| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7589865 |
Variable differential gloss font image data |
September 15, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to the expedient supply of differential gloss text into a document image, particularly as when desired in the employ of rendering variable data. A font character is selected and sub-sampled. The sub-sampled result is then scaled up into a full size resul |
| 7589847 |
Apparatus and method for conversion from portable document format |
September 15, 2009 |
| An image is identified in a PDF file. The PDF file is converted into a postscript data stream. The identified image is located in the postscript data stream. The located image is segregated from the postscript data stream. The segregated located image is stored separately from a rema |
| 7589837 |
Multiple tile calibration method for color sensors |
September 15, 2009 |
| A new calibration method for a spectrophotometer or a color sensor is provided using multiple color tiles with known reflectances. This procedure uses multiple reference standard tiles, in addition to, the standard white tile and substitutes a wavelength dependent adjustment constant |
| 7588878 |
Inkless printing paper and method |
September 15, 2009 |
| An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photoacid generator and an acid-base indicator. In the image forming medium, irradiation of the imaging layer causes the photoacid generator |
| 7588875 |
External surface additive compositions |
September 15, 2009 |
| A toner having at least one binder, at least one colorant and external additives. The external additives include at least one fluoropolymer. An electrophotographic image forming machine and method includes the toner with at least one fluoropolymer. |
| 7588872 |
Photoreceptor |
September 15, 2009 |
| An electrophotographic imaging member includes a substrate, an optional intermediate (undercoat) layer, a photogenerating layer, which can be a single layer of include separate charge generating and charge transport layers, and an optional overcoating layer, wherein the photogenerating |
| 7588305 |
Dual drop printing mode using full length waveforms to achieve head drop mass differences |
September 15, 2009 |
| A dual-drop mode for a printer uses at least two full length waveforms and switches between the waveforms according to one or more patterning methodologies to print a page length document having a dual drop size print pattern across the printed portion of the page. This achieves prin |
| 7588245 |
Friction retard sheet feeder |
September 15, 2009 |
| A retard feeder adapted to separate and advance media sheets comprising a media sheet advancing device including a drive roll and a retard roll. The drive roll and the retard roll include a feed nip therebetween for driving the media sheets at a velocity. A first drive system is provided |
| 7588192 |
Hard copy protection and confirmation method |
September 15, 2009 |
| The introduction of an integrated data glyph, watermark, and thumb print system enables copy protection via a multi-functional device. The device, working with a secure remote server, produces a unique data glyph for each document that the user wishes to protect. Different copy protectio |
| 7587307 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating machine translation quality |
September 8, 2009 |
| Quality of machine translation of natural language is determined by computing a sequence kernel that provides a measure of similarity between a first sequence of symbols representing a machine translation in a target natural language and a second sequence of symbols representing a re |
| 7587163 |
Cleaning blade edge stiffener to improve blade tucking robustness |
September 8, 2009 |
| This is a cleaning blade useful in an electrophotographic marking system. Under certain conditions, cleaning blades will tuck when the blade continuously contacts a photoconductive surface of this marking system. This tucking causes abrading and damage to the moving photoconductive s |
| 7587162 |
Multi-tap series ceramic heater cold spot compensation |
September 8, 2009 |
| An improved fuser includes a heater that enhances uniform heating by altering the localized resistance which alters the localized power output of a resistive trace at the point of contact with a conductor trace in order to provide extra heating and thereby compensate for heat loss at |
| 7587160 |
Toner repelling stripper finger assembly |
September 8, 2009 |
| A toner repelling stripper finger assembly is provided for stripping toner image carrying copy sheets from an outer surface of a moving heated fusing member. The toner repelling stripper finger assembly includes (a) a finger shaft having a first end for attaching to a baffle, and a secon |
| 7587146 |
System for managing paper supplies in a population of printers and copiers |
September 8, 2009 |
| A method of operating a printer comprising at least one tray for retaining print media comprises reading a code associated with a quantity of print media, and associating the code with loading the quantity of print media in the tray in a database. If the print media in the tray is deemed |
| 7587079 |
Check printing auditing systems and methods |
September 8, 2009 |
| Embodiments herein print documents comprising magnetic ink characters, capture overlapping partial images of the MICR line of magnetic ink characters, and stitch these partial images together to form a complete image of the MICR line. This allows the embodiments to accumulate the rou |
| 7586652 |
Systems and methods for magnetic and color ink printing |
September 8, 2009 |
| Systems and methods of rendering images may include rendering images by coupling a first rendering device and a second rendering device, obtaining electronic image data comprising a first image data and a second image data, and providing at least the first image data to the first ren |
| 7586646 |
System for processing and classifying image data using halftone noise energy distribution |
September 8, 2009 |
| A method and system is provided for processing scanned data representative of a document image for classifying portions of the data into contone, low frequency halftone or high frequency halftone regions. The method comprises identifying an image data value of an original pixel within a |
| 7586120 |
Ethynylene acene polymers and electronic devices generated therefrom |
September 8, 2009 |
| An electronic device comprising a polymer of Formula (I) ##STR00001## wherein at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is a suitable hydrocarbon, hydrogen, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; Ar and Ar' represent an aromatic moiety; x, y, a, b, c, d, e, f, and g represent the num |
| 7586082 |
Optical element for a document illuminator |
September 8, 2009 |
| An apparatus for recording an image on a sheet comprises a linear array of light sources and an optical element for transmitting light emitted from the light sources. The optical element comprises a light-transmissive member, having an entry surface for disposal near the light sources. T |
| 7585602 |
Imaging member having antistatic anticurl back coating containing polyhedral oligomeric silsequi |
September 8, 2009 |
| The presently disclosed embodiments relate in general to electrophotographic imaging members, such as layered photoreceptor structures, and processes for making and using the same. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to the incorporation of silanols in the anticurl back coatin |
| 7585539 |
Methods of tightly packing elements in an electric display media |
September 8, 2009 |
| A method of tightly packing display elements in an electric display. The method involves increasing the density of display elements of an electronic display, such as rotatable elements in electronic paper, in order to increase the brightness and/or sharpness of the display. |
| 7585055 |
Integrated printhead with polymer structures |
September 8, 2009 |
| A printhead manufacturing method includes providing a first wafer, forming a polymer layer over the first wafer, the polymer layer including at least one via, providing a metal layer over the at least one via, providing a solderable or plateable interface layer over the metal layer a |
| 7585044 |
Method for normalizing a printhead assembly |
September 8, 2009 |
| A method of adjusting an ink jet imaging device comprises measuring a drop parameter for drops generated by each drop generator in a plurality of drop generators. Each drop generator is configured to generate a drop in response to a drop generating signal having a fill portion, an eject |
| 7584958 |
Document stack leveling method, and a document finisher including the same |
September 8, 2009 |
| A document finisher is arranged for forming a document stack whose top surface is maintained substantially level. The document finisher includes a document stack leveling container for containing a document stack of one or more documents. Each document has a document thick side that is |
| 7584952 |
Sheet feeding assembly |
September 8, 2009 |
| A sheet from the top of a stack of media, and is driven by a reversible electric motor operated in a forward direction to drive a feed roll and nudger roll; and operated in a reverse direction to drive a cam profiled to raise and lower the nudger roll. One-way clutched gears may be p |
| 7584477 |
Cross repository copier |
September 1, 2009 |
| A system for providing a cross repository copier in an enterprise print system is provided. The copier includes a processor and a memory for operating a graphic user interface (GUI) in the enterprise print system. The GUI receives data from a user for copying or moving source documents, |
| 7584385 |
Method and system for customer support |
September 1, 2009 |
| An embodiment generally relates to a method of software support. The method includes receiving a request for assistance for a selected device and analyzing an associated fault log for the selected device, where the associated fault log logging at least one fault. The method also includes |
| 7583911 |
Corona charging device cleaning apparatus and method of cleaning a corona charging device |
September 1, 2009 |
| A corona charging device cleaning apparatus and method of cleaning a corona charging device includes a support member that includes two side surfaces that face in opposite directions. A side shield cleaning member is attached to each side surface to clean an inner surface of a side s |
| 7583837 |
Method and system for preparing grayscale image files for highlight printing on a four color pri |
September 1, 2009 |
| A system converts grayscale image data into device independent image data that mimics highlight printing of the grayscale image at a full color printer. The system is preferably implemented in a plug-in for a document control program so a data object associated with the document control |
| 7583418 |
Array based sensor to measure single separation or mixed color (or IOI) patches on the photorece |
September 1, 2009 |
| A Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) based Fabry-Perot array may be used as a spectral filter to light sensing array, such as a CCD or CMOS photodetector. Applying different voltages to the electrodes of individual Fabry-Perot cells within the array allows a gradient in the Fabry |
| 7583412 |
System and method for creating patterned encoded halftones |
September 1, 2009 |
| An embodiment described below provides a system that allows a user to provide an exact implementation or a close approximation to any desired Holladay dot to a printer with super-resolution encoding (SRE)/decoding (SRD) capabilities. In particular, the embodiment converts a desired H |
| 7583409 |
Patch codes with improved robustness |
September 1, 2009 |
| A method for encoding information on a printed page includes generating a set of color patches, each having a unique color. The set of color patches is printed. The printed color patches are scanned to identify color values for each patch in the set of patches. For each patch, the id |
| 7583405 |
Method for remote proofing of DFE color architecture |
September 1, 2009 |
| A method for remote proofing a digital press by performing the color rendering of a specific DFE and printer, including taking into account job and printer settings, while maintaining vector objects is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the method color renders a file to a PDF/X-1 |
| 7582687 |
Phase change inks |
September 1, 2009 |
| Disclosed are colorant compounds of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each, independently of the others, is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each can b |
| 7582399 |
Imaging member having nano polymeric gel particles in various layers |
September 1, 2009 |
| Imaging members useful in electrostatographic apparatuses, including printers, copiers, other reproductive devices, and digital apparatuses. More particularly, imaging members having nano polymeric gel particles embedded into one or more layers of the imaging member that provide for |
| 7582398 |
Inkless reimageable printing paper and method |
September 1, 2009 |
| An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photobase generator and a coupling agent. In the image forming medium, irradiation of the imaging layer cause the photobase generator to g |
| 7582165 |
Photoreceptor plug to enable universal chuck capability |
September 1, 2009 |
| An assembly and method is described as employing a polymeric plug member. The plug member is used in the bottom portion of a photoreceptor drum to prevent leakage of the coating solution into the interior of a photoreceptor drum during dip-coating. |
| 7581827 |
System and method for melting solid ink sticks in a phase change ink printer |
September 1, 2009 |
| A solid ink stick melting apparatus is incorporated in a phase change printer to provide melted ink under pressure to a print head. The solid ink stick melting apparatus includes an ink stick melt chamber having an enclosure with at least one heated wall, an inlet for receiving an ink |
| 7581463 |
Gear modification that enables direct off-center engagement |
September 1, 2009 |
| A gear and a method for combining a first gear with a second gear including the steps of moving the first gear relative to the second gear such that a first tooth of the first gear contacts a second tooth of the second gear, pressing the first tooth of the first gear against the seco |
| 7581096 |
Method, apparatus, and program product for automatically provisioning secure network elements |
August 25, 2009 |
| We present technology that allows layman computer users to simply create, provision, and maintain secured infrastructure--an instant PKI. This technology can be used in a wide variety of applications including wired and wireless networks, secure sensor networks (such as medical networks) |
| 7580936 |
Extendable discovery of network device information |
August 25, 2009 |
| A network management protocol can be used to enable a user to determine what features, functions and other characteristics are supported by a networked device and to extend the capabilities of the device without having to modify the existing software. While available systems and meth |
| 7580911 |
Workflow auto generation from user constraints and hierarchical dependence graphs for workflows |
August 25, 2009 |
| A system and method of automatically generating workflows. Generating the workflows is accomplished by obtaining customer requirements, providing a knowledge base including at least one service description and selecting at least one combination of service descriptions from the at least o |
| 7580665 |
Chemically-treated cleaning web |
August 25, 2009 |
| A fuser debris inhibiting system and apparatus using an impregnated cleaning web. This web is impregnated with EDTA or its salts. The web can contact the fuser member directly or can contact external heat rolls which in turn contact the fuser roll. The delivery of EDTA to the surface |
| 7580664 |
System and method for positioning one or more stripper fingers (in a fusing system) relative to |
August 25, 2009 |
| A fuser stripping subsystem for use with a fusing system is provided. In one embodiment, at least one movable stripper finger is disposed adjacent a fusing assembly in a first position. Assuming a selected condition is met, the at least one movable stripper finger is moved from the first |
| 7580648 |
Systems and methods for momentum controlled scavengeless jumping development in electrophotograp |
August 25, 2009 |
| To generate a toner cloud in a development system, a first potential is applied to a donor roll for a first pulse time to project toner from the donor roll toward a photoreceptor; a second potential is applied to the donor roll for a second pulse time to slow the speed at which the toner |
| 7580569 |
Method and system for generating contone encoded binary print data streams |
August 25, 2009 |
| A method and system to convert an image described in a page description language to a contone image. The contone image is halftoned and encoded to generate image data including edge tag data and image data. A tagged state value of each pixel of image data within a predefined neighborhood |
| 7580155 |
Tools to embed information into digital visual works |
August 25, 2009 |
| Apparatus are provided, including a digital two-dimensional authentic image, an image processor, authentication message data, and a screen to be applied to at least a portion of the two-dimensional image. The authentication message data represent an authentication message, which may |
| 7580153 |
Printed visible fonts with attendant background |
August 25, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to the expedient supply of differential gloss or other correlation mark text into a document image via a font definition, particularly as when desired in the employ of rendering variable data. A font character is selected and sub-sampled. The sub-sampled |
| 7580149 |
Method and system for identification of repeat print jobs using object level hash tables |
August 25, 2009 |
| A method and system for identifying print jobs that are repeats of a previously completed job utilizing an object level hash table. Received print jobs can be parsed into meaningful classes of objects and a table of hash values can be computed for objects in each class and for each p |
| 7580146 |
Hierarchical architecture for a distributed and scalable network printing system |
August 25, 2009 |
| A hierarchical architecture for a network printing system having a plurality of electronic printers and printing systems is provided. The hierarchical architecture decomposes each electronic printer and printing system's Digital Front End (DFE) and print engine into a hierarchical set |
