| RICOH COMPANY, LTD Patent applications |
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| 20130129395 | BELT FOR AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a belt for an image forming apparatus, which contains: a base layer; an elastic layer; and spherical particles, wherein the belt for an image forming apparatus is provided across a plurality of rollers of the image forming apparatus to rotate, wherein the belt for an image forming apparatus has a laminate structure where at least the base layer and the elastic layer are provided in this order, wherein the spherical particles are partially embedded in an exposed surface of the elastic layer, and wherein, relative to a width direction of the belt for an image forming apparatus, a thickness of an edge portion of the belt for an image forming apparatus is 50% to 95% of a thickness of a center portion of the belt for an image forming apparatus, and an edge curling amount of the belt is 4 mm or less. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130127937 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a recording head, a sub tank, a carriage, a main tank, a liquid feed device, a displacement member, a first detector, a second detector, a detection retainer, a liquid consumption amount measuring device, and a supply controller. The measuring device measures a consumption amount of liquid in the sub tank when the displacement member displaces from a first position in a direction in which the consumption amount of liquid in the sub tank decreases. When a detection output of the first detector continues to be, for a predetermined time or number of times, in a detection state in which the first detector detects the displacement member and shifts from the detection state to a non detection state in which the first detector does not detect the displacement member, the measuring device starts measuring the consumption amount of liquid in the sub tank. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130127504 | METHOD FOR RESETTING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE - A reset method of an photoelectric conversion device at least including a phototransistor having a first collector, a first base, and a first emitter, and a first field-effect transistor having a first source, a first drain, and a first gate, includes: connecting the first base, and one of the first source and the first drain of the first field-effect transistor by having a common region, or a continuous region, without a base electrode; supplying a base reset potential to the other of the first source and the first drain; and overlapping a time in which a first emitter potential is supplied to the first emitter and a time in which a first ON-potential that turns on the first field-effect transistor is supplied to the first gate. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130126659 | MEDIUM SUPPLYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium supplying apparatus for applying a back tension opposite to a transferring direction of a rolled medium being transferred by a transfer unit, to the rolled medium, includes a driving unit including a drive gear to be rotated in a forward direction and a reverse direction; a rotation transmitting mechanism that includes a one-way clutch and a torque limiter and transmits a rotational force between the driving unit and a medium rotation shaft that rotatably holds the rolled medium via the one-way clutch and the torque limiter; and a control unit that controls the driving unit to be one of states including being rotated in the forward direction, being rotated in the reverse direction and not being power supplied while the rolled medium is being transferred by the transfer unit to change the strength of the back tension. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130120942 | MODULAR UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A modular unit removably mounted to a main body includes a cover openably closable relative to a unit body of the modular unit and a movable member to move to the main body in conjunction with closing of the cover. As the cover is closed with the modular unit mounted to the main body, a projection provided to the movable member pushes a lever provided to the main body, and a detector provided to the main body detects that the lever is pushed by the projection of the movable member. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120508 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS INCLUDING INK RECEIVING ASSEMBLY - An inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head to horizontally eject ink droplets to print on a recording medium and an ink receiving assembly to receive ink droplets ejected for dummy ejection from the inkjet head. The ink receiving assembly includes a non-porous ink receiving plate and a collection tank. The ink receiving plate has a hydrophilic receiving face broader than an ejection range of the ink droplets ejected for dummy ejection. The receiving face is substantially vertically disposed to receive the ink droplets ejected for dummy ejection. The collection tank is disposed below the ink receiving plate to collect ink droplets received by and dropped from the ink receiving plate. Ad/stance between the inkjet head and the receiving face of the ink receiving plate is set to be shorter than a distance in which the ink droplets ejected from the inkjet head for dummy ejection turn into mist. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130114112 | PRINTING SETTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing setting apparatus is disclosed that includes a first part to establish a connection to a printing apparatus; a second part to make a setting with respect to printing of printing data; a third part to add a first ground pattern to the printing data in response to the second part making a first setting for adding the first ground pattern; a fourth part to obtain information indicating whether a second setting for adding a second ground pattern is made in the printing apparatus; and a fifth part to disable the second part from accepting the first setting in response to the fourth part obtaining the information indicating that the second setting is made in the printing apparatus, and enable the second part to accept the first setting in response to the fourth part obtaining the information indicating that the second setting is not made in the printing apparatus. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113869 | INKJET PRINTER - An Inkjet printer includes a movable conveyance belt, a first charging device, and a second charging device. Upon the conveyance belt, a recording medium is placed and conveyed at a given conveyance speed in a longitudinal, conveyance direction of the belt. The first charging device is disposed in contact with the belt while supplied with a first alternating current voltage to create a first electrified portion in the conveyance belt where positive and negative electric charges are arranged alternately with each other in the conveyance direction for electrostatically attracting the recording medium to the belt. The second charging device is disposed adjacent the belt to contact the recording medium conveyed on the belt while supplied with a second alternating current voltage to create a second electrified portion in the recording medium for cancelling an electric field originating from the first electrified portion of the belt. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113862 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a carriage, a height adjustment mechanism provided to the carriage to change a height of the carriage and including a cam member and a rotation guide member, a guide member to guide the carriage in a main scanning direction, and a pressing member to drive the cam member. The rotation guide member is pressed against the pressing member to drive the cain member and change the height of the carriage. Upon a change in the height of the carriage from an upper position to a lower position, the carriage moves through at least a part of a range extending from one end to an opposite end of the guide member at a speed slower than a speed of the carriage during image formation to contact the rotation guide member and the pressing member against each other at the slower speed. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130100479 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic apparatus includes an information presenting part that obtains the job information of a stored first job of a first user who has logged on to the electronic apparatus and the job information of a stored second job of a second user who has authorized the first user to execute the second job from a computer connected to the electronic apparatus, and presents the obtained job information to the first user; and an execution control part that, when one of the first and the second job is selected and instructed to be executed by the first user, obtains the job data of the one of the first and the second job from the computer and execute the obtained job data. The first user and the stored first job are correlated and managed and the first user and the second user are correlated and managed in a predetermined storage area. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130099846 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND SWITCHING REGULATOR AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT USING DRIVING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a driving circuit that includes a switching element configured to be connected between an input terminal and an output node; a first power supply circuit configured to generate a first voltage; and a first driving circuit configured to drive the switching element with an output thereof using a voltage of the output node as a reference negative-side power supply voltage and the first voltage as a positive-side power supply voltage. The voltage of the output node is used as a reference negative-side power supply voltage of the first power supply. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130097299 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A request receiving unit that receives device identifying information for identifying one or a plurality of devices and setting information containing a set value to be set in the device, an information transmitting unit transmits a setting request containing the setting information to the device identified by the device identifying information, a result collecting unit collects a set result indicating that the setting of all the set values is finished from the device to which the information transmitting unit transmits the setting request, and a result managing unit stores therein a collected set result and the device identifying information in association with each other. The information transmitting unit sequentially transmits the setting request to a device which is identified by the device identifying information and to which the setting request is not yet transmitted, regardless of whether the result collecting unit collects the set result from the device. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130095990 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a carnage, a sheet cutting device, a cutter position detecting device, and a controller. The cutting device includes a cutter and a cutter unit holding the cutter. A movement area of the carriage overlaps a movement area of the cutter unit in a thickness direction of a sheet. The detecting device detects a position of the cutter unit. The controller performs initial operation upon power on of the apparatus to move the cutter unit to a cutter home position located at one end of the movement area of the cutter unit. The cutter unit, after cutting the sheet, is movable in a width direction of the sheet with the cutter unit retracted from a sheet feed path in the thickness direction. The controller determines whether or not to perform the initial operation based on detection results of the detecting device. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130095605 | LEAVING SUBSTITUENT-CONTAINING COMPOUND, ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL FORMED THEREFROM, ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FILM-LIKE PRODUCT, PI-ELECTRON CONJUGATED COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE PI ELECTRON CONJUGATED COMPOUND - A leaving substituent-containing compound represented by General Formula (I), wherein the leaving substituent-containing compound can be converted to a compound represented by General Formula (Ia) and a compound represented by General Formula (II), by applying energy to the leaving substituent-containing compound, in General Formulas (I), (Ia) and (II), X and Y each represent a hydrogen atom or a leaving substituent, where one of X and Y is the leaving substituent and the other is the hydrogen atom; Q | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093913 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus displaying a desired image includes an acquisition unit acquiring image data transmitted from a device connected to the information processing apparatus; and a scale conversion unit enlarging the acquired image data in accordance with a requested image size. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130088751 | JOB MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, JOB CONTROL SYSTEM, AND JOB CONTROL METHOD - A job management apparatus is connected via an external network to a job control apparatus in a first network and an information processing apparatus in a second network that is different from the first network. The job control apparatus is configured to send a job to an execution apparatus that is in the first network and executes the job. The job management apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive jobs from the information processing apparatus; and a management unit configured to temporarily store the received jobs in a storage area in association with execution areas where the jobs are to be executed and to send, to the job control apparatus, one or more of the jobs associated with an execution area corresponding to an installation area where the job control apparatus is installed in response to a request from the job control apparatus. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130088157 | CONSTANT CURRENT CIRCUIT AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DRIVING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A constant current circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor having the gate and the source connected to the gate and the source of the first transistor, and having the drain connected to a load, a voltage adjustment circuit section that controls the drain voltage of the first transistor, a constant current generation circuit section that supplies a constant current to the first transistor, and a detection circuit section that determines whether at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor is unable to output a current proportional to the first constant current while at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor operates in the linear region, by performing a voltage comparison between a voltage at a connecting section between the voltage adjustment circuit section and the constant current generation circuit section and a predetermined reference voltage. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130083363 | FAULT TOLERANT PRINTING SYSTEM - According to a technique described herein, whenever there are print jobs waiting in a currently idle printing device's queue, the printing device selects, from among those print jobs, the longest-waiting print job that does not require any resources that the printing device cannot currently supply without human intervention. The printing device removes that print job from the queue and prints that print job, even if other print jobs have been waiting longer in the queue. If the queue contains print jobs that the printing device cannot currently print because the printing device currently lacks sufficient resources to print those print jobs completely, then, for each such print job, the printing device displays reasons why that print job cannot currently be printed. The reasons may include information that identifies the qualities and/or quantities of the resources that the printing device currently lacks but needs. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130081146 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DATA AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DATA CONTROL PROGRAM - A data control apparatus, a data control system, a data control method, and a data control program stored in a recording medium, are provided each of which allows a user to obtain electronic data stored in a storage apparatus in a data format compatible with a specific apparatus currently operated by the user or specific application of the electronic data that may be requested by the specific apparatus. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130078021 | ELECTRIC MOTOR SYSTEM AND MOTOR CONTROL METHOD - An electric motor system includes a brushless direct-current motor, a driver circuit, a position sensor, and a control circuit. The motor has an output shaft for transmitting torque. The driver circuit supplies power to the motor according to a control signal input thereto. The position sensor measures an angular, rotational position of the motor shaft. The control circuit controls operation of the motor. The control circuit includes a position sensor terminal, a reference terminal, a differential calculator, a controller, and a gain adjuster. The position sensor terminal receives a feedback signal. The reference terminal receives a reference signal. The differential calculator generates an error signal representing a difference between the measured and targeted rotational positions. The controller generates the control signal based on the error signal through a combination of control actions. The gain adjuster is connected to the controller to adjust a gain of each control action. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077830 | TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTING METHOD AND TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTING DEVICE - Disclosed are a method and a device for detecting traffic signs in an input image camera. The method comprises a color space converting step of converting the input image into a HSV color space image; a filtering step of filtering, based on a predetermined pass range of a standard color of each of the traffic signs, the HSV color space image to obtain a filtered image, and then generating one or more connected domains based on one or more regions in the filtered image; a removing step of removing, based on a standard rule of the corresponding traffic sign, at least one of the generated connected domains, not being the corresponding traffic sign, and letting others of the generated connected domains be candidate traffic sign domains; and a recognition step of recognizing, based on a feature of each of the candidate traffic sign domains, the corresponding traffic sign. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077123 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus subjects input image information to a predetermined image processing and outputs the image information. The image processing apparatus includes an UI processor that receives a plurality operation requests for the image information; and a request processor that interprets a combination of an input mode, of a plurality of input modes, which performs input processing, and an output mode, of a plurality of output modes, which performs output processing, and that requests the input processing from the input mode and requests the output processing from the output mode. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130073869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOFTWARE UPDATING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus which updates a basic software package is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes an encryption and decryption unit which stores values calculated uniquely from software and encrypts information based on the calculated values and decrypts encrypted information based on the calculated values. The basic software package includes a firmware authenticating module for authenticating a firmware updating file which includes new software for updating the basic software package, a value uniquely calculated from the new software, and a public key signature. The information processing apparatus further includes a software updating module which updates the basic software package by using the authenticated firmware updating file, and an encryption key managing module for encrypting again the information encrypted by the values based on a value changed by updating the basic software package. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073748 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CLIENT APPARATUS, AND HOST APPARATUS - An information communication system includes a host apparatus configured to generate and output a connection information sound; a client apparatus configured to gather the connection information sound output by the host apparatus; and a sound analyzing unit configured to analyze the connection information sound and obtain connection information from the connection information sound; wherein the client apparatus includes a communication unit configured to establish communication with the host apparatus based on the connection information obtained by the sound analyzing unit. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073719 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A disclosed information processing system includes a first apparatus including a storage unit storing types of events which occur in the first apparatus so as to be reported to an information processing apparatus via a network, and a sending unit sending, when one of the events stored in the storage unit occurs, event information of the event to the information processing apparatus; and the information processing apparatus including a delivery destination storage unit storing identification information of a second apparatus existing at a delivery destination of the event in the first apparatus, and a delivery unit sending the event information of the event to the second apparatus of which identification information is stored in the delivery destination storage unit when the event information is received by the information processing apparatus. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073107 | NETWORK APPARATUS, ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY METHOD - A network apparatus includes: a selection unit that selects a power supply for supplying electric power to a load apparatus from among a first power supply stably supplying a certain amount of electric power and a second power supply that is a power accumulating unit for accumulating electric power generated by natural energy, in accordance with a transition state of the load apparatus and an amount of accumulated electric power in the power accumulating unit; and a supply unit that supplies electric power input from the first power supply or the second power supply selected by the selection unit to the load apparatus via a network cable. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130071163 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus forms a color image, and includes an endless intermediate transfer belt which rotates and carries a toner image and plural image forming units for plural colors arranged in tandem along the intermediate transfer belt. Each of the image forming units includes an image carrier which rotates and carries a latent image, a charging device which charges the image carrier, a development device which develops the latent image into a toner image, and a cleaning device which cleans the image carrier after the toner image is transferred to the intermediate transfer belt. The charging device of the extreme upstream image forming unit in the belt direction of rotation is a non-contact charging device not in contact with the image carrier. The extreme downstream image forming unit in the belt direction or rotation includes a lubricant application device which applies a lubricant to the image carrier. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130071150 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SUPPRESSING - An image forming apparatus has a belt stretched and wound around a driving roller and multiple driven rollers; multiple image formation units arranged in a running direction of the belt including photoconductors to form toner images of different colors; multiple transfer rollers opposed to the photoconductors via the belt; an engagement/disengagement device to bring at least one of the multiple transfer rollers in contact with and separate from the belt in accordance with an image formation mode; a steering controller to correct displacement of the belt in a widthwise direction by inclining one of the multiple driven rollers in a prescribed direction as a steering roller not to change a perimeter of the belt at least in the first image formation mode in which all of the multiple transfer rollers contact the belt; at least one position adjustment roller; and a belt position adjuster. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070566 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus that outputs a sound of a predetermined frequency; and a second information processing apparatus that collects the sound that is output from the first information processing apparatus, and outputs a response to the sound of the predetermined frequency to the first information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus transmits predetermined data to the second information processing apparatus that has output the response to the sound of the predetermined frequency. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070333 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a projection optical system including a first optical system configured to form a first image conjugate to an object and have an optical axis and a second optical system configured to project a second image conjugate to the first image onto a surface to be projected on, wherein the first image satisfies a condition of: | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070311 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a reading part reading front and back sides of an original; a storage part storing the thus read images and plural processing parameters to be used for image processing; and an image processing part carrying out the image processing on the read images using the plural processing parameters. The image processing part analyzes an image transfer instruction that is an instruction to transmit the read image from the first storage part to the image processing part, and determines which of the processing parameters is to be used for the read image; and transfers the determined processing parameter by a direct memory access transfer method. The processing parameter concerning the read image is transferred from the first storage part to the image processing part by the direct memory access transfer method prior to the image processing of the read image by the image processing part. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070304 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus for generating a pattern of a recording material to be overlapped on an original image for forming an image of a target region extracted from the original image, includes an arithmetic unit calculating a feature amount of an image data included in a boundary region of the target region; a determination unit determining a degree of change of color in the boundary region based on the feature amount; and a pattern generation unit determining a gradation of the pattern of the recording material for the boundary region in accordance with the degree of change of color in the boundary region. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070303 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides a novel image processing apparatus that facilitates obtaining high-quality image even in low resolution without driving up costs and lowering speed. The image processing apparatus of this invention includes the line width determining unit that determines whether or not line width in image with high resolution is one pixel. The adding unit adds one pixel either above or below the line in image converted to lower resolution and makes the width of the line two pixels. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070298 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - If the adding command accepting unit accepts command to add error guidance from the job controlling unit, the item adding unit adds data for the error guidance to display item list in the display item list storing unit. If it is necessary to display the error guidance in screen currently displayed, the page data generating unit adds data for the error guidance to page data of screen currently displayed. If items of reserved jobs and scanning guidance related to the reserved jobs do not fit in the page by the addition, the page data generating unit removes data for those items from the page data for screen currently displayed, and stores the removed data as items laid out in the next page. The display controlling unit displays the job list screen on the control panel based on the page data. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070029 | ELECTROMECHANICAL CONVERSION ELEMENT, LIQUID DROP EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID DROP EJECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an electromechanical conversion element, including an electromechanical conversion film including a PIT, an upper electrode formed on a top of the electromechanical conversion film and including a first strontium ruthenium oxide, and a lower electrode formed on a bottom of the electromechanical conversion film and including a second strontium ruthenium oxide, wherein Sr-pzt/Sr-sr≦0.01, wherein Sr-pzt is a SIMS intensity for a secondary ion of strontium of the PZT at a position of ½ of a thickness of the electromechanical conversion film and Sr-sr is a SIMS intensity for a secondary ion of strontium of the second strontium ruthenium oxide at a position of ½ of a thickness of the lower electrode. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070028 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, DISCHARGING HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electromechanical transducer element including a first process of hydrophobizing a first area of an electrode by forming a self-assembled monolayer film; a second process of applying a sol-gel solution onto a predetermined second area of the electrode so as to produce a complex oxide; a third process of producing the complex oxide by calcining the electrode; a fourth process of acid-washing the electrode on which the complex oxide has been produced; a fifth process of hydrophobizing the first area of the acid-washed electrode by forming the self-assembled monolayer film; a sixth process of applying the sol-gel solution onto the predetermined second area; and a seventh process of producing the complex oxide by calcining the electrode. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070026 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid ejection head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle array constructed of multiple nozzles, a channel member that forms multiple individual channels communicating with the multiple nozzles, a pressure generator to pressurize liquid within the multiple individual channels, and a common channel member that forms a common channel from which the liquid is supplied to the multiple individual channels. The channel member includes a first surface facing the common channel, a second surface provided at both ends of the channel member and protruding beyond the first surface toward a direction opposite a direction of flow of the liquid, and a third surface that connects the first and second surfaces. At least a gap between the common channel member and a part of the second surface is sealed by a seal member that forms a wall of the common channel between the channel member and the common channel member. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070025 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid ejection head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle array constructed of multiple nozzles from which liquid droplets are ejectable; a channel plate in which grooves that form part of multiple pressure chambers respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles are provided with partition walls interposed therebetween, a wall member that covers the grooves to form part of walls of the pressure chambers, and multiple first through-holes formed in the channel plate to connect the nozzles and the pressure chambers, respectively. The multiple first through-holes are provided with partition walls interposed therebetween, and each of the multiple first through-holes has a first opening and a second opening. The second opening is offset from the first opening in a direction in which the nozzle arrays extend. Each of the multiple first through-holes further has a portion between the first and second openings to change a direction of flow of liquid. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070022 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes recording heads, head holders, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing member. The recording heads have nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The holders hold the recording heads. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holding the holders. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the holders. The pressing member presses at least one of the holders toward at least another of the holders. The holders have reference faces to contact each other in the main scanning direction to determine relative positions of the holders. With the recording heads positioned based on the reference faces of the holders, the recording heads are held by the holders. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070018 | LIQUID-JET HEAD AND LIQUID-JET HEAD DEVICE - A liquid-jet head includes nozzles, pressurized chambers to communicate with the nozzles, a common liquid chamber to communicate with each of the pressurized chambers, each of the common liquid chamber and the pressurized liquid chambers having a negative pressure of a predetermined value, first communicating paths to communicate between the common liquid chamber and the pressurized liquid chamber to serve as a filter to prevent air bubbles from intruding into the pressurized liquid chamber, the filter having openings, each opening having an opening area smaller than an opening area of each of the nozzles, and an air bubble discharge chamber including a second communicating path to communicate with the common liquid chamber having an air bubble remaining part in a region downstream in a liquid flow direction, and an opening part from which the air bubbles having entered via the second communicating path are discharged during a maintenance-restoration operation. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070010 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH INK-JET PRINTING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus comprises a printing head unit, a driving waveform generator that generates and outputs a driving waveform having four or more driving pulses in chronological order per driving cycle, and a selector that selects and applies one of multiple driving pulses to a pressure generator to cause a printing head unit to selectively discharge a liquid droplet of three or more different sizes. The driving waveform includes three or more driving pulses at least having a final driving pulse to collectively discharge the biggest liquid droplet. The driving waveform includes a micro-driving pulse for discharging a smallest droplet within a time period of from about 2×Tc to about 4×Tc after the driving waveform starts being outputted when Tc represents a natural vibration period of a separate liquid chamber of the printing head unit. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069087 | MULTI-LAYER WIRING SUBSTRATE, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND MULTI-LAYER WIRING SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A multiple-layer wiring substrate having a first conductive layer; an interlayer insulating layer; and a second conductive layer is disclosed, wherein the interlayer insulating layer includes a material whose surface energy is changed by receiving energy, and has a first region which does not include a contact hole and a second region which is formed such that its surface energy is higher than that of the first region, wherein a region within the contact hole of the first conductive layer has surface energy which is higher than surface energy of the second region of the interlayer insulating layer, and wherein the second conductive layer is formed by laminating, wherein the second conductive layer is in contact with the second region of the interlayer insulating layer along the second region, and is connected to the first conductive layer via the contact hole. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130068850 | DRIVING DEVICE OF LIQUID-JET HEAD, LIQUID-JET DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID-JET HEAD - Disclosed is a driving device of a liquid-jet head having a piezoelectric device arranged for each of nozzles and having mutually facing electrodes. The driving device includes switching devices connected in parallel to each other, one of the electrodes being connected to first ends of the switching devices for selectively ON/OFF controlling the switching devices while the other electrode is connected to a reference potential, a driving signal source to generate a driving signal connected to second ends of the switching devices, and a control unit to switch the driving signal to ON or OFF control the switching devices. At least one of the switching devices has electrically conducting properties for not ejecting a liquid drop from the nozzle with a driving signal being applied to the switching device in an ON-controlled status, and the switching devices are all ON-controlled for causing the nozzles to eject liquid drops. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130067368 | Apparatus, System, And Method Of Controlling Display Of User Interface, And Recording Medium Storing User Interface Display Control Program - An apparatus, system, method, and a control program stored in a recording medium, each of which controls display of a user interface at a node in a workflow system, such that the user interface being displayed dynamically reflects various changes in the workflow system such as the change in one or more nodes in the workflow, the change in functionality of the node, or the change in functions authorized for use by a user or a group of users. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130065036 | GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL, AND GALLIUM NITRIDE CRYSTAL - A gallium nitride crystal having a hexagonal crystal structure, wherein a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of X-ray rocking curve in a region at a side of one edge in a c-axis direction is smaller than the FWHM in a region at a side of the other edge in the c-axis direction, in at least one of m-plane outer peripheral surfaces of the hexagonal crystal structure. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130065010 | GALLIUM NITRIDE CRYSTAL, GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL, GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - A gallium nitride crystal having a hexagonal crystal structure includes a first region located on an inner side of a cross section intersecting c-axis of the hexagonal crystal structure, and a second region surrounding at least a part of the outer periphery of the first region in the cross section. An emission spectrum of each of the first region and the second region with electron beam or ultraviolet light excitation has a first peak including a band edge emission of gallium nitride and a second peak located in a longer wavelength area than the first peak. A peak intensity of the first peak is smaller than a peak intensity of the second peak in the first region, and a peak intensity of the first peak is greater than a peak intensity of the second peak in the second region. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064749 | GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL AND GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE - A group 13 nitride crystal having a hexagonal crystal structure and containing at least a nitrogen atom and at least a metal atom selected from a group consisting of B, Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The group 13 nitride crystal includes a first region disposed on an inner side in a cross section intersecting c-axis, a third region disposed on an outermost side in the cross section and having a crystal property different from that of the first region, and a second region disposed at least partially between the first region and the third region in the cross section, the second region being a transition region of a crystal growth and having a crystal property different from that of the first region and that of the third region. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064586 | FIXING DEVICE WITH MECHANISM CAPABLE OF HEATING BELT EFFECTIVELY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A fixing device includes an endless belt and an opposed rotary body contacting an outer circumferential surface of the belt. A nip formation pad contacting a first part of an inner circumferential surface of the belt presses against the opposed rotary body via the belt to form a fixing nip between the belt and the opposed rotary body through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. A heat conductor disposed opposite a second part of the inner circumferential surface of the belt not contacted by the nip formation pad is interposed between a heater and the belt to conduct heat from the heater to the belt. A reflector disposed inside the loop formed by the belt reflects light from the heater toward the heat conductor. The reflector and the heat conductor surround the heater. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064578 | TONER BEARING MEMBER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner bearing member, which contains: an electric conductive support; an insulating layer provided on the electric conductive support; a plurality of electrodes located on the insulating layer so that each electrode is separated from one another with a certain space; and a surface layer covering the insulating layer and the electrodes, wherein the surface layer contains a crosslink reaction product of a fluororesin, or a crosslink reaction product of a (meth)acrylate compound, or both thereof. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064567 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING VENTILATED IMAGING UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes an imaging unit, a ventilator unit, and an electrical conductor. The imaging unit incorporates electrically powered equipment to which power is supplied from an external voltage source. The ventilator unit is connectable with the imaging unit to ventilate the imaging unit. The ventilator unit includes a fan and an air duct. The fan generates an airflow. The air duct extends from the fan to direct the airflow between the fan and the imaging unit. The electrical conductor is disposed within the air duct to electrically connect the imaging unit and the voltage source upon connection of the ventilator unit with the imaging unit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063798 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, METHOD OF ASSEMBLING LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of assembling a light source comprises the steps of inserting multiple lead wires of a light emitting element into an insertion hole formed in a circuit board from one side of the circuit board at once, striking tips of the multiple lead wires with corresponding multiple guides formed on a circumference of a pressing device serving as a jig from the other side of the circuit board, moving the pressing device toward the one side from the other side of the circuit board, and in a first stage guiding the multiple lead wires to corresponding terminals formed in an inner wall of the insertion hole of the circuit board, respectively. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063777 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system that includes: a job execution apparatus; an information processing apparatus configured to send a job to the job execution apparatus; and an information management apparatus configured to store log information of the job, the information processing apparatus including: a job sending unit configured to send identification information of each job to the job execution apparatus with the job; and a first log sending unit configured to send the log information of the job to the information management apparatus by including the identification information into the log information, and the job execution apparatus including: a second log sending unit configured to include the identification information into the log information of the job, and to send the log information to the information management apparatus, wherein the information management apparatus integrates pieces of log information having common identification information, and stores the integrated log information. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063774 | Method And Device For Printing A Scheduled Print Job - A method and apparatus for printing a scheduled print job by a printing device connected to a client device over a network. The method includes transmitting, by the client device, a request to print the scheduled print job to the printing device. The scheduled print job include print data and schedule data corresponding to a scheduled time the print data is to be printed. The printing device obtains the print job from cloud storage or from local storage depending on a storage selection indicator, and executes the scheduled print job at the scheduled time. A determination is made as to whether the scheduled print job was printed successfully at the scheduled time. Further, a message indicating whether the scheduled print job was printed successfully, based on the determination, is sent to a predetermined device. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063754 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE ON WHICH THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS IS MOUNTED - An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning device including a light source element configured to radiate a light beam, an optical deflector configured to deflect the light beam two-dimensionally, and a target scanning surface that is transparent and having a two-dimensional image formed thereon by the light beam deflected from the optical deflector, and a projection optical system including a convex mirror and configured to enlarge and project the two-dimensional image on a target projection surface. The target projection surface includes a reflection surface of a half mirror. The half mirror is positioned outside of the image forming apparatus and configured to transmit a part of a light incident on the half mirror and reflect another part of the light incident on the half mirror. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063746 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed, including: a first storage unit which stores printing setting information used in an OS, the printing setting information including identifying information and a setting value of each setting item in printing; a second storage unit which stores customizing information including identifying information and a default value of a predetermined setting item that is included in a printer driver; and an updating unit which updates a setting value of the printing setting information to the default value and identifying information of the printing setting information to identifying information of the customizing information when the identifying information included in the printing setting information and the identifying information stored in the second storage unit differ when the printing setting information read by the OS from the first storage unit is obtained. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063737 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a printing setting reception part generating setting information from printing settings when a printing request is given by an application; an image processing part converting document data obtained from the application into printing data for a printer based on the setting information; and a determination part determining whether the application having called the image processing part is a specific application, by determining at least one of whether the setting information includes specific application information described by the application and whether the specific application information is included in an argument of a function for calling the image processing part. When it has been determined that the specific application has called the image processing part, the image processing part generates the printing data by a method different from a method of a case of having been called by an application other than the specific application. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063723 | SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTIC ACQUIRING APPARATUS, SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTIC ACQUIRING METHOD AND IMAGE EVALUATING APPARATUS - A spectral characteristic acquiring apparatus is provided which includes: an area dividing part; a spectrum separating part; a light receiving part; and a calculating part, wherein the calculating part includes a transformation matrix storing part that stores a transformation matrix used for calculating the spectral characteristic corresponding to electrical signals of a first diffraction pattern group including two or more adjacent diffraction patterns, and a spectral characteristic calculating part that calculates, based on the electrical signals of the first diffraction pattern group and the corresponding transformation matrix, the spectral characteristic at the locations of the image carrying medium corresponding to the apertures of the first diffraction pattern group. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063625 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a size reducing unit that reduces sizes of a plurality of continuous images, which are still images obtained by continuously capturing images of a moving object, to thereby generate reduced continuous images; a mask generating unit that extracts moving object regions from the reduced continuous images, to thereby generate reduced moving object extraction mask images; a size restoring unit that enlarges the reduced moving object extraction mask images to the same size as original sizes of the continuous images that are not reduced by the size reducing unit, to thereby generate moving object extraction mask images; and a combining unit that extracts the moving object regions from the continuous images by using the moving object extraction mask images to thereby obtain moving object images, and combines the moving object images in a predetermined one of the continuous images. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063512 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE CORRECTION PROGRAM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes a recording head for forming an image by discharging single color ink from plural nozzle sequences. The image forming apparatus includes a profile generating unit configured to generate a profile including discharging characteristics of the corresponding nozzle sequences and information indicating a positional relationship among the plural nozzle sequences, based on individual images of a predetermined pattern that have been formed by the corresponding nozzle sequences and images that have been formed by the nozzle sequences; and a driving condition determination unit configured to determine drive conditions of the corresponding nozzle sequences by referring to the profile. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063507 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head driving control unit, and a dummy ejection control unit. The dummy ejection control unit controls first dummy ejection operation to eject droplets to a continuous medium per a constant length and second dummy ejection operation to eject droplets not contributing to image formation to an image formation area. In the first dummy ejection operation, the head driving control unit applies a first non ejection pulse to a pressure generator corresponding to a non ejection nozzle. In the second dummy ejection operation, the head driving control unit applies a second non ejection pulse to the pressure generator corresponding to the non ejection nozzle. When the second non ejection pulse is applied, an amplitude or number of vibrations of a meniscus of liquid in the non ejection nozzle is greater than when the first non ejection pulse is applied. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063108 | DC-DC CONVERTER CONTROL CIRCUIT AND DC-DC CONVERTER INCLUDING SAME - A DC-DC converter control circuit, to control a DC-DC converter having an inductor and two switching elements, including a first feedback circuit to generate a first feedback voltage indicating a DC component of an inductor current of the inductor based on an output current of the DC-DC converter; a second feedback circuit to generate a second feedback voltage indicating an AC component of the inductor current; a synthesis circuit to add the first and second feedback voltages to generate a third feedback voltage; a comparator to compare the third feedback voltage with a reference voltage to output a control signal; and a driving circuit to control the switching elements. The second feedback voltage is generated based on a difference between input and output voltages of the DC-DC converter when the control signal from the comparator is low and based on the output voltage when the control signal is high. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063107 | DC-DC CONVERTER CONTROL CIRCUIT AND DC-DC CONVERTER INCLUDING SAME - A DC-DC converter control circuit, to control a DC-DC converter having an inductor and two switches, including a first feedback circuit; a second feedback circuit; a synthesis circuit to add a first feedback voltage indicating a DC component of an inductor current based on an output current of the DC-DC converter and a second feedback voltage indicating an AC component thereof to generate a third feedback voltage; a comparator to compare the third feedback voltage with a reference voltage to output a comparison result; and an on-time adjusting circuit to adjust on/off time of the switches based on the comparison result for outputting a control signal depending on the adjusting result. The second feedback voltage is generated based on a difference between input and output voltages of the DC-DC converter when the control signal is low and based on the output voltage when the control signal is high. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063106 | DC-DC CONVERTER CONTROL CIRCUIT AND DC-DC CONVERTER INCLUDING SAME - A DC-DC converter control circuit, to control a DC-DC converter having an inductor and two switching elements, including a first feedback circuit to generate a first feedback voltage indicating a DC component of an inductor current of the inductor based on an output voltage of the DC-DC converter; a second feedback circuit to generate a second feedback voltage indicating an AC component of the inductor current; a synthesis circuit to add the first and second feedback voltages to generate a third feedback voltage; a comparator to compare the third feedback voltage with a reference voltage to output a control signal; and a driving circuit to control the switching elements. The second feedback voltage is generated based on a difference between input and output voltages of the DC-DC converter when the control signal from the comparator is low and based on the output voltage when the control signal is high. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063105 | DC-DC CONVERTER CONTROL CIRCUIT AND DC-DC CONVERTER INCLUDING SAME - A DC-DC converter control circuit, to control a DC-DC converter having an inductor and two switches, including a first feedback circuit; a second feedback circuit; a synthesis circuit to add a first feedback voltage indicating a DC component of an inductor current based on an output voltage of the DC-DC converter and a second feedback voltage indicating an AC component thereof to generate a third feedback voltage; a comparator to compare the third feedback voltage with a reference voltage to output a comparison result; and an on-time adjusting circuit to adjust on/off time of the switches based on the comparison result for outputting a control signal depending on the adjusting result. The second feedback voltage is generated based on a difference between input and output voltages of the DC-DC converter when the control signal is low and based on the output voltage when the control signal is high. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063078 | CHARGING CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A charging circuit includes a power path control unit which switches a first switch connected between a system connection terminal and a battery connection terminal on while not charging, and switches the first switch on and a second switch connected between an external power supply input terminal and the system connection terminal on while charging so as to supply power to a system and charge a battery. A voltage difference between the external power supply input terminal and the battery connection terminal is detected, a current flowing between the external power supply input terminal and the system connection terminal is detected, and it is determined that an external power supply is disconnected based on the detection results of the voltage differences and the current. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130062660 | GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL AND SUBSTRATE THEREOF - A group 13 nitride crystal has a hexagonal crystal structure and at least contains nitrogen atom and at least a kind of metal atoms selected from a group consisting of B, Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The group 13 nitride crystal includes a first region located at an inner side of a cross section intersecting a c-axis, and a second region surrounding at least a part of an outer periphery of the first region, having a thickness larger than a maximum diameter of the first region, and having a carrier density higher than that of the first region. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130062510 | PACKAGE MEMBER AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A ceramic package includes a chip mounting portion, a photodiode (PD) mounting portion, a plurality of connecting terminals, and a gold-plated portion. The chip mounting portion is a portion on which a surface-emitting laser array chip is mounted on a first ceramic layer. The PD mounting portion is provided to a second ceramic layer stacked on the positive side in a c-axis direction of the first, ceramic layer. Openings are formed at four corners of the PD mounting portion. A scale is formed on a portion that can be observed through the opening of the second ceramic layer on the surface of the positive side in the c-axis direction of the first ceramic layer. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130061799 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL - A method of manufacturing a group | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130059727 | REVERSIBLE THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a reversible thermosensitive recording medium, which contains: a base; and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer disposed on the base, wherein the base contains a first support, an electronic information recording module, an adhesive covering the first support, and a second support in a surface of which a groove is formed as a laser mark by laser marking, and wherein a ratio of a maximum depth A to a total thickness of the reversible thermosensitive recording medium is 20% or less, where the maximum depth A is a length from the surface of the second support to a bottom of the groove of the laser mark with respect to a thickness direction of the reversible thermosensitive recording medium. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130058679 | CHARGER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A charger adapted to uniformly charge a surface of an image bearing member is provided. The charger includes a charging roller, a charging roller cleaning member, and a cleaning member moving device. The charging roller is in contact with a surface of the image bearing member and is rotatable. The charging roller cleaning member is in uniform contact with the charging roller in a longitudinal direction. The cleaning member moving device is adapted to reciprocate the charging roller cleaning member in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the charging roller while keeping the charging roller cleaning member in contact with the charging roller. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130058676 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprising: a built-in rotary driving member; a developing device detachably attachable to the body of the image forming apparatus; a developer driving part disposed at one end in a shaft direction of the developing roller and the agitation screw; a driving part duct enveloping the developer driving part of the developing device; a developer case surface duct formed along a surface parallel to the shaft direction of the developing roller and the agitation screw; and a blast fan or a exhaust fan to blow air from either the driving part duct or the developer case surface duct to each other. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130058528 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING VEHICLE POSITION BY EMPLOYING POLARIZATION IMAGE - Disclosed are a method and a system for detecting a vehicle position by employing a polarization image. The method comprises a step of capturing a polarization image by using a polarization camera; a step of acquiring two road shoulders in the polarization image based on a difference between a road surface and each of the two road shoulders in the polarization image, and determining a part between the two road shoulders as the road surface; a step of detecting at least one vehicle bottom from the road surface based on a significant pixel value difference between each wheel and the road surface in the polarization image; and a step of generating a vehicle position from the vehicle bottom based on a pixel value difference between a vehicle outline corresponding to the vehicle bottom and background in the polarization image. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057923 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing system that facilitates process of color universal design that enables people with color amblyopia to recognize color difference as image pattern without changing characteristic of coloration and gradation and people with no disabilities who look the same image to feel less discomfort. A hue determining unit | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057918 | APPARATUS COOPERATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND FUNCTION PROVIDING METHOD - An apparatus cooperation system including first and second apparatuses connected via a network to share a function, the first apparatus including a first counting unit counting a number of the output objects output by the first output unit based on a first counting rule, the second apparatus including a second counting unit counting a number of the output objects output by the second output unit based on a second counting rule. Further, when an output condition to output the image data by the first apparatus and the second apparatus is accepted, the first counting unit counts a total number of the output objects output by the first output unit and the second output unit based on the first counting rule. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057917 | DEVICE COOPERATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FUNCTION PROVIDING METHOD - A device cooperation system includes a first device including an acquiring unit for acquiring image data, an output condition receiving unit for receiving output conditions used by the first and second devices when outputting the image data, a first important document determining unit for determining whether first important information is included in the image data, a first operation information recording unit for recording operation information of a first output unit when it is determined that the first important information is included in the image data, and a second device including a second operation information recording unit for recording operation information of a second output unit when the determination result indicating that the first important information is included in the image data is acquired from the first device. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057916 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an accumulating unit to accumulate documents, a document selecting unit to receive selection of the accumulated documents to be printed, a screen displaying unit to display on a display unit a printing condition setting screen including default values for selecting plural of the accumulated documents and a list of setting items when the selection received by the document selecting unit indicates plural of the accumulated documents, a reset receiving unit to receive selection of the setting item to be changed and resetting of a default value of the selected setting item, a reset control unit to change a content of the setting item into a resetting content when the setting item is resettable or allow the content to remain unchanged when the setting item is not resettable, and a printing unit to print the accumulated document, the setting item of which is reset. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057900 | DEVICE COOPERATION SYSTEM, FUNCTION PROVIDING METHOD - A first device includes a determining unit for determining a first number allocated to the first device and a second number allocated to a second device, a first storage for storing a first possible amount that the user can output with the first device, a first output unit for outputting an object of the first number, when the first number is less than the first possible amount, and a first update unit for updating the first possible amount according to an output number output by the first device. The second device includes a second output unit for outputting an object of the second number, when the second number is less than a second possible amount, and a second update unit for updating the second possible amount according to an output number output by the second device, only when authentication of the user is successful. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057882 | DEVICE COOPERATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND FUNCTION PROVIDING METHOD - In a device cooperation system, devices connected via a network take partial charge of providing a function. A first device acquires image data to be output; receives a condition used when the first device and a second device output the image data; stores a possible output amount that can be output by the first device; determines whether a total page number, which is obtained from the condition and a number of pages of the acquired image data, is less than or equal to the possible output amount; determines first and second output numbers to be respectively allocated to the first and second devices; sends the image data and the second output number to the second device; and updates the possible output amount according to a number output by the first and second devices. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057879 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method including the steps of obtaining an original image, generating a converted image by converting a gradation of a pixel of the original image into a prescribed gradations for an image forming apparatus to express, outputting a dot pattern image through a nozzle based on a predetermined dot pattern signal, generating nozzle characteristic information of the nozzle based on the dot pattern image, generating simulation information based on the converted image and the nozzle characteristic information, generating converted simulation information by converting the simulation information to the same gradation as that of the pixel of the original image, comparing the converted simulation information with the original image, and calculating an error between the original image and the converted simulation information. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057707 | IMAGE PROJECTING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROJECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image projecting device, including a projecting part configured to project an image for calibration onto a projection object, an image capturing part configured to capture an image of an area including the projection object with a projected image for calibration, a binary image producing part configured to calculate plural first thresholds corresponding to plural first divided areas provided by dividing the area, based on a captured image, and to produce a binary image of the captured image, based on the first thresholds, and a corresponding point sampling part configured to sample corresponding points between the image for calibration and the binary image. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057605 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a recording head, head tanks, main tanks, liquid feed pumps, a first driving source, a drive control unit, and a drive switching assembly. The drive switching assembly includes a second driving source, a cam, a slider member, a switching gear, switching position detected portions, and a detector. The detected portions are disposed at the cam so as to correspond to switching positions of the liquid teed pumps. One of the detected portions has a greater width in a rotation direction of the cam than any other detected portion. When a time from when the detector detects one of the detected portions to when the detector detects another one of the detected portions is shorter than a threshold value, the drive control unit determines, as a home position, a position of the cam on detection of the another one with the detector. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057604 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a body, a recording head, a sub tank, a carriage, a main tank, a liquid feed unit, a displacement member, first and second detectors, first to third calculation units, a determination unit, and a supply control unit. When the first detector detects the displacement member, the determination unit determines a main scanning position of the carriage at which consumption amount of the liquid is equal to an amount corresponding to a difference calculated by the second unit, based on a relation calculated by the third unit. The control unit causes the feed unit to start supply of the liquid from the main tank to the sub tank when the carriage arrives at the main scanning position, and stop the supply when the liquid is supplied at an amount corresponding to a difference detected by the first unit after the first detector detects the displacement member. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057542 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus projecting 3D image data to 2D planar image data includes: an accumulation unit that accumulates the 3D image data having position coordinates and pixel values; an acquisition unit that acquires a display parameter, including a zoom parameter for changing image size, for the 2D image data to be created; a creation unit that creates the 2D image data from the 3D image data with the display parameter by determining a half view angle of the 3D image data and performing inverse projection transformation on the 2D image data while changing, in accordance with a change in the half view angle caused by the change in image size specified by the zoom parameter, an inverse projection transformation method applied to position coordinates used to create the 2D image data; and a display unit that displays the created 2D image data as a 2D planar image. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130054248 | PROJECTOR, PROJECTION SYSTEM, AND RETRIEVED INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD - A projector includes a display part configured to display a first image by projection; a retrieval object specifying part configured to cause a user of the projector to specify an object of retrieval; a result display area specifying part configured to cause the user to specify an area for displaying the result of the retrieval in the displayed first image; and an image combining part configured to receive a second image of the result of the retrieval from a server that has performed the retrieval with respect to the object of retrieval specified by the user, and to display the second image by combining the second image with the area for displaying the result of the retrieval in the displayed first image. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130051886 | SHEET BINDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an adhesive toner pattern in a predetermined bonding range of a sheet, outside a printable range in which an image according to image data is formed, a stacking unit to stack multiple sheets one on top of another, and a sheet binding device that includes a fusing device to fuse and fix the adhesive toner pattern formed on the multiple sheets to bind the multiple sheets together, and a bonding strength setting unit to determine, in accordance with a desired bonding strength, at least one of a number of color toners used for forming the adhesive toner pattern, a bonding manner, a number of pixels of the adhesive toner pattern, a toner area ratio of the adhesive toner pattern, and a layer thickness of the adhesive toner pattern. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130051854 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a rotatable transfer member rotatably driven while carrying a toner image thereon; a rotary transfer member to form a transfer nip for transferring the toner image to a recording medium; a housing rotatable about a first rotation center together with the rotary transfer member and switching between a closed state and an open state by the rotation about the first rotation center; a guide member to guide the recording medium conveyed through a conveyance path toward upstream in the direction of rotation of the rotatable transfer member than the transfer nip; a support frame to support the rotatable transfer member; a biasing member to bias the guide member; and a receiving part, disposed on the support frame, configured to contact the guide member biased by the biasing member and position the guide member in the closed state of the housing. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130050657 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes a housing, an image projection unit, and a plurality of connection ports including a power connection port. The housing has a top face, and a first face and a second face adjacent to each other, and a light projection port on the top face. The image projection unit includes an optical system to project light corresponding to image data, via the light projection port disposed on the top face, in an upward oblique direction with respect to the first face. The plurality of connection ports is disposed on the second face. The power connection port is disposed at a position in the second face closest to the first face side. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130050354 | INKJET HEAD AND RECORDING DEVICE - Disclosed is an inkjet head including a fluid channel substrate on which individual liquid chambers are arranged, the individual liquid chambers being partitioned by liquid chamber partition walls; an oscillation plate that is formed on a surface facing openings of nozzles; actuators; wiring layer patterns that supplies driving signals to the actuators, the wiring layer patterns being formed above the corresponding liquid chamber partition walls; and a supporting substrate in which concave oscillation chambers are formed, the concave oscillation chambers being partitioned by supporting substrate partition walls. A width in the short direction of the supporting substrate partition wall is smaller than a width in the short direction of the liquid chamber partition wall and greater than a width of the wiring layer pattern. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130049296 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus including: a sheet conveying unit; an upstream side guiding member that forms an upstream side conveying route of a sheet; a downstream side guiding member that forms a downstream side conveying route of the sheet; an upstream side detection unit; and a downstream side detection unit, wherein a detection position of the sheet for the upstream side detection unit is set between the sheet conveying unit and a position where the sheet is in contact with the upstream side guiding member, and a detection position of the sheet for the downstream side detection unit is set between the sheet conveying unit and a position where the sheet is in contact with the downstream side guiding member. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130049294 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF FORMING IMAGES ON BOTH FACES OF RECORDING MEDIA - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of rotary members, a conveyance belt, an image forming device, and a switchback device. The conveyance belt is looped around the plurality of rotary members so as to circulate to intermittently feed a sheet in a sheet transport direction. The image forming device is disposed opposing the conveyance belt to form an image on the sheet fed by the conveyance belt. The switchback device is disposed downstream from the image forming device in the sheet transport direction to feed the sheet having passed the image forming device to a position downstream from the conveyance belt in the sheet transport direction and switch back the sheet. When the sheet is fed by the conveyance belt and the switchback device, a drive start timing of the switchback device is delayed from a drive start timing of the conveyance belt. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130047693 | LEAD PIN CORRECTION DEVICE AND LEAD PIN CORRECTION METHOD - A lead pin correction device includes a holding unit holding an electronic device having lead pins; a pressing unit pressing the electronic device held by the holding unit in an extending direction of the lead pins; and a correction fixture including holes having a shape corresponding to a shape of the lead pins after correction. Further, the shape of the lead pins is corrected so as to fit the shape of the holes by inserting the lead pins into the holes by pressing the electronic device with the pressing unit while distal ends of the lead pins are inserted into the holes, the electronic device being held by the holding unit. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130047190 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS - A network system includes an image projection apparatus that projects image data; a first terminal; and a second terminal where the first terminal includes an original image data storing unit that stores original image data and a corresponding information generating unit that generates corresponding information in which image identification data of the image data for projection, generated from the original image data, capable of identifying the original image data and terminal identification data for identifying the first terminal correspond with each other, and the image projection apparatus includes a request sending unit that sends, upon receiving a request for delivering the image data being projected from the second terminal, the request for delivering the original image data including the image identification data, which is included in the corresponding information stored in the storing unit, to the first terminal. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130045031 | CLEANING SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A fixing device includes a rotary fuser member, a rotary pressure member, and a cleaning system. The rotary fuser member is subjected to heating. The rotary pressure member is disposed opposite the fuser member. The cleaning system includes a cleaning web, a feeding mechanism, a positioning mechanism, and a controller. The cleaning web is disposed adjacent to the pressure member to wipe the pressure member. The feeding mechanism is operatively connected to the cleaning web to feed a new, unused portion of the cleaning web toward the pressure member. The positioning mechanism is operatively connected to at least one of the cleaning web and the pressure member to position the cleaning web and the pressure member with respect to each other. The controller is operatively connected with the feeding mechanism and the positioning mechanism to control feeding and positioning of the cleaning web. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044347 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF INSPECTING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INSPECTION CONTROL PROGRAM - An inspection apparatus, inspection system, inspection method, and inspection control program stored in a recording medium, each of which sets a reference point in a master image and a read image read from a printed image, which is to be used for detecting the positional shift between the read image and the master image, based on determination whether a pattern previously added to the printed image for detecting the positional shift is available or can be used to effectively detect the positional shift. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044342 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF INSPECTING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INSPECTION CONTROL PROGRAM - An inspection apparatus obtains a correction parameter for correcting the positional shift between a previously read image and a master image, and corrects one of a currently read image or a master image using the correction parameter for the previously read image, before comparing between the currently read image and the master image to detect the positional shift in the currently read image. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044335 | PRINT CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print control method for an information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus via a network, includes acquiring print data and print settings corresponding to the print data from one or more applications; determining whether a process related to a scaling process is included in the print settings; comparing, when determining that the process related to a scaling process is included in the print settings, a processing capacity of the image forming apparatus with a processing capacity of the information processing apparatus; and determining whether the process related to the scaling process is to be performed by the image forming apparatus or by the information processing apparatus based on the comparison result. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044158 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING CARRIAGE MOUNTING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a carriage, a first recording head, a second recording head, and a maintenance assembly. The carriage is movable in a main scanning direction. The first recording head has nozzles in a nozzle face thereof to eject liquid droplets. The second recording head has nozzles in a nozzle face thereof to eject liquid droplets. The second recording head is displaced from the first recording head in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction. The maintenance assembly maintains and recovers the first recording head and the second recording head. The maintenance assembly includes a first maintenance device and a second maintenance device. The first maintenance device is held by the apparatus body. The second maintenance device is reciprocally movable between a first position to oppose the first recording head and a second position to oppose the second recording head. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130043647 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet-shaped recording medium; a registration roller pair to convey the recording medium to the image forming unit; a sheet feed roller to convey the recording medium to the registration roller pair; and a controller to control driving of the registration roller pair and the sheet feed roller. In such an image forming apparatus, the controller starts driving of the sheet feed roller to feed the recording medium and stops driving of the sheet feed roller before the sheet feed roller has completed conveyance of the recording medium for a distance equal to a length of the settable minimum-sized recording medium in the conveyance direction. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130042663 | LEAD PIN RECTIFYING APPARATUS AND LEAD PIN RECTIFYING METHOD - A lead pin rectifying apparatus is provided, including a first member which includes a tapered upper face and a cylindrically-shaped side face; a cylindrically-shaped second member which has an inner diameter corresponding to an outer diameter of the first member, wherein the second member covers over the first member therewith while an electronic component having the lead pin is housed inside the second member; and a pressing member which presses the electronic component to the first member from the top side of the second member while housing the electronic component having the lead pin inside the second member to abut the lead pin against an upper face of the first member, wherein the second member is pressed to the first member after pressing the electronic component to the first member with the pressing member to rectify the shape of the lead pin of the electronic component. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130042232 | DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A device may include a first manager to store attribute information of a first program in a first storage in response to an install request to install the first program, and a second manager to store attribute information of a second program in a second storage in response to an install request to install the second program. The second manager may store attribute information of a third program and attribute information of the second program included in the third program in the second storage, and store attribute information of the first program included in the third program in the first storage, in response to an install request to install the third program that includes the first program and the second program. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130039358 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device constitutes a wireless network which includes plural wireless communication devices and which is for performing communications between the plural wireless communication devices. The wireless communication device has a base station index based on which the wireless communication device functions as a base station of the wireless network. The base station index expresses a degree to which the wireless communication device functions as the base station. The wireless communication device includes a base station transfer unit configured to perform a transfer process of transferring a function of the base station of the wireless network from a first wireless communication device functioning as the base station of the wireless network already formed to a second wireless communication device that is newly joining the wireless network, when the base station index of the second wireless communication device is higher than that of the first wireless communication device. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038892 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device analyzes a drawing command read from a memory and performs a halftone processing function to image data. In the image processing device, a drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command, a full set of drawing commands is registered in a drawing command table, and an error processing command is stored in an error processing command storing unit. When the drawing command analysis unit detects a command error indicating that a drawing command read from the memory is not registered in the drawing command table, an error processing executing unit executes the error processing command stored in the error processing command storing unit and performs an error processing function. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038663 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a carriage to mount a recording head which discharges a liquid droplet on a recording medium to form an image, a carriage guide member to support the carriage and move the carriage to scan in a main scanning direction orthogonal to a sub-scanning direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, and a recording medium conveyance unit detachably mounted to a main body of the apparatus which includes an endless conveyance belt to convey the recording medium being adsorbed on the belt, and a pair of rollers around which the conveyance belt is extended circulating in the sub-scanning direction. The carriage is cantilevered by the carriage guide member, and the recording medium conveyance unit is removable from a space above the conveyance belt, in an area other than the carriage guide member. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038651 | INK-JET PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An ink-jet printing method includes the steps of dividing multiple ink droplet discharging pulses into two or more groups in an ink droplet discharging order, providing the multiple ink droplet discharging pulses to a pressure generator per scan line time, and discharging ink droplets from an ink droplet discharge head in accordance with the multiple ink droplet discharging pulses. The method further includes the steps of combining ink droplets of a former group as a first combined ink droplet, combining ink droplets of a latter group as a second combination droplet, combining the second combined ink droplet of the latter group with that of former group before the ink droplets reach a target, and maintaining a prescribed amount of ink droplets landing on the target by decreasing the number of ink droplet discharging pulses. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038650 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a suction controller to seal a nozzle face of a recording head with a cap and drives a suction device to suck liquid from the head to perform sucking operation. The dummy ejection controller ejects, from the head, droplets not contributing to image formation to perform dummy ejection. The first tinier measures a first elapsed time after the dummy ejection. The second timer measures a second elapsed time after the sucking operation. A liquid discharge amount of the sucking operation is set to be greater than that of the dummy ejection. When the first elapsed time is equal to or greater than a first threshold time, the dummy ejection controller performs the dummy ejection. When the second elapsed time is equal to or greater than a second threshold time which is greater than the first threshold time, the suction controller performs the sucking operation. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038128 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE USING THE SAME - An electronic circuit includes a first digital circuit, a second digital circuit, a first detection part to detect a first voltage value which is an operation voltage of the first digital circuit, a second detection part to detect a second voltage value which is an operation voltage of the second digital circuit, a comparison part to compare the first voltage value and the second voltage value, and a connection/disconnection part to perform connection and disconnection between the first digital circuit and the second digital circuit depending on a comparison result acquired by the comparison part. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130036320 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FEEDING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus includes a main power supply configured to feed power to components of the image forming apparatus; a secondary battery configured to be charged with power from the main power supply or a solar battery; a secondary battery deterioration detector configured to monitors a charging voltage drop of the secondary battery and to detect deterioration of the secondary battery; a secondary battery charge unit configured to charge the secondary battery when the secondary battery deterioration detector detects deterioration of the secondary battery in an energy-saving mode; and an energy-saving mode control unit configured to switch a power source for the image forming apparatus from the secondary battery to the main power supply to continue in the energy-saving mode when the secondary battery deterioration detector detects deterioration of the secondary battery in the energy-saving mode. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036195 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM INCLUDING DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS - A data management apparatus for a data management system including first and second networks interposed by a communication control apparatus includes a reception unit receiving response request data pertaining to an electronic device from an external apparatus and response result data from the communication control apparatus, a transmission unit transmitting the response request data to the communication control apparatus, and a management unit managing a series of response status history data during a period between receiving of the response request data and receiving of the response result data responsive to the response request data based on the response request data and the response result data. The data management apparatus being connected to the first network and managing history data of the response request data. One or more service management apparatuses being connected to the second network and managing a response service corresponding to the response request data. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130034376 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a sheet roll supporter disposed below a main body of the image forming apparatus to support a sheet roll such that a sheet is fed from the sheet roll, an image forming unit to form an image on the sheet fed from the sheet roll, a sheet discharger disposed downstream from the image forming unit in a direction of conveyance of the sheet to discharge the sheet having the image thereon in a sheet discharging direction, a guide unit to guide the sheet discharged from the sheet discharger to the front of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a stacking unit on which the sheet passing the guide unit is stacked. Upper and front parts of the sheet roll are covered with the guide unit and the stacking unit across a width direction of the sheet perpendicular to the sheet discharging direction. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130034368 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device includes a development casing for containing two-component developer, a developer bearer, a developer regulator to adjust an amount of developer carried on the developer bearer, a first developer conveyance member to supply developer to the developer bearer, a second developer conveyance member to transport axially developer separated from the developer bearer, first and second conveyance channels divided by a partition, in which the first and second developer conveyance members are respectively provided, and a removable sheet member to cover the developer bearer in an area facing the developer regulator, the first and second conveyance channels, and the partition. A first end portion of the sheet member extends from the second conveyance channel outside the development casing through a through hole formed in the development casing, and a second end portion thereof is retained by a retainer at a position outside the developer regulator. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033679 | PROJECTION SYSTEM, PROJECTOR, AND PROJECTION METHOD - A disclosed projection system includes a computer; and a projector configured to project projection image data received from the computer, wherein the computer includes a receiving part configured to receive the projection image data, which are projected, from the projector, a drawing part configured to draw drawing data, which are additionally drawn on the projection image data, and a transmitting part configured to transmit the drawing data to the projector, wherein the projector includes a transmitting part configured to transmit the projection image data to the computer, a receiving part configured to receive the drawing data from the computer, an image combining part configured to generate combined image data by combining the projection image data, which are projected, with the drawing data, and a projecting part configured to project the combined image data as projection image data. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033559 | SURFACE-EMITTING LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL SCANNER DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A surface-emitting laser device includes a lower reflector, a resonator structure having an active layer and an upper reflector on an inclined substrate, and an emission region emitting laser light enclosed by an electrode. The upper reflector includes a confinement structure having a current passing region enclosed by an oxide containing at least an oxide generated as a result of partial oxidation of a layer containing aluminum subject to selective oxidation, and a dielectric film formed within the emission region, the dielectric film at least enclosing a partial region including a center of the emission region. In viewing from a direction orthogonal to the emission region, a center of a region enclosed by the dielectric film is located at a position distant from the center of the emission region based on a size of the confinement structure relative to a direction orthogonal to an inclined axis of the inclined substrate. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033536 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge liquid droplets; a recording head including a pressure generator to generate a pressure to cause the nozzles to discharge liquid droplets; a droplet discharge status sensor unit to detect a droplet discharging status from each nozzle; and a maintenance controller to control a maintenance operation by a dummy discharge of liquid droplets not contributing to image formation. In such an image forming apparatus, the droplet discharge status sensor unit compares a detection result of the droplet discharge status and a preset reference threshold and determines whether the nozzle discharges normally or defectively; and the maintenance controller outputs a dummy discharge drive waveform corresponding to a difference between the detected droplet discharge status and the reference threshold to the pressure generator of the nozzle determined to be defective to cause the nozzle to discharge droplets for dummy discharging. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130032990 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND SHEET CONVEYANCE METHOD - An n image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet processing apparatus including a post-processing unit to perform post-processing of sheets on a processing tray and a retaining channel disposed to accommodate at least a single sheet while the post-processing unit processes the sheets, and a controller that calculates a target interval time between an interval start sheet and an interval end sheet among the sheets output from the image forming apparatus to the sheet processing apparatus based on at least one of sheet data and post-processing data transmitted from the image forming apparatus to the sheet processing apparatus, and adjusts an interval between discharge of the interval start sheet and the interval end sheet from the image forming apparatus to the sheet processing apparatus in accordance with the target interval time. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130031471 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT RASTERIZING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT RASTERIZING DEVICE - Disclosed are an electronic document rasterizing method and an electronic document rasterizing device. The method comprises a thumbnail image rasterizing step of calculating an initial resolution for rasterizing a thumbnail image of the electronic document page, and then carrying out rasterization with regard to the thumbnail image of the electronic document page; an electronic document page dividing step of dividing, based on a designated resolution and the size of a display area, the electronic document page into plural regional segments; a region-of-interest determining step of determining, in response of designation of a position of interest, a current region of interest in the plural regional segments; and a region-of-interest rasterizing step of determining at least one document segment belonging to the current region of interest, and then rasterizing the current region of interest by rasterizing the document segment belonging to the current region of interest based on the designated resolution. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031283 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A data transfer apparatus includes a serial interface controller configured to perform data transfer between the data transfer apparatus and a destination device via a serial transmission line; and a transfer controller configured to control the data transfer, issue a read request for data to the destination device, and resume issue of the read request after elapse of a given retransmission time when a positive acknowledgement in response to the read request is not received from the destination device under a given condition. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031174 | DATA SHARE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESS APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A data process apparatus for sharing shared data among plural data process apparatuses participating in an event. The data process apparatus includes a participation notification reception unit configured to receive a participation notification from each of the plural data process apparatus including first and second data process apparatuses in the event, a notifying unit configured to notify the second data process apparatus to the first data process apparatus as a data obtain target from which the shared data is to be obtained. The second data process apparatus is a data process apparatus from which the participation notification has already been received by the participation notification reception unit. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031125 | GENERATING A CONVERSATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ON VISUAL SEARCH RESULTS - The present invention includes a system and method for generating a conversation in a social network based on visual search results. A mixed media reality (MMR) engine indexes source materials as MMR objects, receives images from a user device and identifies matching MMR objects. A content management engine generates metadata corresponding to the MMR objects. A social network application generates conversations corresponding to the MMR object. The conversation includes multiple discussion threads. If a conversation already exists, the social network application provides the user with access to the conversation. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031100 | Generating a Discussion Group in a Social Network Based on Similar Source Materials - The present invention includes a system and method for generating a discussion group based on different electronic images. A mixed media reality database receives MMR objects that correspond to source material and indexes the MMR objects. A content management engine generates a cluster that includes MMR objects based on a similarity of source material. An MMR engine receives an electronic image from a user device, performs a visual search and identifies an MMR object that is associated with the electronic image. A social network application identifies a discussion group associated with the cluster that includes the MMR object and provides the user device with access to the discussion group. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027759 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A image processing apparatus includes a transformation unit that reproduces a color tone of a first output data of an original image data output from a first image output apparatus by using a second output data of the original image data output from a second image output apparatus, an estimating unit that estimates first and second geometric transformation parameters, an associating unit that generates first and second color component value association data, and a determining unit that generates a color tone transformation parameter based on a combination of pixel values in which a pixel value of the first image output data is substantially equivalent to a pixel value of the second image output data. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027747 | CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - In an image processing system, when a user request is received from a client apparatus, an image processing management apparatus determines whether the user request can be processed by the image processing system to generate a determination result, and generate an instruction indicating how the image processing system should operate based on the determination result. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027736 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a screen information storage part to store, on a user basis, the screen information of an operation screen containing a shortcut for calling an application; a shortcut creating part to, in response to receiving a request for a job of the application, create a job shortcut for executing the job based on the information of the requested job, and make a request for updating the screen information of a user having requested the job; a screen management part to, in response to receiving the screen information updating request, add information of the created job shortcut to the screen information of the user; a user management part to authenticate and manage the user; a screen creating part to create the operating screen containing the job shortcut based on the screen information of the managed user; and a display part to display the created operating screen. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027672 | IMAGE PROJECTING DEVICE - An image projecting device for projecting an image on a screen is provided. The image projecting device includes a toppling detecting part that detects a toppling of the image projecting device; a toppling direction detecting part that detects a direction in which the image projecting device topples; and a controlling part that controls the image projecting device such that the image projecting device continues to project the image if the toppling detecting part detects the toppling of the image projecting device and the toppling direction detected by the toppling direction detecting part is directed toward the screen, while the image projecting device stops projecting the image if the toppling direction detected by the toppling direction detecting part is directed away from the screen. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027557 | DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A substance detection apparatus and method including a light source to emit light to a planar transparent member having a proximal first face and a distal second face opposite the first face, the light from the light source first striking the first face of the planar transparent member. The substance detection apparatus and method including an image capture lens, a polarization filter, an image sensor, and a substance detection processor. The light emitted from the light source is reflected at the substance present on the second face of the planar transparent member, and the image sensor receives light reflected from the substance, via the image capture lens and the polarization filter, to capture an image of the substance present on the second face of the planar transparent member. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027474 | DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR INKJET RECORDING HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - A drive circuit for an inkjet recording head includes a plurality of electrically capacitive actuator elements, a drive signal source, a plurality of switching elements, and a plurality of resistances. The actuator elements are provided for a plurality of nozzles, and drive the nozzles to eject ink therefrom. The drive signal source outputs a drive signal for driving the actuator elements. The switching elements are connected to the respective actuator elements to separately drive the actuator elements, and selectively apply the output drive signal to the actuator elements. The resistances are provided for the respective actuator elements, and are connected to low potential sides of the actuator elements. Each of the resistances has a resistance value adjusted in accordance with the length of a wire between the corresponding one of the actuator elements and the drive signal source. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027457 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PATTERN POSITION DETERMINING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a reading unit including a light emitting element for emitting light to a record medium, and a light receiving element for receiving reflected light; a print data storing unit storing print data of a uniform pattern which has a color different from a color of the test pattern and is provided in an area including the test pattern, a pattern forming unit printing the test pattern on the uniform pattern after the uniform pattern is printed, a relatively moving unit moving the record medium or the reading unit relatively at a constant speed, a first detection data obtaining unit obtaining first detection data received as the reflection light while the light moves and impinges on the test pattern, and a position detecting unit providing a calculation for determining a position of a line of the test pattern to detect the test pattern. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027447 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a data sheet includes a pattern forming unit configured to form a predetermined pattern on the data sheet; a pattern reading unit configured to apply a process liquid to the data sheet on which the predetermined pattern is formed by the pattern forming unit, and to read the predetermined pattern on the data sheet after applying the process liquid; an expansion and contraction amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of expansion or contraction of the predetermined pattern read by the pattern reading unit; and an image data expansion and contraction unit configured to expand or contract image data depending on the amount of expansion or contraction calculated by the expansion and contraction calculation unit. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027428 | Generating a Discussion Group in a Social Network Based on Metadata - The present invention includes a system and method for generating a discussion in a social network based on visual search results. A mixed media reality (MMR) engine receives images from a user device and identifies matching MMR objects. A social network application determines whether a discussion group that is related to metadata associated with the images from user devices are related to a discussion group. If the discussion group does not yet exist, the social network application generates the discussion group and provides the user devices with information about the discussion group. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027016 | STANDARD CELL CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A standard cell circuit including an input terminal to which input an input signal is input; an output terminal to output an output signal; a first wiring conductor, connected to an external power supply that outputs a first power supply voltage; a second wiring conductor to supply a second power supply voltage that is lower than the first power supply voltage; a standard cell to operate at the second power supply voltage supplied from the second wiring conductor; and a conversion circuit, connected to the first wiring conductor and the second wiring conductor, to convert the first power supply voltage input from the first wiring conductor into the second power supply voltage for output to the second wiring conductor. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130024311 | Creating And Manufacturing Documents That Initially Exceed Equipment Finishing Capacity - Techniques described herein overcome many of the issues that have previously made the printing of a single copy of a book from a digital version unattractive and infeasible. According to one embodiment of the invention, an automated mechanism such as a computer program automatically determines whether the spine thickness of a to-be-printed copy of a digital version of a book will exceed the specified maximum spine thickness that a specified binding or other finishing device can handle. In response to determining that the spine thickness will exceed the specified maximum spine thickness, the automated mechanism automatically splits the digital version of the book into two or more volumes such that, for each volume, the spine thickness of the printed version of that volume will be no greater than the specified maximum spine thickness that the specified binding or other finishing device can handle. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130022371 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE DEVELOPMENT - To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a low molecular weight resin component, where the low molecular weight resin component has a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by the following formula (1), satisfying A>0.165, and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130022366 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device to perform a fixing process includes an endless, rotatable belt member; a nip-forming rotary member disposed outside a loop of the belt member; a fixing roller disposed at a backside of the fixing nip inside the loop of the belt member and around which the belt member is rotatably stretched; a heater to heat the belt member at a position different from a position where the belt member is rotatably stretched around the fixing roller; a temperature detector; a memory device to store an operational history of the heater; and a processor operatively connected to the heater to control the heater, before the recording sheet is passed through the fixing nip, to perform a warming-up operation to raise a temperature of the fixing roller at the backside of the fixing nip based on the operational history of the heater stored in the memory device. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130021628 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus for performing color tone conversion on a predetermined original image data using a predetermined color tone conversion parameter, includes a converted image data generating unit that generates weight-applied converted original image data obtained by performing the color tone conversion by the color tone conversion parameter while applying weighted values, which is determined such that the lower the degree to be changed by the color tone conversion is, the smaller the value becomes, on the original image data for each of a predetermined range. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130021356 | Full Framebuffer for Electronic Paper Displays - A system and a method are disclosed for updating a bi-stable display includes a framebuffer for storing waveforms for each pixel individually. The system includes determining a current state of a pixel of the bi-stable display; determining a desired state of the pixel of the bi-stable display; and updating the pixel by applying a determined control signal to the pixel to drive the pixel from the current state to the final state. Updating each pixel occurs independently of the other pixels of the bi-stable display. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130020753 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING CLUTCH ASSEMBLY - An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance device to convey a sheet, an image forming device disposed opposing the conveyance device, a switchback device downstream from the conveyance device to switch hack the sheet after image formation a first face of the sheet on an opposing surface of the conveyance device, a refeeding device to refeed the sheet switched back, a reverse path to guide the sheet to a non-opposing, surface of the conveyance device, reverse the sheet, and guide the sheet to the opposing surface again, a single driving source to drive the conveyance device and the switchback device, a driving assembly to transmit driving force of the driving source to the conveyance device, a clutch assembly disposed at a position other than the driving assembly to switch rotation of the switchback device between forward rotation and reverse rotation, and an activation device to activate the clutch assembly. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130019033 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEMAANM SHIMA; TomohiroAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP SHIMA; Tomohiro Kanagawa JP - A data transfer apparatus includes a virtual channel unit configured to time share a serial bus for a first virtual channel and a second virtual channel and include a buffering control unit configured to receive data via the first virtual channel and the second virtual channel, first and second receive buffers being configured to store the data received via the first virtual channel and the second virtual channel, respectively; and a switching unit configured to control storing the data received via the first virtual channel in the second receive buffer when the buffering control unit receives the data from another data transfer apparatus which is configured to use only the first virtual channel and the capacity of the first receive buffer is smaller than that of the second receive buffer. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130017924 | DRIVE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAMEAANM Shimizu; KeisukeAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Shimizu; Keisuke Tokyo JPAANM Maehata; YasuhiroAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Maehata; Yasuhiro Tokyo JPAANM Miyawaki; KatsuakiAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Miyawaki; Katsuaki Kanagawa JPAANM Watanabe; TetsuoAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Watanabe; Tetsuo Kanagawa JPAANM Matsuda; HiromichiAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Matsuda; Hiromichi Kanagawa JP - A drive device including a planetary gear reduction device having at least two stages and an output shaft, and a driven shaft to support a driven member rotatively driven by torque reduced by the planetary gear reduction device and transmit the torque from the output shaft to the driven member. Each stage of the planetary gear reduction device includes a sun gear, an outer gear, multiple planetary gears, a carrier, and a support shaft. The output shaft is provided to the carrier of the last stage. Central axes of the sun gear, the outer gear, the carrier, the output shaft, the driven shaft, and the driven member are all arranged coaxially with one another and at least one carrier is floatingly supported relative to the outer gear. The carrier is formed as a single integrated unit having holes into which both ends of the support shaft are fitted. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016902 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUMAANM Suino; TooruAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Suino; Tooru Kanagawa JP - An image data processing device processes structured image data including background image data representing a background image, foreground image data representing a foreground image indicating a color and a gross shape, and mask data representing a mask image specifying a prescribed area of the foreground image to be overlaid on the background image. The image data processing device lightens a shade of the background image by applying background color lightening processing to the background data, and lightens a shade of the foreground image less than the shade of the background image by applying foreground color lightening processing to the foreground data. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016402 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND SOFTWARE PROGRAMAANM Takahashi; SatoshiAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Takahashi; Satoshi Kanagawa JP - An image forming apparatus, having a function of superimposing a pattern on an image based on parameters set for one or more document properties, includes a memory to store an administrator-set parameter and a user-set parameter settable for each one of the document properties of the superimposed pattern; a mode determination unit to identify a pattern superimposing mode from a plurality of pattern superimposing modes; a pattern information obtaining unit to obtain the administrator-set parameter or the user-set parameter for each one of the document properties to be used for superimposing the pattern on the image based on the identified pattern superimposing mode and by referencing a property-mode correlation table correlating each one of the document properties and the plurality of pattern superimposing modes; an image drawing information generator to generate image drawing information for the image superimposed with the pattern; and an image outputting unit to output the image. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUSAANM Akutsu; ToruAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Akutsu; Toru Kanagawa JP - An information processing system which executes a job is disclosed, including a user specifying unit; a user information obtaining unit; an applied rule determining unit which refers to rule information in which is recorded a rule to be applied for executing the job in accordance with a relationship between an upper limit value and a consumed amount to determine the rule to be applied to the user; an applying unit which applies the rule determined by the applied rule determining unit to setting information of the job to be executed; and a log recording unit which records, with respect to the job to be executed, log information which includes at least one of the setting information before application of the rule and the setting information after application of the rule; and information indicating the rule applied. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016393 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF LOG MANAGEMENT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING LOG MANAGEMENT PROGRAMAANM Oku; TakenoriAACI SaitamaAACO JPAAGP Oku; Takenori Saitama JPAANM Tsuda; MichihikoAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Tsuda; Michihiko Kanagawa JP - A log management system stores association data indicating association between program identification information for identifying a program that requests execution of one or more functions at an information processing apparatus, and function identification information for identifying each one of the one or more functions to be executed by the program, receives program identification information for identifying a program that requests the information processing apparatus to execute one or more functions from the information processing terminal on which the program is installed through the network, and obtains function identification information that is associated with the program identification information received from the information processing terminal using the association data. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016373 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PRINT CONTROLAANM Shimohira; YoshihikoAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Shimohira; Yoshihiko Kanagawa JP - An information processing apparatus includes a drawing receiving unit to receive a page start command and a drawing command from an OS, a transparency processing unit to generate a bitmap upon receiving the page start command, to alpha blend a first image with a second image existing on the bitmap to generate a blended image upon receiving the drawing command that includes the first image with an alpha channel, and to duplicate the alpha blended image, and a drawing processing unit to convert the drawing command that includes the first image with the alpha channel, into a print command to draw the duplicated alpha blended image. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016162 | LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAMEAANM Yasu; KazukiAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Yasu; Kazuki Kanagawa JPAANM Sasaki; ShinoAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Sasaki; Shino Kanagawa JP - A liquid droplet discharge head includes: a liquid chamber including an inner wall; a plurality of nozzles on a part of the inner wall; a diaphragm to change a pressure inside the liquid chamber; a piezoelectric element to displace the diaphragm; a drive voltage generator to generate a pulse voltage for normal driving; a micro-drive voltage generator to generate a pulse voltage for micro-driving; a voltage applying means to apply a voltage waveform including each pulse voltage to the piezoelectric element; and a nozzle activation ratio processor to calculate a nozzle activation ratio based on drive data for discharging liquid droplets from the nozzle. Based on the nozzle activation ratio, the micro-drive voltage generator generates a pulse voltage for the micro-driving including a peak voltage corresponding to the nozzle activation ratio, and the voltage applying means applies an appropriate voltage waveform to the piezoelectric element. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130015920 | ATOMIC OSCILLATOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING ATOMIC OSCILLATORAANM SATO; ShunichiAACI MiyagiAACO JPAAGP SATO; Shunichi Miyagi JPAANM ITOH; AkihiroAACI MiyagiAACO JPAAGP ITOH; Akihiro Miyagi JPAANM SATO; YukitoAACI MiyagiAACO JPAAGP SATO; Yukito Miyagi JP - An atomic oscillator is disclosed, including an Alkaline metal cell, a light source illuminating a laser beam to the Alkaline metal cell, and a light detector detecting light passing through the Alkaline metal cell. The Alkaline metal cell includes a first member, a second member, a cell internal portion, and an Alkaline metal raw material. In the first member, a first glass substrate is bonded on a second surface of a first substrate where a first opening part is formed. In the second member, a second glass substrate is bonded to a fourth surface of a second substrate where a second opening part is formed. The cell internal portion is formed by the first opening part and the second opening part by bonding the first surface to the third surface. The Alkaline metal raw material is enclosed by the cell internal portion. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130014112 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus is connected to both plural data accumulation devices configured to accumulate job data in a predetermined memory area and plural electronic devices configured to execute the accumulated job data through a predetermined data transmission line. The data accumulation devices execute a deletion process based on a deletion control value included in management information and manage the accumulated job data. The apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a communication process of the job data performed between the electronic devices and the data accumulation devices. The control unit is configured to transmit a control value for extending an accumulation period of the accumulated job data to at least one of the data accumulation devices, and to update the deletion control value of the management information retained in the predetermined memory area in the at least one of the data accumulation devices. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013762 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, which is connected via a network to plural execution apparatuses, includes a receiving unit configured to receive function validity information from the execution apparatuses; a reception unit configured to receive an execution request for requesting the execution apparatuses to execute a requested function, which execution request does not include information identifying one of the execution apparatuses where the requested function is to be executed; a determining unit configured to determine execution apparatuses where the requested function is valid based on the function validity information; a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display information indicating the determined execution apparatuses where the requested function is valid based on the determination result; and transmitting unit configured to send the execution request to a selected execution apparatus when a reception instruction to receive the execution request is entered on the selected execution apparatus. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130011677 | GALLIUM NITRIDE CRYSTAL, GROUP 13 NITRIDE CRYSTAL, CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A large sized bulk crystal is produced which allows to cut out a practical size of crystal substrate. The gallium nitride crystal has features in which a length L of c-axis is 9 mm or more, a crystal diameter d of a cross section orthogonal to the c-axis is 100 μm, and a ratio L/d of the length L of the c-axis and the crystal diameter d of the cross section orthogonal to the c-axis is 7 or more. By enlarging this elongated needle-like crystal, a bulk crystal with a large volume can be produced, and a large sized bulk crystal can be produced which allows to cut out a practical size of crystal substrate. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130011171 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH FIXING UNIT - An image forming apparatus including multiple imaging units and a fixing unit is provided. Each of the imaging units includes an image bearing member, a developing device containing a toner including a pressure-induced phase transition resin or a thermoplastic resin, a transfer device, and an image bearing member cleaner, and is adapted to form a toner image with the toner. The fixing unit includes a pressure fixing device adapted to fix the toner including the pressure-induced phase transition resin on the recording medium by applying a temperature Tb and a pressure Pb thereto in a pressure fixing nip, and a heat fixing device adapted to fix the toner including the thermoplastic resin on the recording medium by applying a temperature Ta and a pressure Pa thereto in a heat fixing nip. The image forming apparatus satisfies the following inequations: TbPa. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130010319 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, OUTPUT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an output management server. The output management server includes a receiving unit to receive an output data, an analysis unit to analyze the output data and determine a PDL required for outputting the output data, a management unit to determine whether the PDL is available, and a transmitting unit to transmit the output data and an executable file of the PDL to the designated image forming apparatus, when the PDL is determined as available. The image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive the output data and the executable file of the PDL, a control unit to activate the executable file of the PDL and develop the output data, an output unit to output the output data, and a deleting unit to delete the executable file of the PDL, after the outputting of the output data is completed. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130010035 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING METHOD, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, PRODUCTION METHOD OF FINE PARTICLES, FINE PARTICLE PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND TONER - A liquid droplet ejecting method for ejecting a liquid from at least one ejection hole to form the liquid into liquid droplets, the method including: applying a vibration to the liquid in a liquid column resonance-generating liquid chamber, in which the ejection hole is formed, to form a standing wave through liquid column resonance, and ejecting the liquid from the ejection hole, which is formed in a region corresponding to an antinode of the standing wave, to form the liquid into liquid droplets. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130010030 | BENDING MEMBER, RAIL MEMBER, AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A bending member includes a bent portion formed by bending a plate material, the bent portion including a concave surface side and a convex surface side, a curvature radius r of the concave surface side of the bent portion being set to a thickness t of the plate material or below, and a plurality of grooves provided in the bent portion on the convex surface side, each of the grooves being vertical to a longitudinal direction of the bent portion, wherein each of the grooves opens on both surface sides sandwiching the bent portion, and each of the grooves includes a bottom portion having a straight line shape connecting the openings of the groove on the both surface sides. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130009359 | SHEET TRAY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A sheet tray for feeding a sheet toward an image forming part of an image forming apparatus. The sheet tray is detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus in a sheet feeding direction and includes a tray portion, a detachable cover member provided apart from the tray portion with a gap interposed therebetween through which the sheet passes in an engaged state in which the tray portion and the cover member are engaged with each other, a lock assembly that engages the tray portion and the cover member with each other in the engaged state and disengages the cover member and the tray portion from each other in a disengaged state, and a switching mechanism that puts the lock assembly into the engaged state in absence of the sheet within the gap and into the disengaged state at presence of the sheet within the gap. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20120328345 | GLOSSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A glossing device includes a heat roller, a stripper roller, an endless, rotary glossing belt, a first belt cooler, a pressure member, an endless, rotary cooling belt, and a second belt cooler. The heat roller is subjected to heating. The stripper roller is disposed parallel to the heat roller. The glossing belt is looped for rotation around the heat roller and the stripper roller. The first belt cooler is disposed adjacent to the glossing belt to cool the glossing belt. The pressure member is disposed opposite the heat roller. The cooling belt is looped for rotation around the pressure member. The second belt cooler is disposed adjacent to the cooling belt to cool the cooling belt. The heat roller and the pressure member press against each other via the glossing belt and the cooling belt to form a glossing nip therebetween through which the recording medium is conveyed. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120328344 | GLOSSING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A glossing device includes a first roller, a second roller, an endless rotary belt, a third roller, a heater, a belt cooler, and a suction mechanism. The second roller is disposed parallel to the first roller. The endless rotary belt is looped for rotation around the first and second rollers. The third roller is disposed opposite the first roller via the belt. The heater is disposed adjacent to the belt to heat the belt. The first and third rollers press against each other via the belt to form a nip therebetween. The belt cooler is disposed inside the loop of the belt downstream from the first roller and upstream from the second roller for cooling the belt. The belt cooler includes at least two mutually spaced cooling elements that together form a gapped contact surface for establishing thermal contact with the belt. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120328343 | GLOSSING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A fixing device includes a first roller, a second roller, an endless rotary belt, a third roller, a heater, a belt cooler, and an upstream guide member. The second roller is disposed parallel to the first roller. The endless rotary belt is looped for rotation around the first and second rollers. The third roller is disposed opposite the first roller via the belt. The heater is positioned adjacent to the belt to heat the belt. The first and third rollers press against each other via the belt to form a nip therebetween. The belt cooler is disposed inside the loop of the belt downstream from the first roller and upstream from the second roller for cooling the belt. The belt cooler has a convex contact surface. The upstream guide member is disposed inside the loop of the belt upstream from the contact surface to guide the belt. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120328318 | FIXING DEVICE CAPABLE OF MINIMIZING OVERSHOOT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH SAME - A fixing device is operable through start-up and warm-up stages and has a rotatable fixing member to fix an unfixed toner image borne on a recording medium, an opposing member to press against the fixing member and form a nip on the fixing member, a temperature detector to detect temperature of the fixing member, and a heater controlled in accordance with the temperature of the fixing member to heat the fixing member. The heater is further controlled during the warm-up stage in accordance with at least one of if the fixing member is rotating and if the detected temperature has ever arrived at a prescribed target temperature in the warm-up stage. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120326995 | VIRTUAL TOUCH PANEL SYSTEM AND INTERACTIVE MODE AUTO-SWITCHING METHOD - Disclosed are a virtual touch panel system and an interactive mode auto-switching method. The virtual touch panel system comprises a projector configured to project an image on a projection surface; a depth map camera configured to obtain depth information of an environment containing a touch operation area; a depth map processing unit configured to generate an initial depth map, and to determine the touch operation area based on the initial depth map; an object detecting unit configured to detect, from each of plural images continuously obtained by the depth map camera after the initial circumstance, a candidate blob of at least one object located within a predetermined distance from the determined touch operation area; and a tracking unit configured to insert each of the blobs into a corresponding point sequence according to a relationship of the geometric centers of the blobs detected in adjacent two of the obtained images. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120326387 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET CONVEYING MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A sheet conveying device includes a first rotator, a second rotator, and a third rotator, at least one of which is configured to convey a sheet medium; a first detection unit configured to detect a first control factor for controlling a first motor that rotates the first rotator; a second detection unit configured to detect a second control factor for controlling a second motor that rotates the second rotator; a motor control unit configured to control a rotational speed of a third motor that rotates the third rotator; and a speed control unit configured to request the motor control unit to change the rotational speed of the third motor based on the sum of the first control factor and the second control factor. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120324361 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus is connected with electronic apparatuses storing user information concerning users of the electronic apparatuses. The information processing apparatus receives an operation to designate an electronic apparatus, out of the electronic apparatuses, on which a setting is to be carried out concerning the user information, via a screen page displayed based on apparatus information concerning the electronic apparatuses, and receives an operation of manipulating data of the user information via a screen page displayed based on the user information obtained from the electronic apparatuses and managed by the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits to the designated electronic apparatus the user information on which the manipulating data has been carried out, out of the user information managed by the information processing apparatus, and requests the designated electronic apparatus to carry out a setting concerning the user information. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A novel information processing apparatus maintains file system information in a secondary storage device during power saving mode. The information processing apparatus keeps storing file information and mounting information in the secondary storage device without releasing it in shutdown process | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324238 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VERIFICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VERIFICATION PROGRAM - A novel information processing apparatus prevents unauthorized software from running with a hash value whose bit length is longer than each register in a transfer platform module | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120322641 | INSERTION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND INSERTION METHOD - An insertion system includes a folding device to perform either single-sheet folding to fold a single sheet at a time or batch folding to fold multiple sheets together at a time, an insertion device to insert into an envelope the sheet folded by the folding device, and a batch setting unit to designate either the single-sheet folding or the batch folding from a folding and insertion menu for multiple sheets at a time when the multiple sheets are processed by the folding device and the insertion device. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320420 | NON-TRANSITORY PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM PRODUCT, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A non-transitory printing control program product is disclosed. The printing control program product causes a computer to function as a printing data generating unit which generates printing data for normal printing and printing data for trial printing such that the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing are printed by the same printing apparatus, the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing being generated from the same submitted manuscript data; and a printing data management unit which receives the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing and which causes the same printing apparatus to print the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing in accordance with the normal printing condition and the trial printing condition. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320410 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT - Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for monitoring the consumption of paper, toner, energy, other resources, etc., by an information technology device, and for encouraging a user to reduce consumption of such resources when using the information technology device. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320409 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENT FOR OUTPUT - Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for reducing consumption of paper and other resources in connection with printing, copying, etc, by converting a document suitable for combined-page print, to a combined-page output, even when the user has not specified combined-page output. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320386 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image forming information processor to process image forming information and an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by forming a toner image using colored-toner and a toner image using glossy toner based on the image forming information processed by the image forming information processor. The image forming unit forms a glossy image on the recording medium based on glossy toner image forming information, in which the glossy image is formable on the recording medium using the colored-toner toner image alone, or a glossy image is formed on the recording medium by forming a colored-toner toner image using colored-toner based on the colored-toner image forming information, and then forming the glossy toner image on the colored-toner toner image as a top layer of the glossy image based on the glossy toner image forming information. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320355 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS - A light source apparatus includes a light source unit that includes plural sets of a laser and a coupling lens corresponding to the laser, which are circumferentially provided to form a circle; and a reflecting unit placed within the circle and provided with plural reflecting surfaces corresponding to the lasers of the plural sets of the light source unit to be formed in a cone shape, the light irradiated from each of the lasers being injected into the corresponding reflecting surface via the corresponding coupling lens. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320131 | INKJET HEAD AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - An inkjet head is disclosed, including a nozzle plate, a passage substrate, and a diaphragm. The nozzle plate forms multiple nozzles for discharging ink. A passage substrate joints to the nozzle plate. On the passage substrate, an individual liquid chamber leading to a nozzle, and a liquid supply chamber connected to the individual liquid chamber through an individual passage are formed for each of the multiple nozzles. The diaphragm forms a piezoelectric element which is laminated on a side opposite to the nozzle plate of the passage substrate and includes a lower electrode, a piezoelectric body, and an upper electrode. The liquid supply chamber formed for each of the multiple nozzles is compartmented by a bulkhead from an other liquid supply chamber, and each of the liquid supply chamber and the other liquid supply chamber include multiple ink supply ports. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320127 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a carriage, an image forming unit installed in the carriage to eject liquid onto a recording medium, a guide member to guide the carriage in a main scanning direction corresponding to a width direction of the recording medium, and a position restriction member detachably attachable to the carriage to restrict a position of the carriage relative to the guide member in a vertical direction. The carriage includes a first slide member slidably supported by the guide member, a second slide member that slidably contacts the guide member to prevent rotation of the carriage relative to the guide member, and a third slide member that slidably contacts the guide member to determine a position of the carriage in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction. The position of the carriage is not restricted by the guide member in the vertical direction. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320125 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a cap, a suction unit, and a recovery device. The recording head has nozzles at a nozzle face to horizontally eject droplets of liquid. The cap caps the nozzle face of the recording head. The suction unit is connected to the cap. The recovery device drives the suction unit with the nozzle face capped with the cap to create a negative pressure in an internal space of the cap and suck the liquid from the recording head. The cap has a contact portion to contact the nozzle face and a suction port to communicate with the suction unit. The suction port is disposed away from the contact portion with a minute gap at a lowermost area of the cap in a vertical direction. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320118 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A method of controlling a liquid ejection head controls a liquid ejection head including a liquid pressurizing chamber, nozzles communicating with the liquid pressurizing chamber, and a pressure generating device that generates pressure in the liquid pressurizing chamber based on a drive waveform. The method includes generating a preliminary ejection drive waveform with a predetermined number of successive drive pulses aligned in descending order of length of drive pulse intervals of the drive pulses, with each of the drive pulse intervals set to an integral multiple of a natural vibration period of the liquid pressurizing chamber, and applying the generated preliminary ejection drive waveform to the pressure generating device to cause the liquid ejection head to perform a preliminary ejecting operation. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120319775 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - An automatic gain control apparatus for a wireless receiver, including multiple variable gain amplifiers, one variable gain amplifier provided for each one of multiple receive chains and a gain controller to control a gain of the variable gain amplifiers provided for the plurality of receive chains. The gain controller includes multiple output level measurement units to measure an output level of a corresponding receive chain; a common gain determination unit to determine a common gain for each of the variable gain amplifiers based on a statistical value obtained from the output levels; multiple adjusted gain determination units, each adjusted gain determination unit determining an adjusted gain independently for each variable gain amplifier within a range narrower than the range of the common; and a gain setting unit to set a gain to each of the variable gain amplifiers based on the common gain and the adjusted gain. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120315498 | LAMINATE STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTUING LAMINATE STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC ELEMENT ARRAY, IMAGE DISPLAYING MEDIUM, IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, DIAMINE, POLYAMIC ACID, AND POLYIMIDE - Disclosed is a laminate structure including a substrate, a wettability changing layer, and an electrical conductor layer, wherein the wettability changing layer and the electrical conductor layer are laminated on the substrate in order, wherein the wettability changing layer contains a polyimide, wherein the polyimide is obtainable by dehydrating and ring-opening a polyamic acid, wherein the polyamic acid is obtainable by ring-opening and addition-polymerizing a diamine and a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, wherein the diamine includes a compound represented by a general formula of: | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120315067 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer belt having a circumferential length not less than 2,000 mm and is driven at a linear speed not less than 350 mm/sec and an inner circumferential surface having a surface roughness Ra of from 0.2 to 0.4 nm (JIS B0601: '01), and including a substrate layer and a high-resistivity layer having a resistivity higher than that of the substrate layer, wherein the high-resistivity layer has a surface resistivity higher than that of the substrate layer by 0.3 to 2.5 log Ω/□ in common logarithm value when applied with a voltage of 500 V. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120315060 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Disclosed is an image forming device including a fixing unit that fixes a first image to be fixed onto a sheet, the first image to be fixed being supported on the sheet, a target fixing temperature varying unit that varies a target fixing temperature during a time period in which a fixing process is performed, and a gradation processing unit that applies a gradation process to first image information. The target fixing temperature varying unit varies the target fixing temperature for the sheet of the recording medium to which the fixing process is applied, depending on presence or absence of a halftone process, and depending on a type of the gradation process to be utilized. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120315053 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A lubricant supply device including a solid lubricant, a lubricant supply roller, a detector, and a varying device is provided. The lubricant supply roller is adapted to supply the lubricant to a toner image bearing member and is rotatable in a predetermined direction while slidably contacting both the solid lubricant and the toner image bearing member. The detector is adapted to detect an absolute humidity around the lubricant supply device. The varying device is adapted to vary an amount of the lubricant to be supplied to the toner image bearing member based on the absolute humidity detected by the detector. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314639 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication device includes: a beacon cycle determination unit configured to determine a beacon cycle for transmitting a beacon based on a sum of a number of time slots that is included in a beacon transmitted by another radio communication device and that the other radio communication device requests for transmitting data and a number of time slots to be requested by the radio communication device for transmitting data; and a packet transmit and receive control unit configured to control the radio communication device, according to the beacon cycle determined by the beacon cycle determination unit, to transmit a packet at a time slot and to receive a packet from another radio communication device at a time slot different from the time slot for transmission. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314267 | SHEET CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A sheet conveyance device includes a loading section, a sheet feeding unit, a separation section disposed downstream in a sheet conveyance direction from the sheet feeding unit, a conveyance member to transport a sheet separated by the separation section, a trailing-edge detector disposed at a first conveyance distance (L | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314259 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE USING INKJET PRINTING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INKJET PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus shifts dots of a recording dot pattern by half of a dot pitch in a main scanning direction to generate a shift dot pattern, corrects a jagged outline of the shift dot pattern caused by shifted dots using correction dots to generate a corrected shift dot pattern, and determines an increased number of ink droplets to be additionally ejected from one or more of a plurality of nozzles to form the shifted dot or the correction dot of the corrected shift dot pattern with an increased dot size, based on an estimated shift value indicating the displacement in landing position of ink droplets forming the dot of the recording dot pattern. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314007 | METHOD OF FORMING ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER FILM, ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER FILM, ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - Disclosed is an electromechanical transducer film forming method including a surface modification process; an application process; and processes of drying, thermally decomposing, and crystallizing sol-gel solution applied to a portion of a surface of a first electrode. An electromechanical transducer film is formed on a desired pattern area on the surface of the first electrode by repeating the above processes. In the application process, each of dots of the sol-gel solution applied by the inkjet method drops onto both a first area inside the desired pattern area and a second area outside the desired pattern area. The first area is a hydrophilic area on the surface of the first electrode, and the second area is a hydrophobic area on the surface of the first electrode. The hydrophilic area and the hydrophobic area have been modified by the surface modification process. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120313609 | CURRENT LIMITING CIRCUIT - A current limiting circuit includes a limit current setting unit that sets a value of a limit current for limiting an output current from a driver circuit connected to the current limiting circuit, the limit current value including a first acceptable value and a second acceptable value larger than the first acceptable value; an excess current detecting unit that detects when the output current from the driver circuit exceeds the first acceptable value; and a limit current adjusting unit that replaces the first acceptable value with the second acceptable value in a period when the output current detected by the excess current detecting unit exceeds the first acceptable value. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120313315 | FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A feeding device includes a carrying roller to carry a top sheet of sheets in a conveying direction, a reverse roller to transfer subsequent sheets beneath the top sheet in a direction opposite to the conveying direction while being moved in the conveying direction with the top sheet, and an end fence to restrict rear end positions of the subsequent sheets. The end fence includes an upper contacting member to come into contact with an upper surface of the top sheet, and a restricting member extending from the upper contacting member along a rear end surface of the sheets to stop rear ends of the sheets in its entire width direction, the upper contacting member and the restricting member being arranged such that a width dimension of the end fence is changeable in the width direction, and the end fence being arranged above the top sheet. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120313310 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a body, a sheet feed unit, a regulator, an image forming device, and a sheet output unit. The sheet feed unit is removably mounted to the body to store a recording medium. The regulator has a locking portion and is disposed in the sheet feed unit to regulate a position of the medium in a width direction of the medium. The image forming device forms an image on the medium conveyed from the sheet feed unit. The sheet output unit is disposed above the sheet feed unit to stack the medium on which the image is formed by the image forming device. When the sheet feed unit is drawn from the body to a predetermined position, the sheet feed unit is rotatable downward by weight of the sheet feed unit and the sheet output unit rotates upward with rotation of the sheet feed unit. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120312583 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INTERCONNECTION MEMBER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INTERCONNECTION MEMBER, MULTILAYERED INTERCONNECTIONS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE ARRAY AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE METHOD - A method of manufacturing an interconnection member includes forming on a substrate a wettability changing layer containing a material in which critical surface tension is changed by giving energy; forming a depression part in the wettability changing layer by a laser ablation method using a laser of an ultraviolet region; and coating the depression part with an electrically conductive ink to form an electrically conductive part. At the same time when a pattern of the depression part is formed in the wettability changing layer, a pattern of a high surface energy area is formed as a result of the critical surface tension being changed. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120310786 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PARTNER SELECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system includes a first storage part storing printing partners correlated with respective locations and information for estimating respective production capabilities; a second storage part storing distribution partners correlated with respective locations and information for estimating respective delivery capabilities; a printing partner selecting part selecting a single printing partner whose location is in the same area as a delivery destination of a user-ordered print and that is capable of printing the user-ordered print in the shortest delivery time; a distribution partner selecting part selecting a single distribution partner whose location is in the same area as the single printing partner and that is capable of delivering the print in the shortest delivery time; and an order placing part configured to place, via an electrical network, an order for the printing service to the single printing partner and an order for the delivery service to the single distribution partner. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120308785 | INKJET INK, INK CARTRIDGE, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, AND PRINT - An inkjet ink including an aqueous medium including water; and a water-soluble organic solvent; a resin-covered pigment which is dispersed in the aqueous medium and which is prepared by an acid deposition method; and a surfactant-treated pigment which is dispersed in the aqueous medium and which is prepared by treating a pigment with a nonionic surfactant. The inkjet ink has a pH in a range of from 8.5 to 10.5. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307272 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PARTNER SELECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system includes a first storage part storing printing partners correlated with respective predetermined printing fields and respective printing quality evaluation degrees; a second storage part storing distribution partners correlated with respective delivery quality evaluation degrees; a printing partner selecting part configured to select a single printing partner whose predetermined printing field matches a printing field to which a print ordered by a user corresponds and whose printing evaluation degree is the highest among the printing partners; a distribution partner selecting part configured to select a single distribution partner whose delivery quality evaluation degree is the highest among the distribution partners; and an order placing part configured to place, via an electrical network, an order for a printing service for printing the print to the single printing partner and an order for a delivery service for delivering the print to the single distribution partner. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307269 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DRAWING PROCESSING METHOD, SOFTWARE PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a drawing process controller and a hardware processor useable for drawing processes. In a first drawing process, print data including main image data input-able to the image forming apparatus is processed to convert the main image data to output-able data of the image forming apparatus based on an image drawing command. The hardware processor conducts a second drawing process for pre-set image data settable to the image forming apparatus and expressed in an output-able data format output-able by the image forming apparatus, based on an image drawing command, to prepare the pre-set image data as output-able data of the image forming apparatus, and further combines the main image data expressed as the output-able data and the pre-set image expressed as the output-able data as an output image. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307262 | PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM PRODUCT, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing control program product is disclosed, which causes a computer to function as a printer control unit; a printing conditions control processing unit; and an overall control unit which, for a printing job with a determined result of not matching, when a size of a sheet onto which printing is to be made can be generated by cutting a mounted sheet, arranges picture drawing data of a printed output in a layout suitable for the size of the sheet onto which the printing is to be made by cutting the mounted sheet, along the layout after the printing, and generating the printed output. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307261 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print control device includes a prohibition determination unit, when a first sheet size of a sheet stored in a printing device is different from a second sheet size designated by an operator, preventing, when determining that the second sheet size of the sheet can be generated by cutting the sheet having the first sheet size, an execution of a post process function other than cutting in the printing device; and a workflow generation unit generating a workflow including operational steps of causing a cutting device to cut the sheet having the first sheet size to obtain the sheet having the second sheet size, and causing a functional device other than the cutting device to perform the post process function on the printing output after cutting the sheet having the first sheet size. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306970 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head including plural nozzles discharging liquid droplets, a head holder holding the recording head, a carriage holding the head holder, a guide member extending in a main scanning direction of the image forming apparatus, and a reference member extending in the direction substantially parallel to the direction of the guide member. Further, the carriage moves along the guide member, a part of the reference member is disposed in the carriage, and the head holder is attachably and detachably hooked on and held by the reference member. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306967 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, an intermediate member, and an adjuster. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the head holder. The intermediate member is displaceably disposed between the head holder and the carriage and held by the carriage. The adjuster adjusts a position of the head holder by displacing the intermediate member. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306966 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISCHARGING RECORDING LIQUID - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head oriented upward so as to eject a recording liquid upward. The recording head includes an ejection face, an ejection port, and a waste-liquid port. The ejection port is disposed at the ejection face to eject the recording liquid. The waste-liquid port is disposed separately from the ejection port at the ejection face. The waste-liquid passage is connected to the waste-liquid port and has an opening connected to an outside of the recording head. A residual of the recording liquid on the ejection face is discharged to the outside of the recording head via the waste-liquid port and the waste-liquid passage. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306963 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a print head, including nozzle heads, configured to discharge ink droplets upward and movable between an image forming area in which images are formed on a recording medium and an idle discharge area in which idle discharge of the ink droplets is performed to clean the nozzles; an endless belt ink receiving member, disposed above the print head in the idle discharge area in which the print head performs idle discharge and configured to hold the idly-discharged ink; an ink receiving member driver operatively connected to the ink receiving member to circularly drive the ink receiving member; and a cleaner disposed downstream of the idle discharge area in the direction of rotation of the ink receiving member and configured to remove the ink from the ink receiving member. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306960 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing unit. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to rotatably hold the head holder. The pressing unit presses the head holder toward the carriage. The head holder is pressed against the reference member and the carriage by the pressing unit. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306950 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a print head; a head tank; a carriage; a main tank; a pump; a displaceable member or feeler; a first sensor; a second sensor; a controller to supply an amount of liquid ink corresponding to the displacement difference amount of the feeler to the head tank; and an environmental condition detector. The controller stores the environmental condition when the displacement difference amount is stored; corrects the stored displacement difference amount when a change in a current environmental condition relative to the stored environmental condition is more than a previously set first threshold amount and below a previously set second threshold amount being larger than the first threshold amount; and detects and stores the displacement difference amount again when the change in the current environmental condition relative to the stored environmental condition exceeds the second threshold amount. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306451 | SECONDARY CELL PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND BATTERY - A secondary cell protection circuit configured to protect plural secondary cells connected in series is disclosed that includes plural switching parts configured to be connected in parallel with the secondary cells respectively; and a charge controller configured to turn on the switching part connected to the secondary cell of which cell voltage is greater than or equal to a return voltage, and to turn off the switching part when all cell voltages of the secondary cells become greater than or equal to the return voltage, when the secondary cells are being charged. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306419 | MOTOR SPEED CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD - A motor speed controller controls a motor speed to generate a phase reference pulse; generates a FG pulse per rotary angle of the motor; detects a difference between the number of phase reference pulses and the number of FG pulses for output as an integer number phase difference; detects and measures a time difference between an edge of the phase-reference pulse and an edge of the FG pulse in units of the reference clock for output as a decimal fraction phase difference; adds the integer number phase difference to the decimal fraction phase difference at a predetermined ratio for output as a phase difference; and controls driving of the motor in accordance with the phase difference. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120305915 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A method for fabricating a field-effect transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an active layer forming a channel region, the active layer having an oxide semiconductor mainly containing magnesium and indium is disclosed. The method includes a deposition step of depositing an oxide film, a patterning step of patterning the oxide film by processes including etching to obtain the active layer, and a heat-treatment step of heat-treating the obtained active layer subsequent to the patterning step. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120303709 | CONFERENCE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A conference assistance system including one or more of a display terminal that displays data of a document; a display input device that displays added data input by a user; a positional information obtaining device that obtains positional information of the display terminal and the display input device; and a data processing apparatus that calculates the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device based on the positional information of the display terminal and the display input device, specifies the display terminal to which the added data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device, and delivers the added data to the specified display terminal to have the display terminal display the added data, the display terminal, the display input device, which are capable of communicating via a network. | 11-29-2012 |
