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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7801460 | Image-forming apparatus, image-forming apparatus body, replacement part, and method of handling storage medium mounted on replacement part of image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus has: an apparatus body; and a replacement part that is detachably mounted in the apparatus body, wherein the replacement part includes: a replacement part body; and a storage medium that is separably mounted on the replacement part body, a... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7613413 | Image forming system for executing a plurality of functions having stored sets of conditions An image forming apparatus includes a first execution unit that executes a first function, a memory that stores one or more conditions for execution of the first function, and a second execution unit that, when executing a second function, reads the one or more cond... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7380779 | Sheet processing system A sheet processing system comprises a plurality of sheet processing devices, a primary sheet conveyance path, a secondary sheet conveyance path, and a controller which controls the sheet processing devices. The controller uses the primary sheet conveyance path to ex... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7353463 | Interface for multifunctional system having multiple services An interface for a multifunctional electronic device capable of performing multiple services such as copy, fax, scan, and print wherein the interface is simplified by illuminating or otherwise focusing a user's attention to only those control switches that are avail... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352980 | Image forming apparatus and method including power state shift control An image forming apparatus which is capable of achieving both enhanced userfriendliness and improved energy saving efficiency without being released from a reduced power consumption state by a user who has no will to use the same passing thereby. When a copying mach... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343115 | Image forming apparatus and setting method In an image forming apparatus, a controller acquires data such as operation start time and operation end time of the image forming apparatus, and records it in an acquisition database. The controller fetches data recorded in the acquisition database to calculate a f... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343117 | Electronic apparatus having a plurality of circuit substrates An image forming apparatus including a first circuit substrate, a second circuit substrate, a first supporting member for supporting the first circuit substrate, a second supporting member for supporting the second circuit substrate, a holding member for holding the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336912 | Image forming apparatus equipped with an operation section to input an image forming condition An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms a composite image on a sheet, based on image data and a cut guide; an operation section to input an image forming condition; and a control unit that controls operation of each section of the app... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333241 | Image data processing apparatus, medium recording image data set, medium recording image data processing program and image data processing method There has been a problem in that original image data should be saved with another name so as not to be altered, resulting in complexity and an increase in necessary storage region. Image data are housed in a folder managed as a film metaphor and a database of photog... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333221 | Printer A printer comprises a receiving section which receives printing jobs from a networked personal computers, a storage section which stores the received printing jobs, and a printing section which executes a printing job extracted from the storage section. A control se... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327483 | Document reading device A document reading device is provided with a reading unit for reading a document and generating image data corresponding to an image formed on the document. The image data is stored in an external memory that is detachably attached to a slot of the device. The opera... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315320 | Optical writing system and method, and image forming apparatus receiving an external parameter An optical writing system with at least two laser diodes capable of correcting hue deviations. The optical writing system is capable of correcting dot forming positions in the main scanning direction, and setting values for correction through an external key operati... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7263661 | Multi-function device having graphical user interface incorporating customizable icons A method for customizing the graphical user interface of a multi-function device includes the steps of: (a) providing a multi-function device including a multi-function unit and a document server, where the multi-function device includes three or more built-in funct... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263307 | Mode indication device for an image forming device An image forming device has a setting means for setting the copy mode for a document, a detection means for detecting whether or not a document has been placed on a document holder, an assessment means for assessing, when it is detected that a document has been plac... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259877 | Inspection device and image forming apparatus An inspection device having a reading portion for reading an image on a sheet having an image formed thereon, a storage portion for storing therein image data read by the reading portion, and a selecting portion for selecting one of a first mode for storing the imag... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242489 | Image output apparatus and method of controlling same Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which image data is generated by a formatter based upon PDL data from a host computer and the image data is output from a printer via an image input/output controller. The apparatus has a scanner unit and a facsimile uni... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7225445 | Execution control apparatus with key pad that enables selection of jobs to be run Various settings are stored into a setting storage table for stop-key processing. These settings are related to a job kind where an operation is stopped by manipulating a stop key, a job kind where an operation is made to pause, and a job kind where an operation is ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221885 | Image forming device, system, control method, program and memory medium utilizing operation history Drawbacks in the prior technology, such as operation histories of other persons having a low possibility of re-use are also displayed and the operation history of the operator himself becomes difficult to find and an older operation history is deleted by an operatio... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209247 | Multi-function image output apparatus with error control Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which image data is generated by a formatter based upon PDL data from a host computer and the image data is output from a printer via an image input/output controller. The apparatus has a scanner unit and a facsimile uni... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206087 | Finishing module coordinator apparatus and method for assembler/finisher systems A method for a finishing module coordinator controller used in a finishing system comprised of finishing devices controlled separately from production equipment. The method comprises receiving finishing job description information, including identification of job se... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7187458 | Printer A printer comprises a receiving section which receives printing jobs from a networked personal computers, a storage section which stores the received printing jobs, and a printing section which executes a printing job extracted from the storage section. A control se... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180612 | Print system, image processing apparatus and information processing apparatus At the print request from the information processing apparatus, the functcion status of the functions of the image processing apparatus capable of executing plural functions is displayed on the information processing apparatus. For this purpose, the printer c... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167282 | Image scanning apparatus, method, and system, control method thereof, storage medium, and external apparatus This invention has as its object to provide an image scanning method which can reduce the load of user operation, and can improve operation efficiency. To achieve this object, a scanning driver is started, and then the current scanning mode is detected on the basis ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158123 | Secondary touch contextual sub-menu navigation for touch screen interface A touch sensitive user interface of the type having a display screen for displaying images representative of menus and selectable list objects, for example; control logic responsive to the touch sensitive user interface for determining the contact position of a firs... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145688 | Storage medium holding program and information processing apparatus and information processing method A storage medium, an information processing apparatus and an information processing method enabling a user to perform parameter setting with high degree of freedom. To accomplish this purpose, one “preferences” is selected from a list 71 of plural “pref... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140498 | Mail delivery system A mail case system facilitates sequence-sorting various types of mail together into individual bags that each represent delivery points. The mail case uses multi-bag inserts so that bags for a number of stops can be set up for sorting. At the end of the sorting oper... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130071 | Page and subset feature selection user interface An improved interface for use with a digital printer is presented. The interface utilizes information held by the raster imaging processor to allow an operator quick access to information about the print features of a print job and the ability to easily and quickly ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123377 | System for managing number of sheets for image formation When a holder of an ID card approaches an image formation instructing device for sending an image forming instruction to an image forming apparatus, an ID code stored in a RF-ID element built in the ID card is read by a RF communication device. When the image format... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113719 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus operable to perform functions. The functions include a function involving a printing operation. The apparatus includes an activator for activating a function. A determiner determines whether the activated function is the function involving... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106981 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of printing units each having an image bearing member for rotation about an axis and a process member which cooperates with the image bearing member in an image forming process; a transfer member for moving in contact ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095525 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method When reading image data stored on a detachable storage medium such as a magneto-optical disk and outputting the data using an image outputting device, data regarding modes in which the image data is to be output is stored in advance on a storage medium by an apparat... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095512 | Document process system A division/coupling process section refers to item “DOCUMENT PROCESS” in a division/coupling set information DB. If a document division/coupling process needs to be executed, division/coupling set information from the division/coupling set information DB is refe... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7068260 | High-level function selection for multi-function device A multi-function device configured to perform a plurality of functions related to document production and transmission is provided. The multi-function device includes a display, the display being configured to present an idle screen when none of the plurality of fun... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057762 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing system An image processing method includes the steps of (a) carrying out, in parallel, processes of two or more functions of an image reading function, an image recording function, an image copying function and an image communicating function, and (b) automatically storing... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054028 | Offline print method for printing image data in a removable storage medium based on output control data in the same medium A digital copying machine comprising an image scanner part for reading an original image to reproduce image data of the original image, a laser printer part for printing an image according to given image data, a removable memory card, and a reader/writer of the memo... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050751 | Image forming system with temporary storage trays between sheet storage units and image forming apparatus An image forming system has a sheet deck assembly, an image forming apparatus, and a feeding buffering apparatus with plural feeding buffer trays for temporarily storing sheets of printing paper fed from plural printing paper decks of the sheet deck assembly. The fe... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038806 | Digital image forming apparatus In a digital image forming apparatus, desired ones of different data stored in a hard disk are selected and given serial numbers in the order of selection. The data selected are linked and then output in any desired order without regard to the order in which they we... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034954 | Print control apparatus capable of processing store print job and information processing apparatus capable of displaying store print job A list of print jobs stored in a printer, namely, print jobs by which an instruction of a change in attributes of the print jobs and an execution of the printing of the print jobs can be issued anytime is displayed on a display apparatus, thereby enabling the user t... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031003 | Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide an image processing environment which allows the user to stop only a specific job by means of a simple operation, and has high operation efficiency and operability. When the user instructs to stop a job by depressing a sto... | 04/18/2006 |
