Abstract: A printhead has a substrate with a mounting surface for a printhead die. The printhead die includes a first face bonded to the mounting surface of the substrate and a second face opposite the first face. The second face including at least one array of marking elements disposed along a marking element array direction. An edge of the printhead die is substantially parallel to the marking element array direction. An inclined surface is positioned proximate to, but not overlapping the edge of the printhead die, wherein a distance from the inclined surface to the mounting surface of the substrate at a first location is greater than a distance from the inclined surface to the mounting surface of the substrate at a second location, the first location also being nearer the edge of the printhead die that is substantially parallel to the marking element array direction than the second location.

Abstract: A full-color electroluminescent display with improved efficiency and increased color gamut that includes substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements, the chromaticity coordinates of which define the endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<=u?<=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u?v? chromaticity space. Also included in the display is a green light-emitting element of spectrum having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; and a red light-emitting element.

Abstract: A method for reducing banding artifacts in a printed image, including irregularly advancing a media that will be printed upon while employing an entire single mask for marking elements of a printhead; and calculating a difference between an irregular advance amount of the media versus a nominal advance amount of the media. Finally, the single mask is nonuniformly circulated by the difference calculated in order to compensate for the media being irregularly advanced.

Abstract: A solid-state area illumination system includes multiple LED devices, each LED device is formed on a separate substrate and each LED device emits differently colored light at different angles relative to the substrate. The peak frequencies of each color of light differ by at least the smallest of the full width half maximums of the frequency distributions of emitted light. Also included is a support for positioning each of the LED devices at multiple orientations relative to an area of illumination upon a surface, so that any point within the area of illumination will receive multiple colors of light from more than one of the LED devices at different angles. Each LED device includes one or more light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element having multiple sizes of core/shell quantum-dot emitters formed in a common polycrystalline semiconductor matrix.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a media holder configured to hold a plurality of sheets of media. A pick arm, including a pick roller, is positioned to contact an individual sheet of the plurality of sheets of media in the media holder. A member has a measurable property that is sensed by a sensor in correlation with a position of the individual sheet of the media in the media holder. The member or the sensor is movable by the pick arm along a path such that the measurable property is sensed by the sensor in order to provide a signal indicative of the position of the individual sheet of media in the media holder. The member produces zero drag upon the individual sheet of media.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for compressing a set of digital images to achieve an average compressed data rate over the entire set. A subset of images are selected from the set of images. A threshold viewing distance and a desired average compressed data rate are specified, and compression parameters are determined from the threshold viewing distance. The subset of images is compressed with the compression parameters to produce compressed data, and an average compressed data rate is calculated for the compressed data from the subset of images. The average compressed data rate for the subset of images is compared to the desired average data rate. If the average compressed data rate for the subset of images is less than or equal to the desired average compressed data rate, remaining images from the image sequence that are not in the subset of images are compressed using the compression parameters that were used for the subset of images.

Abstract: An electro-luminescent device has an array of light-emitting elements, including a near white light-emitting element. The near white light-emitting element includes an inorganic light-emitting layer of quantum dots, spaced between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer produces a spectrum of light having at least a bimodal distribution of wavelengths.

Abstract: A white-light electroluminescent device having an adjustable color temperature substantially on a predetermined range of a Planckian locus within the 1976 Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) uniform chromaticity scale diagram. According to one embodiment, a first light-emitting element having a fixed ratio of at least two different species of emitters combined to produce a set of chromaticity coordinates at a predetermined white point substantially on the Planckian locus. A second light-emitting element having at least a single species of emitters produces a set of chromaticity coordinates. The set of chromaticity coordinates are positioned along a projected line extending from the Planckian locus and through the chromaticity coordinates of the first light-emitting layer. A controller adjusts the voltage or current associated with the first and second light-emitting elements to provide white light with a predetermined range of chromaticity coordinates substantially on the Planckian locus.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for controlling the amount of compressed data. One or more viewing condition parameters are specified, and a quantizer step size for each frequency subband is determined that minimizes an amount of data that must be encoded for a compressed representation of the image by using one or more viewing condition parameters and a model that characterizes the human visual system. The image is compressed using the quantizer step size for each frequency subband to produce an amount of compressed data. The presence of a pre-specified maximum amount of compression data is determined. The amount of compressed data is compared to the pre-specified maximum amount. Subsequent discarding of least visually relevant compressed data reduces the amount of compressed data.

Abstract: A device, system, method and software product for storing, maintaining, sharing and displaying of digital images in a common designated collection on at least one portable storage and display device. The device has a first memory section designated for storing images and a second memory section for storing digital images of the designated collection. The second memory section has a protected mode that prevents the digital images in the second memory section from being deleted or overwritten. When the protected mode of the second section is disabled, the device will overwrite the digital images of the second memory section with newly captured digital images. These digital images are restored to the second memory section when the digital display and storage device is in communication link with a database that has information for restoring overwritten digital images after newly obtained images in the second memory have been removed from the device.

Abstract: A method of patterning a substrate according to several steps, including: a) mechanically locating a first masking film over the substrate; and b) segmenting the first masking film into a first masking portion and one or more first opening portions in first locations. Next, mechanically locate a first removal film over the first masking portion and first opening portions. Afterwards, one or more of the first opening portions are adhered to the first removal film. The first removal film and one or more of the first opening portions adhered to the first removal film are mechanically removed to form one or more first openings in the first masking film. Finally, materials are deposited over the substrate through the first openings in the first masking film.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, comprising: a first electrode and a second electrode. One or more organic layers are formed there-between, including an organic light-emitting layer. The second electrode is transparent. A contrast enhancement element is formed on a side of the second electrode, opposite the organic layer, and has a geometric area for controlling ambient light contrast ratio of the OLED device.

Abstract: A method is proved for analyzing frequency distribution of a reflection from a surface of a body to determine a type of body surface. Initially, a plurality of data points from a sensor that senses the reflection of the body's surface are provided. A first series of terms are summed together to provide a first magnitude, each term including a plurality of data points; wherein the plurality of data points being spaced apart by a first spacing. A second series of terms are summed together to provide a second magnitude, each term including a plurality of data points; wherein the plurality of data points being spaced apart by a second spacing. The first magnitude is compared to the second magnitude to determine the type of body surface.

Abstract: A method of patterning a substrate that includes mechanically locating a first masking film over the substrate; segmenting the first masking film into a first masking portion and first contiguous opening portions in first locations; mechanically removing the one or more first contiguous opening portions; depositing first materials over the substrate in the first locations to form first patterned areas; mechanically locating a second masking film over the substrate and first masking portions; segmenting the second masking film and first masking portion into a second masking portion and second contiguous opening portions, wherein the second contiguous opening portions are in second locations over the substrate, yet different from the first locations; mechanically removing the second contiguous opening portions; and depositing second materials over the substrate in the second locations to form second patterned areas.

Abstract: A light-emitting diode device includes a substrate, and numerous first electrodes formed in a pattern over the substrate in a first dimension. Numerous first shadowing pillars, having a first height, are formed in a second dimension, orthogonal to the first dimension, and over the substrate. One-or-more first light-emitting layer(s) are formed over the first electrodes. Numerous second electrodes are formed in a pattern between the first shadowing pillars over the one-or-more first light-emitting layer(s). Numerous second shadowing pillars, having a second height, are formed in the first dimension over the substrate, wherein the second height is greater than the first height. One or more second light-emitting layer(s) are formed over the second electrodes; and numerous third electrodes are formed in a pattern over the first shadowing pillars, between the second shadowing pillars, and over the one-or-more second light-emitting layer(s).

Abstract: A method for selectively optimizing a plurality of image characteristics for captured images, that includes modifying two or more one-dimensional image characteristic controls using a single loop position controller having one-dimensional control. The single loop position controller traverses useful ranges of each of the two or more one-dimensional image characteristic controls. Additionally, a user cycles through several combinations of the two or more one-dimensional image characteristic controls within a video loop; and has a means of selecting a desired image rendered according to the two or more one-dimensional image characteristic controls.

Abstract: A method for decreasing integration time of saturated paxels within an imager; wherein the method includes decreasing the integration time of the saturated paxels within an imager according to scene data from a captured image.

Abstract: A method for communicating and preserving creative intent within a motion picture production chain, including a production stage, and at least one of a subsequent laboratory or post production stage, including capturing an original image of a scene during the production stage; generating a look representative of a creative intent, wherein the look is a digital representation of a creative alteration of the captured original scene image; and applying the look to the captured original scene image and confirming approval of the look during the production stage. The digital representation of the look is stored as a recipe for generating the creative alteration, and communicated from the production stage to at least one of the subsequent laboratory and post-production stages for applying the look to the captured motion picture footage during subsequent laboratory and post-production stages.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprising: a substrate; one or more light-emitting elements formed over the substrate, the one or more light-emitting elements including first and second spaced-apart electrodes wherein at least one of the first and second electrodes is transparent and a light-emitting layer comprising quantum dots formed between the first and second electrodes; a cover located over the one or more light-emitting elements and spaced apart from the one or more light-emitting elements to form a gap between the cover and the one or more light-emitting elements; and separately formed spacer elements located in the gap between the cover and the one or more light-emitting elements and wherein the spacer elements are in physical contact with the one or more light-emitting elements, the cover, or both the one or more light-emitting elements and the cover.

Abstract: A light-emitting LED device has one or more light-emitting LED elements, including first and second spaced-apart electrodes with one or more light-emitting layers formed there-between, wherein at least one of the electrodes is a transparent electrode. Also included are a first transparent encapsulating layer having a first optical index formed over the transparent electrode opposite the light-emitting layer; a light-scattering layer formed over the first transparent encapsulating layer opposite the transparent electrode; and a second transparent encapsulating layer, having a second optical index lower than the first optical index, formed over the light-scattering layer.