Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

David H Ochs

Frederick Denham Taft

Kenneth H Bronstein

Bruce A Stephens

Kenneth Ward

Jeffrey Allen Nielsen

Christie Dudenhoefer

Joshua M Yu

James R Andreas

In example implementations, a method is provided. The method may be executed by a processor of a fluid dispensing apparatus. The method includes dispensing a fluid onto a surface from a dispenser during an alignment procedure. The surface is ejected for alignment verification. The surface is then received for re-execution of the alignment procedure after the alignment verification. The dispenser is re-used to dispense fluid onto the surface during re-execution of the alignment procedure.

Reuse of dispensers during alignment procedures

Systems, methods, and computer readable medium to provide patterned layer deposition of liquid types to a plate surface in layers organized in layouts with sites of patterns aligned to a plate origin of the plate surface. At least one layer includes a layout defining a geometric layout of the plate surface.

Patterned layer deposition

Apparatus and methods for selectively masking image data and inhibiting projection of light corresponding to the masked image data. Projection devices include a light engine to project light onto a surface within an available field of projection and a processing unit configured to selectively mask image data in response to user input defining a desired field of view. The masked image data is that image data corresponding to areas outside the desired field of view.

Selectively masking image data

A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to detect an on-screen display condition associated with the media player, and the control unit is configured to prevent first information associated with the on-screen display condition and provided by the media player from being displayed by the projector in response to detecting the on-screen display condition.

Media projector system for preventing the display of on-screen display information

Methods and apparatuses are provided for sizing an image on a display screen. A user is provided the ability to display an image, display graphical objects, navigate, highlight, and activate one of the graphical objects on a display screen thereby sizing the image to the display screen.

Method and apparatus for sizing an image on a display

A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether the projector is ready for operation, and the control unit is configured to prevent the media player from playing the media content until the projector is ready for operation.

Media projector system

A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player and comprising a lamp, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether the media content comprises visual content, and the control unit is configured to prevent the lamp from being turned on in response to determining that the media content does not comprise visual content.

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Corvallis, OR, United States of America

David H Ochs