42nd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110255038 | POLARISING PLATE FOR A PLANAR-SWITCH MODE LCD, AND A PLANAR-SWITCH MODE LCD COMPRISING THE SAME - A polarizer for use in an IPS-LCD includes: a polarizing element; and a retardation film laminate attached to a surface of the polarizing element. The retardation film laminate includes a combination of a +B film and a −B film or a combination of a +B film and a +A film. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255039 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixels defined thereon, each of which is provided with a reflection layer, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, and a display surface which displays images by the pixels, where the display surface is curved in one direction, and each of the reflection layers is formed so that a reflectance of light reflected from each of the reflection layers in a direction normal to the display surface is higher in both edge portions in a curvature direction than in a middle portion in the curvature direction on the display surface. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255040 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an active layer, a first alignment film, a second alignment film, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealant. The first substrate includes a display region and a sealant region encompassing the display region. The second substrate is disposed oppositely to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first alignment film and the second alignment film. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, wherein the dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal molecules is substantially equal to or greater than 7, or substantially equal to or less than −4. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and is disposed in the sealant region. The sealant includes acrylics, wherein a weight percentage of acrylics is substantially between 50 wt % and 90 wt %. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255041 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to a liquid crystal panel | 2011-10-20 |
20110255042 | METHOD FOR MAKING A TREATED POLYMER FOR A LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT AGENT, THE TREATED POLYMER MADE THEREBY, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT AGENT, LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT CONTAINING THE TREATED POLYMER - A method for making a treated polymer for a liquid crystal alignment agent includes the steps of: subjecting a tetracarboxylic dianhydride compound and a diamine compound to conduct a polymerization reaction to obtain an untreated polymer; preparing a co-precipitating solvent for the untreated polymer which includes a major amount of a poor solvent and a minor amount of a good solvent; and subjecting the untreated polymer to a treatment with the co-precipitating solvent such that at least a significant amount of a polymer fraction having a molecular weight not larger than 3,000 is removed from the untreated polymer to obtain the treated polymer. A treated polymer for a liquid crystal alignment agent, a liquid crystal alignment agent including the treated polymer, a liquid crystal alignment film formed of the liquid crystal alignment agent, and a liquid crystal display element including the liquid crystal alignment film are also disclosed. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255043 | REFLECTIVE LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A method for manufacturing a reflective liquid-crystal display apparatus is provided. The method comprising forming, over a substrate, a first metal layer and a first insulating layer having an opening and a first through-hole in order; forming a metal portion filled in the opening and a first plug filled in the first through-hole, by forming a metal film over the first insulating layer and planarizing the metal film until the first insulating layer is exposed; forming, over the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a second metal layer having an opening, and a third insulating layer in order; forming, in the second and third insulating layer, a second through-hole that passes through the opening of the second metal layer and exposes an upper face of the first plug; and forming a second plug filled in the second through-hole, and a reflective electrode connected to the second plug. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255044 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD OF THE SAME - The embodiment relates to a display device having an improved aperture ratio and capacitance, and a fabrication method of the display device, in which the display device may include a thin film transistor, which includes: an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode electrically connected to the active layer, a drain electrode electrically connected to the active layer, and a gate insulating material formed between the active layer and the gate electrode, where the gate insulating material includes a first layer, a second layer and a third layer, where the second layer has a thickness between about 0.1 to about 1.5 times a thickness of the first layer, and where the third layer has a thickness between about 2 to about 12 times the thickness of the second layer. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255045 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING THE DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE DISPLAY SUBSTRATE - Provided are a display substrate, a liquid crystal display (LCD) including the display substrate, and a method of manufacturing the display substrate. The display substrate includes: an insulating substrate; a gate wiring formed on the insulating substrate and extending generally in a first direction; a data wiring which is insulated from the gate wiring, intersects the gate wiring, and which extends generally in a second direction; a pixel electrode formed in a pixel region defined by the gate wiring and the data wiring; and a storage wiring which is formed on the same layer as the gate wiring, is overlapped by the data wiring to be insulated from the data wiring, and which extends generally in the second direction, wherein each of the gate wiring and the storage wiring has a tapered surface oriented generally at an inclination angle of approximately 30 degrees or less with respect to the insulating substrate. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255046 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC BOOK - It is an object to provide a display device exhibiting high visibility and having a touch recognition function. The display device includes a display portion and a sensor portion. The display portion includes a first liquid crystal element including a polymer-scattered liquid crystal. The sensor portion includes a light-receiving element and a second liquid crystal element including a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal provided over the light-receiving element. The first liquid crystal element and the second liquid crystal element are driven independently from each other. The light-receiving element receives light transmitting through the second liquid crystal element. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255047 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION UNIT, DISPLAY MODULE APPLIED THEREIN, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE OF DISPLAY MODULE - A display apparatus, a display module applied to the display apparatus, and a method for controlling a temperature of the display module are provided. The display apparatus includes a temperature compensation unit for compensating for the temperature of a liquid crystal panel. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255048 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY - The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media for use in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255049 | Eye Glass Attachable Hearing Protection - A hearing protection device capable of attachment to a temple support bar of any pair of eye or safety glasses. The device comprises an elongated bracket with internal clips for attachment means, along with a hingedly rotating extension arm with attached earplug for providing hearing protection in noisy environments. The rotating assembly allows the earplug to be inserted into the practitioner's ear or conveniently pulled away and stowed against the user's head, away from moving machinery which would otherwise create an entanglement concern. The device provides efficient removal and storage of earplugs in conjunction with eye protection or eye glasses | 2011-10-20 |
20110255050 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENABLED EYEGLASS - Disclosed is an eyewear retention system, which may include any of a variety of electronics, including telecommunications receivers, transmitters, electronic storage devices, and head-up display driving circuitry. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255051 | EYEWEAR WITH CHROMA ENHANCEMENT - Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255052 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A SPECTACLE LENS FOR THE WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS OF AN EYE AND LENS - The current invention is directed to a method for designing an ophthalmic lens element, the method comprising the steps of determining a wavefront aberration of an eye in a reference plane, wherein the wavefront aberration of the eye can be described by a first series of polynomials of ascending order up to a first specific order and corresponding first coefficients; and determining a first vision correction of a second specific order to obtain an adapted ophthalmic lens element; determining at least one specified point over an aperture of the adapted ophthalmic lens element; determining a high-order wavefront aberration in the reference plane for each specified point of the adapted ophthalmic lens element, wherein the high-order wavefront aberration can be described by a third series of polynomials of ascending order above the second specific order up to and including the first specific order and corresponding third coefficients; determining a second vision correction of the second specific order for each of the specified points to obtain an optimized ophthalmic lens element based on the first vision correction up to and including the second specific order and based on combined first and third coefficients above the second specific order and up to and including the first specific order. Further, the current invention is directed to a method for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens element, a computer program product and a system for carrying out the methods. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS - A method of creating a statistical model for use in predicting vision correction prescriptions for patients is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of wavefront aberration measurements from a plurality of patient's eyes, obtaining a plurality of visual acuity measurements from the plurality of patients, applying values associated with the plurality of wavefront measurements to an input layer of a statistical model, applying values associated with the plurality of visual acuity measurements to an output layer of the statistical model, and generating a plurality of weight values associated with respective nodes of the statistical model based on the applied values associated with the plurality of wavefront measurements and corresponding values associated with the plurality of visual acuity measurements. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255054 | DEVICE FOR SWEPT-SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY - A device for swept-source optical coherence domain reflectometry (SS OCDR) on moveable samples, particularly human eyes, for obtaining A-scans, having a measuring range according to the sample length and having a laser light source which can be adjusted by a main wave number k | 2011-10-20 |
20110255055 | CONTRAST SENSITIVITY TEST - Methods and apparatus are provided for measuring contrast sensitivity. In one method, a person is presented with a test pattern having several test areas. In a first test cycle, one of the test areas contrasts with (for example, is darker than) the other test areas. The person being tested indicates which test area the person perceives as contrasting with (darker than) the other test areas. This is repeated a number of times for the other test areas, with the level of contrast staying the same but with a different test area becoming the contrasting (darker) test area. In subsequent cycles, these steps are repeated, with decreasing levels of contrast. The contrasting test area may, for example, appear as a solid, as a pattern such as two contrasting vertical bars, or as an animation such as a sinusoidal frequency grating. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255056 | ASTIGMATIC AXIS INDEPENDENT SPATIAL FREQUENCY AND CONTRAST SENSITIVITY TARGET AND METHOD - A set of visual targets and a method for using these targets to evaluate the spatial frequency response and contrast sensitivity of the human visual system. The invention includes four choice test, six choice test, sinusoidal bulls eye and fundamental sinusoidal letters or optotype targets. The four and six choice targets feature sinusoidal gratings oriented vertically, horizontally and at angles thereto. The sinusoidal bull's eye target features concentric circular light and dark areas with brightness varying in a radial sinusoidal fashion. The fundamental sinusoidal optotype target features an optotype, such as a letter, that is made up of strokes, each of which have a width that is equal to ½ of a single sinusoidal period. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255057 | Multi-Projector Servo-Controlled Display System - A display system includes at least two devices for projecting images and a single screen, each projection device including an image source and projection optics arranged so as to project the image delivered by the image source onto a display region of the screen so that the various images projected from various image sources form a single image without obvious discontinuities, said display system having a device for monitoring and servo-controlling the alignment of the various images. The monitoring and servo-control device is such that the image delivered by each image source includes at least one detection pattern so that the projected image of said detection pattern meets the screen in a detection region located outside of the image display region, the screen having a plurality of light sensing elements, each light sensing element being associated with a projection device and placed so that the projected image of a detection pattern delivered by said projection device forms on its light-sensitive surface, the sensing element being arranged so as to determine the position and/or the orientation of said detection pattern and its photometric properties. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255058 | ELECTRICAL DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - An electrical device includes a plurality of filters having filter performances different from each other; a filter switching section which switches a filter to be disposed in a channel of a fluid flowing into a main body of the device between the plurality of filters; a switching control section which controls the filter switching section; and a determining section which determines the type of unwanted matter contained in the fluid. In this arrangement, the switching control section controls the filter switching section to dispose the filter corresponding to the type determined by the determining section in the channel. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255059 | Distortion Correction for Projector - An image processing device for a projector including an image formation section that emits light of an image, and a projection system that projects the emitted light onto a projection surface. The image processing device has a distortion correction technique for images displayed on the projection surface. The image processing device has a target display area determination section that determines, in a display area serving as a reference on the projection surface, based on a current value of a parameter, any of target display areas set for values possibly taken by the parameter within an allowable range to be targeted on a distortion-free image for display on the projection surface; a reference formation area determination section that determines a reference formation area to be formed with a virtual distorted image and a correction application section that generates corrected image data for supply to the image formation section. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255060 | OPTICAL SENSING APPARATUS, FILTER APPARATUS, AND PROJECTOR WITH ANTI-DUST STRUCTURE - An optical sensing apparatus with anti-dust structure, for sensing a rotation device which has a rotation surface rotating along a rotation direction, includes a base, an optical sensor, and a stop block. The stop block is located beside the optical sensor and disposed with the optical sensor on the base in accordance with the order of the rotation direction. A distance between a stagnation surface of the stop block and the rotation surface is shorter than a distance between a sensing surface of the optical apparatus and the rotation surface. When an air flow passes between the stagnation surface and the rotation surface, dust within the air flow could be partially deposited on the stagnation surface so as to reduce the deposition amount of the dust on the sensing surface. A filter apparatus with the optical sensing apparatus and a projector with the filter apparatus are also disclosed. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255061 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING BASE-REACTIVE COMPONENT AND PROCESSES FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY - New photoresist compositions are provided that are useful for immersion lithography. Preferred photoresist compositions of the invention comprise one or more materials that have base-reactive groups. Particularly preferred photoresists of the invention can exhibit reduced leaching of resist materials into an immersion fluid contacting the resist layer during immersion lithography processing. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255062 | FLUID HANDLING STRUCTURE, LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND A DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A fluid handling structure configured to supply immersion liquid to a space defined between a projection system and a facing surface facing the fluid handling structure is disclosed. An undersurface of the fluid handling structure has a supply opening configured to supply fluid toward the facing surface, a plurality of extraction openings configured to remove fluid from between the fluid handling structure and the facing surface, and a protrusion between the supply opening and the extraction openings. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255063 | Seamless Stitching of Patterns Formed by Interference Lithography - This invention addresses the scalability problem of periodic “nanostructured” surface treatments such as those formed by interference lithography. A novel but simple method is described that achieves seamless stitching of nanostructure surface textures at the pattern exposure level. The described tiling approach will enable scaling up of coherent nanostructured surfaces to arbitrary area sizes. Such a large form factor nanotechnology will be essential for fabricating large aperture, coherent diffractive elements. Other applications include high performance, antiglare/antireflection and smudge resistant Motheye treatments for display products such as PDA's, laptop computers, large screen TV's, cockpit canopies, instrument panels, missile and targeting domes, and, more recently, “negative-index” surfaces. Although ideal for seamless stitching of nanometer scale patterns, the technology is broadly applicable to any situation where an arbitrarily large area needs to be seamlessly tiled with a smaller base pattern that has periodic overlap able boundaries. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255064 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY METHOD AND DEVICE - A photolithography method includes projecting a light beam through a mask onto a photosensitive layer to form on the photosensitive layer an image of a mask pattern formed by the mask, and controlling a layer of active elements of the mask so that the light beam after having traversed the layer of active elements, reproduces the mask pattern onto the photosensitive layer. The active elements are distributed throughout the layer of active elements in conformance with a matrical organization of lines and columns, each active element being individually controllable to take a state transparent to the light of the light beam, or else a state opaque to or reflecting of the light of the light beam, as a function of a command signal supplied to the active element. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255065 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING A SUBSTRATE SURFACE OF A PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC MASK - Disclosed is a method of modifying of a surface of a substrate of a photolithographic mask for extreme ultraviolet radiation comprising the step of focusing femtosecond light pulses of a laser system onto the substrate so that a plurality of color centers is generated inside the substrate, wherein the color centers are distributed to cause a modification of the substrate surface. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255066 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting a Substrate - An apparatus measures properties, such as overlay error, of a substrate divided into a plurality of fields. The apparatus includes a radiation source configured to direct radiation onto a first target of each field of the substrate. Each first target (T4G) has at least a first grating and a second grating having respective predetermined offsets, the predetermined offset (+d) of the first grating being in a direction opposite the predetermined offset (−d) of the second grating. A detector is configured to detect the radiation reflected from each first target and to obtain an asymmetry value for each first target from the detected radiation. Further, a module is configured to determine an overlay value for each first target based on at least the obtained asymmetry value and the predetermined offsets and determine a polynomial fit across a plurality of first targets of a corresponding plurality of fields of the substrate for a relationship between the obtained asymmetry value and determined overlay value of each first target. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255067 | MICROLITHOGRAPHY ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS AND METHODS - The disclosure relates to microlithography systems, such as EUV micro-lithography illumination systems, as well as related components, systems and methods. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255068 | EUV mirror module - An EUV mirror module is disclosed that comprises a substrate with a curved upper surface and a curved electroformed mirror. A self-adjusting bonding material is disposed between the substrate and the electroformed mirror. The bonding material is flowable at a melting temperature and self-adjusts to conformally fill the region between substrate to the electroformed mirror and bond the substrate and the electroformed mirror. The substrate may have at least one cooling channel for cooling the mirror module. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255069 | COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES FOR IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY - New photoresist compositions are provided that are useful for immersion lithography. Preferred photoresist compositions of the invention comprise one or more materials that can be substantially non-mixable with a resin component of the resist. Further preferred photoresist compositions of the invention comprise 1) Si substitution, 2) fluorine substitution; 3) hyperbranched polymers; and/or 4) polymeric particles. Particularly preferred photoresists of the invention can exhibit reduced leaching of resist materials into an immersion fluid contacting the resist layer during immersion lithography processing. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255070 | TRAFFIC SCANNING LIDAR - A system for determining the speed and position of objects comprises a beam source, a transmit reflection device, a beam receiver, a receive reflection device, and a controller. The beam source may generate a beam. The transmit reflection device may reflect the beam at the objects and may include a plurality of transmit faces with each transmit face oriented at a different angle and operable to reflect the beam at a different height. The beam receiver may detect the beam. The receive reflection device may include a plurality of receive faces with each receive face oriented at a different angle and operable to focus the beam reflected from objects at different heights onto the beam receiver. The controller may determine the position of the objects over time and calculate the speed of the objects based on a change in the position of the objects. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255071 | PHOTONIC MIXER AND USE THEREOF - The photonic mixer comprises a couple of an injecting contact region ( | 2011-10-20 |
20110255072 | Compact economical lidar system - A lidar pulse is time resolved in ways that avoid costly, fragile, bulky, high-voltage vacuum devices—and also costly, awkward optical remappers or pushbroom layouts—to provide preferably 3D volumetric imaging from a single pulse, or full-3D volumetric movies. Delay lines or programmed circuits generate time-resolution sweep signals, ideally digital. Preferably, discrete 2D photodiode and transimpedance-amplifier arrays replace a continuous 1D streak-tube cathode. For each pixel a memory-element array forms range bins. An intermediate optical buffer with low, well-controlled capacitance avoids corruption of input signal by these memories. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255073 | POLYMERIZED FILMS WITH LINE TEXTURE OR FINGERPRINT TEXTURE - The present invention relates to a process for producing polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture or for producing substrates coated with polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture, to polymerized films, obtainable by this process, with line texture or fingerprint texture or substrates coated with polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture, to pigments obtainable by comminuting such films, to the use of such films, substrates or pigments as or in optical filter(s), polarizers, decorative media, forgeryproof markers, reflective media or for focusing light (in solar cells), to the use of such films as an antibacterial coating, to a forgeryproof marker which comprises such a film, and to a process for detecting forgeryproof markings. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255074 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Defects - A defect inspection apparatus and method includes utilizing an irradiation optical system that focuses a beam flux emitted from a laser light source and formed into a slit-shaped beam so as to irradiate the beam onto the surface of the substrate to be inspected, utilizing a detection optical system that detects light from the substrate that has been irradiated with the slit-shaped beam, and utilizing a signal processor that processes a signal output from the detection optical system. The irradiation optical system includes a cylindrical lens for focusing the beam that has been emitted from the laser light source onto the substrate to be inspected, as the slit-shaped beam, wherein the cylindrical lens is disposed so as to obtain a distance between an incidence surface or emitting surface thereof and the slit-shaped beam upon the substrate to be inspected to be equal to a focal distance of the cylindrical lens. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255075 | Spectrometric assembly and method for determining a temperature value for a detector of a spectrometer - The invention relates to a spectrometric assembly and method for determining a temperature value for a detector of a spectrometer. It is conventional to record the detector temperature in an optoelectronic detector using a thermal temperature sensor in order to compensate for temperature fluctuations. Due to the finite distance between the detector and the temperature sensor, the accuracy of the temperature detection is limited. According to the invention, the detector temperature should be recordable at high accuracy and with little effort. In addition to means for spectral division of incident tight and an optical detector for spectrally resolved detection of a spectral range of the divided light, a second optical detector is provided for detection of a partial range of this spectral range as a reference detector, wherein sensitivity of the reference detector is substantially temperature-independent. The ratio of the signals of both detectors is a highly accurate measurement for the relative temperature of the first detector due to the temperature independence of the sensitivity of the reference detector, and can be determined with little effort. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255076 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PARTICLE CONCENTRATION AND MEASURING APPARATUS - To provide an improved method and an improved measuring apparatus for determining a particle concentration with which the disadvantages of the transmission measurement principle and of the scattered light measurement principle can be compensated to a certain degree to achieve a higher precision in the particle concentration measurement, a method and a measuring apparatus are proposed in accordance with the invention, wherein
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20110255077 | Distributed Optical Fibre Sensor - A distributed optical fibre sensor is described. The sensor uses a sensor fibre ( | 2011-10-20 |
20110255078 | INTERROGATOR FOR A PLURALITY OF SENSOR FIBER OPTIC GRATINGS - An interrogator for a plurality of sensor fiber optic gratings. The interrogator includes a broadband optical source; at least one beam splitter directing output of the optical source to the sensor fiber optic gratings; at least one linear filter for converting changes in peak reflection wavelength to changes in intensity; at least one optical receiver; and at least one amplifier associated with each optical receiver. The interrogator also includes, alternatively, a driver/modulator for the optical source providing on/off pulses; an analog integrator following the at least one amplifier; or a mechanism compensating for masking of one sensor fiber optic grating by another. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255079 | AUXILIARY DEVICE FOR HELPING TO MEASURE COAXIALITY OF LENSES - An auxiliary device for measuring the coaxiality of a lens. The auxiliary device includes a cylindrical main body having a first surface and a flat second surface facing away the first surface, and a protrusion formed on the first surface and defining a reference convex surface. The second surface of the main body defines a position part. The position part is coaxial with the reference convex surface and configured to engage with the lens to measure the coaxiality of the lens. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255080 | INSPECTION METHOD AND INSPECTION APPARATUS - The inspection conditions of a known inspection apparatus necessary for inspection are such that wafers are individually prepared for respective layer types and layer thicknesses, and standard particles having different sizes are applied to all of the wafers. Moreover, the wafers to which standard particles have been applied and which have been prepared for the respective layer types and layer thicknesses are inspected by the inspection apparatus to determine the optimal inspection conditions for the respective layer types and layer thicknesses. Therefore, there are problems that it requires long time and involves high cost to determine the inspection conditions. In the invention, the relation between the layer thickness and the scattering intensity in the inspection apparatus is calculated. The scattering intensity is divided into a plurality of intensity regions, and the inspection conditions optimized for the respective divided regions are determined. The inspection conditions are shared in each divided intensity region, whereby the time and cost necessary to determine the inspection conditions can be dramatically reduced. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255081 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SETTING UP OPTICAL INSPECTION PARAMETERS - Provided are novel methods and systems for setting up ranges of optical inspection parameters. These ranges may be later used for inspection of photovoltaic cells for discoloration, for example. A set of values corresponding to an inspection parameter, such as hue, saturation, and intensity, is obtained from a set-up image. The image includes multiple set-up areas, e.g., a defined group of pixels, wherein each set-up area is assigned a corresponding value in the set. A test image is then constructed from multiple test areas that are also associated with the values in the set. Each test area is assigned a color from a set of user defined colors based on the corresponding value and user defined ranges. A user interface includes both a range diagram and test image, which are used to adjust the ranges in the diagram that result in modification of the test image. Adjusting is repeated until the test image meets predetermined criteria. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255082 | OPTICAL INSPECTION METHOD AND OPTICAL INSPECTION APPARATUS - In the conventional contaminant particle/defect inspection method, if the illuminance of the illumination beam is held at not more than a predetermined upper limit value not to give thermal damage to the sample, the detection sensitivity and the inspection speed being in the tradeoff relation with each other, it is very difficult to improve one of the detection sensitivity and the inspection speed without sacrificing the other or improve both at the same time. The invention provides an improved optical inspection method and an improved optical inspection apparatus, in which a pulse laser is used as a light source, and a laser beam flux is split into a plurality of laser beam fluxes which are given different time delay to form a plurality of illumination spots. The scattered light signal from each illumination spot is isolated and detected by using a light emission start timing signal for each illumination spot. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255083 | FIBER OPTIC DETECTION SYSTEM - A sealed and decontaminated fiber optic detection apparatus includes an optics portion with individual chambers. Each chamber housing optical and electro-optical components. A manifold accommodates fibers, with each of the fibers being in optical communication with the optical and electro-optical components of a corresponding chamber. The apparatus also includes a sample holder that holds a sample to be tested and a mounting device provided between the sample holder and the manifold. The mounting device and the manifold form a sealed fiber optic interface between the sample holder and the optics portion. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255084 | BIO-SAMPLE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A bio-sample image pickup device includes a light source module, a carrier, an image pickup unit, a first filter set, and a second filter set. The carrier carries the light source module and the bio-sample, and moves between a first position and a second position. The first filter set between the light source module and the image pickup unit for filtering the light emitted by the light source module, and the image pickup unit picks up the image of the bio-sample through the first filter set in the first position. The second filter set in the second position filters the light emitted by the light source module for allowing an operator to see the bio-sample in the second position through the second filter. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255085 | SPECTROMETER, SPECTROMETRY, AND SPECTROMETRY PROGRAM - A spectroscopic measurement apparatus | 2011-10-20 |
20110255086 | OPTICAL SAMPLE DETECTION SYSTEM AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS DEVICE - An optical sample detection system is provided, including a light source; a convergence projection component for converging light rays emitted by the light source; a sample accommodation component for accommodating a detected sample; a light beam collection component for receiving light rays carrying sample characteristic information and transmitted from the sample accommodation component; a light splitting component for splitting polychromatic lights collected by the light beam collection component into independent spectrums or spectral bands; and a photoelectric detection component for receiving optical signals of different wavelengths separated through the light splitting component. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255087 | DETECTION OF PARTICLE CHARACTERISTICS - A method of detecting particles in an air flow is described. The method includes receiving a signal indicative of light intensity scattered from the air flow at a plurality of wavelengths and processing the signal indicative of the intensity of received light at each of the wavelengths and a corresponding wavelength dependent parameter to generate an output signal indicative of at least one characteristic of particles in the air flow. A particle detection system is also described. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255088 | POLARIZATION COMPENSATED BEAM SPLITTER AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR HIGH POWER LASER SYSTEMS - A beam sampling system, includes a first beam splitter adapted to split a laser beam having a primary polarization component and a secondary polarization component, into a first intermediate sample beam, and a first beam splitter output beam, the intermediate sample beam including first percentage of the primary polarization component and a second percentage of the secondary polarization component. A 90-degree polarization rotator is positioned in the intermediate sample beam line. A second beam splitter is mounted so that the intermediate sample beam is split into an output sample beam on an output sample beam line, and a second transmitted beam, the output sample beam including substantially said first percentage of the secondary polarization component and substantially said second percentage of the primary polarization component. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255089 | Methods for Aligning Wavelength Converted Light Sources - A method for aligning a semiconductor laser to a wavelength conversion device in a wavelength converted light source includes positioning a beam spot of the semiconductor laser on an input facet of the wavelength conversion device. The beam spot is stepped in a scanning direction by a succession of steps. A wavelength control signal of the semiconductor laser is swept over an alignment signal range at the end point of individual steps of the succession of steps. The peak output power of a wavelength converted output beam emitted from the wavelength conversion device during the sweep is determined at the end point of individual steps of the succession of steps. The peak output power is compared to a threshold output power to determine if the beam spot is aligned with the waveguide of the wavelength conversion device. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255090 | PHOTOMETER AND ANALYZING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH PHOTOMETER - In an analysis system for detecting amounts of components contained in samples, many samples can be measured simultaneously in the whole of the system by use of compact inexpensive photometers. An LED with low heat generation and a long life span is used as a light source. Compactness is achieved by bended optical axis instead of a straight one. Components for bending an optical axis and components for condensing light to ensure an amount of light are in common use to reduce the number of components. Compactness, reduction of the number of components, and integration achieve easy optical axis alignment and precise measurement. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255091 | ADAPTING A SCANNING POINT OF A SAMPLE AND HOLD CIRCUIT OF AN OPTICAL SMOKE DETECTOR - A smoke detector contains a radiation source for transmitting an illuminating radiation having a time sequence of radiation pulses, a radiation detector for receiving measurement radiation impinging on the radiation detector after at least partial scattering of the illuminating radiation, an amplifier circuit for amplifying an output signal of the radiation detector, an analog to digital converter having a sample and hold circuit for converting an analog output signal of the amplifier circuit into a digital measurement value, and a control device coupled to the radiation source and the sample and hold circuit. The control device is equipped for controlling the radiation source and the sample and hold circuit such that the time of a sampling point in time of the sample and hold circuit relative to a radiation pulse depends on the duration of the radiation pulse. A method for calibrating the described smoke detector is also revealed. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255092 | Apparatus and method for measuring optical characteristics of an object - Color/optical characteristics measuring systems and methods are disclosed. Perimeter receiver fiber optics/elements are spaced apart from a central source fiber optic/element and received light reflected from the surface of the object is measured. Light from the perimeter fiber optics pass to a variety of filters. The system utilizes the perimeter receiver fiber optics to determine information regarding the height and angle of the probe with respect to the object being measured. Under processor control, the color measurement may be made at a predetermined height and angle. Various color spectral photometer arrangements are disclosed. Translucency, fluorescence and/or surface texture data also may be obtained. Audio feedback may be provided to guide operator use of the system. The probe may have a removable or shielded tip for contamination prevention. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255093 | INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEM WITH SPATIAL CARRIER FREQUENCY CAPABLE OF IMAGING IN POLYCHROMATIC RADIATION - In the interferometric system, the image plane is imaged by an output imaging setup via a transmission system of reflectors to the output plane and a reflection type diffraction grating is located in the image plane of an imaging setup of a reference branch. The transmission systems of reflectors are adjusted so that axes of both branches coincide at an entrance to the output plane and parallel with a normal line of the output plane, and an axial beam, diffracted by the reflection type diffraction grating at an angle α, enters into the output plane at an angle β, and the relation between angle β and α is sin(β)=sin(α)/m, where m is a magnification of the output imaging setup. The system enables the achievement of a holographic imaging of an object by low-coherence waves. Incoherent waves allow the imaging of objects immersed in scattering media. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255094 | Optical gyroscope sensors based on optical whispering gallery mode resonators - Optical gyroscope devices based on optical whispering gallery mode resonators that measure rotations based on rotation-induced optical phase shift in optical whispering gallery mode resonators. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255095 | Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System and Method - An optical imaging system includes an optical radiation source ( | 2011-10-20 |
20110255096 | INTERFEROMETRIC ENCODER SYSTEMS - A method for determining information about changes along a degree of freedom of an encoder scale includes directing a first beam and a second beam along different paths and combining the first and second beams to form an output beam, where the first and second beams are derived from a common source, the first and second beams have different frequencies, where the first beam contacts the encoder scale at a non-Littrow angle and the first beam diffracts from the encoder scale at least once; detecting an interference signal based on the output beam, the interference signal including a heterodyne phase related to an optical path difference between the first beam and the second beam; and determining information about a degree of freedom of the encoder scale based on the heterodyne phase. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255097 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING A HEIGHT OF STRUCTURES - A system and method for measuring a height difference between an extremum portion of a microscopic structure and a background element, the method includes detecting, by a sensor, first and second interference patterns by a sensor; wherein the first and second interference patterns are generated by illuminating an area of a sample by a first light beam and directing towards the sensor a first reference light beam of a first wavelength (w | 2011-10-20 |
20110255098 | RENDERING APPARATUS, RENDERING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes, in a case of performing rendering based on print data in which a plurality of objects for which a clip is not set are defined, and rendering an object on a predetermined scan line, which is a scan line subsequent to the scan line whose edge information has undergone edge processing, an update unit configured to read edge information about a predetermined page clip edge on the predetermined scan line, and set a predetermined clip count corresponding to the predetermined page clip edge to valid, and set a clip count corresponding to the different page clip edge to valid, and a rendering unit configured to render an object corresponding to both page clip edges after the predetermined clip count and the different page clip edge are set to valid. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a printing unit. The acquisition unit acquires post-processing information indicating a capability of a post-processing unit specified by a received print job. The determination unit determines a target position on a recording sheet subjected to post-processing to be applied by the post-processing unit based on the post-processing information. The printing unit prints a marking image at the target position on the recording sheet determined by the determination unit. The printing unit prints the marking image so that a deviation of the post-processing by the post-processing unit can be recognized. In addition, the printing unit changes a shape of the marking image to a shape suitable for the accuracy expected for the post-processing, according to an accuracy expected for the post-processing to be applied by the post-processing unit set for a print instruction of the print job marking image. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255100 | LABEL PRINTER - A label printer has a touchscreen for displaying and inputting label data, and comprising at least one input area. The label printer also has a hardware keyboard for inputting label data, and comprising at least one hardware key. The label printer also has control means arranged to control printing means for printing a label in accordance with label information. The label information is derived from a combination of label data input via the at least one hardware key of said hardware keyboard and label data input via the at least one input area of said touchscreen. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255101 | GAMUT MAPPING USING HUE-PRESERVING COLOR SPACE - A method for applying gamut mapping to an input digital image having an associated input color gamut, to produce an output digital image having an associated output color gamut, which includes: defining a gamut mapping color transform which embodies the operations of transforming input color values from the input color space to linear RGB color values for a linear RGB color space, wherein the linear RGB color space has desirable hue preserving characteristics; transforming the linear RGB color values to determine nonlinear RGB color values; applying a 3×3 matrix transformation to the nonlinear RGB values to an opponent color space; applying a gamut mapping function to map opponent color values within the input color gamut to produce modified opponent color values within the output color gamut; and transforming the modified opponent color values to produce the output color values in the output color space. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255102 | FIFO METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONICALLY REGISTERING IMAGE DATA - Disclosed are FIFO type methods, systems and apparatus for electronically registering image data relative to a raster or other marking device. According to an exemplary method, a FIFO type data queuing configuration is provided, where the length of data memory segments associated with the FIFO are selected to correspond to the number of raster lines from the most upstream point of the physical raster to the point where the given pixel column intersects the physical raster. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255103 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to an attribute of each of a plurality of drawing objects of data of a PS format included in variable print data, the drawing object of the data of the PS format is converted into partially RIP-completed data of a PDF format or the drawing object of the data of the PS format is converted into RIP-completed image data of the PDF format. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255104 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An advantage of the invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and a medium therefor, which enable shortening of processing time necessary for performing the whole color conversion in the case where only one of LUTs used for the color conversion can be stored in a storage means having a high access rate. In the image processing apparatus, for image data including a plurality of pixels and being a target for a color conversion, when performing the color conversion of the image data, a value of a counter for pictures, which indicates a predicted total number of references to an LUT for pictures, and a value of a counter for texts, which indicates a predicted total number of references to an LUT for texts, are derived. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255105 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COLOR PROCESSING METHOD - The invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: forming means for forming a patch based on patch data on a medium; temperature measuring means for measuring the temperature of a white paper portion of a medium to obtain a white paper temperature; colorimetry means for obtaining a colorimetric value by measuring the color of the patch formed on the medium; estimation means for estimating a colorimetry temperature, which is the temperature of the patch at the time when the colorimetry means measures its color, based on the patch data and the white paper temperature; and correction means for correcting the colorimetric value based on the estimated colorimetry temperature. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255106 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Banding can be prevented and image-quality degradation can be reduced. An image processing apparatus includes first creation means configured to distribute density of image data to a pixel on another scanning line on the basis of a difference between an actual print position of the image data and a reference position and to create position-corrected image data, second creation means configured to correct the image data using a correction value corresponding to a position of the image data and to create density-corrected image data, and generation means configured to generate output image data using the position-corrected image data created by the first creation means and the density-corrected image data created by the second creation means. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255107 | Data Capture and Analysis - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for automated data entry performs a data recognition function on a document to recognize data from a plurality of fields including information entered by a user into at least one field, identifies at least one field that has an issue with recognized data from the field, compiles at least one correction page formatted to resolve the issue for each identified field of the document after completion of the correction page by the user, prints each correction page, and performs a data recognition function on each correction page, including information entered by the user in each field of each correction page, to resolve the issue for each identified field of the document. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255108 | GLOBAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encoding schemes. The method also includes determining a parser state of the data based on a plurality of characters and/or at least one printer control command associated with the plurality of encoding schemes. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255109 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, in an image forming apparatus and a displaying method for an image forming apparatus, whether a paper is housed in a paper cassette or not is determined, and when it is determined that no paper is housed, a display to instruct manual paper feed is shown on a control panel. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255110 | FOLLOW-ME PRINTER DRIVER - A method and system for follow-me printing, including a data-processing apparatus and rendering device in communication with a network. A user can elect a print request to be rendered at any one of the rendering devices, upon user authentication. A Follow-Me Printer Driver can be installed on a data-processing device in order to create a job ticket upon initiation of a print request. The job ticket can be sent to a designated rendering device and shared with all of the rendering devices connected to the network. The job ticket can then be retrieved at a destination rendering device upon a user authentication and a user selection of the print request. The job ticket can then be released for rendering at the destination rendering device. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255111 | Virtual Print Job Preview And Validation - Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for previewing and submitting print jobs. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255112 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSOLIDATING AND MANAGING RENDERING JOBS - A system and method for consolidating and managing rendering jobs. A folder can be automatically created based on a system username associated with a user upon receiving a personal rendering job and/or a secure rendering job with respect to a rendering device such as, for example, a printer or MFD. The subsequent rendering jobs that are transmitted from that user to the rendering device can be collected in the folder. An authentication process can be performed if the folder includes the secure rendering job in order to authenticate the user. The authentication process can be automatically skipped and the folder can be directly accessed if the folder does not include the secure rendering job. The authentication process can be optionally bypassed if the folder includes both the personal and the secure rendering jobs. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255113 | Document Tag Based Destination Prompting and Auto Routing for Document Management System Connectors - Systems and methods for electronic document routing using a multifunction peripheral are disclosed. An electronic document including a document tag is accepted. A document tag is automatically identified using optical character recognition within the electronic document. The document tag is then displayed to the user. The electronic document is stored in a storage location for the electronic document previously associated with the document tag or in a user-input storage location in response to a prompt. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255114 | Image processing device, information management device, information management system, and information management method - An image forming device is disclosed that is able to easily deal with image data stored in plural image forming devices. The image forming device includes an image reading unit that reads image data; a storage unit that stores the image data read by the image reading unit; a printing unit that prints the image data; and an image information transmission unit that transmits at least attribute information of the image data to an information management device through a network, which manages at least the attribute information transmitted from the plural image forming devices. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255115 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - With an information processing apparatus configured such that an OS holds a print setting value of a printer, it is possible to change print settings to those that match the user's intention, when a printer to be used is changed. When the user has selected a printer to be used from a plurality of printers through a user interface provided by the OS, a printer driver among a plurality of printer drivers corresponding to the printer used after the change displays a user interface that displays a message to the effect that the printer has been changed. By this user interface, the user is allowed to select one of a plurality of presets held by the OS. After the selection, information of the selected preset is supplied to the OS. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255116 | INFORMATION VIEWING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION VIEWING APPARATUS - Disclosed is the information viewing system, which makes it possible to speedily output an image represented by data even when an operation for outputting the image onto a predetermined medium is disabled. The system includes an information viewing apparatus, a supporting device to detachably support the information viewing apparatus and the image forming apparatus onto which the supporting device is mountable. The system is so constituted that, in case that a data writing operation onto the printing medium becomes impossible at the time of commencing or in mid-course of implementing the data writing operation onto the printing medium, while the data writing operation onto the information viewing apparatus is enabled, the image forming apparatus changes the writing destination medium from the printing medium to the information viewing apparatus, in order to continuously implement the data writing operation onto the information viewing apparatus instead of the printing medium, and vice versa. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255117 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a microprocessor unit which acquires information about the attribute of a print job from the received print job, determines which method is suitable as a printing method for the print job, performs a first printing method in which a print process is started before a raster image processing (RIP) process on all pages included in the print job is ended or a second printing method in which a print process is started after the RIP process on all pages included in the print job is ended, based on the attribute information, and decides the printing method determined as suitable for the print job as the printing method to be executed on the print job. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255118 | IMAGE READER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - The present invention provides an image reader apparatus capable of obtaining an image having stable brightness while suppressing an increase of the cost of the apparatus. The image reader apparatus | 2011-10-20 |
20110255119 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The invention provides an image processing apparatus which processes input image data and outputs the processed image data, comprising: a plurality of image processing means including first image processing means with a fixed image processing capability and second image processing means with a variable image processing capability; instruction means for instructing the second image processing means to exhibit the image processing capability corresponding to an operation mode; and control means for supplying the image data to the plurality of image processing means, causing the plurality of image processing means to execute processing corresponding to the operation mode, receiving the image data processed by the plurality of image processing means, and sorting the received image data in accordance with the operation mode, wherein the control means realizes image processing corresponding to the operation mode using at least the first image processing means and the second image processing means. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255120 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for printing job data, includes a rendering unit configured to rasterize the job data into bitmap data, a print engine unit configured to print the rasterized job data, and a control unit configured to transmit the job data to the rendering unit, to receive the rasterized job data, to transmit the rasterized job data to the print engine unit. The control unit switches between saving the rasterized job data in a spool space and inspecting the job data without saving the job data to the spool space, depending on free space situation of the spool space. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255121 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system comprises an access control part, a storage part, an extraction part, and an acquisition part. The access control part determines whether to allow or prohibit access to a security image in which a password for access control is embedded. The storage part stores sharing member information which is information on sharing members who are users allowed to share the security image and a check image which is an image for check on the security image, being associated with each other. The extraction part for extracts the check image out of one or more images including the check image on the basis of a determination result on coidentity between the security image and each of the one or more images. The acquisition part acquires the sharing member information associated with the check image. Further, the access control part allows a login user who logs in to the image forming system to have access to the security image without requiring the login user to enter the password on condition that the login user is determined to be one of the sharing members on the basis of the sharing member information. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255122 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises: storage unit configured to store control information serving as information which defines in advance information for controlling a display representing a function for managing a peripheral device, and link information indicating a link destination where each function is provided, and which has an electronic signature to confirm whether falsification has been done; request reception unit configured to receive a request from a peripheral device management unit; link management unit configured to manage link information which is different from the link information contained in the control information and is executed in accordance with a request received by the request reception unit; and execution unit configured to determine a link destination based on the request received by the request reception unit using the link information contained in the control information or the different link information, and executing link processing to the determined link destination. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255123 | COMMUNICATIING STATE DATA TO A NETWORK SERVICE - An apparatus includes an interface builder, template engine, and an assembler. The template engine is operable to identify a reference template associated with an object selected from a first user interface. The assembler is operable to assemble a request from the identified reference template and state data corresponding to the reference template. The builder is operable to process a user interface description retrieved using the request to cause the display of a second user interface. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255124 | ROBUST RECOVERY OF A PAGE PARALLEL RIP SYSTEM - What is disclosed is a novel fault tolerant page parallel RIP system having a plurality of distributed RIP nodes and a method for robust recovery in the event of a fault having occurred on the system. In one embodiment, the present fault tolerant page parallel RIP system comprises at least a plurality of RIP nodes, a supervisor node, and a splitter node. The splitter receives a location of the job file and splits the job file into at least one original chunk. In formation sufficient to regenerate the original chunk in the event of a fault condition having occurred on the page parallel RIP system is stored. The splitter then sends the original chunk to a destination RIP node wherein the original chunk is RIP'ed into at least one page in print-ready form. The one page is the provided in print-ready form to an output subsystem. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255125 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BURSTINESS-AWARE SCHEDULING AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT ON A NETWORK OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system and method for establishing a burstiness metric is presented including at least one processor and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the at least one processor, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for performing the steps of: receiving information related to a plurality of tasks performed by a plurality of electronic devices based on input received from one or more users; analyzing the received information; employing an availability model to the information analyzed; and generating a schedule based on the information analyzed and the availability model by redistributing at least one task of the plurality of tasks between the plurality of electronic devices in accordance with electronic device availability and computational loads. Also, an assessment is made based on the information analyzed to determine a proportion of the plurality of tasks to be supported to achieve a required quality of service. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255126 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - It is an object to automatically avoid the occurrence of a cycle down. The object is accomplished by having transfer means for, when information has been added to a record, holding a page image which is formed by forming means until page images of all page data included in the record are formed by the forming means and transferring the held page images of all of the page data included in the record to a printer engine, and when the information is not added to the record, each time the page image of the page data included in the record is formed by the forming means, transferring the formed page image to the printer engine. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255127 | Printing Apparatus and Printing System - A printing apparatus capable of processing a print job and forming an image on a recording sheet based on the print job is provided. The printing apparatus includes a first determining system to examine an image-forming condition of the printing apparatus and determine as to whether the printing apparatus is under a condition of lowered image-forming quality, a second determining system to examine attribute of the print job and determine based on the attribute as to whether the print job meets restrictive requirement, by which the print job is restricted from being executed, when the printing apparatus is under the condition of lowered image-forming quality, and a restricting system to restrict execution of the print job at least partially when the second determining system determines that the print job meets the restrictive requirement. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255128 | PRINT SERVER AND PRINTING APPARATUS, NETWORK PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTING METHOD - When a printing apparatus completes reception of all print data, a reception unit in the printing apparatus, which receives a cancel notification from a cloud print service, receives the cancel notification by sending a print data status request from the printing apparatus to the cloud print service, or by monitoring a file name of print data which currently undergoes print processing and checking if the file name is changed to a file name indicating a cancel. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF COMMUNICATING WITH PRINTING APPARATUS VIA NETWORK, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus capable of reducing power consumption of a printing apparatus efficiently according to a processing situation. An accumulation unit accumulates print jobs that should be transmitted to the printing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires an operation history and a power consumption history of the printing apparatus. A setting unit sets a threshold value for determining a timing of transmitting the print jobs accumulated in the accumulation unit in series to the printing apparatus based on the operation history and the power consumption history acquired. A determination unit determines the timing of transmitting the print jobs based on the threshold value. A transmission unit transmits the print jobs accumulated in the accumulation unit in series to the printing apparatus at the timing determined. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255130 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, includes an image reader with an original document table. An image reading part has a light source, a light-receiving part, a reflection part, and a carriage that supports the light source or the reflection part. A cover covers a replacement member and is opened/closed integrally with the image reader. A main body accommodates an operation part for performing operations based on image data. An axis connects the image reader to the main body and turnably supports the image reader and the cover in approaching/separating directions with respect to the main body. An open/close detector detects an open/closed state of the image reader and the cover and a movement controller moves the carriage in a sub-scanning direction. When the image reader and the cover are open, the movement controller moves the carriage to a retreat position that is outside the original document table. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255131 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When trial printing is executed in a repeat printing mode, trial printing is performed in size of an image of one piece in a layout in which a plurality of images are supposed to be printed in the repeat printing mode normally. A user who has checked a finished state of the trial printing sets, when the finished state is in a desired state, the recording paper on which the trial printing is performed to the paper feed portion again and executes the repeat printing. Thereby, in a blank space excluding a print image which is printed with a first time trial printing, a scheduled quantity of a plurality of images are repeatedly printed. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255132 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This invention uses a storage device more effectively than ever before to store image data in a predetermined storage device for future security chasing. A determination unit ( | 2011-10-20 |
20110255133 | EXTERNAL STORAGE FOR IMAGING DEVICES - Imaging devices and external storage media facilitate secured storage of user-specific data. An imaging device includes a processor configured to detect coupling of an external storage medium to the imaging device, to perform an authentication process upon detecting the coupling of an external storage medium, and to disable storage of print job data to an internal storage medium of the imaging device in response to authenticating an external storage medium. The imaging device processor may further be configured to determine if the internal storage contains identification information, and to perform the authentication process if the internal storage medium does not contain identification information. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255134 | PRINTING RELIEF PLATE PRODUCING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Height conversion matrices for determining heights of halftone dot convexities are generated based on raster image data. Based on the height conversion matrices and binary image data, amount-of-exposure data are generated in order to produce a printing relief plate in which the halftone dot convexities have heights at a plurality of height levels in a screen tint region, which is formed based on the binary image data. Based on the amount-of-exposure data, a printing plate material is exposed to a light beam, thereby producing a printing relief plate. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255135 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - In the case of a text mode, a text LUT is stored by using the number Nt | 2011-10-20 |
20110255136 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A MULTI-CHANNEL SYSTEM - Conventional analog front ends or AFEs for scanners are implemented using multiple integrated circuits or ICs. As a result, there is typically a problem of skew (due at least in part to manufacturing process variations) for these different ICs in the AFE. Here, an AFE is provided which serializes input data so as to compensate for skew. | 2011-10-20 |
20110255137 | IMAGING AN IMPRINTED SUBSTRATE ON A PRINTING PRESS - A method of imaging an imprinted substrate on a printing press is provided. The method comprises sensing light reflected by the substrate using a contact image sensor to produce data representative of the imprinted substrate. The substrate has been imprinted with different colors at a plurality of printing units of the printing press. Each printing unit comprises a plate cylinder. The method further comprises storing the data representative of the imprinted substrate in a memory. | 2011-10-20 |