Yichun D Zhang, 59312 Dartmouth Rd, Chester Springs, PA 19425

7581894, Sep 1, 2009

Dec 29, 2006

11/648101

Vishnu Sharma - Bhubaneshwar, IN
Elaheh Zamanian - Trumbull CT, US
Dale A. French - Clinton CT, US
Patrick Rolling - Southington CT, US
Yichun Zhang - Webster NY, US
Vinod B. Nethala - Shelton CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

B41J 5/30
G06F 3/12

400 62, 400 61, 705401, 705408, 356 11, 356 114, 356 115

A system and method for processing mailpiece content material in a mailpiece inserter including a printer integrated with the mailpiece creation system. The integrated printer receives print stream data from a software application and prints the mailpiece content material based upon command signals from a system controller. The system further includes at least one device disposed downstream of the printer for issuing a signal indicative of the rate that content material is processed by the inserter. The system controller monitors the throughput rate of the at least one downstream device and issues a command signal indicative thereof. The system and method of the present invention employs a page-based language monitor to throttle the print stream data received by the printer to vary the printing rate of mailpiece content material. Accordingly, the system and method drives the rate of printing to closely match the throughput rate that mailpiece content material is processed/generated by the inserter by the at least one downstream device. Consequently, the throughput of the mailpiece inserter is optimized.

7773249, Aug 10, 2010

May 2, 2005

11/119690

Paul A. Kovlakas - Milford CT, US
Jeffrey P. Rios - Easton CT, US
Yichun Zhang - Webster NY, US
Brian A. Lemm - Monroe CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06K 15/00
G06F 3/12

358 116, 358 114, 358 118

A method and system for recovering addresses in an address printing system is provided. A resume marker is set at the current location in the print buffer, used to buffer the addresses for printing, from which the next address will be read for printing. The address in the buffer location preceding the location where the resume marker is set is reprinted. The user can compare the reprinted address to the mail pieces already processed to determine if it is a duplicate. If not a duplicate, the address in the next preceding location can be reprinted. This processing continues until a duplicate address is printed, indicating that the address printing system properly printed all of the previous addresses in the address list up to the point of the duplicate. The print job will then automatically continue from the location where the resume marker was set.

7965404, Jun 21, 2011

Dec 29, 2006

11/647692

Vishnu Sharma - Bhubaneshwar, IN
Elaheh Zamanian - Trumbull CT, US
Dale A. French - Branford CT, US
Patrick Rolling - Southington CT, US
Yichun Zhang - Webster NY, US
Vinod B. Nethala - Shelton CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06F 3/12
G06K 9/00

358 115, 382101, 382105

A method is provided for printing and regenerating mailpiece content material in a mailpiece creation system having a controller for modulating the flow of data a printing device. The method comprising the steps of producing an electronic version of the mailpiece content material and generating print stream data indicative of the mailpiece content material. The print stream is then segmented into data sets/packets indicative of a self-contained pages of mailpiece content material. The data packets each include page-based data and an object-data dictionary associated with the page-based data. The data packets are then stored as electronic files in an electronic buffer and, from the electronic buffer, transmitted during a first data transmission to the integrated printer. After the pages are printed, the electronic files of self-contained pages are moved from the electronic buffer to a storage device. Should any pages be identified as having been unsuccessfully printed, the system controller issues a command signal to regenerate the unsuccessfully processed pages in a second data transmission.

8040539, Oct 18, 2011

May 1, 2007

11/799418

Elaheh E. Zamanian - Trumbull CT, US
Yichun Zhang - Webster NY, US
Vinod B. Nethala - Shelton CT, US
Vishnu Sharma - Bhubaneshwar, IN

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06F 15/00
G06F 19/00

358 113, 700221

A method and system for processing data indicative of pages of mailpiece content material, and for printing pages “on demand” for use in a mailpiece inserter. The method comprises the steps of: (i) transmitting data from the application software to a print processor along read and write paths and (ii) activating one of the write and read such that when one path is activated the other path is inactivated. The data is then rendered into a print control language (PCL) compatible with a printer integrated with the mailpiece inserter and printed for use therein. The method and system mitigates printing errors by eliminating synchronous access to the same data location within the spool file, i. e. , by the application software/spooler along the write path and the print processor along the read path.

2003009, May 22, 2003

Nov 21, 2001

09/990096

Jinhong Guo - W. Windsor NJ, US
Yichun Zhang - Webster NY, US

B41J001/00
G06F015/00
H04N001/40

358/001900, 358/003020

A method for binarizing an image that includes initializing, for each column of the image, a first set of variables representing a local column low pixel value and a local column high pixel value, and, for each row of the image, a second set of variables representing a local row low pixel value and a local row high pixel value. The following steps are iterated for each pixel: determining a threshold value dependent upon the first and second sets of variables at the current pixel location, comparing a value representative of an image pixel at the current pixel location with the determined threshold value, and setting a binarization pixel for the current pixel location to one of two values, dependent upon results of the comparison, and adjusting values included in the first set of variables and the second set of variables dependent upon the results of the comparison.

2006026, Nov 30, 2006

May 24, 2005

11/136142

Yichun Zhang - Webster NY, US
Patrick Rolling - Southington CT, US
Paul Sette - Branford CT, US
Richard Sloan - Southbury CT, US

B41J 3/42
B41J 3/54
B41J 29/393

400071000, 400082000

A printing system has fixed print heads in positions that are subject to adjustment between print jobs. The system provides a print preview display that includes a representation of the item of printing stock on which the printing is to be performed. The print preview display also includes a first printing field that is at a location in the representation that corresponds to the position of a first one of the print heads. The print preview display further includes a second printing field that is at a location in the representation that corresponds to the position of a second one of the print heads.