Hewlett-packard Company

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Polaris Industries Inc.

Hewlett-packard Corporation

Hewlett-packard Development, L.p.

Steven B Elgee

Steve Orrin Rasmussen

Geoff Wotton

Jefferson Patrick Ward

Robert M Yraceburu

Sam Michael Sarmast

Trudy L Benjamin

Timothy L Weber

Iue-Shuenn Chen

Wen-Li Su

Thomas F Uhling

Michael Thomas Dangelo

Rick Minoru Tanaka

Bruce A Axten

James Walter Pearson

Kerry J Lundsten

Xiuting C Man

Tamara L Hahn

Bryan D Woll

William James Allen

Norman E Pawlowski

David E Smith

Todd R Medin

Mark D Lund

Paul David Gast

Jeffrey C Madsen

Dan Arquilevich

Richard I Klaus

Jody L Clayburn

Gregory N Burton

David A Rehmann

Eva-Maria Moon

Bruce Cowger

Kenneth R Williams

Harold Dail Kimrey, Jr

Rhonda Lynn Wilson

Jayprakash C Bhatt

James E Clark

Susan M Hmelar

Eric L Gasvoda

Scott D Taylor

David Lynn Burton

Yi-Hua Tsao

Mark J Hauck

Richard Alan Kelley

Steven P Downing

Mark L Choy

Geoffrey Wotton

Benjamin S Fuchs

Brooke E Smith

Dale R Davis

Robert Paul Callaway

Lonnie W Adelman

Stephen J McNally

James M Cameron

George Barbehenn

Kurt F Olsen

Craig S Huston

Aidan B Shaughnessy

Said Zamani-Kord

Bruce E Mortland

Lorraine T Golob

Chiao George Liu

Timothy P Norstad

Jason Grosse

Carmalyn Lubawy

John D Lytle

Eugene A Cooper

Jake A Stafford

Jacob P Horky

Brenden D Bungert

Lorraine Theresa Widmann

John A Underwood

Juan-Antonio Sabate Saumell

Parveen Sidhu

George W Lewis

Jacob McDonald Smith

Robert Be Puckette

Carl A Turner

Austin A Bartz

Daniel Burton

David Gast

Robert BE Puckette

Techniques for automatic control of a vehicle are disclosed. The vehicle may include a removable input device having various modes of operation. For example, a coupled mode of operation may control the vehicle when an operator is in an operator area of the vehicle, while a remote mode of operation may enable vehicle control when the operator is outside of the operator area. The vehicle may include object sensors to detect a target such as the removable input device or an operator device. Accordingly, the vehicle may automatically follow the target. The vehicle may also identify obstacles, in response to which manual control of the vehicle may at least temporarily be provided to the operator, after which automatic control may resume.

Automatic vehicle control

Systems and methods for communicating information related to a wearable device are disclosed. Exemplary information includes audio information.

Systems and methods for communicating information

A method and system includes a first vehicle radio generating a first communication signal for a second vehicle radio and communicating the first communication signal through the first radio system of a first vehicle. The first vehicle radio communicating the first signal though a cellular system to the second vehicle radio when a response signal is not received from the second vehicle radio.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication system

A method and system includes a first radio generating a beacon signal. The beacon signal has group beacon data for a group comprising a plurality of radios and the first radio. The first radio transmits the beacon signal during a beacon timeslot of a frame. The frame has a plurality of timeslots. A second radio outside the group receives the beacon signal, identifies a first timeslot that is unused based on the group beacon data and communicates data from the second radio to the group during the first timeslot.

A drop detector includes a printed circuit board (PCB) including a number of optical channels each formed by a light emitter and a light detector and a number of holes defined in the PCB over which the optical channels pass over and through which a number of ejected drops from a number of printheads pass through wherein each of the number of holes defined in PCB are sized to contour the shape of the number of the printheads.

Drop detector

A method of detecting droplets of printing fluid output from a nozzle array includes, in an example, grouping a number of nozzles into a number of individual groups of nozzles and sequentially detecting, with a printing fluid detector, printing fluid ejected from each group of nozzles using a linear position encoder to synchronize the position of the printing fluid detector wherein the printing fluid detector stops moving while detecting each group of nozzles.

Detecting droplets

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to control operation of a printer based on whether a marker is detected in a pigment ink are disclosed. Example apparatus include an optical sensor to detect a marker in a vehicle component of the pigment ink. The vehicle is depleted of a pigment component. The apparatus also includes a controller to control operation of the printer based on whether the marker is detected. The apparatus can also include an authorizer to determine whether the printer in which the pigment ink is installed is authorized to use the pigment ink having the marker. The controller of the apparatus is to control operation of the printer by transmitting a control signal to a print head processor to halt printing operations. The apparatus can additionally include a filter to deplete the vehicle component of the pigment component.

Controlling operation of a printer based on detection of an optical marker in a pigment ink

In one example, an encoding station of a printing system forms a pattern of non-printed features onto flowing print media. The non-printed features are detected, and timing signals generated from the detected features. The timing signals cause the media to be printed at a desired resolution in the direction of the flow.

Non-printed features on print media for printing with a desired resolution

Disclosed are apparatus and methods for compensating for the change in length of an encoder strip due to environmental effects such as temperature and humidity. The apparatus and methods utilize two simple optical sensors spaced apart and mounted on a substrate having a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the encoder strip; the substrate is mounted to the movable component which is to be positioned, such as a printer carriage. Embodiments of the methods utilize information from the two sensors, in conjunction with information from the analog encoder used to position movable component, to compensate for environmental effects.

Apparatus and methods for compensation of thermal and hydroscopic expansion effects in a low cost motion control system

A passive linear encoder includes a loop and a sensor. The loop is configured to engage print media and to move in concert with, and under power of, the print media. The sensor is positioned to scan indicia defined on an inner surface of the loop.

Passive linear encoder

An apparatus includes a tray, a sensor, and a transport mechanism. The tray holds a media stack. The transport mechanism moves the tray past the sensor to scan a side of the media stack.

Scanning a media stack

Embodiments of a method and apparatus for adjusting power are disclosed.

Adjusting power

An embodiment of an air heating apparatus includes a mass to store heat energy and a heater to provide the heat energy to the mass.

Air heating apparatus

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Steven B Elgee