Abstract:
A transfer unit of an electrophotographic printer includes: a transfer roller and a fuser roller for transferring an image onto the paper. One of the two rollers has a shape having flared ends and a smaller diameter at the center portion thereof and the other roller has a core portion having a crowned shape mating with the shape of the flared roller and a deformable portion which is provided around the core portion so as to form a circumferential surface having a straight profile line, and which is deformable so that a uniform gap between the two rollers is formed.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for extending the height of an image to display a video signal having a 4:3 aspect ratio on a screen having a 16:9 aspect ratio. The apparatus includes: a field memory for storing pixel data of horizontal scanning lines of an input region which will be extended vertically, among the horizontal scanning lines of a field unit being inputted, and outputting the pixel data of the horizontal scanning lines of a region which will be extended vertically among the stored pixel data; line memories for sequentially inputting and delaying the pixel data outputted from the field memory by a horizontal scanning line unit, the number of the line memories corresponding to a vertical extension rate of the image; and a low-pass filtering and sub-sampling part for low-pass filtering and sub-sampling by respectively multiplying different filter coefficients having values determined by positions of new vertically extended horizontal scanning lines by the pixel data of the horizontal scanning lines which are each outputted with a different delay from the line memories and by adding the multiplied pixel data in correspondence with the positions of the new horizontal scanning lines, to thereby output the pixel data of the vertically extended horizontal scanning lines.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a video signal conversion method for displaying a video signal having a 4:3 aspect ratio on a screen having a 16:9 aspect ratio by using a single clock. The video signal conversion comprises the steps of inserting two zero pixels between two pixels of the 4:3 video signal, band pass filtering the two pixels of the 4:3 video signal, such that 3/4 of the bandwidth of the pixels is passed and upper and lower parts of pixels are not passed, and sampling the filtered pixels by every fourth transition of a clock signal, and then displaying the sampled pixels on the 16:9 screen.