Patents by Inventor Mikel Stanich
Mikel Stanich 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).
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Publication number: 20210271943Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive a histogram for each of a plurality of color planes, receive uncalibrated ink deposition data for a printing system, perform a direct conversion of the uncalibrated ink deposition data to generate first calibrated ink deposition data and generate estimated ink usage data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the histograms and the first calibrated ink deposition data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath
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Publication number: 20210268805Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store density control logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the density control logic to generate first uncalibrated ink deposition data, receive first calibrated ink deposition data, generate a first transfer function based on the first uncalibrated ink deposition data and the first calibrated ink deposition data and transmit the first transfer function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath
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Publication number: 20210271431Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store monitoring logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the monitoring logic to receive a first and a second ink deposition data representing an output ink amount versus an input digital count for each of a plurality of color planes, determine whether a difference between the first ink deposition data and the second ink deposition data exceeds a predetermined threshold and transmit a signal upon a determination that the difference between the first ink deposition data and the second ink deposition data exceeds the predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath
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Publication number: 20210268794Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive calibrated ink deposition data, receive a first transfer function associated with a printing system, generate a first inverse transfer function based on the first transfer function and generate first uncalibrated ink deposition data based on the calibrated ink deposition data and the first inverse transfer function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath
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Patent number: 10990863Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive a histogram for each of a plurality of color planes, receive uncalibrated ink deposition data for a printing system, perform a direct conversion of the uncalibrated ink deposition data to generate first calibrated ink deposition data and generate estimated ink usage data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the histograms and the first calibrated ink deposition data.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath
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Patent number: 10902304Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store monitoring logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the monitoring logic to receive a first and a second ink deposition data representing an output ink amount versus an input digital count for each of a plurality of color planes, generate first optical density (OD) response data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the first ink deposition data, wherein the first OD response data represents a first OD value versus the input digital count, generate second OD response data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the second ink deposition data, determine whether a difference between the first OD response data and the second OD response data exceeds a predetermined threshold and transmit a signal upon a determination that the difference between the first OD response data and the second OD response data exceeds the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath
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Publication number: 20200274991Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store halftone calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the halftone calibration logic determine an uncalibrated deposition distribution for each of a plurality of pel forming elements, determine a calibrated deposition distribution for each of the plurality of pel forming elements and determine calibration values for each of the plurality of pel forming elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Walter F. Kailey, Larry M. Ernst
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Patent number: 10723133Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive one or more gray level histograms, receive one or more halftone designs and generate estimated ink usage data for each of one or more color planes based on the gray level histograms and the halftone designs, wherein each gray level histogram corresponds to one of the one or more color planes, and each halftone design corresponds to one of the one or more color planes.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Vincent Ferreri, Walter F. Kailey, Nikita Gurudath, Mikel Stanich
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Publication number: 20200108621Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive one or more gray level histograms, receive one or more halftone designs and generate estimated ink usage data for each of one or more color planes based on the gray level histograms and the halftone designs, wherein each gray level histogram corresponds to one of the one or more color planes, and each halftone design corresponds to one of the one or more color planes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: VINCENT FERRERI, WALTER F. KAILEY, NIKITA GURUDATH, MIKEL STANICH
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Patent number: 10442211Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a printer to print image data to a medium. The printer includes a first pass channel including a first set of pel forming elements to print a first component of the image data and a second pass channel including a second set of pel forming elements to print a second component of the image data, wherein the first component of the image data and the second component of the image data occupy a same region on the print medium. The printing system also includes a print controller to perform uniformity compensation based on a combined compensation of the first pass channel and the second pass channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Larry Ernst, William E. Manchester
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Publication number: 20180236776Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a printer to print image data to a medium. The printer includes a first pass channel including a first set of pel forming elements to print a first component of the image data and a second pass channel including a second set of pel forming elements to print a second component of the image data, wherein the first component of the image data and the second component of the image data occupy a same region on the print medium. The printing system also includes a print controller to perform uniformity compensation based on a combined compensation of the first pass channel and the second pass channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Larry Ernst, William E. Manchester
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Publication number: 20180234582Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a printer to print image data to a medium and a print controller including a halftone calibration module to dynamically generate calibrated halftones to compensate for optical density changes that occur at the printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Larry Ernst, Walter F. Kailey
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Patent number: 9785873Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a halftone calibration module to receive one or more un-calibrated halftones, transform un-calibrated threshold values in the one or more un-calibrated halftones via an inverse transfer function to generate calibrated halftone threshold values and generate one or more calibrated halftones based on the calibrated halftone threshold values.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Larry M. Ernst, William E. Manchester
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Publication number: 20170236041Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a halftone calibration module to receive one or more un-calibrated halftones, transform un-calibrated threshold values in the one or more un-calibrated halftones via an inverse transfer function to generate calibrated halftone threshold values and generate one or more calibrated halftones based on the calibrated halftone threshold values.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2016Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Larry M. Ernst, William E. Manchester
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Patent number: 9036212Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes generating a Continuous Tone Image (CTI) with all pixel values same as the first gray level and an initial Half Tone Image (HTI) with all pixel values equal to minimum absorptance level, computing a change in pixel error by toggling with all the possible output states and swapping with all neighbor pixels only if the stacking constraint is satisfied, updating the HTI with the maximum error decrease operation and continue to next pixel location till the end criteria is met. Once the end criteria is met, the updated HTI is saved as a final halftone screen for that gray level and copied as the initial HTI for the next gray level along with CTI pixel values updated to the next gray level till the final gray value is reached.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLCInventors: Kartheek Chandu, Mikel Stanich, Chai Wah Wu, Barry M. Trager
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Patent number: 8830531Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an image processor to selectively rasterize a plurality of objects, and to determine if a size of a first object is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold perform a single-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold and perform a super-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is greater than the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: InfoPrint Solutions Company LLCInventors: John Meixel, Timothy Towns, Miki Ushijima, Mikel Stanich
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Patent number: 8625161Abstract: Digital halftoning processes for producing a halftone image include, for each pixel in the image: indexing a two-dimensional look up table using a position of the pixel, identifying a threshold value for the pixel from the two-dimensional look up table, creating an index that indexes a three-dimensional lookup table using the threshold value and the position of the pixel, and obtaining an output value for the pixel from the three-dimensional look up table via the index. The digital halftoning processes also produce a halftone representation of the image from output values for corresponding pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Larry Ernst, Tadanobu Inoue, Mikel Stanich, Chai W. Wu
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Patent number: 8477377Abstract: A mechanism for integrating print quality enhancement (PQE) and multi-bit halftone data is disclosed. A system of embodiments of the invention includes a print control unit communicably coupled to a printer, the print control unit operable to process received multi-bit input print data for printing by the printer. The system further comprises a PQE card communicably coupled with the printer, the PQE card configured to separate multi-bit text and line art input data from multi-bit halftone image input data in the multi-bit input print data, ignore any of the identified multi-bit halftone image input data for purposes of applying PQE technology to the identified multi-bit halftone image input data, and apply the PQE technology to the identified multi-bit text and line art input data. Lastly, the system includes a print head communicably coupled to the printer, the print head operable to print multi-bit output created by the PQE card.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: InfoPrint Solutions Company LLCInventors: Mikel Stanich, John Charles Wilson, Larry M. Ernst
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Publication number: 20120320426Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an image processor to selectively rasterize a plurality of objects, and to determine if a size of a first object is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold perform a single-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold and perform a super-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is greater than the predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: John Meixel, Timothy Towns, Miki Ushijima, Mikel Stanich
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Publication number: 20110134486Abstract: A mechanism for integrating print quality enhancement (PQE) and multi-bit halftone data is disclosed. A system of embodiments of the invention includes a print control unit communicably coupled to a printer, the print control unit operable to process received multi-bit input print data for printing by the printer;\. The system further comprises a PQE card communicably coupled with the printer, the PQE card configured to separate multi-bit text and line art input data from multi-bit halftone image input data in the multi-bit input print data, ignore any of the identified multi-bit halftone image input data for purposes of applying PQE technology to the identified multi-bit halftone image input data, and apply the PQE technology to the identified multi-bit text and line art input data. Lastly, the system includes a print head communicably coupled to the printer, the print head operable to print multi-bit output created by the PQE card.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Mikel Stanich, John Charles Wilson, Larry M. Ernst