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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4649501 | Band printer control system architecture A printer control system uses two microprocessors and a print control for operating a plurality of print hammers in synchronism with a revolving type carrier. One microprocessor is a mechanical control processor, the print hammers are operated by a self t... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4635222 | Interface device for converting a computer printer port into an input/output port An interface device includes connections to a printer port of a computer apparatus, and logic circuitry for selecting a particular sensor from among one or more sensors based on data from the computer apparatus. A signal is fed back to the printer port by... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4591997 | Method of storing and printing image with non-reentrant basic disk operating system A method for storing and printing an image utilizing a computer graphics system of the type having a non-reentrant operating system wherein bit mapped image data may be transferred to an external permanent memory storage medium from which the bit mapped i... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4577288 | Data communications system with receiving terminal for varying the portions of received data being displayed A communications system is provided in which at least the receiving terminal is a display terminal. The receiving terminal has the capability of storing substantially more data than just the data the alphanumeric representations of which is being displaye... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4536848 | Method and apparatus for colored computer graphic photography Method and apparatus for making and photographing computer graphic colored images by defining each computer graphic colored image as a plurality of constant color pixel groups, assigning one of a preselected number of colors to each constant color pixel g... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4523094 | Evaluation device for electron-optical images The invention contemplates an electron microscope having provision for semi-automatic evaluation of the electron-optical image of the microscope, by superposing a light-optical image on the electron-optical image. For this purpose, an image plane (14) nea... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4514768 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a scanner for producing image information on a document by optically scanning the document, a keyboard for specifying various type face patterns of characters, numerals, symbols, etc., and a charact... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4510575 | Method for writing holograms A micro graphic representation such as a hologram is formed by directing from a computer to a display surface signals to form a very small portion of the graphic representation of the display surface, focusing a micro image of the display on a recording e... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4488244 | Computer graphic system with foreground/background discrimination Apparatus and method for making and photographing computer graphic colored images by defining each computer graphic colored image as a plurality of constant color pixel groups, assigning one of a preselected number of colors to each constant color pixel g... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4470129 | Page modification method in a printer subsystem of the partial page buffer composing type A page modification method in a printer subsystem of the partial page buffer composing type. A printer subsystem receives a packet containing a page of characters, coded overlays/elisions, and combining data from an external source. The packet is translat... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4457229 | Scan correction for a line printer having multi-pitch type carriers A control system for a band printer uses a correction memory which stores address correction values for resetting the start addresses of the address registers which operate to scan the band image and print line buffers. The correction memory is programmab... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4452136 | Printer subsystem with dual cooperating microprocessors A printer subsystem is interconnected with a host system from which it receives command and data information and to which it provides status information. The printer subsystem has two microprocessors, one of which communicates with the host system for tra... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4447889 | Method for controlling display of output of a programmable device A system for controlling a display panel in an electronic programmable calculator or the like determines whether a printer is connected thereto. If the printer is connected for operation, data or instructions are transmitted to the printer for printing. O... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4435772 | Interactive graphic system An interactive graphic system is provided which introduces drawing data step by step in the form of interaction to describe figures, characters, numerical figures or the like with the aid of a microcomputer. The interactive graphic system consists of a ke... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4385361 | Graphics produced by optically scanning a design model Graphics such as isometric engineering drawings needed for piping fabrication and installation in the construction of an industrial plant are generated by building a physical miniaturized design model of the plant, applying visually exposed indicia to sep... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4381553 | Programmable printer controller with multiline buffering and overstrike feature This controller may be used to direct operations of a remote station impact line printer whose data source is a host computer. The controller includes a microprocessor (CPU), a memory large enough to accomodate a plurality of lines of textual data, and ho... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4373156 | Apparatus and method for producing rapid, high resolution hard color copies from computer-based graphics and digital image processing systems A system and method for producing rapid, high resolution hard color copies from computer-based graphics and image processing including a computer-controlled color video signal graphics system for producing electronically generated digital character and/or... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4290116 | Method and apparatus for operating a printer Method and apparatus for operating a printer to control acceptance of data from an external source and to execute the operations associated with printing. The electronics comprises a microprocessor based control system in which both the program steps and ... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4163285 | Control circuit for metal paper printer head Control circuit for a print head of a metal paper printer in which electrodes are arranged on a slope, said electrodes being staggered in horizontal projection by the D-fold of their electrode width. The martrix-like structurized character to be printed c... | 07/31/1979 |
| 3959776 | Programmable printer A programmable printer is provided which is capable of printing alphanumeric internally pre-stored data or data information and alphanumeric externally supplied data or data information either separately or in combination with each other. The alphanumeric... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3959780 | Control device for printing apparatus An electric control device for printing apparatus in which electric signals, representing letters and the positions of words formed by the letters, are transmitted from a keyboard to storage means in which the signals are stored in their sequence of gener... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3950731 | Data processing arrangement for printers A data interface between a plurality of data sources and a printer wherein the interface can accept data from such sources on a pre-established priority basis. The priority of any source is determined by the time relationship of its bid strobe signal to a... | 04/13/1976 |
