摘要:
More accurately correcting sheet position and skew in a desired print media sheet trajectory in a printer paper path, with a registration system including sheet drive nips defined by laterally spaced and differentially driven elastomer surfaced frictional sheet drive rollers and mating undriven idler rollers have a non-slip rotational sheet engagement. The undriven idler rollers have rotary encoders producing encoder signals corresponding to their rotation by a sheet in the nip, which encoder signals are provided to a controller for the registration system to control forward and differential drive motor systems for the sheet drive rollers so as to substantially correct for errors in the desired trajectory of said sheet by sheet drag forces acting on the elastomer surfaced sheet drive rollers in the sheet drive nips.
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A circuit for controlling a piezoelectric transducer includes an N-channel FET having a gate electrode, a drain electrode coupled to a high voltage signal source Vpp, wherein Vpp is a positive going pulse train, and a source electrode coupled to an output Vcntrl for controlling the transducer and a charging circuit, responsive to a low voltage input signal Vpp_sel, for charging the FET gate to a bias voltage greater than the FET's threshold voltage while Vpp is near zero volts and for maintaining the bias voltage on the FET gate while Vpp ramps up to a value greater than the bias voltage and until Vpp_sel is removed. The control circuit reduces switching time and reduces current spikes in the power supplies to the chip.
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A video signal in component form is processed by generating high frequency linear color component signals from wideband linear color component input signals. The high frequency linear color component signals are combined to produce a high frequency linear luminance component signal, which is combined with color component signals that contain low frequency components present in the wideband linear color component input signals to produce high-frequency-corrected linear color component signals.
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A high performance graphics display system for use as an engineering workstation includes a compact method of generating vectors and transmitting addresses for same from a picture processor to frame buffer control circuitry for writing or reading pixel values along the vector in the frame buffer. The system uses a multiplexed address/data bus. Off-screen memory in communication with the picture processor is used to store pixel data read along vectors in the frame buffer preceding writing a vector so that the original data can be restored when the written vector is moved or removed. Vectors are encoded by the picture processor as a first word containing the address of the beginning point of the vector and major axis and X and Y direction bits to indicate the vector's direction. A second word includes a minor axis bit, indicating whether the next pixel to be written or read is on or off the major axis, in the direction indicated for such axis in the first word. The first word also includes a hesitate bit indicating whether the first pixel of a vector is to be written or read. The system is configured in pipe stages with a FIFO at each stage controlled by a hold signal that is pipelined from downstream stages in a direction opposite the pipelined data flow.
摘要:
A frame buffer memory controller allows rapid image updating while maintaining screen refresh data flow rate. One frame buffer memory controller controls one or more pixel depth columns comprising one or more frame buffer memory chips per pixel. Each frame buffer memory controller listens on a display processor bus for read, write or read-modify-write commands addressed to a pixel, or memory chip, under its control. Such commands, along with the associated addresses and data, are stored in a first-in, first-out (FIFO) buffer for execution during the first free memory cycle.
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A circuit produces an output binary floating point number approximating with high accuracy the inverse of an input binary floating point number D in accordance with the expression (1/D).apprxeq.[(1/A)-C]+[C-(B/A.sup.2)], where the number A is a low accuracy approximation of D, and B is substantially equal to D-A. C is a number selected for each value of A such that the exponents of quantities [(1/A)-C] and [C-(B/A.sup.2)] are equal to the exponent of the quantity 1/2A. Quantities [(1/A)-C] and [C-(B/A.sup.2)] are produced by lookup tables and summed to provide an approximation of 1/D.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for analyzing images deposited on an image receiving member of a printer, and more particularly analyzing images deposited on a surface of an imaging drum in an inkjet printer. A photoelectric sensor supported by a sled in contact with the surface of the imaging drum can be used to detect missing jets in the printhead, to align the printhead, to reduce the amount of purged ink, and to determine run out of the imaging drum.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for analyzing images deposited on an image receiving member of a printer, and more particularly analyzing images deposited on a surface of an imaging drum in an inkjet printer. A photoelectric sensor supported by a sled in contact with the surface of the imaging drum can be used to detect missing jets in the printhead, to align the printhead, to reduce the amount of purged ink, and to determine run out of the imaging drum.
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A method for forming a print head having a plurality of reentrant structures to reduce wetting of the print head surface by the ink during use, and a resulting structure. The method can include the use of a single photosensitive layer to form plurality of reentrant structures, each having a pillar and a cap which overhangs the pillar. A plurality of print head nozzles can also be formed during the formation of the reentrant structures. Embodiments can include the formation of pillars, caps, and nozzles using three different masks, two different masks, or a single mask.
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A method responds to an over-temperature condition in a printhead. The method includes generating a first electrical signal corresponding to a temperature in a printhead, monitoring the first electrical signal with a first electronic circuit to terminate delivery of electrical power to a printhead in response to detection of a safety event, and monitoring the first electrical signal with a second electronic circuit to regulate an amount of electrical power delivered to the printhead.