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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169657 | Registration method using sensed image marks and digital realignment A method of registering a print between print stages in a printing system is provided. The method comprises: printing a first part of a digital image on a substrate with a first print engine, wherein the first part of the digital image includes a plurality of refere... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8098399 | Method for controlling a feed rate of a printer, and printer employing same A method of controlling a feed rate of a printer, and a printer employing same, wherein the printer includes a feeder motor driving a feeder mechanism and a transport motor driving a transport mechanism. The method includes receiving image data for a first item of p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077346 | Gap adjustment apparatus and image formation apparatus The invention provides, as a first aspect thereof, a gap adjustment apparatus that includes: a recording section; a guide axis that supports the recording section in such a manner that the recording section can move while facing a recording target medium, the guide ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064096 | Document template derived from variable data print file Embodiments herein include a method that receives a previously created variable data print file. The method iterates through pages of the variable data print file to identify reused objects and decomposes the variable data print file into a decomposed document templ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045218 | Digital compensation method and apparatus using image-to-image distortion map relating reference mark grids A digital image processing method. The method includes printing a first set of reference marks on one side of a substrate with a first print engine; printing a second set of reference marks on the same side of the substrate as the first set of reference marks with a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8009323 | Image forming apparatus with sheet-handling device preparatory operation control An image forming apparatus which is capable of bringing processing devices, such as sheet feed devices and post-processing devices connected respectively to the image forming apparatus, into operable states in timing optimal for carrying out an image forming job, th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995236 | Printer having plural sheet feeding apparatuses with variable print speeds A printer of the present invention allows a plurality of sheet feeding apparatuses, each having a particular sheet feed speed range adaptive to a plurality of print speeds, to be selectively connected thereto. When any one of the sheet feeding apparatuses is connect... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7969610 | Notification methods and systems for print-related systems Notification mechanisms for use in connection with print systems are described. In one embodiment, a notification mechanism extends from a printing application to the spooler, from the spooler to a hosting process, and back to the spooler. The notification mechanism... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7898687 | Printer, printer control program, printer control method, image processing device, image processing program, image processing method, and storage medium storing the program therein The printer includes a print head having nozzles that are arranged in a plurality of lines and that form dots by discharging ink onto a medium used for printing. The printer prints out an image on the medium by one scanning operation using the print head. The printe... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7852509 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus includes (A) an image forming section, (B) a document reading section, and (C) a controller. The image forming section is for forming an image. The document reading section is capable of reading a document concurrently with an operation of... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7804619 | Adjustment of print position in print controller The CD-R print system 10 has a shape identical to the CD-R and the like, and the scale marks are printed on the adjustment medium AM with the base line BL previously printed thereon. The user inputs portions of the scales overlapping with the base line BL to ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7791758 | Vibration control technology and interface for computer printers and scanners Method and apparatus for altering the operation of printers and scanners to reduce vibration and/or acoustics. The technology involves altering the mode of operation of the printer or scanner to be in either “quick”, “quiet” or an intermediate mode. Addition... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787145 | Methods for improving print quality in a hand-held printer Method for determining enhanced printing functions on a hand-held inkjet printer having one or more optical sensors configured to measure speed and distance across the page. Collecting a first frame of individual pixel data, mapping the first frame of individual pix... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7760391 | Image processing system An image processing system is provided that includes a first-motor control apparatus (40), having a communication interface (42) connected in series with a transmission line, for obtaining a detection position of a control subject and outputting a posi... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7706017 | Systems and methods for providing load balance rendering for direct printing Systems and methods for rendering a document in a native format at an imaging device using a host service for rendering into printer ready data. Documents/images are despooled to an imaging device in their native format for printing, wherein the imaging device inclu... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701609 | Image recorder A sheet is wound up on a frictional carrier drum having a circumferential length longer than a sheet length so that the length of the wound-up sheet is a quarter or more of the circumferential length, and contact elements for pressing the sheet against the frictiona... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7652786 | Device adapted for adjustment of scan position of light beam An optical scanning device 65 is adapted to bring a deflector mirror plane 651 into independent pivotal motions about a first axis and a second axis perpendicular to each other. A mirror driver section including a first axis driver and a second axis dr... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7602524 | Image processing and analysis framework A system and method for processing and analyzing virtual microscopy digital images (“virtual slides”) is provided. The system comprises an algorithm server that maintains or has access to a plurality of image processing and analysis routines. The algorithm serve... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7545531 | Method and apparatus for implementing statistical process control (SPC) in a printing environment A method and apparatus for implementing statistical process control (SPC) in a printing environment to address errant reads of control sensors is provided. The system uses SPC, in systems having feedback control based on control sensor data, to identify errant reads... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7489418 | High-resolution sensing method for scanner A high-resolution sensing method for a scanner having a motor and a charge coupled device. The charge coupled device further has m rows of sensors spaced a distance from each other. A motor with a moving speed equal to the width of one row of the sensors divided by ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7420703 | System and method for flipping a media sheet A system and method for flipping a media sheet. The novel system (10) includes a first mechanism (12) for receiving and holding a media sheet (16) and a second mechanism (118) for rotating the first mechanism (12) about an axis par... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414759 | Scanner linearity tester Linear spot velocity or position variations are measured in a scanning system by a process and apparatus. The process comprises providing at least two radiation detectors that can move in tandem across a scan line, the two radiation detectors being spaced apart by a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7372601 | Modular image processing device A modular image processing device includes a camera module configured to capture images to be printed. A memory module is configured to store data representing the captured images. A printer module is configured to print images from the stored data. The modules incl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367731 | Feeding accuracy adjustment apparatus, recording apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus, feeding accuracy adjustment method for recording medium The printer 1 includes a controller 32 for feeding at least a sort of recording medium P to a feed mechanism, obtaining a tendency of degradation of feed accuracy with respect to at least one sort of the recording medium, calculating an adjustment valu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369259 | Printer and print system, and data receiving device and data transmitting and receiving system A printer stores printer position information in sequence and calculates its representative value as statistical printer position information by a statistical method. When a public key is requested by a print client, the printer generates a public key with a passphr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7355751 | Method and apparatus for creating color conversion table If the grids of a color conversion table are simply downsampled, the way ink is used (the manner of the changeover in the value of a CMYKlclm signal) differs from that color conversion table before downsampling, there is a shift in the starting point of dark ink at ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349121 | Method for automatically determining an imposition plan A method for automatically determining an optimal imposition plan for printing and folding a product, the method including (a) calculating a plurality of imposition plans from a given set of input data including product specification data of the product, printing pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349120 | Method for multiple-page scaling and composing printing A printing control method includes both scaling and composition functions for arranging several printing pages on a specified paper and printing. If operates with “fit to paper” scaling and “N-up” layout calculations. The user can setup a composite printing ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334261 | Machine post-launch configuration and option upgrade with master key By providing a secure EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) device or other non-volatile memory (NVM) in an arrangement of a master key system operation key (SOK) plus any subsequently installed SOK to control the configurable machine option a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327487 | Banded compositor for variable data A method and apparatus for Variable Data Printing that adds performance requirements to a raster image processor (RIP) memory optimization that employs memory bands within the page composition process. Documents containing both recurring elements as well as non-recu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321966 | Machine post-launch configuration and option upgrade By providing a secure EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) device or other non-volatile memory (NVM) as a system operation key (SOK) to control the configurable machine option attributes, various problems associated with machine option config... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319543 | Image forming system An image forming system includes a PDL job receiving unit for receiving a PDL job generated by use of a page description language, a print image forming unit for interpreting the PDL job and forming a print image, a compression unit for compressing the print image, ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317553 | Settings of sub-scan feed error and sub-scan feed amount suitable for printing medium A printing device comprises a feed mechanism configured to advance the printing medium intermittently. The feed mechanism is adjusted so that an average feed error δave is in the vicinity of zero with respect to a most slippery printing medium among plural types of... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301665 | Method and apparatus for determining toner level in electrophotographic print engines The toner in the toner cartridge is determined by taking each of the rasterized images output by the RIP and evaluating the pixel levels over the surface thereof. The average value is determined as a percentage of the maximum toner that can be applied to the page. T... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293292 | Method and system for securely and selectively providing optional features or premium functionality in a printer A method and system of selectively and securely enabling an added or premium functionality in a printer can be created by transmitting or inputting to the printer an electronic key correlated to the unique serial number stored in that printer. In this way, the key u... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277207 | Recording device A recording device includes an image retrieval unit, a memory, an image forming unit, and a control unit. The image retrieval unit retrieves images of the document pages as document image data. The control unit begins retrieving document image data from the memory a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268912 | Rendering processing apparatus, rendering processing method, computer-readable memory medium, and program Band rendering processing time in the case where the raster scanning direction of inputted output information and that of a print mechanism are different can be remarkably reduced, and rendering processing efficiency of each page is improved. To expect the further i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268915 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, control program, and recording medium An object of this invention is to provide an image processing apparatus capable of preventing any color misregistration in printing even when the image processing apparatus is divided into a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuits. An image processing apparat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266253 | Methods and systems for complexity-based process selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263659 | Paper-based interface for multimedia information The present invention provides techniques for generating a printable representation of multimedia information that can be printed on a paper medium to provide a paper-based interface for the multimedia information. The paper-based interface provided by the present i... | 08/28/2007 |
