公开(公告)号：US12121971B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US17984124

申请日：2022-11-09

申请人： Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

发明人： Qiushu Chen ,  Peter Kiesel ,  Dogan Timucin

IPC分类号： B22F12/90 ,  B22D23/00 ,  B22F10/22 ,  B22F10/85 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y30/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  G01J5/00 ,  H04N1/00

CPC分类号： B22F12/90 ,  B22D23/003 ,  B22F10/22 ,  B22F10/85 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y30/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  G01J5/0037 ,  H04N1/00015 ,  H04N1/00029 ,  H04N1/00039 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00082

摘要： Techniques for determining characteristics of a stream of jetted material in a three-dimensional (3D) printer are disclosed. An example system includes an ejector configured to release molten droplets along a jetting path from the ejector to a build platform. The system also includes an optical sensor positioned adjacent to the jetting path and configured to generate an electrical signal in response to light emanating from the molten droplets. The system also includes an optical mask positioned adjacent to the jetting path. The optical mask includes light-blocking regions and light-passing regions to modulate the electrical signal generated by the optical sensor. The system also includes one or more processing devices to receive the electrical signal from the optical sensor, process the electrical signal to identify characteristics of the molten droplets, and control the 3D printer based on the characteristics. The characteristics include an estimated temperature of the molten droplets.

公开(公告)号：US20240259504A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18415104

申请日：2024-01-17

申请人： CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： Yuriko Harai

IPC分类号： H04N1/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00037

摘要： A component life prediction method that makes it possible to enhance, when predicting a time at which a component provided in an apparatus reaches its life end, the accuracy of this prediction. A method of predicting the life end of a component provided in an apparatus. An operation state of the apparatus is determined, which can reduce the service life of the component. A remaining useful life is predicted in which the component can be used until the component reaches the life end. Cumulative time is predicted which is determined by accumulating time in the operation state. A time at which the component reaches the life end is predicted based on a result of predicting the remaining useful life and a result of predicting the cumulative time.

公开(公告)号：US20240040054A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18357542

申请日：2023-07-24

申请人： BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： Shuhei KATO

IPC分类号： H04N1/34 ,  H04N1/00 ,  G06Q30/0283

CPC分类号： H04N1/346 ,  H04N1/00005 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00023 ,  H04N1/00477 ,  G06Q30/0283

摘要： A server disclosed herein may receive, from a printer, print quantity information related to a print quantity of the printer, calculate a first cost by using the print quantity information, and calculate a second cost by using the print quantity information. The first cost may be a print cost when the printer does not receive provision of a print service realized by the server. The second cost may be a print cost when the printer receives the provision of the print service. The server may output related information which is related to the calculated first cost and the calculated second cost.

公开(公告)号：US20240031509A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18477824

申请日：2023-09-29

申请人： Contrast, Inc.

发明人： Willie C. Kiser ,  Nora Tocci ,  Michael D. Tocci

IPC分类号： H04N1/60 ,  G06T5/00 ,  H04N1/00 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G02B27/10 ,  H04N9/67 ,  H04N17/00 ,  G06T7/90 ,  H04N23/13 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/741 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N9/64 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/2365

CPC分类号： H04N1/6027 ,  G06T5/002 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G02B27/1013 ,  H04N9/67 ,  H04N17/002 ,  H04N1/603 ,  G06T7/90 ,  H04N23/13 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/741 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N9/646 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  G06T2207/10024 ,  G06T2207/20208 ,  G06T2207/10144 ,  G06T2207/20221

摘要： Systems and methods of the invention merge information from multiple image sensors to provide a high dynamic range (HDR) video. The present invention provides for real-time HDR video production using multiple sensors and pipeline processing techniques. According to the invention, multiple sensors with different exposures each produces an ordered stream of frame-independent pixel values. The pixel values are streamed through a pipeline on a processing device. The pipeline includes a kernel operation that identifies saturated ones of the pixel values. The streams of pixel values are merged to produce an HDR video.

公开(公告)号：US20230379414A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-23

申请号：US18317624

申请日：2023-05-15

申请人： CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： TOSHIYUKI ISHII

IPC分类号： H04N1/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00005 ,  H04N1/00074 ,  H04N1/00477 ,  H04N1/00047

摘要： An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a first position shift between a reference image serving as a reference for a print product and a first read image obtained by reading the print product, and a second position shift between the reference image and a second read image obtained by reading the print product, and a determination unit configured to determine presence/absence of a position shift in the second read image based on the first position shift and the second position shift.

公开(公告)号：US20230319192A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-05

申请号：US18296085

申请日：2023-04-05

申请人： Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

发明人： Eduardo AMELA CONESA ,  Diana CANTO ESTANY ,  Marta BLANCH PINOL

IPC分类号： H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/393 ,  H04N1/60

CPC分类号： H04N1/00023 ,  H04N1/3935 ,  H04N1/6038 ,  H04N1/00068

摘要： A method of digital printing is disclosed in which a digital image to be printed has at least one region having pixels comprising superpositioned layers of a first ink and a second ink. The method includes producing at least one sample print and calibrating misalignment of the superpositioned layers at a plurality of calibration locations on the sample print. The resultant misalignment data is provided to a morphing program to determine a pre-deformation of the digital image to compensate for misalignment during printing. An apparatus and a machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20230300273A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-21

申请号：US18185131

申请日：2023-03-16

申请人： SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

发明人： Masaharu IWAMOTO

IPC分类号： H04N1/34 ,  H04N1/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/342 ,  H04N1/00909 ,  H04N1/00068

摘要： A printing system includes a company server and a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus is used in business-use printing and private-use printing. The printing apparatus includes: a printing section performing printing on a medium by using a printing agent; and a waste agent collecting section collecting as a waste agent, the portion of the printing agent that is consumed by the printing section but is discarded without being used in printing on the medium. The printing system includes a determination section and an estimation section. The determination section determines whether the printing agent as the waste agent is discarded in business-use printing or private-use printing. The estimation section estimates an amount of printing agent determined by the determination section to be discarded in business-use printing.

公开(公告)号：US11758058B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17948915

申请日：2022-09-20

申请人： CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： Taichi Takemura ,  Akihito Yokote

IPC分类号： H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/60 ,  H04N1/407

CPC分类号： H04N1/00005 ,  H04N1/00015 ,  H04N1/00034 ,  H04N1/00045 ,  H04N1/00055 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00087 ,  H04N1/4072 ,  H04N1/4078 ,  H04N1/6027 ,  H04N1/6044 ,  H04N1/6063

摘要： An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit; a sensor that measures a measurement image; and a controller. The controller controls the image forming condition based on a measurement result of measuring a first measurement image; acquires information having a correlation to density variation of images to be formed by the image forming unit; controls the image forming condition based on the information; determines a first value regarding a density of an image to be formed, based on a measurement result of measuring a second measurement image; determines a second value regarding a density of the image to be formed by the image forming unit, based on the information; and controls a timing at which the image forming unit next forms the first measurement image, based on the first value and the second value.

公开(公告)号：US20230283738A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-07

申请号：US18309091

申请日：2023-04-28

申请人： KOMORI CORPORATION

发明人： Yusuke TSUMURA ,  Takeshi CHIBA ,  Osamu YAMAMOTO

IPC分类号： H04N1/60 ,  H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/028

CPC分类号： H04N1/6044 ,  H04N1/00023 ,  H04N1/00034 ,  H04N1/00045 ,  H04N1/00063 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00981 ,  H04N1/0289 ,  H04N1/6097

摘要： A lighting device (23) irradiates a web under conveyance with light. The lighting device includes a light source (43), and an irradiation port (61) configured to open linearly in a widthwise direction of the web at an end portion facing the web. The irradiation port (61) is formed between first and second parallel portions (62b, 63b) where a first plate member (62) and a second plate member (63) parallelly face each other. The web under conveyance is irradiated with linear light. It is possible to provide a lighting device capable of irradiating only an inspection region of a sheet or a web with light.

公开(公告)号：US20230254428A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-10

申请号：US18165385

申请日：2023-02-07

申请人： SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

发明人： Takahiro KAMADA ,  Mitsuhiro YAMASHITA ,  Takuya ONO ,  Yuko YAMAMOTO

IPC分类号： H04N1/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/00039 ,  H04N1/00066 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00726 ,  H04N1/0009 ,  H04N2201/0001

摘要： An print medium specification method includes (a) step for acquiring first physical property information related to the print medium; (b) step for acquiring second physical property information different from the first physical property information related to the print medium; (c) step for acquiring a discrimination information for discriminating the type of the print medium by inputting the first physical property information to a discrimination function configured as a learned machine learning model; and (d) step for specify a type of the print medium using the discrimination information and the second physical property information not used for machine learning.