Patents by Inventor Michal Hod

Michal Hod has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • INSPECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20220261975
    Abstract: The group of inventions solves the problem in processing defects in printed images. The printed image inspection method and an inspection apparatus comprise: determining a region of interest corresponding to printed images having respective identifiers by detecting boundaries in a printed calibration image; capturing target images of the printed images using the region of interest; comparing pixels in the target images with pixels in image data corresponding to the printed images in order to identify printed images having a print defect using the identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Hershman, Avi Malki, Michal Hod
  • Printing on a web of a printing substrate
    Patent number: 10990862
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for printing on a printing substrate which is a web which is elongate in a longitudinal direction, wherein frames of a maximum printing format can be printed in a sequence on the web. The printing includes arranging a number of pages on sheets of a given sheet format, wherein the maximum printing format is larger in the longitudinal direction of the web than the sheet format, wherein pages which are adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the web are separate from each in the longitudinal direction of the web, imposing pages of more than one sheet into printing frames which are larger in the longitudinal direction of the web than the sheet format but not larger than the maximum printing format, printing the frames, and grouping the pages from the printed frames to sheets on which the pages are arranged as originally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Raz Zamir, Moshe Koko Havive, Gilad Greenberg, Michal Hod, Shlomi Ben David
  • PRINTING ON A WEB OF A PRINTING SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20200042844
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for printing on a printing substrate which is a web which is elongate in a longitudinal direction, wherein frames of a maximum printing format can be printed in a sequence on the web. The printing includes arranging a number of pages on sheets of a given sheet format, wherein the maximum printing format is larger in the longitudinal direction of the web than the sheet format, wherein pages which are adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the web are separate from each in the longitudinal direction of the web, imposing pages of more than one sheet into printing frames which are larger in the longitudinal direction of the web than the sheet format but not larger than the maximum printing format, printing the frames, and grouping the pages from the printed frames to sheets on which the pages are arranged as originally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: HP INDIGO B.V.
    Inventors: Raz Zamir, Moshe Koko Havive, Gilad Greenberg, Michal Hod, Shlomi Ben David