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20080229351 | Display device and remote control device for the same - A display device collects pieces of EPG information, stores the program information of a viewed program as a piece of viewing history information, counts the number of occurrences of each of categories in viewing history information and calculates the priority of each category based on the number of occurrences, and stores it in a priority information storage unit. Then, the display device selects one or more programs in a category having the highest priority based on the pieces of program information of programs currently being broadcasted and priority information at power-on, displays the selected programs in thumbnail screens on a display and, if one of the thumbnail screens is selected as an object to be viewed, switches the display screen for the program to a normal screen. | 09-18-2008 |
20100031282 | Display device, remote operation device and computer-readable medium storing display program - The display device includes a priority calculation unit which calculates the priority so that the priority of category to which a program viewed by the user belongs is increased and the priority of the other category is decreased, a program feature information storage unit which stores correspondence information between the category and a feature word, a program feature extraction unit which extracts the feature word for each program from program information, a display program control unit which selects the program belonging to the category in which the priority is the highest from the programs being broadcast, and a program display processing unit which displays the selected program. | 02-04-2010 |
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20100183339 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image; plural developing devices that store respective developers of different colors and visualize the electrostatic latent image with the developers; a developing device switching mechanism that switches among the developing devices to allow one of the developing devices to visualize the electrostatic latent image carried by the image carrier; a transfer unit that transfers a developer image visualized by the one of the developing devices to a recording medium; a fixing device that fixes the developer image transferred by the transfer unit onto the recording medium; a first transporter that transports in a first direction the recording medium with the developer image fixed thereon by the fixing device; a second transporter that transports in a second direction the recording medium with the developer image fixed thereon by the fixing device; and a transporter switching mechanism that switches between the first transporter and the second transporter in conjunction with an operation of the developing device switching mechanism for switching among the developing devices. | 07-22-2010 |
20100209135 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a first unit including at least a development unit that develops an electrostatic latent image and a first developer container containing a developer; an image carrier that holds an electrostatic latent image to be developed by the development unit; a transfer unit that transfers a developer image developed by the development unit onto a recording medium; a fixing device that fixes a developer image transferred to the recording medium by the transfer unit onto a recording medium; and an image forming apparatus main body in which the first unit is installed, the image forming apparatus main body being configured such that a second unit including at least plural second developer containers respectively containing developers of different colors and development units for respective colors is installable instead of the first unit and, when the second unit is installed, a loop transport path is provided to allow the recording medium having the developer image fixed thereon by the fixing device to be transported around the second unit and toward the transfer unit. | 08-19-2010 |
20100226667 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that fixes the image formed on the recording medium by the image forming unit by applying heat; a first detector unit that detects a length of the recording medium in a transport direction, the first detector unit being disposed upstream of the fixing unit in the transport direction; and a second detector unit that detects the length of the recording medium in the transport direction, the second detector unit being disposed downstream of the fixing unit in the transport direction. | 09-09-2010 |
20100247177 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a development unit that develops an electrostatic latent image present on the image carrier with a developer; a transfer member that transfers a developer image developed by the development unit from the image carrier to a recording medium by transporting while nipping the recording medium in a transfer position in contact with the image carrier; a corrective guide member that contacts the recording medium which is simultaneously caught by the transfer member for a period and that corrects placement of the recording medium with respect to the transfer member, thus guiding the recording medium toward the transport position; and a transport unit that transports the recording medium toward the transfer position while exerting a force on the recording medium in a direction causing a side edge of the recording medium along a transport direction to abut the corrective guide member. | 09-30-2010 |
20100247197 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body, an image forming unit that is provided in the image forming apparatus main body and forms an image on a recording medium, and a transport unit transporting the recording medium, wherein the image forming apparatus main body has a forward port for forwarding the recording medium having the image thereon by the image forming unit to outside of the image forming apparatus main body, and further has a guide unit by which the recording medium forwarded to the outside of the image forming apparatus main body is guided to be retrieved into the image forming apparatus main body, and to be led to the transport unit. | 09-30-2010 |
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20090190950 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, when backside contamination of a recording material occurs, a control portion carries out control so that a plurality of restoring toner bands having a length L | 07-30-2009 |
20090190951 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When a switch displayed on an operation panel is operated, a control portion starts aging control in which image formation is stopped and yellow toner is applied onto an intermediary transfer belt and a secondary transfer roller. A toner band is formed, on full circumference of the intermediary transfer belt at a position in which toner images for control are formed, with a width correspondingly to widths of the toner images for control. | 07-30-2009 |
20090290892 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image, a transfer member for forming a transfer portion for transferring the toner image onto a recording material in contact with the image bearing member, a vibration imparting portion for imparting vibration at a variable frequency to the recording material having passed through the transfer portion, and a control portion for controlling the frequency by the vibration imparting portion so that the frequency is decreased with an increasing length of the recording material having passed through the transfer portion during a process of passing the recording material through the transfer portion. | 11-26-2009 |
20100322652 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device for forming a toner image on an image conveying member on the basis of an input image signal; a transfer device for transferring the toner image from the image conveying member onto an image receiving member; a bias applying device for applying a transfer bias to the transfer device when the toner image is transferred from the image conveying member onto the image receiving member; an executing portion for executing a test mode in which a test image is formed on the image conveying member and is then transferred onto the image receiving member; a detecting device for detecting a current passing through the transfer device in the test mode; a control device for controlling an image forming condition of the image forming device on the basis of an output of the detecting device; and a setting device for setting a test bias to be applied from the bias applying device at a value larger than the transfer bias in terms of an absolute value. | 12-23-2010 |
20110142502 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member; a conveying member; a transfer means; an attraction means, which is disposed upstream of the transfer means in a conveying direction of the transfer material, for attracting the transfer material onto the conveying member; and a winding means, which is disposed downstream of the transfer means in the conveying direction of the transfer material, for winding the conveying member, wherein a contact amount between the conveying member and the winding means corresponding to a first region where a width of the attraction means pressing the conveying member in the conveying direction is smaller than the contact amount between the conveying member and the winding means corresponding to a second region in which a width of the attraction means which presses the conveying member in the conveying direction that is smaller than the first width. | 06-16-2011 |
20120027442 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; an image forming portion for forming a toner image on the image bearing member, the image forming portion being capable of forming an image to be formed on a recording material and forming a control image for controlling an image density at a position adjacent to the image to be formed on the recording material; an intermediary transfer member rotatable while carrying the toner image transferred from the image bearing member; a transfer member for forming a transfer portion where the toner image is to be transferred from the intermediary transfer member onto the recording material; an electrostatic cleaning member for electrostatically removing the toner deposited on the transfer member; a density detecting portion, provided upstream of the transfer member with respect to a rotational direction of the intermediary transfer member, for detecting a density of the control image transferred on the intermediary transfer member; an adjusting portion for adjusting an image forming condition of the image forming portion depending on an output of the density detecting portion; and a charge amount changing portion for adjusting a charge amount of the control image transferred onto the intermediary transfer member. | 02-02-2012 |
20120155897 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an intermediary transfer member having an elastic layer; a toner image forming portion for forming a toner image for an image to be carried on the intermediary transfer member; a transfer member, which presses the intermediary transfer member, for transferring the toner image for the image from the intermediary transfer member onto a recording material; a pressing mechanism capable of changing pressure applied from the transfer member to the intermediary transfer member; and a controller for controlling the toner image forming portion so that a length of the toner image for the image on the intermediary transfer member with respect to a rotational direction of the intermediary transfer member is decreased with an increase of the pressure. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155902 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a stretched rotatable belt member; a transfer device for forming a transfer portion where a toner image is transferred from the image bearing member onto a recording material carried and conveyed on the belt member; a separation roller capable of separating the recording material from the belt member; a push-up device capable of pushing up a belt surface locally with respect to a widthwise direction of the belt member to separate the recording material from the belt member; and an execution portion for executing, when an abnormality occurs during an image forming operation, an operation in a stop mode in which the belt member is, after the image forming operation is stopped, rotated in a push-up state of the push-up device and then the rotation of the belt member is stopped. | 06-21-2012 |