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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940429 | Image forming apparatus The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising: an operating part which operates the image forming apparatus; an optional first speaker which outputs information guiding operation of the operating part; and a second speaker which outputs soun... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7660022 | Electro-optical device, image printing apparatus, and method of manufacturing electro-optical device An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel which has a plurality of electro-optical elements whose light-emitting characteristics or transmissive characteristics are changed by electrical energy applied; and a converging lens array which has a plura... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7586652 | Systems and methods for magnetic and color ink printing Systems and methods of rendering images may include rendering images by coupling a first rendering device and a second rendering device, obtaining electronic image data comprising a first image data and a second image data, and providing at least the first image dat... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7548349 | Image forming apparatus to prevent toner deformation In an image forming apparatus configured to electrostatically transfer a toner image formed on an image carrier to a recording medium with image transferring means of the present invention, pressure is applied between the image carrier and the image transferring mea... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7515307 | Enhanced image printing system The present application relates to a printing system in which a printing apparatus can produce print data utilizing image enhanced data stored in the printing apparatus without complicated calculation on the side of the printing apparatus. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7443549 | Image reading apparatus To provide a technology which facilitates positioning of a document to a document table even in a condition of a vertically placed image reading apparatus and by which operability was improved. It is configured in such a manner that, in case that a document cover | 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 |
| 7423783 | Color image scanning and printing device with efficient conversion of scanned image data into print image data A color image scanning and printing device includes a scanning unit which scans an image of a plural number of pages, a conversion unit performing a conversion process by converting a scanned result scanned by the scanning unit into image data of each of a plurality... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7369285 | Method of processing image An attentional portion to be corrected in gradation of an image is specified, and a gradation corrective function with respect to a density of the specified attentional portion is generated. Preset gradation conversion characteristics are corrected with the gradatio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366443 | Constant-velocity joint and image-forming device A constant-velocity joint includes an outer ring formed with an annular space therein having an opening at one end thereof. The annular space is defined by a radially outer wall and a radially inner wall. One of the radially inner and outer walls is formed with thre... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353954 | Tray flipper and method for parts inspection Manufacturing lines include inspection systems for monitoring the quality of parts produced. Manufacturing lines for making semiconductor devices generally inspect each fabricated part. The information obtained is used to fix manufacturing problems in the semiconduc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355758 | Automated facsimile monitoring and displaying methods and related systems Automated facsimile monitoring methods, systems, and computer program products can track response data from multiple facsimiles sent to different locations and generate electronically accessible failure reports to allow for error or faults to be tracked and assessed... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342598 | Apparatus and method for recording image on printing plate A printing apparatus with a plate-making mechanism with a data modification part for modifying width of an original image in a subscan direction by computation to obtain a modified image and a controller for recording an image with its length in a main scan directio... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343130 | Image heating apparatus and fixing apparatus An image heating apparatus including a plurality of image heating devices, each of the plurality of image heating devices having: an image heating member that heats an image on a recording material; and a separation member that separates the recording material from ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333989 | Method and apparatus for integrating distributed information Distributed information integrating method and apparatus for collecting data requested by a program at a data request side, integrating the collected data and supplying the integrated data to the request-side program irrespective of the existence of a processing dev... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330288 | Post RIP image rendering in a MICR electrographic printer to improve readability A method of printing an image with a printer having magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) toning capability, the method comprising the steps of: converting the image into a digital bitmap comprised of an array of pixels wherein each pixel is assigned a digital v... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310170 | Communication apparatus, communication method, image forming apparatus utilizing such method, unit connected to image forming apparatus and image forming system A sampling unit samples plural input signals, and detects a point (change point) at which one of the sampled input signals shows a change in the logic level. In case the logic level after the detection of the change point continues for a predetermined time, the plur... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7286155 | Optical engine using one-dimensional MEMS device In one embodiment disclosed, an optical engine includes a light modulator coupled to illumination optics and imaging optics. The light modulator may be located at about an object plane. The imaging optics may include a scanner and a spatial filter located at about a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286720 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284061 | Obtaining temporary exclusive control of a device Remotely obtaining exclusive control of a device by remotely establishing communication with the device over a network, requesting to obtain remote exclusive control of the device's capabilities, and determining whether remote exclusive control of the device's capab... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274490 | Image forming apparatus with control of maximum output of colorant In an image forming apparatus which forms a color image by superposing cyan, magenta, yellow and black toners on a recording medium, a circuit to limit image signals is provided immediately before a gamma correction circuit which corrects an output characteristic in... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270420 | Optical scanner An optical scanner suitable for scanning a vertical object. The optical scanner has a scanning body, a focusing device and a scanning module. The scanning body has a transparent window, the focusing device has an arm, a reflective mirror and a lens. One end of the a... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268916 | Digital image sharpening system A system and method for sharpening a digital image (38) having one or more image parameters, for printing with one or more print parameters, and for viewing at one or more viewing parameters, the method comprising the steps of preparing sharpening radius info... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269763 | Image reproducing apparatus with problem monitoring/reporting ability and method for monitoring and reporting problems occurring in connection with image forming and reproducing process An image reproducing apparatus (1) comprises an image forming part (150, 160) that carries out an image forming and reproducing process; a data storage (20) that stores possible problems occurring in connection with the image forming and reprodu... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262880 | Apparatus and method for creating color-calibration characteristic curves and/or process-calibration characteristic curves An apparatus and a method for exchanging information about tonal values and calorimetric values between a prepress stage, a printing stage and a quality control stage are provided. The apparatus and the method create characteristic curves which are used to optimize ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260351 | Image heating apparatus and fixing apparatus An image heating apparatus including a plurality of image heating devices, each of the plurality of image heating devices having: an image heating member that heats an image on a recording material; and a separation member that separates the recording material from ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258414 | Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a paper-carrying belt for carrying paper, drive unit for driving the paper-carrying belt, a scale provided on the paper-carrying belt that indicates position information and that partially has a scale s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256783 | Image capture device, a method of capturing images, an image producing device and a method of producing images The imaging device reads out a first time spatial parameter required for image capturing of an object from various time spatial parameters stored in the storage server and/or recorded on the recording medium, captures the images of the object and produces the captur... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253924 | Method of imaging multiple binary bitmaps in a single pass A method for printing multiple binary bitmaps (10) with an original density level (12a) and a color (18), wherein the color (18) is the same for all the multiple binary bitmaps (10), by combining “n” number of binary bit... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253926 | Image-processing apparatus, method and program for outputting an image to a plurality of functions There is described a compound apparatus, having a plurality of outputting functions including at least a copy function. The compound apparatus includes: an image-reading device to read an original image residing on a document so as to convert the original image into... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248383 | Print distribution system and print distribution program The present invention provides a print distribution system in which plural printing apparatuses are connected over a network, and printed data created by a data processing apparatus of a sender is distributed to plural distribution destinations. The print distributi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248385 | Printer controller that has a printer perform print processing on print jobs transmitted from a plurality of terminals, an image forming apparatus for performing print processing on the plurality of print jobs, and a terminal that transmits print jobs to the printer controller A printer server is connected to a plurality of terminals. The printer server includes a terminal status detecting unit that receives a piece of operation information ‘key’ indicating that a operation has been performed from each terminal, measures an elapsed ti... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7227564 | Image forming apparatus and image write start position adjusting method for the same A high-quality image forming apparatus that is capable of accurately adjusting the size and position of an image during image formation on a second surface of a transfer material, even when there has been expansion/contraction of the transfer material due to thermal... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221487 | Optical scanning device having selectable identifiable scan window A scan window apparatus for defining and identifying a selected scan window within an overall scanable surface of a scanning device. The scanable surface is defined by intersecting first and second edges. The scan window apparatus includes moveable position markers ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221475 | Color image processing apparatus The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image processing apparatus characterized by having processing means for perf... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215439 | Image processing device, image processing method, program and storage medium To enable the operability of image editing process to improve, the first procedure for making configurations relating to a print medium used in printing by a printing device, the second procedure for selecting an image to be printed by the printing device and specif... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215427 | Device for controlling material The invention relates to a device for controlling material comprising a sensor device and a lighting device, whereby the material which is to be controlled is guided on a transparent drum. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196716 | Electronic trapping implementation in imager with laser driver An electronic trapping implementation in imager with laser driver is provided by comparing an output image from the imager to a reference image to obtain a difference image and calculating one or more frequency and amplitude modulations based on the difference image... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193640 | Printer color registration correction Techniques are disclosed for performing color registration estimation and correction in a multi-head printer. A registration target is printed by the printer and captured by an image capture device (such as a camera) within the printer. The registration target inclu... | 03/20/2007 |
