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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7872660 | Electro-wetting-on-dielectric printing An electro-wetting-on-dielectric printing system includes a drum and an electrode array disposed on a surface of the drum, which is made up of individually addressable electrodes and an ink-phobic coating overlaying the electrodes. Electrically charging a portion of... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7796145 | Hybrid electro-photographic/ink-jet press print systems and primers Electro-photographic press print systems, methods of disposing a fluid onto a substrate in an electro-photographic press print system, and electro-photographic ink primers, are disclosed. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7746366 | Multi-beam image output apparatus and method using a small number of pixel clock generation units An image output apparatus which outputs a high quality image by using a small number of pixel clock generation units, for use with a printing engine which has a plurality of laser beam control units. The image output apparatus includes a plurality of output units wh... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7381000 | Electronic paper printer An electronic paper printer is provided that is capable of describing display patterns properly and definitely on rewritable electronic paper. An electronic paper printer 1 has a describing head 3 for describing display patterns on electronic paper ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7355951 | High density data recording/reproduction method utilizing electron emission and phase change media, and data recording system adopting the same, and media for the system A rapid data recording/reproducing method, a data recording system adopting the same, media for the system, and a tracking method, wherein the recording/reproducing method includes preparing media having a data recording layer in which a phase change is generated th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7265868 | Controlled print size for image data The present invention enables to ensure printing the entire desired image. An image data interpreter 21 interprets the header portion of data transmitted by a digital camera to detect the number of dots indicative of height and width of an image to be printed... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7244540 | Liquid toners comprising amphipathic copolymeric binder having insoluble components in the shell portion thereof The invention provides liquid electrographic toner compositions comprising a liquid carrier having toner particles dispersed in the liquid carrier. The liquid carrier has a Kauri-Butanol number less than about 30 mL. The toner particles comprise polymeric binder com... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236736 | Image recording apparatus A printer-processor is provided with a paper feed path that is constituted of a plural number of pairs of conveyer rollers, and a feedback path that branches off the paper feed path to feed a sheet of recording paper back to an upstream position of the paper feed pa... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7211923 | Rotational motion based, electrostatic power source and methods thereof A power system includes a member with two or more sections and at least one pair of electrodes. Each of the two or more sections has a stored static charge. Each of the pair of electrodes is spaced from and on substantially opposing sides of the member from the othe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7170842 | Methods for conducting current between a scanned-probe and storage medium Certain embodiments of the present invention are directed at data storage devices capable of storing, reading and writing data to storage areas of nanometer dimensions. Certain embodiments are directed at devices wherein a fluid medium and particles are provided bet... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7154511 | Fast rendering of ink A system and process for quickly rendering ink is described. Rendered ink information is placed into a transparency map of an image. The image is combined with foreground and background information to produce a final image. Using this process, the painting of ink us... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7133055 | Digital semiconductor based smart surface A smart surface is composed of a semiconductor memory layer overlaid on an insulated conductive layer with a one to one correspondence of each memory cell with the conductive pad on the insulated layer. The entire structure can be fashioned into a either a planar st... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7121209 | Digital semiconductor based printing system and method The print engine is composed of a semiconductor memory layer overlaid on an insulated conductive layer with a one to one correspondence of each memory cell with the conductive pad on the insulated layer. The entire structure can be fashioned into a either a planar s... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7102983 | Current divider-based storage medium A data storage medium that includes several stacked layers. The stacked layers can be conducting, insulating, resistive, or capable of changing between two or more states or phases. Also, a data storage device that includes the data storage medium and an energy sour... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7084890 | Recording device and recorder A recording device comprises a display, a photoconductor superposed on the display, and a pair of electrodes disposed on both sides of the display and photoconductor. At least one of the electrodes is divided into sub-electrodes. Information can be written into the ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7059248 | Digital semiconductor based printing system and method A print engine suitable for printing barcodes and other patterns using charged inks includes a semiconductor memory layer having memory circuits that are coupled to one or more line elements and/or printel cells. The printel cells and line elements either attract or... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7023420 | Electronic display with photo-addressing means An electronic display comprises an electro-optic material (preferably an electrophoretic medium) having a plurality of pixels, and separate first, second and third sets of addressing means for addressing these pixels. Each of the pixels is associated with one addres... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015401 | Image processing system with handwriting input function and the method for forming the same A digital system for mixing handwriting with an image is provided. The handwriting data is transmitted into the microprocessor of the image processing system, and then the microprocessor marks handwriting with a specific color and superimposes it on the image accord... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012600 | Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an ini... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6998752 | Dynamo-electric machine Conductor bars 7a and end rings 7b, 7c of a rotor 5 of a rotary electric machine are made of an aluminum material. The end rings 7b, 7c are electrically and mechanically joined to the oppos... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992459 | Stepping motor controlling apparatus and method, and image reading apparatus and method Stepping drive control of a motor is effected by synchronizing interruption to a CPU with N (in number) line triggers set to N times of one-line of an image. Further, in a synchronous mode in which phase control is effected in synchronous with N line triggers, accel... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6922353 | Memory for storing information A memory apparatus has a plurality of first electrodes and at least one second electrode separated by an electrolyte solution. Information may be recorded by causing an electrical current to flow between a selected of the first electrodes and the second electrode to... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6882355 | Image writing apparatus and record display medium The present invention provides an image writing apparatus capable of sequentially writing images into plural record display media at a high speed with high reliability in displaying the written images, and the record display media used for the image writing apparatu... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6830709 | Method of measuring liquid composition, liquid composition, ink set, method for forming colored portion on recording medium, and ink-jet recording apparatus The invention relates to a liquid composition measurement method. One embodiment of the method comprises the steps of: i) subjecting a liquid composition containing fine particles and a solvent to the following pretreatment steps (a) to (c) to form an agglomerate of... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6801175 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including a first image forming portion for forming an image on a normal image display medium, and a second image forming portion for forming an image on a reversible image display medium. An image forming apparatus including a reve... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6501492 | Image forming apparatus for outputting image in response to digital image signal An image forming apparatus for outputting an image through an electrophotographic process in accordance with a digital image signal includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; an optical system for applying light information to the photosensiti... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6424364 | Color printing apparatus and processes thereof A process for creating an image with improved quality and durability by depositing an ink image onto a toner composition residing on a substrate.... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6081285 | Forming images on receivers having field-driven particles and conducting layer An electronic printing apparatus is disclosed for forming images on a receiver which stores a digital image. The apparatus uses a receiver that includes field-driven particles in a matrix that change optical density in response to an applied electric fiel... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6064410 | Printing continuous tone images on receivers having field-driven particles An electronic printing apparatus responsive to a digital image for providing continuous tone optical density pixels forming an output image on a receiver includes a receiver including field-driven particles in a matrix that can change optical density in r... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6028616 | Enhanced color gamut from 2-pass xerocolography with 2λ imager and 2-layer photoreceptor Xerographic printing system using a Raster Output Scanning (ROS) system incorporating a two wavelength (λ) laser diode source for the ROS and a charge retentive member in the form of a belt or drum structure which is responsive to the two wavelengths. Th... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5943067 | Reusable media inkjet printing system A reusable media printing system is provided for temporarily printing an image to a reusable print media having a changeable property that changes the optical appearance of the reusable print media when exposed to a physical effect. A reusable media print... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5828396 | Information recording apparatus for recording images using plural information signals corresponding to respective plural colors An information recording apparatus for recording a color image with improved resolving power and image quality is disclosed. Color image data are temporarily stored in a memory and compared with predetermined patterns in a wide reference area. If they coi... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5752049 | Integrated computer and printer system and method for managing power source therefor An integrated computer and printer system includes a unitary housing having a base jointed to substantially parallel side walls, front and rear surfaces; a back cover pivotally connected at one end of the rear surface of said unitary housing, for allowing... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5739834 | Electrostatic charge information reproducing method A master electric charge retaining medium 2 having electrostatic charge information recorded thereon is disposed face-to-face with a reproductive electric charge retaining medium 3, and a voltage is applied between the respective electrodes of the two ele... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5729267 | Image forming apparatus having image transfer with toner cleaning function Image forming apparatus having a photosensitive drum 1, a charger 2 for uniformly charging the photosensitive drum 1, an exposing means 3 for forming an electro-static latent image on the photosensitive drum 1, an exposing unit 4 for forming a visual imag... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5642145 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of the electrophotographic type wherein a toner image formed on a photosensitive drum is transferred to recording paper by a transfer roller to form an image is disclosed. When the size of the toner image formed on the photosens... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5623295 | Information recording reproducing apparatus using probe An information recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information to/from a recording medium in a scanning probe microscope comprises a circuit to reproduce recording bits formed on the recording medium on the basis of a p... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5559544 | Image forming apparatus with cooperating housing structure In an image forming apparatus, an aperture electrode member, a toner supply device, a fixing device, a main power source and a main base plate are mounted to a main body case while a back electrode roller is disposed on a lid member. When the lid member i... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557311 | Multi-page signatures made using laser perforated bond papers Brochures, pamphlets, books, and the like containing a plurality of laser-perforated paper which has been folded and bound (in either order) on the lines of perforation have, among other things, substantially improved compressed, lay-flat properties (i.e.... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5373350 | Xerographic/thermal ink jet combined printing A printer combines the technologies of xerographic and thermal ink jet printing into a unit which is capable of high resolution text and color graphics. The printer is capable of forming a composite image including a xerographic printing portion and a The... | 12/13/1994 |
