Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080199782 | Hologram recording material, hologram recording medium and hologram recording method - A hologram recording material contains a molecule having intrinsic birefringence and a photoresponsive macromolecule represented by the following formula (1). | 08-21-2008 |
20080267038 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING OR READING AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical device for holographic recording or reading is provided and includes: a light emission unit that emits light to be irradiated on an optical recording medium, the light being recording or reading light; a first prism unit that moves in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium and refracts the light to move the light irradiated on the optical recording medium over a distance in a moving direction of the optical recording medium so that the light is irradiated on substantially the same position on the optical recording medium for a period of time; and a second prism unit that moves in accordance with the moving speed of the first prism unit to compensate for an optical path length of the light. | 10-30-2008 |
20080278797 | DISPLAY MEDIUM, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display medium includes: a first substrate having transparency and provided with a transparent electrode on one face thereof, a member having a plurality of penetration holes, the member being placed on a surface of the transparent electrode, the penetration holes penetrating the member from the transparent electrode surface side, the ratio of the length of each of the penetration holes to the largest hole diameter being two or more; a second substrate placed so as to face the transparent electrode side of the first substrate; an electrolytic solution containing a metal ion and placed so as to fill a space between the first and second substrates; and a counter electrode placed in a position so as to be insulated from the transparent electrode and in contact with the electrolytic solution. | 11-13-2008 |
20090003180 | HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING APPARATUS, HOLOGRAPHIC REPRODUCING APPARATUS, HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING METHOD AND HOLOGRAPHIC REPRODUCING METHOD - A holographic recording apparatus is provided and includes: a signal light generation section that generates signal light modulated according to digital data; a reference light generation section that generates reference light modulated by means of a pixel pitch; a adding section that adds, in proximity to a light-convergence position where the signal light and the reference light come close to each other or overlap each other, a low-order component of the signal light obtained by Fourier transform and a high-order component of the reference light obtained by Fourier transform, the high-order component of the reference light having a spatial frequency region differing from that of the low-order component of the signal light; and an illumination optical system that irradiate an optical recording medium with the added signal and reference light. | 01-01-2009 |
20090081574 | BLACK COLOR MATERIAL AND TONER - A black color material includes a squarylium compound represented by the following formula (1); and a blue color material: | 03-26-2009 |
20090197185 | DOCUMENT RECORDING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A document recording method for recording a document on a microfilm, the document including a series of pages, a format of which is specified so as to include at least a page representing commencement, a page representing an original, and a page representing conclusion. The method includes recording all or a portion of the series of pages on the microfilm in a hologram format that is obtained by interference between object light and reference light. | 08-06-2009 |
20090237756 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image processing device provided with an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires invisible image data of an invisible image subject to forming on a recording medium with invisible coloring material and acquires source image data of a source image subject to forming on the recording medium with visible coloring material. The generating unit generates corrected-image-data of the source image data corrected according to the absorption wavelength characteristics of the invisible coloring material, such that the color of overlapping regions where both the invisible image and the source image are superimposed when formed on the recording medium approximates to the color of regions corresponding to the overlapping regions in the source image. | 09-24-2009 |
20090240065 | BLACK COLOR MATERIAL AND TONER - The black color material includes a condensation product of a pyrrole compound represented by the following formula (1) and a squaric acid represented by the following formula (2): | 09-24-2009 |
20090247769 | COLORANT - A colorant contains a crystal of a compound represented by the following formula (1): | 10-01-2009 |
20100071592 | IMAGE-FORMING MATERIAL - An image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following Formula (I): | 03-25-2010 |
20100108949 | PERIMIDINE-SUBSTITUTED SQUARYLIUM DYE, DISPERSION MEDIUM, DETECTION MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING MATERIAL - A perimidine-substituted squarylium dye is represented by the following formula (I): | 05-06-2010 |
20100248117 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND LIGHT-IRRADIATION-FUSIBLE TONER SET - An image forming method includes forming at least one electrostatic charge image on at least one image holding member, developing the at least one electrostatic charge image using a black toner and a color toner to form toner images, transferring toner images to a receiving body, and fixing the toner images by light-irradiation fusing, the black toner being melted in the light-irradiation fusing, the color toner containing an infrared absorber, a light absorptance of the color toner at a peak wavelength of the light irradiated in the light-irradiation fusing being from about 79% to about 98% of a light absorptance of the black toner at the peak wavelength, and the color difference ΔE of the color toner due to the presence or absence of the infrared absorber is in a specific range. | 09-30-2010 |
20110038653 | FIXING DEVICE, FIXING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the invention, a fixing device includes a first laser unit and a second laser unit. The first laser unit outputs a first laser beam to irradiate a visible image formed of image forming material on a recording medium with the first laser beam. The second laser unit outputs a second laser beam to irradiate the visible image with the second laser beam after being irradiated with the first laser beam. The first laser beam and the second laser beam is configured to satisfy relations: W1t2, W1 is an optical output per unit area of the first laser beam, W2 is an optical output per unit area of the second laser beam, t1 is an irradiation time per unit area of the first laser beam, and t2 is an irradiation time per unit area of the second laser beam. | 02-17-2011 |
20110044740 | LASER FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A laser fixing apparatus includes: a laser light generator that generates laser light to be projected onto a recording medium. A first condenser reflects and condenses the light generated by reflection of the laser light at an irradiation position of the recording medium, such that the reflected and condensed light is re-projected at the irradiation position and/or near the irradiation position | 02-24-2011 |
20110177263 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium includes a first image that is read with infrared light and that is formed of plural dots having infrared absorptivity, part of the plural dots being invisible first dots, the remaining dots being visible second dots; and a visible second image that is formed of the second dots or the second dots and visible third dots not having infrared absorptivity. | 07-21-2011 |
20110194162 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an image forming section, and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains color signals containing color components the number of which is n, n being a natural number. The image forming section forms an image on a medium, the image being based on the color signals obtained by the obtaining unit. The controller performs control so that colors in a color gamut that is not reproduced if area coverage modulation, not density modulation, is used for expression are included in the image by expressing densities of the n color components contained in the color signals obtained by the obtaining unit by using density modulation and area coverage modulation. | 08-11-2011 |
20110222935 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A fixing device includes a laser source that irradiates an image with laser light, the image being formed on a moving recording material with a thermoplastic image-forming material; and a support member arranged to face the laser source and having a curved portion, the curved portion being curved to extend in a recording-material moving direction and to protrude toward the laser source, the curved portion having a supporting portion of the recording material corresponding to at least an irradiation area of the laser light in a curved manner. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222936 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus includes a light irradiation unit and a reflector. The light irradiation unit irradiates a recording medium conveyed in a conveying direction with laser light along a first direction that is substantially perpendicular to the conveying direction. The reflector reflects first to fourth angular components of a part of the laser light reflected at an irradiation position at which the recording medium is irradiated, such that a first intersection point between the first and third angular components after the reflection and a second intersection point between the second and fourth angular components after the reflection as seen in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the conveying direction and the first direction are at different positions in a direction of displacement of the recording medium, the direction of displacement crossing the conveying direction. A developing agent on the recording medium is melted by the laser light. | 09-15-2011 |
20120076557 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device includes: a conveying unit that conveys a recording material with an image formed thereon toward a predetermined conveying direction so as to cross a fixing area where the image is heated to be fixed; a laser light source that has an irradiation area as the fixing area slantingly extending relative to a predetermined image arrangement reference direction along a width direction of the recording material crossing the conveying direction of the recording material, and irradiates the irradiation area with laser light; and a reflecting member that is provided so as to surround the irradiation area and has a reflecting face that reflects reflected light from the irradiation area so that the irradiation area is again irradiated with the reflected light. | 03-29-2012 |
20120093552 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A fixing device includes a laser light source that irradiates an irradiation region with a laser light, the irradiation region extending along a direction crossing a transporting direction of a recording medium with respect to a heating-fixable image which is on the recording medium. The fixing device further includes; a reflective member that is provided to enclose the irradiation region and includes a reflective surface reflecting a reflected light so that the irradiation region is re-irradiated with the reflected light from the irradiation region by the laser light radiated from the laser light source; and a light absorption member that is provided so as to continue to an end of a side of the reflective member directed to the recording medium and includes a portion facing a transporting surface of the recording medium and extending toward an outside of the reflective member, and is capable of absorbing the laser light. | 04-19-2012 |
20120177410 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, OUTPUT DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a first image-forming material that contains a colored pigment and a second image-forming material that contains the colored pigment having a concentration lower than that of the first image-forming material, a first image forming unit that forms a code image representing encoded information on a recording medium using the second image-forming material, and a second image forming unit that forms a non-code image at a position other than the position of the code image on the recording medium using an image-forming material other than the second image-forming material. | 07-12-2012 |
20120195643 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units. The first image forming unit forms a first image on a surface of a recording medium which has ratios of reflecting incident light. The second image forming unit forms a second image on the surface. The ratios of the recording medium are equal to or greater than a threshold value in all of a specular direction and a specific direction other than the specular direction. The first image has a ratio of reflecting the incident light in the specular direction being equal to or greater than the threshold value and a ratio of reflecting the incident light in the specific direction being less than the threshold value. The second image has the ratios of reflecting the incident light in the specular direction and in the specific direction being less than the threshold value. | 08-02-2012 |
20120199731 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFRARED READING METHOD - A recording medium includes a surface in which an infrared absorptance is less than a threshold value; and plural dot images that records information by an arrangement pattern formed on the surface, in which the infrared absorptance is equal to or more than the threshold value, and a specular gloss to infrared rays is equal to or less than 22%. | 08-09-2012 |
20120243893 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A fixing device includes a first irradiation unit that irradiates a laser beam in a first irradiation region toward a recording medium in which unfixed image is formed; a second irradiation unit that irradiates a laser beam toward a second irradiation region; an image information acquiring unit that acquires image information of the first irradiation region; a coating information acquiring unit that divides the first irradiation region into one or a plurality of divided regions, and that acquires coating information that relates to the coating level on the basis of the image information; a transmission information acquiring unit that acquires transmission information that relates to the laser beam which is irradiated to the first irradiation region and passes through the recording material on the basis of the coating information; an irradiation control unit that controls the irradiation energy of the second irradiation unit based on the transmission information. | 09-27-2012 |
20120328975 | PERIMIDINE-BASED SQUARYLIUM DYE, DYE-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, AND IMAGE-FORMING MATERIAL - A perimidine-based squarylium dye contains a compound represented by Formula (I), | 12-27-2012 |
20130045018 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing unit and a switching unit. The fixing unit includes an emitting unit that emits light and a housing that houses the emitting unit. The fixing unit fixes a toner image to a recording medium by emitting the light to a surface of the recording medium, the recording medium having the toner image formed thereon and having been transported to a predetermined fixing position that is away from the housing. The switching unit switches a state of the fixing device from a first state in which the housing and the recording medium are positioned away from each other to a second state in which the surface of the recording medium at the fixing position is sealed with the housing. | 02-21-2013 |
20130077982 | IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image inspection device includes an acquiring section that reads an image formed on an image carrying medium using an image forming material and acquires first inspection image information; and a decoloring section that leaves an infrared absorbent on the image carrying medium, and decolors a decolorable composition on the image carrying medium by physical treatment or chemical treatment, wherein the image forming material contains the infrared absorbent having an optical absorption peak in an infrared region, and the image forming material contains the decolorable composition having an optical absorption peak in a visible region in a color-developed state and being decolored by physical treatment or chemical treatment. | 03-28-2013 |
20130189611 | RESIN COMPOSITION, IMAGE-FORMING MATERIAL, AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - Provided is a resin composition containing a pyrylium-based squarylium compound represented by the following Formula (I) and a resin, | 07-25-2013 |
20140064808 | FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes an irradiation section that irradiates a recording medium with light, the recording medium having thereon an image formed by an image forming material to be fixed by absorbing light and being transported along a transporting path, and a preventing member that is provided with a first hole that allows the light to pass therethrough, and prevents the image forming material irradiated with the light from adhering to the irradiation section. | 03-06-2014 |
20140099136 | FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing unit that is disposed in a direction intersecting a transport direction in which a recording medium on which an image is formed using an image forming material is transported and that fixes the image forming material onto the recording medium in a noncontact manner with the recording medium, a varying unit that varies a length of the fixing unit in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction, and a controller that controls the fixing unit at an amount of power according to the length of the fixing unit. | 04-10-2014 |