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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7764297 | Image forming apparatus There is provided a photoreceptor cleanerless image forming apparatus capable of decreasing color mixture or an exposure error due to reverse transfer toner or untransferred toner. An image forming apparatus 100 according to the present invention compr... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7495682 | Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus, including point light sources, arranged in a straight line state, configured to output light to light a document, and a light leading member, positioned in front in a light outputting direction of the light output from the point light sou... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7443406 | Tandem image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes image-forming process cartridges arranged in tandem; a color-information acquiring unit configured to acquire color information representing a color of an image to be formed by each of the image-forming process cartridges; an imag... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436416 | Color printer and control method thereof with pulse width modulation for tone control based on type of document and number of colors printed A color printing apparatus having pulse-width modulation means which performs pulse-width modulation for tone control, and a control method thereof are provided. Based on determination of a printing mode of printing data supplied and determination of whether or not ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432942 | Electric display media A visual display system and a method for displaying information. The information displayed on the visual display system may be substantially or entirely immune to stray electric fields. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421223 | Printing system In an implementation of a printing system, an electrophotographic imaging plate electrostatically attracts a first concentration of an ink having a particular color. A developer unit is biased with a developer voltage and the first concentration of the ink is transf... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7400335 | Method for printing a halftone digital image A method for printing a halftone digital image on both a printing press and a color proofer using the same binary digital data which comprises making a printing plate from the binary digital data; making a press sheet using a press with the printing plate; sending t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7365865 | Printing apparatus and control method therefor In a printing apparatus having full-color and monochrome print processes and a method therefor, whether a page to be printed is color or monochrome is checked. The presence of an immediately preceding page which is successively printed before a page to be printed th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362472 | Color error diffusion A method for multi-toning an input digital image having input pixels with two or more color channels to form an output digital image having modified output levels. The method includes producing an error signal for each color channel, combining the error signals to p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358984 | Image forming apparatus including multibeam exposure unit having surface emitting laser array An image forming apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate; a charging unit for charging the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an exposure unit for exposing... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355749 | Compressed image processing method and image compressed image processing apparatus The present invention provides an image processing method and an image processing apparatus for properly enabling a compressed image included in a page layout to be drawn in colors. A print server detects a compressed image in an EPS (JPEG) format or the like, sets ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352488 | Spectrally matched print proofer A device, system and a method for soft proofing of an image before it is printed onto printed material, such that the colors of the image substantially reproduce, to the human eye, the colors as they should appear on the printed material. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347540 | Inkjet printing device The invention relates to an inkjet printing apparatus (1) with at least one printing head (2). Several tanks (3, 4) for inks and/or a cleaning medium are arranged in front of a connection opening (7) for the printing head (2), and ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342689 | Methods and apparatus for converting full color images to two-color images for printing at a two-color printer Methods and apparatus are provided for converting a full color image to a two-color image for printing at a two-color printer capable of printing black pixels and alternate color pixels. Black pixels and alternate color pixels of the full color image will be printed... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336406 | Scanning optical device and color image forming apparatus using the same At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a scanning optical device includes an incidence optical system that causes the principal rays of all of a plurality of light fluxes emitted from a light source element comprising a plurality of light-emitting parts on... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330203 | Compact multibeam laser light source and interleaving raster scan An individually drivable array of single stripe laser diodes is proposed for imaging printing plates. An imaging optics is used to produce n image points which have a spatial interval l between adjacent points. An interleaving raster scan line method is indicated, w... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315315 | Halftone processing method in laser printer and apparatus using the same A halftone processing method for correcting the variation in light intensity on a photoconductive drum and an apparatus using the same, wherein the method includes the steps of preparing a plurality of dithering functions, detecting the position where image data for... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7304659 | Optical beam scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical beam scanning device of the present invention is for having a light beam with the width in the main scanning direction wider than the width in the main scanning direction of the reflection surface of a deflector incident on the deflector, reflecting and p... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303245 | Printing apparatus, printing system and control method for printing apparatus A printing apparatus for performing printing by scanning a carriage capable of mounting an inkjet printhead discharging ink where correction of printing timing is performed for adjusting printing positions in the printing, and information on the correction, which ca... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283139 | Image processing device for transmitting color with fidelity and product selling method using the same An image processing device (1) provides a client device (3) with a first test pattern image, acquires the results of evaluation concerning distinguishability of the image by human eyes, acquires color expression characteristics of the client device ( | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275249 | Dynamically generating masks for thread scheduling in a multiprocessor system An embodiment of the invention is a technique to generate a mask schedule for thread scheduling in a multiprocessor system having N clusters of processors. A primary mask is obtained from a primary set of granularity masks. The granularity masks are created accordin... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265768 | Image forming apparatus A photoreceptor cleanerless image forming apparatus and method for overlappingly forming yellow, cyan, magenta, and black toner images and decreasing color mixture or an exposure error due to reverse transfer toner or untransferred toner are provided. The image form... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265871 | Image formation processing method and image formation processing apparatus An image formation processing method for forming an image to be raised with color toners on a raised portion of an expandable toner which is formed on a recording sheet according to an original image, comprising extracting a contour section of the image to be raised... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262787 | Laser scanning unit assembly and laser printer having the same In a laser printer using a plurality of laser scan units, a laser scan unit is capable of manually adjusting a plurality of laser beams to be parallel. The laser scan unit assembly includes a laser scan unit having a window on a front surface through which a laser b... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251357 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for setting background image When a photograph album is generated by laying out images, a background image is set in accordance with the images. Image data sets representing the images are input to background setting means and area ratio calculation means calculates a ratio of an area where a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248153 | Method for parking a vehicle A method for parking a vehicle in which distances of the vehicle from obstacles as well as the length and/or width of a parking space are determined. Sensors are used for parking space determination as well as distance measurement in this context. ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245842 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming condition adjusting method, computer program carrying out the image forming condition adjusting method, and recording medium storing the program An image forming apparatus including: at least one image forming unit including an image bearing member bearing a latent image and a developing device configured to develop the latent image with a developer including a toner to form a toner image thereon; optionally... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245311 | Image forming apparatus A photosensitive body has a photosensitive layer. An optical scanning device has a deflector deflecting a light flux emitted from a light source, and scans the surface of the photosensitive body by the thus-deflected light flux. A dot is formed at a center between a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243952 | Authenticatable printed matter, and method for producing the same An authenticity discriminable printed matter in which a latent image cannot be visually identified under ordinary visible light but appears upon being irradiated with UV rays. A basic image is formed on a base material. The basic image is made of a latent image port... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242503 | Image reading method In the image reading method, a film having images recorded in a plurality of frames in a longitudinal direction is transported to read the images photoelectrically at an image reading position by an image reading device. This method transports the film in a first di... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233761 | Method and apparatus for transferring multiple toner images and image forming apparatus A method of transferring a plurality of toner images formed on a plurality of image carriers of different colors onto a sheet-type recording medium includes forming a mark image for adjusting a transfer position on each of the image carriers as a toner image; transf... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230740 | Substantial preclusion of output of pixels for other color components upon output of pixel for image pixel color component A method of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that determines to output an output pixel for a color component of an image pixel. In response to determining to output the output pixel for the color component of the image pixel, the method outputs this outp... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230638 | Image forming apparatus having a plurality of laser scanner units An image forming device, characterized in that the shape of the optical path of a third laser beam from a third semiconductor laser (19M) to a third photo-sensitive member drum (IM) is approximately the same as that of the optical path of a first laser beam f... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230589 | Image-forming device An image-forming device having, in an envelope, an electron-emitting element, an image-forming member for forming an image by irradiation of an electron beam emitted from the electron-emitting element, and an electroconductive supporting member for supporting the en... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227562 | Electrophotograhic apparatus Provided is a small-sized electrophotographic apparatus for which maintenance such as disposal of a jam of sheets, replacement of consumables including toner, or replacement of components to be periodically replaced can be facilitated. Thus, there is provided... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221896 | Fixing device for fixing an unfixed developing agent on a recording medium and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device of the present invention includes a pressure roller and a peeling roller both of which press a heat roller. The pressure roller is disposed upstream to the peeling roller in a transport direction of a recording paper. An outer diameter of the heat ro... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221464 | Image recording apparatus and test pattern for evaluating recorded image The invention concerns an image recording apparatus suitable for forming a medical image that is used for a medical diagnosis, and a test pattern for evaluating a quality of the medical image. The image recording apparatus includes a printing section to either the m... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218335 | Image recording apparatus and image recording method The inventive image recording apparatus records unit images with different combinations of light beams among a plurality of light beams emissive from a recording head when preparing the respective ones of C, M, Y and K plates. Also when the plurality of light beams ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213511 | Method and apparatus for printing a ribbon for packaging gelatin capsules Apparatus for producing image bearing filled gelatin capsules (12 and 16) for directing gelatin ribbon (2,4) from respective casting drums to an encapsulation station (6). Along the path of at least one ribbon (4) is a transfer sta... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212753 | Image forming apparatus and process cartridge An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; an exposing unit that exposes the image carrier to light to form an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier; a developing unit that has at least a toner, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed... | 05/01/2007 |
