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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189226 | Preventing double input of scanned documents An image forming apparatus (1000) is equipped with a scanner (1002) for scanning a paper document to thereby convert it to document data; a document memory (1008) for storing the document data; and a history memory (1007) for holding a hi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189228 | Image forming apparatus, print control method and control program An image forming apparatus is equipped with at least a first analyzing section to analyze first print setting information included in the print data and described outside the main body of the document data, a second analyzing section to analyze second print setting ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189227 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image forming program An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes plural image output units, plural output image data converting units disposed for the corresponding image output units for converting image data of a predetermined format into image data o... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184330 | Image processing controller and printing apparatus Provided is an image processing controller for controlling a line head having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a non-linear shape, the image processing controller including: a plurality of memory regions which stores raster data; an acquiring secti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184327 | Image data processing apparatus, image data processing method, and program The image rotation apparatus includes a first storage unit adapted to store compressed image data, and a decompression unit adapted to decompress the image data read out from the first storage unit, and segments the image data obtained from the decompression unit in... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184329 | Print processing execution apparatus, history information processing method, program, and recording medium A print processing execution apparatus includes a restriction information acquisition unit configured to acquire restriction information including processing information, a print processing execution unit configured to execute print processing based on a job, a dete... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184328 | Printing apparatus and control method for authenticating a user for operating the apparatus In a case that it is detected that an external memory is attached to a printing apparatus and that neither the access to the external memory nor a user operation occurs within a predetermined time period, an alert is issued to the effect that the external memory is ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184326 | Information dissemination multifunction device An information dissemination system that obtains information from a multifunction document production device that is programmed to store documents along with user provided dissemination level authorizations and with one or more keywords extracted from the document, ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179554 | Printer, control method of a printer and computer-readable recording medium In a printer, when a file is received from a personal computer connected by way of a USB port, an ordinary storage region in a FLASH ROM is recognized as a removable drive by the personal computer, which disables the writing management by a management table for mana... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174723 | Efficient printer control electronics An apparatus (such as a printer) including a combination engine controller circuit board having a integrated circuit (IC) chip configured to process (format) incoming data as well as to control the operations of the apparatus is disclosed. The IC chip is adapted to ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174722 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that minimizes the consumption of power during physical formatting of the hard disk drive or the deletion of data therefrom and to a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus has a non-volatile st... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169650 | Printing apparatus, method, and program for selecting, displaying, and printing group images According to this invention, the date range can be intuitively designated by designating up, down, left, and right directions, and images stored in a storage medium can be easily restricted to images which may be subjected to printing. In order to restrict images st... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164781 | Output system for unifying a documentary form relating to an event To provide an output system and an output device capable of easily unifying a documentary form relating to an event without increasing the number of work processes, in a system wherein output data is transmitted to an output device such as a printer, via a communica... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159708 | Apparatus for accelerated processing of print data by maximizing word-boundary accesses of image data A graphic-drawing processing unit performs a rendering process of print data with respect to a band memory or a page memory. When there is a rendering engine that performs a memory access using a memory word width as a minimum unit as a rendering environment, an arb... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159710 | Image scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus and image scanning method An image scanning apparatus according to the invention includes a face-side scanning unit and a back-side scanning unit that simultaneously scan both sides of an original, a page memory in which each image element outputted from the face-side scanning unit and the b... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159709 | Method for canceling a print job submitted to a printer A print job canceling method for a printer is described and is especially useful in a printer with relatively small buffer memory. When a print job is cancelled by the user using the printer's control panel, this method allows the printer controller to receive addit... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154759 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method and computer readable information recording medium An image forming apparatus transfers plot data stored in a first storing part of a side of a controller to a side of a writing engine. A second storing part temporarily stores the plot data from said first storing part. When data stored in the second storing part re... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154758 | 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 devi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149448 | Systems and methods for rapidly creating an image from a document A method of rapidly creating an image from a document is disclosed. Image data derived from a document is received at an imaging device. It is then determined whether the image data is in an image-ready format that can be directly processed by a marking engine. If t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149449 | Systems and methods for print scheduling In some embodiments of systems and methods for print scheduling, at least one of a plurality of entries in a request table associated with a printing device is updated with print job related information when a spool associated with a printing device is full. A prior... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149450 | Document management system, document management method, and storage medium In a document management system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in order to prevent a leakage of information, in a case where a copy of a document is transferred to a media, a deletion processing with respect to the document is disabled. Then, i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144358 | Providing demonstration page information in an imaging device Imaging devices incorporating semi-volatile NAND flash memory are described herein. According to various embodiments, demonstration page information may be stored in the semi-volatile NAND flash memory, which may be reused and incorporated back into the memory pool ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144359 | System for handling image data, image processing system, image processing apparatus, method for providing image data, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program An image processing system performs a specific process on first image data to generate second image data, and estimates, if it is specified that the second image data is to be stored into a portable storage medium, a necessary time for the second image data to be ge... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139255 | Image reading apparatus and control program for image reading apparatus for determining output range of image data based on reference-range information of such image data An image reading apparatus including: a reading device; a display device; an operable portion; an outputting portion which outputs the image data; an image-data storing portion which successively stores a prescribed amount of the image data; a reference-range-inform... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134737 | Printing apparatus and printing method The printing apparatus of the present invention comprises a scanner unit for reading an image in an original; an instruction unit for receiving an instruction from a user and instructing operation of reading the image with the scanner unit; and a printer unit for pr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134735 | Image forming device with storage, printing system, and print-file storage method thereof the renames files An image forming device and a print file storage method thereof, in which a file name of a print file transmitted from a host apparatus can be automatically modified to a file name designated by a user at a time of storing the file. The image forming device includes... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134736 | Image data processing apparatus and method An image data processing apparatus including: a reader that reads image data included an image file from an external storage medium, the image data being variable-length coded data of image blocks The reader performs a first reading processing for reading the image ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134738 | Data edition system, data edition method, data processing device, and server device This invention proposes arrangements for implementing processes free of signal degradation without entailing increased strains on transmission. Parameter information such as compression, decoding and editing parameters is stored in a database in correspondence with ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125673 | Image forming apparatus, recording medium including a recorded data processing program An image forming apparatus includes: a connection part for enabling an external memory apparatus to be connected thereto; a data retrieval part for retrieving output target data stored in the external memory apparatus connected to the connection part; an output part... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125674 | System and method for partial job interrupt of normal order of job queue of marking systems A method and system is provided for partial job interrupt of an on-going first print job to cause a contemporaneous parallel printing of a second print job. A plurality of marking engines associated with the storage device for receiving and storing a plurality of pr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115959 | Image processing device An image scanning device to which an external storage is detachably connected. The image scanning device is provided with an image scanning unit configured to scan an image formed on an original document and generate data representing the scanned image, a data stori... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111419 | Rasterizing device for DL object management A rasterizing device is provided with a first storage area capable of storing a downloaded DL object, and a rasterizer that creates bit-mapped data in band units by rasterizing data. With respect to a predetermined band in which a predetermined DL object is to be in... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111420 | Printer control apparatus and method of controlling the same, printer and method of controlling the same, reader and method of controlling the same, and image forming system A printer control apparatus can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enables efficient transfer of image data from the reader to the ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107117 | Information processing device, information collection device, information collection system, and method for management of information related functions An information processing device includes: a memory that stores function identifiers assigned to functions built into the information processing device, and function identifiers assigned to functions not built into the information processing device; a display contro... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107115 | Method and system for queue synchronization This invention relates to a methods and a printing system in which queues across one or more printing devices, such as printers, copiers, and the like, are automatically kept synchronized. The queues are placed into one or more pools. In some embodiments, one queue ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107116 | Image forming apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises a memory; a store control section to divide and store image data in plural vacant memory regions in the memory; and an image administrating information registering section to register each divided image data divided by the sto... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102557 | System and method for disabling access to non-volatile storage in a multi-function peripheral A multi-function peripheral (MFP) device having enhanced security for processed data is disclosed. The MFP includes both a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The MFP also includes a user interface configured to allow a user to prevent data from being stored ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094341 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and recording sheet An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a positional information reader, and a first controller. The printing unit performs printing on a recording sheet based on print information. The positional information reader reads positional information with reg... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085424 | Multiple-port print device A method that enables a multiple-port print device to perform efficient job management for each job even if the multiple-port print device is provided with parallel-processing-enabled multiple interfaces. The multiple-port print device includes a job boundary detect... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085425 | Information processing apparatus The present invention allows a printing process to be released from application software earlier. At the start of printing, the size of an available area in a RAM 11 is obtained. It is determined whether or not the size of total print data transmitted from a ... | 12/27/2011 |
