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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Paul L. Jacobs, Webster, NY (US);

W. Bradford Willard, Fairport, NY (US);

Brian R. Conrow, Webster, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul L. Jacobs, Webster, NY (US);

W. Bradford Willard, Fairport, NY (US);

Brian R. Conrow, Webster, NY (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01); B41J 2/47 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Line width of images marked by an image marking device is adjusted by reading a calibration patch marked by the marking device, and then adjusting one or more settings of the marking device, such as exposure intensity or cleaning field intensity, independent of the digital control of the tone reproduction curve so that the line width of subsequently marked images becomes closer to a target value. A digital control may be implemented to compensate for the impact of the modification of the one or more settings on the tone reproduction curve.


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