Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING TONER CONCENTRATION
    Publication number: 20060104654
    Abstract: A device to measure toner concentration can include a selector that selects a type of developer material to be measured and a sensor that detects an amount of light reflected off a developer material. A controller within the device can determine a value corresponding to a toner concentration of the developer material based on the amount of light detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael BORTON, R. VITURRO
  • Systems and methods of embedding gamut mapping information into printed images
    Publication number: 20060103861
    Abstract: Systems and methods preserve the information lost in gamut-mapping during marking (e.g., printing) such that the lost information survives the marking and recapture (e.g. scanning) process. Generally, an encoding method may include gamut-mapping and image for a particular device; determining a residual image; and embedding the information needed to recover the residual image within the pixels of the gamut-mapped image. Generally, a decoding method may include extracting the embedded information from the image; and using the residual image to restore the gamut-mapped image to the original image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: R. Klassen, Raja Bala
  • Electrostatic latent image developing toner and manufacturing method thereof
    Publication number: 20060105258
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner including, as a binder resin, a crystalline resin and at least one kind of non-crystalline resin, wherein, in a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement by a sine wave vibration method, a minimum value of the relaxation elasticity H in a relaxation spectrum obtained from frequency dispersion characteristics measured at temperatures of 60 and 80 degrees centigrade with a measurement frequency set in the range of 0.1 to 100 rad/sec and measurement strain set in the range of 0.02 to 4.5% is in the range of 10 to 900 Pa/cm2, and a relaxation time ? corresponding to the minimum value is in the range of 1 to 10,000 sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Ishiyama, Hiroshi Nakazawa, Masanobu Ninomiya, Hideo Maehata, Yutaka Sugizaki, Shinpei Takagi
  • Non-halogenated polymeric binder
    Publication number: 20060105253
    Abstract: A non-halogenated binder material, such as for an electrophotographic imaging member binder, includes a copolymer of vinyl acetate and vinyl acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Wu, Francisco Lopez, Lanhui Zhang, Yuhua Tong, Liang-bih Lin, John Chambers, Cindy Chen
  • Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program
    Publication number: 20060104512
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the text part based on color information of the text. The text searching unit searches the text based on the color information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Yoshitake Matsubara, Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Noriko Arai, Junichi Shimizu
  • Video segmentation combining similarity analysis and classification
    Publication number: 20060107216
    Abstract: Techniques for media segmentation are disclosed. A number of measures used to generate similarity values are compared. Two different approaches to calculate feature vectors based on pairwise frame similarity in combination with different kernel functions are disclosed. A supervised classification method is used with the feature vectors to assess segment boundaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Cooper, Ting Liu, Eleanor Rieffel
  • System and method for presenting video search results
    Publication number: 20060106764
    Abstract: The invention displays video search results in a form that makes it easy for users to determine which results are truly relevant. Each story returned as a search result is visualized as a collage of keyframes from the story's shots. The selected keyframes and their sizes depend on the corresponding shots' respective relevance. Shot relevance depends on the search retrieval score of the shot and, in some embodiments, also depends on the search retrieval score of the shot's parent story. Once areas have been determined, the keyframes are scaled and/or cropped to fit into the area. In one embodiment, users can mark one or more shots as being relevant to the search. In one embodiment, a timeline is created and displayed with one or more neighbor stories that are each part of the video and which are closest in time of creation to the selected story.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Andreas Girgensohn, John Adcock, Lynn Wilcox
  • Photoconductive imaging members
    Patent number: 7045262
    Abstract: A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a photogenerating layer and a charge transport layer, and wherein the charge transport layer contains a polymeric solid acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhua Tong, Satchidanand Mishra, Anthony M. Horgan, John F. Yanus, Dale S. Renfer, Robert C. U. Yu, Markus R. Silvestri, Cindy C. Chen, Lanhui Zhang
  • Free sheet color digital output terminal architectures
    Patent number: 7046947
    Abstract: A free sheet, high speed, color tandem printing system that controls registration of images from one imager to another while mechanically decoupling individual imagers and all the while maintaining relative registration of each of the color separations by the use of spherical transport servo devices or spherical nips (SNIPS). SNIPS correct skew, lateral, and process positions and ensure proper registration of a sheet with a station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Vittorio Castelli, Joannes N M Dejong
  • Separation of encapsulated particles from empty shells
    Patent number: 7046423
    Abstract: Methods and systems for separating encapsulated particles from empty shells. One method involves providing a mixture including at least one dipolar particle encapsulated in a shell and at least one shell which does not encapsulate a dipolar particle. The mixture is positioned in a spatially inhomogeneous electric or magnetic field and at least one encapsulated dipolar particle is isolated from the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Armin R. Völkel, Peter M. Kazmaier, Naveen Chopra, Jürgen Daniel
  • Photo-writing type recording medium and manufacturing method therefor
    Patent number: 7046311
    Abstract: An a.c. driving system photo-writing type recording medium having a substrate formed an electrode layer on one side thereof, a transparent substrate formed a transparent electrode layer on one side thereof, an optical switching layer having a pair of charge generation layers each including a charge generation material; and a charge transport layer including a charge transport material, disposed between the pair of charge generation layers, and a display element layer, in which the electrode layer of the substrate and the transparent electrode layer of the transparent substrate are opposed to each other, and the following equation (1) is satisfied |Ipcgl?Ipctl|?0.5 eV??(1) where Ipcgl is an ionization potential of the charge generation material and Ipctl is an ionization potential of the charge transport material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Takehito Hikichi
  • Multilingual document retrieval system
    Patent number: 7047182
    Abstract: As a retrieval result, appropriate text of a second language is provided in response to a retrieval request by text of a first language. A first directory storing part stores a first directory structure created for a first language. A second directory storing part stores a second directory structure created for a second language. A directory relation storing part stores correspondences between directories in the first directory structure and directories in the second directory structure. A directory retrieval part receives a retrieval request by the first language from a user and decides which directory in the first directory structure the request has a high degree of relation with. A multilingual retrieval part decides documents having a high degree of relation with the retrieval request, of documents belonging to a directory in the second directory structure that corresponds to the decided directory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Masuichi
  • Image processing apparatus and program
    Patent number: 7046862
    Abstract: A domain block extracting unit extracts a domain block image from an original image. A range block extracting unit extracts a range block image from an area in the vicinity of the domain block image. The range block image has size being larger than a domain size and being smaller than an enlarged size. A reduced range block forming unit reduces the range block image to the domain size to produce a reduced range block image. A similarity judging unit compares each of the reduced range block images with the domain block image to select the highest similarity range block image. An enlarged range block forming unit forms an enlarged range block image by enlarging the size of the highest similarity range block image to an enlarged size thereof. An enlarged image acquiring unit produces an enlarged image of an original image by employing the respective enlarged range block images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanya Ishizaka, Takashi Nagao
  • Brush streak eraser
    Patent number: 7046948
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus that has a fuser roll/belt in pressure contact with a pressure roll that forms a nip, a meter roll that receives a release agent, a donor roll in press contact with the meter roll and is disposed between the meter roll and the fuser roll/belt to transport the release agent from the meter roll to the fuser roll/belt, a metering blade disposed adjacent to the meter roll that regulates an amount of release agent on the surface of the meter roll, and a smoothing/camouflaging device in contact with a surface of one or more of the fuser roll/belt, the meter roll and the donor roll, that smoothes/camouflages a non-uniform application of the release agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Martin F. Zess, Mark S. Amico
  • Method of selective edge softening and rendering for the suppression of halo
    Patent number: 7046397
    Abstract: Selective edge softening and selective edge dithering is introduced into an image representation to improve local control where halo problems are expected. Selective areas of dilation are isolated and separately dithered or halftoned, the result of which is then swapped back into or substituted for the stored original image. In this manner misregistration and color plane-to-plane interactions can be compensated for in plural image forming station architecture systems. The same technique is also valuable in monochrome systems as an aid to overcoming edge displacement and slow toner problems when the selective edge softening is selectively applied to edges which are in particular perpendicular to the fast scan direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Loce, Clara Cuciurean-Zapan
  • Electrophotographic color toner
    Patent number: 7045265
    Abstract: Electrophotographic color toner prepared as a mixture of white toner and chromatic color toner in an electrophotographic toner composition at least containing a colorant, a binder resin and an additive, wherein a colorant of the white toner is one member selected from the group consisting of silver white pigment, titanium white pigment, zinc white pigment, and titanium strontium white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzo Horikoshi, Katsuji Ebisu, Takahiro Kashikawa
  • Systems and methods for detecting inkjet defects
    Publication number: 20060098251
    Abstract: A method for testing inkjets for defects in an inkjet device includes determining, based on the likelihood that one or more inkjets are defective, whether to perform an inkjet defect test, The method may also include, identifying, if it is determined to perform an inkjet defect test, which inkjets to test based on properties of the inkjets, the number of identified inkjets being less than a total number of inkjets in the inkjet device; and testing the identified inkjets for defects using an image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elliott Eklund, Jeffrey Folkins, David Knierim
  • Spin box for a touch-based user interface for an image processing office machine
    Patent number: D521017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Shane Jewitt, Karen Totten
  • Ink stick for phase change ink jet printer
    Patent number: D521064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Brent R. Jones, Kelvin Kwong, Scott J. Korn
  • Ink stick for phase change ink jet printer
    Patent number: D521065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Brent R. Jones, Kelvin Kwong, Scott J. Korn