Abstract: In a development system including a developer transport adapted for depositing developer material on an imaging surface having an electrostatic latent image thereon, comprising: a housing defining a chamber storing a supply of developer material comprising carrier and toner; a donor member, mounted partially in the chamber and spaced from the imaging surface, for transporting developer on an outer surface thereof to a region opposed from the imaging surface, the donor member having a magnetic assembly having a plurality of poles, a sleeve, enclosing the magnetic assembly, rotating about the magnetic assembly; a developer bed height of the developer material produce by the rotation of the magnetic assembly on the donor member to a predefined developer bed height within a development nip; and a grid, spaced and interposed between the donor member and the charge retentive surface, the grid having being dispose longitudinal with respect to the charge retentive surface and the donor member, the grid being spaced s

Abstract: A locally-outcoupled optical resonator has whispering gallery modes existing in a nearly circular resonator. Light is outcoupled by providing a local perturbing feature on the perimeter of the locally-outcoupled cavity resonator. The perturbing feature provides an outcoupling or loss mechanism that asymmetrically interacts with circulating whispering gallery modes, thereby making the resonator capable of uni-directional output.

Abstract: A rotational cable shortening system for shortening the effective length of a cable by bending a section of the cable. The shortening system comprises a rotatable bridged channel through which the cable is threaded. Upon rotation of the bridged channel, the cable is deflected and effectively shortened.

Abstract: A method, computing machine and computer readable medium provides a computer user with the ability to route a print job to a service bureau over the Internet. The computer receives a print command input for printing a document. In response to the print command, the document is routed over the Internet to a service bureau for printing. Routing may involve activating a communications browser program in the computer and transmitting the document to a server associated with the service bureau. An Internet print web page including information identifying print job options and a print order form is retrieved from the server and displayed on the computer screen. In response to ther user's selection of a print job option identified on the print job order form, the print job and order form is transmitted to the service bureau.

Abstract: A xerographic apparatus, a printer, a printer server, and the like processes wavelet domain image data and includes means for receiving the wavelet domain image data representative of an input digital image. The wavelet domain image data may be formatted as a JPEG 2000 compressed file or other wavelet domain file including N levels of wavelet decompositions. An M-level extractor extracts an Mth level wavelet decomposition from the wavelet domain image data where M is <N. The extracted Mth level wavelet decomposition is a low resolution representation of the input digital image. An image enhancement system receives the extracted Mth level wavelet decomposition and derives an enhancement process such as a tone reproduction curve, a sharpness filter, and the like from the extracted Mth level wavelet decomposition. The enhancement process is used to enhance a higher resolution representation of the digital input image.

Abstract: A toner process comprising the aggregation and coalescence of a sulfonated polyester and a colorant, and wherein said polyester possesses a degree of sulfonation or a sulfonation percentage of from about 0.5 to about 3 mol percent.

Abstract: To provide an image forming apparatus in which: a memory having a large capacity becomes unnecessary, and many types of information such as a type of replacement part can be utilized for the control of an image forming apparatus or the like. Therefore, a replacement part including a storage medium into which identification information inherent to the replacement part is written; and an apparatus main body having a communication unit that serves to communicate with the storage medium of the replacement part; an information acquisition unit that, based on the identification information obtained from the storage medium of the replacement part through the communication unit, acquires information on the replacement part from a storage unit provided to an element other than the replacement part; and a management unit that manages a usage state of the replacement part in accordance with the information on the replacement part acquired by the information acquisition unit.

Abstract: An information collecting apparatus and collecting/analyzing system, including an input unit for sampling digital signals input from each part of an object to be measured, a transfer unit for transferring the digital signals via a communication interface to a host computer in substantially real time, and a control unit for controlling the input unit and transfer unit; and a host computer, including a signal processing unit for processing digital signals transferred from the information collecting apparatus, a storage device for storing processed digital signals in substantially real time, display units for displaying various types of images based on digital signals stored in the storage device, and a control unit for controlling the signal processing unit, storage device and display units.

Abstract: Systems and methods for setting up grid voltage for a tandem pin charging device for charging a photoreceptor in a xerographic printing machine. A charge-generating emitter ratio of a first charging unit is determined and a first grid voltage is set based on the charge-generating emitter ratio of the first charging unit. A charge-generating emitter ratio of a offset voltage is then determined and a second grid voltage is set, based on the determined charge-generating emitter ratio of the offset voltage. A final voltage of a photoreceptor is then compared with a final target voltage.

Abstract: Method and system for detecting the presence and determining characteristics of objects such as ink cartridges in printing systems. The system includes a signal transceiver capable of transmitting signals using a photo emitter and capable of receiving signals sent from the objects using a photo detector, and a monitoring system coupled to the signal transceiver for processing received signals to determine characteristics of the objects. Further, the photo emitter is at least partially covered by a first optical polarizer and the objects include a reflective surface that is at least partially covered by a second optical polarizer. When signals are transmitted from the signal transceiver to the objects, the second optical polarizer allows the signals to reach the reflective surface and reflect back towards the signal transceiver if the orientations of the first and second optical polarizers are substantially the same.

Abstract: Linguistic frequency data is encoded by identifying a plurality of sets of character strings in a source text, where each set comprises at least a first and a second character string. Frequency data is obtained for each set and stored at a memory position in a first memory array that is assigned to each first character string. A pointer pointing to a position in the first memory array that has been assigned to the corresponding first character string of the respective set and which has stored the frequency data of the respective set, is stored in a second memory array for each set comprising each character string that is a second character string. The encoded data is accessed by identifying regions in the memory arrays that are each assigned a search string and a pointer pointing to a position in the first memory array.

Abstract: This invention allows the use of standard e-mail systems by a document capture system to solicit document metadata from a user. The document capture system sends an e-mail to the user associated with the captured document. The e-mail body contains the names of the metadata properties supported by the repository system for the captured document. An attachment to the e-mail consists of a screen resolution image of the first page of the captured document to remind the user about the particular document for which metadata is being requested. The user edits a reply e-mail body to supply metadata values for each of the metadata property names. When the user sends the reply, the document capture system extracts the metadata values from the e-mail body and stores the supplied metadata values and the captured document into the repository.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method to support the coordination of geographically distributed printing and, in particular, identification of possibilities for distributing print jobs to other shops for production. The technique involves the forwarding of production schedules by a number of print shops to a central location, where they are accessible to other print shops and can be used as a resource for identifying possible collaboration partners for distributed production. The technique builds on the common understanding and similar representation in the print industry of the production schedule, a device which charts the plan assignment of print job to particular machines for some future period. The novelty of the present invention lies in the sharing of production schedules through forwarding them to a central location in order to support the coordination of distributed production printing.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for web inspection utilize simultaneous capturing of reflected and transmitted light images for real-time merging of same. The reflected light and transmitted light image capturing systems are registered with each other in terms of the down-web and cross-web field being imaged. To allow for the simultaneous acquisition of reflected and transmitted light images, the imaged portion of the web is an unsupported span, and the web is tensioned to prevent sagging. The reflected light and transmitted light image capturing systems each include multiple cameras registered with each other in terms of down-web and cross-web imaging field, and the cameras for the transmitted light image capturing are aligned directly with the light source, which outputs light that is incident on the web at an angle.

Abstract: A controller for a fluid ejecting system having a refillable container includes an ejection count initializing circuit, routine or application, a count incrementing circuit, routine or application, at least one fluid level indicator, and a fluid quantity circuit, routine or application for determining an expended quantity of fluid, a fluid reserve capacity circuit, routine or application for determining a fluid reserve capacity in the container, an ejection job determining circuit, routine or application for determining a fluid job requirement, a reserve comparing circuit, routine or application to compare the fluid reserve capacity and the fluid job requirement, and a refill condition determining circuit, routine or application to determine that the container is to be refilled. Counts for a ejection amount and a reserve capacity are incremented in response to a specific amount of fluid being ejected from the container.

Abstract: A method and a system for separating an image signal into a set of image planes. The system comprises a min-max module, a dynamic threshold module and a separation module. The min-max module receives the image signal, searches for a minimum and maximum within at least one window centered on a current pixel in the image signal. The dynamic threshold module computes, for the window, based on the respective minimum and maximum received from the min-max module and the current pixel, a respective indicator representing the distance and direction of the current pixel relative to a respective threshold plane, and outputs a control signal based on the indicator. The separation module separates the image signal into the set of image planes in accordance with the control signal by including a representation of the current pixel in at least one of the image planes.

Abstract: A process for producing a polymer optical waveguide, including the steps of: preparing a mold; bringing into close contact with a cladding substrate which has good adhesiveness to the mold; introducing, by capillarity, a curable resin; and curing the introduced curable resin, wherein one through hole or multiple through holes arranged at regular intervals in a longitudinal direction of the core portion are opened to form the one or more resin input ports or one or more resin output ports in order for both the cut ends to be used as resin output portions; and after the curable resin is introduced into the concave portion, a resin pushing member is inserted into each of the one or more resin input ports and/or the one or more resin output ports, to thereby perform the step of introducing the curable resin into the concave portion of the mold by capillarity.

Abstract: An annular window-shaped structuring element is provided for image processing to remove speckles from a scanned image. The window-shaped structuring element is composed of two differently sized squares sharing the same geometric center-point. The pixel to be analyzed with the structuring element is at the center-point. The structuring element is used in a method to remove speckles from binary, grayscale, and/or color images by first eroding the image, detecting speckles relative to other pixels in the image, and removing declared speckles. The method may additionally include a halftoning module to protect halftone images.

Abstract: A magnetic material detecting device which detects a magnetic material by applying a magnetic field to the magnetic material and detecting a magnetic field generated from the magnetic material by the applied magnetic field, and which includes a magnetizing coil which emits a magnetic field that excites the magnetic material, and a dummy coil which generates a magnetic field that excites the magnetic material by electromagnetic induction caused by the magnetic field emitted from the magnetizing coil, in which the dummy coil is disposed at a position where the electromagnetic induction is generated.

Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing characters includes a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions, a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the text imaging regions separated by the text structure analyzing unit, a feature vectors calculating unit that calculates feature vectors of the clipped characters for each of the text imaging regions, a feature vectors aggregating unit that aggregates the calculated feature vectors over a predefined range of the input text image, and a typed and handwritten character separation unit that separates characters involved in the input text image into the typed characters and the handwritten characters, based on a result of the aggregation by the feature vectors aggregating unit.