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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7195346 | Ink cartridge and printer using the same In an ink jet printer of the present invention, in order to reduce the manufacturing cost, an inexpensive EEPROM enabling only sequential accesses is applied for storage elements incorporated in a black ink cartridge and a color ink cartridge. The data array of a me... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187290 | RFID readers and tags transmitting and receiving waveform segment with ending-triggering transition RFID readers exchange information with RFID tags. The information is encoded for transmission and decoded upon reception. Encoding is in binary bits, which are in turn encoded in waveform segments. The last transmitted waveform incorporates an ending-triggering tran... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 5151717 | Imaging method and apparatus using discrete receiving sheets A variety of sizes of prints are made electrophotographically utilizing a single large size receiving sheet, for example, a receiving sheet that is 12×18 inches. The receiving sheet is large enough to receive one image of the largest size or an array of ... | 09/29/1992 |
| 4994827 | Multicolor imaging method and apparatus A variety of sizes of color prints are made electrophotographically utilizing a single large size receiving sheet, for example, a receiving sheet that is 12×18 inches. The large size receiving sheet can be secured to a transfer roller to be cycled throug... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4891771 | Column balancing control A text editor provides the capability of balancing data for different sets of identified columns within the same page and across multiple imaged pages. Column balancing, as used herein is the technique of dividing an entity to be displayed into a number o... | 01/02/1990 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4679153 | Printing systems for typesetter emulation A printing system and method is disclosed herein which is capable of emulating any of a plurality of phototypesetters to create a proof comprising at least one glyph on a reproduction medium from composition data. The proof is created from page and font d... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4653882 | Device for exposing discrete portions of a photosensitive surface by means of a light beam The device comprises a lamp which directs a light beam to a photosensitive surface through symbols contained on a rotating disc, along a straight axis without changement of direction, the distance between the lamp and the sensitive surface being maintaine... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4608664 | Automatically balancing and vertically justifying a plurality of text/graphics-columns Text and graphics are justified along one physical dimension to a predetermined line of justification. A plurality of physical parameters are employed in the justification, each of the parameters is assigned a compression and an expansion adjustment ratio... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4597652 | Paper guide with width sensing and width indication system First and second rotatable edge guide rollers are provided having precision roller positioning means for preventing skewing of sheets of predetermined widths, such rollers being laterally shifted in position to accommodate various widths by means of a rol... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4575813 | Automatically balancing and vertically justifying a plurality of text/graphics-columns Text and graphics are recursively (includes iteratively) distributed among a set of balanceable columns capable of receiving text and graphics. The recursive distributions are at successively varying columnar depths (all columns in each recursion have a c... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4475115 | Banding-free printing by linear array of photosources To prevent banding in a flat field exposed--by means of a linear array of photosources--upon a moving photosensitive web, the invention not only provides that the photosources be pulsed in correspondence with the movement of the photosensitive web, but th... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4450453 | Overlay recording device for recording a plurality of information in superimposition An overlay recording device for recording first information and second information in a superimposed mode on a recording medium by reading out the first information from storage in a first memory and the second information from storage in a second memory,... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4400069 | Phototypesetter font disk A phototypesetter font disk has a plurality of circumferentially spaced, optically readable indicia and a strobe track radially spaced from the indicia which contains a plurality of circumferentially spaced timing marks. Each indicia has an associated tim... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4346969 | Photographic type composing machine with headlining attachment The machine provides access to a relatively large number of different characters located on relatively large spinning discs or drums. The characters are located in arrays such as concentric rows on a disc. A plurality of lenses is mounted on a lens carria... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4345276 | System and method for high quality image reproduction A system and method for reproducing a plurality of images on a printer in printed form in accordance with selectable, variable multiple formats. The method generally comprises the steps of selecting a given one of a plurality of selectable, variable forma... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4342504 | LED-Fiber optic character printer A relatively narrow printing head scans across photosensitive material and in one scan generates a line of characters thereon. Digital control signals selectively illuminate the LEDs formed within a matrix thereof. A flexible loop of flat fiber optic fila... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4342096 | Variable pitch character generator for dot matrix printer Proportional spacing of characters, for example by a laser-xerographic printer, is achieved using a character generator memory, for example a random access memory (RAM), to store the characters of a font in a plurality of variable-size binary matrices. Ea... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4338673 | Phototypesetting system and method A method and system for use in phototypesetting. A type font character is scanned and character data representative of the font character is generated. The scan data is encoded in accordance with a first predetermined sequence of steps to have the form of... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4331955 | Method and apparatus for smoothing outlines A font storage system for a typesetter having an electronically controlled character imaging device includes a floppy disk and digital information stored on the floppy disk defining each character to be typeset. A series of vectors proceeding from a start... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4298945 | Character generating method and apparatus A font storage system for use in a typesetter having an electronically controlled character imaging device. The storage system, which preferably includes a floppy disk, has digital information stored thereon defining each character to be typeset by at lea... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4270172 | Ultrahigh resolution photocomposition system employing electronic character generation from magnetically stored data A photocomposition system for composing typeface characters on a CRT display using a magnetic font disc formed of plural variable length character sectors wherein each sector includes successive storage cells containing all of the coded signals necessary ... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4232954 | Recording position adjuster A recording position defining apparatus includes a beam generator for generating a modulated beam in accordance with a signal to be recorded; a beam deflector; a beam detector fixed at a predetermined position; a clock signal generator for generating cloc... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4231096 | Digital typesetter A digital typesetter for imaging graphics quality characters of a specified font. The typesetter includes an electronic data processing system which receives first digital data defining the identity, form, size and placement of characters to be typeset; r... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4226514 | Electrographic photocomposing machine An electrographic photocomposing machine comprises a rotary type carrier provided with a flashtube having a control unit, a photographic unit, and a line forming mechanism, the latter two being arranged in series downstream of the type carrier along the b... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4222643 | Recording position adjuster A recording position defining apparatus includes a beam generator for generating a modulated beam in accordance with a signal to be recorded; a beam deflector; a beam detector fixed at a predetermined position; a clock signal generator for generating cloc... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4214276 | Printing methods for producing prints having images of variable size and text To produce a whole page image from a number of separate images, the input images are separately scanned and reproduced at the required enlargement or reduction to produce pre-prints which are then assembled on a digitizer table in the relative positions r... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4200369 | Method and apparatus for compacting and decompacting character data in accordance with a variety of methods There is described method and apparatus for use in phototypesetting operations wherein a character is scanned by a plurality of scans or strokes of a light spot output of a cathode ray tube (CRT) of the phototypesetting apparatus, and output signals deriv... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199815 | Typesetter character generating apparatus A font storage system for use in a typesetter having an electronically controlled character imaging device. The storage system, which preferably includes a floppy disk, has digital information stored thereon defining each character to be typeset by at lea... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4195338 | Computer typesetting Apparatus and methods are disclosed for defining and controlling the relative positioning of symbols in a computer-based imaging system for generating images suitable for controlling a printing operation. Information describing the symbols is stored in a ... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4189217 | Document printing system System for printing particular information-bearing symbols corresponding to data emanating from a source comprising: source means capable of generating data in a particular sequence; memory means for storing information-bearing symbols; selection means fo... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4189216 | Optical system for photographic composing apparatus An optical system for photocomposing. A variable aerial image is supplied to the focal plane of a collimating lens couple, wherein the decollimating lens is used for composition escapement.... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4183638 | Exposure control system for photocomposition machines In photocomposition, when change in point size is made, rather than change iris opening, a programmable flash intensity provides the required irradiance. Iris setting is made only to compensate for film or paper sensitivity, flash lamp efficiency, and ene... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4139288 | Microfilm typewriter A pattern of a character, numeral or symbol on an optical mask is selected in accordance with the designation by a character designator and irradiated with light from a printing light source. The light is converted into a light of the pattern of the desig... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4135794 | Photocomposition machine A photocomposition machine wherein the lens system includes at least one focusing lens which is moved into point size position by a mechanical drive under a control means which returns the lens carriage to a known reference position prior to a composition... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4122533 | Multiple language character generating system A character generating system is provided for a photocomposition machine to display alpha/numeric symbols on a CRT for any language selected from a group of languages. The system includes a character generator memory for each symbol and control means whic... | 10/24/1978 |
