| CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA Patent applications |
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| 20130125244 | PLATFORM INTEGRITY VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A platform integrity verification system capable of executing platform integrity verification by a trusted boot without causing a delay of system startup time. The platform integrity verification system has an information processing device and an integrity verification computer that is communicably connected to each other. The information processing device comprises an acquisition section acquires a unique value from each of a plurality of programs executed by the information processing device when the information processing device is shut down; and a storage section configured to store the unique value acquired by the acquisition section in a storage device. The integrity verification computer comprises a comparison section configured to acquire the unique value stored in the storage device through communication with the information processing device and compares the acquired unique value with a predetermined value held in advance for each program. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125234 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The history of the output destination of a job is displayed, and selection of a send destination in the history by a user is accepted. It is determined whether the user has an authority to register the selected send destination in a database in which output destination candidates used when executing a job are registered. If it is determined that the user has the authority, an acceptance display is presented to be able to accept an instruction of registration of the send destination in the database. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125134 | SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - If a specific task is to perform a process at the time of processing a specific job, the specific task performs a process specified in the specific task by accessing a third party system using a stored access token and receiving a third party service. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125054 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS ICON, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of improving the visibility and operability of icons for a user. The image processing apparatus includes a console section. A button data import-processing section acquires location information of a server on a network. A server stores icon data indicating an icon to be displayed on a console section, for use in executing predetermined processing. When the location information is acquired, a communication section accesses the server indicated by the location information to thereby acquire icon data. The console section is caused to display the icon indicated by the acquired icon data. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124881 | NETWORK SYSTEM, ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An analysis system according to the present invention has a configuration for obtaining power consumption of an image forming apparatus in which a power log has been collected, and controlling a display of the power consumption. In a case where if the image forming apparatus is in a predetermined state, and power consumption of the image forming apparatus in the predetermined state has not been recorded in a log, then the analysis is performed and power consumption in the predetermined state is obtained by using time spent in the predetermined state and power consumption per unit time of the image forming apparatus in the predetermined state. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124857 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - It is determined whether a user who has logged in in communication using a selfsigned certificate stored by default is an administrator or a general user. If it is determined that the user is an administrator, an install page for a CA-signed certificate which is more reliable than the selfsigned certificate is returned to the user. Alternatively, if it is determined that the user is a general user, an error page is returned to the user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124737 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus receives, from a first apparatus which has established a communication session, a signal indicating a state in which the communication session should be maintained. If the signal is not received from the first apparatus within a predetermined period of time while the communication session with the first apparatus is established, and a communication session establishment request is received from a second apparatus, the communication apparatus disconnects the communication session with the first apparatus. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124729 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus establishes a communication link with another communication apparatus, and establishes a communication session with another communication apparatus using the established communication link. After a predetermined number of communication sessions have been established, the communication apparatus restricts communication sessions other than the predetermined number of established communication sessions. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124609 | PROVIDING IMAGE DATA TO A CLIENT DISPLAY DEVICE - Providing display information to a client display device communicating with a plurality of servers is disclosed. Each of the servers provides a pre-assigned partial region of an overall image for display on the client display device. The client display device sends a request to each server via a multicast or broadcast communication channel. The request includes an identification of a plurality of partial regions of an image to be displayed on the client display device. The client display device receives image data from each server that is assigned to generate image data for partial regions identified by the client. Each of such servers asynchronously provides the image data for its pre-assigned partial region by sending the image data over one or more respective data communication channels to the client display device, in accordance with the request sent to each server via the communication channel. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124582 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention is directed to a document processing system and control method thereof. The system stores a plurality of items of document data each containing metadata pertaining to the contents of each item of document data, and relation information representing the relations between the plurality of items of document data. When scanned image data or facsimile-received image data is input, document data related to the input image data is specified among the plurality of items of stored document data, based on the metadata contained in each item of document data. Relation information representing the relation between the input image data and the specified related document data is stored. Even document data obtained from a paper document is able to be stored as document data subjected to search processing. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130123627 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an object information acquiring apparatus for acquiring object information, including: a probe including a plurality of elements arranged along at least a first direction and configured to sequentially perform transmitting of acoustic wave beams and receiving of reflected waves along the first direction by the plurality of elements; a scanning unit configured to set a second direction intersecting the first direction as a main scanning direction and move the probe at a predetermined speed; and a adjusting unit configured to acquire information on a measurement depth for acquiring object information in a transmitting direction of the acoustic wave beams and determine the number of times of transmitting of acoustic wave beams and receiving of reflected waves along the first direction based on the depth, resolution of the object information in the main scanning direction, and a moving speed of the probe. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130123604 | PHOTOACOUSTIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - A photoacoustic diagnostic apparatus having: a light source; a probe which receives an acoustic wave generated when light is irradiated onto an object from a light source and which converts the acoustic wave into an electrical signal; a memory unit which records the electrical signal; and a memory control unit which controls whether or not to cause the memory unit to record the electrical signal, wherein the memory control unit controls the memory unit on the basis of a timing at which the probe receives an acoustic wave generated from a portion other than a light absorbing material inside an object. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130123545 | METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING DIKETOPYRACENE - Diketopyracene is synthesized in high yield without using carbon disulfide as a solvent. A special solvent is used. In particular, a solvent having a benzene ring that has two or more chlorine atoms is used. The two chlorine atoms are not in meta positions but in ortho positions of the benzene ring. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122820 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus acquires a delay profile for a first transmit signal from a transmitting apparatus and determines an end time at which to end detection of a second transmit signal from the transmitting apparatus, based on the delay profile. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122815 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A method for controlling a communication apparatus includes communicating with an external device through close proximity wireless communication, receiving a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller, storing a remote control setting which enables or disables an operation of the remote controller, making a determination as to whether a connection between the communication apparatus and the external device through the close proximity wireless communication is established, and controlling an operation of the remote controller for the communication apparatus on the basis of the determination. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122805 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A first user instruction for turning on a communication unit of a communication apparatus is detected. An instruction which is performed firstly, out of the first user instruction and a second user instruction for turning on a communication unit of the other communication apparatus, is determined. Based on this determination result, data designated by a user is transmitted from the communication apparatus to another communication apparatus. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122644 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate, and a multilayer wiring structure arranged on the semiconductor substrate, the multilayer wiring structure including a plurality of first electrically conductive lines, an insulating film covering the plurality of first electrically conductive lines, and a second electrically conductive line arranged on the insulating film so as to intersect the plurality of first electrically conductive lines, wherein the insulating film has gaps in at least some of a plurality of regions where the plurality of first electrically conductive lines and the second electrically conductive line intersect each other, and a width of the gap in a direction along the second electrically conductive line is not larger than a width of the first electrically conductive line. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122414 | TONER - Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle having a core-shell structure in which a shell phase containing a resin A is formed on a core that contains a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, wherein the resin A is a vinyl resin prepared by copolymerizing a vinyl monomer X that has an organopolysiloxane structure and a vinyl monomer Y that has a polyester segment capable of forming a crystalline structure; the content of the vinyl monomer X in a total monomer used for the copolymerization is in a particular range; the toner particle contains resin A in a particular proportion; and the binder resin contains a crystalline resin. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122413 | AZO COMPOUND, PIGMENT DISPERSANT CONTAINING THE AZO COMPOUND, PIGMENT COMPOSITION, PIGMENT DISPERSION, AND TONER - A novel compound that can improve the dispersibility of an azo pigment in a non-water-soluble solvent is provided, which is represented by the following formula (1): | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121790 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes: a holding portion which holds a booklet containing a two-folded sheet; and a pressing portion which presses a spine of a booklet into shapes during movement along the spine of the booklet held by the holding portion. The pressing portion can decrease, or release a pressing force to be applied to the booklet spine within a predetermined area of a moving range in which the pressing roller moves along the booklet spine. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121739 | SHEET COOLING APPARATUS, SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND SHEET MOISTURIZING APPARATUS - A sheet cooling device includes a fixing device for heat fixing an unfixed image formed on a sheet; and a cooling device for cooling the sheet heated by the fixing device, the cooling device including, a rotatable endless belt contactable with the sheet heated by the fixing device and traveling above the fixing device; and a cooling member for cooling the endless belt to condense water vapor produced by a fixing operation. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121737 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt; a heater, provided in an interior of the endless belt, for heating the endless belt; a back-up member contacted to an inner surface of the endless belt; a pressing member for forming a nip for nipping and feeding a recording material together with the back-up member through the endless belt; and a protecting member, provided surrounding the heater in the interior of the endless belt and rotatable around the heater, the protecting member includes a shield portion for blocking between the endless belt and the heater and an opening, arranged in a circumferential direction of the protecting member. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121736 | IMAGE HEATING DEVICE - An image heating device includes an endless belt including a base layer and an elastic layer formed around the base layer, a contact member contacting an inner surface of the endless belt, a pressure rotating member forming a nip portion configured to convey a recording material while nipping the recording material along with the contact member via the endless belt, wherein an image formed on the recording material is heated at the nip portion using heat from the endless belt, and wherein one end of the endless belt is coated with the elastic layer and the other end of the endless belt is not coated with the elastic layer, and a belt lateral shifting direction regulating mechanism configured to regulate a direction in which the endless belt shifts when the endless belt is rotated, toward the end coated with the elastic layer. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121727 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - In order to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member in which the dark-area potential does not easily change even when repeatedly used for a long period of time under a normal temperature/low humidity environment, a method of producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus, each comprising the electrophotographic photosensitive member, an undercoat layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is incorporated with an organic resin, a metal oxide particle, and a specific compound (phosphine oxide compound). | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121725 | IMAGE FORMING UNIT - In a process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus and including a photosensitive member and a charging roller, a spacer member for spacing the charging roller from the photosensitive member during the transportation and the displaying is recessed relative to the photosensitive member. The spacer member receives a driving force from the main assembly of the apparatus, by which the spacer member is disengaged to contact the charging roller to the photosensitive member. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121724 | CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cartridge attachable/detachable to/from a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, the cartridge includes a developer storage unit configured to store developer, a partitioning member movably provided inside the developer storage unit and configured to partition the developer storage unit, a developer conveyance member configured to convey the developer stored in the developer storage unit, and an operated portion configured to move the partitioning member, wherein when the cartridge is attached to the main assembly, the operated portion is moved by touching the main assembly to move the partitioning member from a first position to a second position where the developer storage unit is caused to be greater in capacity than that in the first position. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121723 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SUPPORTING MEMBER - An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a supporting member for supporting a plurality of electrophotographic photosensitive members. The supporting member is movable between an inside position inside the main assembly and an outside position outside the main assembly in a state in which the supporting member is supported by the main assembly and is disengageable from the main assembly at the outside position. The apparatus further includes a portion to be prevented, provided to the supporting member, with the portion to be prevented being movable between a preventing position in which the portion to be prevented contacts a preventing portion in order to prevent the supporting member from being disengaged from the main assembly and a retracted position in which the portion to be prevented is retracted from the preventing position in order to disengage the supporting member from the main assembly. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121721 | DEVELOPER CONVEYANCE APPARATUS DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A developer conveyance apparatus includes a developer storage portion storing developer, an opening for supplying developer from the developer storage portion, a sealing member configured to seal the opening, a removing member configured to remove the sealing member, and a conveyance portion arranged inside the developer storage portion and configured to convey the developer in a predetermined developer conveyance direction, wherein the conveyance portion can move between a first position and a second position on the upstream side with respect to the first position in the developer conveyance direction, and wherein when the conveyance portion receives a force not smaller than a predetermined magnitude from the developer with the conveyance portion rotating while the removing member is removing the sealing member from the opening, the conveyance portion moves from the first position to the second position. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121720 | CARTRIDGE AND UNIT - A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus includes a cartridge frame formed of a resin material; a plurality of resin members molded on the cartridge frame by injection molding of a resin material different from that of the cartridge frame; a plurality of contact surfaces, provided on the cartridge frame, to which metal molds corresponding to the resin members are to be contacted from the same side when the resin members are molded; and a plurality of resin material inlet ports, provided in an opposite side of said cartridge frame from a side where the contact surfaces are provided. The resin material has been flowed into the cartridge frame when the resin members are molded. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121717 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes a fixing section which has a heater and heats and fixes an unfixed image, formed on a recording material, to the recording material, a power supply section which has a rectification section rectifying alternating current, a power factor improvement section receiving input of current output from the rectification section, and a DC/DC converter DC/DC converting current output from the power factor improvement section, a current detection section which detects current flowing to the heater, and a control section which controls operation of the power factor improvement section according to current detected by the current detection section. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121712 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE HEATING SYSTEM - When a heater is turned off before passing of a rear end of a sheet through a fixing device, a poor image such as a poor fixing occurs and it is difficult to reduce power consumption. A stop timing of the heater is controlled according to a temperature state of the fixing device, an installation environment of the apparatus, a kind of the sheet, or the like. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121711 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a profile storage section that stores distortion characteristic of a scanning line, a correcting section that corrects image data by lines in the sub scanning direction, and a registration sensor that detects a pattern image for detecting color misregistration amounts in a sub scanning direction of images formed on an intermediate transfer member. When the pattern image is formed, the distortion correcting section shifts image data of the pattern image by lines in the sub scanning direction so that, with reference to a detection position of the registration sensor, a positional displacement amount of the pattern image in the sub scanning direction becomes less than or equal to ½ of a scanning-line distance, in accordance with a positional displacement amount of the scanning line in the sub scanning direction at a detection position of the registration sensor along a main scanning direction. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121710 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit for acquiring a target value and a first surface characteristic value that is a surface characteristic of a first chart, a second acquisition unit for acquiring a second surface characteristic value that is a surface characteristic of a second chart, and a calibration unit for calibrating, when a difference between the first and second surface characteristic values is smaller than a threshold value, a mixed color using the target value and a measured value of the second chart. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121709 | PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus according to the present invention is a printing apparatus that performs printing using a recording material, and includes a plurality of storage units configured to store a recording material, a reception unit configured to receive designation information for specifying a storage unit to which the recording material is supplied, and a moving unit configured to move the storage unit that the designation information specifies, into a position at which the recording material can be supplied, according to an instruction. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121673 | LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A lens system includes an operating unit for operating a lens apparatus, an operation-side communication unit performing bidirectional communication to/from the operating unit via a transmission line, and a lens-side communication unit performing bidirectional communication to/from the lens apparatus via a transmission line. The operation-side and lens-side communication units perform wireless communication to/from each other. The operation-side communication unit includes a command selecting unit selecting a command to be transmitted to the lens-side communication unit from commands input from the operating unit, and an answer interpolating unit generating an interpolated answer by interpolating answers with respect to commands that are not selected. The lens-side communication unit includes an answer selecting unit selecting an answer to be transmitted to the operation-side communication unit from answers input from the lens apparatus, and a command interpolating unit generating a command by interpolating commands received from the operation-side communication unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121603 | RESOLUTION CONVERSION UPON HIERARCHICAL CODING AND DECODING - In a decoding method of decoding encoded image data which has been hierarchically encoded in advance, a size of an image to be outputted is determined, and then the encoded image data is decoded up to a layer of hierarchy which is at least one layer more than a minimum number of layer/layers of hierarchy necessary to acquire an image of the determined size. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121592 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS,POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus comprises: extraction means for extracting an occluded region in which illumination irradiated onto the target object is occluded in an obtained two-dimensional image; projection means for projecting a line segment that constitutes a three-dimensional model onto the two-dimensional image based on approximate values of position/orientation of the target object; association means for associating a point that constitutes the projected line segment with a point that constitutes an edge in the two-dimensional image; determination means for determining whether the associated point that constitutes an edge in the two-dimensional image is present within the occluded region; and measurement means for measuring the position/orientation of the target object based on a distance on the two-dimensional image between the point that constitutes the projected line segment and the point that constitutes the edge, the points being associated as the pair, and a determination result. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121590 | EVENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND EVENT DETECTION METHOD - An event detection apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a plurality of time-sequential images, a first extraction unit configured to extract sets of first image samples according to respective different sample scales from a first time range of the plurality of time-sequential images based on a first scale parameter, a second extraction unit configured to extract sets of second image samples according to respective different sample scales from a second time range of the plurality of time-sequential images based on a second scale parameter, a dissimilarity calculation unit configured to calculate a dissimilarity between the first and second image samples based on the sets of the first and second image samples, and a detection unit configured to detect an event from the plurality of time-sequential images based on the dissimilarity. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121578 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An apparatus comprises a unit which stores a size and scene information for each of a plurality of divided areas obtained by dividing an input image, a unit which obtains a plurality of scene-based images by processing the input image based on the scene information of the plurality of divided areas, a unit which determines composite ratios of the plurality of scene-based images by determining, for each of the plurality of divided areas, a transition pattern of a composite ratio from a first composite ratio within the divided area to a second composite ratio within an area other than the divided area based on the size of the divided area, and a unit which composites the plurality of scene-based images in correspondence with the plurality of the divided areas, in accordance with the determined composite ratios. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121473 | RADIATION GENERATING TUBE AND RADIATION GENERATING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A radiation generating tube includes a cathode connected to an electron emitting member; an anode including a target; and an insulating tube disposed between the cathode and the anode to surround the electron emitting member. The insulating tube includes an electrical potential defining member at an intermediate portion of the insulating tube in a longitudinal axis direction of the insulating tube. The electrical potential defining member is electrically connected to an electrical potential defining unit. The potential of the electrical potential defining member is controlled to be higher than that of the cathode and lower than that of the anode. A boundary of the electrical potential defining member and the insulating tube does not face a portion of the anode exposed to the inside of the radiation generating tube. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121418 | MOVING IMAGE CODING APPARATUS - An image coding apparatus determines an image pattern of image data and, based on the determined image pattern, selects a prediction mode for generating predicted pixel values by predicting pixel values in a frame using pixel values in the same frame. Alternatively, based on photographing information concerning input image data, an image coding apparatus selects a prediction mode for generating predicted pixel values by predicting pixel values in a frame using pixel values in the same frame. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121402 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image coding apparatus includes: a division unit configured to divide a coding target picture included in an input video signal into a plurality of slices each including one or more data blocks; a coding unit configured to code the video signal in a unit of the slice divided by the division unit; and a setting unit configured to set at least one of a division position of the slice and a number of divisions of the slice, to the division unit. In the image coding apparatus, the setting unit sets at least one of the division position of the slice and the number of divisions of the slice so that slice boundaries differ from each other between adjacent pictures. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121106 | IMAGE INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - An image information obtaining apparatus having: a light source; a transducer which detects an acoustic wave and converts the acoustic wave to an electrical signal; a signal processing unit which generates image data, using the electrical signal; and a memory unit which stores a reference acoustic signal produced by the transducer detecting an acoustic wave generated when light is irradiated from the light source onto a phantom having acoustic parameters and optical parameters substantially the same as an object and converting the acoustic wave to an electrical signal, wherein the transducer produces an object acoustic signal by converting the acoustic wave, generated when light is irradiated onto an object from the light source, to an electrical signal; and the signal processing unit subtracts the reference acoustic signal from the object acoustic signal and generates image data from the signal resulting from this subtraction. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120862 | BARREL UNIT AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A barrel unit includes a barrel, a holding member configured to hold an optical element, a cylindrical member configured to support the barrel and the holding member, and a driving unit configured to generate a thrust by electrifying in a magnetic field formed by a magnet and a yoke a coil fixed onto the cylindrical member and to drive the holding member in an optical axis direction of the optical element by using the thrust. The yoke, the magnet, and the coil are located outside of a part of the cylindrical member which supports the barrel. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120860 | OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - The optical element driving apparatus includes a voice coil motor moving an optical element in a first direction, and a magnetic sensor detecting a position of the optical element. A yoke of the motor includes a first yoke portion having a magnet attaching surface to which the magnet is attached and a second yoke portion disposed away from the first yoke portion in a second direction so as to form a space with magnet, allowing movement of a coil of the motor in the first direction. The second yoke portion is disposed closer to the magnetic sensor than the first yoke portion in a plane orthogonal to the first direction. In a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, a magnetic path width A of the second yoke portion and a width C of the magnet have the following relationship of A>C. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120857 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel capable of distributing, upon receipt of the impact of, e.g., dropping, a torque load so as not to concentrate on a particular linear movement key and groove for linearly moving a barrel member, thereby suppressing occurrence of a failure. The lens barrel has a fixed barrel ( | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120853 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refracting power; a second lens unit having negative refracting power; a third lens unit having positive refracting power; a fourth lens unit having negative refracting power; and a fifth lens unit having positive refracting power, wherein the lens units move when zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end; the third lens unit and the fifth lens unit move together when zooming; the fifth lens unit includes an aperture stop in the optical path thereof; the third lens unit or the fourth lens unit moves during focusing; and the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.5<|f | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120852 | ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens includes, from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a subsequent lens unit. The first lens unit includes an optical element composed of an anomalous dispersion optical material, a positive lens, and a negative lens. The shape of the negative lens and the ratio of the Abbe number of the positive lens and the Abbe number of the negative lens satisfy predetermined conditions. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120851 | COLOR SEPARATING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A color separating optical system includes a first prism including a second surface for separating an beam into reflected and transmitted beams; and a second prism including a third surface disposed to have an air gap interposed between the third and second surfaces and a fourth surface for separating a beam from the third surface into reflected and transmitted beams. At least one of the second and third surfaces has a multi-layer film, and 0.70| 05-16-2013 | |
| 20130120818 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS - The optical scanning apparatus including a light source unit having plurality laser light sources for emitting laser light and one lens in which the laser light emitted from the plurality laser light sources is transmitted, a deflect device that deflects and scans the laser light on an image bearing member, an optical member that images the laser light on the image bearing member, a housing that internally includes the deflect device and the optical member, the housing forms an opening portion that passes through the laser light emitted from the plurality of the laser light sources, and an elastic member that blocks a gap between the lens and the opening portion, the elastic member being pinched between the lens and the housing. It achieves sealing of the flow-in path and sealing of the gap between the light source unit and the housing with a simple configuration. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120811 | IMAGE DETERMINING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DETERMINING METHOD - Erroneous determination of an image caused by color shift is prevented. Image data is divided in a sub-scanning direction into a first region where color shift hardly occurs and a second region where color shift easily occurs. There are detected a first color line drawing extending in a main-scanning direction in the first region, a second color line drawing extending in the main-scanning direction and having a width larger than that of the first color line drawing in the second region, and a third color line drawing extending in the sub-scanning direction in the image data. On the basis of the detected first, second, and third color line drawings, it is determined whether a document is a color document or not. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120810 | SHEET FEEDING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - A sheet feeding device includes a sheet supporting portion, a sheet feeding portion, and a movable regulating portion. The sheet feeding portion feeds a sheet bundle uppermost sheet. The movable regulating portion is disposed downstream of the sheet bundle in a sheet feeding direction such that the movable regulating portion is tiltable between a regulation position and a regulation release position. While the movable regulating portion regulates the sheet bundle movement in the regulation position, the sheet feeding portion forms a loop in the uppermost sheet between the sheet feeding portion and the movable regulating portion, the movable regulating portion is moved to the regulation release position after loop formation to remove the formed loop, and the movable regulating portion is returned to the regulation position after loop removal such that the movable regulating portion raises the uppermost sheet leading end to separate the uppermost sheet from other sheets. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120807 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Banding can be prevented and image-quality degradation can be reduced. An image processing apparatus includes first creation means configured to distribute density of image data to a pixel on another scanning line on the basis of a difference between an actual print position of the image data and a reference position and to create position-corrected image data, second creation means configured to correct the image data using a correction value corresponding to a position of the image data and to create density-corrected image data, and generation means configured to generate output image data using the position-corrected image data created by the first creation means and the density-corrected image data created by the second creation means. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120803 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, when correcting image data using correction information, corrects skew of the image in the sub-scanning direction that is formed by the image forming unit by correcting the image data also at an end portion of an area where an image forming unit forms the image. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120802 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus and image processing method that make it possible to reduce jaggedness and blurring that may occur when performing resolution conversion of an inputted image from low resolution to high resolution, and make it possible to output a high-resolution image. When performing the conversion from low resolution to high resolution, a multi-gradation signal value pattern that surround a pixel of interest for which interpolation is being performed is acquired. By performing pattern matching, a pattern that corresponds to the acquired signal value pattern is extracted from among pattern files that are prepared in advance for the acquired signal value pattern, after which the image is converted to high resolution by signal value substitution and then outputted. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120801 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a conversion unit and a determination unit to convert image data into color material data including color material data indicating a color material amount of a chromatic color material and color material data indicating a color material amount of an achromatic color material. The conversion unit converts image data of a region of interest in an image into the color material data of the chromatic color material. The determination unit determines the color material data of the achromatic color material corresponding to the image data so that a color indicated by coloring information corresponding to the image data of the region of interest in the image approaches an achromatic color. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120799 | JOB PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - It is confirmed whether or not a job that instructs the execution of multiple processes using the XML language includes a process that cannot be executed by a job processing unit, and in the case where it has been confirmed that the job includes a process that cannot be executed by the job processing unit, the job processing unit is caused to execute a process that the job processing unit is capable of executing from among the multiple processes. Processes that cannot be executed by the job processing unit are ignored, cancelled, or processed according to a pre-set specification. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120796 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus issues information for identifying a printing apparatus, determines, based on the information, whether printing is to be performed by the printing apparatus, and transmits a print target image to the printing apparatus based on a result of the determination. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120794 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, a selection unit, and a generation unit. The storage unit stores first route information for acquiring first print information from an information processing apparatus, and stores second route information for acquiring second print information via an information conversion apparatus. The selection unit selects the second route information if conversion of the first print information into the second print information is necessary. In response to determining that a factor disturbing an acquisition of the second print information exist, the generation unit changes the second route information selected by the selection unit to the first route information, and request the conversion to the information processing apparatus so that, among pieces of print information which can be output from the information processing apparatus and can be printed by the image forming apparatus, the first print information becomes print information closer to the second print information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120791 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides a mechanism which improves the operability by speeding up an operation of displaying a personal address book. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus manages a plurality of transmit destinations by classifying the plurality of transmit destinations into a plurality of first transmit destination groups individually for respective users, and a second transmit destination group shared by a plurality of users, and displays on a display unit a list of transmit destinations included in a first transmit destination group corresponding to an authenticated user if an authentication function is valid, and displays on the display unit a list of transmit destinations included in the second transmit destination group if the authentication function is invalid. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120789 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HAVING PC-FAX TRANSMISSION FUNCTION, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A communication apparatus that can leave a transmission history including transmission destination information as well as transmission destination dial information at the time of PC-FAX transmission. A facsimile apparatus, which is a communication apparatus having a PC-FAX transmission function, acquires transmission destination dial information from a facsimile transmission request received from a client terminal, searches an address book database registered in the facsimile apparatus to find an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information, and performs facsimile transmission based on the acquired transmission destination dial information. If an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information is found by the search, a transmission history is stored that includes dial information and transmission destination information that are registered in the address book found by the search. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEMORY MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to solve dissatisfaction of the user who can not take out the source data in a case where a code image in the original can not be decoded. In order to accomplish the above object, the invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising code image detection unit that determines whether or not an code image is included in the original image data, code image decoding unit that decodes the code image to extract source data if it is determined that the code image is included by the code image detection unit, and synthesizing unit that encodes information obtained by decoding a partial area of the code image and overlaying encoded information on the area where the code image is included, if the code image decoding unit is successful in decoding only the partial area of the code image. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120785 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING USER LOGIN FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of improving ease of operation for users and also improving security when destinations are made public. The image processing apparatus is shared by a plurality of users and capable of selecting a destination from a plurality of address books and carrying out file transmission to the destination. It is determined whether or not a user has logged in, and when it is determined that the user has logged in, only personal addresses for the logged-in user are displayed on a display unit. The personal destinations displayed on the display unit are switched to destinations other than the personal destinations according to selection by the user. When it is determined that the user has not logged in, all destinations which are registered in the plurality of address books are displayed on the display unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120784 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A system comprises an image forming apparatus and a server, the image forming apparatus including: a receiving unit which receives the series of data from the server; a transfer unit which transfers a plurality of print jobs included in the series of data to a printing unit; and an accepting unit which accepts a cancel instruction for the series of data from a user, wherein when the receiving unit accepts the cancel instruction while receiving the series of data, the receiving unit discards the plurality of print jobs until termination data is received, and when the transfer unit accepts the cancel instruction while transferring the series of data, the transfer unit cancels transfer of the plurality of print jobs to the printing unit, and instructs the printing unit to cancel printing of a transferred print job. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120768 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CHANGING LAYOUT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Logical pages are laid out on a physical page according to setting of a multipage printing condition. When a user drags a logical page, a layout of logical pages is changed based on an area to which the logical page is dragged. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120733 | POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS WHICH MEASURE POSITION OF OBJECT USING REFERENCE MARK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVICE - A position measurement apparatus that measures a position of an object using a reference mark includes a first illumination optical system configured to illuminate the object using measurement light from a light source which emits light of a first wavelength band, a second illumination optical system configured to illuminate the reference mark using reference light of a second wavelength band, and a position measurement unit configured to detect light from the object and light from the reference mark and to obtain the position of the object based on the detection result, and the second wavelength band of the reference light is set between an upper limit and a lower limit of the first wavelength band of the measurement light from the light source. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120653 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus, equipped with a common input terminal inputting different video signals, can discriminate the type of an input video signal entered from the common input terminal. The display apparatus includes the common input terminal inputting different video signals. A synchronizing signal separation unit separates a synchronizing signal from a video signal entered from the common input terminal. A frequency measurement unit measures a frequency of the synchronizing signal. An input signal discrimination unit discriminates the video signal entered from the common input terminal based on a type of the synchronizing signal separated by the synchronizing signal separation unit and a measurement result obtained by the frequency measurement unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120645 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to sequentially acquire an imaging signal while a focus lens is moving, a generation unit configured to generate a focus signal by using the imaging signal, and a control unit configured to control movement of the focus lens. The control unit performs a first operation for driving the focus lens in one direction in a range including a first area and a second area which is farther from a peak position of the focus signal than the first area. In the first operation, the control unit sets a focusing speed to a first speed when the focus lens is in the first area. When a predetermined condition is satisfied in the first operation, the control unit sets a focusing speed to a second speed faster than the first speed when the focus lens is in the second area. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120643 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The focus detection apparatus includes an image pickup part | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120640 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes a negative lens unit having a negative refractive power and a positive lens unit having a positive refractive power arranged in order from an object side to an image side. For focusing from infinity to a closest distance, the negative lens unit moves towards the image side and the positive lens unit moves towards the object side. Predetermined mathematical conditions are satisfied to obtain high optical performance over the entire focusing range. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120639 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DIAPHRAGM - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a first information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a focal length of a lens unit configured to guide light to the imaging unit, a second information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an amount of light incident on the imaging unit, and a control unit configured to control a diaphragm configured to adjust the amount of light incident on the imaging unit, wherein the control unit is configured to determine a maximum opening value, which is used for diaphragm control of the diaphragm, based on the information on the focal length acquired by the first information acquisition unit and the information on the amount of incident light acquired by the second information acquisition unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120624 | METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A signal for focus detection is generated by a first operation, in which a signal of at least one photoelectric conversion element included in a photoelectric conversion unit is read to an input node of an amplification unit and the signal is supplied to a common output line by the amplification unit and signals for forming an image are generated by a second operation, in which a signal of another photoelectric conversion element included in the same photoelectric conversion unit as that including the at least one photoelectric conversion element from which the signal has been read in the first operation is read to the input node of the amplification unit while holding the signal read in the first operation using the amplification unit and the signals are supplied to the common output line by the amplification unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120620 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus has an input unit for inputting an image captured by an image sensor, a shading correction amount calculation unit for calculating per pixel a shading correction amount to be applied to the image inputted from the input unit, a γ correction gain calculation unit for calculating a γ correction gain depending on the shading correction amount and pixel values of the image sensor pixels, and a gain correction unit for applying gain correction to the pixel values based on the γ correction gain, wherein shading correction and γ correction are performed simultaneously by the gain correction with the gain correction unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120611 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A system, method and computer program product for arranging digital data in a file in an apparatus-implemented system, is disclosed. One or more pages are generated, where each page includes: i. a mode field containing a camera operation mode, ii. an image data field containing image data, iii. an offset field containing an offset to a next page in the file, and a total size field containing a page size. Each page is recorded in the file using the same format. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120610 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The number of images to be composited used to generate a dynamic range-extended image, and exposure conditions for respective images to be composited are determined. A proper exposure condition is determined for a subject corresponding to a moving object region, and one of the exposure conditions of the images to be composited is changed to the proper exposure condition. An image capture apparatus specifies a moving object region for a plurality of images to be composited, which are captured under the exposure conditions of the images to be composited including the proper exposure condition. A dynamic range-extended image is generated using pixels of the image to be composited, which is captured under the proper exposure condition, as those of the moving object region, which is specified for the plurality of images to be composited. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120606 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING CAPTURED IMAGES TO A TERMINAL VIA A NETWORK - An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes image pickup means; holding means for holding a coordinate system used to represent an image capturing direction of the image pickup means or a region in an image capturing range of the image pickup means; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means or a captured image cut out from the region in the image capturing range by a certain angle, a second command for rotating the coordinate system held in the holding means about the origin by the certain angle, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system; and change control means for executing control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120603 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS WITH INCLINATION GUIDE DISPLAY - An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which provides an appropriate inclination guide display in accordance with an aspect ratio of a picked-up image and the like. The image pickup apparatus includes an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pickup apparatus, a display device capable of superimposedly showing an inclination guide display corresponding to a detection output from the inclination detector, on a picked-up image, and an aspect ratio setter which sets the aspect ratio of a picked-up image. The apparatus includes a display controller which controls whether or not to show the inclination guide display on the display device on the basis of the aspect ratio set by the aspect ratio setter. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120598 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING CAPTURED IMAGES TO A TERMINAL VIA A NETWORK - An image pickup apparatus includes image pickup means; holding means for holding a coordinate system used to represent an image capturing direction or a region in an image capturing range of the image pickup means; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means or a captured image cut out from the region in the image capturing range by a certain angle, a second command for rotating the coordinate system held in the holding means about the origin by the certain angle, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system; and change control means for executing control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120597 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus has a communication control function, which enables the apparatus to operate as a control apparatus that forms a wireless network and controls the wireless network, and has an apparatus function other than the communication control function. The communication apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in the case that an instruction to implement the apparatus function is received while the apparatus is implementing the communication control function and operating as the control apparatus, and a control unit configured to control operation of the apparatus such that priority is given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in a case that the determination unit determines that priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120586 | AUTOMATIC TRACKING CAMERA SYSTEM - An automatic tracking camera system includes: a rotating unit for panning and tilting an image pickup unit including a lens apparatus and an image pickup apparatus; a tracking object detector; a motion vector detector for detecting a motion vector of the object to be tracked; a capture position setting unit for setting a capture position of the object to be tracked in the picked up image; and a controller for controlling drive of the rotating unit. The controller controls the rotating unit in a capture mode to capture the object to be tracked at the capture position based on the motion vector detected by the motion vector detector after the tracking object detector has detected the object to be tracked in the picked up image, and a maintenance mode to continuously capture the object to be tracked at the capture position after the capture mode. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120585 | AUTOMATIC TRACKING CAMERA SYSTEM - An automatic tracking camera system includes: an image pickup unit; a driving unit for rotating the image pickup unit in panning or tilting direction; a signal receiver for receiving an object information signal; an image signal processor for recognizing an object in an image and detecting motion of the object in the image; a controller for controlling the image pickup unit, the driving unit, and the image signal processor; and a memory for storing, for each passageway, standby positions at which the image signal processor detects the object. The controller calculates an approaching passageway and angle of the object; selects a corresponding standby position from the standby positions stored in the memory; drives the driving unit and a lens apparatus to the standby position; and controls, when the image signal processor recognizes the object, the driving unit and the lens apparatus to automatically track the object based on detected information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120516 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is printing apparatus which includes: a light-emitting device array and a photoconductor, wherein the light-emitting device array includes the light-emitting devices of the number greater than the number of pixels of a single line of the print image, data of the single line of the print image are allocated to a portion of the light-emitting devices in the light-emitting device array, and in a period in which exposure of the photoconductor is halted, the light-emitting devices to which the data of the single line of the print image are allocated are shifted in position in the light-emitting device array. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120511 | INKJET PRINTER - A printer includes an ink tank for retaining ink, nozzles for ejecting the ink, an ink flow passage for connecting the ink tank and the nozzles, and a filter chamber in which a filter is arranged. A first room is disposed downstream of the filter and a second room is disposed upstream of filter in the filter chamber. An ink discharge opening is disposed in the first room for supplying the ink to the nozzles. An ink supply opening to which the ink is supplied from the ink tank and an air bubble storage unit for storing air bubbles flowing with the ink are disposed in the second room. The ink supply opening and the ink discharge opening are displaced from each other in a horizontal direction. The air bubble storage unit is arranged upward of the ink discharge opening in such a manner as to sandwich the filter therebetween. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120509 | ELASTIC MEMBER FOR INKJET - An elastic member for inkjet includes a resin composition including at least a (b)-(a)-(b) type isobutylene-based triblock copolymer including an isobutylene-based polymer block (a) and a styrene-based polymer block (b), and a styrene-based polymer. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120502 | INKJET PRINT HEAD - Provided is an inkjet print head in which, without causing an increase in print head size, printing elements that can perform ejection at a high frequency are densely arrayed. For this purpose, an ink supplying port and a wiring line, which are common to a predetermined number of printing elements, are prepared, and a substrate on which the ink supplying ports and the wiring lines are alternately arranged at the same pitches as an array pitch of the printing elements is also prepared. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120491 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK REMAINING AMOUNT DETECTION METHOD - According to this invention, an inkjet printing apparatus having an arrangement for detecting an amount of remaining ink in an ink tank starts a printing operation in a short time immediately after power-on. If an operation in preceding use is ended without any error at the time of power-off, and no error has occurred even at the time of power-on, the inkjet printing apparatus of this invention starts the printing operation without executing the operation of detecting the amount of remaining ink in the ink tank after power-on. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120487 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a printing unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet that is a continuous sheet. The printing unit prints an image onto the conveyed sheet. The detection unit detects a splice of the conveyed sheet. A following sheet area follows and is continuous from the splice. The control unit adjusts, in response to the detection unit detecting a splice of the conveyed sheet, the conveyance by the conveyance unit of the following sheet area depending on conveyance characteristics of the following sheet area. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120484 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND DETERMINATION METHOD OF DRIVING PULSE APPLIED TO INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus comprise a printhead including a temperature sensor and an element array formed by arraying a plurality of heat generation elements each of which generates a thermal energy required to discharge an ink in response to application of a driving pulse, a specifying unit configured to specify a portion used in printing of the element array, and a selection unit configured to select a driving pulse to be applied to the respective heat generation elements based on the portion specified by the specifying unit and a temperature of the printhead measured by the temperature sensor. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120482 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - This invention enhances gloss uniformity of a formed image surface by selectively using colorless inks according to dot layouts of colored inks. A dot-layout unit sets colored dot layouts for respective colors of colored ink data. A colorless-dot-layout unit sets a colorless dot layout for one colorless ink with reference to a colorless dot layout table according to the colored ink data. An image is formed according to the colored and colorless dot layouts. In the colorless dot layout table, when a specular glossiness calculated according to the colored dot layouts is high, the colorless dot layout is set to superpose a colorless ink having a low refractive index on a colored ink having a high refractive index. Conversely, when the specular glossiness is low, the colorless dot layout is set to superpose a colorless ink having a high refractive index on a colored ink having a low refractive index. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120451 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When combining a virtual subject with a background image, there may be a case where the hue is different between both and a feeling of difference arises. Moreover, conventionally, it is necessary to manually adjust rendering parameters etc. from the rendering result, which takes time and effort. An image processing device that combines a virtual subject with a background image to generate a combined image is characterized by including a correction coefficient deriving unit configured to derive a correction coefficient by performing rendering of a color object arranged in a position where the virtual subject is placed using an environment map indicating information of a light source around the virtual subject, a background image correcting unit configured to correct the background image based on the derived correction coefficient, and a combining unit configured to combine a corrected background image and the virtual subject using the environment map. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120417 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A display controlling apparatus that is capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus that sends image data to the display controlling apparatus in response to a notification from the display controlling apparatus, includes the following elements: a sending unit configured to send the notification to the image processing apparatus; a first receiving unit configured to receive the image data sent from the image processing apparatus in response to the notification; and a first computing unit configured to compute a first time required to display the image data received by the first receiving unit. The sending unit sends a new notification to the image processing apparatus at a timing based on the first time computed by the first computing unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120350 | ELECTROOPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The electrooptical display apparatus includes pixels, and scan lines and data lines arranged in a matrix. The apparatus further includes pixel switching elements each enabling, in response to application of a selection voltage to one scan line, application of a pixel voltage to one pixel in a pixel row corresponding to the one scan line through one data line, a voltage producing part producing a sampling voltage that is to be supplied to the data lines and that monotonously changes while the selection voltage is applied to the scan line, a voltage sampling part sampling the pixel voltage from the sampling voltage, a sampling number detecting part detecting number of pixels for which a same voltage is sampled, and a controller lowering a frequency of sampling of the pixel voltage when the detected number is a predetermined number. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120311 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus comprises a proximity detection unit which detects that an object has come close to the apparatus, a touch detection unit which detects that an object has come close to a display unit, and a control unit which, when the proximity detection unit detects approach of the object and the touch detection unit detects the approach of the object in a region of not smaller than a predetermined range on the display unit, controls not to perform a display, to reduce a luminance of the display unit, or to turn off the display unit, and when the proximity detection unit detects the approach of the object and the touch detection unit does not detect the approach of the object in the region of not smaller than the predetermined range on the display unit, controls to carry on the display. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120289 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - An information processing apparatus having a display unit equipped with a touch panel is provided. A movement detection unit detects the amount of movement of a body contacting the touch panel, and a number detection unit detects the number of bodies. An identification identifies an object being displayed on the display unit, the object having been designated by a body contacting the touch panel. A control unit decides a manipulated variable of the object and controls display of the object in accordance with the amount of movement of the body contacting the touch panel and the number of bodies. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120011 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A semiconductor device including a plurality of sensor units and a plurality of storage units, the device comprising a controller which in a normal mode, sets first control information based on outputs from the plurality of sensor units, stores the first control information in the plurality of storage units, and accumulates charges in each of the plurality of sensor units up to a reference defined in the corresponding first control information, and in a test mode, stores second control information for tests determined in advance in the plurality of storage units, accumulates charges in each of the plurality of sensor units up to a reference defined in the corresponding second control information, and tests the plurality of sensor units based on the amounts of charges accumulated in the plurality of sensor units. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119821 | ACTUATOR - An actuator includes a pair of electrodes facing each other, an intermediate layer containing an ionic liquid and arranged between the pair of electrodes, the electrodes and the intermediate layer being deformed when a potential difference larger than a potential window of the ionic liquid is applied between the electrodes, and insulating layers that suppress direct contact between ions of the ionic liquid and the electrodes, the insulating layers being arranged between the intermediate layer and the electrodes. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119541 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - In a printed wiring board of a printed circuit board, a region for mounting a first semiconductor package is divided into a first region on which first solder ball electrodes are disposed and a second region on which first solder ball electrodes are not disposed, and a region for mounting a second semiconductor package on the back side of the first semiconductor package is located within a region on the back side of the second region. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119244 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT - A light-emitting element driving circuit comprising, a light-emitting element, a driving unit which has a control terminal and is configured to drive the light-emitting element according to a potential of the control terminal, a node connected to the control terminal, a monitor configured to monitor an emitted light amount of the light-emitting element, a potential control unit configured to control a potential of the node so that the emitted light amount of the light-emitting element approaches a target value, and an auxiliary potential control unit configured to assist potential control of the node by the potential control unit when a difference between the emitted light amount of the light-emitting element detected by the monitor and the target value is larger than a reference amount. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119235 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels each configured to output a signal generated by a photoelectric conversion via a source follower circuit; an output line connected to the plurality of pixels; a current source circuit portion for supplying a current to the output line; and a first amplifier unit configured to clamp a signal from the output line of the pixel at a reset state to a clamping capacitor, and to amplify thereafter the signal from the output line of the pixel at a non-reset state, wherein the current source circuit portion changes from a state of supplying no current to the output line to a state of supplying the current to the output line before a timing of terminating the clamping of the signal. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119052 | IMAGE HEATING DEVICE - An electromagnetic induction heating type image heating device is capable of preventing image defects caused by an increase in the temperature of a non-sheet passing portion during thin paper passage, and uses a magnetic shunt alloy having a predetermined Curie temperature. The image heating device is configured to heat a material based on heat generated by an eddy current generated in a conductive member by inducing a magnetic field in a conductive member with a magnetic flux generation unit. The conductive member includes a magnetic shunt alloy whose composition is adjusted to have a predetermined Curie temperature. The image heating device includes a cooling device configured to cool an end portion of the conductive member. Consequently, the image heating device can increase a cooling effect by the cooling device during thin paper passage, in which a fixing temperature is lower than during plain paper passage. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130118793 | METHOD FOR FILLING THROUGH HOLE OF SUBSTRATE WITH METAL AND SUBSTRATE - The present invention relates to a method for filling a through hole of a substrate with a metal. The method includes a step of preparing a bonded substrate including a first substrate having conductivity in at least a surface thereof and a second substrate having a through hole, both substrates being bonded to each other through a nonionic surfactant; a step of exposing, in the bonded surface of the bonded substrate, the conductive surface of the first substrate, which is positioned at the bottom of the through hole, by removing the nonionic surfactant positioned at the bottom of the through hole of the second substrate; and a step of filling the through hole with a metal by applying an electric field to the conductive surface of the first substrate. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130117682 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus capable of easily remote-controlling a device connected thereto through a network. The information processing apparatus, e.g., a PC is installed with a remote control client application in which a display control part causes a display unit of the PC to display a software key screen, and a key operation acceptance part accepts a key operation performed on the software key screen and holds key operation information corresponding to the key operation. The key operation information is converted into transmission data that is transmitted through the network to the device. When the key operation acceptance part accepts a particular key operation, display of a software key button associated with the key operation is changed under the control of the display control part. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130116553 | BIOLOGICAL MEASURING APPARATUS AND BIOLOGICAL MEASURING METHOD - A biological measuring apparatus measures physical parameters in a part of a living body by diffuse optical tomography. The apparatus includes at least one first light source and one first detector both disposed inside the living body, at least one second light source and one second detector both disposed outside the living body. A processor processes measured values and reconstructs the distribution of scattering coefficients or absorption coefficients of light interacting with the living body. The measured values are acquired from at least one measurement light beam emitted from the first light source and detected by one of the first and second detectors, and at least one measurement light beam emitted from the second light source and detected by one of the first and second detectors. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130116539 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including: a probe for receiving the acoustic waves; a holding member for holding the object; scanning unit for moving the probe in a first direction and a second direction; region designating unit for receiving information on a designated region which is a region for acquiring the characteristic information; and information processing unit for at least determining a scanning track in a scanning region to be scanned, wherein, of the scanning track in the scanning region when the first direction is used as a main scanning direction as a direction in which the probe moves while receiving the acoustic waves, and the scanning track when the second direction is used as the main scanning direction, the information processing unit uses the scanning track, in which scanning can be implemented in a shorter period of time. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130116537 | ACOUSTIC WAVE MEASURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF ACOUSTIC WAVE MEASURING APPARATUS - Provided is an acoustic wave measuring apparatus including: an acoustic probe; region-of-interest setting unit for setting two or more regions of interest for an object; priority setting unit for setting priorities on the regions of interest; region calculating unit for determining, for each of the set priorities, an inclusion region including the regions of interest set with the priority; scanning method determining unit for assigning a scanning stripe to each of the inclusion regions so as to include all regions of interest included in the inclusion region; scanning path identifying unit for determining a scanning order of a plurality of scanning stripes having a same priority so as to shorten a movement distance of the acoustic probe; and scanning unit for scanning the scanning stripes according to the determined scanning order, based on the priority order, by moving the acoustic probe. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130116536 | ACOUSTIC WAVE ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND ACOUSTIC WAVE ACQUIRING METHOD - Provided is an acoustic wave acquiring apparatus including: a probe configured to measuring acoustic waves that propagate from an object; scanning unit configured to moving the probe; region designating unit configured to receiving designation of a plurality of regions of interest in the object; and track determining unit configured to determining a plurality of designated measuring regions as regions for which the probe is to measure acoustic waves based on positions of the plurality of regions of interest, and determining a track upon moving the probe by the scanning unit based on positions of the plurality of designated measuring regions. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130116101 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a discharge portion configured to discharge a sheet having a folding portion, a conveyance portion configured to abut on a lower surface of the sheet discharged by the discharge portion, to convey the sheet downstream in a sheet conveyance direction of the discharge portion, a pressing portion arranged at a position opposing the conveyance portion, configured to press an upper surface of the sheet discharged by the discharge portion, and a moving portion configured to move the pressing portion in the sheet conveyance direction of the conveyance portion, in which the moving portion moves the pressing portion upstream in the sheet conveyance direction of the conveyance portion, to move the pressing portion from a position where the sheet discharged by the discharge portion is not pressed to a position where the sheet discharged by the discharge portion is pressed. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114981 | IMAGE-RECORDING METHOD - An image-recording method includes steps of supplying an intermediate transfer medium with a liquid composition containing a reaction agent that makes a coloring material contained in ink precipitate or aggregate, forming an intermediate image by supplying the ink to at least a portion of the area of the intermediate transfer medium to which the liquid composition has been supplied, and transferring the intermediate image to a recording medium. The liquid composition contains a particulate silicone rubber. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114978 | CHARGING MEMBER, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING PROCESS - To provide a charging member showing a high charge injection efficiency, the charging member has an electro-conductive substrate and electro-conductive fibers one ends of which stand bonded to the electro-conductive substrate, and the electro-conductive fibers each have a core portion composed of a thermoplastic resin and a sheath portion with which the core portion stands covered, where the sheath portion contains a thermoplastic resin and a plurality of carbon nanotubes standing entangled one another, and the carbon nanotubes stand exposed to the surface of the electro-conductive fibers each at their tip portions. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114977 | CHARGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A charging apparatus includes a latent image bearing member having a charge generating layer for generating an electric charge by receiving light energy; a light source for emitting light energy for generating the electric charge in the charge generating layer; an electrode; a bias voltage applying portion for applying a bias voltage to the electrode; and an elastic member, which is insulative and transparent, for contacting the electrode to a surface of the latent image bearing member. The electric charge is generated in the charge generating layer by reception of the light energy emitted from the light source, and the surface of the latent image bearing member is electrically charged by applying the bias voltage from the bias voltage applying portion to the electrode. The electrode is provided on the elastic member and is contacted to the surface of the latent image bearing member in a contact area and does not extend to an outside of the contact area. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114975 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - In an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photoconductive layer and, provided on the photoconductive layer, a surface layer constituted of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide, the ratio of the number of atoms of carbon atoms (C) to the sum of the number of atoms of silicon atoms (Si) and number of atoms of carbon atoms (C), C/(Si+C), in the surface layer is from 0.61 or more to 0.75 or less, and the sum of atom density of the silicon atoms and atom density of the carbon atoms in the surface layer is 6.60×10 | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114974 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114972 | CARTRIDGE - A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes: a member to be supplied with electric energy; a frame molded with a resin material; and an electrode member formed on the frame by injection molding of an electroconductive resin material. The electrode member includes a supporting portion for supporting the member to be supplied with electric energy and a contact portion to be contacted to a main assembly electric contact, provided in the main assembly, when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114971 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge includes a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion. The first engaging portion is configured to engage with a first body engaging portion of a body supporting member to temporarily position the body supporting member in a longitudinal direction of the process cartridge before the process cartridge is mounted to a cartridge mounting position provided in an image forming apparatus body and before a body electrical contact is electrically connected to a cartridge electrical contact. The second engaging portion is configured to engage with a second body engaging portion of the body supporting member to position the body supporting member in the longitudinal direction of the process cartridge after mounting of the process cartridge to the cartridge mounting position is further advanced. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114970 | HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER SOURCE - A high-voltage power source includes a switching unit configured to be driven according to a frequency signal, a voltage resonance unit configured to generate a voltage according to driving of the switching unit, a rectification unit configured to rectify and amplify the voltage generated by the voltage resonance unit, a separation unit configured to separate an alternating current generated by the voltage resonance unit and a direct current generated by the rectification unit from each other, and a current detection unit configured to detect the current generated by the voltage resonance unit. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114968 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a rotatable transfer member; a conveying portion for conveying a recording material; a controller for controlling an operation for forming a test image of a toner on the image bearing member in an interval region between consecutive output images of the toner; and a detecting portion for detecting the test image. The controller permits the formation of the test image, when next one of the consecutive output images is to be transferred onto a first side of the recording material, and the controller is capable of preventing the formation of the test image, when next one of the consecutive output images is to be transferred onto a second side of the recording material. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114967 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt having a heat generation layer; a driving rotatable member forming a nip; a pressing pad for pressing the endless belt toward the driving rotatable member; an electric energy supply device for supplying electric energy to the heat generation layer; and a shut-off element configured to break electric connection between the electric energy supply device and the heat generation layer when a temperature of the endless belt reaches a predetermined upper limit temperature, wherein the shut-off element is disposed contacted with the endless belt in a region, with respect to a widthwise direction of the endless belt, outside a passing region of a maximum width of the sheet usable with the apparatus and inside of a heat generating region of the heat generation layer. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114948 | SHAKE CORRECTION APPARTUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A shake correction apparatus comprises a shake detection unit which detects a shake of an image capture apparatus, a calculation unit which calculates a shake correction amount for correcting an image blur based on an output from the shake detection unit, a shake correction unit which corrects the image blur based on the shake correction amount, a shake level determination unit which determines a shake level of the image capture apparatus based on an output from the shake detection unit, an offset determination unit which determines an offset value based on the shake correction amount and the shake level, and a subtraction unit which subtracts the offset value from the output from the shake detection unit. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114897 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing method includes inputting input image data captured by an imaging unit, generating an input histogram of the input image data based on the input image data, and correcting the input image data based on noise characteristics data and the input histogram, wherein the noise characteristics data includes data indicating probability of a first characteristic value becoming a second characteristic value due to noise. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114892 | Method and device for generating a super-resolution image portion - A method for generating a super-resolution image from at least two input images, represented by digital samples. The super-resolution image having a final resolution higher than an initial resolution of one of at least two input images. The method including obtaining, for each input image of the at least two input images, a distortion model to register the input image on a reference grid at the final resolution. The method including warping each input image into a warped image according to the distortion model. Computing warped coordinates respectively for digital samples of the input image. Wherein, the contribution of each digital sample of the input image to the warped image is weighted. The weight applied to each digital sample depending on the warped coordinates of the digital sample. Combining the warped images in order to generate a combined warped image having the final resolution. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114886 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A position and orientation measurement apparatus for measuring a position and orientation of a target object, comprising: storage means for storing a three-dimensional model representing three-dimensional shape information of the target object; obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of measurement data about the target object sensed by image sensing means; reliability calculation means for calculating reliability for each of the pieces of measurement data; selection means for selecting the measurement data by a predetermined number from the plurality of measurement data based on the reliability; association means for associating planes forming the three-dimensional model with each of the measurement data selected by the selection means; and decision means for deciding the position and orientation of the target object based on the result associated by the association means. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114859 | IMAGE INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, IMAGE INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD AND IMAGE INFORMATION ACQUIRING PROGRAM - An image information acquiring apparatus of the present invention includes an acoustic wave detector having, disposed on a reception surface thereof, a plurality of elements that detect acoustic waves generated by an object corresponding to a reconstruction area; an acoustic signal generator that generates acoustic signals that are used in image reconstruction, from the detected acoustic waves; an element selector that selects elements that are used in image reconstruction; and a reconstructor that performs image reconstruction of a point of interest using acoustic signals based on the acoustic waves detected by the selected elements, the image information acquiring apparatus being configured such that, for each selected element, there exists another selected element located at a symmetrical position with respect to a point at which the reception surface is intersected by a perpendicular line drawn from the point of interest to the reception surface. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114795 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a periodic structure in which basic structures made of a plurality of materials having different real parts of refractive indexes are periodically disposed, a cladding formed on an outer side of the core to confine X-rays in the core through total reflection and including at least a portion with a gap between the cladding and the core, and a driving unit which drives at least a portion of the cladding or the core to change a distance of the gap. A critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays in the interface between the cladding and the gap is larger than a Bragg angle corresponding to the periodic structure of the core, and a critical angle for total reflection in an interface between a plurality of ingredients which form the periodic structure of the core is smaller than the Bragg angle. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114740 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image coding apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, from a progressive image and format information indicating characteristics of the progressive image, whether an input progressive image is an image that is deinterlaced from an interlace image, a deinterlace information extraction unit configured to extract information indicating a deinterlace method from the format information when the input progressive image is a deinterlaced image, a first coding unit configured to encode a result of the determination unit, a second coding unit configured to encode a result of the deinterlace information extraction unit, an image coding unit configured to encode an input progressive image, and an output unit configured to integrate and output a result of the first coding unit, a result of the second coding unit, and a result of the image coding unit. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114726 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image coding method for an image coding apparatus includes determining an anchor picture in a same view as a picture to be coded, determining an anchor block corresponding to a block to be coded, selecting an inter-view prediction method, encoding an inter-view prediction mode indicating the inter-view prediction method, and calculating, using a parallax vector of the anchor block, a parallax vector of the block to be coded. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114724 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, AND RELATED ENCODING MEDIUM, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND RELATED DECODING MEDIUM - The invention is directed to a technique capable of improving an coding efficiency by setting a quantization parameter of a peripheral block that is strongly correlated with a quantization parameter of an encoding target block as a prediction value. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114709 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image coding apparatus includes a quantization matrix coding unit configured to code quantization matrices, wherein the quantization matrix coding unit is configured to code a difference between a coefficient to be coded and a coefficient adjacent to the coefficient to be coded, and to use, when coding the difference having a positive value, a coding table that uses a code of a bit number equal to or less than that of a code used to code the difference having a negative value having the same absolute value as the absolute value of the positive value. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING COMPONENTS OF AN IMAGE - A method for processing components of an image for coding a sample of the image, the image being composed of a first type of component and a second type of component, wherein samples of the second type of component are predictable from samples of the first type of component using a prediction model, computing one parameter value for use in representing, in the prediction model, the link between the first type of component and the second type of component; detecting, whether or not, one type of error exists in one such computed parameter value of the prediction model and in the case where a first type of error is detected; adapting the computed parameter value to correct for the error detected; and predicting a sample of the second type from a sample of the first type using the prediction model and the adapted parameter value. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114626 | Methods and network devices for communicating data packets - Methods and network devices for communicating data packets in a set of transmissions between a transmitter and a receiver of a communications network are described. The method includes prior exchanging transmitter-provided packet information and receiver-provided packet information between the transmitter and the receiver, generating an initial compression dictionary before the first transmission, based on the exchanged transmitter-provided packet information and the exchanged receiver-provided packet information. At the transmitter, the method further includes compressing the data packets of the first and subsequent transmissions of the set using the initial compression dictionary, and sending the compressed data packets over the communications network to the receiver. At the receiver, the method further includes receiving compressed data packets from the transmitter via the communications network, and decompressing the compressed data packets received in the first and subsequent transmissions of the set, using the initial compression dictionary. Improved compression of the first transmission is thus obtained. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114305 | POWER SOURCE CIRCUIT - In a power source circuit including a switching circuit | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114106 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A rendering process is not distributed in units that take into consideration an object construction. The rendering process divides printing data into page units, generates a plurality of divided printing data, merges divided printing data related to the same double spread page from the plurality of divided printing data, and converts each of the merged divided printing data into bitmap data by a plurality of rendering units. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114102 | INSPECTION APPARATUS, INSPECTION METHOD, INSPECTION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an inspection apparatus. When the inspection apparatus inspects a printed product, whether positional alignment of a print image obtained by reading the printed product and a reference image is to be performed is determined, and in a case where it is determined that the positional alignment is to be performed, the positional alignment is performed and an inspection based on a comparison of the print image and the reference image is executed, and in a case where it is determined that the positional alignment is not to be performed, an inspection based on a number of feature points of the print image is executed. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114101 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This image forming apparatus determines, when a user authentication function of the image forming apparatus is set to be valid and a re-execution function of re-executing an executed job is set to be valid, that the re-execution function can be executed, and determines, when the user authentication function is set to be invalid, that the re-execution function cannot be executed. The apparatus stores job information of an executed job when determining that the re-execution function can be executed. The apparatus permits an authenticated user to handle stored job information when determining that the re-execution function can be executed, the user authentication succeeds, and the authenticated user has execution authority for the job. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114100 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus, which is configured to communicate with a server apparatus and an image forming apparatus, comprises a receiving unit configured to receive AR information that includes AR guidance for a first operation of an image forming apparatus, wherein the AR information superimposes the AR guidance on an image that was captured by the information processing apparatus; a display control unit configured to command the information processing apparatus to display the AR guidance to guide a user to operate the image forming apparatus, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain information that originated from performance of the first operation by the image forming apparatus, wherein the receiving unit is further configured to receive AR information that includes additional AR guidance that presents operations for recovering from the error. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114099 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This invention provides an image processing system and image processing method, which can acquire a document such as a paper document or the like as data of a format that allows easy re-use and re-edit processes. Image information is acquired by scanning a document, and its features are recognized. The image information is converted into character codes, vector data, or a predetermined image format in accordance with the recognized features. In this case, parameters used upon recognizing the features of the image information are variably set, and the operations of the character process, vectorization, and image conversion are controlled in accordance with the set parameters. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114086 | DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A device includes a first resonating cavity and a second resonating cavity. The first resonating cavity includes a first end surface and a second end surface. The first resonating cavity has a first free spectral range. The first free spectral range is a first frequency of a wavelength dependent ripple in a gain of the device that is a function of a first distance between the first end surface and the second end surface. The second resonating cavity includes a third end surface and a fourth end surface. A second distance between the third end surface and the fourth end surface is set such that an amplitude of the wavelength dependent ripple is reduced. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113987 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The focus detection apparatus includes an image pickup part ( | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113980 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens including, in order from object side to image side: a first positive lens unit which does not move for zooming; a second negative lens unit which moves during zooming; a third positive lens unit which moves during zooming; a fourth lens unit which moves during zooming; and a fifth positive lens unit which does not move for zooming. The second unit passes through a point at which magnification of the second unit becomes −1 during zooming from wide-angle end to telephoto end, and −1<β34<−0.3, and 4.0<|m2/m3|<15 are satisfied where β34 represents a magnification of a combined unit including the third and fourth units at a zoom position fz at which the magnification of the second unit becomes −1, and m2 and m3 respectively represent displacements of the second and third units on optical axis at the zoom position fz with reference to the wide-angle end. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113966 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus has a plurality of pixels and an amplifying unit ( | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113963 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing method includes a restore step of performing blur restoration for image data, an acquisition step of acquiring image-related information stored together with the image data, and an extraction step of extracting the range of object distances at which the blur restoration is performed, based on the image-related information. In the restore step, blur restoration is performed for the image data in the range of object distances extracted in the extraction step. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113949 | CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus includes an independently exchangeable first circuit board that has an electric component and a non-volatile first storage unit; a second circuit board that has an electric component, a non-volatile second storage unit, and a third storage unit; and a controller that accumulates and stores information corresponding to an imaging count in the third storage unit at a first timing that corresponds to imaging performed by the image capture apparatus, and causes information corresponding to the information stored in the third storage unit to be stored in the first or second storage unit at a second timing that occurs at a longer interval than the first timing. The controller stores the information corresponding to the imaging count in the third storage unit after comparing information regarding the imaging count stored in the first and second storage units. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113947 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - An image capture device has a first image transfer method for storing a captured digital image on a storage medium and transferring the digital image to a communication device, and a second image transfer method for storing the digital image on the storage medium, reading the digital image from the storage medium and then transferring the digital image to the communication device. The first image transfer method or the second image transfer method is manually or automatically set. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113864 | AQUEOUS INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING UNIT AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The invention provides an aqueous ink comprising a polymer having hydroxyl groups and a pigment, which can provide images excellent in scratch resistance and highlighter resistance and can inhibit the seeping out phenomenon of the polymer and the deterioration of ejection characteristics even when it is stored for a long period of time. The aqueous ink comprises a polymer having hydroxyl groups, a pigment and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the water-soluble organic solvent comprises a polyhydric alcohol having a value of number of hydroxyl groups/number of carbon atoms in its molecule of 0.50 or less. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113856 | DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND DATA GENERATION METHOD - An apparatus for generating data used to apply a plurality of inks similar in color and different in color material density, including a first ink and a second ink higher in color material density than the first ink, onto a pixel area on a recording medium with a recording head includes a generation unit configured to generate the data in such a way that out of a plurality of pixels constituting the pixel area, a number of pixels onto which dots of the first ink are applied in an overlapped manner is greater than a number of pixels onto which dots of the second ink are applied in the overlapped manner. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113683 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image display system including a first image display apparatus, a second image display apparatus and an image processing apparatus is provided. When the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus each display a partial image of an image to be displayed, the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus each display the partial image based on a feature of the entirety of the image to be displayed. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113340 | VIBRATION WAVE MOTOR - Provided is a vibration wave motor including: a vibration member having an elastic body joined with a electric-mechanical energy converter; and a moving member contacting the vibration member, the vibration member and the moving member being annularly formed, the vibration wave motor frictionally driving the moving member by a motion generated at a contacting portion with the moving member of the vibration member upon application of an AC signal to the electric-mechanical energy converter. The vibration wave motor includes a centrifugal fan provided at an outer peripheral portion and/or an inner peripheral portion of a circular ring formed of the vibration member and the moving member, and the centrifugal fan rotates integrally with the moving member. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113339 | VIBRATION TYPE DRIVING DEVICE - A vibration type driving device includes a vibrator configured to make an elliptic motion of a contact portion by combining vibrations in different vibration modes, and a driven body configured to be rotated relative to the vibrator by the elliptic motion while being in contact with the contact portion. A contact pressure of the contact portion with the driven body is lower on a radial inner side than on a radial outer side in a radial direction of the rotation. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113160 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - An apparatus includes a print control unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The print control unit causes a printing unit to print an image on a sheet and causes one of a plurality of discharge units to discharge at least one sheet on which the image is printed by the printing unit facing downward. The determining unit determines whether some of the discharge units are to be used for discharging sheets for an input print job. In response to determining that the some of the discharge units are to be used for the input print job, the print control unit discharges the sheets to the some of the discharge units such that a former page of the sheets is discharged to a lower-level discharge unit and a latter page of the sheets is discharged to an upper-level discharge unit. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113158 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A reference member which regulates a position of one side end of a sheet along the sheet conveying direction is provided at one side of a sheet conveying path in the width direction so as to follow the sheet conveying direction and to be rotatable about its downstream end portion in the sheet conveying direction. Then, one side end of the sheet is skew-conveyed toward the reference member by a plurality of pair of skew-conveying rollers which is arranged in the sheet conveying path along the sheet conveying direction. Then, when forming an image on both faces of the sheet, a control portion rotates the reference member so that the sheet is displaced to the center side in the sheet conveying path compared to the case of forming an image on one face of the sheet. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113155 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus has a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a reception unit that receives a job, a switching unit that switches the storage unit that is used, from the storage unit currently in use to another storage unit holding the same type of sheets as the storage unit currently in use, when the remaining amount of sheets in the storage unit currently in use reaches a predetermined amount during the execution of the job, and a control unit that controls the timing at which blowing of air into the sheets held in the other storage unit is started, to vary this timing depending on whether the type of sheets held in the storage unit currently in use or in the other storage unit is the first type of sheets or the second type of sheets. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113136 | IMPRINT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE - The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which performs an imprint process, the apparatus including a holding unit configured to hold a mold, a stage configured to hold a substrate, and a control unit configured to control the imprint process, wherein in the imprint process for an outer peripheral shot region among shot regions on the substrate, the control unit controls at least one of the holding unit and the stage to relatively rotate the mold and the substrate so that an outermost portion, in a radial direction of the substrate, of the imprint material supplied to the outer peripheral shot region at least partially separates from the mold last. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113024 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solid-state image pickup device including a photoelectric conversion element, a floating diffusion, and an element isolation region that are disposed above a first semiconductor region has a second semiconductor region of a first conductivity type disposed on the first semiconductor region. An interface between the first semiconductor region and a portion of the second semiconductor region corresponding to the photoelectric conversion element is located at a first depth, whereas the interface between the first semiconductor region and a portion of the second semiconductor region disposed under the element isolation region and the floating diffusion is located at a second depth smaller than the first depth. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112965 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE MATERIAL HAVING DIBENZOSUBERONE SKELETON - The present invention provides an organic light-emitting device material that exhibits high emission efficiency and is used in an organic light-emitting device having a low driving voltage. The organic light-emitting device material is represented by general formula (1) below: | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112891 | CHARGED PARTICLE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND SCRIBING APPARATUS - A charged particle optical system includes: a member | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112860 | REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SCALE FOR ENCODER AND REFLECTIVE OPTICAL ENCODER - A reflective optical scale for an encoder, in which a first region and a second region are alternately arranged on an underlying member, wherein the first region has a reflecting member on the underlying member, a layer made up of a first material, and a layer made up of a second material, the second region has the layer made up of the second material, the first and the second material have transparency, the first material has a lower refractive index of the light than the reflecting member and the second material, the second material has a lower refractive index of the light than the underlying member, and optical thicknesses of the first and the second material are set so that a reflectance of the light of the first region is higher than the second region. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112854 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention provides a solid-state imaging device including a first substrate provided with a plurality of photoelectric conversion units thereon, and a second substrate provided with a reading circuit and parallel processing circuits thereon. The solid-state imaging device includes a DC voltage supply wiring configured to supply a DC voltage to the plurality of parallel processing circuits. The DC voltage supply wiring is formed by electrically connecting first conductive patterns provided on the first substrate with second conductive patterns provided on the second substrate. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112097 | IMPRINT METHOD IMPRINT APPARATUS, AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An imprint method of transferring a pattern formed on a mold onto a resin on a substrate. The substrate is held on a holding surface in a holding step. A shape of a substrate-side pattern area where the pattern is formed on the substrate is deformed in a deforming step. A resin on the deformed substrate-side pattern area is brought into contact with the mold in a contacting step. The resin is cured in a curing step, and the mold is released from the resin in contact with the mold in a mold-releasing step. In the deforming step, a deformation force, which is greater than a maximum static frictional force acting between a rear surface of the substrate corresponding to the substrate-side pattern area and the holding surface, is applied to the substrate in a direction along the surface thereof. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112001 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DETECTOR AND ACOUSTIC WAVE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An acoustic wave detector includes: a transducer; and a light reflecting member which is positioned between the transducer and a subject surface that is irradiated with the light, and which reflects scattered light on the subject surface. The light reflecting member includes a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface positioned closer to the transducer than the first reflecting surface, and a distance between the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface is an odd multiple of a half wavelength of a predetermined wavelength included in an acoustic wave generated from the light reflecting member by the scattered light. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130104183 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic apparatus includes a first communication unit that includes a first connector, a second communication unit that includes a second connector, and a control unit that controls not to set the second communication unit to one of a first mode and a second mode based on a predetermined device connected to the first connector, wherein the first mode is used for transmitting video data, and the second mode is different from the first mode. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130104142 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A CPU executes initialization for allocating a storage area of an auxiliary storage device for a program execution area after a particular application program is loaded into the program execution area and becomes executable. Subsequently, the CPU loads a plurality of application programs into the program execution area. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130104081 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A display apparatus including a display unit which receives input upon a tap on a display screen, comprises a property display unit configured, when a thumbnail image of data displayed on the display screen is tapped, to change a display region of the thumbnail image to a property screen indicating property information of the data corresponding to the thumbnail image. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103980 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit provided with a processing unit that repeats a processing state and a standby state, comprises an obtaining unit configured to obtain a period of the standby state as a standby period; and a control unit configured to hold a plurality of candidate voltages in association with pieces of recovery information corresponding to recovery times required for the processing unit to return to a normal operation voltage from the candidate voltages in the standby state, and to control a standby voltage of the processing unit in the standby state in accordance with the candidate voltage associated with the piece of recovery information corresponding to a recovery time that is shorter than the standby period among the plurality of candidate voltages. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103857 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFER METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data transfer apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first list indicating arrangement information of transfer source data, a second list indicating arrangement information of transfer destination data, a third list indicating arrangement information of data to be inserted, and a fourth list which includes a deletion offset address indicating a deletion start position and a data size of data to be deleted; a control unit configured to select a necessary list from the first to fourth lists, and generate data to be transferred from a transfer source to a transfer destination; and a transfer unit configured to transfer the data to the transfer destination. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103745 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, which provides a WEB page of an application program in response to a request, comprises a request unit configured to issue a request of a page to the application program before a request to the page via a network is received, and a management unit configured to compile the page in response to the request of the page by the request unit, and to hold and manages the compiled page in a cache. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103675 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document management apparatus comprises: a base folder setting unit configured to set a base folder used as a base point of search processing from folders which are allocated above a folder of interest; a search unit configured to detect, from folders allocated below the base folder, a folder having a path from the base folder, which path is similar to a path from the base folder to the folder of interest, as a similar folder similar to the folder of interest; and a search result display unit configured to display a link to the similar folder detected by the search unit on a display window. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103346 | MEASUREMENT METHOD - The present invention provides a measurement method of measuring a shape of a surface to be measured having an outer shape of a regular hexagon, including a first step of setting, on the surface to be measured, a plurality of partial regions having an identical outer shape of a parallelogram to cover the entire surface to be measured, a second step of measuring surface shapes of the respective partial regions by a measurement apparatus to obtain measurement data of the respective partial regions, and a third step of connecting the measurement data of the respective partial regions to calculate the shape of the surface to be measured, wherein the parallelogram has internal angles of 120° and 60°, and a maximum length of one side is not larger than a length of one side of the regular hexagon. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130102245 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - A radiation imaging system includes: a synchronous communication unit that performs synchronous communication for taking a radiation image via a wireless communication path before radiation is irradiated; a determination unit that determines that the radiation is to be irradiated when the synchronous communication has been performed, and that the radiation is not to be irradiated when the synchronous communication has not been performed; and a radiation image communication unit that performs radiation image communication for transmitting the radiation image via the wireless communication path after the radiation is irradiated. Values of communication parameters for the radiation image communication are set so as to exhibit the same or a higher tolerance for noise on the wireless communication path compared to values set to communication parameters for the synchronous communication. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101931 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TWO-COMPONENT TYPE DEVELOPER - A toner containing toner base particles and an external additive, wherein regions with different tribocharging polarities with respect to a magnetic carrier are present in a domain-matrix structure on the surface of the toner base particles. The island region B has a predetermined height, the external additive has a reverse polarity to the region B in terms of tribocharging polarity to the magnetic carrier, the external additive contains a first external additive having a number-average primary particle size of 80-150 nm and a second external additive having a number-average primary particle size of 10-60 nm, and an average coverage Cb (%) with the first external additive in the region B is 27-100% and a coverage Ca (%) with the first external additive in the sea region A is 12% or less. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101382 | PROCESSING MACHINE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POSITIONING PROCESSING MACHINES - At least three processing machines are positioned on a supporting structure including a plurality of beams spaced apart from each other. The at least three processing machines include a first processing machine, a second processing machine supported by at least one of beams which support the first processing machine, and a third processing machine supported by beams different from all the beams which support the first processing machine. A distance between the first processing machine and the second processing machine, at which an amount of vibration transferred from the first processing machine to the second processing machine becomes smaller than a predetermined amount, is determined, thereby positioning the first processing machine and the second processing machine with a distance not less than the determined distance. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101330 | SHEET CUTTING APPARATUS AND PRINTER - A sheet cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit configured to cut a sheet, a discharge unit configured to discharge a fragment of the sheet cut by the cutting unit, a blowing unit configured to blow air on the fragment discharged from the discharge unit, and a storage unit configured to store the fragment discharged from the discharge unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101329 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND PRINTER - A sheet cutting device includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a conveyance belt configured to convey a cut piece cut from the sheet cut by the cutting unit in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the conveyance unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101323 | BELT DRIVING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING BELT DRIVING DEVICE - A belt member driving device includes an arm configured to be movable with movement of a belt member in a width direction thereof while being in contact with an end of the belt member in the width direction thereof, a first detected portion provided on the arm, a second detected portion provided on the arm and disposed in a position different from that of the first detected portion in a direction perpendicular to a movement direction of the arm on a plane where the arm is moved, a first sensor configured to detect the first detected portion, and a second sensor configured to detect the second detected portion. The second sensor and the first sensor partly overlap each other in the movement direction of the arm as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the movement direction of the arm. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101321 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an apparatus which controls the bias of an intermediate transfer belt, the position shift of the width direction between a toner image and a recording material is reduced. Based on the results of estimating the variation moving in the width direction of the intermediate transfer belt, the position in the width direction of the recording material conveyed to a transfer position is changed to match the positions in the width direction of the toner image and the recording material. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101301 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus for forming an image based on an electrophotographic process applied to image data that represents the image includes a device configured to perform a periodic movement for image formation, a storage unit configured to store a table for correcting density variation caused by the device, the table initially generated when a physical property of the device is in a reference state, a prediction unit configured to predict an amplitude of the variation caused when the physical property is in a state different from the reference state, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the table based on the amplitude predicted by the prediction unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101233 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, LINE NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus performs first filter processing to combine pixels of an image along a predetermined direction. A line noise image is extracted by executing second filter processing for the processed image along a direction different from the predetermined direction. The extracted line noise image is subtracted from the image to acquire a line noise reduced image. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100822 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and apparatus for communicating between a first node and a plurality of second nodes in a network, including a first uplink mode in which a first message is transmitted from multiple second nodes in sequence, and a second uplink mode in which a second message is sent from only a subset of nodes. A first receiving node evaluates communication path information based on messages received in the first uplink mode and returns this information via an acknowledgement to allow the subset to be selected. The first message from multiple nodes includes sequence information to allow the first node to acknowledge at an appropriate point in time. This is particularly applicable where multiple spatially separated antennas offer a receiver several observations of the same signal in an antenna diversity scheme. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100712 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power source device that outputs a DC voltage includes a rectification unit configured to rectify an input pulse voltage, a voltage-current conversion unit disposed on a side where the pulse voltage is input into the rectification unit, a current-voltage conversion unit configured to convert a current from the voltage-current conversion unit into a voltage, and a comparison unit configured to compare the voltage from the current-voltage conversion unit with a reference voltage. An operation of the rectification unit is controlled based on an output from the comparison unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100531 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, DUST REMOVING APPARATUS, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric device includes an elastic member, an electrical-mechanical energy conversion element fixed to the elastic member, configured to cause the elastic member to generate vibration, and a supporting member that supports the elastic member. The electrical-mechanical energy conversion element is formed of a piezoelectric material in which, in a usage temperature range of the piezoelectric device, a piezoelectric constant decreases along with temperature rise. A supporting member that supports the elastic member is formed of a material in which, in the usage temperature range of the piezoelectric device, Q value increases along with temperature rise. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100517 | NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a novel electrochromic compound that is excellent in oxidation-reduction repetition and highly transparent when bleached and does not show optical absorption in the visible light region. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100509 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning apparatus, including: light sources; a deflector configured to deflect beams emitted from the light sources; and imaging optical systems configured to focus the beams deflected by a deflecting surface of the deflector on surfaces to be scanned, respectively, wherein: the beams entering the deflecting surface are P-polarized beam; the optical scanning apparatus further includes at least one reflection optical element reflecting a beam in a sub-scanning cross section on each of optical paths from the deflecting surface to the surfaces to be scanned; the optical paths include first and second optical paths having different numbers of the reflection optical elements from each other; and the optical scanning apparatus further includes an adjustor configured to adjust an output of a light source corresponding to at least one of the first and the second optical paths from among the light sources so that predetermined conditions are satisfied. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100504 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DETERMINATION METHOD - A signal value representing at least one of a plurality of types of optical characteristics are calculated for each pixel from the read signal obtained and output by reading light reflected by a document placed on a document table and a document table cover while the document is covered with the cover. It is determined, based on the signal value calculated, whether or not a target pixel is a pixel in a document region. A document region is detected from the determination result. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100498 | IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To realize effective load distribution and improve the performance in image formation processing, an image processing apparatus includes a first image processing unit configured to perform image processing on a drawing area, a second image processing unit configured to be differentiated from the first image processing unit, a load analysis unit configured to analyze a composition processing load of an object in the drawing area, a rotational angle analysis unit configured to analyze a rotational angle of the object in the drawing area, and a load distribution determination unit configured to determine whether to distribute a part of image formation processing to be applied on the drawing area from the first image processing unit to the second image processing unit based on the analyzed composition processing load of the object and the analyzed rotational angle of the object. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100494 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A set value management service holds first operation setting information that is applied to an image forming apparatus belonging to a first management range managed thereby and second operation setting information which is applied to an image forming apparatus belonging to a second management range. The set value management service generates third operation setting information, which is applied to the image forming apparatus, when a user who corresponds to the second management range uses the image forming apparatus belonging to the first management range, using the second operation setting information. The set value management service accepts the operation setting information acquisition request from an image forming apparatus belonging to the first management range, which is used by a user who corresponds to the second management range, and returns the corresponding third operation setting information to the image forming apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which transfers a print job to a lower apparatus that is included in a print system and located at a lower level in print processing, comprises: a determination unit configured to determine whether to cancel the print job; and a cancel command issuing unit configured, when the determination unit determines to cancel processing for the print job, to issue, to the lower apparatus for the print job, a cancel command to which information about a cancel reason is added. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100490 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A management apparatus, which manages status information of a printing apparatus that processes a print job, comprises: a status acquisition unit configured to acquire, as the status information, device status information of the printing apparatus and job status information of a print job processed by the printing apparatus; a status analysis unit configured to analyze the status information acquired by the status acquisition unit; and a change unit configured to change a status item included in the status information acquired by the status acquisition unit at a next or later time based on information analyzed by the status analysis unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100480 | PRINTER, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printer performing printing for a cloud print server that provides a print service includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, a flag enabling unit, a request unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a job list from the cloud print server. The determination unit determines presence/absence of a job including a valid PIN code. A valid PIN code indicates that the job is to be secure printed. The flag enabling unit does not enable a suspension flag in response to determining the absence of the job, and enables the suspension flag in response to determining the presence of the job. The request unit requests input of a PIN code if the suspension flag is enabled when the acquisition unit acquires the job list again. The control unit controls printing of the job to be secure printed based on the input PIN code. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100478 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING SECURE PRINT FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of solving a problem that printing cannot be performed due to a shortage of a storage area for image data after rendering of a secure print job, and reducing a wait time from authentication to start of printing. A first storage unit performs rendering on a received secure print job, and stores image data in a storage area. A first transition unit makes the secure print job transit to waiting-for-authentication state. A first suspending unit suspends rendering when a stored image data amount reaches a full capacity during rendering in the waiting-for-authentication state. A second transition unit makes the secure print job transit to a successfully-authenticated state. A second storage unit performs printing on the stored image data, erases the printed image data, starts rendering on a subsequent page, and stores image data obtained by converting the subsequent page. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100477 | SERVER APPARATUS, CLIENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A method and apparatus for controlling the use of a service includes receiving an acquisition request, including user identification information identifying a user, for service identification information identifying a usable service, specifying, based on the user identification information included in the acquisition request, service identification information identifying a service that can be used by the user identified by the user identification information, transmitting the specified service identification information, and transferring, when a print request including the service identification information and print data is received, the print data to a service identified by the service identification information. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100470 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT IS CAPABLE OF TWO-COLOR PRINTING, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus that is capable of reducing the printing time when printing data saved and is capable of two-color printing. A raster conversion unit generates raster image data by developing image information that shows an image expressed in arbitrary colors. A storage unit stores the raster image data converted by the raster conversion unit and a color mode that is specified from among “full color”, “single color”, and “two-color” when the raster image data is printed. A color conversion unit generates output image data by processing the raster image data according to the selected color mode. A control unit makes a printer unit print the output image data that is generated by processing the raster image data stored in the storage unit by the color conversion unit when being instructed to print the image. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100469 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - When an image processing apparatus transmits image data input thereto to an external apparatus via a network, and image processing is performed on the image data in the external apparatus, the image processing apparatus selects and transmits a component signal of the image data required according to the type of the image processing to be applied. The image processing apparatus receives the component signal processed with the image processing in the external apparatus, and synthesizes the received signals with the component signal stored in the apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100459 | DETECTOR, IMPRINT APPARATUS, AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A detector for detecting interfering light of diffracted light components diffracted by marks formed on first and second objects includes: an illumination optical system configured to form an intensity distribution including first and second poles which illuminate a first mark arranged on the first object and a second mark arranged on the second object; and a detection optical system configured to detect interfering light of light components diffracted by the first and second marks illuminated by the illumination optical system. The detection optical system detects interfering light of diffracted light components generated when light of the first pole is radiated on and diffracted by the first and second marks. The detection optical system does not detect diffracted light components generated when light of the second pole is radiated on and diffracted by the first and second marks. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100458 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETER, MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - A multi-wavelength interferometer includes a beam splitter configured to split plural light fluxes into a reference beam and a measurement beam, a frequency shifter configured to shift a frequency of at least one of the reference beam and the measurement beam to make the frequencies of the reference beam and the measurement beam different from each other, an optical system configured to cause the measurement beam to be incident on a measurement surface and to cause the measurement beam reflected from the measurement surface to interfere with the reference beam to obtain interference light, a dividing unit configured to divide the interference light into a plurality of light beams, and a detection unit configured to detect the plurality of light beams divided by the dividing unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100407 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - An ophthalmologic apparatus including a splitting unit configured to split, on a light path in an optical observation system of an anterior segment of a subject's eye, an anterior segment image into a plurality of light beams at a position conjugated with the anterior segment, and an imaging unit configured to capture the anterior segment image via an image forming unit configured to form an image of the light beams coming from the anterior segment, split by the splitting unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100337 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical system includes a first lens unit fixed during a focusing operation and having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit moving in an optical axis direction during the focusing operation and having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit positioned at the image side relative to the second lens unit and having a positive or negative refractive power, the first lens unit is configured by first, second, and third partial lens units, the first partial lens unit is configured by two positive lens components, the second partial lens unit is configured by one cemented lens having a negative combined refractive power, the third partial lens unit is positioned between the second partial lens unit and the second lens unit and has a positive refractive power as a whole, and each lens unit is configured so as to meet an appropriate condition. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100335 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first to fifth lens units respectively having positive, negative, positive, negative, and positive refractive powers. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, each of the lens units moves in such a way that a distance between the first and second lens units increases, a distance between the second and third lens units decreases, a distance between the third and fourth lens units increases, and a distance between the fourth and fifth lens units increases. The distances D | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100325 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front lens group including a first lens unit having positive refractive power and a second lens unit having refractive power, and a rear lens group including a plurality of lens units. The second lens unit includes a reflective member configured to bend an optical path. At least the first lens unit and at least two lens units of the rear lens group move during zooming. The second lens unit does not move for zooming. A reflection unit including the reflective member moves perpendicularly to an optical axis of the front lens group during retraction. At least part of the front lens group is retractable into a space caused by movement of the reflection unit. A focal length f | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100322 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND CAMERA - A solid-state image sensor has a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit including a plurality of pixels, and a charge-voltage converter shared by the plurality of pixels. The sensor includes a structural portion including a plurality of wiring layers, an interlayer insulating film, and light waveguides configured by embedding, in portions of the interlayer insulating film located above the photoelectric converters, a material having a refractive index higher than that of the interlayer insulating film. A dummy pattern is formed in the structural portion to reduce a difference between a sensitivity of a first pixel and that of a second pixel, which is produced by a difference between a structure in a periphery of the light waveguide arranged above the photoelectric converter of the first pixel and that of the second pixel. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100319 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a captured image, an object region detection unit configured to detect the main object region in a photographic screen, a determination unit configured to determine whether the main object region is in a focused state, an enlarge unit configured to enlarge and display the main object region in focus on the display unit larger than when the main object region is not in focus, an object movement detection unit configured to detect whether the main object in the main object region moves in the photographic screen, and an enlarge control unit configured to, when the object movement detection unit detects that the main object is moving, limit the enlarge from performing enlargement and display. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100316 | IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE DATA SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus capable of managing image data includes a display unit configured to display image data whose predetermined date is known among image data stored in a storage unit, and a setting unit configured to set a date to another image data using the image data displayed on the display unit. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100309 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT CORRECTS DETERIORATION OF IMAGE, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a data storing portion configured to store coefficient data for reconstructing an optical transfer function of an image pickup optical system in accordance with a type of the image pickup optical system and an imaging condition, a tap number determining portion configured to determine a tap number of the optical transfer function that is reconstructed by using the coefficient data in accordance with a size of one pixel of an image pickup element, and a reconstruction portion configured to reconstruct the optical transfer function in accordance with Nyquist frequency of the image pickup element and the tap number in a frequency space. | 04-25-2013 |
