http://www.freshpatents.com/Facsimile-and-static-presentation-processing-dtnewntc358.php USPTO Class 358 - Facsimile and static presentation processing en-us Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 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/-dt20100304ptan20100053641.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing system includes at least one marking engine and a paper path which carries sheets of print media to the marking engine from an upstream direction and carries sheets of print media which have been marked by the marking engine in a downstream direction. A buffer system includes a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053656.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Given a circular graph that is divided by four colors (red, blue, yellow, and green), for example. This circular graph shows information indicated by the corresponding colors in accordance with planar dimensions of respective areas (e.g., a ratio of items corresponding to the respective colors to total and the like).... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053658.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Image processing jobs and maintenance jobs of the image processing apparatus are treated in the same way and registered together in the same table. With reference to a table having recorded therein prohibited functions that need to be prohibited during execution of the maintenance job, control is performed such that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053657.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Until now, manual sorting of a print job and corresponding media on which printing is to take place has been necessary in order to assign them to printing presses provided for that purpose, if required properties of the printed product were to be achieved with different machines and components. That... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053659.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A multi-function device may be connected with a color printer capable of printing in a communicable manner. The multi-function device may be configured to store identification information of the color printer, to color-scan an object to be scanned, to monochrome-print based on first image data representing an scanned object, to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053660.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 The present invention provides an image formation apparatus that reconstructs and prints a document based on document data written in a markup language. The image formation apparatus arranges, by using browser software, text data included in the document data within a page of the document, and acquires image data from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053661.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A job processing apparatus that is capable of recording an execution history of a job appropriately for each user even if a user does not spontaneously instruct a change of a user who operates an apparatus by a key operation etc. A receiving unit receives an operation of a user... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053672.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printer control method includes the following steps: setting triggering conditions for executing functional items and for startup a configuration menu; executing a functional item if the key information had fulfilled the triggering condition for executing the functional item; and launching a configuration menu if the key information had fulfilled... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053673.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A document submission management system calculates predicted values of the amount of consumption of consumables used for printing processing according to an order from a user, estimates the cost of the printing processing based on the predicted values, and transmits the estimated cost to a client terminal of the user.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053662.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A document transmission system includes a document provider, a document receiver, and a network transmission system. The document provider is utilized for providing a document. The document receiver is utilized to receive a paper with data to provide a document. The network transmission system is utilized for respectively providing network... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053666.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image communication apparatus includes: a first receiving unit that receives image data through a first communication method; a second receiving unit that receives image data through one kind or two or more kinds of second communication methods; a determining unit, when the image communication apparatus receives a call for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053671.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image formation apparatus, which includes: a detector unit that detects a status of consumables; a prediction unit that predicts a run-out timing of the consumables on the basis of the status detected by the detector unit; a transmission unit that transmits the status detected by the detector unit to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053668.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image forming apparatus that may include a communication interface unit to receive an Extensible Markup Language (XML) Paper Specification (XPS) file, a determination unit to determine whether printing options set for the received XPS file are supported by the image forming apparatus, and a user interface unit to display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053669.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus communicates image information with an external apparatus. A communication portion includes a connector though which the image information is communicated. A controller controls the communication portion to be either active or non-active in response to a control signal. A cover covers the connector when the cover... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053682.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a blank document determination section determining whether or not input image data is image data of a blank document, regardless of a process mode set for setting a process with respect to the input image data; a storage device storing the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053674.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A display accesses an external server via a browser installed on an image processing apparatus, and displays on itself via the browser, a job instruction screen of the external server, based on screen data of the job instruction screen. When a user specifies a job, a job issuance requester requests... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053676.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing device including a communication interface unit; a user interface display unit which provides information to a user; a user interface input unit having a hardware key which receives an input from the user; a web-browser section which receives page data from a web server, structures a display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053681.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A host computer executes an application to create variable print data. Then, the host computer executes an application to optimize the created variable print data. Then, the host computer executes a device driver to send the optimized variable print data to an image forming apparatus.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053675.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printer is disclosed which determines whether or not an opening of the printer is open or closed. The printer includes an opening/closing mechanism for opening and closing the opening of the printer housing. The printer includes a controller configured to determine whether the opening is open or closed based... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053665.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a print file, removing images from the print file, replacing each image with a reference to the image, storing each image removed from the print file; and printing the print file. Each image is retrieved from storage to be printed upon encountering... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053678.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing apparatus includes: a reading section which performs scanning in a readable range; a flexible flat cable (FFC) which is connected to the reading section; a printing section which performs printing on the basis of readout data acquired through the flexible flat cable; and a positioning section which positions... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053670.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing control method including receiving a command to print an XML paper specification (XPS) file; determining whether the XPS file contains a preset tag; separating a page to which the preset tag is attached from the XPS file, and converting the separated page into page description language (PDL) data;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053667.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing device comprises a communication unit which executes communication with a mail server on a network, a connection unit to which a portable storage medium storing setting information can be connected, a printing unit which executes printing, and a control unit which executes a mail printing process of acquiring... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053680.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing system that conveys sheets printed by a printing unit to a sheet processing unit connected to the printing unit and causes the sheet processing unit to perform post processing on the sheet. When an inline job is temporarily stopped in which sheets printed by the printing unit are... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053679.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing system high in flexibility and/or user-friendliness which make it possible to use only post processing by a post-processing unit connected to a printing unit without requiring printing by the printing unit. An execution request receiving unit receives a request for execution of one of an inline job requiring... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053677.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing system has a printer and a terminal device. The printer has a first data receiving unit to receive print data and layout data request that requests the terminal device to transmit layout data representing an arrangement of objects, a layout data generating unit to generate the layout data... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053664.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiments, a method for scheduling at least one print job for a plurality of printers of a given type is provided. The method includes determining a job length for the at least one print job. The method further includes scheduling a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053663.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Apparatus, systems, and methods consistent with disclosed embodiments provide for managing the printing of documents using recycled media. In some embodiments, a printer comprises at least one input tray capable of holding print media; at least one image sensor capable of detecting recycled print media; and a print engine capable... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053683.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Provided is a universal imaging cartridge chip capable of activating a plurality of types of imaging machines. In one embodiment, the universal imaging cartridge chip interprets a signal to identify a type of imaging machine. The universal imaging cartridge chip then selects the correct data for the identified imaging machine... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053684.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Printer cartridge microchips that can be used in conjunction with several different types of printer cartridges and/or printer models or families are described. Several printer cartridge microchips are provided that respond to data or information requests and/or commands from the printer (e.g., the printer processor). If the correct data or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053642.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printer includes a retrieving unit, an index image generating unit, and a list printing unit. The retrieving unit retrieves a file including document data. The content acquiring unit acquires information of a table of contents of the document data from the file. The index image generating unit generates an... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053652.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 In a chart for color calibration which is output and calorimetrically measured for color calibration of a printer device, respective charts of a color chart are arranged obliquely with respect to the alignment direction of grid points in a printer device color space or in a state that a plane... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053647.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A first color patch printed on a first printing material and a second color patch printed on a second printing material, which match each other in appearance in a desired environment, are acquired. The calorimetric values of a color patch to be measured which is printed on the first printing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053655.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 In an embodiment, a method includes receiving values of a first pixel and a second pixel of an image at an input processor element of an image signal processor and distributing fractional parts of a number of values from surrounding pixels to the first pixel and the second pixel non-serially... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053646.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image density control device includes: a light irradiation unit that irradiates an irradiation light of a wave-length, in which reflectance of a second color layer is higher than reflectance of a first color layer, onto an image which is a laminated layer image formed by an image forming unit... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053654.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image forming apparatus comprises an image data generating unit configured to convert a tone of an input value which indicates a density of a pixel by using a predetermined dither matrix and generate image data. The image forming apparatus further comprises a drive source and a gear configured to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053648.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image forming apparatus not having a spot color printing function and connected a network cannot print out a proper image from image data which is already processed for spot color and stored in an image forming apparatus having a spot color printing function. When the image data subjected to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053651.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Provided is an image processing device which executes a color conversion process of converting a color space of received image data into a color space of an output device for outputting image data, the image processing device including: input/standard color conversion information generated with respect to a plurality of input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053650.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program stored on a computer-readable medium can select a color conversion table based on an image deposition level and are not dependent upon the media setting specifying the print medium. A host computer 3 outputs output data for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053649.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image-forming device includes an image-forming unit, a sensor, a calculating unit, and an extracting unit. The image-forming unit forms a plurality of marks on an object. The sensor detects a light reflected on the object, the reflected light including a plurality of waveforms. The calculating unit calculates a first... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053643.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Aspects of the disclosure provide a printing method that can utilize a lightly pigmented toner along with a darkly pigmented toner to improve the image quality. The method can include receiving a dataset corresponding to a printing of a printing system using a darkly pigmented toner. The printing system may... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053653.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A method is provided for generating a color chart for a printer, which color chart comprises a plurality of elements. The method comprises obtaining reference color data representing colors output by the printer, when the printer is in a reference state. Further, comparison color data representing colors output by the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053645.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Disclosed are a method for processing data and a recording media recorded with a program realizing the same. The method for processing bitmap data for driving an inkjet head in which nozzle rows are spaced from one another in a scan direction, each of the nozzle rows consisting of a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053644.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with printing user documentation are described. One example method includes receiving a print request and determining if the print request is for printing a user guide. If the request is for printing a user guide, then the method may retrieve an updated version of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053685.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Selecting an image processing module for each attribute in accordance with discriminated attribute and the content of image processing made to correspond to the attribute, generating an image processing flow for each attribute by use of the selected image processing module; judging whether or not the image processing flow can... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053686.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image forming apparatus comprises an image data generating unit configured to convert a tone of an input value which indicates a density of a pixel by using a predetermined dither matrix and generate image data. The image forming apparatus further comprises a drive source and a gear configured to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053687.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 When image data of an original document is detected to include specific information indicating outputting of the original document is prohibited, a selected color component of the image data is applied with concealing processing to make image data of the selected color component to be solid image data. The selected... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053688.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus which makes it possible not only to improve reusability of data in another apparatus, but also to increase the speed of data output. If a process is requested to be executed on the image data and the file data contains data usable by the image processing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053690.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 This allows an image display device for displaying multilevel image data to display a preview image of binary image data without deteriorating the quality of image data. The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a bit number correction process section for converting tones of binary image data into a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053689.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus of the present invention uses a spatial filter section or an enlarging/reducing section to perform a blur process on image processing data to be supplied to an image display device, thus allowing the image display device to display a preview without deterioration in image quality.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053691.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 Techniques for creating an identity document are provided. The techniques include obtaining two or more identity-linked images, deriving one or more at least partially transparent regions from one of the two or more identity-linked images, combining the two or more identity-linked images to create a combined image, and embedding authentication... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053692.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A communication terminal apparatus comprises: a communication history information part storing a communication history related to at least one of destination information of a receiver and destination information of a sender; a user information part storing user information corresponding to a plurality of users; a security function setting part enabling... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053693.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A document transmission system includes a document provider, a document receiver, a storage device, an identifying device, and a transmission system. The document provider is utilized for providing a document having a symbol. The document receiver is utilized for receiving the document, wherein the symbol indicates an address of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053694.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image scanner is provided with a super-resolution processing function for generating a high-resolution image using multiple pieces of low-resolution image data. The scanner device then measures an initial MTF value without performing the super-resolution processing, refers to an MTF properties table in which is registered a number of pieces... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053695.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus includes an image receiving unit, an image processing unit, an image storage unit, a usage-log managing unit, an operation display unit, and a control unit. The usage-log managing unit manages processing contents used for image data processed by the image processing unit in association with the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053696.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A document reading device includes: a document image acquisition unit that reads a document and obtains a document image; a memory that holds the document image obtained by the document image acquisition unit; a determination unit that determines whether or not a size or orientation of the document, the image... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053697.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus that is capable of determining a document size with high accuracy, even when a device for detecting the document size is not placed therein and an input operation of the document size by a user is eliminated is provided. A page background determining section extracts candidates... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053698.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing image information, the process includes: accepting image information and registration destination information that indicates a registration destination of the image information; acquiring a registration condition determined based on feature information of the image information... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053699.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A method and system for carrying out an image-to-paper printer registration setup includes: using a printer undergoing registration setup, printing a test pattern on a sheet having reference targets within a printable region of the sheet; using a scanner, scanning the printed sheet to generate an image bitmap of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053701.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A scanner device includes a scanner body formed with a document insertion opening and a document ejection opening and is configured so that an document taken in from the document insertion opening is read and then ejected from the document ejection opening. The scanner device further includes an upper surface... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053700.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 The present invention discloses a shared image scanning method and picture scanner thereof The method includes the steps of: sharing a desired scanning document into image areas; constructing images captured from each image area into a whole document sensing image to be used by the scanner. The scanner includes reflecting... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053703.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 In an imaging apparatus, a function whose value increases in time is used as a threshold electric-signal level, and an electric-signal level of a photoreceptor element is compared with the threshold electric-signal level. Even if a light received by the photoreceptor element has a low luminance, the electric-signal level of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053702.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image reading apparatus to read an image and generate pixel data representing the image is provided. The image reading apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of sensor units, each of which includes a plurality of light receiving elements, a data storage store shading correction data, which is... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053704.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A duplex scan apparatus for generating scanned images of a resolution includes an ASIC, a first CCD, a second CCD, a first AFE, and a second AFE. The ASIC processes digital data at an ASIC timing and outputs a CCD timing, wherein the ASIC timing equals twice as the resolution.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053705.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A grating-type processing method for a transparent page comprises: scanning the transparent page twice, in the first scanning, taking grammatical interpretation to the page description file of the transparent page, dividing the page into areas, and writing primitive object information and transparent parameters generated into the intermediate file; in the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053706.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A scanning apparatus for scanning an image that includes a transparent plate and a target region having a predetermined optical reflectance. Also included is a movable sensor array, having a home position that is in optical communication with the target region when a lid of the scanning apparatus is closed.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053707.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 In outline processing according to the present embodiment, a normalization coefficient is determined such that values outputted as outline data substantially coincide with a maximum value in a prescribed number of digits in accordance with a variation amount between coordinate values. Such determination can constantly enhance image quality (legibility of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053709.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes a color matching section for performing, on monochrome or two-color image data to be supplied to an image display device, a color matching process of reducing differences in color from a single- or two-color image to be outputted by an image... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20100304ptan20100053708.php Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:47:32 -0800 A printing apparatus having a print unit and a print controller with a first density correcting component performing a density correction to image data transmitted to the unit is provided. The correction accords with a printing capacity of the unit. The apparatus comprises a component notifying a separate apparatus of...