| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,054,574 |
Method for charging a photoreceptor to extend the life of a charge
receptor in a xerographic printer A method of operating an electrostatographic printing apparatus, the apparatus including a charge-retentive member defining an imaging surface and a charging... |
| US-7,054,573 |
Heating apparatus The heating apparatus includes a first temperature detecting element disposed at least in proximity to a moving member, a second temperature detecting element... |
| US-7,054,572 |
Method and apparatus for selective fuser rolling cooling The present invention is in the field of electrophotographic printers and copiers. More specifically this invention relates to the fuser apparatus used to fuse... |
| US-7,054,571 |
Method of driving a fuser roll in an electrophotographic printer A method of operating an electrophotographic printer includes the steps of: transporting a print medium at a first operating speed using a print medium transport... |
| US-7,054,570 |
Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus is disclosed. The image-forming apparatus includes a fixing unit. The fixing unit includes: a heating part including a heating... |
| US-7,054,569 |
Wet electrophotographic image forming machine and method for recognizing a
use life of a development cartridge... A wet electrophotographic image forming machine that informs a user of a timing for replacing development cartridges. The image forming machine comprises a... |
| US-7,054,568 |
Method and apparatus for controlling non-uniform banding and residual
toner density using feedback control A system and method of determining a residual toner mass on a receiving member includes providing one or more test patterns to the receiving member, transferring... |
| US-7,054,567 |
Initialization method for establishing process control parameters An automatic process of setting control set-points, control rates, calibrations, timing parameters and maximum density levels for color modules within a color... |
| US-7,054,566 |
Image forming apparatus, cartridge, and storage medium An image forming apparatus includes a developing device including a developing receptacle for accommodating a developer including a toner and a carrier, and a... |
| US-7,054,565 |
Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and method of controlling
development using information concerning... An electrophotographic image forming apparatus and a method of controlling development includes a current measuring unit to measure a developing current flowing... |
| US-7,054,564 |
Open loop thermal compensation circuit that is suitable for use in
burst-mode laser transmitters The present invention is directed towards an open-loop thermal compensation circuit that is suitable for use in a burst-mode laser transmitter. The compensation... |
| US-7,054,563 |
Multi-channel optical communication system that controls optical
reflection for each channel and optical... A multi-channel optical communication system includes an optical transmitting apparatus and an optical receiving apparatus. The optical transmitting apparatus... |
| US-7,054,562 |
Method and system for suppressing ASE on a WDM network A method and apparatus for assigning channel bands to a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system is disclosed. The WDM system includes an arrangement of... |
| US-7,054,561 |
Reduction of polarization-dependent loss from grating used in double-pass
configuration A wavelength router receives light having a plurality of spectral bands at an input port. Subsets of these spectral bands are directed to output ports. The... |
| US-7,054,560 |
Configuration for detecting optical signals of a planar optical circuit A configuration for detecting optical signals of at least one optical channel of a planar optical circuit. At least one deflection device is provided, which... |
| US-7,054,559 |
Method and system for modular multiplexing and amplification in a
multi-channel plan A system and method for modular multiplexing and amplification of optical signals in subwindows within an operating window of a fiber optic communication... |
| US-7,054,558 |
Method for traffic protection in WDM fiber optic transport networks A method for the protection of fiber optic ring-shaped transport networks, the networks including network elements connected by spans, optical paths being... |
| US-7,054,557 |
Technique for routing data within an optical network A technique for routing data within an optical network having a plurality of network nodes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by... |
| US-7,054,556 |
Channel identification in communications networks Channels in an optical WDM network are each identified by at least two dither tones with which the channel is modulated, the dither tones alternating with a... |
| US-7,054,555 |
Communication network, wavelength division multiplex transmission
equipment, optical switch equipment, and... There is defined an optical link section which leads from output interfaces of an optical switch equipment to the input interfaces of an optical switch... |
| US-7,054,554 |
Method and system for detecting network elements in an optical
communications network An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method of detecting network elements in an optical communications network. The method includes an initiating... |
| US-7,054,553 |
Apparatus for monitoring polarization-mode dispersion and chromatic
dispersion and transmitting means for... An apparatus for monitoring polarization-mode dispersion and chromatic dispersion in optical networks in accordance with the present invention comprises; an... |
| US-7,054,552 |
Vertical and horizontal pictures taken without camera rotation This invention describes a method for changing a picture orientation of a picture taken by an image sensor of an electronic device, e.g., for taking horizontal... |
| US-7,054,551 |
Multi-function button with mode selection A mode selection device and a multi-function button containing such a device are provided. The mode selection device includes a case, a chassis and a dial. The... |
| US-7,054,550 |
Rangefinder apparatus A rangefinder apparatus includes an effective minimum value certifying unit for comparing a minimum value, exhibiting the smallest value in correlation values... |
| US-7,054,549 |
Variable background for photographic pictures The invention refers to a variable background for photographic pictures which comprises a flexible basic body, which supports the object which has to be... |
| US-7,054,548 |
Vibration-flow-type heating-body cooling device The central position of each heating body 1 in the fluid flow direction is referred to as a heating body central position, the central position of a heat... |
| US-7,054,547 |
Disc having a segment code for prohibiting a play control function during
a playing of a video segment An apparatus comprising the means for, and a method comprising the steps of: receiving (1) a video program including within a set of parallel segments that... |
| US-7,054,546 |
Data multiplexing method, data recorded medium, data recording apparatus
and data recording program To ensure seamless reproduction of video data and audio data even when the video data and audio data are edited video object unit by video object unit in... |
| US-7,054,545 |
Recording, edit, and playback methods of audio information, and
information storage medium Audio information is recorded in units of tracks on an information storage medium on which audio information and management information that pertains to the... |
| US-7,054,544 |
System, method and record medium for audio-video synchronous playback In an audio-video synchronous playback control system which outputs coded audio data to an external audio decoding device so as to be decoded and played back by... |
| US-7,054,543 |
Recording medium of stream data, and recording method and playback method
of the same Upon playback of stream data which is recorded while being appended with time stamp information in units of packets, time management is made using the time stamp... |
| US-7,054,542 |
Data recording and reproducing apparatus having a data transfer device
selectively transferring data between... A data recording and reproducing apparatus which can easily perform the editing of audio and/or visual data even at the camera site. In the data recording and... |
| US-7,054,541 |
Editing of digital video information signals The invention relates to editing of video information signals recorded on a record carrier, such as an optical record carrier are edited in an internal memory of... |
| US-7,054,540 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising: a first recording controlling element for recording moving images; a first detecting element for detecting scene... |
| US-7,054,539 |
Image processing method and apparatus An image processing apparatus for reproducing a recorded digital data stream can detect a time information or emergency news object contained in the recorded... |
| US-7,054,538 |
Flat dispersion frequency discriminator (FDFD) This invention provides a flat dispersion frequency discriminator (FDFD) capable of having a substantially flat dispersion with either a positive or negative... |
| US-7,054,537 |
Variable optical attenuator for optical communications A variable optical attenuator for optical communications comprises: a substrate on which a plurality of alignment grooves are patterned; an input optical fiber... |
| US-7,054,536 |
Breakout assembly for flexible circuitry A lightweight flexible breakout device supports a plurality of single optical fibers, a portion of which are ribbonized. The breakout device generally includes a... |
| US-7,054,535 |
Optical fiber management assembly with storage trays An optical fiber management assembly comprises a support module (12) carrying two or more pivotable optical fiber storage trays (13). The support module has... |
| US-7,054,534 |
Light scattering structures formed in silicon strip loaded waveguides In a standard CMOS process, a layer of metallic salicide can be deposited on those selected portions of an integrated circuit, where it is desired to have... |
| US-7,054,533 |
Light scattering structures formed in upper layers of strip loaded
waveguides In a standard CMOS process, a layer of metallic salicide can be deposited on those selected portions of an integrated circuit, where it is desired to have... |
| US-7,054,532 |
Three-dimensional photonic crystal waveguide structure and method A waveguide structure formed with a three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystal is disclosed. The 3D photonic crystal comprises a periodic array of voids formed in a... |
| US-7,054,531 |
High density fiber optic premises cable with easy open units A unitized fiber optic cable 10 includes a plurality of unit cables 20, each of which also includes a plurality of tight buffered optical fibers 30. The unit... |
| US-7,054,530 |
Limited combustible cables A PVDF-containing LC Cable wherein the Cable contains no more than about 50 weight % PVDF, based on the weight of the Cable, is provided. |
| US-7,054,529 |
Cable having a substantially gastight metal tube receiving at least one
optical conductor and a... The invention relates to a cable having a substantially gastight metal tube receiving at least one optical conductor and a hydrogen-absorbent substance. The... |
| US-7,054,528 |
Plasmon-enhanced tapered optical fibers An apparatus includes an optical fiber and an electrically conducting layer. The optical fiber has a tapered portion with a lateral surface and an end face. The... |
| US-7,054,527 |
Passive compensating coupling laser device In an optical or optoelectronic module (1) an intermediate medium (4, 10) whose optical index decreases with temperature is introduced into the optical path (7)... |
| US-7,054,526 |
Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer uses a diffraction grating, capable of multiplexing/demultiplexing lights of narrow wavelength spacing at a short focal... |
| US-7,054,525 |
Device for tuning a Bragg grating by means of compression using a
piezoelectric actuator A device for tuning a Bragg grating, by compression by a piezoelectric actuator. The device is particularly applicable to optical telecommunications and for... |