Abstract: An apparatus for assisting an operator in aiming a firearm with a sighting scope includes a hands-free communications device including both an input device for generating an audio input and an output device for receiving a set of information; a ballistics processing unit for receiving a machine-readable input and generating machine readable output corresponding with the set of information usable by the operator for aiming the firearm with the sighting scope; and an audio/visual interface, communicatively coupling the hands-free communication device and the ballistics processing unit for converting the audio based input generated with the hands-free communications device into the machine readable input, converting the machine readable output generated with the ballistics processing unit into the set of information usable by the operator for aiming the firearm with the sighting scope, and communicating the set of information usable by the operator for aiming the firearm with the sighting scope from the audio/vi

Abstract: A method for creating reusable composite components from interpreted pages of rendered document during dynamic document construction involves first obtaining a list of document components from the page and identifying any non-cached components. The individual reusable document components (RDCs) are cached having been rendered to their respective bounding box dimensions. These RDCs are then permuted into combinations of RDCs and each composite RDC is cached rendered relative to each other in a bounding box of sufficient size to adequately contain the combination. Then, combining RDCs to form composite reusable underlays RULs and caching the composite RULs rendered to full-page size. Any portion of each RDC of each composite RUL falling outside the boundary of RULs full-page size is clipped. If a method renders pages having a combination of reusable components and non-cached components, the first step assesses the page for the possibility of having an underlay-overlay pair.

Abstract: A relevance based print integrity method includes comparing current raster image data that define a document to be printed with golden raster image data that define a previous version of said document with a known (perfect) quality. A plurality of differences between said current raster image data and said golden raster image data are calculated, and each of the differences is processed to determine a relevance value of the difference and to assign the relevance value to the difference. The method includes generating and storing a list of the differences, wherein the list is ordered in terms of the relevance value assigned to each difference. The difference list is presented to a user textually or graphically and/or is used to control or interrupt printing operations.

Abstract: A relevance based print integrity method includes comparing current raster image data that define a document to be printed with golden raster image data that define a previous version of said document with a known (perfect) quality. A plurality of differences between said current raster image data and said golden raster image data are calculated, and each of the differences is processed to determine a relevance value of the difference and to assign the relevance value to the difference. The method includes generating and storing a list of the differences, wherein the list is ordered in terms of the relevance value assigned to each difference. The difference list is presented to a user textually or graphically and/or is used to control or interrupt printing operations.

Abstract: Image data representing an image is obtained, raster image processing is performed on the image data, and then trapping is performed on the image data after raster image processing. The trapping may be performed based on a tag plane generated during the raster image processing, or the determination of which pixels to trap may be performed after the raster image processing.

Abstract: Image data representing an image is obtained, raster image processing is performed on the image data, and then trapping is performed on the image data after raster image processing. The trapping may be performed based on a tag plane generated during the raster image processing, or the determination of which pixels to trap may be performed after the raster image processing.

Abstract: In a real-time printing system, in which large blocks of digital data corresponding to page images must be located in a memory via a translation table and accessed from the memory within a very narrow time frame, the memory-management internal program of an operating system is overridden by external instructions which lock the translation table in memory.

Abstract: A system for retrieving data representative of individual page images to be printed from a disk drive utilizes a priority system in which individual software entities within the printing apparatus compete for functional access to the hard-drive memory. Different elements, such as the decomposer, and other software entities within the control system are assigned priorities, and commands from the various elements and software entities are executed by the control system in order of the priority of their sources.