Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 07/08

20080180699 - Universal print driver with best fit discovery: A universal print driver allows an application program to print to any printer available on a network without the user having to perform the configuration that is required in conventional printing arrangements. The universal print driver includes functionality for performing printing device discovery to determine printing devices that are available... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080180711 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An apparatus determines a type of a printing paper which is fed from a paper feed port of a printer. If it is determined that a print setting of a print target page does not match the type of printing paper fed from the paper feed port, the apparatus requests... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080180713 - Direct printing of a desired or multiple appearances of object in a document file: A method and apparatus for direct printing of multiple views of 3-D objects in a PDF file is described. When a PDF file containing 3-D object data is sent to a printer, without using an application or print driver, the controller of a printer generates and prints a plurality of... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080180714 - Image forming device: There is provided an image forming device comprising a connection unit to which an external device is detachably attached, a reading unit to read an image from an original to generate image data; an image forming unit to form an image; a controller that executes a plurality of modes including... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180716 - Print control system, and printer and computer readable medium therefor: A print control system includes a computer configured to perform data processing, a printer, which is connected with the computer, configured to execute a print job transmitted by the computer so as to print an image on a recording medium, a print control unit configured to control the printer to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080180715 - Printing control apparatus and method, and printing system: Provided is a printing system in which it is possible to obtain an appropriate printed result from a printing apparatus even if the type of printing medium that has been set by a printer driver user interface and the type of printing medium loaded in the printing apparatus differ. The... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080180712 - Universal print driver with full discovery: A universal print driver allows an application program to print to any printer available on a network without the user having to perform the configuration that is required in conventional printing arrangements. The universal print driver includes functionality for performing printing device discovery to determine printing devices that are available... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080180717 - Document data management apparatus: In a document data management apparatus to manage document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, management of the document data is performed in view of the reliability of an image reading processing of the image reading apparatus, so that the reliability of various processings using the document... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080180722 - A protocol allowing a document management system to communicate inter-attribute constraints to its clients: A system facilitates communication between a control component and a plurality of processing components. One or more processing components performs one or more tasks, each processing component has at least one attribute associated therewith. One or more attribute banks are associated with each of the one or more processing components,... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080180718 - Client server system and image forming apparatus: The invention provides an image forming apparatus connectable to a server via a network. The image forming apparatus includes a network controller for connecting the image forming apparatus to the network and a control unit capable of executing check processing for a server. At the time of the check processing... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080180732 - Computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and image forming controller: The present invention provides to a user a chapter break printing function setting part that allows the user to designate the leading page at a break of a document in order to set up the chapter break printing function for printing the leading page of a break of “chapter,” “section,”... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080180730 - Host device and printing control method thereof: A host device and a printing control method of the host device. The host device includes a print data generation unit to generate print data for each page of a document to be printed, a transmission unit to transmit the generated print data to an image forming device, a menu... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080180738 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: A method of controlling an image forming apparatus connected to at least one server on a network. The method includes receiving an edit command for image data stored in the server from a user, and controlling the image data to be edited according to the edit command.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080180735 - Image forming apparatus for security transmission of data and method thereof: In an image forming apparatus and a data transmission method thereof, text data are extracted and transmitted for the purpose of the security management of data so that time and management cost of security violation are reduced. The image forming apparatus for security transmission of data includes a text extractor... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080180737 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and terminal: An image forming system, image forming apparatus, and a terminal are provided. The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus comprising an image forming unit and a terminal, the system comprising a setting unit which sets a time taken until image formation is started, the time being based on... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080180740 - Image processing apparatus, document connecting method, and storage medium storing control program for executing the method: An image processing apparatus which is capable of managing security information on electronic documents before and after merging at a low cost. A CPU circuit causes input electronic documents with attribute information added thereto to be stored in a HDD. The CPU circuit causes selected ones of the electronic documents... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080180733 - Information processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: A disclosed information processing apparatus enables the output of various information managed by the apparatus in the form of a report adapted to user requirements in terms of format and output method, by generating report data based on data that is not dependent on any particular report output format or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180736 - Information processing methodology: An information processing methodology gives rise to an application program interface which includes an automated digitizing unit, such as a scanner, which inputs information from a diversity of hard copy documents and stores information from the hard copy documents into a memory as stored document information. Portions of the stored... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080180729 - Method and apparatus for printing in a distributed communications network: A method and system is provided for printing jobs received from enterprise customers through a global printing network. One aspect relates to an architecture that interfaces customers, communication service firms (CSFs), and downstream digital print service providers (PSPs) in a global communications network. Such an architecture permits last-mile production functions... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080180739 - Method and system for sending messages: Printed documents containing messages are processed into mail pieces using a system for preparing mail pieces. Data representing images of at least some of the documents are obtained by an imaging device of system for preparing mail pieces. The mail pieces are delivered to a postal service for delivery of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080180741 - Print control system, and printer and computer readable medium therefor: A print control system includes a computer with application software and a printer driver installed thereinto, a printer, which is connected with the computer, configured to perform a printing operation based on print settings including a setting item configurable via the application software and the printer driver, a judging unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080180719 - Print device preconditioning: Various embodiments relating to preconditioning of a print device are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180724 - Print driver data logging: A print driver is configured with data logging functionality. The data logging functionality includes the ability to generate log data that indicates attributes of print data that has been processed by the print driver. This may include a wide variety of attributes, such as a name of the print data,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080180723 - Print driver with processed print data management capability: A print driver is configured to store, retrieve and re-print processed print data that has been generated by the print driver. Processed print data may be stored locally or remotely and may be stored in a secure manner. The print driver may also be configured to save user settings data... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080180742 - Print job management method and image forming apparatus: In a system configured to enable a printing unit to execute another job preferentially to a job not prepared for printing, when no predetermined time has elasped from a timing in which it has been determined that the job was not prepared for printing, it is inhibited to execute the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080180727 - Print workflow methods and printing system apparatuses: Print workflow methods and printing system apparatuses are described in some embodiments. According to one embodiment, a print workflow method includes providing a job to be printed upon media comprising arranging a plurality of elements into a desired layout for a page of the job and tagging individual ones of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180734 - Printer configuration data setting method and server using the printer configuration data: A method for setting configuration data of a printer for a printer driver in a server is provided, in which the server is used in an image printing system that includes a client, the printer and the server including the printer driver for the printer. In the method, the server... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080180744 - Printing apparatus and information processing apparatus: A printing apparatus includes: a display unit; an icon storing unit which stores a plurality of icons and a plurality of dates while being associated with each other; an extracting unit which extracts an icon, which is associated with dates within a time period among a plurality of first time... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080180743 - Printing control system and method: A printing control system includes a host interface, a user interface, a printing unit, and a controller. The host interface communicates with a host device that submits a print job. The user interface communicates with a user. The printing unit executes the print job. The controller suspends operation at the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180731 - Printing device and information processing system using the same: A printing device for performing a printing job in accordance with a print request issued from an external processing apparatus includes a table storage device that stores a print request management table in which a password, request source identification data identifying the external processing apparatus which has transmitted the print... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080180720 - System and method for generating customizable separator pages: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating a separator page. A document output instruction is received corresponding to the generation of a tangible document from an electronic document. A separator page instruction is then received. An output destination instruction corresponding to the electronic document, corresponding... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080180721 - Systems and methods for efficiently handling imaging job settings: When an imaging job is received by an imaging device, a modified job environment for the imaging job may be created based on job-specific settings that are specified by the imaging job and also based on default settings of the imaging device. When the imaging job is processed, modified job-specific... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080180728 - Translating pdl-based print stream to job ticket-based print stream: Using techniques described herein, separate “job ticket” data and printable data may be generated automatically from a PDL-compliant print stream. According to one technique, an automated mechanism receives a PDL-compliant print stream as input. The PDL-compliant print stream describes both printable content and control data, as described above. The automated... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080180726 - Universal print driver with simple discovery: A universal print driver allows an application program to print to any printer available on a network without the user having to perform the configuration that is required in conventional printing arrangements. The universal print driver includes functionality for performing printing device discovery to determine printing devices that are available... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080180725 - User-defined cluster printing: In a client terminal network connected to a plurality of printers, a system and method are provided for user-defined cluster printing. At a client terminal, the method involves user-selecting a cluster, where each cluster includes a plurality of printers network-connected to the client terminal. Then, the method creates a file... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20080180745 - Image forming apparatus and image processing operational control method: An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of the invention comprises a scanning unit configured to scan an image, a receiving unit configured to receive image data, a storing unit configured to store image data obtained by the scanning by the scanning unit and image data received by the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080180747 - Image forming device and method of controlling reprint: There is provided an image forming device which comprises: a print unit; a connection unit to which an external device is detachably attachable; a print control unit configured to control the print unit in accordance with print target data read from the external device attached to the connection unit to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080180746 - Image processing device: A mounting portion detachably mounts an external storage medium storing image data. An image processing portion performs a predetermined image process on the image data. A normal processing portion performs a normal process other than the predetermined image process. A detecting portion detects that the external storage medium is mounted... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080180748 - Print data processing apparatus and method, and computer readable recording medium: A position designation unit of a print data processing apparatus designates a position of identification information in each page of data to be printed, the identification information identifying the page. An extraction unit extracts the identification information contained in each page of the data, based on the position designated by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180700 - Image processor, recording medium and method, and computer data signal: An image processor according to the present invention includes a reference information acquisition unit that acquires reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein, and a print instruction information production unit that... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080180704 - Image document creation device, method for printing image document, program for printing image document, and recording medium: According to one embodiment of the invention, an image document creation apparatus is provided so as to be connectable to a plurality of image forming apparatuses that have been arranged on a network, and has a configuration provided with an acquisition means that acquires color gamut information possessed by the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080180702 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method therefor. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part, which forms printed and alternate printed images including different developing agents to a recording medium; and a controller which controls the image forming part to form a the printed and alternate... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080180710 - Image forming device, control method of image forming device, program for achieving control method, and storage medium for storing program: An image forming device comprises: an image forming unit adapted to execute image formation on a recording medium; and a writing unit adapted to be able to execute at least an information writing operation in a non-contact manner to a non-contact IC added to the recording medium. It is controlled... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080180706 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium: A specified specific color is input, and a patch pattern that contains a large number of patches corresponding to a color adjacent to the specific color is read by a front-side scanner and a back-side scanner. The color difference between read values for the front side and read values for... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080180707 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a processing amount index calculation unit configured to analyze content of image data that is independent of print resolution and to calculate a processing amount index indicating a processing amount necessary in converting the image data into a bitmapped image, a storing unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080180705 - Image processing method and apparatus: An image processing apparatus performs conversion and a first compression on upper bits in image data, thereby generating a first compressed data set, and performs a second compression on lower bits in the image data, thereby generating second compressed data. The image processing apparatus then performs a first decompression on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080180708 - Image recording apparatus that performs borderless recording: An image recording apparatus includes an acquiring section, a recording section, and a width setting section. The acquiring section acquires print data indicative of an image having a size including a recording surface of a recording medium. The recording section records a borderless image on the recording medium based on... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080180709 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: This invention deters information leakage by a flexible monitoring method according to the characteristic of an image or document. A job analysis section analyzes a print job and separates image data and attribute information. An image generator generates print image data from the image data by referring to the attribute... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080180701 - Print control method and apparatus: Upon designating bookbinding print, preview images are displayed in a layout after bookbinding. When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler (302) stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file (303). When the stored job is selected, a previewer (306)... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080180703 - System and program product: This invention suppresses accidental change of an adjustable parameter that influences a print job. For this purpose, when the print data of a certain job exists in a storage unit, change of the adjustable parameter by a user interface is inhibited.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080180749 - Image processing system and method: An image processing system includes: an image capture device operable to capture at least first and second images of an object at different exposures, a storage for at least part of the at least first and second images, a filter for splitting the at least first and second images into... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180752 - Apparatus, method, and computer-program product for processing image: An image acquiring unit acquires an image. A storage unit stores therein the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. An information embedding unit embeds first information in the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. An information extracting unit extracts second information from the image stored in the storage... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180750 - Selective imaging of data printed on financial instruments: Systems and processes for processing financial instruments include receiving a physical financial instrument, printing data on the received physical financial instrument, and capturing an image of the physical financial instrument to produce an electronic image. At least a portion of the data printed on the physical financial instrument is printed... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080180753 - System for managing flexible copying with information leakage prevented and/or detected: In a copy management system, an output device generates a print image, and list information including identification information identifying a person authorized for printing. The list information is converted to a specific code, which is in turn embedded in a print image. The code-embedded print image is output by a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080180751 - Variable guilloche and method: A variable guilloche includes at least two guilloche curves, printed in a common space and having at least one point of overlap. The at least two curves are plotted from equations having variables corresponding to a specified data string of steganographic information.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180754 - Image illumination and capture in a scanning device: Scanning devices and method of use that permit the capture of high resolution images of an original that is illuminated by a light source that is located outside of the optical field of view of an image detector. In one aspect, the image detector may be a monochrome sensor that... Agent: John Victor Pezdek Lexmark International, Inc.

20080180756 - Image scanner and copying apparatus: An image scanner including a plurality of light receiving units, a signal processing device, a connector and a determination device is provided. The plurality of light receiving units receive reflected light from an object to be scanned per each pre-divided area. The signal processing device processes output signals from each... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080180755 - Media interaction device drive system: Various methods and apparatus relating to a media interaction device drive system having at least one reduced dimension are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180757 - Biased document backing: A document backing extending in a plane is resiliently biased in a direction substantially parallel to the plane.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180758 - Scan area indication: Various embodiments and methods relating to a scan area indicator are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180759 - Line head and an image forming apparatus using the line head: A line head, includes: a plurality of luminous elements grouped into a plurality of luminous element groups; and a lens array which includes a plurality of lenses each of which faces the luminous element group, focuses light beams emitted from the luminous element group on an image plane, and accordingly... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080180760 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that includes an image reading part, an image forming part to form an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge part to discharge the sheet from front to rear of the image forming apparatus, a sheet stack part to stack the sheet between the image reading... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180761 - Image reading device: An image reading device according to one aspect of the invention comprises: a conveying unit configured to convey a recording medium; a first transmissive portion having a first surface that allows the recording medium to pass through the first surface; a second transmissive portion having a second surface on which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180762 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an upper cover attached to a main body, an image forming part provided in the main body and configured to record an image on a sheet, an image reading part having a document press member, and a lock mechanism. The upper cover is configured to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180764 - Image forming apparatus: When a sheet containing portion is attached to an accommodating portion, a drawing-in member which is rotatably provided on an accommodating portion is engaged with a locking member which is turnably provided on the sheet containing portion and in this state, the drawing-in member is rotated. With this, the locking... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080180765 - Image processing method and apparatus: The image processing apparatus includes a plurality of scanning units scanning on both sides of a document in parallel and an image processing unit executing image processing on image data obtained by scanning of the scanning units. The first side image data obtained by the first scanning unit scanning on... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080180763 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit having contact glass through which an image is read from a document, backup glass located opposite the contact glass of the reading unit so as to form a conveying path between the backup glass and the contact glass through which the document... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080174790 - Image processing system, image processing method, and computer readable medium: An image processing system includes: an extracting unit that extracts page identification information from image information; an acquiring unit that acquires document identification information corresponding to the page identification information on the basis of the page identification information extracted by the extracting unit; a classifying unit that classifies the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174803 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, cooperation method for the image processing apparatus, and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus is provided with a terminal designation accepting portion that accepts a designation by a user to designate an IP address of a terminal to be connected to the image processing apparatus and a setting data control portion that sends, to the terminal, setting data that includes... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080174802 - Preemptive redirection in printing systems: Described herein is a printing system including a plurality of print processing modules which can selectively transfer print media there between during printing. The system further including a controller that can predict the impending unhealthy state of at least one module and redirect one of an unprocessed job and a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080174813 - Data transmission apparatus, image forming apparatus and methods thereof: A data transmission apparatus includes a user interface part to set a reference domain in data displayed on a screen; a data generator to convert the data into print data if a print command for the data is input, and to generate transmission data by adding reference domain information regarding... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174810 - Fault tolerant printing system: According to a technique described herein, whenever there are print jobs waiting in a currently idle printing device's queue, the printing device selects, from among those print jobs, the longest-waiting print job that does not require any resources that the printing device cannot currently supply without human intervention. The printing... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080174819 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: A reduction of consumption power and shortening of a processing time are achieved at the same time in a cooperative image forming system. When a user logs in an MFP-A, the MFP-A refers to workflow information associated with the user. If the workflow information uses a hot folder of another... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080174812 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof, and host apparatus usable with image forming apparatus and control method thereof: A host apparatus usable with an image forming apparatus includes a data generating part that generates printing data of the image forming apparatus, a first host communicating part that performs local communication with the image forming apparatus, a second host communicating part that performs network communication with the image forming... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174815 - Image forming apparatus capable of creating electronic document data with high browsing capability: To convert a source document having an additionally-handwritten portion into PDF data, an image forming apparatus scans the source document and reads it, and extracts an additionally-written region from image data. Additionally, based on a position of the additionally-written region, the image forming apparatus sets an annotation frame, which is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080174811 - Image forming apparatus, printing method and control program: There is described an image forming apparatus, which make it possible to appropriately print each of a valid print object and an invalid print object. The apparatus includes: a printing section to conduct a printing operation based on the print data, so as to create the print product; and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080174814 - Image processing apparatus and image processing system: When execution of a job is stopped by an error or the like, and when an uncompleted job is generated, the stagnation of the job is eliminated by enabling a user different from a requesting user of the job to cope with the uncompleted job. The user different from the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080174817 - Image processing apparatus, digital multifunction apparatus and control method thereof: When a user logs in and inputs document data into a box, a usage history of the box as used by the user is determined by referring to a user information management table. If there is a record, process attributes are set, and a process associated with the box is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080174816 - Image processing device: An image processing device which can be connected to a document management device storing documents to be managed together with status information representing a status of individual document is provided with a connecting unit configured to connect the image processing device to the document management device, a current status information... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080174804 - Method and system for transmitting print information between a client and a server over a wide area network: The present invention is directed to a method and system of transmitting print information from a client computer to one of a plurality of print fulfillment centers over a wide area network that features selecting one of the plurality of print fulfillment centers based upon print attributes. To that end,... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080174806 - System and method for accessing electronic documents via a document processing device: The subject application is directed to a document processing device control and file navigation system and method. Identification data is received from a user via a user interface associated with a document processing device. Control image data is then displayed to the user representing control operations of the device, from... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174809 - System and method for configuration cloning for document processing devices: The subject application is directed to a configuration cloning system and method for document processing devices. Configuration data, representing a suitable configuration for implementation by the receiving document processing device, is first received by at least one document processing device. The document processing device then commences operations based upon the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174808 - System and method for job submission to an unspecified document processing device: The subject application is directed to a system and method for routing electronic documents to an unspecified document processing device. An electronic document is first routed to a document processing queue via a computer network. The queue is further accessible by multiple document processing devices via the network. A job... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174807 - System and method for preview of document processing media: The subject application is directed to a system and method for previewing document processing media. Image data representing a sheet medium on which rendering of an associated electronic document is available is first received. Next, a visual representation of at least a portion of the sheet medium is generated on... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174805 - System and method for providing mobile document processing services: The subject application is directed to a mobile document processing system and method. A request for a transient address corresponding to mobile document processing operations is first received from an associated user. Upon receipt of the request, a transient address is generated corresponding to the associated user. Transient address data... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174818 - System and program product: A system adapted to enable a printing system to perform a plurality of print jobs, the system comprises a checker adapted to check data about processing conditions of a certain print job having a certain attribute, a markup language being used for the certain print job and a controller adapted... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080174823 - Image input/output control method and image input/output apparatus: In the case in which an image processing mode is a high-speed copy mode in which follow-up control is possible, setting is made to perform “follow-up control” for setting a mode for not compressing an image or a fixed length compression mode for an image read by a scanner, storing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080174822 - Image-data processing apparatus and image-data processing method: An image-data processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: an image memory for storing image data; a plurality of processing sections each configured to output image data to be stored in the image memory, receive image data read out from the image memory and carry out image processing determined in... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080174820 - Printer and printing method: A mixture of image data in a plurality of categories is prevented from being present on one sheet of recording paper and the handling of printed recording paper is facilitated. Inputted captured image data is saved in order in an image memory. Kinds of the inputted captured image data are... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Wacker Drive Station

20080174821 - System and method for custom branding of document processing devices: The subject application is directed to a system and method for custom branding of document processing devices. Image data representing a branding identifier image is first received. The image data corresponding to the branding identifier image is then stored in a memory associated with a document processing device. The branding... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174824 - Print data processing device and print data processing program: When a plurality of sets of data items are stored in corresponding frames on respective pages for printing, a data processing device confirms the size of each frame and, for each page, confirms the size of data to be stored in each frame. In addition, a check is made if... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080174825 - system and a program product: A system controls at least one of a printer and a binder to perform processing for a case-binding job. The binder performs a case binding by attaching a cover to a bundle of sheets. The printer is used to print the cover which includes a spine region between a front-cover... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080174791 - Position detection device, rotating body detection control device, rotating body trael device and image forming device: A position detection device, includes a scale; and an image pickup device which is configured to capture a mark pattern of the scale formed with a consecutive mark pattern generated by a change in prescribed reflectivity or permeability, the mark pattern of the scale being formed with substantially identical mark... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080174792 - Image forming system: An image forming system has an image forming apparatus that performs monochrome printing and a color printer connected to the image forming apparatus. This image forming apparatus includes a color scanner unit that scans an original, a color determining unit that determines whether a color original is included in originals... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080174793 - Job processing method and printing system: An object of this invention is to provide a job processing method for a convenient printing system applicable not only to the office environment but also to the POD environment, a storage medium, a program, a printing system, and a printing apparatus. To accomplish this, according to a job processing... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080174794 - Gradual charge pump technique for optimizing phase locked loop (pll) function in sub-pixel generation for high speed laser printers switching between different speeds: Methods and apparatus for optimizing the phase lock loop circuitry of sub-pixel clock generators for situations where frequent switching between different system printing speeds, and hence clock frequencies are required. A timing control logic circuitry is associated with the sub-pixel clock generator for a graduated change in charge pump current.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080174798 - Color-management apparatus and method: A color-management apparatus and method which can improve color reproducibility during color-gamut mapping of devices having different color gamuts are provided. The apparatus includes a transformation unit transforming a first color space of an original image supplied from a source device into a second color space, a computing unit computing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080174799 - Image correcting device, image forming apparatus, and image correcting method: A pattern generating unit generates correction patterns on a transfer belt. Detection sensors detect the correction patterns, and amounts of magnification correction, amounts of misregistration in the main- and the sub-scanning direction are calculated. The amount of skew between each of colors is then calculated, and a position where an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080174800 - Image forming apparatus, printing system including the same and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus capable of satisfying various desires of a user by providing the user with psychological stability, a printing system including the same, and a method of controlling the image forming apparatus and the printing system. The method of controlling the image forming apparatus includes detecting characteristic information... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174801 - Image forming data preprocessing system, image forming apparatus and computer: An image forming data preprocessing system for preprocessing first image forming data decides whether the first image forming data contains an object of a specific type or not. The system executes a suppression processing if it is decided that the first image forming data contains the object of the specific... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080174797 - Image forming device and method thereof: An image forming device includes an input unit to receive binary data for each color being input; a generation unit to generate an synthesis window, by applying a window of a predetermined size to each of the binary data for each color and synthesizing each window region; an image process... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080174796 - Method of printing documents: A method of printing documents in which in one embodiment the pages are converted to a PDF page image which is rasterized and fractional sample pixel matrices generated. Color space values are established for the pixels of the sample matrices, and Index Color obtained from a lookup table and converted... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080174795 - Reshaping an image to thin or fatten a face: Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for altering an image of a person' face. Points on a two-dimensional image of a face and a neck of the person are located. A superimposed mesh is generated from the points. A subset of the points is relocated, forming a transformed mesh. Consequently, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20080174826 - Communication apparatus and control method: An apparatus is capable of executing a facsimile communication using an Error Correction Mode (ECM) function based on a facsimile procedure with a communication partner connected via an Internet Protocol (IP) network. In response to receiving, from the communication partner via the network, a communication start request including information indicating... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080174827 - System and method for secure sharing of document processing device cloning data: The subject application is directed to a system and method for secure sharing of configuration cloning information for document processing devices. A document processing device first receives configuration data corresponding to a configuration to be implemented by the document processing device. The document processing device then commences document processing operations... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080174828 - Image processing system, image processing method, computer readable medium, and computer data signal: There is provided is an image processing system including an image processing device, which receives an image formation instruction containing information on a formation target image and output destination designation information designating an output destination of the image formation instruction, which are output by an image forming device control program,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174829 - Systems and methods for electronic facsimile communication: Disclosed herein are systems and methods that provide a streamlined process for receiving and transmitting facsimile documents to one or more non-facsimile enabled destinations. The systems and methods can also convert received documents into a second format before transmission. Among other benefits, the streamlined systems and methods of the present... Agent: Don J. Pelto Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080174830 - Image processing device, control method therefor, image processing system, and computer readable medium storing a program: Provided is an image processing device (2), which accepts an input of a processing condition input by a user, executes image processing based on the accepted processing condition, transmits, when a failure occurs during the image processing, re-input request information for requesting a re-input of the processing condition to an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174831 - Universal scan to store system and method of using the same: A free-standing universal scanner driving device includes a small, light-weight, portable, slow-speed, low memory processor with no monitor or keyboard, and programmed only to support a scanner; a memory having only enough capacity to hold a scanner driver; a slot for receiving an external storage medium; input and output ports;... Agent: Tucker Law Offices

20080174832 - Document processing apparatus with image scanning resolution correction function and method thereof: An embodiment of a document processing apparatus that has a function of correcting image scanning resolution according to the present invention includes a first carriage mounted with a first reflector that reflects reflected light from a document fixed on an original placing glass plate in a predetermined direction and a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080174833 - Image processing apparatus: The present invention allows a specific image to be easily changed when using a counter in the case of adding a specific image. A specific image adding section 12 for adding the specific image to inputted image data includes a first counter 15 for deciding positions of a main scanning... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080174834 - Color image forming apparatus and image forming method: A color image forming apparatus including: an image forming section which forms an image based on image information on an image carrier provided in the image forming section; a detection section which detects a print mark for color misalignment correction formed on the image carrier by the image forming section,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080174836 - Scanner device, printing device and scan method: Disclosed herein is a scanner device which scans a predetermined scan object and generates image data, the scanner device including: an image sensor which converts an optical image of the scan object into corresponding image data; a movement unit which moves a carriage having the image sensor in a sub-scan... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080174835 - Scanning apparatus: A scanning apparatus for scanning an image of a document includes a housing, a reflecting plate, a light emitting element having a substrate and a plurality of point light sources, and an image sensor. The housing has a slit formed on a top surface thereof. The reflecting plate is disposed... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080174837 - Copy machine: A copy machine including: an original reading apparatus having a front and back surface image reading sensors, being capable of setting plural original documents, feeding out one by one, and simultaneously reading both surfaces of the documents; an image forming apparatus; a post processing apparatus for stapling and/or punching; an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080174838 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with a box-shaped apparatus main body internally including an image forming assembly; an image reader arranged atop the apparatus main body; a discharge unit arranged between the apparatus main body and the image reader, including a discharge tray to which a sheet after image... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080174839 - Full color optical image scanning: A full color digital representation of an image is generated. For each location of an image, a number of color components of the image are optically scanned, and a grayscale component of the image is optically scanned. An additional color component of the image is generated at each location from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080174840 - Methods and apparatuses for changing driving sequence to output charge coupled device signal: A method of changing driving sequence to output a charge coupled device signal, the method is applied to a scanner. The scanner has a pixel processor and a charge coupled device. A plurality of charge signals detected by the charge coupled device is sequentially output to the pixel processor according... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080170252 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program: An image displayer 7 displays image data correlated to a plurality of block regions. An image selector 9 receives a selection of a displayed arbitrary block region and a selection of modifying an image mode of the image data corresponding to the selected block region. An image processor 11 executes... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080170251 - Method for transferring fax data multi-function peripheral using the same: A multi-function peripheral (MFP) including a fax receiving unit, a memory unit, a processing unit and a transmitting unit is provided. The fax receiving unit receives a fax data. The memory unit stores a transferring table. The processing unit recognizes an identification data from the fax data and obtains a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170253 - Distributing printed documents: A system for distributing printed documents comprises print device logic comprising a Web Services server, wherein the print device logic is configured to send one or more Web Services messages that indicate attributes of a print device; sender print manager logic comprising a first Web Services client that is coupled... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080170258 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided in which a waiting time and an ending processing corresponding to the processing state of the apparatus such as printing, no paper, running out of toner, reading, paper jam are executed when a user leaves the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170255 - Image output terminal performance estimate at composition engine: A variable information printing system includes: an image output terminal having a raster image processor, the raster image processor providing raster image processing of a data stream received thereby; a composition engine for composing a variable information print job, the composition engine including an emitter that provides the data stream... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080170256 - Image processing apparatus for sending message to user according to presence/absence of sheet in exit tray, and controlling method thereof: In an image processing apparatus, information identifying a user and information identifying portable terminal unit are stored in correlation with each other. After a sheet based on a certain printing request is outputted to an exit tray of the image processing apparatus, whether or not a sheet is present in... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080170260 - Output transform brokerage service: A method for providing computer services is provided. The method includes receiving deployments of common standards transform services from each of one or more transform service providers, registering each deployment as a transform service provider, receiving a request for a transform service from a customer, matching the requested grid service... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080170254 - Print workflow automation: Illustrative systems and methods provide a graphical user interface for establishing parameters for printing and finishing print jobs. In an illustrative system and method, print job parameters are defined, for example: by establishing print parameters corresponding to the position of a document in a print job and/or the position of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080170261 - Printer, communication system and printing method: A printer having a direct-printing function for reading and printing data stored in a storing unit, the printer including a connecting device, a user storage that stores user information including information of users permitted to print using the direct-printing function, a reading unit that reads identification information from data stored... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080170262 - Printing system and control method thereof: In a printing system capable of supplying a sheet of a job having undergone print processing by the printing unit of a printing apparatus to a post-processing unit capable of executing at least a specific type of post-processing among a plurality of types of post-processes, when the target job requires... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080170259 - Printing system and job processing method: This invention can cope with various user needs and use cases related to a holding function and can prevent any situation in which, for example, even when the holding function is disabled, an external device continuously inputs, to a printing apparatus, jobs which require use of the holding function. This... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080170257 - System controlling device and image processing system: A system controlling device having a tree structure includes a data controlling unit that functions as a root device. The data controlling unit is connected to a first image processing unit and a second image processing unit by separate high-speed serial buses. The first image processing unit performs image processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170264 - Computer-readable recording medium recorded with printing program: A computer-readable recording medium recorded with a printing program causes a processor of a computer to calculate a rendering area of print data stored in a storing section of the computer as a primary area based on the print data, and to calculate a rendering area of commentary string data... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170263 - Method of decomposing print jobs: A method of automatically printing a large document in which the document image file is decomposed into manageably sized segments that are sequentialized and serially streamed from a remote location on a network to a print server for printing. In one exemplary embodiment the segments are sequentially printed on a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080170244 - Print controlling apparatus and print controlling method: This invention relates to a producer of content who associates information for print control with the content such as a picture, before delivery. Specifically, a digital broadcast receiving device receives this content delivery, and the content is decoded by a data decoding unit via a broadcast receiving unit. A controlling... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080170248 - Apparatus and method of compensating chromatic aberration of image: An apparatus for correcting a chromatic aberration of an image according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an edge detection unit detecting an edge of an input image, a level calculation unit calculating a chromatic aberration level of the detected edge, and a correction unit correcting the edge... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170250 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section; a manual setting mode for enabling a user to provide instruction of timing for executing a process control of the image forming section; a cumulative operation information management section for calculating and storing cumulative operation information after the execution of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080170247 - Intelligent toner saving for color copying: A software-controlled method for minimizing color toner use during copying of a color page by a color copier including (a) examining such a page to identify different pre-selected categories of page-contained image elements, (b) associating, with identified different-categories of such elements, specific, respective, pre-determined color-toner usage rules, and (c) following... Agent: Robert Varitz

20080170246 - Intelligent toner saving for color printing: A software-controlled method for minimizing color toner use during printing of a color page by a color printer including (a) examining the image data for such a page to identify different pre-selected categories of page-contained image elements, (b) associating, with identified different-categories of such elements, specific, respective, pre-determined color-toner usage... Agent: Robert Varitz

20080170245 - Method and apparatus for implementing statistical process control (spc) in a printing environment: A method and apparatus for implementing statistical process control (SPC) in a printing environment to address errant reads of control sensors is provided. The system uses SPC, in systems having feedback control based on control sensor data, to identify errant reads and ensure that such errant reads are not used... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080170249 - Method for setting color conversion condition for use in image forming device, and image forming device: A method is provided for setting a color conversion condition for use in an image forming device. The image forming device includes: a first color conversion unit that converts input image data into first output image data by using a first three-dimensional LUT; a second-first color conversion unit that converts... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080170267 - Frequency modulated screening method based on the dual feedback error diffusion: The present invention relates to a method for producing halftone dots in the field of image hard copying, more particularly to a method for frequency-modulation screening using error diffusion based on dual-feedback. In the known frequency-modulation and amplitude-modulation screening technology, it is hard to output a halftone image with high... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080170266 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a transfer sheet based on image data, comprises an operating section to determine a setup about a margin region on which an image is not formed at an edge portion of the transfer sheet, a control section to determine an inner... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080170265 - Image processing device, image forming apparatus, image forming system, image processing method and computer readable medium: An image processing device includes: an image acquisition section that acquires image information; and an image processing section that obtains a plurality pieces of density information on background of the image information for different detection process units in detection process of background density of the image information, and eliminates the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080170268 - Scanner module and image scanning apparatus employing the same: A scanner module includes an illumination optical unit which illuminates light to an object, a plurality of reflecting mirrors which reflect a light beam from the object and change a light path, a sensor unit which reads information about the object from the incident light beam, a focusing lens unit... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170269 - Image data conversion apparatus and image data conversion method: An image data conversion apparatus for embedding a second image into image data corresponding to a first image, comprising an embedded image acquisition unit that acquires a second image for embedding in the first image, an embedment area acquisition unit that receives a location of an embedment area where the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080170270 - Information processing apparatus and program: An information processing apparatus, comprising: an output unit for outputting output information to a user; a receiving unit for receiving function-restricting information showing whether a printer is in a function-restricted status, from the printer in which utilization of a predetermined function is restricted where it is set that utilization of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080170271 - Image forming device to execute scan-to-email operation, processing method thereof, and terminal device to receive the email from the image forming device: An image forming device to execute scan-to-email operation includes a scanning unit, a mail writing unit to generate a preview image of the image data scanned by the scanning unit, and to write an email including the generated preview image as a content; and an interface unit to transmit the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170272 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device, data recording device, and layout method for semiconductor integrated circuit device: A first image data interface section is disposed in an electrode region and an input/output buffer region provided along a first side of a semiconductor chip. A second image data interface section is disposed in an electrode region and an input/output buffer region provided along a second side. A first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170273 - Image scanning apparatus and shading correction method: The present invention provides a technique that makes it possible to realize highly accurate shading correction regardless of presence of dust or the like in a shading correction plate without preventing a reduction in a size of an apparatus. An image scanning apparatus determines an area where dust is present... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080170274 - Image apparatus for processing 3d images and method of controlling the same: An image apparatus for processing 3D images and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: a display unit onto which data is scanned; and a display driver which makes left frame image data and right frame image data be alternately scanned onto the display unit and makes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170275 - Bar code reading device having plurality of operating states: There is described a bar code reading device having an image sensor, a first operating state and an alternative operating state. In the first operating state the bar code reading device can be restricted from reading out image data corresponding to a maximum number of pixels of the image sensor.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080170276 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus including a main assembly and a scanning optical apparatus which is inserted into the main assembly of the image forming apparatus in a substantially horizontal direction and is mounted to the apparatus main assembly, in order to fix the scanning optical apparatus to the apparatus... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080170277 - Image forming device capable of controlling auto color registration and method of controlling auto color registration: An image forming device capable of controlling an auto color registration (ACR) and a method of controlling an ACR. In the image forming device, a sensor detects preliminary test patterns by colors on a conveying belt; a color registration correction unit determines a present alignment state of the respective colors... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170278 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same: In order to enlarge a gamut in the low-brightness region of the hue of a special color, an image forming apparatus comprises an input unit for inputting color image data for which an image is to be formed; a color separation unit for generating color data in which the color... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080170279 - Tone correction apparatus and image reading apparatus: A tone correction apparatus having a look-up table 22 to memorize tone correction data for one sensor chip into one address, a horizontal pixel counter 21 to output designation information of the sensor chip according to a pixel position of input image data in a contact type line image sensor... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080170280 - System and method for estimating color separation misregistration utilizing frequency-shifted halftone patterns that form a moire pattern: A method and system for estimating color separation misregistration of a printing system. The method may include marking a substrate to form a misregistration estimation patch. The misregistration estimation patch being formed by first and second color separations. The first color separation marking the substrate with a first halftone pattern.... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080165369 - Discerning between original media and blank media in a common feed path printer device: Methods, apparatuses, and systems that facilitate common feed path printing devices to discern between original media and blank media are described herein. The novel systems may include, among other things, a print and a scan mechanism having a common input path to receive a first and a second media, the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080165380 - Host device and method of installing printer driver thereof: A host device to install a printer driver and a method thereof. The host device includes a storage unit to store option information set in previously installed printer driver, and a central processing unit to read the option information when a new printer driver is installed and setting the read... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080165383 - Data processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer program: An apparatus includes a content data acquisition unit configured to acquire content data to be inserted into an insertion area which is set in an image formation area for forming an image, and a content data transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired content data to an image forming apparatus... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080165384 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus may include an image forming unit to form image data according to a selected image forming option, a user interface to specify an option name and a corresponding image forming option, a storage section to store the corresponding image forming option and formed image data matched... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080165381 - Methods and systems for controlling an imaging device: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for controlling an imaging device where the controlling application may be obtained by the imaging device from a storage system and provided to a hosted computing environment.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080165385 - Multi-function device system having multi-function device and multi-function device communications management unit, multi-function device, and multi-function device communications management unit: A multi-function device system is provided, which includes a multi-function device and a multi-function device communications management unit, in which the use efficiency of the memory provided in a facsimile unit is enhanced and data printed in divided form can be saved as one-page data in the multi-function device communications... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080165382 - Systems and methods for variable form printing using removable storage: A method for printing using removable storage is described. An imaging job is initiated, wherein the imaging job comprises a fixed portion and a variable portion. The fixed portion is provided to an imaging device. The variable portion is provided to the imaging device. One of the fixed portion or... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080165386 - Information processing device, information collection device, information collection system, and method: An information processing device includes: a memory that stores function identifiers assigned to functions built into the information processing device, and function identifiers assigned to functions not built into the information processing device; a display controller that causes a display unit to display the function identifiers stored in the memory;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080165370 - Printer and tape printer: A printer includes: an area judging unit which judges whether a character printing area necessary for standard printing of an image corresponding to the character data on the printing material exceeds a definite length printing area; a printing data processing unit which creates corrected image data corresponding to a corrected... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080165371 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a controller having an integrated circuit for image processing. The controller is connected to an engine via a peripheral component interconnect (PCI). The engine includes a plotter and a scanner. The controller includes a central processing unit (CPU) to which a chip-set is connected via... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080165372 - Image data management apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image data management apparatus which provides a pull-print mark for a file which is expected to be printed at an externally connected image forming apparatus, that is, to be subjected to pull-printing. It is possible to provide the pull-print mark for a plural number of files. When a user... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080165374 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof store font information about a font of which a width of a dot line is less than a predetermined value; determine whether the width of the dot line of a text included in printing data is less than the predetermined... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080165377 - Image forming apparatus having an image forming part that can be set in a standby state in response to image forming operation to be performed subsequently: An image forming part performs an image forming operation. A higher-order component sends an image forming request to perform the image forming operation of said image forming part. A control part controls the image forming part based on the image forming request received from the higher-order component. The control part... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080165373 - Image forming apparatus to compensate monochromatic color and method thereof: An image forming apparatus and method outputs an image in a pure monochromatic color as opposed to forming the monochromatic color from a combination of colors. The image forming apparatus includes a controller to receive image data represented by a combination of red, green and blue data, among others, to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080165376 - Image printing method and system: There is provided an image printing method including obtaining an image, reducing a color area of the obtained image and generating a color area reduced image, extracting a contour from the obtained image and generating an outline image, generating a first image by overlapping the outline image with the color... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080165375 - Image-processing control device: An image-processing control device sets a parameter on an image processing apparatus with respect to each of colors of color image data, or groups the colors into at least a single set of colors and sets a parameter on the image processing apparatus with respect to the set of colors.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080165378 - Method and apparatus for providing a color-balanced multiple print engine: A method and apparatus is disclosed for color balancing page data, from a variety of input sources having non-consistent device color profiles, among a plurality of individually accessible print engines arranged in a system for color printing multiple copies of multiple page documents. Input page data is converted to a... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080165379 - Methods and apparatus for real time calibration of a print system marking engine: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for modifying the rendered output of a marking engine for a print job in progress. A marking engine commences printing print data for a print job. A parameter of a printed page of the print job is measured while the marking engine prints the print... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080165387 - Digitally printed color anti-copy document in any resolution and processes and products therefor: The present invention relates to a method and product resulting from the application of distortion security images in a digitally printed color anti-copy document, printed on demand, which may be variable use laser printers or printer/copiers and/or ink-jet printers and/or digital presses at any resolution.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080165388 - Automatic content creation and processing: Content is created automatically by applying operations (e.g., transitions, effects) to one or more content streams (e.g., audio, video, application output). The number and types of operations, and the location in the new content where the operations are applied, can be determined by event data associated with the one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080165389 - Image processing device, image processing system, computer readable recording medium, and image processing method: An image processing device includes: an image reader that optically reads a first image of an image processing object having a non-contact element attached thereto, the non-contact element including a memory member; an identification information reader that reads identification information from the memory member, the identification information being used for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080165390 - Image forming device and method to adjust images in document to be printed: An image forming device includes a scanning unit to scan a document, a user interface unit to set a region to be enlarged among a whole region of the document and a size of an enlarged region, and a scanning processing unit to enlarge a first image that belongs to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080165391 - Methods and apparatuses for selectively accessing an application: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses request an application; detect a user requesting the application; detect a profile associated with the user; and grant permission to access the application based on an access parameter.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080165392 - Imaging device, printing system, printing device, image printing method, and recording medium storing thereon a control program for the image printing method: An imaging device operable to print or display a synthesized image having fine visibility is provided. The imaging device includes an imaging optical system; an image sensor for converting an optical image to an electrical image signal; a posture detection section for detecting a posture of the imaging device, which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080165393 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes an input optical system having an input optical element, for projecting a light beam from a light source device onto a deflecting surface of an optical deflector, and an imaging optical system having an imaging optical element, for imaging the light beam scanningly deflected by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080165394 - Scanning device: A scanning device includes a housing, a transparent plate, an document feeder and an image capture module. The housing has an opening and the transparent plate covers the opening. The transparent plate has a stripe area, a first side neighboring to the stripe area, and a second side. The document... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080165395 - Book scanner: A book scanner for scanning two adjacent pages in documents bound in volume includes a housing, two image scanning units, and a conveying device. The housing has two scanning tables connected to each other. An included angle is formed between the two scanning tables and a crest line is formed... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080165396 - Transport controls for a media device: A method of scanning content comprises receiving an input signal indicating that content being displayed is to be scanned, sensing a duration of the received input signal, and scanning the content at a rate based at least in part on the sensed duration of the received input.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080165397 - Method and apparatus of color conversion: A method and an apparatus of color-space conversion are provided herein. When adjustment of saturation and/or hue is performed on a RGB color signal, pixel luminance will be influenced to some extent. In the conversion method of the present invention, luminance compensation will be performed after global or local adjustment... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080158574 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method and image processing program: An image processing apparatus is connected to a multiple number of external devices by way of a LAN and includes a main board for expanding the image data received as a print job from one of the external devices and a sub board serving as a connecting port with the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080158585 - Apparatus, method, program for supporting printing, system, method, and program for printing, and recording medium: A print support apparatus includes: a print-job-definition-data input section that receives input of print-job definition data describing print specifications; a printer-capability-information acquisition section that obtains capability information on an available printer; a post-printing-processor-capability-information acquisition section that obtains capability information on an available post-printing processor; a print-specification determination section that determines... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080158581 - Direct print handling of native and non-native data formats: The embodiments of the present invention relate to imaging operation flexibility by converting non-native input data to a format natively supported by the imaging device adapted to render or output such input data. The embodiments of the present invention also relate to filtering out device instructions or setting information, which... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, Pc

20080158583 - Image processing device and information processing device: A disclosed image processing device includes: a media connecting portion including a first surface and a second surface forming a space for housing a protrusion type storage medium whose body protrudes from the media connecting portion and an insertion type storage medium whose body is inserted into the media connecting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080158582 - Information processing apparatus and print setting method: An information processing apparatus for outputting a document to a printer. Whether or not each of a plurality of set values set for one printing condition is a set value by which a print output can be performed in the printer is discriminated. If a plurality of set values determined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080158584 - Information processing device: An information processing device includes a data receiving device, an output processing device, a print processing device, a specifying device, and a process controller. The information processing device is to be connected with a portable device. The data receiving device receives data. The output processing device is capable of executing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158586 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same: An image forming apparatus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The image forming apparatus supports the printing management function, such that it can continue or cancel the printing operation when a printing-operation change factor occurs during the printing operation established by the user. In the case of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080158587 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is used for copying an original. A reading section reads an image of an original. An image forming section forms the image of the original on a medium. When an error detector has detected an error in the image processing apparatus, a network connecting section connects... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080158598 - Data processing apparatus suitable for passing data among plurality of users, data processing method, and data processing program embodied on a computer readable medium: In order to process data by a plurality of processing methods defined for each of a plurality of users with a simple operation, MFP includes a HDD having a group BOX for storing data, related with at least two users, and creates a group table which associates at least two... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080158597 - Device and system for assisting printer selection through a network: To minimize risk of printing-out to a printer located at an improper base, where a network is established between the bases, terminal devices, a server, printers, and a management device which manages printers are provided. The management device manages position information of the printers installed in bases. Every time printing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158592 - Document management system, document management apparatus, document management method, and program: A document management system capable of reliably implementing disposal management of printed matter resulting from print output based on document data. A print history of images based on the document data printed by a printing device is managed. A deletion instruction for at least one set of document data stored... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080158593 - Image forming apparatus and printing method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a main controller to output a printing command for each page of printing data if the printing data are received; a printing unit to print the printing data according to the printing command; and a printing controller to maintain the printing unit in a standby... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080158590 - Image forming apparatus to set parameter corresponding to driver version of host device, host device, and methods thereof: A printing system includes an image forming apparatus and a host device. An image forming apparatus includes a printing part to perform a printing operation, a receiver to receive a parameter on a drive condition of the printing part from the host device, a storage part to store a parameter... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080158591 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: An image processing method and apparatus receives a web page which has a motion image including a plurality of still images from a web server, selects a printing option of the motion image included in the received web page according to a user's command, and generates printing data according to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080158596 - Information processing device, method and record medium for implementing status monitor: An information processing device, configured to be capable of shifting from a first state (normal operating state) to a second state (power-saving state) and returning from the second state to the first state, comprises: a first detection unit which detects the return of the information processing device from the second... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080158588 - Method and system for generating copy detection pattern having a fixed component and dynamic component: Apparatus and method of creating and printing a postal indicium incorporating a copy detection pattern (CDP) having one or more static portions, an optional semi-static portion, and one or more dynamic portions, including retrieving a previously generated static portion that is stored in a printing device, generating a dynamic portion... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080158589 - Multi-function printer with a locking device and operational method thereof: A multi-function printer is provided. A trigger piece is fixed to the first module and stretched into a second module. A wedging piece is disposed in the second module and protruded from the second module. An actuating piece and a join piece are disposed in the second module. The actuating... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080158594 - Network printing system, network communication method to print information, and host and image forming device to perform network communications: A network printing system, a network communication method to print information, and a host and an image forming device to perform network communications are provided. A mail server provides a mail transmitting/receiving service, a host transmits a mail including channel information established for data communications, and an image forming device... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080158599 - Print support system, print support program, and print support method: A print support system supports a printing operation of printing content represented by content data having a plurality of pages so that a final print appearance suitable for the content data is attained. The print support system includes a content data obtaining unit configured to obtain the content data, and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080158595 - Printing system and control method thereof: Disclosed are a printing system and a control method thereof. The system is capable of effectively performing printing and reducing a printing time. The method includes determining a division number of a document to be printed when a printing command is input, dividing the document according to the division number,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080158600 - System for software interaction using handwritten strokes: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a printer for receiving print data, printing a form, using the print data, by printing information related to at least one text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, receiving indicating data from a sensing device... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158602 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus is provided that includes an interface capable of mechanically restricting a memory card from being attached/detached in conjunction with instructions for the timing of attaching/detaching the memory card. The apparatus includes a memory card attaching portion, an operation instructing portion that gives instructions related to the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080158601 - Image memory tiling: According to some embodiments, image information, including rows of pixels, may be determined. The image information may be associated with a plurality of image blocks, each image block including a subset of pixels from multiple rows. Moreover, a single row of pixels of the image information may span multiple image... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080158603 - Information processing device: An information processing device may store and output information concerning events occurring in itself or another device. The information processing device may be provided with a destination-event type storing device, a first individual storing device, a first storage control device, and a first output control device. The destination-event type storing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080158604 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus that can maintain consistency between image information and page numbers with respect to that image information. The printing apparatus includes: a data input unit that embeds identification information for identifying pages to be printed in image information; and a data converting unit, a layout determining unit, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158606 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer data signal, and computer readable medium: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium within a predetermined width for image formation, a deviation amount obtaining unit that obtains an amount of a deviation formed on a recording sheet by the image forming unit, a correcting unit that... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080158605 - Method, device and computer program product for generating a page and/or domain-structured data stream from a line data stream: In a method for generation of a mapping rule input data of a print data stream structured per line, and which comprises variable data to be printed, are converted into output data of an output data structure. A predetermined structure description file is employed associated with the print data stream... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080158575 - Variable data image generating device, variable data image forming system and computer readable storage medium: There is provided a variable data image generating device including a plurality of first type image generating units that execute a first rendering instruction for a distributed record and generates a first type image corresponding to the record; a first type image memory that stores the first type image corresponding... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080158576 - Image forming system and computer readable medium storing image forming program: An image forming system includes: a resource information storage unit that previously stores resource information to be combined with input print information; a first setting unit that sets an image characteristic of the resource information stored in the resource information storage unit; a second setting unit that sets an image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158577 - Image forming system and computer readable medium storing image forming program: An image forming system includes: plural printing units each provided for each of different basic printing colors; and plural image processing units each provided in association with each of the printing units, and that generate image data for a basic color of the image processing unit's part and image data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158580 - Method of converting image signal, method of determining original color of color image, and apparatus for converting image signal: A new calibration scale is proposed for as a substitute for density values of a densitometer or equivalent neutral densities. A color reproduction range of a color reversal film is set on an xy chromaticity diagram. On the xy chromaticity diagram, there are established three straight lines passing through a... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, Pllc

20080158578 - Printing system: A printing system includes a printing unit and a print controlling unit. The printing unit is configured to print a primary image and a secondary image on a recording medium and that is capable of switching between a multicolor printing mode and a monochrome printing mode. The print controlling unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080158579 - Profile adjustment method, apparatus, and program: The adjustment of first conversion data for converting device independent data included in a profile describing characteristics of a device into device dependent data is achieved by inputting sample data which is the device independent data, converting the sample data into the device dependent data using the first conversion data,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080158607 - Image processing apparatus: Even if similar images which are similar to specific images exist in image data, the influence of the similar images is eliminated so that restriction of processing can be executed without fail. There are provided a detection section 70 for detecting specific images and similar images in a form similar... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080158608 - Paper transport mechanism with a capping mechanism: The invention provides for a paper transport mechanism for a pagewidth printer. The mechanism includes an electric motor and a sheet feed roller, a paper drive roller and pinch wheels operatively actuated by the motor to feed paper through a media path defined through the printer. The mechanism also includes... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158609 - Apparatus for converting gray scale and method for the same: The invention discloses an apparatus for converting gray scale. The apparatus includes a receiving module, an encoding module, and a decoding module. The receiving module is used for receiving an input image, wherein the input image has an N-bit first gray level. The encoding module is used for selectively calculating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158610 - Image processing device, image output device, terminal device, image forming system, computer readable medium storing program thereof and image processing method: An image processing device includes a multivalue-converting unit that converts input binary image data including plural color components into multivalued image data; a restriction unit that restricts imaging materials to be used for multivalued image data produced by the multivalue-converting unit; and a binarizing unit that binarizes the multivalued image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158611 - Generation of dither matrix: The invention provides a printing method of printing on a printing medium. The method includes: providing a print head that includes a plurality of nozzle arrays for ejecting at least N colors of inks, N being an integer of at least 3; performing a halftone process with a dither matrix... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080158612 - Data processing apparatus, image registration method, and program product: A data processing apparatus for registering image data includes a network processing unit configured for acquiring image data through a network, an image correction unit for analyzing the image data, extracting a background image and a subject image from the image data, and correcting the extracted background image according to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080158613 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, computer readable recording medium, and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: a generating unit that generates a control image representing control information to be used for controlling an operation that is performed by the image forming apparatus; a superimposing unit that superimposes the control image generated by the generating unit on a print image; and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158614 - Image processing apparatus and method for printing and plate making, and recording medium having image processing program recorded therein for printing and plate making: A neighboring vector, which is a boundary portion between two overlapping objects, is extracted. To calculate luminance levels of the objects on both sides of the neighboring vector, a predetermined number of coordinate points (sample points) in the vicinity of the neighboring vector are extracted at least from the image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158615 - System and method for delivering digitized mail: Systems and methods for optimizing the process of digitizing and delivering physical mail based upon selective scanning are described and in certain illustrative examples, an intelligent agent computer system is employed for making selective scanning decisions in the process of digitizing and delivering physical mail.... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080158616 - Image forming system: An image forming system including an image forming apparatus and a post-processing apparatus having: an image forming apparatus low-power transition time setting section for setting a low-power transition time of the image forming apparatus; a post-processing apparatus low-power transition time setting section for setting a low-power transition time of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080158617 - Tone signal detection apparatus: A tone signal detection apparatus for detecting a tone signal of a specific frequency is disclosed. The tone signal detection apparatus includes a detecting unit, a determining unit, a time measuring unit, and a time comparing unit. A time during which a signal is not detected by the detecting unit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080158618 - Dual page, apex-bed scanner: An image capture device includes a scanning bed having transparent first and second scanning surfaces. The first and second scanning surfaces intersect to form an apex. The apex is configured to engage a bound document. The device also includes first and second scanners, each configured for movement along interior sides... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080158619 - Image reading device: An image reading device including (1) a transparent member having an image reading area, (2) a line sensor that moves in a line sensor moving direction, which is perpendicular to a reading line direction of the line sensor, (3) a first supporting structure that supports, at opposite ends of the... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20080158620 - Image reading and recording apparatus: An image reading and recording apparatus has: a carriage for mounting a recording head; a reading unit which reads an original document; a conveying roller arranged on a conveying path which is used in common for recording paper and the original; and a platen arranged so as to face the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080158621 - Document feeder and image capturing device: Document feeder and image capturing device preventing empty stamping associated with improper positioning of printing unit. Document feeder A, conveying document originals from a document placement location, along a predetermined conveyance path (12), and to a document information-capturing location (5, 6), is furnished with: a printing unit (8), which is... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20080158624 - Image forming device: An image forming device is provided with a sheet feeding unit capable of selectively feeding recording sheets of a plurality of sizes, a print unit configured to print out images represented by print data on page-by-page basis, the print data including information of designated size of the recording sheets. On... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080158622 - Image reading and recording apparatus: An image reading and recording apparatus includes a trigger arm configured to start transmission of a drive to a paper feed unit in accordance with the position of a carriage. The trigger arm includes a first lever portion for feeding a recording sheet in a state in which a cap... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080158623 - Scanner capable of selecting scanning positions and scanning method for the scanner: A scanner capable of selecting scanning positions includes a scanning window, a scanning module and a control processing unit. Before a sheet of documents is scanned, the control processing unit moves the scanning module to a first location to generate a first image datum, and moves the scanning module to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080158625 - Method and apparatus for forming image: When a monochromatic original is read, a control is effected to transfer a charge accumulated in a monochromatic photodiode array to a rear stage, and not to accumulate charges in respective color photodiode arrays. When a color original is read, a control is effected to transfer charges accumulated in the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080158626 - Color image scanning system, method and medium: A color image scanning system may include a storage unit to store look-up tables having correction values of first color data, obtained by scanning a first printing paper having a plurality of color patches, each of the look-up tables corresponding to a type of printing paper, and a final image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP