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20140233973 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DELETION REDUCING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a heating element, an interior temperature/humidity detection section, and a controller. The heating element is conducted during connection of the image forming apparatus to an external power source to heat an image bearing member. The interior temperature/humidity detection section detects temperature and humidity in the interior of the image forming apparatus. The controller performs a refresh operation when a relative humidity calculated on the basis of the temperature and humidity detected by the interior temperature/humidity detection section immediately after the image forming apparatus is connected to the external power source is higher than the preset value. The refresh operation is an operation for supply of developer from a development device to the image bearing member and for polish of the surface of the image bearing member with the use of a polishing member. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233977 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing unit, a cleaning unit, and a heating element. The heating element for heating the image bearing member includes: a substrate having a length corresponding to an entire region of the image bearing member in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member; and a plurality of resistor chips mounted on the substrate. At least either resistance values or spacing intervals of the resistor chips vary in a longitudinal direction of the substrate to ensure that the surface temperature distribution of the image bearing member heated by the heating element is uniform. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233978 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging unit, a laser scanning unit, a developing unit, a transfer member, a recording medium conveyance path, a cleaning unit, and a heating element. The recording medium conveyance path includes a resin member that forms a conveyance surface. The resin member has a concave portion at a location closer to the transfer member than to the image bearing member. The heating element for heating the image bearing member is accommodated in the concave portion. The heating element is disposed downstream from the contact point between the image bearing member and the transfer member in the conveyance direction in which a recording medium is conveyed through the recording medium conveyance path. The developing unit is located upstream from the contact point between the image bearing member and the transfer member in the conveyance direction of the recording medium. | 08-21-2014 |
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20100220872 | Recording apparatus, recording method, audio signal correction circuit, and program - Disclosed herein is a recording apparatus including: an audio signal correction block configured to execute correction for flattening the frequency characteristic of an audio signal supplied from a microphone and/or correction of the level of the audio signal; a correction control block configured to make the audio signal correction block adjust the level of the audio signal attenuate the reference value with time, and, if an audio signal with a level thereof exceeding the reference value is entered, use the absolute value of the level of the audio signal exceeding the reference value as a new reference value; and a recording block configured to record the audio signal to a recording media. | 09-02-2010 |
20120275619 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An audio signal processing apparatus generates an audio signal having an omni-directivity in the whole circumferential direction, generates an audio signal having a directivity in the right-left direction, generates an audio signal having a directivity in the front-back direction, adds the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the whole circumferential direction by a predetermined coefficient, the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the right-left direction by a predetermined coefficient, and the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the front-back direction by a predetermined coefficient, and generates a unidirectional audio signal. | 11-01-2012 |
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20080304765 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which corrects image data containing an image of a foreign substance, and outputs the corrected image data that has undergone correction as a visible image includes an image pixel count acquisition unit which acquires the number of pixels of the image, an output resolution acquisition unit which acquires information about the resolution of the image to be output to the output device, a foreign substance correction level setting unit which sets the degree of foreign substance correction on the basis of at least the number of pixels acquired by the image pixel count acquisition unit and the information about the resolution acquired by the output resolution acquisition unit, and a foreign substance correction unit which corrects the image of the foreign substance contained in the image data on the basis of the foreign substance correction level set by the foreign substance correction level setting unit. | 12-11-2008 |
20090303339 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing unit having an image sensor, an optical member which is arranged in front of the image sensor, a foreign substance detection unit which detects, from a foreign substance detection image including the image of a foreign substance adhered to the surface of the optical member, a recording unit which, when shooting a moving image, records moving image data generated based on image signals successively output from the image sensing unit, and records foreign substance information and lens information in addition to the moving image data, and a lens information obtaining unit which, when the lens information is updated by operating the imaging lens by a user during moving image shooting, obtains the updated lens information. When the lens information obtaining unit obtains the updated lens information, the recording unit records the updated lens information in addition to the moving image data. | 12-10-2009 |
20100074554 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which corrects input image data based on the image data and foreign substance information containing information on the position and size of a foreign substance includes a correction unit which corrects the influence of the shadow of the foreign substance contained in the image data, based on the image data and the foreign substance information, a still image uniformity determination unit which determines the uniformity of an image in a region around the foreign substance, a moving image uniformity determination unit which determines the uniformity of the image in the region around the foreign substance based on a determination criterion different from one applied to a still image, and a control unit which inhibits correction of the image data when the still image uniformity determination unit or moving image uniformity determination unit determines that the uniformity is less than or equal to a predetermined value. | 03-25-2010 |
20100271492 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - In a printing system in which a printer and digital camera are connected and image data transmitted by the digital camera is received and printed by the printer, the printer transmits information about image correction functions supported by the printer to the digital camera, the digital camera sets image correction parameters based on the transmitted information and stores them in a memory of the digital camera, and before printing the image data, the printer reads out the image correction parameters stored in the memory and corrects the image data to be printed, using the read-out image correction parameters. | 10-28-2010 |
20120274812 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of facilitating a user's check of a focus adjustment state at the time of multiple exposure shooting, and also allowing a user to easily check in what kind of composition an image to be shot now will be combined with an already captured image immediately before shooting. The imaging apparatus includes a display control unit configured to perform control to display a through-the-lens image captured by an imaging unit on a display unit while sequentially updating the through-the-lens image during a focus adjustment, and display a multiple image combination result image generated by combining the through-the-lens image captured by the imaging unit and at least one already captured image on the display unit while sequentially updating the multiple image combination result image after completion of the focus adjustment. | 11-01-2012 |
20130342711 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, an image processing unit, an image quality adjusting unit, and an output unit. The image capture unit generates first image data using an image capture device. The image processing unit generates second image data from the first image data so that an image quality of the second image data corresponds to a flat image quality. The image quality adjusting unit converts the second image data into third image data by adjusting the image quality of the second image data to be a predetermined image quality. The output unit outputs the third image data instead of the second image data to an external apparatus if a predetermined condition is satisfied. | 12-26-2013 |
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20130273393 | STEEL FOR COLD FORGING/NITRIDING, STEEL MATERIAL FOR COLD FORGING/NITRIDING, AND COLD-FORGED/NITRIDED COMPONENT - A steel for cold forging/nitriding has, by mass percent, C: 0.01 to 0.15%, Si≦0.35%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.90%, P≦0.030%, S≦0.030%, Cr: 0.50 to 2.0%, V: 0.10 to 0.50%, Al: 0.01 to 0.10%, N≦0.0080%, and O≦0.0030%, further according to need a specific amount of one or more elements selected from Mo, Cu, Ni, Ti, Nb, Zr, Pb, Ca, Bi, Te, Se and Sb, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and further satisfying the conditions of [399×C+26×Si+123×Mn+30×Cr+32×Mo+19×V≦160], [20≦(669.3×log | 10-17-2013 |
20140034194 | STEEL FOR NITRIDING AND NITRIDED COMPONENT - A steel for nitriding having a chemical composition consisting of, by mass percent, C: 0.07-0.14%, Si: 0.10-0.30%, Mn: 0.4-1.0%, S: 0.005-0.030%, Cr: 1.0-1.5%, Mo: ≦0.05% (including 0%), Al: 0.010% or more to less than 0.10%, V: 0.10-0.25%, optionally at least one element selected from Cu: ≦0.30% and Ni: ≦0.25% [0.61Mn+1.11Cr+0.35Mo+0.47≦2.30], and the balance of Fe and impurities. P, N, Ti and O among the impurities are P: ≦0.030%, N: ≦0.008%, Ti: ≦0.005%, and O: ≦0.0030%. The steel is easily subjected to cutting before nitriding and suitable for use as an automobile ring gear. The nitrided component having a surface hardness of 650-900 HV, core hardness being ≧150 HV, and effective case depth of ≧0.15 mm has excellent bending fatigue strength and surface fatigue strength although the content of Mo is as low as ≦0.05% and has a small amount of expansion caused by nitriding. | 02-06-2014 |
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20150027591 | STEEL MATERIAL FOR NITRIDING AND NITRIDED COMPONENT - A steel material for nitriding has a composition comprising, by mass percent, C: more than 0.15% and not more than 0.35%, Si≦0.20%, Mn: 0.10 to 2.0%, P≦0.030%, S≦0.050%, Cr: 0.80 to 2.0%, V: 0.10 to 0.50%, Al: 0.01 to 0.06%, N≦0.0080%, O≦0.0030%, and optionally one or more elements of Mo, Cu, Ni, Ti, Nb, Zr, Pb, Ca, Bi, Te, Se and Sb, the balance being Fe and impurities. The composition satisfies the conditions of [20≦(669.3×log | 01-29-2015 |
20150053311 | NITRIDED STEEL MEMBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A nitrided steel member including an iron nitride compound layer formed on a surface of a steel member having predetermined components, wherein: in X-ray diffraction peak intensity IFe | 02-26-2015 |
20150059933 | STEEL FOR COLD FORGING/NITRIDING, STEEL MATERIAL FOR COLD FORGING/NITRIDING, AND COLD-FORGED/NITRIDED COMPONENT - A steel comprises, by mass percent, C: 0.10 to 0.15%, Si: not less than 0.02% and less than 0.10%, Mn: more than 0.90% and not more than 2.50%, P≦0.030%, S≦0.050%, Cr: 0.80 to 2.0%, V: 0.05 to 0.50%, Al: 0.01 to 0.07%, N≦0.0080%, O≦0.0030%, and one or more selected from Mo, Cu, Ni, Ti, Nb, Zr, Pb, Ca, Bi, Te, Se and Sb, the balance being Fe and impurities. The composition satisfies [35≦Mn/S≦200], [20≦(669.3×log | 03-05-2015 |