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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7462811 | Light detection circuit A circuit for detecting light comprising: a) a light-integrating photosensor circuit responsive to light for producing a variable voltage signal representing the accumulation of the light over time; and b) a measurement circuit for receiving a time measurement signa... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7462406 | OLED devices with dinuclear copper compounds An OLED device comprises an anode, a cathode and therebetween a light emitting layer containing a compound represented by Formula I below: wherein: each A is independently selected from N ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7462405 | Organic element for electroluminescent devices Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a light emitting phosphorescent material that contains an organometallic complex comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Re, Ru, and Os that is coordinated... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461927 | Drop deflection selectable via jet steering A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid stream generator, an electrode system, and a stream deflector. The liquid stream generator includes a nozzle and is operable to produce a stream of liquid through the nozzle. The electrode system is operable to produce a... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459850 | OLED device having spacers An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, comprising: a substrate; one or more OLEDs formed on the substrate comprising a first electrode formed over the substrate, one or more layers of organic material, one of which is light emitting, formed over the first el... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459263 | Optical recording media with triplet-sensitized isomerization The invention relates to an optical recording material comprising: a polymeric matrix; a dewarbenzene derivative reactant capable of undergoing isomerization to a benzene product upon triplet excitation, thereby causing a change in optical properties; and a sensitiz... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459203 | Fuser member A fuser roller for toner fusing systems and processes, and including a base and a fusing surface layer. The fusing surface layer has a first elastomer continuous phase and a second elastomer discontinuous phase; the discontinuous phase is dispersed through the conti... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459027 | Pneumatically adjustable apparatus for coating toner fusing belt substrate and method for using same An apparatus for enabling the uniform application of a layer of a coating composition to a tubular substrate includes a shaft, and upper and lower circular rim members of equal diameter that are concentrically attached to the shaft. A pneumatically inflatable tube d... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458687 | High efficiency digital cinema projection system with increased etendue A digital cinema projection apparatus having an illumination source with a first etendue value for providing polarized polychromatic light. A first lens element lies in the path of the polarized polychromatic light for forming a substantially telecentric polarized p... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458677 | Reduction of turbulence within printing region of inkjet printer heads The turbulence of the air moved through an inkjet print head enclosure is reduced before reaching the printing region between the print head and a print medium by positioning a HEPA filtration system between an air inlet opening in the enclosure and the print head. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456891 | Multiple read photodiode A photo sensing region is included within each pixel in a pixel array. Each photo sensing region collects photo-generated charge. A transfer region is positioned between each photo sensing region and a respective charge coupled device. A charge-coupled device receiv... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456429 | Apparatus for atomic layer deposition The present invention provides a distribution manifold for thin-film material deposition onto a substrate comprising a plurality of inlet ports for a sequence of gaseous materials, an output face comprising a plurality of open elongated output channels, each channel... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456380 | Asymmetrical microlenses on pixel arrays An image sensor includes a plurality of photosensitive sites; a plurality of asymmetrical-shaped microlenses positioned spanning the photosensitive sites; wherein incoming light is directed in a predetermined direction by an asymmetrical surface of the asymmetrical-... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455959 | Photographic element containing a speed-enhancing compound The invention provides a color photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a non silver-containing light-insensitive layer, in which at least one of these layers contains a colorless imidazole compound of formula (I) ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455886 | Nanocomposite materials and an in-situ method of making such materials A method of fabricating a nanocomposite material includes generating nanoparticles in-situ with a polymer. A nanocomposite material includes a polymer having nanoparticles characterized by a dimension of not more than 50 nm. ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455378 | Printer control system and method for changing print mask height A system and a method for improving the quality of prints using a print mask for a printer with at least one printhead with a plurality of dot forming elements arranged in dot forming element sections, and at least one of the masks are altered so that mask data corr... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454697 | Manual and automatic alignment of pages A printing machine has a computer program for aligning pages in a book and printing the book. A user scans pages of a book into a controller or computer where the pages are converted into a file that is independent of the platform that created the documents such as ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454153 | Cleaning of contamination in a printer as a function of a register error Cleaning of contamination in a printer, especially contamination by the use of a fixing aid, in which the contamination is determined by evaluating the register of a print of the printing machine. In the case that the register error is larger than a given amount, a ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453605 | Capturing digital images to be transferred to an e-mail address An electronic still camera for capturing images to be transferred to at least one e-mail address is disclosed. The electronic still camera includes an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of scenes and for producing image signals representative of the co... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453498 | Electronic image capture device and image file format providing raw and processed image data An electronic image capture device for capturing a color image, comprising an image sensor comprised of discrete light sensitive picture elements overlaid with a color filter array (CFA) pattern to produce sensor color image data corresponding to the CFA pattern; an... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452638 | Negative-working radiation-sensitive compositions and imageable materials A radiating-sensitive composition and negative-working imageable element includes a free radically polymerizable component, an initiator composition capable of generating radicals sufficient to initiate polymerization of the free radically polymerizable component up... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452594 | Fuser member system and process A fuser roller for toner fusing systems and processes, and including a base and a fusing surface layer. The fusing surface layer includes a first elastomer continuous phase, a second elastomer discontinuous phase, and thermally conductive filler, with the discontinu... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450269 | Gray level halftone processing An image processing method and apparatus for generating a gray level rendered pixel value that has been subjected to a halftoning process. In the method and apparatus a gray level pixel value of the pixel to be rendered by the halftoning process is provided as one i... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450160 | Auto white balance apparatus and white balance adjusting method To provide an auto white balance apparatus capable of performing stable white balance adjustment. A parent block is divided into child blocks by a block-dividing circuit 110, and a typical value is calculated every child block by a typical-value calculating c... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449501 | Ink jet composition containing microgel particles This invention relates to an ink jet ink composition comprising an aqueous medium and microgel particles, said particles comprising a crosslinked copolymer prepared from a monomer mixture comprising at least a crosslinking monomer, a polymerizable carboxylic acid mo... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449500 | Ink jet ink containing multimetallic polymeric colorants The invention relates to an ink composition containing a multimetallic oligomeric or polymeric azo colorant wherein the colorant is derived from the polymerization reaction of a polyvalent metal cation with a dimeric tridentate ligand containing a coordinating azo g... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449287 | Pearlescent textured imaging supports The present invention relates to a support and an imaging element utilizing the support, wherein the support comprises at least one nacreous resin layer, wherein the uppermost layer comprises nacreous pigment in a polyolefin matrix polymer, and wherein the FLOP valu... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449286 | Method of forming conductive tracks A patterned electrical conductor having improved conductivity and controllably high resolution track and gap widths is obtained by exposing, to a desired conductive pattern, a pressure-sensitive or photosensitive element comprising a support and a pressure-sensitive... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449216 | Gravure cylinder patch coating apparatus and method A gravure method for applying a discrete patch (12) of uniform coating to a moving web (14) includes defining a nip area (20) between a gravure roller (16) and a backing roller (22), moving the gravure roller to the nip to a precis... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448718 | Determining defective resistors in inkjet printers A method and apparatus for determining defective heating resistors Ri in each of a plurality of inkjets in an inkjet printer, wherein each heating resistor Ri is connected in parallel with a common capacitor, the method for each heating resisto... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445736 | Embossed indicia on foam core imaging media This invention provides method for placing indicia on a support for an imaging element comprising embossing indicia, such as a logo, on a roller; providing a support wherein said support comprises a closed cell foam core and adhered thereto at least one flange layer... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444017 | Detecting irises and pupils in images of humans In an eye detection method, a plurality of candidate eyes are located within a digital image. Pixels of interest having a predetermined characteristic and a predetermined association to respective eyes are found. Pixels of interest associated with each eye are group... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443607 | Zoom lens, and image-capturing apparatus A sufficiently compact zoom lens equipped with a vibration-control function is provided. The zoom lens includes, in sequence from an object, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443602 | Zoom lens and imaging apparatus using zoom lens To provide a zoom lens which attains high zoom ratio and high optical performance over the entire zoom range, enables vibration control and miniaturization, and is compatible with a solid-state imaging device with a large size and a large number of pixels, the zoom ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443552 | Process of spatial color restoration of an image The process of the invention enables the spatial color alterations of a silver image to be taken into account according to one of its main axes (19). The process of the invention enables the altered or faded colors of the silver image to be restored automatic... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443431 | Fixed pattern noise removal in CMOS imagers across various operational conditions A method of minimizing noise in an image produced by an electronic imager comprising: determining a correction system for a range of imager integration times and a range of imager temperatures for an electronic imager which has taken a series of dark capture images ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443418 | Method for producing electronic job pages A method for producing a plurality of electronic job pages using a digital camera and a computer comprises the steps of capturing and storing a first group of digital images using the digital camera; designating, in response to a user input, that subsequent captured... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442486 | Radiation-sensitive compositions comprising oxazole derivatives and imageable elements based thereon Radiation-sensitive element comprising: (a) one or more types of monomers each comprising at least one ethylenically unsaturated group accessible to a free-radical polymerization, (b) at least one sensitizer, (c) at least one coinitiator capable of forming free radi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442245 | Glycerol derivatives for inkjet inks An ink composition for inkjet recording comprising water and a compound represented by the following Structure: wherein at least one of Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4 are not hydrogen; each o... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441717 | Micromedia milling process A process for forming a dispersion of milled solid particles of a compound comprising forming a milling mixture of a liquid medium, milling media having an average particle size of less than or equal to about 300 microns, and a solid compound in a mixing vessel, and... | 10/28/2008 |
