Eastman-kodak Company

Kodak Alaris Inc.

Anthony A Syracuse

Daniel Phinney

Randall R Maysick

Thomas Middleton

David M Schaertel

Swapnil Sakharshete

James E Adams, Jr

Bruce A Link

Roy Y Taylor

Michael G Fairchild

Donald Kent

Daniel P Phinney

James E Adams Jr

Thomas Gregory Middleton

Swapnil Sakharsheet

A method of indicating a medium misfeed along a medium transport path comprising one or more rollers for conveying the medium along the medium transport path; a microphone for detecting the sound of the conveyed medium and producing a signal representing the sound; a processor for producing sound values from the signal; providing a sensitivity setting responsive to the sound values; and indicating the medium misfeed responsive to the sound values and the sensitivity setting.

Self-adjusting audio detection of medium jam

A document handling apparatus having a document transport path for moving a document therethrough. A detector proximate the transport detects a multifeed indication in the transport path or a misfeed indication in the transport path. A processing system processes the indications and issues a termination signal if a multifeed or a misfeed, or both, is determined.

Combined ultrasonic-based multifeed detection system and sound-based damage detection system

A method for feeding sheets through a sheet transport path. Ultrasonic energy is directed toward a sheet in the transport path while an audio receiver detects audio data generated by the ultrasonic source and the mechanisms that transport the sheet. The audio data is processed to determine whether a multifeed or a misfeed condition exists in the transport path.

Combined ultrasonic-based multifeed detection method and sound-based damage detection method

A system and method in which a size of a pixel used to print lenticular depth images is changed to remove overlap in the slow scan print direction. A space adjustment of the space between scan lines can also be performed to remove pixel overlap. The pixel can also be elongated in the fast scan direction reducing fast scan resolution. An elongated pixel can be combined with skip space adjustment to remove pixel overlap. Printing the image lines in the fast scan or dot movement direction improves image quality. The print resolution in the fast scan direction can be reduced by increasing the printing rate compared to the data rate of the supplied image data, thereby cloning pixels in the fast scan direction, while maintaining a normal slow scan speed to normally print lines. Combinations of the above approaches to directional printing, removing slow scan pixel overlap and reducing file size can be accomplished.

Method and apparatus for improving electronic recording of depth images

An information-bearing disk (magnetic-rigid or floppy, magneto-optical-Kerr or Faraday, optical or an equivalent thereof) includes equally spaced data-storing tracks grouped in a plurality of annular zones encircling the center of the disk. The ratio of the radius of the innermost track of any given zone to the radius of the innermost track of the adjacent inner zone is a constant, k, calculated from: ##EQU1## where R.sub.o is the outer radius of the outermost zone of the disk,

Method and apparatus combining an information-bearing disk and a disk

An information-bearing record medium (magnetic tape, disk, or an equivalent thereof) includes a stream of binary bits in which a binary 1 bit is normally represented by a signal transition at the middle of its corresponding bit cell and a binary 0 bit is normally represented by a signal transition at the trailing edge of its corresponding bit cell so long as the immediately following bit cell contains a binary 0 bit, whereby the spacing between successive normal signal transitions is at least one bit cell and is no greater than two bit cells. The binary bit stream includes an address mark byte, for identifying a future substream of data bits, defined by a unique pattern of signal transition having at least one normal signal transition missing, whereby at least one pair of successive signal transitions is separated by more than two bit cells and less than four bit cells.

Address mark encoding for a record storage medium

An information-bearing disk (magnetic-rigid or floppy, magneto-optical - Kerr or Faraday, optical or an equivalent thereof) includes equally spaced data-storing tracks grouped in a plurality of annular zones encircling the center of the disk. The ratio of the radius of the innermost track of any given zone to the radius of the innermost track of the adjacent inner zone is a constant, k, calculated from: ##EQU1## where R.sub.o is the outer radius of the outermost zone of the disk,

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