18th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 32 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110102777 | DIFFRACTION GRATING COUPLER, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A diffraction grating coupler which includes an optical waveguide having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the optical waveguide having a grating on one of its surfaces. The diffraction grating coupler further includes an elastic polymer film deposited on and attached to the optical waveguide, the elastic polymer film partially surrounding the optical waveguide and leaving one of the two surfaces of the optical waveguide open, the diffraction grating coupler being mountable on a specimen by attaching the elastic polymer film to the specimen. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102778 | Geometric Error Measuring Device - A geometric error measuring device includes a measuring module and at least one (quadrant) photodiode. The measuring module has an emitting deice, which may emit at least one light ray; the photodiode may receive the incident ray. Also, the trajectory of the incident ray is parallel with the direction of measurement. If there is no geometric error, the position of the incident light ray will coincide with the position of the measured light ray. If there is a geometric error, the position of the measured light ray will not coincide with the position of the incident light ray. After the data are processed and calculated, geometric errors in straightness, squareness and rotational angles (pitch, yaw and roll) may be obtained. These geometric errors may then be corrected in the setup of a machine. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102779 | NON CONTACT WHEEL ALIGNMENT SENSOR AND METHOD - A sensor and method of determining the orientation of an object, such as the alignment characteristics of a tire and wheel assembly mounted on a vehicle, includes projecting a plurality of light planes from a first light projector onto a tire and wheel assembly to form a plurality of generally parallel illumination lines on a tire of the tire and wheel assembly, receiving a reflected image of at least some of the illumination lines with a photo electric device reflected from the tire at an angle relative to a projecting angle of the first light projector, and determining a plane defined by spatial coordinates from a selected point located on each illumination line imaged by the photo electric device, with the plane representing the orientation of the tire and wheel assembly. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102780 | CALIBRATION OF A SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR - A method for calibrating a spatial light modulator comprising an array of channels includes selecting a plurality of channel sets; operating each of the channel sets to provide corresponding output radiation; providing a detector for measuring the output radiation; determining a plurality of intensity values, each representing an intensity of the output radiation provided by a different one of the channel sets; providing a correction factor for each of the channels sets, wherein each correction factor remains constant during a subsequent recalibration of the spatial light modulator; modifying each determined intensity value in accordance with a corresponding one of the correction factors; determining a difference between one of the modified intensity values and a target intensity value; and reducing the determined difference by adjusting a control level of at least one channel in the channel set corresponding to the one of the modified intensity values. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102781 | OPTICAL DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS - A laser beam oscillated from a laser source is folded in its path by first and second plane mirrors and enters a beam expander. The surface of each plane mirror is deteriorated with illumination by the laser beam and the reflectance is reduced. To avoid a light quantity of the laser beam entering the beam expander from being reduced below a reference value, when the laser beam is illuminated over a certain time, a position on each of the first and second plane mirrors at which the laser beam is illuminated is changed by a structure for rotating and/or translating a reflecting surface of each plane mirror on a plane, which includes the plane mirror, while an optical axis is kept same. Thus, the useful life of each plane mirror can be prolonged without displacing the optical axis. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102782 | INSPECTION DEVICE WITH ROTATABLE LIGHTING ELEMENT HOUSING - The invention relates to an inspection device for monitoring containers, particularly bottles, comprising at least one transport path for supplying and removing the containers, a lighting unit, and optical measuring unit, and a control unit, wherein the lighting unit is surrounded by a transparent hollow body mounted in a rotatable fashion about the central axis, and the hollow body may be driven by a motor, either directly or via appropriate operative connections. Ideally, the hollow body is a tube made of a material or mixture of materials that is transparent to rays in the optically visible wavelength range, in the infrared range, and/or in the ultraviolet range, wherein the material is at least partially transparent to said rays. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102783 | EMPTY BOTTLE INSPECTION - The invention relates to an inspection apparatus ( | 2011-05-05 |
20110102784 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE SPECTRALLY, SPATIALLY AND ANGULARLY RESOLVED RADIATION DATA - A method of obtaining high dynamic range, spectrally, spatially and angularly resolved radiance of a sample surface of a sample, such as a paper sheet, accomplished by an electromagnetic irradiator irradiating electromagnetic radiation of controlled spectral distribution onto a sample surface of a sample and, using an electromagnetic sensitive sensor to register the reflected spectral distribution. The spectral distribution of the intensity of the electromagnetic field is modeled to have been reflected by a plurality of spatially well defined part-surfaces of the sample surface of the sample. The electromagnetic sensitive sensor being well-defined in terms of the functional dependency between input radiation and output signal and the registering exposure time-period being selected individually for each individual sensor element, such as to compile an information volume that represents the registered high dynamic range spectrally resolved electromagnetic radiance as a function of the position of the part-surfaces within the sample surface of the sample and of the respective angle enforced on the sample while measuring. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102785 | REFLEX SIGHT - A reflex sight is provided, including a first lens module, a first light source, and a second light source. The first light source projects a first reticle image to the first lens module, and the first lens module reflects the first reticle image to a viewer. When the first light source is inactive, the second light source projects a second reticle image to the first lens module, and the first lens module reflects the second reticle image to the viewer. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102786 | Method of Determining the Spatial Configuration of Molecules in Particles or Macromolecules, Especially for Determining the Shape of Metal Nanoparticles and Device for the Implementation Thereof - The present invention relates to a method and a device for determining the spatial configuration of molecules in particles or macromolecules or the shape of nanometric metallic particles. This method provides for the excitation of said particles or macromolecules placed in solution by way of two pulsed laser beams (E | 2011-05-05 |
20110102787 | OPTICAL MICROSCOPY WITH PHOTOTRANSFORMABLE OPTICAL LABELS - An apparatus includes a position-sensitive detector to detect intensities of radiation as a function of position on the detector, and an optical system, characterized by a diffraction-limited resolution volume, adapted for imaging light emitted from activated and excited phototransformable optical labels (“PTOLs”) in a sample onto the position sensitive-detector. A first light source provides activation radiation to the sample to activate a subset of the PTOLs that are distributed in the sample with a density greater than an inverse of the diffraction-limited resolution volume of the optical system. A second light source provides excitation radiation to the sample to excite a portion of the PTOLs in the subset of the PTOLs. A controller controls one both of the activation radiation and the excitation radiation provided to the sample such that a density of PTOLs in the portion of the PTOLs is less than the inverse of the diffraction-limited resolution volume. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102788 | Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers and Photoacoustic Detection of Trace Gases, TNT, TATP and Precursors Acetone and Hydrogen Peroxide - Methods and apparatus for broad tuning of single wavelength quantum cascade lasers and the use of light output from such lasers for highly sensitive detection of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, acetylene, and vapors of explosives such as trinitrotoluene (TNT) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and TATP's precursors including acetone and hydrogen peroxide. These methods and apparatus are also suitable for high sensitivity, high selectivity detection of other chemical compounds including chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. A quantum cascade laser (QCL) system that better achieves single mode, continuous, mode-hop free tuning for use in L-PAS (laser photoacoustic spectroscopy) by independently coordinating gain chip current, diffraction grating angle and external cavity length is described. An all mechanical method that achieves similar performance is also described. Additionally, methods for improving the sensor performance by critical selection of wavelengths are presented. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING EMBEDDED MATERIAL WITHIN AN INTERACTION REGION OF A STRUCTURE - A detection system is used during irradiation of an interaction region of a structure with laser light. The structure includes embedded material. The detection system includes means for receiving light emitted from the interaction region. The detection system further includes means for separating the received light into a spectrum of wavelengths. The detection system further includes means for analyzing at least a portion of the spectrum for indications of embedded material within the interaction region. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102790 | Zero angle photon spectrophotometer for monitoring of water systems - A method and apparatus for monitoring water and other fluid systems is described. The fluid is continually monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring many optical parameters in an in-line, on-line system, which compensates for normal fluid changes while detecting abnormalities. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102791 | RADIATION RESISTANT SPECTROMETER INTERFACE - Devices, systems, and methods for measuring tissue oxygen saturation are disclosed. An illustrative spectrometer for interfacing an optical sensor with a display unit includes a number of measurement radiation sources, a number of radiation source fibers each optically coupled to one of the measurement radiation sources, a reflected radiation fiber optically coupled to the optical sensor, a measurement radiation output fiber including an image fiber, and a radiation mixing bar intermediate the radiation source fibers and the measurement radiation output fiber. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102792 | ANALYZER AND PARTICLE IMAGING METHOD - An analyzer comprises: a sample stream forming section for forming a sample stream including particles; a light source; an optical fiber bundle formed by a plurality of optical fibers, into which light from the light source enters, and which emits light onto the sample stream; and an imaging device for imaging a particle in the irradiated sample stream. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102793 | Inspection Apparatus for Lithography - Four separately polarized beams are simultaneously measured upon diffraction from a substrate (W) to determine properties of the substrate. Linearly, circularly or elliptically polarized radiation is transmitted through a first beam splitter (N-PBS) and split into two polarized beams. These two beams are further split into two further beams using two further beam splitters, the further beam splitters ( | 2011-05-05 |
20110102794 | Method and Apparatus for Pipe Alignment Tool - A method and apparatus for a pipe alignment tool have been described. A laser is inserted into the end of a pipe and projects a laser beam indicative of the longitudinal axis of the pipe. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102795 | Carbon nanotube/polydiacetylene composites - Chromatic materials such as polydiacetylene change color in response to a wide variety of environmental stimuli including changes in temperature, pH and chemical or mechanical stress, and have been extensively explored as sensing devices. Here is reported the facile synthesis of carbon nanotube/polydiacetylene nanocomposite fibers which rapidly and reversibly respond to electrical current, with the resulting color change being readily observable with the naked eye. These composite fibers also chromatically respond to a broad spectrum of other stimulations: for example, they exhibit rapid and reversible stress-induced chromatism with negligible elongation. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102796 | Method and system for detecting the level of anesthesia agent in an anesthesia vaporizer - A method of detecting a level of anesthesia agent in an anesthesia vaporizer is disclosed. The anesthesia agent forms a column of liquid within an external indicator; the method projects a beam of light into the external indicator. The method further receives the beam of light after the beam of light has traveled through the column of liquid, and detects when the level of anesthesia agent drops below a predetermined level. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102797 | BIOINFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS - provided is a bioinformation acquisition apparatus in which a flux of light emitted outside from a test object through diffusion effect when light is radiated thereto can be reused, improving use efficiency of the radiated light. The apparatus having a light source for radiating a flux of light to a test object, and a detector for detecting a signal output based on the radiation, and includes: a reflection type polarization element adapted that at least a part of the flux of light from the light source can be transmitted through, and a flux of light emitted outside from the test object by the radiation can be reflected, in which the reflection type polarization element is disposed at a position opposite to an irradiation area of the flux of light on the surface of the test object to cover the irradiation area. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102798 | OPTICAL REAL-TIME SOIL SENSOR - A light sensing apparatus for measuring the reflectance of sub surface soil in real-time while attached to a moving vehicle is disclosed. Reflectance measurements from the apparatus can be related to the organic matter content of the soil. The apparatus is housed in a corrosion resistant enclosure having field rebuildable wear surfaces. The wear surfaces help extend the life of the apparatus by isolating the apparatus's main enclosure from soil abrasion. The wear surfaces also assist in conditioning the sensed soil surface by smoothing the surface prior to sensing. Signal conditioning circuitry in the apparatus is utilized to reject the influence of ambient light in the advent that the soil/apparatus interface opens. A digital processor or other “intelligent controller” is utilized in the apparatus to auto calibrate the apparatus in real-time and/or use predetermined tables or mathematical relationships in order to convert reflectance information into organic matter measurements. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102799 | Multi-Grating Biosensor For Label-Independent Optical Readers - A multi-grating resonant waveguide (RWG) biosensor for an optical reader system having a spatial resolution limit is disclosed. The multi-grating RWG biosensor includes one or more signal-grating regions and one or more reference-grating regions. The multi-grating RWG biosensor can also include a non-resonance region that spatially separates the one or more signal-grating regions, that spatially separates the one or more reference-grating regions, and that spatially separates the one or more reference-grating regions from the one or more signal-grating regions. The non-resonance region can have a minimum width greater than the optical reader system spatial resolution limit. The RWG biosensor can have an asymmetric split-grating configuration. Methods of measuring a signal resonant wavelength of a multi-grating RWG biosensor using an optical reader having a spatial resolution limit are also disclosed. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102800 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICE PACKAGES - An environmental condition sensing device includes an interferometric modulator with optical properties, which change in response to being exposed to a predetermined environmental threshold or condition. The device includes an environmental reactive layer, which alters composition, in an optically-detectable manner, in response to being exposed to a predetermined environmental threshold or condition. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102801 | DETERMINING AND COMPENSATING FOR MODULATOR DYNAMICS IN INTERFEROMETRIC FIBER-OPTIC GYROSCOPES - Determining linear modulator dynamics in an interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope may be accomplished by applying a stimulus at a point within the gyroscope, observing a response in an output of the gyroscope, and determining, from the observed response, the linear modulator dynamics. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102802 | Systems for Comprehensive Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (FDOCT) and Related Methods - Optical coherence tomography systems for imaging a whole eye are provided including a sample arm including focal optics that are configured to rapidly switch between at least two scanning modes in less than about 1.0 second. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102803 | IN-LINE SINGLE FIBER MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER - A single fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer comprises an optical fiber having a core region and a cladding surrounding the core region, and a micro-cavity having part of the cladding and the core region removed, wherein the micro-cavity is adapted to receive a light beam and separate the light beam into a first light beam that propagates through the micro-cavity in an unguided mode, and a second light beam that propagates through the core region in a guided mode. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102804 | PASSIVELY-THERMALLY-STABILIZED PHOTONIC APPARATUS, METHOD, AND APPLICATONS - Apparatus and methods that compensate for the thermally-induced drift of the resonance frequency of a closed-loop resonator include, in an exemplary embodiment, a waveguide-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and an overcoupled, waveguide-based microring resonator. The temperature-induced red-shifting ring resonance can be balanced by a spectral blueshift with temperature of the MZI. To stabilize the resonance of the ring at a given wavelength, the change in optical path lengths with temperature of the ring and the MZI should be equal and opposite. The interplay of nonlinear change in phase of ring resonator with temperature and linear change in phase of MZI with temperature, along with matching the period of this phase change, gives rise to perfect oscillation in the combined system resonance with temperature. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102805 | MEASURING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a measuring apparatus for measuring an absolute distance between a reference surface and a test surface, including a phase detection unit configured to detect an interference signal between light reflected by the reference surface and light reflected by the test surface, and detect, from the interference signal, a phase corresponding to an optical path length between the reference surface and the test surface, and a processing unit configured to perform processing of obtaining the absolute distance by controlling the phase detection unit so as to detect the phase corresponding to the optical path length between the reference surface and the test surface for each of a first reference wavelength and a second reference wavelength while changing the wavelength of light to be emitted by a first light source continuously from the first reference wavelength to the second reference wavelength. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102806 | IMPROVED INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEISMIC EXPLORATION - A interferometer apparatus for studying the surface of an object, the apparatus comprising a source producing an object beam of coherent light, a source producing a reference beam which is coherent with the object beam, and a detector or a plurality of detectors arranged in a line or array, wherein the apparatus is arranged such that the object beam is diverging or substantially collimated, and wherein, in use the diverging or substantially collimated object beam is directed towards the surface of the object to produce a reflected object beam reflected from the surface of the object, the detector(s) is/are focused to a point beneath the surface of the object, and the reflected object beam is combined with the reference beam and detected by the detector(s). Also provided is a corresponding method for conducting an interferometric study of the surface of an object. The surface of the object may be a sea floor, and the interferometer apparatus may be for studying the movement of particles on the sea floor in response to a seismic event. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102807 | Detection Methods and Systems - A method for obtaining a measurement in an in-line system for detecting presence of an out-of-parameter part is provided. The method includes conveying a tubular member to a detection system comprising a laser sensor arranged and configured to direct a beam of light onto an upper end surface of the tubular member for obtaining a measurement. The laser sensor is offset from a center of the tubular member such that the beam of light is directed onto an outer side of the upper end surface. The beam of light is directed onto the upper end surface at the outer side of the tubular member and the beam of light moves from a front quadrant of the upper end surface to a rearward quadrant of the upper end surface. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102808 | COMPENSATION OF MEASUREMENT ERRORS DUE TO DYNAMIC DEFORMATIONS IN A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE - A measuring machine comprising a mobile unit provided with a plurality of members mobile along co-ordinate axes for moving a measurement sensor in a measurement volume, in which a laser sensor is associated to a mobile member and supplies values correlated with the dynamic deformation of the mobile unit; said values are processed for compensating for the measurement errors of the machine following upon the dynamic deformations. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102809 | APPARATUS DETECTING A POSITION OF A FUNCTIONAL LAYER ON AN ELECTRODE - An apparatus detecting the position of the functional layer of the electrode plate includes a first electrode plate sensor disposed at a side of a material to sense start points of electrode plates continuously formed on the material at uniform intervals, a second electrode plate sensor disposed at an other side of the material to sense a length of the electrode plate, a functional layer sensor provided behind the first electrode plate sensor and the second electrode plate sensor above a material traveling direction to sense position and length of the functional layer formed on the electrode by sensing a difference in color, and a controller feeding back a feedback result indicating whether the functional layer is correctly coated through values sensed by the first electrode plate sensor, the second electrode plate sensor, and the functional layer sensor. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102810 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATERIAL PROCESSING USING A TRANSPARENT CONTACT ELEMENT - A method of preparing an apparatus for material processing by generating optical breakthroughs in an object. The apparatus includes a variable focus adjustment device. A contact element is mounted to the apparatus, the contact element has a curved contact surface having a previously known shape. The position of the contact surface is determined prior to processing the object, by focusing measurement laser radiation near or on the surface by the variable focus adjustment device, and the focus position is adjusted in a measurement surface intersecting the expected position of the contact surface. Radiation from the focus of the measurement laser radiation is confocally detected. The position of points of intersection between the measurement surface and the contact surface is determined from the confocally detected radiation to determine the position of the contact surface from the position of the points of intersection and the previously known shape of the contact surface. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102811 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING CYLINDRICALLY-SHAPED OBJECT AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING TIRE APPEARANCE - A measuring apparatus for automatically measuring the height, the dimensions of the inner and outer surfaces, and the shape of a cylindrically-shaped object. The measuring apparatus includes a measuring head vertically moving along a positioning guide supported by a support post integral with a measuring table, a height displacement measuring device, which comprises a laser distance meter provided on the measuring table, and an arithmetic processing unit. The measurement starts as the measuring head is raised by a weight from a measuring start position of the measuring table. The inner and outer surfaces of a tire are measured based on the measurements by an inner surface measuring device provided with three laser distance meters mounted to the measuring head and an outer surface measuring device having a laser distance meter and the displacement change measurement of the measuring head by the height displacement measuring device. Required dimensional values are calculated from the measured values, using the arithmetic processing unit. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102812 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THICKNESS OF MULTILAYER FILM - There is provided a method of measuring a physical thickness of each of layers of a multilayer film, based on an optical thickness thereof. The method includes: (a) setting refractive indexes of the layers; (b) calculating a coefficient matrix using the refractive indexes; (c) providing light to the multilayer film so as to measure the optical thickness based on the light reflected by the multilayer film; and (d) calculating the physical thickness, based on the optical thickness and the coefficient matrix. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102813 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS, MOVEMENT DETECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A movement detection apparatus acquires a displacement direction and an amount of displacement of a template region in the first image data that is displaced in the second image data in a direction orthogonal to a direction of a movement of an object. Based on the acquired displacement direction and the amount of displacement, a position at which the template pattern is clipped in the direction is set. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102814 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An apparatus extracts a template pattern from first data, and seek an area having a correlation with the template pattern among areas in second data to obtain an amount of movement of an object, and corrects the amount of movement by using a shift amount of the object during a time lag between the generation timing of a trigger signal for acquiring data by using a sensor, and the imaging timing. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102815 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - The movement detection apparatus acquires a movement state of an object by clipping a template pattern from first image data and seeking a region having a high correlation with the template pattern in second image data. The movement detection apparatus performs at least one of first processing, which analyzes the first image data, and second processing, which analyzes a relationship between the first image data and third image data acquired after the first image data has been acquired and before the second image data is acquired, and sets a position at which the template patter is clipped. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102816 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyance mechanism includes a conveyance belt having a detection pattern containing a plurality of isolated patterns. The shape of the plurality of isolated patterns contained in the detection pattern, the size of a template area from which a template pattern is to be extracted, and the size of a seek area are associated with each other so that a part of the detection pattern contained in the template pattern extracted from first image data invariably serves as a unique pattern in the seek area of second image data. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102817 | IMAGE ON PAPER REGISTRATION USING IMAGE MARKS - An image transfer assembly and method capable of adjusting the registration of an image printed on paper. A first image location being determined on at least one first sheet by measuring for each of at least three corners of a first sheet the distance between the two adjoining edges of the respective corners to a portion of at least one first fiducial mark. For each of the measured first sheet corners the measured portion of the at least one first fiducial mark is closer to that respective corner than any other of the first sheet corners. Then a second image to be transferred is adjusted by changing, relative to at least one second sheet, at least one of a size, shear, position and orientation of the second image based on the determined first image location. The adjusted second image being then printed on the second sheet(s). | 2011-05-05 |
20110102818 | DYNAMIC FIELD TRANSFER CONTROL IN FIRST TRANSFER - Multi-color document processing systems and operating methods are disclosed to control retransfer by providing a user-selected secondary operating mode in which marking devices not needed for a particular print job are disabled and one or more required devices are operated at reduced transfer field levels for the first transfer of marking material onto an intermediate transfer structure. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102819 | Printer and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Controlling the Same - A printer is provided that includes a printing unit, a detector that outputs a detection signal corresponding to one of a remaining amount of coloring agent and a consumed amount of coloring agent, and a controller configured to perform a switching process. In the switching process, when determining, based on the detection signal, that a usable amount of coloring agent is more than a first reference value, the controller controls the printing unit to perform a normal printing operation to print an original image based on image data. Meanwhile, in the switching process, when determining, based on the detection signal, that the usable amount of coloring agent is equal to or less than the first reference value, the controller controls the printing unit to perform a show-through cancellation printing operation to print an image that is formed by removing an image recognized as a show-through image from the original image. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102820 | INPUT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING INPUT APPARATUS - An input apparatus configured to change a set value continuously, comprising: an operating key configured to be pressed; a detector configured to detect press of the operation key; a calculation portion configured to sequentially add or subtract a first variable to or from the set value during the press of the operation key and sequentially add or subtract a second variable greater than the first variable to or from the set value after a number of calculations with the first variable exceeds a first threshold number; and a change portion configured to change the operating key in colour from a first hue to a second hue, when the number of the calculations with the first variable exceeds a second threshold number smaller than the first threshold number. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102821 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A first color value of a printing medium under a first light source which emits first light including light in an ultraviolet region and at a first temperature is obtained from either a measured data table or a measurement section. A second color value of the printing medium under the first light source and at a second temperature different from the first temperature is obtained from either the measured data table or the measurement section. A color value of the printing medium at a viewing temperature, which is different from the first and second temperatures, is estimated from the obtained first and second color values. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102822 | PAGE DESCRIPTION DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PAGE DESCRIPTION DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Before page description data are input to a raster image processor (RIPa) that plots an overprint of a shading object in process colors in the nonzero overprint mode, the page description data are converted into robustized page description data wherein minimum values of process colors are replaced with small values which are not of 0. The robustized page description data are input to the RIPa. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102823 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus carries out a combining process in which a part of an original image is whitened and a target image to be combined is superimposed over the whitened part. The image processing apparatus receives a command to specify a color of an unnecessary region of the stamp image including the target image to be combined which region is not to be superimposed over the original image in the combining process. Then, the image processing apparatus receives a command to define a necessary region of a specified color region of the stamp image which necessary region should not be defined as the unnecessary region, the specified color region being constituted by pixels indicating the color specified by the command. Further, the image processing apparatus carries out the combining process, assuming that the unnecessary region is a region of the stamp image which region is obtained by excluding the necessary region from the specified color region and the target image to be combined is a region other than the unnecessary region in the stamp image. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102824 | ADJUSTING COLORANTS SPECIFIED IN A DIGITAL IMAGE - A method for making a device link ( | 2011-05-05 |
20110102825 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING A PLURALITY OF CONTROL UNITS - A plurality of control units is configured to control a executing unit to execute each function in one of a plurality of performance modes. Each control unit is configured to be capable of switching an operational state thereof between a running state and a halt state. A plurality of combinations of the operation states for the control units are different from one performance mode to another. At least one control unit of the plurality of control units is in the running state in each performance mode. The plurality of performance modes have different performance levels. A selecting unit selects one of the plurality of performance modes based on the function corresponding to the at least one instruction. The plurality of control units controls the executing unit to execute the function corresponding to the at least one instruction in the one of the plurality of performance modes. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102826 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a user information acquiring unit, a scanner, a display, a processing unit, and a printer. The user information acquiring unit acquires user information. The scanner scans a document image added with a tracking ID. The display displays a list of selectable destinations according to the tracking ID extracted from the image scanned by the scanner and the user information acquired by the user information acquiring unit. The processing unit acquires the tracking ID added to a print for destinations selected out of the list of the destinations displayed on the display and acquires print data obtained by combining the acquired tracking ID and the document image scanned by the scanner. The printer prints the print data acquired by the processing unit on a recording medium. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102827 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH OPERATIONAL CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED, ELECTRICAL DEVICE, AND OPERATIONAL CONTROL SYSTEM - An information processing device has a parts selection instruction receiving portion that receives from an operator a selection instruction of display object parts to be displayed on a screen for receiving an instruction from an operator. A job selection instruction receiving portion receives from an operator a selection instruction of a job that is executable by an electrical device and is associated with the display object parts indicated by the display object parts selection instruction. An external service selection instruction receiving portion receives from an operator a selection instruction of a service executable by an external device other than the electrical device and associated with the display object parts indicated by the display object parts selection instruction. A screen data generation portion generates screen data of the display screen based on content determined by the parts selection instruction, the job selection instruction, and the service selection instruction. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102828 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an image forming system includes a printing unit and a copying unit. The printing unit selects, during printing on a recording medium, whether printing information or a background is rendered with first dots having a size set in advance or rendered with second dots larger than the first dots and prints the printing information or the background. The copying unit selects, during copying of the recording medium on which the printing information or the background is rendered by the printing unit, whether the first dots rendered on the recording medium are erased or density of the second dots is increased. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102829 | IMAGE SIZE WARNING - A method of detecting and indicating to a user of an application for image printing that an image is unsuitable for printing. Unsuitability for printing of an image typically will be triggered when print size and image resolution are mismatched. Novel user interface algorithms assist the user to correctly modify an image in order to satisfy suitability requirements. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102830 | SETTING CHANGING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A setting changing device includes a display controller, a receiver, and a changing section. The display controller displays a designation screen for at least one of a first designation that designates a first item and an initial value of the first item; a second designation that designates a second item that prohibits changing via the setting screen by a user; or a third designation that designates a third item that prohibits displaying on the setting screen for users. The changing section, on the basis of the at least one of the first designation, second designation and third designation, (a) changes respective settings of the target device drivers, or, (b) generates for each of changeable setting items of the target device drivers, setting data that is referenced by device drivers when the setting screen is displayed. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102831 | IMAGE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE, IMAGE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image information transmission device includes a registration unit, a storage unit, a determination unit, and an image information transmission unit. The registration unit registers an image information transmission instruction describing a destination number specifying a destination of image information and an abbreviated number corresponding to the destination number. The storage unit stores the destination number and transmission setting information used for transmitting the image information to the destination specified by the destination number. The determination unit determines whether or not the destination number described in the image information transmission instruction is contained in the destination number. The image information transmission unit transmits the image information. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102832 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a prohibition unit, an execution unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus. The prohibition unit prohibits the communication unit from communicating with the external apparatus when a command for executing initialization with respect to the image forming apparatus is specified. The execution unit executes a process for accepting set information of the initialization when the prohibition unit prohibits the communication unit from communication with the external apparatus. The control unit executes a process for informing that the initialization should be executed when an elapsed time of a waiting state where input of the set information is not executed exceeds a given period. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102833 | Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus utilization system, and method for generating image data - An image forming apparatus reading documents based on a scenario and generating image data to transmit the image data with the scenario includes a scenario retrieving unit retrieving scenarios from a scenario storage device; a scenario reception unit receiving the retrieved scenarios; a plural scenario selection identification unit determining whether plural scenarios are received; a scenario destination acquisition unit acquiring, if the plural scenarios are received, delivery destination information from the received the plural scenarios; a duplicated scenario destination identification unit determining whether duplicated delivery destination information is in the acquired delivery destination information; a scenario processing unit carrying out, if the duplicated delivery destination information is contained, processing on one of the plural scenarios to create a processed scenario to transmit the image data once to a destination of the duplicated delivery destination information; and a scenario registration request unit storing the processed scenario in the scenario storage device. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102834 | PRINTING MANAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING MANAGING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a printing managing apparatus includes a log memory, an allowed amount memory, a counting unit, a calculating unit, and an output unit. The log memory stores, in association with user identification information, information indicating a sheet printed by an image forming apparatus according to an instruction of a user or information indicating a sheet discarded by the user. The allowed amount memory stores allowed amounts of sheets usable by users. The counting unit counts the number of un-discarded sheets among sheets printed by a certain user stored by the log memory. The calculating unit calculates a usage ratio of sheets from the number of un-discarded sheets counted by the counting unit and the allowed amount of sheets for the user stored by the allowed amount memory. The output unit outputs information including the usage ratio of sheets calculated by the calculating unit. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102835 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A first processor converts print data of a predetermined logical page to be printed on a first print sheet into an intermediate code, and a second processor converts print data of a logical page other than the predetermined logical page to be printed on the first print sheet into an intermediate code. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102836 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus which has a display device includes a display control unit and a launching unit. The display control unit may cause the display device to display a device management screen corresponding to an image processing apparatus. The launching unit may input identification information indicating launching in response to an instruction via the device management screen to an application associated with the image processing apparatus. In addition, the launching unit may launch the application associated with the device management screen according to the instruction input via the device management screen displayed on the display device by the display control unit. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102837 | PRINT SYSTEM - A controller able to communicate with print devices each of which is configured to print a file on a medium, includes: a storage; a folder specifying unit configured to specify a folder stored in the storage as a print target folder; a destination specifying unit configured to specify one of the print devices as a destination print device; a file analyzing unit configured to analyze a format of each of print target files, which are all files in all hierarchical levels in the print target folder, and to determine whether each print target file is a printable file formats which has one of formats printable by the destination print device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the destination print device, the printable format file. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102838 | Printer Driver, Printer Control Method, and Recording Medium - A printer driver, printer control method, and printer control program can prevent a printer from operating in unintended ways even when an old version of an application that is not multi-application capable is executed through a new version of a dedicated driver that is multi-application capable. A printer driver | 2011-05-05 |
20110102839 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT STORES PLURAL PRINT JOBS, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In a network printer, in order to handle tincture variations, if all the waiting print jobs are held in two types of formats, that is, PDL and half-tone print data generated by expanding the PDL, a required memory capacity is increased. Moreover, if the tincture variations occurs, all the waiting print jobs need rendering again. When the print job is to be stored, the received PDL is expanded, continuous-tone data is generated, and the continuous-tone data is JPEG-compressed. If a compression rate is high, the print job (print image data) is stored in the JPEG format. Even if the compression rate is low, storage of only the PDL or of PDL and the half-tone print data is selected according to expansion time of the PDL. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102840 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus equipped with a processing apparatus which requires a warm-up operation of a predetermined time and performs a predetermined processing to an image-formed sheet includes: a control section to specify whether each of a plurality of input jobs is a first job requiring the processing by the processing apparatus or a second job performing no processing by the processing apparatus, and to determine an execution order of the jobs so that a plurality of first jobs are successively executed when the first jobs are input in addition to the second job; and an image forming section to sequentially execute the jobs in accordance with the execution order of the jobs which is determined by the control section. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102841 | Information equipment and image forming apparatus effectively displaying specific information and method of display - In an image forming apparatus, in order to appropriately notify a user of useful information when a screen saver is cancelled by an operation by the user, a CPU of the image forming apparatus executes a program including the step of: displaying, if the user does not make any operation in a time period of a predetermined length, a screen saver using read display information; displaying, if a user makes any operation while the screen saver is displayed, read end information; and displaying, if the user makes any operation before the time is up while the end information is displayed or if the time is up without user operation, an initial image of the image forming apparatus. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102842 | ELECTRONIC BLACKBOARD - A writing medium includes a board surface on which drawing is executed. A reader reads a drawing object drawn on the writing medium. A power supply switch is located at a front side of an electronic blackboard to execute an on/off operation of the electronic blackboard. A data port is located right above the power supply switch to output the read drawing data to a removable exterior storage medium. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102843 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The above object is achieved by an image forming apparatus connected to a network and used for forming an image on a sheet, comprising: a 1st obtaining unit operable to obtain via the network, with respect to each of one or more image files related to an authenticated user, (i) a corresponding identification information piece and (ii) a corresponding storage-destination information piece indicating a storage destination; a display unit operable to display the obtained identification information pieces; a receiving unit operable to receive a specification of, among the displayed identification information pieces, an identification information piece for an image file that the authenticated user desires to obtain; and a 2nd obtaining unit operable to obtain, via the network, the desired image file corresponding to the specified identification information piece from a storage destination indicated by a storage-destination information piece of the desired image file. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102844 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE HAVING DIVISION MANAGEMENT FUNCTION - In a case where both a division management function which counts the number of pages printed for each division and a color management function which counts the only number of chromatically printed pages for each division are valid, an image forming device executes monochromatic printing even if a division to which a user belongs who has requested the printing is not determined, and executes color printing after the division to which the user belongs who has requested the printing is determined. Furthermore, the image forming device counts the number of monochromatically printed pages by a division undefined counter which is not associated with a specific division, and counts the number of chromatically printed pages by a division counter corresponding to the division to which the user belongs who has requested the printing. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102845 | METHOD OF PRINTING A COPY OF A PREVIOUSLY PRINTED DOCUMENT - A method is disclosed of printing copy of a document previously printed. The method starts by printing a list of documents previously printed by printing a list of history items and coded data associated with respective history items. Each history item corresponds to one of a plurality of documents previously printed. A sensing device then senses the coded data associated with one of the history items, and a computer system receives request data from the sensing device. The request data is dependent upon the coded data sensed by the sensing device. A copy of the document previously printed corresponding to the history item associated with the coded data sensed by the sensing device is retrieved and printed. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102846 | Apparatus for, and Method of, Forming Parenthesized Image; Apparatus for, and Method of, Forming Externally Framed Image; Program; and Memory Medium - Outline font data showing the original outside shape having a single closed curve made up of a parenthesized outside shape portion of the parenthesized image and a connecting line portion to connect both open ends is stored. The height and line width are determined. Based on the above data, a first-size solidly shaded image is formed having the determined height and is entirely filled inside the original outside shape thereof with effective pixels of logic “1.” A second-size solidly shaded image is formed of a second size which is smaller by the line width than the first-size solidly shaded image, along the parenthesized outside shape portion. Non-equivalence operation is performed with corresponding pixels by displacing the first-size solidly shaded image and the second-size solidly shaded image by the line width along the parenthesized outside shape portion. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102847 | ROTATED HALFTONE SCREEN GEOMETRY THAT AVOIDS BEAT-BASED BANDING - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for reproducing an image using one or more halftone screens for one or more respective colorants in the methods and apparatus reducing the beating of one or more excitation frequencies with one or more harmonic frequencies associated with the halftone screens. According to an exemplary method, one or more halftone screens are selected such that the fundamental frequency of an excitation frequency coincides with a harmonic frequency of a halftone screen. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102848 | MEMORY EFFICIENT HIERARCHICAL ERROR DIFFUSION WITH COLOR CONSISTENCY CONSTRAINTS - A halftoning process for printing digital images includes: receiving CMYK input pixel data that define an input pixel of an input digital image in terms of continuous tone input data values for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black colors, wherein I(C), I(M), I(Y), I(K) respectively correspond to the continuous tone input data value for the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black colors; converting the CMYK input pixel data to modified CMYKRGB* pixel data that define the input pixel in terms of error-adjusted continuous tone data values for the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black colors, and also in terms of red, green and blue colors, wherein I*(C), I*(M), I*(Y), I*(K), I*(R), I*(G), I*(B) respectively correspond to the error-adjusted converted continuous tone input data values for the cyan, magenta, yellow, black, red, green, blue colors; quantizing the modified CMYKRGB* pixel data to derive intermediate output CMYKRGB pixel data in which the cyan, magenta, yellow, black, red, green, and blue colors are each defined by either a first quantized value that represents no color or a second quantized pixel value that represents full color, wherein O′(C), O′(M), O′(Y), O′(K), O′(R), O′(G), O′(B) respectively define said intermediate output pixel data for the cyan, magenta, yellow, black, red, green, and blue colors, and wherein the intermediate output CMYKRGB pixel data define an output pixel that corresponds to the input pixel; converting the intermediate output CMYKRGB pixel data to CMYK output data in which the output pixel is defined in terms of CMYK output values O(C), O(M), O(Y), O(K) respectively for the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black colors, wherein each of the CMYK output values is defined by either a first output value representing no color or a second output value representing full color. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: a ground image producing unit which produces a ground image that determines a print position of an information image; a ground image printing unit which prints the ground image produced by the ground image producing unit, with a printing color material which does not have a sensitivity in a reading wavelength of a reading apparatus that reads the information image; and an information image printing unit which prints the information image at a print position that is determined by the ground image printed by the ground image printing unit. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102850 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - When at least one of first image data and second image data is captured, according to a moving speed of an object while an image sensor is capturing an image, exposure time for capturing the image is controlled to decrease a difference between object blur widths in a direction in which the object moves. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102851 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TO CORRECT A REGISTRATION ERROR IN A PRINTING PROCESS THAT IS DUE TO DEFORMATION OF THE RECORDING MEDIUM - In a method to correct a registration error in a printing process, data of first and second images to be printed are subjected to a raster image process via which at least first and second raster graphics are generated. Control data for a print member or two respective print members are formed from the first and the second raster graphics. A recording medium is printed in a first printing process with the control data of the first image. The recording medium is subjected to a treatment via which the recording medium and the first image deform along at least one deformation axis. The recording medium is printed by the print member with the control data of the second image in a second printing process. To avoid a registration error between the first and second printed images, the control data of the respective raster graphic of at least one of the first and the second print images as a source image are processed along an image processing axis of the respective raster graphic that corresponds to the deformation axis, and wherein respective source pixels to be used for the respective raster graphic are selected stochastically from the source image in a direction transverse to the image processing axis. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102852 | SUSAN-BASED CORNER SHARPENING - This closure provides image processing methods and apparatus for corner enhancing a digital image for rendering on an image output device. According to an exemplary method, the method determines whether or not image pixels are associated with a corner as a function of the USAN values generated for the image pixels. Subsequently, one or more pixels associated with a corner are modified to render a corner enhanced image. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102853 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an issuing unit, an image creating unit, a code creating unit, a first storage unit, and an image forming unit. The issuing unit issues identification information for each image. The image creating unit creates one image for image formation in which the plural images for which the identification information are arranged. The code creating unit creates one code image by encoding information including the plural pieces of identification information for the plural images arranged in the image for image formation. The first storage unit stores the number of times of image formation for each image arranged in the image for image formation, in association with the identification information for each image issued by the issuing unit. The image forming unit forms an image including the image for image formation and the code image on one sheet. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102854 | IMAGE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed are an image-providing system and an image-providing method, the image-providing system to provide an image to a mobile terminal, the system including at least one image acquisition device including an identification unit which detects identification information to identify a user and an image pickup unit which takes an image including the user corresponding to the detected identification information when the identification unit detects the identification information; and a server which transmits the image taken by the image acquisition device to the mobile terminal based on predetermined transmission information. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102855 | IMAGE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A modem transmission level and modem sensitivity which are communication control information corresponding to the connection form of each destination device are registered in advance in a destination information storage unit so as to be correlated with an abbreviated dialing number of the destination. When a communication instruction using an abbreviated dialing number is received, if a modem transmission level and modem sensitivity are registered in the destination information storage unit as corresponding to the received abbreviated dialing number, the modem is controlled based on those registered modem transmission level and modem sensitivity. If neither a modem transmission level or modem sensitivity is registered as corresponding to the received abbreviated dialing number, the modem is controlled according to a modem transmission level and modem sensitivity that are registered in advance in the apparatus. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102856 | Computer Readable Medium Having Facsimile Driver Program Facsimile System and Computer Executable Method Using The Facsimile Driver Program - A computer readable medium having a computer program product stored thereon, the computer program product including instructions for ordering a computer to perform the following steps. The steps include a first receiving step of receiving a facsimile command from a client device configured to executes a facsimile application program, a first determining step of determining whether or not to allow communication with a facsimile device based on a predetermined condition when receiving the facsimile command at the first receiving step, and a transferring step of transferring the facsimile command received at the first receiving step to the facsimile device when the communication is allowed at the first determining step. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102857 | APPARATUS FOR STORING DATA TO HIGH PRIORITY REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE - An apparatus for storing data to a removable storage device includes a controlling unit, an image processing unit and a connecting interface. The image processing unit, electrically connected to the controlling unit, generates image data. The connecting interface is electrically connected to the controlling unit. The controlling unit sets the removable storage device as a default output destination of the image data in response to detection of the removable storage device connected to the connecting interface. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102858 | LAYOUT EDITING SYSTEM, LAYOUT EDITING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A plurality of types of layout data which are used to edit a layout and have laid-out image frames are stored in a memory. An original on an original table is read to generate original image data. The number of originals on the original table is detected. Based on the detected number of originals, layout data used to edit the layout is selected from the plurality of types of stored layout data. The generated original image data is laid out using the selected layout data. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102859 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided, which are useful for faithfully reproducing luster even if a luminance reproduction range of an output apparatus is brighter than the luminance reproduction range of an input apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a luster region determination unit configured to determine a luster region included in an input image based on a luminance value of the input image, a luminance correction value calculation unit configured to calculate a luminance correction value of the luster region, and a corrected image generation unit configured to generate an output image by adding the luminance correction value to the luminance value of the input image. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102860 | DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING TYPES OF DOCUMENT FILES - According to one embodiment, a device for identifying types of document files includes an extraction unit, an evaluation unit, and a document type identification unit. The extraction unit extracts document feature information indicating distinguishing information for a document included in a document file. The evaluation unit verifies the validity of the document feature information extracted by the extraction unit. The document type identification unit identifies a type of the document file corresponding to the document feature information extracted by the extraction unit if the document feature information is valid. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102861 | Mobile optical scanning system - A self-contained mobile optical scanning system having an image scanner contained within a hollow inside space defined by mated engagement of an upper housing and a lower housing having corresponding upper and lower transparent windows having reduced margins and a scanning control interface rotatable through the enclosed space which allows scanning through the upper transparent window in either the upright or inverted condition by alignment of viewable indicator marks and overlap indicators in relation to an article which allows stitched alignment of a plurality of scanning cycles to generate images embeddable with metadata or data files. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102862 | Illuminating device - A illuminating device used for an document reading apparatus that has two rod shape light guides and light emitting elements where each of the light guides has a light emitting face and two flat light reflection faces, which may have a group of minute prisms that are formed along the longitudinal direction of the faces, and where light from each light emitting element is guided in the longitudinal direction by the light guide and reflected by that faces, such that the light is emitted from the light emitting face of each light guide and a virtual plane that is vertical to a longitudinal direction of each of the two light guides has two light intensity peaks. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102863 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - In one embodiment, an image reading apparatus has a light source configured with a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed in a row in a main scanning direction that irradiate light toward an original, and a photoelectric conversion element that receives light reflected from the original, an output light amount from the light-emitting elements can be adjusted, and a state of bright spots due to repetition of light-dark in the main scanning direction on a light irradiation face of the original due to the plurality of light-emitting elements is determined, and the output light amount from the light-emitting elements is adjusted based on the determination result of the state of the bright spots. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102864 | IMAGE READER, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - An image reader is provided, which includes a feeder feeding a document sheet, a first reading sensor, a first reference member, a moving mechanism moving the first reading sensor to a document reading position to read an image of the document sheet and a reference reading position to read an image of the first reference member, and a controller that controls the moving mechanism to move the first reading sensor to the reference reading position, controls the first reading sensor to read the image of the first reference member, and controls the moving mechanism to move the first reading sensor to the document reading position after the first reading sensor reads the image of the first reference member. The controller controls the feeder to start feeding the document sheet to the document reading position before the first reading sensor reaches the document reading position from the reference reading position. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102865 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide an image reading apparatus that has a simple mechanism for ejecting dust collected from a transparent member by a cleaner to the outside, thereby preventing stripe noise from being mixed into read image data. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102866 | AUTOMATED SOURCING FOR MULTIPLE PRINTING PRESS, MULTIPLE WEB PRINTING - A machine-implemented process determines web press printing capabilities and costs of different printing organizations using a processor. The printing capabilities comprise a number of printing units and a number of supply roll stands supplying continuous print media to the printing units. A printing request is received from a print customer through a graphic user interface. The printing request is evaluated using the processor to determine printing request requirements. A comparator compares the printing request requirements with the printing capabilities and costs to identify capable printing organizations of the different printing organizations that have abilities to process the printing request. The processor calculates different print choices and costs based on the printing capabilities and costs of the capable printing organizations and outputs the different print choices and costs to the print customer through the graphic user interface. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102867 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - An image processing apparatus includes a two color process section and a color material usage estimation and calculation section. The two color process section generates, based on input image data of RGB inputted by reading an original document, image data of CMY for outputting a two-color image. The color material usage estimation and calculation section calculates, based on the image data of CMY generated by the two color process section, a usage of color materials used when the two-color image is outputted and generates information concerning the usage of color materials from a result of the calculation. The color material usage estimation and calculation section outputs the generated information concerning the usage of color materials to an image display device. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102868 | IMAGE SCANNER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An aspect of the invention provides an image scanner which can continuously transfer image data of one surface to an external device (image forming apparatus) without performing control such as interruption and resumption of an original scanning operation. The image scanner includes a size detection unit which detects an original size and a determination unit which determines whether or not the image data relating to an original of the size detected by the size detection unit can be stored in a storage unit. The image scanner also includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to set operation in a first mode when the determination unit determines that image data relating to the original can be stored in the storage unit, and the control unit is configured to set operation in a second mode when the determination unit determines that image data relating to the original cannot be stored in the storage unit. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A two color process section included in the image processing apparatus includes a luminance and chroma calculation section, an image-data determination section, and an output-color generation section. The luminance and chroma calculation section calculates a luminance value and a chroma value based on input image data. The image-data determination section determines the input image data, the chroma value of which is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, as first input image data constituting a chromatic color in a two-color image and determines the input image data, the chroma value of which is less than the threshold, as second input image data constituting an achromatic color in the two-color image. The output-color generation section generates image data of CMY from the first input image data based on the chroma value and the luminance value and generates image data of CMY from the second input image data based on the luminance value. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102870 | LIGHT DEFLECTING ELEMENT, LIGHT DEFLECTOR, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A light deflecting element includes: a movable plate provided with a light reflecting section having light reflectivity; a support section; a coupling section adapted to couple the movable plate rotatably to the support section; and a magnet disposed on an opposite surface of the movable plate to the light reflecting section, wherein the coupling section has a shape having a width gradually increasing in a direction from a side of the light reflecting section toward a side of the magnet in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to a rotational axis of the movable plate. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102871 | Micro electro mechanical system using comb and parallel plate actuation - The present invention combines electrostatic comb with parallel plate actuation in a novel design to create a robust low voltage MEMS Micromirror. Other unique advantages of the invention include the ability to close the comb fingers for additional reliability and protection during mirror snapping with over voltage. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102872 | POLYGON MIRROR DEVICE WITH DISCONTINUOUS ANGLES OF REFLECTIONS - Disclosed is a polygon mirror device with discontinuous angles of reflections discontinuously to reflect a light beam from a light source with at least one angle. The polygon mirror device with discontinuous angles of reflections comprises a motor connecting with a base to rotate the base around a rotation axis. The base has an axial end surface to form a reference plane. The reference plane is approximately perpendicular to the rotation axis. A plurality of reflectors is positioned on the reference plane circularly around the rotation axis. The reflectors tilt relative to the reference plane with respective angles to form respective included angles. When the base is rotated around the rotation axis, at least one of the reflectors is moved to a reflecting location for receiving the light beam from the light source and reflects the light beam with an angle of reflection to form an image at a specific place. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102873 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical output level of laser diodes is detected by a photodiode for each of the laser diodes, and this photodiode detection output is used in feedback control of the laser diodes, thereby achieving stabilization of the optical output levels of the laser diodes. Furthermore, feedback control gain and laser diode bias are stored in an EEPROM (nonvolatile memory), and the feedback control is carried out according to arithmetic processing by an integrated circuit using the gain and bias in the EEPROM such that malfunctions of the optical scanning device can be addressed by rewriting the gain and bias in the EEPROM. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102874 | BEAM SCANNING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A scanning type image display apparatus includes a light source unit for emitting a laser beam, a scanning mirror for scanning the laser beam two-dimensionally in a first direction and a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a control unit for controlling driving of the scanning mirror. The control unit drives the scanning mirror such that a scanning frequency in the first direction is higher than a scanning frequency in the second direction, and varies a scanning amplitude in the first direction by varying the scanning frequency in the first direction in synchronization with a period of the scanning frequency in the second direction. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102875 | OPTICAL SWITCH AND OPTICAL SWITCH DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - Provided is an optical switch member including a bi-stable mechanism, and first and second electro-thermal actuators. The bi-stable mechanism includes a curved-beam disposed on a bending portion of a first cantilever, one end of the first cantilever having a driven portion disposed thereon. The first electro-thermal actuator includes a first beam of a first driven arm disposed on the bending portion. The second electro-thermal actuator includes a second beam of a second driven arm disposed on the bending portion. The ends of the first and second driven arms are adjacent to first and second sides of the driven arm, respectively. Also proposed is an optical switch device including a substrate, a third thermal actuator, and the optical switch member disposed on the substrate to form an optical switch device to thereby integrate the optical switch with variable optical attenuators on the substrate. | 2011-05-05 |
20110102876 | DISPLAY DEVICE USING MEMS ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a display device using a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and to a manufacturing method thereof. A display device using a MEMS includes a first substrate comprising a first index of refraction; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a reflective layer formed on the first substrate and having a first aperture; a transparent layer covering the first aperture and comprising a second refractive index; and a shutter arranged on the second substrate, wherein a difference between the first refractive index and the second refractive index is equal to or less than 0.1. | 2011-05-05 |