Abstract: A bearing for use in a reproduction machine includes an elongated body having an elongated first portion and an elongated second portion. The first portion extends radially outward from the second portion. The second portion includes a lumen for receiving and supporting a shaft. Resilient elongated members originate from the second portion and extend radially outward toward the first portion and are spaced from the second portion over a portion thereof. The resilient members are movable between a first position and a second position for removable securement to a wall in a reproduction machine.

Abstract: A multimedia information audiovisual apparatus which can suitably add mark information to streaming media and manage it and enables a user to see and listen to a presentation effectively.

Abstract: A process for latex preparation including: a first heating of a mixture of at least one free radical polymerizable monomer compound, a free radical initiator compound, and a stable free radical compound to form a latomer mixture with from about 1 to about 8 percent conversion of the monomer compound to an oligomeric compound of the formula I—R′—SFR, wherein R′ is an oligomer comprised of from about 1 to about 30 monomer units, I— is a covalently bonded free radical initiator fragment arising from the free radical initiator compound, and —SFR is a covalently bound stable free radical group; dispersing the resulting latomer mixture in water with high shear to form a miniemulsion; and a second heating of the miniemulsion, wherein there results a high stability polymer particle latex which contains a polymer with a high monomer to polymer conversion of from about 98 to about 100 weight percent and a narrow polydispersity of from about 1.1 to about 2.0.

Abstract: A method for locating a substantially rectangular pattern, in any orientation, in a digitized image used in a document processing system operates by identifying all connected components within the image, discarding those that do not meet certain size criteria, and on the remaining connected components identifying eight compass-position extreme points, four of which may represent the corners of the rectangular pattern. The relationships among the extreme points are then analyzed to determine whether an expected diagonal length, expected height, and expected width of the pattern are all present within a selected tolerance.

Abstract: An optical device assures high speed drive, excellent temperature stability, low drive voltage and small crosstalk and insertion loss. The optical device includes a single crystal substrate which is used as a conductive or semiconductive lower electrode, an epitaxial buffer layer consisting of an oxide provided on the single crystal substrate, an epitaxial optical waveguide layer with an oxide ferroelectric material having an electro-optic effect which is provided on the buffer layer and which has a channel optical waveguide of which an optical path is switched when a voltage is applied to the branching portion between an optical path for incident light and an optical path for outgoing light, and a couple of upper electrodes for applying a voltage to the branching portion of the channel optical waveguide.

Abstract: A printhead for an acoustic ink printer includes at least one acoustic generator for producing acoustic sound waves. The printhead also includes at least one lens. Each lens corresponds to one of the acoustic generators. A fluid is positioned over the at least one lens. A cover is positioned over the fluid. The cover includes at least one aperture. Each of the apertures corresponds to one of the lenses. An edge portion of each aperture contacts the fluid, thereby forming a corresponding meniscus in the fluid. Each lens focuses the acoustic sound waves produced by the respective acoustic generator to an ejection point on the corresponding meniscus. A droplet of the fluid is ejected from each of the ejection points. Directions of each of the acoustic sound waves are at respective oblique angles with respect to the corresponding meniscus. A direction at which each droplet is ejected from each ejection point is a function of a duration of the acoustic sound wave generated by the acoustic generator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document retrieval apparatus that performs full text retrieval search on the documents by using an index of relatively smaller capacity for not only Indo-European documents but also Japanese documents in which the breakpoints of words are not clearly articulated. Every word contained in documents with the redundancy eliminated is stored in an index along with the information concerning the adjacent words adjoining to the words in the documents. When retrieving, based on the retrieval search criteria containing plural words and the sequential order thereof, word search parts determine whether plural words stored in the index matches the retrieval search criteria to identify if a document matches the criteria. Also the sequence of words may be restored from the index to output the appropriate full text of document.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid toner type image formation apparatus squeeze roller capable of generating a uniform pressure in the longitudinal direction of the roller portion and rotating the roller portion according to the rotation of the shaft portion even after a long period of use. The squeeze roller 1 comprises: a roller portion 2 having a metal pipe 4 and an elastic body 5 formed with a uniform thickness on the metal pipe 4; a press fit member 7 inserted in the center portion of the metal pipe 4 in the longitudinal direction; a shaft portion 3 having a diameter reduced at both ends in the longitudinal direction and a center portion having a length almost identical to that of the press fit member 7 and pressed against the inner surface of the press fit member 7; metal pins 6 fixed at an identical distance from the center of the roller portion and the press fit member in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A method for providing time discrimination in the World Wide Web. The method includes the steps of creating a computational model of users of the World Wide Web that represents aggregate World Wide Web surfing patterns; using the computational model to determine a first number of clicks that an user goes through in a specific type of query entered by the user in a conventional web search engine; using the computational model to determine a second number of clicks that the user goes through in the specific type of query entered by the user in an optimized web search engine; and subtracting the first number of clicks from the second number of clicks to extract the gain obtained by time discrimination.

Abstract: A process for recovering thermoplastic polymer particles from an expanded thermoplastic polymer material includes grinding the expanded thermoplastic polymer material in a grinding chamber under elevated temperature while feeding ionized gas through the grinding chamber during the grinding. An apparatus for recovering the thermoplastic polymer particles from the expanded thermoplastic polymer material includes a grinding chamber into which the expanded thermoplastic polymer material is introduced, the grinding chamber having grinding components therein, one or more inlet passages at a bottom potion of the grinding chamber for entry of ionized gas, and optionally also for entry of hot gas, and one or more outlet passages at a top portion of the grinding chamber for exit of gases from the grinding chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a set of inks for printing multicolor images in an ink jet printer, said ink set comprising (1) a first ink having a first color and comprising water and an anionic dye; and (2) a second ink having a second color different from the first color and comprising (a) water, and (b) pigment particles having chemically bonded to the surfaces thereof moieties containing amine or quaternary amine functional groups, wherein the anionic dye in the first ink is capable of being immobilized on a printing substrate by interaction with the pigment particles in the second ink, thereby enabling reduced intercolor bleed.

Abstract: The spatial separations between clusters of objects on the electronic work surface are analyzed to automatically generate borders, which may be used in at least two manners. The borders may become explicit editable borders within an output image. Alternatively, the borders created may be implicit ephemeral borders. According to an aspect, a method uses the sufficient stability grouping technique to determine grouping of elements in the input image array into the text lines in the output text lines array. According to another aspect, a method uses the sufficient stability grouping technique to determine the amount of vertical expansion to apply to each text line so as to create text regions in the output array which correspond to the text lines in the input text lines array. According to yet another aspect, a method takes the text regions array as input and extracts enclosure borders from the text regions.

Abstract: A cartridge is disclosed for use in a marking apparatus in which a propellant stream is passed through a channel and directed toward a substrate. Marking material, such as ink, toner, etc., is controllably introduced into the propellant stream and imparted with sufficient kinetic energy thereby to be made incident upon a substrate. A multiplicity of channels for directing the propellant and marking material allow for high throughput, high resolution marking. Multiple marking materials may be introduced into the channel and mixed therein prior to being made incident on the substrate, or mixed or superimposed on the substrate without re-registration. The cartridge may be replacably attached to the marking apparatus, and may contain one or more marking materials, propellant, etc.

Abstract: Using hierarchical vector quantization (HVQ) to accomplish rotation in addition to compression and decompression. During the compression step the image is divided into segments and each segment is reduced to a codeword. These codewords are transposed so that the segments will be in rotated order when printed. Then the codewords are decompressed to form segments in which the pixels are in rotated order.

Abstract: A plural-mode, multi-market user interface (UI) assembly is provided for increasing user satisfaction and productivity on units of the same model of a machine in a plurality of different user markets. The UI assembly includes a display screen for displaying user dialog information, a series of machine process control and user interactive functional features for operator access to control operation of the machine, a plurality of different market optimized user dialog information display modes that are connected to the series of machine process control and user interactive functional features, for displaying on the display screen, an associated controller, and a means or device for selectively switching from one to another of the plurality of different market optimized user dialog information display modes, thereby enabling increased user satisfaction and user productivity on the same model of a machine in a plurality of different user markets.

Abstract: Ink stored in an ink tank 11 passes through a supply path 12 and supply port 13 and fills a pressure chamber 14. A piezoelectric actuator 15 vibrates a vibration plate 17 by receiving a voltage from a driving voltage control unit 16. The volume of the pressure chamber 14 is changed by vibrating the vibration plate 17 to eject the ink in the pressure chamber 14 from a nozzle 18 toward to the sheet 2. The diameter of the nozzle 18 is set within the range of 20 to 40 &mgr;m, and an ink viscosity is set within the range of 2 to 6 mPa·s. With these settings, a fine droplet having the total diameter of 25 &mgr;m or less can be stably ejected, thereby obtaining high quality image. In addition, a driving waveform voltage is corrected in accordance with the ambient temperature detected by a temperature detection unit 19, and the ink viscosity is set within the range of 2 to 15 mPa·s, thereby keeping high image quality.

Abstract: A micro-electromechanical fluid ejector having an inner structure on the bottom of the top of the membrane for isolating the conductor, and an outer structure, away from the center of the membrane, on the bottom of the top of the membrane to stop excessive flexing of the membrane leading to inter-electrode contact.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including

Abstract: An adhesive having a resin selected from polyvinyl butyral resins, phenolic resins, epoxy resins, and mixtures thereof, and at least one type of filler such as a carbon filler, for use in seaming components useful in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.

Abstract: A controls system and method of print quality control for a printing system. The controls system uses printed output images as a continuous source of data for control processes. An image quality detector is positioned to detect color data in a printed image after the image is fused to a copy sheet. The present invention samples a wide range of colors in the image in order to calibrate a process station and ensure accurate production of color and/or other image quality parameters. The image quality detector examines an output image and compares the appearance of output image to a desired appearance. When an error exists, the printing system adjusts a process station to correct for variations and inconsistencies in a printed image. The detector of the present invention moves to different locations as the image exits from the printing system to sample a range of image quality parameters in the image.