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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189208 | Image processing apparatus, controlling method of image processing apparatus, program and storage medium The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, a method of controlling the image processing apparatus, a program and a storage medium that can increase security strength of encoded data, printed on a recording medium. According to an embodiment of the... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189209 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a setting section, a setting display section, a determination section, a change section, and an incompatible option display section. The setting section sets image formation functions, which include first and second functions. The... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189211 | 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 in... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189210 | Method and system for simulating the operation of an image conversion device A method is provided for simulating the function of an image conversion device, comprising steps of reading input image data, recording the physical transformations of the base elements in at least one process step, emulating a predetermined number of processes, rec... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189212 | Printing control based on a selected printing mode by a user A printing control apparatus is provided which can produce an appropriate copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image by adding a monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern even if monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which a color copy-forgery-inhibite... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189207 | Apparatus and method for single color or color printing A color image forming apparatus that automatically switches a printing mode between a single color printing mode and a color printing mode according to requested image data stores, when capturing of image data of a print job is started, the image data in an image me... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184307 | User preferences in a multi-part workflow A book production method and system are disclosed. The method of book production allows an operator to input preferences for a multi-part workflow. The preferences can be communicated to a printer where the books are printed from a loaded plurality of book parts. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184306 | Operate light source of reading unit of a multifunction peripheral device according to valid instructive keys A multifunction peripheral device capable of being operated in a plurality of switchable operational modes is provided. The multifunction peripheral device includes a reader unit with a light source and a light receiving element to receive the light reflected on the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184305 | PDF image-only dedicated print-flow pipeline structure and processing The present invention, as evidenced from the drawings and descriptions provided herein, can be characterized in various, different, through unifying, ways. For example, from a methodologic point of view, the invention may be seen as providing a method which (1) proc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179541 | Image forming apparatus In continuous printing of plural sheets of recording paper, a controlling section of an image forming apparatus corrects a writing position for a first sheet of recording paper in accordance with an off-center amount detected by a carrying position sensor with respe... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179537 | Image forming apparatus, printing-mode setting method, and printer driver In an image forming apparatus enabling communication through a network and having a monochrome-printing mode and a color-printing mode, by, in a case where printing of a Web page downloaded through the network is instructed, determining whether or not there is any c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179540 | Image forming apparatus and management system utilizing counter and job log information for usage tracking An image forming apparatus is provided that holds counter information obtained by integrating a consumption of a consumable that depends on usage of service provided by the image forming apparatus. A log corresponding to the usage of the service is set in job log in... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179539 | Printing apparatus and print pattern setting device When a print pattern setting mode is set and a printing apparatus receives print data including object print data from an external device, all arrangement patterns where the object print data is located in each printing areas defined in template data are produced. A... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179538 | Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus and control method An image processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of image processing functions and storing plural pieces of identifier information. Each respective piece of identifier information corresponds to each respective one of the plurality of image processi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174709 | Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method The image data processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store image data having a process setting. The image data processing apparatus includes a selection screen display unit to display the one or more image data stored in the storage unit and to display a s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169630 | Methods and apparatus for analyzing electronic documents and digital printing systems Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving a PDL File that describes a print job, processing the PDL commands in the file, identifying print settings and printer factors that may affect the entire print job, and reporting such print settings and printer factor... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169627 | Image outputting system There is described an image outputting system including a controlling apparatus and an image outputting apparatus. The image outputting apparatus is provided with an inputting unit to input a change instruction with respect to the print products and a setting-change... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169628 | Method and system for streaming images to wireless devices A method for streaming media. The method can include requesting, at a client, a first portion of raster data from a server. The raster data can be referenced in a scalable vector graphics (SVG) document. The first portion of raster data and a selection can be receiv... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169629 | Print control with interfaces provided in correspondence with printing methods Display control is made so as to obtain an optimum setting picture plane in accordance with a change in designation of an outputting method of a distribution printing, a multiple-address printing, an automatic substitute printing, or the like without allowing the us... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164768 | Printers and print methods for image data with security settings A printer which has a direct-printing function for reading and printing information stored in a storage device and which includes: an interface unit which receives the storage device, the storage device storing file information including content information for prin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164764 | Image processing apparatus and image processing system When an instruction to execute an image processing from a user is accepted through an operation panel, a control section temporarily stores image data read from an original or externally received image data in an HDD, and then, outputs processing information related... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164765 | Information processing apparatus, controlling method, and control program for the same A program causes a computer to function as a specification unit configured to, with respect to data to be output that is stored in a predetermined output storage area, specify an order of outputting the data to be output, a state switching unit configured to switch ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164767 | Print driver with processed print data management capability A print driver is configured to store, retrieve and re-print processed print data that has been generated by the print driver. Processed print data may be stored locally or remotely and may be stored in a secure manner. The print driver may also be configured to sav... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164766 | Electronic format file content sensitive user interface A method is provided for enabling adaptive print job content processing as a function of the electronic format and content of files, received by a digital print production environment providing access to a display in the form of a user interface able to select job c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159687 | Method and system for page exception programming utilizing metadata A method and system for automatically generating page exception programming based on user-defined rules is disclosed. A page specific metadata in a PDL file can be evaluated against specific rules to automatically create page exception programming. An embedded PDL d... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159689 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, image processing program, and storage medium storing image processing program An image forming apparatus that can reduce a difference in fog or image density between two facing pages of a booklet formed after duplex printing is provided. A CCD line sensor inputs a series of pieces of image data whose order of printing has been determined in a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159690 | Image processing apparatus and control program for image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus is provided which includes a reading unit configured to read image data of a double-page original having a binding part, an output unit configured to generate output based on the image data, and a processing unit. The processing unit is... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159691 | Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information output method In a composite machine provided with a copy mode and a print mode, an operation history of each operation mode is accurately timed and log information concerning an electric power of the composite machine for processing various jobs such as the copy mode and the pri... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159688 | Automated systems and methods for prepress workflow processing Methods and systems for adaptively deferring prepress operations are disclosed. A prepress workflow system may analyze a workflow to determine whether the performance of one or more prepress operations in the workflow can be deferred to a printing device. A deferred... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159692 | Automatic and transparent document archiving An automatic archiving system makes document archiving largely transparent to the user. In one embodiment, documents scanned in or printed during the course of office equipment operation are automatically archived. When a document is copied, printed, or faxed, a doc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154740 | Image processing apparatus for concatenating a read document image, method of generating an index of a concatenated image, and computer-readable recording medium having index generation program recorded An image processing apparatus includes a scanner for reading out documents, a first extraction unit for extracting text contained in document images, a second extraction unit for extracting at least one Web address from the text, a fetch unit for obtaining at least ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154737 | Method and system for estimating color ink usage for a print job element Methods and systems for estimating the amount of color ink that will be used to print a print job element classify individual color drawing objects of the print job element in a pre-raster image process (pre-RIP) format into drawing object classes and apply predeter... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154739 | Printer and image output apparatus A printer includes a display displaying an image of predetermined image data selected from a plurality of image data sorted in order; a recording head recording the image of the image data on printing paper; and a plate-shaped operation tab rotatably attached to an ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149431 | Systems and methods for managing printer settings in a networked computing environment Systems and methods for remotely managing printer settings that are associated with a remote printer connected to a client machine. A virtual printer driver, executing on a server, is used to generate and manage generate virtual printer queues associated with remote... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149427 | 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 leas... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149428 | Print controlling apparatus and information processing apparatus To restrain that an adjustment is performed by a printer driver by matching an order for setting items by a user and a priority order between the items when an adjustment is performed by a printer driver. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149429 | Control apparatus, program, computer-readable storage medium, imaging apparatus control system, and control method In acquiring setting information from a user, a multifunctional apparatus can be switched between (i) a first input mode in which an operation panel displays a setting window and accepts an operation from the user and (ii) a second input mode in which a printing sec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149432 | Information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium storing program for modifying print instructions An information processing apparatus that can be connected to an image-forming apparatus, a method, and a program used for the information processing apparatus are disclosed. The information processing apparatus comprises a control unit for controlling print-setting ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149430 | Dual-head or hybrid print driver supporting XPS and GDI print paths without performing data conversion between XPS to EMF or vice versa A method is provided for improving printing performance of a print job from a Graphics Device Interface (GDI) based Windows® application submitted to an XPSDrv printer driver which is utilized by a filter pipeline service, wherein a required conversion from an exis... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144344 | Image forming apparatus that arbitrates image processing operations An image reading device generates first capability information indicative of an image processing operation that can be performed by an image processing section. An image printing device generates second capability information indicative of an image processing operat... | 03/27/2012 |
