Patents Assigned to Document Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9436882
    Abstract: In embodiments, one or more computer-readable media may have instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor of a computing device provide the computing device with a redaction module. The redaction module may be configured to receive a request to redact a selection of text from a document and identify instances of the text occurring within the document through an analysis of word coordinate information of an image of the document. The redaction module may further be configured to generate redaction information, including redaction coordinates, the redaction coordinates may be based on the word coordinate information associated with respective instances of the text occurring within the document. The redactions, when applied to the image in accordance with the redaction coordinates, may redact the respective instances of the text. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Lighthouse Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Byron Dahl, Debora Noemi Motyka Jones, Kevin Patrick O'Neill, Geoffrey Alan David Belger, Vladas Walter Mazelis, Nathaniel Byington, Beau Hodges Holt, John Charles Olson
  • Publication number: 20150071542
    Abstract: In embodiments, one or more computer-readable media may have instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor of a computing device provide the computing device with a redaction module. The redaction module may be configured to receive a request to redact a selection of text from a document and identify instances of the text occurring within the document through an analysis of word coordinate information of an image of the document. The redaction module may further be configured to generate redaction information, including redaction coordinates, the redaction coordinates may be based on the word coordinate information associated with respective instances of the text occurring within the document. The redactions, when applied to the image in accordance with the redaction coordinates, may redact the respective instances of the text. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Lighthouse Document Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Lighthouse eDiscovery)
    Inventors: Christopher Byron Dahl, Debora Noemi Motyka Jones, Kevin Patrick O'Neill, Geoffrey Alan David Belger, Vladas Walter Mazelis, Nathaniel Byington, Beau Hodges Holt, John Charles Olson
  • Publication number: 20150066976
    Abstract: In embodiments, one or more computer-readable media may have instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, provide the computing device with a recurring text identification service. The recurring text identification service may be configured, in some embodiments, to receive a request to identify recurring text within a plurality of documents. The recurring text identification service may be further configured to analyze individual segments of the plurality of documents to generate segment identifiers respectively associated with the segments. In embodiments, the segment identifiers may be based on content of the segments. In embodiments, segments with the same content may have equivalent segment identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Lighthouse Document Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Lighthouse eDiscovery)
    Inventors: Christopher Dahl, Geoffrey Alan David Belger
  • Patent number: 7077397
    Abstract: A high capacity document sheet processor combines significant speed and efficiency enhancing improvements in existing approaches to stack feeding particularly in the stack loading, feeding and singulating functions with novel operational arrangements adaptable to a universal paper handling and envelope inserting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: EMC Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth A. Stevens
  • Patent number: 5894586
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a microcontroller system incorporating a DMA system and to a method of accessing a memory by a plurality of processing units. In embodiments of the present invention, the microcontroller system includes a plurality of processing units, a DMA module, and an interface to an external memory system. The DMA module controls access to the external memory system by the processing units on a time shared basis by allocating time slots to each of the plurality of processing units. The processing units can access the external memory system during their assigned time slots. Data transfers to and from the memory are accomplished in packets having a fixed maximum size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl M. Marks, Geoffrey A. Dreher, Frank P. Monaco, Craig C. Cook
  • Patent number: 5867632
    Abstract: A printing system and method performs lossy compression on a bitonal image when the printing system runs out of available memory for processing a page. The lossy compression is performed by dividing the image into subregions and by then determining a contone value for each subregion. Next, each contone value is converted to a bitonal value (i.e. either a "1" or a "0") to achieve lossy compression. In converting the contone values to bitonal values, the system determines the error associated with each conversion and diffuses the error to adjacent subregions using a random perturbation technique to determine the proportion of the error to diffuse to each subregion. When compressing color images, contone values are determined for each color plane. A relative color ordering of each contone value is also stored and used in converting the contone values to bitonal values in order to solve phasing and color alignment problems which would otherwise arise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred W. Andree, Geoffrey A. Dreher
  • Patent number: 5555358
    Abstract: A system and process for digital printing processes commands to draw a trapezoidal image by initially rendering those commands into an intermediate representation based on pixel rows. Depending on the dimensions of the trapezoid or the regularity of the offset of the end pixels of each pixel row from the end pixels of an adjacent pixel row, data representing the trapezoid are sent to a display list as either individual pixel data, pixel row data, or a compact grouping of data derived from the intermediate representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Blumer, Peter W. Barada
  • Patent number: 5555350
    Abstract: A multi-interpreter printer recognizes out-of-band characters by measuring pauses in applied data streams and examining as candidate out-of-band characters data portions separated in time from other data by pauses exceeding predetermined durations. Pauses before-and after the candidate out-of-band characters may be examined, and different thresholds may be used for pre-character and post-character pauses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David W. Strauss
  • Patent number: 5528740
    Abstract: A system for converting a high-resolution bitonal bit map representation of a document to a lower-resolution pixel representation for display. A special subset of the high resolution output is assigned special meanings by codes which are used to produce a real time video signal with higher bandwidth to enhance the resolution and readability of the displayed image on a lower resolution display. This is accomplished by splitting each coded pixel into two or more "twixels". The twixels produced from pixels which are not part of the special subset have the same codes as the corresponding original pixels. The twixels produced from pixels which are part of the special subset have special codes which, when displayed, duplicate certain predetermined high resolution features of the original bitonal pixel-code information on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Hill, Robert M. Marsh, Jesse C. Newcomb
  • Patent number: 5500928
    Abstract: A system and process for digital printing divides an image area into segments, defines display lists for each segment, generates graphic primitives from page description language commands, stores the graphic primitives in the display lists, and adaptively compresses and converts the contents of display lists as memory requirements exceed available memory capacity. Display lists contain either uncompressed pixel representations, compressed pixel representations, graphic primitives, or combinations of the foregoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig C. Cook, Thomas P. Blumer, Theodore B. Packard, Geoffrey A. Dreher, Thomas A. Schuneman
  • Patent number: 5170266
    Abstract: A multi-channel and multi-capability facsimile system including N(.gtoreq.2) signal-carrying facsimile channels, an image server means to process, store and retrieve document image information, and a master processing unit to control the process by which information is transferred between a facsimile channel and the image server means, and to enable and disable data compression and expansion document image information that is provided to or received from the facsimile channels. The system: (1) allows visual display of document pages sent and/or received in the resolution in which the document is originally received or generated; (2) allows transmission, receipt and storage of document image information and speech or voice signals; (3) allows control of the destination address and route used for transmitted document and speech infomation, using the DTMF touch tone signaling available with a telephone; (4) supports CCITT group 2, Group 3 and Group 4 standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Marsh, Mark Potts, Timothy J. Hill, Kamal Mortoza
  • Patent number: 5065149
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing high resolution images for static display of document pages that are scanned in through a document scanner at high resolution, with reduced bandwidth requirements. In one embodiment, groups of four scanned image pixel values, each one bit in length, are reduced to a single two-bit pixel value that determines a pixel value for a display image pixel; and selected displayed image pixel values are periodically varied between the original displayed image pixel value and an alternative pixel value to restore the perception of high resolution available in the scanned image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Document Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Marsh, Timothy J. Hill, Mark Potts