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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164762 | Intelligent text driven document sizing A method for automatically magnifying a copy job to result in a copied text that is not smaller than a user specified minimum size. An original document is automatically scanned and an analysis performed to determine, the smallest text size within the original docum... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149426 | Image forming apparatus with copy function An image forming apparatus with a copy function may include a reading device, a recognition device, a conversion device, and a print device. The reading device reads characters on a first recording medium. The recognition device recognizes the characters based on a ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134720 | Multiple font management system and method A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to pr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8107091 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof An image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof store font information about a font of which a width of a dot line is less than a predetermined value; determine whether the width of the dot line of a text included in printing data is less than the pre... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107092 | Method and device for preparing a printout of a position-coding pattern The invention relates to a method for generating a printout of a section of a global position-coding pattern in a system comprising a computer unit and a printer unit connected to the computer unit. The method is characterized by the steps of generating in the compu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102544 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program A terminal is provided with an image obtaining portion that obtains an image including a code representing a location of a web page, a web page obtaining portion that obtains the web page based on the code included in the image, a calculation portion that compares t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089639 | Image forming apparatus with image density change portion for gradually reducing image density from an outer periphery of a character toward an inside An image forming apparatus has an image acquisition portion that acquires image data on an image including a character. A character-periphery detector detects the peripheral part of the character in the image data acquired by the image acquisition portion. An outlin... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8054474 | Image data producing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer readable medium An image data producing apparatus includes: a page dividing portion that divides data described in a page description language into a page unit; a plurality of image processors that form raster data from divided data; and a controlling portion that allocates pages o... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8040533 | Techniques for granular font subsetting for efficient document consumption Techniques are provided for performing font subsetting. One or more font subsetting parameters are received. The one or more font subsetting parameters indicate a granularity level for which font subsetting is performed for portions of a data container. The font sub... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035825 | Document editing device, program, and storage medium A document editing device includes: a data set storage unit that stores a plurality of data sets, each including a character string, an attribute of the character string, and a font size for the attribute; a threshold value storage unit that stores a threshold value... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7999950 | Method and apparatus for providing backup font support for missing device glyphs The present invention provides a method and apparatus in a data processing system for printing characters. Data received includes glyphs for output on an output device, wherein the glyphs are to be output using a selected device font. Monitoring for unsupported glyp... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7973946 | Global printing system and method of using same A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encodi... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965398 | Character rendering device, display device, and printing device There is disclosed a character rendering device capable of rendering characters at a higher speed. The character rendering device includes an internal storage unit including plural storage areas; a first bus connected through an external bus to an external storage u... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7903266 | System and method for using divided fonts to achieve proportional spacing A method of printing a string of characters includes receiving a sequence of character data codes. Each character data code corresponds to a respective character to be printed in the string of characters. The method also includes transcoding the sequence of characte... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889359 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program This invention can provide an information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and a program, which can efficiently execute processing associated with font settings. To accomplish this, font information of a first character and font information of a seco... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7852496 | Printer driver, apparatus, and method for converting character fonts when printing data to a reduced number of pages A computer readable recording medium storing a printer driver causing a computer to execute a process for generating, based on printing target data, printing data and sending to a printing device, the process which includes: selecting a character with a specific typ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852495 | Systems and methods for generating document distribution confirmation sheets with multi-destination status and/or multi-service status information Confirmation sheets would be more useful if they provided status information for each service, for each destination or recipient and/or images of each page of a multi-service and/or multi-destination job. A confirmation sheet provides the status of multi-destination... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7812973 | Print data transmission to imager of print data for downloadable font in data transmitting sequence reflecting differences in page sequence between original pages and print pages A print management apparatus is disclosed which includes a print-data producing device that produces print data based on original data, and which allows a downloading of font data from the print management apparatus to an image forming apparatus. The print managemen... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812974 | Image processing apparatus for arranging content onto a reduced number of output pages A storing unit stores document information received from an OS through an AP processing unit. A character size information extracting unit extracts representation character size information that represents a maximum size of characters whose accumulated number reache... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808659 | Image forming system In order to transmit fixed-image/text drawing data to print a character contained in a fixed image placed at a predetermined position of paper and body-text drawing data to print a body (text) image in a body, a host apparatus gives the unique download (DL) font ID ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797631 | Document printing control apparatus and method A document printing control apparatus determines, when an output paper size is set by a keyboard operation, block sizes of individual blocks from the output paper size. The apparatus determines the size of an output area and font size from the block sizes determined... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782472 | Image forming system and image forming method An image forming system including an image reading apparatus and a printing apparatus connected to the image reading apparatus through a communication line, in which the image reading apparatus includes a font information acquiring unit which acquires font informati... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7738123 | Keylock flash disk device Methods and apparatus wherein a removeable supplemental controller is used to adapt a paper processing system to changes in functionality, particularly when the processing system comprises a printer, and the supplemental controller is a MICR flash device, and the ch... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7649637 | Method for printing a global position-coding pattern The invention relates to a method for generating a printout of a section of a global position-coding pattern in a system comprising a computer unit and a printer unit connected to the computer unit. The method is characterized by the steps of generating in the compu... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7643160 | Spool file modifying device A spool file modifying device employed in a print server is connected with a printer. Further, the print server and at least one external terminal are interconnected. A spool file representing a print job that is instructed at the external terminal is converted into... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7612897 | Method of managing the printing of characters and a printing device employing method In a printing device storing a plurality of font files, at least a first font file storing glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set being represented by double-byte words and at least a second font file storing glyph data co... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609398 | System and method for rendering fonts for tabbed paper stock on a network This invention is directed to a system and method for storing font image data, which is already rendered, in a history-based order on the server side. This avoids the server side processing time to render the font every time a request is received. This allows users ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7586628 | Method and system for rendering Unicode complex text data in a printer A method and system for providing a printer for printing an encoded data stream. The stream includes a section of complex text data. The code is preferably Unicode, and the complex text data is preferably Unicode complex text. The printer includes a font, a text par... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583393 | Multiple font management system and method A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to pr... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7570374 | Document generation apparatus and file conversion system A document generation apparatus has a comparator that compares the type of language of original document data and the type of language provided at a reproduction terminal that reproduces the original document data, and a generator that generates document data with f... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561283 | Barcode printing system, and method and program of setting a virtual barcode font A printing system for one- or two-dimensional barcodes, and a method and program of creating virtual fonts for such barcodes enable the font and output parameters of the font to be easily changed. The printing system for printing one- or two-dimensional barcodes has... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7548325 | Method and system to manage multiple format fonts in an image generating device The present invention is directed to a method and system for managing multiple format fonts in an image generating device. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method and system to store a font in a selected storage area, remove a selected font ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7483157 | Print controller and printer A portable printer contains a print controller that acquires first ID of a first character printed in advance on an instant film from a wireless tag embedded in the instant film; acquires second ID of a second character contained in image data to be printed on the i... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7440132 | Systems and methods for handling a file with complex elements The described systems and methods are directed at converting a file with complex elements so that a legacy utilization device, such as a legacy printer, can properly process the file. The described systems may include a converter module with a modular filter pipelin... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440130 | Network device and printer Provided is a network board for generating print data in accordance with the information resources received from outside, and sending the print data to a printer, which can easily install or update a color conversion table or a printer driver, etc. necessary for gen... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7420692 | Security font system and method for generating traceable pages in an electronic document A security font system and method are provided for generating traceable pages in an electronic document. The method comprises: accepting an electronic document; modifying font print instructions associated with selected characters; and, transmitting the document wit... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7408656 | Controlling printer macro usage based on printer identification information A method of controlling usage of printer macros stored in a printer includes detecting a request for use of a first one of the printer macros by a print job. Printer identification information contained in the first printer macro is compared to a printer identifier ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403297 | Printing system that manages font resources using system independent resource references A method, computer program product and system for managing font resources using system independent references. A resource library may store a table, referred to herein as the “resource access table” that contains an entry for each base font resource. Each entry ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400422 | Method, apparatus, and program to prevent computer recognition of data A text modification mechanism is provided for formatting data such that the information can be reasonably deciphered by a human, but cannot be easily recognized by computer recognition techniques. The text modification mechanism alters printed text so that computer ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400776 | Visual enhancement for reduction of visual noise in a text field The present invention provides for visual enhancement of text. A text area is selected. A plurality of non-identical images of the text area are captured. Background information is removed from these images. The contrast characteristics of text area of the plurality... | 07/15/2008 |
