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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160131987 | TONER SET FOR PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A toner set is used in a printing system that is capable of recycling a print medium and includes a first image forming portion which forms a toner image on the medium with a decolorable toner which is decolored by being heated at a temperature T | 05-12-2016 |
20160116855 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Disclosed is a decolorizable electrophotographic toner, including: a binder resin; and a colorant which contains at least a color developable compound and a color developing agent and is covered with an outer shell so as to have a capsule structure, wherein the number ratio of particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.6 μm or more and 2.5 μm or less of the toner when measured using a flow particle image analyzer after the toner is dispersed in an aqueous medium at a ratio of 0.08% by weight and the resulting dispersion is subjected to a stirring treatment in which stirring is performed at 5000 rpm for 30 minutes using a homogenizer (T-25 digital ULTRA-TURRAX (manufactured by IKA Japan K.K., provided with a shaft generator S25N-10G)) is 30% by number or less. | 04-28-2016 |
20160018773 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PRINT SETTING METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PRINT SETTING PROGRAM OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS IS RECORDED - In general, according to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a display unit, an operation input unit, a storage unit, a control unit, and an image forming unit. The operation input unit receives an operation input. The storage unit stores function restriction instruction content that disables setting and use of a predetermined function related to printing, so as to correspond to a sheet handling method after image formation. The control unit displays a setting screen for setting each function related to printing and selecting the sheet handling method on the display unit, acquires the function restriction instruction content corresponding to the selected sheet handling method from the storage unit when the sheet handling method is selected, displays the setting screen in which setting and use of the predetermined function are disabled on the display unit on the basis of the acquired function restriction instruction content, and receives print setting on the setting screen. The image forming unit is controlled by the control unit on the basis of the setting received on the setting screen and forms an image on a sheet. | 01-21-2016 |
20150350485 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming system comprises a portable terminal, a server and an image forming apparatus. The portable terminal includes a non-volatile memory and a control section. The non-volatile memory stores the personal authentication data for specifying a user. The control section sends the personal authentication data and user data to the server in a case where the remaining battery level value is less than a remaining level threshold value. The server includes a user data storage section. The user data storage section stores the personal authentication data and the user data sent from the portable terminal in an associated manner. The image forming apparatus includes a control section and a print section. The control section acquires the user data corresponding to the personal authentication data acquired from the non-volatile memory from the user data storage section. The print section prints the acquired user data. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350478 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A BACKLIGHT IN A DISPLAY UNIT OF AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a print unit that prints an image on a recording medium based on scan print data generated by reading an image from a document or remote print data received from an information terminal connected to a network. A control panel with a display unit receives input from a user. The display unit includes a backlight. A control unit controls the backlight to be on when the control panel is accepting input from the user indicating a start of scanning to generate the scan print data, and controls the backlight to be off when performing printing of the remote print data. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350477 | COLOR ERASING APPARATUS, COLOR ERASING SYSTEM AND COLOR ERASING CONTROL METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a color erasing apparatus comprises a conveyance path, a color erasing section and a control section. The conveyance path conveys a sheet. The color erasing section erases the color of an image formed with color erasable recording agent serving as recording agent containing coloring agent the color of which can be erased by heating. The control section carries out a control, in a case where the image formed on the sheet is not an image formed with the color erasable recording agent, so that the sheet is not subjected to a color erasing processing by the color erasing section. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350464 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF RECEIVING FAX DATA, FAX DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus comprises an interface and a control section. The interface receives the FAX data obtained from a public line network. The control section converts the FAX data into an image in a computer-displayable form, stores the converted image in a storage section, creates first information in which the storage position of the image is designated and transmits the first information to a computer in an Email form. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347767 | DIGITAL MULTI-FUNCTION PERIPHERAL AND DATA PROTECTION METHOD OF EXTERNAL MEMORY - In accordance with one embodiment, a digital multi-function peripheral comprises an interface, a data storage section, a memory and a processor. The interface connects an external memory device. The processor holds the authentication information of a user who connects the external memory device, generates a hash value from the information containing the authentication information of the user who connects the external memory device in a case where the state of connection of the external memory device with the interface meets a data saving condition, stores the data obtained by encrypting the data in the external memory device using the generated hash value in the data storage section, and erases the data in the external memory device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347064 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING TARGET IMAGE DATA RECEIVED FROM A TARGET LOCATION - An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image an a sheet, an interface by which location information for target image data is communicated from a requesting device outside the image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to request the target image data from a location, specified in the location information, and control the printing unit to print an image corresponding to the target image data received from the location. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347063 | PRINTER APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a printer apparatus comprises a medium conveyance path configured to convey a booklet medium having a binding section parallel to the printing digit direction; a page recognition section configured to read page recognition information which is arranged on each page of the medium in advance; a printing section configured to carry out printing on the medium; and a page recognition section moving section configured to move the page recognition section in the printing digit direction of the medium based on the size information of the medium. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347061 | A PRINTER CONVERTS PRINT DATA INTO ONE OR TWO DIMENSIONAL CODE IS CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT PRINTING AGAIN BASED ON THE ONE OR TWO DIMENSIONAL CODE - A printer, which is capable of receiving printing data from a host, converting the printing data into a code and executing printing based on the code, is further capable of storing the code and executing printing based on the stored code. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346633 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF SHEETS TO STICK AFTER STACKING - A sheet processing apparatus comprises a sheet placing section in which recording media are stacked, a storage section configured to record a total amount of toner on the recording media stacked in the sheet placing section, and a control section configured to determine whether or not the recording media stacked in the sheet placing section is likely to stick when a new recording medium is stacked thereon, based on the total amount of toner on the recording media stacked in the sheet placing section. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346623 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD FOR FORMING A TRANSPARENT TONER IMAGE AND A COLOR IMAGE - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment Includes a first image forming unit that forms a transparent toner image and a second, image footing unit that forms a color toner image. The transparent toner image and the color toner image are transferred onto an intermediate transfer belt. A secondary transfer unit transfers the toner images from the intermediate transfer belt to a recording sodium. A control unit controls the first image forming unit and. the second image forming unit so that the transparent toner image is formed before the color toner image is formed when the recording medium is a specialty paper having an adhesive. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343824 | COLOR ERASING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a color erasing apparatus capable of erasing the color of an image formed with a color erasable material on a sheet comprises a color erasing section configured to erase the color of an image formed on the sheet; a control panel configured to set a reading area of the sheet; and a reading section configured to read the image of the area set on the sheet and determine the state of the image erased by the color erasing section. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343808 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SHEETS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit configured to convey sheets, a first scanning unit configured to scan a surface of each of the sheets conveyed by the sheet conveying unit, and generate a first image data for each of the sheets, an erasing unit configured to carry out an erasing process on the surface of each of the sheets conveyed from the first scanning unit, a second scanning unit configured to scan the surface of each of the sheets conveyed from the erasing unit, and generate a second image data for each of the sheets, and a control unit configured to cause the sheets to be sorted based on a difference between the first image data and the second image data thereof. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343807 | SHEET CUTTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet cutting apparatus includes a cutting position where a sheet is cut; a guillotine type cutter configured to move between the cutting position and a home position above the cutting position; a motor; a drive mechanism configured to transfer a drive force from the motor to the cutter to move the cutter between the home position and the cutting position; a drive control section configured to enable the cutter to fall from the home position to the cutting position when cutting a sheet by the cutter and then return the cutter to the home position; a determination section configured to determine whether or not a given period of time elapses from the last return completion of the cutter to the home position; and a return control section configured to return the cutter to the home position if the determination section determines that a given period of time elapses from the last return completion of the cutter to the home position. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343799 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus provided with a paper conveyance path along which the roll paper rolled on a roll core having a predetermined diameter is conveyed; a printing section configured to perform a specified printing operation on the roll paper; a cutter configured to cut off the roll paper on which the specified printing operation is performed; a first sensor configured to detect a given diameter of the roll paper greater than the diameter of the roll core; a second sensor configured to detect a given diameter of the roll paper smaller than the diameter detected by the first sensor but greater than the diameter of the roll core; a paper length calculation section configured to calculate the length of the roll paper used from the detection of the first sensor to the detection of the second sensor; a paper thickness calculation section configured to calculate the thickness of the roll paper; and a residual paper amount calculation section configured to calculate the length of the residual roll paper available from the detection of the second sensor to the exhaustion of the roll paper rolled on the roll core. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343794 | DECOLORING APPARATUS FOR READING SHEET AFTER DECOLORING IMAGE - A decoloring apparatus includes a reading unit that reads a recording medium to generate a read result, a decoloring unit that decolors an image formed on the recording medium, and a control unit that determines a printable area of the recording medium based on the read result of the reading unit, and whether or not the image formed on the recording medium has been decolored. | 12-03-2015 |
20150339650 | MERCHANDISE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MERCHANDISE - A merchandise identification apparatus includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of an item to be purchased by a customer, a controller configured to compare the acquired image with one or more reference images, each being associated with an item on sale, to identify reference images that are similar to the acquired image, and a display unit configured to display one or more items on sale for selection, each of the displayed items being associated with the reference images that are similar to the acquired image. The controller is further configured to cause the acquired image to be associated with an item selected from the one or more of the displayed items. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339647 | COMMODITY INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS AND COMMODITY INFORMATION INPUT METHOD - A commodity information input apparatus comprises a recognition section configured to recognize an input voice; a detection section configured to detect, from a commodity database, data of more than one candidate for an input commodity based on the result of the recognition on the input voice; an output section configured to output information related to the more than one candidate for the input commodity; an acceptance section configured to accept the determination on the more than one candidate for the input commodity; an input section configured to input the data of the more than one candidate for the input commodity to an input database corresponding to the determination. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338802 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a fixing apparatus comprises a fixing member configured to include a heating layer, a pressing member configured to rotate and contact with the fixing member to form a nip, and an electromagnetic induction member configured to heat the heating layer, wherein the two end parts of the pressing member are contacted with the fixing member at areas outside the area of the fixing member opposing the electromagnetic induction member. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338798 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a heating member configured to heat a recording medium, on the surface of which a toner image is carried, to fix the toner on the recording medium; a pressing member configured to contact with the recording paper from the back side of the recording paper; an induction heating section configured to heat the heating member through induction heating; a temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature nearby the heating member; a driving control section configured to carry out a control based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor so that the temperature of the heating member based on the induction heating section is within an allowable temperature range; a temperature range setting section configured to set the allowable temperature range so that the allowable temperature range is narrowed as time elapses from the start of a fixing processing. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338797 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD FOR FIXING DEVICE IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a heating member configured to heat a medium, a pressurizing member configured to convey the medium, a main heating source configured to switch and heat a first area and a second area of the heating member, an auxiliary heating source configured to simultaneously heat the first area and the second area, detecting members configured to respectively detect surface temperatures of the first area and the second area, an auxiliary-heating-condition storing section configured to store a energizing time and a non-energizing time of the auxiliary heating source at a start of image formation, and heating-source control sections configured to respectively control the heating in the main heating source and the heating in the auxiliary heating source. The heating-source control sections acquire the energizing time from the auxiliary-heating-condition storing section and control the heating in the auxiliary heating source. | 11-26-2015 |
20150331373 | FIXING DEVICE AND FIXING TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD OF FIXING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining the size of an image forming area of a medium, heating means for including an endless rotating body, plural heat-generating members which are formed in a perpendicular direction to a transporting direction, inclined by a predetermined angle, and divided by a predetermined length, and are disposed so as to come into contact with an inner side of the rotating body, and a switching unit which switches individual conduction, and heats the medium, pressing means for forming a nip by performing pressing and contact at a position of the plural heat-generating members, and nipping and carrying the medium in the transporting direction along with the heating means, and heating control means for controlling the switching unit to select and conduct heat-generating members and controlling the heating means to heat the medium. | 11-19-2015 |
20150310538 | SHOPPING SUPPORTING SYSTEM - A shopping supporting system for supporting a customer in moving the purchased commodity comprises a shopping supporting management server, a sales settlement terminal, a store server and a reader/writer, wherein the shopping supporting management server comprises a customer information management section; a delivery number issuing section; a delivery number management section; a delivery information management section; and a delivery method determination section; the sales settlement terminal; a purchase amount calculation section; a delivery condition input section; and a delivery slip output section; the store server; and the reader/writer acquires. | 10-29-2015 |
20150277305 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER FOR FORMING DECOLORABLE IMAGES - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet using a plurality of decolorable color toners, wherein the decolorable color toners each have a preset fixing temperature and a preset decoloring temperature higher than the corresponding preset fixing temperature. The image forming apparatus further comprises a fixing unit configured to heat and apply pressure to the sheet having the image formed thereon to fix the image on the sheet, and a fixing temperature controller configured to control a fixing temperature of the fixing unit to be higher than or equal to a highest temperature among each of the preset fixing temperatures and to be lower than each of the preset decoloring temperatures. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277260 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit configured to form a first image to be transferred to a sheet with a first toner that is decolorizable and has a first brightness, and a second image forming unit configured to form a second image to be transferred to the sheet with a second toner that has a second brightness that is greater than the first brightness. At least a part of the first image transferred to the sheet is formed above the second image transferred to the sheet. | 10-01-2015 |
20150271217 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS USED IN CONFERENCE AND CONFERENCE SYSTEM - In accordance with one embodiment, an information terminal apparatus comprises a storage section, a network interface and a control section. The storage section stores data to be used in a conference. The network interface carries out data communication during the conference. The control section erases, if the communication through the network interface is interrupted, the data stored in the storage section to be used in the conference. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268835 | DESKTOP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR THE SAME - In accordance with one embodiment, a desktop information processing apparatus allowed to be simultaneously used by a plurality of users comprises a plurality of operation display sections and a control section. The plurality of operation display sections, each of which has a display surface on the top plate of the desktop information processing apparatus, detect touch operations of users, respectively. Further, the operation display sections are allocated to each user. The control section conducts a control to display same file data in a pre-defined first display area on all the operation display sections. The control section conducts a control to display, when a user carries out a touching and moving operation on the file data on one of the plurality of operation display sections, the track of the movement on the touched operation display section but not on the other operation display sections. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268787 | DESKTOP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INPUT DEVICE - In accordance with one embodiment, a desktop information processing apparatus comprises a display section, a touch panel, a device controller and a control section. The display section has a display surface on the top plate of the desktop information processing apparatus. The touch panel is positioned on the display surface of the display section. The device controller acquires operation information of a user from a device different from the touch panel. The control section controls the display section to display a list screen for the user to selectively validate or invalidate the operation on the touch panel and the operation on the device from which the operation information is acquired by the device controller. Further, the control section conducts a control to validate or invalidate the operation on the touch panel and the operation on the device according to the selection of the user. | 09-24-2015 |
20150237043 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION PROCESSING METHOD IN THE SAME - An image processing apparatus includes a function executing unit that executes a plurality of functions including image processing and browsing, a panel that displays a screen associated with the functions of the function executing unit, an authentication unit that authenticates a user based on an input to the panel, a storing unit that associates an authentication token indicating success of authentication by the authentication unit with user privilege level of the authenticated user, and a browser that sends the authentication token stored in the storing unit to a Web server to access content managed by the Web server. | 08-20-2015 |
20150231894 | THERMAL PRINTER, RIBBON SAVING METHOD AND RIBBON SAVING PROGRAM - Generally, in accordance with one embodiment, a thermal printer comprises a thermal head configured to press a transfer ribbon conveyed along with a sheet towards the sheet and endows the transfer ribbon with heat to transfer the ink of the transfer ribbon to the sheet; a head moving mechanism configured to lift the thermal head to an unprintable position separating from the sheet side and lower the thermal head to a printable position where the transfer ribbon is pressed to the sheet; and a controller configured to acquire a set value of printing speed, carry out printing process while conveying the sheet at the printing speed in a printing area, change the sheet conveyance speed to a speed lower than the set value in a non-print area, and lift and lower the thermal head while conveying the sheet at the lower speed. | 08-20-2015 |
20150231893 | ERASING AND SORTING APPARATUS - An erasing apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit from which a sheet is fed into the erasing apparatus, an erasing unit configured to perform an erasing processing on both surfaces of the sheet, a scanning unit configured to scan and generate image data of a bottom surface and a top surface of the sheet, a first storing unit, a second storing unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, based on the image data, whether the bottom surface of the sheet is reusable and whether the top surface of the sheet is reusable. Further, the controller is configured to cause, if both the bottom and top surfaces have been subject to the erasing processing and are determined to be reusable, the sheet to be conveyed to one of the first and second storing units based on a both-sides-erased criteria. | 08-20-2015 |
20150213430 | POS TERMINAL APPARATUS AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD - A POS terminal apparatus according to an embodiment includes an interface and a control unit. The interface receives image data obtained by picking up an image of a commodity and a hand that is gripping the commodity. The control unit extracts a feature value of an object image present in the image data, compares the feature value and a feature value of the hand registered beforehand, and, if the feature values are not similar, compares the feature value of the object image and feature values of a plurality of commodities registered beforehand. | 07-30-2015 |
20150213429 | POS TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMODITY SPECIFICATION METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a POS terminal apparatus comprises a first interface and a control section. The first interface receives image data obtained by capturing a commodity purchased by a customer. The control section extracts a commodity belonging to a first group from a plurality of pre-registered commodities, compares feature amount of each commodity in the first group with that of an object in the image data, and compares, if a commodity corresponding to the object in the image data is not in the first group, feature amount of a commodity not belonging to the first group with that of the object. | 07-30-2015 |
20150206182 | ADVERTISEMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM AND ADVERTISEMENT SUPPORT METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, an advertisement support apparatus comprises a purchase associated information acquirement section, a writing apparatus and a writing control section. The purchase associated information acquirement section is configured to acquire information relating to a purchaser of a commodity or the commodity purchased by the purchaser. The writing apparatus is configured to write desired information in a RF tag attached to a shopping basket or a shopping card utilized by the purchaser when the commodity is purchased. The writing control section is configured to write information relating to the information acquired by the purchase associated information acquirement section or advertisement information associated with the information in the RF tag attached to the shopping basket or the shopping card utilized by the purchaser when the commodity is purchased through the writing apparatus. | 07-23-2015 |
20150205242 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form images that are to be transferred to first sheets, a fixing and erasing unit configured to fix the images onto the first sheets and erase images formed with a decolorizable material on second sheets, and a controller. The controller is configured to interrupt the image forming unit to stop forming images that are to be transferred to the first sheets, and control the fixing and erasing unit to carry out an erasing operation on the second sheets while the image forming unit is interrupted. | 07-23-2015 |
20150202899 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus comprises a paper conveyance path configured to pull out wound paper and connect the paper with a paper discharge port, a conveyance unit configured to convey the paper in the paper conveyance path; a printing section configured to print on the paper; a cutter configured to cut the paper on which a given printing operation is carried out by the printing section; a curved paper intrusion section configured to be arranged between the cutter and the paper discharge port to accommodate curved paper the front end of which is not conveyed; and a paper detection section configured to detect the paper intruding into the curved paper intrusion section. | 07-23-2015 |
20150202898 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus comprises a paper conveyance path configured to pull out and convey rolled paper, a printing section configured to print on the paper, a roller configured to contact with the outer peripheral surface of the paper and rotate the paper, and a roller rotation detection section configured to be arranged in a manner of clamping a shaft of the roller to detect the rotation of the roller by detecting a detection light passing through a through hole arranged on the shaft of the roller. | 07-23-2015 |
20150202895 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus comprises a housing of a main body of the apparatus, a cover which can be opened and closed relative to the housing, a paper conveyance path configured to convey paper; a rotary component configured to be arranged along the paper conveyance path to convey paper through the friction with paper, a rotary gear arranged in the rotary component, a sensor section configured to detect the rotation of the rotary gear, and a drive section configured to be connected with the rotary component to supply a drive force, wherein the rotary gear is arranged at either side of the housing and the cover, and the drive section, which is arranged at the other side of the housing and the cover where no rotary gear is arranged, is connected with the rotary gear and supplies a drive force for the rotary gear when the cover is closed. | 07-23-2015 |
20150199594 | LABEL PRINTER, AND METHOD OF SEARCHING OPTIMAL COMMUNICATION POSITION - According to an embodiment, there is provided a label printer including a conveying mechanism, an RFID reader and writer, a communication intensity information acquisition unit, and a maximum communication intensity position determination unit, and an optimal communication position calculation unit. If communication with the plurality of RFID tags occurs simultaneously in the RFID reader and writer while conveying the mount by the conveying mechanism along the conveying route, the communication intensity information acquisition unit acquires information indicating a communication intensity between each of a plurality of the RFID tags and the RFID reader and writer in correlation with identification information of each of the RFID tags. The maximum communication intensity position determination unit determines a maximum communication intensity position, at which a communication intensity capable of being correlated with the identification information of each of the RFID tags becomes the maximum, on the basis of a tendency of a variation in the communication intensity of each of the plurality of RFID tags which accompanies the conveyance along the conveying route, and a conveying distance of the mount by the conveying mechanism. The optimal communication position calculation unit calculates an optimal communication position with the RFID tags of the plurality of labels adhered to the label paper on the basis of the maximum communication intensity position determined with respect to each of the plurality of RFID tags. | 07-16-2015 |
20150199571 | POS TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CUSTOMER INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD - In accordance with an embodiment, a POS terminal apparatus comprises a display section and a control section. The control section calculates the feature amount of the people contained in the image data captured by an image capturing section. The control section specifies the age group and the gender of the people in the image data based on the data stored in a storage section and associating the age group information and the gender information of a people with a pre-calculated feature amount and the calculated feature amount. The control section displays the specified age group information and gender information on a display section. | 07-16-2015 |
20150197112 | ADJUSTABLE HEATING DEVICE FOR USE IN AN ERASING APPARATUS - A heating device includes first and second heating rollers and first and second pressing rollers. The first pressing roller and the second heating roller forms a first unit, and the second pressing roller and the first heating roller forms a second unit that is rotatable about a rotational axis relative to the first unit. The heating device also includes an eccentric shaft unit disposed on one of the first unit and the second unit and extending in a direction parallel to the rotational axis, a rotational position of an eccentric portion of the eccentric shaft unit being changeable, and an engaging unit disposed on the other one of the first unit and the second unit, and configured to engage with the eccentric shaft, a position of the second unit relative to the first unit being adjusted when the rotational position of the eccentric portion of the eccentric shaft unit is changed. | 07-16-2015 |
20150197104 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, plural rollers, and a roller supporting mechanism. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet carried in a predetermined carrying direction and extends in an orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to the predetermined carrying direction. The plural rollers are arranged opposite the image forming unit with a carrying path of the sheet arranged in-between and are arranged in a plural number next to each other in the orthogonal direction. The roller supporting mechanism, while pressing the sheet toward the image forming unit, supports the plural rollers in such a way that each roller independently moves, between a carrying position where the sheet is carried in the carrying direction and a separation position where the sheet is separated from the image forming unit. | 07-16-2015 |
20150197102 | ADDITIONAL CONVEYANCE MECHANISM OF PRINTER APPARATUS AND PRINTER APPARATUS - An additional conveyance mechanism of a printer, a first printing section, and a second printing section, wherein the additional conveyance mechanism of the printer apparatus comprises: a second paper conveyance path configured to convey papers having only one printing surface in which side it is merged with the first paper conveyance path between the first printing section and the second printing section, and a separation mechanism configured to separate the thermal printing head carrying out no printing from the platen roller in the contacted thermal printing heads and platen rollers when the papers loaded in the printer apparatus and the additional conveyance mechanism of the printer apparatus are printed. | 07-16-2015 |
20150197099 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus comprises an ink ribbon conveyance section; a recording medium conveyance section; a thermal head which comprises, in the printing section, heat generating elements for thermally transferring the ink of the ink ribbon onto the recording medium; a platen member; a thermal head moving section; a temperature measurement section configured to measure ambient temperature; and a control section configured to drive the thermal head moving section to move the thermal head to the second position when the recording medium is conveyed in a conveyance direction reverse to a conveyance direction for printing and when the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measurement section is above a specific head-up temperature. | 07-16-2015 |
20150197098 | THERMAL PRINTER AND METHOD FOR CHECKING DISCONNECTION - Generally, in accordance with embodiments, a thermal printer comprises heating elements, a storage section, a drive circuit and a controller. A plurality of heating elements are linearly arranged. The storage section stores a one-line amount of image data. The drive circuit energizes each heating element according to the one-line amount of image data. An acquisition section acquires an A/D value corresponding to the voltage applied to each heating element every time each heating element is energized. The controller outputs a one-line amount of empty data to the storage section to acquire a first A/D value with the acquisition section, reduces, based on the first A/D value, noises of a second A/D value which is acquired by energizing each heating element and checks the disconnection of each heating element based on the noise-reduced second A/D value. | 07-16-2015 |
20150185652 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit configured to form an image on a medium with a non-decolorizable material, a second image forming unit configured to form an image on a medium with a decolorizable material, and a control unit configured to form the image on the medium with the non-decolorizable material in response to a printing command to form the image on the medium with the decolorizable material. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185651 | TONER USED FOR FORMING IMAGE - A toner includes a binder resin, a colorant, a wax including 40 to 80 weight percent of an ester wax having an endothermic peak temperature of 65 to 75° C. in a differential scanning calorimetry curve and 60 to 20 weight percent of a carnauba wax having an endothermic peak temperature of 80 to 90° C. in the differential scanning calorimetry curve, and a crystalline polyester material. With respect to the total weight of the binder resin, the wax, and the crystalline polyester material, the wax comprises 4 to 10 weight percent and the crystalline polyester material comprises 3 to 20 weight percent. | 07-02-2015 |
20150183251 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE ERASING METHOD - An image erasing apparatus comprises a reading unit configured to read a sheet having an image printed thereon with decolorable colorant and an owner information image printed thereon with decolorable colorant, and to identify a first owner information based on the owner information image. The apparatus further comprises a decoloring unit configured to decolor the sheet read by the reading unit and an authenticating unit configured to receive a second owner information. The apparatus further comprises a determining unit configured to determine a correlation between a user corresponding to the first owner information and a user corresponding to the second owner information, and an erasing controller configured to selectively control the decoloring unit to decolor the image and the owner information image based on the correlation. | 07-02-2015 |
20150180392 | PHASE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PHASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A phase management apparatus includes a control section configured to output a first signal for rotating a motor, and output the first signal at a first frequency higher than the frequency which is necessary for rotating the motor when the apparatus resumes from a power-saving mode; a drive circuit configured to store the information relating to the rotation phase of the motor, output a pulse signal to the motor according to the first signal output from the control section, receive the first signal output at the first frequency, and update the information according to the first signal; and a power control section configured to carry out a control of supplying power to the control section but not to the drive circuit in the power-saving mode and supplying power to both the control section and the drive circuit when the apparatus resumes from the power-saving mode. | 06-25-2015 |
20150174912 | COLOR ERASING APPARATUS DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO STORE READ IMAGE DATA, IMAGE STORAGE METHOD AND IMAGE STORAGE SYSTEM - In accordance with one embodiment, a color erasing apparatus comprises a reading section, a storage section and a control section. The reading section reads an image formed on a sheet to acquire image data. The storage section stores the image data acquired by the reading section. The control section determines whether or not there exists a mark in the image data, and carries out a control to, in a case in which there exists a mark in the image data, delete the image data read by the reading section from the storage section if it is determined that there exists a mark and the image data acquired by the reading section coincides with the image data stored through the processing of an image forming apparatus when determining whether or not the image data read by the reading section coincides with the image data stored in the storage section in advance, or store the image data read by the reading section in the storage section if it is determined that the image data doesn't coincide with each other. | 06-25-2015 |
20150160592 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND DECOLORIZING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit and a second image forming unit. The first image forming unit is configured to form a first image portion to be transferred to a sheet with a first decolorizable material that is decolorized at a first temperature. The second image forming unit is configured to form a second image portion to be transferred to the sheet with a second decolorizable material that has a color different from the first decolorizable material and that is decolorized at a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature. | 06-11-2015 |
20150138585 | PRINTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A printing management system comprises a count value calculation unit configured to, when a request for printing data of the specific user is received, read out the printing data and calculate a count value based on a number of sheets to fog printed in the printing data, a determination unit configured to determine whether a sum of the calculated count value and a previous cumulative count value is equal to or less than a limit value, and a printing data transmission unit configured to transmit the printing data when the sum is equal or less than the limit value. The count value is the product of the number of sheets to be printed in the printing data and one of a plurality of coefficients, and the one of the plurality of coefficients corresponds to a current one of a plurality of time zones. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138579 | MAINTENANCE METHOD AND MAINTENANCE APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a maintenance method for an information processing apparatus includes acquiring setting value information of setting items of a specific information processing apparatus to be maintained; selecting the information processing apparatuses belonging to a preset group and calculating a superior apparatus with the lowest fault rate from the information processing apparatuses belonging to the group through a processor based on machine information; acquiring setting value information of setting items of the superior apparatus through the processor; and prompting the setting value information of the superior apparatus as reference information in such a manner that the setting value information of the superior apparatus is comparable to that of the specific information processing apparatus. | 05-21-2015 |
20150131120 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND STORAGE METHOD OF PRINT DATA - Generally, in accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a communication section, a storage section, an operation section, an image forming section, and a controller. The communication section receives print data. The storage section stores print data in a print data area. The operation section receives an operation input. The image forming section forms, if the operation section receives a printing instruction of print data, an image on a sheet based on the print data. The controller moves the print data which are not printed even a given period has passed since the print data is received by the communication section from a print data area to other storage area. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131119 | MAINTENANCE METHOD AND MAINTENANCE APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a maintenance method for an information processing apparatus including acquiring identification information for identifying the information processing apparatus and apparatus information including setting value information of a plurality of setting items of the information processing apparatus, acquiring statistical data created on the basis of the setting value information of a plurality of the information processing apparatuses, comparing the setting value information and the statistical data for each of the plurality of setting items and presenting information concerning a setting item including an outlier, transmitting, concerning the setting item including the presented outlier, if a request for update of statistical data corresponding to the setting value is input, an update request for the statistical data to a server, and receiving information subjected to update processing in the server and updating the corresponding statistical data. | 05-14-2015 |
20150130885 | MARKING APPARATUS AND COLOR ERASING APPARATUS - In accordance with an embodiment, the marking apparatus comprises a marking section configured to print, with a color erasable material, a mark in the margin area of a sheet and a marking control section configured to overprint, using the marking section, a mark at a specific position of the sheet every time an image is formed in the image printing area of the sheet with a color erasable material. | 05-14-2015 |
20150127182 | POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, POWER MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND OFFICE MACHINE FOR MANAGING ELECTRIC POWER - According to one embodiment, there is provided a power management method for connecting a server to office machines to control electric power of the office machines. The office machines respectively store machine side power plans, which are operation states with respect to transition times. The server stores server side power plans of the office machines and subjects electric powers of the office machines to management control. The power management method includes comparing the server side power plan stored in the server and the machine side power plan stored in the office machines, comparing, when an operation state based on the server side power plan and an operation state based on the machine side power plan are different, power consumptions in the operation state based on the server side power plan and an operation state based on the machine side power plan, and changing an operation state of the office machine to be an operation state with small power consumption. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124285 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING DATA OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method for managing data in a system including an image processing apparatus and a server includes storing, in the image processing apparatus, first menu data having one or more parameters set by a user and associated with an operation of the image processing apparatus, and a corresponding first time at which the first menu data was most recently updated, and storing, in the server, second menu data having one or more parameters set by the user and associated with the operation of the image forming apparatus, and a corresponding second time at which the second menu data was most recently updated. The method further includes determining the older and newer of the first time and the second time, and replacing the first or second menu data determined to have the corresponding older time with the other menu data determined to have the corresponding newer time. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124283 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING SPECIAL SHEET OR SPECIAL DESIGN AND METHOD USING THE SAME - In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises an interface and a control section. The interface receives the identification information of a user-designated sheet sent from a first terminal and the position information of the first terminal. The control section specifies, based on the identification information of the sheet and the position information, an information terminal capable of forming an image on the sheet designated by a user from the data stored in a storage section and sends information relating to the specified information terminal to the first terminal using the interface. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124270 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE ON SHEET - An image erasing apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan an image on a sheet and a mark printing area on the sheet where one or more marks may be printed, an erasing unit configured to erase the image from the sheet, a marking unit configured to put a mark on the sheet from which the image is erased, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a number of the marks printed on the sheet based on the scanned mark printing area, determine an image area based on the scanned image, and determine a position of the mark to be put on the sheet by the marking unit based on the determined number of the marks and the determined image area. | 05-07-2015 |
20150123343 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a printer section configured to print image data to a paper according to a print job, a control panel configured to receive instructions regarding the print job, a first discharging tray configured to receive the printed paper, and an second discharging tray configured to be opened and closed, to receive the printed paper when opened, and guide the printed paper to the first discharging tray when closed. The image forming apparatus further includes a detection section configured to detect whether the second discharging tray is open or closed, and a control section configured to control execution of the print job including controlling the printer section based on the instructions received in the control panel and the detection result of the detection section. | 05-07-2015 |
20150116439 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a mark formed on a sheet an erasing unit configured to erase an image formed on the sheet, and a control unit configured to determine the number of times an image on the sheet have been erased based on the mark, and cause a first sheet to be separated from a second sheet if an image on the first sheet has been erased a predetermined number of times and an image on the second sheet has been erased less than the predetermined number of times. | 04-30-2015 |
20150112876 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING WASTE SORTING INFORMATION - According to an embodiment, a method for providing information related to a product comprises receiving an input including information regarding a product purchased by a customer, and detecting a type of the product purchased by the customer. The method further comprises acquiring information related to how to dispose of the product in accordance with the detected type, and outputting the information. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110537 | DECOLORIZING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING HEAT SOURCE UNITS - A decolorizing apparatus includes first and second heating units, first and second heat source units, and a controller. The first and second heating units decolorize an image using decolorable colorants which are decolorized if heated. The first heating unit heats one surface of a sheet. The second heating unit heats a remaining surface which is opposite to the one surface of the sheet heated by the first heating unit. The first heat source unit heats the first heating unit. The second heat source unit heats the second heating unit. The controller includes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the controller performs a decolorizing process on both the surfaces of the sheet by heating the first and second heating units using the first and second heat source units. In the second mode, the controller performs the decolorizing process on one surface of the sheet by heating the first heating unit using the first heat source unit, and heats the second heating unit using the second heat source unit with output which is lower than output acquired in the first mode. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110529 | FUSER FOR UNIFORMING TEMPERATURE OF HEATING DEVICE - A fuser comprises an endless heating device having a heat transport device and a heat generation layer closely contacted with the heat transport device, an induction current generation device configured to heat the heating device through electromagnetic induction and a pressurization device forming a nip with the heating device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150104219 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing apparatus includes a developing unit configured to transfer a developer to an image carrying unit on which an electrostatic image is formed, a supplying unit configured to supply the developer to the developing unit, a regulating unit configured to regulate a thickness of the developer on the developing unit, and a repelling unit disposed between the supplying unit and the regulating unit and configured to repel the developer. | 04-16-2015 |
20150098107 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming system according to an embodiment comprises a data creation section configured to create document data, and a print instruction section configured to send instructions to print the document data. The image forming section further comprises a printing mode determination section configured to determine a printing mode of the document data based on property information of the document data, and a selection section configured to select for printing the document data with one of a non-erasable image forming section and an erasable image forming section based on the determined printing mode. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098097 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an image formed on a sheet, an erasing unit configured to erase the image formed on the sheet, and a controller configured to determine whether or not the image on the sheet as read by the reading unit is formed of an erasable material and prevent the sheet that is determined to have an image formed of the non-erasable material from being conveyed to the erasing unit. | 04-09-2015 |
20150085022 | INK JET HEAD HAVING NOZZLE PLATE EQUIPPED WITH PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS - An ink jet head includes: a pressure chamber to be filled with ink formed in a pressure chamber structure, the pressure chamber in which an etching limiter made of a material different from a material of the pressure chamber structure is formed on an inner wall surface of the pressure chamber; a nozzle plate comprising a nozzle that leading to the pressure chamber and a movable range fitted to the etching limiter; and a flat driver comprising a piezoelectric body to operate the movable range and arranged on the nozzle plate. | 03-26-2015 |
20150073840 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a member association unit configured to maintain a code of a consumer, a reception unit configured to receive electronic receipt information and additional information corresponding to the code maintained by the member association unit from an electronic receipt management server, which associates the code of each consumer with the electronic receipt information and other information collected for a plurality of companies, the electronic receipt information including information concerning payments made by the consumer to each of the plurality of companies, and the additional information added to the electronic receipt information, and a display unit configured to display the electronic receipt information and the additional information, which are received by the reception unit. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071675 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS INTERLOCKED WITH ATTACHING AND DETACHING OPERATION OF UNIT - In accordance with one embodiment, a power supply apparatus includes a movable terminal section configured to be attached on or detached from and electrically connected with a fixed terminal section corresponding to the attaching or detaching of a unit on or from a main body; a sliding section configured to support the movable terminal section and slide; a guide stud which has a positioning section inserted into the guide hole of the sliding section, a shaft section smaller in sectional area than the positioning section and a connection section for connecting the positioning section with the shaft section, configured to guide the sliding section; and an elastic section configured to press the sliding section towards a unit terminal section. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071673 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section configured to form an image on the surface of a medium with a recording material the color of which cannot be erased by heating; a heating section configured to heat the medium to fix the image; and a control section configured to determine whether or not an executed job is a quota subtraction target job or a quota addition target job, calculate a corresponding subtraction quota when the job is a quota subtraction target job or a corresponding addition quota when the job is a quota addition target job, and update the current quota based on the subtraction quota and the addition quota. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071668 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a first medium at an image forming position, a fixing unit configured to fix the image formed on the first medium by heating the first medium at a first temperature, a conveying unit configured to convey the first medium to the fixing unit through a first path extending from the image forming position to the fixing unit and convey a second medium to the fixing unit through a second path that merges with the first path at a position between the image forming position and the fixing unit, and a control unit configured to control the fixing unit to be a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature, when the control unit determines that the conveying unit is conveying the second medium to the fixing unit through the second path. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070720 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises an interface, a storage section configured to store identification information, and a control section. The interface is configured to carry out data transmission/reception with an external device. The control section is configured to control the interface, generate the identification information, store the identification information in the storage section, and send the identification information to the external device. In addition, when the identification information which is stored in the storage section exists in information received from the interface, the control section carries out an image forming operation, and does not carry out the image forming operation when the identification information does not exist. | 03-12-2015 |
20150069694 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GUIDING SHEET - An image processing apparatus includes a supplying section from which a sheet placed thereon is supplied into the image processing apparatus, a processing section configured to execute an image processing on an image formed on a sheet, a first storing section configured to store a sheet, a second storing section configured to store a sheet, a first conveying section configured to convey a sheet placed on the supplying section to the first storing section through the processing section, and a second conveying section configured to convey a sheet passing through the processing section to the second storing section and convey a sheet stored in the second storing section to a position at which the sheet from the supplying section enters the processing section. | 03-12-2015 |
20150064638 | ERASING APPARATUS AND COOLING METHOD - An erasing apparatus includes a path configured to carry a sheet, and an erasing unit arranged on the path and configured to erase an image on the sheet by heating the sheet. The erasing apparatus further includes a fan configured to blow air downstream from the erasing unit in a sheet carrying direction, and a shutter disposed between the fan and the erasing unit and movable to control the amount of air blown by the fan from reaching the erasing unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063838 | CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND QUALITY DETERMINING METHOD OF CARTRIDGE - A cartridge comprises a housing configured to hold a color erasable material which is erasable by heating to a color erasing temperature. The cartridge further comprises a temperature sensing unit configured to detect a temperature of the housing and a recording section configured to record the detected temperature of the housing. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062660 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a file management apparatus for managing a file name of a file of an image information includes a title name extraction section configured to extract a plurality of different individual title names, a combined title name generation section configured to combine the plurality of individual title names extracted by the title name extraction section to generate a combined title name, an individual title name selection section configured to select one individual title name from the plurality of individual title names extracted by the title name extraction section, a file name determination section configured to select processes which determine the combined title name generated by the combined title name generation section as a file name or processes which determine the individual title name selected by the individual title name selection section as a file name and add the determined file name to the original image information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062254 | INKJET HEAD INCLUDING NOZZLE PLATE PROVIDED WITH PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - An inkjet head includes: a pressure chamber in which ink is filled; a nozzle plate which is provided on a first surface of the pressure chamber and which includes a nozzle communicating with the pressure chamber; and a planar drive section which is formed on the nozzle plate so as to extend from above a partition wall of the pressure chamber to above the pressure chamber, excluding a hole area around the nozzle and which has a piezoelectric body. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061838 | MONITORING SYSTEM, NOTIFICATION APPARATUS AND MONITORING METHOD - Generally, in accordance with one embodiment, a monitoring system comprises a sensor, a wireless tag, a reader and a notification apparatus. The sensor is correspondingly arranged in a structure. The wireless tag is a passive wireless tag which is correspondingly arranged in the structure to send identification information and measurement information of the sensor by using received electromagnetic wave as a drive source. The reader communicates with the wireless tag to acquire the identification information and the measurement information. The notification apparatus acquires the identification information and the measurement information from the reader, detects a wireless tag or a structure serving as a notification target based on the identification information and the measurement information, and notifies the notification target. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061835 | WIRELESS TAG COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS TAG COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A wireless tag communication device which communicates with wireless tags storing identification information, includes a wireless tag communication unit that performs a reading of wireless tags by a first read function that does not designate the wireless tags and a second read function that designates the wireless tags, a comparison unit that compares information of the wireless tags that are stored in a storage unit with read information of the wireless tags and outputs a read result, a route information setting unit that sets designation order values of wireless tags present in a list of read objects but not read by the first read function, when the wireless tags are designated and read by the second read function, and an unread list generation unit that generates an unread list using at least a result read by the second read function. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061208 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING SETTING ERROR ON SHEET SIZE - Generally, in accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a stacking section, a sensor, a printing unit, a display and a controller. The stacking section is configured to stack a sheet. The sensor is configured to detect the size of the sheet set on the stacking section. The printing unit is configured to form an image on the sheet. The display is configured to display the image. The controller is configured not to display a sheet size except the sheet size detected based on an output signal from the sensor on a setting screen for the sheet size of an image forming object in a detectable status. | 03-05-2015 |
20150055168 | SYSTEM TO MANAGE OPERATION OF DEVICES - A system to manage operation of plural devices has an acquiring unit configured to acquire information from a user giving a physical signal to use one of the devices, a user identification unit configured to identify the user based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit, a device identification unit configured to identify a device the user intends to use based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit, a signal identification unit configured to identify the physical signal based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit, and a control unit configured to recognize the meaning of the physical signal based on the identified user, identified device, and identified physical signal, and transmit a control signal corresponding to the physical signal to the identified device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055164 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING ERROR MESSAGE AND NOTIFICATION METHOD USING THE SAME - A management apparatus according to the embodiment comprises a memory, an interface and a control section. If a device determined itself to be in a predefined first state, the interface receives the alert information transmitted from the device. The control section carries out no notice notifying the first state of the device to the external apparatus if a first information representing a state the same as the state represented by alert information is contained in the memory, and stores the first information in the memory based on the alert information and carries out the notice to an external apparatus if the first information is not contained in the memory. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054905 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a reading section configured to read an original; an information acquisition section configured to acquire color erasing times mark information specifying how to print a color erasing times mark, which is printed when a sheet on which an image is formed with a color-erasable image forming material is subjected to a color erasing processing to represent the times of color erasing processing, on a sheet; a color erasing times mark detection section configured to detect a color erasing times mark contained in the image data based on the color erasing times mark information acquired by the information acquisition section; and an image processing section configured to generate image data from which the detected color erasing times mark is eliminated. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054893 | METHOD FOR FORMING NON-ELECTRIC DISPLAY OBJECT - A method for forming, by an ink-jet system, a print letter image that can be displayed without electricity even at night is provided. A method for forming a non-electric display object according to an embodiment includes ejecting a color ink-jet ink having a photoluminescent property onto a base member by an ink-jet system, and thus forming a photoluminescent color developing layer. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054872 | INK-JET HEAD DRIVE DEVICE - A drive device includes a circuit for selecting an arbitrary voltage among a plurality of kinds of voltages required for generating a drive signal for variably controlling potential applied to electrodes of channels. In the drive device, respective drive voltage input terminals and output terminals are respectively connected by a low-impedance connecting circuit which has low internal resistance, and a selected voltage input terminal and the output terminals are connected by a high-impedance connecting circuit which has high internal resistance. The drive device controls a drive waveform transition pattern of a drive signal such that the drive signal is output via the high-impedance connecting circuit while the potential applied to the respective electrode simultaneously changes in the same direction out of a positive direction and a negative direction and that the drive signal is output via the low-impedance connecting circuit in the other cases. | 02-26-2015 |
20150049352 | FACSIMILE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING FACSIMILE - A facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a receiving section configured to receive facsimile data, a data storage section configured to store the facsimile data received by the receiving section, a non-decolorable printing section, and a decolorable printing section. The facsimile apparatus further comprises a transmission source information detection section configured to detect transmission source information of the received facsimile data, an accumulation section configured to accumulate in advance a list containing a plurality of facsimile transmission source information, a comparison section configured to determine whether the detected transmission source information of the received facsimile data is included in the list and a printing control section configured to control printing of the content of the received facsimile data in the non-decolorable printing section or in the decolorable printing section, based on the determination by the comparison section. | 02-19-2015 |
20150043929 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a first image forming section configured to form an image on a recording medium with a non-erasable material, and a second image forming section configured to form an image on the recording medium with an erasable material. The image forming apparatus further comprises a control section configured to separate image data according to attributes of the image data into first image data to be printed on the recording medium in the first image forming section and second image data to be printed on the recording medium in the second image forming section. | 02-12-2015 |
20150037076 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus includes a pressing unit, a belt unit disposed to be pressed by the pressing unit and including a conductive layer, and a magnetic flux generation unit configured to generate a magnetic flux that causes the conductive layer to generate heat. The conductive layer has ends that are disposed inwardly of regions of the belt unit that contact ends of the pressing unit while the pressing unit rotates. | 02-05-2015 |
20150029286 | DECOLORING METHOD AND DECOLORING DEVICE - A decoloring device according to an embodiment comprises a decoloring unit configured to erase a first image formed with erasable colorant on a first side of a sheet and a second image formed with erasable colorant on a second side of the sheet, and a reading unit configured to read the first and second sides of the sheet and determine whether the first side and the second side are reusable. The decoloring device further comprises a single-side reusable paper tray configured to stack the sheet if the reading unit determines that only one of the first and second sides is reusable, and a reversing unit configured to reverse the sheet and discharge the sheet to the single-side reusable paper tray so that the one of the first and second side determined to be reusable is stacked on the single-side reusable paper tray in a predetermined orientation. | 01-29-2015 |
20150022850 | POINT CALCULATION APPARATUS AND POINT CALCULATION METHOD - A method for managing points associated with erasing of images on sheets includes the steps of receiving information such as a number of sheets on which images have been erased, a size of the sheets on which images have been erased, and user data associated with the erasing of the images, calculating new points associated with a user based on the received information, calculating a total of points associated with the user based on the calculated new points and points previously associated with the user, and storing the calculated total points. | 01-22-2015 |
20140362390 | PRINT SETTING APPARATUS AND PRINT SETTING METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a print setting apparatus comprises an operation section and a control section. The operation section accepts the selection on the content to be printed. The control section acquires the printing attribute of the content to be printed selected with the operation section. Further, the control section indicates a print setting based on the printing attribute of the content to a printing apparatus for printing the content. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362155 | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An environmental protection supporting apparatus comprises a storage section configured to store, based on the result of an erasing processing of heating a recording medium on which an image is formed with a color erasable coloring agent to erase the image formed thereon, the erasing log of the recording medium which is at least determined as reusable; a rejection information generation section configured to generate, based on the erasing log, rejection information obtained from the rejection of the reusable recording medium as environmental load reduction information; and a presenting section configured to display the environmental load reduction information on a display section. | 12-11-2014 |
20140355838 | RECOGNITION DICTIONARY CREATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING RECOGNITION DICTIONARY BY THE SAME - A recognition dictionary creation apparatus photographs a commodity by an image capturing section to capture the image of the commodity; measures a distance from the image capturing section to the commodity photographed by the image capturing section; generates a quasi-commodity-image in a state in which the commodity is imaginarily moved away from the image capturing section to a given registration distance longer than the measurement distance based on the image of the commodity photographed by the image capturing section; extracts an appearance feature amount of the commodity from the generated quasi-commodity-image; and registers, in a recognition dictionary in association with the registration distance data, the extracted appearance feature amount as the feature amount data of the photographed commodity at the registration distance to create the recognition dictionary. | 12-04-2014 |
20140340460 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COLOR ERASING APPARATUS - a sheet processing apparatus comprises a main body side guiding module, a first movable module, a second movable module and a connection module. The main body side guiding module guides a sheet. The first movable module moves to a second position to open the conveyance path through motion from a first position opposite to the main body side guiding module, towards a first direction. The second movable module holds a detachable processing module for carrying out a given processing on the sheet, and moves integrally with the first movable module from the first position to the second position. The connection module connects the second movable module with the first movable module in such a manner that the second movable module can move to a third position to expose the processing module through motion from the second position in a second direction opposite to the first direction. | 11-20-2014 |
20140334851 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a developing apparatus comprises a developing roller configured to hold developing agent and face to an image carrier; a housing configured to store the developing agent and support the developing roller; and a first gap adjusting section configured inside the housing at the downstream side of an opening end part of the housing in a rotation direction of the developing roller, and configured to protrude from an inner wall of the housing at the side parts in an axis direction of the developing roller. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334673 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING COMMODITY BY THE SAME - A commodity recognition apparatus, which recognizes, from an image captured by an image capturing section and stored in a storage section, a commodity imaged in the image, identifies, for each image captured by the image capturing section, an image capturing condition of light source for the image. The commodity recognition apparatus selects the image captured by the image capturing section under a given image capturing condition identified and displays the selected image on a display section. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333706 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus comprises a feed section configured to feed a medium; an image forming section configured to form an image on the surface of the medium with a thermally erasable recording material or a recording material which is not thermally erasable; a heating section configured to heat the medium; a control section configured to conduct a control in a color erasing mode. The image forming apparatus also comprises a color erasing counter configured to count up, according to the size of the medium, the number of the mediums the color of which is thermally erased in the color erasing mode; and a print counter configured to count up, according to the size of the medium, the number of the mediums on which an image is fixed in the image formation mode. | 11-13-2014 |
20140321715 | RECOGNITION DICTIONARY CREATION APPARATUS AND RECOGNITION DICTIONARY CREATION METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a recognition dictionary creation apparatus comprises an image capturing section, a measurement module, a specification module, an extraction module and a registration module. The image capturing section photographs a commodity at a distance away from the image capturing section to capture an image of the commodity. The measurement module measures the distance from the image capturing section to the commodity photographed by the image capturing section as a distance data. The specification module specifies the commodity from the captured image. The extraction module extracts an appearance feature amount of the commodity from the captured image. The registration module registers the appearance feature amount extracted by the extraction module in a recognition dictionary file in association with the distance data as a feature amount data of the specified commodity at the distance measured by the measurement module. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320879 | PRINTER DRIVER SETTING PRINTING PROGRAM AND SETTING PRINTING METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a printer driver setting printing program which pre-sets a display name of printing for each of a plurality of printer drivers which carry out printing, and carries out, when one of the display names of printing is selected to execute printing, printing using the printer driver which is pre-set in association with the selected display name of printing. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320580 | HEAT SOURCE UNIT AND ERASING APPARATUS USING THE HEAT SOURCE UNIT - A heat source opening and closing mechanism, around a rotation shaft of which a plurality of spring members are wound, is opened and closed an outside unit including a first heating member and a second press roller against an inside unit including a second heating member and a first press roller. The heat source opening and closing mechanism is opened and closed among a closed position where the first press roller faces to the first heating member and the second press roller faces to the second heating member, a first open state in which the load by the outside unit is commensurate with a first elastic force of the spring member, and a second open state in which an opening angle is larger than that in the first open state. | 10-30-2014 |
20140319765 | SORTING APPARATUS AND DETECTION METHOD - A sorting apparatus comprises a conveyance path, a first storage section, a detection section, a first roller and a control section. The conveyance path conveys a sheet. The first storage section stores the sheet conveyed through the conveyance path. The detection section detects whether or not the sheet conveyed in the conveyance path is in the detection target area of the conveyance path. The first roller is located at the downstream side of the detection target area of the detection section in a conveyance direction of the conveyance path, and rotates to convey the sheet in the conveyance path towards the first storage section. The control section reversely rotates the first roller when the conveyance path is recovered from a stop state so that the sheet in the conveyance path is moved for a distance from the first roller to the detection target area of the detection section. | 10-30-2014 |
20140314457 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes an endless heat generating section including a conductive layer, a magnetic-flux generating section configured to generate a magnetic flux and generate an induction current in the conduction layer, a first magnetic-flux regulating section having a first magnetic flux concentration force and configured to regulate the magnetic flux of the magnetic flux generating section, a second magnetic-flux regulating section arranged adjacent to the first magnetic-flux regulating section, having a second magnetic flux concentration force larger than the first magnetic flux concentration force, and configured to regulate the magnetic flux of the magnetic-flux generating section, and an auxiliary heat generating section including a magnetic body arranged in a position opposed to the magnetic-flux generating section via the heat generating section, the position being a region extending across the first magnetic-flux regulating section and the second magnetic-flux regulating section. | 10-23-2014 |
20140314456 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes an endless heat generating section including a conductive layer, an induction-current generating section configured to generate an induction current in the conductive layer, a temperature-sensitive magnetic body present in a position opposed to the induction-current generating section via the heat generating section, and a magnetic plate present in a position opposed to the heat generating section via the temperature-sensitive magnetic body. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313273 | PRINTER APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a printer apparatus comprises a first paper conveyance path configured to convey a first paper which has printing surfaces on both sides, that is, a first surface and a second surface serving as a back surface of the first surface; a first printing section configured to carry out printing on the first surface; a second printing section configured at the downstream side of the first printing section in a paper conveyance direction to carry out printing on the second surface; and a second paper conveyance path configured to merge with the first paper conveyance path between the first printing section and the second printing section, and convey a second paper which has a printing surface on either of a first surface and a second surface serving as a back surface of the first surface. | 10-23-2014 |
20140307272 | RECEIPT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RECEIPT DATA - According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes an obtaining section, a data generating section, and an output section. The obtaining section is configured to obtain customer code of a customer who purchased an item. The data generating section configured to generate receipt data including information about the purchased item, and include the customer code in the receipt data when the customer code is obtained. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to a certain destination based on whether or not the receipt data includes the customer code. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307271 | RECEIPT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RECEIPT DATA - According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes a data generating section, an output section, and a converting section. The data generating section is configured to generate receipt data of a first data format including information about an item purchased by a customer. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to at least one of a printing device and an external device that is different from the printing device. The converting section is configured to convert a data format of the receipt data from the first data format to a second data format that is different from the first data format when the receipt data is output to the external device. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307270 | RECEIPT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RECEIPT DATA - According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes a data generating section, a command issuing section, and an output section. The data generating section is configured to generate receipt data including information about an item purchased by a customer. The command issuing section is configured to issue a cut command that causes a sheet on which a receipt image corresponding to the receipt data is printed by a printing device to be cut off. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to an external device that is different from the printing device, in response to the issuance of the cut command by the cut command issuing section. | 10-16-2014 |
20140300933 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - There is provided an image forming apparatus including: an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data of an image formed on a sheet; an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information that identifies the sheet on which the image is formed; an image forming unit that forms an image based on the image data on the sheet with a decolorable colorant which becomes colorless by a predetermined chemical reaction and that forms an identification information image based on the identification information on the sheet with a non-decolorable colorant which does not become colorless by the chemical reaction; and a storage control unit that stores the identification information and the image data of the image to be formed on the sheet, on which the identification information image corresponding to the identification information is formed, in a predetermined storage region in a correlated manner. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300679 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a first conveying path to form a conveying path from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector, a reader arranged on the first conveying path to read an image on a surface of the sheet, an erasure to erase the image on the sheet formed with image erasable material, a switching portion arranged on the first conveying path at a downstream side of the reader in a sheet conveying direction to switch the sheet conveying direction to a direction of the ejector or a direction of the erasure, and a second conveying path having the erasure which, at a position where the switching portion is arranged, branches from the first conveying path at the downstream side of the reader and merges with the first conveying path at a meeting point between the sheet supply portion and the reader. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300678 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a first conveying path to form a conveying path from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector, a reader arranged on the first conveying path to read an image on a surface of the sheet, an erasure to erase the image on the sheet formed with image erasable material, a switching portion arranged on the first conveying path at a downstream side of the reader in a sheet conveying direction to switch the sheet conveying direction to a direction of the ejector or a direction of the erasure, and a second conveying path having the erasure which, at a position where the switching portion is arranged, branches from the first conveying path at the downstream side of the reader and merges with the first conveying path at a meeting point between the sheet supply portion and the reader. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300047 | PAPER POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - A paper post-processing apparatus comprises a processing tray section; a post-processing section; a paper discharge tray section; a first chuck section configured to hold the rear end of the paper standing by in the buffer section; a second chuck section configured to hold the rear end of the paper loaded on the processing tray; and a third chuck section configured to hold the rear end of the paper loaded on the paper discharge tray; wherein a next paper is fed onto the paper held by the first chuck section in the buffer section, a paper is fed onto the paper held by the second chuck section from the buffer section in the processing tray section, and a paper is discharged onto the paper on the paper discharge tray held by the third chuck section from the processing tray section in the paper discharge tray section. | 10-09-2014 |
20140292989 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer apparatus includes a printing medium supply unit that supplies a printing medium. An ink ribbon supply unit supplies an ink ribbon. A platen roller conveys the printing medium. A thermal head is arranged at a position opposite to the platen roller with the printing medium and the ink ribbon therebetween. The thermal head carries out printing by transferring the ink of the ink ribbon to the printing medium, A head pressing mechanism changes a distance or a pressure force between the thermal head and the platen roller. After the printing is ended, a control section controls the head pressing mechanism to raise the thermal head, the printing medium conveyance unit to convey the printing medium to a cutting position, and the head pressing mechanism to lower the thermal head immediately after the printing medium is cut. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292963 | INK JET DEVICE, INK CIRCULATING DEVICE, AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink jet device includes an ink jet head having a nozzle thorough which ink is discharged, an ink chamber communicating with the nozzle, an ink inlet from which the ink is supplied to the ink chamber, and an ink outlet from which the ink is recovered from the ink chamber, and an ink circulating unit having an ink tank that is in close proximity to the ink jet head and is connected to the ink inlet. | 10-02-2014 |
20140291922 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet tray, a processing unit configured to process one or more sheets that are placed on the sheet tray, a supporting member that is movable into and out of a conveying path of a sheet to be placed on the sheet tray, and a driving unit configured to move the supporting member into and out of the conveying path of the sheet. The supporting member includes a sheet support section that supports the sheet when the supporting member is moved into the conveying path. | 10-02-2014 |
20140267498 | INK JET HEAD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An ink jet head includes a pressure chamber formed to hold ink, a vibrating plate, a driving element, and a protective film covering the driving element. The vibrating plate is provided at one end of the pressure chamber, and has a first opening through which the ink held in the pressure chamber is discharged. The driving element is provided on a surface of the vibrating plate and is configured to cause a volume of the pressure chamber to be changed by deforming the vibrating plate upon application of voltage to the driving element. The protective film has a second opening aligned with the first opening and through which the ink held in the pressure chamber is discharged. | 09-18-2014 |
20140258945 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a box-shaped information display input section configured to be arranged with, on an upper surface thereof, a display screen which is used to display an image and to input information through a touching operation; an approach detection unit configured to detect which side of the information display input section an operator approached; and an input character recognition unit configured to recognize a character input to the display screen on condition that the character is in a right direction seen from a side detected by the approach detection unit. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255076 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING AND DISCHARGING A ROLLED PAPER - A printer apparatus according to an embodiment include a printing section configured to print on a roiled paper. A conveyance roller conveys the paper to a discharge port so that an end of the paper extends from the discharge port. A manual cutter blade is positioned downstream of the conveyance roller in a paper conveying direction and upstream of the discharge port in the paper conveying direction. The manual cutter blade contacts the paper and cuts the paper in a manual cutting operation. A skewed conveyance section is positioned downstream of the conveyance roller in the paper conveying direction. The skewed conveyance section conveys the paper in a manner skewed relative to the conveyance roller. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255056 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, there is provided an image forming apparatus that forms a color image using a plurality of discolorable coloring materials and a plurality of non-discolorable coloring materials. In a case where insufficiency of at least one coloring material from among the plurality of discolorable coloring materials and the plurality of non-discolorable coloring materials is detected, the image forming apparatus performs color image formation using the plurality of discolorable coloring materials and the plurality of non-discolorable coloring material in combination. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255055 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus has a fixing unit which heats an image formed on a recording medium at a fixing temperature, to fix the image on the recording medium. When a heating temperature of the fixing unit becomes a temperature higher than the fixing temperature, the image forming apparatus switches image forming, from image forming by a first mode using a discolorable coloring material, to image forming by a second mode using a non-discolorable coloring material. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255054 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus has a fixing unit which heats an image formed on a recording medium using a discolorable coloring material which discolors by heating, at a fixing temperature lower than a heating temperature at which the discolorable coloring material discolors, to fix the image on the recording medium. The image forming apparatus has an operation control unit which controls execution of an image stabilization processing during a waiting time till a heating temperature of the fixing unit becomes the fixing temperature. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253757 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MEDICINE ADMINISTERING PROCESS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An apparatus for managing a medicine administering process to enable inspection of the medicine administering process, includes a video recording unit that generates video recorded image data by video recording the medicine administering process, and a data addition unit that adds controlling data that enables the recorded video of the medicine administering process to be displayed with display elements that depict transition events of the medicine administering process. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253660 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a platen roller that configured to convey a sheet, a printing head disposed opposite the platen roller, a cutter configured to cut the sheet conveyed from the platen roller, a sheet guide disposed so as to guide a portion of the sheet that has passed the cutter, a feed roller configured to rotate and convey the sheet from the cutter between the feed roller and the sheet guide and stop rotating when a portion of the sheet is nipped between the feed roller and the sheet guide, and an adjusting mechanism configured to set a distance between the sheet guide and the feed roller. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253659 | DUPLEX PRINTER APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a duplex printer apparatus comprises a first printing section configured to use an inkjet mechanism for carrying out printing on a first surface of a paper wound in a roll shape; a second printing section configured to be arranged at the downstream side of the first printing section in a paper conveyance direction and use a thermal printing mechanism for carrying out printing on a second surface serving as the back side of the first surface of the paper; and a heat amount changing section configured to change, according to the difference of printing by the first printing section, a driving condition of the thermal printing mechanism when the second printing section applies heat to a paper. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253640 | INK JET HEAD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An ink jet head includes a chamber unit including a pressure chamber formed to hold ink, and a nozzle plate unit. The nozzle plate includes a vibrating plate forming a bottom wall of the pressure chamber, a driving element that is provided on a bottom surface of the vibrating plate and configured to cause a volume of the pressure chamber to be changed by deforming the vibrating plate upon application of voltage to the driving element, and a protective layer disposed on a bottom surface of the vibrating plate and a bottom surface of the driving element. The protective layer has a first thickness between a bottom surface thereof and the bottom surface of the vibrating plate and second thickness between a bottom surface thereof and the bottom surface of the driving element, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253639 | INK JET HEAD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An ink jet head includes a pressure chamber formed to hold ink, and a nozzle plate including a vibrating plate forming a bottom wall of the pressure chamber, a driving element that is provided on a surface of the vibrating plate and configured to cause a volume of the pressure chamber to be changed by deforming the vibrating plate upon application of voltage to the driving element, an opening through which the ink held in the pressure chamber is discharged in response to the change of the volume of the pressure chamber, and an insulating layer disposed between the driving element and the opening. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253619 | INK JET HEAD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS WITH DRIVING CHANNELS AND DUMMY CHANNELS - An ink jet head includes a plurality of nozzles and a piezoelectric member provided with driving channels for storing ink. Each of the driving channels communicates a respective one of the nozzles. Dummy channels are alternately arranged with the driving channels. First side walls between the driving and dummy channels include a first driving channel side surface and a first dummy side surface. Second side walls between the driving channels and the dummy channels include a second driving channel side surface and a second dummy channel side surface. When a voltage is applied to electrodes on the first dummy channel side surfaces, the corresponding first side wall is deformed. When a voltage is applied to electrodes on the second dummy channel side surfaces, the second side wall is deformed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253049 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND BATTERY CHARGING METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a power supply section configured to be connectable to an AC power supply, a battery, a remaining battery level detection section configured to detect the remaining battery level, a first threshold value setting section configured to set a charge level lower than a full charge of the battery, a second threshold value setting section configured to set a charge level lower than the first threshold value, and a charging condition setting section configured to output an instruction on charging of the battery such that the remaining battery level changes back and forth between the first threshold value and the second threshold value. | 09-11-2014 |
20140252931 | STABILIZER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STABILIZER MOUNTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a stabilizer includes a jaw portion which contacts a bottom of an apparatus, a fastener to fasten the stabilizer to a lateral side of the apparatus, and a foot portion extending from the bottom of the apparatus toward far side and in obliquely downward. | 09-11-2014 |
20140250311 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a connection unit configured to be connectable to a peripheral device, a communication unit configured to be communicable with an external apparatus, a reception unit configured to receive a request from the external apparatus through the communication unit, a first processing unit configured to enable, in a case where the request instructs to carry out a given processing, the peripheral device to execute the processing instructed by the request, and a second processing unit configured to control, in a case where the request instructs to turn on or turn off a specific peripheral device, to turn on or turn off the specific peripheral device in response to the request. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249998 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC RECEIPT MANAGING SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic receipt managing server includes a reception unit configured to receive electronic receipt information relating to a sale of a merchandise at a store to a consumer, an electronic receipt management unit configured to manage the electronic receipt information, an additional information management unit configured to manage additional information, for example, warranty information, of the merchandise with the electronic receipt information, an electronic receipt transmission unit configured to transmit the electronic receipt information to an information processing device associated with a code of the consumer, and an additional information transmission unit configured to transmit the additional information to the information processing device. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249997 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC RECEIPT MANAGEMENT SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An electronic receipt system includes an electronic receipt generation unit configured to generate electronic receipt information relating to merchandise sales data, and correlate the electronic receipt information with a code of a consumer, an electronic receipt management unit configured to associate the electronic receipt information with a company code, an electronic receipt collective management unit configured to manage the electronic receipt information collectively for a plurality of the companies, a group associating unit configured to define a group by associating codes of different consumers with the group, and an electronic receipt transmission unit configured to transmit the electronic receipt information to information processing devices that are correlated with the codes that are associated with the group. An electronic receipt display unit of an information processing device is configured to display the electronic receipt information transmitted by the electronic receipt transmission unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249971 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT MANAGEMENT SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic receipt management server includes an electronic receipt management unit for managing a code of each consumer and electronic receipt information in correlation with each other, a first receiving unit for receiving from an information processing device of a consumer a selection of electronic receipt information that is an object of grouping, among the electronic receipt information correlated with the code, and a first grouping unit for grouping the selected electronic receipt information into a group to be managed by the electronic receipt management unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249970 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC RECEIPT MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - According to one embodiment, an electronic receipt system includes an electronic receipt collective management unit, an electronic receipt transmission unit, and an electronic receipt display unit. The electronic receipt collective management unit manages electronic receipt information as digitized sales information related to in-store shopping in association with an first code for identifying a customer, and manages sales information, which is associated with a second code, from on-line shopping at a virtual store on a network as electronic receipt information by associating the second code with the first code. The electronic receipt transmission unit transmits the electronic receipt information associated with the first code to an information processing apparatus. The electronic receipt display unit displays the electronic receipt information transmitted to the information processing apparatus. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249967 | ORDER RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRASMITTING ORDER OF MENU ITEM BY THE SAME - In accordance with one embodiment, an order reception apparatus, which displays a first selection screen for receiving an order of a menu item, comprises a reception module configured to receive a selection operation of the menu item on the first selection screen by a customer, a connection module configured to be connectable to an external apparatus, and a transfer module configured to transfer a content relating to the menu item the selection of which is received by the reception module on the first selection screen to the external apparatus connected with the connection module. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249951 | MERCHANDISE SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A merchandise sales data processing apparatus includes a code reading unit configured to read a code of a customer purchasing a merchandise, an electronic receipt issuing instruction unit configured to receive an instruction for issuing electronic receipt information associated with merchandise sales data, an electronic receipt generation unit configured to generate the electronic receipt information in correlation with the code of the customer when the instruction for issuing the electronic receipt information is received by the electronic receipt issuing instruction unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit a company code indicating a company and the electronic receipt information generated by the electronic receipt generation unit to an electronic receipt server, and a receipt printing unit configured to print a paper receipt associated with the merchandise sales data when the instruction for issuing the electronic receipt information is not received by the electronic receipt issuing instruction unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249950 | STORE SYSTEM - In accordance with first embodiment, a store system comprises an image capturing apparatus configured to optically capture an image through an image capturing window; a display for customer configured to be selectively arranged in a horizontal or vertical manner at a side opposite to a side where the image capturing window is arranged to display the display data; a determination unit configured to determine whether the display for customer is placed vertically or horizontally; a sales registration unit configured to execute a sales registration processing in response to an image captured by the image capturing apparatus; and a display content changing unit configured to change, in response to a determination result based on the determination unit, the display data of the sales registration processing carried out by the sales registration unit displayed on the display for customer. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249909 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An electronic receipt system includes an electronic receipt collective management unit which associates a code of a consumer with electronic receipt information including information concerning a payment made by the consumer in different stores, a reception unit which receives an input a search condition pertaining to an electronic receipt, a search unit which searches the electronic receipt collective management unit based on the search condition, and an output unit which outputs a result of search acquired by the search unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248062 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, an image forming apparatus forms an image using at least one coloring material from among a plurality of coloring materials including a discolorable coloring material. In a case where the residual amount of any one coloring material from among the plurality of coloring materials is less than a predetermined value, a control unit of the image forming apparatus controls an image formation using another coloring material other than the coloring material of which the residual amount is less than the predetermined value. | 09-04-2014 |
20140247468 | PRINTING DATA DELIVERY APPARATUS, PRINTING DATA DELIVERY SYSTEM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing data delivery apparatus includes: a printing-data receiving section configured to receive printing data; a data storing section configured to extract print setting information from the received printing data and store the print setting information; a printing-request receiving section configured to receive a printing job request from a printing apparatus; a reuse determining section configured to perform first determination for determining whether the printing apparatus is an apparatus that performs printing with erasable toner or an apparatus that performs printing with unerasable toner, perform second determination for determining whether the printing data can be printed with the erasable toner, and perform first generation for giving, to the print setting information, information indicating whether it is appropriate to print the printing data in the printing apparatus and generating a printing job; and a printing-data delivery section configured to transmit the printing job to the printing apparatus. | 09-04-2014 |
20140247359 | SCANNER APPARATUS - A scanner apparatus comprises a casing having an image capturing window on the front surface thereof, an image capturing section, arranged inside the casing, configured to capture image of an object in a reading area invisibly formed outside the image capturing window of the casing, a plurality of lighting sections, arranged inside the casing, configured to irradiate light to the reading area, part of the light from the lighting sections being reflected on the inner surface of the image capturing window to become a stray light, and a shielding section configured to shield the stray light entering the image capturing section. The plurality of lighting sections mutually compensate the reduction in luminous intensity of the light from the lighting sections in the reading area caused by the shielding section. | 09-04-2014 |
20140246952 | DRIVING DEVICE FOR CAPACITANCE TYPE ACTUATOR AND DRIVING DEVICE FOR INK JET HEAD - An actuator is sequentially charged with output voltage “E/2” of a voltage source and output voltage “E” of a voltage source. After the charging, “Q/2” of electric charge “Q” stored in the actuator is discharged on a path returning to the voltage source. Subsequent to the discharging, the remaining all electric charge “Q/2” stored in the actuator is discharged on a closed circuit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140246487 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In accordance with an embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a commodity; a specification unit configured to specify a commodity from the information contained in the image captured by the image capturing unit; a first detection unit configured to detect flag information from the captured image; and a second detection unit configured to detect service information from the captured image in a case where the flag information is detected by the first detection unit, wherein the first detection unit switches a flag information detection according to the commodity specified by the specification unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140244754 | DATA MANAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADDING DATA TO PLURAL TERMINAL DEVICES AND DATA MANAGING PROGRAM - A data managing device manages data created in a plurality of terminal devices connected through a network. The data managing device includes a drawing storage unit configured to store added drawing data when the drawing data is added by a first terminal device, and a controller configured to control the drawing storage unit and communicate with the plurality of terminal devices so that the added drawing data is displayed on at least one of the plurality of terminal devices other than the first terminal device if the first terminal device had presenter authority when the drawing data is added. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241762 | ENDLESS BELT FOR IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An endless belt for an image forming device includes a base member that is shaped in a loop and is to be rotated around a center of the loop, and a reinforcement tape that is attached to a side of the base member, has two ends that are overlapped with each other, and has a bonding portion between the two ends in the overlapped portion. The bonding portion has an outer portion, an inner portion and a center portion between the inner and outer portions. A length of the center portion in a rotating direction of the base member is greater than a length of the inner portion and a length of the outer portion. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240724 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises an image forming section configured to form a toner image on a printing recording medium, a fixing section configured to heat the printing recording medium printed with the toner image at a fixing temperature, a temperature control section configured to control the fixing section to a temperature above a color erasing temperature, a conveyance section configured to convey the printing recording medium or a color erasing recording medium to the fixing section, and a speed control section configured to control, according to a setting temperature of the fixing section, a speed ratio of a traveling speed of the fixing section to a conveyance speed of the conveyance section. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240435 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image erasing apparatus includes an erasing unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The erasing unit erases an image formed on a recording medium. The input unit inputs identification data which identifies an apparatus which forms the image on the recording medium. The control unit controls an operation of the erasing unit based on the identification data input by the input unit. According to another embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording medium, the erasing unit, the input unit, and the control unit. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240434 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ERASING AND COOLING A SHEET - A device for erasing an image on a sheet according to an embodiment includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on the sheet. An erasing unit erases the image formed on the sheet by heating the sheet. A conveyance path for the sheet between the reading unit and the erasing unit is formed guide plates arranged in an opposed manner. A cooling unit cools the sheet which passes through the conveyance path and includes at least one fan that supplies cooling air generally along a sheet conveying direction. A plurality of slits is formed in each of the guide plates such that cooling air from the at least one fan flows through the slits into the conveyance path. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240433 | DEVICE FOR ERASING AND COOLING A SHEET - A device for erasing an image on a sheet includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on a sheet. An erasing unit erases the image formed on the sheet by heating the sheet after the sheet has passed through the reading unit. A conveyance path conveys the sheet from the erasing unit back to the reading unit. The conveyance path includes a curved portion between the erasing unit and the reading unit. A cooling unit cools the sheet which passes through the conveyance path. The cooling unit includes at least one fan that supplies cooling air generally along a sheet conveying direction. A rate of the cooling air supplied to an outer peripheral portion of the curved portion of the conveyance path is larger than a rate of the cooling air supplied to an inner peripheral portion of the curved portion of the conveyance path. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240432 | INK RIBBON CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An ink ribbon cartridge includes an ink ribbon onto which decolorizable ink is applied, a transfer unit configured to thermally transfer the decolorizable ink on the ink ribbon to a recording medium such that an image is formed on the recording medium as the ink ribbon is conveyed, and a heating unit configured to heat a portion of the ink ribbon that has passed the transfer unit when the image was formed on the recording medium, at a temperature at which the decolorizable ink is decolorized. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240106 | NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PERFORMING NOTIFICATION AND ASSIST ROBOT ACTING AS THE SAME - In accordance with an embodiment, a notification apparatus comprises a detection module and a notification module. The detection module detects a predetermined operation confirmation sound from a medical instrument. The notification module sends a notification to a predetermined terminal in response to the detection of the operation confirmation sound. | 08-28-2014 |
20140239070 | COMMODITY INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING COMMODITY INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT FORMS - In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity information display apparatus comprises an acquisition module and a display control module. The acquisition module acquires a commodity information relating to a commodity recognized through a first method in which a code symbol attached to the commodity is read and commodity information relating to a commodity recognized through a second method in which the commodity is recognized based on an appearance feature of the commodity contained in an image data captured by a camera. The display control module displays the commodity information acquired by the acquisition module on a display in such a manner that a display form of the commodity information of the commodity recognized through the first method is made different from a display form of the commodity information of the commodity recognized through the second method. | 08-28-2014 |
20140237084 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - An information distribution device includes a distribution unit, a storage unit, and a display unit. The distribution unit distributes trial content to a portable terminal. The storage unit stores history information of the trial content being distributed by the distribution unit. The display unit displays, as user selectable content, content selected based on the history information of the trial content being distributed, which is stored in the storage unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237075 | DOCUMENT PRIORITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PRIORITY DETERMINATION METHOD - A document priority determination apparatus comprises a program schedule retrieving unit configured to retrieve schedules of programs of an event, a current time detection unit configured to detect a current time, and a priority determination unit configured to set a priority of a document based on the retrieved program schedules and the detected current time. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237074 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An information distribution device includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a control unit. The first communication unit transmits trial content to a terminal device by wireless communication. The second communication unit transmits full content to the terminal device in a communication range that is shorter than a communication range of the first communication unit. The control unit concurrently performs a process of transmitting the trial content using the first communication unit and a process of transmitting the full content using the second communication unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236743 | ORDER INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING SETTLEMENT PROCESSING AT TABLE - An order input apparatus which receives input of an order information according to an order and the order information is managed with a management apparatus, comprises a short distance wireless communication section configured to establish a wireless communication with a medium adapted for an electronic settlement at a short distance; a checkout information calling module configured to call a desired checkout information relating to the order information from the management apparatus; a settlement declaration module configured to declare a settlement on the checkout information; a settlement module configured to execute a settlement processing for the checkout information through the electronic settlement with the medium the communication of which is established with the short distance wireless communication section; and an update module configured to inform the management apparatus of the information relating to the settlement with the settlement module to update the checkout information. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236714 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC RECEIPT MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An electronic receipt system generates, in association with a code of a shopper, electronic receipt information related to commodity sales data processing, stores the generated electronic receipt information in a storing unit, and stores additional information associated with commodity information and a specific condition in the storing unit. The electronic receipt system causes an information processing apparatus associated with the code of the shopper to display the electronic receipt information associated with the code and a selectable object for instructing a start of processing for the additional information related to the commodity information included in the electronic receipt information in a display unit. The electronic receipt system displays the electronic receipt information and displays. If the selectable object is operated, the electronic receipt system transmits a start signal for the processing for the additional information. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236713 | SERVER, SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A server for an electronic receipt system includes a storing unit configured to store electronic receipt information including an item purchased by a customer, customer information, and promotion information for a predetermined item, a communication unit configured to receive a request for the electronic receipt information from a communication device, and transmit the electronic receipt information to the communication device, and a controller configured to associate the electronic receipt information with the promotion information if the purchased item is the predetermined item, and control the communication unit to transmit the electronic receipt information with the associated promotion information to the communication device in response to the request for the electronic receipt information. | 08-21-2014 |
20140235160 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - An information distribution device includes a display unit, a reception unit, and a distribution unit. The display unit displays information of distributable full content. The reception unit receives a trial request for the distributable full content from the portable terminal. The distribution unit distributes, as trial content which is viewable within a limited physical range, the distributable full content for which the trial request is received, to the portable terminal. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234768 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a method for producing a toner including: aggregating colorant particles and release agent particles, thereby forming aggregates containing the colorant particles and the release agent particles; aggregating binder resin particles and the obtained aggregates containing the colorant particles and the release agent particles, thereby forming toner particle precursors; and aggregating and fusing the obtained toner particle precursors, thereby forming toner particles, wherein when the average circularity of the toner particles is represented by Rt, Rt satisfies the following formula (1): 0.85≦Rt≦0.92 (1). | 08-21-2014 |
20140233051 | DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND PROGRAM FOR DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER - A document distribution server a data conversion unit configured to convert document data into a common format data that have the same appearance when displayed on a display device and when printed with a printing device, a receiving unit configured to receive a request to display the document data in the display device and to receive a request to print the document data in the printing device, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the common format data to the display device when the request to display the document data is received from the display device and to transmit the common format data to the printing device when the request to print the document data is received from the printing device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232793 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE INKJET HEAD - According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes: a nozzle plate including plural nozzles; a piezoelectric element including plural pressure chambers corresponding to the nozzles and sidewalls provided adjacent to the pressure chambers and serving as driving elements configured to press the pressure chambers to eject liquid from the nozzles; a substrate to which the piezoelectric element is bonded; and a frame member placed on the substrate to surround the piezoelectric element. Grooves are formed on the upper end, and in which an adhesive is applied to bond the upper ends of the sidewalls and the nozzle plate. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232770 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In a stand-by state, when an instruction unit issues the printing instruction, a control unit is switched in a maintenance state, in the maintenance state, the control unit closes an air valve and operates a first pump, and when a sensor detects that the ink of a second tank is reduced by discharging the ink from a nozzle by the pressure of a second tank, the control unit opens the air valve to be switched in a printing state, and when a predetermined time elapses after an operation of the first pump before the sensor detects the reduction of the ink of the second tank, the control unit excludes the solidified ink from the nozzle, and in the printing state, the control unit is switched in the stand-by state when the ink is discharged from the nozzle of the head based on a printing instruction. | 08-21-2014 |
20140222602 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING STAIN ON IAMGE CAPTURING SURFACE THEREOF - An information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing module configured to capture image of a commodity, an extraction module configured to extract feature amount of the commodity from the image captured by the image capturing module, a calculation module configured to calculate a similarity degree by comparing feature amount of each standard commodity with the feature amount of the commodity extracted by the extraction module, a recognition module configured to recognize a standard commodity of which the similarity degree calculated by the calculation module is greater than a given value as a candidate of the commodity, a detection module configured to detect, from a plurality of captured images captured by the image capturing module, a static object existing in the captured image, and a notification module configured to notify the detection of a stain if the static object is continuously detected in the plurality of captured images by the detection module for a given time. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222598 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD - A commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises a wireless communication section; an input section configured to input commodity specification information specifying a commodity; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not wireless communication with a portable terminal of a customer is established; and a communication unit configured to wirelessly transmit information for the display of settlement information based on the commodity specification information input from the input section on the portable terminal from the wireless communication section to the portable terminal on condition that the determination unit determines that wireless communication with the portable terminal is established. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222509 | DATA EDITING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A device for generating a user interface for sales planning includes a data display generation unit configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for an external device, the GUI including a data display area for displaying product sales data for a plurality of items that are included in a selected sales plan, the product sales data including predicted sales data values for a first store and one or more additional stores, a data aggregation unit configured to aggregate product sales data of the plurality of items for the first store and the additional stores, and a prediction calculation unit configured to calculate the predicted sales data values for the first store and the additional stores based on the product sales data for the plurality of items that have been aggregated in the data aggregation unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222508 | DATA EDITING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A device for generating a user interface for sales planning includes a data display generation unit configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for an external device, the GUI including a data display area for displaying product sales data for a plurality of items that are included in a selected sales plan, the data display area having a first field that is editable and a second field that displays predicted sales data values which are updated when the first field is edited, a data aggregation unit configured to aggregate product sales data of the plurality of items, and a prediction calculation unit configured to calculate the predicted sales data values and update the predicted sales data values when the first field is edited, based on the product sales data for the plurality of items that have been aggregated in the data aggregation unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219686 | TONER CARTRIDGE - A toner cartridge comprises a toner container which contains toner, a driving member which rotationally drives a conveying member, an agitating member which agitates a toner in the toner container while being rotated, a driven member which rotates in association with the driving member which is for rotationally driving the agitating member, and a rotational body which rotates according to rotation of the driven member, has a plurality of slits in rotational circumference for identifying a type of the toner cartridge, and has 1/K or more of the slits when a ratio of a rotational speed R1 (rad/s) of the driving member and a rotational speed R2 (rad/s) of the driven member is K=R2/R1. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219667 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, provided is an image processing apparatus that includes an erasing unit, an operation panel, and a control unit. The erasing unit erases an image formed on a conveyed recording medium. The operation panel receives the setting of the number of the recording mediums from which the image is removed. The control unit continues the image erasing process until a value obtained by counting the number of the recording mediums conveyed to the erasing unit by including the number of the recording mediums causing a conveyance error reaches the setting number when resuming the image erasing process after stopping the image erasing process in the event of the conveyance error of the recording medium. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219512 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a storage module configured to store feature amounts of standard commodities; an image capturing module configured to photograph a commodity to capture an image of the commodity; an extraction module configured to extract feature amount of the commodity from the image captured by the image capturing module; a calculation module configured to calculate a similarity degree by comparing the feature amount of a standard commodity which is determined as a recognition target in setting information in which a standard commodity serving as a recognition target is set within the standard commodities stored in the storage module with the feature amount of the commodity extracted by the extraction module; and a recognition module configured to recognize a standard commodity of which the similarity degree calculated by the calculation module is greater than a threshold value as a candidate of the commodity. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218777 | DECOLORIZING DEVICE, SHEET DECOLORIZING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING DECOLORIZING PROCESS PROGRAM - A decolorizing device includes a first reading section, a decolorizing section, a second reading section and a controller. The first reading section reads a first side of the sheet. The decolorizing section performs a decolorizing process on the sheet and the second reading section reads the first side of the sheet. The controller is configured to determine if the decolorizing process is necessary or not on the first side based on first image data of the first side read by the first reading section, to read the first side of the sheet having been subjected to the decolorizing process at the decolorizing section by the second reading section if it is determined that the decolorizing process is necessary, and to avoid reading of the first side of the sheet by the second reading section if it is determined that the decolorizing process is unnecessary. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218455 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprises a first exposure unit, a first image carrier, a second exposure unit, a second image carrier and an exposure signal generation unit. The first exposure unit/The second exposure unit includes a given number of light-emitting elements which are linearly arranged, and changes a light emission amount of each light-emitting element in response to an image signal corresponding to a first color/a second color which can hardly be recognized in the change of the straight line state; and the exposure signal generation unit excludes a correction during exposure for reducing the influence of the change of the straight line state of each light-emitting element at the time when the second exposure unit emits the light. | 08-07-2014 |
20140213444 | ERASING APPARATUS - An erasing apparatus includes a conveyance path configured to convey a sheet on which an image is formed with a coloring agent which is erased by heating. A first erasing unit is disposed on the conveyance path and is configured to heat the sheet when the sheet is conveyed between a first heating component and a first press component. A second erasing unit is disposed on the conveyance path downstream from the first erasing unit and is configured to heat the sheet when the sheet is conveyed between a second heating component and a second press component. A control section is configured to control a temperature of the first heating component at a first temperature at which the image on the sheet can be erased and to control a temperature of the second heating component at a second temperature lower than the first temperature. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213443 | ERASING APPARATUS - An erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an erasing section configured to erase an image formed on a sheet by heating the sheet that is transported through the erasing section, the erasing section including a heating roller, a press roller in contact with the heating roller. A motor rotates the heating and press rollers. A transportation section transports the sheet. The erasing apparatus further includes a controller that controls the erasing section and the transportation section so that a transportation speed of the sheet transported through the erasing section is a first transportation speed lower than a normal speed if a predetermined period of time from a start of a job has not elapsed. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212805 | DECOLORIZABLE TONER - Provided is a decolorizable toner including a binder resin and colorant particles which contain a color developable compound, a color developing agent, and a decolorizing agent, and have a capsule structure coated with an outer shell, wherein the binder resin is contained in an amount of 60 to 80% by mass with respect to the total amount of the toner components. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212192 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, an image forming apparatus and an image erasing apparatus are disclosed. The image forming apparatus receives a degree of freedom regarding whether to erase an image and forms the image using an erasable color material corresponding to the degree of freedom. The image erasing apparatus receives a degree of freedom regarding whether to erase an image and erases the image under the erasing process condition corresponding to the degree of freedom. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212187 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus comprises a heating unit configured to heat a sheet when the sheet is conveyed between a pair of rollers, a first guide unit that supports and guides movement of the heating unit in a first direction towards a predetermined position exterior to the sheet processing apparatus, and a second guide unit that supports and guides further movement of the heating unit in the first direction in cooperation with the first guide unit, the second guide unit including an abutment section configured to stop movement of the heating unit in the first direction when the heating unit reaches the predetermined position. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212160 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including a control unit and a heating unit for fixing an image on a recording medium and erasing the image on the recording medium. The control unit controls a heating temperature of the heating unit such that the heating temperature of the heating unit falls within any one of a first temperature range which is capable of fixing an inerasable developer, a second temperature range which is capable of fixing an erasable developer, and a fourth temperature range which satisfies both of the first temperature range and a third temperature range which is capable of erasing the erasable developer. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212157 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a first image forming unit, a second image forming unit and a processing unit. The first image forming unit forms an image using an erasable image forming material. The second image forming unit forms an image using an inerasable image forming material. The processing unit forms an image to be printed using an erasable image forming material with the first image forming unit, and forms a specific pattern for duplication prevention using an inerasable image forming material with the second image forming unit. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212153 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to the exemplary embodiments, there is provided an image forming apparatus that has an image forming mode and an image erasing mode. The image forming apparatus has a display unit configured to perform an error display at the time of conveyance failure of a recording medium in the image forming mode and at the time of conveyance failure of the recording medium in the image erasing mode. In the image forming apparatus, the display unit changes the content of the error display at the time of conveyance failure of the recording medium in the image forming mode and at the time of conveyance failure of the recording medium in the image erasing mode. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211225 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus which performs a printing job and an erasing job is provided. Included is a control unit which, in a case of performing the other job after any one of the printing job and the erasing job, controls a transporting unit of the sheet so that the sheet for the other job is transported to a predetermined standby position from a sheet feeding unit while the one job is performed. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210930 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - According to the embodiments, there is provided an image forming apparatus and an image erasing apparatus. The image forming apparatus forms, on a recording medium, an image showing the color material information about the erasing temperatures of a plurality of erasable color materials used for forming an image to be printed together with the image to be printed. The image erasing apparatus heats the plurality of erasable color materials to the highest erasing temperature or higher in the different erasing temperatures of the erasable color materials forming the image printed on the recording medium in order to erase the erasable color materials forming the image. | 07-31-2014 |
20140207589 | ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND ORDER RECEIVING METHOD - An order receiving apparatus comprises a first storage section configured to store an amount obtained by adding up the prices of the menu items the order on which is received and a second storage section configured to store an amount obtained by adding up the prices of the menu items the order on which is determined. The apparatus adds the price of each menu item to the first storage section every time the order on the menu item is received, adds the amount in the first storage section to the second storage section in response to the determination of the order, and then clears the first storage section. The apparatus outputs the amounts stored in the first and second storage sections. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205339 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus having an image erasing function to erase an image formed on a recording medium. The apparatus has a heating unit to erase an image, a conveying unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the conveying unit, when the image is erased, and also when a heating temperature of the heating unit is lower than an erasing temperature, to make the recording medium once stand by at a position in the middle of a conveying path of the conveying unit, and then to convey the recording medium to the heating unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204474 | IMAGING ELEMENT ARRAY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An imaging element array includes a plurality of imaging elements that are arranged side by side. Each imaging element is integrally molded and includes an incident surface, an emission surface, and a plurality of reflective surfaces which is provided between the incident surface and the emission surface. The imaging element includes a first reflective element. In the first reflective element, at least one of the plurality of reflective surfaces is formed on a top of a convex portion which protrudes outwardly and has reflective sidewalls extending therefrom. In the first reflective element, a width of the reflective surface, which is formed on the top of the convex portion, in an arrangement direction thereof is less than a distance from an entrance into the concave portion to the top of the convex surface. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204430 | IMAGING ELEMENT ARRAY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An imaging element array includes a plurality of imaging elements that are arranged side by side. Each imaging element is integrally molded as a single piece element and includes an incident surface, an emission surface, and a plurality of reflective surfaces which are provided between the incident surface and the emission surface. The imaging element includes a first reflective element and propagation preventing surfaces. The first reflective element includes at least one of the plurality of reflective surfaces and has an effective region which is in contact with adjacent imaging elements. The propagation preventing surfaces are to either side of another one of the plurality of reflective surfaces and are positioned to prevent light rays other than light rays reflected from the reflective surface from propagating to the emission surface. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204169 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus of an embodiment includes a heating unit, first and second keeping units, and first and second transport units. The heating unit heats an image formed on a sheet. The first and second keeping units keep sheets. The first transport unit transports the sheet from the first keeping unit to the heating unit to form an image. The second transport unit transports the sheet from the second keeping unit to the heating unit by a transport distance shorter than a sheet transport distance of the first transport unit to erase the image. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204168 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - An image erasing apparatus includes an erasing unit, a reading unit, and a control unit. The erasing unit erases an image formed in a recording medium. The reading unit reads control information included in the image. The control unit determines whether or not to erase the image using the erasing unit on the basis of date information included in the control information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140203918 | WIRELESS TAG INITIALIZATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS TAG INITIALIZATION METHOD - A wireless tag initialization device includes a reader and writer that weakens supply power to a first threshold value at which a wireless tag to be initialized is activated and other wireless tags are not activated, transmit a first command to invert a flag of the wireless tag to be initialized, increases the supply power to a second threshold value which is sufficient to write an initial value, and writes the initial value in the wireless tag with the inverted SL flag. | 07-24-2014 |
20140203916 | WIRELESS TAG COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS TAG COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - A wireless tag communication device for communicating with a wireless tag through a directional antenna includes a wireless tag communication section configured to communicate with the wireless tag, a calculation section configured to estimate a direction range for communicating with the wireless tag based on transmission output power of the wireless tag communication device and an estimated reading distance to the wireless tag, and a display section configured to display the estimated direction range. | 07-24-2014 |
20140203492 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE AND ERASING DEVICE - A sheet discharging device includes a first conveying path that guides a sheet to be conveyed. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path. A sorting section sorts a sheet being conveyed on the first conveying path into either a downstream side of the branch point or the second conveying path. A first discharge tray is placed at a position downstream of the first conveying path and receives a sheet discharged from the first conveying path at a first sheet loading surface. A second discharge tray is placed at a position downstream of the second conveying path and below the first discharge tray, and receives a sheet discharged from the second conveying path at a second sheet loading surface whose distance to the first sheet loading surface increases toward a downstream side thereof in a sheet discharging direction. | 07-24-2014 |
20140201393 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a connection section capable of connecting an input/output device; a communication section capable of communicating with an external apparatus; a receiving section configured to receive a request from the external apparatus through the communication section; and a control section configured to enable the input/output device connected to the connection section to execute the processing indicated by the request received by the receiving section. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201011 | ORDER PROCESSING SYSTEM, ORDER ENTORY TERMINAL AND ORDERING METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, an order processing system comprises an ordering terminal equipped with an input/output section for inputting/outputting an order including a commodity name, a quantity and a serving order, a commodity database including a commodity name and a unit price for each commodity, an order file for storing the ordering quantity and the serving order for each ordered commodity, and a main control section which sends the next order according to the serving order to an order processing apparatus when the serving completion of the order just prior to the next order is input, and the order processing apparatus equipped with a cooking instruction file for storing the order received from the order entry terminal, and a control section which commands the output of a cooking instruction when the order is received. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199626 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ERASABLE TONER - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing an erasable toner includes washing toner particles including therein a coloring material that is erasable by heating and a binder resin to obtain a toner cake having the amount of water of 20% by weight to 60% by weight, and drying the toner cake at 40° C. or more and at a temperature which is lower than the complete color erasing temperature of the toner particles by 30° C. or more. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199622 | ERASABLE TONER - According to one embodiment, an erasable toner of the present embodiment includes a binder resin, an electron donating coloring agent, an electron accepting developer, and a discoloring temperature regulating agent, in which when measuring for the first time by differential thermal scanning calorimetry, an endothermic peak temperature Tg of the binder resin and an endothermic peak temperature Th of the discoloring temperature regulating agent satisfy Tg | 25° C. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199621 | DEVELOPER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND TONER CARTRIDGE - A toner or developer is provided having toner particles which exhibit a higher glass transition temperature on their surface than the interior thereof. In one aspect, the toner particles contain a crystalline polyester resin, an amorphous polyester resin and a coloring material, in which the core of the toner particles exhibit the glass transition temperature g of from 30° C. to 45° C. and the surface of the toner particles exhibits the glass transition temperature of from 50° C. to 70° C. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199103 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image erasing apparatus includes an erasing unit to perform erasing processing to a sheet on which a specific pattern is formed with decoloring toner, a reading unit to read an image on the sheet to which the erasing processing is performed by the erasing unit, a detecting unit to detect erasing residue on the sheet, based on the image read by the reading unit, and a specific pattern forming unit to form a specific pattern again on the sheet, when the erasing residue is detected by the detecting unit. | 07-17-2014 |