation index and create a profile on the basis of a sample with a high rating value. When the image quality evaluation index is predicted, the... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070291315 - Image processing apparatus, printing system, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus calculates a deformation direction and a deformation ratio of halftone dots, based on a printing condition including a printing direction, a printing speed and the like. Then, the image processing apparatus deforms halftone data, based on the calculated deformation direction and deformation ratio, and generates a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070291314 - Image processing device, and medium employed for the same: An image processing device is capable of generating single-hue image data from color image data, which include at least two records of a first area to be filled with a first color based on first hue component data and a second area to be filled with a second color based... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070291313 - Image processing device, image processing method, and medium including image processing program: An image processing device includes an image generating unit configured to generate image data expressed a single hue from color image data, which include at least a first area to be filled with a first color based on first hue component data and a second area to be filled with... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070291316 - Automatic image enhancement using computed predictors: A method and apparatus for enhancing electronic images allows for improved characteristics between light areas and dark areas, and is particularly effective for backlit images. A transition between light and dark image portions is detected. A determination is made from an analysis of spectral distributions as to whether an image... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070291317 - Automatic image enhancement using computed predictors: A method and apparatus for enhancing electronic images allows for improved characteristics between light areas and dark areas, and is particularly effective for backlit images. A transition between light and dark image portions is detected. A determination is made from an analysis of spectral distributions as to whether an image... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070291318 - System and method for automated processing of consecutively scanned document processing jobs: The subject application is directed to a system and method for the automated configuration for document input devices. A document processing device first receives a document, which is scanned to detect an indicia on one of the sheets of the document. The indicia, in the form of a barcode or... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070291319 - System and method of printing a watermark: A printer implementing watermark printing is provided. A user interface receives script data and configuration data, and generates a watermark file accordingly. A data interface receives data for printing. A print image generator generates a print image according to the watermark file and the data for printing, wherein the print... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070291320 - Ridged surface structure facilitating display of multiple engraved patterns: A ridged surface structure includes a plurality of parallelly arrayed and regularly spaced rectangular-sectioned ridges, each of the ridges may be cut at one or both lengthwise upper edges thereof to produce bevel surfaces at different positions, so that the bevel surfaces on the lengthwise upper edges at the same... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070291293 - System for controlling brand integrity in a network environment: A system enables geographically-spaced common-brand users to publish locale-specific, content-controlled messages. The system provides selective access to pre-constructed, digital, plate-ready macrotemplates. A dynamic document server stores the macrotemplates and authorizes selective access thereto based upon user-supplied credentials. The user, having authenticated credentials, may access a select macrotemplate, which necessarily comprises... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20070291301 - Facsimile transmission over a network: A technology to facilitate realization of facsimile transmission of an image over a network is provided. A facsimile device includes an image data storage unit to store received image and an output device connection unit that connects the facsimile device to an image output device. The output device connection unit... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070291306 - Image job totaling apparatus and image job totaling system: An image job totaling apparatus which acquires an operating state of an image processing apparatus detects occurrence of an error in the image processing apparatus at an early stage, while reducing the load of processing to acquire the operating state as much as possible. A job information notification section 212... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070291305 - Information distribution system, its distribution center apparatus and user terminal apparatus, and information storage medium usable for the system: When distributing an encrypted content to a user terminal apparatus via a communication line, a distribution center apparatus requires a medium ID of an information storage medium, and encrypts a decryption key of the encrypted content by using the corresponding medium ID to transmit the encrypted decryption key to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070291302 - Method and system for printing from web applications, a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage means: A method and a system for printing from web applications, as well as a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage means, are described. The method and system are particularly useful for improving the print functionality of web applications; e.g., by enabling printout of additional formats. It is proposed... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

20070291300 - Method, system and a computer program for automatically processing a job ticket for a printing process: In a method or program for automatic execution of a job ticket for a printing press, the job ticket with a tree structure is imported in which at least one intent node is contained, the intent node having at least one template name and one resource listed. The template name... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070291304 - Operating apparatus, controlling operating apparatus, communication system, and managing communication system: A communication system, and a method of managing the communication system are provided, each of which allows an apparatus in the communication system is replaced in a timely manner when an error is detected in the apparatus.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070291310 - Modular printer effects module with a triplet of actuators: An effects module is provided for a modular printer. The effects module includes a body, in turn, housing electronics. A CHOOSE actuator is mounted to the body in electrical connection with the electronics and enables a user to choose between a number of different types of effects to be applied... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070291292 - Image data processing apparatus, medium recording image data set, medium recording image data processing program and image data processing method: Image data are housed in a folder managed as a film metaphor and a database of photographic data 30b corresponding to each image data is prepared. When a desirable image processing is selected for desirable image data, the selected image processing is updated as modification information in the database structure.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291321 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention includes a CMOS sensor that captures a subject image formed by an interchangeable lens to generate image data, a liquid crystal monitor that displays the generated image data, and a microcomputer having a live view mode that controls so that the generated image... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070291323 - Internet-based synchronized imaging: A internet based method and apparatus is described from automatically processing a captured digital image taken by a smart device at a fixed-location, mobile or virtual event, and synchronizing the combination of that captured primary image with a secondary image, be it a picture frame, or a watermark to create... Agent: Lawrence Edelman Attorney At Law

20070291322 - Communication apparatus, method for controlling communication apparatus, control program, and recording medium: A multifunction device (communication apparatus) (100) includes (i) a transmission information storing section (14) which associates line sound information indicating whether to emit a line sound that is a sound indicating a communication signal generated at the time of data transmission with a destination number specifying a destination of data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070291326 - Image reading apparatus and control method therefor: An image reading apparatus which enables reduction of time to be taken from a job start instruction to a reading operation start. An automatic document feeder unit feeds an original. An upstream reader reads an image on one side of the original fed by the automatic document feeder unit. A... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070291325 - Combined image pickup-display device: An image display device according to the present invention is disclosed wherein a display function is added to an area sensor in which an optical sensor (constituted by a thin film light sensing diode) and a TFT are disposed in two dimensions on a transparent substrate to form a read... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070291324 - Image reading apparatus and method of displaying alien substance location thereof: There is provided an image reading apparatus for acquiring a read signal of an image by receiving and photoelectrically converting a light reflected from a document. The location of an alien substance on an original plate is detected based on a reflected light received by a light receiving unit adapted... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070291327 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to perform an image formation onto a recording medium which moves relatively in a sub scanning direction, the image forming section including a writing unit including a writing element; an image processing section to convert a data for driving... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070291328 - Media processing apparatus and scanner unit: The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path for imaging the first side of the check, a back... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070291329 - Optical transparent media adapter: A thin transparent media adapter is used when scanning transparent media on a contact image sensor or reduction optics scanner. The adapter uses illumination from an existing scanner light source to illuminate a diffuser and the media. A lens assembly is used to focus the light from the media to... Agent: Hdsl

20070291330 - Optical transparent media adapter with magnetically coupled optics and light guide: A thin transparent media adapter is used when scanning transparent media on a contact image sensor or reduction optics scanner. The adapter uses illumination from a light guide assembly to illuminate a diffuser and the media. A lens assembly is used to focus the light from the media to create... Agent: Hdsl

20070291333 - Image reading apparatus and reflecting mirror unit: The invention relates to an image reading apparatus and includes: scanning unit including a light source; a focusing mirror which reflects light from the light source on a reflecting surface portion; and a mirror holder which fixes the focusing mirror on fixing portions formed at both ends of the mirror... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070291331 - Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming method: In an image reading apparatus for reading a color document as a monochrome image, an image forming apparatus of the invention includes a composite light source that irradiates the color document and includes plural light sources different in spectral distribution, a sensor to detect the intensity of a reflected light... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070291334 - Imaging apparatus: The present invention provides an imaging apparatus comprising: an image pickup device which acquires the image of an object; an illuminating device which emits an illuminating light at a prescribed level of luminescence; an extracting device which extracts the face of a person from the image obtained from the image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291332 - Image processing system and method: An image processing system, comprising a scanning device having at least first and second light sources for illuminating an object to be scanned, the second light source configured to emit light at a different frequency spectrum than the first light source, a scanned image of the object generated using light... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070291335 - Display substrate, display panel having the same, and method of manufacturing the same: A base substrate of a color filter substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region. The display region includes a pixel area having a first unit area, a second unit area, and a third unit area that are disposed adjacent to each other, and a blocking area that surrounds... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070291336 - Image adjusting device: The invention relates to an image adjusting device applied to a display system. According to a color area selected by the user, the image adjusting device is used for adjusting the saturation (or the lightness) of the pixels of an input image. Accordingly, the user can clearly see the color... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070291337 - Image processing apparatus and control method: An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit capable of displaying image data in a one-image display mode, in which images are displayed one by one, and a multi-screen display mode, in which a plurality of images is displayed at the same time; a selection unit configured to select between... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070291338 - Photo editing menu systems for digital cameras: Photo editing menu systems for digital cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method for applying creative effects to digital images with minimal user effort may comprise displaying an image editing menu as a layer over a digital image displayed on a camera. The method may also comprise receiving... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070285677 - Image forming method, apparatus and computer-readable recording medium having image forming program: An image forming apparatus at least includes a photoreceptor, a light emitter, a detector and a controller. The light emitter irradiates the photoreceptor with a laser beam so as to form an electrostatic latent image thereon. The detector detects an incident amount of the laser beam falling on a light... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285675 - Image processing apparatus and data cloning method: A setting data selecting portion selects setting data for each function according to user input to an operation input portion, the setting data being used to set various preset values related to functions of the image processing apparatus. An image forming portion forms setting data selected by the setting data... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070285676 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printing apparatus performs print processing on a plurality of sheets according to print data input by an input unit, and sets the printing unit to a first operation state in which monochromatic print processing is capable of being performed or to a second operation state in which color print... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070285674 - System and method for controlled monitoring of pending document processing operations: A system and method for controlled monitoring of pending document processing operations is provided. Each document processing request received by a document processing device is assigned a job name, which is then encrypted using a random static encryption key, resulting in a job identification. A user then logs onto the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070285696 - Image generating apparatus, image processing apparatus, recording medium and computer readable recording medium: An image generating apparatus includes a document-image acquiring section, an information-image acquiring section and a synthesizing section. The document-image acquiring section acquires a document image, which is a binary image formed based on an electronic document. The information-image acquiring section acquires an information image, which is a binary image formed... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070285697 - Printer: A printer is capable of simply carrying out image division printing (repeat printing), and capable of reducing the number of images that are unusable due to clipping of the image on the leading edge of the sheet. The printer has an image division printing function of forming a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285698 - Indicia reading apparatus having reduced trigger-to-read time: A TTR time of a reading apparatus can also be reduced by designing an apparatus to exhibit a certain timing relationship between a receipt of a trigger signal and/or more of image capture and decoding. An apparatus in one embodiment can be configured to continuously capture frames of image data... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20070285701 - Job status notifying image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a detecting device that detects an job progressing status of the image forming apparatus, a transmission device that receives from the detecting device and transmits the information of the job progressing status, and an information notifying device that receives from the transmission device and notifies... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285704 - Automatic printer registration: A technique is provided for automatically registering a printing device with a printer manager. An agent process associated with the printer manager receives notification data from the printing device that indicates that the printing device is available to process requests for printing electronic documents. In response, the agent process generates... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070285703 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a code acquiring unit configured to acquire a code, an identification code storing unit configured to store an identification code for performing specific processing, an identification code judging unit configured to, when a code is acquired by the code acquiring unit, judge whether the code... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070285712 - Image output system, image output apparatus, information processing method, storage medium, and program: This invention prevents the operation performance drop of an image input and output apparatus even when the frequency of use of the image input and output apparatus is high upon recording log information in a system that comprises the image input and output apparatus. As a characteristic feature of this... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070285708 - Image processing device, image processing method, and information recording medium: An image processing device includes a processing part configured to process first image information so that second image information is generated; wherein the image information includes image data and reference information accompanying the image data; and the processing part correlates first reference information included in the first image information and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070285709 - Image processor: An image processor has a plurality of NICs (communication units), and a function of executing a plurality of jobs involving communication processes with terminals through the NICs. The job processing efficiency of the image processor is improved to the utmost extent. The types of priority jobs are preset for each... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070285713 - Printer system and control method thereof: A printer system capable of reducing wasteful power consumption by apparatuses forming the printer system and preventing the service lives of the apparatuses from being shortened and capable of optimizing the capacity of power source. When power of the apparatuses of the printer system is on, a slave controller of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070285707 - Printing system and control method thereof, and storage medium therefor: A print system comprises a bookbinding unit that is capable of executing a bookbinding job of sheets printed by a print unit, and which controls the processes such that the print unit and the bookbinding unit perform their respective processes separately from one another, rather than in series, based on... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070285711 - Printing system, print processing method and program: A printing system that adopts an SBC system in which a load at a server is alleviated when executing printing to enable printing to be performed smoothly. In the printing system, a client terminal, a server, and an image forming apparatus are connected to each other through a network. The... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070285706 - System and method for rerouting of document processing jobs: A system and method for selective rerouting of document processing jobs is provided. A printer driver first converts electronic document data is into a device compatible format and assigned a unique document ID. The printer driver then determines a set of network devices, such as document processing devices, that are... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070285705 - System and method for testing readiness of a document processor: A conditional document processor commencement system and method is provided. When a document processing device receives a document processing request, the device first determines whether a source document is present on the automatic document feeder or on the scanner device. A scan operation is initiated to detect the presence or... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070285717 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling same: A procedure through which a device is started up when power is introduced is fixed. Consequently, if there is a job that has been suspended owing to cut-off of power the length of time from re-introduction of power to resumption of the suspended job is too long. In order to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070285718 - Image processing device and method for moving device to ready state: There is provided an image processing device, which comprises an interface into which a removal storage medium can be connected; at least one device having one of an image reading function and an image output function; a preparation control unit configured to execute a preparation process so that the at... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070285716 - Optical writing controller and image forming apparatus: A write control IC includes a plurality of memories, a plurality of image processing units, a switch control unit, and a plurality of LD control units. The image processing units process image data. The memories store therein the image data. The switch control unit switches the memories to store the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285720 - Flexible system for producing photo books: A data structure for a page configured to be incorporated into a photo book includes a first data field configured to store a position of an image on the page; a second data field configured to store information about an owner of the page; and a third data field configured... Agent: Xin Wen

20070285722 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium storing image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes an area splitting section that splits whole image areas of a first page before edition and a second page which has been edited into plural regions; an alignment section that performs relative alignments between each of the corresponding split regions of the first page image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070285721 - Information processing apparatus related to electronic sticky note, document processing apparatus, printing apparatus and media storing programs: An information processing apparatus includes an area specifying unit that specifies a print area to be printed on a print medium in a page of a document, and a processing controller that controls processing related to an electronic sticky note, in correspondence with a portion running off the print area... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285724 - Print control device and print control method: When image formation is to be carried out based on multiple print jobs that have been inputted, multi-imposition print data is generated in which the multiple print jobs are arranged in a single sheet layout, and cutting sheet data is generated based on positions of the multiple print jobs arranged... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070285680 - Image processing apparatus and control method: An image processing apparatus configured to print a sheet to instruct outputting an image includes an analysis unit configured to analyze an image stored in an image storage unit, a conversion unit configured to convert a size of the image according to a result of the analysis performed by the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070285679 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes: a change information acquiring unit that acquires, when first brightness setting information is changed, information on the change, the first brightness setting information defining, in printing a color that can be represented by only a color material of black, brightness that should be represented using... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285681 - Operation screen generating apparatus, printing apparatus, imaging apparatus, operation screen generating method, and computer program: An operation screen generating apparatus includes: an image-in-work-screen generating unit that displays a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation; and an image-in-confirmation-screen generating... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070285682 - Printer: Various embodiments and methods related to a printer are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070285684 - Accommodating creative white point: Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for white balancing image data while performing chromatic adaptation. A creative white point corresponding to a visual appearance of white selected for projection of image data can be obtained. A color transform for converting the image data to a device-independent color space can... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070285694 - Color conversion definition creation apparatus and color conversion definition creation program storage medium: A color conversion definition creation apparatus has an acquisition section that acquires a XYZ value by colorimetry for a color patch with the color represented by a representative reference lattice point out of reference lattice points each having four reference coordinate components on the K axis, among plural lattice points... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285688 - Color gamut contour creating system: The present invention provides a color gamut contour creating device that includes a color gamut contour creating component and a color gamut contour smoothing component. The color gamut contour creating component generates color gamut contour data representing a color gamut contour of a color reproducing range in a preset color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070285685 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus of the invention includes: an input unit configured to input color image data of multiple colors; a specified color converting unit configured to convert the input color image data of multiple colors to at least two specified colors with a color conversion table; a parameter setting... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285686 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus of the invention is a tandem type image forming apparatus for forming a color image and includes a bit-length converting unit configured to convert a plurality of first image data having a first bit length and provided for respective print colors into a plurality of second... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285687 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus according to the invention is characterized by including: a first input unit that inputs image data having attribute information and color information; a second input unit that inputs designated attribute information and designated color information designated by a user; a limited image generating unit that generates,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285690 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes an image data input unit, a density variation detection unit and a position/size detection unit. The image data input unit inputs image data containing original image data obtained by reading an original. The density variation detection unit detects density variation from the image data input... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070285692 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium: In generating a conversion characteristic look-up table between an output device dependence color space and device independence color space, when white and black correction is performed for a colorimetric value of a sample chart output from an output device, the values of the chromaticity components of the white point of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070285693 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving same: A source driver includes a control unit, a data selecting unit, a gamma circuit, a level shifter and a driving buffer unit. The control unit compares a frame count value with a predetermined value N, where N is a natural number larger than two, and outputs a data select signal... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070285728 - Inspection apparatus, inspection method and manufacturing method of mask for exposure, and mask for exposure: An inspection apparatus of a mask for exposure that has a light shielding region 3 and a half-tone region 2 on a transparent substrate 1, includes a storage unit stored with half-tone pattern area data specifying an existing area of the half-tone region 2, a pattern detection unit 22 acquiring... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070285727 - Textured ht screens for improved uniformity appearance: An image processing method for adding noise-like texture to the print through the manipulation of halftone screens. The method injects noise into halftone thresholds arrays rather than directly into the image. The method operates by creating a halftone threshold array of suitable size to support the desired noise characteristics. A... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070285729 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An edge information detection section detects edge information corresponding to a spatial change in a pixel value in a predetermined region by using a two-dimensional first differential filter with respect to an input image signal. An edge intensity detection section detects an edge intensity by using a first threshold value... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285678 - Recording apparatus: DC power supplied from an AC adaptor to a docking station is supplied to a station power circuit and is also supplied to a printer power circuit. The docking station includes a transistor capable of switching on and off a path of supply of DC power from the AC adaptor... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070285699 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, program for controlling image forming apparatus, information managing apparatus, information managing method, and information managing program: In an image forming system of the present invention, each of the information processing apparatuses receives an input whether print of the image forming job is to be held or executed, sets whether print of the image forming job is to be held or executed, generates a user packet, and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285700 - System and method for data processing: In a data processing system in which data to be processed is managed as processing-object data, and the processing-object data is processed in response to a designation, there are provided: data management means for managing the processing-object data together with processing-object attribute information indicative of an attribute thereof; processing designation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070285702 - Image forming apparatus, user restriction method and use history generation method: An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered; an operation panel for receiving a key operation input; a secure program used for determining whether a user... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285714 - Center server and image network system: In an image network system used for network print service which receives an order for printing or the like by using a communication network such as the Internet, there are provided a center server capable of providing service which is different depending upon points given to a customer according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285710 - Consolidation of application documents for electronic submission to a postal network: An automated hybrid mail system/method (10) which sends a graphic image file (17a) from a sender's terminal (14) into a postal network (26) via a remote printing facility (24). The system/method can concatenate or consolidate a plurality of application documents into a virtual print stream for printing by producing a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070285715 - Output control apparatus, output control system, output control method, computer-readable recording medium and computer program for communicating with a plurality of printing apparatuses: An output destination of a job can be arbitrarily selectively used in accordance with an application of the user. If a state of each of printers to which the print job should be outputted is abnormal, if the states of the printers are unknown, or if there is a trouble... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070285719 - Image forming apparatus, program adding method, and a recording medium: An image forming apparatus include a program for performing a process concerning image formation by using a hardware resource, and a slot which a recording medium is inserted into and removed from. A status monitoring part monitors whether or not a recording medium is inserted or removed; a recording medium... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285725 - Logo data generating apparatus, logo data generating method, and data storage medium: A logo data generating apparatus and method easily generate logo data suitable for storage to and output by a particular target printer without requiring a complicated process defining the image processing and data communication parameters. A source image obtaining unit obtains the source data used to generate the logo data.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070285723 - Method and system for managing bank drafts: A system, method and computer readable medium for capturing draft or check data during a print process is disclosed. In another embodiment the present invention captures draft information during a print process. A user will initiate a print command to provide a copy of a draft being issued to a... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070285691 - Application specific integrated circuit (asic) in the form of a printer processor: A processor is provided for a printer. The processor includes an address, data and control bus. An expander unit is coupled to the bus and is configured to decompress a bi-level black layer of a page to be printed. A decoder unit is coupled to the bus and is configured... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070285695 - Correlated secondary trc calibration method: This invention is a method of producing a set of TRC's for a color printer's secondary halftone screens that is correlated with the printer's primary halftone screens. The method makes use of the printer/screen characteristic data that is normally gathered during screen calibration. However, instead of progressing from the data... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070285683 - Image scanner and signal processing method: Interpolation data for a missing pixel are obtained (4) after a correction (3) for variations in the characteristics of the imaging devices (8(1), 8(2)). The correction for variations in characteristics includes, for example, a black level correction (9) and a sensitivity correction (10). The interpolation includes, for example, interpolation calculations... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285689 - Remote monitoring system for quickly dealing with bug: A printing apparatus remote monitoring system includes a center system that remotely monitors a plurality of printing apparatuses, and a plurality of monitoring mediation apparatuses that mediate communications between the plurality of printing apparatuses and the center system. The center system includes a bug countermeasure policy storage device that stores... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285726 - Systems for gray component replacement blending: Color processing methods and apparatus are provided that blend the gray component replacement (“GCR”) level of arbitrarily-specified input color data with an estimate of the GCR level of an output profile, and then converts processed device-independent data to output CMYK data that has a GCR level that substantially matches the... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070285730 - Document reading method, document reader, image forming device, and image scanner: Photoelectric conversion elements of line sensors (CIS22 to CIS26) arranged in a zigzag manner read a white reference plate to acquire a white reference read value A, and a white reference read average value AA is determined from the white reference read value A for each line sensor. Further, the... Agent: Bruce L. Adams Adams & Wilks

20070285731 - Image sensor device, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An image sensor device converts reflected light from an image surface of an original into an electric signal, and includes a substrate, a light transmitting unit, and a light receiving unit. The light transmitting unit is located on the substrate, and transmits the reflected light. The light receiving unit receives... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070285732 - Facsimile apparatus for outputting a melody when receiving a call from a specific party: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070285733 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus according to this invention includes an image processing unit configured to input pre-image processing image data and perform various image processing, a storage unit configured to store the pre-image processing image data and repeatedly read out and output the stored pre-image processing image data to the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285734 - Data processing apparatus and method that notifies a user when data is transferred: A data processing apparatus, such as a facsimile apparatus, connected to a LAN, that transmits and/or receives data to or from another apparatus, wherein even if an error or failure such as a printer error or an insufficiency of available space in image memory for storing image data occurs, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070285735 - Handheld device with a digital album and applications thereof: A handheld device with a digital album to redisplay previously captured physical images and the applications of the same are provided, wherein the handheld device comprises an image-capture unit, an image-compression unit and a memory unit. The image-capture unit is used to garb initial image data by converting the physical... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070285736 - Image acquisition device: An image acquisition device capable of accomplishing special-effect processing on real-time motion of the image data in a preview mode is disclosed. The device includes a lens, an optical sensor, an image signal processor, a special-effect processor, a storage unit, and an image display unit. The optical sensor receives an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285738 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of shortening first copy time to thereby reduce wait time before execution of a print job and prolonging the service life of a scanner motor at the same time. An image forming apparatus that forms a latent image on a photosensitive drum in response to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070285739 - Image-reading device having flatbed scanner: An image-reading device includes a document-supporting base, a document-pressing member, a reading unit, a controlling unit, and a determining unit The document-supporting base has a transparent member on which a document is placed. The document-pressing member is disposed on the document-supporting base so as to cover the transparent member. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285737 - Image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and controlling program for image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, method of controlling the image forming apparatus, and controlling program for the image forming apparatus according to the invention , a first detecting unit detects whether a first original is set on a platen glass or not, a second detecting unit detects whether a second... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070285740 - Image sensor module: An image sensor module includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of light receiving elements mounted on the first substrate, a light source mounted on the second substrate, and a light guide for emitting light from the light source as linear light extending in the primary scanning direction.... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070285741 - Image reading-recording apparatus: An image reading recording apparatus includes a recording unit for recording an image on a recording material; a read unit, movable relative to the recording unit, for reading an image on an original, the read unit being movable between a first position for closing a sheet feeding port of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070285742 - Electronic page turner with improved pickup mechanism: An improved automatic page turner for turning selected bound pages, in which the automatic page turner has a frame and one or more pickup arms rotatably coupled to the frame which are capable of intermittently exerting a pressure against the selected bound pages, wherein a page ledge is connected to... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20070285743 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to record plural calibration data, an image forming unit configured to read out the plural calibration data and forming plural calibration patterns as images on a recording medium according to the plural calibration data read out, an ADF reading unit configured... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070285744 - Chromatic architecture for sports equipment: Sporting items such as soccer balls include a casing region and a graphic region that are defined by enhanced-visibility colors (EVCs) that are substantially complementary. Such EVCs can be selected to avoid colors associated with color confusion in color deficient individuals. In addition, such colors can be selected based on... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070285745 - Customizable display system: A display system including a display device and an auxiliary body. The display device has a display member, such as an image affixed to at least one surface thereof. The image can be both fixed and selectively alterable. The auxiliary body is detachably secured to the display device and may... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070279646 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming system includes an image forming device having an image forming section that forms image on a recording medium based on image information and ejects the recording medium; a post-processing device that performs post-processing on a recording medium, the post-processing device having a sheet feeding section to load... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070279647 - Image forming apparatus: An im