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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185962 | Apparatus, system, and method for enforcing policy requirements associated with a service A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions including instructions that when executed by a processor enable a service provider to track and enforce policy requirements associated with a provided service of the service provider. The a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185587 | Capturing, processing, managing, and reporting events of interest in virtual collaboration spaces A method of monitoring a collaboration space receives an identification of a computerized collaboration space that a user desires to monitor. The method receives, from the user, an identification of events of interest with respect to the collaboration space. The ite... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184995 | Customer part replacement feature utilizing high frequency service interval fault and signature analyses A diagnostic system made part of or for use with a document handling device in which a customer is guided toward performance of at least one comparison means in a diagnostic routine analysis. The comparison means is selected from a group comprising (1) a first compa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184340 | Method for color rendering using scanned halftone classification What is disclosed is an image path that advantageously uses halftone classification to select appropriate mappings in gray-scale management and color management operations. The tags generated in the scanner help identify different classes of halftones. One is select... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184335 | Method for ad-hoc parallel processing in a distributed environment An overall processing time to rasterize, at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is computed. Also, a rendering time to render, at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is computed. When the overall processing time to rasterize... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184307 | User preferences in a multi-part workflow A book production method and system are disclosed. The method of book production allows an operator to input preferences for a multi-part workflow. The preferences can be communicated to a printer where the books are printed from a loaded plurality of book parts. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182919 | Carbon black polymeric intermediate transfer members An intermediate transfer member that contains a mixture of carbon black, and as a dispersant for the carbon black a copolymer of a polyester, a polycarbonate and a polyalkylene glycol, such as a polyethylene glycol, and further including an optional second polymer. | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182875 | System and method for protecting a print A system and a method to protect an image on a substrate. The method includes applying a coating to the surface of a substrate having an unspread ink image thereon, wherein the image is formed by droplets of solid ink, and wherein the coating interacts with the ink.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182069 | Method for modular arrangement of a silicon based array and modular silicon based array A silicon based module, including: a substrate; a first chip assembly fixed to the substrate, the first chip assembly including a first silicon chip and a first driver die having electrical circuitry; and a second chip assembly fixed to the substrate, the second chi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181870 | Self-aligning MICR line treatment applicator A magnetic character recognition (MICR) encoding device has a treatment station that applies a chemical treatment to the blank region as the sheets pass along the sheet path that compensates for a fuser release agent that a marking station uses. If blank region was ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181261 | System and method for controlling reproduction of documents containing sensitive information A system and method for controlling the reproduction of documents containing sensitive information includes an input for receiving a document; a device for storing a digitized document; a detector for identifying encoded sensitive information; a decoder operatively ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180665 | Systems and methods for analyzing performance of a print device in a managed print service A managed print system for analyzing performance of a print device may include a computing device and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device. The computer-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180642 | Factorial hidden Markov model with discrete observations A method for analyzing hidden dynamics, includes acquiring discrete observations, each discrete observation having an observed value selected from two or more allowed discrete values. A factorial hidden Markov model (FHMM) relating the discrete observations with a p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180272 | Movable trail edge sensor for duplex registration A print device for registering a printable medium during a duplex printing process. The print device includes a controller, at least one leading edge sensor operably connected to the controller, the at least one leading edge sensor configured to detect a leading edg... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180268 | Method and apparatus for automatic fuser web material advancement in an image production unit A method and apparatus that automatically advances fuser web material in an image production unit is disclosed. The method may include receiving a signal to advance fuser web material, retrieving stored fuser web material position information, automatically advancin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180266 | Method, apparatus and systems for registering the transfer of an image associated with a printing device This disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and system for registering the transfer of an image from a belt to a media substrate associated with a printing device. Specifically, the exemplary methods use a ROS master clock and belt location sensor located downstre... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180254 | Dynamic image positioning and spacing in a digital printing system A dynamic positional shifting, in the process direction, of the images on the second print engine of a tandem machine printing system in order to increase the time (and number of prints) between skipped pitches. Although the photoreceptor belts of each print engine ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180245 | Xerographic machine toner contamination control system This is a toner control system for use in a cleaning station of a xerographic marking apparatus. A sensor is located in the air conduits of the system to measure airflow throughout the system. The sensor is in contact with a controller that is configured to adjust t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180231 | Testing transfer nips of printing devices using transfer field uniformity maps A method and apparatus can, while operating a printing device in a test mode, supply a changed transfer field to a marking material transfer device. The changed transfer field is less than or more than the standard transfer field. The method and apparatus disable op... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180230 | Toner consumption calculation for printer with multiple interacting separations Systems and methods are described that facilitate calculating toner consumption by a printing device. A multi-dimensional transform is applied to electronic image data to map or correlate toner consumed in a non-interacting color separation to toner consumed in an i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180169 | System and method for multi-scale sigma filtering using quadrature mirror filters A first sigma filtering circuit sigma filters an image to produce a filtered image. An analysis circuit processes the sigma filtered image to produce an approximation part and a detail part. A second sigma filter circuit filters the approximation part to produce a s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180164 | OCR-guided text tokenization of digital images An image processing method in which OCR is used to guide the text tokenization. More particularly, OCR is first performed on each symbol in the scanned image. For example, a symbol may be a number, letter, or other character. During the tokenization process, the OCR... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180153 | 3+1 layer mixed raster content (MRC) images having a black text layer A method, system and data structure for providing a 3+1 layer MRC image, including a black text layer. The black text layer includes pixel data corresponding to black text in an image and may be assigned a predetermined value for the color of black. According to one... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180144 | Hole punch die identification in a document reproduction system What is disclosed is a novel system and method for determining which hole punch die is installed on a multifunction document reproduction device. A document scanner of a document reproduction system is used to scan a sample page that has been hole-punched by the pre... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179568 | Minimizing dot graininess in dot-on-dot printing devices What is disclosed is a novel system and method for minimizing dot visibility in color marking devices capable of dot-on-dot printing. The present method achieves minimum dot visibility for a given dispersed-dot screen by performing a CMYK to CMYKRGB conversion which... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179566 | Method for classifying a printer gamut into subgamuts for improved spot color accuracy A method is provided for classifying a color printer gamut into a plurality of gamut subclasses including representing the color printer gamut as a composite of gamut classes wherein each gamut class is comprised of a subset of printer color separations; and, assign... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179556 | Masking of text in document reproduction An apparatus for masking text in a rendered copy of an original document includes a text modification system which is configured to receive a print job from an application and modify the print job in accordance with a print job description, whereby when rendered on ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179543 | Fingerprint scan order sequence to configure a print system device What is disclosed is a system and method for capturing fingerprint data in an ordered sequence and using the captured sequence to configure a complex multi-function print system device to a set of device specific settings to perform intended workflow processes. Each... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178274 | Toner process The present disclosure provides toners and processes for preparing toner particles possessing excellent charging characteristics. The process includes forming a dispersion including at least one organic and/or organometallic charge control agent, and then combining ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178269 | Toner compositions and methods Emulsion aggregation toner particles including a resin, polysaccharide particles, an optional wax, and an optional colorant. The toner particles contain about 1 to about 50 wt % polysaccharide particles based on the total weight of the toner particles. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178209 | Fuser member having fluorinated polyimide outer layer A fuser member including a substrate, and thereover, an outer layer comprising a crosslinked fluorinated polyimide and a curing agent is described. The fluorinated polyimide comprises: wherein Ar1 and Ar2 | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178169 | Methods of leveling ink on substrates using flash heating and apparatuses useful in printing Methods of leveling ink on substrates and apparatuses useful in printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods includes irradiating ink disposed on a first surface of a porous substrate with radiation emitted by at least one flash lamp. The radiation ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177897 | Phase change inks containing graphene-based carbon allotrope colorants A phase change ink including (a) a phase change ink carrier and (b) a colorant comprising a carbon allotrope. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177352 | Drum maintenance system for reducing duplex dropout A drum maintenance system for use in an imaging device includes a reservoir having a supply of release agent, and an applicator configured to receive release agent from the reservoir and to apply the release agent to an intermediate imaging surface of an imaging dev... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177347 | Dual mode printer A dual mode imaging device includes an input for supplying a medium to the imaging device, the medium comprising at least one of an erasable paper, and a non-erasable paper. The erasable paper can be one of an imaged or a non-imaged erasable paper. A conventional im... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177339 | Fluid reservoir with compliant wall A fluid dispensing assembly has a fluid reservoir, a reservoir structure having at least one opening corresponding to a location of at least one fluid chamber in the reservoir structure, and a compliant film arranged to seal the opening and flex in response to press... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177338 | High frequency mechanically actuated inkjet An inkjet ejector has been developed that enables the ejector to be operated at a frequency greater than 80 kHz. The inkjet ejector includes a body layer in which a pressure chamber is configured with an outlet having a volume that is less than a predetermined volum... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177335 | Transducer interconnect with conductive films An electronic device has an electronic signal source electrically connected to a signal routing circuit, an electrically activated transducer to receive electronic signals through the signal routing circuit, and an anisotropic conductive film to provide electrical c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177332 | Method and apparatus for fixing a radiation-curable gel-ink image onto a substrate An apparatus prints and/or fixes ink on a substrate, such as in ink-jet printing with UV-curable inks. A conformable member is positioned to contact an ink-bearing side of the substrate at a nip. The conformable member substantially comprises a silicone-based elasto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177229 | Sheet transport roller system A sheet transport roller system and methods for reducing sheet skew using a sheet transport roller system are disclosed. A sheet transport roller system for use in a document processing device may include a plurality of idler rollers, a plurality of drive rollers an... | 05/15/2012 |
