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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8040574 | Interface circuit for utilizing a facsimile machine to a PC as a scanner or printer Apparatus for interfacing a conventional facsimile machine with a PC enabling the use of the facsimile machine as a scanner or printer. A first switch assembly selectively couples the PC modem and facsimile machine either to independent telephone lines in a normal m... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7787156 | Facsimile device A facsimile device connected to a public line in parallel with an external telephone is provided. The facsimile device includes a facsimile circuit configured to send and receive image data through the public line, a voltage detector that detects a voltage of the pu... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7626734 | Projector Aspects of the invention provide a projector capable of projecting desired image information by enabling the user to select easily and promptly an image input interface terminal into which the desired image information is inputted, among image input interface termin... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7580160 | Modem and facsimile apparatus capable of monitoring G3 communications via ISDN A facsimile use modem apparatus includes an analog interface formed from a silicon data access arrangement interfacing with an analog telephone line. A digital interface is provided to interface with an ISDN line. A signal converting device is provided to convert a ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7489423 | Interface circuit for utilizing a facsimile machine coupled to a PC as a scanner or printer Apparatus for interfacing a conventional facsimile machine with a PC enabling the use of the facsimile machine as a scanner or printer. A first switch assembly selectively couples the PC modem and facsimile machine either to independent telephone lines in a normal m... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7433068 | Digital transmitter device A digital transmitter device to execute a network browser application to access an e-mail account of an e-mail server and retrieve data stored in thereat. The digital transmitter device can scan and send an image to a network address along with the retrieved data. | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423785 | Job recovery for scan to email A document is scanned in a scanning device to obtain electronic data. The electronic data represents information on the document. The electronic data is stored to a storage device. An error then occurs either before or after beginning transmission of the data to an ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420700 | Image processing system, image forming system, computer program, and recording medium An image processing system includes an image input unit having a plurality of image input channels; a parallel image data processing unit that receives image data from the image input channels of the image input unit, divides the image data received into a plurality... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7411703 | Facsimile network A facsimile network includes a plurality of nodes (10)-(14) which are disposed at different locations in the world. An originating fax machine (16) is associated with one of the nodes (10) for transmitting a fax over a local public teleph... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408657 | Image input and output system, method and recording medium having a common initiation portion An image input and output system is provided in which a common operation screen for a plurality of image output devices having different attributes is displayed. Based on attribute information of each of printers, the server generates a signal for generating an oper... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403312 | Communication terminal device A communication terminal device includes a first storage device storing a transmission reservation table which includes information of communication jobs to be transmitted, a second storage device storing image data to be transmitted, and a transmitter transmitting ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403313 | Automatic scanning parameter setting device and method An automatic scanning parameter setting device and method. The automatic scanning parameter setting device is a scanner that automatically sets the scanning parameters of a plurality of scan images so that scanning can be conducted in batches. The automatic scanning... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394578 | Facsimile device reading lines of image data divisively in a sub-scanning direction This facsimile device comprises inputting means for inputting image data of a subject copy having a width in a main scanning direction larger than an A3-size width, reading means for divisively reading lines of the image data in a sub-scanning direction by dividing ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394576 | Facsimile apparatus for incorporating own facsimile number into transmitter terminal information A facsimile apparatus can automatically register its own facsimile number into TTI, the own facsimile number being previously registered in the facsimile apparatus. In the facsimile apparatus, information containing the own facsimile number is input to the facsimile... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391539 | Image reader, image forming apparatus and storage medium storing control program of the image reader An image reader is provided with a display changing signal input means for inputting a signal to change the display of the display panel, wherein the control unit is provided with a function of, when a display changing signal is inputted from the display changing si... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391532 | Image correction in image sensing system including image sensing apparatus and image processing apparatus In an image scanning system which includes an image scanning apparatus for scanning an image using a solid-state image sensing element, and an image processing apparatus, the scanned image undergoes image correction. The image scanning apparatus informs the image pr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388683 | Fax check/money order automatically from ATM An automatic teller machine capable of sending a facsimile of a check, money order, or other payment instrument to a payee designated by a user. The user inserts cash or allows an account to be debited to pay for the payment instrument, and the automatic teller mach... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7375860 | Facsimile manager A system for managing printing and scanning and faxing functionality of a facsimile machine via a bi-directional parallel interface with which the facsimile machine is equipped. More particularly, a facsimile manager is provided for managing image files connected wi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373617 | Chip design-in aid apparatus and method thereof A chip design-in aid system, wherein the chip has a plurality of chip controlling registers for storing at least one parameter. The system includes a user interfance for inputting user setting data, the user setting data corresponding to at least one function of the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372601 | Modular image processing device A modular image processing device includes a camera module configured to capture images to be printed. A memory module is configured to store data representing the captured images. A printer module is configured to print images from the stored data. The modules incl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369258 | Network communication device A network communication device measures an elapsed time from the transmission of facsimile data prepared by an e-mail message composing section to the reception of a delivery verification response by a clock section. In accordance with the measurement, a time managi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369280 | Portable system for capturing images and information A portable imaging system transportable by a user between a first and second location for scanning an image for later production of an image product. The system includes (a) a first and second member movable between an open and closed position; (b) a scanning area a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369279 | System and method to restrict copying, scanning and transmittal of documents or parts of documents A document-security system, methodology, resulting secured documents, and related matters, regarding establishing flexible and versatile control over the acts of scanning, copying, faxing, e-mailing, or otherwise reproducing or converting into another data format, s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369281 | Facsimile device and a facsimile device monitoring system The invention relates to a facsimile device and a facsimile device monitoring system. The result of a transmission can be promptly informed to the user. When an error occurs, the file of the memory transmission can be simply erased, or the address and the transmissi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365871 | Apparatus for capturing, converting and transmitting a visual image signal via a digital transmission system An image capture, conversion, compression, storage and transmission system provides a data signal representing the image in a format and protocol capable of being transmitted over any of a plurality of readily available transmission systems and received by readily a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366757 | Communication apparatus, communication method, communication system, and storage medium Image data communication equivalent to facsimile communication using a public network is realized on e-mail communication. When a communication apparatus for transmitting/receiving e-mail data by connecting to the Internet is to communicate e-mail data having facsim... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365885 | Scanner with foolproof function of inputting units and method of functioning A method of providing the inputting units of the scanner with a foolproof function. Initially, while a specific inputting unit is activated, such as a push button being pushed, the connection between the operation of the scanner and other inputting units is terminat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362460 | Techniques for managing automatic folding functionality in facsimile protocol Support for automatic folding functionality in facsimile (“fax”) machines is described. In one aspect, a method for managing folding by a fax machine comprises sending a signal from a receiver fax machine (“receiver”) indicating that the receiver has folding... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362477 | Image reader An image reader, detachably attached to an electronic apparatus, for functionally expanding the electronic apparatus and for reading an image on a medium, includes an interface connectible to and disconnectible from the electronic apparatus a housing having an image... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359500 | Method for carrying out predetermined actions by a receiving telecom device using an answer prefix A method for carrying out predetermined actions by a telecom receiving device. A predetermined answer string is entered and stored in a memory portion of a receiving telecom device. Incoming calls are checked for appropriateness. Accepted incoming calls are monitore... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359075 | Connection management system for creating and releasing connections to a print server Print server load is reduced efficiently by deleting information about print clients from a print server based on precise conditions peculiar to a print system. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355758 | Automated facsimile monitoring and displaying methods and related systems Automated facsimile monitoring methods, systems, and computer program products can track response data from multiple facsimiles sent to different locations and generate electronically accessible failure reports to allow for error or faults to be tracked and assessed... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352494 | Pixel block data generating device and pixel block data generating method In order to reduce the capacity of a line memory when converting image data that are input in a raster scan order into pixel block data such as 8×8 pixels for JPEG compression and the like, data on the first 0th to 7th lines is written in an 8H line memory in a ras... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349011 | Image pickup control apparatus, image pickup control method, image pickup control system, and storage medium In an image pickup control apparatus capable of remotely and reliably controlling an image pickup apparatus from another apparatus, control data for controlling the image pickup apparatus is stored in advance and is transmitted to the image pickup apparatus when the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349118 | Confirmation of secure data file erasure A process that provides a status report following a request for the destruction of data files a user wishes to completely erase from a storage medium, such as a hard drive or removable disk. A system administrator can select a quantity of and pattern to be used in o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337397 | Separation, transmission and display of character and non-character data A portable terminal receives document data from a data transmission device, separates character area and non-character area from the received document data, designates a display method for data in correspondence with each area, and outputs to display the document da... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336300 | Image pickup control apparatus, image pickup control method, image pickup control system, and storage medium In an image pickup control apparatus capable of remotely and reliably controlling an image pickup apparatus from another apparatus, control data for controlling the image pickup apparatus is stored in advance and is transmitted to the image pickup apparatus when the... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333225 | Printing system, printing apparatus, user created print information data providing method and user created print information data providing program A printing system includes a plurality of terminal devices and a printing apparatus. The terminal devices and the printing apparatus are connected with each other via a network line. When an input panel is operated to start print job description processing, it is de... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330282 | Document delivery system, document delivery apparatus, document delivery method, program for executing the method and storage medium storing the program A document delivery apparatus is provided, which is capable of performing automatic delivery processing of document information (e.g. received fax documents and scan documents) that has been created by devices, such as registering the documents in folders of a prede... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327480 | Server apparatus and internet facsimile apparatus and communication terminal capability exchanging method In a server apparatus, a registration processing section analyzes a capability information transmission mail received by an E-mail communication section, and extracts capability information. Next, a sender's address and capability information are made to correspond ... | 02/05/2008 |
