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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6724492 | Image forming apparatus capable of performing trial printing, and image forming system An image forming apparatus having a receipt interface I/F, a hard disk, and a printer section. The receipt interface I/F receives pages of image data transmitted and a partial print request signal requesting that only a part of the image data be printed, both transm... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6701384 | Image output method and system with a function to change a received print condition Disclosed is an image output system. The image output system comprises input unit for inputting image data, a memory for storing image data input by the input unit, output means for outputting image data stored in the memory, entry means for entering an o... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6680782 | Method and apparatus of using a raster image processor and interpolator to increase the speed of operation and reduce memory requirements for electronic printing A method and apparatus for generating documents using a raster image processor operated in a low resolution mode to generate a low-resolution bit-mapped image from received print data containing a coded page description language. The low resolution page i... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6671062 | Journaling technique for reverse order printing A method for reverse order printing. The control instructions that direct printing of a document on a printer are used to create journal files of the document, with each page of the document having its own journal file. The journal files are then accessed... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6665088 | Page printer and page print system A host sends each page of image data to a page printer in band units and the page printer writes the received each band data into a reception buffer in DRAM by DMA and transfers the band data from the reception buffer to an image formation section made up... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6665082 | Printer system and method of controlling operation of the same To reduce the necessary storage capacity of the internal memory of a printer, a printing start command is transmitted from a printer controller to a printer by asynchronous transfer before the transmission of image data. Isochronous transfer of image data... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6661527 | Image input/output apparatus, image input/output method and image processing system In an image input/output apparatus which stores image data input from a reader unit into a hard disk and outputs the stored image data to a printer unit, an operation unit for setting an image processing content to be performed by the printer unit when th... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6633400 | Print system A print system has: a client apparatus for outputting print data; a printer server apparatus for receiving the print data from the client apparatus, and controlling an output of the print data received from the client apparatus in time; and a printer appa... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6633405 | Method and apparatus for interfacing generic and device-specific control codes A fax machine includes a print controller, a fax controller and random access memory. Generic control code is stored in ROM of the print controller, and paper path code is stored in ROM of the fax controller. Upon startup of the fax machine, the fax contr... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6631007 | System and method for presenting multiple sheetlets on a medium surface while presenting multiple logical pages within the sheetlets A method and document presentation system utilize at least one N-up instruction together with at least one emulation instruction to cause multiple sheetlets to be presented on a surface of a physical sheet while multiple logical pages are presented within... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6629155 | Data input/output method and apparatus and storage medium An object of the invention is to provide a data input/output method and apparatus which can avoid the transfer of unnecessary data in a double-sided output mode and can reduce a time that is required from an input to an output. To accomplish this object, ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6624909 | Image file format for storing graphical matter and related information Provided are a method, system, and program for processing graphics input. The graphics input may include a first and second types of graphics matter, such as line art and continuous tone. At least two data structures including representations of a same gr... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6623190 | Methods and apparatus for managing a print job among a processor, an image producing device, and an external storage device Printing a print job on an image producing device by storing print data from the print job to an external storage device, retrieving the print data from the external storage device to the image producing device, and generating an image for the print job u... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6621592 | Data storage control apparatus and data storage control method To provide data storage control apparatus and method capable of performing plural processes including processes that data are required to be processed in real time, without increasing cost and decreasing productivity, a RAM for storing data, a hard disk (... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6611880 | System for selecting a device over a network for a computer to use A computer automatically selects a device, such as a printer, over a network for the computer to use without a user having to provide the network address of the device. The computer identifies a group of devices connected to a network that meet certain pr... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6603570 | Image processing apparatus, data processing method and computer-readable memory medium for storing program For an image processing apparatus that can execute a plurality of functions, a common area that can be shared by the individual functions is provided in addition to the memory areas that are prepared for these functions. During the printing process, a che... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6603565 | Printer and method for control thereof A method for controlling a printer includes the steps of generating a plurality of set up data sets such as a first set up data set corresponding to a first printer language and a second set up data set corresponding to a second printer language. Each set... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6597471 | Information processing apparatus, its control method, and memory medium In the case where an image exists in text data as a print target, it is an object of the invention to allow a quality of data that is outputted to a printer to be designated as print data corresponding to the image. Image data is stored every different re... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594030 | Intelligent automatic trapping of page objects In a desktop publishing application program, functionality is provided for automatic trapping of all page objects in a publication. Each page object is trapped as completely as possible, meaning that each page object is subdivided into atomic geometric or... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6587655 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method having band development scheduler for a plurality of pages A scheduler develops a band in which a development processing time is longer than an image formation process speed so that a band development process can always be performed during a continuous image formation. To form images at a high throughput, a CPU a... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6574007 | Image forming apparatus and method A first image is read, and first image data corresponding to the read image is written in a first memory area. The first image data is stored in an image data storage section. Concurrently with this storage processing, the first image data written in the ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574008 | Image processing device An image processing device that executes high speed overwriting of an input image with one or more partial images. A processing prediction unit judges whether overwriting is completed on all the partial images held in a small area buffer. If overwriting i... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570664 | Printing system, printing apparatus, information processing apparatus and storage medium storing font download control program A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and a printing apparatus in which character image data transferred from the information processing apparatus is registered in the printing apparatus and the printing apparatus prints the same ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567183 | Output apparatus and output method An output apparatus comprises: a plurality of interface sections for inputting data which is supplied from an upper apparatus such as a host computer; an input buffer section to store the input data; an analyzing section for analyzing the input data and f... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6559973 | Electrical storage device for a replaceable printing component The present invention deals with a replaceable printing component for an ink-jet printing system. The ink-jet printing system is of the type having at least one replaceable component. The replaceable component includes an electrical storage device that is... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6559958 | Printing method and apparatus having multiple raster image processors A multiple raster image processor (RIP) system is described that enables faster system performance over multiple processors, and includes a zero RIP feature consisting of a language interpreter sub-RIP that interprets a print instruction file but does not... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556309 | Conservation of printer memory on the composition page in response to page pipe feedback An imaging device and method provide memory management tasks on data of a page being composed in response to feedback generated by memory management tasks that are performed on pages in the page pipe that are waiting to be imaged. The feedback is throttle... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6552819 | Image processing apparatus and method An analyzer estimates the time for rendering image data based on the number, types, etc., of rendering commands, stored in an intermediate memory, and determines whether or not there is a possibility of overrun. If there is the possibility of overrun, ima... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549297 | Communication apparatus and speech message method A memory management device enables to effectively use a memory which permits its stored data to be erase only in blocks. A facsimile apparatus is arranged to temporarily store sending information and received information in the memory and them to send or ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545769 | Digital copying apparatus with a personal data storage system A digital image reproduction apparatus including a scanner unit, a printer unit, a memory, an operator control unit integrated in the apparatus and provided with an input device and a display for the user to give operator control commands to the apparatus... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542256 | Medicine envelope preparation system A medicine envelope preparation system for automatically, quickly preparing medicine envelopes having prints of information about medicines contained in the medicine envelopes in response to the simple operation of inputting information about the medicine... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6542255 | Image formation apparatus and method An image formation apparatus comprises a drawing instruction analyzer which stores the drawing position and the drawing area size of a display list into a list table when the display list is created and a band distributing unit which references the list t... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538764 | Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, data processing method for use in such an apparatus, and storage medium storing computer-readable program Print data including text or graphics data is transferred from a host computer to a printer. The printer develops the received data on a band basis. When data processing to be performed by the printer is expected to fail due to shortage of the memory area... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6529289 | Image processing apparatus There will be provided an image processing apparatus made available irrespective of the mechanism and the like of an output device to be connected thereto. A configuration control unit sets connection patterns and output systems of a first to a fourth out... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6522424 | Image data transfer system and method An image data transfer system and method enable scan time and transfer time of the image data to be adjusted appropriately without lacking a part of the image data, suitable for low price. A data segmentation device segments the image data from a scan dev... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6519052 | Image processing method and apparatus to select a data compression method according to a size of an output image An image processing apparatus for inputting image data from an external image input device and outputting the inputted image data to an external image output device after processing the data, the image processing apparatus including a data compression dev... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6519364 | Method and apparatus for recognizing images, and copying machine and printer using the same A copying machine obtains image data on the basis of a strip-shaped region by reading portion 10, converts the image data to YMCK data at image processing portion 20 in the succeeding stage, and performs zooming processing at zooming processing portion 22... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6515759 | Printer having processor with instruction cache and compressed program store A printer provides additional read/write memory for image processing by operating with stored programs in compressed form. When needed for execution, instructions of a compressed program are expanded by a decompression circuit on the fly in an instruction... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6512594 | Printer or laminator with multi-threaded program architecture A printer for printing on a substrate includes an input configured to receive data, a print mechanism configured to print an image on the substrate, and a controller coupled to the input and the print mechanism configured to actuate the print mechanism in... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6509978 | Method and apparatus for formatting bitmapped image data An apparatus (100) for formatting bitmapped image data for printing. An image data bus section (120) has an image bus interface (122) adapted to be coupled to a computer bus to transmit the image data, a front end memory (124) coupled to the image bus int... | 01/21/2003 |
