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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7330202 | Method for correcting skewed recording when exposing printing originals A method for correcting the skewed recording of a printing original on a recording material in an exposer includes the steps of projecting, with an exposure head, a linear array of exposure points generated by N laser beams onto the recording material and moving the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7271821 | Laser printer with reduced banding artifacts A laser scanning assembly generates a laser beam and scans the laser beam through a plurality of scan lines to form desired dots. Each scan line is positioned to overlap an adjacent scan line and each dot includes a plurality of segments. The scanning assembly scans... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7145588 | Scanning optical printhead having exposure correction A printing apparatus 10 exposes an image onto a photosensitive medium 14, having a printhead 20 with a linear array of exposure sources 40, each exposure source 12 operable at a variable intensity. A shuttle mechanism 16 mov... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6967676 | Printer-incorporated electronic still camera and printing method for optical printer A printer-incorporated electronic still camera has a built-in optical printer for printing an image on an instant film sheet based on electronic image signals read out from a memory. The optical printer uses a fluorescent display panel as a light source of a printin... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963452 | Compact imaging head and high speed multi-head laser imaging assembly and method An optical head having a laser source of beams at an input end and image forming beams at an output end and a plurality of optical components arranged along the beams between the input and output ends to obtain an image on a photosensitive printing plate from the be... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6956597 | Scanning with multiple oscillating scanners A method and device for managing and controlling a scanning system that incorporates multiple oscillating scanners is provided by the present invention. In accordance with the preferred embodiment, a resonant frequency is determined for each of the scanners. A drive... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6917447 | Method and apparatus for recording digital images on photosensitive material The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for exposing photosensitive material to form high quality continuous tone and/or color images thereon. The preferred apparatus includes an imaging head comprised of a plurality of red light sources, a plura... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6906740 | Light emitting array unit and side printing device A light emitting array unit for emitting line-shaped light is provided. A first light emitting element array includes a first group of plural light emitting elements, for emitting a first train of spotted lights. A second light emitting element array is disposed to ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6643049 | Compact imaging head and high speed multi-head laser imaging assembly and method Several optical heads are mounted on a common carriage adapted to scan a photosensitive printing plate. Each head is equipped with a laser source, a modulator and projection optics and can project a segment containing a plurality of pixels. The optical tr... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6061462 | Digital cartoon and animation process A digital cartoon or animation creation process, alternately describable as digital rotoscoping. Images are obtained in digital format by set-up steps (32, 44), image capture steps (34-36 and 46), and image storage (38, 48). The rotoscoping process (10) i... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5974401 | Digital print order and delivery method and system According to the method and system of the present invention, digital image data is input in a personal computer, through an image input device. The order sender processes the image data with reference to a display on the screen of the personal computer, a... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5099192 | Light emitting diode array current power supply A power supply circuit for an LED print head has a reference current source connected to a printer system reference voltage for providing a second reference voltage for an individual, integrated circuit chip. The reference current source is controlled by ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4996543 | Precision medium handling system and method for a recorder Accurate control of the lateral position and spacing of a photosensitive medium is provided for recording a succession of lines representing graphic images or portions thereof, without mechanical edge guides. The apparatus includes an optical edge detecto... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4864418 | Display unit for controlling pattern printing A pattern printing device using a plurality of films. A robot arm suctions in the film from a stocker and includes a sensor to read film and operation data from the film. Such data can be displayed.... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4864216 | Light emitting diode array current power supply A power supply circuit for an LED print head has a reference current source connected to a printer system reference voltage for providing a second reference voltage for an individual, integrated circuit chip. A plurality of substantially similar field eff... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4833488 | Thermal-optical recording head The ink jet method and thermal copying method have been developed as the method of obtaining hard copies in colors from terminals of data systems such as a computer. This inventive thermal recording apparatus can produce copies of clear images without col... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4823289 | Positioning originals on an original scanning drum of an image reproducing system Desired reproduction of images is obtained by framing originals on an original scanning drum for trimming based upon position and size data calculated by a CPU. Reproduction image position data are obtained from a block copy and magnification data. Scan s... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4819018 | High-speed broad-brush laser photocomposition The machine preferably utilizes a laser whose light output, modulated to produce a plurality of beams which move simultaneously across a photosensitive surface, thus forming a "broad brush" laser beam. In one embodiment, the photosensitive material is in ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4786918 | Incoherent, optically uncoupled laser arrays for electro-optic line modulators and line printers An incoherent, optically uncoupled laser array for an electro-optic line modulator or a line printer or the like and comprising a plurality of spatial laser emitters characterized by having high power density and a uniform far field emission pattern. Stru... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4780730 | Led-array image printer An optical printhead for contact or non-contact printing on a photosensitive material. The printhead traverses the photosensitive material and is provided with a substrate having a light emitting diode matrix and an interface circuit therein. A lens barre... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4746942 | Photocomposing machine and method A laser beam is widened in one dimension to cover an array of a substantial number of electro-optic gates. The beam is divided by the gates into a plurality of potential spot-forming beams. The transmission of each beam to a photosensitive surface is sele... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4739352 | Electronic control of imaging system In a phototypesetter, an array of light emitting diodes is energized in synchronization with an associated staggered array of fiber optic filaments. The array of filaments is slanted relative to the direction of movement, and type may be set in both forwa... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4719474 | Apparatus for imaging text and graphics on photosensitive material Image setting apparatus is disclosed for producing two-dimensional images on photosensitive sheet material. The apparatus includes a device for transporting the photosensitive sheet material past an image point to provide a first dimension of the two-dime... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4712896 | Photosetting apparatus A photosetting apparatus has a segment (11) of a regular cylinder consisting of aluminium in the interior of which a sheet-like photosensitive material (12) is mounted with the photosensitive layer directed inwardly. A rotary mirror (38) arranged on a car... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4704021 | Apparatus for the exposure of a recording carrier including alpha numberic characters of faces having a foreground pattern contrasting relative to a background pattern An apparatus is provided for the exposure of a recording carrier including alpha numeric characters or faces having a foreground pattern contrasting relative to a background pattern. In accordance with the apparatus, the alpha numeric characters or faces ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4702578 | Alignment method and cartridge apparatus for apparatus for generating color text and graphics on photographic media The present invention provides an alignment method and cartridge apparatus for an apparatus for generating color text and graphics on photographic media. The cartridge has flanges which project therefrom and which interact with projections on the apparatu... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4661828 | Optical imaging head An optical imaging head is disclosed for use with optical imaging apparatus. The optical imaging head includes a plurality of imaging devices reproducing respective segments of an original image. A reflector is included for reflecting at least a portion o... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4636872 | Laser imaging system and method for imposing pages for printing Laser imaging system and method for imaging a plurality of printed pages on an output medium in positions and orientations corresponding to an imposition format. Different areas of the medium are scanned to form the images for different pages with the bea... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4617578 | Multi-beam zoom and focusing lens scan pitch-adjusting recorder A method for recording a plurality of reproduction picture images of an original picture in which multiple laser beams modulated by an acoustic-optical modulator according to picture signals obtained by scanning the original picture in a scanning image re... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4563747 | Photocomposing apparatus and method Apparatus and methods for photocomposing as, for example, phototypesetting utilize photographic film on a moving member such as a rotatable cylinder with an array of multitudinous light emitting diodes movable along the length of the cylinder to project t... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4553148 | Optical printer for line-by-line image forming A printer has an optical printing head for a line-by-line image forming of design and text information. The printing head has spaced light emitting elements arranged in a row and each having a light emitting surface. The printing head further has an optic... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4493541 | Apparatus for photographically producing characters or other representations A light box is for supporting a stack of essentially transparent sheets including photo material which is insensitive to daylight and sensitive to shortwave light, and a record carrier film having transparent regions in the form of the characters or other... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4466192 | Method of enhancing the production of typeset runarounds A method of enhancing the production of typeset runarounds involves providing a set of light transmissive overlays having straight line rectangular grid configurations to the operator of the phototypesetter, together with a worksheet for recording line in... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4455100 | Pocket-sized check writing device with check form A pocket-size check writing device is disclosed with a means for positioning a check form in a writing position having a number of predetermined writing types composed of individual symbol elements and with a manually operable device for actuating the wri... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4447126 | Uniformly intense imaging by close-packed lens array An improved optical printing head is described including a linear array of light sources, and a lens array comprised of graded index optical fibers arranged in a hexagonal close-packed array, there being at least three rows of individual fiber lenses. The... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4435064 | Optical exposure unit for electrophotographic printing device An electrophotographic printing device is provided with an exposure unit comprising light-emitting diodes which are light sources and means for transmitting the light beams emitted from the light-emitting diodes and converging or focusing them like conver... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4427275 | Xerographic electronic printer This invention relates to a system for non-impact printers such as those that use light emitting diodes (LEDs) to produce an image on a photoconductor. In such devices, a discontinuity is generally created in a line of printed characters because of the mo... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4419676 | Method of recording signals on bands by means of laser beams and apparatus for carrying out the method A method for recording character or marking signals by multi-beam laser technique, in which the characters are recorded in multi-rastered bands in such a way that the character information is inverted, whereby the recording surface is illuminated by the l... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4415253 | System for setting sheet-form type Individual, relatively small sheets of type elements bearing different characters are disposed in an indexed selector board and are removed from it and placed in a fixture proximate the adhesive surface of a type backing strip. A bridge across a strip gui... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4409305 | Method for producing characters and other representations, in particular title set, on a photo material Photographic production of characters (11) and the like for the title set on photo material (10) which is insensitive in respect of daylight and sufficiently sensitive in respect of short-wave light. Developer liquid wettens the photo material (10) and is... | 10/11/1983 |
