Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for conveying print device status information using a light indicator feedback mechanism
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Application No.: US15186657Application Date: 2016-06-20
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Publication No.: US10073664B2Publication Date: 2018-09-11
- Inventor: Stephen F. Skrainar , Andrew T. Martin , Donald A. Brown , Keith L. Willis , Ken Hayward , Brandon S. McComber , Shinichi Maekawa , Mitsuharu Ito , Shinya Kogoh , Masaaki Takenouchi
- Applicant: Xerox Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CT Norwalk
- Assignee: Xerox Corporation
- Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Norwalk
- Agency: Fox Rothschild LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12 ; H04N1/00

Abstract:
A system for providing print device dynamic status indicator feedback includes a print device, and a status indicator feedback unit. The print device includes a print engine and one or more status monitors. The status indicator feedback unit includes a display device, a light emitting module, a processor in communication with the light emitting module, and a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions. The system may receive information corresponding to one or more current machine states of the print device from the one or more status monitors of the print device, determine a priority level associated with each of the one or more current machine states, identify a machine state associated with a highest priority level, identify a dynamic feedback pattern associated with the identified machine state. The dynamic feedback pattern includes a visual pattern. The system may and instruct the light emitting module to emit the visual pattern.
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