Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7193736 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus is aimed at changing the settings of plural items registered on an individual icon or an overall icon to the data to be processed by selecting and designating the individual icon or the overall icon as intended by the user. Each o... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7102769 | Dynamic management and transmissions of error notification and configuration data for printing and paper handling devices A printer stores management or device configuration data specific to that printer in a memory unit to that printer. The printer then retrieves that data and transmits the data to a printer client device for storage. The printer client device uses the data with a pri... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099023 | Audit trail security system and method for digital imaging devices A system and method have been provided for maintaining security in a network of imaging devices, such as copiers, scanners, printers, fax machines, and the like. In response to performing an imaging function, a copy of the document is sent to a security auditor for ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099027 | Method and apparatus for distributing print jobs Method and apparatus for distributing print jobs. A print job is generated at an application node of a network, and has associated therewith print parameters. The print job is routed to a distribution node on the network. The parameters are then parsed from the gene... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7072071 | Printing control system, printing control method and storage medium In a case where printing control is configured using a unified user interface and bookbinding printing has been set, bookbinding format conditions are judged and functions possessed redundantly by first and second information processing units are controlled to make ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068381 | Portable high speed internet access device The invention discloses a portable device that allows the user to access the Internet and World Wide Web. The portable device includes a modem that connects to a cellular telephone, thus the portable device connects wirelessly to the Internet. A host computer that m... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7016071 | Image recogniton device, peripheral device connected with image recognition device, and image processing system A printer (30) prints image data received from a personal computer (20). The printer stores a recognition program, which is installed for the printer driver of the personal computer. The personal computer executes the received recognition program to ca... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016056 | Authoring tool for bayesian network diagnostic systems An authoring tool assists an author in building an automated diagnostic system. The authoring tool includes a cause editor interface, an action editor interface and a question editor interface. The cause editor interface allows an author to place, in a cause data st... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006242 | Printing portable-selected information A user of a portable device may request a full-length information set be sent to a high capacity presentation apparatus for printing. A truncated or compressed information set is displayed on the portable device, which the user may select for later printing of the f... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006243 | Web-based imaging system providing means of accessing content individually A method, system and program product for printer processing comprising the steps of: receiving a print designation to print a document; constructing an ordering of graphics; selecting a graphic to send to a printer; getting graphic data for the selected graphic; and... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6992797 | Systems and methods for embedding messages in look-up tables System and methods provide a message, generated based on a message authentication code (MAC), embedded in a look-up table associated with an image. The embedding of the message does not affect the image. The message may be used to authenticate the image. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6989909 | Print controller, drawing controller, data processing method and storage medium If a drawing section does not support the alpha blending drawing, or the bit depth of a first bitmap image is less than that of the alpha blending value, the alpha blending drawing is unavailable. To solve the problem even in such cases, a data processing method for... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6980326 | Image processing method and apparatus for color correction of an image An image process method comprises an input step of inputting color image data composed of a signal representing brightness and a signal representing tint, and a smoothing process step of performing a smoothing process to the signal representing tint, while holding t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977735 | Image forming system, image forming device, function setting method and storage medium An image forming system is provided which significantly improves the operability in setting functions relating to image formation in an individual destination device selecting mode or an automatic destination device selecting mode. The image forming system includes ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977737 | System and method for controlling printing performance The present disclosure relates to a system and method for controlling printing performance. In one arrangement, the system and method concern receiving identification of a desired printing performance, automatically determining which of several different printing pa... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975412 | Font management system that provides for synchronization of fonts among resources A font synchronization system ensures that fonts which are specified in the creation of a document are the same as those that are employed in the subsequent handling and printing of the document. Each font that is utilized within a document, or available in a printi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975415 | Printing system and method of controlling a printing system There is provided a printing system having a data processing apparatus on which printer driver software capable of setting various kinds of print conditions is installed, and a printer for performing a printing operation based on print job data transmitted from the ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975419 | System and method for mobile printing A printing system and method are provided that facilitate the mobile printing of a document. The printing system comprises an automated print agent located in a device coupled to a network. The printing system also comprises a network alias associated with a printer... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6967736 | Mediated production device access in a distributed environment Mediating access to production devices. A method embodying the invention includes acquiring an access request for a production device and then retrieving an interface for the production device, the interface having user accessible controls for selecting production o... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965439 | Interactive printer A printer for printing a second interface onto a second surface, in response to first indicating data received from a sensing device in the form of a stylus. The first indicating data is sensed by the stylus from first coded data. A first interface is disposed on a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965462 | Increased temporal flexibility when performing/applying/reverting calibration for a printer output device A system for compensating for a calibration drift in an image output device includes a user input means for specifying an output medium. An image output device controller converts original image data to final image data used by the image output device. The image out... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963414 | Printing apparatus and method of controlling same The invention seeks to display the setting of a spoken language, which is used in a printer, in such a manner that the setting can be understood irrespective of set values. Messages indicative of settable items as well as settings are stored in a language message ma... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961136 | Image-forming-device management system capable of operating in energy-saving mode An image-forming-device management system includes an image-forming-device, a data communication device and a central management device. A real-time clock circuit (RTC) of the data communication device compares a current time with a predetermined data transmission t... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956666 | Print service, order acceptance method, and cooperation system and method A plurality of sites for print service each having its own available public transportation system for delivering the print are in cooperation. An order from a customer accepted at a site is mutually assigned to another site in dependence on which is the most conveni... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952284 | Manually operated digital printing device A digital printing device is manually moved across a medium, and automatically prints an image on the medium by selectively engaging one or more print elements at positions corresponding to the image. Preferably, the printing device comprises a multi-element print h... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952275 | System and method for efficient printing of variable information documents A method for generating a printer-ready representation of pages having regions described by page assembly instructions is provided. The method includes analyzing the page assembly instructions to identify a complex page having one or more complex regions and assembl... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952282 | System for controlling printer and method of controlling printer A printer control system that is provided with a print server capable of acquiring the state information of the printer controlled by the various sorts of protocol and a method of controlling the printer system are disclosed. The server is constructed with system co... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950207 | Printer system and image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium with a program for making a computer execute the image processing method recorded therein A printer system comprises a printer driver that adds drawing-object information for identifying the type of drawing object to print data that is output to a printer. The printer system further comprises a printer controller that selects dither data matching the dra... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947163 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC CAMERA APPARATUS, FUNCTION EXPANSION APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC CAMERA APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC CAMERA APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING CONTROL PROGRAM In order to provide a convenient digital camera which eliminates the necessity to designate a printer to print in advance and can print image data obtained by photography by reliably transmitting it to a printer existing on a radio network with simple operation, the... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947171 | Multifunction printer, computer, printing system and recording medium Multifunction printers (20, 30) each holding a card reader (26, 36) and a printer (24, 34) in a common housing are connected to a host computer (10) via USB hubs (22, 32). Then, the host computer 10 can recognize the card re... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940616 | Data transfer apparatus, method of controlling the same, and printing system It is an object of the invention to provide a data transfer apparatus which, when data transfer requests from a plurality of interfaces are to be accepted and processed, can adjust the data transfer so as not to be partially performed on a specific host apparatus. W... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6930785 | Automatic remote firmware upgrade An imaging system including firmware is disclosed. The imaging system includes a communications device adapted and constructed to facilitate communication between the imaging device and a remote source of information. An automatic remote firmware update mechanism is... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930796 | Apparatus for and a method of forming an image Whether it is possible to print each one of a plurality of pages of image data on a paper of a designated size is determined. As to a page which is determined printable on a paper of the designated size as papers of the designated size are available in paper feed pa... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6917435 | Method, device and computer program element for transmitting print data In a method and system for transmitting print data in blocks from a transmission unit to a reception unit via a data line by means of channel command words (CCWs), a channel initialization command (unit) is transmitted from the reception unit to the transmission uni... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6917441 | Image recording/reproducing apparatus having an improved recording signal generating unit An image recording/reproducing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which transforms original image data with a first resolution, supplied from an image input device, into a processed image signal with a second resolution. A recording signal generating... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914695 | Process of operations with an interchangeable transmission device and apparatus for use therein for a common interface for use with digital cameras A digital camera supplies images to a first computer of a network via a receiver which is enabled as a bridge for Bluetooth, wireless LAN and infrared transmission from a digital camera. Once a digital camera is registered in a computer system, transmissions from th... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912063 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus for recording by discharging ink from nozzles of a recording head to a recording medium comprises a figure recording control section for executing recording control of figure draw commands for ruled lines and other figures, and a bitma... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909518 | System and method for configuring a printing system A system, method, and program embodied on a computer readable medium are provided for configuring the automated print agent for printing. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an email print message addressed to a network alias, the network alias being a... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909523 | Information color system and printing method in the information color system The object of the present invention is to provide an information color system in which a plurality of the computer systems can share color information therebetween and a picture having the nearly same color as color of a predetermined object or an original picture c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6906812 | Symbol printer, symbol printing method, symbol printer driver, and a data storage medium storing a symbol printing program A bar code or similar symbol can be printed accurately within a specified printing area by a printer for printing such symbols. The printer has a symbol image generator for converting display data to a symbol and has hardware or software for reporting the size of th... | 06/14/2005 |
