Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
358401000 | Image reproduction system | 38 |
20080204815 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SEGRAGATION METHOD IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a reading unit configured to read image information on a sheet, and a segregating unit configured to detect an identifier image from the image information read by the reading unit and to segregate plural applications of the sheet on the basis of the identifier image. | 08-28-2008 |
20080239406 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device has a reading unit, a wireless tag reading unit, a transmitting unit, a designating unit, a first determining unit, and a control unit. The a reading unit reads image data from an original document. The original document has a first wireless tag including first wireless tag data. The first wireless tag data includes first copying number data having first number of time for allowing copying the original document. The first number is more than or equal to zero. The wireless tag reading unit reads the first wireless tag data from the wireless tag. The transmitting unit transmits the image data. The designating unit designates second number of second communication device to which the image data is transmitted. The second number is more than zero. The first determining unit determines whether the first number is more than the second number. The control unit determines based on a determination by the first determining unit whether the transmitting unit is allowed to transmit the image data or not. | 10-02-2008 |
20080259405 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To reduce a load required for data transfer and data processing to improve processing speed of those. A display data memory stores as display data a configuration image simulating an overall configuration of a combination of a main body and an attachment. An image display device provided on either one of the main body and the attachment includes a display screen having a display area divided into a plurality of divisional areas for displaying the configuration image. A CPU determines displaying and non-displaying on each of the plurality of divisional areas, and controls the image display device to allow a part of the configuration image to be displayed on a divisional area which is determined to be displayed in accordance with display data, and to allow an other part of the configuration image not to be displayed to on a divisional area which is determined not to be displayed. | 10-23-2008 |
20080291501 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus that includes an image reading part to read an image of an original, an image recording part to record the image read by the image reading part on a sheet, a sheet discharge part to discharge the sheet recorded by the image recording part from front to rear of a main body of the image forming apparatus, a sheet stack part to stack the sheet discharged by the sheet discharge part between the image reading part and the image recording part, first and second supporters provided outside the sheet stack part along a discharge direction of the sheet to form a space between the sheet stack part and the image reading part, and a lock mechanism to lock the image reading part. The image reading part slides relative to the first and second supporters in the discharge direction. | 11-27-2008 |
20080316541 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND OPERATION APPARATUS OF EQUIPMENT - An image forming apparatus having improved installability and operability. The image forming apparatus has an operation unit thereof disposed on an arm extending from the apparatus and pivotable around a support member in substantially the horizontal direction, and has sensors for detecting the pivot position of the operation unit. An initial-screen setting screen determined based on the pivot position of the operation unit detected by the sensors is displayed on the operation unit. | 12-25-2008 |
20090002769 | Communication apparatus - A communication apparatus preventing output of wasteful error reports is provided. To this end, first, the communication apparatus comprises a display means displaying an error report regarding a communication error and a print means printing an error report regarding a communication error. The communication apparatus further comprises a control means allowing the display means to display an error report regarding a communication error in the case the occurrence of the communication error is detected while the user is authenticated by an authentication means. The control means allows the print means to print an error report regarding a communication error where the occurrence of a communication error is detected and when the user is not authenticated by the authentication means. | 01-01-2009 |
20090059309 | Document And Method Of Producing A Document - A physical document comprising a human-readable part and a machine-readable part, wherein the machine-readable part comprises markup that describes information on at least one of the document and data within the human-readable part. | 03-05-2009 |
20090086276 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A document feeding section, a CCD which reads one side of a document conveyed by the document feeding section, a CIS which reads the other side of the document, a reversing mechanism which reverses the document, a document discharging tray, a first document conveying passage which connects a document tray and the CCD, a reverse document conveying passage which connects the CCD and the reversing mechanism, a re-conveying document conveying passage which connects the reversing mechanism and the first document conveying passage, and a discharging document conveying passage which branches out from the reverse document conveying passage and is connected to the document sheet-discharging tray, are provided, and a CIS which reads the other side of the document is provided in the discharging document conveying passage. | 04-02-2009 |
20090122355 | RECORDING MATERIAL POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The recording material post-processing device includes a post-processing mechanism, and additional post-processing mechanism and a transport control unit. The post-processing mechanism performs a post-process for a recording material transported from one branched transport path of an image forming device. The additional post-processing mechanism performs an additional post-process other than the post-process performed by the post-processing mechanism for the recording material transported from the other branched transport path of the image forming device. The transport control unit controls transport of the recording material such that the post-process using the post-processing mechanism is performed after the post-process using the additional post-processing mechanism is performed. | 05-14-2009 |
20090185235 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL EMBEDDED IN CARRIER WAVE - An image processing apparatus including; a determinant image management unit managing identification information in association with protecting information specifying processing allowance and a determinant image determining a spoofing; a reader reading an image containing the identification information in response to an action to process; an extraction unit extracting the identification information from the image; an acquisition unit acquiring the protecting information and the determinant image; a first determination unit determining allowance of the processing based on the protecting information; a second determination unit determining spoofing based on differential information between the determinant image and the read image; a third determination unit determining processing allowance of the read image based on results of determination by the first and second determination unit; and an image processor performing image processing according to the action to process the read image if the third determination unit determines that the processing is allowable. | 07-23-2009 |
20090257096 | Apparatus With Display For Converting Photographs Into Digital Data - A photo conversion device that includes an upper shell, a lower shell, and a digital camera assembly, which is positioned within an enclosed space created by the combination of the upper shell and the lower shell. The digital camera assembly further includes a camera lens and, an image sensor for capturing images from photographs and converting the images into digital data capable of being stored by a general purpose computing device or memory device. A display and memory may also be included to allow users to view the images and to allow the photo conversion device to operate on a stand-alone basis. | 10-15-2009 |
20090296162 | Reproduction device, assembly of a reproductive device and an indication body, and a method for reproducing an image portion - Reproduction device, including registration means arranged to optically register an image portion that is to be registered of an image. The reproduction device includes electronic signal processing means arranged to process a registered image portion, and includes and/or is connectable with reproduction means arranged to reproduce a processed registered image portion. The reproduction device is provided with localisation means arranged to determine a position of an indication body that is moveable with respect to the image and with respect to at least a part of the reproduction device. The reproduction device is arranged to relate a position of the image portion that is to be registered to the position of the indication body. | 12-03-2009 |
20090310186 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH DISPLAY APPARATUS MOUNTED - In an image forming apparatus serving as one embodiment, a large-format display that has a display screen visible from a rear face or a side face is disposed on at least one side face of a case of the image forming apparatus, and is formed such that the large-format display and the image forming apparatus are separable. The large-format display is provided with a pair of legs disposed so as to have a predetermined space L between the legs, and this space between the legs is formed so as to be no more than the lateral width of the image forming apparatus, and no more than the depth-wise width of the image forming apparatus. | 12-17-2009 |
20090323127 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, CONTROL PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which, in outputting images including copies of original images, if an image that has restriction information embedded therein and an image that has no restriction information embedded therein are in a state mixed in the original images, is capable of embedding the restriction information in an image that is output based on the image that has no restriction information embedded therein. When the copy restriction information is extracted from a read image, the copy restriction information is stored in an embedded information-extracting section. When the copy restriction information is not extracted from the read image, dot pattern data corresponding to the copy restriction information stored in the embedded information-extracting section is generated. The dot pattern data and image data output from a scanner are synthesized. A printer prints an image on a sheet based on the synthesized image data. | 12-31-2009 |
20100027077 | Method of Determining Coordinate on Micro Dotmap according to Moving Vector - When a user holds an optical scanning device to scan a micro dotmap on a displaying medium, a coordinate of a frame center of a retrieved frame on the displaying medium is calculated according to a decoding method for the micro dotmap in advance. A moving vector corresponding to a difference between difference frames scanned by the optical scanning device at different moments is calculated so that an instant location of the frame center on the displaying medium can be calculated anytime. Therefore, a large number of calculations brought by frequent decoding may be saved since merely a few calculations are required in calculating the moving vector. By further decoding the coordinate of the frame center at moments spaced with constant or variable intervals, errors brought by vibrations of the displaying medium are instantly fixed. Accumulated errors are avoided in the calculated instant locations of the frame center anytime. | 02-04-2010 |
20100039673 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PROPERLY SETTING COPY CONDITIONS OF DOCUMENT - In an image forming apparatus outputting a document, a copy condition of the output document and the order of priority among the set copy condition, a condition on the part of the machine, and a condition input by the user to be actually decided on as a copy condition are set. The information is then embedded and output. In an image forming apparatus making a copy, the output printed material is scanned and the embedded copy condition and order of priority are extracted and restored. Then, for each item of the copy conditions, a condition having a higher priority among the aforementioned conditions is decided on as a copy condition of the printed material, so that the printed material is copied under the decided condition. | 02-18-2010 |
20100118349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus acquires a print target image, scans an image on a sheet, recognizes reuse information in the image scanned from the sheet, generates reuse information after printing the print target image from the recognized reuse information and the acquired print target image, selects an area where the reuse information can be printed, in the acquired print target image, combines the reuse information with the selected area in the print target image, deletes the image on the sheet from which the image is scanned, and forms the combined image on the sheet from which the image is deleted, with a erasable image forming material. | 05-13-2010 |
20100165416 | ELECTRONIC BLACKBOARD - A copy button is pushed to output image data to an external storage medium, such as a USB memory. Then, a process for writing the image data in the USB memory is executed, and an image corresponding to the image data is printed. When the printed image is light, a density controlling button is pushed, and then, the copy button is pushed again. The image data is called up from a RAM, and a process for causing a density of the image data to be darker is executed, via a tone translator of the electronic blackboard. The image data on which image density control has been executed is written over the data previously stored in the USB memory. | 07-01-2010 |
20100302601 | DOCUMENT CREATION METHOD AND DOCUMENT CREATION APPARATUS FOR REFLECTING A DOCUMENT STRUCTURE OF A PAPER DOCUMENT IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A document creation method according to this invention includes an image capturing step of capturing image data of each page, a boundary image specifying step of specifying a boundary image serving as the boundary between sets of pages from image data captured in the image capturing step, and a document creation step of creating, on the basis of the image data captured in the image capturing step, an electronic document divided into different chapters at the position of the boundary image specified in the boundary image specifying step. The electronic document created in the document creation step is divided into a plurality of chapters, and boundary pages are set between the plurality of chapters. | 12-02-2010 |
20110002013 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a recording control unit for recording, by a recording head, a recording position adjustment chart including a pattern for adjusting a recording position of the recording head discharging ink and a mark formed in a position different from that of the pattern, a reading unit for reading the recording position adjustment chart as image data, a first detection unit for detecting a position and inclination of the recording position adjustment chart when reading the recording position adjustment chart based on the mark, a second detection unit for detecting the position of the pattern based on the position and the inclination detected by the first detection unit, and a determination unit for determining adjustment values for the recording position adjustment based on the image data of the recording position adjustment chart in which the position of the pattern has been detected by the second detection unit. | 01-06-2011 |
20110019239 | Image Reproducing Apparatus And Image Sensing Apparatus - Provided is an image reproducing apparatus including a touch panel monitor which has a display screen and receives touch panel operation performed with an operation member touching the display screen, in which an output image obtained by extracting an image inside an extraction region as a part of an entire image area of an input image from the input image is displayed on the touch panel monitor or a monitor of an external display device. The touch panel monitor receives region specifying operation of specifying a position and a size of the extraction region as one type of the touch panel operation when an entire image of the input image is displayed on the display screen. In the region specifying operation, the position and the size of the extraction region are specified on the basis of a position at which the operation member touches the display screen and a period of time while the operation member is touching the display screen, or on the basis of an initial point and a terminal point of a movement locus of the operation member on the display screen, or on the basis of a plurality of positions at which the a plurality of operation members as the operation member touch the display screen. | 01-27-2011 |
20110026083 | SPREAD SPECTRUM CLOCK GENERATOR, SPREAD SPECTRUM CLOCK GENERATING METHOD, AND CIRCUIT, IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SPREAD SPECTRUM CLOCK GENERATOR - The spread spectrum clock generator (SSCG) includes a phase comparator detecting phase difference between input clock and feedback clock; a charge pump supplying current depending on the phase difference; a loop filter converting the current to smoothed voltage; a voltage controlled oscillator generating a spread spectrum clock signal depending on the smoothed voltage; and a modulation signal generator generating modulation signal having amplitude depending on a modulation width set value. The SSCG further includes a modulation width detector detecting modulation width of the spread spectrum clock signal while comparing the modulation width with a modulation width target value to update the modulation width set value to narrow difference between the detected modulation width and the modulation width target value, followed by feeding back the updated modulation width set value to the modulation signal generator. | 02-03-2011 |
20110058227 | IMAGE READER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reader includes: a bottom wall that faces a discharge table of a main body of an image forming apparatus, to which a printed sheet is discharged, with a space formed therebetween, the bottom wall forming a bottom surface of a housing that receives an optical system and including a concave portion recessed into the inside of the housing without including a convex portion protruding toward the outside of the housing in a contactable area having a possibility that the printed sheet comes into contact therewith when the printed sheet is discharged to the discharge table, the bottom wall including the convex portion protruding toward the outside of the housing in the other areas except for the contactable area. | 03-10-2011 |
20110063686 | Image Forming Apparatus and Computer Readable Medium - An image forming apparatus including a scanning unit, an image data synthesizing unit, and a printing unit is described. The scanning unit reads a first image, generates first image data representing the first image, reads a second image and generates second image data representing the second image. The image data synthesizing unit generates, on the basis of the first and second image data, synthesized image data representing a synthesized image of the first and second images arranged in a contact state where a first side which is one of four sides constituting an outer edge of the first image and a second side which is one of four sides constituting an outer edge of the second image are disposed immediately adjacent to each other or in a close state in which these sides are disposed parallel to and close to each other. The printing unit prints the synthesized image. | 03-17-2011 |
20110080620 | OPERATING DEVICE USABLE WITH IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An operating device usable with an image forming apparatus to increase free movement thereof and an image forming apparatus having the same. A sliding unit and a hinge unit provided at a rear surface of the operating device can provide increased free movement of the operating device. A horizontal sliding motion of the operating device can be provided by a the sliding unit, and the sliding unit can be rotated relative to a body of the image forming apparatus with the hinge unit. The sliding unit can include a first sliding member and a second sliding member to slide on the first sliding member. The hinge unit can include a hinge shaft and a bracket rotatably coupled to the hinge shaft. | 04-07-2011 |
20110109944 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an information processing device adapted for performing an application program, a displaying unit causes a display device to display information related to a state transition of the application program. A generation unit receives an input updating request for updating information related to a displayed state transition, and generates an application program which realizes a state transition according to the updating request. | 05-12-2011 |
20110216375 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: a memory; a read unit; a scanner processor configured to transfer image data at a first transfer speed; an image processing unit; a print unit; a printer processor to transfer print image data at a second transfer rate; a main processor to cause the printer processor to switch the second transfer speed to another, and cause the scanner processor to switch the first transfer speed to another; and a switching controller to control operation of the print unit in a plurality of operation modes corresponding to the plurality of print speeds, cause the main processor to switch the operation clock, cause the scanner processor and the printer processor respectively to switch each transfer speed to another. | 09-08-2011 |
20110292455 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a display unit having a display member for displaying a read image that has been read, and an image reader unit having a mount portion for mounting the display unit in a demountable manner, a reading unit for reading a read-target medium, and a data transmitting unit for outputting read image data, which is generated by the reading unit, to the display unit. The display unit mounted on the mount portion functions as a read-target-medium stack tray for stacking either a read-target medium to be fed to the image reader unit or a read-target medium discharged from the image reader unit. | 12-01-2011 |
20120147435 | RETARD FEEDER - A method for providing increased performance in fully active retard feeders includes driving a feed roll and retard roll pair of a reprographic apparatus backwards periodically at the start of the machine or during idle periods to compensate for contamination buildup and/or roll “set” when left in position overnight. | 06-14-2012 |
20120257259 | RECORDING MEDIA DECIDING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIA DECIDING METHOD - A recording media deciding apparatus has: a light radiating portion which radiates light having a uniform light amount on a range corresponding to an image capturing range of a first surface of a bundle of recording media; a light detecting portion which captures an image of light emitted from a second surface different from the first surface of the bundle of the recording media; and a controller which decides on a type of the recording media based on an output of the light detecting portion. | 10-11-2012 |
20120281257 | IMAGING DEVICE ASSEMBLY - An imaging device assembly that includes a first imaging module frame, a second imaging module frame, and at least one first attachment member including a base positioned within an interior of the first imaging module frame and at least one protrusion extending from the base through a first wall portion of the first imaging module frame to be exposed external to the first imaging module frame, wherein the at least one protrusion is releasably connected to a top portion of the second imaging module frame. | 11-08-2012 |
20130286444 | Laptop Document Scanning System and Method - A laptop document scanner is disclosed comprising a laptop having a base portion, a display portion having a screen, and a hinging assembly. Said screen is capable of emitting light and sensing light. Said hinging assembly is capable of rotatably connecting said base portion to said display portion. Said base portion and said display portion are capable of rotatably transitioning between a closed-configuration and an open-configuration. Said screen is capable of displaying one or more images on said screen. Said screen is capable of scanning one or more images of one or more target objects. Said base portion and said display portion are capable of holding said one or more target objects while said screen is scanning said one or more images of said one or more target objects. | 10-31-2013 |
20140347702 | METHOD FOR PRINTING OBJECT DATA AND PRINTING APPARATUS USING SUCH METHOD - A method for printing object is provided. The method includes the following steps: directing a processing unit to identify an object within an initial document; based on the object, directing a printing apparatus to select a recording medium; and directing the printing apparatus to print data of the object on the recording medium. In addition, a printing apparatus using such method is also provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20150009541 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus | 01-08-2015 |
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20160050337 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit, an image reading unit, an image forming unit, and a setting changing unit. The setting unit sets copying conditions. The image reading unit reads images from sheets to generate image data and writes the image data into a memory unit. The image forming unit forms images on sheets based on the image data written into the memory unit. The setting changing unit changes the setting of the copying conditions when a new copying condition is set during the image forming of the image data written into the memory unit. | 02-18-2016 |
20160080595 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device having a printer unit, a post-processing unit, and an eject tray. The printer unit forms images on recording sheets, and the post-processing unit performs processing on a recoding sheet stack composed of one or more recording sheets output from the printer unit before the recording sheet stack is ejected onto the eject tray. The image forming device includes: a buffer unit that, while a first recording sheet resides in the post-processing unit for the post-processing, holds a second recording sheet therein, the second recording sheet output from the printer unit subsequent to the first recording sheet; and a reverse path that reverses recording sheets when the image forming device performs duplex printing. In a plan view of the image forming device taken along a vertical direction, the post-processing unit, the buffer unit, and the reverse path at least partially cover one another. | 03-17-2016 |
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