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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7689645 | Systems and methods for brokering services Techniques are provided to determine service data features from an archive of web service transactions. Data features for functionally identical classes of service are determined. Differentiating data feature patterns uniquely identifying each service within the cla... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688344 | Systems and methods for mediating teleconferences Systems and methods for providing a status of a teleconference by determining an approximate delay time and providing a status signal in view of the determined approximate delay time are provided. An approximate delay time is approximately the amount of time that wi... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686682 | Video game for tagging photos A multi-player solitaire or multi-player video game that generates tags for digital images. A tabletop or computer screen video game provides an enjoyable way for collocated players to view, share, talk about and, in the process tag photos. The video games can gener... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680820 | Systems and methods for displaying text recommendations during collaborative note taking Multiple users access a collaborative data-sharing system during a data-sharing event. Each user can establish the level of sharing to be allowed with each other user and filtering criteria for filtering the data before it is provided to the other users. Data can be... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7624166 | System and methods for remote control of multiple display and devices Methods and systems for transferring media between media source devices and media sink devices are disclosed. Remote control units are used to indicate the media sink and media source devices for transferring media data between these elements. ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7446625 | Narrow impedance conversion device An impedance conversion device has four conductors arranged so that the first and second conductors form a transmission line having a first characteristic impedance, the third and fourth conductors form a transmission line having the first characteristic impedance, ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 6705696 | Method of driving inkjet recording head and inkjet recording apparatus A method of driving an inkjet recording head designed to eject an ink droplet (67) via an ink nozzle (62) communicated to a pressure chamber filled with ink by generating a pressure wave in the pressure chamber by applying a driving voltage to a piezoe... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6580443 | Color image forming device with simplified optical unit incorporating a laser source An intermediate belt made of an endless belt is provided by 45 degrees inclined horizontally and looped over two rollers at both its ends, and four photosensitive drums are provided in contact with the top surface of this intermediate belt. A reflection m... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6567634 | Liquid recovery method and apparatus An electro-photographic image forming apparatus forms an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive belt and develops the electrostatic latent image with liquid toner composed of particle toners and a liquid solvent. With absorption means, whose surfa... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6542704 | Device and method for constantly adjusting the concentration and filling level of developing solution in a printing process A liquid developing device comprises a storage tank, a concentration sensor, a level sensor, a concentrated-ink supply pump, a carrier supply pump, an ink discharge pump, and a controller. The storage tank stores ink, including toner and carrier, for deve... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6512900 | Image forming apparatus having alarm which indicates carrier solvent filter replacement or lack of solvent supply A wet type electrophotographic image forming apparatus is capable of indicating timing of replacement of filter due to influence of solvent used in the process of image formation whereby to cause degradation of image quality or fatigue of parts and to res... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6490921 | Oscillating liquid level measuring apparatus The present invention provides an oscillating liquid level measuring apparatus includes a liquid level measuring unit 10 having: a floating member 3 floating on a surface of liquid 1 in a tank 2; a variable resistor 4 arranged o the top of the tank 2 for ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6481815 | Ink jet printer and its preliminary driving method In the present invention, the preliminary waveform driving region lies in the period in which the head is accelerated just after the head starts moving for printing until it reaches the printing starting position, and a preliminary waveform generated in t... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6480684 | Circulation system for an image developer with an agitator motor responsive to an amount of developer in a storage tank A developer circulation system includes a storage tank which stores a developer, a development device, a developer supply passage through which the developer is supplied to the development device from the storage tank, a developer return passage through w... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6467865 | Ink jet recording head and ink jet recorder Ink stored in an ink tank 11 passes through a supply path 12 and supply port 13 and fills a pressure chamber 14. A piezoelectric actuator 15 vibrates a vibration plate 17 by receiving a voltage from a driving voltage control unit 16. The volume of the pre... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6459865 | Liquid-developing electro-photographic printer photosensitive body cleaning method A transfer roller cleaning mechanism 12 is brought into contact with a transfer roller 11 so as to remove a harmful substance contained in a developer remaining on the transfer roller 11 after a transfer step. Upon completion of printing of a predetermine... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6449446 | Charging device and transfer device A charging device comprises a conductor, which is in contact with a photoconductor, and a power source circuit, which applies a voltage to the conductor and electrically charges the photoconductor as to have a predetermined level of potential. The power s... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6430380 | Wet type image forming apparatus and information processing system using this apparatus The wet type image forming apparatus includes: a columnar body (3) fixed within an ink tank (1); a plurality (n) of reed switches (4) to (6) that are arrayed in upper and lower directions in the columnar body (3) and respond to a magnet; a float (7) which... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6415124 | Wet-type developing unit capable of reducing pressing power given to squeeze roller and capable of controlling toner density of liquid developer adhered on development roller In a wet-type developing unit (300), a plating roller (400) is disposed parallel to a development roller (110) at a predetermined distance. The plating roller (400) is connected to a variable power source (402) controlled by a voltage controller (404). Th... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6377760 | Toner concentration measuring apparatus The present invention provides a toner concentration measuring apparatus capable of precisely measuring the concentration of toner in a developer and having first and second light guiding devices whose end surfaces project into a duct traversed by develop... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6160610 | Image forming device and method for controlling divisional light scanning device Plural linear marks extending along a scanning direction are spaced apart from each other at constant intervals and parallel to each other at a boundary of partial exposure ranges. When the marks are repeatedly formed by two light beams while a position o... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6002413 | Color image forming apparatus having correction of color image offset Light scanning devices forming electrostatic latent images on photosensitive bodies are disposed so as to correspond respectively to the plurality of photosensitive bodies which correspond to a plurality of colors, respectively. Electrooptical elements ar... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5973797 | Image reading apparatus The present invention relates to an image reading apparatus in which a structure is simple and in which the size of a document can be detected in a short time, wherein the levels of signals, which are outputted from photoelectric elements within a plurali... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5942824 | Motor and method of manufacturing same A motor comprising: a rotor which is supported via a rotating shaft in a radial direction of the rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being disposed around a fixed shaft provided on the side of a stator to form a dynamic-pressure bearing; a stator-side thru... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5930019 | Light scanning device, optical device, and scanning method of optical device A light scanning device deflects a plurality of light beams by a deflecting means performs divided scanning on a single scanning line on a photoconductor with the plurality of deflected light beams. When the scanning line is scanned, a detecting means det... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5900706 | Motor drive control apparatus A motor drive control apparatus has a number of revolution setting circuit, a driving circuit for driving a motor to rotate at a predetermined number of revolution based on a number of revolution command signal output from the number of revolution setting... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5877884 | Light scanning device A light scanning device includes: a light deflector deflecting and scanning light modulated by an image signal, and a member to which the light deflector is connected, wherein a portion of the member has an elastically deformable portion, a mass body is m... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5854940 | Output control system for interpreting input data according to a specific control language based upon outputs from a plurality of control language determining devices An output controlling device for reducing a processing time and substantially reducing erroneous determinations. In an image recording apparatus or the like, when a control language describing input data sent from a higher level apparatus is determined, d... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5805323 | Optical scanning apparatus An optical scanning apparatus comprises a first image formation optical system for shaping a diameter of a light beam emitted from a light source, deflection means for deflecting an incident light beam at a constant angular velocity, a second image format... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5713031 | Hypermedia database system An extendable hypermedia system has a hypermedia data base for storing a hypermedia data, a data processor for executing modification of the data stored in the hypermedia data base and also for executing addition of the type of the associated data, a view... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5691713 | Communication apparatus allowing a receiver to recognize a generalized situation of a sender In a transmitting section, image data, voice data and screen data indicating situations of a sender are produced, and converted to generalized situation data by, for instance, thinning those data. Upon request from a receiver, the generalized situation da... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5633996 | Device and method for layout of a structured document using multi-column areas A document layout processing device for the layout of a structured document is disclosed wherein a logical structure of a document is stored in the device; the logical structure has a preselected specific page format with a plurality of columns; document ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5608857 | Document preparation support system using knowledge database to determine document layout A document preparation support system which enables a document preparer to easily prepare a good-looking document meeting his purpose and application while eliminating the need for having any editorial design knowledge and which also enables the document ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5600771 | Method of document layout process and system therefor A document processing system for generating a layout structure of a document so as to conform to predetermined restriction conditions relating to document layout. Upon generating the layout structure, a detection unit detects whether or not the current do... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5586239 | Computer controlled graphics display system for supporting information classification An information classification support apparatus which classifies data units graphically displayed on a display screen. A pointing device designates one or more of the data units on the display screen for each symbol mark to assign the symbol mark and the ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5579406 | Apparatus and method for outline data processing An apparatus for pattern processing includes a display control unit for controlling display by a CRT, a keyboard, a CPU, a RAM, and the like, the CPU being adapted to control the apparatus and incorporating a segment-information extracting unit and a boun... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5566289 | Document formatting support system A document style design support system which enables a system user to easily prepare a format design for a document meeting his purpose and application while eliminating the need to have any editorial design knowledge and which also enables the system use... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5557794 | Data management system for a personal data base A data management system in which a plurality of data each data comprising a set of three elements: a data name, a data body and a data retrieving keyword group whose content is not so described that the system is able to handle hierarchically and logical... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5537522 | Document processing device for improving image quality A document processing device automatically changes chart designs in inputted documents. The processing device receives simple indications showing the user's intentions, improves the quality of designs in accordance with input indications and outputs the i... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5533042 | Semiconductor laser device and driving method for the same as well as tracking servo system employing the same A semiconductor laser device which allows high speed correction of the position of a laser spot on an optical disk is disclosed. The semiconductor laser device comprises an active layer which oscillates a laser beam when electric current is supplied there... | 07/02/1996 |
