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20080298826 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive drum, a charging apparatus to which a charging voltage is applied, an exposure apparatus forming an electrostatic image, a developing apparatus to which a development voltage is applied, a timer measuring an image formation time lapsed from start of rotation of the photosensitive drum and an image formation stop time lapsed from stop of the rotation of the photosensitive drum, and a temperature and humidity sensor detecting a temperature and a humidity of an atmosphere environment around the photosensitive drum. When the humidity is low, a charging voltage is controlled based on a measured result of the timer and detected results of the temperature and humidity sensor. When the humidity is high, the charging voltage is controlled based on the measured result of the timer and the temperature detected result of the temperature and humidity sensor without using humidity information. | 12-04-2008 |
20110038646 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a photosensitive member, a charging apparatus to charge a surface of the photosensitive member when applied with a charging voltage, and an exposure apparatus to expose the surface of the photosensitive member after being charged to form an electrostatic image. A developing apparatus attaches a developer to the electrostatic image and develop the electrostatic image as a developer image when applied with a development voltage. An environment measuring apparatus measures information regarding temperature and a time measuring apparatus measures information regarding a photosensitive member rotation time that represents a time during which the photosensitive member is rotated, and information regarding a photosensitive member stop time that represents a time during which the photosensitive member is stopped. A control apparatus controls an image formation condition based on a control mode. | 02-17-2011 |
20140169845 | FIXING DEVICE AND HEATER USED IN FIXING DEVICE - A heater used for a fixing device includes a substrate, first and second conductor patterns formed at either end of the substrate in the short direction of the substrate, a third conductor pattern formed between the first and second conductor patterns and separated from the two conductor patterns, a first heating member disposed between the first and third conductor patterns and electrically connected to the two conductor patterns, and a second heating member disposed between the second and third conductor patterns and electrically connected to the conductor patterns. The heater has both end regions in which the widths of the third conductor pattern in the short direction is smaller than that of a middle portion of the third conductor pattern. The widths of the first and second heating members in the end regions are smaller than the widths of the first and second heating members in the other region, respectively. | 06-19-2014 |
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20100004928 | VOICE/MUSIC DETERMINING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A voice/music determining apparatus is configured to calculate first feature parameters for discriminating between a voice signal and a musical signal; and calculate second feature parameters for discriminating between a musical signal and a background-sound-superimposed voice signal. A first score is calculated to indicate likelihood that the input audio signal is a voice signal or a musical signal as a sum of weight-multiplied first feature parameters. A second score is calculated to indicate likelihood that the input audio signal is a musical signal or a background-sound-superimposed voice signal as a sum of weight-multiplied second feature parameters. It is determined whether the input audio signal is a voice signal or a musical signal on the basis of the first score. Further, it is determined whether the musical signal is the input audio signal is a background-sound-superimposed voice signal on the basis of the second score. | 01-07-2010 |
20110178805 | SOUND QUALITY CONTROL DEVICE AND SOUND QUALITY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a sound quality control device includes: a time domain analysis module configured to perform a time-domain analysis on an audio-input signal; a frequency domain analysis module configured to perform a frequency-domain analysis on a frequency-domain signal; a first calculation module configured to calculate first speech/music scores based on the analysis results; a compensation filtering processing module configured to generate a filtered signal; a second calculation module configured to calculate second speech/music scores based on the filtered signal; a score correction module configured to generate one of corrected speech/music scores based on a difference between the first speech/music score and the second speech/music score; and a sound quality control module configured to control a sound quality of the audio-input signal based on the one of the corrected speech/music scores. | 07-21-2011 |
20120029913 | Sound Quality Control Apparatus and Sound Quality Control Method - According to one embodiment, there is provided a sound quality control apparatus, including: a characteristic parameter extractor; a speech score calculator; a music score calculator; a power value acquisition module; a first storage configured to store speech scores and music scores; a second storage configured to store power values; a power-based score corrector configured to correct a current music score or a current speech score based on a first comparison result between a current power value and past power values, a second comparison result between the current music score and past music scores and a third comparison result between the current speech score and past speech scores; and a sound quality controller configured to perform a sound quality control by using at least one of the speech score and the music score corrected by the power-based score corrector. | 02-02-2012 |
20120070016 | SOUND QUALITY CORRECTING APPARATUS AND SOUND QUALITY CORRECTING METHOD - A sound quality correcting apparatus includes: an input module; a feature quantity calculator; a score calculator; a modulation spectrum power calculator; a score corrector; and a signal corrector. The input module receives an input audio signal. The feature quantity calculator calculates feature quantities of the input audio signal for each of a plurality of first intervals having a certain time length. The score calculator calculates a score value for each the first interval based on the feature quantities. The modulation spectrum power calculator calculates a power value, at a certain modulation frequency, of a modulation spectrum of the input audio signal. The score corrector corrects score values in the plurality of first intervals that belong to a second interval if a power value calculated in the second interval is larger than or equal to a certain value. The signal corrector corrects the audio signal based on the score values. | 03-22-2012 |
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20080205459 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A light source device includes a plurality of light emission sections disposed in parallel with an interval, wherein the interval for the light emission sections near each end portion in an array of the light emission sections is narrower than the interval near a center portion in the array. | 08-28-2008 |
20080253412 | Light source, and image display apparatus, monitoring apparatus, and illumination apparatus using the same - A light source that emits light includes light source units, each emitting a plurality of light beams parallel to one another, the plurality of light beams including first and second light beams, and a beam distance adjustment element that is an optical element made of a light-transmissive material. The beam distance adjustment element is configured to adjust the distance between the first and second light beams. The beam distance adjustment element includes a first incidence plane on which the first light beam is incident, a first exit plane that is parallel to the first incidence plane and from which the first light beam exits, a second incidence plane on which the second light beam is incident, and a second exit plane that is parallel to the second incidence plane and from which the second light beam exits. The first and second light beams intersect in the beam distance adjustment element. | 10-16-2008 |
20090033884 | Projector - A projector that includes a laser beam source that outputs a laser beam that is modulated based on an image signal and a screen on which the light beam is projected. The projector also includes a scanning unit that scans the laser beam within a predetermined surface and a scan monitoring unit that monitors scanning of the scanning unit and outputs a result of the monitoring. The projector further includes a beam light supply stopping unit that controls the laser beam source so as to stop output of the laser beam based on the result of monitoring output by the scan monitoring unit. | 02-05-2009 |
20090059992 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MONITOR DEVICE - A light source device includes a plurality of light emitting elements for emitting light beams, a resonant mirror functioning as a resonator for selectively reflecting the light beams emitted respectively from the light emitting elements, towards the light emitting elements, a wavelength selection element disposed on light paths between the light emitting elements and the resonant mirror, having a plurality of light selection areas for executing selection respectively on the light beams emitted respectively from the light emitting elements, transmitting light beams each having a part of a wavelength band of corresponding one of the light beams emitted respectively from the light emitting elements, and having a narrower width of a wavelength band of the light beam to be transmitted than a width of wavelength band of the light beam to be reflected by the resonant mirror, and a state changing section that changes a state of the plurality of light selection areas, and the state changing section changes the state of the light selection areas so that wavelengths of the light beams selected respectively by the light selection areas become different from each other. | 03-05-2009 |
20090195872 | Screen and projection system - A screen includes a plurality of reflecting portions disposed on a flat surface with a clearance left between one another. The reflecting portions reflect diagonal incident light coming in a predetermined direction other than the normal line direction of the flat surface, and block the diagonal incident light by reflecting the incident light such that the incident light cannot reach each area between the adjoining reflecting portions on the flat surface. | 08-06-2009 |
20140204438 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical device includes a light-conducting member, having a first panel surface disposed facing an image forming unit, that conducts image light incident on a light entry plane formed at an end of the first panel surface to a light exit plane formed in front of the viewer's eye; a first diffractive optics element, provided on the light entry plane, that diffracts the image light incident on the light entry plane in a predetermined direction and transmits that light into the light-conducting member; a second diffractive optics element, provided on the light exit plane, that diffracts the image light exiting from the light exit plane in a predetermined direction and transmits that light to the front of the viewer's eye; and one or more reflective planes disposed within a waveguide for the image light diffracted by the first diffractive optics element. | 07-24-2014 |
20140340749 | Display apparatus - In a display apparatus, image light emitted from an image forming device is incident on an image light incidence portion of a light guide member after being diffracted by a second diffractive optical element, and emitted from an image light emission portion after moving forward in the light guide member. The image light emitted from the image light emission portion is diffracted by a first diffractive optical element and reaches the eyes of an observer. On a position where unnecessary external light is made incident on the light guide member, an external light noise reduction element which has a polarizing member and the like is provided. For this reason, even when the unnecessary external light is made incident on the light guide member, it is possible to inhibit the unnecessary external light from reaching the eye of the observer. | 11-20-2014 |
20150062715 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A first diffraction optical element is disposed on a light incident surface of a light guide, a second diffraction optical element is disposed on a light emitting surface of the light guide, and a reflection layer is disposed on an end surface of the light guide. A diffraction grating of the first diffraction optical element and a diffraction grating of the second diffraction optical element has an inclined portion respectively. The inclined portion of the first diffraction optical element and the inclined portion of the second diffraction optical element are inclined in same direction. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090074738 | 1-SUBSTITUTED-3-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYLATED NITROGENOUS HETERO-CYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND MEDICINES CONTAINING THE SAME - A compound having an SGLT1 and/or SGLT2 inhibitory activity which is usable as an agent for the prevention or treatment of diabetes, postprandial hyperglycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetic complications, obesity, etc. It is a 1-substituted-3-(β-D-glycopyranosyl) nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound represented by the general formula (I), a prodrug thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a hydrate or a solvate thereof; an SGLT inhibitor containing the same; a pharmaceutical composition containing the same and a combination pharmacy of them. In the formula, A represents an alkylene group or alkenylene group; B represents a single bond, —O—, —S— or —NH—; C represents an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group; Q independently represents a carbon atom which a hydrogen atom or a substituent binds to, or a nitrogen atom. | 03-19-2009 |
20100112090 | NITROGENATED FUSED RING DERIVATIVE, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE SAME FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES - [Purpose] The present invention provides compounds useful as agents for the prevention or treatment of a sex hormone-dependent disease or the like. | 05-06-2010 |
20100130514 | FUSED HETEROCYCLIC DERIVATIVE, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE DERIVATIVE, AND USE OF THE COMPOSITION FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES - The present invention provides compounds useful as agents for the prevention or treatment of a sex hormone-dependent disease or the like. That is, the present invention provides fused heterocyclic derivatives represented by the following general formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, medicinal uses thereof and the like. In the formula (I), rings A is 5-membered cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon or 5-membered heteroaryl; R | 05-27-2010 |
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20100238217 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a driving element driven by a driving waveform and a nozzle that ejects liquid. Two first driving waveforms and a second driving waveform are generated in a period to create a driving signal in which the two first and the second driving waveforms are repeatedly generated. When the first driving waveform is applied to the driving element, a first amount of liquid is ejected from the nozzle. When the two first driving waveforms are applied, twice the first amount is ejected. When the second driving waveform is applied, a second amount of liquid larger than the first amount and smaller than twice the first amount is ejected. When the two first driving waveforms and the second driving waveform are applied to the driving element, an amount of liquid smaller than a sum of twice the first amount and the second amount is ejected. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238218 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a driving element driven by a driving waveform and a nozzle that ejects liquid in response to the driving element. A driving signal generator generates the driving waveforms in a period and creates a driving signal in which the driving waveforms are repeatedly generated in each period. The driving signal generator creates the driving signal in which at least two first driving waveforms configured to eject the maximum amount of liquid among amounts of liquid ejected from the nozzle once in the period and at least two second driving waveforms configured to eject a different amount of liquid are generated in each period. The driving signal is such that a temporal interval at which the first driving waveform is generated is closer to the half length of the period than a temporal interval at which the second driving waveform is generated. | 09-23-2010 |
20110109676 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A driving pulse for air bubble removal flushing which is a first maintenance pulse is a driving pulse which removes air bubbles in an ink flow path of a recording head, a driving pulse for thickened ink discharge flushing which is a second maintenance pulse is a driving pulse which removes thickened ink, thereby stabilizing a meniscus, and in a maintenance process which restores ejection capability of the recording head, after an air bubble removal flushing process is executed by using the driving pulse for air bubble removal flushing, a thickened ink discharge flushing process is executed by using the driving pulse for thickened ink discharge flushing. | 05-12-2011 |