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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7589857 | Image forming apparatus and address information processing method An image forming apparatus and an address book process request processing method are disclosed to improve access security to an address book. The image forming apparatus include an information storage part, a request receipt part and a request processing part. The i... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589858 | Image processing apparatus and method, image output unit, as well as digital camera and portable terminal using the image processing apparatus and output unit An image processing apparatus for processing pieces of color image data each including a plurality of sub-pieces of color image data pertaining to the plurality of color components respectively comprises: initial color image inputting means; data dividing means resp... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589859 | Print apparatus, print control method, storage medium storing computer-readable program, and program A print apparatus comprises a memory for storing compressed print information of at least two or more pages transmitted from a host computer, and executes image formation by extracting the compressed print information read from the memory. When nonconformity between... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589860 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for processing image data stored on a memory for rendering an image on a device The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing image data stored on a memory for rendering an image on a device. The method comprises dividing the image data into a number of portions of image data, each portion consisting of a number of untruncat... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586637 | Power management in a printer system A printer system includes a printer engine that produces an engine power status signal and a printer controller that produces a controller power status signal. A power management interface receives the engine power status signal and the controller power status signa... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586638 | Print control apparatus and printing system Systems and methods for reliably canceling a DMA transfer mode and accelerating printer initialization. A host device 3 for controlling a printer having a DMA transfer mode for printing by transferring image data associated with a received image print command... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583402 | Image forming device and image forming system This image forming device 1 comprises an image processing unit 9, an HDD 23 and an image forming unit. The image processing unit 9 is capable of instructing the output of the image data sent from the PC 43. The HDD 23 is con... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583401 | Portal for distributing business and product information A portal for transferring information between a master server and a third-party client using a transportable replicating server is provided. The portal may be particularly useful for and may provide a significant cost advantage and benefit when access to front and b... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580149 | Method and system for identification of repeat print jobs using object level hash tables A method and system for identifying print jobs that are repeats of a previously completed job utilizing an object level hash table. Received print jobs can be parsed into meaningful classes of objects and a table of hash values can be computed for objects in each cl... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7576884 | Image output system, client terminal device, image output device, and image output method using e-mail to inform client of output status In an image output system in which a client terminal device is connected via a network to an image output device, the client terminal device contains a first transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting/receiving text data containing control information related to a... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7573597 | Color image forming apparatus In the event of a failure of one of the image storing devices provided to process colors separately, the image data allocated for the failed image storing device is sent to the image storing devices being allocated other colors and is stored therein. In the event of... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561295 | Information management apparatus, information output system, portable terminal, and information outputting method An information management apparatus 50 according to the present invention comprises: a database 30d for storing information relevant to a printer 40 therein; output request reception means 20a for receiving an output request... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7557949 | Inkjet print control apparatus An inkjet print control apparatus connected with a processor and a memory through a bus. The memory stores print image data. The inkjet print control apparatus fetches the print image data stored in the memory for further data operation in order to drive one or more... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554688 | Method and apparatus for printing image using memory card A computer system printing an image using an image printing unit, which prints the image read from an external memory card, and a personal computer with a monitor connected to the image printing unit. If the memory card with the image data has been inserted into the... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7548337 | Image forming device This image forming device 1 comprises a control unit, a connector interface 31, an external memory 33, and an image forming unit. The control unit instructs the output of a predetermined image data. The connector interface 31 is connected... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7538901 | Multifunction peripheral with efficient use of memory resources An apparatus for forming an image, in which hardware resources for use in the forming of images are provided, and one or more processes run based on programs in respect of the forming of images. The apparatus includes an off-line unit which puts the one or more proc... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538900 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system An image processing apparatus includes an image capture apparatus with a reduced size for capturing still image data. An extracting circuit extracts at least an area of still image data. A dividing circuit divides the area extracted by the extracting circuit into a ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538902 | Print control program and information processing apparatus A print control program, which is executed by an information processing apparatus so as to transmit print data to an image-forming device and record an image, causes the information processing apparatus to re-spool as a second spool file print data that has already ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535591 | Print control method, apparatus and program for displaying a preview image This invention provides a convenient print control program, and print control method and apparatus. To accomplish this, this invention provides a print control program which can control a printing apparatus to print a plurality of images having a predetermined order... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535592 | Image processing apparatus for simultaneous processing of a plurality of print data This invention relates to an image processing apparatus capable of processing plural jobs at a high rate. The image processing apparatus is comprised of first and second buffer memory devices, which are independent of each other and configured to be simultaneously a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535593 | Printing apparatus, data processing method for printing apparatus, and printing system A serial type printing apparatus includes: a reception buffer that stores printing data of respective arrays of printing elements subjected to adjustment by a first unit concerning a relative position in a scanning direction among the respective arrays of printing e... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532349 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, storage medium, program, and color image forming system In an image processing method which is executed in an image processing system to which a client computer and a color image forming apparatus are connected, profile administration data of the color image forming apparatus is received, and, when it is judged based on ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532350 | Printing method and printing apparatus Provided is a printing method and the like in which the copying time can be shortened. A printing method for printing a print image on a medium comprises: a step of storing, in a memory area, image data that has been generated by reading an image in an original; a s... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532352 | Image forming apparatus, information processing method, and network system An object of this invention is to improve user friendliness when an image forming apparatus outputs accessibly stored data having undergone an image forming process by another image forming apparatus. To achieve this object, an image forming apparatus according to t... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532351 | Apparatus, method and program for producing small prints The invention provides an apparatus, method, and program for producing small prints, in which function of using an input character string for transfer at different timing is further strengthened to improve usability of the user. In the invention, already produced in... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7528984 | Printing apparatus, data processing method for printing apparatus, and printing system In a printing apparatus including a reception buffer which stores setting data and printing data of printing element arrays transmitted from a connected host device, and a printing buffer which stores the printing data of the printing element arrays in association w... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528982 | Printer, print instruction terminal, printing system, printing program, and printing method A printer is provided that stores raw data. Printing is performed with the material data merged together in accordance with a print instruction from a print instruction terminal. The material data is rendered in advance and then stored in a compressed form. However,... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528983 | Image processing system, information processing apparatus and method, image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program An image processing system includes an information processing apparatus for editing edit text data for processing an image and converting the edit text data into a command for processing the image, and an image processing apparatus for processing the image on the ba... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525681 | Printing apparatus and print-medium detection method A printing apparatus for printing on a print medium in accordance with information transmitted from a printer driver is provided with first and second automatic sheet feeders capable of feeding respective ones of print media of types that differ from each other, a m... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522303 | Printer having multiple interface units that output status information The printer 10 includes a user interface UI and a PC interface PIF that register specification information that specifies necessary status information, as well as a status management module DSM that, when status information regarding which the specification i... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7515293 | Image forming apparatus and method of acquiring memory area An image forming apparatus and a method of acquiring a memory area are disclosed for preventing a problem that image data cannot be converted due to failure of memory acquisition. The image forming apparatus includes an image data conversion part, a resource managem... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511850 | Storage media control circuit and apparatus including same A storage media control circuit for controlling inputs to and outputs from a plurality of types of storage media of different shapes and specifications is equipped with detection terminals provided for respective ones of the storage media of the plurality of types i... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511851 | Method of and apparatus for forming an image, and computer program The network printer obtains information from a Web page over the network, and stores this obtained information together with a URL thereof and the time when this information was received into the storage. When a print request from the outside via a console panel is ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505167 | Information processing apparatus, method, and computer product, for file naming An information processing apparatus includes a character identifying unit that performs character identification with respect to an image in an image data. A file name setting unit sets a file name of the image data based on a character or a character string obtaine... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505165 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes a CPU. An image file created by the CPU is stored in a directory which is created on a hard disk and a circularly successive directory number is assigned to. When the number of image files accumulated in a latest directory reach... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505166 | Method of controlling print job schedule and printing system using the method A printing system including a first memory unit storing a printer operating system and at least two interpreters; a second memory unit having an operating area for the printer operating system, an operating area and a heap area for each interpreter of the first memo... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505168 | Distributed client side printing methods and systems Various distributed client side printing methods and systems are described. In at least some embodiments, printer control and the job handling functions are bifurcated or separated by allowing jobs, drivers, settings and the like to be controlled by the print server... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502136 | Digital copier with image scanner apparatus and offline image data and control data interface A digital copying machine comprising an image scanner part for reading an original image to reproduce image data of the original image, a laser printer part for printing an image according to given image data, a removable memory card, and a reader/writer of the memo... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499192 | Process cartridge for image forming device A process cartridge having a nonvolatile memory for storing prescribed information corresponding to addresses is detachably attached to a main body of an image forming device. The nonvolatile memory stores first destination information of “shipment destination” ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495792 | Programmable physical document A programmable document includes a physical document having at least one sheet of material and information recorded thereon and a computer attached to the physical document. The computer includes an input/output device, a processor and a memory storing the recorded ... | 02/24/2009 |
