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| 20100119136 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD - A plurality of images obtained by multi-station imaging are classified. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100260403 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD - An image in which an area of interest on an image is optimally susceptibility-emphasized is obtained in susceptibility-emphasized imaging. A measuring order of plural echo signals is controlled in accordance with the size of a desired area of interest of an examinee. Preferably, a target frequency in a K space is determined in accordance with the size of the area of interest, and the measuring order of plural echo signals is controlled so that an echo signal corresponding to the target frequency is measured at a target echo signal or in the neighborhood of the target echo time. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100290682 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Apparatus - An imaging pulse sequence includes; a tagging sequence for modulating nuclear magnetization of an object to be imaged; and an imaging sequence for non-measurement of a part of k-space data. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110074418 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ASSISTING SETTING OF IMAGING PARAMETER - An object is to enhance usability of parameter check when an imaging parameter is changed in multistation imaging, and easily obtain a desired image with high quality. In the multistation imaging, it is determined in a lump before imaging whether an image having desired quality is obtained by using the changed value of the imaging parameter, and the result is presented to an operator. The determination is executed in the order of “possible or impossible” determination of execution of imaging itself and “possible or impossible” determination of combination of obtained images. When it is determined that it is impossible to execute the imaging itself, the determination processing is finished. At this time, a recommended value may be presented. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110237931 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND SYNCHRONOUS IMAGING METHOD - An imaging time is shortened by maintaining a desired image contrast in imaging synchronized with the periodic body movement information regarding the subject. In order to do so, in synchronous measurement of an echo signal synchronized with the trigger information detected from the periodic body movement information regarding the subject with periodic body movement, at least one of a first period before a measurement period of an echo signal and a second period after the measurement period of the echo signal is set, a K space is divided into a plurality of partial regions, and at least one of the first and second periods is set to be different in measurement of an echo signal corresponding to a partial region at a low spatial frequency side and measurement of an echo signal corresponding to a partial region at a high spatial frequency side. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120093384 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING SLICE DETERMINATION METHOD - In order to provide a technique for accurately realizing an examination, which is for acquiring a plurality of images of the same examination section, without a complicated operation and an extension of an examination time, body movement information of a subject is acquired immediately before each imaging in an examination, and it is determined whether or not there is a change in the position of the subject by comparing it with body movement information immediately before reference imaging. Only when there is a change in the position of the subject, an imaging slice setting image is acquired again. Then, a recommended imaging slice is calculated using the newest imaging slice setting image. | 04-19-2012 |
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| 20080253811 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing apparatus, comprises an endless belt shaped donor member; a developer supporting member to carry developer including toner and magnetic carrier and to form a toner layer on the donor member; a first supporting member arranged in the inside of the donor member with a predetermined gap against the developer supporting member and to strain the donor member; a second supporting member arranged in the inside of the donor member with a predetermined gap against the developer supporting member and to strain the donor member; a toner supply bias applying section to apply onto the first supporting member a toner supply bias for supplying toner from the developer supporting member to the donor member; and a toner recovery bias applying section to apply onto the second supporting member a toner recovery bias for recovering toner from the donor member to the developer supporting member. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090290913 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DEVELOPING ROLLER - Described is a developing roller, which makes it possible to appropriately peel developer off the developing roller, even if the developing roller is a small-sized. The developing roller includes a non-magnetic developing sleeve and a magnetic member installed into an inner space of the developing sleeve and having plural magnetic poles including a peeling magnetic pole. When a reference position is defined as such a position that exhibits a maximum value of magnetic flux density to be generated in a normal direction by the peeling magnetic pole, a magnetic-flux density flat region within which the magnetic flux density is kept at substantially a constant value being closely approximate to the maximum value of the magnetic flux density and the reference position is included, exists while fulfilling an Equation indicated as follow: | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100086323 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a supplying section for supplying developer; a first developing roller including plural magnetic poles and a first sleeve arranged rotatable to the first developing roller; a second developing roller including plural magnetic poles and a second sleeve arranged rotatable to the second developing roller, the second developing roller arranged adjacent to the first developing roller and parallel to the same; an electrode arranged between the first and second developing rollers; and a voltage applying unit for applying bias voltages each having different electric potential corresponding to the first developing roller, the second developing roller and the electrode, wherein an absolute value of the bias voltage to be applied to the electrode is larger than that of the bias voltage to be applied to the first developing roller and smaller than that of the bias voltage to be applied to the second developing roller. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100266297 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CARRIER UNIT - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a toner reallocation electrode to carry out a reallocation of a toner of a toner image, a toner detection section to detect a toner amount of the toner image and a control section to calculate a toner amount adhered to the toner reallocation electrode or a density distribution of the toner image based on the detected toner amount and to control an AC component of an applied voltage based on the calculated toner amount or density distribution, and the control section decides a maximum value of the AC component of the applied voltage based on the toner amount or decides a minimum value of the AC component of the applied voltage based on the density distribution, and the control section controls the AC component within a control range of smaller than or equal to the decided maximum value or greater than or equal to the decided minimum value. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110097115 | Carrier Removing Device and Image Forming Apparatus - A carrier removing apparatus, including: an electrode, having a plurality of openings through which a carrier passes, disposed to oppose an image carrier, and a power source to apply a voltage onto the electrode so as to separate the carrier on the image carrier from the image carrier, wherein the electrode has a surface along a surface of the image carrier. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110097116 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a developing device employing a two-component developer where a good image can be obtained by preventing the influence of scratching caused by a magnetic brush. A developing device comprises a first develop roller ( | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110170913 | Image Forming Apparatus - The present invention realizes an image forming apparatus which is equipped with a carrier recovery section of simple configuration and for which maintenance is not required, the apparatus includes: a photoconductive drum; a developing device to develop a latent image formed on the photoconductive drum by a two-component developer containing a toner and a magnetic carrier, and a carrier recovery section which is equipped with a recovery roller, wherein the carrier recovery roller includes a rotatable sleeve, and a magnet roller that is installed inside the sleeve and provided with a plurality of fixed magnetic poles including a main pole to recover the magnetic carrier adhered onto the photoconductive drum and a separating pole to separate the magnetic carrier from the recovery roller, wherein a separating member is disposed at such a position that is opposite to the sleeve at a prescribed distance in a non-contact state. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110274468 | DEVELOPING DEVICE - Provided is a developing device which can prevent the occurrence of a phenomenon of an excessive increase of a developer quantity in a developer standby space, thereby acquiring a stable image. The developing device comprises a developer agitation-transfer unit, a developer roller, a developer feeding roller, a developer guide member and a space forming member. The developing device is characterized in that the developer feeding roller rotates to transfer the developer transferred by the agitation-transfer means, upward from the clearance between the developer feeding roller and the developer guide member, and in that, when the developer standby space formed in the device is filled with the developer transferred by the developer feeding roller, the developer feeding roller is rotated to carry the developer, which overflows from the developer standby space, and to move the same in the direction away from the developer roller, so that the developer is once discharged from the developer standby space. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110299892 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device, includes a developer agitating member, an upstream side developing miler, and a downstream side developing roller; wherein the toner in the developer handed over from the upstream side developing roller to the downstream side developing roller has a volume average particle size larger than a volume average particle size of the toner in the developer conveyed by the upstream side developing roller to the facing position between the upstream side developing roller and the photoreceptor. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120093527 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus including an image carrier, a developing device which uses a developer including a toner and a carrier and to develop the electrostatic latent image and forms a visible toner image, plural toner supplying devices each of which supplies the toner in which mass ratio of an additive against the toner is different, and a control section which controls a ratio of a toner supplying amount to be supplied from each of the plural toner supplying devices, under a condition that toner consumption per a single print is low, the control section is configured to increase the toner supplying ratio of the toner including a high ratio of the additive, and under a condition that the toner consumption per the single print is high, the control section is configured to decrease the toner supplying ratio of the toner including a high ratio of the additive. | 04-19-2012 |
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| 20090104972 | Gaming Machine - A slot machine executes a special effect process when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In the special effect process, a main CPU changes a display style of a stopped multi symbol from a first display style to a second display style, while displaying an effect character image on a variable display portion. Further, the effect character image is displayed while being overlapped with a part of symbol display areas, while maintaining a state in which most of figures of stopped symbols can be seen. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20120115566 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The controller of the gaming machine executing processing operations of: (a) determining a magnification of a respective one of plural kinds of colors which are produced in a color displayable manner by means of the multiple color light emitting backlight and then displaying on the display; (b) determining a light emitting color by means of the multiple color light emitting backlight and then controlling light emission in the determined color; and (c) executing a payout of a number which is obtained by multiplying the magnification that corresponds to the color determined in the processing (b), from among the magnifications of the respective colors, the magnifications being determined in the processing (a), for a payment that corresponds to the pattern of the specific symbols. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115568 | GAMING MACHINE CAPABLE OF BROADCASTING A STATUS OF A GAME BY A REEL ACTION - The present invention provides a gaming machine that is capable of prompting a player to concentrate his or her consciousness to a unit game that attracts the player's interest by performing rendering when a li-zhi has been established, the gaming machine beings capable of visually recognizing by the player an outcome of symbols without keeping off his or her eye from moving symbols. The gaming machine is configured to display symbols associated with at least one scroll line in a second mode that is different from a first mode from among scroll lines corresponding to the moving symbols as triggered by the fact that a li-zhi has been established by means of symbols displayed in a stopped state. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115569 | GAMING MACHINE CAPABLE OF BROADCASTING A STATUS OF A GAME BY A REEL ACTION - A gaming machine capable of prompting a player to pay his or her attention to a unit game that is attractive to the player, by performing a rendering caused by WILD symbol display or symbol movement mode. Symbols that are associated with a first scroll line are moved in a first direction, and symbols that are associated with a second scroll line are moved in a direction that is different from the first direction. After a predetermined period of time has elapsed, a WILD symbol that is included in the symbols that are associated with the second scroll line is displayed in a stopped state, and as triggered by the fact that the WILD symbol has been displayed in the stopped state, the symbols that are associated with the first scroll line are displayed so that a movement speed is gradually slowed down. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115611 | GAMING MACHINE RUNNING COMMON GAME - A plurality of gaming terminals provided in a parallel manner, a plurality of upper displays which are provided in a parallel manner independently from the gaming terminals and form a single common effect display screen, a plurality of display controllers controlling image display on the respective upper displays, and a center controller controlling the display controllers are provided. The center controller controls the display controllers so that the upper displays perform image display as one common effect display screen. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115612 | GAMING MACHINE RUNNING COMMON GAME - A plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal display on which a plurality of symbols are provided, a plurality of upper displays forming a single common effect display screen which is constituted by gaming terminal areas corresponding to the respective gaming terminals, and a center controller are provided. When the common game starts, the center controller displays a common game start effect image on a common effect display screen and transmits a common game start effect image display command to the gaming terminals so that the common game start effect image divided for respective gaming terminal areas is displayed on the terminal display of each of the gaming terminals corresponding to the gaming terminal areas. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115613 | GAMING MACHINE RUNNING COMMON GAME - When a common game condition is established, at least one of the following games is run: a first common game in which a participating gaming terminal is able to win a bonus type more than once and a payout based on a unit payout amount corresponding to the bonus type that the gaming terminal wins is awarded to the gaming terminal; a second common game in which a participating gaming terminal is able to win a bonus type more than once and a payout based on the number of winnings is awarded to the gaming terminal; and a third common game in which one of the participating gaming terminals is able to win one of the predetermined bonus types and a payout is awarded to the gaming terminal which wins said one of the bonus types. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115614 | GAMING MACHINE RUNNING COMMON GAME - A plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal display on which a plurality of symbols are lined up, a plurality of upper displays forming a single common effect image display screen constituted by gaming terminal areas corresponding to the respective gaming terminals, and a center controller are included. The center controller determines whether a common game is being run when an independent special game is started, and produces an effect in the gaming terminal area corresponding to the gaming terminal, only when the common game is not being run. | 05-10-2012 |
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| 20090168689 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication system is provided that includes a first wireless communication device, a second wireless communication device, and a base station. The first and second wireless communication devices perform one of indirect communication via the base station and direct communication not passing via the base station. The first wireless communication device obtains the type of communication function with which the second wireless communication device is compatible, and transmits a data frame using at least one of the communication functions with which both the first and second wireless communication devices are compatible. The second wireless communication device measures communication quality of the data frame transmitted from the first wireless communication device for each communication function used. One of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device, based on the communication quality, determines whether to perform one of the indirect communication and the direct communication. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090168736 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication system is provided that includes a first wireless communication device, a second wireless communication device, and a base station that relays wireless communication between the first and second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device is capable of direct communication with another wireless communication device, and transmits a first data frame of a particular frame type to the second wireless communication device via the base station. If the second wireless communication device is capable of the direct communication, when receiving the first data frame of the particular frame type, the second wireless communication device transmits a second data frame of the particular frame type via the base station. When the first wireless communication device receives the second data frame from the second wireless communication device, it determines that the second wireless communication device is capable of the direct communication. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090268653 | Wireless Communication System, Wireless Communication Apparatus, Wireless Communication Method, and Program - A wireless communication apparatus according to the invention includes a first wireless communication apparatus (STA1) which transmits search data to a second wireless communication apparatus (STA2) connected through an access point in a wireless communication network and determines whether a direct link setup to the second wireless communication apparatus (STA2) is possible based on search response data returned from the second wireless communication apparatus (STA2), and the second wireless communication apparatus (STA2) which receives the search data and transmits the search response data to the first wireless communication apparatus (STA1) when the second wireless communication apparatus (STA2) is compliant with the direct link setup. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090290521 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication apparatus, including a communication control part that controls direct communication or relay communication via a base station with other radio communication apparatuses, a data generation part that generates a mode transition notification to notify the other radio communication apparatuses, which are targets of the direct communication, of a transition to a power thrifty mode or a switching request, notification to request switching from the direct communication to the relay communication via the base station, and the mode transition notification to the base station, and a mode control part that causes the transition of an operation mode to the power thrifty mode after all responses to the mode transition notification and the switching request notification are received. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100039982 | Wireless Communication Device, Communication System, Communication Control Method, and Program - A wireless communication device includes a control unit that controls data communication, and a memory that stores communication data. The control unit controls a switch between a direct link path that is a direct communication path with a communication party, and a relay-point-routed path that is a communication path routed via a relay point. The control unit transmits a communication path switch request to the communication party, and on condition of reception of an acceptance response from the communication party, the control unit starts data communication using a switched communication path. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100040007 | Wireless Communication Device, Communication System, and Communication Control Method, and Program - A wireless communication device includes a control unit for performing a processing on communication data and a memory storing the communication data, in which the control unit performs a processing on data received via a direct link path and a path via a relay point, stores the data received via the respective paths in plural reorder buffers corresponding to the communication paths set in the memory, after a communication path switch decision processing, stores data from a new channel in a new channel reorder buffer and prohibits transfer to a higher-level layer, and when data indicating a trailing end frame is received from an existing channel, or a stand-by time elapses, or the data stored in the reorder buffer for the new channel reaches a specified threshold, performs a transfer processing for the data stored in the reorder buffer for the new channel to the higher-level layer. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100046430 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication device includes: a control unit configured to control communication data; and memory configured to store communication data; wherein the control unit performs processing of setting a re-order buffer corresponding to a source address, for storing received data in increments of source address in the memory, storing received packets from a single data source in the re-order buffer corresponding to a source address, and arraying the packet order following sequence numbers set to the received packets. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110243006 | Wireless communicaton system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer prorgram - A wireless communication system, wherein packet transmission operations are carried out in an infrastructure mode, includes: a first terminal station serving as a data transmission source; a second terminal station serving as a data receiving destination; and a control station configured to contain each terminal station and relay a packet transmitted between the two terminal stations; wherein the first terminal station transmits a packet addressed to the second terminal station via the control station, and detects that the second terminal station is within range capable of a direct link, based on the first terminal station receiving a confirmation response packet replied from the second terminal station, the confirmation response packet being replied from the second terminal station upon a predetermined period of time having passed from the time of the control station transferring the packet to the second terminal station address. | 10-06-2011 |
