Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner and process for making the improved toner. The improved toner comprises a toner resin comprising: at least one colorant; (b) at least one toner resin mixed with the colorant and formed into combined colorant and resin particles having an average size less than 15 microns ; and (c) surface additive particles wherein the surface additives are adhered to the colorant and toner resin by an impaction process in a quantity greater than three (3) percent of the combined weight of resin and colorant in the toner.

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.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element has a liquid crystal layer made of cholesteric liquid crystal and a circularly polarizing plate for circularly polarizing light.

Abstract: A UV light sensing element has at least a first electrode and a sensor. The first electrode has a semiconductor containing at least one element selected from Al, Ga and In together with nitrogen or oxygen, and the sensor layer has a semiconductor containing at least one element selected from Al, Ga and In together with nitrogen. A longer wavelength end of an absorption spectrum for the first electrode is located at a position nearer to a shorter wavelength side than a longer wavelength end of an absorption spectrum for the sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ink composition comprising a liquid ink vehicle, a colorant, and a cyclic siloxane monomer composition capable of undergoing a ring-opening polymerization process upon contact with an anionic base.

Abstract: A polymer compound contains a cyclic structure represented by the following general formula (1): 1

Abstract: A duplex/simplex printer for producing toner particle images on opposite sides of a substrate during a duplex mode or producing toner particle one side of the substrate during a simplex mode including: means for forming a first toner particle image on an imaging member with toner particles electrostatically charged to a first polarity; an image conditioner, being enable only during the duplex mode, for reversing the charge polarity of the particles of the first toner particle image on an imaging member; an intermediate member for receiving of the first toner particle image during the duplex mode; a bias transfer roll, positioned opposed from the imaging member with the intermediate member therebetween, for transferring the first image to the intermediate member by moving the intermediate member and the imaging members past the bias transfer roll being charged at the first polarity during the duplex mode, the duplex mode includes the forming means forming a second toner particle image on the imaging member wit

Abstract: A development system is provided that extends the functionality of liquid developer to produce custom colors and combines it with a powder development engine to enable custom color printing. This invention provides a apparatus and method, control scheme, hardware, and software, necessary for enabling custom color printing using an electrophotograpic hybrid technology.

Abstract: In order to solve the problem, there is provided a charging device having: a roll-like charging member disposed in contact with a surface of a member to be charged and for charging the surface of the member to be charged; wherein: the charging member includes a conductive substrate, and at least an elastic layer and a surface layer applied sequentially onto a surface of the conductive substrate; and opposite end portions of the surface layer axially project beyond opposite end portions of the elastic layer respectively, while the opposite end portions of the surface layer are made to cover the elastic layer and made open.

Abstract: Efficient methods are disclosed for fabricating spring structures in which a passive, conductive coating is deposited onto the spring structure after release. A release layer is deposited on a substrate and then a spring metal layer is formed thereon. A first mask is then used to etch the spring metal layer to form a spring metal finger. A second (release) mask is then deposited that defines a release window used to remove a portion of the release layer and release a free end of the spring metal finger. The second mask is also used as a mask during the subsequent directional deposition of a conductive coating material on the cantilevered tip of the finger. The second mask is then stripped, and the residual coating deposited thereon is lifted off. The resulting spring structure includes conductive coating on the upper surface and front edge of the finger tip.

Abstract: A method of processing a pixel of interest within an image receives colors defining a plurality of pixels within a neighborhood of pixels including the pixel of interest and a plurality of respective surrounding pixels. A determination is made as to whether a border exists between first and second regions within the neighborhood of pixels. If the border exists, it is determined if the border exists within the pixel of interest. If the border exists within the pixel of interest, a first color is identified on a first side of the border and a second color is identified on a second side of the border. If the border exists within the pixel of interest, respective amounts of coverage are identified for the first and second colors within a scaled up pixel corresponding to the pixel of interest. The scaled up pixel is printed.

Abstract: A solid ink stick loader for loading solid ink into a printer. The loader includes a chute having at least one feed channel, a lower ink guide located within the at least one feed channel, and a push block located within the at least one feed channel, wherein the push block includes a guide following portion that at least partially engages the lower ink guide.

Abstract: A system for automatically generating indexes for handwritten notes captured as digital ink in a computer is disclosed. Ink words are identified, and features of the ink words are computed. Pairwise distances or match scores, which measure the distance in the features between two ink words, are calculated. A clustering technique selects equivalence classes of ink words. Index terms, which are non-uniform through-out the notes, are selected from the equivalence classes of ink words. The system generates an index from the index terms, including displaying pages numbers where the index terms are located in the notes as well as hyper-linking the index terms. A technique to identify a threshold for use in clustering the ink words is also disclosed.

Abstract: A printing processing method and an apparatus therefor, wherein clients 1 set printing starting conditions for objects to be printed and issue a printing request, a job control section 43 starting subjecting the object to be printed to a printing process when a printing condition control section 42 of a print server 4 has detected that the printing starting conditions have been satisfied.

Abstract: The present invention allows even small-size verification devices to authenticate rights and qualifications without leaking authentication characteristic information to third parties. A ticket issuance device computes document private information &mgr; from a private function f of an interaction device owned by a user and document m to be transferred to the interaction device when generating interaction, and issues ticket t generated from authentication characteristic information x and the document private information &mgr; to the user. The interaction device, when document m is input, generates document private information &mgr; using a private function f specific to the interaction device, and performs interaction based on the document private information. The interaction comprises output of commitment r, input of challenge &khgr;, output of response &sgr;, and message M output.

Abstract: A system and method for browsing, retrieving, and recommending information from a collection uses multi-modal features of the documents in the collection, as well as an analysis of users' prior browsing and retrieval behavior. The system and method are premised on various disclosed methods for quantitatively representing documents in a document collection as vectors in multi-dimensional vector spaces, quantitatively determining similarity between documents, and clustering documents according to those similarities. The system and method also rely on methods for quantitatively representing users in a user population, quantitatively determining similarity between users, clustering users according to those similarities, and visually representing clusters of users by analogy to clusters of documents.

Abstract: A toner composition includes toner particles formed of a resin and a colorant; and one or more external additives, at least one of the external additives including polymeric particles, applied to a surface of the toner particles. The polymeric particles include a polymer selected from polymethylmethacrylate, modified polymethylmethacrylate, halogenated polymethylmethacrylates, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A III-V compound light emitter is integrated with Si-based actuators. The proposed devices take advantage of the superior optical properties of III-V compounds and the superior mechanical properties of Si, as well as mature fabrication technologies of Si-Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). The emitter can be a light emitting diode (LED), a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) or an edge emitting laser.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuser member comprising a substrate, a layer thereover comprising a polymer, and, on the polymeric layer, a coating of a release agent comprising polyorganosiloxanes having tertiary amino functional groups on at least some of the molecules thereof.

Abstract: A solid ink loader for feeding solid ink sticks in a phase change ink jet printer, which includes a feed chute with at least one feed channel for receiving at least one ink stick, a push block having at least one push block wall located inside the at least one feed channel, and a hub having at least one internal hub wall. The at least one internal hub wall is situated concentric with the at least one push block wall, and the hub can rotate substantially freely relative to the push block. A damping fluid is located between the at least one internal hub wall and the at least one push block wall for substantially increasing the friction between the hub and the push block.