| 13th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
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| 20100079729 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES AND/OR INFORMATION ON AIRCRAFT BLADES AND METHOD THEREOF - A system for displaying information via a light source on rotating helicopter blades of an aircraft such as a helicopter is provided. The light source may be a laser light source and the light therefrom may be directed onto the aircraft blade by one or more motion controlled mirrors and a computer controller. A sensor is capable of determining the position of helicopter blades during rotation, such that light may be projected upon only the moving blade at precisely timed intervals, so as to form perceivable graphics and/or messages thereon. In addition, such system may be utilized for displaying graphics and/or messages on rotating propellers of fixed wing aircraft. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079730 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION METHOD - A projection apparatus projecting images of respective color components sequentially includes a light source section having a plurality of light emitting elements (where n is a natural number greater than one), and a driving control section for driving each of the light emitting elements making up the light source section, by a pulse width modulation scheme with a phase difference based on λ/n (where λ is a lighting period unit), in synchronism with a projection period unit of the image of each color component. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079731 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus of the present invention includes: a lamp power controller | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079732 | Lamp and Optical Projector - A lamp includes a lampwick, a reflector, and a shade. The reflector has an opening and a bottom portion opposite to the opening. The lampwick is disposed at the bottom portion and passes through the bottom portion and at least one part of the lampwick is disposed in the reflector. The shade disposed outside the reflector covers a part of the reflector. The shade connected to the bottom portion has an inlet and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet are disposed at two opposite sides of the reflector respectively. An air flow flows into the space between the reflector and the shade through the inlet. At least one part of the air flow flows through the outlet along a flowing direction. An included angle defined between the flowing direction and a transmitting direction of an illumination light beam formed by the reflector is an acute angle. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079733 | OPTICAL ENGINE AND WIDE ANGLE PROJECTION LENS MODULE THEREOF - A wide-angle projection lens module is provided, including a reflective convex aspheric mirror and a refractive lens group of positive refractive power. The following Conditions (1) to (2) are satisfied: | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079734 | Projection Apparatus with Filter - A projection apparatus comprising a light source, an image display device and at least one filter device for transmitting a first portion of the radiation from the light source in a first wavelength range in the visible range to the image display device, and for diffusely reflecting a second portion of the radiation in a second wavelength range outside the visible range. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079735 | Circuit Arrangement and Method for Operating a High-Pressure Discharge Lamp - A circuit arrangement ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079736 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An apparatus that exposes a pattern of an original onto a plate through a projection optical system. The apparatus includes a reference base that holds the projection optical system, a supporting unit configured to elastically support the reference base, a base structure that holds the supporting unit on an installation floor, a detection unit configured to detect a relative position between the base structure and the reference base, and an adjustment unit, which is disposed at the installation floor of the base structure, configured to adjust an attitude of the base structure based on the results detected by the detection unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079737 | SUPPORT FOR A COMPONENT OF AN OPTICAL DEVICE - The disclosure provides an arrangement for an optical device including a component of the optical device and a support structure supporting the component. The support structure includes at least one locking device connected to the component and including a first fixation device and an associated second fixation device. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are adapted to be, in a movable state, movable with respect to each other along a first degree of freedom and a second degree of freedom into a final position. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are further adapted to be, in a locked state, fixed in the final position by at least one locking device contacting the first fixation device and the second fixation device. In the movable state, the first fixation device and the second fixation device are movable, up to the final position, in a manner free from a mutual pre-stress resulting from a restoring force exerted by at least a part of one of the first fixation device and the second fixation device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079738 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR A PROJECTION EXPOSURE SYSTEM - An optical measurement apparatus ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079739 | PROJECTION OBJECTIVE FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY - A projection objective for applications in microlithography, a microlithography projection exposure apparatus with a projection objective, a microlithographic manufacturing method for microstructured components, and a component manufactured using such a manufacturing method are disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079740 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SENSOR - An image forming device has a conveying member, a light source, a photo-sensor, a shutter member, a shutter driving unit, a reflecting member and a judging member. The shutter member located between the photo-sensor and the conveying member is moved between a close position and an open position. The reflecting member provided on shutter member reflects light emitted by the light source when the shutter member entirely or partially shields the light emitted by the light source and directed toward the conveying member, and an intensity of light reflected by the reflecting member and detected by the photo-sensor varying depending on a position of the shutter member. The judging member judges whether the shutter member is located at the close position or the open position and whether the conveying member is present or absent based on the intensity of the light detected by the photo-sensor. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079741 | PROJECTION OBJECTIVE FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY - A projection objective for use in microlithography, a microlithography projection exposure apparatus with a projection objective, a microlithographic manufacturing method for microstructured components, and a component manufactured under the manufacturing method are disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079742 | SUBSTRATE HOLDING APPARATUS, MASK, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An apparatus comprises a carrier including a permanent electromagnet and configured to hold a mask containing a magnetic material and a substrate by magnetically attracting the mask via the substrate, and a sensor unit configured to sense a state of the carrier using a magnetic sensor for sensing a magnetic field from the permanent electromagnet, the permanent electromagnet including a variable-polarity magnet, a coil which generates a magnetic field for changing the polarity of the variable-polarity magnet, and a fixed-polarity magnet having fixed polarity, a state of the carrier is set in one of a first state in which the mask and the substrate are held by a magnetic field generated by the variable-polarity magnet and the fixed-polarity magnet, and a second state in which the mask and the substrate are not held, by controlling the polarity of the variable-polarity magnet by the magnetic field generated by the coil. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079743 | Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and method for producing device - An exposure apparatus includes a mask-moving section movable in a first direction while holding a mask formed with a pattern; an illumination system which forms first and second illumination areas separated each other by a spacing distance in the first direction; a substrate-moving section movable in a second direction while holding a photosensitive substrate; a projection optical system which forms first and second projected images of the patterns of the first and second illumination areas; and a restricting section which restricts the first and second projected images to be within first and second projection areas respectively. A spacing distance between a first conjugate area with the first projection area and a second conjugate area with the second projection area is set to be such a spacing distance that scanning exposures are successively performed for first and second transfer areas provided adjacently in the second direction. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079744 | LASER APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A technique for selecting two or more wavelengths of output light by a simpler structure is provided. A laser apparatus includes a laser oscillation portion for oscillating laser light; a nonlinear crystal inputting the laser light from the laser oscillation portion as a fundamental wave, the nonlinear crystal converting the fundamental wave into a second harmonic wave and changing conversion efficiency according to a temperature thereof, the nonlinear crystal having a periodically poled structure; and a ratio control means for controlling a ratio of the fundamental wave and the second harmonic wave outputting from the nonlinear crystal by controlling the temperature of the nonlinear crystal. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079745 | LASER APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A technique for not causing a gap of the central beam axes depending on wavelengths of emitted light is provided. A laser apparatus includes a laser oscillation portion for oscillating laser light; a nonlinear crystal inputting a first output light from the laser oscillation portion, the nonlinear crystal outputting the first output light and a second output light which is a second harmonic wave of the first output light and has a central beam axis not corresponding to a central beam axis of the first output light; a central beam axis bending means for bending at least one central beam axis of the first output light and the second output light; and a optical fiber in which the edge is in a position or a neighborhood in which the central beam axes of the first output light and the second output light intersects. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079746 | MIXER-BASED TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER AND METHOD - An apparatus to measure optical characteristics of a fiber optic transmission line or other optical medium may include a source to generate a bipolar pulse signal waveform. The apparatus may also include a mixer to mix the bipolar pulse signal waveform and an optical pulse and reflected signal waveform from the fiber optic transmission line or other optical medium to form a mixed product waveform, wherein the reflected signal is responsive to the optical pulse being transmitted into the fiber optic transmission line or optical medium. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079747 | INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TOTAL LUMINOUS FLUX OF LUMINOUS ELEMENTS - The present invention provides an instrument and method for measuring total luminous flux of luminous elements, which forms an approximately uniform spatial intensity distribution by simultaneously lighting a plurality of luminous elements for measurement in an integrating sphere when comparing a total luminous flux standard lamp with the luminous elements to measure the total luminous flux of the luminous elements, thus not requiring spatial mismatch error correction. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079748 | Inspection Apparatus, Lithographic Apparatus and Method for Sphero-Chromatic Aberration Correction - A semiconductor inspection system and method are described. The system includes an illumination system transmitting light at a given wavelength and an optical system receiving light from the illumination system and transmit light at the given wavelength to a surface. The optical system includes at least one lens that is moveable (for example, a zoomable lens) to change the nominal wavelength of the semiconductor inspection system to correspond to the illumination wavelength of the illumination system so that the sphero-chromatic aberration of the semiconductor inspection system meets a user-defined tolerance. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079749 | Inspection apparatus for biological sample - An inspection apparatus for a biological sample is herein disclosed, wherein a sample, entering a communicating space via a first opening, is sucked upward to a test area by capillarity and then sucked downward to a second opening by a siphonic action; then the sample becomes still as a result of the communicating tube principle. Hence, the present invention provides sufficient amount of biological sample for the test area and also simplifies the inspection process. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079750 | Coaxially Arranged, Off-Axis Optical System for a Sighting Device or Aiming Device - The invention is directed to a coaxially arranged, off-axis optical system for a sighting device or aiming device. It is the object of the invention to provide a possibility for constructing an optical system in such a way that the typical disadvantage with respect to the tightness of a sighting device in an open-type construction is overcome and a good flattening of the image field is achieved in addition to the high optical imaging quality of the aiming mark. According to the invention, by means of a coaxially arranged, off-axis optical system for a sighting device or aiming device comprising a lens group, wherein the lens facing the target object is constructed as a converging meniscus and the lens facing the eye is constructed as a diverging meniscus, with a dichroic reflector and an embodiment for the aiming mark, the above-stated object is met in that a correction lens with positive refractive power is arranged at a distance of less than 0.2-times the focal length relative to the aiming mark and acts exclusively in the beam path of the aiming mark, and in that the correction lens is inserted into the housing by positive locking and is sealed so that the housing with the aiming mark, with the associated mechanism and with the electronics in the interior is sealed relative to the environment. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079751 | LIQUID TESTING ASSEMBLY - A liquid testing assembly for testing a liquid, the assembly comprising a test vessel and a stopper adapted to fit into a free end of the vessel. The stopper substantially hermetically seals the test vessel from the ambient. Further, the assembly includes a support coated with one or more identifying materials for identifying one or more constituents of the liquid. The support is fixed in the stopper and/or the vessel and extends into its interior for a predetermined distance. The liquid testing assembly when assembled is pre-evacuated to a predetermined vacuum sufficient to draw a predetermined volume of liquid to be sampled into the test vessel. The predetermined volume is of such an amount that it wets the one or more identifying materials ensuring identification of one or more constituents present in the liquid. A kit employing the liquid testing assembly is also discussed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079752 | SPECTROMETER SENSOR COMPRISING MOVING OPTICAL MEANS AND CORRESPONDING SPECTROMETER - A sensor for a spectrometer is provided, which includes at least one optical element onto which an excitation light source beam is directed and from which a target beam is emitted towards a sample to be analyzed. The at least one optical element can move, thereby enabling the direction of the target beam to be varied. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079753 | RAMAN SPECTROMETER HAVING WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION - An apparatus and method for obtaining Raman spectra that are suitable for continuous real-time monitoring, utilizing the basic technique of Raman spectroscopy in cooperation with wavelength-selective optical amplification are described. The invention improves the detection sensitivity of conventional Raman spectroscopy by orders of magnitude by providing strong wavelength-selective optical amplification and narrowband detection of the intense driving laser and the weak Raman signal(s), thereby essentially eliminating the driving laser signal from the detector and detection electronics. The invention is effective for both Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman lines, and either where the incident laser wavelength is fixed and the Raman spectrum is recorded by analyzing the output of the fiber amplifier with a spectrometer, or where the detection wavelength is fixed and the Raman spectrum is recorded by tuning the wavelength of the laser. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079754 | SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY - Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems for performing Raman spectroscopy. In one embodiment, a system for performing Raman spectroscopy comprises an analyte holder having a surface configured to retain an analyte and a light concentrator configured to receive an incident beam of light, split the incident beam into one or more beams, and direct the one or more beams to substantially intersect at the surface. The system may also include a collector configured to focus each of the one or more beams onto the surface, collect the Raman scattered light emitted from the analyte, and direct the Raman scattered light away from the surface. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079755 | OPTICALLY CONTROLLED DETECTION DEVICE - A diffractive optical element device for use in spectroscopy, where broadband light is emitted from a light source towards the optical element and from there is transmitted to at least one detector. The optical element has a plurality of diffractive dispersively focusing patterns, preferably partly integrated into each other, whose respective centers are two-dimensionally offset relative to each other in order to produce a plurality of spectra, where at least two are separate, but offset relative to each other and/or partly overlapping. In an alternative embodiment, the optical element consists of either one diffractive optical element that is related to a wavelength and produces a spectrum, or at least two diffractive optical elements which are related to respective wavelengths and which produce at least two mutually partly overlapping spectra to give a composite spectrum. The optical element is capable of producing at least one indication of upper and/or lower wavelength value in the spectrum. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079756 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING ANALYTES IN LIQUID SUSPENSION OR SOLUTION - An optical detection device is provided for analyzing analytes in a liquid suspension or solution that can detect and process a large number of wavelengths of incident and fluorescent light simultaneously, which is small in size and can be easily adapted to different investigation requirements. The optical detection device may include a light supplying device, an analyte handling device, a light directing device, and a detector integrated on planar substrate devices, respectively. A plurality of optical waveguides are integrated in the substrate devices to direct light emitted by the light supplying device through the different sections of the optical detector to the detector. The analyte handling device may include an analyte channel for the liquid flow of the analyte suspension or solution and an analyte sorting device comprising several sorting channels. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079757 | UNEVENNESS DETECTING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an unevenness detecting apparatus comprising a determining section that determines a polarization state of returned light obtained from radiated light; an uneven portion judging section that judges whether an uneven portion is present based on the polarization state determined by the determining section; a convex/concave identifying section that identifies whether the uneven portion is convex or concave based on image data, captured by an image capturing element, of the uneven portion; and an output section that outputs information identifying whether the uneven portion is convex or concave. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079758 | Inspection device, inspection method, and program - An illuminating optical system of an inspection device selects an arbitrary wavelength region from the light source, and epi-illuminates the sample via the polarizer and the objective lens. A detecting optical system includes an analyzer having a polarization plane intersected with a polarization direction of the polarizer. Then, the detecting optical system detects light from the sample via the objective lens and the analyzer, and acquires a Fourier image of a sample surface based on this light. An imaging section images the Fourier image. An analyzing section performs computation for processing for determining a notable area to be affected by a state of the pattern more than other areas in the Fourier image. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079759 | Watertight connection system for combined electrical and fiber optic cables - A connector apparatus for use with combined electrical and fiber optic cables in wet or undersea conditions. The connector apparatus includes an outer threaded male connector portion connected to a first cable and a compatible female connector portion having a rotating internally threaded collar for engaging the outer male connector portion. The female connector portion includes conductor pins and a fiber-optic terminal pin and a fiber optic sensor ring. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079760 | Multipass Optical Device And Process For Gas And Analyte Determination - A torus multipass optical device and method are described that provide for trace level determination of gases and gas-phase analytes. The torus device includes an optical cavity defined by at least one ring mirror. The mirror delivers optical power in at least a radial and axial direction and propagates light in a multipass optical path of a predefined path length. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079761 | FLUID ANALYSER SYSTEMS - Fluid analyzer systems are provided which can detect a multitude of fluids in a sample to a very high level of accuracy which includes the detection of the presence of very small amounts of fluids. The results are both qualitative and quantitative. The systems consist of a receptacle which is filled with the fluid sample to be analysed which is placed into a consistent light condition environment where its temperature is measured. Under a predetermined time duration, Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) detector(s) receive by absorbance, radiation from the fluid sample at known wavelengths and are matched against a databank of known wavelengths of fluids. Matching wavelengths within a pre-defined tolerance will determine whether an individual fluid is present or not. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079762 | Sample analyzer, and a method for analyzing a sample - A sample analyzer comprising a flow cell for forming a sample flow, a light source for irradiating the sample flow in the flow cell with near ultraviolet light, and an imaging section for taking an image of a particle contained in the sample flow irradiated with the near ultraviolet light by the light source is disclosed. A method for analyzing a sample is also disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079763 | System and Method of Fluid Exposure and Data Acquisition - An apparatus has a data acquisition device, an environmental cell in a spatial registration relative to the data acquisition device, the environmental cell being configured to support a sample, and a fluid management system configured to initiate and discontinue exposure of the sample to a reaction fluid while the spatial registration is maintained. A method of performing data acquisition for a sample includes spatially registering the sample relative to a data acquisition device, at least partially exposing the sample to a reaction fluid while substantially maintaining the spatial registration of the sample relative to the data acquisition device, at least partially discontinuing exposing the sample to the reaction fluid while substantially maintaining the spatial registration of the sample relative to the data acquisition device, and acquiring data about the sample while substantially maintaining the spatial registration of the sample relative to the data acquisition device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079764 | Multigas Monitoring and Detection System - A spectroscopic detection system is described for monitoring ambient air for toxic chemical substances. The system can be a compact, portable multiple gas analyzer capable of detecting and discriminating a broad range of chemical constituents including various nerve and blister agents as well as toxic industrial chemicals at low or sub part per billion (ppb) levels. The system minimizes false alarms (e.g., false positives or negatives), features high specificity, and can operate with response times on the order of a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the application. The system can be an entirely self-contained analyzer, with a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, a gas sample cell, a detector, an embedded processor, a display, power supplies, an air pump, heating elements, and other components onboard the unit with an air intake to collect a sample and an electronic communications port to interface with external devices. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079765 | METHOD FOR MEASURING A SPECTRUM OF A NARROWBAND LIGHT SOURCE, AND SPECTROMETER ARRANGEMENT - A spectrometer arrangement for measuring a spectrum of a light beam emitted by a narrowband light source, such as a bandwidth-narrowed laser, includes at least one etalon, a beam splitter for splitting the light beam into a first partial beam and a second partial beam, one or more optical directing elements for directing the first partial beam n times and the second partial beam (n+k) times through the at least one etalon, wherein n and k are integers ≧1. The spectrometer arrangement further has at least one light-sensitive detector and an evaluation device for evaluating the spectra—recorded by the at least one detector—of the first partial beam that has passed through the at least one etalon n times and of the second partial beam that has passed through the at least one etalon (n+k) times in order to determine the light spectrum corrected for the apparatus function of the at least one etalon. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079766 | MULTIPLE NESTED INTERFEROMETRIC FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPE SYSTEM - A multiple nested interferometric fiber optic gyroscope system having varying functions may include a first fiber optic coil, a second fiber optic coil which is smaller than the first fiber optical coil and nested within and transversely to the first fiber optic coil, and a third fiber optic coil which is smaller than the second fiber optical coil and nested within and transversely to the second fiber optic coil. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079767 | DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A displacement measurement apparatus includes a first diffraction grating transmitting light from a light source and producing diffracted beams including first to third diffracted beams output in different directions; a second diffraction grating movable together with an object to be measured, provided in a plane parallel to the first diffraction grating, and reflecting the first to third diffracted beams transmitted through the first diffraction grating; a first photodetector receiving the first and second diffracted beams diffracted by the second diffraction grating; a second photodetector receiving at least the third diffracted beam transmitted through the first diffraction grating; and a calculation unit calculating displacement of the object in a first direction in accordance with the beams received by the first photodetector, and displacement of the object in a second direction, different from the first direction, in accordance with the beam received by the second photodetector. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079768 | OPTICAL COHERENCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY - A system, method, and device for imaging a sample. In embodiments, a light from a low-coherence source or a wavelength-swept source is used to illuminate the sample. Pathlength-resolved intensity profiles of the light reemitted from the sample are recorded and measurements are taken. A reconstruction algorithm is used to invert the pathlength-resolved measurements to form an image. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079769 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARAMETER EXTRACTION OF A CUTTING TOOL - A method for extracting parameters of a cutting tool is provided. The method comprises positioning the cutting tool on a moveable stage, performing one or more rotary scans of a first section of the cutting tool to generate a scanning point cloud, indexing a plurality of points of the scanning point cloud, detecting one or more feature points based on the indexed scanning point cloud, and extracting one or more parameters based on the detected feature points. A system for extracting the parameters is also presented. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079770 | CONTENT-AWARE HALFTONE IMAGE RESIZING - As provided herein, there are supplied teachings to systems and methods for resizing a halftone image using halftone tile parameters. One approach entails receiving into a digital imaging system, a digital halftone image and a desired resizing factor for the digital halftone image. Subsequently the system will define cells within the digital halftone image and determine from those cells, a number of halftone tile seams to suitable for manipulation. The orientation of these halftone tile seams is dictated by the received desired resizing factor. The energy of the number of halftone tile seams is determined according to an energy metric so as to provide indication of at least one low energy determined halftone tile seam. A resizing of the halftone image is then performing by manipulating at least one low energy halftone tile seam in the halftone image. The resized halftone image may then be printed on a printer. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079771 | CONTENT-AWARE HALFTONE IMAGE RESIZING USING ITERATIVE DETERMINATION OF ENERGY METRICS - As provided herein, there are supplied teachings to systems and methods for resizing a halftone image using halftone tile parameters. One approach entails receiving into a digital imaging system, a digital halftone image and a desired resizing factor for that digital halftone image. The system will then define cells within the digital halftone image and determine from those cells, a number of halftone tile seams to suitable for manipulation. The orientation of these halftone tile seams is dictated by the received desired resizing factor. The seam energy of these halftone tile seams is then determined according to an energy metric so as to provide indication of a number of low energy determined halftone tile seams. The number of low energy seams identified is sufficient to achieve the desired resizing factor. A resizing of the halftone image is then performing by iteratively deleting the low energy determined halftone tile seams within the halftone image. The resized halftone image may then be printed on a printer. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079772 | IMAGE PROCESSING TO REDUCE IMAGE PRINTING TIME BASED ON IMAGE DIMENSION AND PRINT PASS THRESHOLDS OF PRINT APPARATUS - A method is provided for processing an image to optimize print time of the image by a print apparatus based on the size of the image to be printed and the print pass thresholds of the print apparatus. A dimension of the image corresponding to the dimension along the sub-scanning axis of the image as it will be printed by the print apparatus is obtained, along with the corresponding number of print passes required to print the image. An analysis is performed to determine whether the size of the image could be reduced to require one less print pass by the print apparatus in printing the reduced image based on the proximity of the determined dimension to the range of dimensions that will result in one less print pass by the print apparatus. If the size of the image may be reduced such that the image could be printed in one less print pass while also meeting optional criteria such as enforcement of a maximum image reduction threshold, the image is scaled prior to printing to reduce the number of print passes performed by the print apparatus in printing the image. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079773 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A COMPOSED DOCUMENT FROM MULTIPLE PRINT JOBS - A printing method that allows a user to conveniently compose and print a document that includes multiple portions from multiple original documents. The method may be implemented as a separate printer driver program or as a part of another printer driver program. The printer driver program displays images of the original documents, and allows the user to select blocks from the original documents. The program then automatically arranges the selected blocks of image into one or more pages, and prints the resulting pages. Thus, only the selected blocks of image are printed. The program additionally allows the user to rearrange the blocks on the pages before printing. A graphical user interface (GUI) is implemented to interact with the user in this process. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079774 | DOT POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD, DOT POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A dot position measurement method includes: a line pattern formation step of recording dots on a recording medium continuously by a plurality of recording elements of a recording head while performing relative movement between the recording head and the recording medium in such a manner that a measurement line pattern including a plurality of lines of rows of the dots corresponding to the plurality of recording elements respectively is formed on the recording medium, the measurement line pattern having a plurality of line blocks including recording line blocks and a reference line block, each of the recording line blocks including a group of the lines recorded by the recording elements spaced by a prescribed distance in a direction in which the plurality of recording elements are substantially arranged and which is perpendicular to a direction of the relative movement of the recording head, the reference line block including a group of the lines recorded by the recording elements selected from the recording elements for each of the recording line blocks; a reading step of reading the measurement line pattern on the recording medium formed in the line pattern formation step with an image reading apparatus in a state where a longitudinal direction of the plurality of lines of the measurement line pattern are directed to a sub-scanning direction of the image reading apparatus in such a manner that an electronic image data indicating a read image of the measurement line pattern is acquired; a line block position determination step of determining positions of the respective lines in each of the plurality of line blocks according to the read image acquired in the reading step; and a position correction step of correcting the positions of the respective lines in each of the recording line blocks determined in the line block position determination step, according to the reference line block. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079775 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion which includes a nozzle surface having at least one nozzle and which is configured to form an image on a recording medium by ejecting ink toward the recording medium through the at least one nozzle, a feeding portion which includes a feeding surface on which the recording medium is placed and which is configured to feed the recording medium toward the image forming portion in a feeding direction, and a detecting portion which is configured to detect a state of lift of the recording medium relative to the feeding surface. The detecting portion includes a contact portion which is contactable with at least a part of a portion of the recording medium that is in the state of lift and a sensing portion which senses that the recording medium and the contact portion contact with each other. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079776 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND PRINTER DRIVER - A printing apparatus capable of executing color printing and monochrome printing includes: a mode controller which controls a monochrome printing mode where the monochrome printing is executed, a first mode where reception of a printing job stops when a color image forming medium has run out, and a second mode where procession to the monochrome printing mode is possible; an exclusive controller which receives only one printing job in a first time period; and a print executing unit which execute printing on the basis of the printing job received by the exclusive controller. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079777 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus sets, on an image to be printed, the print position of attribute information of the image. The information processing apparatus displays, on a display device, the print preview screen of the image to be printed in which an image forming the attribute information is arranged at the set print position. When a region corresponding to the attribute information on the print preview screen displayed on the display device is selected, the information processing apparatus enlarges and displays the attribute information. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079778 | PRINT SETTING APPLICATION PROGRAM, PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM, PRINT SETTING APPLICATION APPARATUS, AND PRINT SETTING APPLICATION METHOD - A print setting application apparatus includes: a print job data storage processing section that causes a predetermined storage medium to store print job data that designates a print target; a print setting acquiring section that acquires information that indicates that at least one of a plurality of print settings that can be applied to the print target has been changed; and a display controlling section that causes a predetermined display unit to display print-setting-application-completed information, which shows a result of application of the changed print setting to the print target when the print setting has been changed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079779 | PROFILE CORRECTING DEVICE - A profile correcting device includes a first profile acquiring unit, a second profile acquiring unit, a first correcting unit, and a second correcting unit. The first profile acquiring unit acquires a first profile representing correspondence relationship between input color values and first colorimetric values. Each first colorimetric value corresponds to one input color value and represents a color that is reproduced by a first image forming device based on the one input color value. The input color values includes a white value indicative of white, a black value indicative of black, a near-white color value indicative of a color near to white, and a near-black color value indicative of a color near to black. The second profile acquiring unit acquires a second profile representing correspondence relationship between the input color values and second colorimetric values. Each second colorimetric value corresponds to one input color value and represents a color that is reproduced by a second image forming device based on the one input color value. The second image forming device is different from the first image forming device. The first correcting unit corrects the second colorimetric value for the white value to a value equal to the first colorimetric value for the white value, and corrects the second colorimetric value for the black value to a value equal to the first colorimetric value for the black value. The second correcting unit corrects the second colorimetric value for the near-white color value to a weighted average of the first and second colorimetric values for the near-white color value, and corrects the second colorimetric value for the near-black color value to a weighted average of the first and second colorimetric values for the near-black color value. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079780 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND JOB HISTORY DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus, an image forming system and a job history displaying method of the image forming apparatus. The job history displaying method of the image forming apparatus which performs at least one function of printing, scanning, copying and facsimile, includes: performing a job which is supported in the image forming apparatus; storing a job history which includes the performed job; and displaying a job history with respect to at least one function among the stored job history in at least one display unit of date, day, week, month and year. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079781 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention is directed to a document processing system and control method thereof. The system includes a document database for storing a plurality of items of document data. When scanned image data or facsimile-received image data is input, document data related to the input image data is specified among the plurality of items of document data, based on metadata contained in each document data, and the importance of the specified related document data is updated. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079782 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM USED THEREIN - A computer readable storage medium storing a computer-executable installation program is for installing, on an information processing, device which is connectable with a peripheral device in a plurality of connection modes, software including at least one device driver for the peripheral device upon setting installation mode to each connection mode. The installation program includes first detecting the peripheral device connected with the information processing device, second detecting the connection mode of the detected peripheral device, determining whether or not at least one device driver for the detected peripheral device has been installed on the information processing device in accordance with the detected connection mode, and automatically setting the installation mode to the detected connection mode to install the device driver in accordance with the detected connection mode if at least one device driver has not been installed on the information processing device in accordance with the detected connection mode. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079783 | Image processing apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium - An image processing apparatus contains an alpha-blend execution unit and a storage device management unit. The alpha-blend execution unit allocates a memory area in a main memory for an alpha-blend execution to compose transparency properties and carries out the alpha-blend execution in a process to convert a page description language data to an image. The page description language data contains a drawing object having a transparency property and a canvas having a transparency property. The drawing object is drawn on the canvas. The storage device management unit evacuates a memory-image of the canvas in the memory area from the main memory to an auxiliary memory, and reads back the memory-image of the canvas from the auxiliary memory to the main memory when the memory-image of the canvas is required for the alpha-blend execution. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079784 | Dynamic facsimile transcoding in a unified messaging platform - Facsimile transcoding is dynamically invoked for devices that do not support T.38 fax protocol. In this way, a unified messaging platform can process facsimiles from endpoints that are not T.38 capable without using without digital signal processor resources. Dynamic fax transcoding can be performed at a session border controller, allowing transcoding resources to be engaged only for non-T.38 endpoints rather than for all calls on an interface. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079785 | PRINTING SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND PRINTING SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - A client terminal transmits a call request for using a MFP to a call control server. The call control server carries out authentication processing about a user and the MFP in response to the call request. If the authentication processing result is correct, the call control server transfers the call request to the printing service management server. The call request is transferred from the printing service management server to a printing service providing server and then transferred to the MFP via the call control server. Thus, a session of the client terminal and the MFP is established. The printing service providing server carries out processing for providing a predetermined printing service based on the call request from the client terminal. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079786 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND DISPLAYING PRINTER STATUS - A data processor includes a communication unit, a customized data acquiring unit, a storing unit, a status data acquiring unit, and a display unit. The communication unit performs data communication with an electrical equipment. The customized data acquiring unit acquires customized data. The storing unit stores fixed data and the customized data acquired by the customized data acquiring unit. The customized data is correlated with the fixed data. The status data acquiring unit acquires status data from the electrical equipment via the communication unit. The display unit displays the fixed data and the customized data. The fixed data and the customized data are in association with the status data acquired by the status data acquiring unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079787 | VARIABLE DATA PRINTING METHOD UTILIZING SEPARATE PRINTERS FOR DIFFERENT CONTENT - A variable data printing (VDP) method is disclosed in which different types of contents on each piece of the VDP production, such as color form contents and black and white contents, are printed using different types of printers, such as color printers and black and white printers, respectively. The color form content is printed first to form partially printed sheets. Partially printed sheet carrying different color contents are loaded into different input trays of the black and white printers. The black and white content is printed on the partially printed sheets using the black and white printers. When printing the black and white content, the color data in the input VDP data is excluded. The job tickets for the black and white print jobs specify the input trays to be used so that the appropriate partially printed sheet is selected for each black and white print job. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079788 | VARIABLE DATA PRINTING METHOD UTILIZING MULTIPLE PRINTERS - A variable data printing (VDP) method is disclosed. The method takes advantage of the capacity of a print shop to increase overall throughput of a VDP production. The shop management software running on a server provides the ability for a print shop operator to divide the VDP production and submit it to multiple printers so that each printer prints different pieces of the production. In one method, the operator enters a division rule to divide the VDP production based on the variable data. In another method, the server automatically determines how to divide the VDP production based on performance of the printers and other the volume of the VDP production. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079789 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PERFORMING PREPRESS OPERATIONS USING A SHELL DOCUMENT - A method of performing prepress operations with respect to a print job may include receiving, by a prepress workflow system, a document to be processed by a workflow, and automatically generating a shell document corresponding to the received document. The shell document may include a plurality of shell pages, and each one of the plurality of shell pages may include an external reference that corresponds to one of the plurality of received pages. The method may include performing, by a processor, one or more first prepress operations on one or more of the shell pages to produce a modified shell document, performing, by the processor, one or more second prepress operations on one or more of the received pages to produce a modified received document and merging the modified received document and the modified shell document to form a merged document. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079790 | Systems and Methods for Automating Printer Configuration - Apparatus, systems, and methods consistent with disclosed embodiments permit the automatic configuration of printers based on the generic physical characteristics of print media by using a product code associated with the print media. Printer configuration settings associated with the product code are retrieved and used to automatically configure an input tray holding the media. In some embodiments, the product codes can be scanned using a sensor coupled to the input tray. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079791 | SCANNING APPARATUS, NETWORK SCANNING SYSTEM, AND NETWORK SCANNING METHOD THEREOF - A scanning apparatus, a network scanning system and a network scanning method thereof, the network scanning method of the scanning apparatus that is connected to a host apparatus including: receiving inherent information with respect to the host apparatus that is a transmission target of a scan image of a scanned item; searching for one or more scanning protocols supported by the host apparatus by using the received inherent information; and displaying the one or more supported scanning protocols found in the searching. Thus, an error in a network scanning setting may be reduced, and user convenience may be improved. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079792 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A determining unit calculates an estimated time until drawing data is transmitted to an engine, and transmits the drawing data, a print instruction, and the estimated time to the engine. An activating/terminating unit activates or terminates each unit of the engine. A confirming unit inquires the controller of presence of drawing data of a next page, and acquires an estimated time. An activation/termination controlling unit controls the activating/terminating unit when it is judged that the estimated time is longer than a sum of a time required for activating units of the engine and a time required for terminating the units. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079793 | SYSTEM, SERVER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides a server which distributes firmware to an image forming apparatus, the server including a determination unit configured to determine whether the firmware distributed to the image forming apparatus is released now, and a transmission unit configured to, when the firmware determined by the determination unit not to be released now has not been applied to the image forming apparatus, transmit instruction information containing an instruction to prevent application of the firmware to the image forming apparatus, and when the firmware determined by the determination unit not to be released now has been applied to the image forming apparatus, transmit instruction information containing an instruction to obtain either of alternative firmware and downgrade firmware to the firmware and apply the obtained firmware. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079794 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INPUT METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and an input method thereof are provided. The input method of an image forming apparatus which includes at least one hard key and a touch screen, including displaying a screen with at least one input selection option on the touch screen, receiving a selection of the at least one hard key and a touch selection of at least one of the input selection options of the displayed screen, and performing an operation corresponding to the received hard key selection and the received touch selection. Thus, a shortcut key using a hard key and a touch screen together may be provided, thereby reducing inconvenience for a user to navigate to a menu and to input data. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079795 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an input unit which receives input of image data containing a plurality of drawing objects overlapping each other, a pixel data generation unit which generates a plurality of pixel data corresponding to the respective drawing objects, a pixel data compression unit which compresses the plurality of pixel data into pieces of run-length information corresponding to the plurality of pixel data, a selection unit which selects, based on drawing information of the drawing object, either of composition of the pixel data and composition of the run-length information to be performed, a pixel data composition unit which composites the pixel data, and a compressed pixel composition unit which composites the run-length information. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079796 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes: a communication device; and a data receiver that is configured so as to be capable of being connected to the communication device. The communication device includes: a content summary receiving unit that is configured so as to be capable of receiving content summary data transmitted from an external device, the content summary data including at least positional data and title data for content data; and a positional data transmitting unit. The data receiver includes a scheduled port querying unit that is configured to transmit to the communication device a query querying the communication device for a scheduled port. The communication device further includes: a scheduled port notifying unit that, upon receiving the scheduled port query from the data receiver, transmits to the data receiver a scheduled port notification indicating the scheduled port. The data receiver further includes: a determining unit that determines whether the scheduled port indicated in the scheduled port notification is available; and an availability notifying unit that transmits to the communication device an availability notification indicating the scheduled port that is determined as being available. The communication device further includes: an active port setting unit that sets the scheduled port indicated by the availability notification as an active port; and an active port notifying unit that transmits to the data receiver an active port notification indicating the active port. The positional data transmitting unit transmits the positional data for the content data to the data receiver through the active port at a prescribed timing and according to the prescribed communication protocol. The data receiver further includes: an active port receiving unit that receives the active port notification from the communication device; and a positional data receiving unit that is configured so as to be capable of receiving, via the active port indicated in the active port notification, the positional data for the content data outputted from the communication device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079797 | Image Scanner and Image Scanning System - An image scanning system comprising an image scanner and a terminal, wherein the image scanner comprises an image storing unit to store the image data; a terminal designation unit to designate the terminal as a transmission target; a terminal storing unit to record correspondence data to associate the image data with the terminal; an information notification unit to transmit a notification of information concerning image data to the designated terminal; a request receiving unit to receive a request for image data; and an image transmission unit to transmit the image data associated with the designated terminal for which the request has been received, and the terminal comprises: an indication unit to make an indication in response to receipt of the notification; and a request transmission unit to transmit the request to the image scanner when a user operation for requesting image data is received. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079798 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which performs variable printing in accordance with print data containing a fixed object and a variable object determines whether the fixed object overlaps another fixed object. When the image processing apparatus determines that the fixed object overlaps the other fixed object, the image processing apparatus generates data by performing the first image forming processing to combine the fixed object and the other fixed object or the second image forming processing to process the fixed object or the other fixed object. The image processing apparatus stores the generated data. The image processing apparatus extracts the stored data, combines it with the variable object to generate print data, and outputs the print data. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079799 | Media Processing Device, Control Method for a Media Processing Device, and a Control Program for a Media Processing Device - A media processing device and a control method therefor separate the control unit that detects state changes and the control unit that controls executing processes according to a state change. The media processing device has a label printer | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079800 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM - The execution of an image processing job is limited using a printing amount by an image processing job that has already been executed and a printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by an image processing job that has already been transmitted but not yet executed. To accomplish this, a multi-function peripheral manages a first printing amount that has already been printed by a executed print job and a second printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by a print job that has been transmitted from the multi-function peripheral to a printer and that has not yet been executed in association with a user ID, and determines, before transmitting the print job, whether or not the total of a third printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by the print job, the first printing amount and the second printing amount exceeds an upper limit amount. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079801 | Image Forming Device and Management System for Image Forming - An image forming device includes an image forming unit configured to execute an image formation process to form an image on a recording medium based on an image formation job, and an information writing control unit configured to write history information based on the image formation job into an external storage device connected to the image forming device via a network, wherein the information writing unit writes the information into the external storage device before completion of the image formation process based on the image formation job by the image formation unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079802 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus capable of processing image data having plural pages includes a page designation unit, a page extraction unit, and an output unit. The page designation unit receives designation of a page to be printed. The page extraction unit extracts page data in a unit of pages from the image data based on the page designated through the page designation unit and page information included in the image data. The output unit outputs the page data extracted by the page extraction unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079803 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of sending error report information to management server address without user information when there is no permission of user. The image forming apparatus, comprising: an image generating section for generating image data; a storing section for storing history information representing history of apparatus operation on the basis of the generated image data; a trouble detecting section for detecting trouble that occurs in the apparatus; a displaying process section that at least displays a screen of respective items contained in history information corresponding to current image data selectively, when trouble is detected; a selection instruction receiving section that receives a selection instruction of respective items from the displayed screen; a generating section that generates trouble report information containing the respective items in the selection instruction; and a sending control section that sends the generated trouble report information to an external apparatus. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079804 | Printer Having Web Server Function - A printer may comprise a command file storage unit, a receiving unit, a command file sending unit, and a first data sending unit. The command file storage unit may store a command file including a first command, a second command, and a third command. The first command is a command for sending a request for first data. The second command includes design data, and is a command for converting the first data into second data in accordance with the design data. The third command is a command for displaying a web page in accordance with the second data. The receiving unit may receive a request. The command file sending unit may send a response including the command file when a request for the command file is received. The first data sending unit may send a response including the first data when the request for the first data is received. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079805 | NETWORK INTERFACE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A mechanism which can avoid, as much as possible, a difference of picture quality that is caused by restricting color printing according to an authority and forcedly performing monochromatic printing is provided. A mechanism which restricts the color printing according to the authority without deteriorating performance is also provided. The processing refers to a color restricting mode in user information or a color restricting mode in setting information. When the referred color restricting mode indicates “force”, if the user does not have the authority in which a color job can be printed, the job is forcedly converted into monochrome. In case of “analyze”, if the user does not have the authority in which a color job can be printed, the job is analyzed. If it is the color job, a forced monochromatic printing or print inhibition is performed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079806 | Image forming device, image forming system and image forming method - An image forming device includes an image forming unit in communication with a printing data memory unit and configured to print first and second printing data on a front side of a recording medium, and a recording medium re-feeding mechanism unit configured to re-feed the recording medium to the image forming unit to enable the image forming unit to over-print one of the first printing data and the second printing data on the front side of the recording medium at the image forming unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079807 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - The invention relates to a method for generating a printout of a section of a global position-coding pattern in a system comprising a computer unit and a printer unit connected to the computer unit. The method is characterized by the steps of generating in the computer unit boundary information that describes the boundaries of the section in the global position-coding pattern; transmitting the boundary information from the computer unit to the printer unit; generating graphical information in the printer unit by means of an algorithm that defines the global position-coding pattern and on the basis of the boundary information, which graphical information describes pattern symbols in the section; and printing out the graphical information on a base by the printer unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079808 | Image-Forming Device Having Index Printing Function - An image-forming device includes: a converting unit; a creating unit; a storing unit; and a replacing unit. The converting unit performs a conversion process to convert a plurality of sets of print data, which are of differing formats from one another, into intermediate data of a common format, the converting unit converting each set of print data into a corresponding set of intermediate data. The creating unit creates page data from the intermediate data in parallel with the conversion process. The printing unit performs an index printing operation based on page data created by the creating unit. The storing unit stores at least one page data creatable range delimiter for the intermediate data by which the creating unit can create the page data from the intermediate data, the storing unit storing one page data creatable range delimiter after the converting unit converts at least a part of one set of print data of one format into a set of intermediate data, from which page data is creatable. The replacing unit is configured so as to be capable of performing a replacement process to replace at least the intermediate data positioned after the page data creatable range delimiter in the print data with substitute data when an error occurs in the print data during the conversion process. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079809 | Systems and Methods for Optimized Printer Throughput in a Multi-Core Environment - Systems and methods consistent with some embodiments presented provide methods for the concurrent generation and parallel rasterization of at least one display list in a memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory, wherein the display list comprises a plurality of equal sized display list blocks, the method comprises: monitoring the completion status of the display list blocks; monitoring the availability of rasterization processes; assigning a completed display list block to an available rasterization process; and rasterizing the display list block using the available rasterization process. In some embodiments, rasterization processes may run concurrently and operate on distinct blocks corresponding to distinct bands. Rasterized display list blocks are returned to the memory pool. In some embodiments, each concurrently executing rasterization process may execute on a distinct core of a multi-core processor. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079810 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image data forming unit that forms an image data which includes a first dot image to be visible by copying, a second dot image to be invisible by copying, a hidden text portion and the background portion; and an image forming unit that carries out image formation by using the image data formed by the image data forming unit. the first dot image has a first color, the first dot image includes dots having a dot size increased by decreasing the number of lines of dots, the second dot image has a second color, the second dot images includes dots having a dot size decreased by increasing the number of lines of dots, and the second dot image is stacked on the first dot image in at least one of a hidden text portion or a background portion. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079811 | Systems and Methods for Efficient Halftone Screening - Systems, methods, and devices described herein provide schemes for performing halftoning operations on image data using a first halftone pattern with a first data width on a SIMD-capable processor with a second data width, wherein second data width is not an integral multiple of the first data width. In some embodiments, the method can operate iteratively and comprises deriving a halftone pattern for an iteration based on a start location in the first halftone pattern, wherein the derived halftone pattern can be of the second data width; loading image data for the iteration until the image data is exhausted, or until the image data occupies the entire width of a register in the processor; and performing halftone computations on the image data using the derived halftone pattern. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079812 | CONTENT-AWARE RESIZING OF UNIFORM ROSETTE COLOR HALFTONE IMAGES - As provided herein, there are supplied teachings to systems and methods for resizing a digital uniform rosette halftone image composed of multiple colorant separations, by using uniform rosette halftone tile parameters. One approach entails receiving into a digital imaging system, a digital uniform rosette halftone image and a desired resizing factor for that digital uniform rosette halftone image. Subsequently the system will define uniform rosette cells within the color uniform rosette digital halftone image. From the defined uniform rosette cells, a number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams are determined for manipulation. The orientation of the number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams is dictated by the received desired resizing factor. An energy map of the digital uniform rosette halftone image is determined according to an energy metric derived from the multiple colorant separations. The energy of the number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams within the energy map is determined so as to provide indication of at least one low energy determined uniform rosette halftone tile seam. A resizing of the uniform rosette halftone image by manipulating the at least one low energy determined uniform rosette halftone tile seam is performed so as to obtain a resized uniform rosette halftone image. The resized uniform rosette halftone image may then be printed on a printer. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079813 | CONTENT-AWARE UNIFORM ROSETTE COLOR HALFTONE IMAGE RESIZING USING ITERATIVE DETERMINATION OF ENERGY METRICS - As provided herein, there are supplied teachings to systems and methods for resizing a digital uniform rosette halftone image composed of multiple colorant separations, by using uniform rosette halftone tile parameters and iterative determination of energy metrics. One approach entails receiving into a digital imaging system, a digital uniform rosette halftone image and a desired resizing factor for that digital uniform rosette halftone image. Subsequently the system will define uniform rosette screen parameters to define uniform rosette Holladay halftone tiles within the color uniform rosette digital halftone image. From the defined uniform rosette cells, a number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams are determined for manipulation. The orientation of the number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams is dictated by the received desired resizing factor. The energy of the number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams is determined according to an energy metric so as to provide indication of low energy determined uniform rosette halftone tile seams. A resizing of the uniform rosette halftone image by iteratively deleting a number of the low energy determined uniform rosette halftone tile seam is performed so as to obtain a resized uniform rosette halftone image. The resized uniform rosette halftone image may then be printed on a printer. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079814 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONE CHARACTERISTICS CORRECTION METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes, for example, a pattern generating unit, image processing unit, image recording unit, and correction unit. The pattern generating unit generates a test pattern signal used to form a test pattern including a plurality of tone patches differing in tonality from each other. The image processing unit performs image processing on the test pattern signal according to a predetermined image processing mode out of a plurality of image processing modes related to tone characteristics. The image recording unit records the test pattern on a recording medium according to the test pattern signal processed by the image processing unit. The correction unit corrects the image processing mode based on a result of reading the test pattern recorded on the recording medium. In particular, the image recording unit records a background pattern around periphery of the test pattern. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079815 | Systems and Methods for Luminance Determination - Systems and methods are provided for generating at least one look-up table, wherein the look-up table holds at least one luminance value in a second color space. In some embodiments, the luminance value can be computed for distinct combinations of color component values corresponding to a plurality of color components in a first color space. The method comprises computing at least one luminance value in the second color space based on a portion of the color component value combination; deriving an address in a look-up table based on the portion of the color component combination; and storing the computed luminance value in the look-up table at the derived address. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079816 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes: an area tone setting device which sets an arbitrary tone correction table for each of image forming areas obtained by dividing a recording medium into a plurality of areas; a tone correction table storage device which stores tone correction tables set respectively for the image forming areas by the area tone setting device; an area judgment device which judges the image forming areas on which respective pixels constituting input image data are to be printed; a tone correction table selection device which selects from the tone correction table storage device one of the tone correction tables corresponding to the image forming area judged by the area judgment device; and a tone correction device which performs tone correction of each pixel constituting the input image data, using the tone correction table selected by the tone correction table selection device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079817 | Method for optimizing the search for trapping regions - Methods disclosed permit the identification of frame buffer pixels for trapping. In some embodiments, flags associated with pixels in the frame buffer may be used to provide an indication of pixels for trapping. A first bit in a flag associated with a pixel may be set when the pixel is painted. In some embodiments, the method discloses a process for setting the value of a second bit in the flag to determine if the pixel associated with the flag lies on an object boundary. The pixel is identified as a candidate for trapping based on the value of the at least one flag. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO IMPROVE IMAGE QUALITY AND IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus to improve image quality. An image forming apparatus includes an object dividing unit to divide scanned image data into objects, an object size estimation unit to estimate a size of each object, a controlling unit to determine whether to perform image quality enhancement processing for each object according to the estimated size of the object, and an image quality enhancement unit to perform image quality enhancement processing for the objects according to the determination of the controlling unit. Therefore, when a document is printed, data having optimum quality are provided. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079819 | PRINTER AND PRINT METHOD - A printer includes a print unit which prints an image on a recording medium by adhering recording material based on image data; a storage unit which stores a value corresponding to a reference recording material density; a reference density acquisition unit which acquires from the image data a reference recording material density of an area within the image; a specifying unit which specifies a value corresponding to the acquired reference recording material density by referring to the storage unit; a detection unit which detects a recording material density in the area of the printed image; a determination unit which determines whether the detected recording material density in the area is within a range determined based on the specified value; and a controller which indicates a print failure and/or stops printing if the determination unit determines that the detected recording material density detected is outside of the range. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079820 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color image forming apparatus of a so-called tandem type which has image forming units in correspondence with colors is provided. In the color image forming apparatus, a color discrepancy amount storage unit stores information of a color discrepancy amount of each of the image forming units, which is measured in advance. A first color discrepancy correcting unit performs color discrepancy correction in a pixel unit by performing coordinate conversion of bitmap data to be printed based on the information of the color discrepancy amount stored in the color discrepancy amount storage unit. A second color discrepancy correcting unit performs color discrepancy correction in less than a pixel unit by performing tone correction of the bitmap data corrected by the first color discrepancy correcting unit based on the information of the color discrepancy amount stored in the color discrepancy amount storage unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079821 | Image processing device and method of the same - A image processing device includes an image scanning unit for scanning a plurality of pages of a book and generating image data, a storage unit in which data related to direction of the image data is stored, a direction determination unit for determining a direction of a page unit of the image data, and an image rotation unit for changing a direction of a page unit of the image data based on the direction determined by the direction determination unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079822 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENT USING THE SAME - A document processing apparatus, including a symbol-related information acquirement unit which identifies a text area in a scanned document, extracts symbols from the identified text area, and acquires symbol-related information regarding each extracted symbol, a symbol division unit which divides the extracted symbols into several groups based on a preset reference value regarding the symbol-related information, and a key index generation unit which generates a key index by arranging one group of symbols from among the divided groups. Accordingly, a user can look for a desired document more easily and conveniently. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079823 | Image Scanning System, Image Scanner, and Computer Readable Medium for Image Processing Device - An image scanning system comprises an image scanner and an information processing device. The image scanner comprises an output unit to output image data generated based on scanned image to the information processing device; and an instructing unit to transmit a prohibition command for prohibiting displaying of an image based on the image data, to the information processing device. The information processing device comprises a data reception unit to receive the image data outputted by the image scanner; a display unit; a control unit configured to control the display unit to display the image based on the image data; and a command reception unit configured to receive the prohibition command. In this configuration, the control unit operates to prohibit displaying of the image based on the received image data in response to reception of the prohibition command through the command reception unit. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079824 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes: a forming unit configured to form a mark on a carrier; a light emitting unit configured to emit light toward a surface of the carrier; a light receiving unit configured to receive reflected light from the surface of the carrier and from the mark and configured to output a light reception signal corresponding to a amount of the received reflected light; a detecting unit configured to detect a position of the mark on the carrier on a basis of a signal wave contained in the light reception signal; and a modification unit configured to modify the detected position of the mark by a modification amount corresponding to a difference in a waveform of the signal wave corresponding to the mark so as to reduce an error between the detected position and an actual position. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079825 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR READING INFORMATION - A position Z of an image sensor is moved to an initial position A (image forming position) in a Z axis direction. An exposing operation is performed at a position A, and it is determined whether or not an exposing time counted by a timer has reached ta. If the exposing time has reached ta, an image sensor | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079826 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR READING INFORMATION - A liquid crystal panel includes an iris unit for limiting the incident range of light from an object to be shot, and a filter unit for assigning a exposure energy distribution varying with the position to incident light whose incident range is limited by the iris unit. The control unit controls the ON time and the OFF time of each pixel of the liquid crystal panel, and then a low pass filter operation on the captured image as an image processing can be optically replaced. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079827 | Document Scanning Device - A document scanning device, configured to sequentially eject and insert sheets under a stack of already-ejected sheets, includes a feed tray, a document table, a catch tray, a feeder feeding sheets from the feed tray to the catch tray, a scanner performing scanning in one of a first mode to scan the sheets fed by the feeder and a second mode to scan a sheet placed on the document table, an ejection detector detecting a sheet on the catch tray, and a controller. In response to an instruction to start the scanning, the controller forbids the scanner to start the scanning when determining with the ejection detector that a sheet is on the catch tray, and allows the scanner to start the scanning in a selected one of the first mode and the second mode when determining with the ejection detector that no sheet is on the catch tray. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100079828 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING DISPLAY PROFILES TO SIMULATE THE METAMERIC EFFECTS OF CUSTOM ILLUMINATION - A method for compensating for effects of illumination when comparing soft proofs to hard copy proofs viewed under non-standard illumination comprises obtaining ( | 2010-04-01 |
