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| 358100110 | Character or font | 81 |
| 20090015856 | METHODS AND STRUCTURE FOR MANAGING PRESENTATION OF MULTI-LANGUAGE FONTS - Methods and structures for improved font management providing for selection of one or more subsets of a selected typeface font in a font management program. A user is presented with information identifying one or more subsets of related code points in a selected typeface in a font management program. By selecting one or more subsets from the presented information, the user may reduce wasted presentation or management of code points in the typeface that are not presently of interest to the user. For example, when managing a Unicode typeface, a user may be prompted to select one or more language subsets prior to printing/displaying a matrix of the glyphs of the selected typeface. The presentation of glyphs or other code point information may then be limited to only the selected one or more subsets. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090051950 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which combines a character string image with an image of image data and forms a combined image, including: a display section to display the character string image; and a control section to generate the character string image to be combined to the image and to display the character string image on the display section, wherein the control section controls the display section to display the character string generated with same font data as font data used for forming the character string image of the combined image on a sheet. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090097049 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD TO MANAGE FONT, FONT MANAGING DEVICE, AND FONT PROVIDING SERVER - An image forming apparatus in as font managing system to manage a font, includes communication interface to download a file of a font having a use restriction, a storage unit to store the downloaded font file, the controller to determine whether the stored font file is usable if a document is requested to be printed with the font, and a print engine unit to print the document with the stored font if the stored font is usable. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090109460 | USING APPLICATION SIDE TRUETYPE OR OTHER OUTLINE FONTS TO CREATE SPECIALTY IMAGING FONTS ON DIGITAL FRONT-END - A document printing method includes receiving a print job of electronic document data representing a document including a security character string with at least one character defined in the electronic document data in terms of a security mark creation font. The security mark creation font is a scalable outline based font, wherein the security character string is defined with a selected security effect, and wherein the security mark creation font provides an indication of the selected security effect without implementing the security effect. An SI Font is selected that corresponds to the security mark creation font of the at least one character of the security character string. The SI Font includes a bitmap representation of the at least one character of the security character string. The SI Font is suitable for printing the security character string with the selected security effect. The step of selecting an SI Font includes selecting the SI Font based upon a unique name of the SI Font that corresponds to a name of the security mark creation font, and also includes selecting the SI Font based upon at least one other attribute of the security mark creation font. A font substitution is performed in which the selected SI Font is used to define the security character string in the electronic document data in place of the security mark creation font. After the font substitution, a hard copy output of the document is printed as defined by the electronic document data including the substituted SI Font. A system is disclosed for performing the document printing method. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090185210 | METHOD OF FORMING CHARACTERS FOR MICROPRINT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090207433 | VARIABLE DATA DIGITAL PANTOGRAPHS - A variable data pantograph is formed by receiving a variable data string and retrieving at least one character representation from a vocabulary of character representations stored in memory. The retrieved at least one character representation corresponds to the variable data string. Each of the character representations in the vocabulary include a foreground region including a character shape and a background region suitably sized and arranged for encompassing the foreground region. The background region incorporates a first pattern of elements and the foreground region incorporates a second pattern of elements. The retrieved at least one character representation is assembled to form a variable data pantograph, whereby when the variable data pantograph is rendered in an original document, the foreground and background regions are similar in tone, the foreground and background regions being substantially less similar in tone in a copy of the original document to render the character visible. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090231607 | Cable Label Forming Apparatus, Tape Printing Apparatus, Method of Forming Cable Label for Cable Label Forming Apparatus and Program - Provided herein is a cable label forming apparatus having an edit screen display device, a selection candidate display instructing device, and a selection candidate display device. The selection candidate display device displays a last selected candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a normal edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed, and displays a specific candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a cable label forming edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090231608 | Label Creating Apparatus, Method for Controlling Label Creating Apparatus and Computer Program - Provided herein is a label creating apparatus including: a memory unit to associate and memory a first character or graphic with a second character or graphic that has a pairwise relationship with the first character or graphic; an input unit to allow inputting the first character or graphic; a display unit to display according to the first character or graphic input with the input unit the second character or graphic memory in the memory unit; and a printing unit to print the first character or graphic that has been input and the second character or graphic that has been displayed. The label creating apparatus creates a pair of labels on which the characters or graphics that have a pairwise relationship are respectively printed. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090284777 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM THEREOF - An image processing apparatus receives page description data, converts the page description data, thereby generating first intermediate data that is described for each object, converts the first intermediate data, thereby generating second intermediate data that is described with edge information of an object, stores, in a storage area, data representing drawing position information of an object, determines whether the object overlaps with and is located behind another object, in the case where it is determined that the object is located behind another object, performs character recognition processing on the first intermediate data, whereas in the case where it is determined that the object is not located behind another object, performs character recognition processing on the second intermediate data. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090284778 | Multiple Font Management System And Method - A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to provide corrections to partially-corrupted font tables. A font access level stores locations of activated base, localization and patch fonts and are referenced in an access order during character retrieval so as to apply retrieval priority to patches and localizations. A font storage level maintains multiple tier character indices for referencing character shape data in order to provide faster character searching through each of the multiple activated fonts than a single-level index. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100053656 | Image processing apparatus capable of processing color image, image processing method and storage medium storing image processing program - Given a circular graph that is divided by four colors (red, blue, yellow, and green), for example. This circular graph shows information indicated by the corresponding colors in accordance with planar dimensions of respective areas (e.g., a ratio of items corresponding to the respective colors to total and the like). Furthermore, the items corresponding to the respective colors are described as a legend independently of the circular graph. For example, since for people with protanopia/deuteranopia, “red” and “green” look the same, they cannot identify these colors. In image processing according to a first embodiment, the information indicated by the colors is added to a graph as shown in FIG. A to generate an image as shown in FIG. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100118323 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an input receiving unit that receives a character to be printed and a font family of the character as inputs, a first outline specifying data generating unit that generates first outline specifying data corresponding to a combination of the character and the font family which are input to the input receiving unit, an image formation data generating unit that generates data for image formation, which corresponds to the combination of the character and the font family, based on the generated first outline specifying data, a cache unit that temporarily stores the first outline specifying data, a priority calculating unit that calculates priorities related to the first outline specifying data based on the number of curve commands included in the first outline specifying data. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100128294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER-SELECTABLE SOFT FONT AND PRINT STREAM DATA TEMPLATE CONTROL IN A PRINTER DRIVER - Printing systems and methods for user-selectable dynamic soft font and print stream data template control processing in a printer driver are provided. The system utilizes a print job driver screen that provides the user with a selectable option to convert soft fonts into graphics that are transferred to the printer. When using multi-byte fonts, and in particular when using multi-byte fonts in a character mangling operating system, printer memory may be rapidly allocated and consumed. However, soft fonts persist in printer memory for the length of the print job. The printer system provided herein allows the user to dynamically select an option to forgo soft font loading for the entire print job and instead transmit appropriate font graphics that are discarded from memory after use after a character threshold has been reached. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100149569 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a character recognition section for performing a character recognition process for a character included in a document, based on image data obtained by reading the document; and a formatting process section for generating an image file in which text data obtained by the character recognition process are associated with the image data, the character recognition section generating the text data corresponding respectively to a plurality of possible character recognition results, in a case where the character recognition section detects the plurality of possible character recognition results, the formatting process section generating the image file in which each of the text data produced by the character recognition section is associated with the image data. This makes it possible to prevent omission in search in a case where a keyword search based on the text data is carried out, in the image processing apparatus that generates an image file in which image data obtained by reading a document is associated with text data obtained by a character recognition process on the image data. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100208282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DOCUMENT IMAGES WHEN COPYING DOCUMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method to process an input image into a final image which is enhanced or improved. In accordance with the method, the input image is split into a plurality of layers. Each layer comprises objects of a single type. Each layer is for objects of a different type. Each layer is then processed separately to improve or enhance the quality of the objects therein. The final image is produced by integrating or synthesizing the plurality of layers. Apparatus to implement the method is also disclosed. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100220343 | DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD - A disclosed device includes a document managing apparatus including an image data acquiring unit acquiring original data of original documents in a predetermined layout, a layout information storing unit storing IDs and layout information, an original document determining unit determining the IDs of the original documents, a partial area information storing unit storing partial area information for the original data respectively for the IDs, a partial area extracting unit, an arrangement information storing unit storing arrangement information on paper in association with the IDs respectively for the partial areas, a synthetic image data generating unit forming synthetic image data in conformity with the arrangement information and forming identification information into the synthetic image data, a data accumulating unit causing a data storing unit to store the identification information and the original data, and a printing unit that prints a synthetic document having the synthetic image data. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100238472 | CHARACTER OUTPUT APPARATUS, CHARACTER OUTPUT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A character output apparatus includes an intermediate character information generating section, an intermediate character information modification section and a character output section. The intermediate character information generating section generates intermediate character information indicating a certain character. The intermediate character information is formed by element information pieces. And each element information piece has a start point and an end point in an X-axis direction in a two-dimensional coordinate system for characters. The intermediate character information modification section performs modification processing for changing a thickness of the certain character onto each element information piece of the generated intermediate character information, by changing the start point and the end point of each element information piece in accordance with a modification amount. The character output section outputs the certain character based on the changed start point and the changed end point of each element information piece. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238473 | DRAWING PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUTTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DRAWING PROCESSING AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A drawing processing apparatus is provided and includes: a plurality of character definition information memories each storing definition information on a character shape; a registering portion that, when a drawing command containing the definition information on the character shape is received, determines one of the plurality of character definition information memories for each character contained in the drawing command, depending on whether the definition information on the character shape is simple definition information that defines the character shape itself of the character or is a combinational definition information that defines a combination of simple or combinational definition information defining components of the character; and a drawing process instructing portion that instructs to read, from the plurality of character definition information memories, the definition information on the character shape corresponding to the character to be processed, to execute a drawing process of the each character contained in the drawing command. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238474 | DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A feature section including a feature of a candidate region but not including a feature of a related large region is set as for a style type different in feature from the related large region among a plurality of style types, with respect to each index candidate region. At least one or both of the large regions and the candidate regions having the feature included in the set feature section are grouped. An index evaluation degree is calculated, based on the grouped result, with respect to each candidate region. It is determined whether or not a logical element of each candidate region is an index, based on the calculated index evaluation degree. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100245875 | DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Each small region positioned just before a large region according to a reading order is determined as a first candidate, and an evaluating process to evaluate whether each first candidate is an index or not is performed based on a difference in feature from the related large region with respect to each first candidate. Each small region positioned just before a first index according to the reading order is determined as a second candidate, and an evaluating process to evaluate whether each second candidate is the index or not is performed based on a difference in feature from the related first index with respect to each second candidate. Small regions determined as the first index and the second index are extracted as index regions. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100259777 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a specification unit configured to specify character information included in document data, a generation unit configured to generate image data of the specified character information, a conversion unit configured to convert the generated image data or a parity value of the generated image data into a two-dimensional code, and a printing unit configured to print a printed matter in which the two-dimensional code is combined with the document data, wherein a size of the generated image data is smaller than a size of image data of the document data. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100321714 | METHOD OF SCANNING - A computer-implemented method of scanning a document (e.g. a newspaper or a book) is provided where the text may be legally protected from unauthorized copying, comprising the steps of: acquiring to a memory at least one recording confined to a field that covers a delimited area of a document; processing the at least one recording to perform character recognition; when a character is recognized, registering it in a memory, and performing the above steps repeatedly while recording at shifted positions so as to progressively obtain a string of characters; and evaluating the string against a predefined condition; if condition is not satisfied, determining whether to clear from the memory at least a portion of the at least one recording; if condition is satisfied, provide an output and clear from the memory at least a portion of the string and at least a portion of the at least one recording. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100328694 | OUTPUT CONTROL DATA GENERATING DEVICE, DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An output control data generating device for controlling an output device includes a character selection unit that receives a selection of a desired character code set and a desired character from a group containing at least one character code set that can be used on the output control data generating device; a font selection unit that receives a selection of output font data, which is information for outputting the selected character to the output device, from among a plurality of different font groups disposed to the output device; a mapping unit that produces a font group definition file that stores the selected character mapped to the output font data; and an output control unit that controls output to the output device, using the font group definition file. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110001995 | FORM PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A form printing system comprising an information processing apparatus, a server, and a printing apparatus that are connected to each other, wherein the server includes: a device identification information management unit that manages device identification information in association with user-specific user authentication information; an encryption unit that encrypts the field data and the form information received from the information processing apparatus; an encoded code generation unit that generates the first encoded code from an encrypted character string generated by the encryption unit; an encoded code sending unit that sends the first encoded code generated by the encoded code generation unit to the information processing apparatus; a form data distribution unit that, in a case where a form data acquisition request that includes form information is received from the printing apparatus, sends form data that is in accordance with the acquisition request to the printing apparatus. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110007334 | BETWEEN-SEGMENT DISCONTINUITY REDUCTION FOR TEXT VECTORIZATION USING DOMINANT POINT CLASSIFICATION - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for text vectorization for bitmap images with reduced artificial discontinuities. Dominant points are identified in a bitmap character image. An initial curve is fitted to edge points of the character image in a vicinity of a selected dominant point. A set of boundary parameters in a vicinity of the selected dominant point are estimated based upon the initial curve. The selected dominant point is then classified as one of a sharp dominant point and a smooth dominant point based upon the boundary parameters or alternatively upon predefined classifications produced by an optical character recognition process. Curves are fitted between the selected dominant point and adjacent dominant points. The fitted curves maintain the estimated boundary parameters in the vicinity of smooth dominant points. A vectorized representation of the text character image based upon the fitted curves is produced as output. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110019215 | PRINT CHARACTER SELECTOR OF PRINTER AND ASSEMBLING METHOD OF OPERATING MEMBER OF THE PRINT CHARACTER SELECTOR - To provide a print character selector of a printer and assembling method of operating member of the print character selector which configures both the axial direction regulation mechanism for the indexing regulation of the selector wheel | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110032556 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A document processing device comprises: a document data acquiring part for acquiring document data; a character string extracting part for extracting character strings satisfying a predetermined condition for character string extraction from the document data acquired by the document data acquiring part; a format creating part for deriving the respective features of the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part, and for creating a format containing the derived features in the form of data; a display part on which the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part are displayed in a list form, and on which the format created by the format creating part is displayed; and a format correcting part for correcting the format displayed on the display part. The character string extracting part extracts character strings again to conform to the format corrected by the format correcting part. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110109929 | AUTOMATIC ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FONT SUBSTITUTION USING PRINT CONTROL POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE LOGS - A method and a system are disclosed for the automatic substitution of font with a toner saving font. Dynamic substitution of document specified fonts with a toner saving font can reduce the amount of toner used and minimize system resource usage that can slow printing speeds. Substitution software first determines whether a document print request matches a set of predefined conditions. If the document print request does not match all of the conditions, the inquiry ends. Substitution software then determines whether font substitution is selected or mandated at any level of print control. Where a document print request matches all of the predefined conditions and where font substitution is selected or mandated at any level of print controls, the substitution software performs a font substitution to replace original font with a toner saving font. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110122429 | RECORDING CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A host computer is connected to a printer that prints text according to settings specifying a text printing format. Using a function of a driver setup program, the host computer acquires a file set including an MOT file (recording device settings data) and a corresponding INF file (control device settings data) that are configured to produce the same or substantially the same printout as a printer with different printing format specifications, and configures settings stored in a registry that is referenced by a printer driver based on the acquired INF file. Using a function of a firmware setup program, the host computer generates or updates settings based on the MOT file. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110149320 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device includes a scanner for scanning a document image, and a controller for controlling the image forming device. The controller determines whether or not a loss detection image for determining presence or absence of data loss has been superimposed on a first document image scanned by the scanner, and when it is determined that the loss detection image has been superimposed on the first document image, extracts the loss detection image from the first document image and determines presence or absence of data loss in the extracted loss detection image, and notifies a user of presence or absence of data loss based on a result of the determination of presence or absence of data loss in the extracted loss detection image. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110157615 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED DOCUMENTS - A system with for capturing and storing an image of a user's handwritten alphanumeric characters. The characters are stored in memory in association with a standard alphanumeric character set such as an ASCII character set. A text document can then be transcribed into the stored handwritten alphanumeric characters for resembling a handwriting of the user. The characters can be represented by mathematical functions such as Taylor Series or McLauren Series and can be digitally reproduced based on the stored functions. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110199627 | FONT REPRODUCTION IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method, system, and computer program product for font reproduction in electronic documents are provided. The method includes: receiving an image of a printed document; extracting pairs of consecutive characters from the image of the printed document; storing the extracted pairs as images of the characters; and reproducing the printed document as an electronic document with text of overlapping extracted character pair images. Extracting pairs of consecutive characters includes extracting adjacent horizontal characters, extracting spaced horizontal characters, and extracting spaced vertical characters. Reproducing the printed document as an electronic document includes reproducing the spacing between words and between lines using the spaced horizontal characters and the spaced vertical characters as anchors in the reproduced document. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110205569 | GLYPH-LOOKING ALPHABET FOR VIPP / SPECIALTY IMAGING FONTS - A method of defining a glyph font character representing an input binary code includes defining a first portion of a matrix using an input binary code including a plurality of input bits. A second portion of the matrix is defined by performing a transformation on the input binary code so that the second portion of the matrix includes a plurality of transformed bits. A glyph character is derived that corresponds to the matrix. The glyph character is defined by a plurality of components corresponding in location to said bits of said matrix, wherein the components of the glyph character comprise a first component (e.g. a forward slash /) that corresponds to and represents a “1” bit of the matrix and second component (e.g., a backslash \) that corresponds to and represents a “0” bit of the matrix. The transformation operation includes a NOT operation or other logic operation, and includes a shift operation. The transformation can be repeated to derive additional portions of the matrix by transforming the group of bits of the preceding matrix portion. The glyph characters corresponding to alphabet characters are each defined as a bitmap and are saved as Postscript Type 3 font. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110255107 | Data Capture and Analysis - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for automated data entry performs a data recognition function on a document to recognize data from a plurality of fields including information entered by a user into at least one field, identifies at least one field that has an issue with recognized data from the field, compiles at least one correction page formatted to resolve the issue for each identified field of the document after completion of the correction page by the user, prints each correction page, and performs a data recognition function on each correction page, including information entered by the user in each field of each correction page, to resolve the issue for each identified field of the document. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255108 | GLOBAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encoding schemes. The method also includes determining a parser state of the data based on a plurality of characters and/or at least one printer control command associated with the plurality of encoding schemes. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110273734 | Accurate Font Activation - Systems and methods are presented that process documents, identify fonts being used to reproduce the documents, and identify conflicts based on the identified fonts. The systems and methods may identify a font associated with a document, identify a conflict between the font and another font, determine a substitute font for the document, and then modify information of the substitute font and the document based on the conflict to prevent the identified conflict from causing the document to be incorrectly processed. The systems and methods may then allow the document to be further processed based on the modified information. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110279839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - A system and method for arranging and printing characters, words, or other textual information that is typically printed in a series of rows or columns. A first row is printed to be read in a standard fashion, while a second row is printed in the opposite direction, with the direction of reading being in the opposite direction. Likewise, the letters and words in the second row are inverted about a vertical axis. Each successive row is presented in the opposite direction from the preceding row. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120002226 | ENFORCING A MINIMUM FONT SIZE - A method for enforcing a user specified minimum font size (USMFS) in a hardcopy document (HD). The method includes: receiving a request to print an electronic document (ED) according to a magnification ratio; identifying a first character in the ED having a first font size smaller than a quotient of the USMFS divided by the magnification ratio; and increasing the first font size by a scale factor to match the quotient; where the HD is generated by scaling the ED according to the magnification ratio, and wherein the HD comprises the first character in the USMFS. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120026519 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus includes an image-processing designating unit that allows a user to designate predetermined image processing to be applied to image data for generating a preview image that represents a state of an output image before image output; a preview-image generating unit that generates a preview image in accordance with the designated image processing; a preview-image display unit that displays the preview image generated by the preview-image generating unit; and a display-mode switching control unit that, when the preview image is displayed, switches to a display mode with an enhanced viewability relative to a power-saving display state in accordance with a content of the designated image processing. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026520 | IMAGE DATA PRODUCING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image data producing apparatus includes: a page dividing portion that divides data described in a page description language into a page unit; a plurality of image processors that form raster data from divided data; and a controlling portion that allocates pages on which the raster data is formed to each of the plurality of the image processors, and causes each of the plurality of the image processors to execute registration of a printing resource on respective pages with at least a change of the printing resource by controlling each of the plurality of the image processors irrespective of a page allocation. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120075648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for processing a plurality of images. The method includes receiving or generating by an information processing apparatus the plurality of images. The plurality of images are stored in a memory, and separated into a plurality of image units. Sequence identifiers are assigned to the plurality of image units, and a first subset of the plurality of image units is processed by the information processing apparatus. The method further includes dividing the unprocessed plurality of image units into at least one second subset of the plurality of image units, and sending each of the at least one second subset of the plurality of image units to a different information processing apparatus for processing. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120086963 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE TO GENERATE INFORMATION FOR DISTINGUISHING FORMS - An information processing device according to the present invention includes a storage unit ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120212756 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus enables meaning, a translation and an explanation of an unknown term or a term for which a translation is unknown in a document to be obtained easily while the meaning, the translation and the explanation of the term are left as a record, so that the record is able to be used afterwards, thereby increasing convenience for the user. An image reading portion reads a document image; a character recognition portion performs character recognition of a term included in the read document image; an information obtaining portion gains access to a website for performing dictionary search so as to obtain, as term information, information of a search result of the dictionary search performed with the recognized term as a keyword; and the image forming portion forms an image with term information including the term information and the document image based on the obtained term information. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120274961 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - Wasteful consumption of recording media is minimized without making any changes to the control device. When a string is recorded based on a string recording command and the string is a repetitive string made by repeating characters related to font data having white space on either or both the end in the direction corresponding to the conveyance direction and the end in the direction corresponding to the opposite direction, the recording control unit | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120314235 | GLOBAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encoding schemes. The method also includes determining a parser state of the data based on a plurality of characters and/or at least one printer control command associated with the plurality of encoding schemes. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120327438 | Apparatus For and Method Of, Forming Parenthesized Image; Apparatus For and Method Of, Forming Externally Framed Image; Program; and Memory Medium - Outline font data showing the original outside shape having a single closed curve made up of a parenthesized outside shape portion of the parenthesized image and a connecting line portion to connect both open ends is stored. The height and line width are determined. Based on the above data, a first-size solidly shaded image is formed having the determined height and is entirely filled inside the original outside shape thereof with effective pixels of logic “1.” A second-size solidly shaded image is formed of a second size which is smaller by the line width than the first-size solidly shaded image, along the parenthesized outside shape portion. Non-equivalence operation is performed with corresponding pixels by displacing the first-size solidly shaded image and the second-size solidly shaded image by the line width along the parenthesized outside shape portion. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130063742 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a character from an input character string and a generation unit configured to generate a printTicket with the character extracted by the extraction unit as an Option of a plurality of Features, wherein print data is generated from the printTicket generated by the generation unit and a rendering command from an application. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130107299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM DIRECT PRINTING | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130128292 | AREA BASED TEXT FORMATTING FOR PRINTERS - A system and method for providing formatted content in a user-defined print area. In one or more embodiments, a database is stored on one or more processor readable media that are operatively coupled to one or more processors. A computing device associated with the one or more processors provides a user interface for defining at least one user-defined print area. The computing device provides one or more prompts for one or more parameters associated with the at least one user-defined print area. The one or more processors stores at least one of the one or more parameters received in response to at least one of the one or more prompts, and the one or more processors formats content provided in the user-defined print area in accordance with the at least one parameter of the one or more parameters. The formatted content is output by at least one printing device. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130135640 | FUNCTION EXECUTING DEVICE AND SERVER - A function executing device may obtain any of a plurality of screen information from a server, and display a screen represented by the obtained screen information. The function executing device may store in a device-side memory two or more code information corresponding to two or more character strings for displaying a first screen in a case where a creation instruction for creating a shortcut corresponding to the first screen is given, and supply the two or more code information within the device-side memory to the server in a case where a selection instruction for selecting the shortcut is given. In a case where the two or more code information is supplied to the server, the function executing device may obtain first screen information that represents the first screen from the server, and display the first screen represented by the obtained first screen information. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130148142 | RECORDING MEDIUM - This disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, storing a fixed form print information processing program for executing steps on a control device. The steps comprises a fixed form print producing step for producing fixed form print information, a margin area deleting step for deleting a width direction margin area of the width direction margin area and a longitudinal direction margin area respectively set on each side of both ends in a tape width direction as well as each side of both ends in a tape longitudinal direction of font data corresponding to a character string included in the fixed form print information, a fixed form print displaying step for displaying on the display device the fixed form print information from which the margin area has been deleted, and a fixed form print transferring step for transferring the fixed form print information to the print label producing apparatus. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130250323 | RECORDING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF A RECORDING DEVICE - Queries from a control device are answered based on the data actually used. When a control command is received from a host computer, the recording control unit of a printer changes a value related to the recordable area stored in a temporary storage area according to the content of the control command, uses the new value to record in the recordable area, and returns the new value when queried by the host computer about the setting for which the value was changed. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130258371 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND UPDATE METHOD - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a non-voltage storage unit which stores data, an interface unit which receives data, and a control unit. If a value of a head of first data received by the interface unit is a first value that is defined in advance, the control unit handles the first data as a HEX code and rewrites the data stored in the storage unit with the first data. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130293906 | PRINTING INDEX IMAGES AND FILE INFORMATION TOGETHER - An image forming apparatus is provided with a data retrieving unit that retrieves index image data and associating file information corresponding files from a recording medium. The index image data and associating tile information are allocated to a plurality of arrangement sections. The index image data and associating file information may be printed on a printing sheet in accordance with a predetermined layout. A judging unit is provided to judge whether the associating file information is less than or equal to a predetermined length, The associating file information which is longer than the predetermined length is normally printed incompletely so as to he printed within the arrangement section. A layout modifying unit is provided to modify the predetermined layout for the arrangement section if the associating file information is longer than the predetermined length so that the associating file information is printed completely on the printing sheet. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130342862 | GLOBAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING ENCODING SCHEME INDEPENDENT LABELS HAVING SERIALIZATION DATA - A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving serialization data from at least one host computer at a printer where at least a portion of the serialization data is encoded in at least one encoding scheme. The method also includes converting the data into a first encoding scheme. The method also includes parsing the converted data into an array of combining semantic clusters based on a plurality of rules, each combining semantic cluster comprising a plurality of code points. The method also includes generating a plurality of labels for printing based on the array of combining semantic clusters where each of the plurality of labels are printed such that one or more elements within the array are at least one of incremented or decremented. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140009772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING IMAGE AND TEXT IN A DOCUMENT - The disclosed embodiment relates to system and method for separating background image from foreground text in one or more electronic pages. The one or more electronic pages are compared to check whether the background image in each of the one or more electronic pages are same. If it found that the one or more electronic pages have common background image, the common background image is subtracted from each of the one or more pages. The foreground text from each of the one or more electronic pages is recognized using an OCR. Finally, the recognized foreground text from each of the one or more electronic pages is consolidated in a file. The consolidated file can be printed or send to one or more recipients over an email. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140016150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO STORE EMBEDDED FONTS - A method for managing a font, including: receiving, by a printer, a first electronic document (ED) identifying the font and embedding a plurality of attributes of the font; determining, by the printer, that the plurality of attributes of the font is not stored on the printer; storing, by the printer, the plurality of attributes of the font extracted from the first ED in a font storage unit; and generating, by the printer and based on a layout of the first ED, a hardcopy of the first ED having a first printed value in the font. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140029029 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When a graphics library performs transparency calculation even if transparency processing is unnecessary, or when the graphics library does not issue an effective rendering instruction to a GPU, no satisfactory rendering performance can be obtained even in a virtual machine which runs in combination with the graphics library. To solve this, the virtual machine uses the graphics library to or not to perform transparency processing in accordance with a content to be rendered. The virtual machine uses the graphics library to issue an effective rendering instruction to the GPU. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140049788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus is disclosed, including a marking position detection part and a first character recognition part. The marking position detection part detects a marking position with respect to a first sheet based on first image data scanned from the first sheet. The first character recognition part conducts a first character recognition with respect to an area specified based on the marking position, for second image data scanned from a second sheet. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140092409 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND TEMPLATE PROCESSING METHOD - This disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a template processing program for executing an editing accepting step, a template producing step, a text main body data acquisition step, and a template transmission step. In the template producing step, a template including at least one the print object is produced. In the search target setting step, a setting whether or not the print object included in the template is set to a key word search target is accepted. In the text main body data acquisition step, text main body data extracted from the print object to be set to the key word search target and expresses text contents of the print object, is acquired. In the template transmission step, the template is transmitted to a template server and stored therein. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140118760 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus and an image forming method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a communication interface which receives printing data; a storage which stores a plurality of symbol set tables; a searcher which, if the printing data is a text document, searches for a symbol set table to be applied to the text document among the plurality of symbol set tables stored in the storage; a user interface (UI) which displays a preview image of the searched symbol set table and receives a selection of whether the searched symbol set table is to be applied; and an image former which performs a print job with respect to the text document by using the selected symbol set table. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118761 | OPTIMIZED FONT SUBSETTING FOR A PRINT PATH - Subject matter described herein is directed to providing font-rendering information (e.g., XPS file) that is usable to print a document. For example, a font file is received that defines a font type included in the document. A determination is made that a quantity of pages of the document does not exceed a subsetting-optimization threshold. When the quantity of pages does not exceed the threshold, a subsetted font file of the font type is generated. The subsetted file is provided, such as via the spool file, to a print subsystem. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140153012 | Network Based Font Management for Imaging Devices - A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving a request from an imaging device indicating that the imaging device is unable to present textual content of an asset. The request includes one or more attributes of the textual content of the asset and the request is sent from the imaging device absent user input. Operations also include identifying an appropriate amount of font information from the received one or more attributes for the imaging device to present the asset, and, providing the identified font information to the imaging device for presenting the asset. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140268195 | JAPANESE HYPHENATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which has stored thereon Japanese hyphenation processing programs is disclosed. The programs which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to function as a first Japanese hyphenation information obtaining unit which obtains functional Japanese hyphenation information based on information on equipment capabilities obtained from an equipment unit and functional Japanese hyphenation setting information using the equipment capabilities; a second Japanese hyphenation information obtaining unit which obtains logical Japanese hyphenation information to be used by an application program from logical hyphenation setting information to be defined and used by the respective programs; a determining unit which determines a setting item to be inactive from setting items set for a print job based on the functional Japanese hyphenation information and the logical Japanese hyphenation information; and a transmitting unit which transmits information on the determined setting item to be inactive to the application program. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140376012 | RECORDING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR REPLACING FONTS WITH PRINTER FONTS CORRELATES PRINT DATA ATTRIBUTES - A recording device, a control method for a recording device, and a program can record even when recording using a font that is not internally stored by the recording device is specified. A printer | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150015903 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a font cache storage portion and a first determination portion. The font cache storage portion is configured to store a character image by an LRU method. The first determination portion is configured to determine whether to store the character image at a position of a head of the font cache storage portion, on the basis of a used state of the character image. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150015904 | PRINTING DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention is characterized by including: an analysis processing unit | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150036154 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DISPLAYING TEXT BLOCK AND PROCESSING TEXT BLOCK - The invention discloses a method for displaying a text block, a method for processing a text block, a client and a server, where the method for displaying a text block includes the steps of: a client collecting font parameters and layout parameters of a text block; the client transmitting the font parameters and the layout parameters of the text block to a server; and the client receiving vector description information of the text block, generated according to the font parameters and the layout parameters of the text block, sent from the server and executing drawing commands to draw the text block and display the text block on a screen. With embodiments of the invention, the effect of a personalized presswork printed at the server can be kept consistent with the effect of displaying the text block on the screen. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150055155 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a first replacing unit, an obtaining unit, and a second replacing unit. The first replacing unit replaces, in first document data including plural character strings, a first character string which satisfies a predetermined condition by a second character string including a character string which is not included in the first document data so as to generate second document data. The obtaining unit obtains a processing result generated by processing the second document data. The second replacing unit replaces the second character string included in the processing result by a character string corresponding to the first character string. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150055156 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, ANDCOMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for processing print data includes an extracting unit that extracts characters to be printed and coordinate information of the characters from the print data; an organizing unit that reorganizes the characters extracted by the extracting unit using the coordinate information of the characters; a sorting unit that sorts the characters extracted by the extracting unit into corresponding horizontal or vertical lines using the coordinate information of the characters; and a concatenating unit that concatenates the characters reorganized by the organizing unit and sorted by the sorting unit. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150077774 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF MERGING CHARACTER STRINGS WITH ORIGINAL IMAGE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of merging character strings with an original image without causing garbling. A first storage unit stores first character codes corresponding to a first language in accordance with administrator's input. A second storage unit stores a second character codes corresponding to a second character in accordance with login user's input. A reading unit reads an original image in accordance with login user's input. A generation unit generates a first character image corresponding to the first language on the basis of the first character codes and generates a second character image corresponding to the second language on the basis of the second character codes. A printing unit carries out a printing process based on the first character image, the second character image and the original image. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150085306 | INPUT DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An input device includes: a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of characters input by a user's operation, a confirming section allowing the display control section to confirm the plurality of characters received by the receiving section; a display section configured to display the plurality of characters allowed to be confirmed by the confirming section; a touch sensor configured to detect a touch point on the display section; and a display control section configured to identify, based on the touch point detected by the touch sensor through a user's double tap, at least one conversion target character among the plurality of confirmed characters, convert a character style of the conversion target character, allow the display section to display the conversion target character converted in character style, confirm the input of the conversion target character converted in character style. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150312441 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a detecting unit, and a generating unit. The receiving unit receives two pieces of image data to be compared with each other. The detecting unit detects the difference between the two pieces of image data received by the receiving unit. If a drawing element in the image data where the difference is detected by the detecting unit is dense with modified parts to such an extent that it is estimated to be difficult to identify the content of modification in the display of the difference, the generating unit generates difference image data indicating the difference between the two pieces of image data for comparison by adding an auxiliary image to highlight the content of the detected difference. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20160070516 | GLOBAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING ENCODING SCHEME INDEPENDENT LABELS HAVING SERIALIZATION DATA - A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving serialization data from at least one host computer at a printer where at least a portion of the serialization data is encoded in at least one encoding scheme. The method also includes converting the data into a first encoding scheme. The method also includes parsing the converted data into an array of combining semantic clusters based on a plurality of rules, each combining semantic cluster comprising a plurality of code points. The method also includes generating a plurality of labels for printing based on the array of combining semantic clusters where each of the plurality of labels are printed such that one or more elements within the array are at least one of incremented or decremented. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072978 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT CONTINUES WITHOUT HALT TO PERFORM PRINT JOB INCLUDING SIGN WHERE GLYPH IS INVALID DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a print device, a sign printing circuit, and a sign analyzing circuit. The print device performs a print job onto a print medium. The sign printing circuit causes the print device to print a sign where a glyph is present in a font corresponding to a code based on the code included in print data. The sign analyzing circuit analyzes whether or not the glyph is invalid data where the sign printing circuit is not able to cause the print device to print. When the sign analyzing circuit analyzes that the glyph present in the font corresponding to the code of a target sign is the invalid data, the sign printing circuit causes the print device to print a specific alternative sign as an alternative to the target sign. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160092436 | GLOSSARY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, GLOSSARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GLOSSARY GENERATION - A glossary management device includes a read circuit, a storage circuit, an acquisition circuit, an analysis circuit, a term matching circuit, and a registration circuit. The storage circuit has a storage area for a glossary. The acquisition circuit acquires text data of a document if reading of the document is executed by a user. The analysis circuit performs analysis of the text data acquired by the acquisition circuit to identify a language of the document and parts of speech of text segments in the text data and extracts one or more text segments from the document based on the analysis. The term matching circuit performs matching for each of the extracted text segments against a public dictionary. The registration circuit adds to the glossary, each extracted text segment that does not match any entry term in the public dictionary. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160110146 | PRINTING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF A PRINTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Based on characteristics of the font type, the results of printing by a previous printer and the results of printing by a replacement printer are made the same or nearly the same. The control unit | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160156804 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160253583 | PRINTING WITH A COMBINATION OF FIXED FONTS AND PROPORTIONAL FONTS | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160378740 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an input unit, a display unit, a designation unit and an update unit. The input unit inputs a plurality of parts configuring one character. The display unit displays the plurality of parts. The designation unit designates one or more parts selected from the plurality of parts by a user. The update unit updates a display on the display unit such that the designated one or more parts are deleted from the one character and the other parts are remained displayed on the display unit. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20190147018 | EDITING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR ADJUSTING CHARACTER SIZES | 05-16-2019 |
