Patents Issued in August 28, 2014
  • Publication number: 20140240346
    Abstract: An image displaying device, comprising: a photographing image generating unit configured to generate a photographing image by processing photographing data outputted by an image pickup device; an area designation unit configured to designate a cut-out area in the photographing image; a contour image generating unit configured to generate a contour image of the cut-out area based on a high frequency component of the cut-out area; a combined image generating unit configured to generate a combined image in which the contour image is combined with a part of the photographing image; and a combined image displaying, unit configured to display the combined image on a display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140240347
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes a distance and direction acquirer that acquires a distance and a direction to a target terminal; a displayed-position identifier that identifies a displayed position indicating the current position of the target terminal on the display unit with reference to the distance and the direction; and a superposing unit that displays the current position at the identified displayed position, the displayed-position identifier acquiring a second distance to a general object in the see-through image and a second direction to the general object and identifying the displayed position with reference to the second distance and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: IMAGENICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20140240348
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method for displaying a plurality of map drawing pictures so as to improve convenience for a user. The map display device according to the present invention includes an input/display unit that receives input of user operation and displaying a first drawing object related to map information in a first drawing picture and a second drawing object related to map information in a second drawing picture; and a controller for controlling an overlapping state between the first drawing picture and a partial area of the second drawing picture in accordance with input of user operation received by the input/display unit and outputting, to the input/display unit, a picture in which the second drawing object masks the first drawing object in such an overlapped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Arita, Mitsuo Shimotani
  • Publication number: 20140240349
    Abstract: An approach is provided for causing a presentation in an augmented reality user interface for user guidance. The approach involves causing a presentation of one or more indications of one or more parts in an augmented reality user interface, wherein the one or more parts are associated with at least one task. The approach also involves causing a presentation of one or more guides for aligning the one or more indications with the one or more parts in the augmented reality user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: MARKO TAPIO TUUKKANEN
  • Publication number: 20140240350
    Abstract: Techniques for displaying navigation information on a mobile device are provided that include a method that includes obtaining an indication of a position and an indication of a direction associated with the mobile device, using the indication of the position, the indication of the direction, information regarding identities of POIs within a geographic region of interest, and information regarding areas associated with the POIs to determine at least one relevant POI, of the POIs, that is associated with the position and direction, and displaying at least one visual indication associated with each of the at least one relevant POI on the mobile device. The appearance of the at least one visual indication is dependent on at least one of a distance from the mobile device of the relevant POI associated with the visual indication or presence of a known physical barrier between the mobile device and that relevant POI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jiajian CHEN, Hui CHAO
  • Publication number: 20140240351
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to providing motion amplification to a virtual environment are disclosed. For example, in one disclosed embodiment a mixed reality augmentation program receives from a head-mounted display device motion data that corresponds to motion of a user in a physical environment. The program presents via the display device the virtual environment in motion in a principal direction, with the principal direction motion being amplified by a first multiplier as compared to the motion of the user in a corresponding principal direction. The program also presents the virtual environment in motion in a secondary direction, where the secondary direction motion is amplified by a second multiplier as compared to the motion of the user in a corresponding secondary direction, and the second multiplier is less than the first multiplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Scavezze, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Arnulfo Zepeda Navratil, Jason Scott, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis, Brian Mount, John Bevis, Cameron Brown, Tony Ambrus, Phillip Charles Heckinger, Dan Kroymann, Matthew G. Kaplan, Aaron Krauss
  • Publication number: 20140240352
    Abstract: A content delivery system includes: a registration module configured to identify a registration type for calibrating a current location of a device; a tracker module, coupled to the registration module, configured to track a subject of interest based on a context; a source module, coupled to the tracker module, configured to determine an information source based on the registration type; and a content module, coupled to the source module, configured to generate an overlay content based on the information source for displaying the overlay content for the subject of interest on the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Parker Ralph Kuncl, Dhana Dhanasarnsombat, Daniela Karin Busse, James M. A. Begole
  • Publication number: 20140240353
    Abstract: A system for and a method of augmenting video and images. A target area of an image frame is obtained. Boundary values for the target area of the image frame are obtained. Image data to be inserted into the image frame is also obtained. The image data is blended according to the boundary values for the target area using spectral methods. The blended image data is inserted into the target area of the image frame. The image can be a portion of a video clip in which case blended image data can be inserted in the target area for each of a plurality of image frames of the video clip to generate a resulting video clip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Piyush Goel, Anjan Ghose
  • Publication number: 20140240354
    Abstract: An augmented reality apparatus includes a plurality of photographing modules separated from each other, capturing images of a real scene that includes an object; a tracking unit obtaining status information of the object by tracking the object in the images of the real scene; an image processor determining status information of a virtual image that corresponds to the real scene based on the status information of the object, and generating an augmented reality image by combining the virtual image and the images of the real scene based on the determined status information; and a rendering unit rendering the augmented reality image to display the augmented reality image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gengyu MA, Xu ZHANG, Ji-yeun KIM, Jung-uk CHO, Young-su MOON
  • Publication number: 20140240355
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying images of internal anatomy includes an image processing device configured to provide high resolution images of the surgical field from low resolution scans during the procedure. The image processing device digitally manipulates a previously-obtained high resolution baseline image to produce many representative images based on permutations of movement of the baseline image. During the procedure a representative image is selected having an acceptable degree of correlation to the new low resolution image. The selected representative image and the new image are merged to provide a higher resolution image of the surgical field. The image processing device is also configured to provide interactive movement of the displayed image based on movement of the imaging device, and to permit placement of annotations on the displayed image to facilitate communication between the radiology technician and the surgeon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SafeRay Spine LLC
    Inventors: Robert E. Isaacs, Samuel Morris Johnston
  • Publication number: 20140240356
    Abstract: A method includes displaying regions in a graphical display. At least two regions correspond to different portions of a representation of an industrial process system. A thumbnail region corresponds to an entirety of the representation of the process system. A viewport region corresponds to a portion of the representation of the process system less than the entirety of the representation of the process system. The viewport region is disposed and movable within the thumbnail region. A current view region corresponds to a current view of the representation of the process system. The current view is associated with the viewport region. The method also includes, responsive to user activation, moving the viewport region within the thumbnail region and updating the current view region. The thumbnail region is configured to identify at least one fault condition indicator outside the viewport region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: David James Cupitt, James Spear, Graeme Laycock, Ian Duncanson
  • Publication number: 20140240357
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image capturing device, a storage unit, a processing unit and a display device. The image capturing device captures a user image. The storage unit stores display contents. The processing unit identifies facial feature locations of the user image, and determines a vertical skew angle according to the facial feature locations. The processing unit further adjusts the display contents to a deformed image according to the vertical skew angle. The display device displays the deformed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Chia-Chang Hou
  • Publication number: 20140240358
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a selection section adapted to select a first correction point among a plurality of correction points included in a correcting image, an identification section adapted to identify a second correction point and a third correction point adjacent to the first correction point, and a display control section adapted to emphasize a first line segment connecting the first correction point and the second correction point to each other, and a second line segment connecting the first correction point and the third correction point to each other, and display the correcting image on a display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko NOBORI
  • Publication number: 20140240359
    Abstract: A medical testing device performs a test measurement on a sample from a user of the device and displays alphanumeric characters representative of the test measurement. The device includes a display screen integrated within the housing for displaying the alphanumeric characters when the device is held by the user in a first orientation. The alphanumeric characters are not discernable if the device is held by the user in a second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: LifeScan Scotland Limited
    Inventors: David Elder, Allan Faulkner
  • Publication number: 20140240360
    Abstract: A method of rotating an original image includes performing a self-learning using addresses related to at least one page miss and generating address generation rules using a result of the self-learning. The method includes pre-fetching the original image from a memory device based on the address generation rules to obtain a pre-fetched image and generating a rotated image using the pre-fetched image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Min Woo SONG, Min Soo KIM, Sung Chul YOON, Jae Young HUR, Sung Min HONG
  • Publication number: 20140240361
    Abstract: A method, system and mobile terminal for information displaying are provided. The method is applied to a system that includes a cloud server and at least one mobile terminal, the method including: reporting, by the mobile terminal, its attribute information to the cloud server, the attribute information includes screen density of the mobile terminal and screen width of the mobile terminal; typesetting, by the cloud server, information to be displayed of the mobile terminal, based on the screen density and the screen width, and returning the typeset information to the mobile terminal to display. Since typesetting information of the cloud server is typeset according to the attribute information reported by the mobile terminal, displaying information of the mobile terminal may be adapted to the screen density of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yongxia LIU, Xuebin LIU, Jiejun ZHANG, Kaixiang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20140240362
    Abstract: A method for displaying image information, the method including a step of specifying a character string which a user tries to distinguish among character strings displayed on a display portion and a step of enlarging and displaying the character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiichi Kurita
  • Publication number: 20140240363
    Abstract: A context awareness-based screen scroll method is provided. The method includes detecting information about surrounding circumstances of a terminal, setting a screen scroll mode based on the surrounding circumstances, detecting occurrence of an event corresponding to the set screen scroll mode, and executing screen scroll according to the occurred event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Su HONG, Hong-Il KIM, Joo-Young SON, Woo-Jin JUNG, Tae-Hwa HONG, Byung-Jun SON, Yun-Je OH, Sun-Tae JUNG
  • Publication number: 20140240364
    Abstract: In order to provide a technology with which an area that meets the intention of a user is scrolled when the user gives a scroll instruction while specifying a part of an image, provided is an information processing device which performs control for scrolling an image that is displayed on a display unit and that includes a scrollable first area and a second area which is a part of the first area and which is scrollable independently, the information processing device including: a unit configured to receive information that specifies a point on the display unit and that instructs to scroll an image corresponding to the specified point; a unit configured to determine, when the specified point corresponds to the second area, whether the first area is to be scrolled or the second area is to be scrolled independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Rei Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140240365
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a transmitter transforming n data into first serial data and transmitting the first serial data through a first transmission line and transforming m data into second serial data and transmitting the second serial data through a second transmission line, where n and m are natural numbers at least one of which is greater than 1; a first driver integrated circuit (IC) group including n driver ICs; and a second driver IC group including m driver ICs, wherein each of the n driver ICs receives the first serial data through the first transmission line and is driven by part of the first serial data, each of the m driver ICs receives the second serial data through the second transmission line and is driven by part of the second serial data, and each of the n data and the m data includes identification information about a driver IC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Ho KIM, Tae-jin KIM, Woon-Taek OH, Jae-Youl LEE, Young-Hwan CHANG
  • Publication number: 20140240366
    Abstract: A display device with reduced dynamic false contouring effect is disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels and a timing controller. The timing controller is configured to determine a grayscale value of an image frame based on a grayscale distribution of the image frame. The controller is further configured to determine an arrangement of sub-frames as a driving mode based on the determined grayscale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Dong-Won Lee, Hee-Chul Hwang, Ji-Eun Park, Jun-Gyu Lee, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20140240367
    Abstract: A luminance adjustment part includes a luminance determination part and a data compensation part. The luminance determination part may determine a control value for controlling luminance of a backlight assembly using linear image data that has a linear luminance profile and is generated by performing a de-gamma process on a first copy of input image data that has a nonlinear luminance profile. The compensation part may compensate pixel data that corresponds to pixels of a display panel using the control value, the pixel data being generated using a second copy of the input image data. Thus, color distortion of a displayed image as perceived by a viewer may be minimized when power consumption of a display apparatus that includes the display panel is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Taek KIM, Cheol-Woo PARK, Yun-Ki BAEK, Kyoung-Ju SHIN, Hee-Soon JEONG
  • Publication number: 20140240368
    Abstract: A pixel may include a switching transistor connected to a data line and a first node, having a gate electrode connected to a scan line, a sustain transistor connected to a sustain voltage and the first node, having a gate electrode connected to the scan line, a storage capacitor connected to the first node and the second node, a driving transistor connected to the first power source voltage and a third node, having a gate electrode connected to the second node, a compensation transistor connected to the second node and the third node, having a gate electrode connected to a control line, a reset transistor connected to an initializing voltage and the second node, having a gate electrode connected to a reset control line, and an organic light emitting diode including an anode connected to the third node and a cathode connected to the second power source voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byung-Sik KOH
  • Publication number: 20140240369
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a p-substrate, a digital circuit unit, and an analogy circuit unit. The digital circuit unit includes a deep n-well, a first p-type semiconductor element, a first n-type semiconductor element, and a p-well. The deep n-well is formed on the p-substrate, the first p-type semiconductor element and the p-well are formed on the deep n-well, and the first n-type semiconductor element formed on the p-well. The analogy circuit unit includes a second p-type semiconductor element, a second n-type semiconductor element, and an n-well. The second n-type semiconductor element and the n-well are formed on the p-substrate, and the second p-type semiconductor element formed on the n-well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: FITIPOWER INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: WEN-SHIAN SHIE
  • Publication number: 20140240370
    Abstract: A display includes: a light-emitting section provided in a display region; and a light-receiving section provided in the display region, and configured to receive light from the light-emitting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi SAKAIRI, Yoshiya HAGIMOTO, Hayato IWAMOTO, Koichiro SAGA, Nobutoshi FUJII
  • Publication number: 20140240371
    Abstract: A phase locked loop includes a voltage controlled oscillator including a plurality of delay cells configured to respectively generate a plurality of clock signals having different phases and a harmonic lock detector configured to detect harmonic lock in the voltage controlled oscillator and to generate a reset signal in response. Remaining ones of the delay cells other than a first delay cell among the plurality of delay cells are reset in response to the reset signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woon Taek Oh, Jin Ho Kim, Tae Jin Kim, Jae Youl Lee, Young Hwan Chang
  • Publication number: 20140240372
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display capable of improving display quality. The organic light emitting display includes effective pixels positioned in an effective display unit, at least one dummy pixels positioned in a dummy display unit in order to generate light with predetermined luminance, at least one photodiodes arranged on the dummy display unit to be adjacent to the dummy pixels, and a sensing unit for extracting first resistance information from organic light emitting diodes (OLED) included in the effective pixels, extracting second resistance information from OLEDs included in the dummy pixels, and extracting luminance information corresponding to the second resistance information from the photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Sang-Jin Pak
  • Publication number: 20140240373
    Abstract: An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Demetrious Mark Harrington, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson, Teck Ping Sim, Matthew J. Aprea
  • Publication number: 20140240374
    Abstract: A row common electrode drive circuit and a column common electrode drive circuit control an effective value of a voltage to be applied to common electrodes along rows in which pixels are arrayed and an effective value of a voltage to be applied to the common electrodes along columns in which the pixels are arrayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji HARADA
  • Publication number: 20140240375
    Abstract: A system for controlling a smart LED display board capable of compensating for luminance of an LED includes a luminance measurement unit which creates first luminance measurement data obtained by digitizing measured luminance of each LED, an image data input unit which receives first input data about each LED, a comparison unit which selects at least one first LED having a luminance value greater than a preset reference value, and creates a compensation power value compensating for the luminance value of the selected first LED; an image data compensation unit which receives the first input data and the compensation power value and creates second input data in which a power value that is contained in the first input data transmitted to the first LED is changed into the compensation power value; and a drive unit which transmits the second input data to the first LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: DONG BANG DATA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Jea HA
  • Publication number: 20140240376
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a driving method and display apparatus, the display apparatus including light emitting units, scan lines, data lines, a driving circuit provided for each of the light emitting units to serve as a circuit having a signal writing transistor, a device driving transistor, a capacitor and a first switch circuit, and a light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Tanikame, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Publication number: 20140240377
    Abstract: A reference luminescence amount-acquiring unit of a display device obtains reference brightness corresponding to a BL drive value detected by a drive value-detecting unit and a temperature detected by a temperature-detecting unit. A deterioration-detecting unit calculates an initial status value based on a ratio of reference brightness obtained based on a temperature and a BL drive value in an initial status and brightness in the initial status detected by a luminescence amount-detecting unit, and stores the initial status value. The deterioration-detecting unit further calculates a current status value based on a ratio of reference brightness obtained based on a current temperature and a current BL drive value and current brightness detected by the luminescence amount-detecting unit, compares the initial status value with the current status value, and determines whether calibration is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Publication number: 20140240378
    Abstract: The image projection apparatus of the present invention includes a light source that outputs coherent light; a phase modulator that performs phase modulation on the light output from the light source to create a Fourier transform image; an amplitude modulator that performs amplitude modulation on the Fourier transform image in accordance with an image signal; a projection optical system that projects the light that has been amplitude modulated, and a controller that divides the image represented by the image signal into a plurality of divided images, determines the target luminance value of each of the areas of the Fourier transform image that is divided corresponding to the division of the image, based on the image signal, and outputs phase data indicating the amount of phase modulation so as to make the luminance value of each area of the Fourier transform image acquire the target luminance value of the associated area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Nobuhide Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20140240379
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a display unit comprising a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of pixels coupled to corresponding data lines of the data lines and corresponding scan lines of the scan lines; a scan driver configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the scan lines; a data driver configured to: output a plurality of first data signals among a plurality of data signals through a plurality of first output lines among a plurality of output lines, output a plurality of second data signals among the data signals through the first output lines, and output a plurality of third data signals among the data signals through a plurality of second output lines among the output lines, wherein the first data signals represent a first color, the second data signals represent a second color, and the third data signals represent a third color; and a data distribution unit configured to: transmit the first data signals to a plurality of correspondin
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seon-I Jeong, Ki-Myeong Eom
  • Publication number: 20140240380
    Abstract: A driving device includes a memory configured to store an initial setting value to drive a display, a power source controller configured to output a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal controlling power applied to the display, and a switching unit configured to connect an input and output port to the memory when writing data to a memory and configured to connect the power source controller to the input and output port when driving the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Sun LEE, Young-Joo LEE
  • Publication number: 20140240381
    Abstract: A controller is configured to: when printing of a plurality of print units each including a plurality of categories of sheets having different sizes is performed on a unit-by-unit basis, control a feed timing of each sheet by a paper feed unit and a transport of the sheets by a transport unit according to a transport control pattern corresponding to a printing pattern including a combination of one-side/double-side printing settings for the respective categories of sheets in each of the print units; and when the printing of the plurality of print units is consecutively performed and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, arrange an order of printing of the plurality of print units such that the print units having a same printing pattern among the plurality of print units are successively printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140240382
    Abstract: A printing device includes a head that has a plurality of nozzles, a reversing section for reversing a front surface and a back surface that are facing surfaces of a printing medium facing the head, and a control section for causing the head to execute an ejection operation of forming an image forming dot for printing an image designated as a print target and a flushing dot other than the image forming dot on the facing surface by moving either one of the printing medium and the head so as to relatively change the positions of the printing medium and the head and ejecting liquid from each of the nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akito SATO
  • Publication number: 20140240383
    Abstract: A method for driving a capacitive load using a target voltage waveform having a peak voltage and an average rise and fall slew rate, wherein the average rise and fall slew rates comprise at least one voltage step, the method comprising supplying power from an input to an output for charging a capacitive load to obtain a peak voltage and average rise slew rate in response to the target waveform; discharging the capacitive load to obtain an average fall slew rate in response to the target waveform, and returning the discharged power from the capacitive load to the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Global Inkjet Systems Limited
    Inventor: Michael Penberth
  • Publication number: 20140240384
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a liquid ejection head including a pressure generation unit configured to generate a pressure for pressurizing a liquid in an individual liquid chamber communicating nozzles; and a head drive control unit configured to generate a drive waveform including pulses in time series, select one or more pulses from the drive waveform according to a droplet size, and provide the selected drive pulses to the pressure generation unit. The drive waveform includes a first pulse not including a waveform component that suppresses ejection bending, and allowing a droplet to be ejected, and a second pulse including the waveform component that suppresses ejection bending, and allowing a droplet to be ejected. An amount of the droplet ejected in the second pulse is larger than in the first pulse, and a speed of the droplet ejected in the second pulse is higher than that in the first pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroomi Yokomaku
  • Publication number: 20140240385
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating flush lines that do not interfere with control marks for post-processing equipment. The system includes a print controller able to receive a print job and to insert printable control marks into the print job to direct the actions of post-processing equipment. The system also includes an ink flushing controller that can detect horizontal locations of the control marks along the width of the print job. Responsive to detecting the locations of the control marks, the ink flushing controller can generate flush lines for the print job that have altered optical densities at the horizontal locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Casey E. Walker, Scott Johnson, Sean K. Fitzsimons, Stuart J. Boland, William Edward Manchester
  • Publication number: 20140240386
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus including a first temperature sensor for detecting ink temperature and a second temperature sensor for detecting ambient temperature of a liquid ejecting head, in which a controller for controlling discharge of the ink generates a driving signal including a discharge voltage which is used for, based on a temperature detected by the first temperature sensor, discharging ink droplets through nozzle openings and a fine-oscillation voltage which is used for finely oscillating meniscuses of the ink without discharging the ink droplets and corresponds to the discharge voltage. Furthermore, the controller sets a coefficient in accordance with a temperature difference between the ink temperature and the ambient temperature and controls an energy level of the fine oscillation by applying the fine-oscillation voltage, based on the coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAGIWARA, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Publication number: 20140240387
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a classification unit configured to classify ink colors to be superimposedly ejected in a region with a color tone change within a color image formed on a print sheet into a reference color exempted from an ejection timing correction and a correction color subjected to the ejection timing correction, for each line, based on information on comparison between minimum drop numbers acquired by a drop number acquisition unit and information on comparison between drop number distributions acquired by a distribution acquisition unit; a correction scheme acquisition unit configured to acquire a correction scheme of the ink ejection timing of the correction color in the region, for each line; and a correction unit configured to correct the ink ejection timing of the correction color in the region with the correction scheme acquired by the correction scheme acquisition unit, for each line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mari ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20140240388
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating flush lines for printers. The system includes a flush line generator able to receive a print job, to determine a drying limit that defines a maximum areal density of ink for the print job that may be dried by a dryer, and to generate a flush line based on the drying limit that does not exceed the drying limit. The system further includes a marking engine able to mark the print job and the flush line onto a web of printable media upstream from the dryer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Casey E. Walker, Scott Johnson, Sean K. Fitzsimons, Stuart J. Boland, William Edward Manchester
  • Publication number: 20140240389
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to measure a width of a first-sized media page and determine a length that corresponds with the width. Based on the length, a bottom end of the first-sized media page is located, and a calibration pattern is printed in a first page region located relative to the bottom end of the first-sized media page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
  • Publication number: 20140240390
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an ejection detection device with an inexpensive and simple structure that can appropriately detect conditions of nozzles, without the control of the quantity of liquid ejected from the nozzles being required. Therefore, for the ejection detection device of the present invention, a light-emitting unit emits light to a light-receiving unit in a direction in which a plurality of nozzles is arranged in a print head. The ejection detection device detects the condition of a nozzle to be detected, which ejects the liquid droplet. At this time, the emission intensity of the light-emitting unit or the responsivity of the light-receiving unit is controlled by the print head in accordance with the location of the nozzle to be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: CANON FINETECH INC.
    Inventor: Shingo TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20140240391
    Abstract: An inkjet ink of the present invention including: water; an organic solvent; a surfactant; and a colorant, wherein the organic solvent comprises the following (1), (2) and (3): (1) at least one polyhydric alcohol having an equilibrium moisture content of 30% by mass or higher at a temperature of 23° C. and humidity of 80% RH; (2) an amide compound expressed by the Structural Formula (I); (3) a compound expressed by the Structural Formula (II); a compound expressed by the Structural Formula (III), or a compound represented by the General Formula (I), or any combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroshi Goto, Hidetoshi Fujii, Yuuki Yokohama
  • Publication number: 20140240392
    Abstract: Systems and methods selectively remove flush drops from a plurality of ink drops ejected by a print engine when printing data for a print job. One embodiment comprises a control system of a printing system. The control system receives a flush pattern for flushing an ink jet print engine of the printing system, and receives a sheetside bitmap for printing to a print medium. The control system merges the flush pattern and the sheetside bitmap to generate a composite sheetside bitmap. The control system directs the print engine to eject a plurality of ink drops toward the print medium based on the composite sheetside bitmap, and identifies a subset of the ink drops based on the flush pattern. The control system then directs a drop deflection system of the printing system to selectively prevent the subset of ink drops from impinging the print medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Stuart J. Boland, Sean K. Fitzsimons, Scott Johnson, William Edward Manchester, Casey E. Walker
  • Publication number: 20140240393
    Abstract: An ink set includes a recording ink and a displacement ink. The recording ink contains a pigment, a resin, water, and a first surfactant and is substantially free of alkyl polyols with a normal boiling point of 280° C. or more. The displacement ink contains water, a second surfactant, an aprotic polar solvent, and an alkyl polyol with a normal boiling point of 280° C. or more. Each of the first surfactant and the second surfactant includes a silicone surfactant and/or a fluorosurfactant. The resin includes a water-soluble resin and/or a resin emulsion. The recording ink has a higher surface tension than that of the displacement ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MUKAI, Akira MIZUTANI, Toshihiro SHINBARA, Hironori SATO
  • Publication number: 20140240394
    Abstract: A washing liquid supply mechanism includes a washing liquid supply device including a supply opening that supplies a washing liquid, the washing liquid supply device being mounted on a carriage; an openable/closable shutter mounted on the carriage and connected to the supply opening of the washing liquid supply device; and a shutter open/close device that opens the shutter when the carriage moves from a first position at which printing is performed to a second position at which printing is not performed and that closes the shutter when the carriage moves from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Roland DG Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140240395
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a liquid jetting head having a liquid jetting surface in which a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row are formed, each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row including a plurality of nozzles aligned in a predetermined direction, a cap member configured to be in a close contact with the liquid jetting surface to cover the first and second nozzle rows, a liquid discharge section connected to the cap member, a liquid guiding member accommodated in the cap member, and a control unit configured to control the liquid jetting head to jet a liquid from each of the first and second nozzle rows. First and second liquid receiving grooves extending in the predetermined direction are formed in a facing surface of the liquid guiding member configured to face the liquid jetting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TATSUYA SHINDO, MASAYUKI TAKATA