Facsimile and static presentation processing inventions

20090262378 - Image modification for improved printing and cutting of the image: Preparing an image for printing and/or cutting of a material comprising the image. An original image may be received. Versions of the image may be drawn over the original image. The versions of the image may be translated relative to the original image, but the original image may be unmodified... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090262379 - Image forming apparatus providing user support in sleep mode: An image forming apparatus that can support the user in sleep mode is provided. When the apparatus enters sleep mode, guidance information is displayed on an electronic paper. The electronic paper maintains displayed contents even when power is not supplied and, therefore, even when power is not supplied to a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262380 - Concurrent image and diagnostic pattern printing: Print image-quality defects are diagnosed by printing an image and one or more diagnostic patterns concurrently.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090262381 - Information processing device, multifunction printer, external authentication system for multifunction printer, and storage medium: In an external authentication system for a multifunction printer according to the present invention, a USB device management section, according to an instruction from a USB device management section instructing section, (i) performs a virtualization process for virtually connecting an information processing device to a user information reading device which... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262389 - Image formation apparatus capable of receiving power from a plurality of power sources and control method performed in such image formation apparatus: If commercial power is received (YES at step S100), a CPU determines whether any print instruction has been received (step S102). If not (NO at step S102), the CPU maintains a low power consumption mode (step S104). If there is any print instruction received (YES at step S102), the CPU... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090262395 - Image forming apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium: With reprinting of a print job, in the case that a job ticket strictly defining the output article form is not transmitted, the output article at the time of a first printing and the output article at the time of reprinting may differ, whereby the client may not be able... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090262388 - Image forming method and apparatus: An image forming method and apparatus, the image forming method including: requesting networked image forming apparatuses to perform a user authorization; receiving account information corresponding to the user authorization request, from one of the image forming apparatuses; determining whether to perform an image forming operation, based on the received account... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090262391 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus obtains a job identification condition from a host device. When the image processing apparatus receives an input job, it also obtains a primary processing condition, uses the primary processing condition and the job identification condition to determine whether the job was input under a given condition,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090262390 - Image processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for storing an operation control program: Devices and methods wherein if a predefined recognition dot pattern designed to prohibit an image data outputting is detected from image data acquired by an image data acquiring unit, outputting of the image data is prohibited, and if a predefined recognition mark to cancel image data outputting prohibition is detected,... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090262387 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus has a function of processing a plurality of jobs in parallel. The image processing apparatus includes a job processing section, a language information receiving section, a job managing section and a display controlling section. The job processing section processes each job. The language information receiving section... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090262383 - Methods and systems for improved multi-processing utilization in a printing controller: Methods and systems for enhanced parallel processing of data objects in a print job sent to a printing device having multiple processors. The entire print job (or any portion thereof) is spooled by an enhanced driver module on an attached host system and the data objects are re-ordered to allow... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090262382 - Network system, cable set, and method and program for controlling network system: A network system is provided with a cable set having a nonvolatile memory module mounted thereon, and a printer connected by the cable set. The printer is provided with a set information read means for reading set information for performing initial setting of itself from a nonvolatile memory module of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090262393 - Print control apparatus and printing apparatus: In the case that a control section takes out a print job from an output queue, the control section notifies a terminal device being a transmitting source of the print job of a termination notice that a period to permit to change a print condition related to the print job... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Quire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090262392 - Printer drive, printer driver program recording medium, print data importing device, print data importing program recording medium, and installer recording medium: One embodiment of a printer driver according to the present invention includes a document data obtaining means for obtaining document data indicated by a received print instruction, a conversion means for converting the obtained document data into print data written in page description language, a transmission-use data generation means for... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262394 - Printer driver and method of printing print data: A printer driver conserves recording paper by removing blank space formed at the top and bottom of each page when printing. The printer driver 9 acquires the coordinates of the top and bottom of the part of the print image that is not blank space from the print image B... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090262384 - Processing of electronic documents to achieve postage optimization: A method is suitable for processing a plurality of electronic documents designated for processing and delivery to a plurality of recipients, each recipient having a zip code associated therewith. Each electronic document is assigned a plurality of attributes, and the documents are sorted into one or more attribute groups based... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090262396 - Structured document conversion apparatus, structured document conversion method, and storage medium: A structured document conversion apparatus is configured to convert structured document data that contains document data in a plurality of nodes in a tree structure and can associate a print attribute with each of the plurality of nodes. The structured document conversion apparatus reflects a print attribute of a lower... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090262385 - System and method for saving and loading user configurations for a multi-function peripheral (mfp): System and method for saving and loading user configurations for a multi-function peripheral are disclosed. In one aspect, a multi-function peripheral (MFP) comprises a storage unit having stored therein a software module. The MFP further comprises a control unit configured to execute the software module to a) retrieve a set... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090262386 - Systems and methods for reusing processed data in an imaging device: A method for reusing data in an imaging device is described. An imaging job is received at an imaging device. The imaging job includes file system information and a document in a first format. It is determined whether the document has been previously processed by the imaging device. The document... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090262397 - Method and apparatus for print image distortion compensation: Disclosed herein are tools allowing users to finely adjust the print image before actual printing to compensate for expected distortion. These tools will be available at the queue level and allow the user to apply adjustments to front side or back side of the pages independently. These tools utilize a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090262376 - Grain pattern for grain pattern printing, method and program for creating grain pattern, and housing building material product, automotive interior part, electric home appliance, and information equipment with grain pattern printed thereon: An object of the present invention is to install software in a computer to create a grain that replaces a conventional grain. The present invention provides a grain pattern for grain pattern printing created by a computer, the grain being characterized in that basic structures are repeatedly generated using a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090262374 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. A first cleaning unit is configured to collect a particle deposited on an object. An applying unit is configured to apply a voltage to the first cleaning unit. A first detector is configured to detect a first current flowing between the first cleaning unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090262371 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: When executing super-resolution processing, both reduction in necessary memory capacity and generation of high-resolution image data having a desired image quality are achieved. This invention provides an image forming method in an image forming apparatus capable of executing super-resolution processing using a plurality of low-resolution image data to generate high-resolution... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090262372 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: Image data of a pixel of interest is inputted, diffusion data diffused from errors occurred by decrease of a tonal number of image data is added to the image data of the pixel of interest, the tonal number of the image data of the pixel of interest, to which the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090262375 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method: [Means for Resolution] A raster (POL raster) formed by a partial overlap (POL) is formed such that pixels (first type of dots) formed upon a going movement and pixels (second type of dots) formed upon a coming movement are alternately arranged. The first type of dots and the second type... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262373 - Method of calculating correction value and liquid ejecting apparatus: A method of calculating a correction value includes forming a correction pattern on a medium in a yellow color, acquiring blue color information by reading out the correction pattern, and calculating a correction value of the density of the yellow color based on the blue color information.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262377 - System and method for calibrating a document processing device from a composite document: A system and computer-implemented method for calibrating a document processing device from a composite document is disclosed. A composite document including human-readable content and machine-readable code marks is input into a document processing device. The machine-readable code marks are decoded to identify at least one spatial pointer including at least... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090262370 - System and method for distributing image values of a color separation: A method processes image data in a color separation to attenuate printing defects arising from misalignment of serially arranged printheads that eject ink for the color separation. The method includes processing image values of the color separation with a first rendering process that corresponds to one printhead in a plurality... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20090262399 - Binarization-use-pattern generating method and printing apparatus: In the present invention, tetragons are generated, each of the tetragons being formed of four points of a point A(c, 1), a point B(a+c, b+1), a point C(0, d+1), and a point D(a, b+d+1) specified with arbitrary parameters satisfying the specified number of pixels n=2(ad+bc). From among the generated tetragons,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090262398 - Halftone image generation method, threshold matrix generation method, threshold matrix, prinitng plate manufacturing method, and printing plate: In a halftone image formed on a printing plate for letterpress printing, a minimum halftone dot has a square main cluster consisting of 9 pixels and four sub-clusters located around the main cluster radially, each of which is one pixel. Each sub-cluster contacts with only a vertex of the main... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090262400 - Infrared watermarking of photographic images by matched differential black strategies: A system and method for infrared watermarking using gray component replacement and other color removal schemes is shown. This method includes providing a substrate and implementing two infrared absorption strategies, one with low infrared absorption and the other with high infrared absorption. These two strategies are then combined in order... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090262401 - Scanning member with flexible pressing member: A scanning device includes a transparent platen, a scanning module, a document transporting mechanism and a flexible pressing member. The scanning module is located in a scan zone and acquires through the transparent platen an image of a document. The document transporting mechanism transports the document along a passageway and... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090262402 - Show-through reduction method and system: A show-through reduction method is disclosed. The method is designed to deal with both light and severe show-through. The method focuses mostly on text documents, with characters possibly appearing in multiple gray levels, although the method can also be extended to color documents. As in the prior art, the front... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090262403 - Image scanning apparatus: An object of the present invention is to produce an image scanning apparatus for preventing occurrence of a black line in the scanning of a sheet of document. A light source 23 is moved between positions A and B when a sheet of a document is scanned while being transported.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090257075 - Image forming apparatus: When received facsimile data is TSI-transferred, an image forming apparatus selects one box from a table which includes at least one of a box to which a number of a transmission source is assigned as a name and a box to which a part of a number of a transmission... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090257077 - Defect avoidance in digital printing: A method of digital printing in which, upon sensing a defect area in a page image in the marking process or on the printed media, the page image is reconfigured to rotate, translate, change print jobs, or reduce the number of pages printed concurrently to avoid the defect area and... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090257078 - Image forming device, image forming method, and image forming program: An image forming device which is arranged to execute an authentication print job. The image forming device includes: a communication interface unit which receives print data; a job data holding unit which holds job data for the an authentication print job based on the print data; a job execution unit... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090257079 - Information processing apparatus and method and computer-readable storage medium thereof: An information processing method of an information processing apparatus that receives a job ticket, includes performing a function according to the job ticket, and determining whether a notification that the process has normally ended is received. In one embodiment, if it is determined that the notification is not received, a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257076 - Method of document protection: This invention relates to a method for preventing a copy of document, belonging to a technical field of entire copy protection of document. In the prior art, for some important documents, specially the secret ones, the reproduction of this kind of document is usually prohibited by its owner because of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090257082 - Capturing, processing, managing, and reporting events of interest in virtual collaboration: A method starts when a print job is received from a workstation. The print job includes an identification of an initial printer. The method ranks the abilities of the available printers to process the print job to identify the best printer for the print job. If the initial printer is... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090257083 - Electric apparatus and electric system: An electric apparatus and an electric system comprise: a control panel to accept instructions for operations; and a part to detect and control situations of the operations. The operations, carried out by the electric apparatus and the electric system, are in accordance with the instructions. Furthermore, the electric apparatus and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090257081 - Expected time to collect a print job: A time-to-collect measure is disclosed which may be used in generating a model for predicting an expected time-to-collect for print jobs. In the case of incomplete data, an algorithm recovers an optimal assignment of links between submission and collection events which allows a time to collect to be computed for... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090257085 - Generation of a web page including menu items for web pages: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of Web page generating units each configured to perform processing responsive to an HTTP request and to generate a Web page for displaying information about a result of the processing; a menu information integrating unit configured to acquire from each of the Web... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090257086 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus that permits alteration of print data during execution of a print job for the print data stored in an external apparatus. Upon generation of an interruption job during execution of the print job for the print data, an MFP suspends the print job. If free space... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090257084 - Image processing method, computer readable recording medium stored with image processing program, and image processing apparatus: A printer controller as an image processing apparatus having a plurality of processing units executes grouping a plurality of objects into one group for overlapping objects one of which overlaps with another object among the overlapping objects, and another group for independent object which does not overlap with another object.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090257090 - Image processing system: The present invention provides a display screen based on a display pattern of an image processing apparatus. Instruction data in which process information representing as a series of processes at least one process performed to document data and UI information for setting execution contents of the processes are described is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090257088 - Image processing system, image processing method and storage medium: According to an embodiment of the present invention, when image data is output from an image forming apparatus, even if the specified sheet feeding unit is changed, an image positional shift function can be utilized. In an image processing apparatus, a factor according to which readjustment may be provided is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257087 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for storing program: An information processing apparatus configured to generate a print job to execute bookbinding printing is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify a position of a pre-printed sheet where a page to be arranged on a background image of the pre-printed sheet is printed at... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257089 - Method and system for managing print jobs for a shared printer: The present invention provides a method and system for managing print jobs for a shared printer. The system comprises a plurality of computers, a hub and a printer. Each of the computers coupled to the hub store a print control program for generating print jobs and sending the print jobs... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090257080 - Simplified walk-up print driver installation: An apparatus and method for loading and configuring a print driver onto a PC/workstation such that upon completion the PC/workstation is fully enabled to send print jobs to a printer connected on a network includes a unique methodology which eliminates virtually all of the steps, data entry, and decision points... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20090257091 - System and method for disseminating digital images: A method of distributing digital images includes uploading one or more digital image files corresponding to one or more digital images to an interactive kiosk; receiving user input of contact information for one or more third party recipients; and sending notice to the one or more third party recipients that... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090257070 - Apparatus and method for application and accurate positioning of graphics on a surface: In an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an apparatus for application and accurate positioning of at least one graphic image on a large contoured surface, comprising a flexible-rail positioning system mounted on a portion of the surface on which the graphic image is to be applied, a graphic... Agent: NovatechIPLaw

20090257071 - Method of authenticating a print medium: A method of using a mobile device to authenticate a print medium online before completing printing onto the print medium, the mobile device including processing means, a printhead, a sensor, a transmitter and a receiver, the print medium comprising a laminar substrate, the method comprising the steps of: using the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090257072 - Color lookup table compression: A technique to compress multidimensional color look-up tables by computing an inexpensive fit to the contents of the tables is provided. At each node of the table, the difference between the result of evaluating the fit and the original value at that node are completed. In one form, the parameters... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090257073 - Minimizing visual artifacts in a brick-layer halftone structure: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for minimizing visual artifacts, such as ROS skew and laserbeam bow, in a brick-layer halftone structure. The present method involves determining a line pattern from ROS skew and laserbeam bow profiles which traverses through successive halftone cells displacing pixels along scanlines... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090257074 - Recording material moving device and image forming device: A recording material moving device comprises: a position adjuster that moves a recording material in a direction which is parallel to a recording surface of the recording material and orthogonal to a transporting direction, in an upstream side of a recording position along the transport direction of the recording material;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090257092 - Storage of stamp information for error diffusion: A method and system for processing image data in an image processing device for a plurality of pixel positions within a plurality of scanlines. The method and system includes storing a starting stamp value and a plurality of delta stamp values for the scanline. The stored values being used to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090257093 - Image processing apparatus: Described is an image processing apparatuses, which makes it possible to accurately remove a periodicity from a halftone dot pattern included in an image. The apparatus includes: a periodicity pattern analyzing section to acquire periodicity information indicating the periodicity of the halftone dot pattern; a smoothing area determining section to... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090257094 - Image processing device: An image processing device includes an additional image formation unit configured to form an additional image having a first predetermined density. At least a part of the additional image is overlaid with a main image having a second predetermined density, the main image being formed on an image formation medium,... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090257095 - Stack flipping document handling system for utilization with printing lazy-portrait formatted documents: A printed sheet handling system and method for use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted pages web printed pages to produce document sets includes: a printer to print LPEE formatted paired document pages printed in 1 to N order and face up on a first half of the web... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20090257096 - Apparatus with display for converting photographs into digital data: A photo conversion device that includes an upper shell, a lower shell, and a digital camera assembly, which is positioned within an enclosed space created by the combination of the upper shell and the lower shell. The digital camera assembly further includes a camera lens and, an image sensor for... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090257097 - Method, apparatus, and storage medium for selecting an image reading apparatus: A selection method, in an information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of image reading apparatuses, for making a selection from the plurality of image reading apparatuses, includes the steps of searching for the connected image reading apparatuses, performing a first displaying process to display the image reading apparatuses detected... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257099 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a region detection unit configured to detect from an image a region which is sandwiched between a pair of opposite lines and in which image formation is performed at a density lower than a predetermined density, a rendering unit configured to render a border of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257098 - Simplified operation of scan and print devices: An apparatus comprising a document scanner and printer is controlled to scan a document and generate and print an annotation version of the document. A user-completed annotation version of the document is scanned and analyzed to detect one or more defined markings on the scanned document in addition to the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090257100 - Method and apparatus for ascertaining and adjusting friction between media pages in a document feeder: A method relating to ascertaining and adjusting friction between media pages in a document feeder. The method includes: detecting slipping of a media page when traversing from a stack of media pages to passing through a path defined by the document feeder; and sending a signal to a fluid-containing cartridge... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090257102 - Image processing apparatus having card reader for applying effects stored on a card to a stored image: An image processing apparatus for applying desired effects to a stored image. The apparatus comprises an optical reader; a feed mechanism for feeding a card having an array of dots past the optical reader; an optical reader interface that is connected to the optical reader, the optical reader interface able... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090257101 - Scanning shredder method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for verifying content of partially printed purge sheets of confidential documents just after shredding the purge sheets but before the individual strands become separated and disassociated is disclosed. The purge sheet can be passed through a single nip paper transport to a shredder and then to... Agent: Xerox Corporation C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090257103 - System and method for color acquisition based on human color perception: The subject application is directed to a system and method for color acquisition based on human color perception. First component image data in a first component region is received from a first associated sensor having a first sensor area. Second component image data in a second component region is then... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090251716 - Printing apparatus, method of controlling the printing apparatus, and recording medium: A printing apparatus which is capable of appropriately discharging extra tab sheets, without placing the burden of removing the extra tab sheets on a user even in the case of attaching tab sheets into sheets to be subjected to reverse-order printing. An MFP controller determines a number of tab sheets... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090251717 - Image processing device, and method and computer readable medium for image processing: An image processing device configured to add, to a first image, a second image, includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the second image to be added, a segment sectioning unit configured to section, into a plurality of segments, an image forming area in which the first image is... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090251721 - Controllling a document processing workflow: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving an application identifier value associated with a printed application; receiving a media size; receiving a machine identifier value associated with a first document processing machine; determining programming instructions for a second document processing machine based on said received application identifier value, media... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090251718 - Distributed processing of print jobs: A method and apparatus for distribution of a print job for digital printing by distributing elements of the print job between a plurality of processing means. The method and apparatus includes receiving a common job file (CJF) (41). Splitting the common job file into plurality of CJF chunks (74) wherein... Agent: Amelia A. Buharin Patent Legal Staff

20090251730 - Distribution apparatus, distribution method, and computer-readable storage mrdium: A distribution apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store in a storage medium information about firmware used in an image forming apparatus associated with information about a printer driver that corresponds to the firmware, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a printer driver in a terminal apparatus,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251722 - Document processing apparatus, document processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: A document processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a detection unit, a specifying unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires document data containing pieces of page image data corresponding to pages of documents. Each document is formed by stacking and half-folding sheets. The detection unit detects pieces of... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090251731 - Execution log generation apparatus and method: An execution log generation apparatus generates an execution log upon receiving, for each job operation, job operation data indicating content of a job operation performed in a job procedure from a job processing apparatus that performs job processes through job procedures. The execution log generation apparatus includes a definition file... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090251726 - Image forming system, control method and image forming apparatus: An image forming system includes: a print controller which generates image data based on a print job; and an image forming apparatus which controls the print controller and performs a printing operation based on the image data, wherein the image forming apparatus includes: a first interface section which connects with... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090251724 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and image forming method: An image forming system includes a terminal apparatus and an image forming apparatus executing a process in response to a request from the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus sends user identification information to the image forming apparatus, receives from the image forming apparatus a token issued to a user logging... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090251723 - Image processing apparatus, image forming system, image processing method and computer readable medium storing program: An image processing apparatus includes: plural drawing processing units that perform the image processing based on designation of an image processing command which designates plural input types of image processing; and a determination unit that determines whether the respective image processing designated with the image processing command is performed by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251732 - Image processing apparatus, image forming system, image processing method and computer readable medium storing program: An image processing apparatus includes: plural drawing processing units that perform the image processing based on designation of an image processing command which designates plural types of image processing; and a determination unit that determines whether the respective image processing designated with the image processing command is performed by one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251733 - Information management apparatus, information output system, portable terminal, and information outputting method: An information management apparatus 50 according to the present invention comprises: a database 30d for storing information relevant to a printer 40 therein; output request reception means 20a for receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal 14; inquiry signal transmission means 20a for transmitting an inquiry signal on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251727 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus including a hardware device, at least one application program configured to execute an operation utilizing the hardware device, an operating system, a first device driver and a second device driver to manage the hardware device, a first storage unit configured to store the first device driver... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251728 - Information processor, information processing method, and recording medium: An information processor includes a display part displaying a configuration pattern combining values set for corresponding two or more of printing conditions; a management part managing default values for the printing conditions for an image forming apparatus; a recording part recording the configuration pattern and optionally setting an identifier as... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090251720 - Method and apparatus for print job management: A method and apparatus for managing print jobs for a printer is disclosed. The method may include receiving image data for printing a print job, the print job having more than one page and including one or more document and the image data being received only one time for each... Agent: Prass LLP

20090251729 - Output device and its control method: When a user logs in to an MFP (S200), places an original on a scanner, and instructs the MFP to start a process, the MFP scans the original to recognize characters and words, and creates a word appearance frequency list (S201). Thereafter, records (histories) contained in information about histories of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090251719 - Performance monitoring and control of a multifunction printer: A method and system for monitoring performance of a multifunction printer (MFP) throughout the lifetime of the MFP. The MFP may include a task run-time controller to collect performance information from the MFP and to transmit the performance information to a receiver such as a host, an MFP front panel,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Sharp

20090251725 - Printing control apparatus and printing control method: In a printing control method arranged to control a printer via a network by using a computer, stored print setting data is referred to when direct printing is specified, either one of original document data and print data in which the original document data is described in a page description... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090251734 - Image processing system, memory management method, computer readable storage medium, and image processing apparatus: In an image processing system including an image processing apparatus 30 for receiving and memorizing image data created based on print data of a Page Description Language onto a memory section 35 while performing a processing based on the image data, the image processing system includes a control section (memory... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090251711 - Printhead driven by multiple print engine controllers: A print engine controller configured to be coupled with others to drive an ink drop printhead comprising: an interface at which to receive compressed page data; image decoders to decode compressed image planes in the received compressed page data; a half-toner/compositer to composite respective strips of the decoded image planes;... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090251715 - Color image forming apparatus, and image forming condition setting method for color image forming apparatus: Specification of a printing mode or medium is identified, and gray axis correction control is performed based on the identified printing mode or medium. Subsequently, determination is made regarding whether or not to predict a value equivalent to the results of the gray axis correction control, for a different printing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251713 - Management apparatus and management method: If different settings are performed for a user to control usage of functions provided by an image forming apparatus, a management apparatus detects whether resources relating to these settings accord with each other to confirm any conflict between these settings. A plugin management unit detects whether a resource relating to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251712 - Methodology for developing color models and printer sensitivity functions for spot colors and profiles: A method and system is disclosed for developing a printer model from a reduced set of selected test patches. The model corresponds to a spot color editor controller having a sensitivity matrix model developed from a plurality of the patches to define printer operation. The sensitivity matrix is comprised of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090251714 - System and method for producing a window shade with a natural material printed image coating: A method and a system for producing a window shade having a real natural material printed image coated thereon. A real natural material is scanned and the data of the image is stored in a computer which generates an image of the scanned real natural material. That image is duplicated... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090251735 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: A quantizing unit, error detector, error diffusion matrix, and adder quantize a pixel of interest of an input image by an error diffusion method. A calculation unit and gain adjuster calculate a value to be added to the pixel of interest with reference to quantized pixels. The adder adds the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090251736 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: A quantizing unit quantizes a pixel of interest of an input image. An error detector calculates an error generated upon quantizing the pixel of interest. An error diffusion matrix diffuses the error to non-quantized pixels, which are separated by a predetermined distance from the pixel of interest and are located... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090251737 - Processor for image capture and printing: A processor for image capture and printing has a RISC core. A four-way parallel VLIW vector processor is connected to the RISC core via a suitable data cache. The vector processor has four processing units interconnected with a crossbar switch. A memory interface is connected to the vector processor to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090251738 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: An image processing apparatus, which includes an input unit configured to input image data and which is communicably connected to multiple external apparatuses via a network, which obtains a document with a predetermined form via the network from one of the multiple external apparatuses and transmits the image data input... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251739 - Imaging apparatus having a document planar member that displays scan operation related indicia: An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing system. A controller is communicatively coupled to the image capturing system. A scanner body has a scanner opening. The image capturing system is located adjacent the scanner opening. A document planar member is positioned across the scanner opening. The document planar member is... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090251740 - Imaging system for processing a media: An imaging system for processing a media includes a media transport path, an imaging station, a displacement device that controllably displaces the media along the media transport path relative to the imaging station, and a controller assembly. The controller assembly includes a feedback filter, a feedforward filter, a low-pass filter... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090251741 - Scanner with led light source: A scan module and a scanner using the same are provided. The scanner includes a housing and a scan module. The housing has a scan platform for supporting a to-be-scanned document. The scan module disposed inside the housing includes a light emitting diode (LED) light source, a reflector and an... Agent: CovenantIPConsulting Co.

20090251742 - Image reading device and method for reading image: An image reading device having an image sensor formed by a plurality of sensor chips is provided. The image reading device includes an AFE circuit, a clock provider and a digital data processor. The AFE circuit is configured to process analog data provided by the image sensor so as to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090251743 - Auto document feeder and image scanning apparatus: A gap indicator device is rotatably locked to an auto document feeder openably and closably installed to a scanner device of an image scanning apparatus, is rotated by being pressed by the scanner device, and includes a pointer or a scale to indicate a state of an image reading gap,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090251744 - Auto document feeding device and image scanning device: An OUT conveying member and an IN conveying member which reach pre-scan rollers from a document tray are provided. In the case of continuously conveying a document, while a preceding document is conveyed by one conveying member, a following document is caused to stand by in the other conveying member.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090251745 - Image data luminance compensating method and sheet-feeding scanning apparatus using such method: The present invention relates to an image data luminance compensating method and a sheet-feeding scanning apparatus using such an image data luminance compensating method. According to the reference luminance value change of the reference background strip before and after the current document passes through the scan operating region, the luminance... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090251748 - Color management method, module, and program product, and printer using said method: A color management method, wherein a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is used for converting colors from a source device color space to an output device color space in accordance with predetermined color profiles of the source and output devices. The method includes the steps of storing, in the GPU, an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090251747 - Image forming apparatus and color shift correction method thereof: In an image forming apparatus that reads an original and forms an image of the original that has been read, a skew amount of the original is calculated when the original has been read and a shift amount of each color of image data in image formation is obtained from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090251746 - Method, system and device for colour quality control: A colour quality control device adapted for use in a system for colour correction of an image to be reproduced on at least one reproduction device that is calibrated by a reproduction forward transform. The system also comprises a colour correction device adapted to correct at least one colour in... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC