Eastman-Kodak Company

Roger E Button

Marilina R Shaughnessy

Yee S Ng

Louis R Gabello

Joseph P DiVincenzo

Leon Robert Zoeller

Glenn R Hyde

Thomas O Lange

Apparatus and method for producing selectively edited reproductions of an original documents with high productivity. Selected areas of information on the originals are bounded by a loop of a first or second type of highlighting material to indicate the area for reproduction in one or more treatment modes such as color-accenting. Alphanumeric character codes, written using the highlighting means, designate the treatment(s) to be applied. The two types of highlighting material respectively indicate that the selected area is located within or outside the boundary. By scanning the highlighted originals, the boundaries are distinguished and the character codes are detected. The resulting output signals are processed using boundary detection and character recognition algorithms and the resulting information is stored in a bit map. The information is used to adjust a charged image version of the original on an image-bearing member using an LED or other light source. The appropriate image frames, exposed in accordance with the highlighting, are then developed and transferred.

Method and apparatus for highlighting nested information areas for

Apparatus and method for producing selectively edited reproductions of an original document wherein areas of information on the original are bounded and alphanumerically character-coded with the use of a highlighting means to designate the area for editing. The highlighted originals are serially passed during a copy run over an image scanner that is sensitive to the highlighted portions. The selected areas and the character codes are recognized and the image information is stored in a bit map. In one embodiment an original is imaged onto two image frames of an electrostatically-charged image-bearing member. Character recognition of the character codes allows the selected areas to be deleted, repositioned, selectively screened, or filled with a screen tint. Combinations of modalities may be indicated using appropriate combinations of character codes. The image frames are developed and transferred in register to a copy sheet to provide a reproduction according to the treatment mode indicated. In another embodiment the information is electronically scanned onto the image-bearing member using an LED or laser light source and the appropriate image frames exposed in accordance with the highlighting on the documents.

Reproduction apparatus and method with alphanumeric character-coded

A continuous process, namely the quality control of web production, is monitored and analyzed for defects with high resolution continuously, notwithstanding that the processing of signals for such continuous monitoring and analysis with high resolution requires handling of data at enormous data rates (e.g., billions of calculations per second). The system uses a computer architecture for continuous processing of the data in real time. In a first level of the architecture, signals arriving from the process (from the scanning of successive lines on the web) are digitized, and reduced to represent data corresponding to certain events, such as defects in the web. In a second level of the architecture, an array of parallel processors operate concurrently and continuously on the reduced data to provide outputs characterizing the events, for example, measurements of the locations and extents of the web defects. In a third level the data from the second level is analyzed to provide outputs representing the analysis of the effects in the process represented by the events. These outputs may be used to control the process or to provide information respecting the source of the defects and otherwise to assure that only high quality material is passed.

System for monitoring and analysis of a continuous process

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Roger E Button