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| 20120036583 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - A computer readable medium stores a program for controlling access to electronically stored information. The program causes a computer to execute a process including receiving first user information indicating a first user who performs an operation of changing an access right, second user information indicating a second user having the access right, and operation information indicating the operation; extracting grantor information corresponding to grantee information representing the second user information from access right grantor/grantee correspondence information in which grantor information indicating a grantor who has granted an access right to perform an operation on information is related to grantee information indicating a grantee granted the access right by the grantor; determining whether or not the extracted grantor information represents the first user information; and changing the access right indicated by the operation information if it is determined that the extracted grantor information represents the received first user information. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034009 | RECORDING MEDIUM POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A recording medium post-processing apparatus includes a recording medium stacking member; a first binding member that moves to an inside of a stacked area, binds the recording media by deforming the recording media, and moves to an outside of the stacked area after binding the recording media; and a guiding member disposed between the first binding member and the recording media and fixed to the first binding member, the guiding member guiding the recording media so that a gap between the recording media and the first binding member is maintained when the first binding member moves around the inside of the stacked area, wherein the guiding member has an opening that surrounds an area in which the first binding member operates to deform the recording media, and a part of the opening is narrowed in a moving direction of the first binding member. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033889 | IMAGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND METHOD - An image determination apparatus includes a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a calculation unit, and a correction unit. The first extraction unit extracts a first set from an image including linear components that are line-shaped components. The first set includes a linear component extending along a first direction and a linear component extending along a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second extraction unit extracts a second set including a linear component extending along a direction different from the first and second directions. The calculation unit calculates a likelihood for the first set extracted by the first extraction unit in accordance with a relationship between linear components included in the first set. The likelihood is a likelihood of a table being formed. The correction unit corrects the likelihood calculated by the calculation unit in accordance with a relationship between the first set and the second set. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033887 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a path calculation unit, and a separation unit. The receiving unit receives an image including at least a character image. The path calculation unit calculates a separation path in the image received by the receiving unit. The separation path is a line segment that separates a character image from the image. The separation unit separates the image received by the receiving unit into plural character images using a separation path calculated by the path calculation unit. The path calculation unit calculates a separation path within a predetermined range including a portion of a character image in the image so that a cumulative value of luminance values of pixels along the separation path satisfies a predetermined condition. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033879 | BINARIZING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR BINARIZING, COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL FOR BINARIZING AND METHOD FOR BINARIZING - A binarizing device includes: a displacement calculating unit that calculates a displacement of a value of a pixel of interest in a local region which includes the pixel of interest and indicates a predetermined range; an N-arization unit that changes the displacement calculated by the displacement calculating unit to an N-ary value; and a selection/binarization unit that selects at least one of a fixed value or an average value of the local region as a threshold value according to the N-ary value obtained by the N-arization unit and binarizes the value of the pixel of interest. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033269 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND READABLE COMPUTER MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts an image of an original from an image reader having a conveying unit that conveys an original in sequence along a conveying path passing through a read position and an image read unit that reads the image of the original at the read position at read speed responsive to conveying speed of the original; an acquisition unit that acquires information concerning a stable read range in which the read speed in the conveying direction in the original becomes a stable state from storage in which the information is previously stored; and a registration unit that extracts feature information concerning a microscopic pattern that a surface of the original has from a registration area in the image of the original accepted by the acceptance unit and registers the feature information in association with position information concerning a position of the registration area. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033266 | DRIVING MECHANISM, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A driving mechanism includes: a first contacting member that comes into contact with a contacted member; a supporting member that supports the first contacting member and is reciprocatably provided, the supporting member moving the first contacting member into contact with or retracts from the contacted member; a cam that reciprocates the supporting member; and a driving force transmission member that is provided to transmit a driving force to the cam, the driving force transmission member is engaged with the cam by transmit a first driving force, and is disengaged from the cam by a second driving force. In the driving mechanism, the second driving force is applied to the driving force transmission member after the cam is stopped in a state where the cam comes into contact with the supporting member on a small radius end of the cam. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033003 | FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE, LIQUID-DROPLET EJECTING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A flow rate control device includes a pressure generating unit that delivers a liquid to a liquid reservoir unit including an ejecting port; a flow rate control unit that controls a flow rate of the pressure generating unit by performing a first flow rate control and a second flow rate control, the first flow rate control being to raise a pressure inside the liquid reservoir unit up to a target pressure at a first pressure change rate which is sufficiently high to float air bubbles adhering to a wall surface inside the liquid reservoir unit, the second flow rate control being to maintain the target pressure or to lower the pressure inside the liquid reservoir unit from the target pressure at a second pressure change rate lower than the first pressure change rate in order to eject air bubbles floating inside the liquid reservoir unit from the ejecting port | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120028187 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - A method of producing an electrostatic latent image developing toner includes: preparing a resin particle dispersion by polymerizing, in a water-based solvent, a polymerizable monomer that comprises a polymerizable monomer comprising a vinyl-based double bond; extracting a liquid from the resin particle dispersion by heating; mixing the distilled resin particle dispersion with a colorant particle dispersion prepared by dispersing a colorant; and aggregating the resin particles, the pigment particles and a release agent particles to form aggregate particles, and then conducting heating to fuse the aggregate particles. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026520 | IMAGE DATA PRODUCING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image data producing apparatus includes: a page dividing portion that divides data described in a page description language into a page unit; a plurality of image processors that form raster data from divided data; and a controlling portion that allocates pages on which the raster data is formed to each of the plurality of the image processors, and causes each of the plurality of the image processors to execute registration of a printing resource on respective pages with at least a change of the printing resource by controlling each of the plurality of the image processors irrespective of a page allocation. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120022215 | URETHANE RESIN, FIXING MEMBER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A urethane resin that is formed by polymerizing an acrylic resin including a hydroxyl group and an isocyanate is provided. The urethane resin has a Martens hardness of 1 N/mm | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021345 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is to provide a photoelectric conversion device including an organic compound layer which contains polymer (a) having partial structures represented by the following formulae (1) and (2) respectively. In the formula, R | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020713 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a transporting mechanism that transports a sheet along a transport path; an image forming mechanism that forms an image on the sheet; a reading mechanism that is provided at one side of the transport path, and that reads the image; a rotary member that is provided at the other side of the transport path, and that is disposed opposite to the reading mechanism, a gap being formed between the rotary member and the reading mechanism, and having a shape allowing a size of the gap to change as the rotary member rotates; and a changing mechanism that, when the sheet passes through the gap without performing the image reading, changes the size of the gap on the basis of the rotary member shape. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020552 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes an influence value setting unit that sets an influence value on a pixel of interest in a local region of an image, the influence value being a color difference in the local region, and a color region processing unit that treats the pixel of interest as a pixel in a region of a representative color when a color of the pixel of interest is within a range from the representative color to the threshold value, the threshold value being set such that the threshold value increases as the influence value increases. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019877 | LIGHT GUIDE AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A light guide includes: a body which is a light-transmitting member and has light incidence surfaces as two end surfaces in a longitudinal direction and a light output surface which is one of side surfaces extending in the longitudinal direction; and light absorbing members which are provided on the light output surface or at least one, adjacent to the light output surface, of the side surfaces of the body and have a function of absorbing light that shines on the body from outside the body. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019871 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including: a first storage portion that stores patterns used for matching with edge portions of a linear image included in an input image, the patterns having respective different sizes, and each of the patterns being composed of pixels and including a target pixel corresponding to a pixel to be deleted in the linear image; a selection portion that selects a pattern having a size according to a line width of a line thinning process to the linear image, from the stored patterns; a pattern detection portion that matches the selected pattern with the linear image while shifting the selected pattern, and detects whether the selected pattern is matched with the linear image; and a deletion portion that, when the matching result is detected, deletes the pixel in the linear image corresponding to the target pixel in the selected pattern. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019843 | COLOR PROCESSING DEVICE, COLOR PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A color processing device includes a calculating unit that calculates hues in a device-dependent color space and hues in a device-independent color space of plural reproduction colors that are positioned on an input color gamut boundary and that have different hues, a deriving unit that calculates hues of corresponding colors in which a change in at least one of lightness and chrome caused by color gamut mapping performed in the device-independent color space is smaller than a change caused by the color gamut mapping performed on the reproduction colors, thereby deriving a correspondence between the hues in the device-dependent color space and the hues of the corresponding colors in the device-independent color space, a hue correcting unit that calculates hues in the device-dependent color space from input colors, thereby correcting the input colors, and a color gamut mapping unit that performs the color gamut mapping. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018944 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing device includes a stacking unit that is used to stack a bundle of sheets that are placed upon each other with first edge portions of the sheets being aligned with each other; a first binding unit that binds the first edge portions of the bundle of sheets stacked upon the stacking unit; a second binding unit that is provided integrally with the first binding unit in a direction along the first edge portions of the bundle of sheets stacked upon the stacking unit, and that binds the first edge portions by a binding method differing from a binding method of the first binding unit; and an angle changing mechanism that is capable of changing an angle of the first binding unit with respect to the bundle of sheets when binding the first edge portions with the first binding unit. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018943 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms images on sheets; a stack portion on which the sheets with the images are stacked as a bundle of the sheets with first end parts of the sheets aligned; a first binding unit that binds the first end parts; a second binding unit that binds the first end parts, by a binding method that requires a binding region larger than that of the first binding unit; and a distance reducing unit that changes a position of the bundle when bound by the first binding unit, from a position of the bundle when bound by the second binding unit, and reduces a distance between a part bound by the second binding unit and the first end parts as compared with a distance between a part bound by the first binding unit and the first end parts. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017092 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process including: accepting an instruction for verifying an electronic signature added to information; verifying the electronic signature on the basis of an electronic certification corresponding to the electronic signature in accordance with the accepted instruction; calculating, when it is determined that the information has not been tampered with, a hash value of a combination of the information, the electronic signature, and validity-period information indicating a validity period of the electronic certification; adding a time stamp to the calculated hash value; outputting the information, the electronic signature, the hash value, and the validity-period information to a storage device; and outputting, when it is determined that the information has not been tampered with, a verification result including information indicating that the information has not been tampered with. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017056 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes receiving from a user a request for performing a process for copying information; executing the process for copying information in accordance with the received request; and performing control to determine whether or not copied information and a change history of original information from which the copied information is produced are to be stored in a memory in association with each other, when the process for copying information is executed, in accordance with whether or not a relationship between information relating to a user associated with the original information and information relating to a user who has made the request for performing the process for copying information satisfies a predetermined condition. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015291 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING CARRIER, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, IMAGE-FORMING METHOD, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic image developing carrier includes a core particle and a coating layer on the core particle. The coating layer contains a resin having a crosslinked structure formed by using at least one compound selected from boric acid and boric acid derivatives. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015290 | IMAGE HOLDING MEMBER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image holding member for an image forming apparatus is disclosed which the image holding member includes a support and a photosensitive layer disposed on or above the support, the photosensitive layer including a compound including a partial structure represented by the following Formula (A), wherein Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon group having from 2 to 10 aromatic rings, a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent condensed aromatic hydrocarbon group having from 2 to 10 aromatic rings, or a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aromatic heterocyclic group; q represents 0 or 1; and Each n each independently represent an integer of from 0 to 7. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014711 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device includes a cleaning device body including a cleaning member, the cleaning member being in contact with a surface of an image carrier so as to remove developer retained on the surface of the image carrier; and a fixing member that fixes an end of the cleaning device body in a longitudinal direction to a side surface of a frame that supports the image carrier and corresponds to the end of the cleaning device body in the longitudinal direction. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014710 | CLEANING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME AND CLEANING METHOD - A cleaning device includes a cleaning member that comes into contact with a developer carrier, which carries developer, in a direction crossing a moving direction of the developer carrier and cleans the developer carrier by removing the developer from the developer carrier, a recovery section that is provided with a recovery port formed inside of end portions of the developer carrier in the direction crossing the moving direction of the developer carrier and recovers the developer, which is removed by the cleaning member, through the recovery port, and a guide member that guides the developer to the recovery port, one end of the guide member being positioned outside an end portion of the cleaning member and the end portion of the developer carrier, and the other end of the guide member being positioned inside the cleaning member in the direction crossing the moving direction of the developer carrier. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014612 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing apparatus includes a comparison source data acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of comparison source data each including a plurality of comparison source descriptions that are acquired from a comparison source document and ordered; a comparison target acquisition unit that acquires one or more comparison target data respectively acquired from comparison target documents; and a comparison result output unit that outputs a comparison result based on a minimum difference between one datum of the comparison source data and one data of the comparison target data corresponding to one of a plurality of combinations in each of which one of the comparison source data is combined with one of the comparison target data. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013961 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an exposing device including a light emitting element array of light emitting elements arrayed in a row along a predetermined first direction; a hologram recording layer in which hologram elements are multiplex recorded such that each of the hologram elements corresponds to one of the light emitting elements and diffracts an emission beam from the light emitting element and converges the light onto a light exposure plane, such that a focused beam spots are formed on the light exposure plane in a row along the first direction; and a first transmission control section, disposed at the light incident side of the hologram recording layer, provided with a structure in which light blocking sections and light transmitting sections are alternately arrayed along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and selectively transmitting in the second direction light passing along the optical path of the reference beam. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013952 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING SCANNED IMAGE - An image scanning apparatus includes: an image scanning unit that includes plural light emitting elements and a light receiving portion receiving light emitted from the light emitting elements and reflected on a document and scans an image on the document; a light quantity information acquiring unit that acquires light quantity information on the quantity of light received by the light receiving portion while causing the light emitting elements to irradiate a reference member with light; a correction unit that corrects the scanned image, based on the light quantity information; and an abnormality detecting unit that detects abnormality of the light emitting elements. If the abnormality detecting unit detects the abnormality, the light quantity information acquiring unit acquires new light quantity information while causing the light emitting elements to irradiate the reference member with light and the correction unit corrects the scanned image, based on the new light quantity information. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013940 | PRINT DOCUMENT CONVERSION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print document conversion apparatus includes plural software-based conversion units and a controller. The plural software-based conversion units perform a software-based conversion process for converting print document data described in a page description language into page image data having a bitmap image format. Each of the software-based conversion units requests a hardware-based image processing apparatus to execute specific image processing in the software-based conversion process, and generates the page image data including a result of the image processing in response to the request. The controller activates an additional software-based conversion unit that performs the software-based conversion process when there is a possibility that a state where at least one of the software-based conversion units waits for the hardware-based image processing apparatus to complete the image processing occurs. The controller controls the number of additional software-based conversion units not to exceed a predetermined upper limit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013935 | IMAGE DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DEFECT INSPECTION SYSTEM, IMAGE DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image defect inspection apparatus includes a supply unit, an acquiring unit, an inspection unit and an adjustment unit. The supply unit supplies a test image corresponding to an inferred image defect regarding an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material, to the image forming unit to form the test image on the recording material. The acquiring unit acquires a scanned image obtained by scanning the recording material on which the test image is formed. The inspection unit compares the scanned image acquired with the test image and inspects as to whether or not the inferred image defect is in the scanned image. The adjustment unit adjusts a value of a setting item which is defined as an adjust target regarding the inferred image defect, so as to enhance detectability of the inferred image defect in the inspection. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013925 | PRINT DOCUMENT CONVERSION APPARATUS, PRINT DOCUMENT CONVERSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print document conversion apparatus includes a plurality of software-based conversion units and a controller. The plurality of software-based conversion units perform a software-based conversion process for converting print document data described in a page description language into page image data having a bitmap image format. Each of the plurality of software-based conversion units requests a hardware-based image processing apparatus that executes specific image processing in the software-based conversion process to execute the specific image processing, and generates the page image data including a result of the image processing executed by the hardware-based image processing apparatus in response to the request. The controller activates an additional software-based conversion unit that performs the software-based conversion process when a state where at least one of the plurality of software-based conversion units waits for the hardware-based image processing apparatus to complete the image processing possibly occurs. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013923 | COLOR CONVERSION COEFFICIENT GENERATING APPARATUS, COLOR REPRODUCTION CHARACTERISTIC MODIFYING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A color conversion coefficient generating apparatus includes a first color reproduction characteristic obtaining unit that obtains a first color reproduction characteristic that is obtained by correcting a color reproduction characteristic of a first device in accordance with a color of a first medium used for printing in the first device, a second color reproduction characteristic obtaining unit that obtains a second color reproduction characteristic that is obtained by correcting a color reproduction characteristic of a second device in accordance with a color of a second medium used for printing in the second device, a modifying unit that modifies the first color reproduction characteristic and that repeatedly modifies the modified first color reproduction characteristic, and a generating unit that generates a color conversion coefficient for performing simulated printing based on the color reproduction characteristic of the first device on the basis of the first and second color reproduction characteristics. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120008171 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The image processing apparatus includes a combining module that respectively combine a plurality of first patterns and a plurality of second patterns each corresponding to the first patterns. Respective densities of the first patterns are different from each other. At least one of the second patterns include a plurality of regions where respective coverages are different in a main scanning direction. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008000 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a memory that memorizes a plurality of pickup images in which an object has been picked up by varying an irradiation direction of a light; an extracting portion that extracts an area image of an area indicated by a user from each of the pickup images memorized in the memory; a calculating portion that calculates at least one illumination parameter for each area image by one of calculating an amount of edges from each extracted area image, executing a clustering process to brightness of each extracted area image, and executing a totaling process of totaling differences in brightness between the extracted area images; and a generating portion that generates at least one synthetic image by synthesizing the extracted area images with the at least one illumination parameter. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007902 | LIQUID SUPPLY CONTROLLER, LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND LIQUID SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - A liquid supply controller includes a liquid circulation controller that includes supply and recovery units of a liquid droplet discharge unit, and that circulates liquid according to a differential pressure between the supply unit and the recovery unit, a back pressure setting unit that sets a back pressure that is a discharge pressure based on supply and recovery pressures set by the liquid circulation controller, a circulation amount obtaining unit that obtains a flow rate of the liquid circulated; a judging unit that judges whether or not the obtained flow rate is a proper value, and a differential pressure adjusting unit that adjusts the differential pressure while maintaining the back pressure within an allowable range when it is judged that the flow rate is not the proper value. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120002998 | CLEANING MEMBER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, UNIT FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning member for an image forming apparatus includes a core and an elastic layer that is formed by a strip-shaped elastic member helically wound around an outer peripheral surface of the core. The cleaning member satisfies the following formula (1): | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110321046 | PROCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A process information management apparatus includes a first processor, a management unit, a second processor, a generator, and a third processor. The first processor executes a first process based on a first application program in an environment where a first system is operating. The management unit manages information regarding a process executed in an environment where a second system is operating, based on a second application program in the environment. The second processor executes a second process based on the second application program in the environment. The generator generates, when the first process is executed, an execution instruction for a third process corresponding to the first process to regard the first process is executed in the environment, and, when the first process is completed, generates a completion instruction for the third process. Based on the second application program in the environment, the third processor executes and completes the third process. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320845 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM - A power supply control apparatus that includes an instruction component, an execution component and a power supply control component is provided. The power supply control component is equipped with at least two measurement functions that have different measurement durations for cases in which the duration until interrupting the power supply to device(s) is measured, wherein measurement is activated with a first measurement function of relatively long measurement duration at a completion time of prior image processing, and measurement is activated with a second measurement function of relatively short measurement duration for device(s) to which power is being supplied at the time of completion of the prior image processing but which are not required in later image processing. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320842 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A power supply control device including a mode switching controller, a first power supply section, a second power supply section, a third power supply section, a wiring system opening and closing unit and a controller. During the sleep mode, the first power supply section continues to supply power to a specific control system, the second power supply section shuts off its supply of power, and the third power supply section supplies power to the specific control system by a separate system to the specific control system. The wiring system opening/closing unit sets a power supply wiring system of the commercial power source to an open state or a closed state. When the third power supply section is supplying power during the sleep mode, the controller controls the wiring system opening and closing unit and sets the power supply wiring system of the commercial power supply to the open state. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320770 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - An internal buffer is provided for a DRP core. A selector SEL switches input/output destination of the DRP core between external memory and an internal buffer. Control software executed by a CPU core receives information a pipeline of configurations for a sequence of target processing and generates combinations as to whether the processing result is transferred between the configurations via the external memory or via the internal buffer as transfer manners. Next, for each manner, bandwidth and performance of the external memory used by the DRP core in the manner are calculated. The manner of the best performance satisfying a previously specified bandwidth restriction is selected among the manners and the selector SEL is switched in accordance with the manner. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319647 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SILICA PARTICLES - The invention provides a method of producing silica particles, the method including preparing an alkali catalyst solution containing an alkali catalyst in a solvent including an alcohol, at a concentration of from about 0.6 mol/L to about 0.85 mol/L; and supplying tetraalkoxysilane into the alkali catalyst solution, and concurrently supplying an alkali catalyst into the alkali catalyst solution at a rate of from about 0.1 mol to about 0.4 mol per mole of the total amount of supply of the tetraalkoxysilane supplied in one minute. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319553 | POLY LACTIC ACID RESIN, RESIN COMPOSITION, AND RESIN MOLDING - The present invention provides a poly lactic acid resin including an L-lactic acid block and a D-lactic acid block, which blocks are bonded by a carbonate bonding. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319240 | ROLL MEMBER, CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A roll member includes: a core; and an elastic layer that is formed on the core and constituted with a vulcanized substance of a rubber composition containing a polysulfide polymer (A) and an elastic material (B); wherein the polysulfide polymer (A) includes at least one structural unit selected from —(C | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318684 | MAGENTA TONER FOR LIGHT FIXING, DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A magenta toner contains a binder resin; at least one selected from a diimonium compound represented by the following general formula (1) and an aminium compound represented by the following general formula (2); and a monomethylquinacridone: | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318683 | TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner contains a binder resin and a polyalkylene, wherein the following formula is satisfied: | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318682 | TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a toner wherein when a solid image formed by the toner is irradiated with incident light at an incident angle of −45° using a goniophotometer, a ratio (A/B) of a reflectance A at a light-receiving angle of +30° to a reflectance B at a light-receiving angle of −30° is about 2 or more and about 100 or less. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318677 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate and an outermost surface layer formed on the conductive substrate and containing a binder resin and a copolymer derived from a reactive monomer having charge transport property and a reactive monomer having no charge transport property, the copolymer having a side chain with 4 or more carbon atoms in a constitutional unit derived from the reactive monomer having no charge transport property. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318676 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate and an outermost surface layer on the conductive substrate. The outermost surface layer contains a copolymer (a) derived from a reactive monomer having charge transport property and a reactive monomer having no charge transport property, and a polymer prepared by polymerizing, in the presence of the copolymer (a), a reactive monomer (b) that has a solubility parameter (SP value) different from a solubility parameter (SP value) of the reactive monomer having no charge transport property by about 2 (cal/cm | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318584 | SILICA PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides silica particles including primary particles, the primary particles having an average particle diameter in a range of from about 100 nm to about 500 nm, a particle size distribution index in a range of from about 1.40 to about 1.80, and an average roundness in a range of from about 0.5 to about 0.85, and about 95% or more, by number of particles, of the primary particles satisfying following Formula (1) with respect to a roundness (R) and a particle diameter (D) (nm): | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318581 | SILICA PARTICLES AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - The invention provides silica particles including primary particles, the primary particles having a volume average particle diameter of from about 80 nm to about 300 nm, a particle size distribution index of from about 1.10 to about 1.40, an average circularity of from about 0.70 to about 0.92, and a circularity distribution index of from about 1.05 to about 1.50, the silica particles including primary particles having a circularity of about 0.95 or greater at a proportion of about 10% or less by number of particles. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318079 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET FEEDING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a recording-medium storing unit including a rotating member, the recording-medium storing unit being capable of being pulled out from an apparatus body; a support surface having an edge portion, the support surface supporting the rotating member when the recording-medium storing unit is pulled out from the apparatus body; and an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium fed from the recording-medium storing unit. The rotating member has a counter surface that faces the edge portion when the rotating member moves beyond the edge portion and drops off the support surface in a certain direction. In the state in which the counter surface faces the edge portion, the counter surface is inclined such that a point on the counter surface approaches the edge-portion side as the point moves in a direction opposite to the certain direction. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318073 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing roller, an endless fixing belt, a pressing unit having first and second pressing members that press a surface of the fixing belt against the fixing roller, a fixed support member that supports the fixing roller rotatably, a movable support member that supports the first pressing member in a fixed state and supports the second pressing member such as to be movable closer to and away from the fixing roller, a first pressure spring that presses the movable support member closer to the fixing roller, a second pressure spring that presses the second pressing member closer to the fixing roller, and a switch mechanism that switches between a first state in which the first and second pressing members are pressed against the fixing roller and a second state in which only the second pressing member is pressed against the fixing roller. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318067 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that is rotatable; a transfer member that is rotatably disposed so as to face the image carrier, the transfer member transferring an image carried by the image carrier to a sheet; a leading end gripping member that is attached to the transfer member, the leading end gripping member gripping a leading end of the sheet in the transport direction on an outer peripheral surface of the transfer member; a trailing end holding member that holds a trailing end of the sheet in the transport direction between the trailing end holding member and the outer peripheral surface of the transfer member; and a controller that changes a distance between the leading end gripping member and the trailing end holding member when holding the sheet on the basis of a length of the sheet in the transport direction. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318063 | TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a toner wherein when a solid image formed by the toner is irradiated with incident light at an incident angle of −45° using a goniophotometer, a ratio (A/B) of a reflectance A at a light-receiving angle of +30° to a reflectance B at a light-receiving angle of −30° is about 2 or more and about 100 or less. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318059 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body unit having a first supported portion and an image holding body that is rotated while holding an image on a surface of the image holding body; and a conveying unit that is disposed below the image holding body unit and has conveying members for conveying a medium on which the image formed on the surface of the image holding body is to be recorded, image holding body support portions that supports both end portions, in an axial direction, of the image holding body, and a first support portion that supports the first supported portion. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318047 | CLEANING MEMBER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, UNIT FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning member for an image forming apparatus includes a core and an elastic layer helically put on an outer peripheral surface of the core and including a first elastic layer and a second elastic layer, the first elastic layer being the outermost layer and the second elastic layer being located closer to the core than the first elastic layer and having a compression set smaller than that of the first elastic layer. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318045 | CLEANING ELEMENT FOR AN IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning element for an image-forming apparatus, includes: a shaft; a strip-shaped sheet which is disposed helically on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; and an adhesive layer which is disposed between the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet and binds the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet, the strip-shaped sheet having, on a surface thereof facing the shaft, an unbound region in which the adhesive layer is absent, at an end in a width direction of the strip-shaped sheet which faces a downstream side in a rotation direction of the shaft. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318020 | VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER, VERTICAL-CAVITY-SURFACE-EMITTING-LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes a substrate, a first semiconductor multilayer film reflector formed on the substrate, an active region formed on the first semiconductor multilayer film reflector, a second semiconductor multilayer film reflector formed on the active region, an electrode which is formed on the second semiconductor multilayer film reflector and in which a light emitting aperture is formed, a first substance that is composed of a material and that is formed in the light emitting aperture, and a second substance that is composed of a dielectric and that is formed on the first substance to cover one portion of the first substance. Light having an emission wavelength can pass through the material and dielectric. A reflectivity of a portion covered with the second substance is higher than a reflectivity of a portion that is not covered with the second substance. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317540 | VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER, VERTICAL-CAVITY-SURFACE-EMITTING-LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vertical cavity surface emitting laser including a substrate, a first semiconductor multilayer film reflector formed on the substrate, an active region formed on the first semiconductor multilayer film reflector, a second semiconductor multilayer film reflector formed on the active region, an electrode formed on the second semiconductor multilayer film reflector, a light absorption layer, and a light transmission layer. In the electrode, a light emitting aperture is formed. The light absorption layer is formed in a peripheral region of the light emitting aperture, and absorbs emitted light. The light transmission layer is composed of a material which the emitted light can pass through, and formed in a central region of the light emitting aperture. Thicknesses of the light absorption layer and the light transmission layer are selected so that phases of light from the light absorption layer and from the light transmission layer are adjusted. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317205 | PRINT IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print image processing apparatus, includes N image processing circuits; a selection unit that estimates, every N pages, a necessary time corresponding to each of (i) a page-based parallel method for allocating image processing of the N pages to the image processing circuits in units of pages to perform the image processing of the N pages in parallel, and (ii) a paginal-object-based parallel method for allocating image processing of each single page to the image processing circuits in units of objects to perform the image processing of the objects of each single page in parallel, and selects one of the page-based parallel method and the paginal-object-based parallel method such that the estimated necessary time corresponding to the selected one of the parallel methods is shorter than the estimated necessary time; and an allocation unit that allocates image processing of the N pages to the N image processing circuit, respectively. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317200 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING AN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a first control section that, when execution of printing at a printing device connected via a communications section is instructed, performs control to display at a display section a print settings screen for making settings relating to the printing; a calculation section that calculates an estimated value of power consumption that the printing device will consume if the printing is executed on the basis of the settings relating to printing; and a second control section that, when a pre-specified operation is performed at the print settings screen, performs control to display the estimated value of power consumption and display at the display section an energy saving settings screen for making, of the settings relating to printing, settings relating to energy saving. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316904 | LIQUID DROPLET CIRCULATION CONTROL APPARATUS, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a liquid droplet circulation control apparatus including: a first circulation controller that sets a first circulation mode in which liquid is circulated with pressure control by driving a supply side pressure generator and a return side pressure generator, the supply side pressure generator supplying the liquid to the liquid droplet ejector and the return side pressure generator returning the liquid from the liquid droplet ejector; a second circulation controller that sets a second circulation mode in which the liquid is circulated by driving the supply side pressure generator and/or the return side pressure generator, such that the liquid is made to bypass at least the liquid droplet ejector; a selector that selects one or other circulation modes; and a setting unit that sets a circulation path of the liquid based on the selected circulation mode. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316835 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including: a pair of substrates; a display medium dispersed between the pair of substrates, and including plural kinds of particle groups that move in accordance with an electric field formed between the substrates and have different colors and different absolute values of movement voltages required to move; a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage between the substrates; a first acquisition unit which acquires area information indicating an area corresponding to plural pixels of an image displayed on the display medium; and a control unit that controls the voltage applying unit to apply voltages, which have the same polarity between pixel areas and are equal to or higher than a maximum value among the absolute values of the movement voltages of the kinds of particle groups, to the respective pixel areas when the first acquisition unit acquires the area information. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316220 | SHEET FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A sheet feeder includes a sheet stacking unit that stacks sheets, a sheet feeding unit that sequentially feeds the uppermost sheet of a stack of sheets stacked in the sheet stacking unit, an airflow supply unit that supplies an airflow to a side surface of the stack of sheets from an opening, a shield member that is disposed between the opening and the stack of sheets and a mechanism that changes the airflow from the airflow supply unit with respect to a stacking direction of the sheets by changing a relative position between the opening and the shield member in a direction other than the stacking direction of the sheets. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316217 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT TRANSPORT DEVICE, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An automatic document transport device includes a document stacker that is movable between a stacking position and an open position; a document transport path; a document feed member; a document output section; a document output member disposed downstream of an image reading position, the document output member including upper and lower output members; and a shielding member disposed above a document output slot and between the document output member and the document output section, the shielding member including first and second shielding portions, the first shielding portion extending upward and having a lower end disposed above a region in which the upper and lower output members contact each other, the second shielding portion extending downstream from the lower end of the first shielding portion, the shielding member shielding the upper output member from a space between the document stacker and the document output section. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314521 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process is provided. The process includes obtaining note content information representing note content included in a note if the note has been input to registered information; obtaining user specification information for specifying a user who has input the note; causing the note content information and the user specification information to be stored in a memory in association with the registered information; and outputting at least one of the registered information, and the note content information and the user specification information stored in the memory to a user as a request source, and not outputting at least the user specification information if the user as the request source is different from the user who has input the note, in response to a request for outputting information from the user as the request source. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314157 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, PROCESSING REQUESTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing system includes a receiving unit that receives a request for assigning computer resources for processing data and identification information that identifies data processing to be performed on the data, an assigning unit that assigns at least part of computer resources included in one of one or plural computers in response to the request, a specifying unit that specifies storage location information showing a storage location of the data in the assigned computer resources on the basis of the computer resources, a transfer unit that transfers the data to be processed to the storage location, and a deploying unit that deploys one or plural programs constituting the data processing to the assigned computer resources so that the one or plural programs are executed using the assigned computer resources. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314067 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND OBJECT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing an object. The process includes displaying, storing, acquiring, and editing steps. In the displaying step, a first name of a first object stored in a first storage area is displayed. In the displaying step, a second name of a second object stored in a second storage area is displayed together with at least one of items of a second attribute of the second object. The at least one of the items is selected as an object to be displayed. In the storing step, the second object stored in the second storage area is stored in the first storage area in response to a storage instruction for storing the second object in the first storage area. In the acquiring step, the at least one of the items of the second attribute is acquired. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311151 | IMAGE DATA DECODING DEVICE - An image data decoding device includes a determination unit, a first pixel value generating unit, and a second pixel value generating unit. The determination unit receives compressed image data including information of one DC component, information of frequency components and a block end code for each block of an image as a result of frequency analysis and determines whether the block consists of the DC component and the block end code. The first pixel value generating unit performs inverse operation to the frequency analysis to generate pixel values of the block when the block is determined as not consisting of the DC component and the block end code. The second pixel value generating unit generates one and the same pixel value for all pixels of each block based on information of the DC component when the block is determined as consisting of the DC component and block end code. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310984 | COMMUNICATING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A communicating apparatus includes a first acquire unit that acquires a first usage bandwidth to be a usage bandwidth of the communicating apparatus; a negotiation unit that negotiates by utilizing information corresponding to the first usage bandwidth in relation to a transmission speed in an execution of a communication with another communicating apparatus connected to the communicating apparatus through a network; a second acquire unit that acquires a second usage bandwidth as a negotiation result obtained by the negotiation unit; and a communicating unit that transmits data to the another communicating apparatus at a lower transmission speed than a transmission speed based on the first usage bandwidth corresponding to information about the second usage bandwidth. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310440 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a screen processing unit and a correction processing unit. The screen processing unit executes screen processing for an image to be processed. The correction processing unit performs correction processing of correcting a distortion of an output image from an original image, based on the amount of the distortion, for (i) the image before the screen processing and (ii) the image after the screen processing. The correction amount relating to the correction processing for the image after the screen processing is a small value as compared with the correction amount relating to the correction processing for the image before the screen processing. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310122 | Remote instruction system, remote instruction method, and program product therefor - A remote instruction system includes an attention image outputting portion that projects an annotation image and an attention image from a projecting portion onto a captured area of an image capturing portion that captures an image of an object, the annotation image being created on the basis of the image captured, the attention image being provided for attracting attention to the annotation image. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307696 | MONITOR PORTAL, MONITOR SYSTEM, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A monitor portal includes: a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information representing a position of a terminal connected to a communication network on the communication network; a command unit that commands a virtual server control unit that generate a plurality of virtual servers from at least one physical server connected to the communication network and control the virtual servers to generate the virtual servers based on the position information; and a transmission unit that transmits a program for causing the virtual server to function as a monitor unit for acquiring a state signal from the terminal based on the position information to the virtual server so that the virtual server executes the program. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305478 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD OF REFERENCE INDEX ON TRANSFER BODY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit forming a latent image; a transfer body on which a reference index for setting an output start time point of image data is formed; a detecting unit outputting a detection signal changing according to passing of an adhesion material on the transfer body; a controller that starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards second change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point, and ignores change of the detection signal after the second change, to control outputting the image data; and a cleaning information outputting unit outputting information on cleaning the transfer body according to the number of changes of the detection signal in these periods. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305254 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - An optical transmission device includes: a substrate on which an element portion that includes a semiconductor layer transmitting or receiving an optical signal, and a support portion that includes a conductive semiconductor layer are formed; an optical transmission member that is arranged to face the element portion and the support portion and to be optically coupled to the element portion; and a conductive member that is provided on the support portion and electrically contacts the optical transmission member. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304894 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a read unit and a first correction unit. The read unit reads a document and generates multilevel image data from the document. The first correction unit corrects the multilevel image data contained in a first range predetermined as a color indicating a fluorescent color so as to move the multilevel image data contained in the first range to an outside of a print color range when at least a part of the multilevel image data is contained in the first range. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304681 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A light-emitting device includes: a circuit board including at least two of signal interconnection layers each having plural signal interconnections, at least adjacent two of the signal interconnection layers including signal interconnections provided so that center positions of the respective signal interconnections in a direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction are displaced from each other in portions of the signal interconnections provided in the longitudinal direction; and plural light-emitting chips each having plural light-emitting elements, the light-emitting chips being arrayed in line in the longitudinal direction on a surface of the circuit board. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304663 | DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS AND CURRENT CONTROL METHOD - A droplet ejecting component of the present invention includes an ejecting component having a charge and discharge characteristic, an applying component being provided with a transistor, and an increasing component. The ejecting component ejects a droplet. When a control signal is inputted, the applying component applies an application voltage to the ejecting component, and the increasing component increases the impedance of the transistor. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304090 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A sheet processing apparatus includes a support unit on which sheets are stacked together as a sheet stack and aligned; first and second binding units that respectively perform first and second binding processes to bind the sheet stack as first and second sheet stacks; a transporting unit that transports the first and second sheet stacks from the support unit toward first and second paths, respectively, which are in opposite directions; a reversing-and-transporting unit arranged at the second path, the reversing-and-transporting unit transporting and reversing the second sheet stack; a first output tray arranged at the first path, the first sheet stack being transported to the first output tray by the transporting unit; and a second output tray arranged at the second path, the second sheet stack being reversed and transported to the second output tray by the reversing-and-transporting unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304089 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A sheet processing apparatus includes a support unit on which sheets are stacked together as a sheet stack, first and second binding units that bind the sheet stack as first and second sheet stacks, respectively, an arranging unit that arranges the first and second sheet stacks such that an area through which the first sheet stack passes and an area through which a portion of the second sheet stack at which the second sheet stack has been bound passes do not overlap and such that, in a transporting path of the first and second sheet stacks, an area through which the first sheet stack passes and an area through which the portion of the second sheet stack passes are located at different positions in a direction that crosses the transporting path, and a transporting unit that transports one of the first and second sheet stack disposed at different positions. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302384 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including receiving an instruction for deleting an information group from a first memory; extracting, from the first memory, information regarding information groups having a parent-child relationship with a target information group to be deleted in accordance with the received instruction; extracting a user identification code associated with the target information group from a second memory; storing an identification code of the target information group, the information regarding the information groups, and the extracted user identification code in association with one another in a third memory; deleting the target information group from the first memory; and changing the structure information stored in the first memory to structure information obtained after the target information group has been deleted from the first memory, by changing the child information group as a child of the parent information group. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300477 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes plural developing units separately containing a toner A and a toner B that satisfy relationships (1) and (2) and have similar colors. The toner A and the toner B each contain a binder resin containing a polyester about 90 mass % or more of the binder resin, and about 90 mass % of the binder resin of the toner A and about 90 mass % of the binder resin of the toner B are the same resin. The polyester contains an amorphous polyester having an alkyl side chain and a crystalline polyester. The relationship (1) is Ta (toner A)>Tb (toner B) in terms of flow tester ½ effluent temperature. The relationship (2) is Aa (toner A)>Ab (toner B) in terms of an amount of an aluminum (with reference to net intensity) measured with fluorescent X-ray. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299131 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an image scanner that scans in an image of an original, the image scanner including an opening and closing member capable of moving between an open position and a closed position, a closing operation detection unit that detects closing operation of the opening and closing member, and a determination unit that determines a size and orientation of the original; an image forming unit that forms an image on recording paper based on scanned image data; a switching unit that independently switches between power supply or supply interruption for the image scanner and the image forming unit; and a notification unit that, after power supply has been resumed to the image scanner, executes notification to urge selection of either manual input of the size and the orientation of the original or opening and closing operation of the opening and closing member. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298835 | DISPLAY MEDIUM DRIVING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD, DRIVING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A driving device of a display medium that including first and second particle groups migrating independently due to a first voltage being imparted for a first time period, forming aggregates due to the first voltage being imparted for a second time period, and the aggregates migrating due to a second voltage being imparted. The driving device includes a voltage imparting section that: imparts a third voltage that moves, to a display substrate side, a greater-amount-needed particle group for gradation display, in an amount of a difference between particles of the first particle group and second particle group needed for the display; when the greater-amount-needed particle group has an opposite polarity to the aggregates, imparts a fourth voltage that moves the aggregates needed to the display substrate side; and when the polarities are same, imparts a fifth voltage that moves the aggregates not needed to a rear substrate side. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298703 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device that is connected to a projecting device that projects an annotation image input from an external, terminal a projection area including an object and a background, and is connected to an image capture device that captures an image of the projection area including the object and the background, includes: a detecting unit that detects movement of the object from an image captured by the image capture device; an extracting unit that extracts a changed region that is caused in the captured image by the movement of the object; and a processing unit that performs processing on at least one of the captured image and the annotation image, when the annotation image exists in the changed region. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110295629 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A monitoring system includes a communication information acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a condition information acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a determination information output unit. The communication information acquisition unit acquires communication information contained in each piece of electronic document data and containing identification information about a project and time information corresponding to acquisition time of each piece of electronic document data as target communication information. The information acquisition unit acquires progress information concerning a progress situation about the project based on the target communication information. The condition information acquisition unit acquires condition information relevant to the acquired progress information. The determination unit determines whether or not information corresponding to the target communication information matches a condition indicated by the condition information. The determination information output unit outputs determination information based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293299 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD OF REFERENCE INDEX ON TRANSFER BODY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit forming a latent image; a transfer body on which a reference index for setting an output start time point of image data is formed; a detecting unit facing the reference index and outputting a detection signal changing in accordance with passing of the reference index; a measuring unit measuring change duration time; and a controller controlling the output start time point with the detection signal. The controller starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point if the change duration time is longer than a predetermined period, and ignores change of the detection signal after the change occurring first. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292458 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMITTING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a generator. By using compressed image data which is obtained by compressing image data that have been obtained by reading a document with a reading unit, and combinational data, which represent an image or text to be combined with an image represented by the image data, the generator generates a single file by combining the compressed image data and the combinational data without decompressing the compressed image data, so that the compressed image data and the combinational data are held in separate layers. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110286668 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a storage module, character recognition module, a circumscribed rectangle extraction module, a ratio extraction module, and a character size calculation module. The storage module stores a reference ratio between a reference size of a reference circumscribed rectangle and a reference character size in a reference character image representing a reference character in association with a reference character identification code which uniquely identified the reference character. The character recognition module recognizes a character image in an image to get a character identification code from the recognized character image. The circumscribed rectangle extraction module extracts a circumscribed rectangle of the character image. The ratio extraction module extracts the reference ratio corresponding to the reference character identification code stored in the storage module based on the character identification code. The character size calculation module calculates a character size of the character image. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286048 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD USING THE DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires communication setting information of communication device from a server, the communication setting information being information necessary for communication between communication devices through a communication network; a second acquisition unit that acquires network identification information, which is information for identifying the communication network to which the communication device is connected, on the basis of the communication setting information acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a selection unit that, in accordance with the network identification information acquired by the second acquisition unit, selects an operation scheme of the communication device when the communication device communicates with another device through the communication network. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286033 | PRINT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print management device includes: a receiving unit that receives a print instruction to perform print of an electronic document on recording media; a canceling unit that cancels the print caused to be performed by the print instruction received by the receiving unit, in accordance with a canceling instruction of the print by an operator; and a recording unit that records the number of the recording media or the number of faces of the recording media, if the print caused to be performed by the print instruction received by the receiving unit is canceled by the canceling unit, the print on the recording media being canceled. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284917 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A compound semiconductor device includes: an Au alloy electrode, an interlayer insulating film, a metal interconnection, and an oxide film. The Au alloy electrode is formed on a compound semiconductor. The interlayer insulating film is formed on the Au alloy electrode. The metal interconnection is connected to the Au alloy electrode via a contact hole formed in the interlayer insulating film. The oxide film is formed at an interface between the Au alloy electrode and the interlayer insulating film, dominating component of the oxide film is a constituent element of the compound semiconductor. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283282 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF ACQUIRING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a first processing section that, in an environment where a first operating system is running, executes a process for a first application program, and performs a generation process for generating identification information for identifying the process for the first application program; and a second processing section that, in an environment where a second operating system is running, executes a process for a second application program, and when the process for the second application program is instructed to be executed, performs an identification information acquisition process for acquiring identification information newly generated through the generation process of the first processing section as identification information for identifying the process for the second application program. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110283087 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A first processing unit is implemented by executing a first application program by using an internal computer in an environment where a first operating system is operating. The first processing unit performs a first process or an external service call in accordance with instruction information describing a process to be executed. A second processing unit is implemented by executing a second application program by using the internal computer or an additional computer connected to the internal computer in an environment where a second operating system is operating. The second processing unit performs a second process when instructed by an external service call to execute the second process. When the instruction information includes information specifying the second process as the process to be executed, a transfer unit updates the information included in the instruction information, and transfers the updated instruction information to the first processing unit. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279885 | MULTICOLOR DISPLAY OPTICAL COMPOSITION, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD OF OPTICAL DEVICE - The present invention provides a multicolor display optical composition comprising a dispersion medium, a periodic structure having a porous structure inside communicated with the outside, and mobile particles contained in the dispersion medium so as to be movable and having a volume average primary particle diameter from 1 nm to 80 nm in a dispersion state in the dispersion medium, a volume average particle diameter of coagulated particles of 100 nm or larger in optical coagulation state by stimulation application, and having a refractive index different from that of the dispersion medium by 0.1 or more, wherein the mobile particles show no coloration in the dispersion state when the particles are dispersed in the dispersion medium and show white coloration with a predetermined whiteness value or higher in the coagulation state when the particles are coagulated, an optical device, and a display method of the optical device. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279697 | AR NAVIGATION FOR REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIFFERENCE EXTRACTION - Systems and methods for repeat photography and difference extraction that help users take pictures from the same position and camera angle as earlier photos. The system automatically extracts differences between the photos. Camera poses are estimated and then indicators are rendered to show the desired camera angle, which guide the user to the same camera angle for repeat photography. Using 3D rendering techniques, photos are virtually projected onto a 3D model to adjust them and improve the match between the photos, and the difference between the two photos are detected and highlighted. Highlighting the detected differences helps users to notice the differences. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279389 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller that causes a screen to display a first image, a second display controller that causes the screen to display a second image, a trail obtaining unit that obtains a trail, a status obtaining unit that obtains a status of an operation member, a first update unit that updates the first image, an image obtaining unit that obtains a screen image, a first switching controller that performs, if a trail is obtained, control to switch the display on the screen to display of the second image, a second update unit that updates, if a trail is obtained, the second image to an image obtained by drawing a trail image, a second switching controller that performs control to switch the display on the screen to display of the first image, and a unit that causes a memory to store the second image. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277011 | VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD FOR VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION PROGRAM FOR VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a video signal transmission apparatus including: an optical transmitter that uni-directionally transmits video data from a video source; an optical receiver that receives the video data and outputs the received video data to a sink device; a first transmission medium that transmits the video data at a high speed; a second transmission medium that transmits identification information for identifying the sink device at a low speed; an identification information acquisition control section that acquires the identification information from the sink device; a storage section that stores general-purpose identification information used for plural types of sink devices; a acquisition possibility determination section that determines whether the identification information can be acquired from the sink device; and a general-purpose identification information reply control section that replies the stored general-purpose identification information to the video source device if determined that the identification information cannot be acquired. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274465 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT-EMITTING ARRAY UNIT, PRINT HEAD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND LIGHT-EMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A light-emitting device includes: plural light-emitting array units that each include plural light-emitting elements, and for which lighting up and not lighting up are controlled by using a combination of a selection signal for selecting a control target for lighting up or not lighting up and a light-up signal for supplying power for lighting up to each light-emitting element forming the plural light-emitting elements; a selection signal generating unit that sends plural selection signals including the selection signal to the plural light-emitting array units; and a light-up signal generating unit that sends plural light-up signals including the light-up signal to the plural light-emitting array units. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274312 | INFORMATION IMAGE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information image includes a first, second, third, fourth and fifth pixel series which represent first, second, third, fourth and fifth information, respectively. The first and second information are successions of binary numbers 0 or 1. The first and third pixel series are series of pixel lumps arranged continuously as rows in a rectangle. The second and fourth pixel series are series of pixel lumps arranged continuously as columns in the rectangle. The row of the third pixel series is at a predetermined position with respect to that of the first pixel series. The column of the fourth pixel series is at a predetermined position with respect to that of the second pixel series. The fifth pixel series is a series of pixel lumps arranged in an area other than the rows and the columns of the first, second, third and fourth pixel series are arranged. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110269066 | Bronsted acid compound, manufacturing method of condensation compound, dispersion liquid of condensation compound particles, manufacturing method of electrostatic image developing toner, manufacturing method of binder resin, binder resin, dispersion liquid of resin particles, electrostatic image developing toner, electrostatic image developer, and image-forming method - Methods and compositions including a compound represented by formula (I): | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267645 | PRINT-DOCUMENT CONVERSION APPARATUS, PRINT-DOCUMENT CONVERSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A print-document conversion apparatus includes a conversion-module activation section that activates, as a process, a conversion module for performing conversion processing for converting print-document data which is described in a page description language and which includes units of processing into print-image data. The conversion module includes a thread activation part, an assigning part, and a shared cache. The thread activation part activates conversion processing threads. The assigning part assigns the units of processing to the conversion processing threads, and causes the conversion processing threads to perform processing on the units of processing. The shared cache is shared by the conversion processing threads. When a conversion result obtained by converting an object included in the units of processing is stored in the shared cache, each of the conversion processing threads obtains the stored conversion result instead of obtaining the conversion result by converting the object. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110264920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, AND COMPUTATION OF SIMPLE STATISTICS AND LOGICAL OPERATIONS ON ENCRYPTED DATA - Systems and methods provide for a symmetric homomorphic encryption based protocol supporting communication, storage, retrieval, and computation on encrypted data stored off-site. The system may include a private, trusted network which uses aggregators to encrypt raw data that is sent to a third party for storage and processing, including computations that can be performed on the encrypted data. A client on a private or public network may request computations on the encrypted data, and the results may then be sent to the client for decryption or further computations. The third party aids in computation of statistical information and logical queries on the encrypted data, but is not able to decrypt the data on its own. The protocol provides a means for a third party to aid in computations on sensitive data without learning anything about those data values. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264910 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - A virtual authentication proxy server includes an authentication request acceptance unit, a terminal authentication program transmission unit and an authentication result transmission unit. When an application server which cannot use an authentication server accepts a user ID and a password together with a use request from a terminal, the authentication request acceptance unit accepts the authentication request. The terminal authentication program transmission unit transmits a terminal authentication program to a terminal device. The authentication result transmission unit causes the terminal device to execute the terminal authentication program so as to cause the authentication server to execute authentication. The authentication result transmission unit receives the received authentication result from the terminal device and transmits the authentication result to the application server. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262189 | POWDER DELIVERY MEMBER, AND POWDER STORAGE CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS RESPECTIVELY USING SUCH POWDER DELIVERY MEMBER - A powder delivery member includes: a rotation shaft portion disposed rotatably within a powder storage container with powder stored therein; a delivery portion for delivering the powder along the axial direction of the rotation shaft portion; and, a powder discharge portion which, is disposed at a position corresponding to the position of the powder discharge port of the powder storage container, and is capable of storing therein the powder delivered thereto from the delivery portion, and also which, when it is rotated along the peripheral direction of the rotation shaft portion with the powder stored therein, can deliver the stored powder to the powder discharge port. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262188 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF REMOVABLE MEMBER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A mounting structure of a removable member includes a body; a removable member mounted to and dismounted from the body; a functional member provided at the removable member and having a determined function; a first gear provided at the removable member and transmitting power to the functional member; a second gear provided at the body, and engaging the first gear and transmitting the power to the first gear when the removable member is mounted to the body; and a covering member provided at the body. The covering member moves to an engageable position where the first and second gears are engageable with each other when the removable member is mounted to the body. The covering member covers at least a portion of the second gear from an engagement side of the first gear by moving from the engageable position when the removable member is dismounted from the body. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262183 | IMAGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An imaging device includes a photoconductor, a charging device that charges a photosensitive surface of the photoconductor by a charging member, an optical writing device that forms an electrostatic latent image by irradiating the charged photosensitive surface with light emitted from a light emitting portion, a developing device that develops the image by a developing member, and a support member that rotatably supports the photoconductor and supports the optical writing device at a distance from the photosensitive surface. The charging member and the developing member are provided closer to the optical writing device than a line extending orthogonally to an emitting direction of the light and passing through a center point of a shaft of the photoconductor. An application direction of a pressure to be applied to each of the charging member and the developing member intersects the emitting direction of the light at an acute angle. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262182 | GEAR CENTER-DISTANCE MAINTAINING MECHANISM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND ASSEMBLY - A gear center-distance maintaining mechanism includes a first support body that rotatably supports a first gear to be rotated by driving force from a driving unit, a second support body that rotatably supports a second gear to be meshed with the first gear so as to transmit rotational force from the first gear to a rotating body, the second support body being movable relative to the first support body in a direction such that the second gear moves away from the first gear, an arc-shaped face provided in the second support body and centered on an axis of the second gear, and a restricting portion provided in the first support body and shaped like an arc centered on an axis of the first gear, the restricting portion restricting the movement of the second support body relative to the first support body by contact with the arc-shaped face. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262156 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD OF REFERENCE INDEX ON TRANSFER BODY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit scanning and exposing an image carrier according to image data, to form a latent image; a transfer body on which a toner image is transferred and a reference index for setting an output start time point of the image data is formed; a detecting unit facing the reference index and outputting a detection signal changing in accordance with passing of the reference index; and a controller controlling the output start time point with the detection signal. The controller starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards second change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point, and ignores change of the detection signal after the second change. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110255887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a latent image holder that holds a latent image; a developing unit that contains developer including toner particles and carrier particles, develops a latent image with the toner particles, and forms a toner image; a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the developing unit; a toner concentration detection unit that detects a toner concentration that is a proportion of the toner particles to the developer contained in the developing unit; and a setting unit that sets a setting value of the voltage on the basis of the toner concentration detected by the toner concentration detection unit, the voltage being applied by the voltage applying unit to the developing unit, wherein a difference between an upper limit and a lower limit of the set value increases as the toner concentration increases, the set value being set by the setting unit. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255885 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A first image forming unit includes a first developing unit that develops a latent image, and a second image forming unit includes a second developing unit that develops a latent image. A transfer unit transfers an image formed by at least one of the first and second image forming units onto a recording medium. A controller performs control to form a transfer image on the recording medium through at least one of a first operation and a second operation. In the first operation, images formed by the first and second image forming units are transferred onto the recording medium as transfer images. In the second operation, the image formed by the first image forming unit is transferred onto the recording medium as a transfer image. A stopping unit stops operation of the second developing unit when the number of transfer images formed through the second operation reaches a preset value. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110252416 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, DEVICE DRIVER SETTING DEVICE, INSTALL DEVICE, DEVICE DRIVER PACKAGE, METHOD FOR SETTING DEVICE DRIVER AND INSTALL METHOD - A device driver setting device includes an acquiring unit, an allowing unit, and a writing unit. The acquiring unit acquires, from a data group constituting a device driver, condition information for each of one or more items which the device driver refers to. The condition information for each of the one or more items indicates a condition which can be taken by a setting value to be set in each of the items. The allowing unit allows a user to select a setting value which is to be set in each of at least a part of the items acquired, in accordance with the condition information associated with each of the at least a part of the items acquired. The writing unit writes setting values which are to be set in the respective items acquired into the data group based on a result of the selecting. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110248995 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATING INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL CONTENT BASED ON MACHINE ANALYSIS OF FREEFORM PHYSICAL MARKUP - Systems and methods are described for creating virtual models, primarily through actions taken in actual 3D physical space. For many applications, such systems are more natural to users and may provide a greater sense of reality than can be achieved by editing a virtual model at a computer display, which requires the use of manipulations of a 2D display to effect 3D changes. Actions are taken (markup is drawn or laid out, etc.) in a physical workspace. Such physical workspaces may in fact be identical to the space being modeled, small physical scale models of the space, or even a whiteboard or set of papers or objects which get mapped onto the space being modeled. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110243626 | WASTE DEVELOPER COLLECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A waste developer collecting device comprising: a collecting container; a collecting opening; a conveying unit; a filter; a partition wall; and an air inlet. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242258 | EXPOSURE HEAD AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF, CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention provides an exposure head including:
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| 20110241286 | FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A feeding device includes a body having a sheet placement surface on which a sheet that is to be fed is placed; a cover rotatably provided at the body and supporting a back edge portion in a feeding direction of the sheet placed on the sheet placement surface when the cover is open; a moving member provided at the sheet placement surface so as to be movable in a direction parallel to the feeding direction; a linking member extending in a movement direction of the moving member from the moving member, one end portion thereof being rotatably linked to the moving member using a rotary shaft that is parallel to a rotary shaft of the cover; and a sheet back-edge regulating member provided at the linking member so as to be movable in the movement direction, and regulating a back edge in the feeding direction of the sheet. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239223 | COMPUTATION RESOURCE CONTROL APPARATUS, COMPUTATION RESOURCE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A computation resource control apparatus includes an activation unit, a first queue managing unit, an allocating unit and a second queue managing unit. The activation unit activates a computation resource being in a stop state in accordance with a computation request. The first queue managing unit adds the computation resource which is being activated to a first queue. The allocating unit allocates the computation resource, which is output from the first queue, to the computation request to execute a computation process corresponding to the computation request. The second queue managing unit adds the computation resource which has completed the computation process to a second queue and places the computation resource, which is output from the second queue, in the stop state. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110239205 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores update information on update of an application; and an update information reading unit that, when there is update not applied to the application, reads the update information stored in the storage unit, in correspondence with information on an operation with respect to the application updated with the update. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110239121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition section that acquires first display content information indicating display content being displayed at a display section of a device used by a user, and user information indicating the user that displayed the display content at the display section; a generating section that, when second display content information corresponding to the user information acquired by the acquisition section is stored in a storage section, generates difference information indicating a difference between the stored second display content information and the acquired first display content information being displayed at the display section; and a transmission section that transmits a display instruction to display the difference information at the display section of the device. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110239102 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DOCUMENT PROCESSING PROGRAM - A document processing apparatus has an attachment unit and a storage. The attachment unit attaches a comment to an electronic document as additional information. The comment relates to a modification of the electronic document. The storage associates the comment with modified place information and stores them. The modified place information indicates a modified place of the electronic document, when the electronic document is modified based on the comment. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238968 | FUNCTION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A function providing apparatus includes a first reading unit, a second reading unit, a first initializing unit, a second initializing unit, a first receiving unit, a second receiving unit, and a control unit. The first reading unit reads a first control program relating to a first function provided by a particular device. The second reading unit reads a second control program relating to a second function provided by data processing without using the particular device. The first initializing unit causes the processor to initialize the first control program. The second initializing unit causes the processor to initialize the second control program. The first receiving unit receives a first instruction. The second receiving unit receives a second instruction. The control unit establishes a power saving state in which power is supplied to the memory is continued, and makes a transition from the power saving state to the ordinary state. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238954 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - Source code to be processed is analyzed and configuration data in implementing in accordance with each of plural implementation systems is created and is stored in a local memory of a DRP incorporating system. When execution of target processing is started, the implementation system determination processing calculates estimated processing time when the configuration of each of the implementation systems is adopted and determines the optimum one of the implementation systems based on a combination of the estimated processing time and the circuit scale of the configuration. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110237719 | PARTICLE, RESIN COMPOSITION AND RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE - A particle including: at least one selected from an ionic liquid that has, as an organic cation, one selected from cyclic amidine ion-based organic cations, pyridinium-based organic cations, ammonium-based organic cations, sulfonium-based organic cations, and phosphonium-based organic cations, or a liquid phosphate ester; and a polymer compound that serves as a base material, a resin composition including the particle and a resin molded article including the resin composition are provided. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236820 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT CARRIER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An electrostatic charge image development carrier includes magnetic core particles and a resin coating layer that contains titanium dioxide particles doped with niobium and coats each of the magnetic core particles. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236817 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS. - An electrostatic image developing toner includes a binding resin and a release agent, wherein an organic silicon compound including a siloxane bond is present in a domain of the release agent. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236814 | CARRIER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A carrier for developing an electrostatic charge image, including a core, and a coating layer including a resin and inorganic oxide particles that exhibit electroconductivity, by which the core is coated, wherein the inorganic oxide particles have, when they are aggregated, an aggregation size of or when they are not aggregated, a primary particle size of, from 230 nm to 970 nm. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236813 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic developer is provided which includes: a toner that includes toner base particles and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner base particles and has an amount of Al on the surface of the toner base particles of from about 0.002 to about 0.02 atm %; and a carrier that includes magnetic particles and a coating resin layer that coats the magnetic particles, the coating resin layer including particles with a volume-average particle diameter of from about 80 to about 800 nm, such as organic particles or inorganic particles having an organic layer on a surface of the inorganic particles, the carrier satisfying any one of the following formulas, where SP1, SP2 and SP3 represent a solubility parameter of resin of the coating resin layer, the organic particles, and the organic layer respectively: | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236812 | ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a mother particle which contains a coloring agent, a release agent and a binder resin; and an inorganic particle which is added to the surface of the mother particle, and wherein a relation between a relaxation time t and a relaxation modulus G(t) which are determined from the dynamic viscoelasticity measurement made on the toner satisfies the following equations (1) and (2); | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236810 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the substrate, wherein a surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing polymer particles and a dispersion aid for the fluorine-containing polymer particles, and the surface layer has convex portions with diameters of from 200 μm to 500 μm spaced at an average interval of from 600 μm to 950 μm. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236694 | LAYERED STRUCTURE, FIXING MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A layered structure including a base, and an elastic layer and a release layer positioned on the base in this order, the layered structure satisfying at least one of Formula (1): an interlayer peeling force between the elastic layer and the base at a temperature of from 20° C. to 30° C. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236158 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system includes a first supplying unit, a second supplying unit, an image forming unit, a stacking unit, first and second binding units, an obtaining unit, and a controller. The image forming unit forms images on recording materials supplied from the first or second supplying unit. The stacking unit is for stacking, as a bundle, the recording materials having the images formed thereon. The first binding unit binds, by a first binding operation, first edge portions of the bundle. The second binding unit binds, by a second binding operation, second edge portions of the bundle. The obtaining unit obtains an instruction regarding binding positions of the first and second binding operations with respect to the bundle. The controller performs control to supply the recording materials from the first or second supplying unit, on the basis of the binding positions of the first and second binding operations. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236112 | PRINT SYSTEM - A print system includes: a first printer that performs printing on continuous form paper; a second printer that performs printing on the continuous form paper after the printing by the first printer; and a synchronization unit that synchronizes the printing by the first printer and the printing by the second printer. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236111 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TRANSPORTATION AMOUNT ADJUSTING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes: first and second image forming units that respectively form images on first and second surfaces of a recording medium formed into a belt shape while transporting the recording medium spanning the first and second image forming units; first and second transportation controllers that control a pre-transportation operation performed from a transportation start of the recording medium to arrival at a predetermined transportation speed, and a post-transportation operation including return transportation of the recording medium to an upstream side in a transporting direction performed from a start of a transportation stop to a stop of the recording medium; and a recording medium amount setting unit that adjusts transportation amounts of the recording medium in the pre-transportation and post-transportation operations, and thereby sets a recording medium amount existing between the first and second image forming units to a predetermined recording medium amount after the transportation stop. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236098 | GROUNDING STRUCTURE, SHEET TRANSPORT APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A grounding structure includes a rotation shaft and a grounding member. The rotation shaft has a non-circular cross section, and rotates. The grounding member is attached to the rotation shaft to electrically communicate with the rotation shaft, and rotates together with the rotation shaft. The grounding member includes a first grounding portion, a grounding retainer and a second grounding portion. An outer shape of the first grounding portion is a circular shape. The grounding retainer is provided on a side of the first grounding portion in a shaft direction of the rotation shaft, and has an outside diameter being larger than an outside diameter of the first grounding portion. The second grounding portion is elastically held in contact with the first grounding portion. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236097 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a recording medium conveying section; an image forming section, disposed to the recording medium conveying section and relatively moveably supported by the recording medium conveying section at one end side, that forms an image on a recording medium; a side panel that configures a side face portion of the image forming section in a width direction intersecting with the conveying direction, and supports a drive source that drives the image forming section; a support plate, provided between the recording medium conveying section and the image forming section to cover the bottom side of the image forming section, and is supported at a support portion provided at the other end side of the recording medium conveying section; and a resilient member that resiliently supports the support plate and the side panel. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236092 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a rotating member supporting section supporting a first rotating member rotatably and movable in direction in which the first rotating member approaches and leaves a second rotating member; a compression spring pushing the rotating member supporting section in the direction of approaching the second rotating member; and a pressing member pressing the compression spring to the rotating member supporting section. The device further includes: a first spring contact member contacting the compression spring and movable in a compression-and-expansion direction of the compression spring relative to the rotating member supporting section; a first adjustment screw adjusting a position of the first spring contact member; a second spring contact member contacting the compression spring and movable in a direction inclined to the compression-and-expansion direction, relative to the pressing member; and a second adjustment screw adjusting a position of the second spring contact member relative to the pressing member. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236087 | CONVEYING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A conveying device including: a rotating body that rotates; a conveying belt that rotates while nipping a conveyed member between the conveying belt and the rotating body, thereby conveying the conveyed member; a pressing member that is disposed at an inner periphery of the conveying belt along a conveying belt rotation axis direction and presses the conveying belt towards the rotating body; a pair of support members that are respectively disposed at each of two rotation axis direction edge sides of the conveying belt and that support the pressing member; and a contact member that is disposed at the inner periphery of the conveying belt along the conveying belt rotation axis direction, makes sliding contact with the rotating conveying belt, and is supported so as to be independently displaceable relative to the pressing member. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236086 | CONVEYING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A conveying device includes: a rotating body that rotates; a belt that contacts the rotating body and rotates; a restricting member that is disposed at each of the two rotation axis direction side edges of the belt, positions the side edges of the belt, and restricts movement of the belt in the rotation axis direction; a lubrication agent that is supplied to the inner peripheral face of the belt; and a slide bearing that is disposed so as to overlap in the rotation axis direction with the restricting member when viewed along a rotating body radial direction, the slide bearing being open to the belt side and rotatably supporting the rotating body. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236085 | CONVEYING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A conveying device includes: a rotating roll; a conveying belt that rotates, nipping a conveyed member between the conveying belt and the rotating roll; and a pressing member that is disposed at the inner periphery of the conveying belt and pressing the conveying belt towards the rotating roll. The pressing member includes an opposing face formed with a pressure point where the pressing force of the conveying belt towards the rotating roll is greatest, and an inclined face that is formed at the belt rotation direction upstream side relative to the pressure point. The inclined face inclines at an angle relative to a parallel line such that the inclined face separates away from the rotating roll, and the parallel line being parallel to a tangent to the rotating roll outer peripheral surface and passing through the pressure point. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236082 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a first rotating member; a second rotating member that extends along the first rotating member, sandwiches a recording medium with a toner image formed thereon between the first and second rotating members, rotates together with the first rotating member, and heats the recording medium to fix the toner image on the recording medium; a heating device whose circumferential surface circularly moves while contacting an external circumferential surface of the second rotating member, and the heating device heats the second rotating member; a temperature detecting device disposed to face the external circumferential surface of the second rotating member without contacting the external circumferential surface to detect a temperature thereof; and a cleaning device cleaning the circumferential surface of the heating device and disposed between the heating device and the temperature detecting device along the surface of the second rotating member. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236081 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a transfer member that transfers an image onto a recording medium; a leading-end holding member that holds a leading-end side of the recording medium, which is fed to the transfer member, between the leading-end holding member and an outer circumferential surface of the transfer member, in such a way to restrict displacement of the recording medium and to restrict movement of the recording medium in a direction away from the transfer member; and a rear-end holding member that holds a rear-end side of the recording medium, in the transporting direction thereof, between the rear-end holding member and the outer circumferential surface of the transfer member, in such a way to allow displacement of the recording medium in the transporting direction and to restrict movement of the recording medium in the direction away from the transfer member. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236077 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device include: a toner carrier that is arranged oppositely to an image carrier; a toner-flying electrode member spaced apart from the toner carrier; and an oscillating electric field generating power source that connects the toner-flying electrode member and the toner carrier, and generates an oscillating electric field which causes the toner to fly from the toner carrier. The toner-flying electrode member includes a conductive member that extends at least along a rotational axis direction of the toner carrier; an insulating coating layer that applies insulating coating continuously to a conductive member surface located on a toner carrier side; and an exposed portion where the conductive member surface adjacent to the insulating coating layer and located on an image carrier side is exposed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236075 | POWDER STORAGE CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE USING POWDER STORAGE CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A powder storage container includes a powder storage unit, a conveying member, and an elastic member. The powder storage unit stores powder. The conveying member is rotatably disposed in the powder storage unit and conveys the powder stored in the powder storage unit to an outlet. The elastic member includes: an upper end portion fixed to the inside of the powder storage unit; and a lower end portion which is a swingable free end and is disposed above the conveying member. A part of the lower end portion along the conveying direction of the conveying member is configured to contact with the conveying member to be elastically deformed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236073 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device that includes a plurality of exposure components and a conductive covering member is provided. Pluralities of light emitting elements are disposed on substrates at the plurality of exposure components. The exposure components expose a plurality of exposure objects, respectively. The conductive covering member includes at least a floor plate that covers the exposure components from below. Wiring is connected to the substrates being disposed along the floor plate. Earthing portions of the substrates are electrically connected to the floor plate. The covering member includes a side plate that covers an axial direction side of the exposure objects and is joined to the floor plate. The earthing portions of the substrates are electrically connected to the side plate via conductive members. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236069 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A fixing device includes: a fixing rotating member; a pressing rotating member pressed to the fixing surface of the fixing rotating member; a displacing mechanism that can displace the pressing rotating member at least at a first setting position that the pressing rotating member pressed to the fixing surface is located in a first position relative to the fixing rotating member and at a second setting position the pressing rotating member pressed to the fixing surface is in a second position shifted from the first position in the downstream or upstream side of a passing direction of the recording medium at the fixing process part; a guide member having a guide part that guides the recording medium to an introducing portion of the fixing process part; an adjusting mechanism that can adjust the position of the guide member in accordance with the displacement of the pressing rotating member to the first setting position or the second setting position. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236068 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a main body mounted on an image forming apparatus body; a fixing member that is included in the main body and that fixes an image to a recording medium; a pair of conveying rolls that is supported by the main body and that conveys the recording medium to which an image is fixed by the fixing member, the pair of conveying rolls comprising a driven roll and a driving roll disposed under the driven roll; and an exterior portion that is formed in the main body, disposed under the driving roll, forms an exterior face of the main body, and also forms an exterior face of the image forming apparatus body while the main body is mounted on the image forming apparatus body. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236067 | FIXING DEVICE, SINGLE-SIDED IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DOUBLE-SIDED IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device is provided with a fixing device body, a fixing member, and a first attachment section. The fixing device body is adapted to attach to and detach from an apparatus body of a double-sided image forming apparatus, which has a return passage through which a recording medium is returned to an image forming position, and an apparatus body of a single-sided image forming apparatus, which does not have the return passage. The first attachment section is provided at a return passage side in the fixing device body, and is adapted to have a passage surface member, which has a passage surface of an introduction passage through which a fixed recording medium is introduced into the return passage, attached thereto. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236059 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a rotary body; a rotary body retaining member; pressure members that press the rotary body retaining member along a direction to bring shaft portions of the rotary body into positioning grooves; and an operation member. When an open/shut cover is in an open position, the operation member comes into contact with the rotary body retaining member so as to press the rotary body retaining member in a direction to bring the shaft portions of the rotary body out of the positioning grooves. When the open/shut cover is swung to, a close position, the operation member is contacted by the rotary body retaining member pressed by the pressure members, thereby bringing the operation member into contact with part of the apparatus body and keeping the operation member still. The rotary body retaining member and the operation member touch each other through elastic buffering members. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236052 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, CLEANING APPARATUS, AND CLEANING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a member to be cleaned and a cleaning roller driven by contact with the member to be cleaned, and the apparatus is configured such that abrasive grains and at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant are supplied to the member to be cleaned and that the supplied abrasive grains and the supplied at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant move on a surface of the member to be cleaned in an axial direction of the cleaning roller. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236042 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on recording paper; a paper feeding unit that feeds the recording paper to the image forming unit; an opening/closing door that is provided to be opened/closed by an operator; a paper conveyance path through which the recording paper is conveyed from the paper feeding unit through the image forming unit to a paper outlet, the paper conveyance path including a maintenance feasible conveyance path and a maintenance infeasible conveyance path that does not allows the operator to maintain even if the opening/closing door is opened; and a residual paper detecting unit that detects residual paper remaining on the maintenance infeasible conveyance path. New recording paper is fed to the paper conveyance path when the residual paper detecting unit has detected the residual paper after opening and closing the opening/closing door. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236038 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a replaceable member, a first determination unit, and a second determination unit. The replaceable member is removable from the image forming apparatus in a open state of a door and has a storage portion storing given information. The first determination unit determines whether or not a response from the storage portion exists. The second determination unit determines the image forming apparatus is in the open state or a removed state where the replaceable member is removed from the image forming apparatus when the first determination unit determines the response is not exist in given number of times. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236037 | HEATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heating device includes a first rotating member and a second rotating member revolving in contact with the first rotating member. The second rotating member heats a passing recording medium having a toner image and held between the first and second rotating members, thereby fixing the toner image on the recording medium. The heating device further includes a pair of supporting plates supporting the first and second rotating members by being arranged on both sides across the first and second rotating members in a width direction crossing the passing direction of the recording medium. The supporting plates each have a tabular section with a first surface facing the first and second rotating members. The heating device further includes a resistance element arranged on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the tabular section, and representing the type of a fixing device by using resistance. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236036 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit which fixes an unfixed toner image retained onto a recording medium by at least heat while moving the recording medium; a setting unit which sets a plurality of levels of fixing condition in the fixing unit in accordance with user's desire; and a changing unit which changes at least one of temperature with which the recording medium is heated by the fixing unit and speed with which the recording medium is moved by the fixing unit, in accordance with the level of fixing condition set by the setting unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236035 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING - An image forming apparatus includes: a monitor that monitors a state of communication performed in the image forming apparatus; and a controller that, when the monitor monitors that the state of the communication is abnormal, controls the communication based on an operation of the image forming apparatus in which a state has been changed within previously determined time including a time point at which the state of the communication has become abnormal. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235907 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A color processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a first color signal from outside, a converting unit that converts the first color signal obtained by the obtaining unit into a second color signal based on a viewing condition, and a generating unit that generates a third color signal on the basis of the first color signal obtained by the obtaining unit and the second color signal obtained through conversion performed by the converting unit, the third color signal being an input signal that is used for a color gamut mapping process of performing mapping to a color gamut of an output device. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235102 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a print medium. The control unit controls the image forming unit so as to divide an image larger than the print medium into pieces and to form the image pieces on a plurality of print media. The control unit forms an image formed on a different print medium in a margin where the image is not formed when the print medium contains the margin in case that the image forming unit divides the image into pieces and forms the image pieces on the plurality of print media. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235101 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A printing control device includes units that: distribute received image data page by page, perform image processing for converting the image data distributed by page into print data, and control output in accordance with a plurality of image output sections, and control the output processing of each of the plurality of the image output sections based on the print data generated by the image processing, when aggregate printing where images of a plurality of pages are merged into one image is executed. The image data is distributed so that the image data is subjected to the image processing by a single image processing unit. The plurality of the output control units generate print data in a plurality of pages by combining the plurality of page print data transferred from the image processing units, and transmit the generated print data to the image output sections corresponding to the output control units. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235100 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: a deciding unit that decides whether in-monitoring assertion information representing is recorded in the information storing unit by another image forming apparatus or not; a recording unit that generates new in-monitoring assertion information; an acquiring unit that acquires information to be an image forming target; and an executing unit that executes an image formation processing. The recording unit decides that the condition of the expiration is satisfied when an expiration date represented by information indicative of the expiration date elapses if the information is included in the in-monitoring assertion information recorded by the another image forming apparatus, and the recording unit does not generate the in-monitoring assertion information and the executing unit does not execute the image formation processing in that case when the predetermined condition of the expiration is not satisfied. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a recognition unit, a calculation unit, a determination unit, and a controller. The receiving unit receives a print job. The recognition unit recognizes hardware information regarding the image processing apparatus. The calculation unit calculates a time required for image processing of the received print job in accordance with the recognized hardware information and image data in the print job. The determination unit determines whether or not the calculated time required for the image processing of the print job is shorter than a predetermined time. The controller performs assignment control so that, when the determination unit determines that the time required for the image processing of the print job is not shorter than the predetermined time, a dynamic reconfigurable processor included in another image processing apparatus processes a portion of the print job. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235098 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives job data of plural pages; plural RIP processors that interpret and expand the job data into raster images; and an allocating unit that allocates the plural pages of the job data to the plural RIP processors for RIP processing, the allocating unit dividing the job data based on a predetermined data size regardless of page breaks, allocating job data that is to be RIP processed to the plural RIP processors, sending job data, corresponding to and after the pages of the data that is to be RIP processed, to the plural RIP processors, and when a head part of the job data that is to be RIP processed allocated by the allocating unit is in the middle of a page, the plural RIP processors RIP processing the job data from the beginning of the next page. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235097 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PRINTER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device of the present invention has: a receiving section that receives a print job transmitted by a sender; a printing executing section that, when a print job received at the receiving section is a print job to which authentication information is not added, executes printing immediately, and, when a print job received at the receiving section is an authentication-added print job to which the authentication information is added, stores the print job temporarily, and executes printing on the basis of authentication of a person who carries out printing; and a notification section that, when printing of the authentication-added print job has been executed at the printing executing section, notifies the sender of the print job that printing of the print job has been executed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235096 | PRINT JOB DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT JOB DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PRINT JOB DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A print job data management device includes a storage section that stores a print job, a reception section that receives a print job transmitted by a sender, a print execution section, and an extraction section. The print execution section executes printing immediately when the received print job is a first print job without authentication data attached thereto, and, when the print job is a second print job with authentication data attached thereto, temporarily stores the second print job in the storage section and executes printing in response to an authentication of a recipient of a printout. The extraction section extracts the second print job for which a specific duration has elapsed from the storing in the storage section. The print job data management device deletes the print job when the sender and the recipient of the second print job extracted by the extraction section are the same. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235095 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication terminal that includes a first communication unit that is coupled to an IP (Internet Protocol) network and conducts a facsimile transmission through the IP network; a second communication unit that is coupled to a public telephone network and conducts a facsimile transmission through the public telephone network; a control unit that, in a case that a communication error is detected when the first communication unit calls to the IP network and that the address information used for calling to the IP network is the address information corresponding to the destination which is converted from the telephone number received by a reception unit, controls the second communication to call to public telephone network by using the telephone number received by a reception unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235094 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including: an assignment portion that, when a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) execute image processes by a pipeline process mode based on a print job, assigns identification numbers identifying the DRPs to the DRPs based on the number of DRPs; a first change portion that changes an assignment process by the assignment portion, based on whether a DRP of a final stage in the DRPs is connected to an outputting portion, the outputting portion outputting the results of the image processes to an outside; and a second change portion that, when the DRP of the final stage in the DRPs is disconnected from the outputting portion, further changes the assignment process by the assignment portion based on whether the DRPs are placed on only a single substrate. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235079 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a print engine that forms an image on an image formation material, and an image data generating unit that generates bitmap image data of the image. The image data generating unit includes plural reconfigurable processing circuits that are capable of performing any of first image processing and second image processing, and a controller that controls the plural reconfigurable processing circuits. The controller changes a reconfigurable processing circuit among the plural reconfigurable processing circuits from a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the first image processing to a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the second image processing, or changes the reconfigurable processing circuit from a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the second image processing to a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the first image processing, in accordance with an amount of the first image processing. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235078 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a reconfigurable processing unit that performs first image processing on first image data and that performs second image processing on second image data after completing the first image processing on the first image data, and a controller that controls the reconfigurable processing unit. The controller controls the reconfigurable processing unit so that preprocessing for performing the second image processing is performed in parallel with a processing operation on the first image data, the processing operation including the first image processing. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235077 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a first dynamic reconfigurable processor, a second dynamic reconfigurable processor, and a controller. The first dynamic reconfigurable processor is assigned to a first group of image processing operations that are executed regardless of whether or not correction data from a printer is used. The second dynamic reconfigurable processor is assigned to a second group of image processing operations that are executed using correction data from the printer. The controller performs control to execute the first group of image processing operations during interruption of operation of the printer by changing an image processing setting so as to cause the second dynamic reconfigurable processor assigned to the second group of image processing operations to execute the first group of image processing operations. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235076 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A processing apparatus includes a processing unit and a first registration unit. The processing unit executes a requested process. The first registration unit registers therein first identification information which identifies another device, in advance. If a request for the process is received from said another device, the processing unit complies with the request without authenticating a user who makes the request on condition that the first identification information of said another device which makes the request is registered in the first registration unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235072 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes print processors for different colors, plural first conversion sections provided for each of the print processors, a second conversion section, and a controller. Each of the print processors performs printing of a corresponding color onto a recording medium. Each of the first conversion sections converts print data described in page description language into raster image data, and outputs the converted raster image data to the corresponding print processor. The second conversion section converts the print data into raster image data and outputs the converted raster image data to any of the print processors. The controller selectively performs a first control that causes the first conversion sections to convert the print data that has been input to the device in parallel, or a second control that causes the first conversion sections and the second conversion section to convert the input print data in parallel. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235062 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is provided. A density conversion component converts a density of a transparent color material so that a total amount of a plurality of color materials is smaller than a predetermined first amount when it is determined that the total amount of the plurality of color materials is larger than the predetermined first amount and when the transparent color material is included in the plurality of color materials. A density ratio calculation component calculates a ratio between a density before converting the density of the transparent color material and a density after converting the density of the transparent material. A reporting component reports that the ratio of the density is smaller than a predetermined second amount when determining that the ratio of the density is smaller than the predetermined second amount. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235011 | EXPOSURE DEVICE, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR THE EXPOSURE DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An exposure device includes a substrate, an optical component, and a receiving section. The substrate has exposure light-emitting elements disposed thereon in a row. The optical component is formed integrally with the substrate, is provided with graded index lenses, and causes exposure light emitted from the exposure light-emitting elements to be focused on an exposure member to be exposed. The receiving section is provided at the substrate, receives an optical signal through the graded index lenses and, converts the received optical signal into an electrical signal. The optical signal is emitted from a light-emitting section provided at a side of the exposure member to be exposed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235010 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An exposure apparatus includes: a scanning optical system; a light concentrating section that concentrates lights by the scanning optical system on the photosensitive surface and adjusts a light concentrating position to a light traveling direction; a light receiving device to which lights having different light sources are guided and emitted from a part of a light movement range with scanning to receive separately the lights, including light receiving parts to detect a received light quantity, where an optical path length to the light receiving part is greater than that to the photosensitive surface for a part of the lights passing through on the light receiving parts and is smaller for another part of the lights; and a light concentrating position adjusting section that uses the function of the light concentrating section to adjust the light concentrating position by the light concentrating section based on the received light quantity. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234740 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT-EMITTING CHIP, PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A light-emitting device includes: plural light-emitting chips each having plural light-emitting elements, and each being designated, as a control target for lighting up or not lighting up, by two to Q designation signals (Q is an integer of two or more); and a selection signal generating part that selectively transmits P selection signals (P is an integer of three or more where P>Q) as the designation signals to designate each of the plural light-emitting elements as the control target, the designation signals for each of the plural light-emitting chips including a combination of two to Q selection signals taken from the P selection signals. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234739 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A light-emitting device includes: light-emitting chips each including light-emitting elements and memory elements corresponding to each other, each memory element memorizing a light-emitting element to light up, each light-emitting chip being capable of lighting up the light-emitting elements in parallel; a unit to transmit an enable signal in common to light-emitting chips belonging to each of M groups obtained by dividing the light-emitting chips, the enable signal enabling selection of light-emitting elements to light up; a unit to transmit a write signal in common to light-emitting chips belonging to each of N classes obtained by dividing the light-emitting chips, the write signal setting memory elements corresponding to the light-emitting elements to light up, to a memory state or not, in the light-emitting chips where the selection is enabled; and a unit to transmit light-up signals for lighting up to light-emitting elements corresponding to memory elements in the memory state. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234738 | EXPOSURE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING UNIT - The present invention provides an annular exposure device, including:
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| 20110233856 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying device with a sheet conveyance path through which a sheet is conveyed include: a sheet guide that has a first end rotatably supported to move a second end to be close to or away from the sheet conveyance path; and a sheet detecting section that has a first end protruding beyond the sheet guide and a second end rotatably supported so that the first end is pushed by the sheet and rotated. A rotation shaft of the sheet detecting section is disposed farther from the sheet conveyance path than a rotation shaft of the sheet guide, and the sheet guide is provided with a moving portion for moving the first end of the sheet detecting section to an inside of a guide face of the sheet guide. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233844 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a support unit on which sheets, which each include first and second edge portions that differ from each other, are stacked together such that the first and second edge portions are aligned; a counter member disposed so as to face the first edge portions; a pressing member that presses the first edge portions against the counter member; a first binding unit that binds together the first edge portions by a first binding process, the first edge portion of each sheet being pressed against the counter member by the pressing member; and a second binding unit that binds together the second edge portions by a second binding process, the first edge portion of each sheet being pressed against the counter member by the pressing member, a bond formed by the second binding unit being more easily breakable than a bond formed by the first binding unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233843 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND RECORDING MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE - An image forming system includes an image forming unit that forms images on recording materials; a stacking unit used for stacking the recording materials having the images formed thereon as a bundle; a first binding unit that binds, by a first binding operation, first edge portions of the bundle; a second binding unit that binds, by a second binding operation, second edge portions of the bundle; a reversing transporting unit that reverses front and back surfaces of the recording materials having the images formed thereon, and that transports the reversed recording materials to the stacking unit; and a controller that performs control to determine whether or not to cause the reversing transporting unit to reverse and transport the recording materials, on the basis of orientations of the images with respect to the recording materials and positions of the first and second binding operations. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233803 | METAL MOLD HOLDING METHOD, ANNULAR MEMBER MANUFACTURING METHOD AND ANNULAR MEMBER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A metal mold holding method includes: rotating a metal mold by a first rotating portion; rotating a holding member by a second rotating portion in the same direction as that of the metal mold such that a difference between a speed of rotation of the holding member and that of the metal mold which rotates is smaller than a difference between the speed of rotation of the holding member and that of the metal mold in a case where the speed of rotation of the metal mold is zero; and holding the metal mold which rotates by the holding member which rotates. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110230607 | RESIN COMPOSITION, MOLDED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PRODUCT - A resin composition, containing at least (A) a polylactic acid, (B) a phosphazene compound and (C) a crystal nucleator. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229813 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE-DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE-FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic image-developing toner comprising a binder resin, wherein the content of all the chlorine-substituted benzene derivatives in the electrostatic image-developing toner is about 0.01 ppb or more and about 10 ppb or less. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229812 | TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A two-component developer includes: a toner; a carrier having a surface energy of from about 23 dyne/cm to about 37 dyne/cm; and an external additive having a shape factor SF | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229811 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention provides a toner for developing an electrostatic image including toner particles having a shape factor SF | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229810 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a base, a photosensitive layer formed on the base, and an overcoat layer formed on the photosensitive layer, wherein the overcoat layer includes gallium, oxygen, and hydrogen, and the intensity ratio (I | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229809 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING CARTRIDGE - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: an electrophotographic photoreceptor; a charging unit; an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed at the electrophotographic photoreceptor by a developer to form a toner image, the developing unit storing the developer containing a toner having toner particles containing a crystalline resin and having a shape factor SF1 of from 100 to 150, a volume average particle diameter of from 3 to 6 μm, and fluorocarbon-based resin particles as an external additive; a transfer unit; and a cleaning unit that cleans the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor with a blade containing urethane rubber, the blade disposed applying a pressure to the electrophotographic photoreceptor surface of 0.20 mN/mm or more. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229243 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an endless belt that travels circularly by a drive member and has an outer peripheral surface on which an image is formed; a tension applying member around which the endless belt is trained and that applies tension to the endless belt by pressing an inner peripheral surface of the endless belt; a detection member that detects the image formed on the outer peripheral surface of the endless belt; a support member to which the detection member is attached and that movably supports the detection member with respect to an apparatus main body; and a positioning member that positions the detection member with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the endless belt at a portion pressed by the tension applying member. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229216 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A developing device that includes a developing member, a cylindrical layer thickness regulation member and a guide surface. The developing member retains a developer supplied from a developer accommodation portion and, while rotating, supplies the developer to an image-bearing body. The layer thickness regulation member comes up against the developer retained at the surface of the developing member and regulates a layer thickness of the developer. The guide surface guides developer that has been rendered excess by the layer thickness being regulated by the layer thickness regulation member toward the developer accommodation portion. The guide surface is provided such that an angle that is formed between the guide surface and a tangent of the layer thickness regulation member at a point of intersection of a line of extension of the guide surface with the layer thickness regulation member is at least 90°. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229215 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a first developing member that rotates in a manner such that a moving direction of a portion opposing the image carrier is opposite a moving direction of the image carrier, a second developing member provided on a downstream side of the first developing member in a rotating direction of the image carrier and rotates in a manner such that a moving direction of a portion opposing the image carrier is the same as the moving direction of the image carrier, a distributing member supported movably relative to a proximal portion where the first developing member is closest to the second developing member so as to distribute developer to the first and second developing members by contact with the developer, and an a biasing member that biases the distributing member upstream in the rotating direction of the first developing member. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229214 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes: a first developer holding body with a first cylinder member disposed facing the outer peripheral surface of a rotating latent image holding body, and a first magnet disposed at the inside of the first cylinder member; a second developer holding body with a second cylinder member disposed facing the outer peripheral surface of the latent image holding body, further downstream in the latent image holding body rotation direction than the first developer holding body, and a second magnet disposed at the inside of the second cylinder member; and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts the relative position of the first magnet to the second magnet in a circumferential direction. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229198 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a holding part that holds a detachable constituent component so that the detachable component is displaced to a detachment operating position and primary and secondary mounting completed positions as a result of link with opening/closing operations of an opening/closing part, and a connection part that is provided on the opening/closing part and in which a guide groove is formed which guides a projecting portion provided on the holding part. The guide groove of the connection part includes a narrow portion through which the projecting portion is caused to pass while the detachable constituent component is being displaced from the detachment operating position to the primary or secondary mounting completed position. The narrow portion has a groove width which is narrower than an outer dimension of the projecting portion. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229192 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image-forming apparatus comprises: a body having a mount/remove opening; a removable component that can be mounted on or removed from the body via the mount/remove opening, the removable component being operable when mounted on the body; a door attached to the mount/remove opening; a mounting unit, on which the removable component is mounted, attached to the body; a connecting member that connects the door and the mounting unit, a position or attitude of the mounting unit in accordance with an opening/closing operation of the door, causes the removable component to move to a first position in which the removable component is operable when the door is closed, and causes the removable component mounted on the mounting unit to move to a second position, which is more easily accessible when the door is opened. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229191 | COVER OPENING/CLOSING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cover opening/closing unit includes a cover body, a plurality of first hinge portions, a handle portion, and a second hinge portion. The cover body is attached to a side surface of an apparatus body. The first hinge portions are provided on both ends of a lower end portion of the cover body so as to rotatably support the cover body. The handle portion is provided between the first hinge portions. The second hinge portion is provided on a back of the cover body and between the first hinge portions so as to rotatably support the cover body. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229166 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a heating device that heats images that have been formed on a sheet-like recording medium to thereby fix the images to the recording medium; an ejection member that rotates in a forward direction and ejects to the outside the recording medium that has been conveyed from the heating device; a blower member that blows air onto the recording medium conveyed between the heating device and the ejection member; and a controller that controls the blower member such that the blower member operates when a recording page count where images are continuously formed on the recording medium is equal to or greater than a predetermined recording page count. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228360 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes an image formation unit, an image reading unit, and a guide portion. The image formation unit discharges a recording medium on which an image is formed by an image forming portion into a recording medium discharge space by applying conveying force to the recording medium and bends the recording medium in a given shape preventing a leading end portion of the recording medium from free fall. The image reading unit reads a document image and is disposed above the image formation unit so that the recording medium discharge space is disposed between the image reading unit and the image formation unit. The guide portion has a protrusion portion protruding toward the recording medium discharge space from a lower face of the image reading unit and that lead the leading end portion to free fall by reducing the bending of the leading end portion. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228318 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A web page of a server placed on a network and the operation description of a browser by an operation terminal for the web page are stored and the operation description is played back (repeated), whereby the same operation as the previous browser operation is executed in the operation terminal. At this time, various types of operation are recorded and are repeated by software, so that the user need not perform the same various types of operation as those previously performed. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228317 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including: an assignment portion that, when a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) execute image processes by a pipeline process mode based on a print job, assigns identification numbers identifying the DRPs to the DRPs based on the number of DRPs; and a change portion that changes an assignment process by the assignment portion, based on whether a DRP of a final stage in the DRPs is connected to an outputting portion, the outputting portion outputting the results of the image processes to an outside; wherein when the DRP of the final stage is connected to the outputting portion, the assignment portion calculates a maximum identification number based on the total of the number of DRPs, assigns the maximum identification number to the DRP of the final stage, and sequentially assigns values acquired by decreasing the maximum identification number to remaining DRPs. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228316 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication control apparatus including: a count portion that counts the number of received data; and a discard portion that is provided at an upstream side of a control portion on a forwarding route of the received data, and discards received data according to a counted value by the count portion. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228315 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires image data by reading an image from an original; a selection unit that operationally selects either one of storing the image data into a portable storage unit or sending the image data to a storage device capable of taking out the data via a communication unit, wherein when the storing is selected, the selection unit further operationally selects at least any one of deleting data already stored in the portable storage unit and moving the image data to the storage device; and a data processing unit that performs based on result selected by the selection unit. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228309 | PRINT JOB INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE, PRINT JOB INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print job information managing device of the present invention has: an authentication request instruction adding section that adds, to a print job, an authentication request instruction that expresses whether or not authentication is needed at a time of printing; a transmitting section that transmits the print job to a printer; and a notification section that, when the authentication request instruction has been added to the print job transmitted by the transmitting section, notifies a printing recipient that the print job has been transmitted. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228294 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image formation apparatus includes an image formation processing managing unit and a control unit. The image formation processing managing unit manages first image formation processing to form an image on a face of plane-shaped recording medium based on received information. The control unit controls conveyance of the plane-shaped recording medium between the image formation apparatus and the other image formation apparatus which performs second image formation processing to form an image on the other face of the plane-shaped recording medium, a second term needed to stop the second image formation processing since receiving an instruction to stop the second image formation processing on an image forming operation being longer than a first term needed to stop the first image formation processing since receiving an instruction to stop the first image formation processing on the image forming operation. | 09-22-2011 |
