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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179572 | Communication device A communication device receives and stores image data, and searches for information image data in the image data. If found, the information image data is removed, thereby shortening the image so that it can be completely reproduced on one page without compressing or... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7852518 | Image inputting apparatus An image inputting apparatus has an image reading device and a storage medium that can be removably loaded into the image reading device, and a controller that causes the storage medium to store image data read through the image reading device. The apparatus include... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7436539 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium storing a program readable by a computer and program At the image processing time for an image data, a storage area to be secured is reduced, and moreover, the number of access processing times for the storage area which is required until the image processing result is obtained is sharply reduced, thereby shortening t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428077 | Electronic device controller, and method for controlling electronic device An electronic device controller includes an image sensor controller that controls an image sensor having an effective pixel region and a dummy pixel region, and a servo controller that performs servo control on a drive device that drives a carriage on which the imag... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423771 | On-demand image delivery server, image resource database, client terminal, and method of displaying retrieval result On-demand image delivery server delivering designated image data based on a request from a client terminal with one or a plurality of retrieval items as a retrieval condition inputted from the client terminal, made up by a retrieval function portion, which retrieves... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420697 | Communication apparatus A communication apparatus where transmission waiting time for an originating facsimile machine is shortened. A transmitter/receiver section of one of two communication control sections receives a transmission subscriber identification (TSI) signal from the originati... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417751 | Scanning to storage medium using scanning device A scanning device of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that includes a scanning mechanism and a removable storage media mechanism disposed within a housing of the scanning device. The scanning mechanism is to scan image data from scannable media. The remo... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414757 | Method for compressing printing hint data sent to a printer There is disclosed in embodiments methods relating to the compression of printing hints. The method in embodiments generates a first set of image pixels having corresponding printing hints. The printing hints are then adjusted to produce a second set of image pixels... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7405846 | Facsimile apparatus and data entry method thereof In the transfer and entry of one-touch dial data or speed dial data from a facsimile apparatus 1 to a facsimile apparatus 10, the respective sizes of one-touch dial memory and speed dial memory in the facsimile apparatus 10 are detected. The one... | 07/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7397573 | Option module, option program, printing system There is provided an option module for a printer, capable of preserving versatility while reducing possibility of ending in an error. An option module for realizing a specific function while being connected to a printer has a unit for inquiring to a printer connecte... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394579 | Data writing apparatus and image processing apparatus An image reading apparatus of the present invention converts respective pixel signals outputted from first, second and third shift registers to pixel data in an analog frontend IC and outputs pixel data as a serial data stream in a predetermined pattern. The address... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372399 | Network system for onboard equipment An onboard equipment network system comprises a radar core device, a GPS core device, an echo sounder core device and a sonar core device and display devices which are connected to a network through a hub. Each core device includes a detecting section or a positioni... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7365888 | Image read apparatus There is disclosed an image read apparatus including an image sensor including: first and second sensors including light receiving devices arranged in one row; a first shift register for outputting the pixel signals of all the light receiving devices of the first se... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366360 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362455 | Processing scanned pages Systems and methods of processing scanned pages are described. In one aspect, the invention features a method of processing a sequence of scanned pages of a document in accordance with which, page number indicators are extracted from scanned pages of the document. A... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355762 | Image inputting apparatus, method, and storage medium recording image inputting program A controlling unit of an image inputting apparatus increments a counter each time an instruction to start an image input is externally provided. An image compressing unit waits for the completion of the storage of an entire image in a buffer memory, and issues an in... | 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 |
| 7345796 | Image scanner for use in image forming apparatus An image scanner of the present invention corrects a lens position when a lens moving signal for moving a lens is obtained by extracting a luminance signal from an image signal output from a CCD sensor and an object is dislocated from a focus position of the lens at... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342675 | Systems and methods for improved operation and troubleshooting of a printing device Systems and methods are described herein for improved operation and troubleshooting of a printing device. A printing device includes a master module wherein printing device operation data can be stored in non-volatile memory. The master module is provided with non-v... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340418 | Visual database for linking geography to seismic data A medium having a plurality of computer readable files relating to geophysical seismic data recorded thereon. The files include a map display having multiple levels of geographic detail and including a plurality of surface seismic data lines. A plurality of compress... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340544 | Method of using bus and bus interface A method of using a bus, includes: determining whether a subject unit among a plurality of units corresponding to masters obtaining a bus use permission from an arbiter uses the bus as a master to transfer data to/from a first unit corresponding to a slave; and conv... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340157 | Portable transcription device and method of the same priority A portable transcription device includes a reader module, a recording module, and a control module. The reader module is used to read data contained in a first storage medium of a first file system, and the recording module is used to record data into a second stora... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339708 | Image forming apparatus in which at least one application function can be added to copying function An image forming apparatus for performing at least a copying function includes an engine board, an image reading unit, an image forming unit, a controller board detachably connected to the engine board to add at least one application function to the copying function... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336402 | Image reading apparatus Since a power supply circuit for a controller (31) and a power supply circuit for a buffer storage unit (32) are independently provided, the power voltage for the buffer storage unit (32) need only be reduced to obtain a corresponding reduction ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336387 | Image processing device A color printer 20 allocates all of the image processing memory resources for image processing on image data GD lined up in the main scanning direction of a print head IH, secures an amount of memory resources for each of the lined up image data GD, and relea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336385 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing system includes an information processor for transmitting image data to an image processor together with device information, and plural image processors for performing, according to the device information, processes to the transmitted image... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327501 | Method for acquiring document images with a paper feed scanner A method for acquiring document images with a paper feed scanner. The paper feed scanner includes a scanning module for scanning a document at a scanning position, a motor for driving the document, and a memory for storing image data. The method includes turning the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327483 | Document reading device A document reading device is provided with a reading unit for reading a document and generating image data corresponding to an image formed on the document. The image data is stored in an external memory that is detachably attached to a slot of the device. The opera... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319484 | Image processing method, an image processing apparatus, an image input device, a photographing device, a photographing system, a communication device, a communication system, and a storage medium A method for processing images comprises the steps of performing the reception of data through the net work, inputting image data obtainable in accordance with the designated input mode, managing the storage of the data received in the receiving step and the image d... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315311 | Radiographic image processing apparatus, radiographic image processing method, computer program for achieving radiographic image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium for recording computer program A radiographic image processing apparatus comprises: an input means for inputting a corresponding point and a corresponding direction with respect to each of plural radiographic images respectively having mutually overlapping areas; a parallel shift means for parall... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310117 | Video signal format secondary-conversion method, time code signal transmission method, and time code transmitting apparatus When a time code signal corresponding to an image signal, to which a format conversion changing the number of frames per second is executed, is transmitted, information indicating a frame position where image data is changed through the format conversion in the imag... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7301681 | System and method for processing documents with four-line CCD sensor An image forming apparatus includes a four line CCD which produces RGB data and K data that are read out selectably, and a selector which selects whether to output the RGB data that is provided from the four line CCD. The image forming apparatus also includes a stor... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289235 | Information processing device, information processing system, method for controlling information processing device, storage medium and control program In order to perform optimal character registration and a printing process depending on a language, in an information processing device connected to a printer having a first registration area and a second registration area as font registration areas, registration amo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286720 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277207 | Recording device A recording device includes an image retrieval unit, a memory, an image forming unit, and a control unit. The image retrieval unit retrieves images of the document pages as document image data. The control unit begins retrieving document image data from the memory a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277118 | Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping ... | 10/02/2007 |
