Xerox Corporation

Joseph J Daniele

Kwok-Leung Yip

Mehdi N Araghi

Martin Edward Banton

Kwok L Yip

Joachim A Ritter

Robert Michael Lofthus

Charles J Kramer

James F O'Neill

Robert S Karz

Pierre A Lavallee

To R Hsing

The present invention is a system for utilizing a printable, yet unobtrusive glyph or similar two-dimensionally encoded mark to identify copyrighted documents. Upon attempting to reproduce such a document, the glyph is detected, decoded and used to accurately collect and/or record a copyright royalty for the reproduction of the document, or to prevent such reproduction. Furthermore, the glyph may also include additional information so as to enable an electronic copyright royalty accounting system, capable of interpreting the encoded information, to track and/or account for copyright royalties which accrue during reproduction of all or portions of the original document.

Electronic copyright royalty accounting system using glyphs

A thermal ink jet printhead has a flow directing one-way valve for reducing back-flow directed forces generated by the droplet ejecting ink vapor bubbles, so that most of the bubble generated forces are used to eject ink droplets from the printhead nozzles. The one-way valve is provided by patterning the etch resistant mask to form a flap located at a predetermined position along the ink channels between the heating elements and reservoirs, which is activated by bubble generated forces directed in the opposite direction from the printhead nozzles.

Ink jet printhead with ink flow directing valves

A xerographic copying/printing machine in which the photoreceptor has a row of discrete image marks along one side margin, a CCD type array spaced opposite to and aligned with the row of photoreceptor marks to provide successive blocks of image signals representing the instantaneous pattern of marks viewed by the array on each scan, a light bar spaced opposite the other side of the photoreceptor and aligned with the array for illuminating the array sensors through the marks, and a circuit for converting the image signal output of the array to clock signals representative of photoreceptor speed and position.

Motion sensor for sensing the relative position and velocity of a

A system for enhancing the use of digitized documents as information transmitting and storage objects in connection with an electronic printer having an image input scanner for scanning documents and converting the image content to image signals. In one embodiment, a bar-coded document has an encoded image representing a secret message, and the printer is equipped with a recognition circuit that uses the bar code to distinguish the encoded document from other non-coded documents to be printed and readies a decoder which upon proper authentication, automatically decodes the encoded image signals output by the array so that the printer provides a print with the decoded message. In a second embodiment, the digitized image comprises an auxiliary software program to be loaded into the printer memory, with a selector circuit for loading the software signals output by the array into the printer memory, with a selector circuit for loading the software signals output by the array into the printer memory.

Data handling and archiving system

A printer having holographic scanning disc for scanning the imaging beam from a laser diode across a recording member, with a detector for detecting a shift in wavelength of the diode utilizing the zero order beam passing through the holographic scanning disc and a temperature control for controlling diode temperatures, the detector actuating the temperature control to adjust the temperature of the diode when a shift in the wavelength of the zero order beam from a non-mode hop wavelength to another wavelength is detected, adjustment of the diode temperature shifting the beam wavelength back toward the non-mode hop wavelength region.

Apparatus and method for detecting and eliminating diode laser mode

A scanning system with unpolarized laser, a birefringent beam splitter to split the unpolarized beam into dual orthogonally polarized beams, a polarization insensitive unitary dual beam modulator for separately modulating the beams in accordance with discrete image signal inputs, and a control for operating the modulator at optimum acoustic power levels. In an alternate embodiment, a quarter wave plate is inserted in the optical path between laser and beam splitter.

Beam splitter for multibeam A/O modulators and printer systems

An IR LED array and method of fabrication having a GaAs wafer with one surface metallized to form a common LED contact. Epitaxially formed on this wafer is a GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure with successive layers of Ga.sub.1-x Al.sub.x As-n, GaAs-p, and Ga.sub.1-y Al.sub.y As-p on the other surface, followed by an electrical contact layer of GaAs-p+ and an insulating layer of SiO.sub.2, discrete areas of the contact and insulating layers being removed by etching to form viewing windows for the individual LEDs, and with the area of the contact layer bordering the viewing windows being exposed and metallized to provide individual LED electrical contacts. In a second embodiment, the GaAs-p+ layer is dispensed with and the transparent electrically conducting coating is applied directly on both the insulating layer bordering the Ga.sub.1-y Al.sub.y As viewing windows and over the viewing windows. In a third embodiment, an edge emitting LED variant is provided and in a fourth embodiment, various light barrier designs are proposed for preventing optical crosstalk between the individual LEDs.

High resolution, high efficiency I.R. LED printing array and fabrication

An IR LED array and method of fabrication having a GaAs wafer with one surface metallized to form a common LED contact. Epitaxially formed on this wafer is a GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure with successive layers of Ga.sub.1-x Al.sub.x As-n, GaAs-p, and Ga.sub.1-y Al.sub.y As-p on the other surface, followed by an electrical contact layer of GaAs-p+ and an insulating layer of SiO.sub.2, discrete areas of the contact and insulating layers being removed by etching to form viewing windows for the individual LEDs, and with the area of the contact layer bordering the viewing windows being exposed and metallized to provide individual LED electrical contacts. In a second embodiment, the GaAs-p+ layer is dispensed with and the transparent electrically conducting coating is applied directly on both the insulating layer bordering the Ga.sub.1-y Al.sub.y As viewing windows and over the viewing windows. In a third embodiment, and edge emitting LED variant is provided and in a fourth embodiment, various light barrier designs are proposed for preventing optical crosstalk between the individual LEDs.

High resolution, high efficiency I.R. LED printing array fabrication

A raster output scanner having a recording member, a laser, a total internal reflection type modulator having an array of independently addressable electrodes, optical means cooperable with the laser to provide a sheetlike beam of high intensity radiation at the modulator, the array of electrodes being pulsed in succession with each image pixel to provide wave after wave of imaging or non-imaging beams, a scanning polygon for scanning the imaging beams from the modulator across the recording member line by line, and means for pulsing the modulator electrodes at a speed equal to the speed of the scanning polygon and in a direction opposite to the polygon scanning direction to obviate image blur.

Electro-optic pulse imaging raster output scanner

Method of forming small electro-mechanical modulator chips each with a row of flexible light reflecting fingers which may be butted with other like chips to form a full width electro-mechanical array by forming a silicon dioxide layer on a silicon wafer, forming a conductive layer on the silicon dioxide layer, etching away the conductive layer except for discrete rows of fingers, etching the silicon dioxide layer to create a mask delineating a well below the fingers and line openings in the silicon dioxide at the points where the wafer is to be separated into chips, etching the wafer to open the well and form V-shaped grooves along the openings, cutting a groove in the other side of the wafer along a centerline parallel to, but offset from the centerline of each V-shaped shaped groove by an amount sufficient to allow the wafer (111) crystalline plane to extend from the V-shaped groove to the cut groove, and applying a downward force to the wafer to fracture the wafer along along the (111) plane and separate the wafer into chips.

Method of fabricating electro-mechanical modulator arrays

An electrostatic voltmeter with a microdeflector probe having a base, a flexible finger supported on the base in cantilever fashion, the finger deflecting in response to a potential difference thereacross, separate driven and variable capacitance electrodes on the finger sensing the charge voltage on the surface to be measured, the pickup electrode being electrically coupled to the driven electrode, the resulting charge voltage on the driven electrode changing finger deflection and altering the capacitive relationship between the base and the variable capacitance electrode; a predetermined reference voltage on the base; and a circuit for converting the change in capacitance between the base and the variable capacitance electrode to a signal representing the voltage on the surface. In an alternate embodiment, a second microdeflector is provided which changes capacitance between base and variable capacitance electrode in response to noise, and a control for adjusting the signal in response to the noise signal.

Microdeflector probe for electrostatic voltmeters

The method of fabricating Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) with supporting circuits on a silicon chip or wafer for a Full Width Array (FWA) in which the silicon substrate or chip is first coated with Silicon Dioxide to form a thin film layer, a plurality of holes corresponding in number and configuration to the desired array are next opened in the layer, Gallium Phosphide LEDs together with p-n junctions and contact layers are then grown epitaxially in the holes, and finally attendant LED operating circuits are epitaxially formed on the silicon chip together with operative connections to the individual LEDs by Integrated Circuit techniques.

LED printing array fabrication method

An acousto-optic modulator for a high speed/high resolution raster output scanner, the modulator have a substrate composed of substantially pure gallium phosphide, with a relatively thin high frequency transducer comprised of a piezo electric layer sandwiched between metal electrodes and employing a conformable adhesive to prevent distortion of the crystal or transducer.

Gap modulator for high speed scanners

An electro-optic printer of the type having a laser, a modulator for modulating the laser beam in accordance with image signals; an optical system including a rotating polygon for sweeping the modulated beam across the photosensitive drum of a xerographic system to expose the drum and create images thereon, the modulator having a plurality of separately controlled electrode groups effective to modulate portions of the laser beam in accordance with individual lines of image signals to enable multiple image lines to be exposed at once on the photosensitive drum; and a step drive to synchronously step the photosensitive drum in increments equal to the combined width of the lines being processed. In a first alternate embodiment, the modulator is based on a wave guide, and in a second alternate embodiment, the modulator is composed of a series of flexible reflective fingers.

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Pittsford, NY, United States of America

Joseph J Daniele