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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4916489 | Image forming apparatus There is disclosed an image forming apparatus capable of superposing two deesired images, by erasing a part of a latent image with light-emitting elements and forming another image with same light-emitting elements.... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4888616 | Image processing apparatus An image processor includes a light source, a scanner for scanning an original document using the light source, an imager for forming an image on the basis of light reflected from the original document and a light from the light source, a controller havin... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887128 | Method and apparatus for reproducing documents with variable information Method and apparatus are provided for reproducing information on a document sheet so that copies are provided with such information, yet also include additional information that may vary from copy to copy. An electrophotographic reproduction apparatus is ... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4806976 | Copy apparatus with pattern writing capability A copying apparatus having the capability to write optional pattern information on a copy sheet. The apparatus comprises an original glass plate, a photosensitive drum, plural devices for forming copied image of the original document on the photosensitive... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4769675 | Image forming apparatus with image adding function An image forming apparatus with an image adding function for modifying an original image in the same or different colors to include, for example, underlining bar-graphs, characters and symbols. The image forming apparatus includes a light-transmitting uni... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4763165 | Image forming apparatus with image adding function An image forming apparatus with an image adding function for modifying an original image with an additional image that is not a part of the original image. The image forming apparatus includes a light-transmitting unit that moves along an original table i... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4742373 | Copying machine A copying machine is capable of making a portion of a copy corresponding to a specific area of a document highlightened, more specifically, capable of giving suitable contrasts among areas of the copy corresponding to the areas of the document, when those... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4714940 | Image processing apparatus having display means to monitor and display information from a date input section An image processing apparatus which has a function of simultaneously or selectively copy an image displayed on a display screen and an image on an original at an arbitrary location is disclosed. This apparatus includes a display unit which can be used as ... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4697913 | Copying apparatus for synthesizing images A copying apparatus for synthesizing two images on one piece of copying paper. The apparatus includes a photosensitive body having a photosensitive surface, first and second light exposure assemblies disposed in spaced-apart relationship with respect to t... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4660961 | Copying apparatus for synthesizing images A copying apparatus of the electrostatic type enables at least two images to be synthesized on one surface of a copying paper using original positive image sources without preparing negative image sources prior to the copying process. The copying apparatu... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4640601 | Patent image reproducing electrophotographic machine An electrophotographic copying machine includes a photosensitive drum. A first electrostatic latent image according to an original copy image is formed in a state wherein a certain electric charge is accumulated and an original copy image formed by a firs... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4632538 | Video terminal and printer A hard copy printing system for forming copy containing information from two inputs. One input employs light patterns generated by scanning documents and employed to discharge a charged xerographic photosensitive platen in a patter defined by the printing... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4599285 | Multiplex image reproducing method A method of reproducing multiplex images wherein an electrostatic image is formed on an image retainer by using a common electrostatic image forming device, the electrostatic image formed on the image retainer is developed, the steps of the above are repe... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4552449 | Compound image recording apparatus An electrophotographic printer for producing a print of compound copied image and printed character image on a printing medium. The printer has a copying exposure system for forming the first electrostatic latent image on the printing medium on a drum by ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4514081 | Image making system and apparatus therefor In an image making system for forming a combined image on a recording medium on the basis of an optical image having scanned an original resting on an original carriage and an information image provided by a light beam controlled by an information signal,... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4494862 | Computerized information processing system equipped with copying apparatus A computerized information-processing system including a copying machine operatively associated with a computer having a data storage apparatus having a plurality of memory locations wherein the copying apparatus is capable of reading a coded pattern on a... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4448513 | Image information recording apparatus An image information recording apparatus, in which a light beam is modulated by an information signal to effect recording on a recording medium, includes a light beam forming device, a modulator for modulating the light beam from the light beam forming de... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4398816 | Electrophotographic copying printer First and second optical latent image forming devices form an electrostatic latent image directly on a homogeneously charged recording medium surface. Each of the first and second optical latent image forming devices has the capability of discharging almo... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4397537 | Image forming method and apparatus An image combining system for forming on a recording medium combined images based on at least two different types of original information has the steps of modulating a light beam in accordance with electrical signal information, scanning an original by th... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4380387 | Composite information recording apparatus A composite information recording apparatus is proposed in which in addition to known equipment for improving the image from a copy board onto a light sensitive medium such as a drum through an optical system, and reproducing copies of said image from the... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4379631 | Apparatus having a copier function and a printer function This specification discloses an apparatus having both the copier function of optically exposing the surface of a photosensitive member to an original image and the printer function of converting an electrical information signal into light and exposing the... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4371898 | Composite information recording apparatus A composite information recording apparatus for recording on a recording sheet a composite image of an original and variable information as separate but substantially contiguous portions of the same recording sheet without overlap therebetween includes a ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4352550 | Combination of circular/straight line light beam scan transforming apparatus and optical device and method of fabricating circular/straight line transforming device A combination of a circular/straight line light beam scan transforming apparatus and optical device constitutes an optical system. In the optical device, a light beam whose intensity is varied by a modulation signal is produced, and an object is exposed t... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4346982 | Electrophotographic recording device An electrophotographic recording device suitable for a Form Overlay System, by which a latent image is formed on a surface of a light-sensitive recording medium, consisting of a first area which is maintained at an original potential, a second area which ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4340295 | Composite information recording device A composite information recording device comprising a first electrostatic image forming means adapted to scan the image of an original on a copy board and to form the original image as a latent image on an image forming member, a second electrostatic imag... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4305652 | Merging of information in a copier-printer system Non-coded and coded information are merged in a copier-printer system by copying the non-coded information onto one or more sheets of paper during a first pass of the sheets of paper through the system and thereafter selecting the sheets of paper with the... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4303332 | Electrostatic recording apparatus An electrostatic recording apparatus which is capable of composite reproduction, having an original projecting device for forming an electrostatic latent image of an original picture on the surface of a photosensitive member by scanning and projecting an ... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4257701 | Image information recording apparatus In an image information recording apparatus, wherein a light beam is modulated by an information signal to effect recording on a recording medium, there is provided a light beam forming unit, a light beam modulator for modulating the light beam from the l... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4255040 | Positive overlay electronic xerographic printer Positive form overlays are used to make composite images with a positive mode xerographic printer having a laser scan exposure mechanism. The laser scan or electronic exposure mechanism uses an oscillating galvanometer mirror to sweep a scanning spot over... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4234250 | Electrophotographic printing system Reproductions of originals are obtained electro-photographically by exposing a charged photoconductor sequentially to at least two electro-optically regulated laser beam exposures, each exposure representing a separate color component of the original. Ful... | 11/18/1980 |
| 3947190 | Electrophotographic apparatus for recording images in superimposed relationship An electrophotographic apparatus in which photosensitive paper travels through a substantially U-shaped path, comprises a base and a frame assembly provided on the base in a freely openable and closeable manner. Those components which require higher accur... | 03/30/1976 |
