Abstract: According to aspects described herein, there is disclosed an apparatus and method for de-skewing substrate media in a printing system. The apparatus includes at least one sensor for measuring skew of the substrate media being transferred relative to a process direction, and a nip assembly for moving the substrate media in the process direction. The nip assembly includes a nip having a drive roller and an idler roller for engaging the substrate media. The nip assembly is pivotal from a default position an amount responsive to the measured media skew. The drive roller is selectively stopped to permit a leading edge of the substrate media to engage the stopped drive roller.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for estimating a banding profile in an image printing system is disclosed. The method includes obtaining image data across multiple measurement intervals by a sensor; combining the image data with timing information into a coherent signal by a processor; determining aperiodic components of the coherent signal by the processor; determining the periodic component of the coherent signal using spline interpolation, wherein the periodic component represents a banding profile, by the processor; and printing an output print with a correction applied based on the banding profile.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for estimating a banding profile in an image printing system is disclosed. The method includes obtaining image data across multiple measurement intervals by one or more sensors; combining the image data with timing information into a coherent signal by a processor; estimating periodic and aperiodic components of the coherent signal using least squares estimation by the processor, wherein the periodic component represents a banding profile; and wherein at least the periodic component is used to generate an output.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying parts in an image production device may include receiving a request to print a print job from a user, determining the print job specifications, detecting identification devices of parts that are installed in the image production device and extracting the corresponding part identification information, determining if the detected parts are the parts that have been identified for the determined print job specifications based on the extracted part identification information, wherein if one or more detected parts that are installed in the image production device are the parts that have been identified for the determined print job specifications, processing the print job, otherwise, notifying the user that the installed parts are not the parts that have been identified for the determined print job specifications, and prompting the user to elect to replace the installed parts, change the print job specifications, or proceed with the print job.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to personalizing event participation of a visitor at an event. Embodiments include communication nodes that form defined wireless areas. A first one of the communication nodes determines when the visitor enters a first defined wireless area in response to detecting an identifier associated with the personal portable wireless device associated with the visitor, records user activities of the visitor within the first one of defined wireless areas, and determines an interest of the visitor in response to the user activities in the first defined wireless area, where the interest is used to customize the event for the visitor.

Abstract: An image forming system includes image forming apparatuses that communicate with each other via a network. Each of the image forming apparatuses includes a network computer, a power saving controller for applying a power saving control in a first power saving mode in which a supply of power to a printing function portion that forms an image on a sheet is stopped and a power is fed to the network controller when the apparatus acts as a main apparatus, and applying a power saving control in a second power saving mode in which a supply of power to the printing function portion and the network controller is stopped when the apparatus acts as subordinate apparatus, and a main apparatus deciding unit for deciding the image forming apparatus out of the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on a calculation of power consumption of the plurality of image forming apparatuses.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for estimating exposure modulation in an image printing system is disclosed. The method includes determining a banding profile for an image printing system by a processor; determining an adjusted exposure modulation profile based on the banding profile using a least squares estimation by the processor; and printing an output based on the adjusted exposure profile.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a feed portion that is fed with toner from above; a transport path that includes an inlet through which the toner fed to the feed portion enters, that allows the toner to be transported therethrough, and that is in a cylindrical shape; and a transporting member provided to continuously extend from the feed portion to the transport path, the transporting member transporting along the transport path the toner fed to the feed portion, wherein an amount of transportation of the toner per unit of time at a part of the transporting member located in the transport path is larger than an amount of transportation of the toner per unit of time at a part of the transporting member located in the feed portion.

Abstract: A length measurement apparatus including: a measurement portion that measures a sheet length based on a rotational amount of a length measurement roll for a first detection period in which first and third sensors detect the sheet, and a sheet length based on a rotational amount of the length measurement roll for a second detection period in which the second sensor and any one of the first and third sensors detect the sheet, the any one of the first and third sensors being disposed at a position opposite to the second sensor via the length measurement roll; and a whole length calculation portion that selects the sheet length nearer to integral multiples of the circumference length of the length measurement roll from the sheet lengths measured for the first and second detection periods, and calculates the whole length of the sheet by using the selected sheet length.

Abstract: A system of assigning operators to cells in a document production environment may include a computing device and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device. The computer-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions for identifying a first plurality of cell operators, where each cell operator may be associated with one or more skills, identifying a cell to be staffed, where the cell may be associated with one or more functions, identifying, from the first plurality of cell operators, a subset of cell operators including one or more cell operators who each possess the skills necessary to perform the one or more functions associated with the cell, selecting, from the subset, a second plurality of cell operators based on at least one relationship amongst the second plurality of cell operators, and assigning the second plurality of cell operators to the cell.

Abstract: A method for determining whether an item has been exposed to an environmental condition during a monitoring period. The method includes placing a sensor at least in proximity to the item at the beginning of the monitoring period so that the sensor will be exposed to a level of an environmental condition that can be correlated to an exposure level of the item to the environmental condition; reading the sensor; and determining from reading the sensor whether the item has been exposed to the environmental condition. The sensor includes a detecting material comprising a photochromic or photothermochromic material, the detecting material selected so that upon exposure to the environmental condition the detecting material exhibits a detectable color change.

Abstract: A vertical cavity surface emitting laser that includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor multilayer reflector that is a first conductive type and formed on the substrate; an active region formed on the first semiconductor multilayer reflector; a second semiconductor multilayer reflector that is a second conductive type and formed on the active region; a current narrowing layer that is located between the first and second semiconductor multilayer reflectors, and in that a conductive region which has anisotropy in a long side direction and a short side direction within the surface which is parallel to a principal surface of the substrate is formed; and a convex lens member that is formed in a beam window which emits a light on the second multilayer reflector, and that has anisotropy in a long side direction and a short side direction within a surface which is parallel to the principal surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention combine the flexibility of the computer in segmenting, indexing, and retrieving data with the strengths of people in analyzing scenes. They provide a mechanism that allows a group of analyzers at distributed locations to collaborate in generating pieces of semantic information of a data stream, integrates these pieces into a summary representation that can be used for subsequent computation, and allows related hypotheses and information requests to be presented back to the analyzers. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.

Abstract: A translation device has an input unit that inputs image data from a document; a detecting unit that detects a security information image, which indicates that the inputted image is a confidential image, from the inputted image data; a translating unit that translates the security information image detected by the detecting unit; and an outputting unit that outputs the translated image of the security information image.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus, after controlling so as to develop the developer image representing the predetermined image formed a plurality of times in the same location on an image carrier by an exposing component, controls such that without performing exposure with the exposing component, the developer image, developed on the image carrier by the developing component applying a biasing voltage to the developer so as to adhere the developer to the image carrier including to the same location on the image carrier, is transferred to the transfer component and detects whether or not a ghost image is generated by comparing the density detected by a detecting component at a position of a transfer body corresponding to the same location of the image carrier to a reference density.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a cleaning composition that can include alkane components for cleaning printer members made of elastomeric materials.

Abstract: A media handling transport includes first and second device halves. Each of the device halves includes first, second and third body members, with the first end portion of the second body member disposed adjacent the first end portion of the first body member, the first end portion of the third body member disposed adjacent the second end portion of the first body member, and the second end portion of the third body member disposed adjacent the second end portion of the second body member. An inner body member defines a first media transport passageway with the second body member define, a second media transport passageway with the third body member, and a third media transport passageway with the first body member. The second end portions of the second and third body members define an abutting end of the device half, with the abutting end of the first device half disposed adjacent the abutting end of the second device half in an installed transport.

Abstract: A recording device includes a first voltage application unit that applies a first voltage to a display layer; a second voltage application unit that applies a second voltage; a first irradiation unit that irradiates to the display layer first light synchronized with the application of the second voltage; a second irradiation unit that irradiates to the display layer a second light after the application of the second voltage is terminated, the second light having a third intensity if the second light is irradiated at an area corresponding to the first tone in the second liquid crystal layer, the second light not being irradiated if the second light is irradiated at an area corresponding to the second tone in the second liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of filling a powder into a powder supplying device including: a housing that accommodates the powder; a rotating member disposed rotatably within the housing; a sheet-shaped conveying member fixed to the rotating member, whose free end side region, which is different from a fixed portion, slidingly-contacts and moves along an inner wall of the housing by rotation of the rotating member to convey the powder; and a powder supply opening provided at the housing at a downstream side in a direction of conveying the powder, the method including filling, into the housing, the powder in an amount such that, at a time when usage of the powder supplying device starts, a height of the powder is greater than or equal to a height of a bottom surface of the rotating member.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring nip width in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a signal to measure the nip width, the nip width being the distance of an arc length created by an intersection of a fuser roll and a pressure roll, positioning a nip width measuring device into the nip, measuring the nip width, determining if the measured nip width meets a required nip width, wherein if the measured nip width does not meet the required nip width, adjusting the nip width.