38th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100238161 | Computer-aided system for 360 heads up display of safety/mission critical data - A safety critical, time sensitive data system for projecting safety/mission critical data onto a display pair of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) light weight projection glasses or monocular creating a virtual 360° HUD (Heads Up Display) with 6 degrees of freedom movement. The system includes the display, the workstation, the application software, and inputs containing the safety/mission critical information (Current User Position, Total Collision Avoidance System—TCAS, Global Positioning System—GPS, Magnetic Resonance Imaging—MRI Images, CAT scan images, Weather data, Military troop data, real-time space type markings etc.). The workstation software processes the incoming safety/mission critical data and converts it into a three dimensional space for the user to view. Selecting any of the images may display available information about the selected item or may enhance the image. Predicted position vectors may be displayed as well as 3D terrain. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGHT DISTANCE ANALYSIS - A computer implemented method of visualizing an infrastructure comprising: acquiring a cross section definition, the definition comprising points defining a link and link information, each of the points exhibiting a type; creating at least one three dimensional face linking points of a same type; assigning a face rendering for each of the created at least one three dimensional faces with a material definitional associated with the link information; and displaying the faces with the rendering. The invention also provides for a computing system operable to: acquire a cross section definition, the definition comprising points defining a link and link information, each of the points exhibiting a type; create at least one three dimensional face linking points of a same type; and assign a face rendering for each of the created at least one three dimensional faces with a material definitional associated with the link information. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238163 | Telestrator System - A telestrator system is disclosed that allows a broadcaster to annotate video during or after an event. For example, while televising a sporting event, an announcer (or other user) can use the present invention to draw over the video of the event to highlight one or more actions, features, etc. In one embodiment, when the announcer draws over the video, it appears that the announcer is drawing on the field or location of the event. Such an appearance can be performed by mapping the pixels location from the user's drawing to three dimensional locations at the event. Other embodiments include drawing on the video without obscuring persons and/or other specified objects, and/or smoothing the drawings in real time. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238164 | IMAGE STITCHING USING PARTIALLY OVERLAPPING VIEWS OF A SCENE - An “Oblique Image Stitcher” provides a technique for constructing a photorealistic oblique view from a set of input images representing a series of partially overlapping views of a scene. The Oblique Image Stitcher first projects each input image onto a geometric proxy of the scene and renders the images from a desired viewpoint. Once the images have been projected onto the geometric proxy, the rendered images are evaluated to identify optimum seams along which the various images are to be blended. Once the optimum seams are selected, the images are remapped relative to those seams by leaving the mapping unchanged at the seams and interpolating a smooth mapping between the seams. The remapped images are then composited to construct the final mosaiced oblique view of the scene. The result is a mosaic image constructed by warping the input images in a photorealistic manner which agrees at seams between images. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238165 | GEOSPATIAL MODELING SYSTEM FOR COLORIZING IMAGES AND RELATED METHODS - A geospatial modeling system includes a geospatial model database having stored therein a colorized three-dimensional (3D) model of a geographical area, and a processor cooperating with the geospatial model database. The processor is configured to generate an estimated monochromatic image corresponding to a collected monochromatic image based upon the colorized 3D model, generate a monochromatic difference image between the estimated monochromatic image and the collected monochromatic image, and generate a colorized image corresponding to the collected monochromatic image based upon the monochromatic difference image. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238166 | ATTRIBUTE TRANSFER BETWEEN COMPUTER MODELS INCLUDING IDENTIFYING ISOMORPHIC REGIONS IN POLYGONAL MESHES - A method for automatically transferring attributes between computer-generated models. The method includes storing in memory first and second models represented by polygonal meshes and storing a set of attributes for the first model. A processor operates or runs a compressed graph generator to process the first and second models to generate first and second compressed graphs that are compressed versions of the models. The method includes comparing topological connectivity of the first and second compressed graphs. When the connectivity is similar, the method includes transferring at least a portion of the attributes from the first model to the second model. The compressed graphs may be motorcycle graphs, skeleton graphs, or other forms of compressed graphs. The method includes determining a pair of vertices in the first compressed graph that match vertices in the second compressed graph for use as starting locations in comparing topological connectivity of the compressed graphs. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238167 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING DIMENSIONS - A system, method, and computer program for selecting geometries from a solid model that is manipulated in a computer having software instructions, comprising: a computer system, wherein the computer system includes a memory, a processor, a user input device, and a display device; a computer generated geometric model stored in the memory in the memory of the computer system; and wherein the computer system selects a two-dimensional sketch geometry from a two-dimensional sketch to form a three-dimensional model using a feature command; identifies a plurality of elements on the two-dimensional sketch geometry that correspond to the three-dimensional model; forms a counterpart element on the three-dimensional model that is one of a dimension and a constraint from the identified plurality of elements; and provides the capability to modify the three-dimensional model by manipulating the counterpart element; and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238168 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SKELETON MODEL USING MOTION DATA AND IMAGE DATA - An apparatus and method for generating a skeleton model using motion data and image data. The apparatus for generating the skeleton model may synchronize the image data and the motion data, and generate a three-dimensional (3D) skeleton model of an entire body of a user using a silhouette extracted from the image data and also using a position or orientation of a joint of the user extracted from the motion data. The skeleton model may be generated using the image data and the motion data, thereby improving accuracy of the skeleton model of the entire body of the user. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238169 | Physical Rendering With Textured Bounding Volume Primitive Mapping - A circuit arrangement, program product and circuit arrangement utilize a textured bounding volume to reduce the overhead associated with generating and using an Accelerated Data Structure (ADS) in connection with physical rendering. In particular, a subset of the primitives in a scene may be mapped to surfaces of a bounding volume to generate textures on such surfaces that can be used during physical rendering. By doing so, the primitives that are mapped to the bounding volume surfaces may be omitted from the ADS to reduce the processing overhead associated with both generating the ADS and using the ADS during physical rendering, and furthermore, in many instances the size of the ADS may be reduced, thus reducing the memory footprint of the ADS, and often improving cache hit rates and reducing memory bandwidth. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238170 | VISUALIZATION OF TEMPORAL DATA - The invention relates to analysis and visualization of temporal data and, in embodiments, to the area of visualization of temporal data associated with medical images. A method of visualizing temporal data is disclosed. The method comprises providing a set of temporal data, detecting the number of distinct regions ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100238171 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CT IMAGE DISPLAYS, AND AN ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT FOR CARRYING OUT THIS METHOD - A method is disclosed for preparing CT image displays. In at least one embodiment, the method includes compiling N≧2 CT image data records of an area of a patient on the basis of N different X-ray energy spectra, each pixel or voxel being assigned an N-tuple CT numbers, each CT number of the N-tuple being assigned to the absorption value of one of the N X-ray energy spectra; carrying out material destruction over at least one predetermined subarea of the area of the patient represented in the CT image data records with reference to at least three materials including at least bone mineral, yellow bone marrow and red bone marrow; and outputting and/or displaying at least one CT image data record at least with reference to the predetermined subarea with absorption values relating to one of the N X-ray energy spectra or to a mathematically simulated spectrum from which the bone mineral content is extracted. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238172 | CONE-CULLED SOFT SHADOWS - Soft shadows in computer graphics images are created by rendering the scene from the camera viewpoint and at least one light viewpoint. The positions of scene fragments and light fragments in the scene are stored. For each scene fragment, a frustum is defined between the position of the scene fragment and the light source. Light fragments are evaluated with respect to the frustum to select light fragments blocking light between the light source and the scene fragment. A color or monochromatic shading value is determined for each scene fragment that indicates the amount of light blocked or transmitted by the light fragments. The shading values are then used to alter scene fragments accordingly. Computer graphics images with soft shadows can be created entirely by a graphics processing subsystem or by a graphics processing subsystem in conjunction with a central processing unit using a pipelined, deferred shading approach. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238173 | Compressed Audio Information - Compressed entertainment content such as audio or video or both includes additional aspects and operations associated their way. The compressed audio may be used to signal computers such as a telephone or reminder for an appointment. A melody line may be extracted from the audio, or the audio may be used exactly as it is. Another aspect stores traders within the entertainment content such as in MP3. Those traders are used to trigger the system to retrieve other parts of the content to be displayed at the same time that that particular part of the MP3 is being play. The content may include video or text, or maybe links to other content such as broadband content four times sensitive content. Another aspect describes encryption which is keyed to the disk ID to prevent playing oven illegally copied disk. Another aspect reads a specified amount of information then spins down the disk to conserve battery power. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238174 | Cursor Synchronization in a Plurality of Graphs - Cursor synchronization in a plurality of graphs. A plurality of graphs may be displayed. Each graph may visually represent data and may include at least two axis. User input may be received specifying a value of a first axis of a first graph of the plurality of graphs. The method may determine if the first axis in the first graph corresponds to a first axis of a second graph in response to the user input. A visual indication may be indicated at a second value in the second graph in response to determining that the first axis in the first graph corresponds to the first axis of the second graph. The second value may correspond to the first value. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238175 | Graphing Device and Method - To display patient information, a computing device receives a set of diagnostic values for a patient, a processor of the computing device compares the set of diagnostic values with a set of predetermined normal values, and a video image is displayed having a graphical depiction of the diagnostic values in comparison to the related normal values. The related set of normal values is displayed at a predetermined region of the video image and the set of diagnostic values is displayed on the video image in relation to the certain region of the normal values. Varying levels of relative health of the patient are indicated according the placement of an icon relative to areas of the graphical depiction of the diagnostic values. The video image is a plurality of concentric circles with the diagnostic values being displayed relatively closer to a center of the display in response to the diagnostic values being relatively closer to the values of the related normal values. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238176 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR FLASH EXPOSURE CONTROL USING PREFLASH STATISTICS - Techniques for accomplishing transitions between graphical data representations (e.g., charts, graphs, and so forth) are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, each object in such a graphical data representation is individually manipulable during transitions. In certain embodiments, the presence of an object in both the outgoing and incoming graphical data representation may be taken into account during a transition. In such embodiments, differences between the objects in the outgoing and incoming graphical data representation may be addressed by the respective transition. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238177 | DRAWING PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A drawing processing device includes a rendering section, first and second figure drawing sections, a registration section, and a control section. The rendering section performs rendering based on a drawing command. The first figure drawing section draws a figure based on a figure pattern obtained by performing the rendering. When the rendering section performs the rendering for a figure, the registration section registers the figure pattern for the figure. If a figure drawing command is received and if a figure pattern corresponding to the received figure drawing command is stored, the second figure drawing section selects the corresponding registered figure pattern and draws a figure in place of the first figure drawing section. Based on an appearance state of figures in a page to be processed, the control section controls whether or not figure drawing performed by the second figure drawing section is caused to function in the page. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238178 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a command supplying unit which supplies a drawing command containing identification information used to identify each glyph and instructing drawing of the contour of the glyph; a contour drawing unit which acquires glyph data indicating the contour of the glyph identified by the identification information contained in the drawing command and writes image data, in which the contour indicated by the acquired glyph data is represented by gray scale values of plural pixels, in a memory, when the drawing command is supplied from the command supplying unit; and a storage unit which stores posture information specifying a posture of the contour indicated by the image data written in the memory. The command supplying unit supplies the drawing command containing no posture information to the contour drawing unit when the contour of the glyph is drawn with the posture specified by the posture information stored in the storage unit, and supplies the drawing command containing the posture information to the contour drawing unit, when the contour of the glyph is not drawn with the posture specified by the posture information stored in the storage unit. The contour drawing unit writes the image data indicating the contour with the posture specified by the posture information when the drawing command containing the posture information is supplied from the command supplying unit, and writes the image data indicating the contour with the posture specified by the posture information stored in the storage unit when the drawing command containing no posture information is supplied from the command supplying unit. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238179 | Presentation of Personalized Weather Information by an Animated Presenter - A computer-implemented personalized weather presentation method. The method includes generating personalized weather information ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100238180 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING ANIMATION FROM WEB TEXT - An apparatus and method for creating animation from a web text are provided. The apparatus includes a script formatter for generating a domain format script from the web text using a domain format that corresponds to a type of the web text, an adaptation engine for generating animation contents using the generated domain format script, and a graphics engine reproducing the generated animation contents in the form of an animation. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238181 | Method And System For Animating Graphical User Interface Elements Via A Manufacturing/Process Control Portal Server - A method and system are disclosed for rendering animated graphics on a browser client based upon a stream of runtime data from a manufacturing/process control system. The graphics animation is based upon an animated graphic display object specification and runtime data from a portal server affecting an appearance trait of the animated graphic display object. The client browser receives an animated graphics description from the portal server specifying an animation behavior for an identified graphical display object. The client creates a data exchange connection between an animated display object, corresponding to the animated graphics description, and a source of runtime data from the portal server affecting display of the animated display object. Thereafter, the client applies runtime data received from the source of runtime data to the animated display object to render an animated graphic display object. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238182 | CHAINING ANIMATIONS - In applications that display a representation of a user, it may be reasonable to insert a pre-canned animation rather than animating a user's captured motion. For example, in a tennis swing, the ball toss and take back in a serve could be a pre-canned animation, whereas the actual forward swing may be mapped from the user's gestures. An animation of a user's gestures can be chained together into sequences with pre-canned animations, where animation blending techniques can provide for a smoother transition between the animation types. Techniques for blending animations, that may comprise determining boundaries and transition points between pre-canned animations and animations based on captured motion, may improve animation efficiency. Gesture history, including joint position, velocity, and acceleration, can be used to determine user intent, seed parameters for subsequent animations and game control, and determine the subsequent gestures to initiate. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238183 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit where function attribute information, user operation information, and recommendation degree information are recorded to be associated with one another, the attribute information indicating an attribute about a function of a predetermined device, the operation information indicating content of a predetermined user operation input to the device, and the degree information indicating a recommendation degree which serves as a reference for outputting, on a priority basis, display for recommending use of the function to a display apparatus, a recommendation degree information updating unit that updates, when a predetermined user operation is input, the degree information to increase the degree associated with function attribute information, and a recommended function determining unit that determines, based on the degree information recorded in the unit, a function with a highest degree as a recommended function. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238184 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION IN MOBILE DEVICES - Three-dimensional visualization in mobile devices involves receiving first and second images at an apparatus. A first and second set of electronically controlled display pixels are caused to independently display the first and second images. The light of the pixels is refracted to cause the first and the second images to be delivered to different focus points to present a three-dimensional image to a viewer. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238185 | METHOD FOR FULLY AUTOMATICALLY ALIGNING QUALITY OF IMAGE - A method for fully-automatically aligning the quality of an image is provided. The method processes the video signals provided by the Video Graphic Array (VGA) display card in the computer system through the multi-sync display itself, and further interprets whether a computer host ID stored in the VGA display card or the computer host matches with a computer host ID stored in the multi-sync display, so as to avoid repetitious aligning to the same computer system, and achieve full automatic aligning to the quality of the image displayed on the multi-sync display. Therefore, even if the multi-sync display is situated under different computer hosts or VGA display cards and placed where an user cannot touch, the inconvenience of pressing a button on the multi-sync display to align the quality of the image displayed on the multi-sync display in conventional techniques can be prevented. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238186 | Display Controllers Including Memory Controllers - A display controller is provided. The display controller includes an external memory and a timing controller which compresses current frame data to generate front first in-first out (FIFO) input data, temporarily stores the front FIFO input data and writes the front FIFO input data to the external memory in a burst mode, and reads data from the external memory in the burst mode, temporarily stores the read data as back FIFO output data, and decodes the back FIFO output data to output previous frame data. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238187 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY SYSTEM, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A two-dimensional code display system has a display unit which can display a two-dimensional code representing predetermined information by plural cells arrange in a matrix, and a control unit which changes the display form of the two-dimensional code. For example, after 0.5 second has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the image of a logo mark, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the image of the logo mark to a two-dimensional code. After 2.0 seconds has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the two-dimensional code, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the two-dimensional code to the image of the logo mark. By repeating such control, the control unit can control the display unit to display alternately the image of the logo mark and the two-dimensional code. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238188 | Efficient Display of Virtual Desktops on Multiple Independent Display Devices - Methods having corresponding apparatus and computer-readable media embodying instructions executable by a computer to perform the methods comprise placing content of a window of a virtual desktop generated by a graphical user interface into an OpenGL scene; rendering the OpenGL scene to a buffer of a first graphical processing unit (GPU); providing a first portion of the contents of the buffer of the first GPU to a first display device; copying a second portion of the contents of the buffer of the first GPU to a buffer of a second GPU; and providing contents of the buffer of the second GPU to a second display device; wherein the first and second display devices together create a single composite display of the virtual desktop. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238189 | Area adaptive backlight with reduced computation and halo artifacts - A backlight display has improved display characteristics. An image is displayed on the display which includes a liquid crystal material with a light valve. The display receives an image signal and modifies the light for a backlight array and a liquid crystal layer. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238190 | JOINT HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION AND NOISE REDUCTION - A high dynamic range (HDR) compression method and apparatus modeled after the heat equation describing temperature changes in a thin plate. This approach allows combining high dynamic range compression together with noise reduction in a single process, to be performed within the same iteration of the heat equation. Noise reduction is of particular concern while performing HDR compression because brightening of dark areas during high dynamic range compression has the potential to increase noise levels. Performing image processing techniques in combination according to the invention provides enhanced results while lowering the overall processing overhead. This innovation extends the heat equation analogy by adding anisotropic diffusion as an additional term, which allows joint operation of HDR and NR and mitigates noise enhancement within HDR compression during shadow enhancement. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238191 | Method of Browsing Photos Based on People - To browse images grouped by person on a photo displaying system, a plurality of facial regions are generated from a plurality of images of a plurality of albums. The facial regions are grouped into a plurality of clusters of faces based on similarity between the facial regions. The clusters of faces are associated with the albums. A signal is received to select one of the facial regions. The selected facial region belongs to a specific cluster of faces and the specific cluster of faces is associated with a specific album of the albums. Images of the specific album and facial regions of the clusters of faces are displayed. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238192 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION TREND DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A biological information trend display device and method which allow the trend and an abnormal value of biological information to be checked with ease are provided. When a curve ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100238193 | PROGRAMMABLE DITHERING FOR VIDEO DISPLAYS - In a liquid crystal display (LCD) driver circuit, harmonizing a pixel inversion pattern and a dither pattern is disclosed. The pixel inversion pattern and the cooperating dither pattern interact with each other in such a way that there is substantially no discernable video artifacts generated. The cooperating dither pattern can be selected from a plurality of dither patterns using a programmable dither block. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238194 | Methods And Apparatuses For Using A Mobile Device To Provide Remote Assistance - Systems and methods for providing remote assistance to a user are disclosed. A remote assistance system may communicate with a mobile device operated by the user and may manipulate devices configured on the mobile device, such as a camera, an illumination device, a projection device, or any other types of devices. Images may be captured with a camera of the mobile phone and transmitted by the mobile phone to the remote assistance system. A remote assistant may transmit images or other visual data to the mobile phone that are then overlaid upon images presented on the mobile phone. Various image manipulation and stabilization means and methods are disclosed, as well as various ways of obtaining and providing remote assistance. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238195 | Systems and Methods for Reviewing Digital Pen Data - Systems and methods for error checking an entry converted from digital ink to text are disclosed herein. A method for reviewing digital pen data comprising importing handwritten ink made with a digital pen into an input region of a form. The handwritten ink is interpreted to produce a typographical symbol in the input region. The interpretation producing the typographical symbol is assigned a confidence factor, the confidence factor defining the likelihood that the conversion was correct. Input areas are highlighted if they have a confidence factor below a threshold value. Further, a view of the handwritten ink relative to the typographical symbol is changed by making one of the ink or the symbol more viewably prominent while simultaneously making the other less viewably prominent. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238196 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY ORIENTATION - A portable electronic device ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100238197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - This invention relates to an information processing apparatus that includes a judging unit that judges a usage state of the information processing apparatus; a deciding unit that decides, according to the usage state, a position at which a display element on a display screen on a display unit is to be arranged in either a normal position or an inverted position on the display screen; and a display control unit that controls for arranging the display element in a determined position and for displaying the display element in the determined position on the display screen. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238198 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY SYSTEM, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A two-dimensional code display system has a display unit which can display a two-dimensional code representing predetermined information by plural cells arrange in a matrix, and a control unit which changes the display form of the two-dimensional code. For example, after 0.5 second has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the image of a logo mark, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the image of the logo mark to a two-dimensional code. After 2.0 seconds has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the two-dimensional code, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the two-dimensional code to the image of the logo mark. By repeating such control, the control unit can control the display unit to display alternately the image of the logo mark and the two-dimensional code. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238199 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY SYSTEM, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A two-dimensional code display system has a display unit which can display a two-dimensional code representing predetermined information by plural cells arrange in a matrix, and a control unit which changes the display form of the two-dimensional code. For example, after 0.5 second has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the image of a logo mark, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the image of the logo mark to a two-dimensional code. After 2.0 seconds has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the two-dimensional code, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the two-dimensional code to the image of the logo mark. By repeating such control, the control unit can control the display unit to display alternately the image of the logo mark and the two-dimensional code. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238200 | LIGHTING CONTROL CONSOLE FOR CONTROLLING A LIGHTING SYSTEM - Various embodiments include a lighting control console for controlling a lighting system comprising wherein digital adjusting commands, which can be transferred to the lighting devices of the lighting system via data connections, are generated in the lighting control console, and wherein the lighting control console comprises at least one housing, in which the hardware components are arranged so as to be protected from external influences, and wherein the lighting control console comprises a plurality of operating elements, in particular pushbuttons, slide controls and/or rotary controls, which are arranged at the upper side of the housing and by means of which operating commands can be input, and wherein the lighting control console comprises at least one display device, at which a user interface can be displayed. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238201 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus for displaying images based on signals of an input image is provided. A backlight emits light. A liquid crystal panel modulates light emitted from the backlight. A emission intensity calculating unit calculates an emission intensity of the backlight such that a center value of a lightness range displayable on the panel defined depending on the emission intensity of the backlight substantially agrees with a center value between maximum and minimum values of lightness of each signal of the input image. A backlight controlling unit controls light emission of the backlight such that the light is emitted with the emission intensity. A signal correcting unit corrects each signal of the input image in accordance with the emission intensity. A liquid crystal controlling unit controls modulation of the liquid crystal panel based upon the corrected signals. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238202 | Display Device and Method for Driving the same - An exemplary method for driving a display device is provided. At least one set of input signals is received. Finding the original signals being the same with the input signals in the signal transforming table is executed. The pixel driving signals is outputted. If at least one of the found second and third original signals is equal to zero, and the found first original signal is equal to neither zero nor maximal gray scale, at least one of the outputted second and third sub-pixel driving signals, and the outputted fourth sub-pixel driving signal are equal to zero. Then, at least one of the pixels of the pixel array is driven by the outputted pixel driving signals. The input signals is transformed into the pixel driving signals by use of the signal transforming table, thereby saving the cost and improving the displaying quality. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238203 | DRIVING PIXELS OF A DISPLAY | 2010-09-23 |
20100238204 | GENERATING CORRECTED GRAY SCALE DATA TO IMPROVE DISPLAY QUALITY - A method of displaying image data, which can mitigate a double-boundary problem and improve MPRT, includes the steps of: receiving a plurality of frame data of a pixel; correcting subframe data of two of the plurality frame data; and sequentially displaying each of the subframe data of the plurality frame data. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238205 | Method for Inkjet Printing of E13B Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Characters and Substrate Having Such Characters Printed Thereon - Electromagnetically recognizable E13B characters can be printed onto conventional paper by an inkjet printer using liquid magnetic ink. The printer receives data representing an E13B character, and prints the E13B character onto a substrate according to a modified E13B character pattern. The modified E13B pattern provides for an interior of the E13B character to be substantially completely filled, and includes one or more void arrangements arranged and positioned relative to a corresponding internal detection edge, and sized and shaped, to amplify the difference between the upstream magnetic signal detected on the upstream side of the internal detection edge and the downstream magnetic signal detected on the downstream side of the internal detection edge when an electromagnetic read head reads the resulting printed E13B character. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238206 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer comprising a printing fluid cartridge receiving portion arranged to receive a printing fluid cartridge ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100238207 | FUNCTIONAL LIQUID TANK, METHOD FOR REPLENISHING FUNCTIONAL LIQUID IN DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE, AND DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE - A functional liquid tank is adapted to receive functional liquid from a functional liquid supply source and to supply the functional liquid to an inkjet functional liquid droplet discharge head. The functional liquid tank includes a tank body, a liquid column pipe, upper and lower limit liquid level detection units, a float member, and a float-regulating member. The float member is accommodated within the tank body with a small gap formed between the float member and an inside wall of the tank body. The float-regulating member is configured and arranged to regulate a descending end position of the float member when the float member descends as a liquid level within the tank body descends. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238208 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICES - A liquid ejection device includes a liquid ejection head and a cartridge mounting portion configured to selectively mount an initial liquid cartridge and a replacement liquid cartridge The liquid ejection device also includes a controller configured to determine whether a mounting action of the liquid cartridge to the cartridge mounting portion has occurred, determine whether the liquid cartridge mounted by the mounting action is the initial liquid cartridge or the replacement liquid cartridge, and determine whether liquid has been initially introduced to the liquid ejection head. When the controller determines that the mounting action has occurred and the liquid cartridge mounted by the mounting action is the initial liquid cartridge after liquid has been initially introduced to the liquid ejection head, the controller prevents the initial liquid cartridge from being used or gives warning. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238209 | INK JET PRINTER HEAD ASSEMBLY - A print head assembly for a continuous ink jet printer has an ink heater module, including a valve assembly, which can be independently attached to or detached from the print head assembly. The print head assembly may also have an ink droplet generator module which is independently replaceable and may have other independently replaceable modules. Fluid pathways for in and solvent in the modules are preferably in the form of manifolds having fluid conduits defined between opposing faces of members of the modules. The modular print head assembly is easily repaired and maintained and the number of connectors prone to fluid leakage is minimized by the manifolds. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238210 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A fluid ejection device including, a drive element capable of storing a charge depending on a voltage applied to the drive element, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a power recovery module that recovers power from the drive element by connecting the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the drive element in series, wherein the power recovery module switches the first capacitor out of the in-series connection to further recover power from the drive element. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238211 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238212 | ELECTROMECHANICAL CONVERTER FOR INK JET PRINTING - A method of driving an electromechanical converter of a print head of a continuous inkjet printer, wherein the electromechanical converter is arranged to break up a continuous stream of ink into a plurality of drops. The method includes determining a modulation voltage to drive the electromechanical converter, at least a property of the modulation voltage being controlled to take into account movement of a break up point of the continuous stream of ink, and to ensure that in a characteristic of modulation voltage versus a property at least indicative of a break up point of the continuous stream of ink, the characteristic has a predetermined gradient, or a gradient related to this predetermined gradient; and driving the electromechanical converter at the determined modulation voltage. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238213 | METHOD FOR DEAD NOZZLE REMAPPING - A method of accounting for dead nozzle remapping in a multi-nozzle printhead includes defining a first fixative plane and a second fixative plane; determining a first color plane requiring the fixative; determining if fixative is present in the first color plane; determining if the first color plane is dead; and adding fixative to a second color plane when it is determined that the first color plane is dead. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238214 | Decorating Guitars - Apparatus and methods of decorating guitars and other stringed musical instruments are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include UV printing a first portion of a decoration over a first region of at least part of a guitar using a first ink drop size, and UV printing a second portion of the decoration over a second region of said at least part of the guitar using a second ink drop size. In another aspect, a method may include UV printing a mask layer over a surface of at least a portion of a guitar using a first amount of image constriction and a first amount of feathering, and UV printing a decorative layer over at least a portion of the mask layer using a second amount of image constriction and a second amount of feathering. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238215 | INK JET HEAD, NOZZLE PLATE THEREOF AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed is an ink jet head for ejecting an ink droplet to form an image on a recording medium, including a pressure chamber to which ink is supplied, an actuator which applies a pressure on the ink filled in the pressure chamber to eject the ink droplet, a circuit applying to the actuator a drive-waveform for sequentially ejecting one or more ink droplets to form one pixel, the one ink droplet having V in volume, and a nozzle plate which has a nozzle fluidly communicating with the pressure chamber to eject ink droplet therefrom, the nozzle having a stepped inner surface shaped to include an inlet communicating with the pressure chamber and having a first sectional area in an orthogonal plane to ink-ejecting direction, and to include an outlet communicating with the inlet and having a length Ln | 2010-09-23 |
20100238216 | Piezoelectric Actuator, Method Of Manufacturing Piezoelectric Actuator, Liquid Ejection Head, Method Of Manufacturing Liquid Ejection Head And Image Forming Apparatus - A piezoelectric actuator includes: a piezoelectric layer formed by a film formation method so as to have orientation in a prescribed orientation direction; and a pair of electrodes, disposed on a same surface which is substantially perpendicular to the orientation direction of the piezoelectric layer, for applying to the piezoelectric layer an electric field in a direction substantially perpendicular to the orientation direction. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238217 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a driving element driven by a driving waveform and a nozzle that ejects liquid. Two first driving waveforms and a second driving waveform are generated in a period to create a driving signal in which the two first and the second driving waveforms are repeatedly generated. When the first driving waveform is applied to the driving element, a first amount of liquid is ejected from the nozzle. When the two first driving waveforms are applied, twice the first amount is ejected. When the second driving waveform is applied, a second amount of liquid larger than the first amount and smaller than twice the first amount is ejected. When the two first driving waveforms and the second driving waveform are applied to the driving element, an amount of liquid smaller than a sum of twice the first amount and the second amount is ejected. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238218 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a driving element driven by a driving waveform and a nozzle that ejects liquid in response to the driving element. A driving signal generator generates the driving waveforms in a period and creates a driving signal in which the driving waveforms are repeatedly generated in each period. The driving signal generator creates the driving signal in which at least two first driving waveforms configured to eject the maximum amount of liquid among amounts of liquid ejected from the nozzle once in the period and at least two second driving waveforms configured to eject a different amount of liquid are generated in each period. The driving signal is such that a temporal interval at which the first driving waveform is generated is closer to the half length of the period than a temporal interval at which the second driving waveform is generated. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238219 | IMAGE DATA EXPANSION BY PRINT MASK - A method for using a processor to process image data received from an image data source in preparation for multipass printing, comprising multitoning the image data to produce a multitoned image, using the multitone level of a pixel in the multitoned image to select a plane of a print mask, using the location of the pixel in the multitoned image to select a cell of output pixels in the selected plane of the print mask, and copying the selected cell of output pixels to corresponding locations within a print buffer. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238220 | System And Method For Measuring Drop Position In An Image Of A Test Pattern On An Image Substrate - A system evaluates image quality in an image generating system in the presence of digital image noise and/or missing jets. The system includes a test pattern generator configured to generate a test pattern on an image substrate, an image capture device configured to generate a digital image of the generated test pattern on the image substrate, an image evaluator configured to process the digital image and generate a solution for an over-determined matrix of equations formed from differential distance measurements obtained with reference to a jet in the digital image by minimizing the root-mean-square (RMS) of residual errors corresponding to the matrix, and a controller configured to generate a correction parameter from the generated solution and to apply the correction parameter to the jet used for the used for the differential distance measurements. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238221 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING POSITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium and causing a recording head to perform scanning in a scanning direction includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a recording position deviation amount of the recording head in each of a plurality of positions in the scanning direction, an addition unit configured determine a corrected recording deviation amount by adding to the acquired recording position deviation amount, a correction amount that varies based on one raster or a number of rasters, and a recording unit configured to record the image with the recording head based on the corrected recording deviation amount. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238222 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method are realized which can improve a print quality while minimizing the volume of waste ink, running cost and throughput degradations. For this purpose, the scan width is set according to the size and position of the print medium and then, based on that scan width, a location where the preliminary ejections are to be executed and the number of times that the preliminary ejection is to be executed in a single preliminary ejection session are determined. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238223 | DOT POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The dot position measurement method includes: a line pattern forming step of forming a measurement line pattern including a plurality of lines formed by dot sequences corresponding to respective recording elements on a recording medium, by continuously recording dots by the recording elements while causing a recording head having the recording elements and the recording medium to move relatively to each other in a relative movement direction, the measurement line pattern including: a plurality of line blocks each constituted of a group of lines to be recorded using the recording elements spaced a prescribed interval apart in an effective direction of alignment of the recording elements which is perpendicular to the relative movement direction, the line blocks being formed at mutually different positions in a lengthwise direction of the lines on the recording medium; and a reference line block containing lines to be recorded by the recording elements which are common respectively with the recording elements forming the line blocks; a reading step of reading the measurement line pattern formed on the recording medium in the line pattern forming step by an image reading device, and acquiring electronic image data representing a read image of the measurement line pattern; a position-in-line-block identifying step of identifying line positions in each of the line blocks and the reference line block, from the read image acquired in the reading step; and a position correcting step of correcting the line positions of the line blocks determined in the position-in-line-block identifying step in accordance with the reference line block, by employing a correction function using a piecewise polynomial expression. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238224 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method for controlling a printing position for a printing apparatus for using a plurality of printing heads to print an image is provided. This method prevents, even when a conveyed print medium has deformation such as deflection, a printing position of a print medium from being dislocated. To realize this, components | 2010-09-23 |
20100238225 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method includes determining, if power to an apparatus is turned on, whether a state of a sheet has been changed while the power is off, based on a change of the sheet state before turn-off and after turn-on of the power, and performing control to perform initializing operations according to a result of the determination. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238226 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - The present invention uses a temperature sensor to sense the temperature of a print head configured to eject ink, and senses the environmental temperature of a printing apparatus. The temperature of the print head is corrected based on the environmental temperature only if information from the temperature sensor is different from the last information acquired. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238227 | PRINTHEAD DE-PRIME SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLID INK SYSTEMS - A system and method to provide pressure to de-prime a printhead. An image forming device comprises an ink reservoir that contains ink and provides the ink to a printhead. When a fault condition is detected that indicates a likelihood of a solidifying of the ink, the printhead is de-primed by applying pressure to the printhead to purge the ink from the printhead. The fault condition comprises any of a loss of power, a power-down process, or a printhead temperature being less than or equal to a threshold temperature. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238228 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD, DEVICE FOR INSPECTING DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD, AND DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE - A method for inspecting a droplet discharge head includes generating illuminating light based on a color tone of a dot pattern of a droplet discharged from the droplet discharge head by selecting at least one of a plurality of illuminating light sources of different color tones and by modulating light illuminated from the at least one of the illuminating light sources based on the color tone of the dot pattern, capturing an image of the dot pattern while a photographed region including the dot pattern is being illuminated by the illuminating light, and inspecting the image of the dot pattern using image processing. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238229 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD, DEVICE FOR INSPECTING DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD, AND DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE - A method for inspecting a droplet discharge head includes discharging a plurality of droplets on an inspection workpiece from a nozzle row of the droplet discharge head at least twice in different positions on the inspection workpiece thereby forming a plurality of dot pattern rows each including a plurality of dot patterns, inspecting each of the dot patterns included in a first dot pattern row among the dot pattern rows by sequentially acquiring, using an image processing, a predetermined inspection value of the each of the dot patterns determined based on a shape of the each of the dot patterns, and initiating inspection of a second dot pattern row among the dot pattern rows when inspection of the first dot pattern row is interrupted upon one of the predetermined inspection values sequentially acquired exceeding a predetermine threshold established in advance according to a type of the predetermined inspection value. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238230 | ELECTRODE CONTAINER BOX, PRINTING DEVICE AND NOZZLE INSPECTION METHOD | 2010-09-23 |
20100238231 | Inkjet printer having a rolling mechanism for flattening ink droplets - An inkjet printer having a rolling mechanism for flattening ink droplets is disclosed. The inkjet printer includes a carriage track being connected to a work platform of the inkjet printer, a printing module slidably mounted upon the carriage track to allow lateral movement, and at least one rolling mechanism disposed on the sidewall of a inkjet printhead assembly of the printing module or independently mounted upon the carriage track, wherein the rolling mechanism can roll over the surface of print media and flatten the ink droplets thereon before drying, to form printed image layers with uniform thickness for increasing image quality and reliability of the inkjet printer. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238232 | CONTINUOUS INK JET PRINTING OF ENCAPSULATED DROPLETS - A method for creating composite droplets for use in an ink jet system includes a first fluid ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100238233 | INK JET PRINTHEAD CARTRIDGE HAVING AN INK FILL ACCESS PORT IN FLUID COMMUNICATION WITH THE FILTER TOWER - An ink jet printhead cartridge includes a cartridge body including a base and a plurality of side walls extending upwardly from the base. A filter tower having a tower wall has an interior surface that defines a location of a tower passageway. A printhead chip assembly is attached to the base of the cartridge body in fluid communication with the tower passageway. A filter is attached to the filter tower at a distal end thereof. An ink fill access port is formed through a side wall of the plurality of sidewalls, and through the tower wall of the filter tower, to define a fluid path from the atmosphere external to the cartridge body to the tower passageway of the filter tower to facilitate the injection of ink directly into the filter tower during an ink filling operation for the ink jet printhead cartridge. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238234 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - The inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet head having a nozzle surface in which inkjet nozzles are arranged, the nozzle surface being oblique to a horizontal plane; and a cleaner which wipes the nozzle surface. The cleaner includes: a supply spindle and a take-up spindle of which axes are horizontal; a band-shaped wiping member which is wound in a form of a roll and installed on the supply spindle, travels along a prescribed path of travel and is taken up onto the take-up spindle; a pressing roller of which axis is arranged in parallel with the nozzle surface, the wiping member being wrapped about a circumferential surface of the pressing roller; a front-stage guide device which is disposed between the supply spindle and the pressing roller and guides the wiping member supplied from the supply spindle so as to travel in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the pressing roller; and a rear-stage guide device which is disposed between the pressing roller and the take-up spindle and guides the wiping member wrapped about the pressing roller so as to travel in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the take-up spindle. The nozzle surface is cleaned by abutting the wiping member wrapped about the pressing roller against the nozzle surface. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238235 | Printhead Restraint System - A system for restraining printhead movement in an imaging device includes an imaging device frame; a carriage operably coupled to the imaging device frame for movement between a print position and a retracted position; and a printhead array movably supported by the carriage for translation with respect to the carriage. The system includes a restraint system supported by the carriage. The restraint system has at least one carriage restraint pin and a printhead restraint pin. The at least one carriage restraint pin is configured for movement into and out of engagement with the imaging device frame and the printhead restraint pin being configured for movement into and out of engagement with the printhead array when the carriage is at the retracted position. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238236 | Lyophobic Treatment Method, Nozzle Plate, Inkjet Head And Electronic Device - A lyophobic treatment method for imparting lyophobic properties to a surface of a base material having a hole section, includes: a lyophobic film forming step of forming a lyophobic film on the surface and inner wall faces of the hole section of the base material; a protective member forming step of forming a protective member on the lyophobic film on the surface of the base material; a lyophobic film removal step of removing the lyophobic film on the inner wall faces of the hole section of the base material; a protective member removal step of removing the protective member on the lyophobic film on the surface of the base material; and an ion injection step of injecting ions exhibiting lyophobic properties into at least a peripheral portion of an opening of the hole section in the surface of the base material. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238237 | INK JET HEAD WITH LASER-MACHINED NOZZLES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INK JET HEAD - An ink jet head includes a piezoelectric element including pressure chambers and partition walls, a nozzle plate including nozzles which are laser-machined, an adhesive which adheres the nozzle plate to the partition walls, a first protection film covering an electrode, and a second protection film which is stacked on the first protection film. The adhesive includes an excess portion which protrudes into the pressure chamber. A cut portion along a direction of radiation of a laser beam is formed at the excess portion. The second protection film includes a damage hole at an area on which the laser beam is made incident. The first protection film is exposed from the damage hole. A part of the first protection film, which corresponds to the damage hole, has a film thickness of 0.1 μm to 0.5 μm, and the first protection film has a refractive index of 1.1 to 2.0. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238238 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet ejecting head capable of efficiently removing air bubbles while maintaining liquid circulation efficiency, and an image forming apparatus are provided. Plural supply-side common flow channels and circulation-side common flow channels are disposed alternately, and plural pressure-chambers that each communicates with the supply-side common flow channel via an ink supply channel are provided. The plural pressure-chambers each communicates with the circulation-side common flow channel via an ink circulation channel. A bypass flow channel, connecting the supply-side common flow channel and the circulation-side common flow channel disposed adjacent thereto, and flowing the ink from the supply-side common flow channel to the circulation-side common flow channel, is provided at an end portion at the most downstream side of the supply-side common flow channel. Thus, air bubbles remaining in the supply-side common flow channel flows into the circulation-side common flow channel through the bypass flow channel together with the ink. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238239 | LIQUID COLUMN MEMBER OF LIQUID TANK, LIQUID TANK, AND DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE - A liquid column member of a liquid tank is adapted to be coupled to a tank body of the liquid tank and to face a photosensor that detects a liquid level in the tank body. The liquid column member includes a pipe body and a liquid guide portion. The pipe body is made of light transmissive material. The pipe body has a liquid repellent internal surface. The liquid guide portion is configured and arranged to guide a droplet that slips down along the internal surface of the pipe body away from a sensing position of the photosensor. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238240 | LIQUID SUPPLY APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid supply apparatus supplies liquid from a liquid container through a liquid supply path to a recording head. A liquid supply pump drives when a flexible member is displaced such that a volume of a pump chamber is increased or decreased while a part of the liquid supply path is set as the pump chamber. A negative pressure chamber is divided from the pump chamber by the flexible member. A first directional valve in the liquid supply path passes the liquid in one direction toward the supply pump from the liquid container. A second directional valve passes the liquid in one direction toward the liquid ejecting apparatus from the supply pump. A pressure adjustor between the first directional valve and the second directional valve increases a volume of the liquid container when a negative pressure larger than a predetermined pressure is applied to the negative pressure chamber. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238241 | LIQUID CONTAINERS - A liquid container includes an air introduction portion including an air introduction chamber, a first path through which the air introduction chamber is configured to communicate with a liquid chamber, a second path extending from the air introduction chamber and is opened to an exterior of an container body, an air communication path through which the air introduction chamber is configured to communicate with the exterior of the container body, a valve member comprising a first valve and a second valve, the valve member being movable, such that when the first valve closes the first path the second valve opens the second path, and when the second valve closes the second path the first valve opens the first path, and an urging member configured to urge the valve member in such a direction that the first valve closes the first path and the second valve opens the second path. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238242 | ZONE VENTING IN A FLUID CARTRIDGE - In one embodiment, a cartridge includes: a housing having a chamber therein for holding a fluid; a vent at a first part of the chamber; a porous fluid holding material in the chamber; an outlet from the chamber; and a hole extending through the fluid holding material from the first part of the chamber to a second part of the chamber at a location away from the outlet such that the second part of the chamber is vented through the hole but the outlet is not vented through the hole. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238243 | FILTER FOR INK SUPPLY SYSTEM - An ink supply system for an ink jet printer has an ink circuit including a plurality of circuit components and fluid paths for conveying ink between components. A manifold defining the fluid paths and a plurality of ports in fluid communication with the paths. A filter module is provided adjacent to the manifold and comprises a housing that houses at least a first filter, the housing having an inlet and an outlet. The filter module is connected to the manifold such that at least one of the inlet or the outlet is in fluid communication with one of the plurality of ports on the manifold. The filter module may comprise an ink filter and a solvent filter. A second ink filter may be provided upstream of a pump. The modular nature of the filter makes for easy assembly, service and repair. It also provides for improved printer reliability. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238244 | Pattern formation method - A pattern is formed by carrying out the steps of dropping curable ink linearly onto a substrate, curing the ink dropped onto the substrate, and depositing layers of ink by repeating a process of linearly dropping a predetermined amount of ink onto the cured ink and a process of curing the predetermined amount of ink. In the step of depositing layers of ink, the ink is dropped at dot pitch p that satisfies p | 2010-09-23 |
20100238245 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DROPLET DISCHARGE METHOD - A droplet discharge device includes a stage, a droplet discharge head, a movement unit and a light radiating unit. The droplet discharge head includes nozzles arranged to discharge droplets of photo-curable liquid material toward a drawing region of a workpiece. The movement unit is arranged to move the stage and the droplet discharge head relative to each other. The light radiating unit has a light emitting part capable of emitting light to an entire area of the drawing region and disposed on a side opposite from the surface of the workpiece on which the liquid material is applied. The light emitting part is arranged not to emit the light to the portion of the drawing region when the droplet discharge head is disposed at a position over the portion, and to emit the light to the portion when the droplet discharge head has moved away from the position. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238246 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method of the invention includes at least: applying, onto a recording medium, an ink composition containing at least a pigment, a copolymer containing at least a fluorine atom, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, thereby forming an image; drying the image by removing the water-soluble organic solvent and at least a part of the water from the recording medium; and heat-fixing the image onto the recording medium by bringing a surface of the image into contact with a heating member, and may further include other processes. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238247 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a guide rail extending in a first direction; an ink head that slidably engages with the guide rail and discharges an ultraviolet light curable ink toward a recording medium; an ultraviolet light irradiation device attached to the ink head to move together with the ink head and that irradiates ultraviolet light to the ink discharged on the recording medium; a second head that slidably engages with the guide rail; a carriage that moves along the guide rail; a first connection mechanism that detachably connects the carriage with the ink head; a second connection mechanism that detachably connects the carriage with the second head; and an irradiation prohibition mechanism that prohibits the irradiation by the ultraviolet light irradiation device based on a predetermined condition relating to a connection state between the carriage and the ink head caused by the first connection mechanism. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238248 | INK JET PRINTER - According to one embodiment, an ink jet recording apparatus includes: a guide rail extending in a first direction; an ink head that slidably engages with the guide rail and discharges an ultraviolet light curable ink toward a recording medium; a second head that slidably engages with the guide rail; a carriage that moves along the guide rail; a first connection mechanism that bridges the carriage and the ink head and detachably connects the carriage with the ink head; a second connection mechanism that detachably connects the carriage with the second head; and an ultraviolet light irradiation device that is attached to the ink head to move together with the ink head, that is positioned in front, in rear or below the first connecting mechanism when the carriage and the ink head are connected by the first connecting mechanism, and that irradiates the ultraviolet light curable ink discharged from the ink head on the recording medium with ultraviolet light. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238249 | VACUUM TRANSPORT DEVICE WITH NON-UNIFORM BELT HOLE PATTERN - An apparatus comprises a vacuum belt having belt edges and a contact surface between the belt edges. The contact surface is adapted to contact sheets of print media and the sheets of print media have sheet edges and a central sheet region. The contact surface has a central belt region located where the central sheet region of the sheets of print media contacts the contact surface of the vacuum belt. The contact surface has border regions located where the sheet edges of the sheets of print media contact the contact surface of the vacuum belt. The central belt region is located between the border regions. The contact surface has vacuum holes, and the vacuum holes comprise an irregular pattern, such that a different density of holes is located within the border regions relative to the central belt region. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238250 | Image forming device - An image forming device provided with: a recording head that renders an image by ejecting liquid droplets onto a recording medium; an attraction image rendering section having a liquid droplet reception flat portion disposed facing the recording head, the attraction image rendering section attracting the recording medium onto the flat portion and maintaining the flatness of the recording medium; an upstream side conveying section that feeds the recording medium out toward the attraction image rendering section; and a reverse-feed-prevented conveying roller disposed at the downstream side of the attraction image rendering section, the reverse-feed-prevented conveying roller being capable of friction-pushed rotation toward the conveying direction downstream side, nipping the recording medium and feeding the recording medium toward the conveying direction downstream side, and prevented from rotation toward the conveying direction upstream side. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238251 | Image forming device - An image forming device has an image forming unit, a cutting unit, a conveyance path and an adjustment unit. The image forming unit sequentially forms images on a recording medium. The cutting unit cuts the recording medium between images. The conveyance path is provided with a change-curve portion that changes the conveyance direction of the recording medium and imparts curvature to the recording medium, and conveys the recording medium to the cutting unit. The adjustment unit temporarily interrupts conveyance of the recording medium at the change-curve portion and adjusts any difference between the processing speed of image forming by the image forming unit and the processing speed of cutting by the cutting unit. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238252 | Selective Heat-Transfer Imaging System and Method of Using The Same - A heat-transfer imaging system and a method of using the same. The heat-transfer imaging system includes a heat-transfer sheet and an activating ink. The heat-transfer sheet and the activating ink are specially formulated so that only the areas of the heat-transfer sheet onto which the ink has been printed become adhesive under heat-transfer conditions. This effect may be achieved by designing the sheet to include an ink-receptive coating whose melting temperature is higher than that typically encountered during normal heat-transfer conditions and by formulating the activating ink to include a plasticizer that, when printed onto the ink-receptive coating, lowers the melting temperature of the ink-receptive coating sufficiently so that the modified melting temperature falls within the temperature range encountered during heat-transfer. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238253 | PAPER SHEET SENSOR ADJUSTING METHOD - In a state where a sheet exists, an current I is gradually increased. When an voltage V reaches a light receiving level Vx, the current I at the time is stored as I | 2010-09-23 |
20100238254 | THERMAL PRINTER - A print-dot counting section counts a number of print dots of print data. An adjusting section adjusts to reduce, according to the number of print dots counted by the print-dot counting section, one of conveying speed of a print medium by a conveying unit and energization time of energization to heat generating elements for forming one dot on the print medium and adjusts to reduce the other when the one reaches a lower limit value in an adjustable range. The conveying unit and a thermal head are driven by using the conveying speed and the energization time adjusted in this way to perform printing on the print medium. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238255 | PRINT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - One of mark sensors is automatically selected in accordance with specifications of a thermal sheet. A cutting position on the thermal sheet is decided on the basis of an output of the selected one mark sensor. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238256 | PRINTER AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING CONVEYING DISTANCE OF RECORDING SHEET - A printer includes printing unit provided on a conveying path of a recording sheet and sheet feed unit provided on the downstream and upstream sides of the printing unit in a conveying direction of a recording sheet. The printer includes a platen roller, a first sheet feed roller, a second sheet feed roller, a first branch transmission gear group, a second branch transmission gear group, and thrust amount adjusting unit. A tooth trace of one of the gears of each of the first and second branch transmission gear groups has an inclination angle with respect to an axial direction, and the first and second branch transmission gear groups are formed of first and second idler gears including inclined gear portions of which inclined directions of tooth traces are the same as each other. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238257 | EXPSOURE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The exposure device is provided with: an exposure unit that has one end and a different end, that includes plural light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction along a direction of a rotational axis of a rotating image carrier, and that exposes the image carrier; a one-end-side holding portion that holds a one end part, on the one end side, of the exposure unit; a first reference part that is formed in the one-end-side holding portion, and that serves as a reference for aligning the exposure unit in the first direction by bringing the one end part of the exposure unit into contact with the first reference part; and an application portion that applies, to the one end part of the exposure unit, force with which the one end part of the exposure unit is pressed against the first reference part. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238258 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An electrophotographic image forming apparatus performs latent image rendering using a plurality of light sources. The electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a rendering time control unit that controls a latent image rendering start time for each of the light sources, a scanning time control unit that controls a scanning start time for each of the light sources, a pattern forming unit that forms a pixel pattern corresponding to pixel pattern data defined in advance on a photosensitive member, and a density detection unit that detects a density of the pixel pattern formed on the photosensitive member. The rendering time control unit and the scanning time control unit respectively control the rendering start time and the scanning start time for each of the light sources using a density value detected by the density detection unit. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238259 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive member, a housing, a cover, an exposing unit fit to the cover and which moves closer toward/away from the photosensitive member in response to opening/closing of the cover, wherein the exposing unit forms a latent image on the photosensitive member by exposing the photosensitive member when the exposing unit is arranged in close vicinity to the photosensitive member by the closing of the cover, an image forming unit, which forms an image corresponding to the latent image and a housing side electrode provided inside of the housing, wherein the housing side electrode feeds an exposing power to an exposing unit side electrode by contacting the exposing unit side electrode provided in the exposing unit when the exposing unit is arranged in close vicinity to the photosensitive member by the closing of the cover. | 2010-09-23 |
20100238260 | BIDIRECTIONAL IMAGING WITH VARYING INTENSITIES - A method is provided for forming an image on a media while the media is moved relative to an imaging head. The media can include a pattern of registration sub-regions. The image can include patterns of features, such as color filter features or colored illumination sources which can be registered with the pattern of registration sub-regions. The imaging method can include operating an imaging head to emit a plurality of independently-controllable radiation beams while scanning over media to form an image on the media. The imaging channel of the imaging head can be operated to emit a radiation beam having a first intensity while scanning in a first direction over the media during a first scan and to emit a radiation beam having a second, different intensity while scanning in a second, opposite direction over the media during a second scan. | 2010-09-23 |