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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2014
Kodak Alaris Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Bruce Link, Rochester, NY (US);
Kodak Alaris Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of indicating a medium jam along a medium transport path; a plurality of microphones for detecting the sound of the medium being transported as it enters medium transport path and producing a signal representing the sound; a plurality of microphones for detecting the sound of the medium being transported in the medium transport path and producing a signal representing the sound in the medium transport; a plurality of microphones for detecting the sound of the medium being existing the medium transport path and producing a signal representing the sound of the medium existing the medium transport; a processor for producing sound values from the signal and computing the maximum sound responsive to the sound values per each microphone, and indicating the medium jam responsive to the sound values.