Patents by Inventor Adam Daniel Cahill

Adam Daniel Cahill has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, system and test sheet image bitmap for carrying out a scanner-and-processor based image-to-paper registration setup
    Patent number: 8379247
    Abstract: A method and system for carrying out an image-to-paper printer registration setup includes: using a printer undergoing registration setup, printing a test pattern on a sheet having reference targets within a printable region of the sheet; using a scanner, scanning the printed sheet to generate an image bitmap of the test pattern-bearing sheet larger than the sheet itself so that the image bitmap contains the sheet edges and measuring in numbers of pixels the distances between the reference targets and/or sheet edges using multiple swaths of the image bitmap itself as the measuring tool; and, using a processor and based on the measured distances, calculating error-associated adjustment values in millimeters to use to correct errors in the registration setup of the image-to-paper in the printer and transferring the error-associated adjustment values to the printer to perform adjustment of its setup actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Daniel Cahill, Franklin Joseph Palumbo, Cary Patterson Ravitz, David Anthony Schneider, Daniel Paul Cahill, Mark Andrew Omelchenko, Philip David Jones
  • Method, System and Test Sheet Image Bitmap for Carrying out a Scanner-and-Processor Based Image-to-Paper Registration Setup
    Publication number: 20100053699
    Abstract: A method and system for carrying out an image-to-paper printer registration setup includes: using a printer undergoing registration setup, printing a test pattern on a sheet having reference targets within a printable region of the sheet; using a scanner, scanning the printed sheet to generate an image bitmap of the test pattern-bearing sheet larger than the sheet itself so that the image bitmap contains the sheet edges and measuring in numbers of pixels the distances between the reference targets and/or sheet edges using multiple swaths of the image bitmap itself as the measuring tool; and, using a processor and based on the measured distances, calculating error-associated adjustment values in millimeters to use to correct errors in the registration setup of the image-to-paper in the printer and transferring the error-associated adjustment values to the printer to perform adjustment of its setup actuators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Adam Daniel Cahill, Franklin Joseph Palumbo, Cary Patterson Ravitz, David Anthony Schneider, Daniel Paul Cahill, Mark Andrew Omelchenko, Philip David Jones