Patents by Inventor Stephen J. Nichols
Stephen J. Nichols 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).
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Patent number: 11912018Abstract: A print job having a number of pages is printed in a continuous mode, on media advanced at a constant speed. The print job can thus be effectively treated as having a single page. The media that are advanced for printing the print job can similarly be effectively treated as being a single medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Murthy Srikantom, Weiyun Sun, Stephen J. Nichols
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Publication number: 20230394265Abstract: A memory structure stores a plurality of color maps, the entity, when decompressed by a printer controller, comprising a plurality of first level wrappers, each first level wrapper including at least one characteristic to identify a corresponding color map, and a recipe to define and locate packets for constructing the color map, the recipe having at least one locator for each second level wrapper; and a plurality of second level wrappers of different types, each second level wrapper wrapping a corresponding packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, George Henry Kerby
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Patent number: 11697287Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Develooment Company L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20220169031Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 11279139Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20210323320Abstract: A print job having a number of pages is printed in a continuous mode, on media advanced at a constant speed. The print job can thus be effectively treated as having a single page. The media that are advanced for printing the print job can similarly be effectively treated as being a single medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Murthy Srikantom, Weiyun Sun, Stephen J. Nichols
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Patent number: 10850527Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20200361214Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20200361215Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 10766267Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 10432825Abstract: Color data may be collected from a plurality of sources. A plurality of color map selection fields may be indexed at a table to a plurality of color maps. The plurality of color maps may be based on the collected color data. Each entry of the table may include an identifier to match one of the plurality of color maps to at least one permutation of the color map selection fields.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J Nichols, Jay S Gondek, Jefferson P Ward
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Patent number: 10412269Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a printer cartridge and memory device containing a representation of a compressed multi-dimensional color table is described. The color table includes at least one low dimensional portion of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a first resolution and a number of remaining portions of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a second resolution. In the color table, the first resolution is greater than the second resolution and the at least one compressed multi-dimensional color table is to generate a high resolution uncompressed multi-dimensional color table the high resolution being at least as great as the first resolution.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20190143703Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 10237451Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a printer cartridge and memory device containing a representation of a compressed multi-dimensional color table is described. The color table includes at least one low dimensional portion of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a first resolution and a number of remaining portions of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a second resolution. In the color table, the first resolution is greater than the second resolution and the at least one compressed multi-dimensional color table is to generate a high resolution uncompressed multi-dimensional color table the high resolution being at least as great as the first resolution.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 10220631Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen J. Nichols, Jay S. Gondek, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20180295257Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a printer cartridge and memory device containing a representation of a compressed multi-dimensional color table is described. The color table includes at least one low dimensional portion of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a first resolution and a number of remaining portions of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a second resolution. In the color table, the first resolution is greater than the second resolution and the at least one compressed multi-dimensional color table is to generate a high resolution uncompressed multi-dimensional color table the high resolution being at least as great as the first resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 10027853Abstract: A printer cartridge includes a memory device and at least one compressed color table stored on the memory device. A compressed color table includes a losslessly compressed neutral axis, a number of nodes that correspond to seed color table nodes and a number of delta nodes that correspond to a number of delta tables. The number of delta tables indicate differences between interpolated color table nodes and corresponding actual color table nodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20180109700Abstract: A printer cartridge includes a memory device and at least one compressed color table stored on the memory device. A compressed color table includes a losslessly compressed neutral axis, a number of nodes that correspond to seed color table nodes and a number of delta nodes that correspond to a number of delta tables. The number of delta tables indicate differences between interpolated color table nodes and corresponding actual color table nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward
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Patent number: 9900473Abstract: A printer cartridge includes a memory device and at least one compressed color table stored on the memory device. A compressed color table includes a losslessly compressed neutral axis, a number of nodes that correspond to seed color table nodes and a number of delta nodes that correspond to a number of delta tables. The number of delta tables indicate differences between interpolated color table nodes and corresponding actual color table nodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward
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Publication number: 20170374235Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a printer cartridge and memory device containing a representation of a compressed multi-dimensional color table is described. The color table includes at least one low dimensional portion of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a first resolution and a number of remaining portions of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a second resolution. In the color table, the first resolution is greater than the second resolution and the at least one compressed multi-dimensional color table is to generate a high resolution uncompressed multi-dimensional color table the high resolution being at least as great as the first resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Jay S. Gondek, Stephen J. Nichols, Jefferson P. Ward