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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7423662 | Method and system for electronic capture of user-selected segments of a broadcast data signal A personal video recorder (PVR) includes a “bookmark” feature with which a user can specify and capture segments of an audiovisual program, for example, a television broadcast, that contain information or content that the user wishes to record for later access. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7276336 | Methods of fabricating an addressable array of biopolymer probes A method of fabricating an addressable array of biopolymer probes on a substrate according to a target array pattern using a deposition apparatus, and a deposition apparatus which can execute the method and computer program products for the apparatus. The deposition... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7037295 | Co-extruded taper shaft An apparatus and method for providing a co-extruded, tapered multi-layer shaft. A co-extruded, tapered multi-layer shaft may be fabricated by selecting a first material for the inner layer of the shaft and a second material for the outer layer of the shaft. The firs... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033012 | Ink containment apparatus and methods for inkjet printers Apparatus include an inkjet pen with a body that defines a first ink reservoir configured to contain a first ink, and a second ink reservoir configured to contain a second ink. A print head is also included, and is operatively supported by the body, wherein the firs... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6945950 | Ureteral stent with small bladder tail(s) A ureteral stent for assisting movement of urine along a patient's ureter and into the patient's bladder. The stent includes an elongated tubular segment extending toward the bladder from a kidney end region for placement in the renal cavity to a bladder end region.... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6906736 | Technique for printing a color image A technique for optimizing or enhancing color images. Embodiments are disclosed for creating an enhanced color image, including the enhancement of perceived color uniformity. In a “dot-on-dot” registration scheme for producing color images, the dots need to be p... | 06/14/2005 |
| 5960161 | Circuit for adapting 4-color image signals to an 8-color digital printing apparatus In an ink-jet printing apparatus, an arrangement of logic gates disposed between a source of rasterized image signals and printing hardware allows real-time conversion of CMYK image signals for application to an ink-jet printhead which is capable of CMY, ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5929873 | Chart recorders A chart recorder method and apparatus wherein a recording head records a plurality of different colored line segments on a recording medium, a head drive moves the recording head and the recording medium reciprocally relative to each other in a scanning d... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5689737 | Shake detection device, shake recording device and accompanying equipment Light source 1 is mounted to camera body 10 via supporting member 2. The image from optical system 11 is recorded on the film inside photo-taking frame 12. The light beam from the light source is recorded in an area outside the photo-taking frame as its b... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5572240 | Chart recorder This chart recorder with n or m (n, m=1, 2, 3, . . . ) measuring channels, one for each of n or m measurement signals to be recorded, has a printing device (5) or m continuous-line recording devices (31, 32) which produces/produce n equal colored dot sequ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5440327 | Polychromatic pen for pen plotters with color mixing at media surface The invention is a polychromatic pen cartridge for recording device such as a color plotter, or printer, for recording a color image on a recording m edium. The color image is characterized by a line width. The invention has tapered tubular lumens with pl... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5409797 | Heat-sensitive recording material for laser recording A heat-sensitive recording material for laser recording is provided including a support having thereon a heat-sensitive layer including at least a first substantially colorless coloring component, a second substantially colorless coloring component which ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5293184 | Method and apparatus for multi-color continuous line graphic recording of multi-channel measurement data A graphic recording method and a graphic recording apparatus capable of dealing with the multi-channel measurement data involving quick and minute changes, without causing a trouble in accurate reading of the recorded data, in a simple and compact configu... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5291216 | Multi-trace chart recorder A simple chart recorder is described of the type which includes a strip of pressure-markable chart paper, which includes two pressure marking styluses that create traces that can be readily distinguished from one another. Each stylus has a horizontal inne... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5288586 | Image-foring process using microcapsules An exposure apparatus for exposing light-sensitive recording medium through a superposed image original, the exposure apparatus comprising at least one light source, an element transmissive to actinic radiation emitted from the light source positioned bet... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5270732 | Chart recorder A chart recorder is disclosed which has n (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) measuring channels, one for each of n measurement signals to be recorded, a printing device (5) which produces n isochromatic dot sequences (8) as curves each associated with one of the n measu... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5252992 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus wherein an image is formed on a recording material by ejection of coloring agents having different colors from plural recording heads. The apparatus includes a discriminator for discriminating whether an image having a edge ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5167456 | Color thermal printer A color thermal printer has a character printing thermal head and a half-tone color image printing thermal head. The character printing thermal head records a black character on an image receiving sheet by heating the back surface of a black ink film. The... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5160942 | Serial type thermal printer A serial type thermal printer for printing while moving a carriage. The printer includes two thermal heads mounted on the carriage and arranged axially of a platen roller. Two ink film cassettes are arranged side by side on the carriage to be associated w... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5063392 | Color change system for multicolor strip chart recorders An improvement is provided for printer such as the dot matrix or thermal type, in which the printhead is stepped across the paper over a multicolor ribbon supplied from a pivotally mounted cartridge and transported through a plane between the line of trav... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5021808 | Laser actuated recording apparatus A laser actuated image recording apparatus having an ink retaining layer. Concentrated light is projected towards a flexible film ink retaining layer so as to heat ink contained thereon and cause bubbles to form in the ink. The bubbles burst and propel in... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4994823 | Color striping thermal printer A thermal document printer uses a row of rolling-ball ink dispensers to produce a color stripe on the thermally sensitive surface of the document.... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4959659 | Color picture forming apparatus and method A method of and an apparatus for forming a color picture, which can provide sufficiently satisfactory picture quality and which can be made practicable in terms of cost and reliability utilizes colorants having a plurality of different densities with resp... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4956652 | Pen selection mechanism for a printer A pen exchange mechanism is disclosed, by which a plurality of pen chuck mechanisms holding pens on a carriage are disposed, and a slider is engaged with the carriage at a position corresponding to a pen, which should print, among said pens, printing bein... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4896170 | Locking pen support means for graphic recorder A graphic recording system includes a pen carriage supporting a plurality of pen shuttles which support a plurality of recording pens in a linear array together with means for moving the pen carriage in a carriage path. A rotary actuation system is suppor... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4894665 | Method of generating an expanded color set of a low resolution color printer In a low resolution color printer having a color set, a set of shaded colors is generated thereby expanding the color set of the printer. The method for generating the shaded colors determines if a critical line is to be printed. Then a check is made to d... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4884080 | Color image printing apparatus A color image printing apparatus prints one pixel by superposing a predetermined dots of three colors within a 3×3 dot matrix in accordance with a density of the pixel. The positions of the printed dots within the dot matrix are stored as a dot pattern f... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4878063 | Multicolor printing apparatus and method having vernier detection/correction system for adjusting color separation planes Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting misregistration of color separation planes in a multicolor printing process include the functions of: (i) printing on a test sheet, with a first color printing subsystem, a first array of M parallel lines ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4873538 | Pen shuttle guide and spring return A rotary action graphic recording system includes a pen carriage supporting a linear array of moveable pen shuttle assemblies each of which support recording pens together with means for moving the pen carriage in a carriage path. Rotary actuation means a... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4864328 | Dual mode ink jet printer In the embodiments of the invention described in the specification, a four-color ink jet printer includes a transport mechanism for conveying a record medium in one direction and an ink jet head containing a black ink nozzle array and a primary color ink ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4857941 | Multicolor thermal recording device A recording device for thermal color recording of a medium having two color coupler layers on one side and another color coupler layer on the other side of a transparent support. The layer on the side with two layers and having the higher heat sensitivity... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4849771 | Plotter pen presence and type identification system An improvement to graphics pen plotters including a pen gripping mechanism for gripping a cylindrical bodied pen in a generally vertical orientation for sensing the presence and type of a pen in the gripping mechanism with a single sensor. There is a mult... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4843406 | Method and apparatus for detecting the presence or absence of a pen in pen recorder The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for sensing whether a pen is in the grasp of a pen claw of a drawing arm or a plotter or other graphics mechanism. More specifically, the present invention comprises a pen claw movable between an upw... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4837584 | Security time clock system System for requiring the contemporaneous application of time clock data and personal data to a time card to prevent or signal the fraudulent application of either type of data at a time which is substantially different from the other type of data, i.e., b... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4833490 | Writing element with exchange mechanism In a device for exhanging objects, in particular writing instruments, between two holders (4, 5) open on one side, in which the object (6) is retained at least in one holder (4) by the cooperation of two retaining elements, one of which is a permanent mag... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4833488 | Thermal-optical recording head The ink jet method and thermal copying method have been developed as the method of obtaining hard copies in colors from terminals of data systems such as a computer. This inventive thermal recording apparatus can produce copies of clear images without col... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4827293 | Symmetrical braking system for a graphic recorder A symmetrical braking system for a graphic recorder includes a generally cylindrical brake support supported by a carriage drive and having a combination of cam surfaces. A brake rotor is rotatable supported upon the brake support and defines an arrangeme... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4812858 | Indexing mechanism The present invention comprises a mechanism for incrementally rotating a plotter carousel holding a plurality of pens around its perimeter. The rotational increments of the carousel are spaced to present any of the plurality of pens to a drawing arm on th... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4779104 | Pen plotter pen type identification system A pen type sensor for use in a graphics pen plotter wherein plotter pens are moved along a pre-established path between a pen holding area and a plotting area for reading a plurality of vertically oriented reflective indicia positions thereon to create a ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4775868 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus with plural recording units, such as an ink jet printer with plural ink jet recording heads, in which the number of flexible cables and the number of signal lines for driving the plural recording units are reduced by the common use o... | 10/04/1988 |
