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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098394 | Image processing circuit and printing apparatus Object image data of a processing object image, which virtually has cells each including a set of M×N pixels, is processed. The cells are arranged in steps and are shifted by Dx pixels and by Dy pixels. An input raster buffer stores (N−1) raster data including pi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085426 | Intelligent page buffer allocation An improved printer controller system includes bitmap buffers for storing bitmaps as uncompressed data and a buffer manager for managing an allocation of the bitmap buffers to the bitmaps. The buffer manager is configured to recap one of the bitmap buffers according... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085427 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing apparatus stores, in a buffer, an image data of c bits in the main scanning direction and y lines in the sub scanning direction, and reads out a pixel data of p bits that configures the image data stored in the buffer, in accordance with the comp... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068251 | Image forming apparatus including a finished image display unit A finished-image generating unit generates a finished image showing a result of a process performed on a target image according to various function setting items. A finished-image display unit, when the target image extends to a plurality of pages, forms the finishe... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8040550 | Image forming apparatus with a ratio change of receive buffer in response to a cancellation instruction An image forming apparatus that includes: a receiving unit that receives print data via a communication line; a storage unit that includes a plurality of storage areas, which includes at least a receive buffer area that temporarily stores the print data received by ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8009315 | Information management apparatus and method, image forming system apparatus and method, and computer readable medium and computer data signal for document information An information management apparatus comprises: an assignment unit that uniquely assigns a region on an imaginary plane for a page of a document that is output by an image forming apparatus; a receiving unit that receives a request for assignment by the assignment un... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009316 | Methods and apparatus for efficient sheetside bitmap processing using meta-data information Methods and apparatus for using meta-data structures to represent portions of a bitmap memory when generating the sheetside image and when generating a compressed representation of the sheetside image. A table of meta-data structures is maintained with each structur... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7990563 | Printing unit and inkjet recording apparatus A print unit memorizes image data to be output to a page of recording media at a register as jetting data in an order of storing a plurality of image data of one line in page memory, wherein each of the image data of one line is memorized at the register in an order... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7969606 | Method and system for distributing consumer photograph-based advertisement and/or information An automatic advertisement system creates and processes a digital image that includes a user's digital photograph and advertisement images from selected advertisers. The new composed images are larger than the standard photographs in size (e.g., 4″×6″, 5″×7... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7898684 | Image reading apparatus, image processing system, and image recording apparatus An image reading apparatus comprises: reading means for reading an image recorded on a sheet; detecting means for detecting plural kinds of patterns from the read image; storing means for storing processing information used in processing to be executed, in a manner ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894094 | System and method for image rotation A system and method to provide 180-degree rotation of image data at full throughput. The system includes a memory access controller that writes bursts of image data into a rotation buffer. The image data is then read out of the rotation buffer in the reverse order f... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7880917 | Image forming apparatus and print system When a jam occurs, a CPU stops reading of compression data, receives again all of the read-out compression data of a page to which the reading-stopped compression data belongs, and stores it into each of corresponding storing areas in a reception buffer again. A tim... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7847968 | Image processing apparatus and method for bookbinding processing It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus capable of appropriately processing a job for case binding without depending on the sequence of page data constituting the job, a method for controlling the apparatus and a program. To accomplish this, a ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7760387 | Image forming device, hardware control method, and hardware control program In an image forming device, a hardware performs operations to image data. An image memory handler performs allocation of a memory to software execution entities which execute the operations, and performs execution control of the software execution entities. A proces... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7724389 | Method for printing mixed color and black and white documents and for recovering from interruptions A method for recovering from an interruption while executing color split printing is described. The document is split into two sub-documents. N sets of the first sub-document are printed on a first printer, and N sets of the second sub-document are printed on a seco... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7701608 | Automatic counting apparatus, method, and recording medium on which the program is recorded An automatic counting device for measuring the number of target objects included in an image, which includes a discrimination section, a counting section, and a correction section. The discrimination section discriminates the target objects included in the image bas... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684076 | Method and apparatus for raster image processing This invention is directed to a method and apparatus for raster image processing which allows access to the page buffer during raster image processing. The method and apparatus of the present invention allow for virtually every page presented to the raster image pro... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7660010 | Controller driver, liquid crystal display apparatus using the same, and liquid crystal driving method A controller driver includes a first compressor for compressing received image data to generate first compressed image data, a second compressor to generate second compressed image data, and an image memory capable of storing the second compressed image data of at l... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7605940 | Sensing device for coded data The present invention is directed toward a sensing device that reads coded data off of a surface. Interaction data is generated from the read coded data and the interaction data is processed in accordance with the image portion of the image that is extracted from an... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7508538 | Image data rotation apparatus An image processing apparatus includes: a first memory for storing 2-D image data wherein pixels are arranged in a matrix in the main scanning direction and sub-scanning direction orthogonal to each other; a second memory; and a data control section for controlling ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7443529 | Volume of work estimating for combined processing and unprocessed imaging jobs A method generally for output handling a new imaging job, and specifically for handling such a job by delivering it to one of several currently job-engaged imaging output devices (illustrated as printers) including the steps of (a) examining the current job-processi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440126 | Printer with document-triggered processing A system and method for a printer that can detect characteristics of a printed document and trigger an action in response, in addition to or instead of the action of printing the document. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440130 | Network device and printer Provided is a network board for generating print data in accordance with the information resources received from outside, and sending the print data to a printer, which can easily install or update a color conversion table or a printer driver, etc. necessary for gen... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426058 | Image processing method and apparatus for generating sequential still images by extracting still images from moving image data, and printing apparatus An image processing apparatus controls to print a plurality of sequential still images, which can be observed as a flip moving image, on the basis of moving image data. The image processing apparatus provides a window which has a start point button, end point button... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426054 | Image processing apparatus, image reproduction apparatus, system, method and storage medium for image processing and image reproduction The present invention enables reduction in the amount of data of a document image while maintaining a layout of the document image, and enables suppression of image quality deterioration when reproducing the document image. An original document image is inputted as ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423776 | Image outputting device from mobile storage medium An image output apparatus capable of offline printing or displaying image and text data automatically and efficiently to a digital copying machine, a printer, a facsimile, a liquid crystal projector, and a television set. Discrimination is conducted as to whether da... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7413275 | Printer apparatus and printing method for printer apparatus In a printer apparatus of the invention, a file storage unit stores an archive file including plural files each having a reservation keyword, a processing content designation data holding unit holds plural processing content designation data in which the reservation... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411694 | Data conversion apparatus for and method of data conversion for image processing The efficient use of memory devices is crucial in processing a large amount of data. In particular, the buffer memory is used in an efficient manner by the use of a buffer memory control unit. The efficient use of the buffer memory is implemented in a high-speed col... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403297 | Printing system that manages font resources using system independent resource references A method, computer program product and system for managing font resources using system independent references. A resource library may store a table, referred to herein as the “resource access table” that contains an entry for each base font resource. Each entry ... | 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 |
| 7382507 | Image quality defect detection from image quality database A method of detecting image quality defects in the output of an image output device includes the steps of generating a test pattern at a known time, analyzing the test pattern to generate image quality defect records, storing the image quality defect records in memo... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376637 | Image transmission apparatus which transmits image data as an image file or a plurality of image files A data transmission apparatus capable of transmitting input image data of a plurality of pages as one or more image files is disclosed. It is designated which page or pages are to be put into each image file. Such designation may be specified by a user. One or more ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375836 | Copier with job sharing and forwarding capability A copy machine is configured to determine a set of one or more resources that are both external to the copy machine and available to process one or more portions of a copy job initiated at the copy machine. The copy machine is further configured to display, on a gra... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369065 | Using operation codes to control a decoder to generate data from an input data stream into an output data stream Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using operation codes to control a decoder to generate data from an input data stream into an output data stream. An encoder generates an input data stream for a decoder comprising at least one operation ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369265 | Printer with code sensor A printer for printing user information is provided with one or more sensors for detecting machine-readable information pre-printed or pre-formed on the substrate printed upon. The information uniquely identifies each substrate from other substrates and this informa... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369264 | Host based printer, host device and printing control method A framework is provided which makes it possible to appropriately determine the printing starting timing, and to start printing, without waiting for the compression processing in the host device to be completed. A host based printer receives compressed data of a prin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369277 | Image processing apparatus, drawing processing method, and computer program A drawing instruction processor refers to a bit map line table that shows whether the bit arrays in the row unit are the same in the order of concentrations. The drawing instruction processor decides whether dither patterns to be used for the adjacent specified draw... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365873 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Color image data is inputted, flag data indicative of attributes (character image, figure image, mesh image) of each pixel of an inputted image is generated, image processes, an enlargement, and a reduction according to the flag data are executed, the processed data... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365869 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a first memory for storing image data, a second memory for storing image forming conditions, an image output unit for outputting the image data stored in the first memory under the image forming conditions stored in the second mem... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362471 | Image-forming controller, method therefor, program, and storage medium A controller for a four-drum printer eliminates a need for an expensive inter-drum delay memory, which has been conventionally used, to print an RGB image and allows a multifunction machine, printer, and the like to be provided at low cost. An image ring interface r... | 04/22/2008 |
