Abstract: A system for computing color information of a scaled version of a pixel of interest, includes a pixel identifier for identifying pixel color values for pixels in a neighborhood. The neighborhood includes the pixel of interest. The pixels in the neighborhood form a pattern. A transformer transforms the pixel color values of the pixel of interest and the plurality of neighboring pixels to produce a plurality of transformed values. A geometric pattern identifier identifies a geometric pattern which resembles the pattern formed by the pixels in the neighborhood. The geometric pattern is identified as a function of the transformed values. A selector selects an appropriate scaling algorithm to scale the geometric pattern. The algorithm produces the scaled version of the pixel of interest, along with the color information for the scaled pixel.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for moving powder from a hopper containing a supply of powder to fill a container. The apparatus includes (a) a conduit member operably connected to the hopper and having a discharging end for permitting a powder to be moved therethrough; (b) a nozzle member for directing the powder from the conveyor to fill the container, the nozzle member being operably connected to the discharge end of the conduit member and having a first end connected to the conduit member, and a second and opposite end for dispensing moving powder into the container; and (c) a conveyor device located at least partially within the conduit member for moving the powder from the hopper in a powder moving direction to the nozzle member, the conveyor device being stoppable for halting the flow of powder, and including a porous portion and vacuum device for additionally halting the flow of powder for a clean shutoff.

Abstract: A system and remote control device that controls an appliance, and obtains a desired function of the appliance, by invoking a remote procedure call in a remote server which will thereby actually control the appliance. The remote control device comprises a sensor; sensor responsive means for capturing information provided by the sensor, wherein the captured information at least contains parameters representative of the identification of the appliance, user-profile parameters, parameters representative of the address of the remote server, and a function name indicating the function to be performed by the appliance; marshalling means for encoding the captured information and for packaging the captured information into data in a remote procedure call format; and a transmitter for establishing a communication protocol with the remote server in order to transmit the packaged data to the remote server so that the remote server may execute the remote procedure call.

Abstract: A gyricon or twisting-particle display based on nonspheroidal (e.g., substantially cylindrical) optically anisotropic particles disposed in a substrate. The particles can be either bichromal or polychromal cylinders, preferably aligned parallel to one another and packed close together in a monolayer. A rotatable disposition of each particle is achievable while the particle is thus disposed in the substrate; for example, the particles can already be rotatable in the substrate, or can be rendered rotatable in the substrate by a nondestructive operation performed on the substrate. In particular, the substrate can be made up of an elastomer that is expanded by application of a fluid thereto so as to render the particles rotatable therein. A particle, when in its rotatable disposition, is not attached to the substrate. The close-packed monolayer configuration of particles provides excellent brightness characteristics and relative ease of manufacture as compared with certain other high-brightness gyricon displays.

Abstract: A palmtop computer for entering characters using one or more input modes. In one example, a physical sensor is coupled to select the input mode. The physical sensor may be in the form of a button, rocker switch, dial, pressure strip, moveable bar, or accelerometer mounted to the device. The physical sensor may also be mounted to a pen. In another example, a ridge is formed on the digitizer pad and positioned to define input regions associated with particular input mode. In another example, a border is formed around the digitizer pad. The border includes a ridge coupled to select the input mode. The digitizer pad may also be textured. A first textured region is associated with one input mode and a second textured region is associated with another input mode.

Abstract: A method and computer readable medium for generating a graph which displays amounts of access to computer files, such as URL's on the world wide web, over a period of time. Time is mapped along a central axis, and a plurality of file identifiers is mapped radially about the radial axis as lines having varying distances from the radial axis. The lines may be arranged at angles of rotation about the radial axis and are colored to represent the lexicographical similarity of the nodes. Alpha bending is utilized to reveal lines having an angle of rotations near 0 degrees that would otherwise be concealed by neighboring lines. In an alternative embodiment, a two dimensional graph displays instantaneous access information for a plurality of file identifiers, where angular rotation and color may also be used to represent the grouping of the nodes, and distances of radial lines from an origin represent access values to respective files.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rotating element sheet material with a generalized containment structure and methods of fabricating such rotating element sheet material, where the rotating element sheet material comprises a fibrous matrix, a plurality of rotatable elements, and an enabling fluid, and where the plurality of rotatable elements are disposed within the fibrous matrix and are in contact with the enabling fluid. In addition, rotating element sheet material with a generalized containment structure, and methods of fabricating such rotating element sheet material, includes rotating element sheet material which comprises a fibrous matrix and a plurality of micro-capsules, and where the micro-capsules define a hollow space therein, and the hollow space contains a subset of a plurality of rotatable elements and an enabling fluid, and where the plurality of micro-cavities are disposed within the fibrous matrix.

Abstract: Provided is a device that allows a DFE decomposer supported for a particular format, such as ICC profile formats, to utilize multiple transformation databases concurrently. For each database, a software plug-in is created to interpret the specific format of particular databases. The plug-ins convert the contents of the third party database into a common structure understood by a decomposer of a digital front end (DFE). The plug-in interface includes data (i.e. structures) and behavior (i.e. methods) supported by all plug-ins. A plug-in for a supported database (i.e. ICC profile formats) is also provided. An interface between a color control manager and decomposer module is used to inform the decomposer of changes to the supported database. An appropriate plug-in may then retrieve data and update an internal database of the decomposer while the system is operating. Updatings of third party databases occur upon initialization of the system.

Abstract: A xerographic component including an intermediate transfer, fusing and/or biasing component, wherein one or more of each component may have a substrate and thereover a polymer coating with a thiophene filler dispersed or contained therein, and also an image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium having a charge-retentive surface to receive an electrostatic latent image thereon; a biasable component capable of receiving an electrical bias for charging one of a xerographic component or copy substrate surface; a development component to apply toner to the charge-retentive surface to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a developed image on the charge retentive surface; a transfer component to transfer the developed image from the charge retentive surface to a copy substrate; and a fuser component for fusing the developed image to a surface of the copy substrate, wherein at least one of the biasable component, transfer component and the fuser component have a) a substrate; and thereo

Abstract: An improved and lower cost color spectrophotometer, especially suitable for an on-line color printer color control system, in which plural different spectra LEDs sequentially perpendicularly illuminate a common and substantially circularly illuminated color test area, which may be variably spaced and variably oriented relative to the spectrophotometer, through a common central lens system, and also the reflected illumination therefrom may be measured at 45 degrees thereto by averaging the outputs of photodetectors spaced around that circularly illuminated color test area, to provide reduced sensitivity to the variable angular or azimuthal orientation of the color test area relative to the spectrophotometer, and which photodetectors may be so illuminated by 1:1 optics for spatial insensitivity.

Abstract: A technique for compressing texts such that referential integrity, sentence coherency, punctuation and readability are preserved and which provides for compression of sentence constituents based on the type of content, the informativity of the sentence constituent and the grammatical readability of the resultant sentence or phrase. Information content portions are parsed to generate parts of speech tags. The informativity of the constituents in a phrase or sentence is determined and the parts of speech having lower information content and having a low effect on grammatical readability of the phrase or sentence are selectively compressed. Parts of speech having successively higher informativity and low effect on grammatical readability are selected for compression until the desired level of compression is reached. Compressed portions are indicated in the summary with a selectable placeholder which expands to display the compressed text.

Abstract: A method of diagnosing a printer includes performing a series of parametric tests on the printer at the time of manufacture to generate a set of baseline values for the printer and storing the baseline results. The baseline results may be stored remotely or with the printer, or both. A set of maximum parametric test variations for the printer type is generated, such that each maximum parametric test variation is associated with a particular printer fault event. At the time of a suspected printer fault, the same parametric tests are performed and a set of suspected fault values generated. The difference between the suspected fault value and the baseline value is calculated for each parametric test. If the difference for a particular parametric test is greater than the maximum parametric test variation for that particular parametric test, the print fault event associated with the parametric test value may be indicated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing a project of documents containing variable data. Print requests are received for documents and fixed and variable data required to fulfill the requests is obtained. A record is manipulated for each set of variable data in a project and correlated to the variable data. The fixed data and the variable data are combined to compose the documents and the documents in the project are printed by combining the fixed data and the appropriate variable data. An identifier can be printed on each document to permit verification that a document corresponding to each record was printed.

Abstract: A method is provided for measuring the color of irregular surface materials, including textiles which may provide dissimilar color measurements from different viewing angles, by illuminating a sampling area of the irregular surface material approximately perpendicularly thereto and measuring the color reflected from that area at a substantial angle, preferably about 45 degrees, with a plurality of separate photodetectors arrayed circularly around the illuminated sampling area of irregular surface material to receive the reflected illumination from substantially opposing directions and at a substantial angle to the illuminated area, for providing a more accurate yet lower cost color measurement system for textiles that can be used easily, quickly, and uncritically in terms of the handling, positioning and orientation of the textile material being tested.

Abstract: A portable imaging device includes a user operable pointing device that operates together with interactive segmentation functions and an OCR application for capturing and converting digitally recorded images to text. The user operable pointing device permits a user of the portable imaging device to identify a region in an image with textual content. The portable imaging device evaluates whether textual and formatting content in the segmented region can be properly analyzed by the OCR application. In addition, the portable imaging device provides a mode for translating text identified in recorded images.

Abstract: An apparatus for sending a plurality of switching signals to a switching device for sequentially switching the position of an injection gate of a injection molding machine is provided. The apparatus is utilized for molding a work piece in a mold during a molding cycle from a first closed position, to a first open position, to second closed position, to a second open position and then to a third closed position. The switching signals are indicative of one of the open position and the closed position. The apparatus is to be hand carried by a machine operator. The apparatus includes a body. The body is hand carriable by a machine operator. The apparatus also includes a first input conduit and a second input conduit. The first input conduit is operably associated with the body for receiving a first switching signal indicative of a desire to switch the position of the injection gate.

Abstract: A fixing device 2 includes a primary fixing device 5 disposed in a transporting path 4 for a recording material 3, and a secondary fixing device 6 disposed in the downstream of the primary fixing device 5. The recording material is passed through only the primary fixing device 5 after an image is recorded on an front surface of the recording material 3. Subsequently, an image is recorded on a rear surface of the recording material 3 and the recording material is passed through the primary fixing device 5 and the secondary fixing device 6. The fixing device 2 includes a primary ejection path 7 for ejecting the recording material 3 having passed through the primary fixing device 5 and a secondary ejection path 8 for ejecting the recording material 3 having passed through the primary fixing device 5 and the secondary fixing device 6 in this order.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, a developer for developing an electrostatic image, a process for producing them, and a process for forming an image that provide excellent developing and transferring performance and also provide excellent performance stability, as well as high image quality and reliability are provided. The problem can be solved by a toner for developing an electrostatic image having a particle size distribution index on a small particle side GSDpS in number distribution of a particle diameter of about 1.27 or less. GSDpS is D50p/D16p, D50p represents a particle diameter providing a particle diameter accumulation in number distribution of 50%, and D16p represents a particle diameter providing a particle diameter accumulation in number distribution of 16% from a small diameter side.

Abstract: A pixel value change processing section corrects the value of a current pixel in an input image so that the size of a code produced by a coding processing section is reduced, and outputs a changed pixel value. When predictive coding is employed, the pixel value change processing section outputs the same pixel value as that which is predicted by a predictor. When arithmetic coding is employed, the pixel value change processing section outputs a pixel value at which a dominant symbol is obtained in the arithmetic coding. The coding processing section produces a code from the changed pixel value 310. The pixel value change processing section produces an error value between the current pixel value and the changed pixel value. An error distribution processing section produces an error distribution value from the error value and adds the error distribution value to the pixel value of the input image.

Abstract: An improved and lower cost color spectrophotometer, especially suitable for on-line color printer color control systems, incorporating a low cost commercial imaging chip, which normally only forms part of a three row, three color, document imaging bar used for imaging documents in scanners, digital copiers, or multifunction products, having multiple photo-sites with at least three different color filters in three rows. This multiple photo-sites chip may be modified to also provide unfiltered photo-sites. This spectrophotometer may have a substantially reduced number of different LED or other spectral illumination sources, one of which may be for white light, yet provide multiple spectral data outputs from the differently filtered photo-sites being simultaneous illuminated by the light reflected from a color test target area which is being sequentially illuminated by the respective limited number of LEDs, enabling broad spectrum information and color control.