http://www.freshpatents.com/Facsimile-and-static-presentation-processing-dtnewntc358.php USPTO Class 358 - Facsimile and static presentation processing en-us Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148142.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 This disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, storing a fixed form print information processing program for executing steps on a control device. The steps comprises a fixed form print producing step for producing fixed form print information, a margin area deleting step for deleting a width direction margin area... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148144.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image forming apparatus includes: a manual feed detecting unit that detects if a recording medium is set in a manual medium feeding unit; a print data receiving unit that receives print data; a medium orientation setting unit that receives an instruction for an orientation of the recording medium to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148143.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An inspection apparatus which inspects an image determines a type of a printing error based on characteristics of a place where the printing error has occurred, and controls a printing apparatus according to the determined type of printing error.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148148.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to cause a document image on a display screen of a display unit to be preview-displayed based on a document image data and cause an icon indicating various sizes of printing papers to be displayed, when a movement manipulation of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148149.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A multi-function printer (MFP) supporting Wi-Fi Direct includes a print engine to perform a print operation, a first wireless interface to connect the MFP to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network, a second wireless interface to Wi-Fi Direct connect the MFP to an external wireless terminal, a soft... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148151.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 This invention provides an image forming apparatus which performs sleep control for a shift to the sleep mode for each function and provides a user-friendly operation system, and a method of controlling the same. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus sets a shift time until a power state of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148150.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image forming device to receive set-up entry data of external image forming devices, includes an interface portion to relay communications with at least one external image forming device; a communication portion to request set-up entry data to the at least one external image forming device; and a central processing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148145.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A system for managing job tickets includes a first device that is in communication with a server. The first device is adapted to receive as input job parameters for managing a print job. The image forming device is further adapted to encode the job parameters into a job ticket. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148146.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A transmitting module and a multi-functional printer (MFP) using the same are provided. The transmitting module includes at least two rotating shafts and a transmission belt. Each rotating shaft has at least one oblique cone-trough. The transmission belt surrounds the rotating shafts and rotates along with rotation of the rotating... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148147.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A transmitting module and a multi-functional printer (MFP) using the same are provided. The transmitting module includes at least two shafts and a conveyer belt. Each shaft has a circumference surface and multiple first fixing structures, and the first fixing structures are arranged in a row encircling the circumference surface.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148152.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Methods and systems for handling fax reception with a high degree of security are provided. The system's components include a fax machine, an optical character recognition (“OCR”) component, a database, a radio-frequency (“RF”) reader configured to detect associated RF transmitters, a processor, and memory. The OCR component, database, RF reader,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148153.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 When a print stop instruction is input in accordance with a user's operation, a stage to stop print is decided among a plurality of stages in accordance with the print condition for print and the print by the print apparatus is stopped at the decided stage. Thereby, print by the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148165.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Described is a technology by which movement of a shared network device (e.g., a printer or storage device) to a different network machine triggers an automatic reconfiguration of the device and/or the network machines, so that those machines remain able to share that device. Configuration data may be pushed to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148157.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes: an inputting section to input first job data, serving as a base data group, and second job data, serving as an assembly of data for insertion, each of which is to be inserted into a inserting position of first job data, therefrom;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148162.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A method of performing an image forming operation in an image forming apparatus supporting peer to peer (P2P) connection includes P2P connecting the image forming apparatus to an external wireless device while the image forming apparatus is wirelessly connected to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network, receiving a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148161.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Provided is a multi-function printer (MFP) supporting Wi-Fi Direct. The MFP includes a print engine to perform a printing operation, a first wireless interface to connect the MFP to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network, a second wireless interface to connect the MFP to an external wireless terminal... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148164.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image processing apparatus includes an internal memory section installed within an apparatus housing, a communication section for performing data communications with an external memory medium detachably attached to the apparatus housing, and a data writing section for writing data to the external memory medium and the internal memory section.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148159.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A system includes electronic apparatuses, an information terminal, and an information processing apparatus connected via a data communication line to the electronic apparatuses and the information terminal. The information processing apparatus includes a job executing apparatus determining unit configured to perform a determination process based on apparatus information received from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148160.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A print management system, includes a management unit to receive print manuscript data from a connected manuscript processor, and obtain status information indicating states of connected multiple output enabled printers; a status identification unit to predict whether the output enabled printers stop in the middle of a print job; and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148158.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 In a printing apparatus that prints a PIN code on a sheet, the printing apparatus performs control to suppress setting failure of WPS due to time-out at least until printing of the PIN code is completed (successfully printed).... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148163.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A printing apparatus management system includes: a printing apparatus which includes an IC tag performing wireless communication with the outside and a memory being connected to the IC tag; and a first information terminal which has at least a function of writing information in the memory through wireless communication with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148156.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A group of printing conditions, which have at least one condition item in common except for environmental condition items concerning a temperature and humidity environment for printing, is selected from among a plurality of printing conditions. A list image, which represents a line-up of visible information concerning the temperature and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148167.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An electronic architecture for an imaging data path allows for printing on objects that are unevenly spaced. The architecture uses a rolling image buffer into which images are copied. A hardware trigger can optionally be used in conjunction with the rolling image buffer to prevent any printing mismatches that could... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148166.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 In a printing system in which a digital camera (DSC) and PD printer apparatus are directly connected via a USB, and image data is transmitted from the DSC to the PD printer apparatus and printed, Capability of the PD printer apparatus is transmitted from the PD printer apparatus to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148154.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image forming apparatus for being communicably connected to a server that manages messages complying with rules of a short sentence communication service from the image forming apparatus and responds by the messages to requests from an information processing terminal, comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire internal information of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148155.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An information processing device acquires status information of a printer, and adds a status name indicating the acquired status information to a printer name of the printer and updates a printer name in printer information corresponding to the printer managed by a print service device with the printer name to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148134.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 According to an aspect of the invention, an image processing apparatus includes a generating unit, a calculating unit, a receiving unit, and a changing unit. The generating unit generates a plurality of histograms of images with respect to each color based on an input image. The calculating unit calculates a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148133.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set two pixels, one of which is adjacent to a processing target pixel in a vertical direction and the other of which is adjacent to the processing target pixel in a horizontal direction, as first determination pixels, and to set... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148135.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A variable printing system includes: an image forming apparatus including an engine for variable printing; a device communicatively connected to the image forming apparatus; a first control section included in one of the image forming apparatus and the device; and a second control section included in one of the image... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148138.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image forming apparatus and a gradation correction method for the same are provided. An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms a plurality of patch bands in a plurality of positions in a main scanning direction on an image bearing member, each of the plurality of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148141.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image processing apparatus includes a determination unit and a trap unit. The determination unit is configured to determine for each of a plurality of color plates whether trapping processing is performed at a position of a target pixel of an image divided to the plurality of color plates. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148139.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 JPEG data to be printed is Huffman-decoded on a block-by-block basis and is stored in a Huffman decoded data storage unit as Huffman decoded data, image data is generated by performing a later-stage decoding process (group decoding, run-length decoding, inverse quantization, inverse DCT) on the Huffman decoded data, a display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148136.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A rendering data processing apparatus comprises: a determination unit configured to determine objects of a bitmap pattern in rendering data; a specification unit configured to specify an object, for which a bitmap rendering command can be replaced with a graphic rendering command, among the determined objects of the bitmap pattern;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148137.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A server device includes an external device information managing unit which manages external device information regarding plural external devices, and an association process flow determining unit which determines an association process flow that defines how plural processes in image processing are performed on image data by the external devices, based... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148140.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A method of printing a document on a printing device which includes providing an output profile in a color space of the printing device, the printing device utilizing multiple device colorants; transforming a color space of the document to the color space of the printing device if the color space... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148168.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 As set forth herein, computer-implemented methods and systems facilitate watermarking documents and/or images using 2nd generation stochastic halftoning. The watermark is used to spatially vary the gray level at which a frequency modulation-to-amplitude modulation transition occurs. The encoding algorithm uses as inputs a contone image and a watermark. The visibility... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148169.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image forming apparatus determines, with respect to intermediate data including a start edge and an end edge indicating a shape of an object and which do not intersect and where an edge direction of the start edge and an edge direction of the end edge are aligned, whether an... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148170.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Provided is a device that prevents unauthorized copying of a document to which copy inhibition information is added.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148171.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 An image reading device includes an arbitrating unit configured to obtain read data on a main-scan-line-by-main-scan-line basis from a first image sensor that reads one side of a document and read data on a main-scan-line-by-main-scan-line basis from a second image sensor that reads the other side of the document. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148173.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A document photosensor is provided which comprises upper and lower sensor assemblies 1 and 2 disposed on opposite sides of a passageway 55 along which a document 50 is transported. Upper sensor assembly 1 comprises an upper substrate 11, an upper LED chip 21 surface-mounted on upper substrate 11 and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148172.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Raster Output Scanners and printing systems are presented along with methods for mitigating banding in printing systems, in which electronic banding compensation is employed using cross-process direction light source intensity banding correction profiles tailored to corresponding reflective facets of a rotating polygon.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148174.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A detecting device having image capturing capability in a bridge structure is provided, which includes a housing, a bridge structure, a scanning module, and a slider. The housing has a plurality of inner walls. The bridge structure includes at least one roller, an ADF transparent layer, and a flatbed transparent... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148176.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 Contamination of a reading window is detected between documents by a contamination detection section when a plurality of sheets of documents are transferred and a transferred document is read through a reading window, transfer of the document is stopped by a stopping section based on the detection result, and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148175.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A scanning device includes a body, a paper-feeding module, a scanning module and two transmission modules. The body has a paper-feeding area and a scanning area stacked with each other. The paper-feeding module is disposed at the paper-feeding area in the body and the scanning module is disposed at the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130148177.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:17 -0700 A display control apparatus is configured to display on a display unit a user interface screen for an image data generating apparatus configured to generate image data using an image sensor. The display control apparatus includes a setting acquiring unit which is configured to acquire a setting value for generating...