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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7538917 | Method for prepress-time color match verification and correction A computer-implemented method of matching color elements for objects having different source color definitions within a print job prior to printing, includes identifying all source colors to be printed within the print job and object type associated with each instan... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7515732 | Method of embedding color information in printed documents using watermarking A method for enhancing color fidelity in multi-reproduction, includes scanning an image to be reproduced, wherein the image contains an invisible digital watermark including color information; decoding the color information contained in the watermark; comparing the ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7496767 | Secure content objects A secure content object protects electronic documents from unauthorized use. The secure content object includes an encrypted electronic document, a multi-key encryption table having at least one multi-key component, an encrypted header and a user interface device. T... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495792 | Programmable physical document A programmable document includes a physical document having at least one sheet of material and information recorded thereon and a computer attached to the physical document. The computer includes an input/output device, a processor and a memory storing the recorded ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7440974 | Method for automatic wrapper repair A method of information extraction from a Web page using an initial wrapper which has become partially inoperative, wherein the initial wrapper comprises an initial set of rules for extracting information and for assigning labels from a wrapper set of labels to the ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440967 | System and method for transforming legacy documents into XML documents A method for converting a legacy document into an XML document, includes decomposing the conversion process into a plurality of individual conversion tasks. A legacy document is decomposed into a plurality of document portions. A target XML schema including a plural... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440951 | Method for automatic wrapper repair A method of information extraction from a Web page using a broken wrapper, includes using the wrapper to extract strings from the Web page parsed in forward direction; analyzing the extracted strings according to a set of rules for assigning labels associated with t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433539 | Method for run-time streak removal A method for run-time streak removal from a scanned image includes providing a scan line of image data from the scanned image; detecting corrupted data within the scan line; evaluating image data located in a neighborhood before and after the corrupted data on the s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424151 | Method and system for image classification and halftone frequency detection A system and method for classifying an image block of a printed image into contone, halftone, or error diffusion classes, includes scanning the printed image; selecting an n by n block of pixels from the scanned image in a luminance channel; calculating an array of ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7394571 | Method for multi-color, clustered, dot-off-dot halftoning A method for forming a multi-color, clustered dot-off-dot halftone screen, includes defining a range of density values for pixels of a first color and assigning those density values to positions along a pixel growth curve; defining a range of density values for pixe... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391536 | Method for smooth trapping suppression of small graphical objects using color interpolation A method for smooth trapping of a small graphical object, includes receiving from a trap generator the location of a trap pixel in a small object that should be changed in color; determining the width of the small object containing the trap pixel; comparing the widt... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388989 | Method for run-time streak detection by profile analysis Disclosed is a method to detect streaks in the scanned documents. The principle of this method is that the profiles of streaks change very little from line to line, while profiles of other thin lines, as content of scanned documents, usually vary in a degree. Theref... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386547 | Recommender system and method A system for providing item recommendations includes a memory, a device, responsive to a user request, for recording an item on a hardcopy medium, and a processor, for storing ratings of items and for generating recommendations for new items based on recommendation ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382494 | Method for tag plane growth and contraction for improving object edge rendering A method of improving edge rendering of objects includes dilation (or contraction) of an object's tag plane by one or more pixels into the surrounding region, with the adjacent tag region having a corresponding contraction (or dilation). The objects of interest (e.g... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7339701 | Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels A method for correcting for edge defects caused by print characteristics of a print engine includes printing a set of actual color patches corresponding to a desired set of colors; defining an edge region and a uniform area region in each of the patches; for each co... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324711 | Method for automated image indexing and retrieval A method of indexing images contained in scanned documents, wherein said scanned documents are stored in a repository, includes: for each document to be stored in the repository, dividing the document into a plurality of sections; scanning the plurality of sections;... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314216 | Method for making a unique code onto a paper edge A method of marking a unique code onto an edge of a sheet of material takes N stacks of sheet material, each stack having N1 sheets; prints a barcode uniquely identifying each stack on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7240055 | Method and system for expertise mapping based on user activity in recommender systems The system and method analyzes activities of users in a recommender system to identify experts. Two types of experts may be identified: authoritative experts and hub experts. An authoritative expert is a user who creates items or documents in a given field that are ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236267 | Method for merging rendering intents, hints, or tags A method for selecting which rendering hint or tag to use when multiple tags may be associated with a pixel, includes prioritizing the set of input tags associated with an input image, such that each input tag has a unique priority relative to other input tags in th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7199888 | Method for enhanced black in draft mode A method of improving black print quality in a color printer having at least one color ink and black ink includes determining a location on a substrate where a black pixel is to be printed, printing a droplet of color ink at the location, and printing a droplet of b... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7146043 | Method for smooth trap suppression of small graphical objects A method for smooth trapping of thin graphical objects, wherein a thin graphical object has a width dimension which is substantially less than the object's length dimension, includes receiving from a trap generator the location of a trap pixel that should be changed... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139777 | Method for automatic wrapper repair A method for repairing a wrapper associated with an information source, includes defining a classifier, based on content features of extracted and labeled information using the wrapper, using the classifier to extract content information from the file according to a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139754 | Method for multi-class, multi-label categorization using probabilistic hierarchical modeling A method of categorizing objects in which there can be multiple categories of objects and each object can belong to more than one category is described. The method defines a set of categories in which at least one category is dependent on another category and then o... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133143 | Printing method employing printer-independent print quality characteristics A printing system for use in printing objects of any of a plurality of different object types includes a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a select... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129891 | Method for determining proximity of devices in a wireless network In a wireless network, two or more devices can determine how close they are from one another in a peer-to-peer way, by exchanging the network characteristics they observe in real time. A method for determining device proximity in a wireless network, includes charact... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126710 | Printing system employing printer-independent print quality characteristics A printing system for use in printing objects of any of a plurality of different object types includes a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a select... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7085000 | Printing system and method A printing system for use in printing objects of any of a plurality of different object types includes a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a select... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7042391 | Mobile device and method for determining location of mobile device A mobile device, for determining location in a wireless network, includes a motion detector for detecting motion of the mobile device; a memory for storing wireless signal strength calibration data comprising a list of wireless signal strengths and known locations; ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7023566 | Page description language on demand printing A printer and associated programming for automatically requesting a PDL program from a storage site that is connected to the printer by a network for any document that requires a PDL program that is not already available to the printer. A computer for this purpose m... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007017 | Method for automatic discovery of query language features of web sites A method for automatically determining query language operators of a Web information source, includes providing a set of known query operators, each known query operator in the set operating according to at least one syntax, wherein for a test query comprising a que... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003585 | High speed serial interface A high speed, serial interface employs a simplified protocol which minimizes overhead enabling uncompressed image data to be sent serially over a long distance in real-time devices, such as a color printer. Because the error rate experienced in high speed serial and... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6985256 | Halftoning using dot and line screens to avoid two and three color moiré Moiré free color halftoning is achieved through the use of two dot screens and one or two line screens. The line screens may be, for example hybrid line screens. Frequency vectors associated with the screens combine to produce moiré frequency vectors representing ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6978314 | System and method for locating devices on a local area network A system for network device location, includes an address server for associating IP addresses of devices on the network with a group name; a discoverable device located on a first subnet of the network, wherein the discoverable device has an IP address, and wherein ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6947922 | Recommender system and method for generating implicit ratings based on user interactions with handheld devices A recommender system employs implicit ratings generated from monitoring user interaction with an item, such as while listening to a music track on a MP3 player or reading an electronic book. A method for generating item recommendations includes: providing an item to... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947174 | Simple mechanism for profile selection In a system where the color space conversion process uses color profile look-up tables to select a profile for each of the possible attribute value combinations, assigning a value of wildcard to one or more attributes. In this case, if all of the values of one of th... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937253 | Method for determining color space of an image A method for determining whether an input image is defined in accordance with a luminance-chrominance color space, includes receiving an input image in three dimensional color space, S1, S2 and S3, where S1 is an image value in the first ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6820815 | Encoded sheet material An encoded sheet material includes a sheet of material having a first surface, a second surface disposed opposite the first surface and an edge extending between the first surface and the second surface and peripherally about the sheet of material, the edge having i... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6786149 | High speed continuous feed printing system A CF printing system includes at least three CF printing devices; a plurality of print-related devices to effect duplex printing; the printing and print-related devices being selectably operable in accordance with a defined print line segment; and a print line manag... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6763482 | Printer diagnostics method A method of diagnosing a printer includes performing a series of parametric tests on the printer at the time of manufacture to generate a set of baseline values for the printer and storing the baseline results. The baseline results may be stored remotely or with the... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6742032 | Method for monitoring and encouraging community activity in a networked environment The method of the invention overcomes the problems in a community when the amount of interaction drops off through the use of “community crickets.” A community cricket monitors the amount of community activity, establishes criteria for deciding when a community ... | 05/25/2004 |
