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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7907863 | Image forming apparatus with a writing unit An image forming apparatus according to the present invention can include an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet material having a memory capable of storing information, and a writing unit that is configured to send next use information to the memory, ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7668475 | Method of configuring a print system using a document key A method of configuring a printing system includes providing a document key having an initial image and providing a printing system that includes a memory storing a first system setting. The method also includes scanning the document key and validating the initial i... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7471913 | Image forming method and image forming device having profile read from radio IC chip An image forming method for forming an image on a paper supplied from a paper storage part of an image forming device includes the steps of reading paper information recorded in a radio IC chip attached to a paper provided in the paper storage part, recording inform... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7391986 | Image forming system for forming images on one side or both sides of recording media An image forming system includes a document conveying section that reversely conveys documents such that a front side and back side of the documents pass through a reading position, an image reading section for reading images on the documents conveyed to the reading... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369269 | Print toner density mode/print media default link A method for automatically selecting a print job parameter including the steps of ascertaining a first print job parameter and automatically selecting a second print job parameter based upon the first print job parameter. In one embodiment the method includes the st... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369785 | Image forming apparatus capable of forming at least one input image on at least one sheet surface and also of forming a selected prestored image on an otherwise blank surface of the sheet At forming an image only on one side of a sheet, an image forming unit is controlled by a control unit to form a back-side pattern image on the back side of the sheet. At forming images on both sides of sheets, when a blank side where no image is formed exists, simi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7337130 | Methods for automatically providing a personalized product A personalized product producing system enables customers to order a personalized product, such as a name card, a stamp, or a sticker/label, inexpensively and conveniently. Customers operate their own cellular phones to send personalized information to be engraved i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7313340 | Paper control of document processing A method and apparatus for using a sheet of paper to control document processing is described. In one embodiment, the method includes scanning a first sheet of paper and a first document, identifying one or more processing operations identified on the first sheet of... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310108 | Printing system A printing system includes first and second marking engines which are operatively connected to each other for printing images onto print media. A print media transport system collects printed media from the marking engines. The print media transport system includes ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7283758 | Apparatus for forming erasable and inerasable images and/or for detecting and erasing erasable images An image forming apparatus is capable of forming an image on any of an image-erasable recording medium having recording-medium identification information and a recording medium and is capable performing image formation according to a first mode for forming an erasab... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272334 | Image on paper registration alignment A method is provided for aligning images on media produced by one or more print engines in an integrated print system. The method includes printing a first pattern of first symbols on a first region of a print medium with a first print engine and printing a second p... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7258502 | Tape producing apparatus It is intended to provide a tape producing apparatus capable of printing on an appropriate printing medium with high quality based on data directly read from marks which are continuously printed on a release paper to show a type of a printing medium, with non-contac... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248809 | Method of indicating a paper insertion direction and a printer driver using the same A method of indicating a paper insertion direction, the method including displaying an image of a paper cassette when a user tries to insert a paper on which other contents are previously printed into the paper cassette to print predetermined contents; displaying an... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231171 | Image copying apparatus and image copying method The image copying apparatus of the present invention comprises a document drawing-in port for drawing an original document before reading operation in and a document discharging port for discharging the original document after reading operation, and copies images of... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222105 | Internet advertisement metering system and method A method and a system for metering an advertisement having a message to be presented to a plurality of users of a communications network, wherein the metering is used to count the number of times the message is actually presented to one or more users. The method com... | 05/22/2007 |
| RE39641 | Job information communication system for a printing system A transmission job originating station for controlling transmission of job information, based on the processing of a print job in a printing system, is provided. The control system includes a document generating subsystem for providing at least a portion of the prin... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213169 | Method and apparatus for performing imprecise bus tracing in a data processing system having a distributed memory An apparatus for performing imprecise bus tracing in a distributed memory symmetric multiprocessor system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a bus trace macro (BTM) module that can control the snoop traffic seen by one or more of the memory controllers in the data... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206532 | Multiple object sources controlled and/or selected based on a common sensor A sensor module is able to sense at least one aspect of objects produced by a plurality of object sources. Since one sensor module or set of sensor elements is used to examine output from the plurality of object sources, sensor to sensor variation is removed as a so... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190480 | Method and apparatus for organizing scanned images A system is provided for scanning batch-type documents containing indicia on either a single side or on two sides of each document sheet. Misfeeds through a scanning device are identified by comparison of an anticipated number of pages with an actual number of scann... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184154 | Method of generating printer setup instructions The invention is an improved method of generating setup instructions for use with a printing system having connected thereto one or more finishing devices. The inventions involves printing a sheet of setup instructions which the operator carries to the finishing dev... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184680 | Image forming method and image forming device having profile read from radio IC chip An image forming method for forming an image on a paper supplied from a paper storage part of an image forming device includes the steps of reading paper information recorded in a radio IC chip attached to a paper provided in the paper storage part, recording inform... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180610 | Facsimile apparatus When transmission of an image is performed by a double-side image transmitting function, and a cover sheet inserting function is used to automatically insert a cover sheet, a CPU transmits a blank sheet image as the image formed on the reverse side of the cover shee... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7154614 | Device and method for writing image information onto recording material In a device (1) for writing image information onto recording material (2), several separate images (B1 to B13) are assigned to the image information. Marks (M1 to M14) that are assigned to the several images (B1 to B | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142324 | Sensing media parameter information from marked sheets The described arrangements and procedures pertain to configuring image forming devices to form images on various types of print media. Specifically, an imaging device sense data from a sheet of print media independent of whether a media marking comprising the data i... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137943 | Sheet preparation module architecture and control methods Sheets can be manipulated for punching, perforating and/or folding. The systems and methods according to this invention allow sheets to be punched and/or perforated in various configurations. The systems and methods according to this invention allow sheets to be fol... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7131593 | Method for processing sheet material A method for separating and processing successively different groups of sheet material in a sheet processing device that includes utilizing at least one separating card arranged to provide an indication of a separate group of sheet material to the sheet processing d... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127715 | Image outputting apparatus, control method for the image outputting apparatus, image outputting system, and storage medium product The invention provides an image outputting apparatus for outputting an image through execution of jobs, a control method for the image outputting apparatus, an image outputting system, and a storage medium product. When a job generated upon an output request is not ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7016067 | Image output apparatus Disclosed is an image output apparatus having an image reading section, an image storing section for storing image data read by the image reading section, and an image output section for outputting an image corresponding to a document on the basis of the image data ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006890 | System and method for managing work load distribution among a plurality of image output devices A method, system, and computer software program for controlling operation of a photofinishing lab having a plurality of output devices for producing a plurality of different output products for a plurality of different job orders wherein each of the output devices c... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002712 | Selective document scanning method and apparatus A technique is disclosed for selectively scanning or encoding a desired region of a document. The desired region is identified via scannable indicia on a control form. The region may be outlined by a border preprinted on the form or traced by a user. Preset selectab... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6985682 | Media identification sheet Arrangements and procedures are described to automatically configure an imaging device to form images on sheets of print media in a stack of print media. To accomplish this, information is imprinted on the top sheet of the stack of print media. The information provi... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980306 | Printer with manual collation control The present invention relates to a printer for printing a collated multi-page document when presented with a plurality of manually collated pages, the printer including a code sensor which senses machine-readable codes on the manually collated pages, a control unit ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6957025 | Ordered sets printing with automatic dual trays sheet feeding Continuous “load while run” printing of ordered sets of plural different sheets in a defined order in a printer paper path is provided even where plural different sheet feeding trays are stacked with multiple such ordered sets, by additionally loading therein ne... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6944298 | Steganographic encoding and decoding of auxiliary codes in media signals One aspect of the invention is a method of decoding an auxiliary code embedded in an audio signal. The method performs a statistical decoding of a multibit auxiliary code embedded in an audio signal. The auxiliary code has been repetitively embedded in the audio sig... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934503 | Printer A printer prints on two sides of a sheet of paper having continuous pages, and discharges the paper to a postprocessor for disconnecting the paper in page units and storing the disconnected sheets of paper in a stack. Depending on whether the postprocessor has an in... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6924826 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium storing computer-readable program Editing a printing job of printing data temporarily stored in an intermediate-code format is restricted such that an error does not occur in the result of printing. A user interface for editing the printing-setting information of the data temporarily stored in the i... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6785488 | Image formation method, image formation apparatus, computer program, and storage medium An image read from a document is analyzed to check whether the image includes a guide information at a predetermined position of the image. The guide information represents, for example, a layout of the document on the paper. The direction of a paper on which the im... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6765686 | Image processing apparatus, method of controlling same, and image processing system Image data is stored on a removable external card together with previous printing information relating to printing of this image data. Accordingly, when printing identical with that executed previously is carried out, the need to make printing settings again is elim... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6678482 | Image forming apparatus and method for determining suitability of replaceable component An object of the invention is to make an exact judgment on suitability of a replaceable component such as a toner supplying container with use of an existing mechanism of an image forming apparatus, without additionally providing a data storage component ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6415117 | Smart cover page for duplex copier jobs Control over the output of duplex or double-sided copying is facilitated by indicator pages identifying an original page which should be copied to the front side of a new copy page, even if the back side of a previous copy page must be left blank in order... | 07/02/2002 |
