Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134753 | Original size detecting apparatus, original size detecting method, and program for original size detection An original size detecting apparatus is capable of carrying out accurate original size detection without erroneous detection of the size of an original due to the influence of external scattered light. A CCD reads reflected light of light irradiated from a light sou... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8102575 | Image processing apparatus and method In a method for reading a document set on a document positioning plate to output image data, an edge area of an image of an entire reading area is extracted to form a first rectangle area including the extracted edge area. If a position of an apex of the first recta... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8068260 | Original document size detection using a line sensor for reading the original document In an image reading device, a reading unit scans first rectangle regions located within a maximum reading area equivalent to a maximum size of a document that can be scanned and acquires image data from the first rectangle regions. A transporting unit moves the read... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8035865 | Original size detecting apparatus, original size detecting method, and program for original size detection An original size detecting apparatus is capable of carrying out accurate original size detection without erroneous detection of the size of an original due to the influence of external scattered light. A CCD reads reflected light of light irradiated from a light sou... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7817310 | Sheet-size detecting mechanism for image scanning apparatus A sheet-size detecting mechanism for an image scanning apparatus detects the width of a sheet before a complete image of a sheet is acquired by the means of varying optical paths and obtaining a partial image of the sheet in advance so as to judge a width of the she... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7688477 | Image reading apparatus, and method for detecting size of document A first positioning member is provided on a document table to extend in a first scanning direction and determines a position in a second scanning direction of an edge of a document placed on the placing surface. A first reference area holding member extends from a f... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7564593 | Method and apparatus for identifying document size A document size identification module receives a single scan of a document and detects for at least one of a black to white transition and a white to black transition. The black to white transition may represent a transition from an overscan area of a platen to a do... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7471424 | Original size detecting apparatus, original size detecting method, and program for original size detection An original size detecting apparatus is capable of carrying out accurate original size detection without erroneous detection of the size of an original due to the influence of external scattered light. A CCD reads reflected light of light irradiated from a light sou... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7433098 | Document processing system with improved image quality assurance A document processing system comprising an image capture subsystem for capturing selected image metrics and at least one image rendition from a plurality of documents and for determining if at least one of the selected image metrics for any of the at least one image... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420717 | Method and apparatus for scanning image A method and an apparatus for scanning an image. The method includes determining a first side of the periphery of an original document while moving an image sensor, detecting first and second reference points representing first and second end points of the first sid... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7391917 | Image processing method Stored digital data is searched for on the basis of an input image, difference information is extracted by comparing the retrieved digital data and the input image, and the difference information is composited to the digital data. Digital data generated by compositi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386791 | Method and systems for creating a digital document altered in response to at least one event A method and system are provided for creating a digital document, the digital document including content layout, additional information, and altering machine executable instructions, the method including, in response to, or subsequent to, a request or activation eve... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376258 | Image quality assurance system and methodologies in a post-image capture document processing environment An image quality assurance method for identifying image defects in a plurality of previously-imaged documents, where each previously-imaged document includes at least one image rendition stored in at least one image rendition file according to type of image renditio... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7355742 | Apparatus and method for controlling page break position This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus and method which can reliably and appropriately insert a page break by a simple process. To accomplish this, it is checked if the number of lines transferred to a printer is smaller than a pag... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336393 | Color image reading apparatus and document size detecting method in color image reading apparatus A color image reading apparatus includes a light source, first and second photoelectric conversion devices, first and second document size detection units and a control unit. The first photoelectric conversion device obtains first electric signal information at a fi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333246 | Method and system for imposing print data A method, system and computer program provides for making an image area correction in a printing system. Print data is provided in a logical page order corresponding to at least one signature for printing. At least one parameter of a recording medium on which the pr... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331289 | Modular sheet-fed rotary printing press A module for a machine for processing sheet printing materials, has interfaces for control communication, a memory unit which can be read and written and which contains the properties of the module, and also a communications device which is used for communication wi... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330692 | Electricity waste suppressing original document size detection apparatus An original document reading apparatus includes a plurality of point light source elements (e.g. a LED array) in a main scanning direction beneath an original document table, a moving device that moves the point light source elements in a sub scanning direction, and... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330285 | Image processing apparatus and print control method therefor An image processing apparatus for processing image data comprises a printer for printing processed image data on recording paper; an image data receiver for receiving image data transmitted thereto via a network; storage unit for storing the image data received by t... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327490 | Image processing system via network The technique of the present invention ensures output of an image subjected to image processing, which does not depend upon the output environment but reflects the color reproduction characteristics of a shooting device and the intention of a photographer in shootin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319532 | Printing control apparatus and printing control method capable of accurately printing embedded font Disclosed is a printing control apparatus in which a printing instruction is once converted into an intermediate code format and then converted into a printer control command, and which can correctly print an embedded font. In this invention, a spooler for convertin... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317560 | Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same In an image reading apparatus that can read a reflection original and transparent original, a film holder for holding the transparent original is provided to be pivotal to the left or right about a shaft as the center. After the transparent original is set such that... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7303187 | Image formation apparatus and paper feed control method therefor An image formation apparatus which has multiple paper feed units and performs plural types of processing including at least facsimile processing, comprising a paper feeding subject setting unit which sets availability of paper feeding of each of the paper feed units... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301666 | Image processing apparatus and method, image synthesizing system and method, image synthesizer and client computer which constitute image synthesizing system, and image separating method An image processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The system includes an image area designating device that designates an area to be extracted of an original image displayed on a display screen. A color changing device changes the color of an area, excluding t... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280797 | Image forming apparatus with paper thickness detection unit for detecting overlap of regular and insertion sheets An image forming apparatus has a first stacking unit for stacking regular sheets on which images are formed, an image forming unit for forming an image on a regular sheet fed from the first stacking unit, a second stacking unit for stacking the insertion sheets, a d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271930 | Printer unit When a shutter button of a digital camera is pressed, a picture signal fetched from a CCD is converted to a digital signal and compressed and written into a nonvolatile memory means like a flash memory card as a picture file which can be identified uniquely. A user ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268897 | Print control apparatus and method In this invention, when a printer driver uses data obtained by referring to a table, the printer driver searches a first table of two, first and second tables to obtain a search condition of the second table. The printer driver searches the second table using the ob... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265851 | Printing method and system for making print from photo picture frame and graphic image written by user An image of a picture frame photographed on a photo film is displayed on a screen of an image input device, or is printed out as a hard copy. A graphic image is written by a user in the image of the picture frame, and graphic data of the graphic image is detected fr... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7239432 | Drum surface scanner and method for plate size check Provided is a drum surface scanner with which punched holes and/or cuts can be formed in a plate which has been correctly defined by position, and the plate can be clamped to a recording drum. When a plate P comes in front of movable pins 113, i.e., on a hole... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7206104 | Method for automatically determining document position in a scanner window A method for determining the position of a document placed in the scanning widow of a flatbed scanner is disclosed. The method can correctly determine the precise position of a document from a pre-scanned image, including portions of a pressing cover (background col... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193743 | Printer driver software product with edge runlength encoder A printer driver software product includes machine readable instructions for a computer to compress bi-level page description date. The computer, in accordance with the instructions, checks to determine if an edge of a black region in a line of the page is within a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7164508 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus having an illuminating device for illuminating a film original, an image reading device for reading an image on the film original illuminated by the illuminating device and outputting image signals. The image reading apparatus further incl... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164492 | Automatic facsimile document resizing A source document auto-resizing algorithm in a facsimile-capable device. When a user inputs the source document into the facsimile-capable device, the source document is converted into an intermediate converted document with the resizing algorithm resident in the fa... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161706 | System for improving digital coplers and multifunction peripheral devices A digital copier or multifunction peripheral (MFP) can perform special document construction functions including “auto-sizing,” scaling a copy to fit a selected size of copy medium, and “auto-cloning” printing a plurality of copies of a single original on a ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158243 | Printing apparatus and printing system, control method, storage medium and program A printing apparatus can quickly cancel a print job without any influence on the other subsequent print jobs when a print cancel instruction is issued. During printing, if a print cancel instruction is inputted from a printer operation unit, a printer function manag... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155669 | System, method and apparatus for changing output size of an electronically transmitted document Output image data, which is composed of a plurality of pages, and output configuring information are stored temporarily in a file spool in an intermediate data format using an information processing apparatus. The size in which a prescribed page is to be output is a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140791 | Vertical autosizing printing system A method for printing an image on an elongate image receiving medium includes the steps of: inputting data defining the image to be printed; selecting a vertical printing mode in which the image is to be printed across the width of the elongate image receiving mediu... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133150 | Image forming device for image output form control An image forming device comprising a job storage means 11 connected to a network for storing jobs input through the network composed of a group of image data to be output, a job select means 12 for selecting various arbitrary jobs out of the jobs store... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133147 | Image-processing apparatus equipped with recording-material manual-feeding mechanism and control method for the apparatus An image-processing apparatus and a control method for this apparatus. Image data is received through a communication section and is recorded by a recording section onto a recording material fed from a manual-feeding tray. Recording materials of various sizes can be... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131067 | Method and apparatus for editing and processing a document using a printer driver A printing image forming apparatus in which a printer driver is installed. The printer driver forms a space in an image of an original document to be printed in which a note is inserted. An inserting device inserts text, images, graphics etc. as the note into the sp... | 10/31/2006 |
