Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions 10/08

20080259358 - Display material provision: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for provision to customers of display material without intervention by an attendant. It is known to dispense material to attendees and prospective customers at meetings, exhibitions, conferences and commodity or product shows of all kinds, in an anonymous fashion from unattended... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080259359 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method, which can reproduce an edge portion with a high resolution in a high resolution raster image, and suppress image degradation such as a jaggy, while suppressing processing cost. In the present invention, an image processing part divides... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259373 - Recording apparatus, recording data generating apparatus, program, and data structure: A recording apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding a recording medium, recording heads arranged along a feeding direction and extending in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction, and a control unit for controlling the recording heads, and including storage for storing printing cycle data for printing cycles. For... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080259375 - Adding features to electronic image files mimicking physical output of electronic printing data to assist testing and verification: Electronic printing data is received. The electronic printing data is adapted for a electromechanical print engine of a printing device to form images corresponding to the electronic printing data on physical media. One or more electronic image files are generated from and corresponding to the electronic printing data. The electronic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259376 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: a document image acquiring portion that acquires a document image; an integration pattern determining portion that makes settings relating to integration for each integrated document image when plural document images are integrated into a recording sheet as integrated document images and thereby determines an integration... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080259374 - Method and system for compensating for thermochromaticity differences in inline spectrophotometers: An alogrithmic method is identified for compensating for thermochromaticity errors in insitu spectral color measurements of a color printing device. A difference is mapped between spectral measurements of a printed color generated by the color printing device measured at a first or hot temperature and at a second or cool... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080259377 - Printing apparatus and printing method: The printing apparatus of the present invention comprises a scanner unit for reading an image in an original; an instruction unit for receiving an instruction from a user and instructing operation of reading the image with the scanner unit; and a printer unit for printing the image that has been... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259378 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: The invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of operating in a normal mode and a power-saving mode, and includes a control unit that includes a CPU and a memory, operates, in the power-saving mode, the CPU in a low power consumption state, and operates the memory in a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080259380 - Approach for implementing locked printing with unlock via a keypad: An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with unlock via a keypad attached to the printing device via an interface. A user may specify for printing print jobs stored at a printing device using a keypad device to enter a job ID associated with a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080259385 - Communication apparatus, transmission processing method, and reception processing method: A communication apparatus which is capable of preventing transmitted data from being illegally viewed or tampered with. Image information to be transmitted is input via an operating display section. A system controller determines whether or not confidential transmission of the input image information has been designated by the user. When... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080259383 - Facsimile machine, method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal: A facsimile machine, includes: a receiving unit that receives facsimile image information via a public circuit; an information extraction unit that extracts search information from the facsimile image information received by the receiving unit; an acquisition unit that acquires image information searched from a communication network connected to the facsimile... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080259393 - Image forming apparatus and recording medium: An image forming apparatus, including a plurality of applications each including a reception unit configured to receive print data, a determination unit configured to analyze the print data received by the reception unit to determine the data format thereof, and a print control unit configured to print an image of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259384 - Image forming system and information processing apparatus: A system is capable of performing a processing flow based on a definition file which designates a plurality of tasks each of which can be performed by a function provided by an image forming apparatus and an order of performance of a plurality of tasks. The system includes an acquisition... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259382 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about an other image processing apparatus different than the image processing apparatus that operates with the image processing apparatus, an acquiring unit configured to acquire function information indicating a function provided by a first image processing apparatus, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259390 - Information processing apparatus, and control method therefor, as well as program: An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to improve user operability in selecting a desired one from a plurality of image processing apparatuses by selecting functions of the image processing apparatuses. A virtual printer driver acquires function information on a plurality of printers existing on a network. One printer... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080259387 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a print job generated based on a plurality of records, a determination unit configured to detect a boundary or boundaries of records based on a result of analysis obtained by the analysis unit and to determine a print page... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259379 - Method and system for classifying a job in a production environment: A method and system for processing a job in a production environment includes a knowledge base containing multiple product intents. Each product intent includes parameter requirements and/or parameter restrictions for producing a finished product. The method and system receive a product description that includes desired properties of a proposed job,... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080259388 - Multifunction system and multifunction apparatus: A multifunction system is provided that is capable of preventing unauthorized copying and the like of an image printed on a print material against the will of a user who has created the print material. The multifunction system includes: a printing apparatus having a printing unit printing on a prescribed... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080259399 - Print control apparatus, print control system and print apparatus: A print control apparatus in which a plurality of print apparatuses having a hold print function are caused to hold print data, and the print data of other print apparatuses other than a print apparatus print-instructed by a user is deleted, is provided. A print server is connected to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259395 - Print control device, printing device and computer-readable recording medium: A print control device comprises a print data generating unit which generates print data in units of jobs from incoming data. The print data generating unit includes: a layout information generating unit which generates layout information specifying layout in a printable area based on sheet size and the number of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080259397 - Print managing server, print managing method, program, and recording medium: A print managing server is connected to a plurality of printers through a network and stores print data which can be printed by the printer in combination with user information. The print managing server has control means for controlling execution of a command including the user information which is received... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259396 - Print system and printer device facilitating reuse of print data: A print system includes a communication path, a client device which transmits print data to said communication path, a host device connected to said communication path, and a printer device which prints the print data after receiving the print data from said client device via said communication path, and automatically... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. Fourth Floor

20080259392 - Print-data processing apparatus and print-data processing method: Print data in which a reusable object whose range of reuse is specified is defined is received. The range of reuse of the reusable object is changed according to a page layout defined by a print setting. Accordingly, the cache period of the reusable object is optimized.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259394 - Printing system and printing device: A printing device is provided with a first storage configured to store a time-designated first print job, a judging unit configured to judge whether to change the print time of the first print job to allow interruption of a second print job which is different from the first print job... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080259389 - Printing system, apparatus and control method therefor, storage medium and program: A printing apparatus capable of, when a predetermined finishing process is set in performing job combination, executing the finishing process at consistent settings by properly performing an inhibition process corresponding to the finishing process. When a predetermined finishing process is set as an entire setting of job combination, the system... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080259386 - Printing system, image forming apparatus, server, and information processing apparatus: A printing system prevents mistakes such as that a printed paper sheet printed by requesting from a PC to an image forming apparatus is left in an ejected-paper tray. The image forming apparatus transmits to the server printing execution result information that includes the serial number and the time and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259398 - Printing system, print data creation apparatus and computer-readable control program for the print data creation apparatus: A print data creation apparatus connectable to a printer for printing on a print medium to create print data to be printed by the printer, the print data creation apparatus includes a display device that displays a variety of information, a setting alteration screen display control device that displays a... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080259381 - Production print capacity display for process optimization: A system automatically processes current capacity and optimal capacity for at least one printing system for use in deterring current billing, optimal billing and operating cost. A data-processing apparatus (CPU) associated with a printer and an optimization module operable together to optimize current capacity and optimal capacity, and determine current... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080259391 - Recording system, control program, and recording device: Recording data generated by a recording data generation PC (100) is divided by recording data sending PCs (110, 120) and is sent to corresponding recording devices (210, 220). The recording devices (210, 220) record the received divided recording data on a common recording medium (130). If a recording error has... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080259360 - Apparatus and method for high-throughput and flexible digital printing: A digital printing system for producing prints in response to input digital images includes a digital printer and a plurality of computer processors. The plurality of computer processors includes one or more image-rendering units for rendering the input digital images to generate rendered digital images, wherein the image rendering is... Agent: Xin Wen

20080259361 - High quality halftone process: The invention provides a printing method of printing on a printing medium. The method includes: generating dot data that represents state of dot formation at each print pixel of a print image to be formed on the printing medium by performing a halftone process on image data that represents an... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080259365 - Evaluation of calibration precision: A calibration precision evaluating apparatus includes a calibrator carrying out calibration to adjust an ink amount output characteristic so that a measured color value is approximated to a reference value, a confirmation patch maker printing plural confirmation patches including a background patch and having the known reference values corresponding to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259371 - Image file creation device, method and program storage medium, image processing device, method and program storage medium, and image processing system: There is provided an image file creation device including: an obtaining section that obtains image data forming a color image, conversion conditions for converting the image data into color data of a device-independent color space, and basic viewing conditions for viewing the color image; an input section that inputs target... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259364 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming sections arranged in tandem for forming an image having a plurality of colors, the image forming apparatus having: an image reading section for reading an image of a document; an exposure unit having each color exposure section for conducting each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259366 - Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and computer program: A reference area around a pixel of interest is set in an image to be processed. It is determined whether a pixel not to be referred exists in the reference area. If the pixel not to be referred exists, the shape of the reference area is transformed based on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259369 - Image processing device, color correction table generation device, display device, image processing method, color correction table generation method, color adjustment method for display device, and image processing program: There are provided a chromaticness limit setting section 203 for setting a chromaticness limit based on a brightest color, and a first color correction table generation section 204 for generating a first color correction table by making a correspondence between an input color and an output color having chromaticness no... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259367 - Image processor and image processing method for reducing consumption amount of recording material: The present invention provides an image processor for outputting image data to an image forming device forming an image with use of a recording material having a plurality of color components. The processor comprises a component determining a region having higher brightness than predetermined brightness and a region having lower... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259370 - Image signal processor, image signal processing method for use in the same, and program: Disclosed herein is an image signal processor for carrying out conversion into an xvYCC signal by using a photograph film as a material, the image signal processor including: acquisition means for acquiring print film concentration data based on said photograph film; generation means for generating spectral data on an image... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080259368 - Printer, printing program, and printing method: A printer includes a print head in which nozzles that form an image by discharging ink are arranged in a plurality of lines. The printer prints out an image on the basis of print form data in which information of layout contents of printing elements that form the content of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259372 - Printing method, printing apparatus, and storage medium storing a program: A printing method includes obtaining scene information concerning image data from supplemental data that is appended to the image data; classifying a scene of an image represented by the image data, based on the image data; comparing the classified scene with a scene indicated by the scene information; and printing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080259363 - Selective extended gamut printing system and method: Various embodiments of a system and method for selectively printing with an extended color gamut are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259362 - User-generated color tonal reproduction curves (ctrcs) for highlight color (hlc) and monochrome printers: A system and methods for providing user-generated color tonal reproduction curves (CTRCs) to enhance color information when the prints will be made on a monochrome or highlight color printer. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to allow the user to generate tonal reproduction curves (TRCs) for each of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080259401 - Method and system for consistent color control: A method and system for achieving consistent color control by integrating multiple color management and rendering techniques using single multi-level user control. Page Description Language (PDL) data and job processing instructions can be modified upstream of the Raster Image Processor (RIP). The processing operations associated with processing a print job... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080259400 - Printing color images visible under uv light on security documents and valuable articles: Juxtaposed halftoning avoids quenching effects by creating diagonally oriented pre-computed colorant screen dots, which are printed side by side. Thanks to gamut mapping and juxtaposed halftoning, we create color images, which are invisible under daylight and have, under UV light, a high resemblance with the original images. Applications comprises the... Agent: Roger D. Hersch Epfl-ic/lsp

20080259402 - System and method for image white balance adjustment: The subject application is directed to a system and method for image enhancement. Image data, encoded as a plurality of pixels in YCbCr space, is first received, with Y representing a luma component, Cb representing a blue chroma component, and Cr representing a red chroma component. A maximum Y value... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080259404 - Image distributing apparatus and image forming apparatus: In an image distributing apparatus, an image file creating unit creates a first image file, and a reduced-size image creating unit creates a second image file, being smaller in size than the first image file. A link information adding unit adds identification information that uniquely identifies an external terminal to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259403 - Image processing apparatus, viewer, image processing program and image processing system: An image processing apparatus including: an image reading section which reads an image containing a watermark having a hidden image and generates image data; and an image processing section which adds, onto the image data, information about image processing for preventing the watermark from being formed as a visible image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259405 - Image forming apparatus: To reduce a load required for data transfer and data processing to improve processing speed of those. A display data memory stores as display data a configuration image simulating an overall configuration of a combination of a main body and an attachment. An image display device provided on either one... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080259406 - Endoscope image filing system: An endoscope image filing system includes: an original image file unit that stores the same digital image as that output from an electronic endoscope having an image capturing element and then input an image processing circuit; a library unit that stores a plurality of image processing software components; a selecting... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259407 - Communicating apparatus and program: It is an object to provide a communicating apparatus and its program in which in the case where the RTC pattern or the RCP frame cannot be received due to the noises or in the case where a modem diverges and data cannot be normally demodulated, a procedure signal can... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259408 - Apparatus, system, and method for processing image: An image processing system includes a first image processing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus that are connected via a network in which communication is performed based on a local protocol. The cooperative processing is performed between the first and second image forming apparatuses via the network.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259409 - Image processing apparatus: A method of controlling an image processing apparatus comprising the steps of: generating color reduced image data from the color image data; generating monochrome reduced image data from the monochrome image data; and determining the order of generation of the color or monochrome reduced image data when generating both the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259410 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer-readable medium: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a reading section to read a document and to obtain image data, the document including a plurality of sheets and having a binding portion; a storage section to store the image data; an operating section to accept an operating instruction to designate a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259412 - Manuscript conveyer guide used for a manuscript reader unit: A manuscript conveyer guide which has a curved surface and a flat surface in a facing portion to an upper surface of the contact glass plate, the curved surface being positioned on the upstream in the manuscript conveying direction, the flat surface being positioned on the downstream in the manuscript... Agent: H. Jay Spiegel - H. Jay Spiegel & Associates

20080259411 - Scanner arrangement: A scanner arrangement which is designed to scan only one part at a time in order to permit scanning results of a model or die-shaped unit consisting of two or more parts which can be joined together or taken apart and which can have different longitudinal inclination axes and/or configurations.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080259413 - Image scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus and image scanning method: An image scanning apparatus according to the invention includes a face-side scanning unit and a back-side scanning unit that simultaneously scan both sides of an original, a page memory in which each image element outputted from the face-side scanning unit and the back-side scanning unit is stored at a required... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080259415 - Document reading apparatus and related data transfer method: A document reading apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to continuously convey a document having a series of sheets along a conveyance path, a reading unit configured to obtain image data by reading a sheet at a predetermined reading position, a storage unit configured to store the image data obtained... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259414 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a feeding unit, a conveying unit, a primary stacking unit, a secondary stacking unit, and a path switching unit. The path switching unit switches between a first conveying path including a bend section for normal conveying mode and a second conveying path for reverse conveying... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080259358 - Display material provision: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for provision to customers of display material without intervention by an attendant. It is known to dispense material to attendees and prospective customers at meetings, exhibitions, conferences and commodity or product shows of all kinds, in an anonymous fashion from unattended... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080259359 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method, which can reproduce an edge portion with a high resolution in a high resolution raster image, and suppress image degradation such as a jaggy, while suppressing processing cost. In the present invention, an image processing part divides... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259373 - Recording apparatus, recording data generating apparatus, program, and data structure: A recording apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding a recording medium, recording heads arranged along a feeding direction and extending in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction, and a control unit for controlling the recording heads, and including storage for storing printing cycle data for printing cycles. For... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080259375 - Adding features to electronic image files mimicking physical output of electronic printing data to assist testing and verification: Electronic printing data is received. The electronic printing data is adapted for a electromechanical print engine of a printing device to form images corresponding to the electronic printing data on physical media. One or more electronic image files are generated from and corresponding to the electronic printing data. The electronic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259376 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: a document image acquiring portion that acquires a document image; an integration pattern determining portion that makes settings relating to integration for each integrated document image when plural document images are integrated into a recording sheet as integrated document images and thereby determines an integration... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080259374 - Method and system for compensating for thermochromaticity differences in inline spectrophotometers: An alogrithmic method is identified for compensating for thermochromaticity errors in insitu spectral color measurements of a color printing device. A difference is mapped between spectral measurements of a printed color generated by the color printing device measured at a first or hot temperature and at a second or cool... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080259377 - Printing apparatus and printing method: The printing apparatus of the present invention comprises a scanner unit for reading an image in an original; an instruction unit for receiving an instruction from a user and instructing operation of reading the image with the scanner unit; and a printer unit for printing the image that has been... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259378 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: The invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of operating in a normal mode and a power-saving mode, and includes a control unit that includes a CPU and a memory, operates, in the power-saving mode, the CPU in a low power consumption state, and operates the memory in a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080259380 - Approach for implementing locked printing with unlock via a keypad: An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with unlock via a keypad attached to the printing device via an interface. A user may specify for printing print jobs stored at a printing device using a keypad device to enter a job ID associated with a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080259385 - Communication apparatus, transmission processing method, and reception processing method: A communication apparatus which is capable of preventing transmitted data from being illegally viewed or tampered with. Image information to be transmitted is input via an operating display section. A system controller determines whether or not confidential transmission of the input image information has been designated by the user. When... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080259383 - Facsimile machine, method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal: A facsimile machine, includes: a receiving unit that receives facsimile image information via a public circuit; an information extraction unit that extracts search information from the facsimile image information received by the receiving unit; an acquisition unit that acquires image information searched from a communication network connected to the facsimile... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080259393 - Image forming apparatus and recording medium: An image forming apparatus, including a plurality of applications each including a reception unit configured to receive print data, a determination unit configured to analyze the print data received by the reception unit to determine the data format thereof, and a print control unit configured to print an image of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259384 - Image forming system and information processing apparatus: A system is capable of performing a processing flow based on a definition file which designates a plurality of tasks each of which can be performed by a function provided by an image forming apparatus and an order of performance of a plurality of tasks. The system includes an acquisition... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259382 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about an other image processing apparatus different than the image processing apparatus that operates with the image processing apparatus, an acquiring unit configured to acquire function information indicating a function provided by a first image processing apparatus, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259390 - Information processing apparatus, and control method therefor, as well as program: An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to improve user operability in selecting a desired one from a plurality of image processing apparatuses by selecting functions of the image processing apparatuses. A virtual printer driver acquires function information on a plurality of printers existing on a network. One printer... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080259387 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a print job generated based on a plurality of records, a determination unit configured to detect a boundary or boundaries of records based on a result of analysis obtained by the analysis unit and to determine a print page... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259379 - Method and system for classifying a job in a production environment: A method and system for processing a job in a production environment includes a knowledge base containing multiple product intents. Each product intent includes parameter requirements and/or parameter restrictions for producing a finished product. The method and system receive a product description that includes desired properties of a proposed job,... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080259388 - Multifunction system and multifunction apparatus: A multifunction system is provided that is capable of preventing unauthorized copying and the like of an image printed on a print material against the will of a user who has created the print material. The multifunction system includes: a printing apparatus having a printing unit printing on a prescribed... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080259399 - Print control apparatus, print control system and print apparatus: A print control apparatus in which a plurality of print apparatuses having a hold print function are caused to hold print data, and the print data of other print apparatuses other than a print apparatus print-instructed by a user is deleted, is provided. A print server is connected to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259395 - Print control device, printing device and computer-readable recording medium: A print control device comprises a print data generating unit which generates print data in units of jobs from incoming data. The print data generating unit includes: a layout information generating unit which generates layout information specifying layout in a printable area based on sheet size and the number of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080259397 - Print managing server, print managing method, program, and recording medium: A print managing server is connected to a plurality of printers through a network and stores print data which can be printed by the printer in combination with user information. The print managing server has control means for controlling execution of a command including the user information which is received... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259396 - Print system and printer device facilitating reuse of print data: A print system includes a communication path, a client device which transmits print data to said communication path, a host device connected to said communication path, and a printer device which prints the print data after receiving the print data from said client device via said communication path, and automatically... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. Fourth Floor

20080259392 - Print-data processing apparatus and print-data processing method: Print data in which a reusable object whose range of reuse is specified is defined is received. The range of reuse of the reusable object is changed according to a page layout defined by a print setting. Accordingly, the cache period of the reusable object is optimized.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259394 - Printing system and printing device: A printing device is provided with a first storage configured to store a time-designated first print job, a judging unit configured to judge whether to change the print time of the first print job to allow interruption of a second print job which is different from the first print job... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080259389 - Printing system, apparatus and control method therefor, storage medium and program: A printing apparatus capable of, when a predetermined finishing process is set in performing job combination, executing the finishing process at consistent settings by properly performing an inhibition process corresponding to the finishing process. When a predetermined finishing process is set as an entire setting of job combination, the system... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080259386 - Printing system, image forming apparatus, server, and information processing apparatus: A printing system prevents mistakes such as that a printed paper sheet printed by requesting from a PC to an image forming apparatus is left in an ejected-paper tray. The image forming apparatus transmits to the server printing execution result information that includes the serial number and the time and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259398 - Printing system, print data creation apparatus and computer-readable control program for the print data creation apparatus: A print data creation apparatus connectable to a printer for printing on a print medium to create print data to be printed by the printer, the print data creation apparatus includes a display device that displays a variety of information, a setting alteration screen display control device that displays a... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080259381 - Production print capacity display for process optimization: A system automatically processes current capacity and optimal capacity for at least one printing system for use in deterring current billing, optimal billing and operating cost. A data-processing apparatus (CPU) associated with a printer and an optimization module operable together to optimize current capacity and optimal capacity, and determine current... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080259391 - Recording system, control program, and recording device: Recording data generated by a recording data generation PC (100) is divided by recording data sending PCs (110, 120) and is sent to corresponding recording devices (210, 220). The recording devices (210, 220) record the received divided recording data on a common recording medium (130). If a recording error has... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080259360 - Apparatus and method for high-throughput and flexible digital printing: A digital printing system for producing prints in response to input digital images includes a digital printer and a plurality of computer processors. The plurality of computer processors includes one or more image-rendering units for rendering the input digital images to generate rendered digital images, wherein the image rendering is... Agent: Xin Wen

20080259361 - High quality halftone process: The invention provides a printing method of printing on a printing medium. The method includes: generating dot data that represents state of dot formation at each print pixel of a print image to be formed on the printing medium by performing a halftone process on image data that represents an... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080259365 - Evaluation of calibration precision: A calibration precision evaluating apparatus includes a calibrator carrying out calibration to adjust an ink amount output characteristic so that a measured color value is approximated to a reference value, a confirmation patch maker printing plural confirmation patches including a background patch and having the known reference values corresponding to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259371 - Image file creation device, method and program storage medium, image processing device, method and program storage medium, and image processing system: There is provided an image file creation device including: an obtaining section that obtains image data forming a color image, conversion conditions for converting the image data into color data of a device-independent color space, and basic viewing conditions for viewing the color image; an input section that inputs target... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259364 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming sections arranged in tandem for forming an image having a plurality of colors, the image forming apparatus having: an image reading section for reading an image of a document; an exposure unit having each color exposure section for conducting each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259366 - Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and computer program: A reference area around a pixel of interest is set in an image to be processed. It is determined whether a pixel not to be referred exists in the reference area. If the pixel not to be referred exists, the shape of the reference area is transformed based on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259369 - Image processing device, color correction table generation device, display device, image processing method, color correction table generation method, color adjustment method for display device, and image processing program: There are provided a chromaticness limit setting section 203 for setting a chromaticness limit based on a brightest color, and a first color correction table generation section 204 for generating a first color correction table by making a correspondence between an input color and an output color having chromaticness no... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259367 - Image processor and image processing method for reducing consumption amount of recording material: The present invention provides an image processor for outputting image data to an image forming device forming an image with use of a recording material having a plurality of color components. The processor comprises a component determining a region having higher brightness than predetermined brightness and a region having lower... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259370 - Image signal processor, image signal processing method for use in the same, and program: Disclosed herein is an image signal processor for carrying out conversion into an xvYCC signal by using a photograph film as a material, the image signal processor including: acquisition means for acquiring print film concentration data based on said photograph film; generation means for generating spectral data on an image... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080259368 - Printer, printing program, and printing method: A printer includes a print head in which nozzles that form an image by discharging ink are arranged in a plurality of lines. The printer prints out an image on the basis of print form data in which information of layout contents of printing elements that form the content of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080259372 - Printing method, printing apparatus, and storage medium storing a program: A printing method includes obtaining scene information concerning image data from supplemental data that is appended to the image data; classifying a scene of an image represented by the image data, based on the image data; comparing the classified scene with a scene indicated by the scene information; and printing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080259363 - Selective extended gamut printing system and method: Various embodiments of a system and method for selectively printing with an extended color gamut are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259362 - User-generated color tonal reproduction curves (ctrcs) for highlight color (hlc) and monochrome printers: A system and methods for providing user-generated color tonal reproduction curves (CTRCs) to enhance color information when the prints will be made on a monochrome or highlight color printer. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to allow the user to generate tonal reproduction curves (TRCs) for each of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080259401 - Method and system for consistent color control: A method and system for achieving consistent color control by integrating multiple color management and rendering techniques using single multi-level user control. Page Description Language (PDL) data and job processing instructions can be modified upstream of the Raster Image Processor (RIP). The processing operations associated with processing a print job... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080259400 - Printing color images visible under uv light on security documents and valuable articles: Juxtaposed halftoning avoids quenching effects by creating diagonally oriented pre-computed colorant screen dots, which are printed side by side. Thanks to gamut mapping and juxtaposed halftoning, we create color images, which are invisible under daylight and have, under UV light, a high resemblance with the original images. Applications comprises the... Agent: Roger D. Hersch Epfl-ic/lsp

20080259402 - System and method for image white balance adjustment: The subject application is directed to a system and method for image enhancement. Image data, encoded as a plurality of pixels in YCbCr space, is first received, with Y representing a luma component, Cb representing a blue chroma component, and Cr representing a red chroma component. A maximum Y value... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080259404 - Image distributing apparatus and image forming apparatus: In an image distributing apparatus, an image file creating unit creates a first image file, and a reduced-size image creating unit creates a second image file, being smaller in size than the first image file. A link information adding unit adds identification information that uniquely identifies an external terminal to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259403 - Image processing apparatus, viewer, image processing program and image processing system: An image processing apparatus including: an image reading section which reads an image containing a watermark having a hidden image and generates image data; and an image processing section which adds, onto the image data, information about image processing for preventing the watermark from being formed as a visible image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259405 - Image forming apparatus: To reduce a load required for data transfer and data processing to improve processing speed of those. A display data memory stores as display data a configuration image simulating an overall configuration of a combination of a main body and an attachment. An image display device provided on either one... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080259406 - Endoscope image filing system: An endoscope image filing system includes: an original image file unit that stores the same digital image as that output from an electronic endoscope having an image capturing element and then input an image processing circuit; a library unit that stores a plurality of image processing software components; a selecting... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259407 - Communicating apparatus and program: It is an object to provide a communicating apparatus and its program in which in the case where the RTC pattern or the RCP frame cannot be received due to the noises or in the case where a modem diverges and data cannot be normally demodulated, a procedure signal can... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259408 - Apparatus, system, and method for processing image: An image processing system includes a first image processing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus that are connected via a network in which communication is performed based on a local protocol. The cooperative processing is performed between the first and second image forming apparatuses via the network.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259409 - Image processing apparatus: A method of controlling an image processing apparatus comprising the steps of: generating color reduced image data from the color image data; generating monochrome reduced image data from the monochrome image data; and determining the order of generation of the color or monochrome reduced image data when generating both the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259410 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer-readable medium: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a reading section to read a document and to obtain image data, the document including a plurality of sheets and having a binding portion; a storage section to store the image data; an operating section to accept an operating instruction to designate a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259412 - Manuscript conveyer guide used for a manuscript reader unit: A manuscript conveyer guide which has a curved surface and a flat surface in a facing portion to an upper surface of the contact glass plate, the curved surface being positioned on the upstream in the manuscript conveying direction, the flat surface being positioned on the downstream in the manuscript... Agent: H. Jay Spiegel - H. Jay Spiegel & Associates

20080259411 - Scanner arrangement: A scanner arrangement which is designed to scan only one part at a time in order to permit scanning results of a model or die-shaped unit consisting of two or more parts which can be joined together or taken apart and which can have different longitudinal inclination axes and/or configurations.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080259413 - Image scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus and image scanning method: An image scanning apparatus according to the invention includes a face-side scanning unit and a back-side scanning unit that simultaneously scan both sides of an original, a page memory in which each image element outputted from the face-side scanning unit and the back-side scanning unit is stored at a required... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080259415 - Document reading apparatus and related data transfer method: A document reading apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to continuously convey a document having a series of sheets along a conveyance path, a reading unit configured to obtain image data by reading a sheet at a predetermined reading position, a storage unit configured to store the image data obtained... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259414 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a feeding unit, a conveying unit, a primary stacking unit, a secondary stacking unit, and a path switching unit. The path switching unit switches between a first conveying path including a bend section for normal conveying mode and a second conveying path for reverse conveying... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080252909 - Image forming apparatus for forming image on record medium: A record-medium determining apparatus constituted such that a luminescent light source irradiates modulated light to a surface of a record medium, a part of reflected light by the record medium of this irradiated light is detected by a photodetector, the photodetector changes the detected light into an electric signal, and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080252910 - Method and apparatus for managing printing solutions in a local area network: r

20080252911 - Printing apparatus and computer program product: In a printing apparatus, the number of delimiters included in received data from a host apparatus is smaller than the number of input items of a template by one. Therefore, the number of delimiters included in the received data from the host apparatus is calculated to be three. A character... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080252917 - Apparatus for creating products, method of creating products, and program: A product-creating apparatus is disclosed. The product-creating apparatus includes: an image acquisition portion acquiring image data; a product-creating portion creating products using the image data; a manipulation input portion permitting one to perform manipulations for making settings to create the products using the image data and to perform a specifying... Agent: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080252918 - Control apparatus, program, computer-readable storage medium, imaging apparatus control system, and control method: In acquiring setting information from a user, a multifunctional apparatus can be switched between (i) a first input mode in which an operation panel displays a setting window and accepts an operation from the user and (ii) a second input mode in which a printing section prepares an entry sheet... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080252925 - Communication apparatus, network system, communication method and program: A communication apparatus which eliminate the necessity of providing a particular server in a predetermined network and which makes it possible to participate into the network with the use of a predetermined address. A first communication apparatus participating in a predetermined network holds a predetermined address to be used by... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080252923 - External terminal control apparatus and control method thereof: An external terminal control apparatus associates a category which classifies menu information about a first group of menu screens for operating the external terminal control apparatus with address information corresponding to file data that configure a second group of menu screens for operating an external terminal to integrate menu items... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080252919 - Image processing apparatus and control method of the same: This invention prevents repetitive storage of identical character string data, and efficiently uses a storage area. To accomplish this, a facsimile apparatus 8 has an NIC 1 as a network interface, and also has a display unit 4c as a display means for displaying an image as a user interface,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080252927 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same, and program thereof: An image processing apparatus that allows accumulated image data and print control data to be transferred to another image processing apparatus and that may improve user convenience. The image processing apparatus is communicatively connected to another image processing apparatus. A storage unit stores input image data in a first format.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080252926 - Image scanning device: A method for determining whether or not a specific image is contained in a scanned image. An image on a first side of a document is scanned and first image information indicating the scanned image is outputted. Specific component information is extracted indicating a specific component of each pixel out... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080252922 - Image-data management system, network scanner device, and image-data management method: An image-data management system that includes an authentication server device and a network scanner connected to each other via a network, wherein the network scanner device includes a keyboard, a display, a control unit, and a storage unit, the keyboard and the display are disposed so as to cover the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080252928 - Information processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and control method therefor, as well as a program: An information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of image processing apparatuses via a network, comprising, a transmission unit configured to transmit identification information for identifying the information processing apparatus on the network and specifying information by which a user identifies the information processing apparatus to the plurality of image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080252920 - Printing system and control method thereof: A printing system according to the invention is a printing system including a printer and a host computer that is connected to the printer via a network and has a display unit, wherein the printer includes a printer main body that has a control unit, an output unit that outputs... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080252929 - Printing system and printing method including host device and printing device: A printing system comprises a host device like a personal computer (PC) which creates print data (GDI data) based on an application, and selects through which a conversion process either a first conversion process of converting the data into PDL data or a second conversion process of converting the data... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080252921 - System and method for transferring a portion of a document print sequence output by a print job source to an automated data processing system: A print processor interfaces with a print job source such as an accounting system and a remote automated data processing system. The print processor comprises a print job source interface for receiving a sequence of documents from a print job source. The sequence of documents may comprise a first set... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20080252924 - System and method for transferring invoice data output of a print job source to an automated data processing system: A data capture system receives a sequence of output document objects and, for each output document object, writes output data values to an output data structure. The system includes a data storage, a first tier data extraction system and at least a second tier data extraction system. The first tier... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20080252930 - Image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed that is able to prevent halt of operations due to full memory occupation, and prevent the full occupation of the memory. The image forming device includes a reading unit; an image data storage unit; a vacancy waiting unit that, when allocating a storage area... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080252912 - Retrieving documents transitively linked to an initial document: A method for converting a semantic markup representation of a document into a physical markup representation of the document calculates a logical minimum width equal to the minimum width required to display all screen objects within the document at their normal size, creates a physical markup representation of the document,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252913 - Digital image processor spot color workflow test file: An electronic portable document format (PDF) file contains different combinations of gradient blends between spot color and process color. Each gradient blend is represented as both rasterized bitmap and vector images. The rasterized bitmap and vector images can be used to quickly assess the capability of any digital front end... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080252915 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a printer profile, which is used to convert an XYZ value into a second RGB value, to perform color conversion. The printer profile includes a first color converting module that inverse-converts the XYZ value into an sRGB value, converts the sRGB value into a first... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080252914 - Image processing circuit, gradation converting method, and printing apparatus: An input gradation converting circuit has a gradation conversion table in which M-bit intermediate gradation data are correlated with each of N-bit input gradation data, and is operable to convert each of the input gradation data into the M-bit intermediate gradation data by using the gradation conversion table and output... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080252916 - Information reproduction method and device using dot pattern and dot pattern thereof: A reproduction information method and device using a dot pattern is provided. The dot pattern includes: the boundary dots, three direction dots and the code dots. The boundary dots are disposed regularly and continuously to define the blocks. Three direction dots are disposed on centers of three of the blocks... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080252931 - Image output color management system and method: Disclosed is an image color management system and method for controlling an image output device. The method for controlling the image output device comprises generating an image output device profile LUT (look-up-table) characterizing the color profile of the image output device for a plurality of drift states associated with the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080252932 - Techniques to synchronize information between fidelity domains: Techniques to synchronize information between fidelity domains are described. A computer system may include a first application program having a low fidelity domain, and a second application program having a high fidelity domain. The second application program may include a fidelity synchronization module to synchronize modifications between a low fidelity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080252933 - Enhanced facsimile handling: Described herein is technology for, among other things, facilitating transmissions of facsimiles by a computer. It involves various techniques for facilitating the preparation of a facsimile including storing the facsimiles in an editable format and initializing a fax application.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080252934 - Image forming system, groupware server, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program: An image forming system is disclosed that includes a groupware server and an image forming apparatus that functions as a groupware terminal. The groupware server includes a document database that stores document data and attribute information corresponding to the document data. The image forming apparatus includes a read unit that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080252936 - Personal network scanning profiles: User-specific scanning of documents on a computer network is described. A user profile containing a set of user-specific scanning settings associated with pre-identified scanning preferences of a specific user is retrieved from a network storage device. A paper document is scanned on a network scanning device based on the user... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080252935 - Printing apparatus and data update processing method: Data registered in a server can be updated without any particular need to look up the storage destination of data to be updated. A printing apparatus displays on a display a layout of a plurality of data read from the server, selects an area by an operation on the displayed... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080252937 - Image processing apparatus: Depending on processing to be executed, the processing is prevented from being restricted even if a particular image is included in image data. There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising an authentication section 67 which distinguishes a user; a particular-image judgment section 63 which detects particular images from inputted... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080252938 - Combining an original image and a modified image into a single image file: A method is provided for storing an original image and a modified image into a single image file. The method comprises selecting the original image, selecting the modified image. The method further comprises creating a single image by combining the original image with the modified image. The method further comprises... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080252939 - Display device: A display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plurality of pixel sections 150 and performs an image display operation and an image reading operation. The plurality of pixel sections 150 each include a light output section 160 for outputting first light, and a light receiving section 102 for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080252942 - Actuator, optical scanner and image forming apparatus: An actuator includes a mass section; a support section; a coupling section for coupling the mass section rotatably to the support section so as to support the mass section with cantilever structure; and a pair of driving sources including a piezoelectric element for rotating the mass section, wherein the pair... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080252941 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus to generate image data from an original document and to form an image includes a photoelectric conversion unit to sequentially convert an image of the original document scanned in a sub-scanning direction into image signals made of a plurality of pixels constituting one line in a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080252944 - Image forming device creating a preview image: An image forming device may be provided with a setting data storage device, a preview image creation device, and an output device. The setting data storage device may be capable of storing a plurality of patterns of setting data. The preview image creation device may create, for each pattern of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080252940 - Image scanner and control method thereof: An image scanner according to the invention is an image scanner that can save scanned image data in a removable portable memory, the image scanner including a storing unit, a key-file creating unit that creates a key file corresponding to the portable memory, a memory control unit that registers the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080252943 - Scanner device and image reading and display method: A scanner device includes a keyboard, a display, a control unit, and a storage unit, wherein the keyboard and the display are disposed so as to cover the top of the body of the scanner device, and the control unit includes an image reading unit that controls to read image... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080252945 - Device and method for generating an image of an object: A device for generating an image of an object is provided, comprising an illumination module, by means of which the object can be illuminated with a pattern whose phase is altered temporally a recording module by means of which a plurality of recordings of the object are carried out during... Agent: Duane Morris LLP Patent Department

20080252946 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has a substantially planar top surface includes a first body including a scanner and an operation panel disposed on one side of the scanner, and in which a top surface of the scanner and a top surface of the operation panel are in a same plane;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080252947 - Image processing apparatus and network multifunction peripheral: An image processing apparatus includes a CPU arranged to select one of a plurality of pixel rates including a normal pixel rate and high pixel rates which are higher than the normal pixel rate when processing at a low resolution. The image processing apparatus also includes a timing generator arranged... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080252948 - Unit for measuring color and recording apparatus: The color measuring unit is equipped with a calorimeter holder holding a calorimeter. A carriage reciprocating means is connected to the calorimeter holder and has a calorimeter carriage for reciprocally moving the calorimeter holder in a column direction formed by a color measuring pattern. A pressing member in a pressing... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080252949 - Compact image forming apparatus having pivotally attached scanning unit: An image forming apparatus to be placed on a desktop includes a first body, a second body which is pivotally mounted above the first body, a light emitting unit disposed in the second body, an image forming unit disposed in the first body so as to form a C-shaped paper... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080246975 - Handwritten annotation recognition for copy jobs: A method for annotating pages of a copy job includes scanning pages of a hardcopy document to generate digital image data for a copy job. A template is provided for a user to annotate in a selected region or regions. The template with an annotation applied by a user is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080246984 - Image data creation method and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus for creating image data, comprises a setting unit adapted to set an operation condition of a print unit, a generation unit adapted to generate image data having undergone distortion correction by using distortion correction information corresponding to the set operation condition, and a transmission unit adapted... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080246988 - Adaptive printer pools: A client node in a networked printing system outputs in response to a change to an individual print setting input by a user for a print job a real-time update of printing nodes selectable by the user to process the print job. By presenting a user of the client node... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20080246991 - Content managing system: c

20080246989 - Image forming apparatus: There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to confirm setting contents of the job in a state that the job list is still displayed. The image forming apparatus includes: a job storage section to store job information including setting contents of the job in it; a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080246994 - Image forming device, program, and recording medium: In an image forming device, when a priority of outputting input data determined by a priority determining unit is higher than a priority of in-process data during image expansion performed by one of PDL interpreter units, a PDL control unit determines whether the one of the PDL interpreter units supports... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080246993 - Image processing apparatus, job management method for the same, and recording medium having recorded thereon job management program: Upon reception of a job, a control unit of an image processing apparatus executes processing for judging whether any cancellation factor exists. If there is no cancellation factor, the control unit outputs pages relating to the job, stores page information thereof, and updates execution history information after outputting all the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080246995 - Information management device, method of managing information, and program: An information management device that manages the processing result of a print job processed by a print device through a network includes an information acquisition unit, an information output unit, a time setting unit, and a polling unit that performs an acquisition polling process in which the information acquisition unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246992 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program: Print settings for input data for printing are acquired. A function group is created for each group of functions, between which contradiction due to change of an execution sequence does not arise, of functions executable in a printer. For each created function group, an execution sequence of functions belonging to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080246986 - Methods and apparatus for improved operation of networked printing system: Methods and systems are presented for performing one or more printer device management functions in a network, in which affinities between printers are determined from job tracking data to indicate associations between printer devices and user devices, and the affinity data is used to perform one or more printer management... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080246987 - Methods and systems for soft failure detection for networked printers: Methods and systems are presented for identifying potential printer failures in a networked printing enterprise, in which job tracking data is gathered for print jobs in the network, affinity data is derived from the job tracking data indicating associations between printer devices and user devices, and potential printer failures are... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080246990 - Mixed colour remote printing of recipient documents: An automated hybrid mail system/method which sends a recipient document including one or more graphic image files from a sender to a recipient. The system/method includes receiving an electronic document transmitted from terminal, the electronic document includes a pack containing an ordered set of graphic image files. The graphic image... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080246985 - Printer redirection: In client-server architectures, systems and methods for XPS based printer redirection are disclosed. In an implementation, a client computing device issues a print command to print an application hosted on a server computing device. The server computing device implements a generic printer driver to emulate exact properties of a client... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080246996 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Information about a component in an image forming apparatus, such as the remaining life span thereof, is written into a memory attached to the component so as not to exert influences on a computation processing work by the image forming apparatus, such as a copying operation.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080246997 - Table interpolation methods and systems: A control system is provided. This system generally includes a table datastore that stores data in a table format wherein the table format includes a plurality of zones. A data storage module stores learned data to one or more of the plurality of zones. A data access module generates a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080246976 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image data saving method, image data saving program, image reading device, and image data saving system: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a storage part which, to save read image data, saves image data not subjected to image processing together with processing data for image processing to be performed by an image processing part at later image formation. Then, the image forming... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080246977 - Printing apparatus and method for controlling the same: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a printing apparatus including a printing means for executing a print job and performing a printing process on recording paper, and a control means for controlling the printing means, the printing apparatus causing the printing means to execute a plurality of print... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080246981 - Color image processing system and method thereof: The present invention is to provide an image processing system and the method thereof capable of maintaining gradient characteristics near a black point of an output image, when performing color matching in a color printer, even if a source profile has a lower minimum lightness value of output color gamut.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080246978 - Image forming devices, hard imaging methods, and methods of determining a transfer function: Image forming devices, hard imaging methods, and methods of determining a transfer function are described. According to one embodiment, an image forming device includes an image engine configured to provide a marking agent upon media, processing circuitry configured to control the image engine to form a test image upon the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080246979 - Method for determining parameters relevant to the print quality of a printed product: The invention provides a method for determining parameters relevant to the print quality of a printed product. A macroscopic photogram of a measuring field of the printed product is recorded using a camera having a macro lens. An actual value of a parameter relevant to the print quality is determined... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080246980 - Method for generating basic template utilized to form screening mask: Disclosed is a method for generating a basic template utilized to form a screening mask. The method includes adjusting lines per inch or minimum pattern (such as cluster size or density) of a testing template, printing the adjusted testing template by an outputting device, determining if the gray level of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080246983 - Printed photograph with high capacity encoded audio: A data structure is printed on a photograph using infra-red ink. The data structure includes a two dimensional array of data blocks. Each adjacent pair of data blocks is separated by a gap and each of the data blocks has a data region holding encoded data. Each data region is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080246982 - Printing control according to combinations of color materials: A printing control device which performs printing control for printing by using color materials of a plurality of types, includes: acquiring unit that acquires a color material set which is a combination of the color materials used for printing; and creation unit that creates a color conversion profile which prescribes... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080246998 - Automatic colorization of monochromatic printed documents: Embodiments herein include a method of adding color to a monochrome (single color printing) document that begins by inputting/creating colorization rules relating to the previously printed monochromatic document and scanning the previously printed monochromatic document to locate rasterized data. After the scanning, the method performs optical character recognition on the... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080246999 - Ink saving and tone correction printing technique using error diffusion: An ink saving and tone correction printing technique using error diffusion (EDF) includes receiving a first pixel value vi,j and comparing the first pixel value vi,j with a threshold value to produce a second pixel value bi,j and a reference value pi,j. When the first pixel value vi,j is less... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080247000 - Kueppers' state error diffusion: A method is provided of reproducing continuous tone pixel colors of a color image having many pixels based on Kueppers' device states, wherein the Kueppers' device states of a printing device are the printed pixel colors that are allowed based on Kueppers' color separation and halftoning. The method includes selecting... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080247001 - Image processing system and image processing method: An image processing system comprising: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a scanned image; a non-voltage storage medium that stores correction information corresponding to a known object having a three-dimensional shape defined by the standard; when an object of the scanned image is the known object, a correction unit that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247002 - Multimedia watermarking techniques with low distortion: System and methodologies are provided herein for low-distortion image watermarking. Parity relationships between multiple pixels and/or regions of an image can be leveraged as described herein to reduce the amount of toggling required to embed a watermark in an image, thereby increasing watermark efficiency and reducing visual artifacts introduced in... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080247003 - Method and apparatus for removing show-through in scanned image: Provided are a method and apparatus for removing show-through of a scanned image. The method includes: performing forward scanning on a medium placed on a glass platen of an image scanner; performing backward scanning on the medium; and removing show-through of a forward-scanned image based on a backward-scanned image.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247004 - System and method for workflow control of scanned document input: The subject application is directed to a workflow control system and method for scanned document input. Electronic document data is received from an associated scanning device. Document processing instruction data is then received associated with a plurality of document processing operations to be performed on the electronic document. The document... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080247005 - Multiple document scanning: A system and methodology enables the scanning of multiple documents in a single pass of a flat bed scanner. Multiple documents are placed on the scanner surface with a predetermined amount of vertical and horizontal spacing separating the documents. The scanning device is enabled to detect and open separate windows... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080247006 - Image reader and image reading method: An image reader includes a first read unit, a second read unit independent of the first read unit, a determination unit, a storage unit, and a correction unit. The first read unit reads a first face of a fed document to create image data. The second read unit reads a... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080247007 - Image processing device, image recording device, image processing method, and recording medium with image processing program: An image processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires image data for recording with a liquid droplet ejecting head having a plurality of ejection nozzles that eject liquid droplets onto a recording medium, and data relating to a faulty ejection nozzle of the liquid droplet ejecting head; a generation... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080247008 - Scanner and method of scanning: A scanner and a method of scanning an image on an original includes an optical sensor having sensor elements for each of three basic colors that is used to generate pixel values of the scanned image. Each pixel value represents an optical density of a pixel of the image and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239330 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit, a first character recognition unit, a reduction processing unit, a second character recognition unit, a status detecting unit and a process content changing unit. The reception unit receives image information. The first character recognition unit recognizes character information from the image information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239328 - Mechanism for speculative printing: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request regarding a first document, retrieving a second document from a cache, the second document having a pre-existing relationship with the first document, extracting data from the second document image data, applying image processing to the first document using the extracted... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239331 - Method of operating an election ballot printing system: A method includes receiving a voter list and one or more different types of ballot images. The method includes receiving a side file which associates the ballot images with the voters of the voter list, and using a control program to access the side file and select one of the... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080239329 - System and method for image thumbnail/preview on an image processing device: An image processing device and method for modifying images on an image processing device including a scanner configured to produce an image of at least one document having multiple pages, a communications interface configured to connect the image processing device to a server via a network, a display unit configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239357 - Image forming apparatus, interruption management method, and computer program product: A user-interface unit receives a request from a user. A control unit performs an execution control in response to the request received by the user-interface unit, and during an execution process, performs an interruption process and an authentication process. An application-logic unit provides a plurality of functions related to an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239359 - Image forming device: An image forming device is provided with a print data retrieving unit configured to retrieve print data from the external storage, and an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording sheet based on the print data. If the modifying information representing modification of at least one... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080239358 - Multifunction peripheral: A multifunction device has a plurality of functions and capable of being connected to a computer via a universal serial bus (USB) interface, the computer having an operating system (OS) installed thereon that recognizes the multifunction device as a device having at least one logic unit capable of transferring data... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239360 - Quick edit and speed print capability for a stand-alone ink jet printer: Printer (1) is provided with a mode to edit and print forms without reference to or interruption of a host computer and with immediate printing of one or more of the forms. Page data for the forms is preferably stored in flash memory (21) in a high level printer language.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080239362 - Computer-readable recording medium storing print image generating program and print image generating method: A print image generating program is capable of printing information that discourages fraudulent distribution of printed documents, irrespective of the type of printer. A print image generating apparatus has an application, a printer driver, a print management unit, and a virtual driver, and is designed to add tracking information that... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080239361 - Printer, control program and printing device: A printer includes a receiving unit configured to receive a print job; a printing unit which executes a printing process to print an image on a recording medium based on the print job received by the receiving unit; a suspending unit which suspends the printing process based on suspension information... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080239379 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes an image read unit which reads image data from a transmission document; a transmission unit which transmits data; a tag read unit which wirelessly reads tag data stored in a wireless tag corresponding to the transmission document, the tag data comprising... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239363 - Copier device capable of electronically storing and recalling copied documents: A method is described for electronically storing images of previously copied documents and recalling them for reprinting later. When a user uses a copier to make a physical copy of a physical document, the document image is stored by the copier, and certain document management information is captured and stored... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080239371 - Data communication apparatus and data processing method: In a data communication apparatus having a printing function of printing, for example, received emails, and a function of transmitting print completion notifications, if received data is a print completion notification, it may be printed out, but a print completion notification indicating that the printing of the received data has... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080239383 - Data processor saving data indicating progress status of printing process retrievable by client: A data processor and a host device are bi-directionally communicably connected to each other. The data processor includes a process-executing unit and a progress-status-saving unit. The process-executing unit executes a prescribed process when a process-requested file is written in a prescribed folder. The progress-status-saving unit saves progress status data indicating... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239384 - Image formation system, data processing device, computer-readable record medium, and image formation device: In an image formation system comprising a data processing device and an image formation device, the data processing device includes: a print data storing unit which stores print data in a portable storage medium; an image data generating unit which generates image data to be displayed by the image formation... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080239380 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof configured to input PDL data and render the PDL data into image data to form an image, wherein a rendering speed in rendering the PDL data into the image data and an image forming speed are changeable, and by changing the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080239392 - Image forming apparatus and data processing method: An object of this invention is to increase the convenience for a user in setting a print reservation in an image forming apparatus having a time-designated print function. To achieve the object, according to the present invention, a control method of controlling an image forming apparatus communicably connected to a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239385 - Image forming device, and method and computer readable medium applicable to the same: An image forming device, which is configured to receive print data from a client via a network and process the print data, includes a print request receiving unit configured to receive a print request transmitted by the client with a protocol through a port of the image forming device, a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239372 - Image forming system, server apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control method and image forming apparatus control program: An image forming apparatus and a server apparatus controlling the image forming apparatus are interconnected via a network. The image forming apparatus comprises: an executor that executes at least one from the image reading function, the copy function and the print function; an operation portion; and a communicator that exchanges... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080239374 - Image processing apparatus, method for managing storage area, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus (2) capable of providing a box for each user is provided. The image processing apparatus (2) includes a user grouping process portion (205) that determines a total of an amount of a box of a first user that has been used by a second user and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080239377 - Image processing method: An image processing method controls a computer and an image processing device connected to the computer to perform an image processing. The computer includes a plurality of drivers that controls the image processing device. The image processing method includes (a) controlling the image processing device by using one of the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239388 - Information processing apparatus and computer usable medium therefor: An information processing apparatus having a request receiving unit to receive a request issued from a client device for event information, a destination device determining unit to determine the client device which issued the request as a destination device of the event information, a destination device information storing unit to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239373 - Information processing apparatus, program product, and recording medium: A disclosed information processing apparatus, which is connected to an output device, detects, from output setting information, an uninterpretable setting that is uninterpretable by the information processing apparatus, according to the output setting information used when performing output and function information relevant to a function executable by the output device;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239365 - Masking of text in document reproduction: An apparatus for masking text in a rendered copy of an original document includes a text modification system which is configured to receive a print job from an application and modify the print job in accordance with a print job description, whereby when rendered on an output device, a selected... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080239370 - Method and system for in-register processing of print data: In a method and system for processing print data, the print data is displayed on a display device before printing, and the print data is displayed together with a check device or reticule that is displaceable at the display device. Both the print data as well as the check device... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080239378 - Multifunction peripheral having a plurality of functions: A multifunction device has a plurality of functions selected from among a printer function, scanner function, facsimile function, and data storage function and capable of being connected to a computer via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. The multifunction device includes: a device data outputting unit that outputs information forcing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239386 - Network apparatus to be connected with a network: A network apparatus comprises an address storing device, a keyword storing device, an error sensing device, an access device, a search device, and an output device. The address storing device stores an address of a web page on the network. The keyword storing device stores a keyword related to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239364 - Portable memory printing device and method: A method comprises collecting printing information relating to an electronic document stored on a computer. The printing information comprises printing attributes according to which the electronic document should be printed. In response to input from a user of the computer, the method causes the electronic document and the printing information... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080239376 - Print management apparatus and print management system: A print management apparatus includes: a communication section connected to image forming apparatuses via a network for transmitting a print job to one of the apparatuses, and receiving management information from each apparatus including information about a print function of the apparatus and alternate printing instructions to allow another image... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080239382 - Print processing system, control apparatus and control method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium: In order to solve one or more problems encountered in the grouping of print jobs spanning a plurality of servers, a control apparatus within a print processing system includes: a designation unit for designating a plurality of print jobs; a generation unit for acquiring the plurality of print jobs from... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080239381 - Print system, print control apparatus, and print control method: This invention improves the operability in a process of compositing print jobs in a business-oriented printer. A client PC (1) acquires the print job attribute of an existing print job compositable with a print job of interest that the client PC (1) is going to submit to a server PC... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080239389 - Printer: A printer may be connected with an information processing device in a communicable manner. The printer includes a first command receiving device, a job directory creating device, a storage device, and an address sending device. The first command receiving device receives a job creating command including first print data. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239387 - Printer and scanner utilizing a file sharing protocol: A printer may be provided with a print setting folder storage area, a data sending device, a data receiving device, and a print device. The print setting folder storage area may be capable of storing a plurality of print setting folders. Each print setting folder may be an association of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239375 - Printing system: A printing system includes an image file standard determining unit, an additional information determining unit, an printing data creating unit, and a printing unit. The image file standard determining unit is configured to determine whether image data subject to printing is created in conformity with a prescribed image file standard.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239369 - Production workflow integration system: A production workflow integration system for a print shop includes multiple workstations, a printing device and a computer in communication with at least one of the workstations and the printing device. Each workstation includes a data collection module having at least one an electronic data storage device reader. The printing... Agent: Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20080239367 - System and method for optimizing the performance factors of a multi-function peripheral (mfp): A method of controlling a multi-function peripheral (MFP) device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) storing data associated with the operation of the MFP device, wherein the MFP device includes at least one hardware element, ii) analyzing the stored data so as to optimize performance factors (e.g.,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080239391 - System having printer and sensing device for interaction with computer software: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software including a printer and sensing device. The printer receives print data, and prints a form, using the print data, with information related to an interactive element coincident with coded data indicative of the interactive element. The sensing device has an image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080239390 - System having sensing device for interaction with computer software: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software. The system includes a sensing device and a computer system. The computer system generates print data and transfers it to a printer. The printer prints a form by printing information related to an interactive element and coded data indicative of the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080239366 - Systems and methods for managing print jobs: A system for managing a job in accordance with a job specification and job content includes a database that stores device information and a configuration engine. The configuration engine is responsive to the job specification and the database and identifies one or more device configurations that are capable of producing... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20080239368 - Systems and methods for print scheduling: In some embodiments of systems and methods for print scheduling, at least one of a plurality of entries in a request table associated with a printing device is updated with print job related information when a spool associated with a printing device is full. A priority is associated with the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080239393 - Cyclical image buffer: A storage buffer attached to an image processor for stereo image processing. The processor compares a first image and a second image. The storage buffer stores image data of the second image. The storage buffer includes: a data-shifting-hardware mechanism which while the processor compares a patch of the first image... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080239395 - Image processing apparatus, image data transfer control method and image data transfer control program: An image processing apparatus comprises: a volatile recording medium that stores image data in itself; a nonvolatile recording medium that stores image data in itself; a transfer portion that transfers image data page by page between the volatile recording medium and the nonvolatile recording medium; a controller that suspends transfer... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080239394 - Image processor and image processing method: An image processor includes a first dither data memory storing a first dither matrix, a second dither data memory storing a second dither matrix, a selecting unit selecting one of the first dither matrix and the second dither matrix, and a converting unit converting multi-value image data to binary data... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080239396 - Method of creating decompressed data: A method may be provided with a first downloading step of downloading a predetermined size of first compressed data of a first image object which is to be included in both a first band of print data and a second band of the print data, a first decompression step of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239397 - Image forming apparatus and computer readable medium: An image forming apparatus includes a formation unit and an overlap order number assignment unit. The formation unit divides a predetermined image and forms divided images of the predetermined image on plurality sheets of recording paper in a divided manner. The formation unit forms the divided images such that, among... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239398 - Information processing apparatus and method: An object of this invention is to provide an apparatus and method capable of printing part of a book file by designating the range. A setting user interface window is displayed from a print setting menu, a desired unit is selected from a print target column, and the range is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239332 - Printer-plotter: A printer-plotter includes a guide rail, a first head, a second head, a driving device, a first connecting mechanism and a second connecting mechanism. The guide rail extends in a longitudinal direction. The first head is supported by the guide rail and movable along the longitudinal direction. The second head... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080239333 - Printing system: A printing system is provided that allows coordinates of pen strokes written or drawn with a digital pen to be correctly related to coordinates of application data even when the application data is printed in reduced size. The printing system includes an application data generating unit generating an application data,... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080239335 - Encoding and decoding method for enhancing depth resolution of an image, and print system using the same: A print system having an enhanced depth resolution of an image. The print system includes a host device to divide a gray image into basic block units, to determine whether the basic block units represent an edge area, to convert the gray image into binary data, and to output the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080239334 - Scanner metamerism correction: A method for automatically compensating for scanner metamerism errors associated with scanning input images using a digital color image scanner, wherein the input images can be on a variety of different input media having colorants with different spectral characteristics, comprising scanning an input image on a digital color image scanner... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080239336 - Optical scanning device, optical scanning method, and image forming apparatus: A light-source drive control unit divides each pixel of the image data into a plurality of subpixels, deletes certain subpixels from the image data in accordance with predetermined correction data, shifts remaining subpixels in the sub-scanning direction thereby obtaining reduced image data, and controls a plurality of light sources based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239337 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, mask generation method, and mask pattern: The present invention provides a mask for divided printing that completes an image by plural scans using inks of different plural inks, the mask being able to suppress possible grains during printing to reduce image degradation resulting from beading. If for example, among the print permitting pixels for which the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239343 - Automatic conversion of full color images to highlight color images: A device and method for converting a multi-bit full color input image into a highlight color format for output on a highlight color image output terminal. The method and device analyze each pixel block on a block-by-block basis and assign each block to one of highlight color and non-highlight color.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080239344 - Color printer characterization or calibration to correct for spatial non-uniformity: Methods and systems are presented for calibrating or characterizing a color printer or determining the color response of a color printer to combat spatial non-uniformity, in which color patches are printed on a test page according to an input matrix of input color in a printer-dependent-color space and the test... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080239346 - Copy machine control apparatus and copy machine control method: A copy machine control apparatus that can realize copy management of a print, editing a duplicate, management of distribution destinations of a duplicate, and control of outward transmission of a duplicate, by the use of a conventional digital copy machine. The copy machine control apparatus acquires a scan image of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080239355 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: Image data can be subjected to a smoothing processing to improve a color reproduction characteristic and an image free from a deteriorated gradation characteristic can be printed. Specifically, the smoothing processing improves the color reproduction characteristic. This smoothing processing may cause a color originally not having the lightness equal to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239352 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof expresses a color difference of a printed document when a color document is printed through the monochrome printing even if the printed document has the same brightness value. The image forming apparatus includes a brightness and chromatic value calculation unit to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080239353 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A color gamut of image data is appropriately subjected to a smoothing processing to print an image of favorable color reproduction and gradation reproduction. Specifically, when an average lightness is equal to or lower than a blacking lightness, the object pixel is not subjected to the smoothing processing. This can... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239347 - Image processing apparatus and method for detecting a background color: A background color of a document is detected based on image data of a colormetric system in which brightness and color components are separated. A color plane is divided into a plurality of color areas, and the number of elements of image data belonging to each color area is counted.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080239350 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus for determining whether input image data is identical with image data of a reference image or not and performing a process according to the result of the determination, input image data whose similarity to a reference image is not less than a predetermined first threshold... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239351 - Image processing device, printing device, search device, and image processing method: A circuit structure has multiple comparator circuits connected in series. Each comparator circuit compares an input tone value with a medium value of table data input from a preceding comparator circuit. When the tone value is greater than the medium value, the comparator circuit selects table data of greater than... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239354 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and recording medium: An available image area is recognized from information, including a read start position and a read end position of a document, a scaling for performing image processing, a processing object position, or the like. Subsequently, the number of chromatic pixels of one line is counted to output it to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239342 - Method and system for detection of binary halftone frequencies: A method and system detects a halftone frequency. A digitized image is received. An autocorrelation function is performed upon the digitized image to generate an autocorrelation function value for each halftone frequency of a predetermined set of possible halftone frequencies. A demerit term for each possible halftone frequency, based upon... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080239348 - Method for creating color conversion definition for image output devices and image processing apparatus implementing the method: The present invention is to provide methods and apparatuses for creating color conversion definition to make the same output result appear without any uncomfortable feeling when a same output result is observed under different illumination lights. To achieve this, the method comprising the successive steps of: (a) assuming an observational... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239340 - Method for limiting total colorant coverage using multidimensional simplicial subdivision and barycentric interpolation: Systems and methods for limiting total colorant in a color rendering system are disclosed. Implementation of the present invention provides for transformation of a specified colorant in which the sum of the colorant components exceeds a total area coverage (TAC) limit to create a second or resultant colorant in which... Agent: Kirton & Mcconkie

20080239338 - Method for performing error diffusion halftoning of an image: A method for performing error diffusion halftoning of an image includes subdividing the image into a plurality of tiles, the plurality of tiles including a first tile and a second tile adjacent to the first tile; performing error diffusion processing of the first tile; and performing the error diffusion processing... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080239356 - Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus: The invention provides a printing apparatus that includes: a printing section that performs printing on a print target medium; a display unit that displays various kinds of information; a touch-sensitive panel that is overlaid on a surface of the display unit and detects a position touched by a user; a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080239341 - System and method for controlling consistent color quality: A system and method control a consistent color quality of overlay colors and single separations of color. The method determines a first error for a first separation of a first color, wherein the first error has a first sign. The method identifies a second error for a second separation of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080239345 - Systems and methods for efficient print job compression: Systems and methods described herein provide for an efficient method for print job compression. In some embodiments, threshold halftone lookup tables directed to specific object types are used to compare pixel data for specific detected objects. Pixel data for such specified objects may be encoded using the appropriate object-specific threshold... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080239349 - Tone evaluation apparatus and tone evaluation method: A tone evaluation method acquires color information on the second color space of a patch image corresponding to a grid point in the first color space, and calculates as the feature amount of a color conversion table the variation of the color information between two grid points in the first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239339 - Variable-dot halftoning: A method for enabling a program that communicates a document description from a composition system to a printing system to manage variable-dot halftones for use with variable-dot printing devices, comprising the steps of creating a set of strings, each string defining a halftone cell intensity value and comprising at least... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080239399 - Image processing apparatus and method, printer device, and computer readable recording medium: An image information acquisition unit obtains first print image information that is binarized with the use of a first threshold matrix. A threshold matrix information acquisition unit obtains information representing the first threshold matrix. A determining unit divides the first print image information obtained by the image information acquisition unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239400 - Printing apparatus and method for controlling a printing process: A printing apparatus includes a memory configured to store print jobs, a printing device configured to print an image based on each of the print jobs, a detector configured to determine when it is time to execute calibration to correct a printing characteristic of the printing device, and a controller.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080239401 - Method and system for selective bitmap edge smoothing: An image processing system utilizes an image type classification circuit to identify inputted image data as picture image data or text/graphics image data. A halftone circuit, operatively connected to the image type classification circuit, converts the inputted image data, identified as picture image data, to halftone image data. Moreover, a... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080239402 - Color conversion apparatus, color conversion method and color conversion program: In a color conversion apparatus, in accordance with an n-dimensional lookup table that stores a color conversion value corresponding to each of division points dividing each color component axis in a first color space realized by n types (n is an integer of one or larger) of color components, into... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080239403 - Color conversion apparatus, filter processing apparatus and color conversion method: A color conversion apparatus that converts, on the basis of a three-dimensional look up table that stores color conversion values associated with respective plural lattice points dividing a first color space represented by three kinds of color components into plural cubic lattices, a color value of a point belonging to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080239404 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A method and apparatus are provided for forming an image on a surface of medium having variable surface attributes affecting image formation. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form images on a surface on which images are to be formed, including a plurality of areas... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239405 - Double sided fax machine: Double Sided Fax Machine is an improvement on existing facsimile machines that has all of the standard components of a facsimile machine but also has a second group of sensors that permits double-sided transmission and reception. To use Double Sided Fax Machine, an individual inserts sheets of paper into the... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp

20080239406 - Communication device: A communication device has a reading unit, a wireless tag reading unit, a transmitting unit, a designating unit, a first determining unit, and a control unit. The a reading unit reads image data from an original document. The original document has a first wireless tag including first wireless tag data.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239407 - Facsimile system: A facsimile system having a facsimile server, an administrative terminal, a sender facsimile machine, and receiver facsimile machines is provided. The sender facsimile machine includes a sender-side transmitter unit to transmit facsimile usable data and first information to the facsimile server. The administrative terminal includes a terminal-side data storage to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239408 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an image data receiving unit which receives image data; a related data receiving unit which receives related data which relates to the image data; a data writing unit which writes the related data received by the related data receiving unit to a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080239409 - Interactive image activation and distribution system and associated methods: A method for distributing a digital image of a customer includes receiving a request from a customer to a human representative (i.e., a “roving” photographer) for an image to be taken of the customer at a site. An image of the customer is captured by the “roving” photographer at the... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph.d Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080239410 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A pixel in a photograph region image to be subjected to blacking is subjected to a brightness modulation processing so that the pixel is modulated to any of “a pixel having the brightness to be subject to blacking” and “a pixel having the brightness not to be subject to blacking”.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239411 - Image scanner having multiple scanning windows: Systems and methods associated with image scanner are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an image scanner comprises a first image-receiving end configured to move in a scanning direction and to receive image data of a first portion of the scanned object, a second image-receiving end disposed downstream of the first... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080239412 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: The invention provides, as an aspect thereof, an image reading apparatus including: a light irradiating unit that has a red-light irradiating sub-unit that irradiates red light onto a reading target object, a green-light irradiating sub-unit that irradiates green light onto the reading target object, and a blue-light irradiating sub-unit that... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080239413 - Auditing system and method for digital documents: The present invention relates to management of digital documents, and more specifically to a method and system for effectively auditing data extracted from digital documents by creating hyperlinks to these digital documents from the summary documents. The present invention discloses a method and system for auditing data extracted from digital... Agent: Chau Vuong

20080239414 - Image reader and image forming apparatus: An image reader and an image forming apparatus are provided. The image reader includes a stationary document scanning device; a moving document scanning device; a scan window; a document cover covering the scan window and comprising an opening located at a position facing the scan window; a document feeding mechanism... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080239416 - Image reading apparatus and control method thereof: An image reading apparatus capable of continually conveying a plurality of originals in a stable manner while cleaning a contact glass of an image sensor and reducing streaks occurring in read images. An image sensor reads an original image via a contact member which the conveyed original may contact. A... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239415 - Image reading apparatus and image formation apparatus: An image reading apparatus has a reading portion configured to read the image of the original at the reading position located on a supporting surface for supporting the original, an original feeding portion configured to convey an original to the reading position, a movable guide portion which faces the supporting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239418 - Adjusting colorants specified in a digital image: A method for making a device link (90) for a color management system, with an associated imaging apparatus (20), wherein the device link specifies a transformation of digital-image colorant combinations to imaging-apparatus colorant combinations. The device link converts the digital image (70) to a modified digital image (100) represented using... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080239417 - Color processing apparatus and color processing method: An output color is calculated from a fundamental stimulus value and a spectral support coefficient which indicate an input color using a calculation unit for calculating an output color corresponding to the input fundamental stimulus value and the input spectral support coefficient using a table whose inputs are a fundamental... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division