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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2006
Zheila L. Ola, Pittsburg, CA (US);
Arthur E. Alacar, Concord, CA (US);
Barry Sia, Concord, CA (US);
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Concord, CA (US);
Zheila L. Ola, Pittsburg, CA (US);
Arthur E. Alacar, Concord, CA (US);
Barry Sia, Concord, CA (US);
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Concord, CA (US);
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Development America, Inc., Concord, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for ringtone, voice, and sound notification of printer status, comprising obtaining status information of a printer, converting it into an audible report, and delivering the audible report. The method is especially useful for visually-impaired users and for shared printers in crowded situations where it is difficult for each user to see the panel or monitor display. The methods also include detection by the events controller, UI manager instructing an audio manager, codec decoding an audio file in firmware and hardware organization; job owner identification information embedded into a print job with a unique tag; user identification sound data embedded in a print job; audible report for multiple jobs in a job queue, with positional information; text-to-speech conversion; unique ringtone melody for each user, comprising department prefix, higher pitch modulation for higher priority, and automatically converting an alphanumeric character into the corresponding note.