Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 09/08

20080231868 - Information processing apparatus and driver control method: An image processing apparatus includes a driver control unit configured to perform processing relating to uninstallation or updating of a driver associated with a device, and a relay unit configured to switch a storage destination of device configuration information which has been transmitted from the device associated with the driver... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080231869 - Method and apparatus for displaying document image, and computer program product: Full-size image data is displayed on a first area on a display unit and detailed image data are displayed in a second area on the display unit. A mark indicating a position of the detailed image data in the full-size image data is displayed in the full-size image data. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231879 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus including a data inputting part for inputting image data, a document recognizing part for recognizing the image data as a document, a document storing part for storing document data corresponding to the document recognized by the document recognizing part, and a stored document managing part for... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231878 - Information processing apparatus: When an operation mode of an image forming apparatus returns from an energy-saving mode to a regular operation mode, a CPU of a main system outputs a power control signal set to High, and determines the necessariness of information display on an LCD of an operation unit control system to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231880 - Automatic detection of user preference for copy or scan setting: A method is described for automatically predicting user-preferred copy or scan settings based on past user behavior. The method is implemented in a management section of a copier, scanner, or multifunction devices that combine copy, scan and print functions, or on a server connected with such a device. The management... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080231891 - Client apparatus, server apparatus, and information processing method: A client apparatus capable of communicating with a server apparatus via a network includes a collecting unit configured to collect module configuration information regarding at least one device driver installed in the client apparatus, a module configuration information transmitting unit configured to transmit the module configuration information collected by the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080231895 - Communication device: There is provided a communication device comprising: a conversion unit configured to convert first data to second data having a predetermined format; a communication interface configured to interface the communication device with a network; a transmission unit configured to transmit the second data to an external device through the communication... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080231882 - Digital multiple apparatus: In a digital multiple apparatus, at least two different jobs are processed by at least two job processing units, and while job processing by one job processing unit, if there is an interruption by job processing by the other job processing unit, an end time of the job processing by... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080231885 - Direct printing method using ram storage for spooled printer files: In a PDF direct printing method, the printer controller stores PDF direct print data received from a client on a RAM of the printer controller, or partly on the RAM according to a printing order and/or frequency of use if there is insufficient space to stored all the received PDF... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080231886 - Driverless printing system, apparatus and method: Systems, apparatuses and methods for submitting a print job to a specified printer are provided which include means for and/or steps of (i) converting a document created with a specific application and to be printed, into a print-ready form that is independent of the specific printer and independent of computing... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231881 - Image forming apparatus and method of the same: When a sheet P is jammed after start of a print job, it is determined whether an automatic resumption mode for automatically resuming the print job is set. When a determination result of this determination is affirmative, the print job is resumed after the jam is released. When the determination... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080231887 - Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program: A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231884 - Image forming apparatus which has a fax function: An ifax communication unit that performs communication of image data through the Internet, which is mounted on an image forming apparatus, includes a destination address table, which is stored in a memory unit, for setting original scanning resolution to resolution defined by a protocol of the Internet. While setting of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080231888 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, method of printing sample print, and computer program product: An image forming apparatus is able to select a paper-delivery destination for a print output. The image forming apparatus includes a print-process managing unit that divides a print job into print processes and controls a print output; and a sample-print-output controlling unit that controls execution of a sample print output... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231899 - Image forming system, portable communication device, recording medium and image formation method: When printing a file stored in a PC by a digital multi-function peripheral specified by a user, a portable terminal device transmits a print request to the PC, calculates a total time of processing time between the portable terminal device and PC and processing time between the PC and digital... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080231894 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image reading unit acquires image data by reading a document, skin is detected from the image data, and skin processing is performed according to a detection result of detection of the skin. The image data is then corrected to have a predetermined data characteristic, and a second skin processing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231890 - Image processing system and image processing apparatus: The object is to enable a user to efficiently set a function for an image processing apparatus using a display medium he carries. When a user operates his mobile phone to activate a function setting information input program, an input screen for setting a function is displayed. When the user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231889 - Method of processing display: An MFP includes sensors for detecting states of units, a transmitting/receiving unit that receives authentication information of a user ID, and an obtaining unit that obtains manual data and sensor information. The transmitting/receiving unit transmits the manual data and the sensor information to a displaying device that includes a sensor... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080231893 - Method, software program product and device for producing security documents: The present invention relates to a method for producing security documents, a software program product and a corresponding device. In order to further develop a method for producing security documents, wherein a decision maker communicates with at least one printer via a personalisation server sub-centre, as well as a corresponding... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080231892 - Multifunction printer, printing system, and still image printing program: A multifunction printer includes a scanner; a memory which stores a plurality of still image data; a printing head which prints, on a first printing medium, thumbnail images corresponding to the plurality of the still image data; an image data-extracting section which extracts a base image data and a correction... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231898 - Print control apparatus and computer-readable recording medium storing print control program: A print control apparatus is connected to a printing apparatus and controls printing operations of the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus has a printing device to print characters on a print medium. The print control apparatus includes a print medium setting acquisition device that acquires print medium setting information, the... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080231896 - Printing device, and printing method and computer readable medium therefor: A printing device includes a data acquiring unit configured to acquire a numerical number of image files to be printed, an input accepting unit configured to accept an external input for specifying a numerical number of papers to be printed, a printing pattern determining unit configured to determine a numerical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080231897 - Printing system, portable unit terminal, server, portable embedded program and server program: A printing system includes a portable unit terminal, a server connected through a network to the portable unit terminal, and a printer capable of printing print data, which are received from the portable unit terminal. The portable unit terminal includes an image-acquiring device; an input device; a text-data-transmitting device that... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080231883 - Usage based service solution: A method of monitoring at least one printing device via a communication network is disclosed. An error identifier and a usability identifier are received from the printing device. The printing device is commanded to display a fault code. A service occurs as a response to the error identifier and the... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080231900 - Information processing apparatus: The present invention allows a printing process to be released from application software earlier. At the start of printing, the size of an available area in a RAM 11 is obtained. It is determined whether or not the size of total print data transmitted from a handheld computer to a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231901 - Print controlling apparatus and method of controlling the same: Print data is saved in a hot folder. The hot folder is a storage area for saving print data. Saving of print data in the hot folder is monitored at regular time intervals. Upon detecting saving of print data in the hot folder, the number of pages to be printed... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080231870 - Image-providing apparatus and control method thereof, printing apparatus and control method thereof, and printing system: A composite image is generated by compositing blank regions generated by tilt correction with achromatic pixels or pixels contained in the non-overlapping regions that do not overlap with the region of the original image as a result of tilt correction. The data of this composite image, which is used as... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231871 - Method for viewing and printing double-sided items: A method for displaying indicia that is to be printed on a double-sided item on a computer screen. The double-sided item has first and second surfaces. The indicia has at least one print orientation when the indicia is printed on the item's first and second surfaces, and at least one... Agent: Avery Dennison Corporation Patent Group

20080231872 - Multifunction printer, printing system, and still image printing program: A multifunction printer includes a scanner; a still image data-extracting section which extracts a plurality of still image data from inputted movie image data; a memory which stores a correlation between the extracted still image data and time positions thereof in the movie image data; a printing head which prints,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231875 - Image forming device, and calibration method and computer readable medium therefor: An image forming device, which is capable of double-side printing to form an image on each of first and second sides of a recording medium, includes a calibration unit configured to perform calibration for modifying quality of the image to be formed, a first judging unit configured to judge, for... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080231876 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus has a display to display color images and a storage to store color image data. A first preview controller causes the display to display a color preview image based on stored color image data. A character-area extractor extracts a character area from the stored color image... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080231877 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: This invention solves the problem of color misalignment upon reading a color image. An image reading apparatus according to this invention reads an image by scanning a scanning unit which mounts a reading sensor which reads light beams which are emitted by three light sources, which emit light beams of... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080231873 - Ink set and method for making the same: One embodiment of an ink set includes a light gray ink, a medium gray ink, and a black ink. Each of the inks in the ink set includes a carboxylic polymer. The light gray ink has a carboxylic polymer load equal to or greater than about 3 wt %. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080231874 - Printer control system, printer control method and printer: A print and colorimetry instructing section delivers an exclusive-use start instruction to start exclusive use of the printer prior to delivery of the printing instruction and the colorimetry instruction, the print and colorimetry instructing section delivering an exclusive-use canceling instruction to cancel the exclusive use of the printer at a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080231903 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: In order to allow to store image data in a color reproducible format while reducing the data size, an image processing apparatus includes an image input unit which inputs image data by reading an original image, a determination unit which determines a representative color included in the image data, a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080231902 - Output pure color tints or black for full-color input: A method and device for printing a full color image containing at least one object onto a highlight color printer without mixing highlight color and black for any one object. Inputting a full color image containing at least one object to be printed onto a highlight color printer. The highlight... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080231904 - Image processing method, printer driver, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image processing method processes image data to be output to an image forming apparatus that is capable of making a two-way recording to form an image on a recording medium by recording in a forward path and a return path of a scan by an ink-jet recording head. The... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231905 - Method for calculating ink-jet printing data: A method for calculating ink-jet printing data is disclosed. A preset pattern is first obtained. Ink-jet points required for the preset pattern are calculated to select a filtering mode. A filtering operation is implemented on the preset pattern according to the filtering mode, resulting in an applicable number of ink-jet... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080231906 - Image processing apparatus: A disclosed image processing apparatus enables input of various documents, addition of various types of embedded information, and implementation of various behaviors associated with embedded information detection results. Information embedded in input document data is detected, and an image processing associated with a detection result is carried out. The image... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231907 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires an original image data containing first data, and a data processing unit that edits the first data in the original image data thereby generating edited original image data, and outputs the edited original image data.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231908 - Methods and systems for classifying and prioritizing incoming facsimiles: A method is provided for classifying and prioritizing facsimiles comprising: accepting a facsimile comprising image data; classifying the facsimile in accordance with a predetermined classification scheme based on the data comprising the facsimile; determining, based on the classification, at least one characteristic of an output of the facsimile; and outputting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20080231909 - Information processing system, image input system, information processing method and image input method: An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus; and an image input apparatus. The information processing apparatus performs: storing a correspondence relationship between a document and a user in charge of the image input of the document; transmitting a request for the image input to the user; picking out... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080231910 - Registration and compression of dynamic images: A technique for selecting portions of a dynamic medical image data set to be stored and portions of the medical image data set to be discarded or processed differently in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The dynamic image... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080231911 - Document illuminator with led-driven phosphor: A scanning apparatus includes an illuminator for illuminating a portion of a document to be scanned. The illuminator includes at least one light source and an optical element positioned to redirect light emitted by the light source. A phosphor material is disposed to intercept at least a portion of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080231914 - Document scanning apparatus: Scanned images are tiled in a list display area of a display of a touch panel. A model icon and other icons for editing are displayed in an edit icon display area. A scanned image is accepted as an object to be processed by a touch operation to the scanned... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080231912 - Image processor, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: In an image processor, an image transfer control unit segments a unit of a process for each image process request, and causes an image processing unit to carry out an image process on image data from reading units.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231913 - Optical unit assembly, image reader and image forming apparatus: An optical unit assembly is provided with an optical system including an optical component for irradiating a target object with light and receiving the reflected light, a casing for accommodating the optical system, a supporting frame for supporting a part of the casing, and a height adjusting member having a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080231915 - Scanning device with multifocus and multiresolution: A scanning device with multifocus and multiresolution is provided. The scanning device is formed by the combination of the glass plate, the circuit boards, the rod lenses and the light-sensitive sensor arrays. Furthermore, since the relative positions of the circuit boards, the relative positions of the light-sensitive sensor arrays, the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080231917 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image reading apparatus has a plurality of emitters that emit light onto a manuscript surface in a light quantity that is the synthesized light quantity of light emitted from the plurality of emitters. In the image reading apparatus, determination on the abnormality of a reference white data level value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231916 - Image reading device and image forming apparatus: A turning-on control unit causes a turning-on unit to apply to a light source an initial voltage when turning on the light source and to apply a rated voltage after the light source has been turned on. The initial voltage is higher than the rated voltage. An image-signal control unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231918 - Image reading device and image forming device: An image reading device includes a processing circuit having a clamp unit that matches an offset potential of an inputted analog image signal to a predetermined value, a processing unit that subjects an analog image signal obtained from the clamp unit to analog processing, and a converting unit that converts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231919 - Image scanning apparatus: An image scanning apparatus comprises a platen surface which is provided at an upper part of a main body of the image scanning apparatus so that an original sheet to be scanned is placed thereon; and an original sheet support portion which is provided to support an original sheet having... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231920 - Image scanning apparatus and method of scanning both sides of a printable medium using the same: An image scanning apparatus includes a reversal tray on which printable media are temporarily stacked, and a reverse roller installed inside a main body immediately before the reversal tray at a junction between the reversal tray and an end of a second moving path, which is driven in both clockwise... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080231921 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus that reduces a color of a document image to be printed. An image generation unit scans a document to generate image data. A hue determination unit determines a specific hue included in the image data and a hue becoming a complementary color of the specific hue.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080225318 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus of the invention conveys paper fed by a paper feeding mechanism piece by piece to a paper discharging unit through a paper conveying path. An image forming unit is arranged in a midway portion of this paper conveying path and executes an image forming process for... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080225319 - Sticky note printing system and sticky note printer: A sticky note printing system has: a sticky note printer which prints on a topmost sticky note of a bundle of sticky notes formed by laminated sticky notes, of which one ends are glued to be peeled off each other; and an image forming apparatus which forms an image data... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080225321 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus including: optical sensor to receive a bias current and to divide the bias current into two output currents, according to positions of a light beam on the optical sensor; and a signal processor to detect horizontal synchronization signals using the output currents, to calculate a positional... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080225322 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image reading device generates first capability information indicative of an image processing operation that can be performed by an image processing section. An image printing device generates second capability information indicative of an image processing operation that can be performed by an image processing section. An image processing operation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225323 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing adaptive, selectable print options: A method for providing adaptive, selectable print options. The method includes parsing a document into logical sections, each of the logical sections identified by a reference. The method also includes creating a print map of references identified as a result of the parsing, displaying the print map along with selectable... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080225320 - Systems and methods for unified imaging job accounting: A method for unified imaging job accounting may involve determining one or more imaging operations that are performed as part of processing the imaging job. The method may also involve determining standard rates that are defined for the one or more imaging operations. The standard rates may be applied across... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080225324 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming system is supplied which is able to prevent the record medium from being taken by other people and to improve the secrecy performance of image data. In the system, an image processing apparatus has an storing section that stores image data to form image, a reading section... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080225325 - Method and system for real-time end-user status and quality monitoring of printing operations: A user connected to a remote printer can choose to activate a print-monitoring feature of the printer as part of the submitted print job. As the job begins to print, the output of the printer is monitored for print quality. If an event occurs during the print job that affects... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20080225327 - Adaptive forced binary compression in printing systems: Forced compression halftone processes and forced compression techniques may be used to forcibly compress page raster images passed between a Digital Front End (DFE) processor and a Continuous Feed (CF) printer within a CF printing system. If a DFE processor determines that a compressed image size exceeds a static or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080225335 - Data communication system, image processing apparatus, program and data communication method: A data communication system, an image processing apparatus, a program and a data communication method which permit a user to command a reply multicast transmission in reply to a multicast transmission with easy operations. In executing a multicast transmission of first image data, the image processing apparatus sends a job... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080225329 - Http server and program: An HTTP server including a communication section which communicates with a client, and a control section which, as a response to an HTTP request for requesting a report pertaining to a monitoring object received from the client via the communication section, transmits the report via the communication section to the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080225333 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and memory medium: An object of the present invention is to solve dissatisfaction of the user who can not take out the source data in a case where a code image in the original can not be decoded. In order to accomplish the above object, the invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080225334 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: In printing an electronic document on a paper, an MFP prints a code image created by encoding a paper ID including a local ID issued to the paper and stores paper information with the paper ID. The MFP determines a type of data format, creates a paper ID in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225332 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus, capable of communicating with a plurality of printing apparatuses, for inputting insertion data to a data area of document data and sending output data processible by each printing apparatus, comprises: a classification unit adapted to classify a plurality of print data to be used for printing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225336 - Method and system to allow printing compression of documents: A print compression method and system reduces the amount of space required to print a document such that less paper is used during the printing of a document. A user defines criteria, which is used to perform document compression. However, the document compression only applies to the form of document... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20080225326 - Policy based system and method for optimizing output device submission, use and wait times: Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing submission of output jobs to a network of output devices, using an output job manager to assign jobs to devices. The assignments are done automatically, based on policies associated with users, output devices, organizations responsible for the output devices, and the system... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080225330 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printer includes a data obtaining unit, a storage unit, an engine, and a printing unit. The data obtaining unit obtains, from print data stored in the storage unit, print data for sheets less than the maximum number of sheets dischargeable to a discharge tray as target print data and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225328 - Printing management system: A remote proofing system (10) on an information network (400) includes a networked controller (20) configured to be a master proofing controller and at least one remote proof printer (30, 90, 300, 310, 320, 330). The master proofing controller monitors at least one monitored information folder (13) maintained on the... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080225331 - Wireless network printing-system and method: A wireless network printing system and method, the system including: a first wireless terminal to selectively connect to an ad-hoc network, where inter-device communication is directly performed between devices, and an infrastructure network, where inter-device communication is indirectly performed, via an access point (AP); a second wireless terminal to transmit... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080225338 - Computer-connectable portable memory device: A computer-connectable portable memory device is specifically adapted for storing digital data files for the purpose of transferring the files to other equipment and/or displaying the files. The device has program code permanently residing therein and causing the device to identify itself as a printer when connected to a multi-purpose... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225337 - Information processing device, program, and recording medium: An information processing device includes a storing unit in which registered medium information is stored, indicating a set of registered recording media uses, which uses are permitted by the information processing device. A checking unit checks usability of a removable recording medium attached to the information processing device by comparing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225339 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus to carry out image forming on a recording medium by adding a specific pattern to image data inputted, having a mask creation section to create a mask area where addition of the specific pattern is prohibited and a control section to carry out image forming in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080225306 - Imposition systems, methods and drivers for printer products: Imposition system and drivers for printer products prepare a document for printing by receiving an electronic document to be printed, determining a smallest font size of the text of at least a portion of the document; determining a scale factor for at least one portion of the document based on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080225307 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes a pattern data generating unit, an image-forming unit and a detecting unit. The pattern data generating unit generates pattern data indicative of a pattern of a plurality of marks. The plurality of marks includes a first mark having a first color, a first light reflectance, a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080225308 - Image stitching for a multi-head printer: Techniques are disclosed for stitching images printed by a multi-head printer in a manner that is relatively insensitive to misregistration of the image segments. When a pair of overlapping print heads print a pair of adjacent image segments which meet in a stitching region, printing at each location in the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080225309 - Calibration sheet and method of calibrating a digital printer: A method of controlling a color printing apparatus takes into account variations in color quality across a sheet, perpendicular to the process direction. The apparatus outputs a print sheet forming a test print, the test print including at least one primary strip extending along a cross-process direction of the printer,... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080225317 - Cartridge type hard disk drive and image forming apparatus: A cartridge type HDD unit 20 is mounted on the outside of a back plate panel 2 of an exterior cover rear portion in an image forming apparatus 1. An HDD main body is detachably attachable into a unit case 21. When the HDD main body is attached into the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225310 - Data processing using print driver: The present invention provides for transforming a document containing data using a filter pipeline. The document is received, and at least one parameter for transforming the data within the document is obtained by a print driver interface. The data within the document is transformed based on the obtained at least... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225311 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and computer readable medium: An image forming apparatus includes a combining unit, an image forming unit, a verification unit and a controller. The combining unit combines data from a first path and data from a second path. The image forming unit forms a combined image based on combined image data which is obtained by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225315 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus, include: a first reader, operable to read image data; a second reader, operable to read a first image in which a correction content is described, the first image and a second image to which the correction content is performed are included in a medium; and a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080225313 - Image processing apparatus and method and computer-readable recording medium having stored therein the program: When image processing is performed on image data representing an image to obtain processed image data, an image processing condition setting unit calculates a recommended correction amount for compressing the dynamic range of the image. Further, a display unit displays information representing the recommended correction amount.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225312 - Image processor, image processing method, and computer program product: For (CMYK) (x,y) data, a target-pixel checking unit calculates a target-pixel integrated value a(x,y) from CMYK binary data of a target pixel and a surrounding-pixel checking unit calculates a maximum surrounding pixel integrated value n(x,y) from respective CMYK binary data of surrounding pixels that are adjacent to the target pixel.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080225316 - Image retrieval apparatus, image retrieving method, and storage medium for performing the image retrieving method in the image retrieval apparatus: An image retrieval apparatus, which is included in an image forming apparatus and has a storage medium storing a machine-readable program to perform an image retrieving method, includes a retrieving unit configured to search and retrieve a target image similar to specified image data in a storage unit storing a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225314 - Recording method in recording apparatus, and recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a transporting unit which transports a recording medium and a recording unit which records data (e.g., prints) on the recording medium. A control unit controls the recording unit and the transporting unit. A detection unit detects a back end of the recording medium at a more... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225340 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a judging unit that judges whether a result of image processing performed on an area satisfies a certain processing end condition and a stopping unit that stops the image processing when judgment of the judging unit is affirmative.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225341 - Image processing circuit, displaying apparatus, and printing apparatus: An image processing circuit includes: a plurality of counters that extract image blocks each of which includes a predetermined number of pixels from input image data, count a number of pixels having a predetermined value for each of the image blocks, calculate a pixel value for each of the extracted... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225342 - Method and system for encoding color images to black-and-white bitmaps and decoding color images: A method and system for encoding a color image into a monochrome halftoned image for printing, includes the use of a decoding mechanism to recover color information from the monochrome halftone image. A luminance channel associated with the color image can be utilized as the grayscale input to a half-toning... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080225343 - Scanning apparatus: A keyboard and a display screen are arranged to cover an upper side a main body of an ADF-type scanning apparatus, so that a large space can be secured to arrange the keyboard and the display screen. The display screen includes an ADF-cover opening-closing mechanism that opens and closes the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080225344 - Image reading device: An image reading device includes a reading unit and a controller connected to the reading unit through a transmission path. The controller includes: a first clock generator which generates a first reference clock; a second clock generator which generates a second reference clock; a line synchronizer which generates a line... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080225345 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium: An image forming apparatus includes: a first holding unit that holds a pixel value data sequence in which each of the data sequences is formed by a pixel value and a range of the pixel value or by the pixel value, the range of the pixel value, reference to a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225346 - Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method: In an image processing apparatus, preview images are generating by continuously scanning both sides of originals. The page scrolling unit scrolls the preview images while pairing a first preview image to be processed with a second preview image that is not processed as pages of front and back sides of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080225347 - Scanner lighting: In one embodiment, a scanning device that includes: a lamp; a light sensitive detector near the lamp, the detector configured to detect images on a scan target illuminated by the lamp; and a window for admitting light from the lamp to illuminate a specific part of the device that is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225348 - Scanning device, apparatus and method for image processing: A scanning device includes a first scanning unit, a second scanning unit, and a light source corresponding to each of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit. The light sources are arranged on the same side of the first and second scanning units with respect to the main... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080225349 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using same: An optical scanning apparatus is detachably mountable in an image forming apparatus. The optical scanning apparatus includes a light source unit to simultaneously emit a plurality of light beams; an optical element unit including an optical element to focus light beams deflected by the optical element onto a surface to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225350 - Contact-image-sensor scanner configurable for scanning opaque and transparent media: A scanner has a movable carriage, a contact image sensor located on the carriage, and a platen that is substantially transparent to visible light overlying the carriage and the contact image sensor. The scanner is selectively configurable between a first scanning mode for scanning substantially opaque media positioned on the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225351 - Pasting apparatus and image forming apparatus: A pasting apparatus includes a pasting member operative to paste a non-transparent medium onto an image-formed surface of a transparent medium; and a conveying member that conveys the non-transparent medium to the pasting member by electrostatic adsorption.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225353 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: An image reading apparatus includes a first image generation unit configured to scan a document set with one edge aligned with a reference position of a document positioning plate to generate a first image, a second image generation unit configured to scan the document set with a second edge, side... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080225352 - Image reading device: An image reading device includes: a document placing table including a first area and a second area; an image reading unit which reads an image on a document placed on the document placing table to obtain image data; a first detector configured to detect the document on the first area;... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080225355 - Image reading device and control method thereof: An image reading device feeds a document original along a sub-scanning direction over an exposure glass. A moving unit moves to and fro in the sub-scanning direction over the exposure glass thereby causing an image reading position on the exposure glass to move. A line image sensor reads one line... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225354 - Image reading device and image forming apparatus having the same: An image reading device and an image forming apparatus and methods thereof can achieve a duplex scanning operation and enable a user to easily arrange the scanned documents after being discharged. The image reading device may include a supply path coupled to a document supply port, a simplex document feeding... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080225356 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus which can reduce a change of color balance due to the exchange of the optical unit. The image reading apparatus comprises an original glass plate on which an original is placed, and an optical unit adapted to move in parallel to the original glass plate below... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080225357 - Image reader: Provided is an image reader including: a transparent original mounting plate on which an original is mounted; a support which has an appearance larger than that of the original mounting plate and supports the original mounting plate; a reading unit which optically reads the original placed on the original mounting... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225358 - Original sheet support means in a scanner: A wide format transport scanner is provided with a drawer for holding a set of wide format original sheets to be scanned. The drawer is located immediately underneath the entry nip of the scanner. After placing a set of wide format originals on the drawer, the task of manually scanning... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218786 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus of this invention includes an image forming position correction unit which corrects an inclination or curve of an image in the main scanning direction by converting coordinates designating pixel positions of a bitmap image in the sub-scanning direction. It is discriminated whether image formation is normal... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218793 - Client device of direct printing system and computer-readable recording medium containing utility program for direct printing: A client device for a direct printing system includes the client device and a printing device connected to the client device, and an external device containing print data subject to direct printing being detachably connectable to either of the client device and printing device. The client device includes a judging... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080218790 - Image forming apparatus and data communication method: Data comprising a pulse signal is divided into predetermined data segments. The number of pulse-signal fluctuations in the data segment is counted. A transmitter transmits the unchanged data to a receiving portion in a case where the number of pulse-signal fluctuations does not exceed a predetermined number. On the other... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080218787 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: In an image formation instructing station in an example of the invention, an image forming apparatus has a receiving unit configured to receive first facsimile data affixed with first transmission station identification data, a storing unit configured to store a transfer box in which an identification code based on one... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080218788 - Image forming apparatus management system: An image forming apparatus management system in an example of the invention has a first information communication terminal that transmits a print request for image data, a first image forming apparatus that receives the print request transmitted from the first information communication terminal, and a management server having storing means... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080218792 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and image forming method: A scanner unit reads a code image from a recording medium. A detecting unit detects a medium identification from the code image. An identification obtaining unit obtains image identifications of all images included in a print unit that is identified by a unit identification and a print condition corresponding to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218795 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: When a storage medium is connected to an MFP, it is determined whether or not the connected storage medium stores data. If it is determined that the storage medium does not store any data for printing, a setting dialog of scanning processing of an original using a scanner is automatically... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218794 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program: An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus uses software architecture called pipes-and-filters architecture. The image processing apparatus includes an inputting filter, a processing filter, a printing filter, and a preview image displaying filter. When a preview image of image data to be output is instructed to be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218797 - Information processing apparatus having printer driver and sheet parameter setting method for printer driver: It is necessary to switch print settings and color processing tables to optimum ones in accordance with a type of sheet which is used in a printer. In the case of enabling a new sheet to be used, a setting can be easily added without newly forming a whole printer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218796 - Information processing apparatus, distributed printing controlling method, storing medium and program: Control is effected to produce a plurality of child print jobs for a plurality of printers from data to be printed, on the basis of inputted instruction for distributed print, and information regarding a parent print job is produced on the basis of information regarding the plurality of child print... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218791 - Information processing device, image forming device, information processing method, and information processing program: A disclosed information processing device connected to an image forming device having a distribution destination setting unit setting a distribution destination of image data scanned by a scanning unit includes: a distribution procedure storage unit storing a distribution procedure for each distribution destination of the image data; a validation information... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080218789 - Method of allocating rip workload in digital printing: A document to be printed digitally has each page image routed to an RIP of least capability able to timely process the image if that RIP is least busy. If the RIP of least capability able to timely process the image is not the least busy, the page image is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080218799 - Extended cob-usb with dual-personality contacts: A dual-personality extended USB (EUSB) system supports both USB and EUSB memory cards using an extended 9-pin EUSB socket. Each EUSB memory card includes a PCBA having four standard USB metal contact pads disposed on an upper side of a PCB, and several extended purpose contact springs that extend through... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP 2099 Gateway Place

20080218798 - Image processing apparatus, data processing method and data processing program: An image processing apparatus comprises a first storage area that stores in itself original data to be copied; a copier that copies the original data to a second storage area that is shared and allowed to be accessed by a plurality of users belonging to one same group, by storing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080218800 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: A document detecting unit detects a document from color image data of a plurality of rectangular areas at a specific position on a scanning plate, to determine a document size in a main-scanning direction. An average-value calculating unit calculates an average value of each component of the color image data... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080218774 - Configurable printer for different locations and methods of configuring a printer for different locations: A configurable printer for different locations and methods for configuring a printer for different locations are provided. The printer includes memory loaded with different versions of firmware. Each version of firmware may enable a different printer configuration for a corresponding location. The printer also includes an interface for accepting a... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, Llc

20080218773 - Image scaling for an electrophotographic device to obtain various media output speeds: Methods and apparatus include scaling imaging of an electrophotographic (EP) device, such as a laser printer or copy machine, to obtain various media output speeds (in pages per minute). A scanning unit has a substantially fixed scan rate during printing and reflects a laser beam onto a photoconductor to create... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080218775 - Method of producing decorative papers for laminated materials: The invention relates to a method of producing a decorative paper for a laminated material. The method comprises the steps of scanning a sample of a natural material for generating a digital image (10, 11, 12, 13), constructing a decorative motif (15, 16, 17, 18) by means of computer-assisted processing... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.c.

20080218776 - Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method: An image processing apparatus includes a preview creating unit, a storage unit, and a display unit. The storage unit stores therein in advance a sample image. The display unit displays, prior to receipt of image data, an input screen that displays the sample image and independent setting items, among a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080218780 - Color processing apparatus and method thereof: Implementation of color matching with a high accuracy between a device of luminous type and a device of non-luminous type is demanded. Hence, a combination of the device type of a source device and the device type of a destination device is discriminated. If a device of luminous type and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080218781 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: Stored reference patch data are outputted, and a gray level of the reference patches obtained by scanning the outputted reference patches is compared with a reference level, such that a conversion table for storing gray level setting information is modified according to the comparison result. A driving condition of a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080218778 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus and density correction method: An image forming system, image forming apparatus, and method of correcting image density are provided. The system includes a forming unit that forms an image; an acquisition unit that acquires factor information corresponding to a factor which is capable of causing variations in density of the image; a first determination... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080218782 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing system is disclosed that includes a buffer unit configured to store a predetermined pixel and peripheral pixels neighboring the predetermined pixel in image data in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a first edge-detecting circuit configured to calculate a maximum... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080218783 - Image processing apparatus and control method the same: A method of controlling an image processing apparatus, and an image processing apparatus to carry-out the method. The edge pixels of a black character may be evaluated to improve visibility of edge pixels and to enhance the blackening of the edge pixels when the evaluated edge pixels are determined to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080218785 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program product: An image processing apparatus configured to generate a printing image for printing document data by a printer, includes a first processing part configured to generate first processing data having resolution different from the resolution with respect to printing order for character data contained in the document data; a second processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218779 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a selecting unit, a first converting unit, a second converting unit, and a compressing unit. The second storage unit stores therein data on a color reproduction area of an output device. The first storage unit stores therein... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080218777 - Printer colorimetry control device, print colorimetry control method and printer: A print and colorimetry control device includes a print control section which controls so that an image for which colorimetry is to be carried out is printed on a printing medium, based on predetermined image data, a determining section which determines a position where a colorimetry section is caused to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080218784 - Spectrally matched print proofer: A device, system and a method for soft proofing of an image before it is printed onto printed material, such that the colors of the image substantially reproduce, to the human eye, the colors as they should appear on the printed material.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080218802 - Device calibration method with accurate planar control: A device calibration method based on two-dimensional calibration transform that allows complete control of two-dimensional planes in the three-dimensional CMY (Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow) cube. Two-dimensional planes can be identified in the three-dimensional CMY cube as a primary plane and projected onto two-dimensional calibration lookup tables (LUTs) for C, M,... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20080218801 - Systems and methods for converting color image data to monochrome output: When converting color input from a color scanner or the like to monochrome output, the measured luminance values are reduced, to help avoid the loss of text or other image portions in the monochrome output. The luminance reduction may be performed based on chrominance values.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20080218803 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable recording medium: An error diffusion process section performs an error diffusion process on a pixel value of each of processing object pixels and outputs the processed pixel value to an output selection section. A blue noise mask process performs a blue noise mask process on a pixel value of each of processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218804 - Image forming system, computer readable recording medium storing image forming program and image forming method: An image forming system according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a component data acquiring unit that acquires a component from color lookup table data; a verifying unit that determines whether or not the component of the color lookup table data acquired by the component data acquiring unit... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20080218805 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus prevents reproduction and display of an image file in a viewer of a client PC, etc., by encrypting “fileType” and “version” contained in an Image File Header (IFH), which is file format information, and “tagCount”, “sig_tag0 to 2”, “type0 to 2”, “pointer0 to 2”, and “size0... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080218806 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus which makes it possible to change the manner of authentication between cases where restriction of a specific process is performed on an image of an original, as an original document, and where the restriction of the specific process is performed on an image of an original,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080218807 - Multi-function photo center: An integrated multi-function digital photo device comprises a display unit, a printing unit, a housing, and a frame. The integrated device provides for the display and printing of digital photos in one device rather than in multiple devices.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080218808 - Method and system for universal file types in a document review system: A system, method and machine-readable medium providing for review of documents. The method includes receiving a request for a document over a network from a document presentation device, the document having a file type; retrieving the document from a memory; determining the file type; in response to determining the file... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080218809 - Method and architecture of sending and receiving facsimile over instant messaging software: Systems and methods are disclosed for provisioning a facsimile (fax) service for a client computer over instant messaging software, services or networks.... Agent: Bao Tran Tran & Associates

20080218810 - Communication device: A facsimile machine (100) (the communication device) can communicate with a terminal (150) through the network. A storage (120) stores the database (126) being a mass of a plurality of records, each of which describes individual information. A receiver (110) receives a readout-request, from the terminal (150), of a specific... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080218811 - Keystone correcting method and display apparatus: Disclosed are a keystone correction method and a display apparatus using the same. The keystone correction method can include receiving a plurality of pixel data included in an image signal of a frame; computing a coordinate and data of a correction pixel from 3 row-directionally successive pixel data of the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080218812 - Metadata image processing: Embodiments including using metadata for image processing are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080218813 - Light scanning apparatus, light scanning method, image forming apparatus, and color image forming apparatus: A light scanning apparatus is provided that has plural light sources which scan plural light beams in a main scanning direction. The light scanning apparatus comprises a light source control unit that controls the plural light sources. Where an array of N (N≧2) light sources aligned in a sub scanning... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218814 - Color proofing method: Embodiments of the invention provide an effective method for color proofing by outputting multiple reduced or full-size versions of some selected sample of a color rendering job using different color attribute settings for each of the multiple versions. The color attribute settings may be user selected, automatically selected, or a... Agent: Kirton & Mcconkie

20080218815 - Scan movement indicator and an image forming apparatus having the same: A scan movement indicator in which light directed toward an indicating unit or external light entering through the indicating unit does not penetrate a scanning area so that improved quality of a scanning and printing operation is provided, and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. The scan... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080218816 - Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method: In an image processing apparatus, a plurality of images and a page allocation area including a plurality of sections are displayed. The allocation unit determines which one of the images is to be allocated to which one of the sections and allocates the images to the sections, and a preview... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080212109 - Integrated data scanning, processing and printing system for pre-instructing a print job output: A data processing system includes a data processing machine having at least one processor and at least one printer command key. A printer includes at least one processor. A workstation has at least one processor. The processors communicate with one another. At least one processor has a set of programmable... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080212120 - Position correction in handheld image translation device: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting position in a handheld image translation device are described herein. The handheld image translation device may include a position module to determine a first position of the device and a print module to deposit a printing substance on a medium adjacent to the device... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080212122 - Controlling program, controlling apparatus, image forming apparatus and print controlling method: There is described a controlling program, a controlling apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a print controlling method, each to be employed in the variable-data printing. The controlling apparatus that controls a variable-data printing to create plural sets of print products based on print data provided with a variable field... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080212121 - Document data processing apparatus, document data processing system and recording medium: A document data processing apparatus comprising: an obtaining portion for obtaining transmitted document data; a giving portion for giving the obtained document data multiple pieces of recommended information to recommend an operation when outputting; and a transmitting portion for transmitting document data to a destination, the document data carrying multiple... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080212123 - Printer and output method employed in the printer: A printer which has a direct-printing function for reading and printing information stored in a storage device and which includes: an interface unit which receives the storage device, the storage device storing file information including content information for print or display and restrictive information for controlling output of the content... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080212124 - Image transferring apparatus: An image transferring apparatus for transmitting image data to a file server has an image input unit allowing input of image as the image data, a memory section for storing the image data, and registration and transmission information of the image data, and a communication controller for transmitting the image... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080212130 - Data file compression apparatus and method thereof: An apparatus and method for compressing data. The apparatus can properly select any one of two compression codecs (i.e., the lossless codec and the lossy codec) according to compression capacities, compress the print data using the selected compression codec, and store the compressed data in the memory, such that an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080212133 - Facsimile delivery system using associated identifiers: A computer system is provided for delivery of a facsimile using an interactive document printed on a substrate provided for entry of a message using a sensing device. The document includes user information and coded data on a document identity and locations on the document. The sensing device reads the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080212127 - Image formation apparatus: In the image formation apparatus according to the present invention, a plurality of detection ections outputs binary signals to a detection identification control section, and an image formation control section for control of periphery of the engine of the apparatus outputs a detection section identifying signal and a detection eon... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212128 - Image forming apparatus, network system comprising the same and method of managing part information of the same: An image forming apparatus, a network system including the same and a management method of parts information of the same capable of matching specific information of an exchangeable part with specific information of the image forming apparatus when the specific information of the exchangeable part is not identical that of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080212132 - Image processing apparatus and printing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit that reads an image, the image comprising an image printed on a printing sheet, and a first demarcation line added by a writing tool and demarcating a region of the image, a demarcation line extracting unit that extracts the first demarcation... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080212131 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: A printing system includes a storage unit (HD) adapted to store a print logs relating to each of a plurality of print data having been printed, the print log including relevant information relating to the print data; a reception unit adapted to receive relevant information relating to print data to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080212129 - Method for managing document data and data structure: A method is provided which enables to know a location of copied document data without the use of a server or others. Document data that is data used for reconstructing a document is managed by combining, in one document object, the document data along with relationship information for identifying other... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080212125 - Printer control apparatus and method: The invention seeks to improve the accuracy of management of remaining amount of ink in a printer in which remaining amount of ink is managed based upon amount of ink consumed. If a print job is sent to a printer, first the printer is requested for status information that includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212126 - Printing device and network printing system: To provide a printing device capable of automatically sending pixel map format data for printing to an external computer. Source information of PDL data is held, which can be obtained when the PDL data is received from a print requesting client computer. The PDL data is converted into pixel map... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080212134 - System for managing e-mail attachments: The present invention is directed to a system for managing e-mail attachments in a data transmission system including a data transmission network and at least one workstation connected thereto and wherein a user of the workstation can receive e-mails from at least one server within the network, at least one... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080212137 - Image forming device and control method therefor: An image forming device includes a control unit configured to control by sorting common setting information valid among a plurality of devices and specific setting information valid for a specific device, an internal storage device configured to store setting data that includes a pair of setting data of identification information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212136 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing method: In a digital multi-function peripheral, image data to be output and first log information are generated based on an image forming job. Second log information embedded as digital watermark information is detected from the image data, and the reliability of the digital watermark information is computed. If the reliability is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080212135 - Object image print service system: In a three-dimensional object image print service system capable of printing out a desired three-dimensional object image, a three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a three-dimensional object image generator for generating a three-dimensional object image, based on instructions from an input device operated by a user and a three-dimensional object image... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080212139 - Method of enabling interaction with computer software: A method for enabling user interaction with computer software including, in a computer system generating print data, transferring the print data to a printer which prints a form in response to the print data with information related to an interactive element coincident with coded data indicative of the interactive element,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080212140 - Method of enabling printed interaction with computer software: A method for enabling user interaction with computer software including, in a computer system determining information related to an interactive element, determining an identity indicative of the interactive element, determining a layout defining an arrangement for the information and coded data indicative of the identity, generating print data indicative of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080212138 - Non-sequential transfer of pdf data for pdf direct printing: In a PDF direct printing method, an intelligent parser is provided on the client computer to parse out and transfer to the printer blocks of PDF data in an order in which the data will be used by the PDF rendering process of the printer. The directory information block of... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080212110 - Pdf direct printing method utilizing page printing order information for efficient handling of data: In a PDF direct printing method, a client computer transfers PDF direct print data to a printer controller for direct printing. The client is provided with page printing order information which specifies which pages of the PDF file are to be printed, and preferably also the order in which the... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080212111 - Document discarding process system, discard document management device, document processing device, document discarding processing method and recording medium storing document discarding processing program: A document discarding process system, which includes a discard document management device that registers and manages a discard target document to be discarded; and at least one document processing device that is connected to the discard document management device through a communication section, the discard document management device, which includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212118 - Dynamic image dithering: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamic image dithering for a printing device are described herein. Embodiments may include an image processing module to process a source image file to provide a dithered image file with print data for each of a plurality of image locations. Printing substance may be deposited... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080212113 - Host device having a printer driver and control method of the printer driver: A printer driver and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. If the printer driver ICC profile does not correspond to the printer ICC profile, the printer driver converts color information of an image into predetermined information using the printer ICC profile instead of the printer driver ICC profile,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080212114 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus for preventing unauthorized uses of image data by allowing the addition of a specific image in a black-and-white mode even when it is set that a specific image is added in a color mode. When a document is copied, a control section determines whether the apparatus... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080212116 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes plural output processing units one for each of different image output units and an input processing unit that processes image data input from an image input unit to output an image in an image format compatible with one of the image output units.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212115 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus: When a reference image to which a document image is judged as being similar for the first time is not the first document sheet of the document type which contains this reference image, error occurrence is concluded so that the page number indicated by a counter is set to be... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080212117 - Method of controlling color image forming apparatus: A method of controlling a color image forming apparatus capable of preventing an image from being distorted at a boundary of a color image region due to mis-registration to improve printing quality. The method includes determining whether original image data is in a color image region, detecting boundary region information... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080212112 - Print control device, computer readable medium, printing system, and recording medium: A print control device includes: a drawing control unit that allows a plurality of print elements arrayed in a print head to draw a test image used for checking operation statuses of the print elements on a recording medium, classifies at least a part of the plurality of print elements... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080212119 - Printer unit with print engine that expands compressed image data: A printer unit is arranged to print documents received from a computer system. The printer unit has a print engine having control electronics. The control electronics are configured to receive document image data from the computer system in the form of a compressed, multi-layer page image. They buffer the image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080212142 - Image processing apparatus and information writing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit which receives print data; a determining unit which determines whether or not the print data received by the receiving unit includes confidential information; a printing unit which prints an image on a recording medium including an IC tag, in accordance with the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080212141 - Information embedding method, information obtaining method and apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of embedding information into an image comprises dividing the image into a plurality of blocks, providing a plurality of embedded blocks corresponding to the plurality of blocks, respectively, each of the embedded blocks having the same size as each of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080212143 - Image recording apparatus and method for restoring recording head for image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes a manuscript reader which reads a manuscript to generate image data; a recording head which has nozzles for discharging an ink and which discharges the ink from the nozzles to record an image on a recording medium based on the image data; a restoring mechanism... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080212144 - Methods and apparatus for secure facsimile transmissions to electronic storage destinations: A method for a computer includes determining a call-in fax telephone number called by a facsimile transmission device, receiving the facsimile transmission from a facsimile transmission device including a digitized representation of a transmission page including an optical representation of a e-mail address, determining the e-mail address optically, which is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080212145 - Image forming apparatus for visually impaired people and image forming method of the image forming apparatus: An image forming method of an image forming apparatus includes generating voice data based on image data, which will be transmitted, if a voice attaching signal is input, and transmitting at least one of the image data and the voice data to an external device, so that a visually impaired... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080212146 - Image signal processing circuit, image reading device, and image forming apparatus: An image signal processing circuit including a gain control circuit capable of performing gain control operation, and an image reading device or an image forming apparatus incorporating the image signal processing circuit.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212147 - Image capturing device and method of capturing an image: An image capturing device includes: at least two field limiting parts which limit a field of view to a dot-like section to define a passage of light; a light sensor which detects light passing through the field limiting parts; a scanning device which moves a scanning spot defined by the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212148 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes a light source; a bar-shaped light-guiding element having a first light-emitting section, which propagates light from the light source and irradiates an document from an oblique direction, and a second light-emitting section emitting light in a carrying direction of the document; a lens converging the light... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212149 - Image reading apparatus: To set at least the main portion of a read original on an image reading apparatus while avoiding a discontinuous portion, the position of the discontinuous portion of photoelectric conversion element arrays is indicated, or an original holder to be used to set the original while avoiding the discontinuous portion... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080212150 - Digital document capture and storage system: The invention relates to a digital document acquisition and storage system, comprising a stand with a support arm hinged thereto and a digital camera, which has an image acquisition area that can be displayed by means of an optical positioning aid and is connected to an electronic data processing device.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose