Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 20120053955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A PRESCRIPTION A system for generating a prescription may include a capture module configured to capture information from a plurality of individual cards. At least one of the cards may include medical information including at least a medication and a dosage for a patient. The system m... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120026519 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes an image-processing designating unit that allows a user to designate predetermined image processing to be applied to image data for generating a preview image that represents a state of an output image before image output; a previe... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026520 | IMAGE DATA PRODUCING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image data producing apparatus includes: a page dividing portion that divides data described in a page description language into a page unit; a plurality of image processors that form raster data from divided data; and a controlling portion that allocates pages on wh... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120002226 | ENFORCING A MINIMUM FONT SIZE A method for enforcing a user specified minimum font size (USMFS) in a hardcopy document (HD). The method includes: receiving a request to print an electronic document (ED) according to a magnification ratio; identifying a first character in the ED having a first font s... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110279839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING A system and method for arranging and printing characters, words, or other textual information that is typically printed in a series of rows or columns. A first row is printed to be read in a standard fashion, while a second row is printed in the opposite direction, wit... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273734 | Accurate Font Activation Systems and methods are presented that process documents, identify fonts being used to reproduce the documents, and identify conflicts based on the identified fonts. The systems and methods may identify a font associated with a document, identify a conflict between the ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110255107 | Data Capture and Analysis A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for automated data entry performs a data recognition function on a document to recognize data from a plurality of fields including information entered by a user into at least one field, identifies at lea... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255108 | GLOBAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encoding s... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110206266 | Comparison of optical and magnetic character data for identification of character defect type A system for determining a plurality of PCS values for a document image representing a document having at least one area of interest on a surface of the physical item for containing critical data and a background image positioned on the surface, the document suitable fo... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110205569 | GLYPH-LOOKING ALPHABET FOR VIPP / SPECIALTY IMAGING FONTS A method of defining a glyph font character representing an input binary code includes defining a first portion of a matrix using an input binary code including a plurality of input bits. A second portion of the matrix is defined by performing a transformation on the in... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199627 | FONT REPRODUCTION IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS A method, system, and computer program product for font reproduction in electronic documents are provided. The method includes: receiving an image of a printed document; extracting pairs of consecutive characters from the image of the printed document; storing the extra... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110157615 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED DOCUMENTS A system with for capturing and storing an image of a user's handwritten alphanumeric characters. The characters are stored in memory in association with a standard alphanumeric character set such as an ASCII character set. A text document can then be transcribed into t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149320 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING DEVICE An image forming device includes a scanner for scanning a document image, and a controller for controlling the image forming device. The controller determines whether or not a loss detection image for determining presence or absence of data loss has been superimposed on... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110122429 | RECORDING CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM A host computer is connected to a printer that prints text according to settings specifying a text printing format. Using a function of a driver setup program, the host computer acquires a file set including an MOT file (recording device settings data) and a correspondi... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110109929 | AUTOMATIC ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FONT SUBSTITUTION USING PRINT CONTROL POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE LOGS A method and a system are disclosed for the automatic substitution of font with a toner saving font. Dynamic substitution of document specified fonts with a toner saving font can reduce the amount of toner used and minimize system resource usage that can slow printing s... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110032556 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A document processing device comprises: a document data acquiring part for acquiring document data; a character string extracting part for extracting character strings satisfying a predetermined condition for character string extraction from the document data acquired b... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110019215 | PRINT CHARACTER SELECTOR OF PRINTER AND ASSEMBLING METHOD OF OPERATING MEMBER OF THE PRINT CHARACTER SELECTOR To provide a print character selector of a printer and assembling method of operating member of the print character selector which configures both the axial direction regulation mechanism for the indexing regulation of the selector wheel 6 and the rotational dire... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007334 | BETWEEN-SEGMENT DISCONTINUITY REDUCTION FOR TEXT VECTORIZATION USING DOMINANT POINT CLASSIFICATION What is disclosed is a novel system and method for text vectorization for bitmap images with reduced artificial discontinuities. Dominant points are identified in a bitmap character image. An initial curve is fitted to edge points of the character image in a vicinity of... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110001995 | FORM PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM A form printing system comprising an information processing apparatus, a server, and a printing apparatus that are connected to each other, wherein the server includes: a device identification information management unit that manages device identification information in... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100328694 | OUTPUT CONTROL DATA GENERATING DEVICE, DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An output control data generating device for controlling an output device includes a character selection unit that receives a selection of a desired character code set and a desired character from a group containing at least one character code set that can be used on th... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328685 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD An image-processing device includes: an acquiring unit that acquires image data representing a document which includes a plurality of pages; an extracting unit that extracts, from the acquired image data, a character area in a first page that is at least one of the plur... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100321714 | METHOD OF SCANNING A computer-implemented method of scanning a document (e.g. a newspaper or a book) is provided where the text may be legally protected from unauthorized copying, comprising the steps of: acquiring to a memory at least one recording confined to a field that covers a delim... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100275271 | Form Production System The present invention relates to an on-line system for facilitating the production of forms, such as business cards, stationery, catalogues and generally any printed matter. Relatively permanent material for the production of forms is stored as a form structure in a com... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100259777 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An apparatus includes a specification unit configured to specify character information included in document data, a generation unit configured to generate image data of the specified character information, a conversion unit configured to convert the generated image data... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100245875 | DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM Each small region positioned just before a large region according to a reading order is determined as a first candidate, and an evaluating process to evaluate whether each first candidate is an index or not is performed based on a difference in feature from the related ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238472 | CHARACTER OUTPUT APPARATUS, CHARACTER OUTPUT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A character output apparatus includes an intermediate character information generating section, an intermediate character information modification section and a character output section. The intermediate character information generating section generates intermediate ch... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238474 | DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM A feature section including a feature of a candidate region but not including a feature of a related large region is set as for a style type different in feature from the related large region among a plurality of style types, with respect to each index candidate region.... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238473 | DRAWING PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUTTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DRAWING PROCESSING AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A drawing processing apparatus is provided and includes: a plurality of character definition information memories each storing definition information on a character shape; a registering portion that, when a drawing command containing the definition information on the ch... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100220343 | DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD A disclosed device includes a document managing apparatus including an image data acquiring unit acquiring original data of original documents in a predetermined layout, a layout information storing unit storing IDs and layout information, an original document determini... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100208282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DOCUMENT IMAGES WHEN COPYING DOCUMENTS Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method to process an input image into a final image which is enhanced or improved. In accordance with the method, the input image is split into a plurality of layers. Each layer comprises objects of a single type. Each lay... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100195123 | Image communication apparatus, image communication system, and control program for image communication An image communication apparatus that includes an image-data receiving unit that receives image data, a storing unit that stores therein the image data received by the image-data receiving unit, and an output unit that outputs the image data stored in the storing unit, ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100149569 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes: a character recognition section for performing a character recognition process for a character included in a document, based on image data obtained by reading the document; and a formatting process section for generating an image ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100128294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER-SELECTABLE SOFT FONT AND PRINT STREAM DATA TEMPLATE CONTROL IN A PRINTER DRIVER Printing systems and methods for user-selectable dynamic soft font and print stream data template control processing in a printer driver are provided. The system utilizes a print job driver screen that provides the user with a selectable option to convert soft fonts int... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100118323 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an input receiving unit that receives a character to be printed and a font family of the character as inputs, a first outline specifying data generating unit that generates first outline specifying data corresponding to a combination ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100091024 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING CUSTOM FONTS The invention provides a method and device for dynamically generating a textured font character. It enables any image to be selected and combined with a chosen character mask to produce a new font having the same content as the image.... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100079818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO IMPROVE IMAGE QUALITY AND IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT METHOD An image forming apparatus to improve image quality. An image forming apparatus includes an object dividing unit to divide scanned image data into objects, an object size estimation unit to estimate a size of each object, a controlling unit to determine whether to perfo... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100053656 | Image processing apparatus capable of processing color image, image processing method and storage medium storing image processing program Given a circular graph that is divided by four colors (red, blue, yellow, and green), for example. This circular graph shows information indicated by the corresponding colors in accordance with planar dimensions of respective areas (e.g., a ratio of items corresponding ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090300481 | SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM INCLUDING PROGRAM A character string not to be referred to which is included in structured document data is extracted, and an XML generation unit generates a random code table. Then, the XML generation unit generates a conversion font by converting character codes of a font using the tab... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090284777 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM THEREOF An image processing apparatus receives page description data, converts the page description data, thereby generating first intermediate data that is described for each object, converts the first intermediate data, thereby generating second intermediate data that is desc... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090284778 | Multiple Font Management System And Method A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to provid... | 11/19/2009 |
