| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7543911 |
Systems and methods for reducing cross process direction registration errors of a printhead usin |
June 9, 2009 |
| Systems and methods are provided for determining registration errors in the cross process direction of a printer. A first straight line is obtained by detecting line centers of a first plurality of dashes in a test pattern. A second straight line is obtained by detecting a line cente |
| 7543901 |
Faster warm-up, lower energy, and quieter modes for solid ink printers |
June 9, 2009 |
| A method of operating a printer turns off a support structure heater when the printer enters standby mode. The print head is then moved away from an intermediate transfer surface supported by a support structure. Heat settings used to heat a print head are then varied to heat the print h |
| 7543758 |
Document localization of pointing actions using disambiguated visual regions |
June 9, 2009 |
| A system for document internal localization includes an optical input device for retrieving an observed region of a hardcopy document and a processing component which provides a location identifier for actionable observed regions by matching the retrieved region with a region of an e |
| 7543015 |
Symmetrical structural pattern matching |
June 2, 2009 |
| The invention provides a pattern matching technique based on the symmetrical construction of the code structures representing the matching expression and the filter to be matched. The method of the invention is for determining whether a computer-storable expression matches a filter. |
| 7542908 |
System for learning a language |
June 2, 2009 |
| A system operating on a network for learning a language includes a memory for storing a scenario having tasks to be carried out in the language. A connection manager accepts a plurality of connections from one or more user systems. A virtual reality subsystem represents the scenario in a |
| 7542893 |
Machine translation using elastic chunks |
June 2, 2009 |
| A machine translation method includes receiving source text in a first language and retrieving text fragments in a target language from a library of bi-fragments to generate a target hypothesis. Each bi-fragment includes a text fragment from the first language and a corresponding text |
| 7542688 |
Method of detecting pages subject to reload artifact with IOI (image on image) correction |
June 2, 2009 |
| In an image-on-image (IOI) color processing system, which superimposes toner images of different color separation toners onto a photoreceptor, a method for determining composite toner coverage on a page includes determining the order in which the color separations will be printed; de |
| 7542172 |
Method of detecting pages subject to reload artifact |
June 2, 2009 |
| A method for determining if an image to be printed is subject to reload artifact, includes providing an image (which may be a low resolution version of the image) to be printed; locating within the image a first area to be printed requiring toner of sufficient quantity to cause reload |
| 7542171 |
System and method for compensating for streaks in images using intensity variation of raster out |
June 2, 2009 |
| A method and system compensates for streak defects in an image formed using a raster output scanning device. A reflectance profile is generated from an image generated by the raster output scanning device. Thereafter, a difference profile is determined. The difference profile is determin |
| 7542164 |
Common exchange format architecture for color printing in a multi-function system |
June 2, 2009 |
| An image processing system as disclosed, including at least one input processing device functionally coupled to at least one output processing device, document information configured in a format such as scanning format or a document creating format converted to a common exchange form |
| 7542161 |
System and method for determining an optimal batch size for a print job |
June 2, 2009 |
| A print job is received in a complex printing environment. The print job is decomposed optimal batch sizes by into method and system processing a print job by identifying a total processing time T(b) for each of multiple batch sizes, and the total processing time for each of the batch |
| 7542059 |
Page scheduling for printing architectures |
June 2, 2009 |
| At least sequential current and subsequent sheets of a print job are received in a document processing system. Each sheet includes a front image and a back image. The received sheets are scheduled to be printed with at least one of a first and a second sequence by at least one of a f |
| 7541483 |
Process for arylamine production |
June 2, 2009 |
| A process for synthesizing arylamine compounds is provided. The process includes producing a dicarboxylic acid salt of an arylamine molecule by reacting a dicarboxylic acid arylamine with an alkyl salt to produce the dicarboxylic acid arylamine salt. |
| 7541406 |
Phase change inks containing curable isocyanate-derived compounds |
June 2, 2009 |
| Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising a colorant, an initiator, and a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (A) a urethane which is the reaction product of a mixture comprising (1) an isocyanate; and (2) an alcohol selected from the group consisting of 1,4 butanediol vin |
| 7541126 |
Toner composition |
June 2, 2009 |
| Toner compositions having reduced odor are provided. |
| 7541123 |
Imaging member |
June 2, 2009 |
| An imaging member includes an electrically conductive layer; a positive charge blocking layer, an imaging layer, and an undercoat layer. The undercoat layer is intermediate the imaging layer and the electrically conductive layer. The undercoat layer includes a film forming polymer and |
| 7541122 |
Photoconductor having silanol-containing charge transport layer |
June 2, 2009 |
| A photoconductor containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one silanol containing charge transport layer. |
| 7541119 |
Inkless reimageable printing paper and method |
June 2, 2009 |
| An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photochromic material dispersed in an ionomer, optionally with an additional polymeric binder, and where the photochromic material exhibits |
| 7541079 |
Fuser member with diamond filler |
June 2, 2009 |
| A fuser member suited to use in a fusing apparatus of an electrostatographic image rendering device includes a substrate and an outer layer over the substrate. The outer layer includes a matrix material and filler particles dispersed in the matrix material. At least some of the fille |
| 7541060 |
Bichromal balls |
June 2, 2009 |
| Disclosed is a technique for producing bichromal balls that are adapted for use in high temperature applications. The bichromal balls find particular application in signs and display devices that can be used in environments in which the temperature exceeds 40.degree. C. |
| 7540677 |
Media tray, printing system and method |
June 2, 2009 |
| A media tray includes a tray body having a first wall. A first media guide is moveably supported along the tray body. A second media guide is moveably supported along the tray body and disposed approximately transverse to the first media guide. First and second brackets are supported |
| 7540600 |
Release agent applicator for imaging members in solid ink jet imaging systems |
June 2, 2009 |
| A release agent applicator applies release agent to an imaging drum and absorbs release agent metered from the drum to extend the operational life of a image drum maintenance unit. The applicator includes a reservoir for storing release agent, the reservoir having a plurality of perf |
| 7540484 |
System of opposing alternate higher speed sheet feeding from the same sheet stack |
June 2, 2009 |
| In a printing system in which the print media sheets are alternately fed from the same stack in the same tray by two sheet feeders at opposite sides into different sheet paths, at least one of the sheet feeders is repositionable towards and away from the other for feeding different size |
| 7540310 |
Continuity-detecting method of dispensing particles, a particle filling line and apparatus for d |
June 2, 2009 |
| A particle filling line comprises a vertically-oriented conduit that includes a conduit hollow. The conduit includes a conduit top and a conduit bottom. The conduit bottom defines an outlet. The conduit is arranged so that particles supplied to the conduit top flow through the outlet |
| 7539653 |
Document clustering |
May 26, 2009 |
| Methods and systems for clustering document collections are disclosed. A system for clustering observations may include a processor and a processor-readable storage medium. The processor-readable storage medium may contain one or more programming instructions for performing a method |
| 7539438 |
Cleaning blade seal |
May 26, 2009 |
| An apparatus for a printing device includes a roller, a sealing member defining a generally C-shaped indentation, and a cleaning blade positioned against the roller. The cleaning blade includes an end portion positioned in the generally C-shaped indentation. |
| 7539351 |
Model-based line width control |
May 26, 2009 |
| Image object adjustment is achieved without lookup tables or templates. Cross sections of image objects are modeled. Parameters of the modeled cross-section are adjusted in accord with a desired effect. For example, a width of the modeled cross section is change. The changed cross sectio |
| 7539341 |
Systems and methods for processing image data prior to compression |
May 26, 2009 |
| Systems and methods provide data processing before data compression. The data processing includes contrast enhancement and/or custom color mapping. |
| 7538917 |
Method for prepress-time color match verification and correction |
May 26, 2009 |
| A computer-implemented method of matching color elements for objects having different source color definitions within a print job prior to printing, includes identifying all source colors to be printed within the print job and object type associated with each instance of a source col |
| 7538910 |
Systems and methods for using embedded metadata in a print job |
May 26, 2009 |
| A printing system includes a memory that stores information including at least metadata, a printer and a controller that controls the printing system to embed the metadata into a data stream for the print job. After the controller controls the printer to print the print job, the cont |
| 7538299 |
Media conditioner module |
May 26, 2009 |
| Embodiments herein include a media conditioning module for being connected between a media source supplying sheets of media and a printing device. The media conditioning module is adapted to remove moisture from the sheets of media received from the media source before the sheets of medi |
| 7538175 |
Phenolic hole transport polymers |
May 26, 2009 |
| A polymer having hole transport functionality and antioxidant properties is disclosed. The polymer comprises a phenolic segment and a hole transport segment. The polymer is suitable for use in the charge transport layer of an imaging member. Processes for producing the polymer are al |
| 7538145 |
Curable phase change compositions and methods for using such compositions |
May 26, 2009 |
| The phase change, curable composition comprises curable monomer, photoinitiator that initiates polymerization of the curable monomer, and phase change agent that provides the composition with an increase in viscosity of at least four orders of magnitude, from a first temperature, the |
| 7538070 |
Thermochromic recording medium |
May 26, 2009 |
| A thermochromic reimageable recording medium comprises a substrate and thermochromic composition comprising a photochromic material, a transition metal salt and a binder. The thermochromic composition changes color from a colorless state to a colored state upon application of heat. T |
| 7537874 |
Toner with high strength magnetite |
May 26, 2009 |
| A toner having a high strength magnetite in an amount of from about 10 to about 40 weight percent, wherein the magnetite includes a material selected from the group consisting of FeO, Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, Fe.sub.3O.sub.4, gamma iron oxides, cobalt-gamma iron oxides, and mixtures thereof, |
| 7537873 |
Positive-charge injection preventing layer for electrophotographic photoreceptors |
May 26, 2009 |
| Positive-charge injection-related ghosting of images in electrophotographic processes is addressed by electrophotographic photoreceptors that include a positive-charge injection preventing layer that includes one or more positive-charge-injection preventing compounds. In addition, pr |
| 7537654 |
Quinacridone nanoscale pigment particles and methods of making same |
May 26, 2009 |
| A process for preparing coated nanoscale quinacridone pigment particles, includes: mixing a quinacridone pigment precursor or crude quinacridone pigment with a first solution including an acid to form nanoscale quinacridone pigment particles; adding the first solution and formed nano |
| 7537558 |
Bookletmaker nip-idler assist creasing device |
May 26, 2009 |
| An assembly to crease a paper set in a booklet maker is provided. A booklet is formed in a booklet marker when a crease blade strikes the middle of the stack and pushes it toward a set of nipped crease rolls. The assembly engages spring-loaded idlers against the crease rolls after th |
| 7537556 |
High capacity knife folding system |
May 26, 2009 |
| This invention provides a paper folding assembly where the thickness of the paper set stack is directly measured and will automatically determine the size of a gap located between two folder cylinders. A knife will push the set between the adjusted gap once it has been adjusted for the |
| 7537410 |
Coupling apparatus |
May 26, 2009 |
| A driven coupling includes three separate cam lobes projecting therefrom that mate with mating female features in a driver coupling. A central straight or tapered bore accepts a conical alignment pin that projects from the driver coupling. Since the cam lobes are independent and are |
| 7537333 |
Low friction reduced fiber shed drum maintenance filter and reclamation method |
May 26, 2009 |
| A system for applying a liquid to a support surface in an imaging apparatus comprises an application surface that applies liquid to the support surface; and a filter positioned in relation to the application surface such that liquid removed from the support surface passes through the |
| 7537327 |
Internal die filters with multiple passageways which are fluidically in parallel |
May 26, 2009 |
| An internal filter includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate. Fluid passages are formed by etching grooves into the surface(s) of the upper and/or lower substrates and/or in one or more intermediate layers. The filter pores extending between the fluid passages are formed by e |
| 7537326 |
Solid ink stick with coded sensor feature |
May 26, 2009 |
| An ink stick for use in a phase change ink imaging device is provided. The ink stick comprises a three dimensional ink stick body having an exterior surface and a coded sensor feature formed on the exterior surface for conveying variable control/attribute information pertaining to the in |
| 7536369 |
XML-based architecture for rule induction system |
May 19, 2009 |
| In a rule induction method, an overbroad candidate rule is selected for categorizing a node to be categorized. The candidate rule is specialized by: (i) adding a rule node corresponding to a node level of structured training examples; (ii) including in a rule node a rule pertaining to an |
| 7536295 |
Machine translation using non-contiguous fragments of text |
May 19, 2009 |
| A machine translation method for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language includes receiving the source text in the first language and accessing a library of bi-fragments, each of the bi-fragments including a text fragment from the first langu |
| 7536052 |
Corner sharpening of text and line art in a super resolution anti-aliasing image path |
May 19, 2009 |
| A method for sharpening the corners of digital image data within an anti-aliasing image path so as to overcome corner rounding when displayed or printed. The method comprises stepping a window across the image data and comparing that windowed data to templates or performing Boolean logic |
| 7536048 |
Method and apparatus for automatically determining image foreground color |
May 19, 2009 |
| A foreground color for a digital image is automatically determined by dividing the colors of the pixels of at least a part of the digital image into a number of color clusters in a color space, and for at least one cluster selecting a color being related to the at least one color cluster |
| 7534821 |
Polymeric aerogel nanocomposites |
May 19, 2009 |
| A nanocomposite composition includes aerogel components and polymeric components and is capable of absorbing water in an amount that is less than an amount that can be absorbed by the polymeric resin components. The nanocomposite has decreased hydrophilicity and improved mechanical a |
| 7534536 |
Polyarylate containing member |
May 19, 2009 |
| A photoconductor containing a substrate, an undercoat layer thereover comprising a polyol resin, an aminoplast resin, a polyarylate, a siloxane modified polyarylate, an epoxy modified polyarylate, or a urethane modified polyarylate, or an amine modified polyarylate, and a metal oxide |
| 7534535 |
Photoreceptor member |
May 19, 2009 |
| An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed which is provided with an anti-corrosion layer on the interface between the substrate surface and hole blocking layer. The photoreceptor has high mechanical strength and minimizes defects in print for longer periods of time. |
