Patents by Inventor Erwin Simon

Erwin Simon 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).

  • Patent number: 5790768
    Abstract: A postage meter module has a printing unit, a control unit connected to the printing unit, input/output devices connected to the control unit, and memory devices connected to the control unit. A configuration for an internal cost center printout includes a pixel memory having a field and at least one memory area for accounting data into which data are loaded and converted and/or from which data are read out and converted. The conversion is a blockwise orthogonal rotation of the pixel memory field. A device for orthogonal rotation of the pixel memory field permits a block of a print image with accounting data having been electronically rotated by 90.degree. or by 270.degree. in a direction of printing to be temporarily stored in or read out from the at least one memory area of the pixel memory. A print control unit reads out print image data corresponding to the accounting data by blocks from the pixel memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co.
    Inventors: Harald Windel, Wolfgang Thiel, Klaus Dietrich, Stephan Gunther, Norbert Knoth, Erwin Simon