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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8023935 | Printing a list on a print medium A system for printing a list on a print medium includes a device and a server. The device which has a sensor module for sensing a print media identifier coded on a surface of the print medium, and a printer module for printing the list on the print medium. The serve... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016409 | Printing system for cured 3D structures A printing system is provided having a plurality of printers, a conveyor for serially conveying a print medium past each printer so that voxels printed by the successive printer form successive layers of a three dimensional printed structure on the conveyed print me... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8020002 | Method of authenticating print medium using printing mobile device A method of using a mobile device to authenticate a print medium offline before completing printing onto the print medium, the mobile device including processing means, a printhead and a sensor, the print medium comprising a laminar substrate, the method comprising ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016202 | Archiving printed content A system for printing a greeting card on a print medium, the system comprising: a mobile telecommunications device which comprises: a printer module to print the greeting card on the print medium; and, a sensor module to sense a print media identifier of the print m... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016379 | Printhead controller for controlling printhead on basis of thermal sensors A printhead controller is provided for supplying dot data to a printhead module having a plurality of nozzles for expelling ink. The printhead module includes a plurality of thermal sensors. Each of the thermal sensors is configured to respond to a temperature at or... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016204 | Coding pattern with fragments of common data distributed in each tag A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern includes a plurality of target elements defining a target grid. The target grid has a plurality of cells, wherein neighboring cells share target elements. A plurality of data eleme... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016400 | Ink reservoir An ink reservoir includes a first portion defining one or more channels each for providing ink to a respective output port; a second portion bearing one or more ink bladders each containing a respective type of ink, each ink bladder adapted to be in fluid communicat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016402 | Removable inkjet printer cartridge incorproating printhead and ink storage reservoirs A printer cartridge includes body configured to facilitate insertion and removal of the printer cartridge, by an end user of the printer cartridge, to and from a complementary cradle in an inkjet printer; one or more printing fluid storages mounted to the body, each... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016389 | Printhead IC with staggered nozzle firing pulses An inkjet printer comprising: an array of nozzles arranged into rows, each row of nozzles is divided into a series of groups; and, drive circuitry for sending a drive pulse to each of the nozzles individually such that they eject a drop of printing fluid; wherein, t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016414 | Drive mechanism of a printer internal to a mobile phone Provided is a mobile phone having a chassis with a drive mechanism incorporated therein. A replaceable print cartridge received by the chassis is also provided. The replaceable print cartridge has a housing with ink-bearing structures and a printhead, as well as a m... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016500 | Flat panel display unit with integrated printer The invention provides for a flat panel display unit. The unit includes a rear cover molding defining an aperture therein, a base portion, arm and mounting plate fast with the rear cover molding to support the display unit in an upright position, and a pagewidth pri... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016503 | Inkjet printer assembly with a central processing unit configured to determine a performance characteristic of a print cartridge Provided is an inkjet printer assembly having a cartridge with an integrated pagewidth printhead integrated circuit (IC), and a cradle configured to receive the cartridge such that the printhead IC is adjacent a media feed path. Also included is a driven mechanism c... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018443 | System for interaction with computer system using printed surface A system for enabling interaction with a computer system is provided which is configured to receive, at the computer system, identity and movement data from a sensing device used to interact with a text field on a surface, determine information stored by the compute... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018478 | Clock signal extracting during printing A mobile device for printing onto a print medium, the print medium including a linear-encoded data track extending in an intended direction of printing, the mobile device including: a sensor configured to sense the data track during printing; a printhead for printin... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018605 | Document copier printing a copy of an input sheet by retrieving an electronic document containing content of the input sheet A document copier is disclosed. The document copier has a code sensor for sensing coded data on a surface of a source page. The source page contains the coded data and content. A sheet transport mechanism configured to feed sheets of media through a media path and a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019184 | Pen system for recording handwritten information A pen system for recording a track of handwritten information created by a handheld electronic pen. The pen system includes the handheld electronic pen and a second memory unit located in an external data storage device. The electronic pen has an image sensor for op... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011758 | Printer with ink cartridge for sealed connection with inlet valve prior to valve actuation An inkjet printer with a printhead assembly and at least one replaceable ink cartridge, has an ink inlet valve on the printhead assembly for sealed connection to an outlet on the ink cartridge. The inlet valve has an inlet opening and a movable valve member biased i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014022 | Mobile phone having pagewidth printhead A mobile phone is provided having an elongate body defining a transverse print media path along which print media can be fed, a pagewidth printhead positioned in the body so as to extend transverse to the path, and a feed mechanism positioned in the body to feed the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015412 | Authentication of an object A method of authenticating an object is disclosed. Coded data portions are provided on a surface of the object. Each coded data portion encodes a position of coded data portion on the surface, an identity associated with the object and a signature fragment. The sign... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011595 | Coding pattern with replicated local tag data in each tag A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of target elements defining a target grid. The target grid comprises a plurality of cells, wherein neighboring cells share target elements. A plurality of dat... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011745 | In-car entertainment unit with inbuilt printer An in-car entertainment (ICE) unit includes a compact disc (CD) player configured to play a CD. A first user console is provided to permit a user to control operation of the CD player and the radio receiver. A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided which can be us... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011747 | Printer controller for controlling a printhead with horizontally grouped firing order A printer controller for controlling a printhead comprising at least one monolithic printhead module, the at least one printhead module having a plurality of rows of nozzles configured to extend, in use, across at least part of a printable pagewidth of the printhead... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011748 | Inkjet printhead with variable drive pulse An inkjet printhead with an array of nozzles 26 and corresponding heaters 10 configured for heating printing fluid 20 to nucleate a vapor bubble 12 that ejects a drop 24 of the printing fluid through the nozzle. Drive circuitry ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011754 | Wide format pagewidth inkjet printer A print assembly (14) for a wide format pagewidth inkjet printer (10) includes an elongate carrier (187) that is mountable on a support structure (12) of the printer and is positioned an operative distance from a platen (106) of th... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011757 | Inkjet printhead with interleaved drive transistors An inkjet printhead includes a plurality of inkjet nozzles arranged in nozzle rows. Each nozzle row has a respective row of drive transistors. Drive transistors corresponding to one nozzle row are interleaved with drive transistors corresponding to an adjacent nozzl... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011755 | Molded ink manifold with polymer coating A printhead assembly includes a molded ink manifold, a plurality of printhead integrated circuits, and an adhesive film sandwiched between the ink manifold and the printhead integrated circuits. A manifold bonding surface of the molded ink manifold includes a polyme... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011760 | Inkjet printhead with suspended heater element spaced from chamber walls An inkjet printhead is provided having a substrate defining inlet passages, sidewalls extending from the substrate, and a nozzle plate supported by the sidewalls and defining nozzle apertures. The nozzle plate, the sidewalls and the substrate define chambers. The pr... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011766 | Printhead cartridge valve assembly with diaphragm pressure regulator A valve assembly for a printhead cartridge includes an inlet valve for engaging with an outlet valve of an ink cartridge, the inlet valve having a conical structure defining an inlet opening at a top thereof; a valve seat defined on an inner surface of the conical s... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011773 | Printer with minimal distance between pressure-dampening structures and nozzles An inkjet printer is provided. The printer comprises an inkjet printhead having a plurality of nozzles; at least one ink reservoir; and an ink supply system for supplying ink from the reservoir to the plurality of nozzles, the ink supply system comprising at least o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011780 | Drying system for web printer A drying system for a printer is provided. The printer feeds a media web along a media path past a printhead to an exit region. The drying system has a first chamber positioned on one side of the media web between the printhead and exit region, a heating element wit... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8012363 | Metal film protection during printhead fabrication with minimum number of MEMS processing steps A method of fabricating a printhead having a hydrophobic ink ejection face, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a partially-fabricated printhead comprising a plurality of nozzle chambers and a nozzle plate having relatively hydrophilic nozzle surface, ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011782 | Elongate hand-held printer device with an optical encoder wheel An elongate hand-held printer device for printing on a medium when a user moves said device over the medium. The device includes an upper and a lower moulding configured to complementarily receive each other to define a housing, said housing defining an ink ejection... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013905 | Method of processing images captured by digital camera to reduce distortion A method of processing, in a digital camera, an image captured by the camera is provided, which includes locating faces within the captured image by detecting regions of contiguous color which map a hue, saturation and value of the range of human face colors and pas... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009153 | System for generating print data providing interaction with computer software A system for enabling user interaction with computer software. The includes a computer system for determining information related to an interactive element, determining an identity indicative of the interactive element, determining a layout defining an arrangement f... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009196 | Camera having networked interactive printer A camera is provided having a camera module, a network interface module and printing module. The camera module receives user input and captures the image with an image sensor in response to the user input. The interface module transfers the captured image to a compu... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009321 | Determine movement of a print medium relative to a mobile device A method of using a mobile device to determine movement, relative to the mobile device, of a print medium being printed on by the mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device includes a printer. The mobile device further includes a sensor in a media feed path of th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009333 | Print controller for a mobile telephone handset Provided is a print controller for a mobile telephone handset. The controller includes a printer central processor configured to control operation of an integral printing assembly of the handset. An image sensor is arranged in signal communication with the central p... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010128 | Mobile phone system for printing webpage and retrieving content A system for printing a webpage and retrieving content via the printed webpage. The system includes a print medium provided with first and second coded data encoding a print media identifier in different formats, and a mobile telecommunications device. The mobile te... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010155 | Associating an electronic document with a print medium A method of printing an electronic document using a mobile telecommunications device is disclosed. The electronic document is first identified using the mobile telecommunications device. The electronic document is then printed on a print medium in a media feed path ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010414 | Method for online purchasing using printed form A method of effecting a purchasing transaction includes providing a printed form having printed thereon coded data distributed over an area; capturing an image of the form using a sensing device, the captured image showing a portion of the coded data; decoding at le... | 08/30/2011 |
