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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:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347237 ; 347247 ;
Abstract
A non-impact printer apparatus and method wherein enabling waveforms for enabling a plurality of recording elements for recording pixels are characterized by pulse durations that can vary by one exposure clock pulse period with some recording elements being enabled after others so that some of the benefits of center pulsewidth modulation (CPWM) are provided without the disadvantages of CPWM of pulsewidths being at least two exposure clock periods apart.