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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369263 | Printing system, printing apparatus and printing apparatus control program According to a printing system of the present invention, each host performs a process for creating and storing a preview file when transmitting reserve job data to a printing apparatus, and a process for generating and transmitting reserve job data that includes pre... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359084 | Preview display for multiple-sided printing Displaying of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356766 | Method and system for adding content to a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355745 | Document-to-printer color gamut matching A document-to-printer color gamut matching system enables comparison of at least two color maps in a manner that allows selection of the printer that will result in the best print output. Information related to the document to be printed and information describing t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352484 | Printing system and management method therefor A computer transmits a command to change the operation of a print command to a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus changes the operation of the print command and records information (print record) associated with printing on a storage unit in accordance with ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7324749 | Image display method, image display apparatus and image display program An image correcting personal computer displays on its monitor a correction screen consisting of a main display area, a sub display area and a parameter adjusting area. The main display area is divided into a plural number of split image display sections displaying s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318201 | Computer-implemented image acquisition system An image acquisition system has a computer and one or more imaging devices coupled thereto. Each imaging device has a device memory and is capable of capturing and storing a digital image in its memory. An image device manager is implemented in software on the compu... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318202 | User interface device and its display method While a design manipulation window 62 is open on the screen, in response to a user's selection of a print manipulation option bar 244b, the design manipulation window 62 is slid to change over the display to a print manipulation window | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310693 | Method and apparatus for viewing on a client computer's display device a preview of a print document to be printed A method and apparatus are provided for viewing on a client device document data representing at least a part of a document to be printed. The method includes transferring the document to be printed from a client device to a print server, converting at the print ser... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7301650 | Intelligent system network interface architecture for document processing devices A method and apparatus is provided for operating a network based assembly for document processing when the assembly includes an intelligent Network Interface Controller (iNIC), a Document Processing Device (DPS) and a Digital Front End (DFE) for the DPS. Job data an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296227 | Determining line leading in accordance with traditional Japanese practices Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling leading. A region including a plurality of lines in data being typeset and displayed on a display device is specified. One of the lines in the plurality of l... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293030 | Methods, functional data, and systems to represent a storage environment Methods, functional data, and systems for logically representing a storage environment are provided. A target storage environment having one or more storage data objects is mapped to a data structure. Any subsequent disparate or remote but similar storage environmen... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292366 | Printing control system, printing control method and program A printing control system where poor printing does not occur on a recording medium is provided. A printing system 1 is constituted by connecting a printing apparatus 2 and a personal computer 3 by a connecting cable 4 of 100 base T. Deter... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286253 | Data processing apparatus capable of viewing and printing a plurality of screens A communication apparatus is provided which makes it possible to print out all data larger than a display screen in one operation. In addition, the communication apparatus reduces time required for print processing and eases a user's stress due to print waiting by d... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280240 | Image processing apparatus and customized printing system using the same The image processing apparatus includes an image processing section for executing at least one image processing operation with respect to digital image data and a set value chancing device for selecting a plurality of image processing conditions as to said at least ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277192 | Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program In conventional technique, a layout result is displayed on only one page, and a print result cannot be roughly observed by reduced display of all pages. For this reason, a specific image printed on a specific page cannot be overlooked, and a user must print the imag... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274890 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for distinguishing between an original print product and a copy of the print product An information processing device allows for user recognition of the difference between a print product (original) and a copy product of the print product. The information processing device includes a receiving unit which receives a character string which is conceale... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271929 | System and method for integrated printing and assembly of electronic documents In one embodiment there is disclosed an application program in which a document is created containing complex rendering codes which codes identify locations within the document where material other than the basic medium is to be inserted or where special treatment i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269790 | Method and system for in-register processing of print data In a method and system for processing print data, the print data is displayed on a display device before printing, and the print data is displayed together with a check device or reticule that is displaceable at the display device. Both the print data as well as the... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263659 | Paper-based interface for multimedia information The present invention provides techniques for generating a printable representation of multimedia information that can be printed on a paper medium to provide a paper-based interface for the multimedia information. The paper-based interface provided by the present i... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7249319 | Smartly formatted print in toolbar The subject invention provides for systems and methods that allow a web user to more easily and readily print what they actually want to print and at the same time, mitigates user frustration that often ensues from poor web page printing. More specifically, the subj... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246351 | System and method for deploying and implementing software applications over a distributed network A system for deploying applications over a distributed network to web-enabled devices uses a server, with stored text files containing application logic, and an application assembler. The application assembler downloads and installs on each web-enabled device. Then,... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243298 | Method and computer-readable medium for previewing and performing actions on attachments to electronic mail messages A method and computer-readable medium are provided for previewing and performing actions on attachments to electronic mail messages. A first window pane is displayed that includes a list of e-mail messages and information identifying any attachments to the e-mail me... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239408 | Print processing system and method with document advisor service A system and method of processing a print job of a customer before submitting the print job to at least one of a plurality of print providers includes defining a network communication link between the customer and a print processing system controller. The print proc... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239412 | True print preview method and apparatus A computer/printer system and method which includes and involves a screen-display device with a display screen, and wherein requests for a document print preview results in the direct and accurate creation by the printer per se of a true preview on the display scree... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240284 | Method for formatting text by hand drawn inputs A method for text editing includes drawing a staircase object which is recognized by the software and replaced by a machine rendered staircase object. The user places alphanumeric characters adjacent to each step of the staircase object, the font, case, style, color... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7209261 | Color management system A method for applying individualized rendering parameters a single page basis to enable rendering of image data associated with a job having a plurality of pages includes: assigning a first set of color processing options to a first group of pages in the job; assign... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7210103 | Printed book publishing system and management method for printed book publishing Printed book publishing system and method, for loading down data on a network according to a request from a terminal and for outputting the loaded data for publishing the printed book, comprising a management server which performs making a data server storing book c... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197465 | Apparatus, systems and methods for printing dimensionally accurate symbologies on laser printers configured with remote client computer devices The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a printer interface in a global communications environment for a shipping management system resident on a server computer device remote from a user client computer device, that creates an image ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188311 | Document processing method and apparatus, and print control method and apparatus Attributes can be set for an entire document, each chapter, and each page by using an entire document attribute, chapter attribute, and page attribute. When the print format of a chapter is set with a chapter attribute different from the entire document attribute, t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181687 | Previewing the effects of flattening transparency A method of previewing the effects of flattening transparency is provided. The method includes displaying a first presentation of a document containing transparency, receiving settings affecting how the document is flattened for a desired output and displaying a sec... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177045 | Process and system for mixed page imposition A process for formatting printable information orders selected data objects, document pages or images, to create a new document, where pages may be of uniform dimension and page orientation or varying in one or both of dimension and page orientation. Groups of pages... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177823 | In-queue jobs information monitoring and filtering A remote monitor technique based on a client/server model is provided for a distributed computing system having a plurality of computing nodes. The remote monitor includes a server application for collecting jobs information on jobs in a queue of the system and a cl... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173732 | Image processing method An image processing method of subjecting image data having been supplied to image processing so as to arrange the image data as output image data has the steps of: performing a verification for adjusting image processing conditions when necessary referring to a fini... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168037 | Text composition spacing amount setting device with icon indicators Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount for a DTP system. At least one inter-character-class spacing amount setting table, for use in line composition, groups similar characters, forms a plurality of character classes and sets inter-chara... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163269 | Methods and systems for maintaining color consistency in a print-on-demand workflow Methods and systems for maintaining color consistency in print-on-demand applications are disclosed. Initially, a plurality of default color settings applicable to a plurality of print-on-demand operations can be established. Thereafter, color consistency can be sel... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161691 | Method and apparatus for multiple media printing When a presentation mode in which print information of a single original is to be printed on an OHP film and paper sheet is designated, print settings for the OHP film and paper sheet are set, one of the OHP film and paper sheet or both of them are selected as a pre... | 01/09/2007 |
