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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7358983 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus for printing an image onto a recording medium based on input image data, comprises an electrostatic latent image carrier for forming an electrostatic latent image, and an exposure controller for forming the electrostatic latent image correspondi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355618 | Image exposure apparatus An image exposure apparatus of a different angle incident type is provided having a single optical sensor unit for determining the timing for start point synchronization along the main scanning direction, an output level detecting device determining the output level... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348949 | Method and apparatus for controlling an LED based light system A technique for controlling a Light Emitting Diode (LED) based light system involves driving individual light sources that make up the LED-based light system at non-overlapping intervals so that light source-specific feedback signals can be generated in response to ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7324129 | Optical print head positioning using mechanically coupled optical pickup unit An optical print head (OPH) on the label side of an optical disc is positioned to a desired labeling position through a mechanical coupling between the OPH and an optical pickup unit (OPU) at the data side of the optical disc. The OPU is positioned to a target data ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7295359 | Light beam scanner and image forming apparatus A light beam scanner irradiates surfaces of respective of different image carriers with respective of plural light beams having been subjected to constant angular velocity deflection by a deflecting member and constant velocity deflection by a transformation member.... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7279812 | Light direction assembly shorted turn A light direction assembly comprises a tip-tilt platform having a light direction member and at least one current coil coupled to the tip-tilt platform. The light direction assembly also includes a plurality of magnetic producing devices that are positioned in close... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7253801 | Input device of 3-D translation and rotation and its method and recording medium A photo device condenses the bright spot on the display to project the spot light onto the projection plane, thereby projecting it onto photo detectors the projection plane. A counter counts the time from the time of a vertical sync signal and supplies its output to... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221382 | Medium with embedded information A medium includes an energy sensitive layer that changes appearance when energized to create a media label. The medium also includes pre-recorded data containing embedded information about the medium that includes printing characteristics of the energy sensitive lay... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7158160 | Optical beam scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical beam scanning device includes plural light sources, a pre-deflection optical unit, a light deflection unit, a post-deflection optical unit, and a horizontal synchronization unit. One of the formed plural latent images is formed by plural light beams while... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154640 | Multi-beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same This invention is to obtain a multi-beam scanning apparatus which always executes synchronization detection at the same timing to prevent any jitter, and an image forming apparatus using the apparatus. In a multi-beam scanning apparatus which guides a plurality of l... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145586 | Marking optical disc based on information related to data side thereof Marking an optical disc based on information related to the data side thereof is disclosed. Information related to the data side of the optical disc is first determined. A marking based on the data side of the optical disc as has been read is then written with a las... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7088380 | Labeling apparatus and method for disk storage media A label printer system includes a disk storage medium including a thermally-sensitive layer formed on at least a portion of an upper surface. A rotational drive rotates the disk storage medium and a transverse drive moves a laser substantially transversely with resp... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6906738 | Multispeed laser printing using a single frequency scanning mirror A laser printer using a single frequency resonant mirror for providing the beam sweep for printing at a multiplicity of printing speeds. According to a first embodiment, a pair of torsional hinges 54a and 54b provides the resonant beam sw... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6828998 | Recording method and recording apparatus with inclined plural beam orientation When desired images are recorded on an image receiving sheet 140 by laminating a toner layer of a transfer sheet 240 as heat-mode sensitive material and an image receiving layer of an image receiving sheet 140 to be fixed to a recording medium f... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6549265 | Image formation apparatus and method of stabilizing the emission level of semiconductor laser source used therein The emission level of a laser source at the non-imaging time when image data "0" is input and the emission level at the imaging time when image data "1" is input are controlled so that each of them becomes a desired level. The light output intensity is st... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6532034 | Optical disk, optical disk apparatus, and method for writing figures A method of writing a visible figure in an optical disk, including the steps of providing an application program; providing an optical disk having a recording region/film made of a phase-changing material in which a first visible figure is written, the ap... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6256055 | Electrophotographic printer An object is to make it possible to compensate a forming position of an electrostatic latent image just after detection of a position of a photosensitive belt. A position control section has a timing compensating function to compensate output timing of an... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6034709 | Bi-directional sweeping for monochrome CRT printers Disclosed is a photographic printer with bi-directional sweeping of a monochrome CRT to expose a photosensitive medium. Image data from a host system is received by the printer and stored in a data drive system. The data drive system converts the data int... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6031557 | Bi-directional sweeping for color CRT printers Disclosed is a photographic printer with bi-directional sweeping of a color CRT to expose a photosensitive medium. Image data from a host system is received by the printer and stored in a data drive system. The data drive system converts the data into a s... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5754214 | Image exposing apparatus using optical sensor to detect start synchronization of scanning line In the improved image exposing apparatus, light beams of different wavelengths in narrow bands that issue from a plurality of light sources are admitted into a light deflector at different angles and substantially the same main scanning line defined on a ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5373347 | Staggered multiple CRT's in a photographic process printer A photographic printer that uses a plurality of small CRTs to print wide format images. Within the printer, the CRTs are positioned horizontally adjacent one another but vertically displaced so that image segments displayed by adjacent CRTs either abut or... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5291392 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the accuracy of scanner systems An apparatus for use in improving the accuracy of optical systems such as internal drum photoplotters includes a raster scanner responsive to control signals for advancing relative to a substrate an optical beam across a substrate surface in a first direc... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5216219 | Disk manufacturing apparatus A disk manufacturing apparatus produces a master disk of optical disks with a high recording density in a short time. According to one aspect, the apparatus comprises a housing forming a vacuum space; a holder holding a master disk having a recording surf... | 06/01/1993 |
| 4972210 | Driver for a diode laser A driver is disclosed for a diode laser for use in a laser printer. The driver current is controlled in accordance with a digital video signal. In order to provide an effective means of converting the video signal to the desired driver current, the digita... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4791433 | Line scan graphic recorder and method for intensity control via medium velocity assessment In a line scan fiber optic cathode ray graphic recorder a continuous sheet of light sensitive paper is drawn perpendicularly before a regularly timed intensity modulated beam from the cathode ray tube. Due to gearing inaccuracies and anomalies, the veloci... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4746934 | Color image copying system using a cathode-ray tube with diffraction grating face plate A color image copying system (10) employs a cathode-ray tube (16) that employs a diffraction grating face plate (38) which for each image disperses to predetermined focal regions (132, 143, and 136) light rays of corresponding wavelengths. The light rays ... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4635072 | Printing apparatus and methods for compensating synchronization errors The invention provides a method for compensating synchronization errors in non-impact printers, without influencing the transport of the record carrier and without changing the printing frequency of the printing elements. A control value is derived from a... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4564849 | Compensation circuit for synchronizing image motion with a movable recording medium A compensation circuit is described for use in a line scan type recording apparatus where an electron beam is scanned on the face of a fiber optic cathode-ray tube (FOCRT) in synchronization with a movable recharging medium. The compensation circuit inclu... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4560989 | Method and apparatus for accelerating the recording rate of a CRT graphic recorder Provided are an apparatus and a method for recording on a recording medium images from a fiber-optic CRT. The apparatus includes a recording medium transport system, control electronics and a first-in, first-out memory. The use of the first-in, first-out ... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4551732 | Method and apparatus for modulating the recording rate of an image on the recording media of a line scan graphic recorder with the velocity of the recording media In a line scan graphic recording apparatus, the beam which displays the data on the recording media must be synchronized with the movement of recording media as it is directed normal to the displaying apparatus. The rate at which the recording media moves... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4484203 | Method and system for registration in CRT typesetting Registration is maintained as between an electron beam and that portion of a light-emissive interface selected for visualizing beam-defined characters by providing a discernible indicium on the interface at a location exterior to the selected interface po... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4381514 | Transverse mode converter for use with a longitudinal mode oscillographic recorder A converter for adapting a longitudinal mode, fiber optics cathode ray tube recorder, or visicorder, to operate selectively in either the longitudinal, Y axis mode or in the transverse, X/Z axes mode. The data to be recorded is displayed, initially, upon ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4334231 | Non impact display screen output printer A convenient hard copy output of a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen display is provided by a thermal printer which prints a line of dots equal in number to the number of dots in one raster scan on the CRT screen by printing the serial digital information in ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4309720 | Apparatus and method for producing an image on a sensitized surface A system and method of same for converting an electrical signal defining a refreshed raster-scan image of n differentiable components, for example, colors, into a permanent hard-copy representation of such image in terms of the cumulative sum of such comp... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4172259 | Graphic recording apparatus compensated for record medium velocity changes The beam of a line scan fiber optics cathode ray tube is intensity modulated and is repeatedly swept along the fiber optics strip of the tube by a horizontal deflection coil to place on a transversely moving record sheet recorded gray scale images which a... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4096487 | Recording apparatus Overlapping, and consequent illegibility, of recorded line scan or transverse records are precluded by delaying or inhibiting the recording process until the record sheet is being driven at or near full speed with respect to a normally blanked cathode ray... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4095235 | Recording apparatus A display apparatus is provided whereby a constant intensity of record is obtained notwithstanding substantial changes in the linear speed of the record member. The cathode ray sweep frequency is maintained at a constant rate commensurate with the highest... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4074281 | Method and appartus for making hard copy records of curves including curves which are mathematically described as multi-functions from periodically sampled data points A line scan cathode ray tube (CRT) recorder generates a hard copy record of a curve from stored data representing the X-Y coordinates of a series of sample points along the curve. The curve may be described mathematically by a multi-valued function. One p... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4032912 | Intensity modulated display system A system for displaying three-dimensional data as a set of successive plots is described. Each individual plot is displayed on an oscilloscope and the successive plots are photographed. Amplitude information is quantized and represented in the plots, in c... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3997720 | Optical picture recording system An optical picture recording system is constructed such that the lens is a linear lens, and the linear lens or the cathode ray tube is moved so as to confront the electron beam from the cathode ray tube with the linear lens at all times while, when record... | 12/14/1976 |
