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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127531 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS An image processing apparatus stores, in a buffer, an image data of c bits in the main scanning direction and y lines in the sub scanning direction, and reads out a pixel data of p bits that configures the image data stored in the buffer. Note that c is a common multipl... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20110228308 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A MISALIGNED PAGE A capability is provided for detecting a misaligned page of a document. A method includes detecting that a page is misaligned and generating a control signal adapted for use in triggering presentation of an alarm indicating that the page is misaligned. A method includes... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110188085 | IMAGE READER An image reader is provided, which includes a controller that when a PC-scan mode is set as an output mode, the controller controls an image output unit to output second read data of a second side of a document sheet at each time when a storage unit stores the second re... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110170140 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus includes an automatic update determination unit that stores update information for updating a record level among layers included in print data, a layered metadata change unit that acquires a key included in metadata in the print data ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110128585 | Digital Image Processing With Inherent Compression A method including storing a plurality of page elements. Each of the page elements includes i) a drawing command to render a page on a rendering device, and ii) a plurality of segments, in which each of the segments includes a drawing command for a scanline. The page el... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110075219 | PRINTING DEVICE The printing device includes an original data acquiring unit, a first determining unit, a first data generating unit, and a printing unit. The original data acquiring unit is configured to acquire original data representing at least two related objects on a worksheet. T... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20100271653 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ERASING DATA THEREOF In one embodiment of an image forming apparatus according to the invention, an overwrite-block specifying device specifies equal size blocks so that a storage area in a data storage device is divided into consecutive equal size blocks to be overwritten with overwrite da... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271649 | DIGITAL IMAGE PRINTING A JOB INCLUDING MONOCHROMATIC AND COLOR IMAGES Separate multicolorant and monochromatic digital image marking engines are operated concurrently for print jobs having both monochromatic and color images. The marked multicolorant image sheets are batch printed and held in a sheet buffer and interspersed in sequence wi... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100245918 | Methods and Systems for Rendering Data Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245919 | RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECORDING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Positions of flushing candidate pixels are provided in standard areas S formed from pixels arranged in a matrix pattern. A reference area formation section forms a reference area Ref by arranging two standard areas S adjacently to each other in both a main scan directio... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245917 | Methods and Systems for Rendering Data Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100231970 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTER TERMINAL A printing system including a transmitting terminal that transmits printable print content and a printer terminal that receives and prints the print content, the terminals being connected via an IP network.... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100134844 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM In determining whether to use RIP completed data, a print control apparatus determines whether objects constituting a processing target page are all reusable objects. As a result of this determination, if it is not determined that the objects constituting the processing... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100110495 | GENERATING PAGE-ORIENTED DATA FOR PRINTING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS For generating from variable data page-oriented data for printing dynamic documents, a layout module (13) is linked in series with one or more data processing modules (121, 122) to a data input module (11). The data input module (11) loads (S... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100110482 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME A printing apparatus receives a print job from an information processing apparatus. It is determined whether the received print job is a first print job or a second print job. If the results of the determination indicate that the received print job is a first print job,... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100079809 | Systems and Methods for Optimized Printer Throughput in a Multi-Core Environment Systems and methods consistent with some embodiments presented provide methods for the concurrent generation and parallel rasterization of at least one display list in a memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory, wherein the display list compris... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100060934 | Systems and Methods for Optimal Memory Allocation Units Methods for determining an optimal memory allocation unit size for a framebuffer in a single memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory on printing devices are presented. In some embodiments, a method for determining an optimal allocation unit si... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090284771 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A raster image processor (RIP) can process data for one page for each of a plurality of small areas, and handles each individual small area as a display list. Each individual display list holds information required to determine a rendering resolution. The RIP renders a ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 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 ... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090244625 | IMAGE PROCESSOR An image processor is connectable with a storing medium storing at least one set of still image data each corresponding to a still image and at least one set of moving image data each including a plurality of sets of frame image data corresponding to a plurality of fram... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090244593 | Systems and Methods for Parallel Display List Rasterization Methods for performing rasterization on a display list are presented, wherein the display list can include bands associated with a virtual page object belonging to a first class of virtual page objects in the display list. In some embodiments, the method comprises: pars... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090237700 | Image processing system An image processing unit includes an image data input unit, a page-description language (PDL) converter, a special document determination unit, and an image treatment command adding unit. The image data input unit inputs image data. The PDL converter converts the input ... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090103137 | Information processing apparatus, method, program, and storage medium An information processing apparatus includes a first information acquisition unit, a second information acquisition unit, a third information acquisition unit, and an information embedder. The first information acquisition unit obtains target information. The second inf... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090091794 | APPARATUS CAPABLE OF USING MEMORY-EQUIPPED SHEET AND SHEET SELECTION APPARATUS An apparatus capable of using a memory-equipped sheet, in which a memory device is provided to a sheet, comprises a selection part that selects a specific memory-equipped sheet from a plurality of memory-equipped sheets based on information stored in the memory device o... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090086272 | Systems and methods for loading an output profile Systems in accordance with the presently claimed invention use parameters to choose the correct output file for translating the color values in a print job into device specific values in an output data file that may be used for printing. A data structure, such as a link... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090080025 | PARALLEL PROCESSING OF PAGE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE A method and apparatus for efficient processing a page description language (“PDL”) data stream lacking page independence is described. The method and apparatus includes applying a single parsing pass for a PDL job and detecting PDL job producers by creator sniffer ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090067004 | Performance optimization method for network printers A method for optimizing the performance of a network printer comprising: scanning the input print data stream in a raster image processor and processing the entire input print data stream in a page parallel processing pathway where said input print data stream is in a p... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090051970 | IMAGE DATA STORAGE METHODS, IMAGE DATA STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUSES, IMAGE DATA STORAGE PROGRAMS, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FRAME DATA GENERATION AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DATA ACQUISITION, AND METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR IMAGE DRAWING An image data storage method is provided for obtaining image drawing spot data to be inputted to an image drawing spot forming unit that forms image drawing spots on an image drawing surface. The method comprises the step of storing the image data in storage means in su... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090027727 | Method, apparatus, and system for reduction of line processing memory size used in image processing A method, apparatus, and system are provided by which image line data of an image frame is compressed before being stored to image line memory used in multiple image line processing.... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090002762 | Image processing apparatus, computer readable recording medium stored with image processing program, and image processing method An image processing apparatus applies a compression process to each of a plurality of areas within a page independently on a specified page of image data consisting of a plurality of pages, and stores thus obtained compressed image data in a storage unit. Next, the imag... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080309979 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINT PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM When a printer starts a printing operation using a rolled sheet having IC chips, it is determined whether an error occurred while an IC chip writing device writes information to the IC chips. First page information specifying a page region in which an error occurred and... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080270402 | Dispatching pages for raster-image processing prior to printing the pages by a printing device A raster-imaging processing (RIP) time is predicted for each of a number of pages to be printed in printed-page number order. The pages are sorted based at least on when RIP should be finished for each page. The pages are dispatched to RIP components for RIP at least su... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080266605 | IMAGE-PROCESSING UNIT, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image-processing unit includes: a common drawing data acquisition component that acquires drawing data for a unit page containing a common image in variable printing whereby a plurality of pages are printed, with each of the pages having an image that is common among... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080239395 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSFER CONTROL METHOD AND IMAGE DATA TRANSFER CONTROL PROGRAM An image processing apparatus comprises: a volatile recording medium that stores image data in itself; a nonvolatile recording medium that stores image data in itself; a transfer portion that transfers image data page by page between the volatile recording medium and th... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080204808 | Method of printing a multi-page document A method of printing a document having a plurality of pages in an original sequence includes determining an second sequence to print each of the pages, wherein the second equence is different than the original sequence; loading each of the pages onto cyclic multi-page t... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080198414 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a memory unit having a common storage area which temporarily stores intermediate data between page description language data and bitmap data, and the bitmap data generated based on the intermediate data, and which inclu... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080198415 | Image forming device An image forming device configured as follows. A user is allowed to select desired print data files to be printed from among print data files stored in an external storage. A file list generating unit generates a list of the desired print data files selected by the user... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080180748 | Print data processing apparatus and method, and computer readable recording medium A position designation unit of a print data processing apparatus designates a position of identification information in each page of data to be printed, the identification information identifying the page. An extraction unit extracts the identification information conta... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080174824 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND PRINT DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM When a plurality of sets of data items are stored in corresponding frames on respective pages for printing, a data processing device confirms the size of each frame and, for each page, confirms the size of data to be stored in each frame. In addition, a check is made if... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080170264 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PRINTING PROGRAM A computer-readable recording medium recorded with a printing program causes a processor of a computer to calculate a rendering area of print data stored in a storing section of the computer as a primary area based on the print data, and to calculate a rendering area of... | 07/17/2008 |
