FUJI XEROX CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142573 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image reading device includes: a transport path; a reading member that reads an image of a document at a reading position on the transport path, and that includes a light source movable with respect to the reading position in a sub scanning direction which extends along a document transport direction and being capable of reading at positions in the vertical scanning direction; a reflecting member that has a reflecting surface that faces the reading member; a movement controller that controls the reading member so as to move the light source with respect to the reading position before the document is transported to the reading position when the reading member reads the image; a dust determination unit that determines presence of dust; and an announcement member that announces presence of dust to a user when dust is present. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142572 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a sheet accommodating portion that is attachable to and removable from an apparatus body and that is capable of accommodating a sheet therein; a detecting part that detects the presence/absence of a sheet in the sheet accommodating portion; a fixing part that fixes the status of detection by the detecting part to a sheet absent state when the sheet accommodating portion is not attached to the apparatus body; an informing part that informs a user of the status of the apparatus; and a control part that causes the informing part to inform the user of the possibility of a sheet left in the apparatus when the status of detection by the detecting part changes from a sheet present state to the sheet absent state during standby when printing is not performed. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142570 | RECORDING-MEDIUM TRANSPORTING AND READING APPARATUS - A recording-medium transporting and reading apparatus includes a reading member that has a reading portion for reading an image; a first transport-path forming member that faces the reading member and has a first surface which forms a transport path portion for a recording medium together with the reading member; a second transport-path forming member that forms transport path portions on the same side as the first transport-path forming member and has a second surface and a third surface which form the transport path portions on the upstream side and downstream side, respectively, of the first transport-path forming member in the recording-medium transport direction; an urging member that urges the first transport-path forming member toward the reading member; and a restricting portion that restricts the movement of the first transport-path forming member so that a predetermined distance is maintained between the reading member and the first transport-path forming member. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142561 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a reader that reads an image of a document by using plural light receiving elements arranged in a first scanning direction; a moving unit that moves the reader in a second scanning direction to move a reading position at which the reader reads the document; and an adjusting unit that moves the reader in the first scanning direction to adjust a position of the reader in the first scanning direction. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142406 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an authenticating section, a detecting section, and a processor. The authenticating section authenticates a user. When the authenticating section has authenticated a first user, the detecting section detects a second user in the vicinity of the information processing apparatus. The second user is different from the first user. When the detecting section detects the second user, the processor performs a predetermined process. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139860 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes: a master controller that generates a packet; and plural slave controllers that accept the packet generated by the master controller, wherein the plural slave controllers are serially connected via a serial communication line, a first slave controller of the plural slave controllers is connected to the master controller via the serial communication line, and each of the plural slave controllers, upon obtaining the packet generated by the master controller, converts a part of the packet from a serial signal into a parallel signal, and if the packet is not addressed to the slave controller itself, discards the packet or transfers the packet to a later-stage slave controller connected via the serial communication line. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139530 | CONDUCTING BRUSH AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A conducting brush includes a substantially cylindrical insulating film base; and a conducting fiber adhering to an outer peripheral surface of the insulating film base through a conducting adhesive or a conducting adhesive medium. An outer peripheral portion where the conducting fiber adheres and at least a portion of an inner peripheral portion of the insulating film base have electrical continuity through the conducting adhesive or the conducting adhesive medium. | 05-19-2016 |
20160137848 | SILICA COMPOSITE PARTICLES AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - Silica composite particles in which a silica particle surface is sequentially surface-treated with a titanium compound in which an organic group is bonded to a titanium atom through an oxygen atom, and a hydrophobizing agent are provided, in which a titanium content in the silica composite particles measured using fluorescence X-ray is from 0.001% by weight to 10% by weight; a titanium content of a surface layer of the silica composite particles satisfies the following Formula (1); an average particle diameter of the silica composite particles is from 30 nm to 500 nm; and a particle size distribution index of the silica composite particles is from 1.1 to 1.5: | 05-19-2016 |
20160134839 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for synchronous display of a document for use at a conference on multiple terminals connected via a network and for transmission and reception of media data including at least one of audio data and video data. The process includes, in accordance with whether or not each of multiple users has a right to access a document selected by a first user on a first terminal, controlling content for display on multiple terminals used by the multiple users, and controlling transmission and reception of the media data between the first terminal and each of the multiple terminals. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134670 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for displaying parts of display screens in synchronization across multiple terminals connected via a network. The process includes receiving connection requests from the terminals, granting to one of the terminals having transmitted the connection request an operation right to operate on materials that are displayed in synchronization, and notifying the terminals, other than the terminal that has been granted the operation right from among the terminals having transmitted the connection requests, of material information of the materials displayed on the terminal and operation information indicating contents of an operation performed on the materials. | 05-12-2016 |
20160130101 | TRANSPORT DEVICE AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM - Provided is a transport device including plural rollers that are provided on a transporting path on which a sheet is transported in a transport direction and is subjected to a process at a process position, and transport the sheet which comes into contact with surfaces of the rollers in the transport direction by rotation of the rollers, among the plural rollers, first rollers that are provided closest to the process position, among the plural rollers, second rollers that are provided closest to the first rollers on an opposite side with respect to the process position, and a driving unit that drives the first rollers and the second rollers to rotate so that a speed of a surface of the first roller is faster than a speed of a surface of the second roller at least while the sheet passes through the process position. | 05-12-2016 |
20160130097 | PAPER FEED DEVICE - A paper feed device includes: a tray that holds at least one recording medium; a wall that has a portion in contact with a leading end, in a transport direction, of the recording medium on the tray and is disposed so as to intersect the transport direction; and a transport member that is disposed on the downstream side, in the transport direction, of the wall and transports the recording medium. The wall has an opening/closing member that is capable of being opened and closed to form an opening through which the transport member is extracted toward the tray. | 05-12-2016 |
20160127587 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that is arranged so as to extend in one direction and that moves in a crossing direction, which crosses the one direction, to read an image of a document; a unit support that is arranged so as to extend in the crossing direction and that supports the reading unit that moves; and an end support that supports an end portion of the reading unit in a longitudinal direction, the reading unit trying to rotate around the unit support such that the end portion moves downward. | 05-05-2016 |
20160122145 | SHEET TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet transport device includes first to third rotating members, a sheet position detector, and a controller. The first member transports a sheet at a first speed. The second member transports the sheet at a second speed that is lower than the first speed. The third member in a stopped state receives the sheet and subsequently resumes transporting to perform positional correction thereon. The detector detects positions of leading and trailing edges of the sheet. The controller performs control such that, when a preset time elapses after the detector detects that the leading edge has reached the third member, the third member is caused to resume transporting at the second speed, and when the detector detects that the leading edge has passed the second member, the third member is increased in speed from the second speed to the first speed. | 05-05-2016 |
20160118773 | SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a surface-emitting semiconductor laser device including a substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, the semiconductor layer including a first semiconductor multilayer film of a first conductivity type, an active region, and a second semiconductor multilayer film of a second conductivity type, the first semiconductor multilayer film and the second semiconductor multilayer film forming a cavity; and an oxidation-resistant structure including a groove formed along at least a portion of an outer periphery of the semiconductor layer and an oxidation-resistant portion formed on a surface of the groove. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117178 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display control device includes a first memory, an operation-display unit, and a display controller. The first memory stores data of a normal screen and data of a simple screen. The normal screen is a screen that displays functions related to a service process provided to a user, whereas the simple screen is a screen that displays a smaller number of functions than the normal screen. The operation-display unit displays one of the normal screen and the simple screen to the user and accepts a setting operation performed by the user on a function among the displayed functions. The display controller controls the operation-display unit so that an indication recommending the user to use the simple screen is displayed in a case where every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the simple screen. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORYCOMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data, and a transmitting unit that, if a first destination specified as a destination of the image data by a user is not safe, transmits the image data to a second destination different from the first destination, and transmits information indicating the second destination to the first destination. | 04-28-2016 |
20160116863 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body, a developing device, a transfer device, a collection device, a container, and a transport member. The image holding body includes a surface on which a latent image is formed. The developing device develops the latent image into a visual image with developer. The transfer device transfers the visual image onto a transfer medium. The collection device collects the developer remaining on the surface of the image holding body after the visual image has been transferred. The container contains new developer supplied to the developing device. The image forming apparatus has a channel that has a first sub-channel and a second sub-channel. The developer flows into the first sub-channel from one of the collection device and the container and the second sub-channel from the other of the collection device and the container. | 04-28-2016 |
20160116377 | FAILURE PREDICTION APPARATUS AND FAILURE PREDICTION SYSTEM - A failure prediction apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, from plural apparatuses to be monitored, state feature amount groups, a classification unit that classifies the plural apparatuses to be monitored for each degree of separation between a reference space which is defined by the plural state feature amount groups acquired by the acquisition unit and the state feature amount group of each of the plural apparatuses to be monitored, and a calculation unit that specifies a class which is classified by the classification unit and corresponds to the degree of separation between the reference space and the state feature amount group of an apparatus to be monitored and subjected to a failure prediction process among the plural apparatuses to be monitored, and calculates a probability of a failure occurring in the apparatus to be monitored and subjected to the failure prediction process. | 04-28-2016 |
20160112592 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording medium and a controller that switches an operation state of the image forming portion between a first power mode in which the image forming portion operates normally and a second power mode in which the image forming portion operates with lower power consumption than when the image forming portion operates in the first power mode. The controller changes, depending on a type of a control performed by a user on the apparatus, a transition period after which the operation state is switched from the first power mode to the second power mode. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112588 | MAINTENANCE NECESSITY ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is a maintenance necessity estimation apparatus including a storage unit that stores in advance an estimation model and estimates first necessity information indicating a degree of necessity of a maintenance work with respect to the drive member in accordance with the output information, an acquisition section that acquires a second transit time and second feature information of an image processing apparatus which is an estimation target of second necessity information, and an estimation section that estimates necessity information of the image processing apparatus which is the estimation target using, as input information, a value corresponding to the second transit time and the second feature information acquired by the acquisition unit, using the estimation model stored in the storage unit. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110381 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA-BASED PROFILING OF ENTITY LOCATION BY ASSOCIATING ENTITIES AND VENUES WITH GEO-TAGGED SHORT ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method includes: obtaining from a first social media source a new short unstructured electronic message with an associated geographic location and message content; identifying a first venue name and a first visit characteristic from the message content; accessing a database of venues, wherein the database includes for respective venues a venue name, a geographic location and one or more venue characteristics, wherein information in the database reflects information associated with the respective venues extracted from a plurality of social media posts, including a plurality of prior short unstructured electronic messages from the first social media source; determining whether the database includes a candidate venue that has a venue name and geographic location that respectively are substantially similar to the first venue name and the associated geographic location; when the candidate venue exists in the database, associating the new short unstructured electronic message with the candidate venue and perform updates. | 04-21-2016 |
20160100064 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes an association unit and a transmission controller. The association unit associates an image among one or more images with at least one piece of transmission information among one or more pieces of transmission information on a display in accordance with a user operation. The one or more pieces of transmission information are information on the one or more images and each include a transmission method and a transmission destination. The transmission controller causes transmission of the image in accordance with the at least one piece of transmission information associated with the image. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099549 | SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A surface-emitting semiconductor laser device includes a substrate and a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate. The semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor multilayer film of a first conductivity type, a first spacer layer, an active layer, a second spacer layer, and a second semiconductor multilayer film of a second conductivity type. The first semiconductor multilayer film and the second semiconductor multilayer film form a cavity. A peak of a pattern of a standing wave formed by the cavity and the center of the active layer are located at different positions. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099176 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor chip includes forming a front-side groove in a front surface of a substrate; forming a back-side groove wider than the front-side groove by a rotating cutting member from the back surface of the substrate toward the front-side groove; attaching a holding member having an adhesive layer to the back surface of the substrate after forming the back-side groove; dry-washing the back surface before attaching the holding member to the back surface; extending the distance between adjacent semiconductor chips by expanding the holding member attached to the back surface; and separating the semiconductor chips at the extended distance therebetween from the holding member. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098617 | IMAGE EVALUATION DEVICE AND IMAGE EVALUATION SYSTEM - Provided is an image evaluation device including an acquisition unit that acquires an image including plural patterns having different spatial frequencies and contrasts, and an output unit that compares each of plural patterns included in the image acquired by the acquisition unit with each of plural ideal patterns corresponding to the plural patterns, calculates similarities therebetween, and outputs an evaluation value for evaluating performance regarding a resolution of the image based on a sum of the calculated similarities of the plural patterns. | 04-07-2016 |
20160096702 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND PAIR OF PRESSING MEMBERS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a pressing unit and a shifting unit. The pressing unit has a protrusion and presses the protrusion against a fold section of a sheet. The fold section extends in one direction. The shifting unit moves at least one of the protrusion of the pressing unit and the sheet so as to shift a pressing position, at which the fold section is pressed by the protrusion, in the one direction or in a direction opposite to the one direction. | 04-07-2016 |
20160096311 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND PAIR OF ROTATING MEMBERS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a rotating member, a switching unit, and a pressing unit. The rotating member is rotatable and has a facing portion that faces a fold section of a sheet. The rotating member rotates so as to switch the facing portion to another facing portion. Each facing portion is provided with a protrusion. A set position of the protrusion in an axial direction varies from facing portion to facing portion. The switching unit rotates the rotating member so as to switch the facing portion that faces the fold section. The pressing unit presses the protrusion of the facing portion against the fold section. | 04-07-2016 |
20160094747 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A power supply control device includes the following elements. A first sensor detects a human near an information processing apparatus which is in a power-saving state. A second sensor detects a human if a human has been detected by the first sensor. A verifying unit verifies a detection state of a human if a human has been detected by the second sensor. A controller controls supply of power to the information processing apparatus so that the power-saving state will be canceled if the detection state of a human has been verified by the verifying unit. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094623 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a first communication section and a second communication section. The first communication section externally receives information indicating a communication method to be used in communication with a server apparatus, by using a predetermined communication method. The second communication section communicates with the server apparatus by using the communication method indicated by the information that has been received. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092079 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at one corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit, wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories, each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on. | 03-31-2016 |
20160088301 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a quantization unit that further quantizes a quantized first code, and hence generates a second code; an inverse quantization unit that inversely quantizes the second code quantized by the quantization unit, and hence generates a third code; a calculating unit that calculates a difference between the first code and the second code; a first encoding unit that encodes the second code; and a second encoding unit that encodes the difference calculated by the calculating unit. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088193 | OUTPUT PROCESSING SYSTEM, OUTPUT PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An output processing system includes a source device and a destination device. The source device transfers output information created in anticipation of a target output device in an output color space whose components are colors of color material, together with target device property information indicating characteristics of the target output device. The destination device receives the output information and the target device property information transferred from the source device, creates color conversion information from the target device property information and actual device property information indicating characteristics of the destination device itself, and conducts color conversion of the output information. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088186 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a correction unit that corrects a tilt of each partial image data item which is a result of plural sensors reading a medium on which an image of image data is formed so that at least part of a reading region which is read by each of the plural sensors overlaps a reading region of an adjacent sensor, an extraction unit that extracts the image data at a position and in a size at and in which the image data matches the respective partial image data, and a comparison unit that compares partial image data corrected by the correction unit with extracted image data extracted by the extraction unit. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088184 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes plural communication interfaces, a network service executing unit, a type-of-network determining unit, and a communication interface selecting unit. The network service executing unit executes at least one network service. The type-of-network determining unit determines types of communication networks respectively connected to the plural communication interfaces. The communication interface selecting unit selects, in accordance with a type of a communication network used in the at least one network service, a communication interface to be used in the at least one network service from among the plural communication interfaces. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088180 | READING APPARATUS - Provided is a reading apparatus, including a guiding portion that forms a transporting path and guides a sheet in a transporting direction, and has an opening portion communicated with an outside space of the transporting path, a light-emitting portion that emits the light toward the opening portion from the outside space, a reading portion that reads reflected light, the reflected light being emitted by the light-emitting portion, passing through the opening portion, and being at a reading part of the sheet at a reading position of the transporting path, and a shielding portion that is disposed on the light-emitting portion side of the guiding portion, and shields light which directly reaches the guiding portion among the light emitted from the light-emitting portion. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088176 | APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD - An apparatus includes a controller that controls a display to display a setting status of a setting item set for executing a predetermined process, and an accepting unit that accepts a change to the setting status. When the accepting unit accepts the change to the setting status, the controller controls the display to display an item that accepts an indication to reset the changed setting status to the setting status set prior to the change. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088171 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a printing unit, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores communication addresses of image processing apparatuses in a group to which the apparatus belongs. In response to a request for registration in the group from a different image processing apparatus, the processing unit causes the storage unit to store a communication address of the different image processing apparatus, and transmits a registration commission for registering the communication address of the different image processing apparatus in the group to the image processing apparatuses in the group using the communication addresses stored in the storage unit. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088167 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming device includes a selection unit and an acquisition unit. The selection unit selects a bridge device from among multiple other connected image forming devices. The acquisition unit causes the bridge device to access another image forming device other than the bridge device, causes the bridge device to acquire information related to image data being stored in the other image forming device other than the bridge device, and acquires, from the bridge device, image data respectively being stored in the other image forming device other than the bridge device and in the bridge device. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088057 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that performs a process, a controller that performs a control operation to cause the processing unit to perform the process requested by a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a display apparatus that displays process results of the process, and a notification unit that notifies the display apparatus of the process results through communication different from an HTTP response responsive to the HTTP request having requested the process to be performed. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086144 | PRINTING-FEE PAYMENT SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, PRINTING-FEE PAYMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A printing-fee payment system includes a document receiving unit, a transmitting unit, a completion receiving unit, and a payment execution unit. The document receiving unit receives, from a user terminal, a document file and user information of a user who has commanded printing. The transmitting unit transmits, to a public printing system available for public use, print data of the document file and affiliation-site information for identifying an affiliation site with which the user is affiliated. The completion receiving unit receives a printing completion notification transmitted based on the affiliation-site information when the document file is printed using the public printing system. The payment execution unit executes a process for making the affiliation site pay a printing fee for the document file printed using the public printing system when the printing completion notification is received. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an operation estimation unit, a calculation unit, and a control unit. The operation estimation unit estimates an amount of operation from an operation history of an apparatus. The calculation unit calculates a degree of environmental deterioration of an internal environment of the apparatus caused when an update is performed for the apparatus. The control unit sets an inappropriate time frame or an appropriate time frame for the update using the amount of operation and the degree of environmental deterioration. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086063 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming device includes a receiver, a generator, and a controller. The receiver receives, from an external device, print instruction information including print data described in a page description language and a first image generated from the print data by the external device. The generator generates a second image from the print data included in the print instruction information. The controller compares the first image and the second image with each other and causes a display to display misregistration of the first image and the second image as a comparison result. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086062 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives plural pieces of print data described in plural types of page description languages, plural drawing processors that respectively correspond to the plural types of page description languages, extract specific drawing objects from the plural pieces of print data, and convert the specific drawing objects into print image data, and an output unit that compares the print image data that the drawing processors have converted the specific drawing objects into, and outputs comparison results. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085611 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a unit and an output unit. The unit acquires, from an external apparatus, information regarding a malfunction expected to occur in the information processing apparatus and maintenance schedule information regarding scheduled maintenance to be performed, for the malfunction, on the information processing apparatus and stores the information and the maintenance schedule information in a memory. The output unit outputs the maintenance schedule information in a case where an error has occurred in the information processing apparatus and where the error is associated with the malfunction expected to occur, of which information is stored in the memory. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085488 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a first receiving unit that receives authentication information from software that functions as a web client through a first communication path using a first communication protocol; a transmitting unit that, if authentication using the received authentication information is successful, permits communication through the first communication path, and transmits access permission information to the software through the first communication path; a second receiving unit that receives an establishment request for a second communication path using a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, from the software; and an establishing unit that, if the transmitted access permission information is included in the received establishment request, establishes the second communication path to the software. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085487 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing system includes an information receiving unit, a document obtaining unit, an identifying unit, and a processing unit. The information receiving unit receives, from a user terminal, authentication information for obtaining document data, the authentication information being generated in response to registration of the document data on a server, and user identifiable information. The document obtaining unit obtains the document data from the server by using the authentication information. The identifying unit identifies user identification information by using the user identifiable information. The processing unit processes the document data and the user identification information in association with each other. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085186 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a transport module that is capable of being pulled out from an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and in which a transport path along which a recording material, to which a toner image has been transferred, is to be transported is formed and a fixing unit that is provided in the transport module and that includes a fixing member, which fixes the toner image onto the recording material, and a pressure member, which forms a pressing part to which the recording material is to be transported between the fixing member and the pressure member. When the recording material whose length in a transport direction is longer than that of the transport module is present in the transport path, the transport module is pulled out from the apparatus body while the recording material is being nipped by the fixing member and the pressure member. | 03-24-2016 |
20160082712 | LAMINATING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IMAGE RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a laminating apparatus including a peeling unit that peels off a second film from a film material which includes a first film on which an image is formed and the second film coming in close contact with an opposite side to the image of the first film, and a first laminating unit that laminates a base material and the first film from which the second film is peeled off by the peeling unit. | 03-24-2016 |
20160080604 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming device includes a setting unit and an acquiring unit. Among a remaining connected image forming device group, the setting unit sets, for every time frame, an image forming device group excluding an image forming device set as an exclusion target as an image forming device group set as an access target. The acquiring unit accesses the image forming device group set as the access target. The acquiring unit accesses the image forming device group set as the access target corresponding to a time frame during the access so as to acquire image-data-related information stored in the image forming device group set as the access target. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080593 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a display controller that controls, for a piece of processing information stored in a memory and that is not concealed, to display details of the piece of processing information on a display, controls, for a piece of processing information stored in the memory and that is concealed, to not display details of the piece of processing information but to indicate a presence of the piece of processing information on the display, and controls to display details of both concealed and non-concealed pieces of processing information on the display, for a user that has been identified as an administrator. The display controller receives a request to delete a piece of processing information that is stored in the memory and that is selected by the user that has been identified as the administrator, even if the piece of processing information is concealed. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080586 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for image processing. The process includes performing preview display processing on a piece of content of document-image information generated by optically scanning a document by using one reading setting, the preview display processing being performed by using multiple transmission settings that are different from the one reading setting; and generating new image information in a case where one of pieces of content of the document-image information each of which results from the preview display processing performed by using a corresponding one of the multiple transmission settings is selected, the new image information being generated from the document-image information by using one of the transmission settings that corresponds to the selected piece of content. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077921 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM, PRINTER CONTROL SYSTEM, VIRTUAL COMPUTATION METHOD, PRINTER CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIA - A virtual computer system includes a first saving unit that saves at least one or more snapshots each having recorded therein a state of a virtual machine, the state including an application program installed on the virtual machine, the snapshot being saved as a reference snapshot; an applying unit that applies the reference snapshot to the virtual machine when an execution request for the application program is received; and a second saving unit that saves a state of the virtual machine that executes the application program, the state being saved as a snapshot. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077610 | SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A system includes an encoding unit, a mixing unit, an extracting unit, and a decoding unit. The encoding unit encodes information which is different from an operation input into a form of an operation input code for representing an operation input by a user. The mixing unit mixes the operation input code and the encoded information. The extracting unit extracts the encoded information from the mixture of the operation input code and the encoded information. The decoding unit decodes the extracted encoded information. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077484 | DRIVE MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A drive mechanism includes a first transmission mechanism that transmits a driving force of a drive unit to a first rotary member to rotate the first rotary member; a second transmission mechanism including a first drive path along which the second transmission mechanism transmits the driving force to a second rotary member through a first gear train to rotate the second rotary member, and a second drive path along which the second transmission mechanism transmits the driving force to the second rotary member through a second gear train to rotate the second rotary member, the second gear train having a gear ratio that differs from a gear ratio of the first gear train; and a switching mechanism that is operated by the driving force and switches the second transmission mechanism between the first drive path and the second drive path. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077477 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a light source that radiates a laser beam, a converging member that converges the laser beam, and a roller that is positioned so as to be in contact with the converging member and that transports a recording medium, which enters between the roller and the converging member. The converging member includes a lens that converges the laser beam, which is incident on a first surface of the lens, and emits the laser beam from a second surface of the lens and a holding member made of a material that does not transmit the laser beam, the holding member holding the lens. In the cross-sectional view perpendicular to a rotation axis of the roller, a contact surface in which the roller and the converging member are in contact with each other includes at least a portion of a surface of the holding member and the second surface. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077476 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a light source that emits laser light; a condensing member including a lens having a first surface from which the laser light enters and a second surface from which the laser light emerges, the lens condensing the laser light that has entered from the first surface and emitting the laser light from the second surface; and a roller provided in contact with the condensing member and that transports a recording medium advanced into a position between the roller and the condensing member. A portion of the second surface is made of a material that blocks the laser light. In a section perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the roller, a plane of contact between the roller and the condensing member includes at least a part of the portion made of the material that blocks the laser light. | 03-17-2016 |
20160071767 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND CIRCUIT BOARD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor chip includes forming at least a portion of a front-side groove by anisotropic dry etching from a front surface of a substrate along a cutting region; forming a modified region in the substrate along the cutting region by irradiating the inside of the substrate with a laser along the cutting region; and dividing the substrate along the cutting region by applying stress to the substrate. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071733 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR PIECE, CIRCUIT BOARD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR PIECE, AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING ETCHING CONDITION - A method for producing a semiconductor piece includes forming a first groove portion of a front-surface-side groove by anisotropic dry etching from a front surface of a substrate, forming a second groove portion of the front-surface-side groove, the second groove portion being located below and in communication with the first groove portion and having a width wider than a width of the first groove portion, and thinning the substrate from a back surface of the substrate up to the second groove portion. The second groove portion is formed by changing an etching condition of the anisotropic dry etching during the formation of the front-surface-side groove so that the width of the second groove portion is wider than the width of the first groove portion. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071073 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores first data indicating an overview of billing or payment of money regarding a user, and second data indicating a specification of at least a part of the first data; a first generating unit that generates first image information which represents the first data before a request for the first image information being input; and a second generating unit that generates second image information which represents the second data in response to a request for the second image information being input. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071065 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an accepting unit that accepts a meeting material that is a material distributed to a participant of a meeting, information indicating the participant of the meeting, and a rule for manipulating the meeting material based on an attribute of the participant, an extracting unit that extracts the attribute of the participant, and a manipulating unit that manipulates the meeting material, by applying the attribute of the participant to the rule. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070512 | PRINT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT SERVICE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR AUTHORIZING ACCESS TO PRINT DATA HELD BY A PRINT SERVICE SYSTEM - A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication. The image forming apparatus includes an authorization information acquiring unit that acquires the access authorization information by the proximity communication, and a print data acquiring unit that sends the acquired access authorization information to the print service system, is authorized to access the holding unit, and acquires the print data. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070230 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit that forms a latent image by irradiating a photoconductor body with light by using light emitting elements that are arranged along an axial direction of the photoconductor body, the exposure unit having an inlet to which air flow is introduced; and an air blowing unit that produces the air flow that is introduced to the exposure unit from an air blow opening that is provided at a position that is in correspondence with a position of the inlet of the exposure unit. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070205 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, VISIBLE-IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device is provided. A rotating shaft of a first transporting member is positioned exactly below a developer carrier. A second virtual tangent to the first transporting member that extends vertically on a side of the first transporting member opposite an image carrier is farther from the image carrier than a first virtual tangent to the developer carrier that extends vertically on a side of the developer carrier opposite the image carrier. A distance between the two virtual tangents is shorter than a distance between the first virtual tangent and a developer container. A developer guiding member that guides a developer toward a downstream side in a direction of transport by the first transporting member is provided on a downstream side in a direction of rotation of the developer carrier with respect to the image carrier, with a gap provided with respect to the developer carrier. | 03-10-2016 |
20160069481 | FEED-CABLE RETAINING STRUCTURE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A feed-cable retaining structure retains a feed cable that supplies electric power. The feed-cable retaining structure includes a support member, retaining members, and an adjusting member. The support member supports the feed cable in an insulating manner. The retaining members support the feed cable in an insulating manner at predetermined positions along a longitudinal direction of the feed cable. Each retaining member includes two or more elements that retain the feed cable so as to sandwich the feed cable in a width direction. The adjusting member is located at a position shifted from a middle point between the adjacent retaining members toward one of the adjacent retaining members, the position including a position of the one of the adjacent retaining members, and adjusts an insulating gap between the feed cable and the support member by separating the feed cable from the support member. | 03-10-2016 |
20160067990 | PRINTING INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING INSTRUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printing instruction apparatus includes a definition unit, a group storage unit, a difference storage unit, and a determination unit. The definition unit defines a function of a printing apparatus. The group storage unit stores, for each of groups of printing apparatuses categorized in accordance with a predetermined rule, function information indicating a function provided in a printing apparatus which belongs to the group from among functions defined by the definition unit. The difference storage unit stores, for each apparatus type, difference information indicating a group to which the apparatus type belongs and a difference between apparatus types of printing apparatuses. The determination unit determines a function of each apparatus type, based on the function information corresponding to the apparatus type which is identified by the group indicated by the difference information. | 03-10-2016 |
20160064900 | SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A surface-emitting semiconductor laser includes a first semiconductor multilayer film reflector, an active region, a second semiconductor multilayer film reflector, and a current confinement layer including an oxidized region formed by selective oxidation. The current confinement layer includes a first semiconductor layer having a relatively high Al content, a second semiconductor layer that is adjacent to the first semiconductor layer on an active-region side of the first semiconductor layer and has a lower Al content than the first semiconductor layer, and a composition-gradient layer adjacent to the first semiconductor layer on a side of the first semiconductor layer which is opposite to the active-region side. A portion of the composition-gradient layer which faces the first semiconductor layer has a lower Al content than the first semiconductor layer. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064899 | SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER, SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a surface-emitting semiconductor laser including a substrate; a first semiconductor multilayer reflector of a first conductivity type formed on the substrate, the first semiconductor multilayer reflector including plural pairs of a low-refractive-index layer and a high-refractive-index layer; a cavity region formed on the first semiconductor multilayer reflector; a second semiconductor multilayer reflector of a second conductivity type formed on the cavity region, the second semiconductor multilayer reflector including plural pairs of a low-refractive-index layer and a high-refractive-index layer; a columnar structure extending from the second semiconductor multilayer reflector to the cavity region; and a current confinement layer formed inside the columnar structure by selective oxidation of a semiconductor layer containing Al. The cavity region includes an active region; and a cavity extension region interposed between the active region and the first semiconductor multilayer reflector. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062772 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a first boot unit, a first image display, a second boot unit, a second image display, a memory, and an image processing unit. The first boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The first image display performs image display while the first boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The second boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The second image display performs image display while the second boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The memory stores image information. The image processing unit performs image processing on the image information. The first image display performs the image display based on the image information stored in the memory. The second image display performs the image display based on the image information image-processed by the image processing unit. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062305 | OPEN/CLOSED SENSING DEVICE, OPENING AND CLOSING DEVICE USING OPEN/CLOSED SENSING DEVICE, AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - An open/closed sensing device includes an opening and closing member, a member that receives the opening and closing member when the opening and closing member is closed, at least one magnetic force holder on one of the opening and closing member and the receiving member and that includes a conductive holding frame and a magnet held in the holding frame so as to magnetize the holding frame, a conductive to-be-attracted member that is disposed on a portion of the other one of the opening and closing member and the receiving member, the portion corresponding to the magnetic force holder, and to which the holding frame is attracted when the opening and closing member is closed, and a sensing circuit that connects in series the holding frame and the to-be-attracted member and that electrically senses whether the holding frame and the to-be-attracted member are in contact with each other. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062282 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a light irradiation device including plural first irradiation units that irradiate an irradiation target area on a surface to be irradiated with light beams and are disposed in a specific direction, and plural second irradiation units that irradiate an outside of the irradiation target area with light beams and are disposed at an outer side of the first irradiation units in the specific direction, wherein light beams emitted from two adjacent irradiation units among the plural first irradiation units and the plural second irradiation units are superimposed with each other in the specific direction, and a first irradiation width that is not superimposed with the light beam from the adjacent first irradiation unit is smaller than a second irradiation width that is not superimposed with the light beam from the other adjacent first irradiation unit. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062256 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING CARRIER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developing carrier contains a core particle and a resin coat layer on a surface of the core particle, wherein the core particle has a BET specific surface area of from 0.05 m | 03-03-2016 |
20160059173 | GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A gas purification device includes an inflow port provided in an upper part of the gas purification device in a gravitational direction so that gas flows therein, a removing member that removes powder contained in the gas when the gas passes through the removing member, the removing member being disposed at a position such as not to overlap with the inflow port when viewed from above in the gravitational direction, and an outflow port provided in a lower part of the gas purification device in the gravitational direction so that the gas flows out therefrom after passing through the removing member. | 03-03-2016 |
20160057307 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM - Provided is an image reading apparatus, including a reading portion which reads an image and generates gradation values of each pixel, a calculation portion which calculates a coefficient group that allows the gradation values of each pixel generated as the reading portion reads a reference image, to be close to the gradation values of the pixels which correspond to image data forming the reference image, divides plural regions including an overlapped part in which the reference images are overlapped with each other, and calculates the coefficient group in each region, and a correction portion which corrects the gradation values of each pixel generated as the reading portion reads a correction target image, and corrects the gradation values of the correction target which correspond to the gradation values of the pixels of the overlapped part using the coefficient group. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057177 | SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A server device includes a registering unit, a providing unit, and a receiving unit. The registering unit registers a user or a guest as a user or a guest of the server device. The providing unit provides a first service to the user and a second service to the guest, the second service being more restricted than the first service. The receiving unit receives an instruction to register a guest from an administrator having authorization to manage the server device. If the administrator has authorization to manage a different server device, the registering unit registers a user registered in the different server device in the server device as a guest. | 02-25-2016 |
20160056080 | SEMICONDUCTOR PIECE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE DICING METHOD - A semiconductor piece manufacturing method includes: a process of forming a groove on a front surface side including a first groove portion having a first width from a front surface of a substrate and a second groove portion that is positioned in a lower part that communicates with the first groove portion and has a second width larger than the first width; and a process of forming a groove on a rear surface side having a width greater than the first width along the second groove portion from a rear surface of the substrate by a rotating cutting member. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055151 | CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device includes a first memory, a receiving unit, a second memory, an acquiring unit, and an output unit. The first memory stores therein a specific directory and an acquisition destination of data in an external storage device on a network in association with each other. The receiving unit receives, from a connected information processing device, an acquisition request of the data with respect to a directory. The second memory stores history of the acquisition-requested directory. The acquiring unit performs data acquisition from the acquisition destination associated with the directory specified by the acquisition request when the history stored in the second memory satisfies a predetermined condition. The output unit outputs the acquired data to the information processing device as a response to the acquisition request. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055127 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, TERMINAL APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control device includes a memory controller, a display controller, and a notification unit. The memory controller causes a document file managed by a document management apparatus to be stored in a memory. The display controller causes a document represented by the document file stored in the memory to be displayed over an entire range of a display area of a display during a presentation. The notification unit notifies a user of presence of a difference between the document file stored in the memory and the document file managed by the document management apparatus, while the document is being displayed over the entire range of the display area, by displaying the difference in an area where the document is being displayed. | 02-25-2016 |
20160050325 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes the following elements. A reading unit reads an image from a recording medium. An obtaining unit obtains a character string input by an operator. A display unit displays plural items of identification information for identifying plural candidates of a destination to which the image is sent and displays, upon obtaining the character string, at least one item of identification information including the character string, instead of displaying the plural items of identification information. A sending unit sends the image to a destination identified by an item of identification information set by the operator. Each of the plural items of identification information includes a network name and a computer name of plural levels of a hierarchy, and the display unit displays identification information including a network name or a computer name of one of the levels of the hierarchy which includes the character string. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050323 | IMAGE DATA STORING DEVICE, METHOD OF STORING IMAGE DATA AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image data storing device includes: an image data obtaining unit that obtains image data; a storing unit that stores the image data obtained by the image data obtaining unit into any one of plural storage regions, to each of which a name is assigned; a reception unit that receives the name of the storage region in which the image data is stored from external equipment, the name being obtained by the external equipment that takes the image data from the storage region, and the name being set by a user; and a memory that stores the name received by the reception unit in association with the storage region. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050270 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication terminal includes an attribute data acquisition unit that acquires attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory, a notification controller that controls a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit, and a real data acquisition unit that acquires real data predetermined as an acquisition target by the communication terminal with the notification controller not notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the predetermined real data. | 02-18-2016 |
20160049333 | DESIGN METHOD OF TIP SHAPE OF CUTTING MEMBER, SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP MANUFACTURING METHOD, CIRCUIT BOARD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A design method includes a process of preparing plural cutting members having different degrees of taper in a tip portion thereof, a process of preparing plural grooves on a front surface side having the same shape, a process of confirming a breakage status when a groove on a rear surface side is formed by the plural cutting members, and a process of selecting, when it is confirmed that both of a cutting member that causes breakage and a cutting member that does not cause the breakage are included, the degree of taper of the cutting member that does not cause the breakage as a tip shape of a cutting member to be used in a mass production process. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ASPECTS OF SOCIAL LIFE OF A PERSON USING VISUAL CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PERSON - Systems and methods to analyze a person's social media photos or videos, such as those posted on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. and determine properties of their social life. Using information on the number of people appearing in the photos or videos, their ages, and genders, this method can predict whether the person is in a romantic relationship, has a close family, is a group person, or is single. This information is valuable for generating audiovisual content recommendations as well as for advertisers, because it allows targeting personalized advertisements to the person posting the photos. The described methods may be performed (and the advertisements or other content may be selected for recommendation) substantially in real-time as the user accesses a specific online resource. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048530 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller, an accepting unit, a grouping unit, and a memory controller. The first display controller controls a display to display plural images representing respective files. The accepting unit accepts an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plural images. The grouping unit forms a group by associating plural files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the accepting unit has accepted the operation. The memory controller controls a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed by the grouping unit. | 02-18-2016 |
20160044204 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a difference detector that detects a difference between two images according to a set detection condition, a receiving unit that receives the two images as comparison targets and a target difference image that is desirable in difference detection of the two images, and a setting unit that selects a detection condition from predetermined detection conditions and sets the selected detection condition in the difference detector, the selected detection condition causing a difference image that is acquired by the difference detector from the two images received by the receiving unit to be closer to the target difference image. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044202 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that reads a plurality of colors in a document, a relative movement unit that causes the reading unit and the document to make a relative movement in a first scanning direction, and an output unit that outputs color information at an interval, the color information indicating whether the document read by the reading unit is chromatic, the interval being longer in the first scanning direction than a length in the first scanning direction of a color misregistration, the color misregistration being expected to occur in an image if a speed of the relative movement fluctuates owing to a unique performance characteristic of the relative movement unit, the image being obtained as a result of reading by the reading unit. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042997 | SEMICONDUCTOR PIECE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A semiconductor piece manufacturing method includes: a process of forming a fine groove on a front surface side including a first groove portion having a width that is gradually narrowed from a front surface of a semiconductor substrate W toward a rear surface thereof; a process of attaching a dicing tape having an adhesive layer on the front surface after the fine groove on the front surface side is formed; a process of forming a groove on a rear surface side having a width greater than the width of the fine groove on the front surface side along the fine groove on the front surface side from a rear surface side of the substrate by a rotating dicing blade; and a process of separating the dicing tape from the front surface after the groove on the rear surface side is formed. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041725 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a display and a controller. The display displays a setting screen containing a display element representing a setting item. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is not introduced in the information processing device, the display element is displayed in a first manner, and exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is introduced in the information processing device and where the setting item is not a setting item to be set for use of the service, the display element is displayed in a second manner. The second manner is different from the first manner. | 02-11-2016 |
20160028718 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit, an operation control unit, and an invalidation unit. The reception unit receives an operation on data. The operation control unit performs control of permitting, from among received operations, a first operation which is associated with authorization information for a case where authorization information indicating authorization for an operation is valid, and rejecting the first operation for a case where the authorization information is invalid and a second operation which is different from the first operation. The invalidation unit invalidates the authorization information when the second operation is rejected. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028705 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ROUTER - A communication system includes an authentication apparatus, a router and a second apparatus. The authentication apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first authentication information of a user of a first apparatus, an authentication unit that performs authentication using the first authentication information, and a first transmission unit that transmits an address of a second apparatus to the first apparatus and transmits an address of the router to the second apparatus. The router includes a second transmission unit that acquires the address of the second apparatus and second authentication information of the user, and transmits the address of the router and the second authentication information. The second apparatus includes a second acquisition unit that acquires the address transmitted by the first transmission unit, a third acquisition unit that acquires the second authentication information and the address, and a connection unit that establishes connection to the router. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027004 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a mobile terminal apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes an encryption unit encrypting multiple pieces of data to be transmitted; a data transmission processing unit executing a transmission process to sequentially transmit the pieces of encrypted data to the mobile terminal apparatus in response to a request; a billing unit submitting a bill for each piece of transmitted data after the piece of data is transmitted; and a decryption information transmitting unit transmitting decryption information on decryption of the data for which payment of a charge with electronic money is confirmed to the mobile terminal apparatus. The mobile terminal apparatus includes a data receiving unit receiving the pieces of data; a decryption information receiving unit receiving the decryption information; and a decryption unit decrypting each piece of received data based on the received decryption information. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026902 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit, an identifying unit, and a transmitting unit. The first acquiring unit acquires image data including color values each of which denotes a corresponding one of multiple pixels in one or multiple pages. The identifying unit identifies, from the color values, color regions to which pixels constituting at least part of the multiple pixels belong in a predetermined color model. The transmitting unit transmits the number of pages in which the color regions identified by the identifying unit correspond to a predetermined color region combination. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026148 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a support body provided in an apparatus body to be drawn out from the apparatus body while supporting a supported body, and having a support portion on a front side of the supported body in a drawing direction, and an image forming body on which an image to be transferred on the supported body or a recording medium transported by the support body is formed, the image forming body being provided in the apparatus body to be drawn out from the apparatus body in the drawing direction of the support body and being positioned relative to the apparatus body in an intersecting direction intersecting the drawing direction with an end portion on a front side in the drawing direction abutting on the support portion in the intersecting direction. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026122 | HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a heating device including a transparent endless pressurizing member that pressurizes a heating target, a contact member that transmits light which is emitted from a light source to heat the heating target, and comes in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the pressurizing member, a support member that supports the contact member within the pressurizing member, and a reflection section that is provided between the contact member and the support member, and reflects light toward a side opposite to the support member. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026120 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING CARRIER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic core particle, and a coating layer that coats surfaces of the magnetic core particle, wherein the coating layer includes a binder resin, thermosetting resin particles, and crosslinked resin particles, and the crosslinked resin particle contains a polymer formed by polymerizing a monomer component including the same monomer as a monomer used in the polymerization of the binder resin. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026117 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium with a powdery material, the image being sized so as to extend beyond an edge of the recording medium; a collecting device that collects the material that has extended off the recording medium as a result of the image forming device forming the image; and a restricting unit that controls the image forming device in such a manner that the image forming device reduces an amount of use of the material in a region of the image that extends off the recording medium to a larger degree on an outer side of the image than a side of the image near the recording medium. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026104 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing crosslinked resin particles having a glass transition temperature of 55° C. or higher in a surface layer of the toner particle, and silica particles having a volume average particle diameter of 30 nm to 300 nm and a coverage with respect to the toner particle from 50% to 100%. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026102 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle including a binder resin containing an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein a Young's modulus of the toner particles at 20° C. is 3.0 GPa to 3.5 GPa. | 01-28-2016 |
20160023857 | RECORDING SHEET TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE READING DEVICE - A recording sheet transport device having a transport path having a curvature includes a multifeed detector and an orientation stabilizing device. The multifeed detector detects a multifeed state in which two or more recording sheets are superposed on one another while the two or more recording sheets are being transported. The orientation stabilizing device stabilizes an orientation of parts of the two or more recording sheets, at which the multifeed state is detected by the multifeed detector, relative to the multifeed detector. | 01-28-2016 |
20160021274 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a light-guide member that moves in a direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the light-guide member and that emits light, which has entered from an incident surface of the light-guide member, as light that is linearly distributed in the longitudinal direction, a light source that emits the light, and an optical fiber that guides the light emitted by the light source to the incident surface. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021269 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE POSITION DETECTING ORIGINAL - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit; a sending unit that sends an original formed by the image forming unit; a reading unit that reads an image of the original that is sent by the sending unit; a detecting unit that, from the image read by the reading unit, detects an end portion detecting image formed at a predetermined position of the original; and a determining unit that determines a search region for searching for an end portion of the original included in the image by recognizing the position of the end portion detecting image detected by the detecting unit. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021268 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - Provided is an image reading apparatus including a guide plate that is movable between a first position and a second position and guides a medium at one side thereof when disposed at the first position, a retention member that is rotatable about an axis intersecting a direction in which the medium is guided, that has a first side surface and a second side surface which has a curvature greater than a curvature of the first side surface, and that retains plural color samples on the second side surface, a reading unit that reads, at a reading position, an image formed on the medium guided by the guide plate, and a rotating unit that causes the retention member to rotate such that the other side of the guide plate and the first side surface face each other and the plural color samples are moved to the reading position. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021264 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a portable terminal and an information processing device that is connected to a network via a first access point and that is connected to the portable terminal. The information processing device includes a connecting unit that connects a storage device provided with a wireless network function. The storage device connected by the connecting unit includes a communication unit that achieves the wireless network function, and the communication unit is used as a second access point used only for communication of data transmitted between the information processing device and the portable terminal. The storage device also includes data storage, and the data storage is used as a temporary storage area for the data transmitted via the second access point between the information processing device and the portable terminal. | 01-21-2016 |
20160020984 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a first sender and a second sender. The first sender sends, if a type of status information indicating a status of a device is a predetermined type, the status information to an information storage apparatus, which is different from a center apparatus that manages the device. The second sender sends information indicating that the status information has been sent to the information storage apparatus to the center apparatus. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019447 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus include an acquisition unit and a recording unit. The acquisition unit acquires, for each page, image data including a color value for each of plural pixels and information that indicates a type of an object for each of the pixels. The recording unit records a number of pages including plural pixels, a difference between the color values of which is less than a first threshold determined in advance and the types of the objects of which are different from each other. | 01-21-2016 |
20160006483 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a communication-apparatus-side controller. The first communication unit performs wireless communication with plural terminal apparatuses, the number of which is less than or equal to a predetermined maximum number of connections. The second communication unit performs wireless communication with a connection-requesting terminal apparatus that newly attempts to perform wireless communication with the first communication unit. The communication-apparatus-side controller switches the wireless communication via the second communication unit to wireless communication via the first communication unit, the wireless communication via the first communication unit being performed using a dedicated line prepared in advance. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006214 | SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER, SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A surface emitting semiconductor laser includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor multilayer reflector on the substrate including laminated pairs of a high refractive index layer relatively high in refractive index and a low refractive index layer relatively low in refractive index; an active region on or above the first reflector; a second semiconductor multilayer reflector on or above the active region including laminated pairs of a high refractive index layer relatively high in refractive index and a low refractive index layer relatively low in refractive index; and a cavity extending region formed between the first reflector and the active region or between the second reflector and the active region, having an optical film thickness greater than an oscillation wavelength, extending a cavity length, including a conductive semiconductor material, and including an optical loss causing layer at at least one node of a standing wave of a selected longitudinal mode. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004943 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit and a determination unit. The detection unit detects an error by comparing image data related to a print job with read image data obtained as a result of reading a print output related to the print job. The determination unit compares read image data related to a post-error print output, which is a continuously-printed print output related to the print job for a page subsequent to a page in which the error is detected, with the image data when the error is detected by the detection unit, so as to determine a process for recovering the print job by using the post-error print output. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004497 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a communication-apparatus-side controller. The first communication unit wirelessly communicates with plural terminal apparatuses, the number of which is less than or equal to a predetermined maximum number of connections allowed. The second communication unit wirelessly communicates with a connection-requesting terminal apparatus that attempts to wirelessly communicate with the first communication unit. The communication-apparatus-side controller transmits, to the connection-requesting terminal apparatus via the second communication unit, information indicating that wireless communication via the first communication unit is not available in a case where the number of connections established for wireless communication via the first communication unit has reached the predetermined maximum number of connections allowed. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004495 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit receives first identification information via wireless communication from a terminal that has received the first identification information. The first identification information indicates a first storage location for image information in another apparatus. A controller transmits the image information to the first storage location indicated by the first identification information in a case where the communication unit has received the first identification information from the terminal. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004426 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image display includes a display configured to display plural images which are separated; a measurement section configured to count a number of continuous screen operations in which an object contacts and separates from the display; and a controller configured to change an image switching mode from a manual switching mode to an automatic switching mode, in response to the counted number of continuous screen operations being a predetermined number or more. In the manual switching mode, the controller controls the display to switch the image in response to a screen operation in which the object contacts and separates from the display. In the automatic switching mode, the controller controls the display to automatically switch the image according to a stored switching speed. | 01-07-2016 |
20160001579 | RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording method includes ejecting an ink on an recording medium, wherein the ink includes a colorant, polymer particles, water, and an aqueous organic solvent, has a static surface tension of equal to or less than 30 mN/m, and has a fluctuation range of a dynamic surface tension from after 1 millisecond to after 1 second of from 0.2 mN/m to 2.0 mN/m when measuring the dynamic surface tension by a maximum bubble pressure method, and wherein the recording medium has a maximum liquid absorption amount of the ink within a contact time of 500 milliseconds measured by a dynamic scanning liquid absorption meter of equal to or greater than 5 ml/m | 01-07-2016 |
20150381843 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a display unit, an input unit, and an image processing unit. The communication unit receives information related to at least one processing condition for image processing stored in and specified with a terminal device. The display unit displays a screen in which the at least one processing condition received by the communication unit is displayed. The input unit, when a user wishes to change the at least one processing condition displayed in the display unit, allows the user to input a different processing condition to which the user wishes to change the displayed processing condition. The image processing unit performs the image processing. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378652 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND MOBILE APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a print request with respect to a mobile image forming apparatus, and an instructing unit that instructs the mobile image forming apparatus to move to a request source of the print request and perform printing if the instructing unit determines that the request source is in motion, on the basis of a temporal change of location information indicating a location of the request source. | 12-31-2015 |
20150373088 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit and a notification unit. The registration unit registers a document onto a designated registration destination if a condition for registration is satisfied when the registration of the document onto the registration destination is requested. The notification unit provides a notification of identification information for identifying the document to multiple destinations if the registration of the document is not performed. When the registration of the document identified based on the identification information notified by the notification unit is requested, the registration unit registers the document onto the registration destination if the condition for the registration is satisfied. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370650 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing mechanism, a display device, an input device, a web browser, a first web server, a second web server, and an update unit. The image processing mechanism performs image processing including at least one of image formation on a medium and image reading on a medium. The web browser displays a web page for receiving a user input on the display device and receives a user input via the input device. The first web server which provides the web page in response to a request from the web browser rather than from an external apparatus stores setting information for an application which is executed in accordance with the setting information in response to the request. The second web server receives update information of the setting information from the external apparatus. The update unit updates the stored setting information with the update information. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370195 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR SUPPRESSING NON-UNIFORMITY OF AN IMAGE CAUSED BY A DIFFERENCE IN TONER PARTICLE DIAMETER - Provided is an image forming apparatus, including a first image portion that uses a first toner, and a second image portion that uses a second toner having a particle diameter greater than a particle diameter of the first toner, wherein, in a case where a first image of the first image portion is formed on a recording medium and a second image of the second image portion is formed on the first image, as compared to a case where only the first image is formed on the recording medium, an amount of the first toner per unit area of the first image increases. | 12-24-2015 |
20150365559 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition section that acquires one or more sets of attribute information which indicates an attribute of a publication, identification information which identifies the publication, and label information which indicates at least one of an arrangement of the publication in an establishment and a period during which the publication is not permitted to be lent, a conversion section that converts the acquired identification information into a code image, a generation section that generates a label image based on the acquired label information, and an image forming section that forms an image which expresses some or all of the acquired attribute information, the code image which is acquired through conversion, and the generated label image on one or more media such that image groups corresponding to one set are formed on one piece of medium. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365543 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided an information processing apparatus including a first display unit that displays a first menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a first function of an information processing apparatus, on a display unit, a second display unit that displays a second menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a second function for using the information processing apparatus for a specific use, on the display unit, and a control unit that controls which of the first menu screen and the second menu screen is preferentially displayed. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363459 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL TERMINAL, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication terminal includes an acquiring part that, when a data set including real data representing content of the data set and attribute data indicating an attribute of the real data is newly stored on a data storage device, acquires the attribute data from the data storage device without waiting for a user to instruct that the attribute data is to be acquired, and acquires the real data after the user instructs that the real data is to be acquired, and a notification controller that controls a notifying part to notify the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the acquiring part. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363412 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a reception section that receives a request for a process relative to management of a publication, a code acquisition section that acquires plural codes affixed to the publication, a determination section that determines whether or not a code corresponding to the process is present in the plural acquired codes, and a process execution section that executes the process based on the code when it is determined that the code corresponding to the process is present. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363381 | TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A template management apparatus includes a standard format classifying part, a group classifying part, and a replacing part. The standard format classifying part classifies a sample character string included in a template, as a standard format character string or a non-standard format character string. The group classifying part classifies the standard format character string into a standard format character string group according to its representation format, and classifies the non-standard format character string into a non-standard format character string group according to its content. The replacing part replaces the sample character string classified into the standard format character string group, with a replacement standard format character string represented in a representation format corresponding to the sample character string, and replaces the sample character string classified into the non-standard format character string group, with a replacement non-standard format character string represented in a different language from the sample character string. | 12-17-2015 |
20150361261 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE - A resin composition includes an aromatic polycarbonate, a styrene-based polymer, a polylactic acid resin, and an acrylic block copolymer that includes a polymer block containing a constitutional unit derived from an acrylic acid ester and a polymer block containing a constitutional unit derived from a methacrylic acid ester. | 12-17-2015 |
20150356758 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a creation unit and a presentation unit. The creation unit adds up processing loads required to draw objects at each drawing position to calculate a value of the drawing position in order to generate a processing load image. The presentation unit visualizes the processing load image for presentation to a user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356146 | ANSWERER EXTRACTION SYSTEM, ANSWERER EXTRACTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An answerer extraction system includes a receiving unit that receives a question from an asker, a recording unit that records a reference history of the asker's referencing past questions or answers, and an extraction unit that extracts an answerer who is to answer the question on the basis of the reference history of the asker. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356120 | DESIGN MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DESIGN MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A design management apparatus includes a calculation unit and an output unit. The calculation unit receives multiple templates that are used to create designs and that include multiple character strings serving as predetermined samples to calculate a score for each character string in each template, which concerns a subject of the template and which corresponds to a size of the character string. The output unit receives information indicating a search subject to output the template including the character string which corresponds to the search subject and the score of which meets an output condition. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a receiving unit, a computing unit, and a presenting unit. The receiving unit receives first information related to creation or distribution of a first document to be created used a template. The computing unit computes a degree of overlap between the first information and second information related to creation or distribution of a second document that was created using a template, the second information being extracted from storage that stores the second information. The presenting unit presents the degree of overlap computed by the computing unit in association with a template for creating the first document. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355569 | ROTATIONAL POSITION DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING ROTATIONAL POSITION DETECTION PROGRAM - Provided is a rotational position detection device including a position detection unit that is provided in a motor for driving a developing roll developing a latent image, detects a rotational position of the motor by using magnetism, and outputs a rotational position signal for each rotational position determined in advance, and a generation unit that generates a reference signal indicating a reference position of rotation of the developing roll using the rotational position signal, based on a transmission ratio of a transmission mechanism that transmits driving of the motor to the developing roll. | 12-10-2015 |
20150350999 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes acquiring load information indicating load applied to each of multiple relay units which are included in a network system and which connect a terminal apparatus to the network system; determining, in response to a connection request being sent, a first relay unit with lower load than a second relay unit to which the connection request is sent by the terminal apparatus, based on the acquired load information; and providing information on the determined first relay unit to the terminal apparatus. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that sequentially receives a plurality of UDP packets sequentially transmitted in a certain data size and at a certain time interval; a first and second calculation units that acquire a plurality of reception time intervals each between two UDP packets successively received by the reception unit, and calculate evaluation values for evaluating a delay state of the reception time intervals; a determination unit that combines the evaluation value calculated by the first calculation unit and the evaluation value calculated by the second calculation unit, and determines reliability of the evaluation values based on at least the two evaluation values; and a bandwidth information outputting unit that outputs bandwidth information according to a bit rate determined by the certain data size and the certain time interval on the basis of the reliability of the evaluation values determined by the determination unit. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348298 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a composite image generation unit that composes a first image that is an attachment target image and a second image to be attached to the first image to generate a composite image in which the second image is included in the first image, a feature quantity acquisition unit that acquires a feature quantity of the first image, and a reflection unit that reflects a feature of the first image into the second image using the feature quantity of the first image acquired by the feature quantity acquisition unit. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348249 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition section that acquires an object image which is an editing object, a feature quantity acquisition section that acquires a feature quantity of a reference image which is referred to when the object image is edited, a feature-reflected image generation section that reflects a feature of the reference image on the object image by using the feature quantity acquired by the feature quantity acquisition section, and generates a feature-reflected image which is the object image on which the feature is reflected, and a reflection degree changing section that changes a degree of reflection of the feature in the feature-reflected image by using an adjustment value which is input by a user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347883 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a first retrieval unit that retrieves a table of document data, an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium in accordance with the document data, a second retrieval unit that retrieves a cumulative amount of images formed by the image forming unit, a third retrieval unit that retrieves a threshold value of the cumulative amount of images formed by the image forming unit, and a display unit that displays a selection screen that allows a user to select document data forming an image from the document data included in the table. If the cumulative amount does not exceed the threshold value, the display unit displays a screen including a batch selection screen. If the cumulative amount exceeds the threshold value, the display unit displays an individual selection screen. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347866 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a characteristic information acquisition unit that acquires characteristic information indicating a characteristic relating to at least any one of distribution of a specific brightness region and a size of a dark and flat region in a luminance image, an enhancement degree information generation unit that generates enhancement degree information indicating a degree of enhancement of a specific component that affects image quality of the luminance image, based on the characteristic information, and a luminance reproduction image generation unit that generates a luminance reproduction image obtained by reproducing the specific component of the luminance image so as to be enhanced to a degree of enhancement indicated by the enhancement degree information. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347862 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image information acquiring unit that acquires image information of an image, a position information acquiring unit that acquires position information indicating a representative position of a designated region which is designated as a specific image region from the image by a user, and a region detection unit that detects the designated region from the position information, wherein region detection unit includes a range setting unit that sets a first range that is a range of first target pixels, or that changes a second range that is a range which is set for a second target pixel, and a determination unit that determines a designated region to which the first target pixel or the second target pixel belongs. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING FINE-GRAINED USER INTERACTIONS FOR PROJECTOR-CAMERA OR DISPLAY-CAMERA SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented method performed in connection with a mobile computing device held by a user, the mobile computing device displaying a marker pattern, the method being performed in a computerized system incorporating a processing unit, a camera and a memory, the computer-implemented method involving: acquiring a plurality of images of the mobile computing device displaying the marker pattern using the camera; using the central processing unit to detect the marker pattern within the acquired plurality of images; using the central processing unit to determine a plurality of positions of the mobile computing device based on the detected marker pattern within the acquired plurality of images; and processing a user event based on the determined plurality of positions of the mobile computing device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346254 | NOISE IMMUNITY EVALUATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF EVALUATING NOISE IMMUNITY, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A noise immunity evaluation apparatus measures S parameters of a device including a pair of input signal ports, a pair of output signal ports, and a noise signal port for input of a noise signal; calculates, as an evaluation index, a difference between S parameters between the noise signal port and the pair of input signal ports or between the noise signal port and the pair of output signal ports; acquires a first frequency spectrum obtained by performing a fast Fourier transform on a voltage waveform obtained by performing an electromagnetic field analysis on the noise signal, and calculates a second frequency spectrum as a product of the first frequency spectrum and the evaluation index; and extracts a frequency with a local maximum voltage value in the second frequency spectrum as a frequency for evaluation of noise immunity. | 12-03-2015 |
20150339284 | DESIGN MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DESIGN MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A design management apparatus includes a management unit and an output unit. The management unit manages a history regarding plural design templates which have been viewed by a user. Each of the plural design templates is associated with plural design feature information items that indicate plural types of features in design. The output unit outputs a recommended design template in accordance with the history. The recommended design template is a design template having feature values which are between feature values of the plural types of features indicated by the plural design feature information items associated with the plural design templates which have been viewed by the user. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339088 | HISTORY STORAGE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A history storage device includes: a storage part that stores information; a device status information obtaining unit that obtains device status information related to a status of an image forming apparatus in forming an image, the image forming apparatus including an image forming part that forms the image corresponding to an image forming instruction; and an association unit that, when the image forming instruction satisfies a preset condition, associates the image forming instruction with the device status information obtained by the device status information obtaining unit when the image corresponding to the image forming instruction is formed, and causes the storage part to store the associated image forming instruction and device status information. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338810 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE-FORMATION COMMANDING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit, an image forming unit, a detecting unit, a measuring unit, and a changing unit. The transport unit transports continuous paper. The image forming unit forms an image onto the continuous paper transported by the transport unit. The detecting unit transmits a detection signal every time the number of times a pulse signal, which is generated when the transport unit transports the continuous paper, is detected reaches a predetermined reference value. The measuring unit measures an amount of the continuous paper transported by the transport unit based on the detection signal from the detecting unit. The changing unit changes the reference value of the detecting unit in accordance with a transporting speed at which the continuous paper is transported by the transport unit. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334265 | PRINT SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, PRINTER, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print system includes a controller and a printer. The controller transmits image data of an image in which pixels are arranged in a main scanning direction and a subscanning direction, and transmits subscanning-direction line information which is information about a predetermined subscanning-direction line. The printer expands the image data transmitted from the controller into print data for printing, and extracts extraction information in the subscanning direction from the print data so as to compare the subscanning-direction line information with the extraction information. The extraction information corresponds to the transmitted subscanning-direction line information. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334049 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes the following. A first transmission unit transmits a first response containing an identification value of the information processing apparatus to a client apparatus in response to a login request. A second transmission unit transmits, to the client apparatus, a second response to instruct the client apparatus to perform redirection to one of uniform resource locators preregistered in a server apparatus as access right transfer destinations if an access right transfer is authorized. A third transmission unit reads out region information contained in an access request received from the client apparatus in response to the second response if a uniform resource locator contained in the received access request is not the one associated with the information processing apparatus and transmits a third response containing an instruction for redirection to a uniform resource locator corresponding to the read out region information to the client apparatus. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332087 | Systems and Methods for Identifying a User's Demographic Characteristics Based on the User's Social Media Photographs - A method identifies user demographic characteristics, such as age and gender. First, a plurality of photos are acquired from postings to a social media site by a specific user. A plurality of facial images are identified in the acquired photos. Using a selected subset of the facial images, the method estimates one or more demographic characteristics of the user. In some cases, the estimation uses a profile photograph of the user. In some cases, the facial images are clustered based on similarity. The cluster that most closely matches the profile photo is used for demographic analysis to estimate the characteristics of the user. In some cases, a cluster is selected based on cluster purity, and the images in the cluster are used to estimate the characteristics of the user. In some cases, other self-portrait features are used, such as large facial images or arms along the perimeter of photographs. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332041 | RELAY APPARATUS, SYSTEM, RELAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A relay apparatus includes a memory that stores a user management table used to manage user information including state information indicating a state of a right of use of a service for every user; a receiving unit that receives a request to delete the right of use of the user from a client apparatus; a changing unit that changes a value of the state information about the user corresponding to the request in the state information to a value indicating deletion; a transmitting unit that transmits a response to the received request; and a process executing unit that executes a process for deleting data concerning the user the state information about whom has the value indicating the deletion from a storage area of the relay apparatus, in which the data is stored, and a storage area of another relay apparatus, in which the data is stored, at predetermined timing. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331839 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a holding unit and a transmission unit. The holding unit holds information for use during transmission including transmission destination information, item information, and correspondence information. The transmission destination information and the item information are acquired from page display information for displaying a page and transmitting document information at a designated location to a transmission destination determined in advance together with a character string or a value input in correspondence with an item to be displayed on the page. The transmission destination information represents the transmission destination. The item information represents the item. The correspondence information pertains to the character string or the value corresponding to the item. The transmission unit transmits the document information to the transmission destination together with the character string or the value correlated with the item on the basis of the information for use during transmission. | 11-19-2015 |
20150324082 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An image display control apparatus includes a display controller, a determination unit, and an execution unit. When an image displayed on a display having a display area and a touch panel disposed on the display area is specified through the touch panel, the display controller performs control to display menu screens individually representing predetermined plural menu items in such a manner that a free area is provided in part of a peripheral area adjacent to the image displayed in the display area. The determination unit determines that, when specification of the image through the touch panel is followed by movement of a specified position onto a desired menu screen, the menu item represented by the desired menu screen is specified, and determines that, when the specified position is moved to the free area, a drag operation is specified. The execution unit executes a process corresponding to a determination result. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319320 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device including a display unit that displays a function setting screen, a recognition unit that recognizes a trail of an operation of a user on the function setting screen displayed on the display unit, a determining unit that determines a function selected by the user based on a position of the trail of the operation recognized by the recognition unit, an identification unit that identifies an operation condition designated by the user with respect to the function determined by the determining unit based on the trail of the operation recognized by the recognition unit, and a setting unit that performs setting for executing image processing of the function determined by the determining unit using the operation condition identified by the identification unit. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317242 | TEST DESIGN ASSISTANCE DEVICE, TEST DESIGN ASSISTANCE METHOD, PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A test design assistance device | 11-05-2015 |
20150317241 | TEST DESIGN ASSISTANCE DEVICE, TEST DESIGN ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A test design assistance device | 11-05-2015 |
20150316883 | HISTORY STORAGE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A history storage device includes: a storage unit that, in storing first history information including phenomenon information corresponding to a phenomenon having occurred and accompanying information accompanying the phenomenon information in a storage region, when the phenomenon information included in the first history information is duplication of phenomenon information included in second history information having already been stored in the storage region, deletes the phenomenon information included in the first history information and stores, in the storage region, the accompanying information which is included in the first history information and is associated with the phenomenon information; and a reconstruction unit that, in reading out the first history information from the storage region, based on the phenomenon information with which the accompanying information included in the first history information is associated, reconstructs the deleted phenomenon information, to thereby reconstruct the first history information including the phenomenon information and the accompanying information. | 11-05-2015 |
20150316867 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developer contains toner including toner particles, and strontium titanate particles having a volume average particle diameter of 3 μm to 7 μm. The electrostatic charge image developer also contains a carrier including core particle, and a coating layer that coats the core particle and contains a cyclohexyl methacrylate resin. | 11-05-2015 |
20150309975 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for document-difference generation. The process includes estimating a range to be edited in target structured document information in response to a comment added to the target structured document information, based on a relationship between an element including a commented portion associated with the comment and another element of the target structured document information; and generating change-indicating information in which a difference within the estimated range between the target structured document information and structured document information obtained by editing the target structured document information is associated with the comment. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309468 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including a casing body, an exposure portion in a rod shape that has a connector and exposes a target object, a first support portion that supports the exposure portion over a longitudinal direction of the exposure portion and is removed from the casing body by being moved in the longitudinal direction, and a cable that is connected to the exposure portion via the connector, transmits power to the exposure portion, has a curved area that is a part of the cable in a curved state, and is in contact with the first support portion in a part of the curved area, in a state where the first support portion is accommodated in the casing body. | 10-29-2015 |
20150302274 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit, an acquisition unit, an enlarging/reducing unit, and a detector. The reception unit receives two image data to be compared. The acquisition unit acquires character sizes of characters contained in the two image data received by the reception unit. The enlarging/reducing unit enlarges or reduces the image data received by the reception unit such that the character sizes of the characters contained in the two image data acquired by the acquisition unit coincide with each other. The detector detects a difference between the two image data which have been enlarged or reduced by the enlarging/reducing unit such that the character sizes of the characters contained in the two image data coincide with each other. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301997 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a creation unit, a replacement unit, and a generation unit. The creation unit creates a document using a template. The replacement unit replaces a first address embedded into a document created by the creation unit with a second address that is an address at which an access log is acquirable. The generation unit generates information associating template identification information that identifies a template used in a document created by the creation unit, the first address, and the second address. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301994 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process including: acquiring plural designated successive versions of structured document information; extracting differences between previous and subsequent versions of the acquired structured document information; determining collections of differences with a common element name, of the extracted differences, as working ranges; and generating difference information by summarizing, of the working ranges, working ranges that match a condition determined in advance by omitting the differences included in such working ranges. | 10-22-2015 |
20150286449 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CASE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: an identification information receiving unit that receives identification information of an agent who was requested in advance from an applicant to proceed with an application procedure for processing a case instead, the application procedure requesting an approval by an approver; an authorizer information receiving unit that receives information about the applicant who requested in advance the agent of the received identification information to proceed with the application procedure instead; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image; and a transmission unit that transmits the acquired image as an image relating to the applicant based on a transmission instruction from the agent. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286173 | TEMPERATURE DETECTING DEVICE, AND FIXING DEVICE - Provided is a temperature detecting device including a first heat sensing element that is disposed to face an image holding member, a second heat sensing element, an infrared shielding unit that shields the second heat sensing element against radiation with infrared rays, and a substrate with flexibility that holds the first heat sensing element, the second heat sensing element, and the infrared shielding unit, wherein the infrared shielding unit is disposed in a space where the developer is dispersed, and the substrate is bent-disposed such that the first heat sensing element is disposed on an upstream side of the infrared shielding unit in a direction where infrared rays are radiated, the second heat sensing element is disposed on a downstream side of the infrared shielding unit in the direction where infrared rays are radiated, and the substrate is disposed between the image holding member and the infrared shielding unit. | 10-08-2015 |
20150281521 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image display apparatus and an image processing apparatus include an imaging unit, a display unit, a detection unit, a measurement unit, and a notification unit. The imaging unit images an operator. The imaging unit performs imaging on an operator. The display unit displays operation information for performing image processing. The detection unit detects viewing of the display unit by the operator on a basis of a result of the imaging performed by the imaging unit. The measurement unit accumulatively measures a time in which the detection unit detects the viewing. The notification unit provides a notification of guidance according to the image processing when the accumulatively measured time exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281496 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a first-information acquiring section, a transmitting section, a second-information acquiring section, and a storage. The first-information acquiring section acquires first image information which is read by a reading apparatus. In response to the first image information which is acquired by the first-information acquiring section and which indicates that the reading apparatus is permitted to perform a reading operation, the transmitting section transmits instruction information to the reading apparatus. The instruction information indicates that the reading apparatus be permitted to perform the reading operation. The second-information acquiring section acquires second image information which is read by the reading apparatus in accordance with the instruction information. The storage stores the second image information in association with the first image information. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281486 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body including an image forming section that forms an image, an image reading device disposed on an upper side of the image forming apparatus body to read an image, a first wall provided in the image forming apparatus body, a second wall provided in the image reading device to overlap with the first wall in an up-down direction, and at least one support member provided in the image forming apparatus body or the image reading device to overlap with the first wall and the second wall in the up-down direction, the at least one support member supporting the image reading device relative to the image forming apparatus body. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277823 | PRINTER APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printer apparatus includes a near field wireless communication unit; a printing unit; a receiving unit that receives printing data from an information processing apparatus; an accepting unit that accepts authentication information; a first controller that controls the printing unit so that the printing data received by the receiving unit is printed if authentication using the authentication information accepted by the accepting unit becomes successful; and a second controller that controls the printing unit so that the printing data is printed without the authentication using the authentication information if the printing data is received by the receiving unit after near field wireless communication with the information processing apparatus by the near field wireless communication unit is performed. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277808 | BUFFERING A PRINT INSTRUCTION BEFORE ITS TRANSFERRED TO A PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing control apparatus including: a receiving unit that receives a print instruction to instruct printing on a recording medium; a transferring unit that transfers the print instruction received by the receiving unit to an outputting portion which is capable of storing plural print instructions and outputs the stored print instruction one by one to a printing device; and a controller that controls the transferring unit so that another print instruction is transferred to the outputting portion if a print instruction transferred by the transferring unit last is started to be outputted from the outputting portion to the printing device. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277433 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a receiving unit, an inspection unit, a generating unit, and an output unit. The receiving unit receives three-dimensional (3D) information at least including a 3D shape. The inspection unit conducts, on the 3D information, a mold requirement inspection at least including undercut as a mold requirement inspection for fabricating an object represented by the 3D information. When the inspection unit detects an inexpedient part, the generating unit generates inexpedience information for creating a 3D representation of the inexpedient part. The output unit outputs the inexpedience information in association with an inspection item. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277366 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A process cartridge includes an image holding body assembly that includes an image holding body, a developing assembly that includes a developer holding body, an urging member, a contacting and separating mechanism, and a gap forming mechanism. The image holding body assembly is inserted into and pulled from an assembly receiving portion. The urging member urges the developing assembly so that the developer holding body is pressed against the image holding body. The contacting and separating mechanism is disposed on the front side and operated to separate the image holding body assembly and the developing assembly from each other against an urging force. The gap forming mechanism forms a gap between the image holding body and the developer holding body on the rear side against the urging force. The size of the gap is larger than that existing before the image holding body assembly is pulled. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277342 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING CLEANING MEMBER AND CLEANING MEMBER - A cleaning member includes a body and an edge. The body has rubber hardness of about 68 to 75 degrees and is fixed to a support member at one end of the body. The body has a plate-like shape in which a corner portion of the body is missing. The edge is provided at the corner portion and fits into it. The edge is in contact with a subject to be cleaned and has a thickness of about 0.1 to 1 mm. The cleaning member satisfies the following conditions: | 10-01-2015 |
20150277330 | TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transport device includes a driving roller that drives an endless belt so that the belt rotates, a transfer roller that presses the belt from an inner side of the belt toward an image carrier, which carries a toner image, and transfers the toner image onto the belt, a first stretching roller that stretches the belt, a second stretching roller that stretches the belt the driving roller and the first stretching roller and on a side on which the transfer roller is in contact with the belt, and an adjusting mechanism that adjusts a direction of a rotary shaft of the second stretching roller. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277317 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports plural recording media having developer images transferred thereon, at an interval; a fixing unit that fixes the developer images to the recording media transported by the transport unit, by applying heat; a temperature measuring unit that measures an ambient temperature; a speed changing unit that decreases a fixing speed of the developer images in the fixing unit if the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measuring unit is a preset temperature or lower, as compared with the fixing speed if the ambient temperature is higher than the preset temperature; and an interval changing unit that decreases the interval if the ambient temperature is the preset temperature or lower, as compared with the interval if the ambient temperature is higher than the preset temperature. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277292 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a developer container; a developer carrier; a first transport member having a rotation shaft and a transport blade; a second transport member having a rotation shaft and a transport blade; a partition member; a guide member; a first inflow portion; a second inflow portion; and a movement portion. The rotation shaft of the first transport member is located within a projection area of the developer carrier projected from above. A second imaginary tangent line extending vertically and touching an outer end of the transport blade of the first transport member is farther from the image carrier than a first imaginary tangent line extending vertically and touching an outer surface of the developer carrier. A first distance between the first and second imaginary tangent lines is smaller than a second distance between a rotation center of the image carrier and an inner surface of the developer container. | 10-01-2015 |
20150276704 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an inspecting unit that performs a mold requirement inspection on three-dimensional information for manufacturing a product expressed by the three-dimensional information; and an outputting unit that outputs information for plotting a line indicative of an inexpedient part in a space configured of a surface of the product expressed by the three-dimensional information, as information indicative of an inspection result by the inspecting unit. | 10-01-2015 |
20150276703 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an inspecting unit that performs a mold requirement inspection on three-dimensional information for manufacturing a product expressed by the three-dimensional information; and an outputting unit that outputs information for plotting a line indicative of an inexpedient part on a surface of the product expressed by the three-dimensional information, as information indicative of an inspection result by the inspecting unit. | 10-01-2015 |
20150274870 | PERFLUOROALKYLENE ETHER-CONTAINING COMPOUND AND SURFACE PROTECTIVE FILM - Provided is a perfluoroalkylene ether-containing compound represented by the following general formula (1): | 10-01-2015 |
20150271360 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a generating unit that generates combined image data by size-reducing and arranging document read images having plural pages in accordance with a specified number of pages, a deciding unit that decides a compression method for the data, and a compression processing unit that compresses the data by a compression method decided by the deciding unit. During processing for determining a compression method suitable for the contents of each page of the data that is performed on the pages when the compression method for the data is specified, when a determined compression method for a particular page included in the data is an overriding compression method, the deciding unit cancels the processing and does not perform the processing on remaining pages, for each of which a compression method has not been determined, and sets the overriding compression method as the compression method for the data. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271351 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains image information for forming a confirmation image, a state of formation of the confirmation image at a peripheral portion of a recording medium when an image formation position with respect to the recording medium is a predetermined position differing from a state of formation of the confirmation image at the peripheral portion of the recording medium when the image formation position is shifted from the predetermined position; and a forming section that, when ascertaining the shift of the image formation position from the predetermined position, performs an image forming process using the image information obtained by the obtaining unit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271131 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a creating unit, and a requesting unit. The acquiring unit acquires a first communication address to be assigned to a first communication interface. The creating unit creates, in a case where a second communication address that has already been assigned to a second communication interface is the same as the first communication address, an alternative first communication address, which is different from the first communication address. The requesting unit requests assigning of the alternative first communication address to the first communication interface. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271091 | RELAY DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A relay device includes the following elements. A use request receiver receives a use request to use a service to be provided by a service providing device from a client device. An allocation request sender sends an allocation request to allocate a usage amount of the service based on a usage amount indicated by usage amount information specified by the use request received by the use request receiver to a different relay device. An allocated amount receiver receives allocated amount information indicating an allocated usage amount for the service sent from the different relay device in response to the allocation request. A return information generator generates return information from the allocated amount information received from the allocated amount receiver and a usage amount of the service. A return information sender sends the return information generated by the return information generator to the different relay device. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269368 | RELAY APPARATUS, SYSTEM, RELAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A relay apparatus includes a storage unit, a first reception unit, a first request unit, a second reception unit, a second request unit, a third reception unit, and an access unit. The storage unit stores, for each user, authorization information for accessing a service providing apparatus. The first reception unit receives from a client apparatus an access request including a request for access to the service providing apparatus and identification information for identifying the user. The first request unit issues an acquisition request for the authorization information to a different relay apparatus. The second reception unit receives authorization information transmitted from the different relay apparatus. The second request unit requests the different relay apparatus to update the received authorization information. The third reception unit receives updated authorization information transmitted from the different relay apparatus. The access unit accesses the service providing apparatus by using the received updated authorization information. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268909 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printing control apparatus including: a receiving unit that receives a print instruction to instruct to print on a recording medium; a transferring unit that makes a storing portion store the print instruction received by the receiving unit and transfers the print instruction to a printing device including a region in which plural print instructions are able to be stored; an acquiring unit that acquires, in the case where a print instruction is deleted in the printing device, if the deleted print instruction is the print instruction transferred by the transferring unit, information related to a processing state of the deleted print instruction in the printing device; and a detecting unit that detects an error of a printing processing in the deleted print instruction based on the information related to the processing state acquired by the acquiring unit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268907 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a rendering unit and a controller. The rendering unit includes a storage unit that stores therein an image transferred with transfer information when the rendering unit receives the transfer information and renders a print image. The rendering unit renders the print image while using the image stored in the storage unit. The controller includes a converting unit that converts information to be output into the transfer information and transfers the transfer information to the rendering unit. The converting unit manages a storage status of the storage unit included in the rendering unit and controls use of the storage unit by the rendering unit based on the transfer information. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268901 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes multiple communication interfaces, a holding unit, a counting unit, and a processing unit. The holding unit holds requests for the multiple communication interfaces in order for each of the communication interfaces, respectively. The counting unit counts a number of times that a turn to process the requests was not given for each of the communication interfaces. The processing unit selects one of the communication interfaces on the basis of the number of times, and processes the request being held for the selected communication interface. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268897 | PRINT INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print instruction apparatus includes a designation storing unit that stores plural pieces of designation information, each designating a print condition not specifying any printer, a combination storing unit that stores a combination of any of the plural pieces of designation information, a group storing unit that stores a group of print settings which realize, in each of plural printers, designation indicated by each of the plural pieces of designation information stored in the designation storing unit, for each of the printers, and a constraint deriving unit that derives a constraint relationship common to the plural printers, on the basis of the combination and the group. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268728 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOTIFYING USERS OF MISMATCHES BETWEEN INTENDED AND ACTUAL CAPTURED CONTENT DURING HEADS-UP RECORDING OF VIDEO - A computerized system and computer-implemented method for assisting a user with capturing a video of an activity. The system incorporates a central processing unit, a camera, a memory and an audio recording device. The computer-implemented method involves: using the camera to capture the video of the activity; using the central processing unit to process the captured video, the processing comprising determining a number of user's hands appearing in the captured video; using the recording device to capture of the audio associated with the activity; using the central processing unit to process the captured audio, the processing comprises determining a number of predetermined references in the captured audio; using the determined number of user's hands appearing in the captured video and the determined number of predetermined references in the captured audio to generate feedback to the user; and providing the generated feedback to the user using a notification. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268610 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LOG STORING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a log storing unit that stores a log of each of plural object items that are set in advance, and a setting unit that, when an error occurs, selects predetermined one or more object items from the plural object items on the basis of a type of the error, and makes a setting such that logs of the selected one or more object items are stored in the log storing unit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268598 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing member having a medium heating member and rotating while nipping a medium to fix an unfixed image onto a surface thereof; a pressing member disposed facing the fixing member and applying pressure to the medium in a fixing region between the pressing and heating members; a cleaning member; and an antistatic member. The cleaning member is disposed downstream of the fixing region in a rotational direction of the pressing member and comes into contact therewith in a cleaning region extending in a direction orthogonal to a medium transport direction to clean the pressing member. The antistatic member is disposed downstream of the cleaning member and comes into contact with a surface of the pressing member in an antistatic region, which overlaps the cleaning region in the direction orthogonal to the medium transport direction, so as to eliminate static electricity from the pressing member. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268595 | MEMBER FOR USE IN FIXING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A member for use in a fixing device includes a base member that has a substantially cylindrical shape, and a covering member with which an outer peripheral surface of the base member is covered, the covering member including a first release layer that contains a first fluorocarbon resin and a second release layer that contains a second fluorocarbon resin and that is stacked on an area in the outer peripheral surface of the first release layer other than end portions of the outer peripheral surface of the first release layer in a width direction. In the covering member, a coefficient of kinetic friction of the outer peripheral surface of the first release layer that is exposed at ends of the member for use in a fixing device in the width direction is greater than a coefficient of kinetic friction of an outer peripheral surface of the second release layer. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268587 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FIXING DEVICE, DRYING DEVICE, DEVELOPER, AND LIQUID DROPLETS FOR USE IN IMAGE FORMATION - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium by using a developer and an energy generating unit that generates energy that causes the developer on the recording medium, on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit, to generate heat. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268583 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes: a first transport member that transports developer in a developer container; a second transport member that transports the developer in a direction opposite to a direction of transport by the first transport member; an inflow portion provided at a downstream end in the direction of transport by the second transport member and on an outer side with respect to an end of a developer carrying body, the inflow portion allowing the developer to flow from a second housing into a first housing; a high-speed transport portion provided in a range corresponding to the inflow portion and that transports the developer at a higher speed; and a regulating member provided at a position corresponding to a downstream end of the high-speed transport portion in the direction of transport by the first transport member and that regulates a height of a mound of developer in the first housing. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268582 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that has a supply port through which developer is supplied, the developing device developing an image with developer; a developer supply device to which the developing device is removably attached, the developer supply device having a discharge port to be connected to the supply port when the developing device is attached to the developer supply device, the developer supply device supplying the developer to the developing device through the discharge port; a seal member that seals between the supply port and the discharge port; and a guide portion that guides attachment of the developing device to the developer supply device or removal of the developing device from the developer supply device so as not to rub the seal member. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268569 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a cylindrical conductive substrate, an undercoat layer containing a cured product of a resin and a blocked isocyanate and being disposed on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer on the undercoat layer. The degree of curing of the undercoat layer defined by the equation below is about 1.5 or less in both a region A and a region B defined below: | 09-24-2015 |
20150268568 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a singlelayer type photosensitive layer that contains a binder resin (A), a charge generating material (B), a positive hole transporting material (C), an electron transporting material (D) whose content is in a range of 10% by weight to 40% by weight with respect to the binder resin (A) and which is represented by the following formula (d), and a terphenyl compound (E): | 09-24-2015 |
20150268567 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layered photosensitive layer formed so as to overlie the conductive substrate, the photosensitive layer containing a binder resin, a charge-generating material, a hole-transporting material, an electron-transporting material represented by General Formula (1), and at least one compound selected from a compound represented by General Formula (2) and a compound represented by General Formula (3). The amount of the at least one compound selected from the compound represented by General Formula (2) and the compound represented by General Formula (3) is in the range of approximately 10 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight in total relative to 100 parts by weight of the electron-transporting material represented by General Formula (1). | 09-24-2015 |
20150264216 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading device includes a first and second document tables, a document transport member, and a reading unit. The first document table supports a document sheet. The second document table adjacent to the first document table allows the document sheet to pass therethrough while the document sheet is kept separate from the second document table. The reading unit, which reads the document sheet, includes a movement unit movable relative to the first and second document tables. At least one of positions of the first document table, the second document table, and a position where the document sheet is transported is set so as to cause an optical path length between the reading unit and the document sheet passing through the second document table to correspond to an optical path length between the reading unit and the document sheet supported by the first document table. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264209 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an operator determining unit, a receiving unit, and a display. The operator determining unit determines an operator of the image processing apparatus. The receiving unit receives, before the operator is determined by the operator determining unit, an operation that causes the image processing apparatus to perform image processing. The display displays, after the receiving unit has received the operation, an image used to cause the operator determining unit to determine the operator. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264190 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires first image information which is image information configured of plural pixels and which includes density information for each pixel, a first correction unit that corrects pixel density based on the first image information, a storage unit that stores image information obtained after the first correction unit performs the correction as second image information, a second correction unit that performs a reverse correction so as to cancel the correction by the first correction unit based on density of a pixel of the second image information, a display unit that displays an image on a display section based on third image information which is image information obtained after the second correction unit performs the reverse correction, and a transmission unit that transmits the second image information to an image forming apparatus. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264030 | PRINT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT SERVICE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR AUTHORIZING ACCESS TO PRINT DATA HELD BY A PRINT SERVICE SYSTEM - A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication. The image forming apparatus includes an authorization information acquiring unit that acquires the access authorization information by the proximity communication, and a print data acquiring unit that sends the acquired access authorization information to the print service system, is authorized to access the holding unit, and acquires the print data. | 09-17-2015 |
20150263924 | COMMUNICATION STATUS MEASUREMENT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION STATUS MEASUREMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a communication status measurement device wirelessly connected to a public network and communicating with a server connected to the public network through a communication channel determined in advance. A measurement unit repeatedly measures a time since a dummy packet is transmitted to the server until an acknowledgement packet corresponding to the dummy packet is received. A pattern calculation unit calculates a pattern obtained by removing a component at frequencies more than a first frequency from a pattern of variations in a measured value. An RTT acquisition unit that acquires a round trip time, which is used to calculate an actual bandwidth of the communication channel, on a basis of the calculated pattern. An implementation unit implements a virtual private network in the communication status measurement device itself. The dummy packet is transmitted and the acknowledgement packet is received via the virtual private network and the public network. | 09-17-2015 |
20150262046 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print data processing apparatus includes the following elements. A spot color memory stores a spot color element. A flattening section performs, when a new image element is input in accordance with a rendering order, flattening processing for separating the new image element into a basic color element having only a basic color component and a spot color element having only a spot color component, for updating a configuration of each spot color element stored in the spot color memory to a configuration from which a portion hidden by a configuration of a newly separated spot color element is removed, and for storing the new spot color element in the spot color memory. An output section outputs, when spot color elements obtained by separating all image elements included in each unit of output are stored in the spot color memory, the spot color elements stored in the spot color memory. | 09-17-2015 |
20150262045 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first detection unit, a first determination unit, a second detection unit, a second determination unit, a correction unit, and a transmitting unit. The acquisition unit acquires image information having multiple pixels. The first detection unit detects sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in accordance with the image information. The first determination unit determines whether or not a development-related defect occurs in a preset number of pixels downstream of the sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in the sub-scanning direction. The second detection unit detects an end pixel in the main scanning direction. The second determination unit determines whether or not each of sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels arranged in the main scanning direction is close to the end pixel in the main scanning direction. The correction unit corrects the image information. The transmitting unit transmits the image information corrected by the correction unit to an image forming apparatus. | 09-17-2015 |
20150262042 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a first instruction and a second instruction, the second instruction corresponding to the first instruction, being expressed in a character code different from a character code of the first instruction, and having added thereto a character string generated from the first instruction; a generating unit that generates a character string from the first instruction; and a canceling unit that cancels the second instruction if the character string added to the second instruction does not correspond to the character string generated by the generating unit. | 09-17-2015 |