Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050157338 | Digital copying machine, image formation system, and digital copying machine as slave machine A digital copying machine is connected to at least another one of digital copying machines with which data communications can be performed. The digital copying machine has a link copy function that a document is set in the machine itself or another digital copying machi... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050146743 | Multi-functional printer device A method for receiving facsimiles in a multi-function printer device operating as a voice messaging system comprises answering, by the multi-function printer device, an incoming phone call, playing, by the multi-function printer device, an outgoing message, monitoring, ... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050146754 | Multi-functional printer device A method for receiving facsimiles in a multi-function printer device, the method comprises answering, by the multi-function printer device, an incoming phone call, playing, by the multi-function printer device, an outgoing communication, monitoring, by the multi-functio... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050146753 | Multi-functional printer device A method for receiving facsimiles in a multi-function printer device comprises detecting, by the multi-function printer device, an incoming phone call, monitoring, by the multi-function printer device, the incoming phone call for a facsimile tone while the incoming call... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050146742 | System and method for distributed printer processing The invention provides a system and method for the distributed processing of print jobs using multiple printer processors and centralized printing. The method can include the operation of dividing the print job into a plurality of print job segments in a print distribut... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050141041 | Network scanner and method of organizing and maintaining network scanning system Provided are a network scanner and a method of organizing and maintaining a network scanning system, which makes a list of users who are currently connected to the network scanner and automatically maintains the users connections to the network scanner even when an Inte... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141045 | Recording system A recording system includes an input unit for inputting moving image data, a memory for accumulating the moving image data input by the input unit, a recording unit for recording the moving image data in a recording medium, and a selection unit for selecting either one ... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141044 | Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program A scanner unit sequentially reads original pages set in the paper feed mechanism. The read image is stored in a storage unit by adding the read image to a predetermined file. Reading unit information which represents the number of read original pages when the originals ... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141035 | System and method for processing portions of documents using variable data System and method for creating and processing documents with variable data is disclosed. The system provides a base set of document image data residing at a first location. The base set of document image data, such as rasterized image data or image data organized in a m... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141026 | Image processing apparatus and control method and control program thereof An image processing apparatus comprising an local interface and a network interface and capable of transmitting an image data to a host apparatus with ease. A local I/F management section and a network I/F management section are prepared, and when image data read by a s... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141020 | Image-forming system, display-control method, storage medium storing computer-readable program, and program To achieve both convenience and security in performing a specific setting for an image-forming apparatus, identification information for identifying the apparatus together with a request for specific UI (user interface) data are sent to an external unit. Specific UI dat... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141019 | Information processing method, information processing apparatus, program, and storage medium There is disclosed an information processing apparatus which can minimize the probability of a partner being incapable of referring to data at a link destination when a structured document is transmitted to another apparatus or application or the risk of transmission of... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141010 | Scanner device, scanner system and image protection method A scanner device that optically reads an image comprises a protect specification data detection unit that detects a protect specification data which is contained in the read image to request protection of image data of the image. A protected image data creation unit enc... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050134939 | Digital camera, image output method, and program A digital camera according to this invention includes an image data memory unit which stores sensed image data, an output information memory unit which stores output information describing an image output method, an image data selector which selects designated image dat... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050134936 | Image carrier for storing X-ray information, and a system for processing an image carrier The invention relates to an image carrier for the storage of X-ray information, including an electronic memory for the storage of data, as well as a corresponding system for the processing of such an image carrier. In order to reduce the storage space requirement in the... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050134935 | Automatic document separation A method and system for delineating document boundaries and identifying document types by analyzing digital images of one or more documents, automatically categorizing one or more pages or subdocuments within the one or more documents and automatically generating deline... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050134934 | Systems and methods for estimating an image marking process using event mapping of scanned image attributes Methods and systems used to automatically identify the marking process used for an image on a substrate based on spatial characteristics and/or color of the image. Image types which are classified and identified include continuous tone images and halftone images. Among ... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050134931 | Image forming apparatus and method The image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming section which includes an image forming device forming an image onto a recording medium; a plurality of recording medium supply sections which store recording media and supply the recording media to the image formi... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050134929 | Printing apparatus having scanner function A printing apparatus having a scanner function. The printing apparatus includes: a printing unit to print an image according to an electro-photographic method; a scanning unit which reads image information from a document sheet, and is installed at the upper side of the... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050134881 | Image processing method and image processing device The present invention provides an image processing method and image processing device for performing image processing, based on image data and/or drawing instructions, on a page layout which employs process colors inputted from an image processing terminal. The image pr... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050128507 | Image forming apparatus and information communicating method In case abnormality in a network is detected, a CPU of a digital multi-functional peripheral sends, when facsimile connection to a management center via a telephone line has been detected, intra-apparatus information relating the digital multi-functional peripheral to t... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128503 | Information processing apparatus and image-forming system An information processing apparatus is connected via a network to a plurality of image-forming apparatuses each having a different set of functional printing conditions. The information processing apparatus has a printing condition acquiring section which acquires funct... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128530 | Image projection control apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of images An image projection control apparatus is connected to a plurality of data processors for generating image data, and displays a plurality of images projected onto a screen by a display unit based on the image data generated by the data processors. The image projection co... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128529 | Image processing apparatus, image playing method, image pick-up apparatus, and program and storage medium Upon continuously displaying a plurality of image data read from a recording medium, printing setting information including trimming information is set for the image data recorded to the recording medium with a corresponding relation to the image data. The displaying of... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128528 | Recording system, recording apparatus, and control method therefor A physical layer which depends on hardware of a general-purpose interface determines whether an image supply device supports a predetermined communication protocol. A transport layer which controls communication as an upper layer of the physical layer determines whether... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128516 | Document processing apparatus and document processing method A document processing apparatus includes a first determination unit for determining, as an image processing option, an object related to a predetermined print setting included in image data corresponding to a page of a source document read by an image reading unit for r... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128514 | Information processing apparatus, print job management method, information processing program, and recording medium In a print system including a print server and a plurality of printers, when the occurrence of a failure in a first printer is detected, the print job to be processed first from among the print jobs accumulated in the first printer is identified as the first print job. ... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050128509 | Image creating method and imaging device A method of creating an image file and an imaging device comprising at least two image capturing apparatus is provided. Each apparatus is arranged to produce an image, wherein at least one first apparatus comprises a color filter matrix of red and blue elements, and at ... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050117174 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method When an image is to be formed on a second surface of a paper sheet in a double-side printing operation, a main CPU corrects a main-scan magnification and a sub-scan magnification for printing on the second surface, by using correction data relating to the main-scan magn... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050111051 | Information processing system, information processing method, image processing apparatus, program, and recording medium Text data is extracted from image data read by an image reader. Log data containing the extracted text data is generated. The generated log data is stored in a log management server. ... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111054 | Image communication device, method of communicating image, program and recording medium An image communication device transmitting image information selectively generates a transmission-result report, where the contents of the transmission-result report vary depending on selected transmission conditions. Under a first condition, the transmission-result rep... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111053 | Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program Vector data corresponding to a scanned original image is generated. An edit image of the original image corresponding to the display resolution of a display is generated on the basis of the vector data, and display of the edit image on the display is controlled. ... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111052 | Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program An electronic file corresponding to a scanned original image is specified on the basis of the original image. If the electronic file corresponding to the original image cannot be specified, the original image is converted into vector data. The vector data is converted i... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111013 | Image processor and image processing method An image processor is capable of transferring an input job. The image processor receives input of jobs, displays a list of the jobs received, selects a job to be output to another image processor from the displayed list, and transfers the selected job to that another im... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050105810 | Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction A method and device for recording data on a recording medium, includes storing, in a memory, image data in frame units; comparing a stored image frame with a subsequent image frame following the stored image frame; and recording, on a recording medium, the subsequent im... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050094188 | Image transmission device and transmission data management system An image transmission device is disclosed which transmits image data to one or a plurality of devices that are capable of receiving image data, and is connected to a transmission data management computer. The image transmission device includes a transmittee data acquisi... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050088710 | Color image forming apparatus and method of controlling same An image of stabilized tint is output even if a supplied transfer medium is changed to a transfer medium of a different surface gloss or type of paper. If the supplied transfer medium has changed, the tint of a corrective image formed on t... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050030591 | Image forming system with scanner capable of changing magnification of scanned image The present invention provides an image forming system in which an image of a document can always be printed in an appropriate position of paper with reliability even when a scanning magnification of the image is changed. The system therefore includes a scanner for scan... | 02/10/2005 |
