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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7891892 | Printer read after print correlation method A printer and a process for correlating printed subject matter with subject matter that is meant to be printed by a printer with a printing mechanism or print engine such as a thermal printer including a print head, a platen, a media upon which labels are printed an... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7333936 | Bar code synchronization process for scanning mail envelopes and their contents Disclosed is a method and system for enabling the high speed processing of physical mail articles to convert the same into electronic documents that may be electronically distributed to the original intended recipient without requiring the recipient to come into con... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331158 | Process and system for product packaging A process and system are provided for printing variable data on packaging material at a package printer and machine reading the variable data on a packaging facility packaging line and associating the variable data with other information in a computer database. The ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324125 | Method for automatic adjustment of media settings for a printer A method for automatically adjusting the setting of a thermal printer when a new roll of media is inserted in the printer. A maximum and a minimum energy needed to print are determined. This information is used to determine a coarse energy setting. The printer next ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7290146 | Managed credential issuance In a method of issuing a credential, a request for issuance of the credential is received. Next, a unique identification for the requested credential is assigned and data elements corresponding to the credential are provided. A credential production data collection ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284690 | Article to be processed having ID, and production method thereof A processed article is provided with a plurality of IDs having the same information for machine reading but difference to be confirmed visually. The information such as the production lot number which is read from the plurality of IDs by the reading device is the sa... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283275 | Logo data generating apparatus, logo data generating method, and data storage medium A logo data generating apparatus and method easily generate logo data suitable for storage to and output by a particular target printer without requiring a complicated process defining the image processing and data communication parameters. An control data receiving... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7268472 | Piezoelectric device, liquid jetting head, ferroelectric device, electronic device and methods for manufacturing these devices An intermediate film (15, 12, 53) is formed on a substrate (11, 52), a bottom electrode (13, 542) is formed on top of this intermediate film, a ferroelectric film (24) or piezoelectric film (543) is formed on top of this bottom ele... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267498 | Six-sided printing method An improved sheet printer is provided capable of simultaneously printing both on a “main” surface of a sheet of print media and along edges of that same sheet of print media, such that when the sheets are stacked after being printed, a predetermined image will a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265771 | Printer capable of detecting status of unutilized ribbon A printer includes a ribbon supply end, a ribbon retrieving end, and a ribbon. The two ends of the ribbon are installed on the ribbon supply end and the ribbon retrieving end respectively. The printer further includes a print head, a print medium fixture, a driving ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266215 | Image forming apparatus and copy management system An additional data useful for the management of copies of a document for an image forming apparatus is embedded in a hard copy of the document. The additional data is embedded in an inherent image of a document as discrete dots arranged in a prescribed format. Prefe... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7252235 | Barcode formed on a material A barcode on a material includes at least one line having a length and a width. The line may be formed by markings on the material, and the markings may form a first row and a second row. The first row may be adjacent to the second row. The markings also forming a f... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249713 | Article with two or more bar codes A first character string is displayed in the vicinity of a first bar code in a state that the first character string can be readily recognized as a character string represented by the first bar code, and all or a part of the second character string is displayed in a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7225170 | Postage metering system for use with business reply mail A method of operating a postage metering system for printing a postage indicium for use with a business reply mail piece. The method includes the step(s) of: (i) transmitting a registration ID number to a data center, the registration ID number being associated a pa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221478 | Digital image receiving apparatus A digital image receiving apparatus includes a media drive (11) for reading image information from a storage medium (M1), an image information processing unit (22) for processing the image information to display a plurality of images in the imag... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213900 | Recording sheet and image recording apparatus There is disclosed a recording sheet for use in an image recording apparatus which forms an image by a recording head, the recording sheet has a pattern for measurement in which a correction amount for correction of a positional shift of a recorded dot recorded by t... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212981 | Postage franking device and method One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a postage franking device that includes a scale, an envelope holder and a printer. The envelope holder is suspended from the scale and defines a print zone. The printer, which is supported by the holder, is conf... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206433 | Method for printing high information density machine-readable composite images A method for printing a large invisible luminescent bar code on a mail piece addresses the problem of obscuration of modules by printed text such as the address. The bar code is printed large enough so that the line width of the characters is substantially less than... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206431 | System and method for generating and verifying a self-authenticating document Described are a system and method for verifying a self-authenticating document. First, an image is obtained of at least a predetermined portion of the document. Then, the image is divided into a predetermined number of pixel groups, each pixel group including a plur... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197644 | Systems and methods for providing hardcopy secure documents and for validation of such documents A secure document processing system for receiving an original document and for printing a secure hardcopy version of the original document, wherein the secure hardcopy version includes a machine-readable encoded image signature which represents an image segment of t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190474 | Method and system for advertising The invention concerns a method and system for producing a document containing user requested information, identifying an advertising space, outside an area of the document to be occupied by the information, and printing the document with advertising material in the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186040 | Arrangement for generation of a print image for franking and postmarking machines In an arrangement to generate a print image for franking and postmarking machines a control unit electronically controls a printer and storage unit for data that are printed in predetermined sections of the print image. Controlled by the electronic control unit, a s... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184151 | Method for identifying measuring points in an optical measuring system In an optical measuring system for determining spatial position and orientation of objects, a plurality of measuring points on the object is registered by cameras, laser measuring devices or a combination thereof. For identifying the measuring points, one target of ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7149726 | Online value bearing item printing An on-line VBI printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database. The cryptographic modules are capable of implementing a variety of required security standards. A client system provides a user friendly GUI for facilitating the i... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142732 | Unsupervised scene segmentation A method of segmenting objects in an image is described. The method applies a Top Hat algorithm to the image then constructs inner and outer markers for application to the original image in a Watershed algorithm. The inner marker is constructed using binary erosion.... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142324 | Sensing media parameter information from marked sheets The described arrangements and procedures pertain to configuring image forming devices to form images on various types of print media. Specifically, an imaging device sense data from a sheet of print media independent of whether a media marking comprising the data i... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7086795 | Roller assembly There is described a roller assembly which may be utilized in a linear or serial printer. The roller assembly includes a platen roller including a central axle being exposed at opposing ends of the roller and a frame for mounting the platen at both exposed axle ends... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7059519 | Man/machine interface method and device for a ticket processing device comprising a magnetic stripe The invention concerns a man/machine interface method for a ticket processing device (DIS) comprising a magnetic read/write station (PIL), a thermal printing station (TT) and control means (UC), including the following steps: a) writing on the magnetic stripe of a c... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7032456 | Isostatic piezoresistive pressure transducer with temperature output A pressure sensor includes a substrate having a top metallized pad formed on the top surface and a bottom metallized pad formed on the bottom surface. These pads are divided into segments for connection with piezoresistors. A sensing piezoresistor is formed on the s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032816 | Communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing Providing communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for communicating data relating to a material between machines during a pr... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028888 | Automated banking machine currency tracking system An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (12) including an opening (20). Users of the machine deliver and receive individual sheets and stacks of sheets to and from the machine through the opening. Stacks of sheets may include... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7015899 | Method for inputting characters in portable device having limited display size and number of keys, and portable device using the same A portable device includes a display unit, a memory, input keys, and a microprocessor. The display unit has a character window, which includes a selecting character window and a selected character window, for displaying characters. One character line including the c... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997627 | Label printer read after print correlation apparatus A printer and a process for correlating printed subject matter with subject matter that is meant to be printed by a printer with a printing mechanism or print engine such as a thermal printer including a print head, a platen, a media upon which labels are printed an... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994265 | ATM receipt A medium for printing, such as a thermal receipt roll for an ATM. The medium has two sides, each side having a plurality of marks positioned to trigger an automatic operation, such as printing, movement, or cutting of the medium when identified by a detector. Prefer... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994249 | System and method for drug management utilizing transferable labels A system and method for drug management using transferable labels provides a chain of identity for medications from their arrival in a pharmacy to administration to a patient. Drug information is read, in some embodiments optically, and imprinted on a transferable l... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978038 | Systems and methods for pixel gain compensation in machine-readable graphical codes A method for increasing the readability of a machine-readable graphical code on a printing surface is provided. The method includes receiving a graphical code image. The graphical code image is an electronic representation of a graphical code. The graphical code ima... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6965451 | Method and apparatus for printing indicia, logos and graphics onto print media The present invention is directed toward a method and system for printing information onto a print media. In one aspect the present invention may be utilized by an on-line postage system to query one or more databases, containing set up data on one or more printer d... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964367 | Automatic system for verifying articles containing indicia thereon A method and apparatus for automatically acquiring and verifying, relative to pre-established rules, information affixed to relatively flat articles transported along a transport path comprises a weighing device for measuring weight of articles being processed, an i... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963787 | Article to be processed having ID, and production method thereof A processed article is provided with a plurality of IDs having the same information for machine reading but difference to be confirmed visually. The information such as the production lot number which is read from the plurality of IDs by the reading device is the sa... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6948867 | Creating and applying a pictorial cancellation mark A method is disclosed for creating a pictorial cancellation mark that may be applied to a mailpiece. The pictorial cancellation originates as a digital image that is then printed through a printer on the mailpiece, such as by application to the postal indicia on the... | 09/27/2005 |
