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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111436 | Image-forming method and image-forming apparatus An image-forming method of recording an image of plural pixels by a recording means using an image-forming material not completely permeating into a recording medium and capable of forming an image with a thickness is provided. An image-forming material which is sca... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098412 | Method for detecting the center of wafer and storage medium storing a program for executing the method A method detects a center of a wafer having a notch when aligning the wafer mounted on a movable mounting table. The method includes capturing an image of the wafer by using an imaging unit, the image including the notch; extracting an edge line from the image of th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8040579 | Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method An image processing apparatus includes a preview creating unit, an image storing unit, a display unit, and a system control unit. The preview creating unit creates a preview image indicating a result of processing an image based on setting specified for the image. T... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8015489 | Method for adding marks in the page rasterizing process This invention relates to the field of computer image processing technology, particularly, to a method for adding marks in the process of page rasterizing, which in detail is the method for adding marks on the output medium when description files of pages are output... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7852529 | Image processing apparatus, image printer, and method of image processing performed by the image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a print region storing section, image data producing section, image region detecting section, comparing section, deciding section, and image data processing section. The image data producing section stores a print region of a m... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839544 | Facsimile apparatus and method of mode switching and memory control to maintain the continuous printing of facsimile data A facsimile apparatus is provided with a receiver that receives facsimile data, a storage unit including a data memory region that stores therein the facsimile data, a printing unit that prints an image based on the facsimile data, and a printing controller that con... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835042 | Electronic rubbed copy imaging system An electronic rubbed copy imaging system is provided and includes: a flat substrate; an imaging sheet; and a controlling portion that receives image data of the object read from the imaging sheet and applies a signal processing to the image data. The imaging sheet h... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7701623 | Image reading device, image reading method and copier An image reading device includes: a first light source that irradiates light on a first side of an object; a memory that stores a plurality of parameters for controlling an intensity of the light emitting devices, each of the plurality of parameters corresponding to... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7440138 | Conversion of color images to gray value images A method of converting a digital color image to a digital gray value image and in so doing distinguishably reproducing colors present in the color image is provided. The digital color image is built up of pixels each having a color value, and the digital gray value ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436554 | Image processing system, image capturing device, image processing terminal, image processing data storage terminal, program for the device, program for the terminal, data structure of image data, method of processing image, and method of generating image data The invention provides an image processing system which is suitable to carry out image processing in excellent accuracy while removing influence due to characteristics depending on the type difference and which facilitates wide and flexible adaptation over image cap... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433097 | Optical image scanner with moveable calibration target A scanner has a calibration target that can be moved in front of the scanline during a scan. This enables multiple calibrations during a scan. A full-color calibration can be performed during scanning without the need for a separate array of photosensors. Scanning c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433090 | Print/scan assembly and printer apparatus and methods including the same A printer apparatus includes a frame and a print/scan assembly. The print/scan assembly includes a carriage assembly movably mounted on the frame. The carriage assembly includes a printhead carriage and a scanner carriage. The printhead carriage is adapted to hold a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433100 | Color separation based on maximum toner limits Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in a computer readable medium for determining color separation are provided. In one representative embodiment, a method is provided that comprises specifying a number of nodes along a number of ramps in a predefined co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7419230 | Test chart geometrical characteristic analysis system geometrical characteristic analysis method printer and ink-jet printer A format storage unit stores a predetermined geometric property format. A chart data creating unit creates chart data based upon the geometric property format, and a printing unit creates a test chart by printing mark groups on a recording medium such as a paper she... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420697 | Communication apparatus A communication apparatus where transmission waiting time for an originating facsimile machine is shortened. A transmitter/receiver section of one of two communication control sections receives a transmission subscriber identification (TSI) signal from the originati... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417764 | System and method for disseminating color ink and colorant formulas The present invention provides a plurality of representations of color that are stored in an electronic color library and that can be selected by a user. After a color selection is made, a plurality of color ink formulas and/or colorant formulas capable of producing... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417770 | Image forming device with priority mode to force automatic switching to monochromatic mode over color mode An image forming device is disclosed which can positively conserve expensive consumable products such as toner and ink or the like and which can provide copied material which conforms to the intent of the user by using a simple operation. The image forming device in... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414760 | Image reader, image reading apparatus, and reading resolution setting method An image reader including photoelectric transducers each of which converts a light signal into an electric signal, and outputs the signal to a signal line, channel selecting switches each of which selectively connects, and disconnects, a corresponding one of the tra... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408663 | Communication system In a communication system, a call center is connectable via a communication line to a facsimile apparatus having a printing function. The facsimile apparatus reads ribbon-ID data of an ink ribbon mounted therein, and sends the read ribbon-ID data to the center devic... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385738 | Read module, poor connection detection apparatus and poor connection detection method of read module A read module includes: a light source that applies light to an original to read an image; a photoelectric conversion section that converts reflected light from the original into an image signal of the image; and a connector to be electrically connected to a control... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375852 | System and method for supporting a variety of color spaces in a computer operating system An application program may support multiple color spaces, such as Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK (CMYK) and Red Green Blue (RGB). Many computer operating systems have graphics drawing engines that only support RGB color space. For supporting non-RGB color spaces, the app... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375853 | Image processing apparatus and method A separating unit determines, for an image data, whether there exists black data, and generates density data from the black data when the black data exists, and generates color data from data other than the black data. A multinarizing unit converts the color data in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366338 | Automated document processing system using full image scanning A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365871 | Apparatus for capturing, converting and transmitting a visual image signal via a digital transmission system An image capture, conversion, compression, storage and transmission system provides a data signal representing the image in a format and protocol capable of being transmitted over any of a plurality of readily available transmission systems and received by readily a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362891 | Automated document processing system using full image scanning A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359528 | Monitoring of video or audio based on in-band and out-of-band data The presently claimed invention relates generally to monitoring and/or filtering video or audio data. In one implementation a method is provided including: obtaining data representing video or audio; analyzing the data representing video or audio for an in-band sign... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359089 | Image processing method and apparatus Provided is an image processing method and apparatus in which drawing objects are collected on a group-by-group basis and rendering is switched between YMCK rendering and RGB rendering to thereby raise the image quality of a YMCK output image and mitigate a decline ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359087 | Print control apparatus and program An print control apparatus for printing a reproduction checking image in colors. In a print control apparatus 1 that has a printing device 6 to print a document, a CPU 2 combines a remaining pattern image composed of dots larger than a minimum d... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355745 | Document-to-printer color gamut matching A document-to-printer color gamut matching system enables comparison of at least two color maps in a manner that allows selection of the printer that will result in the best print output. Information related to the document to be printed and information describing t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355765 | Optical scanning apparatus and an image formation apparatus therewith An optical scanning apparatus provides improved image quality by changing the amount of writing scale compensation for a pixel clock during a scanning cycle. A pixel clock generation unit of the optical scanning apparatus divides the scanning cycle into multiple div... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355766 | Device for digital imaging and storage of a document An apparatus is described for the digital imaging and storing of a document with a digital image capturing device and with an evaluation circuit for the digital image which can be stored in a memory which evaluation circuit can be connected to the digital image capt... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349135 | Time multiplexed image data decompression circuit A circuit which uses a compressor to divide each separation image into 8-line strips, and to independently compress each strip, a single decompressor to decompress two or more color image separations, strip by strip, by interleaving them, and to apply them to two or... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349566 | Image processing network An image processing network for processing image files and coupled to an outside data communication network comprising a plurality of remote image capture units, the units scanning documents and creating a plurality of image files of said documents; the image proces... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345791 | Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device for processing an input image so as to reproduce a halftone, includes: a matrix setting section for setting a threshold matrix having a plurality of elements arranged in M columns×N rows, at least two threshold values being stored in each... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339708 | Image forming apparatus in which at least one application function can be added to copying function An image forming apparatus for performing at least a copying function includes an engine board, an image reading unit, an image forming unit, a controller board detachably connected to the engine board to add at least one application function to the copying function... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336392 | Method of correcting color image data according to correction table The technique of the present invention allocates a coordinate point of target image data on a color space to multiple lattice points in a color conversion table and reads data stored at the multiple lattice points. This arrangement ensures high-speed color conversio... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336265 | Display control device for touch panel-type setting-operation unit, electronic apparatus and image forming apparatus Disclosed is a display control device for a touch panel-type setting-operation unit, which is designed to display a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen and to perform an input processing corresponding to the operation of one or more of the keys. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333136 | Image processing apparatus for carrying out tone conversion processing and color correction processing using a three-dimensional look-up table When tone conversion processing and color correction processing is carried out on image data obtained by a digital camera, processed image data enabling reproduction of a high quality image can be obtained. A 3DLUT for carrying out the tone conversion processing and... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327458 | Spectral sensitivity composing system An output current from each pixel sensor can be extracted at an arbitrary ratio by a current divider. An arithmetic control unit sets the dividing ratio in correspondence to a color matching function. The current components are added together by a summing amplifier ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327492 | Image processing device and image processing method In a black character detection processing, RGB data read from a line buffer is converted into YIQ data. For a subject pixel, a subject area centered on the subject pixel is set, and a judgment pixel that has the lowest brightness in the subject area is set. Then, a ... | 02/05/2008 |
