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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brendan C Casey, Webster, NY (US);
Joseph W Ward, Pittsford, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358298 ; 358456 ; 358458 ; 347131 ; 347240 ; 347251 ; 347254 ;
Abstract
A method of decreasing toner in solid area development to improve the latitude of a xerographic process in a machine having a projecting system for modulating a beam and projecting an image onto an imaging surface by specifying pixels defining solid image areas and selectively modulating the beam with regard to the specified pixels to change the state of the pixels from black to gray or partial white.