Abstract: A method for ringtone, voice, and sound notification of printer status, comprising obtaining status information of a printer, converting it into an audible report, and delivering the audible report. The method is especially useful for visually-impaired users and for shared printers in crowded situations where it is difficult for each user to see the panel or monitor display. The methods also include detection by the events controller, UI manager instructing an audio manager, codec decoding an audio file in firmware and hardware organization; job owner identification information embedded into a print job with a unique tag; user identification sound data embedded in a print job; audible report for multiple jobs in a job queue, with positional information; text-to-speech conversion; unique ringtone melody for each user, comprising department prefix, higher pitch modulation for higher priority, and automatically converting an alphanumeric character into the corresponding note.

Abstract: A liquid crystal projector device of the present invention includes a lamp unit and a lamp cooling fan, the lamp unit having disposed therein a columnar lamp bulb having a luminous body enclosed therein, the lamp unit having a side wall opposed to the lamp cooling fan and provided with a first and second air introduction openings at opposite sides of a plane including a central axis of the lamp bulb and perpendicular to the side wall, for introducing the air drawn from the lamp cooling fan toward the lamp bulb.

Abstract: An image reading unit which is capable of optimally reading images from both reflective originals and transparent originals. A first rod lens array 15 collects reflected light from a reflective original that reflects light. A first photoelectric conversion element array 14 reads an image of the reflective original based on the reflected light collected by the first rod lens array 15. A second rod lens array 202 collects light transmitted through a transparent original that transmits light. A second photoelectric conversion element array 201 reads an image of the transparent original based on the transmitted light collected by the second rod lens array 202. The first photoelectric conversion element array 14 is mounted on a first substrate 16. The second photoelectric conversion element array 201 is mounted on a second substrate 203.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a printer engine, a display unit, and a sound reproducing unit. The image forming device receives a list of contents from a content distributing device, and has the display unit display the content list. From the content list displayed by the display unit, a user of the image forming device selects a print content, a display content, and a sound content that he desires, associates the selected contents with one another to produce a group of the selected contents, and requests the content distributing device to distribute the group of the selected contents. The content distributing device produces the group of contents associated with one another, and distributes the group of contents to the image forming device. The image forming device expands the print content in the distributed content group into print data, and has the printer engine print the print data.

Abstract: A camera provides a photo 7 printed on print media via printer device 6 under the control of a central processor 4. The photo 7 is a print of an image 5 provided by a CCD sensor 3. The photo 7 includes print media having, in addition, a magnetically recordable medium whereby sound processed by sound chip 10 received from sound microphone 13 and/or processed by central processor 4 can be recorded with magnetic recording head 16 on the photo 7. The photo 7 is printed using an ink jet printer on suitable ink jet compatible print media preferably with the magnetically recordable medium on the rear of the photo 7 and the image 2 on the front surface of the photo 7.

Abstract: An add-on module for a contact printer used to manufacture a motion picture. The module enables the printing of a digital optical soundtrack on motion picture film from a sound negative using a standard contact printing process. The module includes spaced apart guide rollers and a main roller. Unexposed film is placed in contact between the main roller and the sound negative. The module further includes a fiber optic light source positioned adjacent to the sound negative for exposing the film and forming the digital soundtrack. The digital soundtrack is formed on a portion of the positive print which includes an area between each of the sprocket holes. In addition, the digital soundtrack extends from each sprocket hole to the edge of the positive print on both sides of the print.