G06K 15/18
Conditioning data for presenting it to the physical printing elements
Official title: {Conditioning data for presenting it to the physical printing elements (for data conditioning specific to a type of printer see subgroups G06K15/028 - G06K15/14; print job translation or parsing G06F3/1244)}
G06K15/18 (Conditioning data for presenting it to the physical printing elements) appears on 4,615 US grants and 5,123 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 15/1801Input data handling means2,404
- G06K 15/1867Post-processing of the composed and rasterized print image1,491
- G06K 15/1848Generation of the printable image1,361
- G06K 15/1835Transforming generic data465
- G06K 15/1827Accessing generic data199
- G06K 15/1894Outputting the image data to the printing elements166
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for preventing disclosure through user-authentication at a printing node401US 5,633,932 AIntel Corporation · 1997
- Cost metrics348US 5,337,258 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1994
- Method and apparatus for reducing storage requirements for display data260US 5,638,498 AAdobe Systems Incorporated · 1997
- Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data prior to display204US 5,991,515 AAdobe Systems Incorporated · 1999
- Piece-wise print image enhancement for dot matrix printers163US 4,847,641 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1989