All The Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:
a crystallization apparatus for crystallizing a semiconductor layer, the crystallization apparatus having:
a roller;
at least one heat emission part that is provided at an outer surface of the roller and is configured to receive external electric power so as to emit heat, each heat emission part being sized to correspond to the semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor;

an electrical network arranged in a cylindrical configuration, the electrical network including a first power line and a second power line connected to a separate power source from the first power line to provide the external electric power to the heat emission part.
2. An apparatus comprising:
a crystallization apparatus for crystallizing a semiconductor layer, the crystallization apparatus having:
at least one heat emission part configured to emit heat;

an electrical network arranged in a cylindrical configuration, the electrical network including a first power line and a second power line connected to a separate power source from the first power line;
a support part that supports the heat emission part; and
a roller that receives the heat emission part and comprises at least one opening that is aligned with the heat emission part and that is sized to correspond to the semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor,

wherein the heat emission part is connected between the first power line and the second power line to receive power from the first power line and the second power line.
3. The crystallization apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first power line and the second power line are disposed on an outer surface of the support part.
4. The crystallization apparatus of claim 3, wherein the heat emission part comprises a protruding tip comprising two ends that are connected to the first power line and the second power line, respectively.
5. The crystallization apparatus of claim 4, wherein the protruding tip is aligned with the opening to emit heat through the opening.
6. The crystallization apparatus of claim 4, wherein the heat emission part comprises one of tungsten, nickel-chrome, and platinum.
7. The crystallization apparatus of claim 2, wherein the heat emission part comprises a lamp and the lamp is configured to receive electric power from the first power line and the second power line so as to emit a pulsed laser beam.
8. The crystallization apparatus of claim 7, wherein the heat emission part protrudes from the outer surface of the roller and is shaped into a circle, an ellipse or a polygon.
9. The crystallization apparatus of claim 8, wherein the heat emission part comprises one of tungsten, nickel-chrome, and platinum.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method to manage at least one RIPped image having control andor identification information during job workflow before printing comprising:
receiving at least one RIPped image that can be reproduced by a printing engine, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises an image and data indicating at least one of location, shape, and orientation of objects or components;
displaying a print server interface with individual panes showing active, paused, and completed print jobs, wherein the pane showing the active print jobs comprises the received at least one RIPped image;
determining if a user through a keyboard or user interface, or by receiving an indication from the print server interface has selected a RIPped image for modification;
displaying a modification processing user interface with menus to facilitate user changes to the selected RIPped image;
sensing the user changes to the control andor identification information in the selected RIPped image;
performing modification processing based on the user changes to the selected RIPped image by:
decomposing with a segmenter the selected RIPped image into individual pages that are then segmented into the components or the objects to extract information contained therein;
processing coded symbology and then erasing the processed coded symbology;
processing modification of the control andor identification information in the selected RIPped image and then for each page of the selected RIPped image extracting the control andor identification information from the selected RIPped image to alter the segments or objects based on the sensed user changes;
forming an output bitmap image after modification of the selected RIPped image;
wherein the modification comprises adding a security feature, adding tracking information, and voiding an active print job.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the modification is selected from a group comprising of deleting extracted information, deleting extracted information and adding additional information, adding additional information, andor embedding a control instruction in the selected RIPped image.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the output bitmap image has a format compatible with one of Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Windows Bitmap (BMP), Exchangeable image file format (EXIF), Windows Media Photo (WMP), raw image format (RAW).
4. The method of claim 2, wherein adding additional information is selected from a group comprising of operator identification (ID) information, printer identification (ID) information, time stamp information, watermark, tracking information, security feature andor data specific to a user’s application.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises at least one of a barcode, a glyph, text, and an image.
6. A print server for implementation by at least one machine for processing a job workflow, the print workflow server comprising:
a processor to receive at least one RIPped image that can be reproduced by a printing engine and to execute instructions for processing the job workflow and to sense whether a modification of the at least one RIPped image has been selected, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises at least one image and data indicating at least one of location, shape, and orientation of objects or components; and
an interface to connect to the print workflow server so as to receive a modification print instruction;
wherein the processor when coupled to a storage device with instructions operative on the processor to manage the at least one RIPped image by:
causing to be display a print server interface with individual panes showing active, paused, and completed print jobs, wherein the pane showing the active print jobs comprises the received at least one RIPped image;
determining if a user through a keyboard or user interface, or by receiving an indication from the print server interface has selected a RIPped image for modification;
performing modification processing on the selected RIPped image by:
causing to be display of a user interface with menus to facilitate user changes to the selected RIPped image;
receiving the user changes that when processed causes the processor to extract information from the selected RIPped image and to modify the selected RIPped image;
wherein the processor executes instructions for processing some coded symbology on the selected RIPped image and then erasing the processed coded symbology;
in response to the user changes decomposing the selected RIPped image into individual pages that are then segmented into components or objects to extract information contained therein;
in response to the user changes for each page extracting control andor identification information from the selected RIPped image and performing modification of the segments or objects;
in response to the modification of the segments or objects forming an output bitmap image of the selected RIPped image.
7. The print server of claim 6, the executed instructions causing the processor to facilitate printing of a document when receiving a print command for printing from a user by:
receiving a print command for printing the document;
displaying a print user interface with selectable settings and selectable modification settings that form part of the modification print instructions;
receiving an indication from the user of selected settings and modification settings; and
controlling the at least one machine using the selected settings and modification settings.
8. The print server of claim 7, wherein a modification setting is selected from a group comprising of deleting extracted information, deleting extracted information and adding additional information, adding additional information, embedding a control instruction in the selected RIPped image.
9. The print server of claim 8, wherein the output bitmap image has a format compatible with one of Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Windows Bitmap (BMP), Exchangeable image file format (EXIF), Windows Media Photo (WMP), raw image format (RAW).
10. The print server of claim 8, wherein adding additional information is selected from a group comprising of operator identification (ID) information, printer identification (ID) information, time stamp information, watermark, tracking information, security feature, andor data specific to a user’s application.
11. The print server of claim 8, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises at least one of a barcode, a glyph, text, and an image.
12. An apparatus for controlling print processing of a document having at least one RIPped image, comprising:
a processor; and
a storage device coupled to the processor, wherein the storage device contains instructions operative on the processor for:
receiving at least one RIPped image that can be reproduced by a printing engine, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises at least one image and data indicating at least one of location, shape, and orientation of objects or components;
displaying a print server interface with individual panes showing active, paused, and completed print jobs, wherein the pane showing the active print jobs comprises the received at least one RIPped image;
determining if a user through a keyboard or user interface, or by receiving an indication from the print server interface has selected a RIPped image for modification;
performing modification processing on the selected RIPped image by:
displaying a print user interface having menus to facilitate at least one selectable change to the selected RIPped image;
sensing selection of the at least one selectable change;
extracting information from the selected RIPped image if it is sensed that a selection of the at least one selectable change has been made, wherein the extracting is decomposing the selected RIPped image into individual pages that are then segmented into components or objects to extract information contained therein; and
applying the at least one selectable change to the document;
processing some coded symbology on the selected RIPped image and then erasing the processed coded symbology;
forming an output bitmap image after modification of the selected RIPped image.
13. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:
wherein the modification is selected from a group comprising of deleting extracted information, deleting extracted information and adding additional information, adding additional information, embedding a control instruction in the selected RIPped image;
wherein the output bitmap image has a format compatible with one of Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Windows Bitmap (BMP), Exchangeable image file format (EXIF), Windows Media Photo (WMP), raw image format (RAW).
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein adding additional information is selected from a group comprising of operator identification (ID) information, printer identification (ID) information, time stamp information, watermark, tracking information, security feature.
15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises at least one of a barcode, a glyph, text, and an image.
16. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:
processing coded symbology and then erasing the processed coded symbology;
wherein the modification is selected from a group comprising of deleting extracted information, deleting extracted information and adding additional information, adding additional information, embedding a control instruction in the at least one RIPped image;
wherein the output bitmap image has a format compatible with one of Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Windows Bitmap (BMP), Exchangeable image file format (EXIF), Windows Media Photo (WMP), raw image format (RAW).

1-9. (canceled)
10. A lamp driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display device, comprising:
a plurality of lamps;
a polarity signal generator generating a polarity signal;
an inverter generating a first drive signal;
an inverter controller driving the inverter and generating a first dimming signal, the polarity of the first dimming signal being determined by the polarity signal;
a first level shifter generating a second dimming signal by shifting a voltage level of the first dimming signal;
a dead time tuning part generating a second drive signal by delaying a dead time of the first drive signal;
a plurality of logical sum gate parts, each of the plurality of logical sum gate parts generating a third drive signal by performing a logical sum of the second dimming signal and the second drive signal;
a level shifter part generating a fourth drive signal by shifting a voltage level of the third drive signal;
a plurality of switch device parts, each of the plurality of switch device parts receiving a high potential supply voltage and a low potential supply voltage and selectively outputting one of the high potential supply voltage and the low potential supply voltage in response to the fourth drive signal; and
a plurality of transformers, each of the plurality of transformers transforming the selectively outputted voltage of the switch device parts and supplying the transformed voltage to the lamps.
11. The lamp driving apparatus according to claim 10, wherein each of the logical sum gate parts includes a plurality of logical sum gates to logically sum the second drive signal and the second dimming signal.
12. The lamp driving apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the level shifter part includes a plurality of level shifters which correspond to the switch device parts, respectively.
13. The lamp driving apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the level shifters correspond to the logical sum gate parts, respectively.
14. (canceled)
15. (canceled)
16-18. (canceled)
19. A method of driving a lamp of a liquid crystal display device, comprising the steps of:
generating a polarity signal;
generating a first drive signal in response to the polarity signal;
generating a first dimming signal, the polarity of the first dimming signal being determined by the polarity signal;
generating a second dimming signal by shifting a voltage level of the first dimming signal;
generating a second drive signal by delaying a dead time of the first drive signal;
generating a third drive signal by logically summing the second dimming signal and the second drive signal;
generating a fourth drive signal by shifting a voltage level of the third drive signal;
selectively outputting one of a high potential supply voltage and a low potential supply voltage in response to the third drive signal;
transforming the selectively outputted voltage; and
supplying the transformed voltage to a lamp.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of generating the second dimming signal includes increasing a voltage level of the first dimming signal.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the step of generating the fourth drive signal includes increasing a voltage level of the third drive signal.
22-24. (canceled)

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A bellows comprising:
a generally tubular elongated bellows body defined by a flexible wall generally enclosing a volume, the flexible wall having a first end and a second end with a midportion extending therebetween, the body having a cross sectional shape and a cross sectional dimension, the wall having an axial stiffness and an axial linear mass density;
wherein the cross sectional shape and dimension are generally constant between the first and second ends; and
wherein the axial stiffness andor axial linear mass density decreases generally monotonically from the first end, through the midportion and to the second end.
2. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the flexible wall has a thickness, the thickness decreasing generally monotonically such that the axial stiffness varies generally monotonically.
3. The bellows of claim 2, wherein the wall thickness decreases generally continuously between the first and second ends.
4. The bellows of claim 3, wherein the flexible wall has a plurality of corrugations disposed between the ends of the body, the corrugations being generally perpendicular to an axis of the body, each corrugation having substantially the same height.
5. The bellows of claim 3, wherein the bellows body has an inner and outer surface, at least one of the surfaces being tapered such that the distance between the inner and outer surfaces varies between the ends of the body.
6. The bellows of claim 5, wherein the bellows body comprises alternating layers of low compliance material and high compliance material.
7. The bellows of claim 6, wherein the high compliance material is an elastomeric material and the low compliance material is a metal, the metal layers taking the form of generally parallel metal hoops.
8. The bellows of claim 3, wherein the wall thickness decreases as x13, wherein x is the distance from one of the ends.
9. The bellows of claim 2, wherein the wall thickness at one end of the body is approximately half the wall thickness at the other end of the body.
10. The bellows of claim 2, wherein the flexible wall is defined by a spiral of low compliance material with gaps between the loops of the spiral filled with a high compliance material.
11. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the wall thickness varies stepwise between the first and second ends.
12. The bellows of claim 11, wherein the wall thickness varies stepwise and the bellows has at least a first section, a second section, and a third section joined together longitudinally, the first section having a first generally constant wall thickness, the second section having a second generally constant wall thickness, the third section having a third generally constant wall thickness, the thickness of each of the sections being different.
13. The bellows of claim 11, wherein the bellows body comprises alternating layers of low compliance material and high compliance material.
14. The bellows of claim 13, wherein the high compliance material is an elastomeric material and the low compliance material is a metal, the metal layers taking the form of generally parallel metal hoops.
15. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the flexible wall has a plurality of corrugations spaced apart between the ends of the body, the corrugations being generally perpendicular to an axis of the body, each corrugation having substantially the same height.
16. The bellows of claim 15, wherein the spacing between the corrugations varies generally monotonically between the first and second ends of the body such that the axial stiffness of the body decreases generally monotonically between the first and second ends.
17. The bellows of claim 1, wherein at least one of the inner and outer surfaces of the bellows body is tapered such that the distance between the inner and outer surfaces varies between the ends of the body.
18. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the bellows body comprises alternating layers of low compliance material and high compliance material, each layer having a height, the height of the high compliance material layers varying generally monotonically between the first and second ends of the body such that the axial stiffness of the body decreases generally monotonically between the first and second ends.
19. The bellows of claim 18, wherein the height of the low compliance layers varies generally monotonically between the first and second ends of the body.
20. The bellows of claim 18, wherein the height of each of the low compliance layers is substantially the same.
21. The bellows of claim 18, wherein the high compliance material is an elastomeric material and the low compliance material is a metal, the metal layers taking the form of generally parallel metal hoops.
22. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the flexible wall is defined by a spiral of low compliance material with gaps between the loops of the spiral filled with a high compliance material.
23. The bellows of claim 22, wherein the gaps between the loops of the spiral each have a height, the height of the gaps varying generally monotonically between the first and second ends of the body such that the axial stiffness of the body decreases generally monotonically between the first and second ends.
24. The bellows of claim 22, wherein the high compliance material is an elastomeric material and the low compliance material is a metal.
25. The bellows according to claim 1, wherein the first end is a fixed end and the second end is a movable end, the stiffness andor linear mass density decreasing between the first end and the second end.
26. The bellows of claim 25, wherein the decrease in stiffness andor linear mass density is generally linear.
27. The bellows of claim 1, further comprising a collar interconnected with one of the ends.
28. The bellows of claim 27, further comprising a second collar interconnected with the other of the ends.
29. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the cross sectional shape of the bellows body is generally circular.
30. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the axial stiffness decreases generally linearly.
31. A bellows comprising:
a generally tubular elongated bellows body defined by a flexible wall generally enclosing a volume, the flexible wall extending between and terminating at a first end and a second end, the body having a cross sectional shape and a cross sectional dimension, the wall having an axial stiffness and an axial linear mass density;
wherein the cross sectional shape and dimension are generally constant between the first and second ends; and
wherein the axial stiffness andor axial linear mass density decreases generally monotonically from the first end to the second end.
32. The bellows of claim 31, wherein the bellows has at least a first and a second section joined together longitudinally so as to define the bellows body, the first section having a first generally constant wall thickness, the second section having a second generally constant wall thickness, the first thickness being different than the second thickness.
33. The bellows of claim 32, wherein the bellows is metal, the first and second sections being joined by a welded joint.
34. The bellows of claim 33, wherein each of the sections is corrugated, each corrugation having a flat portion between the crest and root, the welded joint being disposed on one of the flat portions.
35. The bellows of claim 31, wherein the bellows body comprises alternating layers of low compliance material and high compliance material, the bellows having at least a first and a second section joined together longitudinally so as to define the bellows body, the high compliance layers in the first section having a first compliance, the high compliance layers in the second section having a second compliance, the first compliance being different than the second compliance.
36. The bellows of claim 1, wherein the bellows has at least a first section, a second section, and a third section joined together longitudinally, the high compliance layers in the first section having a first compliance, the high compliance layers in the second section having a second compliance, the high compliance layers in the third section having a third compliance, the compliances of each of the sections being different.