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| 20110310440 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a screen processing unit and a correction processing unit. The screen processing unit executes screen processing for an image to be processed. The correction processing unit performs correction processing of correcting a distortion of an output image from an original image, based on the amount of the distortion, for (i) the image before the screen processing and (ii) the image after the screen processing. The correction amount relating to the correction processing for the image after the screen processing is a small value as compared with the correction amount relating to the correction processing for the image before the screen processing. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120008171 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The image processing apparatus includes a combining module that respectively combine a plurality of first patterns and a plurality of second patterns each corresponding to the first patterns. Respective densities of the first patterns are different from each other. At least one of the second patterns include a plurality of regions where respective coverages are different in a main scanning direction. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120086985 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a processor. The processor executes a screen process by using different screens for respective color components which are newly used in response to N colors ranging from a primary color in an output color space to a Nth color, in the output color space, obtained by mixing the primary color with other primary colors in order, where N denotes natural number equal to or larger than 2. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20100254720 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL PARAMETER CORRECTING METHOD - There is provided an image forming apparatus in which a correction value is acquired from a storage device provided in a coloring agent cartridge mounted in the image forming apparatus, it is determined whether the acquired correction value is within a specified numerical range, and when it is determined that the acquired correction value is not within the specified numerical range, a control parameter of a specified process relevant to an image forming operation is corrected based on a specified correction value previously set to correct the control parameter of the specified process performed by the image forming apparatus. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100322644 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING AMOUNT OF TONER REMAINING IN TONER CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus includes a remaining amount information acquiring unit, a toner sensing unit, and a determination unit. The remaining amount information acquiring unit acquires remaining amount information on an amount of toner remaining in a cartridge, which is stored in a memory device disposed in the cartridge mounted on an image forming apparatus body. The toner sensing unit senses information on an amount of toner in a developing device performing a developing process using the toner supplied from the cartridge. The determination unit determines that the toner in the cartridge is empty when the remaining amount information acquired by the remaining amount information acquiring unit indicates that the remaining amount is smaller than a predetermined amount of toner and the information on the amount of toner sensed by the toner sensing unit indicates that the amount of toner in the developing device is smaller than a predetermined amount. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110183250 | DEVELOPING AGENT - According to one embodiment, a developing agent includes toner particles containing a coloring agent, a binder resin, and a moisturizing agent, and an additive which is added to the surfaces of the toner particles is provided. The moisturizing agent is added in an amount of from 5 to 20% by weight based on the weight of the toner particles. Further, the developing agent satisfies the following formula (1) C=A×B≧10. In the formula (1), A represents the volume average particle diameter of the toner particles (μm), B represents the addition amount of the additive (% by weight), and C represents a coverage factor. | 07-28-2011 |
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| 20090245876 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment of the invention, an electrophotographic toner contains 100 parts by weight of a toner resin, from 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a cyclodextrin compound, first silica having an average particle diameter of from 20 to 40 nm, and second silica having an average particle diameter of from 8 to 14 nm. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20110262154 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a developing device, a toner cartridge to supply toner to the developing device, a toner remaining amount sensor to detect a toner remaining amount in the developing device, a toner use amount detection mechanism to detect a parameter value for obtaining a use amount of toner, a first memory which is provided in the toner cartridge and to which a threshold of the parameter indicating a near empty state is previously inputted, and a control mechanism which determines necessity of a forcible toner supply operation based on a comparison between the detected parameter value and the threshold, and the toner remaining amount detected by the toner remaining amount sensor, and controls the image forming unit. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110311238 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image under a control condition and including developing device; a toner cartridge configured to supply toner to the developing device; a measuring device configured to acquire measurement data; a first memory which is provided for the toner cartridge and includes a data reference destination for obtaining the control condition and a correction value of the control condition for standard data or a plurality of control data corresponding to the measurement data; a second memory configured to store the measurement data, the standard data, one of the correction value and the control data, and the obtained control condition; and a processing mechanism configured to read the standard data and the correction value, or the measurement data and the control data and to obtain the control condition. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110318022 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a developing device, a toner cartridge to store toner supplied to the developing device, a first memory which is provided in the toner cartridge and in which characteristic data of the toner is written, a detection mechanism to detect a parameter to influence toner cohesion, a second memory to store the detected parameter, and an arithmetic control mechanism to determine a use limit of the toner cartridge based on the characteristic data and the parameter. | 12-29-2011 |
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| 20100028165 | OIL-FLOODED SCREW COMPRESSOR, MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM, AND MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - When an oil-flooded screw compressor is started up in a cold environment after a long halt, start-up torque increases due to the increased viscosity of the oil that has long stayed inside the working chambers of the compressor. This has necessitated drive means with a larger capacity than that required for normal operation. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100045219 | Position Detecting Device and Synchronous Motor Driving Device Using the Same - A position detecting device which can increase accuracy in detecting the pole position of a motor used to perform quick acceleration and deceleration over the range from a zero speed to a high rotation speed, and a synchronous motor driving device using the position detecting device. A position detector detects basic-wave component signals in sensor signals and executes position calculation. A correcting unit calculates signal information representing at least one of a gain, an offset and a phase by a phase detector from the basic-wave component signals detected by an error calculator, and makes correction based on the calculated signal information such that a position detection error is zero. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100253137 | Vehicle Brake System - A brake system which can secure quietness in a passenger compartment is provided. A vehicle brake system | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110316329 | Brake Control Device - According to the present invention, limited electric power is consumed so as to achieve long-lasting use of electric power during brake control with the use of an auxiliary power supply source when there is a malfunction of a vehicle power supply source. In addition, a brake control device for ensuring responsivenss at the beginning of braking or when emergency braking is necessary is provided. The brake control device of the present invention is a brake control device for detecting electric signals generated depending on the degree of brake-pedal operation and calculating the driver's demanded braking force based on the electric signals so as to generate the demanded braking force, which comprises an auxiliary power supply source for supplying electric power to the brake control device when there is a malfunction of a vehicle power supply source and controls braking deppending on the charged capacity of the auxiliary power supply source. | 12-29-2011 |
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| 20090327826 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PACKETS - A system has a transmitter for transmitting a sequence of packets, the transmitter has a first counter for storing a first sequence number, a first generating unit for generating an error check code for checking an error in each of the packets on the basis of the header and the data in each of the packets and the first sequence number, and a transmitting unit for transmitting each of the packet together with each of the error check code and a receiver has a second counter for storing a second sequence number, a second generating unit for generating an error check code for checking an error in each of the packets on the basis of the header and the data in each of the packets received from the transmitter and the second sequence number and an error check unit for checking an error in the sequence of the packet. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100124241 | BARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS, BARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM, AND BARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - A barrier synchronization apparatus includes a receiving device which transmits a first synchronization signal to a synchronization device when the first synchronization signal in which a transmission destination is set in advance according to setting conditions including an algorithm of the barrier synchronization and an execution condition is received. A synchronization device synchronizes n first synchronization signals which are set in advance according to the setting conditions, wherein n is a positive integer, and designates transmission of m second synchronization signals in which transmission destinations are set in advance according to the setting conditions after the synchronization is established, wherein m is a positive integer. A transmitting device transmits the second synchronization signals to m transmission destinations set in advance, when a transmission designation information indicating the transmission designation is received from the synchronization device. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100198998 | I/O CONTROLLER AND DESCRIPTOR TRANSFER METHOD - An I/O controller and method are provided. The I/O controller to which an I/O device can be connected, and instructs the I/O device to execute a process includes a descriptor transfer device that transfers a descriptor indicating contents of a process to be executed, and execution instruction unit that instructs the I/O device to execute the process, based on the descriptor transferred from the descriptor transfer device, wherein the descriptor transfer device includes a memory for storing the descriptor; descriptor reading unit that reads, according to an indication regarding a descriptor read source from a processor, an indicated descriptor from a main memory or said memory which stores the descriptor, and descriptor transfer unit that transfers the read descriptor to the execution instruction unit. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100238944 | SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF NODES CONNECTED IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MATRIX, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - A system has a plurality of nodes connected in a multi-dimensional matrix and having node addresses, respectively, each of the nodes having a processor, and a router for transmitting a request packet to a node adjacent to its own node located in n+1th dimension when the address of nth dimension of its own node is matched to the address of nth dimension of the target node, transmitting a response packet to a node adjacent to its own node located in nth dimension when the address of n+1th dimension of its own node is matched to the address of n+1th dimension of the response packet, wherein the router terminates a request packet when the address of the request packet is fully matched to the node address of its own node in all the dimensions, transfers the data conveyed by the request packet to the processor of its own node for processing. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100293551 | Job scheduling apparatus and job scheduling method - When allocating an unallocated queued job, by using a CDA having a mesh structure to which active jobs are allocated, a job scheduling apparatus scans an event list that includes information about allocation events and release events for jobs, determines the coordinates and the time at which submeshes corresponding to the queued jobs are reserved, and arranges the submeshes by overlapping them on the CDA. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100306387 | NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE - A network interface device is provided. The network interface device is connected to a computer and performs communications via a network includes a first management unit that identifies a communication connection by a port number, and manages a communication connection state of each port by a context that is stored in a storage unit and is associated with a port number, a second management unit that manages a storage state of the context, and a control unit that refers to the context, and performs an exemplary operation to establish a communication connection and an exemplary operation to cut off a communication connection between ports. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110055428 | NETWORK FOR INTERCONNECTING COMPUTERS - In a parallel computer system including a plurality of processors, processors are classified into a plurality of groups including a prescribed number of processors, and processors are connected to each other in a complete connecting manner in the groups. Those groups are connected to each other as the respective processors are connected in linear to each other. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110185032 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus including: a receiving portion that receives alignment specifying information, the alignment specifying information indicating which of main memories included in a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus to align the requested data; a division location calculating portion that calculates a divisional location of the requested data so that the divisional location of the requested data becomes an alignment boundary on the main memory included in any one of the first and the second information processing apparatuses specified by the received alignment specifying information, the alignment boundary being integral multiples of a given data width; and a transmitting portion that divides the requested data stored into the main memory in the second information processing apparatus based on the calculated divisional location, and transmits the divided data to the first information processing apparatus. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110213946 | PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A parallel computing system includes a plurality of processors multi-dimensionally commented by an interconnection network, wherein each of the processors in the parallel computing system determines, in dimensional order, communication channels to other processors in the interconnection network, each of the processors sets, as relative coordinates of destination processors with respect to the plurality of processors in data communications performed at a same timing, relative coordinates common to all of the processors, and each of the processors performs data communications with destination processors having the set relative coordinates. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120060019 | REDUCTION OPERATION DEVICE, A PROCESSOR, AND A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A reduction operation device detects a non-correspondence of an operation type or a data type in a reduction arithmetic operation of a parallel processing. The reduction operation device is inputted a plurality of the synchronization signals and data, sets each transmission destinations of the plurality of inputted synchronization signals and the plurality of data corresponding to a next stage of a reduction operation and executes the reduction operation. The synchronization unit in the reduction operation device detects the non-correspondence between the operation type or the data type included in an instruction of the reduction operation after the synchronization is established and controls the arithmetic operation of the arithmetic unit. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20120030022 | ELECTRONIC BOOK SYSTEM AND CONTENT SERVER - An electronic book system which enables selecting and distributing music matching contents etc. of an electronic book and playing the selected music upon browsing the electronic book. A typical embodiment of the present invention includes a content server and a terminal having a viewer for browsing electronic books and playing music, the viewer including an electronic book playback portion which plays and displays electronic books and a music playback portion which plays music. The content server includes an electronic book information DB which retains attribution information of electronic books, a music information DB which retains attribution information of music, an electronic book distribution portion which distributes electronic books, a music distribution portion which distributes music, and a music selection portion which selects music having attribution information matching attribution information of an electronic book currently being browsed by a user from the music information DB and specifies the selected music and makes the music distribution portion distribute the selected music. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120036429 | ELECTRONIC BOOK SYSTEM AND CONTENT SERVER - An electronic book system, which provides a service for improving usability for users by sharing, acquiring, and analyzing text information and image information contained in an electronic book and various information items added to the electronic book, is provided. A typical aspect of the present invention includes a content server and a terminal including a viewer. The viewer includes comment input means that receives an input of a comment for transmission to the content server and freehand-memo input means that receives an input of a freehand memo for transmission to the content server; and the content server includes a comment processing unit that retains information about the comment in comment storing means, retains information about the freehand memo in freehand-memo storing means, causes the comment and the freehand memo to be displayed when a user browses the electronic book and, when another user browses the electronic book, causes the freehand memo to be displayed on a viewer of the another user. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120059719 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An advertisement distribution server | 03-08-2012 |
