Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

David W Kinkley

Yifeng Wu

Philip Cowan

Kenneth Kay Smith

Tod S Heiles

Kevin A Owen

Kevin R Hudson

Alan Chris Berkema

Terry M Fritz

Wayne Richard

David O Hamilton

Smith Kennedy

Tamra J Fife

Michael J Pervere

Alan C Berkema

A method of printing device discovery includes, with a low energy wireless (LEW) device within the printing device, sending a number of announcement messages. The printing device is in a sleep mode. The method further includes waking up the printing device upon receiving a response to the announcement messages from a mobile computing device. An LEW connection is established with the mobile computing device. The method further includes creating a second non-LEW wireless connection between the printing device and the mobile computing device.

Printing device discovery

Embodiments including detection of color content in an image are disclosed.

Color content detection

A method for forming an image with at least one linear array of imaging elements. Defective ones of the imaging elements associated with a particular color are detected. A first defective imaging element compensation operation is performed for portions of the image data that are associated with a first predetermined number or fewer adjacent defective imaging elements. A different second defective imaging element compensation operation is performed for portions of the image data that are associated a second predetermined number or more adjacent defective imaging elements.

Defective imaging element compensation

A multiple die printer may be calibrated by a method which includes receiving, for each die, optical density related measurements from a set of calibration targets printed on print media, each calibration target printed by nozzles of a single one of said multiple dies, the targets of each set of varying nominal optical densities, and creating linearization tables for each of said multiple dies.

Calibration of multi-die printer

A method of detecting color miscalibration in a color output device. Accordingly, the method includes providing a calibration mask having a target color and a plurality of windows, and outputting a test array that includes a plurality of test samples arranged for viewing through the windows of the calibration mask, wherein each test sample has an associated test color. The windows may be at least partially aligned with at least one of the test samples, and the target color of the calibration mask may be compared to the test colors of the framed test samples.

System and method for color calibration

A generalized color calibration architecture and method are disclosed. A first interface receives raw measuring data of a sample from a measuring tool. The data has a color type, and the sample has one or more color targets. Each color target has an arrangement of one or more color patches. A second interface receives the color data type, one or more target identifiers specifying the targets, and a color patch order for each target identifier. The color patch order specifies the arrangement of the color patches of a corresponding color target. A color calibration manager performs the color calibration based on the raw measuring data, the color data type, the target identifiers, and the color patch order for each target identifier. The calibration yields or updates one or more color conversion tables for subsequent use with a device, such as a color printer, or another type of device.

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Vancouver, WA, United States of America

David W Kinkley