Bizarre Patents
Reward Candy Dispenser for Personal Computers
A personal computer peripheral, battery powered reward candy dispenser which immediately presents students with a single candy for each problem completed correctly.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7912396 | Printer and duplex printing mode controlling method thereof A printer, including a printing unit to print print data on print medium. The printer includes a memory to temporarily store the print data supplied from a user terminal, a controller to temporarily cancel a duplex printing mode of the printer and to control the pri... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7792455 | Image forming system including finisher applying punching processing and staple processing to printed papers, and image forming apparatus having mechanism for printing on both surfaces of paper An image forming system is given, in advance, unique setting as a behavior to be performed when an error occurs regarding postprocessing. In a case where the postprocessing becomes inexecutable during the operation of the system, the system either cancels the postpr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7738809 | Image forming system including finisher applying punching processing and staple processing to printed papers, and image forming apparatus having mechanism for printing on both surfaces of paper An image forming system is given, in advance, unique setting as a behavior to be performed when an error occurs regarding postprocessing. In a case where the postprocessing becomes inexecutable during the operation of the system, the system either cancels the postpr... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729631 | Image forming apparatus capable of preventing waste of developer A mode setting portion sets a mode to either one of a normal mode in which a developer amount set value T is set to a base developer amount Tbase and a developer-saving mode in which the value T is set to a value smaller than the base developer amount Tbase based on... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7676171 | Printing device and method for switching between monochrome and color modes A method for printing images on at least one substrate using an apparatus having a plurality of print modes, wherein at least one of the print modes is a monochrome printing mode and another of the print modes is a color printing mode, the method comprising: printin... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7664420 | Image forming apparatus having monochrome and color print modes and a plurality of system speeds An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a first identification section for identifying whether a print target page in a print target document is color or monochrome and its page attribute, a second identification section for identifying a system... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660544 | Image forming apparatus In one embodiment of the invention, in an image forming apparatus that reverses the front and back of recording paper by performing switchback transport of the recording paper to perform duplex printing of the recording paper, the image forming apparatus is provided... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7426045 | Information processing apparatus for managing print job, and method thereof Disclosed are, as an embodiment, an information processing apparatus connectable to an image processing apparatus, including a first setting unit for setting the first limitation condition for limiting the use of the image processing apparatus, a second setting unit... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7400424 | Printer option suggestion method and program A system and method for determining an optimal use of printing devices and printing device options in a network computer system or enterprise environment based upon typically usage characteristics of the printing devices and the options available to the printing dev... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391534 | Methods and systems for discovering printmodes supported by a print engine In accordance with one embodiment, a method comprises querying, with a querying component, a print engine to ascertain one or more printmodes that are supported by the print engine, and, receiving, responsive to the querying, a list that describes printmodes support... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384205 | Print control apparatus and print control method The present invention operates in a printing apparatus capable of carrying out printing by switching between a mode using a set of toners for four colors Y, M, C, and K and a mode using a set of toners for six colors including the four primary colors, light cyan, an... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385712 | Print control method and apparatus When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file. When the stored job is selected, a previewer displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369269 | Print toner density mode/print media default link A method for automatically selecting a print job parameter including the steps of ascertaining a first print job parameter and automatically selecting a second print job parameter based upon the first print job parameter. In one embodiment the method includes the st... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7354034 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with same A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355733 | Recording material management in a copier or printer Disclosed is a digital image production apparatus comprising: a print engine having a plurality of trays each of which is capable of accommodating different types of recording sheets; a user interface; and an electronic control system controlling print processing, i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349109 | Imaging apparatus and print control method for an imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of different types of imaging means, each associated with one of a plurality of different types of imaging applications, each imaging application producing a print job containing image data; an engine configured to cause th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349110 | Method and server for managing printer The present invention realizes resource saving and energy saving by grasping and managing a usage efficiency of an image forming apparatus. To accomplish this, a method in accordance with the present invention is an information processing method of managing usage in... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336378 | Image processing with recognized character codes In an image processor for a character image included in an image data to be processed, character codes are recognized, and character sizes of the characters in the character image are recognized. A font data is selected in a plurality of font data of different sizes... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333225 | Printing system, printing apparatus, user created print information data providing method and user created print information data providing program A printing system includes a plurality of terminal devices and a printing apparatus. The terminal devices and the printing apparatus are connected with each other via a network line. When an input panel is operated to start print job description processing, it is de... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327968 | Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and image processing apparatus To provide an image forming system capable of displaying appropriately a plurality of apparatus statuses at low cost, the image forming system is structured upon connection of an independently operable printing apparatus with an independently operable scanning appar... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319533 | System for face-up printing from a duplex printer Systems for providing collated, face-up printer output. These systems may utilize a page-independent spool index file that may be manipulated to produce collated, face-up printer output that may not otherwise be available through a system's hardware or drivers. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310483 | Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method for making development using light toner and dark toner with substantially the same hue In an image-forming apparatus being selectable between a four-color mode forming images using only cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toner and a six-color mode forming images using light cyan and light magenta toner in addition to the four-color toner, by automatical... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292806 | Image forming apparatus and an image forming method using a plurality of monochromatic developer cartridges Prior to the execution of a printing operation, a print preparatory operation is conducted only on a priority developer cartridge out of the plurality of monochromatic developer cartridges mounted to the developing unit thereby bringing the cartridge into a printabl... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289750 | Image forming apparatus and an image forming method using a plurality of monochromatic developer cartridges The apparatus is brought into a printable state by selecting one print preparatory process from first and second print preparatory processes and conducting the selected print preparatory process prior to the execution of the printing operation. That is, the printing... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288059 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray on which sheets are stacked in a bundle form, an intermediate portion stapler which staples the intermediate portion of the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a sheet bundle conveying member which con... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289239 | Apparatus for controlling image processing and a method for controlling image processing An apparatus for controlling image processing comprises means for receiving printing jobs, means for spooling the jobs received, means for joining jobs to make a plurality of the printing jobs retained in the spooling means one printing job by joining them, and mean... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281708 | Sheet handling apparatus and image forming apparatus When the rear end of a sheet bundle S is brought to reach the clamping portion between a rocking roller and a rear end aligning wall by conveyance means, the individual timings, at which the rocking roller and the rear end aligning wall move to the escape position, ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281707 | Aftertreatment apparatus, and controlling method, program and storage medium therefor Sheet thickness data obtained from the output of a sheet thickness detecting sensor are calculated to thereby calculate a sheet bundle thickness. When the sheet bundle thickness reaches a predetermined value, other aftertreatment differing from a set aftertreatment ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280797 | Image forming apparatus with paper thickness detection unit for detecting overlap of regular and insertion sheets An image forming apparatus has a first stacking unit for stacking regular sheets on which images are formed, an image forming unit for forming an image on a regular sheet fed from the first stacking unit, a second stacking unit for stacking the insertion sheets, a d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274883 | Hybrid printer and related system and method A hybrid printing assembly includes a first printing subassembly operable to produce a first pattern on a medium, and a second printing subassembly operable to produce a second pattern on the medium. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274891 | Image forming apparatus and printing time specifying system The image forming apparatus of this invention has a printing time specifying function, and includes: a printer unit configured to print an image on paper, which is transferred from a paper feed unit, in either a normal print mode or a high speed print mode; a time s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269371 | Imaging apparatus having interface device for print mode selection An imaging apparatus includes a print engine operable in a plurality of print modes. An interface device is communicatively coupled to the print engine. The interface device includes a control lever having a plurality of positions. The plurality of positions corresp... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266320 | Automated duplex printing of heavyweight sheets in special simplex mode In a duplex printer with automatic duplex printing by recirculating the sheets printed on their first sides through a duplex path for printing their second sides before feeding them to the output path, electronic information corresponding to a pre-set maximum level ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266315 | Image forming apparatus and image stabilization processing method An image forming apparatus reduces the wait time before completion of an image stabilization process executed for preparation for image formation while ensuring image quality. In the image forming apparatus, image formation is performed using developers having four ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7254562 | Rule-based packet selection, storage, and access method and system A rule-based selection, storage and access method and system for processing packets from network traffic. First, packet intercepted from network traffic are selected based on at least one rule. Second, the selected packets are stored in an in-kernel storage buffer, ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248378 | Image reader with two duplex copy modes An image reader has an original tray for feeding an original from a bundle of originals, a first transport passage for transporting the original fed by the original tray, a scanner for reading an image on one side of the original from one side of the transported ori... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245870 | Image forming apparatus with paper feed direction specifying means An image I/O apparatus has a paper feeding direction specifying control unit 125 which is constructed in a manner such that when a plurality of paper sizes exist mixedly in one image forming job, on the basis of paper mixture information which is set on a pri... | 07/17/2007 |
