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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111419 | Rasterizing device for DL object management A rasterizing device is provided with a first storage area capable of storing a downloaded DL object, and a rasterizer that creates bit-mapped data in band units by rasterizing data. With respect to a predetermined band in which a predetermined DL object is to be in... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111420 | Printer control apparatus and method of controlling the same, printer and method of controlling the same, reader and method of controlling the same, and image forming system A printer control apparatus can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enables efficient transfer of image data from the reader to the ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107115 | Method and system for queue synchronization This invention relates to a methods and a printing system in which queues across one or more printing devices, such as printers, copiers, and the like, are automatically kept synchronized. The queues are placed into one or more pools. In some embodiments, one queue ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107116 | Image forming apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises a memory; a store control section to divide and store image data in plural vacant memory regions in the memory; and an image administrating information registering section to register each divided image data divided by the sto... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107117 | Information processing device, information collection device, information collection system, and method for management of information related functions An information processing device includes: a memory that stores function identifiers assigned to functions built into the information processing device, and function identifiers assigned to functions not built into the information processing device; a display contro... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102557 | System and method for disabling access to non-volatile storage in a multi-function peripheral A multi-function peripheral (MFP) device having enhanced security for processed data is disclosed. The MFP includes both a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The MFP also includes a user interface configured to allow a user to prevent data from being stored ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094341 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and recording sheet An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a positional information reader, and a first controller. The printing unit performs printing on a recording sheet based on print information. The positional information reader reads positional information with reg... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085425 | Information processing apparatus The present invention allows a printing process to be released from application software earlier. At the start of printing, the size of an available area in a RAM 11 is obtained. It is determined whether or not the size of total print data transmitted from a ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085424 | Multiple-port print device A method that enables a multiple-port print device to perform efficient job management for each job even if the multiple-port print device is provided with parallel-processing-enabled multiple interfaces. The multiple-port print device includes a job boundary detect... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081339 | Printing apparatus, data storage medium, interface device, printer control method, and interface control method An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory 109 in the printer 101 stores printer settings data. Commands from a host 161 ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081338 | Form processing apparatus and method A form processing apparatus receives input data from an external form processing system via an operating system. When there is a request to print form data, the form processing apparatus adds an identifier to the form data, and then transfers the form data to the op... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077339 | Printing control apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium This invention allows the user to select files to be printed from arbitrary folders, easily designate a folder selected in the past, and confirm data files in the folder, thereby improving the operability of selecting a file to be printed. For this purpose, the disp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077340 | Image forming apparatus In the present invention, in a color copy machine, original modes of copy job units, and setting changes of sharpness adjustment, whose updates are permitted beforehand, are totaled, change of default is judged, when this accumulated result is larger than a threshol... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072643 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus (10) includes a bus (B1) and a bus (B2). A series of processes for creating YUV image data for HDTV is executed by means of a bus (B1) and an SDRAM (32). Furthermore, a series of processes for creating... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064089 | Automatic indexing of printed documents A system for automatically indexing printed documents comprising a database for maintaining indexing data indicative of the identity and location of the documents, a processor interfacing with the database, the processor producing a document file containing both a p... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059299 | Apparatus and method for controlling an image-data imput/output process performed by an image forming apparatus connected to an image data input unit and an image data output unit A storage unit temporarily stores first image data input from an input device and second image data to be output to an output device. An image-data input/output processing unit performs processes of inputting the first image data from the input device and outputting... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059300 | Information processing apparatus connected to a printing apparatus via a network and computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to execute generating print data in the information processing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus via the network An information processing apparatus connected to a printing apparatus via a network encrypts print data if identification information is input, and does not encrypt print data if identification information is not input. If identification information is input and the... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045209 | Image processing apparatus Detection section 22 detects the blank space area in each page for all pages of the document, determining section 23 determines image size for combining a designated stamp image in uniform size in all the pages of that document based on a detection res... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046331 | Method and apparatus for recreating placeholders A method and apparatus for recreating placeholders comprising selecting at least one object of information in an archive, determining a source location for the selected at least one object of information, accessing the selected at least one object of information, an... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045210 | Image processing apparatus, image data transfer control method and image data transfer control program An image processing apparatus being provided with: a volatile recording medium that stores image data; a nonvolatile recording medium that stores image data; a transfer portion that transfers image data page by page between the volatile recording medium and the nonv... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045211 | Image forming device An image forming device is provided with an external storage, a printing unit, a storage controlling unit configured to store the image data in the external storage or an internal storage. The storage controlling device stores the image data developed from the print... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045212 | Laser print apparatus that generates pulse with value and justification value based on pixels in a multi-bit image A laser print apparatus includes a memory for storing a multi-bit image including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel is represented by an N-bit value, wherein N is greater than one. A modulation code generator analyzes three adjacent pixels. The three adjacent pixels... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040549 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus, includes an image reading part configured to read an image of a document; and an image storage part configured to store image data read by the image reading part; wherein the image reading part includes a part configured to read a rang... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035842 | Apparatus and method for changing storage methods of image data based on available storage capacity A disclosed image forming apparatus includes: an image data input unit inputting image data; an image data storage unit storing the image data; a storage method change unit changing a storage method of the image data; an image data output unit outputting the image d... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031361 | Image forming apparatus An aspect of the invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a image forming section that forms an image based on a print data on at least one sheet equipped with a non-contact tag; a writing section that wirelessly writes a tag data into the non-contac... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027054 | Apparatus and method of scanning and/or printing an image A scanning apparatus and a method thereof include a scanning unit scanning a document and outputting a scanned result, at least one external storage unit detachably attached to the apparatus, at least one internal storage unit, and a controller detecting an attachme... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023143 | Image-forming system and image-forming program An image-forming system prevents a print overrun error even if there are bands of divided data having different band heights. An image-forming system has a band divider to divide image data into a plurality of bands each containing divided image date, a loader to lo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023142 | System, method and program product for electronically filing documents System, method and computer program product for managing a document. A printer driver of a computer outputs printing data corresponding to the document to an IP port of the computer. A program detects the printing data en route to or at the IP port and determines wh... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023144 | Method for generating transposed image data A method for generating transposed image data for use in an imaging apparatus having access to a memory includes (a) generating a set of data blocks corresponding to at least a portion of image data representing an image to be printed; (b) performing a combined form... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018617 | Erasing a stored information pattern on a storage medium A method is presented of erasing, in a document data processing device, a stored information pattern on a rewritable data carrier that is accessible by a data processing facility of the document data processing device. The document data processing device includes pr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009314 | Image processing apparatus image processing method, and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium for causing a recording apparatus to record an image In a copy operation for a first sheet of requested plural sheets, a reading unit reads a document and a data conversion section converts the document image data into recording data. A recording unit records the recording data, while the recording data is stored in a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004711 | Printing apparatus and format edit program recorded in computer-readable recording medium When a user selects a printing format for use in producing a label and specifies block names of blocks constituting a printing format in an arbitrary order through a n th-block specifying screen (first block specifying screen, second block specifying screen, . . .),... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004710 | Printing system, printing method and printing program In a printing system, a document data transmitting unit transmits document data generated by a document generating device, to a document storing device. A document data transmission/reception unit receives the document data and transmits the received document data t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999965 | 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... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995232 | Document file management apparatus, document file management method, and document file management program Image data for printing corresponding to document data of all pages of each stored document file is produced in a vector form. Image data for printing corresponding to document data of a representative page of each stored document file is produced in a bitmap form. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995234 | Adjusting scan rate within scanning device A scanning device includes a scanning mechanism, a memory, a processing mechanism, and a scan rate adjustment mechanism. The scanning mechanism scans a media sheet having an image thereon at a variable scan rate, to yield raw data. The memory temporarily stores the ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995233 | Printing control method capable of reducing printing memory requirement The present invention belongs to the field of printing control technology, and is especially one kind of printing control method with reducing printing memory requirement. The available printing technology always needs complicated segment forming gratings in advance... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986432 | Printing apparatus, data storage medium, interface device, printer control method and interface control method An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory 109 in the printer 101 stores printer settings data. Commands from a host 161 ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986431 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product An information processing apparatus that calculates importance of data based on a print log. A print-log database stores therein a print log of data printed. A calculating unit refers to the print log to check the number of times of printing the data, and calculates... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982902 | Printer, image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium The object of the present invention is to provide a printer capable of efficiently processing print data corresponding to a plurality of images in the main scanning direction, as in the case of an index print, with a limited memory capacity, thereby improving the th... | 07/19/2011 |
