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20130045694 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system comprises a macro-cell base station (MeNB) and a pico-cell base station (PeNB). The macro-cell base station (MeNB) transmits, to the pico-cell base station (PeNB), a throughput representative value (MT) determined from the throughput of each of a plurality of radio terminals connected to the macro-cell base station (MeNB). The pico-cell base station (PeNB) receives the throughput representative value (MT) from the macro-cell base station (MeNB) and changes a bias value on the basis of the received throughput representative value (MT) and a throughput representative value (PT) determined from the throughput of each of a plurality of radio terminals connected to the pico-cell base station (PeNB), thereby adjusting the coverage of the pico-cell base station (PeNB). | 02-21-2013 |
20130072184 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - Upon receipt of an RLF Indication message indicating a failure in a handover where a radio base station eNB | 03-21-2013 |
20130072201 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station (eNB | 03-21-2013 |
20130072202 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station (eNB | 03-21-2013 |
20130072212 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station eNB | 03-21-2013 |
20130072259 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is a radio base station (eNB | 03-21-2013 |
20130115989 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND BASE STATION PARAMETER-ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A radio base station (eNB | 05-09-2013 |
20130150116 | RADIO COMMUNICATON SYSTEM, NETWORK SIDE DEVICE, SMALL CELL BASE STATION, AND TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD - A large cell base station | 06-13-2013 |
20130201968 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, HIGH-POWER BASE STATION, LOW-POWER BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system | 08-08-2013 |
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20140163762 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - A control apparatus comprises: a first control unit that controls power generation of a fuel cell to follow power consumption of a load; a second control unit that controls a power supplying device to supply a second power to the load in accordance with an increased amount of the power consumption when the increased amount of the power consumption is equal to or more than an increased amount that can be followed by the fuel cell; and a power detection unit detecting the second power. The first control unit increases the amount of the first power when the second power is detected, to decrease the amount of the second power. | 06-12-2014 |
20140242490 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD - A power management system | 08-28-2014 |
20140354059 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND POWER SOURCE APPARATUS - A power supply system comprising a power source apparatus connected at a junction point P | 12-04-2014 |
20150043546 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, HIGH-POWER BASE STATION, LOW-POWER BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system | 02-12-2015 |
20150200409 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND POWER GENERATION APPARATUS - An energy management system having a fuel cell apparatus ( | 07-16-2015 |
20150200432 | CONTROL APPARATUS, FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An EMS controls: a fuel cell unit which comprises a cell stack which generates power by chemical reaction, and auxiliaries; and a storage cell unit which comprises a storage cell. The EMS comprises: a control unit which instructs the fuel cell unit to enter one operation mode among a power generation mode and a temperature maintenance mode, said power generation mode being a mode wherein power generation is aggressively performed by the cell stack, and said temperature preservation mode being a mode wherein control is performed so that power consumption by the auxiliaries is covered by power supplied from an external source to keep the temperature of a power generation unit within a predetermined range. If, when charging the storage cell, the unit price of electricity from a grid falls below a predetermined value, the control unit controls the fuel cell unit to operate in the temperature maintenance mode. | 07-16-2015 |
20150207328 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND POWER GENERATION APPARATUS - An energy management system having a fuel cell apparatus ( | 07-23-2015 |
20150229138 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND POWER STORAGE APPARATUS - A message specifying any one of a plurality of operation modes is defined between an EMS | 08-13-2015 |
20150255808 | CONTROL APPARATUS, FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | 09-10-2015 |
20150261237 | MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An energy management system (EMS) is provided with: a transmitter for transmitting an identification-information request message for requesting identification information that identifies an equipment; a receiver which receives, from the equipment, an identification-information notification message including the identification information; and a controller which manages the equipment on the basis of the identification information. The identification information is invariable information uniquely determined in a wireless circuit. | 09-17-2015 |
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20090257879 | RUNNER VANE FOR AXIAL-FLOW HYDRAULIC MACHINERY - A camber line in a radial section of a runner vane has a curved part extending near the tip of the runner vane is convex toward the front surface of the runner vane. The runner vane is formed in a shape meeting a condition expressed by: ρs<ρp, where ρs is the radius of curvature of the back surface of the runner vane and ρp is the radius of curvature of the front surface of the runner vane. The runner vane of this shape suppresses flows toward the tip thereof to moderate the variation of flow velocity in the turning direction. Consequently, loss can be reduced without impeding the recover of pressure in a draft tube. | 10-15-2009 |
20100086394 | HYDRAULIC MACHINE - A hydraulic machine having a hydro turbine runner which has a crown at a center and a band along an outer periphery, and is formed around the axis of rotation, long blades which are arranged along the circumferential direction of the axis of rotation, and whose center-side ends are supported by the crown, and periphery-side ends are supported by the band, and short blades which are arranged between the long blades, and whose center-side ends are supported by the crown, periphery-side ends are supported by the band, and rear edges are curved in a rotation direction of the hydro turbine runner in turbine operation, on a plane of projection perpendicular to the axis of rotation. | 04-08-2010 |
20140322004 | AXIAL FLOW WATER TURBINE - An axial flow water turbine according to an embodiment includes a discharge ring and a runner vane. When seen in the runner meridional cross section, a straight line that passes a border between a cylindrical surface and a spherical surface of the discharge ring and that is perpendicular to a water turbine rotation axis is denoted as A. A crossing point between the straight line A and the water turbine rotation axis is denoted as B. A straight line inclined by an angle θ of 10 degrees or less is denoted as C. A cross point between the straight line C and the external peripheral end surface of the runner vane is denoted as D. In this case, the external peripheral end of the forward edge of the runner vane is located on the crossing point D. | 10-30-2014 |
20150056061 | HYDRAULIC TURBINE AND PIPE - A hydraulic turbine according to an embodiment includes a turbine body, a running water surface provided in the turbine body, the running water surface defining a channel for water, and a coating layer provided on the running water surface, the coating layer being formed by water-repellent paint or hydrophilic paint. | 02-26-2015 |
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20110064352 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - An optical waveguide electro-optic device including: a support substrate; an optical waveguide which has a core layer formed of a ferroelectric material, and is formed on an upper side of the support substrate; a lower electrode layer formed on a lower side of the core layer and which is adhered to the support substrate through an adhesion layer; an upper electrode layer formed on an upper side of the core layer; and an external electrode part, wherein the optical waveguide has an incidence plane from where light enters and an outgoing plane from where the light exits, the core layer has a polarization inversion region and a polarization non-inversion region, the upper electrode layer has a plane in such a shape that a width of the plane expands from a side of the incidence plane toward a side of the outgoing plane, to cover the polarization inversion region of the core layer, and the lower electrode layer is connected electrically to the external electrode part on the side of the incidence plane. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069367 | OPTICAL SCANNER - An optical scanner includes a light source, an optical splitter which splits light from the light source into a plurality of light beams, an input optical element on which the light beams split by the optical splitter are incident, a driver which generates a voltage signal, an optical deflector which comprises at least two deflector portions formed close to each other on a same substrate and individually supplied with an electric action of the driver so as to capture and deflect the incident light beams using the electric action, and an output optical element which emits the deflected light beams to an image plane, wherein the optical scanner is configured to scan the image plane with the light beams by adjusting the voltage signal of the driver. | 03-24-2011 |
20120063715 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTROOPTIC ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEFLECTOR INCLUDING ELECTROOPTIC ELEMENT - An electrooptic element includes an optical waveguide layer made from a ferroelectric material and having a polarization inverted region of a predetermined shape having an optical incidence face and an optical exit face, and an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer formed on a top face and a bottom face of the optical waveguide layer, respectively, in which the ferroelectric material is magnesium-oxide-doped lithium niobate, and at least one of the optical incidence face and the optical exit face of the optical waveguide layer is formed in parallel with a crystal face of the ferroelectric material. | 03-15-2012 |
20120155824 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL ELEMENT - An electro-optical element includes a core layer made of an electro-optical material, a clad structure disposed on each of opposite sides of the core layer and configured to form an optical waveguide together with the core layer, and a pair of electrode layers, one of which being disposed on one side of the clad structure and another being disposed on another side of the clad structure. The clad structure includes a first clad layer and a second layer. The second clad layer has a dielectric permittivity larger than that of the first clad layer, and the second clad layer has a thickness thicker than that of the first clad layer. | 06-21-2012 |
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20110210508 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - When printing is to be executed on the basis of an input print job, and a group of sheets having undergone the printing on the basis of the input print job are discharged to a first one of multiple discharging destinations, the first discharging destination is switched to a second discharging destination in the course of the discharging process, and the second discharging destination is selected in accordance with an arranged order of the group of sheets. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211211 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print control apparatus to discharge sheets printed by a printing unit to discharging destinations. The print control apparatus includes a first determination unit, a second determination unit, and a selecting unit. When an input print job is to be executed by the printing unit, the first determination unit determines how many sheets are to be discharged, corresponding to a single copy based on the print job. The second determination unit determines how many discharging destinations are required for discharging the determined number of sheets. If the determined number of discharging destinations is a multiple value, the selecting unit selects multiple discharging destinations located closest to each other as discharging destinations for the sheets printed. The multiple discharging destinations are selected by the selecting unit before the printing unit begins printing operation based on the print job. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211893 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print control apparatus may include a determination unit and a print control unit. The print control apparatus causes a printing unit to perform duplex printing on a continuous sheet and the determination unit determines whether a continuous sheet usable by a first print job is the same as a continuous sheet usable by a second print job. If the determination unit determines that the two continuous sheets are the same, the print control unit perform controls to, cause the printing unit to continuously print images of the first print job to be arranged on a first surface of the continuous sheet and images of the second print job to be arranged on the first surface and thereafter cause the printing unit to print images of the first print job and the second print job to be arranged on an opposite surface of the continuous sheet. | 09-01-2011 |
20110236105 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing control apparatus may execute printing on a continuous sheet by using a printing unit. The printing control apparatus includes a reversal unit, an input unit, and a printing control unit. In executing printing by the printing unit on both surfaces of the continuous sheet, the reversal unit reverses the continuous sheet to execute printing on a second surface after executing printing on a first surface. If the printing on the first surface currently is being executed by the printing unit to execute two-sided printing of a preceding job based on a preceding job in a case where an instruction for interruption printing is input by the input unit, the printing control unit executes the interruption printing according to the instruction subsequent to the printing on the first surface of the continuous sheet based on the preceding job, and supplies the printed continuous sheet to the reversal unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243637 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - In printing data of a plurality of pages on a continuous sheet, it is determined whether the data is to be printed on a single side of the continuous sheet or on both sides thereof. A first sequence of pages arranged on a first side of the continuous sheet occurring when it is determined that the data is to be printed on the single side and a second sequence of pages arranged on the first side of the continuous sheet occurring when it is determined that the data is to be printed on the both sides such that the first and second sequences are opposite to each other. Each of the first and second sequences indicates whether the pages are arranged in descending order or in ascending order. | 10-06-2011 |
20120199022 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A state of a print head is checked by printing a plurality of images in order on a sheet fed from a sheet feeding unit, and reading the printed images. A region that is inappropriate for performing printing on the fed sheet is detected. When the inappropriate region has been detected, printing the images is stopped and the sheet is cut. Of the cut sheets, the sheet at an upstream is sent back to the sheet feeding unit. Subsequently, the sheet is again fed to perform printing and conduct a test. | 08-09-2012 |
20120199026 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus sequentially prints a plurality of images on a first surface of a sheet, and then sequentially prints a plurality of images on a second surface that is a back surface of the first surface. When a state of a printing unit is determined not to be normal when printing on the first surface, the printing apparatus executes processing for maintenance by using a sheet different from the sheet used for printing on the first surface. | 08-09-2012 |
20130100187 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print control apparatus configured to cause a printing unit to perform print processing includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a condition for executing maintenance processing of the printing unit is satisfied, a shortening unit configured to shorten redundant maintenance operations in first maintenance processing and second maintenance processing in a case where the determination unit determines that a condition for executing the second maintenance processing is satisfied before completion of the first maintenance processing, and a control unit configured to cause the first maintenance processing and the second maintenance processing to be carried out after the shortening unit shortens the redundant maintenance operations. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113160 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - An apparatus includes a print control unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The print control unit causes a printing unit to print an image on a sheet and causes one of a plurality of discharge units to discharge at least one sheet on which the image is printed by the printing unit facing downward. The determining unit determines whether some of the discharge units are to be used for discharging sheets for an input print job. In response to determining that the some of the discharge units are to be used for the input print job, the print control unit discharges the sheets to the some of the discharge units such that a former page of the sheets is discharged to a lower-level discharge unit and a latter page of the sheets is discharged to an upper-level discharge unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130336698 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - An apparatus includes an input unit and a printing control unit to cause a printing unit to execute printing on a continuous sheet. The input unit inputs an instruction for printing by the printing unit. The printing control unit causes the printing unit to execute printing according to a second job subsequent to printing on a first surface of the continuous sheet based on a first job, wherein the instruction input by the input unit may include a first job that is a two-sided printing and a second job that is a one-sided printing, or a first job that is a one-sided printing and a second job that is a two-sided printing. A supplying unit is controlled to supply the printed continuous sheet to a reversal unit which reverses the continuous sheet to execute printing on a second surface after executing printing on a first surface of the continuous sheet. | 12-19-2013 |
20140104338 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus capable of causing a print unit to print data on a continuous sheet includes a reception unit, a determination unit, and a print control unit. The reception unit receives data of a plurality of pages to be printed by the print unit. The determination unit determines whether the data of the received plurality of pages is to be printed on a single side or on both sides of the continuous sheet. The print control unit causes printing of the data of the received plurality of pages on the continuous sheet in a manner such that an orientation of a surface of a discharged continuous sheet in a case where being discharged after having been printed on its both sides and an orientation of a surface of a discharged continuous sheet in a case where being discharged after having been printed on its single side is the same. | 04-17-2014 |
20150091970 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus sequentially prints a plurality of images on a first surface of a sheet, and then sequentially prints a plurality of images on a second surface that is a back surface of the first surface. When a state of a printing unit is determined not to be normal when printing on the first surface, the printing apparatus executes processing for maintenance by using a sheet different from the sheet used for printing on the first surface. | 04-02-2015 |
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20090040548 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The operation mode of an image forming apparatus is determined. An information request transmitted from the information processing apparatus is received. On the basis of the determined operation mode, identification information containing the identifier of at least one of a plurality of image forming units provided in the image forming apparatus is transmitted in response to the received information request. | 02-12-2009 |
20090182839 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device communicable with an information processing device, includes: a first management unit for managing at least one service provided by the image processing device based on a first protocol; a second management unit for managing the at least one service provided by the image processing device based on a second protocol; a reception unit for receiving a search request for searching for a service managed by the second management unit, the search request being transmitted from the information processing device based on the first protocol; and a transmission unit for transmitting, in response to the search request received by the reception unit, an address of a service satisfying the search request and managed by the second management unit to the information processing device. | 07-16-2009 |
20090300175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM TO PERFORM CONTROL METHOD - In a search server, a search request for searching for a device is received from a client PC, the device satisfying a search condition included in the received search request is searched for, and a searched result is transmitted to the client PC. Further, it is judged whether or not an apparatus at a transfer destination to which the search request is transferred has been registered in the search server. If it is judged that the apparatus at the transfer destination has been registered in the search server, the search request is transferred to the registered apparatus at the transfer destination based on the received search request. | 12-03-2009 |
20100123932 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus capable of preventing unauthorized printing while reducing manager's work load. IP addresses of host computers for which printing should be permitted are registered beforehand in a print permission list. When a print job is received, whether the IP address of a host computer from which the print job has been transmitted is present in the list is determined. If the IP address is not present, the received print job is not printed but stored. Subsequently, when the print job is selected and a print instruction is given, printing is executed. If the print instruction has once been given to the stored print job, the IP address of the host computer is added to the list. Subsequently, printing is executed without any print instruction when a print job is transmitted. | 05-20-2010 |
20100250978 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus determines, when receiving a packet transited via a network in a power saving mode, whether or not the packet is a packet according to a predetermined protocol. If the packet is determined to be the packet according to a predetermined protocol, the apparatus analyzes the data of a succeeding packet described in a data description language, and instructs the apparatus to return from the power saving mode to a normal power mode depending on an analysis result. | 09-30-2010 |
20100315682 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device which can communicate with an image processing device on a network is characterized by comprising a search indication unit for issuing a search indication for searching the image processing device on the network, a first transmission unit for transmitting a request for changing a power saving state of the image processing device on the network to a normal state in response to the search indication issued by the search indication unit, a second transmission unit for transmitting a search request for searching the image processing device after the request was transmitted by the first transmission unit, and a designation unit for designating a transmission range of the request transmitted by the first transmission unit, and characterized in that the second transmission unit transmits the search request to the transmission range designated by the designation unit. | 12-16-2010 |
20110035640 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A data processing apparatus capable of efficiently collecting information useful for network failure analysis. If image data transmission to a host computer has failed, a packet acquisition start instruction is given from a data transmission control unit to a packet acquisition control unit. Subsequently, image data is retransmitted to the host computer. After completion of the image data retransmission, a packet acquisition termination instruction is given to the packet acquisition control unit. | 02-10-2011 |
20110149344 | LOG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus transmits a log notification request to a server before log transmission. The server responds to the image forming apparatus by appropriately performing scheduling of a log transmission time to disperse a load. The image forming apparatus transmits a log at a time designated by the server. | 06-23-2011 |
20120133974 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A print server in a printing system including a print server, at least one mediation apparatus, and at least one image forming apparatus, comprises: a unit configured to establish a connection with the at least one mediation apparatus and to maintain the established connection to be able to transmit data from the print server serving as a source; a unit configured to manage a mediation apparatus and an image forming apparatus in association with each other as a group; a unit configured, upon receiving a print instruction, to determine, among the at least one mediation apparatus, a mediation apparatus to which a print request transfer instruction is to be transmitted, and to transmit the print request transfer instruction to the determined mediation apparatus via the maintained connection; and a unit configured to transmit a print job in response to the print job acquisition request. | 05-31-2012 |
20120320415 | SETTING VALUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SETTING VALUE MANAGEMENT METHOD, SETTING VALUE MANAGEMENT SERVICE APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A setting value management service apparatus which is communicably connected to at least one image forming apparatus and manages configuration data of the image forming apparatus, comprises: a holding unit configured to hold configuration data of the image forming apparatus; an update unit configured to update configuration data held in the holding unit; and a communication unit configured to transmit/receive configuration data of the image forming apparatus to/from the image forming apparatus, wherein the configuration data contains control information about permission of update, and the communication unit transmits, to the image forming apparatus in accordance with the control information, configuration data, update of which is permitted for the setting value management service apparatus, out of configuration data held in the holding unit. | 12-20-2012 |
20130091366 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus determines, when receiving a packet transited via a network in a power saving mode, whether or not the packet is a packet according to a predetermined protocol. If the packet is determined to be the packet according to a predetermined protocol, the apparatus analyzes the data of a succeeding packet described in a data description language, and instructs the apparatus to return from the power saving mode to a normal power mode depending on an analysis result. | 04-11-2013 |
20130163020 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A set value management service updates virtual configuration data of an image forming apparatus, returns a response including a notification instruction that instructs image forming apparatus to notify surrounding image forming apparatus that virtual configuration data has been updated in response to virtual configuration data acquisition request from the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus performs an update notification indicating that virtual configuration data has been updated to the surrounding image forming apparatus in response to the notification instruction included in the response. Then, the surrounding image forming apparatus that received the notification performs virtual configuration data acquisition request to the set value management service. | 06-27-2013 |
20140036305 | DEVICE SEARCH SYSTEM, DEVICE SEARCH METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a plurality of image forming apparatuses are found on a network, it is difficult to identify an image forming apparatus to be used by the user from the plurality of found image forming apparatuses. When the user presses a button on an image forming apparatus, a name of the image forming apparatus included in a search response is changed for a predetermined time period, and the changed name is displayed as a search result. | 02-06-2014 |
20140240766 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus capable of performing wireless communication with an information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a connection screen for enabling, on the screen, specification of print settings of print data received from the information processing apparatus using the wireless communication, and reception of an instruction for executing connection processing for establishing the wireless communication, a storage unit configured to store the print settings specified via the connection screen, a connection unit configured to execute the connection processing with the information processing apparatus when the instruction for executing the connection processing is received via the connection screen, a reception unit configured to receive print data from the information processing apparatus using the wireless communication established by the connection processing, and a printing unit configured to print the print data received by the reception unit based on the print settings stored in the storage unit. | 08-28-2014 |
20150036178 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a communication system including an image processing apparatus having a VNC server and a Web client, a terminal device having a VNC viewer and a Web client and an information processing apparatus having a Web server, the Web client of the image processing apparatus establishes a first connection with the Web server of the information processing apparatus, and the Web client of the terminal device establishes a second connection with the Web server of the information processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus transmits screen information of an operation panel of the image processing apparatus to the terminal device via the information processing apparatus, and the VNC viewer of the terminal device displays the screen information on a display unit of the terminal device. | 02-05-2015 |
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20100119106 | Digital watermark embedding method, digital watermark embedding apparatus, and storage medium storing a digital watermark embedding program - A method for embedding a watermark into digital data, when the watermark is to be embedded in a digital image, independently changes real number components and imaginary number components of each of coefficient values of a complex watermark coefficient matrix using key, from the watermark to be embedded in the digital image, a step for performing a discrete Fourier inverse transform on the sequence matrix of the changed watermark and generating a watermark pattern; and a step for adding like tiling the water mark pattern to the original image, and generating an embedded image. | 05-13-2010 |
20100131768 | Method and apparatus for digital watermarking - A method for embedding digital watermark data in digital data contents includes the steps of obtaining a frequency coefficient of block data of digital data contents, obtaining a complexity of the block data, obtaining an amount of transformation of the frequency coefficient from the complexity and the digital watermark data, and embedding the digital watermark data by transforming the frequency coefficient. In addition, a method for reading digital watermark data includes the steps of calculating a probability of reading ‘1’ or ‘0’ in a read bit sequence by using a test method on the basis of binary distribution, determining the presence or absence of digital watermark data according to the probability, and reconstituting digital watermark data. Another method includes the steps of performing soft decision in code theory by assigning weights to the digital watermark sequence with a weighting function, and reconstituting digital watermark data. | 05-27-2010 |
20110116679 | Digital watermark embedding method, digital watermark embedding apparatus, and storage medium storing a digital watermark embedding program - A method for embedding a watermark into digital data, when the watermark is to be embedded in a digital image, independently changes real number components and imaginary number components of each of coefficient values of a complex watermark coefficient matrix using key, from the watermark to be embedded in the digital image, a step for performing a discrete Fourier inverse transform on the sequence matrix of the changed watermark and generating a watermark pattern; and a step for adding like tiling the water mark pattern to the original image, and generating an embedded image. | 05-19-2011 |
20110228972 | DIGITAL WATERMARK PADDING METHOD, DIGITAL WATERMARK PADDING DEVICE, DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTING METHOD, DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A digital watermark embedding method of the present invention includes: a step of sequentially obtaining each frame image of the moving image data and frame display time; a step of generating a watermark pattern using watermark information, the frame display time and watermark pattern switching information; a step of superimposing the watermark pattern onto the frame image, and combining watermark embedded frame images obtained by sequentially repeating the processes to generate watermark embedded moving image data. A digital watermark detection method includes a step of sequentially obtaining a frame image; a step of generating a difference image between the currently obtained frame image and a previously obtained frame image; and a step of performing digital watermark detection from the difference image to output digital watermark detection status, and when digital watermark detection process is continued, obtaining a new frame again to repeat the above processes. | 09-22-2011 |