Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 05/08

20080123114 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same, and information processing apparatus and method: Provided are an image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same, an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, and a program for implementing these methods, in which the fact that a setting is to be changed can be reported to a host apparatus through a simple... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123123 - Document management body processing apparatus and computer readable medium: A document processing apparatus includes a display processing unit, a target area acceptance unit, an operation acceptance unit and edit unit. The display processing unit displays an image which represents a document having pieces of document information collectively ordered. The target area acceptance unit accepts specifying a target area, from... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080123122 - Image processing device having a cover capable of moving straight for covering at least a portion of a surface of an object sticking out of a main body: The present invention provides an image processing device including a main body, a cover, and an object feeder. The main body has a space, where a first side of the space is a first opening of the main body, and a second side of the space is a second opening... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080123124 - Approach for securely processing an electronic document: A method and apparatus for processing an electronic document in a secure manner is provided. A first facsimile machine may verify that the configuration state of a second facsimile machine has not changed since a prior configuration state by issuing a request to a security server. The security server may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080123125 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: An information processing system which makes it possible to enable the effective use of an optional function (surplus optional function) remaining in an unusable state. When one printing apparatus has optional function data (license or an application program) stored therein for execution of an optional function, without a required optional... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080123127 - Image processing apparatus: The present invention prevents a third party's unauthorized use by rendering a image processing apparatus having a security function undistinguishable from an image processing apparatus without a security function. In a copy mode, the image processing apparatus reads image data of a copy and stores inputted image data in a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080123126 - Sensing paper jam, out-of-paper, and cover open in a printer: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for detecting printer conditions. A set of signals are received from a sensor in a printer. A current state of the printer from a plurality of states is detected within the set of signals. Responsive to... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080123135 - Communication program, method of installing image processing apparatus control program and image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus and a host apparatus are connected to a network. Before the host apparatus uses the image processing apparatus for the first time, a communication program and information describing the image processing apparatus and its network address are transferred from the image processing apparatus to the host... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080123130 - Distributed printing system and distributed printing control device: In a distributed printing system of the invention, in response to reception of a print job, a distributed printing control device specifies distribution destination printing devices for the received print job, stores identification information of the specified distribution destination printing devices, and distributes divisions of the received print job as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123133 - Document processing apparatus and document processing method: A data acquisition unit that acquires data from a server, a generation unit that generates a first document that has been laid out by merging the data into a template that describes layout information, a rendering unit that renders the first document that has been laid out to obtain a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080123134 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor, and control program for implementing the method: An image forming apparatus which is capable of efficiently registering apparatuses in a slave apparatus list. The image forming apparatus has a partner apparatus list as the slave apparatus list which stores information on the image forming apparatuses as candidate slave apparatuses so as to select a slave apparatus for... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080123129 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method and computer-readable medium: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a communication section connected to an information management apparatus to manage a data with a correspondence of the data to the management information and an input apparatus to accept a manuscript information, to communicate with each other; an image forming section to form... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123136 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, method for managing data in the image processing apparatus and computer program product: An image processing apparatus is provided with a box data management portion that manages boxes where document files as shared data are saved, a document update detecting potion that detects an updated document file among the document files saved in boxes, an RSS data accumulating portion that stores file update... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080123131 - Operation panel structure: An operation panel structure for an image forming apparatus, said operation panel, structure having an operation panel protruding from a front side of the image forming apparatus. The operation panel has a first section mainly functioning as a display and a second section mainly having operation keys, and the first... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080123132 - Printer formatter in a removable card: A method and system for integrating a printer controller with a PC card. This system includes an office machine and a removable PC card that can be operationally coupled with the office machine. The office machine has a rendering engine for rendering images and a PC card slot for operationally... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080123137 - Printer, printer control method, and printer control program: The printer is connected to an interface device and communicates through the interface device with external devices, and has a detector that detects a prescribed operation of the printer, a controller that receives a query signal sent from the interface device, and confirms the reception status of the query signal... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080123128 - Source selection apparatus and method using media signatures: The present disclosure relates to a method and/or apparatus for determining whether to select media for printing. This may be accomplished by identifying a media signature present in the media and identifying a data stream signature that may be printed on the media. A comparison may then be made as... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080123138 - Image fit to media area method: Images may be arranged in a minimal number of media areas through a recurring process of positioning an image within a white space of the media area and subdividing the white space into an image space in which the image is positioned, a second white space, and a third white... Agent: John Victor Pezdek Lexmark International, Inc.

20080123139 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: an output image forming section for forming an image and a pattern on a supporting medium under a prescribed condition; an output section for transferring the formed image on a recording sheet; a correction section for performing reading of the formed pattern and correcting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080123140 - Systems and methods for book printing through use of booklet ganging: A system for printing a book through use of booklet ganging is disclosed. The system includes a computer connected to a printer. A document is accessible on the computer and is compatible with an application running on the computer. The system includes a software component that is configured to obtain... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080123115 - Method of printing a compressed image having bi-level black contone data layers: The invention relates to a method of printing a compressed image having a bi-level black data layer and a continuous tone (contone) CMYK data layer. The method includes the steps of receiving the image from an image host, expanding the image by decompressing the two data layers in parallel, and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080123116 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus provided with an image forming section forming a reference mark at the position being away from the leading edge of the front surface of a sheet by a prescribed length, and forming an image for the front surface based on the forming position of the reference... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123117 - Image processing method, computer-readable program, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image processing method generates image data for use by an image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording medium by ink dots formed by ejected ink drops. The image processing method includes the steps of judging an image portion and a background portion of the image, and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080123118 - Print system for a pagewidth printer for expanding and printing compressed images: This invention provides for a print system for a pagewidth printer. The print system includes a central processing unit (CPU) subsystem having a CPU with a plurality of peripherals configured to interface said print system with the printer and to control operation of the printer. Also included is a dynamic... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080123121 - Apparatus and method for adjusting density in image forming: In order to adjust density of a colorant of an image forming apparatus, a plurality of adjustment condition data sets is provided. An image forming engine of the image forming apparatus forms a test pattern image of a test pattern using the colorant. A detector of the image forming apparatus... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080123120 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and program product: An image input section is operable to input a multicolor image. A mixing ratio input section is operable to input a first mixing ratio which includes first ratios for mixing each of a plurality of color components. A calculating section is operable to calculate a second mixing ratio which includes... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080123119 - Output device, image data conversion device, and method: An output device which outputs pixel data corresponding to a color material used by a printing unit to the printing unit includes an image buffer which stores image data, a generation unit which generates density data corresponding to the color material based on image data read out from the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123142 - Colorization process and system and user interface for setting colorization information: To implement a colorization process which generates color data from monochrome data to print a receipt or other sales document, a user interface is provided. Such interface includes components for setting text color, background color and background style, respectively. The interface enables visual conformation of the settings to be used... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080123141 - Image forming apparatus capable of reproducing fine line of high quality: In an image forming apparatus, a line width detection unit detects a line width from attribute data inputted from an attribute data input unit, an edge detection unit detects an edge from image data inputted from an image data input unit, and an AND calculation unit calculates an AND of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080123143 - Printer controller configured to perform a method of page expansion and printing: The invention provides for a printer having a controller configured to perform a method of page expansion and printing of image data received from a computer. The method includes the steps of receiving a page description from the computer, the page having a bi-level black layer and a continuous tone... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080123144 - System and method for two color document rendering: A system and method for converting an image to a constrained color palette representation receives a specified color or hue from which an image is to be defined. A conversion is then made from an input color space to a CIELAB representation. Data is converted in CIELAB space, in accordance... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080123145 - Image forming apparatus and its control method, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium: A shifting amount of color compensation amount is calculated based on a shifting amount of color obtained from a shifting amount of color storage unit for each image forming unit, and shifting amount of color compensation in the pixel unit is performed by executing address conversion using the calculation result.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123147 - Control of ink ejection amount based on dot formation order: The invention provides a printing method of printing on a printing medium. The method includes: performing a halftone process with a dither matrix on image data that represents a tone value of each pixel making up an original image to determine a state of dot formation at each of print... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080123146 - Dither matrix, image processing method, storage medium, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system: A disclosed dither matrix is used in halftone processing for converting input image data having M input halftone levels into output image data having N (M>N>2) output halftone levels. In the halftone processing, a concentration type dither matrix is used as the dither matrix when an input halftone level is... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080123148 - Reduction of uneven print density: The invention provides a printing method of printing on a printing medium. The method includes: generating dot data that represents state of dot formation at each print pixel of a print image to be formed on the printing medium by performing a halftone process on image data that represents an... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080123149 - Color image processing device and color image processing method: A color image processing device includes an acquiring unit that acquires sample values of an original document at a prescribed cycle from a plurality of line sensors provided in parallel with a main scanning direction at a prescribed interval between one another, a storage unit having a capacity that stores... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080123153 - Image correction processing apparatus, image correction processing method, program, and storage medium: An image correction process that suppresses image deterioration in a printed image is provided. An image correction processing apparatus includes an area setting unit which sets an area comprising a plurality of pixels including an interest pixel, a first correction strength setting unit which adaptively sets a first correction strength... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123150 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: In order to eliminate image deterioration based on the characteristics of an output device upon execution of edge emphasis processing, an image processing apparatus includes a setting unit which sets a print characteristic on the print medium, a region setting unit which sets a region, a brightness value derivation unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123151 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: In order to provide an edge emphasis technique that can eliminate image deterioration of a digital image, an image processing apparatus includes a region setting unit which sets a region including a pixel of interest, a brightness value derivation unit which derives brightness values of the pixels, a first derivative... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123152 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus is configured to apply correction processing to image data having sharpness varying depending on an alignment direction of pixels. The image processing apparatus detects a feature quantity in an edge direction of the image data. The image processing apparatus sets an intensity of the correction processing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080123154 - Digital watermarking maps and signs, and related navigational tools: Maps and/or signs are embedded with plural-bit data in the form of digital watermarks. In one implementation, an apparatus is provided to read two or more digital watermarks embedded within a map. Each of the two or more digital watermarks includes location information for a respective map location. The two... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080123155 - Data communication system, image forming apparatus, data communication device, storage medium stored with a program and data communication method: An image forming apparatus executes a multicast transmission of image data to a computer and other devices. Concurrently, the image forming apparatus stores history information on the multicast transmission, and the history information includes destinations of the multicast transmission. The computer receives the image data from the image forming apparatus... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080123156 - Image processing apparatus, image forming system, and computer usable medium therefor: An image processing apparatus for improved image forming quality is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store image data representing a colored image, an extracting unit to selectively extract objective data representing an object to be formed on a recording medium in a specific color, a... Agent: Joseph M. Potenza Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080123157 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus image which is capable of accurately correcting the magnification of an image without degrading the quality of the formed image or reducing productivity, to thereby make it possible to cope with an increase in the operating speed of the apparatus. The image forming apparatus is comprised... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080123158 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes an image pickup element that emits an electrical signal based on received light, a document table including a reading window, a document cover, a base plate including a flat portion that opposes the reading window, the base plate being displaceable in a direction of separating... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080123159 - Scanning unit and image forming apparatus: A scanning unit in an image forming apparatus includes a light source, a coupling lens, an aperture, an image forming lens, and a polygon mirror. The light source includes a plurality of surface-emitting lasers. The coupling lens, the aperture, and the image forming lens are arranged on the optical path... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123161 - Image forming apparatus and optical controller: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a light emitter which emits light; a drive section which drives the light emitter according to a control signal; a light amount detection section which detects an amount of light which is emitted from the light emitter; an analog... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080123160 - Optical scanning device having a plurality of light sources, optical scanning method, pixel forming device, image forming apparatus using the optical scanning device having a plurality of light sources, and color image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes n-odd (n≧2) light sources disposed at different positions at least in a sub-scanning direction, a pixel forming part in which one pixel is depicted by light beams emitted from m-odd (n≧m≧2) light sources of the n-odd light sources and a distance of adjacent light sources... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080123162 - Image scanning device: An image scanning device has a scanning unit, a first storage unit, a first determination unit, and a control unit. The scanning unit scans an original document to produce image data. The first storage unit stores a specific condition used by the scanning unit for scanning a specific document. The... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080123163 - Image scanning device and method for detecting type of document: An image scanning device for scanning an image on a document comprises a document table on which a document to be scanned is placed, a scanning unit which is installed in the document table for scanning an image on a document by projecting light from a light source onto the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080123164 - Color processing apparatus and its method: A correction region of an input gamut is set in accordance with the chroma of a specific color point of the input gamut, and a correction region of an output gamut is set in accordance with the chroma of a specific color point of the output gamut. The output gamut... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123165 - Method of sharpening an rgb image for sending to a printhead: The invention provides for a method of sharpening an image to be sent to a printhead. The method includes the steps of receiving an RGB (red, green, blue) data set indicative of the image, and deriving an initial luminance channel from the received data set. The method also includes the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080117441 - Print having speech code, method and device for reappearing record, and commerce mode: The present invention relates to a paper medium. The paper medium can reappear speech recoding by speech compressing, error modifying, interleaving modulation, scrambling modulation to minimize area of the speech code. Furthermore, the significant words or pattern for human eyes are inserted into the insignificant speech code for human eyes.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080117447 - Image processing apparatus, control method for an image processing apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium: An image processing apparatus, method, and computer readable storage medium in which a controller or control means recognizes whether information read from a detachable recording medium can be applied to the image forming apparatus based on the information stored in a memory of the image processing apparatus and a removable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117455 - Apparatus for controlling printing of part images of scrapbook, method of controlling same, and control program therefor: Decorative images for creating a scrapbook are printed efficiently. To achieve this, a creator accesses a scrapbook server using a computer and executes a simulation for creating a scrapbook by affixing part images such as photographic images and decorative images to an image of a paper mount on the display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080117454 - Communication apparatus and method as well as program and storage medium: A communication apparatus which is capable of easily knowing the status of image transmission/reception in IP fax communication while performing voice communication in parallel. The communication apparatus performs IP telephone communication and IP fax communication in parallel, with a partner communication apparatus via a network. When the IP fax communication... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080117457 - Image processing apparatus, magnification ratio distribution determination method, program, and recording medium: The present invention increases output throughput and enhances user-friendliness by subjecting image data to magnification processing by an optimal image processing means, with an optimal magnification ratio, in accordance with a service provided to a user. When a service provided to the user is selected and a magnification ratio is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080117456 - Image processing device and program of the same: There is provided an image processing device and a program for image processing. The device is capable of easily handling different deadlines for reply, wherein the deadline depends on the time at which counting of time starts and varies according to the time. In the device of the present invention,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080117453 - Image processor, image processing method, and linked printing control screen generation method: An image processor implementing a linked printing function is disclosed that includes a communications part configured to perform communications with an external image processor having a slave unit function of linked printing; an image forming filter configured to execute a job of image forming with an image forming part; a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080117449 - Method and system for recalling printed documents: A system for recalling a document from a print queue log. In response to receiving a first user input to display the print queue log, print job data is retrieved. Then, the print queue log is displayed and the print queue log includes the retrieved print job data. In response... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080117450 - Methods and systems rendering a print job: A printing system for processing a print job includes a host computer; and a printer in communication with the host computer. The host computer comprises a printer driver that determines whether each print job unit can be more efficiently rendered on the host computer or on the printer and processes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080117451 - Print service for ims network: A print service for an IMS network or other public WAN facilitates the transfer of print data over the network from a remote wireless unit or other terminal to a printer system, for the automatic printout of hard copy documents. Upon receiving an authorized print request from the terminal, the... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080117452 - Secure printing system and method for the same: The secure printing system comprises: a client PC for creating print data for secure printing; one or more printers for performing printing; an authentication data acquisition means provided for each of the printers to obtain the authentication data of a user who creates the print data and a print control... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.a.

20080117448 - Template-based art creation and information management system for advertising: A template-based art creation system is used for the real-time creation of advertising art images, resulting in an automatically created, high resolution, pre-press ready art file for use in directly creating printing plates for commercial printing presses. The system includes a server module and client module. At the client module,... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080117461 - Print medium processing system, printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium: There is provided a print medium processing system including an identification information generating unit that receives input method information which is referred to when image data is inputted to an application which processes the image data, and generates identification information for the received input method information, an information memory that... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080117462 - Intelligent page buffer allocation: An improved printer controller system includes bitmap buffers for storing bitmaps as uncompressed data and a buffer manager for managing an allocation of the bitmap buffers to the bitmaps. The buffer manager is configured to recap one of the bitmap buffers according to a bitmap identifier associated with a requested... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080117463 - Image printing system: Image plus event information printing system, which comprises an image data inputting means for inputting a datum of original image, an event information database which memorizes the data of current and/or passing events information being sorted with one or more items, wherein one of the items consists of the occurrence... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080117442 - External device configuration apparatus, external device configuration method and external device: An external device configuration apparatus includes a scanner controlling unit that controls a scanner for scanning an image, an external device controlling unit that determines whether the external device is connected, and an integrated management unit that when it is determined that the external device is connected by the external... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080117444 - Gamut mapping spectral content: Various embodiments provide for gamut mapping spectral content. Source appearance content is created from source spectral data corresponding to a source color image. The source appearance content is mapped to an appearance delta using a gamut mapping algorithm. Destination spectral data is derived from the source spectral data and the... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080117445 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a effective resolution determinator for forming a plurality of patch patterns different in resolution by the output engine, checking by sensor whether or not the patch patterns formed by the output engine are developed with developer, and determining that a resolution of the patch pattern... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080117443 - Method to utilize non-image areas in image reproduction: The non-images areas within the pixels or dots may be used in a variety of different manners, including but not limited to the following. The dots can be rotated on an axis by degrees in sequence, for different color channels, over time for images in motion, or a combination of... Agent: Terry Ham

20080117466 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of revising gray image: An apparatus includes a gray converter to convert an inputted color image to be printed into a gray conversion image and to outputs the gray conversion image a difference calculator to calculate a at least one difference value between a at least one color channel image with respect to the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117465 - Image processing using hybrid lookup table: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus converts a binary image into a grayscale image by increasing the size and information quantity of the binary image. The image processing method includes generating a plurality of lookup tables having multiple gray level values assigned to a predetermined pattern of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080117464 - Method and system for reducing auto-moire artifacts in periodic halftone screening: The design of periodic screens for halftone patterns is based upon a series of constrained optimization problems. For each of a number of input levels, a pattern is found that minimizes a cost function. The cost function is a spatial-frequency weighted difference between an ideal, continuous-space pattern and a predicted... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.l.c.

20080117467 - Image processing method, program, recording medium, image processing device, and image forming apparatus: An image processing method configured to produce image data output from an image forming apparatus configured to form an image by using a recording head composed of a liquid ejecting head having plural arranged nozzles configured to eject a liquid drop and an energy generating device configured to generate ejection... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080117468 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method for improving the productivity of image reading. Moving speed control processing performed by a control unit causes an image reading portion to move the position of a reading line in a sub-scanning direction of a document, to read an image on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080117470 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes a first reading unit which reads a surface of a document and a second reading unit which reads the other surface of the document. The first and second reading units include off-axial imaging units respectively. The off-axial imaging... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080117459 - Method, system, and recording medium for ordering prints: At the time of ordering a print of image data via a network, agency information is input without carrying out a troublesome operation. Image data obtained by reading a film at a DPE store are written in a CD-R together with agency information representing the DPE store. By using a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117458 - Printing system and method using preview function: The present invention relates to a printing system and method using a preview function, which can display the output form of copied material or printed material, identical to that of actually copied material or printed material, on a screen of the printing system. Therefore, the output form of printed material... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080117460 - User customized news content delivery using a sensing device able to sense coded data: A method for providing news content includes receiving, through a computer system, news content from a sender, and printing the news content in a document (print media) including coded data, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the news content and at least one reference point on... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080117446 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for providing output image adjustment for image files: A CPU of a color printer performs gamma correction and a matrix operation M on an RGB color space image data derived by a matrix operation S. Using gamma correction value settings, the CPU performs gamma conversion of image data. Matrix operation M converts the RGB color space to an... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080117469 - Image processing apparatus and information processing apparatus: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of preventing a specific image from being added without imposing a burden on the user, at the time of printing image data to which the specific image need not be added. The image processing apparatus includes a processing section configured to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080117471 - Image recording method and system, image transmitting method, and image recording apparatus: An input apparatus reads a patient ID from an ID card and transmits it to a computer. On the basis of the patient ID, the computer obtains corresponding patient information containing a photograph of the patient's face and the patient's name, from a medical database, and then transmits the patient... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080117472 - Document management system, a document management method, and a document management program: The document management system includes a scanning unit for reading a document and generating image data, an image data storing unit for storing a scanned image file, and a document management server that includes a destination folder for storing the scanned image file and a file name conversion table. A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117473 - Method and system for providing secure facsimile transmission confirmation: A method for providing a secure fax confirmation page from a facsimile capable device having a user interface includes receiving documents, in the form of a fax job, to be transmitted by the facsimile capable device. After receipt of a recipient's fax number, a determination is made as to whether... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080117474 - Data communication apparatus and data communication method: In a data communication apparatus that performs voice communication and facsimile communication in parallel via the Internet, whether voice data is to be preferentially processed is decided by determining a processing state of the voice data about voice communication with another apparatus or facsimile data about facsimile communication with another... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080117475 - Facsimile transmission system, facsimile receiving device, and facsimile receiving method: a selected-status information transmitting portion which transmits the status information to the sending device via the network, the status information being selected according to the class of the sending-side device, which is classified by the transmission source classifying portion among a plurality of status information representing the status of the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080117476 - Data transmission apparatus, image data transmission apparatus, and program: A data transmission apparatus includes a holding portion that holds specified transmission destination information, and a control portion that controls the holding portion to keep holding the transmission destination information even after completion of data transmission based on the transmission destination information and stand by in a state of being... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080117477 - Facsimile apparatus and control method therefor: A facsimile apparatus performs facsimile communication with a partner apparatus using a first communication path including a public line or a second communication path not including the public line, detects whether facsimile communication using the first communication path and facsimile communication using the second communication path are in contention with... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080117478 - Facsimile apparatus, and control method, program, and storage medium therefor: A facsimile apparatus can execute at least one of a first facsimile communication which is executed via a first communication path including a public line and a second facsimile communication executed via a second communication path that does not include the public line. Limit information indicating a number of communications... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080117479 - Image read processing device and image read processing method: An image read processing device connected to a scanner reading an image of a document comprises at least a memory and a controller. The memory comprises a setting information recording unit that records a setting information with an application to start up depending on a document size defined there. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080117480 - Scan method and scanner utilizing the same: A scan method includes providing a scanner, including an image sensor, a reference pattern and a transmission mechanism. The image sensor scans the reference pattern to generate reference data. The transmission mechanism transmits at least one recording media between the reference pattern and the image sensor. Finally, the image sensor... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20080117481 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a driving source, a conveying mechanism, a reading control unit, an acceleration distance measuring unit, an interruption determination unit, a stop control unit, a deceleration distance measuring unit, a setback control unit, and a setback distance setting unit. The acceleration distance measuring unit measures an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080117482 - Functional unit positioning device and image forming apparatus: A functional unit positioning device for positioning a functional unit detachably attachable to an apparatus body, includes a biasing device that biases the functional unit in a unit-out direction; and a stopper mechanism having a first stopper and a second stopper, the stopper mechanism exerting and releasing control over release... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117483 - Image reading device, image reading method and copier: An image reading device includes: a first light source that irradiates light on a first side of an object; a memory that stores a plurality of parameters for controlling an intensity of the light emitting devices, each of the plurality of parameters corresponding to one of a plurality of groups;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080117484 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus scans an object to be copied to generate a scanned image, and prints the scanned image generated by the scanning part. Printing is performed to produce a color copy or a monochrome copy according to a color format evaluation of the original image, such as by... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080112004 - Processing apparatus and control method for the processing apparatus: A processing apparatus which is capable of releasing priority use of apparatuses that are reserved for priority use but are not actually used, even when a plurality of apparatuses are used by priority during a particular time period. Reservation records about reservations for priority use of apparatuses are stored in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080112010 - Apparatus, system, method, and program for managing printing operations: The present invention provides a printing managing apparatus which can set an appropriate use restriction according to using situation of a user, based on the result of analysis of use history of an image processing device. An external server, connected to the image processing device by way of a LAN,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080112006 - Document processing and managing system, document processing-managing apparatus, document processing apparatus, document processing-managing method, document processing method and computer readable medium: A document processing and managing system is provided and includes a document processing apparatus and a document management apparatus including: an acquisition history holding unit that holds an acquisition history, the acquisition history including information for identifying a first user and information for identifying the electronic document; an information holding... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080112007 - Image forming apparatus: A Multi-Functional Peripheral (MFP) comprising: a registration adjuster for making a registration adjustment by adjusting an image forming position of each color; a detector for detecting an intensity of a vibration; a transmitter for transmitting the image data to another apparatus via a network; and a controller for (i) interrupting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080112009 - Image processing apparatus, log recording method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus where an application level function is implemented by one or more basic functions is disclosed. The disclosed image processing apparatus includes a log recording unit configured to record basic function logs of the basic functions according to log formats of the basic functions, the basic function... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080112005 - Integrated picture-management and printing apparatus: An integrated picture-management and printing apparatus is provided that includes many of the components and functions included in conventional commercial picture kiosks in a single printer housing suitable for home use. Accordingly, hardware redundancies present in conventional commercial kiosks are reduced. Further, the printer housing is provided with a display,... Agent: David A. Novais Eastman Kodak Company

20080112008 - Printing apparatus, method of controlling same, program and storage medium: A printing apparatus having a printing device for executing print processing based upon document data, comprises: an input unit adapted to input document data; a storage control unit adapted to store the input document data in a storage device; an authentication unit adapted to authenticate a user; a determination unit... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080112011 - Output processing apparatus and data structure for executing its processing: An output processing apparatus comprises a first storage that stores image data in a predetermined block unit, a second storage that stores a head address of each of the image data stored in the block units, and a controller that reads, from the first storage, the same line of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080112002 - Automatic imposition gutter removal: A method and apparatus for printing a plurality of documents juxtaposed for imposition on a print media sheet without gutters. The document images are rasterized and a band of single or multiple pixels is selected along the image margins and compared to determine if adjacent bands are within a predetermined... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080111997 - Estimating color of a colorant deposited on a substrate: Systems and methods are provided that accurately estimate a post-printing appearance of a color on a substrate. In addition, systems and methods are provided that accurately estimate a post-mixing appearance of several colors mixed on a substrate.... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080111998 - Estimating color of colorants mixed on a substrate: Systems and methods are provided that accurately estimate a post-printing appearance of a color on a substrate. In addition, systems and methods are provided that accurately estimate a post-mixing appearance of several colors mixed on a substrate.... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080112001 - Hybrid look-up parse method and system for color decoding: A data structure comprising a user-maintained list of colors is scanned to determine if a particular color within the user-maintained list of colors has been re-defined. If the particular has been redefined within the user-maintained list of colors, the particular color is searched for and identified in an alternative data... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20080112003 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes an image compressing unit that creates thumbnail data in page units on the basis of image data of a document scanned by a scanner unit, a first control unit that writes the thumbnail data in page units in a page... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080111999 - Imaging data stream method and apparatus for full-color support: A method and apparatus for providing extensions to an LCDS imaging data stream. An LCDS imaging data stream is modified utilizing existing constructs of the imaging data stream in order to provide extensions to the imaging data stream for full-color rendering capabilities without re-writing or converting the imaging data stream... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20080112000 - Imaging data stream method and apparatus for full-color support: A method and apparatus for extending LCDS imaging data stream imaging capabilities. An imaging data stream can be modified to permit the imaging data stream to implement at least one full-color call for rendering full-color forms and full-color jobs via at least one rendering device within a rendering system. This... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20080112012 - Image forming apparatus and method thereof: In a line by line image forming apparatus, line switching information which depends on scan line curve and an overlap data length to be read that overlaps across a plurality of lines before and after a switching position instructed by line switching information are set in a register. If switching... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080112013 - Driverless image printing: The embodiments of the present invention provide for a direct submit application module adapted to process image-only portable document format (PDF) documents, encrypted PDF documents, and image documents. The DSA, based on an output device's features or capabilities, adaptively performs host-based emulation so as to provide users with an expanded... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, Pc

20080112014 - Image forming apparatus and image processing method: An image forming apparatus determines whether or not setting for image editing, such as negative/positive inversion or mirror image processing, has been performed for read original image data. Then, in accordance with the determination of whether or not encoded image data exists in the original image data, the image forming... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080112015 - Double filter fax cover page: An approach is provided wherein a banner page is detected and modified to insert information appropriate for a fax cover page. According to one embodiment, a user submits a document to the OS printing sub-system with a banner page option enabled. The banner page is processed by a fax cover... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080112016 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel section where a plurality of pixels for effecting photoelectric conversion are two-dimensionally arranged, having an effective pixel section consisting of pixels for receiving object light and a reference pixel section consisting of pixels shielded from light; a first scanning circuit for sequentially setting... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080112017 - Image reading device: An image reading device includes a reference member, a reading unit, a first reference value setting unit, a detecting unit, a second reference value setting unit, a determining unit, and a pixel value setting unit. The reading unit scans an image on a document to obtain image data and scans... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080112018 - Sheet processing device, image forming apparatus, and sheet processing method: A sheet processing device includes: a sheet processing tool that generates piece-like sheet wastes by processing for sheets; and a sheet waste housing device that houses sheet wastes generated by the sheet processing tool, the sheet waste housing device including: a waste receiver that is provided freely movably between a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080112019 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus comprising: a first reader that reads a first side of a document; a second reader that reads a second side of the document; a reducer that reduces in the sub-scanning direction image data read out by said first reader from the first side of the document... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080112020 - Image scanner, image forming apparatus, and image scanning method: An image scanner includes first and second carriages, a body, a power source, a power supplier, and a tensioner. In the first carriage moving at a predetermined speed, a light source emits light onto an original. A first mirror deflects the light reflected by the original. In the second carriage... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080112021 - Reading device, image forming apparatus, electronic paper, and computer program product: A copier includes an ADF that transports electronic paper and a paper medium to a read position. The ADF includes a medium type detector, a controller, a communication reader, and an optical reader. The medium type detector discriminates between electronic paper and a paper medium. The controller controls transport of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080112022 - Image transmission apparatus, image data acquiring apparatus, image data transmission method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium for the program: An image data transmission apparatus which are capable of improving reliability of log files by ensuring proper storing of log information about transferred image data. A preceding log, which includes information about the transmission of image data, is transmitted to a log file server connected with a scanner via a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080112023 - Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and program for implementing the method: An image reading apparatus in which the position of the boundary between an image of an original and a background image, as well as a skew and the size of the image of the original, can be accurately detected even with dust on a line image sensor or on an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080112026 - Color processing apparatus and method, and storage medium storing color processing program: A color processing apparatus determines, based on output color gamut information, the color gamut conversion condition for converting the image data so that the color gamut of image data on the predetermined color space may fall within the output color gamut, converts the color gamut of input image data according... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080112025 - Color processing device and method, and storage medium storing color processing program: A color processing device includes a color range conversion component, a control component and a color conversion and clipping component. The color range conversion component performs a color range conversion of input color signals in accordance with a specified color range conversion condition. The control component excludes from objects of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080112024 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, recording medium storing image processing program, and image display apparatus: An image processing apparatus for performing processing for converting a color space of image data includes a color conversion section which acquires wide color gamut image data and converts the wide color gamut image data into image data in a standard wide color gamut space, and a transmission section which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080106748 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus including the image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus including the image reading apparatus. The image reading apparatus includes a photoelectric converter to convert incident light into an analog image signal, a drive unit to drive the photoelectric converter by a frequency modulated clock signal, an overlapping circuit to overlap... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080106751 - Color image forming apparatus and color image forming method: A color image forming apparatus that automatically switches a printing mode between a single color printing mode and a color printing mode according to requested image data stores, when capturing of image data of a print job is started, the image data in an image memory unit, starts image formation... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080106750 - Image forming apparatus and method of preventing printing error from being generated: An image forming apparatus and a method of preventing a printing error thereof. If the image forming apparatus is able to recognize a printer language category when printing data has normal printer language category information, it analyzes the printing data using a printer language analyzer suitable for the printer language... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080106753 - Partial electrical discharge system and method: Methods and systems are presented for detecting partial electrical discharges in a printing machine and for determining the source of the discharge events by detecting radio frequency signals using an antenna located near high voltage components of the printing system and determining whether a partial electrical discharge has occurred based... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080106756 - Document managing system and computer readable medium: A document managing system includes: a document managing device that forms and manages, in a case where an instruction for printing and outputting a plurality of copies of a document is received from a user, identifying codes respectively corresponding to a plurality of copies of printed matters of one document... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106755 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method for executing print processing using hot folder: The present invention intends to improve usability in entering print data using a hot folder. If exceptional setting for the page is set in the print setting, which is to be applied to the print data entered into the folder, when it is detected that the print data is entered... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080106754 - Printing system, print controller, printing method and computer readable medium: The printing system is provided with: a terminal that outputs print data of a print target and authentication information required for performing a print operation; an image forming unit that receives the print data and the authentication information and that prints the print data on condition that printing authority for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106762 - Method and system for monitoring a stock of consumable material: A system for monitoring a stock of consumable material includes an image forming apparatus having an identifying unit that identifies a consumable material item inserted therein, a stock monitoring module, a counting device that derives usage data relating to consumable material in the stock and a memory. A method for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080106763 - Discard certification output device, method for outputting discard certificate and computer readable medium: A discard certification output device is installed in one of a document generation apparatus generating a document, a document discard apparatus discarding the document, and a server connected to the document generation apparatus and document discard apparatus, the discard certification output device including: a discard information acquisition unit that acquires... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106749 - Method and system for simulating a fleet of highlight color printers via full-color printer for lcds users: A method and apparatus for permitting a user to simulate a fleet of highlight color rendering devices utilizing a single full-color rendering device. A list of available colors can be established, defined and edited by a user in association with at least one rendering device among a plurality of rendering... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080106765 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of realizing miniaturization of apparatus and low cost is supplied. In the image forming apparatus, an inputting section inputs gradation data values P with N bits; a gradation changing section changes the gradation data value P into a data set including 2(N−M) (M<N) data with... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080106752 - Host and an imaging device in communication with the host: A host device to control transmission of bit-map data and/or one or more real-time commands to an imaging device controls processing of a data stream including the bit-map data. In one aspect, if a detector of the host determines that a data stream to be transmitted includes bit-map data, then... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080106757 - Access to printing material container: The present invention provides a storage device that enables identification data to be readily rewritten and ensures normal completion of a data writing operation in a short time period. In the storage device of the invention, an ID comparator determines whether or not identification data transmitted from a host computer... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080106759 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A printer has a receiving section which receives print jobs, a storing section which stores the received print jobs, a display section which displays a list of the print jobs, that include special printing, an input section which forms a touch-panel-type operation panel together with the display section, and a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080106761 - Method and apparatus for linking designated portions of a received document image with an electronic address: A method and apparatus for receiving document images including portions linked to one or more electronic addresses. The linked portion of the document is identified using a predetermined visual attribute, such as bold-face text, or delimiters to mark the portion. The document image is then transmitted using, e.g., existing apparatus... Agent: Irving Tsai

20080106760 - Network printing system, server, printing machine, and printing method: A mobile phone transmits an e-mail with attaching captured image data thereto to a data center. In response to arrival of the e-mail from the mobile phone, the data center transfers the image data attached to the e-mail to a database for storing while associating the image data with user... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080106758 - Print processing apparatus, control method for printing apparatus, and computer readable storage medium: A print processing apparatus includes: a job information storage part that stores a print job ID and a number of pages finished printing regarding a print job processed by the print processing apparatus, a priority order information storage part that stores a priority order information regarding processing the print job... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080106764 - Automatic image quality adjustment according to brightness of subject: The image processing device performs image processing using image data generated by an image generating device, and image generation record information associated with the image data where the image generation record information includes at least operating information about the image generating device at the time of generation of the image... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080106766 - Management apparatus and control method thereof: The data amount of department counters stored in a database is reduced. In department counter information, departments with their data not having been updated in a predetermined period are set as ineffective departments so as not to register these departments in the database. This allows a reduction of department counter... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080106767 - Copying system and method: A copying system is capable of generating image data from an existing representation and communicating the image data to one or more associated marking systems for distributed copy output of sheet media bearing an image corresponding to the existing representation. A method of generating such distributed output is also included.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080106768 - Document discarding system, document discarding device, document managing device, computer readable medium, and document discarding method: A document discarding system includes: a document discarding device that discards a document; an image reading device that is used by a client requesting to discard the document; and a document managing device that can communicate with the document discarding device and the image reading device.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106769 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for processing image: An input processor performs an input processing of image data. A memory unit has a work area for combining the image data. A writing unit sequentially writes the image data on which the input processing is performed in the work area of the memory unit. A determining unit determines, when... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080106770 - Image reading apparatus and optical module thereof: An image reading apparatus includes a casing, an upper plate and a transparent plate. The casing has a first opening, and a reading means is disposed in the casing. The upper casing plate is disposed over the casing and has a second opening that is positioned opposite the first opening.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080106771 - Pressing device and scan apparatus using the same: The invention discloses a pressing device and scan apparatus using the same. The scan apparatus includes an upper cover, a carriage flatbed, and a pressing device. The pressing device includes a pressing part, a frame, and a clipping part. The pressing part is disposed at a lower surface of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080106772 - Copyright compliance: A method for use in reproducing pages from at least one document. The method includes, in a document processing device, determining an identity of the at least one document, and scanning at least some of the pages of the at least one document. The document processing device then displays a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080106773 - Image reading apparatus: In an image reading apparatus, a retreat control device moves a conveyance target through a conveyance mechanism, when a stop operation is performed by a stop control device, in an opposite direction to an image reading direction to a position further from a restart reference position set by a position... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080106774 - Image forming device: An image forming device including: a platen glass on which a document is placed; a platen cover that presses and retains the document placed on the platen glass; an engagement portion provided at a side surface of the platen cover; a link component attached to a side surface of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100853 - Method and apparatus for processing digital images: A method and apparatus to process digital images is described. The method is particularly effective in improving the appearance of digital images that originate in digital cameras and have been pre-processed in the camera.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080100854 - Print device, print method, print program recording medium, print data production device, print data production method, and print data production program recording medium: A print device includes a print data acquisition unit that acquires print data having a plurality of signature attachment areas defined thereon, each signature attachment area having electronic signature data produced therefor and attached thereto, a range data acquisition unit that acquires data indicative of a range of a print... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080100860 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may be for printing sheets on the basis of a print instruction, including: a printable sheet number storage unit storing the number of printable sheets in association with each of predetermined limit units; a determination unit determining whether or not... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100859 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a plurality of communication interfaces, a performing unit, and a restring unit. Each of the plurality of communication interfaces receives a command from an external device and has a type different from each other. The performing unit is capable of performing one of a plurality... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100865 - Facsimile device: A double-surface printing type facsimile device is provided with a storage configured to store image data of document data received by facsimile, a printing unit configured to print the image data stored in the storage in one of single-surface printing mode and double-surface printing mode on a recording sheet, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100864 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit; a storage section that stores a plurality of registration information, each including authentication information and terminal information indicating a terminal corresponding to the authentication information; an input section that inputs authentication information; an acquisition section that acquires registration information including terminal... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100866 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may be connectable to a network and provided with the number of printable sheets set for each user, including: a determination unit determining whether or not there is a print instruction exceeding the number of printable sheets set for the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100861 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: In an image processing apparatus having the first storage medium which saves data transmitted from an external apparatus, when it is determined that no new data can be saved in the first storage medium, selected data is stored in the second removable storage medium. Then, the selected data is deleted... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080100863 - Printer controller, computer program product and printer: A printer controller includes: a selecting unit that selects an authentication information from among a plurality of authentication information; a first transmitting unit that transmits the authentication information selected by the selecting unit to a printer connected to the printer controller via a network; and a second transmitting unit that... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100869 - Information processing device and printer driver: An information processing device provided with a direct printing function that causes a printer device to execute printing without a printer driver, comprising: a setup storage unit that stores a combination of set values (direct printing setup data) relating to a plurality of printing setting items (direct setting items) in... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080100856 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof: An image forming apparatus, including a halftone image converter to convert input image data having a plurality of bits per pixel into halftone image data having a binary pixel value corresponding to a bright pixel or a dark pixel, and a bit encoder to divide the halftone image data into... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080100858 - Image processing device capable of supressing over-correction in retinex process: A first lower-range generating portion generates a pixel value of an output image based on a first nonlinear function in a first lower range where a pixel value of a subject pixel is lower than a predetermine value. The first upper-range generating portion generates the pixel value of the output... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080100870 - Image processor: There is disclosed an image processor including a display screen, a color image storage, a monochrome image storage, an image presenter, an image-area designator, a color-data replacer, and an outputter. The color image storage stores color image data constituted by a plurality of pieces of color data. The monochrome image... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080100862 - Image processing apparatus and control method for image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input image data, a vectorization unit configured to convert the image data input by the input unit into vectorized data by vectorizing at least one portion of the image data, a receiving unit configured to receive a setting for outputting... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080100867 - Image saving system: A technique of printing content transmitted when a printing apparatus is in a failure state via data broadcasting is printed after the printing apparatus is recovered from the failure state is provided. The printing apparatus includes an obtaining unit for obtaining script which describes about the content in accordance with... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080100868 - Printer: A printer comprises a receiving section which receives printing jobs from a networked personal computers, a storage section which stores the received printing jobs, and a printing section which executes a printing job extracted from the storage section. A control section of the printer determines whether the printing jobs received... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080100855 - Printing method and printing apparatus: A printing method includes determining a first correction value corresponding to a first print mode, determining a second correction value corresponding to a second print mode, and correcting an ink ejection amount of each row region individually, using a combined correction value obtained by combining the first correction value and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100857 - Image scanner printer: An image scanner printer that reads an original image and that prints out the original image includes a red-eye detection unit, a YCC image storage processing unit, a YCC/RGB conversion unit, a red-eye correction unit, and a print data creating unit. The red-eye detection unit detects red-eye that is included... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100871 - Image processing circuit, computer-readable medium, image processing method, and image processing apparatus: Disclosed is an image processing circuit, comprising: a converting section to perform an infective conversion for a gradation data of an input image to a gradation data indicating any one of dither patterns having the number of gradations higher than the number of gradations of the input image; a dither... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080100872 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and an image reading unit. The image forming unit may include a receiving portion disposed above an image forming part, and a pair of contacted portions disposed on opposite sides on the image forming part. The image reading unit may be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100875 - Communication device and image processing device: A communication device in accordance with the present invention includes a transmitting unit capable of transmitting a file to an external device, a storage unit for storing a string and an address of the external device so that the character string and the address of the external device are associated... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080100873 - Information processing device, image log management device, and image log management system: There is provided an information processing device. The information processing device includes an image processing unit that performs processing on an image based on input information, a first transmit unit that transmits a partial image of a region specified as a priority region of the image processed by the image... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080100874 - Notary document processing and storage system and methods: A notary document processing system and related methods are described. The system receives files uploaded by users, processes them by applying a document ID, time stamp, etc. to pages of the document, and converts them to a read only format for storage. Once the documents are processed and stored in... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080100876 - Image processing apparatus and control method of image processing apparatus: A coding block of image data to be coded is set with allowing the setting of the coding block to overlap so that an end portion of an image rectangular shape present in the image data is coincident with that of the coding block in code processing, information on thus... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080100877 - Facsimile apparatus: A facsimile apparatus is provided with a scanning unit configured to scan a first image containing a specific image representing information related to a destination of a facsimile transmission, a setting unit configured to obtain and set the destination based on the specific image included in the first image, a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100878 - Image processing system and method: A method of generating an image of a portion of an object, the method comprising generating a plurality of images of the portion of the object, each image being represented by a respective set of image data, applying a comparative data transform to at least a portion of each set... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100879 - Scanning device and shading correction method thereof: A scanning device includes a display part, a flat bed on which a manuscript is loaded, a white reference sheet provided at one side of the flat bed, a scanning head to divide the white reference sheet into a plurality of lines and to obtain shading data corresponding to the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080100880 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a background image generation section and a combining section. The background image generation section generates a background image containing new updated trace information that identifies at least one of the image processing apparatus and a user who instructs the image processing apparatus to form an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080100881 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus including a first image reader for reading the front side of document, and a second image reader configured to read the reverse side of document. The apparatus also includes a storage device to store first image data read by the first image reader and second image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100882 - Image-forming apparatus: An image scanner section is disposed above a printer section. The image scanner section is supported by the printer section in such a manner as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis. The printer section has a lower housing having a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from above. The image... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080100883 - Device and method for inputting information: A device and a method for inputting information are provided. The device includes: a rod; a movable ring fitted over the rod such that the rod is inserted through the movable ring, the movable ring moving in at least one of a longitudinal direction and a rotation direction of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100885 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling same: In order to extract a plurality of items of image data corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of documents from scan data more accurately, an image processing apparatus is provided with a detection unit adapted to detect a plurality of image areas corresponding to the plurality of documents; a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080100884 - Scanning apparatus having image correction function: A scanning apparatus includes a scanning head that scans an image of a document positioned on a stage glass, but varying in its distance therefrom. A boundary line is detected to determine an amount of skew therein. A skew line is compared with an established reference line, and a correction... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080100886 - Read device and copying machine: A read device comprises: a read part that reads information recorded on a medium being carried in a given reading position; a first regulate member, disposed more upstream in a carry direction of the medium than the reading position, that regulates a position of one surface of the medium being... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080100887 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method for the same: An image processing method includes creating a conversion table for converting a color in a device-independent color space into a color in a device color space based on a colorimetry result of a color patch output by a device. Creating the conversion table includes converting a color in a three-dimensional... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080100888 - Image reading device: An image reading device includes a clock generator, an image sensor, a plurality of switches having a first switch and a second switch, a reader, a first controller, and a second controller. The clock generator generates a first clock signal having a first cycle and a second clock signal having... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC