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A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7315390 | Identity-based imaging inbound facsimile service A method and systems for saving a facsimile message to a personal image repository as a facsimile image in a format compatible with multiple computer operating systems for use with an identity-based imaging system. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315387 | Print control method and apparatus, and print system A spool file (303) holds intermediate data of a print job to be executed. When a test print process is executed while designating this intermediate data, the intermediate data is converted into a command to be sent to a printer (1500), thus executing t... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315391 | Managing digital images Printing and archiving digital images. A method embodiment of the present invention includes identifying digital images, and generating and printing a scannable proof sheet having selectors that when marked indicate that one or more identified digital images are to ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315389 | Electronic document assembly, proofing and printing system The present invention is for a system that allows images to be managed and manipulated on a server by using a web browser. Images may be scanned, printed, faxed, copied, viewed, merged, edited or electronically manipulated across a network, such as the Internet or a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312902 | Background data recording and use with document processing Systems, methods and program products for recording a document's background data during front-end generation of the document, and inserting a background data identifier on the document. In addition, the invention provides for use of the background data for document ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312884 | Image reading apparatus selectively connectable to image forming apparatuses via a network When performing remote copying between different apparatuses on a network, authentication of a user ID at the original-reading side is appropriately performed. A copying machine, serving as an image reading apparatus, selects and connects a copying machine, serving ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312885 | Image communication apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an image communication apparatus capable of preventing the useless use of not-cheaped BJ ink owing to the innocent behavior of an infant or the like, and capable of preventing the disturbance of the rhythm of a home l... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310158 | Communication apparatus capable of communication with other apparatuses through wireless communication, communication system having the same communication apparatus, and method for controlling the same Wireless mode between a scanner and an image communication apparatus is changed when the scanner completes read of an image, when the image is sent from the scanner to the image communication apparatus by the operation of the scanner, or depending on presence or abs... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310773 | Removal of extraneous text from electronic documents Method and apparatus for removing lines of extraneous text from a document. Similarities are identified between lines of text on each page and corresponding lines on a selected subset of pages. Different weight values are associated with different line numbers of te... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308419 | Method and system for tracking consumer awareness of brand-names A method and system allowing the assessment of the strength of at least one mark relative to at least one other mark. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to displaying at least two marks as activation mechanisms for a print-shopping-list command,... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307762 | Image input/output control method and image input/output apparatus In the case in which an image processing mode is a high-speed copy mode in which follow-up control is possible, setting is made to perform “follow-up control” for setting a mode for not compressing an image or a fixed length compression mode for an image read by... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307759 | Method and equipment for automatically performing color/monochrome judging of an original A copier and method for automatically determining whether the original is color or monochrome and generating a corresponding copy. The copier comprises a scanner which generates RGB data from the document, a color/monochrome processor which determines whether the do... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307750 | Image forming apparatus, memory control apparatus and memory control method An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium based on an image data output from a page memory having a plurality of consecutive pages each having a predetermined size. The image forming apparatus calculates a number of pages of the page memory req... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307746 | Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program The user certainly grasps a processing result of a job requested to a peripheral apparatus during a job process or within a predetermined period after the job process. In the peripheral apparatus, function information showing a function which is used in the job proc... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307745 | Web-based print server and client A printing process of print target data downloaded from a web server using a plug-in, which can be run from a browser for accessing data held in the web server, can be easily realized. In an information processing apparatus for downloading print target data from a w... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307742 | Information processing method, information processing apparatus, program for information processing apparatus, and storage medium To perform control so as to acquire a list of print style information stored in an output device, specify a particular piece of print style information in the acquired list, generate print data associated with the specified piece of print style information, and stor... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304760 | Providing capabilities matching for cluster printing Systems and methods for providing capabilities matching in a printing environment, including performing copy splitting, document splitting, color separation, pool printing, finishing, sheet assembly, and the like. Capabilities needed to perform a print job are match... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304763 | Image processing apparatus and method Sets of pixel data obtained by dividing entered image data into a predetermined number of items of data are stored in storage means in a predetermined order, and conversion processing is executed for obtaining individual items of pixel data of an output image by app... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304764 | Information processing apparatus, printing control method, and storage medium product An N-page printing function set on the basis of a physical sheet is provided by a printing control program installed in an information processing apparatus. In the information processing apparatus when designating of N-page printing, in which drawing data of N pages... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304648 | Generating one or more linear blends A method (1005) generates one or more linear blends. Initially, the method has a list of already received one or more fill-paths defining a current linear blend, and a newly received fill-path, where the fill-paths each comprise a single colored parallelogram... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305620 | Method and apparatus for previewing print data and recording media thereof A data converter 14 converts a spooled print control code into a display data of a predetermined structure. The converted data is displayed on a displaying device. The user checks the displayed data. When the data is to be edited, the user designates the regi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304755 | Facsimile apparatus, a method of displaying advertisement information through the facsimile apparatus and a communication system provided with the facsimile apparatus A facsimile apparatus includes a network interface device connected to a network and capable of transmitting and receiving facsimile data therebetween; an advertisement information acquiring device for acquiring advertisement information from an advertisement server... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304761 | Data retrieval method The data retrieval method causes image processing information used to perform an image processing operation on an image and data for retrieval used for specifying the image to correspond to each other so as to register them in advance in a database as image processi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304758 | Dynamically updating a printer driver Systems and methods for dynamically installing or updating a printer driver on a computer device without requiring a user to initiate the installation or update. In a system that includes a computer device, a printer device and a printer driver source, a print job i... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301659 | Systems and methods for use of profiles in multifunction devices A system and method for the selection and execution of a profile. The system and method comprise a data store capable of storing profiles, a user console allowing interaction between a user and a multifunction device, a communication interface adapted to allow commu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301668 | Printing apparatus with generating means for generating a mask pattern comprising a plurality of planes, control method therefor, and program A CPU generates a mask pattern by generating patterns corresponding to a predetermined number of times in the sub-scanning direction in accordance with the number of printing elements of a printhead which corresponds to the amount by which scanning is performed once... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301655 | Printer formatter in a removable card A method and system for integrating a printer controller with a PC card. This system includes an office machine and a removable PC card that can be operationally coupled with the office machine. The office machine has a rendering engine for rendering images and a PC... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301657 | Printer including video decoder A printer includes an interface for receiving compressed digital video; and a circuit for performing video-decoding of the compressed video received by the interface. Such a printer can print selected video frames, without the assistance of a personal computer. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301669 | Color printing apparatus A color printing apparatus includes a printer driver for receiving a print instruction of print data issued from an application program, and for rasterizing the print data to produce con-tone/multi-bits bitmap data and bi-tone/single-bit bitmap data; a page memory f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301653 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes: an input part inputting image data; a storage part storing the input image data; an output part outputting the stored image data; a conversion part performing conversion on the output image data so that the data format thereof... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301661 | Communication terminal device and method of controlling same A communication terminal device which comprises an SIP call control unit that performs call control by using an SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), a recognition unit that recognizes that a calling has become an error according to a response signal sent back from a c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301672 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method Information that is required for laying out character string data is entered, as are character string data. The printing attributes for the data are then edited, and are employed to extract contour information. Thereafter, the extracted contour information is employ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298522 | Print control system and medium A print control system for controlling a print of print target data containing color specifying information includes a data distinguishing module (12) for distinguishing between pieces of element data contained in the print target data, and a color adjusting ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298512 | Printing device with embedded database connector Data is input to a printing device such as a multifunction printer. The data is converted to text data if required. An embedded database driver in the printing device converts the data to a format that is compatible with the database. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298514 | Network print system and printing method When printing apparatuses in a print shop cannot realize print setting shown by downloaded print set information, substitute print setting of a smaller difference degree is proposed to the user or a plurality of print settings are proposed to the user, thereby enabl... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298510 | Image enlargement through poster printing by combining pattern data with image data A printing system for enlarging/printing each document page by using a plurality of print sheets or for printing each page of a document upon superimposing a pattern on each page includes, in a printer driver which supplies print data to a printer, a user interface ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298515 | Image reproduction system for reproducing a still image from a video tape A system, method, and a computer-readable medium storing a program to execute the method includes a reading unit or step for reading, from a storage medium which stores plural still image information and time information for each still image information, the still i... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298520 | Image printing system Image plus event information printing system, which comprises an image data inputting means for inputting a datum of original image, an event information database which memorizes the data of current and/or passing events information being sorted with one or more ite... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298519 | Data register arrangement for an inkjet printer Communication between a micromechanical printhead interface and a printer processor involves the exchange of numerous operational parameters. A register is provided to allow the processor to parameterize a print as well as received print progress feedback from the p... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298506 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method for preventing counterfeiting An image forming apparatus has a collating section which collates image information from a scanner with a specific image and determines whether or not there is a same portion, and a line delay section which outputs the image information after delaying the image info... | 11/20/2007 |
