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20090060602 | Image forming apparatus including image processing member determined by method of evaluating distribution of adhesion forces of toner thereto - An image processing member that is included in an image forming apparatus employing method of evaluating and determining adhesion forces thereof, includes an optical writing unit configured to optically write an image, and an image processing member configured to process the image formed by the optical writing unit. The image processing member has good cleaning performance, which is determined by a method of determining a distribution of adhesion forces generated between a surface of the image processing member and a particle of a powder used to reproduce the image in the image forming apparatus in which the adhesion forces are measured at multiple points on the surface of the image processing member. | 03-05-2009 |
20100232839 | Image forming system - A developing unit, which incorporates a developer carrier and can be used in an image forming apparatus incorporated in an image forming system, includes an agitator to agitate a developer including a toner therein, a toner conveyer to convey the developer agitated by the agitator, and a developer carrier disposed facing an image carrier at a development area located between the developer carrier and the image carrier to carry the agitated developer conveyed by the toner conveyer toward a surface thereof to develop a latent image formed on the image carrier into a toner image with the developer at the development area. An adhesion force exerted between the surface of the developer carrier and a toner particle is 100 nN or smaller. The developing unit further includes a supplementary particle supplier and a developer container to mix supplementary particles with the developer therein. | 09-16-2010 |
20110064478 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM CONTAINER INSTALLED THEREIN - An image forming apparatus in which a medium container is installed includes a main body, an image forming unit, a medium container a container body at least partially formed of a deformable material, a drawer to hold the medium container thereon and movable between a first position and a second position, a medium transport unit including a medium outlet port provided on a distal end of the medium container, and a medium receiving unit disposed at the second position of the drawer and connected to the medium transport unit provided on the medium container, and a medium transport facilitator mounted on the drawer to contact the medium container set in the drawer from below to move the medium contained in the medium container toward the medium transport unit at the second position. | 03-17-2011 |
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20100246050 | STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a base, a drive section on the base, configured to rotate a disk storage medium, an actuator mounted with a head for processing data in the storage medium and configured to move the head along a surface of the storage medium, a cover laid over the base, and a plate opposed to the surface of the storage medium in a position outside a range of movement of the actuator. The plate includes a distal end portion located adjacent to the actuator and downstream with respect to a direction of rotation of the storage medium, a block extending from the distal end portion, located outside the outer periphery of the storage medium, and supported on the base side, and an elastically deformable plate arm extending from the block toward the cover and configured to abut an inner surface of the cover. | 09-30-2010 |
20100265615 | STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a clamp ring on a disc, configured to fix the disc to a spindle motor configured to rotate the disc, and a screw configured to fix the clamp ring to the spindle motor, and includes a screw-head and a recess in the screw-head, a center of the recess being decentered from a center of the screw-head. | 10-21-2010 |
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20090231721 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus has light beam emitting units ( | 09-17-2009 |
20090315887 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided an image display apparatus which divides an image into plural partial images, each having a region overlapping an adjacent partial image, and displays each of the plurality of partial images on an associated one of a plurality of displays to allow a viewer to view the partial images as a single image. The image display apparatus receives an image signal corresponding to an image to be displayed, stores the received image signal in a buffer on a partial-image-by-partial-image basis, and corrects the image signal so that correction appropriate to an optical system of a display associated with each of the plurality of partial images is applied to the partial image. The speed of the correction processing is changed for each partial image represented by an image signal stored in the buffer to complete the correction of the whole image in a predetermined amount of time. | 12-24-2009 |
20120155772 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus sequentially detects a feature in an image, sequentially acquires information of the detected feature, compares information of a previous feature detected in a previous frame of the image with information of a current feature detected in a current frame of the image to sequentially determine whether to estimate that the previous feature matches the current feature, and stops the determination to record the information of the feature detected in the previous frame as information of the feature detected in the current frame in a case where the number of previous features estimated to match the current feature is equal to or greater than a predetermined number. | 06-21-2012 |
20140146083 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, which determines, for a combined image obtained by combining pixels of a given first image and pixels of an unknown second image either translucently or non-translucently using an unknown coefficient indicating a transparency, whether each of pixels included in the combined image is a translucently combined pixel, is provided. The image processing apparatus calculates, from pixel values of the combined image and the first image of respective pixels in a predetermined area including one pixel, pixel values of an image corresponding to the second image, calculates a total of differences between the calculated pixel values, identifies a coefficient used to obtain the combined image from the total of the difference, and determines that the one pixel is a translucently combined pixel when a value of the identified coefficient is larger than a predetermined value. | 05-29-2014 |