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Facsimile and static presentation processing February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/13

20130050730 - Document data management system, management method and program: In a case in which a document stored based on a sort setting from a multifunction peripheral is operated at a temporary work area, a piece of information thereof is stored as temporary work area setting. A piece of operation information at a preceding time is set as an index... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050729 - Image forming apparatus and print control method: An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a recording medium; a multiple-sheet-feed detecting unit configured to detect a multiple sheet feed of the recording medium; an image holding unit configured to hold an image expected to print on the... Agent: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.

20130050732 - Image forming apparatus which is capable of displaying real size preview, method of controlling the same, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus that is capable of displaying a real size preview and reduces user's time and effort required for forming the image on the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a printing unit which forms an image on a recording medium, and a user interface for displaying... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050727 - Image processing apparatus and power-saving method of image processing apparatus: An apparatus includes a packet detecting unit; a packet analyzing unit; an image processing unit processing images using image data from the packet; a power supply unit supplying power to the packet detecting, packet analyzing, and image processing units; a stand-by mode controlling unit controlling the packet detecting unit, the... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd.

20130050733 - Information processing apparatus that displays web page, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus which can be operated very easily by users when the users display web pages in different display languages. An MFP is connected to a web server via a network. When registering a view button in which a URL for identify contents is specified, a window manager... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050726 - Input display apparatus and method, image forming apparatus, imaging apparatus, and computer readable medium: An input display apparatus includes the following elements. A display unit has a display area. A receiver receives plural types of gestures which are performed on the display area. A setting unit sets plural settings for an apparatus in accordance with the types of gestures received by the receiver. A... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20130050731 - Job setting registration device, image processing apparatus, tangible computer-readable recording medium and method for registering job setting: Disclosed is a job setting registration device including: a job setting selection receiving unit to receive a selection instruction for selecting a job setting to be registered as a registered job setting for enabling the job setting to be reset by retrieving the job setting, from among job settings of... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130050734 - Peripheral device usable without installing driver in computer beforehand: The storage unit of a peripheral device has a first storage area and a second storage area. The first storage area stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types. The second storage area is a storage area which is recognized by an... Agent: Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050735 - Printing and scanning with cloud storage: Methods and system for printing a print job with cloud storage are disclosed. A web print server is provided for accessing a cloud storage server. The web print server is operable to download a print job from the cloud storage server to the web print server. The web print server... Agent:

20130050728 - Printing system and print control method: A printing system includes a print service and an image forming apparatus having a web browser to display a screen provided from a web server. The web server includes a print instruction unit, a print status acquisition unit, a screen generation unit, and a screen transmission unit. The print instruction... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050740 - Approach for processing locked print jobs obtained from other printing devices: An approach is provided for remotely processing locked print jobs. A printing device discovers other printing devices on a network that store locked print jobs. A user enters user identification data and the printing device displays the locked print jobs stored on the other printing devices that are associated with... Agent: Ricoh Americas Corporation

20130050736 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus includes an authenticating unit that compares input identification information of a user with user information containing identification information of users and authenticates a user corresponding to the input identification information of the user; a detecting unit that detects that the authenticated user leaves the image forming... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20130050738 - Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus registers permission or prohibition of RETRANSMISSION/REPRINT in a reception rule registration unit for each reception condition, determines whether RETRANSMISSION/REPRINT is permitted based on a reception method that the image processing apparatus uses to receive an electronic document from an external apparatus, and retransmits/reprints the electronic document... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050737 - Image processing device, image processing system, and printing device: An image processing device includes an acquiring section, a determining section, a storage section, and a reacquiring section. The acquiring section is configured to acquire data based on reference information indicative of a reference location on a network. The determining section is configured to determine whether the acquiring section succeeds... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050739 - Processing device and processing method: A processing device has a requesting section that issues a request to transmit processing data to a server; a receiving section that receives the processing data transmitted from the server in response to the request; a processing section that sequentially makes the received processing data a processing object, and conducts... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20130050742 - Adaptive rasterized data management for multi-memory systems: Systems and methods are provided for implementing adaptive rasterized print data management. The printing system is able to acquire a print job and instructions for printing multiple copies of the job. The control unit is also able to initiate processing of a first copy of the print job, to instruct... Agent:

20130050744 - Automated photo-product specification method: An apparatus for digitally analyzing a plurality of digital images and for classifying each digital image into one of a plurality of image types such that the plurality of digital images includes images classified into a plurality of different image types. An electronic file is coupled to the processing system... Agent:

20130050745 - Automated photo-product specification method: A computer-implemented method of making an image product by accessing a plurality of electronically stored digital images that includes type data indicating one of a plurality of image types. Automatically selecting multiple ones of the digital images is performed using the stored type data to form an image distribution matching... Agent:

20130050746 - Automated photo-product specification method: A computer-implemented method of making a photo-product by sending a collection of digital images, a plurality of image-type data, an image-product selection, and a predefined image-type distribution over a communication network to a network destination. The destination, which can comprise a computer system, or an image processing service, processes the... Agent:

20130050747 - Automated photo-product specification method: An apparatus for making an image product with an electronic memory for storing digital images and type data for indicating an image type for each associated digital image. A processor coupled to the electronic memory electronically selects digital images using the stored type data for forming an image distribution matching... Agent:

20130050756 - Document management system and document management method: A document management system includes a document operation log recording unit configured to record as an operation log a history of operations for each document managed by the document management system, a print log collecting unit configured to collect a print log indicating a history of printing executed by a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050755 - Facsimile apparatus and control method therefor, as well as storage medium: A facsimile apparatus which makes it possible to certainly perform facsimile communication via an IP network. The facsimile makes connection with a communication destination according to Session Initiation Protocol to perform facsimile communication with the communication destination via an IP network. A first connection sequence of starting call connection using... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050760 - Image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus, which is connected to an external device and which forms an image based on a print data sent from the external device, includes a request receiving section for receiving a check request for a print setting associated with the print data; a response section for responding... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050748 - Image forming apparatus and method, image forming system, and computer readable medium: An image forming apparatus includes the following elements. A first obtaining unit obtains a print request including image forming data used for forming an image for each of logical pages. An output unit outputs a print medium on which an image is formed. A combining unit obtains, in response to... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20130050752 - Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium for peforming power-saving control: An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a server apparatus, a power supply control unit configured to repeat power supply to the communication unit, and an inquiry unit configured to make an inquiry to the server apparatus about whether to turn on a second power... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050759 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory storage medium: An image forming apparatus comprising: a receiver for receiving a print job; a printing unit; a storage unit; an input interface for receiving a print execution command from a user; a power source for supplying an electric power; and a controller configured to: control the power source to stop or... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050751 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: An information processing apparatus according to this invention, when accepting an instruction to execute a job based on a history of a previously executed job, identifies settings allowed to be reflected to the job to be executed based on the instruction from among settings of the previously executed job. The... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050761 - Print control method and apparatus: Upon designating bookbinding print, preview images are displayed in a layout after bookbinding. When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler (302) stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file (303). When the stored job is selected, a previewer (306)... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050750 - Print data processing method, print data processing apparatus, and storage medium for processing print data according to print setting information in the print data: A print data processing method includes inputting print data and storing the print data in a storage region with a first filter including an interface in a stream format as an input/output interface, sequentially inputting and analyzing parts constituting the print data with a second filter arranged after the first... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050757 - Printer, print processing program, and print processing method: This disclosure discloses a printer comprising a USB port, memory, a printing device, and a processor configured to control the printing device and the memory, wherein the regular storage area includes a first memory area, and at least a second memory area in which at least an instruction file including... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050753 - Printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium: A printing apparatus receives a transmission request of information to be used by an information processing apparatus to transmit an image to the printing apparatus via an image processing apparatus from the information processing apparatus including the image. The printing apparatus transmits the information to the information processing apparatus if... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050758 - Printing system and control method thereof and program: A printing system having a printing apparatus and a post-processing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus is provided. When an in-line job is received that is set to perform a printing process by the printing apparatus and a post-process by the post-processing apparatus with respect to a sheet printed by... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050754 - Server device, system, and order accepting method: A server device includes a print history database; an information adding unit for adding, as invisible information, first information for specifying image data and second information about a server address; a first print data transmitting unit for transmitting, to a print server, the image data to which the invisible information... Agent:

20130050741 - System and method for printing from portable devices: An imaging forming system and method are disclosed having a print engine, a signal detector and a communication module for communicating with portable devices and printing documents therefrom. A user intent to print from a portable device is ascertained based on a signal strength of each portable device. The signal... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130050743 - System and method of print job retrieval from the cloud: A method for print job retrieval from the cloud includes sending one or more files to a storage location, receiving the storage location identifier where the one or more files is stored, encoding the storage location identifier into a barcode, scanning the barcode, decoding the barcode to obtain the storage... Agent:

20130050749 - Terminal device: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program causing a computer mounted in a terminal device connected to a printer to perform operations comprising: a first print data generation process for generating first print data corresponding to a first specific image which is at least a portion of a target... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050762 - Small aio (all in one) printer that uses external storage for the purpose of paper collation: A method implemented in a data processing system including an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job; (c) determining if the job information... Agent: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc.

20130050763 - Multiple sided media pattern registration system: An image registration system for determining a relative location of a first pattern and a second pattern includes a fiducial having a fiducial origin, a first side, and a second side. A first camera captures a first fiducial image of the first side of the fiducial and the fiducial origin... Agent:

20130050715 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, including: a reading portion configured to read an original to generate original image data; a code detecting portion configured to detect a code indicating image density reduction information from the original image data; a reconstruction processing portion configured to generate output image data from the original... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050717 - Image processing enabling decoding of encoded information embedded in source document: An image processing apparatus that receives an image from a scanner capable of optical scaling is provided by the present invention. It has an image scaling unit for performing digital scaling of a received image, and an information detecting unit for detecting encoded information from the received image. Unless the... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050716 - Printing control device and printing control method: A printing control device which includes a printing density determination unit which obtains attribute information of an object included in input document data, and determines a printing density for printing the object according to the line width of an image of the object for which attribute information is a line... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20130050718 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus contains a transporting unit for transporting a sheet of paper to an image forming section, a deviation detection sensor which detects a passing position of the transported sheets of paper end outputs passing data of the transported sheets of paper for every sheet of paper, a... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130050719 - Contents information processing program, contents information processing method, and contents information processing system: This disclosure discloses a non-transitory recording medium storing a contents information processing program for executing steps on a computing device, the steps comprising: an explanatory text acquisition step for acquiring explanatory text associated in a fixed manner with specific contents selected from a plurality of contents prepared and related to... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050723 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof which execute auto color registration in consideration of mechanical change factors of both photoconductors and drive rollers. The control method of an image forming apparatus includes photoconductors, an intermediate transfer belt to which developers attached to the photoconductors are transferred, and... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130050722 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and document management system: The image forming apparatus includes: a log obtaining unit configured to obtain a print log which is an execution history of a print job; a color utilization ratio obtaining unit configured to obtain a color utilization ratio which is a ratio of chromatic color material utilization when past print jobs... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050721 - Image processing device: Read data indicative of first and second surfaces of manuscript is divided into a plurality of first and second blocks, respectively. A judging unit judges, based on a first condition, whether each second block is a specified second block and whether each first block is a specified first block. A... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050720 - Image quality status workflow: Methods and systems for maintaining image quality are disclosed. A printing system and method is provided for maintaining image quality, comprising: initially establishing a plurality of image quality threshold standards; assigning an image quality threshold standard from the plurality of image quality threshold standards to an associated image job; comparing... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130050724 - Information input/output method using dot pattern: A dot pattern including a block defined as a rectangular area of a square or a rectangle of a medium face, such as printed matter. A straight line in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction configuring a frame of the block each are defined as a standard grid line.... Agent:

20130050725 - Information processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a first processing unit for performing a first process according to a first request signal; a second processing unit for performing a second process according to a second request signal; and a control unit for controlling at least one of the first processing unit and... Agent:

20130050764 - Method and apparatus for authenticating printed documents that contains both dark and halftone text: A document authentication method determines the authenticity of a target hardcopy document, which purports to be a true copy of an original hardcopy document. The method compares a binarized image of the target document with a binarized image of the original document which has been stored in a storage device.... Agent: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc.

20130050765 - Method and apparatus for document authentication using image comparison on a block-by-block basis: A document authentication method using block-by-block image comparison is disclosed. An image of an original document and an image of a target document are each segmented into multiple blocks corresponding to paragraphs of text. A first block in the original image is used to search the target image to find... Agent: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc.

20130050766 - Image quality critical workflow: Methods and systems for maintaining image quality are disclosed. A printing system and method is provided for maintaining image quality, comprising: initially establishing a plurality of image quality threshold standards; assigning an image quality threshold standard from the plurality of image quality threshold standards to an associated image critical job;... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130050767 - Intelligent image correction with preview: As set forth herein, methods and systems for automated image defect detection. An input image is subjected to skew detection and contaminant detection. Upon detection of skew of and/or contaminants in the image data, correction data, including indicia of the contaminants/skew, correction angles and directions are calculated and displayed on... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130050768 - Scanners and scanner housings: Scanners and scanner housings are disclosed. An example scanner includes a housing to carry an optical element, the housing having a first support feature, and a printed circuit board having a second support feature to mate with the first support feature of the housing, the printed circuit board to provide... Agent:

20130050769 - Communication apparatus that selectively uses codecs, method of controlling the communication apparatus, and storage medium: A communication apparatus which is capable of selectively using codecs appropriately. The communication apparatus is provided with a software codec configured to encode and decode images and a hardware codec configured to encode and decode images at higher speed than the software codec. In facsimile communication with an IP-FAX machine... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050770 - Image scanning apparatus and method of scanning: An image scanning apparatus is provided. The image scanning apparatus includes a DLNA apparatus search unit to search at least one DLNA apparatus connectible to the image scanning apparatus, a user interface to select at least one of the searched DLNA apparatus, a communication interface to obtain apparatus information from... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130050772 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer readable medium and image processing system: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a computer-readable medium storing a computer program and an image processing system cropping a document image from image data including a document region having a tab. The image processing apparatus includes a line determination unit for determining a line extending... Agent:

20130050773 - Image processing apparatus, image processing setting method for the image processing apparatus and storage medium that stores a program: An image processing apparatus acquires user information and changes a default setting value for at least one of a plurality of processes that are defined in a process definition file. The changed default setting value is displayed on a setting screen. The image processing apparatus changes the default setting value... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050771 - Retractable calibration strip for a digital printer or image scanner: According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided an apparatus that includes a calibration member that is disposed within a calibration holder and is movable to a position within the optical path of the scanner head assembly. The apparatus can perform optical analysis of images on sheets, comprising a... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130050774 - Image reading device, image reading method, and image forming apparatus: An image reading device includes a document tray on which documents having different sizes are stacked; a document transport mechanism that sequentially feeds and transports the documents one-by-one; an image data generator extending in a width direction that intersects a document moving direction and having an image reading sensor that... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20130050776 - Electronic reading device having windows system on paper and capable of reading multiple data: The invention relates to an electronic reading device that can be used in combination with print media, and more particularly, to an electronic reading device having an on-paper window system and being capable of reading various data. The electronic reading device includes an electronic coordinate device, a circuit substrate for... Agent:

20130050777 - Mark detection apparatus and method for detecting mark: A mark detection apparatus includes a reading unit, a converter, and a determination part. The reading unit reads an image on a document. The converter compares respective portions of the image read by the reading unit with a plurality of preset reference patterns, and converts a portion of the image... Agent: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

20130050775 - Single-pass imaging apparatus with image data scrolling for improved resolution contrast and exposure extent: An imaging (e.g., lithographic) apparatus for generating an elongated concentrated scan image on an imaging surface of a scan structure (e.g., a drum cylinder) that moves in a process (cross-scan) direction. The apparatus includes a spatial light modulator having a two-dimensional array of light modulating elements for modulating a two-dimensional... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20130050780 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a fed original placing portion on which an original is placed, wherein the fed original placing portion is configured to be rotated; an feeding portion that feeds the original placed on the fed original placing portion; an image reading portion that reads an image of... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050781 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image reading apparatus, including: a light source; a reflection member changing a traveling direction of the light reflected from an original; an optical system imaging the light; a photoelectric converter receiving the light from the optical system to convert the light into an electric signal; and a light passing... Agent: Canon Finetech Inc.

20130050779 - Single-pass imaging method using spatial light modulator and anamorphic projection optics: Substantially one-dimensional scan line images at 1200 dpi or greater are generated in response to predetermined scan line image data. A substantially uniform two-dimensional homogenous light field is modulated using a spatial light modulator in accordance with the predetermined scan line image data such that the modulated light forms a... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20130050778 - Variable length imaging method using electronically registered and stitched single-pass imaging: An imaging method for generating a substantially one-dimensional scan line image using multiple spatial light modulators, to modulate a homogenous light field, and then anamorphically imaging and concentrating the modulated light to form the scan line image. The spatial light modulators include light modulating elements that are arranged in two-dimensional... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20130050782 - Line scan cytometry systems and methods: Systems and methods for performing cytometry using a linear light sensor. An illumination field, a line scanned by the linear light sensor, or both are swept across a cell to be imaged. Relative motion between the cell and the swept illumination may be created using a movable optical component or... Agent: Bio-rad Laboratories, Inc.

20130050783 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: An image reading apparatus and an image reading method are provided by which a top face image and a back face image of a document can both have an improved reading accuracy while simplifying a circuit configuration and providing a higher processing speed. A period within which a reading operation... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050784 - Apparatus and method for reading color chart and computer-readable storage medium: Provided is a method for automatically determining an error of a user operation or a colorimeter caused when the colorimeter is manually slid to measure the colors of color patches on a row-by-row basis. Also provided is a method capable of determining an error or a scanning direction using a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130050785 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an imager. An imager repeatedly outputs an image representing a scene captured on an imaging surface. A definer executes a process of defining a document page region within the scene captured on the imaging surface, corresponding to a document page photographing mode. A searcher searches for... Agent: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

20130044342 - Apparatus, system, and method of inspecting image, and recording medium storing image inspection control program: An inspection apparatus obtains a correction parameter for correcting the positional shift between a previously read image and a master image, and corrects one of a currently read image or a master image using the correction parameter for the previously read image, before comparing between the currently read image and... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20130044341 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: The image forming apparatus includes an operation input unit having a first touch screen, a reception unit configured to receive information regarding an operation target file from a mobile terminal in accordance with a drag-and-drop operation across the first touch screen and a second touch screen provided in the mobile... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130044339 - Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control method, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, a document conveyance unit, a sheet storage unit, a printing unit, a first and second determination unit, and a control unit. The reading unit reads a document. The printing unit performs printing on a sheet fed from the sheet storage unit. The... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044340 - Image processing apparatus having a touch panel: An image processing apparatus includes an operation panel as a touch panel and a CPU for performing processing based on a gesture thereon. The CPU includes a determination unit for determining a detail of processing corresponding to the gesture. When the detail of processing corresponding to the gesture includes a... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130044338 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image reading apparatus include a light source; an image sensor configured to output an image signal of an object illuminated by the light source; a first calculating unit configured to calculate a third light amount based on a difference between a first image signal output from the image sensor... Agent:

20130044347 - Apparatus, system, and method of inspecting image, and recording medium storing image inspection control program: An inspection apparatus, inspection system, inspection method, and inspection control program stored in a recording medium, each of which sets a reference point in a master image and a read image read from a printed image, which is to be used for detecting the positional shift between the read image... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20130044345 - Control apparatus, control method, and computer readable storage medium: A control apparatus controls a processing apparatus that executes predetermined processing. The control apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether when executing the predetermined processing, the processing apparatus is in a state in which the processing apparatus has been powered on again after power supplied to the processing apparatus... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044344 - Electronic apparatus and method of controlling the same: Upon receiving an instruction to execute a function from a user, it is determined whether the user who issued the execution instruction has logged in in the case where the function needs data that is set on a user-by-user basis, and if the user has logged in, data that has... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044346 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: An information processing apparatus that executes a job in accordance with an instruction from a web application of a web server and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. Error screen information and the web application and/or the job that is received from the web application are... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044343 - Server system and control method thereof, and computer-readable medium: A server system comprises acquisition unit that acquires print data from a document management server based on information for acquiring the print data using received first authorization information without executing the authentication processing based on authentication information; transmission unit that issues second authorization information which permits an access to a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044350 - Cloud-based address processing: Mail processing systems and methods. A method includes receiving a plurality of mailpieces in the mail processing system and associating a unique identifier with each of the plurality of mailpieces. The method includes obtaining destination address information for each of the plurality of mailpieces and comparing the destination address information... Agent: Siemens Industry, Inc.

20130044351 - Graphical communications device: Technology is described for a handheld device with multimedia content recording and printing (“the described technology”). In various embodiments, the described technology can capture and record images, video, and sound, e.g., by using an image capture sensor and/or scanner. In various embodiments, the described technology can print various types of... Agent: Empire Technology Development LLC

20130044352 - Image forming apparatus and method of managing information thereof: An electronic apparatus includes a job processor to perform a job of the image forming apparatus, a storage unit to store apparatus use information on a user of the image forming apparatus and job performance of the job processor, a determination unit to determine whether the user is changed or... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130044354 - Information processing device, printing condition setting method, and computer product which display a graphical representation of a sheet including parameters which have been selected: The CPU of a personal computer displays a list of one-click icons, each representing one or a plurality of printing functions, in the icon display area, and selects one one-click icon from the list of the one-click icons displayed in the icon display area, to automatically set a plurality of... Agent:

20130044348 - Labeling inserted pages within print previews of a print job: Systems and methods are provided for labeling inserted pages within a print preview of a print job. The system receives print data comprising logical pages, and receives instructions for inserting pages among the logical pages of the print data. The system further receives a request for a print preview for... Agent:

20130044349 - Method for automatically determining remote printer characteristics: A system and method automatically detect parameters of a printer on a network having an unknown profile, to create a useable profile for the printer having the unknown profile by querying, via a predetermined protocol between a network administrator processor and the printer having the unknown profile, a first state... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130044353 - Print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium storing program: It is determined to cause the printing apparatus to print when the printing apparatus receives a first print job which is issued and does not cause the printing apparatus to print. When it is determined to cause the printing apparatus to print, the print control apparatus controls the printing apparatus... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044355 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: at least three storing devices; a detecting unit; and a control unit, wherein the striping is carried out by using all of the storing devices, and the mirroring is carried out by using at least two of the storing devices except at least... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130044335 - Print control method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium: A print control method for an information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus via a network, includes acquiring print data and print settings corresponding to the print data from one or more applications; determining whether a process related to a scaling process is included in the print settings;... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20130044336 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus including at least one processor that executes a program, includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a print job, an optimization unit configured to, based on a result of the analysis performed by the analysis unit, combine a plurality of objects included in the print job... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130044337 - Information output device, medium, and information input/output device: In the information output device, media are disposed on a stage surface on the basis of a predetermined rule, the dot patterns are read by imaging units disposed in a space below the stage and converted into code values or coordinate value indicating the dot patterns from photographed images obtained... Agent:

20130044356 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: A control method of an image forming apparatus is provided that includes: receiving a user command to perform a document analysis operation; generating scan data by scanning an input document, in response to the user command; setting a predefined menu operation language as the operation language for the document analysis... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130044358 - Image reading apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image reading apparatus includes a duplex path to guide a document, which is read by a first reading unit and a second reading unit. The document is subjected to a primary reading operation using the first and the second reading units, and the document is then guided via the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130044357 - Original document size detection device: An original document size detection device characterized by comprising a document reading table, a light source which irradiates an original document placed on the document reading table, a cover body which covers the original document, a light detection unit which detects a reflected light that a light from the light... Agent: Nec Access Technica, Ltd.

20130038890 - Hinge apparatus for cover of image forming apparatus: A hinge apparatus for a cover of an image forming apparatus has a hinge body with supporting brackets, movably inserted into a coupling hole positioned in a main body of the image forming apparatus, a hinge cam connected to the cover and pivotably connected to the supporting brackets, and a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130038889 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable memory medium storing program therein: In an information processing apparatus for forming print data which can be interpreted by a printing apparatus in accordance with document data formed by an application in order to enable the user to easily set the switching between a printer and a mail box as destinations, a user interface which... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038887 - Print controlling apparatus, method, and storage medium: A novel print controlling apparatus that facilitates providing easy services that use printer drivers. The print controlling apparatus that executes a print job on a printing apparatus, and includes an additional feature driver 130 that acquires image to be printed and print settings set by a user by working as... Agent:

20130038888 - Printer with usb interface and driver installing method and system thereof: The invention discloses a printer with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, and its driver installing method and system, wherein the printer with the USB interface includes a USB interface and a printing mechanism and further includes: a controller, and a first memory connected with the controller and storing a... Agent:

20130038891 - Communication system for transmitting multiple pulse signals, transmission circuit, reception circuit, and image forming apparatus: A communication system includes a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter includes a detector configured to detect an error amount of an edge position of a pulse signal caused by sampling; and a multiplexer configured to include a value indicating the detected error amount in a multiplexed signal. The receiver includes... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038892 - Image processing device, image forming device, and image processing method: An image processing device analyzes a drawing command read from a memory and performs a halftone processing function to image data. In the image processing device, a drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command, a full set of drawing commands is registered in a drawing command table, and an... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20130038893 - Information processing apparatus and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a request-frequency calculating unit, an acceptable-frequency calculating unit, and acceptance/rejection determining unit. The request-frequency calculating unit calculates a request frequency corresponding to a processing request relating to image formation with reference to any one of multiple pieces of frequency information, which is broken down by... Agent:

20130038898 - Configurable locked printing: Techniques are provided for generating and updating locked print data. An apparatus receives from a first device, document identification data that identifies an electronic document to be printed. In response to receiving the document identification data that identifies an electronic document to be printed, a print preview and a release... Agent:

20130038896 - Direct printing from mobile devices using a near field communication (nfc) device: In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a method, product, apparatus and system is disclosed. The method includes coupling a print device to a printer, wherein the print device comprises a memory arranged to store information including a printer driver associated with the printer; coupling a mobile device to... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130038901 - Facsimile apparatus: There is provided a facsimile apparatus which includes a scanning section, an operating section which inputs a facsimile number, a first communication section which is connected to a communication line, a first communication control section which controls the first communication section, a first storage section in which information of the... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038903 - Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of print jobs, a job reception unit that receives a print job selected from the plurality of print jobs stored in the storage unit, an operation-type reception unit that receives an operation type of the print job when... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038902 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus, which stores attribute data of a job executed by an image processing apparatus, and reference information of image data associated with the job in a storage device as a job log, saves image data corresponding to reference information in the storage device as cached data. Then,... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038894 - Method of sending data over a computer network: A method and apparatus for transmitting data, such as class 1, 2, or 3 facsimile image data streams, over Internet Global Area Networks. In one embodiment of the invention related to the transmission of facsimile data, a first device converts local facsimile image data streams into electronic data streams, transmits... Agent:

20130038895 - Mobile communication device and printer having a particulate sensor for air quality monitoring: A mobile communication device includes a wireless transceiver to provide voice communications and a particulate sensor that indicates the amount of particulates detected by the sensor. Control logic in the mobile communication device causes data indicative of the sensor signal to be transmitted through a wireless transceiver. A printer is... Agent:

20130038904 - Network scanner for global document creation, transmission and management: A network scanner, communication protocols, and client and server programs and are provided which provide an improved way to transmit legally binding documents, obviating the need for outmoded, legacy fax transmissions. Using the network scanner, a document may be scanned and transferred directly into any shared folder inbox residing on... Agent:

20130038897 - Printing device discovery: A method for printing device discovery includes, with a server system on a network, sending out a broadcast request to determine network addresses for printing devices on the network, interrogating the printing devices to determine characteristics of the printing devices, categorizing the printing devices based on the characteristics, and providing... Agent:

20130038900 - Processing a file for printing: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing a file having a plurality of pages for printing by: for each page in the file, determining whether to perform a trapping function on that page; and distributing the pages in the file among a plurality of parallel raster image processors based on... Agent:

20130038899 - Remote print preview generation: A print preview is displayed for a printer on a network. A selection of a document to be printed by the printer is accepted, and a request for the selected document is sent from the printer to a remote print preview service. There is a determination of whether the printer... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038905 - Scanning-printing integrated machine for lotter ticket printing and cashing: The invention discloses a scanning-printing integrated machine for lottery ticket printing and cashing, comprising a first passage connected with an external paper inlet, a second passage connected with a paper house, a third passage connected with a paper outlet, and a control device, wherein a paper outlet of the first... Agent:

20130038906 - Image forming apparatus having a file system: An image forming apparatus includes a main storage unit; an auxiliary storage unit; a file system configured to manage a file stored in the auxiliary storage unit; and an input-output processing unit configured to use an area in the main storage unit to perform file access to a file in... Agent: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

20130038885 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first light source that emits light when color print is specified; a first deflection unit that deflects the light emitted from the first light source; a first driving unit that drives the first deflection unit; a second light source that emits light when color... Agent:

20130038884 - In-process color management system and method for digital color printing: A system and method according to which the color performance of a digital color print job is monitored or otherwise managed during the production run of the digital color print job.... Agent: Consolidated Graphics, Inc.

20130038886 - Printing system, printing method, and non-trasnitory computer readable recording medium stored with printing program: A printing system of the present invention includes: a generating unit which performs a rasterizing process to print data while performing a color conversion process by applying a multi-dimensional lookup table for calibration, which is for matching a color of the image to be printed by a printing unit by... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130038907 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium by performing recording (N) times (N is an integer of 3 or more) in a same region on the recording medium, the image forming apparatus includes a recording data generation unit configured to generate recoding data corresponding to... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038908 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: There is provided an image processing apparatus which can suppress degradation of an image quality in a recording material save mode processing and obtain an effect of consumption amount reduction of recording material desired by a user at low costs. A recording material consumption amount at the time of applying... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130038909 - Scanner with a multiple lead worm gear: A scanner drive system is disclosed. The scanner drive system has a drive motor. The drive motor has a worm gear attached to the motor spindle. The worm gear has multiple leads. The worm gear is meshed with a helical gear. The helical gear is coupled to a drive train... Agent:

20130038910 - Method and apparatus for transmitting digital data over an electronic network: A method and apparatus for transmitting data, such as class 1, 2, or 3 facsimile image data streams, over Internet Global Area Networks. In one embodiment of the invention related to the transmission of facsimile data, a first device converts local facsimile image data streams into electronic data streams, transmits... Agent:

20130038915 - Erecting equal-magnification lens array plate, optical scanning unit, and image reading device: An erecting equal-magnification lens array plate includes: first and second lens array plates; first, second and intermediate light shielding member. The first, second and intermediate light shielding member are halved by a splitting plane parallel with the main scanning direction. One of the first light shielding member pieces, one of... Agent: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

20130038913 - Image sensor unit and image reading apparatus: An image sensor unit includes a reflection reading light guide that emits light from a reflection reading light source toward the bill, a transmission reading light guide that emits light from a transmission reading light source toward the bill, an imaging element that focuses light from the bill, and a... Agent: Canon Components, Inc.

20130038914 - Image sensor unit and image reading apparatus: An image sensor unit has a light emitting module and a light guide that guides light emitted by the light emitting module to a bill, the light guide has an incident surface on which the light emitted by the light emitting module is incident, a reflection surface that reflects the... Agent: Canon Components, Inc.

20130038912 - Image sensor unit and image reading apparatus using the same: An image sensor unit includes a reflection reading light source that illuminates a bill, a substrate on which the reflection reading light source is mounted, a reflection reading light guide that guides the light emitted by the reflection reading light source to the bill, a rod-lens array that focuses the... Agent: Canon Components, Inc.

20130038911 - Scanning device, scanning method and computer-readable medium: An object of the present invention is to provide a scanning device, a scanning method, and a computer-readable medium capable of easily performing display of a scanner on a computer of a user and display for starting scanning operation. A scanning device include a controller for displaying a phantom folder... Agent:

20130033715 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes: a recording portion; a sheet conveyor; a detector; and a controller configured to control the sheet conveyor to stop a first-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033718 - Display control apparatus and display control method: A manual display application common to a standard application and an external application controls display of both of an operation manual of the standard application and an operation manual of the external application. With the arrangement, the operation manuals of the respective applications can be displayed in a unified manner.... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033717 - Image forming apparatus, image editing method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium: In partially editing a given image displayed on a display section, a selection receiving section receives selection of an editing target in the display image, displayed on the display section, based on the direction of a straight line connecting two points detected by a position detecting section for detecting a... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033716 - Operation apparatus, image forming apparatus, display control method, and medium for recording program: An operation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a touch panel, an instruction detection unit, a different language acceptance unit, and a character string changing unit. The different language acceptance unit displays a language switching key including a character string in a different language corresponding to the first character... Agent: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

20130033720 - Control device, control method, and storage medium storing a program: The effort required to develop a device object is reduced. A host computer 10 has objects including a printer CO 21 that provides a POS application program 11 with an interface for each type of device, and a printer SO 22 that provides the printer CO 21 with an interface... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20130033721 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, button processing method, and storage medium: An information processing system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register a library, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the image forming apparatus to generate a button for accessing the registered library when the registration... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033719 - Power supply control device and image forming apparatus: A power supply control device includes a photoelectric conversion unit to convert light energy to electricity, and a power supply control signal output unit driven by power converted by the photoelectric conversion unit and configured to detect a change in lighting intensity at an installation environment of the power control... Agent:

20130033724 - Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium: A control apparatus, which controls a processing apparatus for processing recording media and includes a storage unit configured to store medium number information indicating a number of recording media processable altogether by the processing apparatus, includes a counting unit and a control unit. The counting unit counts a number of... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033725 - Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus determines whether a file exists in a path specified by a specific command if it is determined that the specific command for reading another file is described in a GPD file, and displays a print setting screen based on the GPD file and the file in... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033723 - Method and system for automatically recommending rules based on desired print criteria: A method and system for automatically creating and recommending a set of optimal rules based on a desired print criterion. A print governance application can be configured with respect to a rendering server to analyze one or more rendering jobs submitted within a specified time period by considering each rendering... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130033726 - Printing system and print control method: A client apparatus, after inputting a print job to a print service server apparatus, delivers a multicast message including information relating to an execution apparatus that executes the print job and information relating to a proxy apparatus managed by the print service server apparatus that manages the execution apparatus. When... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033727 - Printing system, server apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: A printing system, responsive to a request from an image forming apparatus, applies general-purpose print setting to print setting information of a printer driver in the image forming apparatus specified in the request, applies dedicated print setting using a ticket in a print job stored in a storage device to... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033722 - Systems and methods for providing content to a peripheral device: One example discloses a system for providing content to a peripheral device including a memory for storing computer executable instructions and a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions include a composite application to invoke, in response to a user-input at... Agent:

20130033729 - Control apparatus, storage medium in which control program is stored, and printer: A control apparatus, which is configured to communicate with an external apparatus, to control a display section and a printing section, and to execute a plurality of processing in parallel, includes: a storage section which is configured to store image data to be supplied to the display section and first... Agent:

20130033728 - Image transform signature generation mechanism: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first data component of an image data stream at a cache within a control unit, appending a first signature value to the first data component to obtain a first modified image data and generating a second signature value based on the... Agent:

20130033713 - Apparatus and method of forming image, terminal and method of print control, and computer-readable medium: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method, a print controlling terminal and a print controlling method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit which stores stereoscopic image patterns to be used for creation of a three dimensional (3D) image, a print unit which prints the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130033714 - Printing control device, storage medium storing printing control program, and printing control method: The printing control device of the present invention inquires whether or not an actual output printer driver supports the function of the items regarding drawing processing in step SC1503. If it is found as a result of inquiry in step SC1504 that the printer driver does not support the function,... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130033730 - Scanner: A scanner for an electronic device having image display functionality includes lower and upper housings, a scan unit, and an adaptor. The lower housing is formed on opposite sides with a paper inlet and a paper outlet. The upper housing is mounted on the lower housing, and includes a main... Agent: Mustek Systems Inc.

20130033731 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes a document correction section and a display control section. The document correction section carries out rotation processing with respect to a document image so that a first reference direction from a reference side of a document to a side facing the reference side coincides with... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha