Display Of Developed Image Patents (Class 399/158)
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Patent number: 8780365Abstract: A printing system is provided having interactive sample page preview and selection capabilities. An operator or user of a printing system, such as a xerographic copier, laser printer, or multi-function device, may visually confirm the print quality of pages printed by the system by requesting that a sample page, i.e., an extra copy of a page being printed within a print job, be printed and delivered to an alternate output tray for inspection. The present disclosure provides the ability to print the sample and show what was printed as a preview on the screen. The present disclosure additionally provides a preview of the sample page prior to its printing and delivery to an alternate tray. Based upon the previewed image, an operator may choose to print a sample page corresponding to that image, or choose another page. Additionally or alternatively, sample pages may be printed based on temporal criteria and system parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Matthew R. Gerega
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Patent number: 8718497Abstract: A charging device includes a charging member and a pulling device. The charging member charges a surface of an image carrier and includes a charging member body and axial-end members. The charging member body is arranged so as to face the image carrier and extends along an axial direction of a rotation shaft of the image carrier. The axial-end members are supported at both ends of the charging member body in the axial direction and do not extend through the inside of the charging member body in the axial direction. The pulling device pulls the charging member in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin Iwasaki
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Patent number: 8611794Abstract: A developer replenishing device for replenishing a developer to a development device includes a developer housing container configured to house the developer inside the container, a discharge outlet provided on the developer housing container and configured to discharge the housed developer outside the container, a conveying device provided between the discharge outlet and the development device, and configured to convey the developer in the developer housing container to the development device, and a motion providing device configured to provide a periodic motion to the developer housing container. The periodic motion is a circling motion, in which a trajectory of an arbitrary point of the developer housing container on a horizontal plane is at least one of circular and ellipsoidal trajectories, without a fixed rotation center on the horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Ikeguchi
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Patent number: 8472053Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit that displays operation information about a user's operation procedure; a communication unit that performs communication with a mobile terminal device; and a transmission unit that transmits, in case that a predetermined operation information is to be displayed on the display unit, image data for displaying the predetermined operation information to the mobile terminal device via the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Aoki
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Patent number: 8199174Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Michael Gilfix
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Patent number: 8154739Abstract: A printer includes a display displaying an image of predetermined image data selected from a plurality of image data sorted in order; a recording head recording the image of the image data on printing paper; and a plate-shaped operation tab rotatably attached to an attachment surface of a body. Based on a rotation operation to the operation tab detected by a rotary encoder, image data to be image-displayed on the display is switched according to the order of the image data. Consequently, it is possible to provide a printer which can be easily operated even by users not good at operating device when they want to display desired image data among the plural image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroto Sugahara
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Patent number: 8055590Abstract: Methods and systems remotely monitor a current value of a meter display. A picture of the display is taken with a camera equipped portable communication device. The picture is sent through the portable communication device and associated infrastructure to a processing system. The processing system receives and stores the picture and, optionally, verification data, imaging location data, and other data, in a datastore. The processing system processes the picture to obtain a current value of the meter and authenticates the sender and/or the meter using the verification data and/or location data.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbHInventor: Richard Neill Cameron
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Patent number: 7848678Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising an image holding member that is rotationally driven, the image holding member comprising, on a substrate, a subbing layer and a photosensitive layer, a volume resistance value of the subbing layer decreasing in a rotation axis direction of the image holding member, from one end portion of a light source side of the image holding member towards another end portion of the image holding member, a charging unit, a latent image formation unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, and a charge removal unit comprising a light source that, after transfer of the toner image, irradiates the surface of the image holding member from one side thereof, in a rotation axis direction of the image holding member, with charge removing light, to remove the charge from the surface of the image holding member.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Shibata, Makoto Nishimura, Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 7620333Abstract: A consumable printing component for use in a printing device includes an imaging member and a memory storing message data. In response to a trigger event, a message is formed on the imaging member at the end of a print job such that the message remains on the imaging member.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Richard L. Swantner, Scott K. Hymas, Sarah E. Swantner
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Publication number: 20080212999Abstract: A light-amount detecting device includes: a light source which emits a light beam; a branching optical element which divides the light beam emitted from the light source into a first light beam traveling in a predetermined direction and a second light beam traveling in a direction different to the predetermined direction; a light-condensing element which condenses the second light beam; a light-receiving element having a light-receiving surface which receives the second light beam condensed by the light-condensing element; and a detector which detects a light-amount of the second light beam received by the light-receiving element, and at least one of a direction of reflected light of the second light beam reflected from the light-receiving surface of the light-receiving element and spread of the reflected light of the second light beam reflected from the light-receiving surface of the light-receiving element is adjusted to control a light-amount of the reflected light of the second light beam returning to theType: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Tomohiro Nakajima, Satoru Itoh, Daisuke Ichii, Masahiro Soeda, Yoshinori Hayashi
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Patent number: 6900789Abstract: Disclosed is a reversible image display medium which can be repeatedly used and can display high quality images, in which cells between the two substrates accommodate a dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developing particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities; images are displayed by forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed on one of the two substrates to drive the developing particles in an electrostatic field based on the electrostatic latent image; a developer-facing surface of one of the substrates has a surface resistivity of at least 1×1012 ohm/square; a developer-facing surface of the opposite substrate has a surface resistivity from 1×106 ohm/square to 1×1012 ohm/square; a developer-facing surface of one of the substrates has a surface average median roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m to 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Matsuura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihito Ikegawa, Masaharu Kanazawa, Keyaki Yogome, Takaji Kurita
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Patent number: 6859218Abstract: Electronic display devices and methods are described. In one embodiment, a display device comprises a housing and a display area provided within the housing to display content for a user. Memory is provided within the housing to hold data that is to be rendered into user-viewable content. An electrophotographic assembly is provided within the housing and is configured to electrophotographically render user-viewable content from the data that is held in the memory. A loop of material is disposed proximate the electrophotographic assembly and is configured to receive electrophotographically rendered content and present the content for user viewing within the display area. A control area is provided on the housing and includes one or more user-engagable structures to permit a user to interact with the device. The control area is positioned on the housing to accommodate one-handed use of the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: David J. Luman, Samuel A. Johnson, Thomas Camis
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Patent number: 6768889Abstract: An image is formed on an image display medium having a display layer whose optical characteristics are changed by applying an electric field. An electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed is formed on a dielectric film having a plurality of float electrodes formed thereon by injecting an electrical charge into at least one of the float electrodes. The electric field formed by the electrostatic latent image on the dielectric film is applied to the display layer of the image display medium by bringing the electrostatic latent image formed on the dielectric film to a position opposed to the image display medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihito Ikegawa
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Patent number: 6718149Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal display panel has a pair of substrate structure and liquid crystal confined in a space between the substrate structures; non-transparent signal terminals and non-transparent connectors are formed in the frame area of one of the substrate structure where the thin film transistors and pixel electrodes are formed together with scanning and data signal lines; when a seal layer is formed along a predetermined route in the frame area, the manufacturer checks a negative vernier formed in the connectors to see whether or not the seal layer extends along the predetermined route before the assemblage so as to enhance the reliability of products without sacrifice of the pixel matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, LtdInventors: Makoto Watanabe, Syunsuke Shiga
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Patent number: 6686941Abstract: A public presentation system is presented comprising a display system that can be remotely changed, so that multiple different images are successively displayed with minimal interruption. The system utilizes ionography techniques for non-contact printing and imaging for display. Thus by exploiting electrostatic imaging techniques, an advertisement can be displayed promptly by transferring a toner image onto an imaging belt.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2001Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Vary Frame Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Yosef Kamir, Alex Weiss, Serge Steinblatt
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Patent number: 6618170Abstract: A color printer control system comprising a user interface for shifting color hue. A control panel display includes an illustrative representation such as a color spectrum bar for suggesting a color range for both the input document and the output document. The user interface has a selective control such as a slide bar including an indicator of a user preference relative to the color reference bar. The position of the slide bar represents the hue shift input by the user. A dynamic image representation, such as a photograph, concurrently adjusts its hue in accordance with adjustment of the color slide bar and the user command. The dynamic image shifts color hue to provide a more accurate indication of the effects of hue shift to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1999Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: John F. Whiting, Jonathan A. Dorsey, Andrew T. Martin, David S. Matthews, Richard A. Sperling, Richard M. Hraber
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Patent number: 6556228Abstract: Solar powered electronic display devices and methods are described. In one embodiment, a device comprises a housing (102) and a display area (104) within the housing to display content for a user. Memory (310, 312) is provided within the housing to hold data that is to be rendered into user-viewable content. An electrophotographic assembly (200) is provided within the housing and is configured to electrophotographically render user-viewable content from the data that is held in the memory. A loop of material (202) is disposed proximate the electrophotographic assembly (200) and is configured to receive electrophotographically rendered content and present the content for user viewing within the display area. A power source is provided and comprises a solar panel member (107) disposed on the housing for converting solar power into electrical power to power the device. The power source can also include one or more batteries, with the solar panel member supplementing the batteries.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventor: Thomas Camis
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Patent number: 6542176Abstract: Electronic display devices and methods are described. In one embodiment, a display device comprises a housing with a display area to display content for a user. Memory within the housing holds data that is to be rendered into user-viewable content. A loop of material is provided within the housing and is configured to display user-viewable content for the user. An exposure station is provided internally of the loop of material and is configured to expose selected portions of the loop of material so that the loop of material can receive and retain toner thereon to provide the user-viewable content from the data that is held in the memory. In another embodiment, a display device comprises a toner shuttling system within the housing that is configured to shuttle toner between different locations within the housing from which the toner can be used and reused.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Co., L.P.Inventor: Thomas Camis
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Patent number: 6448990Abstract: Toner processing systems and electronic display devices and methods are described. In one embodiment, a toner processing system comprises an enclosure and an electrostatic toner recovery assembly supported within the enclosure for electrostatically recovering unfused toner from a print media surface. A toner development assembly is supported within the enclosure proximate the electrostatic toner recovery assembly and is configured to receive recovered toner from the electrostatic toner recovery assembly for reuse on the print media surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Thomas Camis, Samuel A. Johnson
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Patent number: 6396525Abstract: Electronic display devices and methods are described. In one embodiment, an electronic display device comprises a housing and a display area within the housing to display content for a user. Memory is provided within the housing to hold data that is to be rendered into user-viewable content. An electrophotographic assembly is provided within the housing and is configured to electrophotographically render user-viewable content from the data that is held in the memory. A loop of material is disposed proximate the electrophotographic assembly and is configured to receive electrophotographically rendered content and present the content for user viewing within the display area. The electrophotographic assembly can use black toner and the loop of material is selected to provide a black/white contrast when used in connection with the black toner. In one embodiment, the electrophotographic assembly can render content at at least 300 dots per inch (dpi) and better.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventor: Samuel A. Johnson
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Patent number: 6124911Abstract: A front surface of the opposite electrode of a liquid crystal display panel is formed in a curved shape. The relation between the reflecting surface of the pixel electrode and the curved surface of the opposite substrate is defined so that a leaving direction of the light that is reflected by the first face of the opposite substrate is different from a leaving direction of light that is emitted from the first face of the opposite substrate after having been reflected by the pixel electrodes through the liquid crystal layer. Thus, undesired light on the front surface of the opposite substrate is separated from light that is displayed. Consequently, an image free of dazzling and deterioration of contrast ratio due to undesired reflected light can be obtained with a high contrast ratio. In a display apparatus containing the reflection type liquid crystal display, an incident surface to a dichroic prism is an inclined surface including a curved surface, not a surface that is perpendicular to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroki Nakamura, Masato Kemmochi, Yoshitaka Yamada, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Michiya Kobayashi, Nozomu Harada
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Patent number: 5953564Abstract: An image display unit including an endless transfer belt that is tensioned by a plurality of rollers. A toner image carrier is tensioned in a direction orthogonal to the rotational direction of the transfer belt. An image formation system provides a toner image carrier with a toner image. A transfer roller disposed inside the toner image carrier permits transfer of the toner image to the transfer belt by orthogonal rotation as compared to the rotational direction of the transfer belt. The transferred image is displayed, then erased by a cleaning blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1998Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisanobu Matsuzoe, Kouji Migita, Yukinori Hara
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Patent number: 5850276Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof for preventing a drop in the pixel slot opening and focus rates due to poor alignment precision of the drive substrate and microlens which face each other, and for improving the focus rate and production efficiency. A lens group comprised of a plurality of microlenses is integrated into the opposing substrate. A second alignment mark is formed at the desired position within the display area on the opposing substrate. This second alignment mark is formed along grooves between numerous protrusions having a semi-circular shaped cross section so the outer contours of the face form a cross shape of a specific width. These protrusions are made of the same material (for instance transparent plastic) and shape (semi-circular cross section) as those of the microlens at the display area, forming a lens shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1997Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Ochi, Shizuo Nishihara, Hiroaki Ichikawa, Satofumi Koike, Yasunori Sato
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Patent number: 5646717Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes image forming device for forming an image on a recording material, the image forming device including an image bearing member, a charging member for charging the image bearing member and a voltage source for supplying a voltage to the charging member; and determining device for determining a substantial intersection between an actual voltage-current characteristic curve between the charging member and the image bearing member and a predetermined voltage-current curve predetermined for the charging member, and for determining a bias to be applied to the charging member during image forming operation of the basis of the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1995Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Hiroshima, Masahiro Goto, Yoji Serizawa, Makoto Takeuchi, Tatsunori Ishiyama