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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7986905 | Image forming apparatus Disclosed an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to form an image on a sheet based on an input image data; an additional information position instruction section to instruct a position of an additional image indicating additional information ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7395013 | Image forming device, image forming method, and program An image forming device, an image forming method, and a program intended to print out multiple documents of different sizes collectively in one output sheet with a margin upon adjustment of the magnification of the documents to an appropriate size. The image forming... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7359659 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method to create a composite image of a page image and an input text string An image forming apparatus includes a dividing section which divides a plurality of pages into groups, each group including at least one page; an inputting section which inputs different text strings for each group; a creating section which creates a composite image... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7345776 | Information processing apparatus and method In an information processing apparatus when the body pages are set to start from the back side of the cover, the cover is printed on the first side of the first sheet, the first page of the body is printed on the second side of the first sheet, and the second and su... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7257352 | Image forming device and image forming method An image forming device for adequately forming an image in which images overlap one another. The priority order (display order) of the images overlapping with one another is judged for the area where images of different attributes overlap with one another. When the ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7227394 | Signal synchronizer system and method A signal synchronizer according to embodiments herein uses a delay register that receives a feedback signal. The delay register has many delay circuits, each of which are adapted to delay the feedback signal at different time intervals. A storage register made up of... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7133149 | Methods of aggregating multiple individual print jobs for simultaneous printing Computer-implemented methods for creating an aggregate print job for simultaneous printing of multiple individual print jobs. Individual print jobs having an associated parameter identifying the size of the product to be printed are received. A number of received in... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7106996 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a movable image bearing member, a image forming device for forming a developer image on the image bearing member, and an intermediate transfer member on which the developer image on the image bearing member is transferred while it is m... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7072065 | Variable cancel of future print jobs A printer is responsive to user input to cancel print jobs that are received after the user input. The user repeatedly selects a cancel input to indicate how many print jobs to cancel. ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058196 | Apparatus and method for processing image and computer-readable storage medium An image forming apparatus and method arranged to perform a process in which a copyright code is set as electronic watermark information in red, green, and blue image data obtained by a scanner, the image data is then transferred to a printer to undergo density conv... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7024132 | Image forming apparatus with substantially horizontal transport paths An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part, a transport part transporting a record medium to the image forming part and having a substantially horizontal portion, and a reverse path disposed above the transport part, having a substantially horizontal ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6975828 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of preventing the increase of the size thereof by having a lengthened developer bearing member is provided with regard to an image forming apparatus capable of printing a registration mark (dragonfly) on a large sheet of recording ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965747 | Image forming apparatus with control feature for forming predetermined pattern and normal images An image forming apparatus has a movable image bearing member, a image forming device for forming a developer image on the image bearing member, and an intermediate transfer member on which the developer image on the image bearing member is transferred while it is m... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6957029 | Method and system for displaying altering and producing a copy of an image A method and system for verifying and altering an area of an image to be photocopied prior to producing a copy. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an image capturing device is used to capture an image of items to be copied. A representation of thi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6862107 | Image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus is equipped with a memory for storing additional images and an area discriminating unit for discriminating areas included in document images. The area discriminating unit discriminates text areas included in a document image based on the cycl... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6748185 | Copier pre-displaying scanned image and control method thereof A copier scans an original document and displays the scanned image together with a printing image of the printing paper corresponding to the scanned image. Prior to a copy operation, a printing status of the scanned image to be printed on the printing paper is check... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6718150 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a continuous medium, the tension force applied to the continuous medium by the image forming drum is controlled within a proper range. The apparatus comprises a toner image forming unit forms a toner image on... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6704527 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, medium for providing control program, and control program An image forming apparatus has: character data forming means for forming character data; synthesizing means for synthesizing the character data formed by the character data forming means with image data; image output means for printing a synthesis result ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6591076 | Method and arrangement for providing alignment indicia in a printed image A method includes generating a first set of image information representative of a first portion of the multiple page image, the first set of image data corresponding to a first page of the multiple page image. The method also includes generating alignment... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6480688 | Image forming apparatus and method using divided image areas of an original The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and an image forming method, in which an image on an original document is read with the image divided into plural areas, a copy image is formed by synthesizing images of the divided areas, and th... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6459864 | Image forming system, method of controlling image forming system, and storage medium An image forming system selects any one of plural image forming modes including a first mode, wherein an image forming process is performed such that plural images are arranged on an identical face of a sheet. The system performs the image forming process... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6404994 | Image forming apparatus and system A copying machine with a charging device that can substantially improve the advertisement effect in case of printing by adding an additional image to a document image. This copying machine, when the set registered number is plural, changes the kind of adv... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5822660 | Copyright protection in color thermal prints Disclosed is a copy protection method for identifying copied images that have been captured or generated in electronic form. The method generates information in electronic form for causing the printing of copy restrictive information as a plurality of con... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5819143 | Color image forming apparatus and method In a color image forming apparatus, an electrostatic latent image based on image data is formed onto a photosensitive body. A toner image of the electrostatic latent image is transferred to an intermediate transfer belt. Final toner images are transferred... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5794104 | Method and apparatus for image processing capable of generating multiple images of varying dimensions An image processing apparatus designates image area on the original. A shifting device shifts the image area by predetermined amount. An outputting device outputs the image data corresponding to the image area and the image data corresponding to the shift... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5748289 | Apparatus and method for producing photographic prints with write-on borders Apparatus for producing photographic prints (10) with write-on borders (14) from filmstrips (26, 46, 48, 58) having images (28-34, 38, 42) with varying orientation from image to image or from filmstrip to filmstrip or both, includes a mechanism (56, 60, 8... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5742881 | Occluder with integral illumination source An annotation system for automatically recording additional image information on an image bearing member is provided. The system includes an occluding device assembly, including an occluder bar for masking the image bearing member in a predetermined regio... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5742879 | Method and apparatus for reproducing documents with variable information Method and apparatus for optically reproducing information from an original document sheet together with electronically written additional information that may be either constant in content for all copies or may vary in content from copy to copy. Electrop... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5682254 | Image combining printer An image combining printer, capable of producing a highly intelligible image combination print having explicit colors and shapes, includes: a scanner for reading colors of an original image from a negative film; a color identifier for estimating positive ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5659386 | Image recording apparatus with means for independently designating a recording color mode For enabling efficient two-side recording of images from plural image sources, there is provided a recording apparatus with plural image input devices for respectively entering image signals, a recording unit for recording images of the image signals ente... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5640653 | Image synthesizing system synthesizing images by using an intermediate transfer belt An image synthesizing system is provided which uses an intermediate transfer belt on which a plurality of toner images are superimposed. The image synthesizing system is used for an image processing apparatus which forms a toner image on a recording sheet... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5592281 | Development scheme for three color highlight color trilevel xerography Creation of multiple color images is accomplished in a single pass utilizing a multilayered photoreceptor structure having layers which are responsive to different wavelength lasers. A composite image including three images areas is formed with substantia... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5546169 | Copying machine with image superposition capability An image forming apparatus includes a charging roller for charging a surface of a photoconductive layer in a photoreceptor so as to have a prescribed polarity, a first exposing unit which is arranged on a downstream side of the charging roller on the basi... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5428422 | Image printer An image printer includes a projection-exposure section for projecting and exposing a film image onto a photosensitive material, an image-exposure section for exposing the photosensitive material based on exposing image information with setting an exposur... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5309245 | Image forming apparatus having function for forming composite image An image forming apparatus includes a scanner for scanning a plurality of document so that n images corresponding to the documents are obtained, n being an integer greater than 2, an image generating means for successively generating m number images diffe... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5268717 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus selects and combines necessary image sections from a plurality of documents thereby to obtain a combined image on one sheet of paper. The image forming apparatus is provided with an optical scanning system for exposing/scanning ... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5160946 | Image registration system An electrophotographic printing machine utilizes an improved image registration system that forms and senses image registration indicia to control a subsequent transfer of a visible image. A first transfer station transfers registration indicia, previousl... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5146275 | Composite image forming apparatus A composite image forming apparatus including an analog or a digital image forming apparatus of the type in which an optical system moves relative to a document placed on a document table, the image on the document is scanned by the optical system and the... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5138384 | Electrophotographic copying machine having editorial function An electrophotographic copying machine includes a mouse connected to a main unit to input positional information for editing. When the mouse is moved on an original for editing, pulses are generated from the mouse according to a rotation of a roller, whic... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5077574 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which has a plurality of exposing optical systems used singly or jointly depending upon when an image is to be formed from different kinds of documents such as one is non-transmissive and the other is transmissive, or when a syn... | 12/31/1991 |
