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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185958 | Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and methods thereof Upon applying a DRM protection process to an image which is generated by an image processing apparatus, which doesn't have any communication means that allows direct communications with a PC, without any alteration, encryption of the image in the apparatus and that ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185792 | Data-transmission device data-reception device and data-transmission-and-reception system A data-transmission device dividing video data into packets and transmitting the packet to a data-reception device requesting the video data includes a unit generating transmission packets based on the video data, a unit setting importance for each of the generated ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185677 | Data reproducing apparatus, content management method, program, and storage medium A data reproducing apparatus comprises: a reproducing unit adapted to read out data from a plurality of recording media; a list generating unit adapted to generate a content list which describes storage location information in association with contents stored in the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185673 | Information processing apparatus, and method for controlling the same An information processing apparatus includes an interface, a detector, a manager, a usage interruption unit, and a determination unit. The interface is for connecting to a peripheral device to form a connected peripheral device. The detector is for detecting a conne... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185595 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof This invention is directed to reduce errors which may occur upon moving link data referring to another electronic data. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus includes a designating unit which designates electronic data to be moved or copied, a data... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185565 | Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus for combining a plurality of structured documents, including an acquiring unit, for each of the plurality of structured documents, correspondence information showing a correspondence between vocabulary information and token inform... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185504 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus including: a correspondence determination unit configured to refer to respective additional information data included in a file and another file and determine whether identical additional information data exists; a size determination un... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185423 | Just-in time workflow Disclosed are arrangements, referred to as just-in-time workflow (JITW) arrangements, which provide a decentralised process (900) for performing a sequence of tasks, in which individual network services successively identify (961), assemble (960... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185340 | Analysis apparatus and analysis method A recording-medium-type setting unit selects a type of a recording medium to be analyzed on the basis of information input with an input unit. A threshold-value setting unit sets a threshold value on which the determination of whether the calculation result is outpu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185039 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes a stack tray, a stapler, a stapler moving device, and an aligning member. When a stapling process is performed at least two staple positions of the sheet bundle stacked on the stack tray using the stapler, the stapler is moved t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185026 | Image forming apparatus An electric charge elimination needle for eliminating an electric charge of an intermediate transfer belt is disposed on the side more downstream than an opposite sheet metal which restricts an electric potential on the belt, in a direction of rotation of the interm... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185023 | Developer container, developing apparatus and process cartridge A developer container for an image forming apparatus includes a developer accommodating chamber, provided with an opening, for accommodating a developer to be supplied to the opening; a feeding member, provided in the developer accommodating chamber and having an el... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185013 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a regulating member for limiting cartridge movement An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a transfer member for transferring a developed image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, and a mounting portion for demountably mounting a cartridge, the image ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185003 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof featuring image member surface data detection There is provided an image forming apparatus including a rotation member used for image forming and a detector for detecting light from the rotation member. First waveform data of an image-formed surface used to form an image on the rotation member is acquired by th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184997 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system An information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a toner supply unit having a stationary toner container and a replaceable toner container. The information processing apparatus inc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184907 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184902 | Image combining apparatus and control method for the same An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184662 | Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method thereof Data is transmitted by using continuous frames each of which includes a variable-length part having a length that varies depending on an input period and a fixed-length part containing data of one input period. The transmitted continuous frames are received, a frame... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184386 | Fresnel lens and injection mold A surface of a base material of a Fresnel lens has a central area having circular zones arranged therein and an outer area located on the outer side of the central area and having circular-arc zones arranged therein. The pitch of zones in a boundary area between the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184382 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus which makes it possible to achieve reduction of the size in the optical axis direction thereof, and easily maintain the accuracy of rectilinear guidance between lenses. A cam barrel rotatable around an optical axis has a cam for controlling... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184354 | Light-amount adjusting apparatus, optical apparatus, and method for manufacturing the light-amount adjusting apparatus A light-amount adjusting apparatus includes a plurality of light-amount adjusting blades that causes a size of a light-passing aperture to change by rotation thereof. Each of the light-amount adjusting blades includes a base portion on which a rotation center portio... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184350 | Image display apparatus The image display apparatus includes an image-forming element configured to form an original image, a first optical element configured to reflect a light flux from the image-forming element sequentially by plural reflective surfaces to cause the light flux to emerge... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184349 | Color management system The present invention provides a color conversion device that can be applied to a color management system. The color conversion device provides a color conversion device capable of generating a color conversion table used for color reproduction with high precision. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184348 | Color separation method and image processing apparatus In a case wherein a color separation table is prepared, color separation is provided, so that the density characteristic to be output is maintained, and the total colorant amount is not beyond the limit value of the total colorant amount. Further, the optimal color ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184344 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method, computer program and storage medium The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, computer-program, and storage medium capable of acquiring a paper fingerprint efficiently and improving convenience for users. An image processing apparatus according to the pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184342 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus, performing recording by time-division driving of multiple recording elements on a recording head in increments of blocks, includes: a storing unit storing recording data; an obtaining unit obtaining information relating to inclination of the r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184341 | Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and storage medium An image reading apparatus includes a document feeding unit, a reading unit, and a control unit configured to operate in a first reading mode in which the control unit causes the reading unit to move to read the document while holding the document in a stationary st... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184339 | Data generation and printing with binarization pattern selected as function of pixel number corresponding to conveying amount of print medium When a feeding amount for multi-pass printing is changed, the purpose related to an image quality using a binary data generation pattern can still be attained by, for example, a density pattern method. Specifically, a multi-pass printing mode is identified, and a de... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184337 | Image processing apparatus and method to output a print image embedded with information indicating a region obtained by merging a region on an input image corresponding to a specified image region, and a surrounding region of that region on the input image An output image forming unit generates a print image based on an input image. A partial region image forming unit specifies an image region, which is not to be printed when the print image is printed on a print sheet, and generates region information indicating a re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184334 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for the same An image processing apparatus for using one of a device link profile and a set of a source profile and an output profile includes a first selection unit for selecting a set of a source profile and an output profile and second selection unit for selecting a device li... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184329 | Print processing execution apparatus, history information processing method, program, and recording medium A print processing execution apparatus includes a restriction information acquisition unit configured to acquire restriction information including processing information, a print processing execution unit configured to execute print processing based on a job, a dete... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184328 | Printing apparatus and control method for authenticating a user for operating the apparatus In a case that it is detected that an external memory is attached to a printing apparatus and that neither the access to the external memory nor a user operation occurs within a predetermined time period, an alert is issued to the effect that the external memory is ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184327 | Image data processing apparatus, image data processing method, and program The image rotation apparatus includes a first storage unit adapted to store compressed image data, and a decompression unit adapted to decompress the image data read out from the first storage unit, and segments the image data obtained from the decompression unit in... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184313 | Apparatus, system and method for performing attended or unattended printing In order to allow effective utilization of a printing device when operators are absent, such as nighttime and further effective utilization of the printing device in business hours that operators are present, when a received print order is determined to be processab... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184311 | Image processing system An image processing system including an image processing device and a control device which controls data transfer to said image processing device is provided. When the control device is connected to the image processing device via the network, the control device enc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184310 | Approval workflow management system and printing apparatus with control over file editing restrictions An approval workflow management system capable of preventing a mismatch from being caused between a document of which the contents have been confirmed for approval, and an electronic document stored in a file server, for approval, thereby enhancing the reliability o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184309 | Printing system and job processing method with inhibition and designation of function and deletion of associated jobs This invention can cope with various user needs and use cases related to a holding function and can prevent any situation in which, for example, even when the holding function is disabled, an external device continuously inputs, to a printing apparatus, jobs which r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184263 | Measurement apparatus and exposure apparatus A measurement apparatus which measures spatial coherence in an illuminated plane illuminated by an illumination system, comprises a measurement mask which has at least three pinholes and is arranged on the illuminated plane, a detector configured to detect an interf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184261 | Exposure apparatus An exposure apparatus includes an alignment station where an alignment measurement process is executed, an exposure station where an exposure process is executed, and two stages which can be swapped between the alignment station and the exposure station. A first blo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184214 | Reflective liquid crystal display apparatus At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a reflective liquid crystal display apparatus which includes a polarization beam splitter having a polarization split film used as both a polarizer and an analyzer; a reflective liquid crystal display device; a quarte... | 05/22/2012 |
