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20100196038 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - While a recording sheet is passing through a fixing nip formed between a heating roller | 08-05-2010 |
20110008086 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CLEAR LAYER FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - While having an image forming section which transfers a toner image according to image data onto a recording sheet, a first fixing section which fixes the toner image on the recording sheet with heat of the first fixing roller which rotates on the recording sheet, a clear layer forming section which forms a clear layer on the toner image which the first fixing section has fixed, a second fixing section which fixes the clear layer on the recording sheet with heat of the second fixing roller which rotates on the recording sheet and a control section which controls each part, the control section controls the clear layer forming section to increase the thickness of the clear layer in the recording sheet area corresponding to the fixed area during the second revolution of the first fixing roller on the recording sheet, compared with the first revolution thereof. | 01-13-2011 |
20110135324 | BELT DRIVE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A belt drive apparatus, including, an endless belt to be laid across in a tensioned condition between supporting rollers and to travel being in pressure contact with or being separated from a body to receive the pressure contact, a pressure contact/separating state detection section to detect whether the endless belt is in the pressure contact with the body or separated therefrom, a belt position detection section to detect a position of the endless belt in a width direction thereof, a belt abnormality judging section to judge whether the endless belt is in an abnormal position based on a detection result obtained by the belt position detection section and one of judgment values which are set correspondingly to the pressure contact/separating state of the endless belt, and a belt drive control section to control a drive of the endless belt. | 06-09-2011 |
20110188872 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a fixing device including a fixing belt to fix a toner image formed on a paper onto the paper, a driving unit to make the fixing belt reciprocate in a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the paper when fixing the toner image onto the paper and a detecting unit to detect a position of the fixing belt in the perpendicular direction, and a control target value of the fixing belt is changed in accordance with the position of the fixing belt in the perpendicular direction detected by the detecting unit, and the fixing belt is made to reciprocate by the driving unit based on the changed control target value. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194860 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When an input image is to be formed on a sheet conveyed to a transfer roller, the exposure section is controlled and deviation correction is performed to offset the image forming position across the width of the sheet in response to the result of detection by a deviation sensor. By contrast, when pattern images are to be formed on a sheet in response to the instruction of the main control section, the image forming control section does not perform deviation correction in the process of forming a pattern image. | 08-11-2011 |
20120250058 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing control apparatus connected via a network with one or more of image forming apparatuses includes: a power source detection section which detects an image forming apparatus turned on; and a setting section which sets a mode shift time for shifting from a normal power mode to a power saving power mode a power consumption of which is less than a power consumption of the normal power mode of each of the image forming apparatuses; and a notice section which notices the set mode shift time to the image forming apparatus corresponding to the mode shift time, wherein the setting section changes the mode shift time when a plurality of image forming apparatuses which has been turned on is connected with the network, by comparing with a case when the network is connected with only one image forming apparatus turned on. | 10-04-2012 |
20150324005 | IMAGE DISPLAY AND PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM, PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image display and photographing system includes a display device configured to display a target image on a surface; a photographing device configured to photograph the surface; a first detector configured to detect that an object moves away from a space between the surface and the photographing device; a second detector configured to detect that, after the first detector detects that the object moves away from the space, the surface is touched at a predetermined position; a third detector configured to detect that, after the second detector detects that the surface is touched at the predetermined position, the object moves away from the space; and a photographing control portion configured to control, after the third detector detects that the object moves away from the space, the photographing device to photograph the surface. | 11-12-2015 |
20150373283 | PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A photographing system includes a photographing device configured to photograph a surface; a detector configured to detect a change in a position of an object in a space between the surface and the photographing device; and an obtaining portion configured to obtain an image of an area of the surface by the photographing device when the detector detects the change, the area being not viewed by the photographing device before the change due to interruption of the object and being viewed by the photographing device after the change. | 12-24-2015 |
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20090251717 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing device configured to add, to a first image, a second image, includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the second image to be added, a segment sectioning unit configured to section, into a plurality of segments, an image forming area in which the first image is allowed to be formed on a sheet, a segment specifying unit configured to specify, from the plurality of segments, at least one segment into which the second image acquired is to be added, a size determining unit configured to determine a size of the second image such that the second image fits within the at least one segment specified, and an image combining unit configured to create a combined image by adding the second image of the determined size to be formed in the at least one segment to the first image to be formed in the image forming area. | 10-08-2009 |
20090257094 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device includes an additional image formation unit configured to form an additional image having a first predetermined density. At least a part of the additional image is overlaid with a main image having a second predetermined density, the main image being formed on an image formation medium, a boundary image formation unit configured to form a boundary image which is formed in an area defined in the vicinity of an overlaid area where the additional image is overlaid with the main image. A density of the boundary image is lower than both the first predetermined density and the second predetermined density, and a synthesized image formation unit configured to synthesize the main image, additional image and the boundary image to form a synthesized image. | 10-15-2009 |
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20130134646 | Image Recording Apparatus - An image recording apparatus includes: a sheet supplier configured to supply a recording medium; a first conveyor configured to convey the recording medium supplied from the sheet supplier in a conveying direction; a recording portion configured to record an image on the recording medium conveyed by the first conveyor; and a controller configured to detect an orientation of the recording medium with respect to the conveying direction while the recording medium is conveyed and change a conveying speed of the recording medium conveyed by the first conveyor depending on the detected orientation of the recording medium. | 05-30-2013 |
20140078205 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a data receiver; a printing device; a tray; and a controller. The controller identifies, based on the received print data, a sheet size of a sheet to be used for printing and detects a sheet size of a sheet placed on the tray. A storage device stores an identified type associated with the identified sheet size and a detected type associated with the detected sheet size. When the identified type and the detected type are identical, the controller reduces or enlarges a size of an image based on the received print data, on the basis of the detected sheet size, and controls the printing device to conduct printing of the image. When the identified type and the detected type are different, the controller restricts conduct of the printing. | 03-20-2014 |
20150117889 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus includes a control device that detects a change in a first state concerning placement and removal of sheets in a sheet feed device or mounting and demounting of the sheet feed device and detects a second change in a second state concerning placement and removal or mounting and demounting of a member. When the control device detects the first change, the control device displays, on a display, first display information prompting for the user to enter settings concerning the type of sheets to be supplied to the sheet feed device. After accepting settings, the control device counts a predetermined time and deletes the first display information. When detecting the second change, the control device displays the display information for a longer time. Accordingly, when the user checks or sets the first display information about sheets, convenience is improved. | 04-30-2015 |
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20140372995 | PARALLELIZING COMPILE METHOD, PARALLELIZING COMPILER, PARALLELIZING COMPILE APPARATUS, AND ONBOARD APPARATUS - A parallelizing compile method includes, dividing a sequential program for an embedded system into multiple macro tasks, specifying (i) a starting end task and (ii) a termination end task, fusing (i) the starting end task, (ii) the termination end task, and (iii) a group of the multiple macro tasks, extracting a group of multiple new macro tasks from the multiple new macro tasks fused in the fusing based on a data dependency, performing a static scheduling assigning the multiple new macro tasks to the multiple processor units, so that the group of the multiple new macro tasks is parallelly executable by the multiple processor units, and generating a parallelizing program. In addition, a parallelizing compiler, a parallelizing compile apparatus and an onboard apparatus are provided. | 12-18-2014 |
20150363230 | PARALLELISM EXTRACTION METHOD AND METHOD FOR MAKING PROGRAM - A method of extracting parallelism of an original program by a computer includes: a process of determining whether or not a plurality of macro tasks to be executed after a condition of one conditional branch included in the original program is satisfied are executable in parallel; and a process of copying the conditional branch regarding which the macro tasks are determined to be executable in parallel, to generate a plurality of conditional branches. | 12-17-2015 |