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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181885 | Method of imaging a coding pattern having an orientation identified via a plurality of direction components A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) sampling and decoding a plurality of registration symbols contained in the imaged portion; (c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180193 | Video player with code sensor and memory for video data retrieval A video player is provided. The video player comprises a body; a sensor positioned in the body for sensing coded data printed on a substrate when the video player body is operatively positioned relative to the substrate; a processor coupled to the sensor for determi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8152072 | Computer system with wireless pen and relay pairing A computer system includes a printer configured to print visible information and invisible coded data tags on print media. A pen-type device includes an image sensor configured to sense the data tags and wirelessly transmit associated sensed data. A relay is configu... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139902 | Method of conferring interactivity on previously printed graphic containing text A method of conferring interactivity on a pre-printed image containing text. The method comprises the steps of: (i) receiving association data indicating an association between an impression identity, absolute positions and a scanned image; (ii) performing Optical C... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139261 | Interactive flatbed scanner A flatbed scanner comprises: a platen for supporting a substrate and a carriage for traversing across a surface. The carriage comprises a pagewidth scanhead for scanning a pre-printed graphic image and a pagewidth printhead for printing a position-coding pattern ont... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139260 | Handheld display device for associating multimedia objects with printed substrates A handheld display device for associating a multimedia object with a zone of a printed substrate. The device comprises: a memory storing multimedia objects; an optical sensor for imaging an area of the printed substrate and for generating image data; a processor for... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139254 | System for generating form for delivery of greeting cards A system is provided for generating a form for delivery of a printed communication. The system associates coordinate information of a form with an interactive element of the form, assigns an identity to the interactive element, associates delivery information on del... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139253 | Interactive printer/scanner A printer comprises: a feed mechanism and a printhead assembly. The printhead assembly comprises: a printhead for printing a position-coding pattern onto a surface and a scanhead for scanning a pre-printed graphic image. The printer further comprises an ink supply a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136918 | Printhead maintenance station having one-piece elastomer pad for peeling engagement with nozzles A printhead maintenance station for maintaining a printhead in an operable condition. The maintenance station has an elastically deformable pad coextensive with the printhead. The pad is a one-piece elastomer pad having a uniform contact surface configured for seali... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136720 | Method of recording mail transactions A method of recording an interaction with a mail item. The mail item comprises a product contained in a mailing package. The mailing package comprises an interface surface containing mailing information. The interface surface has coded data indicative of a mail item... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135637 | Method of allowing a user to participate in an auction A method of allowing a user to participate in an auction. The method includes, in a computer system, determining, information relating to the auction, and generating coded data indicative of at least one parameter relating to the auction. The computer system then de... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132893 | Printhead assembly with molded ink manifold having polymer coating A printhead assembly includes: a molded ink manifold having a plurality of ink outlets defined in a manifold bonding surface; and printhead integrated circuits bonded to the manifold bonding surface. The manifold bonding surface includes a polymer coating, which plu... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132729 | Sensing device A sensing device is disclosed. The sensing device includes a coded data sensor, a barcode sensor and a processor. The coded data sensor senses coded data portions disposed on respective positions on a surface of a product item. Each code data portion encodes an iden... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126196 | Method of imaging a coding pattern comprising reed-solomon codewords encoded by mixed multi-pulse position modulation A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) operatively positioning an optical reader relative to the surface and capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) sampling and decoding a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123336 | Printhead micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangement with motion-transmitting structure A micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangement for a printhead integrated circuit the nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber bounded by a distal sidewall and a proximal sidewall, and capped by a roof defining an ink ejection port; a paddle located in the nozzle ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123332 | Printhead assembly with a printhead maintenance station Provided is a printhead assembly that includes a support structure with a printhead mounted on the support structure, said printhead having an ink ejection face, and a print media guide proximate the support structure for guiding print media past the printhead for p... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123318 | Printhead having controlled nozzle firing grouping A printhead is provided having a plurality of rows of nozzles, with the nozzles in each row being grouped into fire groups, and a controller configured to fire the nozzles of each fire group by outputting firing pulses to the nozzles. The controller sets the number ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121919 | Method and system for banking using coded forms Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to online banking via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing device. The sensing device communicates with a com... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121782 | System for providing information through interaction with a printed page A system for providing information is disclosed. The system has a server which stores page descriptors. A printer is also includes which prints a printed page with visible and invisible data. The invisible data is indicative of one or more of the page descriptors. A... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121426 | Method of compressing input stroke sequence A method of compressing a sequence of strokes input at an input device of a processing system is provided in which each stroke input at the input device is represented as a series of digital words representing x and y co-ordinates, a reference co-ordinate of each st... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120820 | Method of scanning images larger than the scan swath using coded surfaces A method of swipe-scanning a graphic image printed on a surface. The surface has a position-coding pattern superimposed with the graphic image. The method comprises the steps of: (i) operatively positioning a swipe scanner relative to the surface; (ii) swiping the s... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119820 | Method of preparing sultines A method of preparing a sultine from a dihalogeno compound. The method comprises the steps of reacting the dihalogeno compound with a hydroxymethanesulfinate salt in a DMSO solvent so as to prepare the sultine. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119019 | Method of fabricating filtered printhead ejection nozzle A method of fabricating a printhead ejection nozzle is provided which includes depositing sacrificial material on a planar substrate form a scaffold of the sacrificial material on the substrate, defining openings in the sacrificial material to the plane of the subst... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118422 | Printer with paper guide on the printhead and pagewidth platen rotated into position An inkjet printer having an inkjet printhead having at least one printhead IC for ejecting ink, and a support structure for mounting the ink jet printhead in the printer and supporting the at least one printhead IC. The support structure has a paper guide adjacent t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118418 | Printer with gas bubble occlusion resistant conduits An inkjet printer with a printhead and a conduit connected to the printhead. The conduit defines a flow path for the printing fluid and has an internal cross section configured such that the surface tension of printing fluid within it favors gas bubble growth along ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118407 | Thermal inkjet printhead having annulus shaped heater elements A thermal inkjet printhead has an array of nozzle arrangements provided for ejecting ink. Each nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly to define a nozzle chamber i... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118404 | Printing arrangement having printhead and ink supply assemblies A printing arrangement has a modular printhead assembly with a plurality of elongate printhead modules fast with an elongate chassis. An ink supply assembly has a number of ink reservoirs with respective ink supply devices each having two parts, namely a first part ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118400 | Ink ejection printhead incorporating a bridged connector arrangement An ink ejection printhead includes an elongate support frame. The support frame supports ink ejection printhead modules. An end plate is mounted to an end of the support frame and defines two guide recesses. A connector arrangement is received in the guide recesses ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118397 | Printhead assembly with a wicking element A printhead maintenance station includes a housing operatively positioned with respect to an ink ejection face to be maintained. The housing defines a pair of slots. A support arm has lugs at each end that are slidably received in respective slots. A support is moun... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118395 | Mobile device with a printhead and a capper actuated by contact with the media to be printed A mobile device that is (a) an inkjet printhead, (b) a print media feed path extending past the printhead, (c) a capping mechanism with a capper moveable between a capping position, in which the capper is urged into a capping relationship with the printhead, and an ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118393 | Method of removing foreign particulates from pagewidth printhead A method of removing foreign particulates from an ink ejection face of a pagewidth printhead mounted on a substrate. The substrate has a film guide positioned adjacent the printhead. The method comprises the steps of: (a) flooding the face with ink and dispersing th... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118387 | Printer including dot data generator with stochastically ramped print data A printer including a plurality of printhead modules located across a print media transport path is disclosed. Each printhead module has an elongate printhead. Nozzles of respective printheads overlap with nozzles of printheads of neighboring printhead modules. The ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118380 | Printer controller for monitoring an ink drop count Provided is a printer controller for a pagewidth printer having a printhead configured to print according to print quality information. The printer has a paper transport mechanism for transporting a sheet of paper along a media path through the printer. The controll... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118300 | Sheet feed mechanism A sheet feed mechanism includes a chassis for supporting a stack of sheets; a top sheet engaging member for engaging a top most sheet of the stack; a stack engaging structure, a first end of the stack engaging structure engaging the stack of sheets to bias a top mos... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118235 | Coding pattern comprising reed-solomon codewords encoded by mixed multi-pulse position modulation A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of macrodots encoding Reed-Solomon codewords. Each codeword is comprised of Reed-Solomon data symbols and Reed-Solomon redundancy symbols. The coding pattern ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118234 | Coding pattern comprising translation symbols for aligning cells with tags A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of target elements defining a target grid. The target grid comprises a plurality of cells, wherein neighboring cells share target elements. A plurality of dat... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117751 | Method of forming printhead by removing sacrificial material through nozzle apertures A method of fabricating an inkjet printhead by forming a plurality of actuators on a monolithic substrate, covering the actuators with a sacrificial material, covering the sacrificial material with a printhead surface layer, defining a plurality of nozzle apertures ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117455 | Object authentication from a signature part A method of authenticating an object in which a computer system receives indicating data from a sensing device. The indicating data is generated in response to sensing of coded data provided on or in a surface associated with the object and is indicative of an ident... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116813 | System for product retrieval using a coded surface A system of retrieving a product using a print medium with a print media identifier linked to a product. A mobile telecommunications device with a sensor module for determines the print media identifier from the print medium such that the product is retrieved using ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115967 | Localized signal data preservation within signal bandwidth A system and method for reducing the noise induced in a particular section or level of a signal bandwidth. The section is isolated from the rest of the signal data, by rescaling this data to produce a buffer section adjacent the section with little or no data in it.... | 02/14/2012 |
