| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7451140 |
System and method for proofing individual documents of variable information document runs using |
November 11, 2008 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of variable content documents should be organized and laid out by a template to provide effective and quality documents. The best such template depends upon the variable content interaction with the template for each individual document. To analyze the q |
| 7397584 |
Encoding invisible electronic information in a printed document |
July 8, 2008 |
| A printed image can be redundantly encoded by printing a visible image using a colorant with a luminance that contrasts with that of the output sheet and printing a redundant image using a colorant with a luminance that varies only slightly from that of the output sheet. Accordingly, the |
| 7394571 |
Method for multi-color, clustered, dot-off-dot halftoning |
July 1, 2008 |
| A method for forming a multi-color, clustered dot-off-dot halftone screen, includes defining a range of density values for pixels of a first color and assigning those density values to positions along a pixel growth curve; defining a range of density values for pixels of a second color |
| 7391885 |
Method for determining overall effectiveness of a document |
June 24, 2008 |
| The present invention is directed to a method for determining a document's overall effectiveness or quality using a technique that employs detecting correlation between document citation rate and document presentation elements such as style and layout. A document's citation rate is the |
| 7379207 |
Method and system for device-independent color gamut mapping |
May 27, 2008 |
| System and method for device-independent color gamut mapping is disclosed. The system recognizes that a finite set of color gamut mapping intents form the basis for performing color gamut mappings during document rendering and implements a color mapping method for each of the color g |
| 7376264 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of a source image and a background image to provide a composit |
May 20, 2008 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image on a substrate, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered compo |
| 7313762 |
Methods and systems for real-time storyboarding with a web page and graphical user interface for |
December 25, 2007 |
| Systems and methods to enable real-time and near real-time storyboarding on the World Wide Web in addition to a graphical user interface for video parsing and browsing the of the storyboard. Specifically, storyboarding can be accomplished on the World Wide Web by parsing an input video i |
| 7310640 |
System and method for proofing individual documents of variable information document runs using |
December 18, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of variable content documents should be organized and laid out by a template to provide effective and quality documents. The best such template depends upon the variable content interaction with the template for each individual document. To analyze the q |
| 7308116 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
December 11, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7305107 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
December 4, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7283648 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
October 16, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7280675 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
October 9, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7277560 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
October 2, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7269276 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
September 11, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7269271 |
Method for digital image alteration detection and original digital image recovery |
September 11, 2007 |
| A first digital image is combined with a transformed first digital image to authenticate and reconstruct the first digital image. When viewed in the standard manner, the combined image appears to be the first digital image. The transformed first digital image cannot be seen. When the bit |
| 7266222 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
September 4, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7260245 |
Method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
August 21, 2007 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7243303 |
Constraint-optimization system and method for document component layout generation |
July 10, 2007 |
| What is disclosed is a system and method for specifying a custom document as a multi-criteria constraint optimization problem, and a method to automatically create the specified document using existing constraint optimization solving algorithms. The present method specifies the docum |
| 7230738 |
System for spectral multiplexing of source image to provide a composite image with noise encodin |
June 12, 2007 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered c |
| 7218785 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image, for rendering t |
May 15, 2007 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered c |
| 7215792 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image with gray compon |
May 8, 2007 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered c |
| 7171618 |
Multi-versioned documents and method for creation and use thereof |
January 30, 2007 |
| The optimal version of a document can depend on the user's need and the presentation device, and can govern choices of content as well as style. The content needed for multiple versions of a document can be included in a single document structure and identified by means of tags or by a |
| 7171617 |
System and method for fitness evaluation for optimization in document assembly |
January 30, 2007 |
| What is disclosed is a system and method for method for fitness evaluation to be used with a directly calculated or iterative optimization method for automatic document assembly. The method for fitness evaluation includes the steps of first capturing the creator's desire as a set of |
| 7155068 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image, for rendering t |
December 26, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered c |
| 7136522 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image, for rendering t |
November 14, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered c |
| 7136511 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
November 14, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7130488 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images including a textured source image to provide |
October 31, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image on a substrate, or for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered compo |
| 7130451 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
October 31, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7130450 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
October 31, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7127112 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image, for rendering t |
October 24, 2006 |
| Methods and systems for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image on a substrate, and for recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered compos |
| 7119928 |
Systems and methods for generating threshold array halftone images with partial pixel position r |
October 10, 2006 |
| Systems and methods that shift the halftone screen relative to the image data in the low-addressability direction to compensate for misregistration would be useful. In various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods of this invention, each pixel of the halftone cell is first |
| 7116802 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
October 3, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7110143 |
Accurate printing of proprietary mark patterns and colors |
September 19, 2006 |
| A printing system accurately prints proprietary marks and selected colors. A dictionary of recognizable patterns and defined colors corresponding to the proprietary marks and selected colors is linked to a user interface wherein a user may designate a location within a document and at le |
| 7095877 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
August 22, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7092552 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
August 15, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7092551 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
August 15, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7081976 |
Color calibration alarm apparatus and method for use in an image-rendering device |
July 25, 2006 |
| This invention relates to a color calibration alarm apparatus and method for use in an image-rendering device. The alarm apparatus, and associated method, make use of a sensor device that compares printed or measured color values with expected or ideal color values. With the measured |
| 7072495 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
July 4, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7035439 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
April 25, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7035438 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
April 25, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7024022 |
System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality |
April 4, 2006 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the |
| 7019760 |
Method and apparatus for fast computation of associative operations over fixed size regions of a |
March 28, 2006 |
| This invention relates to a method and apparatus for fast computation of associative operations over fixed size regions of a digital image. More particularly, this invention relates to the application of associative operations--such as MINIMUM, MAXIMUM, AND and OR--to fixed size regions |
| 7007303 |
Systems and methods for authenticating documents |
February 28, 2006 |
| A method and device for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising acquiring image data of the document; generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising a exemplar table and a block table; and appending the document data file to |
| 6972869 |
Mapping color to colorant amounts when colorants have similar hue |
December 6, 2005 |
| A method for mapping a color specification to colorant amounts when a first and a second colorant have a similar hue involves the division of portions of color space into regions. Colors of the similar hue are rendered with a first colorant, a second colorant or a blend of the first and |
| 6972857 |
Method and apparatus for controlling consumable use in an image-rendering device |
December 6, 2005 |
| Method and apparatus for controlling consumable use in an image-rendering device. More particularly, the invention relates to a image-rendering device that facilitates the limitation of page costs of color documents by establishing a threshold cost limitation and controlling one or more |
| 6942317 |
Fluid ejecting head and fluid ejecting method using the fluid ejecting head |
September 13, 2005 |
| One of the sections of nozzles of a fluid ejection head ejects a first one of different fluids and has a width in the process direction that is N times wider than the width in the process direction of other sections of the fluid ejection head. Data corresponding to the first one of the |
| 6898307 |
Object identification method and system for an augmented-reality display |
May 24, 2005 |
| A method and apparatus selectively displays a processor generated image in accordance with user instructions detected by a processor from a processor viewing device disposed to view a real reference item controlled by the user. The real item, preferably a page of paper, is disposed as a |
| 6894716 |
Method and apparatus for identifying a position of a predetermined object in free space using a |
May 17, 2005 |
| A method and apparatus is disclosed for identifying a position of an object in free space using a video image wherein the object is comprised of at least three equidistantly spaced, co-linear beads. The video image is captured on a view plane of a video camera system and represented on a |
| 6864994 |
High-speed, high-quality descreening system and method |
March 8, 2005 |
| A system and method descreen halftone images into a continuous tone image while preserving edge detail and reducing initial image blur. The descreening can be applied to monochrome or color images. Descreening is achieved by first using a low pass filter to form a blurred image of the |
| 6862110 |
Method and apparatus for controlling page cost in an image-rendering device |
March 1, 2005 |
| This invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling page cost in an image rendering device. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and technique that facilitates the limitations of page costs of color documents by establishing a threshold cost limitation and |
