| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7213066 |
Method and apparatus for electronic document management |
May 1, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for managing electronic documents within a network. A series of processes perform electronic document capture, indexing, and searching functions within a networked environment. A graphical web-based user interface is provided to facilitate user interaction with the |
| 7209952 |
Verification of scheme used for email message containing information about remotely monitored de |
April 24, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to sending control or monitoring information between two hardware devices utilizing email. Control information relating to either a first hardware device or a second hardware device is determined. This information is incorporated into an email message. D |
| 7206821 |
System and method for recording information on a storage medium |
April 17, 2007 |
| A method and system for controlling the downloading of information to a computer. Depending upon the characteristics of a storage drive and/or the data which is to be downloaded, the data may be downloaded to a recordable storage medium without first storing the data to a hard disk d |
| 7206459 |
Enhancement of compressed images |
April 17, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for enhancing compressed images is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises characterizing quantization noise in reconstructed low pass coefficients generated in response to application of an inverse wavelet transform and removing the quantization noise f |
| 7203446 |
Image forming apparatus with improved image quality and maintenance workability |
April 10, 2007 |
| An image forming apparatus is disclosed including at least a plurality of image bearing members a plurality of image forming units each including plural image forming members for operating image forming steps onto each of the image bearing members, and a further image bearing member, whi |
| 7202839 |
Resolution reduction technique for displaying documents on a monitor |
April 10, 2007 |
| A method of generating an output image having a lower resolution than that of a source image is provided. A thinned image is generated by discarding outer pixels of the source image. In parallel with generation of the thinned image, an averaged image is generated, such that each pixel of |
| 7194537 |
Method for scrambling information about network devices that is placed in email message |
March 20, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to sending control or monitoring information between two hardware devices utilizing email. Control information relating to either a first hardware device or a second hardware device is determined. This information is incorporated into an email message. D |
| 7181013 |
Device for transfering data between an unconscious capture device and another device |
February 20, 2007 |
| Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for accessing and distributing data that includes a portable first device and a second device wherein both devices have unconscious capture capability. The first device has a first memory wherein at least one document is stored in the first memory of |
| 7180638 |
Network fax machine using a web page as a user interface |
February 20, 2007 |
| A network fax machine for faxing files received from a remote client includes a server unit and a fax control unit. The server unit sends a fax document form to a remote client and receives fax information from the remote client. The fax information includes an identifier correspondi |
| 7177580 |
Image forming method and apparatus for fixing an image |
February 13, 2007 |
| An image forming apparatus, includes an image forming mechanism configured to form an image, and a fixing unit configured to fix a toner image formed on a recording medium. The fixing unit includes a fixing device having a first endless moving member configured to rotate, and a second |
| 7177488 |
Resolution sensitive layout of document regions |
February 13, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for reformatting a document is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting a plurality of image segments having a plurality of attributes and determining a plurality of positions and a plurality of geometric operations to be performed on the plural |
| 7171670 |
Method and system of remote diagnostic, control and information collection using multiple format |
January 30, 2007 |
| A system, method and program product for diagnosing, controlling and collecting information from devices. Information regarding events of each one of a plurality of target applications executing in an application unit is collected and formatted into one of multiple data formats for t |
| 7167592 |
Method and apparatus for compression using reversible wavelet transforms and an embedded codestr |
January 23, 2007 |
| A compression and decompression system in which a reversible wavelet filter are used to generates coefficients from input data, such as image data. The reversible wavelet filter is an efficient transform implemented with integer arithmetic that has exact reconstruction. The present i |
| 7167589 |
Disk read technique |
January 23, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the buffer to perform a wavelet |
| 7164870 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively performing an image fixing |
January 16, 2007 |
| An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism and an image fixing mechanism which includes a fixing member, a capacitor, a charger, a first heater, a second heater, a sensor, and a controller. The charger charges the capacitor with a first electric power. The first h |
| 7164804 |
Method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values based on previous quantization |
January 16, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values based on previous quantization is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding a first coefficient value in a first frame of a motion sequence and subsequently setting a second coefficient in a second fram |
| 7164499 |
Block quantization method for color halftoning |
January 16, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for performing color halftoning using block quantization is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises dividing an input image into a plurality of blocks, clustering pixels in each of the plurality of blocks into a plurality of color groups, block quant |
| 7152968 |
Image formation method |
December 26, 2006 |
| An ink composition containing a colorant, a humectant, water, and a water-soluble substance that begins to be condensation-polymerized as the water evaporates is ejected such that drops of the ink composition are adhered onto a print material 41 whose surface is acidic, whereby an im |
| 7150399 |
Embedding barcode data in an auxiliary field of an image file |
December 19, 2006 |
| Information decoded from a barcode or other machine-readable code within an image file is stored as character-based data in an auxiliary field, such as a comment field, of the image file. Subsequently, the information can be extracted from the auxiliary field so as to avoid the need to |
| 7143142 |
Method and apparatus for appliance host supported network-based application delivery |
November 28, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for appliance host supported network-based application delivery is described. In one embodiment, a local client device requests access to a network-based application for use with data stored locally by the client. In one embodiment, an appliance host retrieves |
| 7139434 |
Decoding with storage of less bits for less important data |
November 21, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the buffer to perform a wavelet |
| 7136530 |
Extracting information from symbolically compressed document images |
November 14, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for extracting information from symbolically compressed document images. A deciphering module generates first and second text strings by deciphering respective sequences of template identifiers in first and second symbolically compressed document images. A cond |
| 7120305 |
Adaptive nonlinear image enlargement using wavelet transform coefficients |
October 10, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for enlargement and resolution enhancement of images in the wavelet domain is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a wavelet representation of an image, where the wavelet representation comprises wavelet coefficients, and performing loca |
| 7095907 |
Content and display device dependent creation of smaller representation of images |
August 22, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus to receive an image and to create a smaller representation of the image from a wavelet representation of the image is described. The size of the smaller representation of the image is selected to compensate for the content of the image and physical properties o |
| 7095900 |
Method and apparatus for performing scalar quantization with a power of two step size |
August 22, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for performing scalar quantization with a power of two step size is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a sequence of image data to compress and specifying scalar quantization with a power of two step size using three bit values to appl |
| 7088869 |
5,3 wavelet filter having three high pair and low pair filter elements with two pairs of cascade |
August 8, 2006 |
| A wavelet transform filter is disclosed having a pair of line buffers, three pairs of high and low pass filter pairs, two pairs of cascaded delays, and first and second delays, where the second pair of cascade delays is coupled to the first output and has fourth and fifth delay outpu |
| 7085384 |
Device for transferring data between an unconscious capture device and another device |
August 1, 2006 |
| Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for accessing and distributing data that includes a portable first device and a second device wherein both devices have unconscious capture capability. The first device has a first memory wherein at least one document is stored in the first memory of |
| 7079690 |
Method and apparatus for editing an image while maintaining codestream size |
July 18, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for editing an image while maintaining codestream size is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a portion of a codestream to edit, decoding the portion of the codestream, performing an edit to the decoded portion of the codestream, reco |
| 7076107 |
Method and apparatus for high speed data compression and decompression |
July 11, 2006 |
| A subband processing apparatus useful for wavelet conversion and compression-decompression operation includes a plurality of memories and a plurality of analytic filter banks. The plurality of memories store an input signal in a way such that the input signal is divided into a plural |
| 7076104 |
Compression and decompression with wavelet style and binary style including quantization by devi |
July 11, 2006 |
| A compression and decompression system in which a reversible wavelet filter are used to generates coefficients from input data, such as image data. The reversible wavelet filter is an efficient transform implemented with integer arithmetic that has exact reconstruction. The present i |
| 7072520 |
Method and apparatus for selecting layers for quantization based on sideband information |
July 4, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for selecting layers for quantization based on sideband information is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a codestream of compressed image data organized in multiple layers. Each of the layers comprises coded data that adds visual valu |
| 7071950 |
Super imposed image display color selection system and method |
July 4, 2006 |
| An optimal pen color is automatically selected for a given background color based upon a predetermined relative distance in the Munsell color-order system. The predetermined distance is defined in terms of saturation, hue and or lightness. In general, sufficient visual distinction is |
| 7068851 |
Multiscale sharpening and smoothing with wavelets |
June 27, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for processing image data are described. In one embodiment, a method of processing image data comprises decomposing the image data into multiple decomposition levels by applying a wavelet transform to the image data, and modifying coefficients in at least two o |
| 7068849 |
Method and apparatus for compression using reversible wavelet transforms and an embedded codestr |
June 27, 2006 |
| A compression and decompression system in which a reversible wavelet filter are used to generates coefficients from input data, such as image data. The reversible wavelet filter is an efficient transform implemented with integer arithmetic that has exact reconstruction. The present i |
| 7068384 |
Method and system for transmitting a facsimile from a computer to a remote fax machine using an |
June 27, 2006 |
| A system, method, and computer program product for transmission of facsimiles via the Internet. An Internet fax driver is installed on a computer to send a document converted to an image using an electronic mail message over the Internet to an Internet fax machine. The electronic mai |
| 7065317 |
Reinforced cleaning member, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using same |
June 20, 2006 |
| A cleaning member for cleaning an image carrier. The cleaning member includes a support plate having a planar face portion configured to be fixed to an object in a position adjacent to the image carrier, a plurality of reinforcement features configured to reinforce a strength of the |
| 7062103 |
Method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system |
June 13, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises specifying scalar quantization for application to one or more bit planes of luminance information in image data using a human visual system (HVS) |
| 7062101 |
Method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory |
June 13, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding coefficients comprises applying one or more wavelet transforms to generate multiple coefficients and storing N bitplanes of each of the multipl |
| 7054493 |
Context generation |
May 30, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the buffer to perform a wavelet |
| 7047293 |
Method and system of remote diagnostic, control and information collection using multiple format |
May 16, 2006 |
| A system, method and program product for diagnosing, controlling and collecting information from devices. Information regarding events of each one of a plurality of target applications executing in an application unit is collected and formatted into one of multiple data formats for t |
| 7043692 |
Windows resource file parameterization system and method |
May 9, 2006 |
| A system and method which allows a software engineer to easily modify a resource file for a graphical user interface (GUI). A conventional hard-coded resource file is converted into a parameterized resource file with a header file. The parameterized resource file includes parameters |
| 7043551 |
Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information collection based on various com |
May 9, 2006 |
| A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a servic |
| 7039864 |
Method and apparatuses for management of unconsciously captured documents |
May 2, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatuses for management of unconsciously captured documents are described. Various documents generated by networked devices are unconsciously captured and stored according to a non-semantic organization. The unconsciously captured documents are archived for possible se |
| 7039856 |
Automatic document classification using text and images |
May 2, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for automatic document classification using text and images. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatic document classification based on text and image. A new document is analyzed based on textual content as well as visual appearance. The |
| 7039688 |
Method and apparatus for automatic network configuration |
May 2, 2006 |
| A dynamically configurable network architecture comprising networked office appliances which provide network addressing, network naming, service discovery, and user identification in one system. The network architecture provides automatic configuration services for unadministered net |
| 7035868 |
Method and system for dynamically generating digest from event footage and associated metadata |
April 25, 2006 |
| A digest or summary is generated from an athletic footage containing a predetermined set of metadata. The metadata includes information on time, score and event types. Scenes are selected from the athletic footage based upon the metadata, and the scenes are significant in a flow of the |
| 7031537 |
Method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system |
April 18, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises specifying scalar quantization for application to one or more bit planes of luminance information in image data using a human visual system (HVS) |
| 7027753 |
Image forming apparatus for preventing image deterioration caused by fallen conductive brush and |
April 11, 2006 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier, a charging member, a conductive brush member that cleans the charging member, a developer carrier including magnetic field generating devices having main and auxiliary magnetic poles, a developer scatter preventing member, and |
| 7024133 |
Image forming apparatus using a user installable process cartridge, a method of arranging the pr |
April 4, 2006 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a plurality of process cartridges, and a guide mounted to the frame. The guide mounted to the frame includes a plurality of guide portions having supporting surfaces arranged at predetermined different heights and on which the plurality of |
| 7024128 |
Image forming apparatus and method |
April 4, 2006 |
| An image forming apparatus including a heater configured to heat and fix a toner image formed on a recording medium a detector configured to detect a current supplied from an external power source to the image forming apparatus and a battery configured to supply power to said heater. Als |
