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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8020862 | Sheet conveyance device, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet conveyance device according to an aspect of the invention includes a guide member and a flexible guide assist member. The guide member constitutes a conveyance path for guiding a conveyed sheet. The guide assist member is provided in the guide member, the gu... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7852511 | Image processing apparatus and method, for producing a color separation table A color separation table capable of performing both limitation of a color material applied in printing, and suppression of a false contour by smoothing processing satisfactorily is generated. Specifically, after generating the color separation table, smoothing proce... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843612 | Image sensor unit and method of manufacturing the image sensor unit, and image-reading apparatus An image sensor unit includes a frame storing a linear illuminator that linearly illuminates a document, a rod lens array is used to form an image of light reflected from the document irradiated by the linear illuminator, and a printed circuit board on which a light... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7796298 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium In generating a conversion characteristic look-up table between an output device dependence color space and device independence color space, when white and black correction is performed for a colorimetric value of a sample chart output from an output device, the val... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791760 | Recording-medium profile correction to achieve color matching Color appearances do not satisfactorily match between recording paper sheets with different gloss characters even using a colorimetric matching process. Hence, the differences between the gloss characters of the recording paper sheets are obtained as correction amou... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7751732 | Image forming apparatus and control method This invention has an object to process color balance adjustment at high speed in an image forming apparatus without depending on different feeding speeds for different printing materials. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus of the invention detects color... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7733348 | Image processing apparatus, its control method and data management method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that can make effective use of a memory area. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus comprises storage means having a first management record storage area for storing a first management record ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7688078 | System and method for counting number of layers of multilayer object by means of electromagnetic wave A system or method for counting the number of layers of a multilayer object is adapted for counting the number of layers by means of a simple arrangement of emitting an electromagnetic wave to strike the object that is in a multilayer state. In the system or method,... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7675643 | Print controller, control method therefor and program A printer controller performs processing of a print job by a processor which realizes various processings by executing a program, and by a hardware circuit which interacts with the processor. A part of hardware circuit is configured as a determination circuit which ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672991 | Method and device for configuring an electronic document processing peripheral in a communication network The invention concerns a method and device for configuring an electronic document processing peripheral. The invention concerns more particularly a method of determining a configuration profile for an electronic document processing peripheral with the configuration ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7610334 | Method and device for distributing digital data in particular for a peer-to-peer network A method of transmitting digital images implemented in a server device able to cooperate with at least one client device connected to the server device through a telecommunication network, where the digital images comprising a plurality of elementary entities and th... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599079 | Image processing using processing by bands and fixed-size work buffer A high-quality image processing apparatus capable of performing image transfer processing using a predetermined work buffer even if different decoding methods are used, without physically increasing the memory capacity. Image data in page description language is inp... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7587118 | Resonator and device having the same A resonator with a three-dimensional photonic crystal having a fewer number of layers presenting a basic period, having a wide frequency band presenting a complete photonic band gap, and operating in a single mode, as well as a device using the same are provided, th... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7545968 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an image processing circuit having a first mode that corrects an offset between a first image and a second image that are adjacent to each other to synthesize the first image and the second image into a new third image, and a s... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7536446 | Method and system for viewing scalable documents A method and system for on-line proofing of documents, including the steps of sending by a client computer a document request to a document server computer, transmitting a proof document from the document server computer to the client computer in response to the doc... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7508452 | Image display control system and image display system control method with determination of whether or not download of program can be executed This invention discloses an arrangement allowing connection of various kinds of image displays to one supply source in an image display control system having a supply source for transmitting a signal including at least a video signal, and an image display for receiv... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7495669 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method To provide an image processing technique compatible with both a CCD and a CIS, which controls storage of image data read by each device in a memory and the read of the stored data for each rectangular area to obtain a high memory efficiency, an image processing appa... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7474431 | Network printer having plural sleep modes This invention simultaneously satisfies both power saving of a printing apparatus in a network system and the convenience of the operator who wants to print from a host computer. A printing control apparatus includes a processor which performs an image process for p... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7462810 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image pickup system using photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion area in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged to convert incident light into electric charges, a plurality of amplifying units are arranged to read and supply sign... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7433583 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus for recording moving image data on a disk-like recording medium detects a defective area on the disk-like recording medium, determines a continuous data area for the moving image data on the basis of a data rate of the moving image data to be r... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433475 | Electronic device, video camera apparatus, and control method therefor According to this invention, if noise generated by operation of a component such as a rotary drum of a recording/playback apparatus which operates periodically enters a microphone, noise waveforms can be extracted and reduced. Data obtained from microphones (6, 7... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428616 | Method and apparatus for appending buffer areas to requested memory An information processing apparatus has a CPU, a memory, a cache memory and a cache controller. When an acquisition of an area of a prescribed size is requested in the memory, a size equivalent to at least two lines serving as a cache unit is added to the prescribed... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7375769 | Image processing apparatus In an apparatus for composing image data of a main picture and image data of a sub-picture by a chroma key process, an attribute of an image contained in the sub-picture is detected, a partial area of the sub-picture is set as a chroma key mask area in accordance wi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7304919 | Optical information reproducing apparatus having a servo control circuit In a CLV(constant linear velocity) or MCLV(substantially constant linear velocity)-type optical disk apparatus, instability of servo at inner and outer circumferences of an optical disk is prevented by adjusting a servo-loop gain of tracking servo control or focus s... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295235 | Solid-state image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device includes a photoelectric conversion portion for generating signal electric charges in accordance with an amount of incident light, a plurality of color filters, and a flattening layer formed on the plurality of color filters. A thic... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286720 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7177168 | Power converting apparatus and power generating apparatus AC module makers must prepare two types of AC modules for the 100-V and 200-V outputs only for domestic supply. For foreign countries, the makers must manufacture AC modules compatible with more system voltages. To solve these problems, the control circuit of an AC ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175249 | Recording apparatus and electronic apparatus There is provided a recording apparatus for receiving recording data from an electronic apparatus or a host computer activated by being supplied with a power source through an interface, and performing a recording operation on a recording medium by the use of a reco... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170616 | Print processing and method for banding areas and pages of each physical color To reduce a calculation load upon banding reproduction, a printer driver transfers draw information sent from a GDI to a draw discriminating unit. The draw discriminating unit confirms that a filtering process which needs various background colors such as ROM proces... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7153722 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing photovoltaic device A method of manufacturing a photovoltaic device includes: a step of fixing thin metal wires which are coated with electroconductive resin, to a principal surface of a photovoltaic member; a step of heating the photovoltaic member to which the thin metal wires are fi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146382 | Image processing apparatus and its method and server apparatus In a conventional client/server type image database for centralized management of image data, upon transmission of image as a search result from a server to a client, since it takes time for the client to display the image due to a network band, the image search can... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7130560 | Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes an opening and closing device that can be opened or closed with respect to a main body of an image forming apparatus, a plurality of image forming devices, a recording material containing device which contains a recording materia... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120617 | Operation circuit and operation control method thereof A product-sum operation circuit includes a pulse width/digital conversion circuit (9) which converts a pulse signal having a pulse width representing an operand value into a digital signal, a sorting circuit (4) which outputs, in descending or ascendin... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7109718 | Underground exploration apparatus A current to be applied to a ground is defined as the sum of two sinusoidal waves having first and second frequency components. A signal to be used at the time of synchronous detection is defined as a difference between the sinusoidal waves having the first and seco... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7048354 | Ink jet recording apparatus Even if a recording medium is interfered with an opposed surface of a carriage and/or a recording head due to the curl of the recording medium, damage of the recording medium and the recording head is prevented by avoiding collision between an edge of the recording ... | 05/23/2006 |
| D515774 | Candy | 02/28/2006 |
| 6959158 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device has a magnetic field generator; an electric power supplier for electric power supply to the magnetic field generator; electric power controller for controlling an electric power value to be supplied by the electric power supplier; a fixing member, di... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6934361 | Radiographic apparatus A radiographic apparatus includes a bed having a top board on which an object is to be placed, a radiation image detector for detecting intensity distribution of radiation transmitted through the object, and a supporting part arranged on the top board for supporting... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931382 | Payment instrument authorization technique A method is provided for protecting a payment instrument in non-face-to-face transactions. The payment instrument is issued by an issuing entity and associated with an authorized instrument holder. The authorized instrument holder is subject to authentication by a t... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925498 | Information processing system, information processing device, control method therof, memory media having stored programs thereof and program thereof When printing output data that become output objects, copyright data attached to the corresponding said output data or information on copyright managed by a copyright managing device are selectively used to execute a print processing of said output data. This... | 08/02/2005 |
