DRYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEAT CONDUCTIVITY AND ABRASION RESISTANCE OF HEAT-TRANSFER PORTION

    公开(公告)号:US20240165971A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-23

    申请号:US18514191

    申请日:2023-11-20

    Inventor: Nobuhiro Maezawa

    CPC classification number: B41J11/00244 B41M7/009

    Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a heater and a heat-transfer portion. The heat-transfer portion comes into contact with a second surface of a belt-like medium to transmit thermal energy supplied from the heater to the medium, the second surface being a surface on a back side of a first surface of the medium onto which ink is ejected. Further, the heat-transfer portion includes a base material portion, a first layer portion, and a second layer portion. The base material portion is provided closer to an opposing surface that opposes the heater than a contact surface that comes into contact with the medium. The first layer portion forms the contact surface and has higher abrasion resistance than the base material portion. The second layer portion is provided between the first layer portion and the base material portion and has higher heat conductivity than the base material portion.

    High-speed cell-based image compression

    公开(公告)号:US11991335B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17409641

    申请日:2021-08-23

    CPC classification number: H04N1/41 G06T3/40 G06T9/00

    Abstract: An example embodiment may involve obtaining an input pixel map of a digital image containing an array of a×b pixel macro-cells; classifying each of the a×b pixel macro-cells as P class cells for substantially lossless compression or Q class cells for lossy compression; creating a first intermediate pixel map representing: the P class cells as is, and the Q class cells with all zero values; creating a second intermediate pixel map representing: the P class cells with all zero values, and the Q class cells as is; encoding the first intermediate pixel map into a first output stream by using substantially lossless compression; and encoding the second intermediate pixel map into a second output stream by: downsampling the P class cells and the Q class cells therein, and serializing representations the downsampled cells.

    IDENTIFYING PRINT JOBS FOR PRE-PROCESSING
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240160393A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-16

    申请号:US18418245

    申请日:2024-01-20

    Abstract: Apparatuses related to identifying print jobs for pre-processing are disclosed. In an example apparatus thereof, a header is for pre-rendering a print job stored in a memory of a host device. A data page is for at least one page of the print job stored in the memory of the host device. The header includes job parameters for the pre-rendering. The job parameters include: a system identifier to identify the print job for the pre-rendering; a mode select to set for the pre-rendering; a job identifier to identify the print job from other print jobs by a printer engine or a print manager; and a cache select to set for caching a pre-rendered image for the print job after the pre-rendering thereof.

    Industrial printing system, print server, and process management method for peer-to-peer distributed processing in combination of production printing apparatuses

    公开(公告)号:US11983446B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-14

    申请号:US17982456

    申请日:2022-11-07

    Inventor: Taku Matsuo

    CPC classification number: G06F3/1206 G06F3/1259 G06K15/1836

    Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that efficiently manages distributed processing of production printing on a peer-to-peer basis. Industrial printing systems perform production printing and include multiple print servers. A plurality of print servers performs distributed processing of jobs. The storage unit stores capability information indicating capabilities that can be processed in rasterizing process, printing processing, and post-processing. The processing determination unit checks job processing requirement based on the capability information stored in the storage unit, and it determines a combination of any of a plurality of print servers, printing apparatuses, and post-processing apparatuses capable of processing the job. The processing management unit transmits a job to each apparatus and requests processing according to the combination determined to be processable by the processing determination unit.

    Method and system for managing login information during a debugging process

    公开(公告)号:US11983289B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-14

    申请号:US17563636

    申请日:2021-12-28

    Inventor: Tai Yu Chen

    CPC classification number: G06F21/6218 H04L63/083 H04L63/105 H04L63/20

    Abstract: A method and a system for managing login information of a computing system during a debugging process are disclosed. The login information is composed according to a number of roles and their associated policies. Some roles have higher authorized levels to view sensitive information. To protect privacy, a technician who access the computing system will not be able to view all content of information. If this restriction prevents the technician to debug the system, the technician can request an upgrade. A new login information with a higher authorized level will be temporarily granted to the technician that allows the technician to view and access more content of information.

    INDUSTRIAL PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING IN COMBINATION OF PRODUCTION PRINTING APPARATUSES

    公开(公告)号:US20240152299A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US17982456

    申请日:2022-11-07

    Inventor: Taku MATSUO

    CPC classification number: G06F3/1206 G06F3/1259 G06K15/1836

    Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that efficiently manages distributed processing of production printing on a peer-to-peer basis. Industrial printing systems perform production printing and include multiple print servers. A plurality of print servers performs distributed processing of jobs. The storage unit stores capability information indicating capabilities that can be processed in rasterizing process, printing processing, and post-processing. The processing determination unit checks job processing requirement based on the capability information stored in the storage unit, and it determines a combination of any of a plurality of print servers, printing apparatuses, and post-processing apparatuses capable of processing the job. The processing management unit transmits a job to each apparatus and requests processing according to the combination determined to be processable by the processing determination unit.

    Industrial printing system, print server, and variable printing method for distributed processing of variable printing for production printing by peer-to-peer

    公开(公告)号:US11977803B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-07

    申请号:US17982432

    申请日:2022-11-07

    Inventor: Taku Matsuo

    CPC classification number: G06F3/1282 G06F3/1203 G06F3/1261 G06F3/1285

    Abstract: Provided is a peer-to-peer industrial printing system that performs distributed processing in variable printing for production printing. The industrial printing system includes a plurality of print servers and performs variable printing for production printing. Each of the plurality of print servers has a variable attribute generation unit, a variable distribution unit, and a processing management unit. The variable attribute generation unit generates variable attribute information including record information, which is information about each record of variable data for the variable printing. The variable distribution unit distributes each record of the variable data to one of the plurality of print servers based on the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generation unit. The processing management unit transmits the job ticket including the record distributed by the variable distribution unit to the other print server that is distributed to request processing.

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