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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7908520 | Self-testing and -repairing fault-tolerance infrastructure for computer systems ASICs or like fabrication-preprogrammed hardware provide controlled power and recovery signals to a computing system that is made up of commercial, off-the-shelf components—and that has its own conventional hardware and software fault-protection systems, but these... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7861106 | Hierarchical configurations in error-correcting computer systems When errors arise in a computing system that has plural modules, this invention corrects those errors. In the first instance, the invention excludes the computing system itself, but receives error messages from the plural modules of that system—along plural receiv... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7831061 | Noninvasive polygraph technology based on optical analysis A system and method for unobtrusively and noninvasively subjecting a living subject to tests for the purpose of determining whether that subject is truthful or is under stress, or both. A series of radiation pulses, preferably infrared laser pulses, is directed by a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830442 | Compact economical lidar system A lidar pulse is time resolved in ways that avoid costly, fragile, bulky, high-voltage vacuum devices—and also costly, awkward optical remappers or pushbroom layouts—to provide preferably 3D volumetric imaging from a single pulse, or full-3D volumetric movies. D... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7791786 | Afocal beam steering system corrected for excess diffraction due to phase error from microelectromechenical mirror offsets An afocal beam system corrects excess diffraction from phase error in microelectromechanical mirror offsets. One invention aspect interposes an opposing phase difference, between rays reflected at adjacent mirrors, varying the difference with mirror angle to make it... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7733469 | Image null-balance system with multisector-cell direction sensing A light beam is detected/localized by multisector detector—quad-cell, or 5+ sectors handling plural beams. Preferences: Beams focus to diffraction limit on the detector, which reveals origin direction by null-balance—shifting spots to a central sector junction, ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7732751 | Optical systems and methods using microelectromechanical-systems mirrors exceeding thirty microns A detector and aperture determine radiation characteristics, including angular direction throughout a specified range, of external articles. Preferably an afocal aperture element enlarges/reduces the article and volume FOR. Mirror(s) along a path between detector an... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7688348 | Lidar with streak-tube imaging, including hazard detection in marine applications; related optics The system and method relate to detection of objects that are submerged, or partially submerged (e.g. floating), relative to a water surface. One aspect of the invention emits LIDAR fan-beam pulses and analyzes return-pulse portions to determine water-surface orient... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7683928 | Lidar with streak-tube imaging, including hazard detection in marine applications; related optics The system and method relate to detection of objects that are submerged, or partially submerged (e.g. floating), relative to a water surface. One aspect of the invention emits LIDAR fan-beam pulses and analyzes return-pulse portions to determine water-surface orient... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7652752 | Ultraviolet, infrared, and near-infrared lidar system and method Pushbroom and flash lidar operations outside the visible spectrum, most preferably in near-IR but also in IR and UV, are enabled by inserting—ahead of a generally conventional lidar receiver front end—a device that receives light scattered from objects and in re... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7534984 | Very fast time resolved imaging in multiparameter measurement space having means for separating reflected light to form plural beam images Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth etc. dimension—rather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and az... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7440084 | Micromechanical and related lidar apparatus and method, and fast light-routing components Several systems and a method are taught for rapid modulation of a light beam in lidar and other imaging. Most of these involve micromechanical and other very small control components. One such unit is a light-switching fabric, based on displacement of liquid in a tu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417768 | Apparatus and method for mitigating colorant-deposition errors in incremental printing CDE is measured for each nozzle array, to enable modification of a mapping between input image data and intended printing marks to compensate for the CDE. Printing proceeds using the modified mapping, which is either an optical-density transformation of data to prin... | 08/26/2008 |
| D561823 | Printer | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327481 | Open coventuring in a remote hardcopy proofing service, with preserved clientele, through interface sharing Conventional obstacles to entry and survival of small graphic-arts service providers are softened—particularly for those businesses that operate as computerized “ASP” enterprises involving wide-area networks—by encouraging small operators to coexist effectiv... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7297934 | Optical system In preferred forms of the invention an array of MEMS mirrors or small mirrors inside an optical system operates closed-loop. These mirrors direct external source light, or internally generated light, onto an object—and detect light reflected from it onto a detecto... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7227116 | Very fast time resolved imaging in multiparameter measurement space Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth, etc. dimension—rather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7207640 | Progressive and fast printmask revision based on incremental changes to printing element condition When condition of a printing element (e.g. inkjet nozzle) changes, essentially full mask rows invoking the element are redone from scratch, best so as to fully satisfy pixel-grid neighbor conditions. This is faster than redoing a whole mask as in prior popup or prec... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7191237 | Automatic registration of receiving device on a remote printing application A system and service for delivery of files to a plurality of users over a communications network comprises one or more server computers operable for receiving a plurality of electronic documents or files and storing those document/files; a plurality of receiving dev... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185963 | Enhancement technique for asymmetrical print resolution A sequence of steps for storing an image at a higher resolution in a rendering stage, and making a conversion of the image to a different asymmetrical print resolution. During the conversion corrections are made to avoid losing “on” pixels located on an eliminat... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7160690 | Nitrate sensor A biosensor method and apparatus for detecting and measuring nitrate. The biosensor is based on the fluorescence properties of a receptor molecule fragment. The biosensor apparatus contains the active-site fragment of the receptor molecule for detecting nitrate. Bot... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156482 | Printhead-to-platen spacing variation along scan axis due to carriage guide, measured by simple sensor on carriage PPS variation along a scan axis is found by shining a light beam from pen carriage to print-medium position and back to detector, and applying a pathlength/intensity correlation. Sensing is done while scanning, to find relative PPS profile along the track. With no m... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7134737 | Closed-loop color correction using factory-measured color cutoffs anchored to field-measured white point Absolute perceptual values are stored in the design lab, for maximum-density-tone cutoffs—preferably a maximum yellow-blue chrominance b* for yellow and minimum luminosity L* for other colorants. Automatic field operations in each printer then force the printer to... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7088470 | All-device-space automatic black replacement A direct device-space-to-device-space transform adjusts the amount of actual black ink, to avoid highlight and midtone granularity in incremental printing—but with no need for translation into perceptual space. If the amount of black ink specified in the input dat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084991 | Externally customized tonal-hierarchy configuration and complementary business arrangements, for inkjet printing A printer is made by one firm; a RIP made/programmed by a separate RIP firm processes and sends to the printer image data; a two-bit data pipeline passes data through the RIP; a drop table converts data in the pipe to printer resolution. RIP firms set up the table w... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7031021 | Randomized superpixels to enhance multilevel image quality in economical, fast incremental-printing error diffusion While powerful in diffusion at one resolution to print photos at a finer resolution, the invention is not thus limited. It defines superpixels (“spels”) for each desired colorimetric level, generates/receives image data, renders by finding levels for image posit... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027185 | Linearization of an incremental printer by measurements referred to a media-independent sensor calibration A printing system is linearized automatically using measurements made with a simple optical sensor, such as a line sensor, that is onboard the system. The printing system itself is for forming images on plural printing media. Because the optical sensor is not a calo... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027182 | Printing a true-ink reference, and refining gray accuracy, for optimum color calibration in incremental printing Ramps are printed with ink of a particular color, and also nominally in that color but by inks of other colors. A measured actual-ink ramp is a standard to fix the other-colors ramp, and correct other printing in those colors. In one aspect a particular color is gra... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023581 | Compensating for drift and sensor proximity in a scanning sensor, in color calibrating incremental printers To compensate for color-calibration sensor drift, a measurement of bare-print-medium tonal value is taken in immediate time juxtaposition to each color test pattern; measured bare-medium tone is then used to correct color-patch readings. A line sensor or the like, o... | 04/04/2006 |
| RE39036 | Universal power-supply connection system for multiple electronic devices, and devices for use therewith The system provides electricity to operate any of a multiplicity of device and most typically receives power from a source and passes power to any of the devices. The system also accepts electronic-device identification information for any particular one of such dev... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016085 | Remote proofing service adaptively isolated from the internet Automatic testing determines whether a proofing-file generator and receiver are in a common intranet. If so then the proofing file is automatically sent by a route that is substantially wholly within the intranet, and ideally peer-to-peer. If the generator and recei... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995863 | Discretionary dotting for artifact control in incremental printing Apparatus and method reduce banding by addressing an image region at under 100% coverage, and adding colorant quanta to selected pixels already receiving that colorant. The amount of that colorant in some pixels is zero, in others a first nonzero number of quanta, i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6965452 | Masks on demand for use in incremental printing A program creates a unitary mask for use over a whole image, with one pattern. The mask need not be full image size; it may be tiled. In the field a printer forms a mask and prints with it, best in the same session, before another image needing another mask, whether... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6934435 | Microfluidic pump system for chemical or biological agents In one form, one or more micropumps and optical micro-detectors are on a substrate, ideally many per square centimeter, each detecting fluid moved by its pump. A second form has many waveguides and, intersecting each, a fluid chamber controlling radiation in the gui... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6879707 | Plural colorants in flow tracer/debugger An array of colorant nozzles, filled with different colors, is placed at an enclosure through which fluid flow is to be analyzed. The array injects the colors into the enclosure with the flow. Color paths through the enclosure are observed and analyzed. The array be... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6874872 | Monitoring and controlling ink pressurization in a modular ink delivery system for an inkjet printer An air pressurization system is incorporated as part of a replaceable auxiliary ink supply for an inkjet printer. The auxiliary ink-supply cartridge includes a pressurized container having air, ink and electrical-signal connections. The air pressure applied to the a... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873716 | Confocal-reflection streak lidar apparatus with strip-shaped photocathode, for applications at a wide range of scales The system images the volume of a turbid medium and detects the contents. The medium can be water or air, or living tissue, or almost any other material which is at least partially light-transmissive. The system includes a light source for producing a series of disc... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6856718 | High-speed, low-power optical modulation apparatus and method A gap in an optical guideway is occupied, when the switch is in its diverting condition, by a quantity of air or other gas. To change the switch to its through condition, an actuator forces a column of liquid against the gas to compress (and thereby displace) the ga... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6854828 | Removal or mitigation of artifacts in composite-color incremental printing One aspect of the invention lowers boundary artifacts by diminishing inking selectively at a boundary, only in high-total-inking areas—considering essentially all real colorant planes in the aggregate. In another aspect, printmasking helps define ink-diminishment ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6851793 | Very cost-effective incremental printing method and apparatus to directly reduce bidirectional hue shift A program controls colorant-applying elements (e.g. nozzles) individually, to apply colorants in an order that yields consistent colorant-addressing sequences. In another aspect, the invention inhibits particular elements in particular installments (e.g. printing pa... | 02/08/2005 |
