Abstract: An information processing system for an air traffic control environment using portable media to represent information about air flights, which portable media represent information by printing, hand drawn signs and projected signs, The information processing system includes memory, a processor, and a first and a second workstation. The memory stores a database of data items relating to air flights, a number of the data items being represented on a respective portion of a portable medium corresponding to one of the air flights. Each of the workstations includes means for removably mounting the portable media in an array, a camera and a projector focused on the array. Coupled to the memory, the processor responds to a user marking by hand a sign on a first portable medium at the first workstation by causing the projector associated with the second workstation to project just the sign onto a second portable medium at the second workstation.

Abstract: A sheet post processing apparatus includes the following elements: a tray; a stapling unit; a post processing setter; a stapling controller; a punching controller; and a post processing modification controller. The post processing setter sets details relating to the stapling and punching of the sheet on which an image is to be formed. The punching controller determines information on the sheets stored in the tray as a result of the preceding job. The post processing modification controller changes details on the post process of the next job, if necessary, so as to prohibit, at least, a stapling operation. The post processing modification controller can also include a display indicating the status of execution or errors and can be programmed to execute a single batch job.

Abstract: An electronic image processing apparatus including a controller and a plurality of modules having an arbitrary configuration and being interconnected by input and output ports. The interconnection or port pairings of the modules is determined by the controller by defining ports into input and output sets and defining a given set by logic signals. The logic signals are set to the same level and a logic level change in the logic signals is systematically prompted. The responses from associated ports are identified to map all input and output ports for the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: Three-dimensional LUTs produce a lightness signal L* from input color signals C, M and Y. The three-dimensional LUTs are respectively provided for four divisional sections of an input color signal K. A three-dimensional LUT switching device judges to what section a current value of the input color signal K belongs. A selector selects one of the LUTs in accordance with a judgment result. Similar processing is performed for chromaticity signals a* and b*. According to another aspect of the invention, three-dimensional LUT color converters produce color signals L.sub.2 *, a.sub.2 * and b.sub.2 * based on only input color signals C, M and Y. A position in the L*a*b* space of the color signals L.sub.2 *, a.sub.2 * and b.sub.2 * has a deviation from a position of color signals L.sub.1 *, a.sub.1 * and b.sub.1 * to be output actually. Based on an input color signal K, a one-dimensional LUT produces a lightness signal L.sub.3 *, which corresponds to the deviation.

Abstract: A process for decreasing toner adhesion and decreasing toner cohesion which comprises adding a spacer component of a polymer, a metal, a metal oxide, a metal carbide, or a metal nitride, to the surface of a toner comprised of resin, wax, compatibilizer, and colorant excluding black, and wherein toner surface additives are blended with said toner, and wherein said component is permanently attached to the toner surface by the injection of said component in a fluid bed milling device during the size reduction process of said toner contained in said device, and where the power imparted to the toner to obtain said attachment is from equal to, or about above 5 watts per gram of toner.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing documents expressed in terms of the graph based on the graph theory. Grouped constituent description series as the contents of a predescribed document are stored in a constituent description series retaining section. A first identifier acquisition section acquires an identifier series corresponding to the constituent satisfying a designated first condition from the grouped constituent description series that are retained in the constituent description series retaining section. The acquired identifier series is stored in an identifier series retaining section. A second identifier acquisition section acquires the identifier series satisfying a designated second condition from the identifier series that are retained in the identifier series retaining section. The acquired identifier series is stored in the identifier series retaining section in a state that it can be distinguished from other constituent description series already retained therein.

Abstract: A method and system electronically fuzzy classify a pixel belonging to a set of digital image data with respect to a membership of the pixel in a plurality of image classes. This process determines a fuzzy classification of the pixel and generates an effect tag for the pixel based on the fuzzy classification determination. Each class is defined by a set of heuristic rules such that the image classes are non-mutually exclusive. The heuristic rules are a set of conditions that define the membership value of the pixel within a certain class, thereby allowing a pixel to have a membership value in every possible image class.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a paper bending assembly for bending an image recording medium in accordance with the supporting surface of an image transferring drum. A degree of the bending of the image recording medium is set in accordance with the kind of image recording medium by varying the distance between the shafts of the paper bending assembly.

Abstract: The transmittance of ionic dye molecules through a thin electrically conductive high polymer film is controlled to vary between at least two states of the film as selected from among oxidized, neutral and reduced states, such that the ionic dye molecules are transferred onto a recording medium, thereby forming an image. A surface of a substrate having fine pores through which the ionic dye molecules can pass is provided with the thin electrically conductive high polymer film to fabricate a cylindrical printing unit 16, which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with an electrode unit 17 such that a voltage can be applied therebetween. The printing unit 16 is filled with a solution 21 containing ionic dye molecules. When electrodes in the electrode unit 17 are supplied with a potential pattern that brings the electrically conductive high polymer to an oxidized state, the ionic dye molecules are released from the printing unit 16 to form a one-dimensional image on a moving sheet of paper 17.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed which comprises an electroconductive support, a first interlayer formed on the support and containing low-resistance electroconductive particles having a specific resistance of from 10.degree. to 10.sup.4 .OMEGA.cm, a second interlayer formed on the first interlayer and containing high-resistance electroconductive particles having a specific resistance of from 10.sup.4 to 10.sup.8 .OMEGA.cm, and a photosensitive layer formed on the second interlayer. In the electrophotographic photoreceptor, in which the interlayers have an increased thickness for hiding defects present on the support and contain electroconductive particles dispersed therein, the photosensitive layer is free from the electrification performance decrease caused by charge injection thereinto and the interlayers have excellent leak-preventive properties.

Abstract: A platenless book scanner with line buffering performs electronic perspective correction to account for rotation of the spine of a non-planar bound document relative to a reference line in a support plane of the platenless book scanner. A pre-scan of the non-planar bound document is performed to provide a geometrical contour map of the bound document. The geometrical contour map, which identifies displacement of the bound document from the support plane, is analyzed to calculate an angular offset between a spine of the bound document and the reference line in the support plane. The angular offset is used to identify a minimum number of scan line buffers for recording image data, from a set of scan line buffers. Once the minimum number of scan line buffers is filled with recorded image data, distortions caused by displacements of the non-planar bound document from the support plane and skew of the bound document relative to the reference line in the support plane are corrected.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process which comprises reacting a haloalkylated aromatic polymer with a material selected from the group consisting of unsaturated ester salts, alkoxide salts, alkylcarboxylate salts, and mixtures thereof, thereby forming a curable polymer having functional groups corresponding to the selected salt. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a process for preparing an ink jet printhead with the curable polymer thus prepared.

Abstract: An imaging process which comprises the development of an image with an aqueous ink jet ink composition comprised of pigment, water, and a polyhydroxy alcohol surfactant present in an amount of from about 2 to about 10 weight percent.

Abstract: Encoded data embedded in an iconic, or reduced size, version of an original text image is decoded and used in a variety of document image management applications to provide input to, or to control the functionality of, an application. The iconic image may be printed in a suitable place (e.g., the margin or other background region) in the original text image so that a text image so annotated will then always carry the embedded data in subsequent copies made from the annotated original. The iconic image may also be used as part of a graphical user interface as a surrogate for the original text image. An encoding operation encodes the data unobtrusively in the form of rectangular blocks that have a foreground color and size dimensions proportional to the iconic image so that when placed in the iconic image in horizontal lines, the blocks appear to a viewer to be representative of the text portion of the original image that they replace.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprised of a polynuclear arylamine as represented by the formula (I) wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are aryl groups, A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 are biaryl groups, and P is a hydrocarbon bridge.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of toner comprising(i) blending (a) an aqueous pigment dispersion containing a first ionic surfactant and an optional charge control agent with (b) a latex blend comprised of linear polymer and crosslinked polymer particles, optional nonionic surfactant and a second ionic surfactant with a charge polarity opposite to that of said first ionic surfactant in said pigment dispersion;(ii) heating the resulting mixture at about below the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the linear latex polymer to form toner sized aggregates; and(iii) subsequently heating said aggregate suspension about above the Tg of the linear latex polymer to effect fusion or coalescence of said aggregates.

Abstract: A raster output scanner data controller reads pixels of an image from an image memory and outputs serially pixel data streams to a raster output scanner. The data controller includes an image memory storing a plurality of pixel data blocks in a scan line order, an image memory controller coupled to the image memory, a plurality of first-in, first-out memories coupled to the image memory controller for storing pixel data blocks corresponding to a plurality of beams, and an image controller coupled to the plurality of first-in, first-out memories. The pixel data blocks are transferred from the image memory to the plurality of first-in, first-out memories. The image controller reads the pixel data blocks from the plurality of first-in, first-out memories, converts the pixel data blocks read from the plurality of first-in, first-out memories into a plurality of pixel data streams and outputs the plurality of pixel data streams to the raster output scanner.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for parting an electroformed article from a mandrel including: (a) solidifying a liquid that is disposed between a parting device and the article, thereby joining the parting device to the article via the solidified liquid; and (b) moving the parting device in a direction of separation of the article from the mandrel while the parting device is joined to the article via the solidified liquid to assist in separation of the article from the mandrel.

Abstract: A document server is provided for processing a distribution job in a document processing system. The document processing system includes a document manager, communicating with first and second virtual services, for coordinating the storing or processing of first and second copies of an image data set at the first and second virtual services, respectively. The document processing system further includes a distribution agent, communicating with the document manager, for receiving a first job ticket, including attributes for controlling the storing or processing of the first copy of the image data set at the first virtual service and a second job ticket for controlling the storing or processing of the second copy of the image data set at the second virtual service.

Abstract: An ink supply device for use in an ink jet printer comprising a main ink chamber in communication through a communication hole with a sub-ink chamber containing an ink absorbing member therein. A meniscus film forming member covering the communication hole and communicating the main ink chamber with the sub-ink chamber; the member having a first surface facing the interior of the main ink chamber and an opposite second surface. An ink guide member extending into a lower portion of the main chamber and also being in contact with the first surface of the film forming member, wherein as ink in the main ink chamber is consumed a differential pressure between the first and second surfaces of the film forming member causes a gradual expansion of a liquid meniscus film into an air bubble on the film forming member to maintain a constant negative pressure in the main ink chamber.