Lexmark International, Inc.

Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Lane Thomas Butler

James Daniel Anderson, Jr

David Emerson Greer

Jeffery James Buchanan

Johnnie A Coffey

Michael Clark Campbell

Jason Todd Vanderpool

Gina Marie Johns

Stephen Porter Bush

John Yeung Conway

Christopher Elliot Lingle

Randal Scott Williamson

Brian M Langness

Gregory Leon Hutchison

Jonathan Andrew Wharton

Daniel Lee Thomas

Rodney Evan Sproul

Matthew Ryan Keniston

Aaron Jacob Boggs

Scott Timothy Cramer

A wiper for a maintenance station of an imaging device, including a foundational body that attaches to the maintenance station and a blade on top of the foundational body for scraping fluid and debris from a printhead of the imaging device, the blade being formed of a flexible material having two terminal sections and a central section defining a longitudinal extent of the blade, wherein each of the two terminal sections connects to the foundational body with a thicker expanse of the flexible material compared to the central section that connects to the body with a thinner expanse of the flexible material.

Variable force wiper for maintenance station of imaging device

A wiper for a maintenance station of an imaging device includes a foundational body and a flexible blade. The body rigidly attaches to the maintenance station. The blade attaches to the body. The blade scrapes fluid and debris from a printhead during use. The blade comprises a flexible material having terminal sections intervened by a central section. Each terminal section connects to the body with a thicker expanse of flexible material, whereas the central section connects to the body with a thinner expanse. The connection provides the terminal sections with a higher wiping force and a shorter effective beam length for wiping an encapsulant of the printhead and gives while the central section a lower wiping force and a longer effective beam length for wiping a nozzle plate of the printhead. The embodiments note curved surfaces with variable radiuses where the expanses of flexible material connect to the body.

A method that includes receiving an image, automatically determining at least one region of interest in the image based on at least one color deficiency type from a plurality of color deficiency types, modifying the image by correcting the at least one region of interest and producing an output of the modified image.

System and methods for automatic color deficient vision correction of an image

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

Lane Thomas Butler