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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7266734 | Generation of problem tickets for a computer system A computer system and program product for managing events. Program instructions, respond to notification of an event, by determining if a problem ticket can be automatically generated for the event. If so, the program instructions make a request to generate the prob... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265851 | Printing method and system for making print from photo picture frame and graphic image written by user An image of a picture frame photographed on a photo film is displayed on a screen of an image input device, or is printed out as a hard copy. A graphic image is written by a user in the image of the picture frame, and graphic data of the graphic image is detected fr... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265868 | Controlled print size for image data The present invention enables to ensure printing the entire desired image. An image data interpreter 21 interprets the header portion of data transmitted by a digital camera to detect the number of dots indicative of height and width of an image to be printed... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265876 | PWM rendering for color/gray-scale text and graphics for laser printer The appearance of edges in an image is improved through precise placement of subpixels within pixel cells that are located on or near edges in an image. Image data is examined to identify a “target pixel” near the edge of an object that represents the object and... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261541 | Cooling techniques in solid freeform fabrication A cooling system for removing heat from the layers of a three-dimensional object built in a layerwise manner from a build material in a solid freeform fabrication apparatus. The cooling system provides an air duct that delivers a uniform sheet of air flow over the l... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259883 | Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing therein control program for image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus which can execute an image process which is desired by a client while minimizing a connection time and an interactive communication between the client and the image processing apparatus is provided. To accomplish the above object, accor... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259875 | Conversion of unformatted data to a viewable format using a plurality of plug-able formatters A method of conversing data to a format viewable to a viewer is disclosed. The unformatted data comprising a plurality of unformatted data trunks is outputted without formatting. The formatting of the data portions is carried out at the viewing entity side by means ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259874 | Information processing apparatus, print data forming method, print control program, and memory medium An information processing apparatus for forming print data to be print-processed by a printer is constructed by: designation receiving means for receiving designation of a duplex printing, discriminating means for discriminating the number of pages in the case where... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256901 | Printer driver customization using incremental custom print processor An operating system alternate arrangement for a printer driver/spooler/print processor is disclosed. Referring to one embodiment, although using a PPD-compatible printer driver is often desirable, such a driver includes no mechanism for implementing a printer featur... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257317 | Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus A recording apparatus comprises a first producing unit which produces moving image data; a second producing unit which produces still picture data from the moving image data; and a recording unit which records a moving image file including the moving image data and ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256902 | Network printing system that operates based on the environment The object is to provide a network printing system in which printing may be executed using stable print modes regardless of the printer operating environment. When the printer receives a print job, if (i) any of the printing parameters in the print mode associated t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256904 | Device for dynamically varying the priority of various processing in a printer An image can be smoothly generated without delaying the release of a host by dynamically changing the priority of a task for writing to a hard disk for the priority of another task. The dynamic varying of the priorities of the different types of tasks is dependent u... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253922 | Monochromatic printer and image processing apparatus A printing apparatus is provided with multiple achromatic color inks having different densities and at least one chromatic color ink. Diversity of dots are created with the multiple achromatic color inks on a printing medium according to image data to form a black a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251044 | Image printing method and apparatus There are provided an image forming method and apparatus in which character string having one or more characters is registered as a regular character string, regular printing for printing the regular character string is instructed, irrespective of whether or not a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251778 | Method and system for dynamically adapting the layout of a document to an output device Dynamically adapting the layout of a document to a particular output device. The layout of a document can be adapted to a particular output device so that the document fully utilizes the capabilities of the output device. A layout generator interrogates the output d... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251052 | Method and apparatus for selecting job control device profiles A printing device contains a first native print job control profile and one or more non-native print job control profiles. The printing device receives a print job containing print job commands and compares the print job commands with the first native job control pr... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249353 | Image-formation device firmware having modular upgrade capability A method of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that includes providing an image-formation device having firmware with a modular upgrade capability. The method also includes providing a user-accessible manner by which to install further capabilities within ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248376 | Printer module with a pen-like configuration A printer module includes a body that defines a print media feed path and a feed opening to permit print media to be positioned in the print media feed path. A pagewidth printing mechanism is positioned in the body to carry out a printing operation on the print medi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245311 | Image forming apparatus A photosensitive body has a photosensitive layer. An optical scanning device has a deflector deflecting a light flux emitted from a light source, and scans the surface of the photosensitive body by the thus-deflected light flux. A dot is formed at a center between a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246348 | Method and apparatus for using print jobs for downloading and executing printer controller code A method for updating microcode of a printer includes the steps of embedding a microcode update file as a module in a print job file, inputting the print job file to the printer, recognizing that the print job file includes the microcode update file, and writing the... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245404 | Dynamically programmable image capture appliance and system A multiple function image capture and serving apparatus that comprises a processor unit having firmware memory with instructions for implementing an operating system and random access memory for receiving at least one executable code sections for performing a select... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245401 | Device and method for recording additional information on printing medium, and image forming apparatus A secrecy management information recording device has an information input section which inputs image information printed by a printer and secrecy management information corresponding to the image information, a transport mechanism which receives a printing sheet on... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242492 | Proxied printing services Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, an image processing device, a computer network and a simple network printer wherein a simple network printer without RIP capability is enabled to print a print job that includes raster image processor instruction... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237485 | Print supply monitoring An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to prin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239409 | Remote access to print job retention The present invention provides methods and apparatus for remotely managing and accessing print jobs stored in job retention of a printing device, including displaying, printing, canceling, prioritizing, and otherwise controlling various aspects of the print jobs and... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239401 | Framework for ordered handling of information A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239411 | Method and apparatus for controlling printing of electronic applications A method and apparatus for controlling printable content from textual and graphical sources, and reducing consumable print medium such as toner, ink, and paper. The method and apparatus includes a print medium formatting program for configuring data identification o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239933 | Substrate supports for use with programmable material consolidation apparatus and systems A programmed material consolidation apparatus includes at least one fabrication site and a material consolidation system associated with the at least one fabrication site. The at least one fabrication site may be configured to receive one or more fabrication substra... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236259 | Remote printing systems and methods for portable digital devices To facilitate the use of portable digital devices such as cell phones, printer processing stations are proposed for printing the information that is accessible through the portable digital devices. In general, the portable digital devices have easy access to an enor... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236166 | High-resolution rapid manufacturing The present invention is a method for forming an object, the method comprising jetting a first material to form a plurality of layers that define a support structure increment, and extruding a second material to form a layer of the object. The layer of the object su... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235195 | Method for making opthalmic devices The present invention provides a method for producing an ophthalmic device by means of stereolithography. The method comprises the steps of: depositing (i) an essentially solvent-free liquid or melt of a device-forming material, or (ii) a solution of said device-for... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236217 | Package of optical films with zero-gap bond outside viewing area The invention is directed to a new packaging method in which several optical films are bundled together before insertion into the display frame. This bundling makes handling of the films easier, reduces the number of steps required for assembly of the display device... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236289 | Fast optical shutter using micromirror motion The present invention provides a fast optical shutter function by use of the fast movement of the micromirrors. In a micromirror array lens (MMAL), all the micromirrors reflect the incident light to form an image on the image plane. If the micromirrors reflect the i... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233403 | Print control method and apparatus When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file. When the stored job is selected, a previewer displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233404 | System for processing print jobs A flexible and extensible job processing system is described. A print job processing server manages a plurality of data receivers and printer emulators. Data receivers receive jobs from the print job originators, such as print servers. The printer emulators convert ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233409 | Apparatus and methods for distributing print jobs Apparatus and methods for distributing print jobs. A print job is generated at an application node of a network, and has associated therewith print parameters. The print job is routed to a distribution node on the network. The parameters are then parsed from the gen... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233417 | Print job management apparatus The technique of the present invention increases a variation in status used for management of print jobs, thereby enhancing utility of a printer. In a printing system constructed via a network LAN, a printer PRT includes a job management apparatus that manages statu... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229164 | Printer for conveyance with wireless data port A printer arrangement comprises a printing unit (1) receivable in a conveyance (132). A wireless data communications port is incorporated in the unit for enabling data to be printed to be transmitted to the printing unit in a wireless manner. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231435 | Network system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and control program As an example of the present invention, for example, there is disclosed an information processing apparatus which communicates with a client device to which a peripheral device is connected including: a management program for managing installation configuration info... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227658 | Content management in a broadband printing system An interface between a service provider application and a content providing application in a network printing system, comprising functionality for configuring the interface for the service provider to interface with the content providing application on a first level... | 06/05/2007 |
