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| 20090315904 | Information Processing Apparatus - An information processing apparatus including: a display section; a memory section which memorizes a display configuration for displaying each processing condition of a job on the display section, the display configuration having been selected from a plurality of display configuration types and set by being correlated with the each processing condition; and a control section which controls to display a plurality of processing conditions on the display section by utilizing the display configuration having been correlated with the each processing condition and memorized in the memory section. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20110067100 | JOB PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A multi function periphery includes a plurality of the modules (a scan control section | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110199625 | PRINT DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A print data generation apparatus for generating a print data which causes an image indicated to be printed and a first mark, being printed by using a color erasable print material whose color is erasable by exposing to specific wavelength light, to be printed on a same recording sheet. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110205601 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus including, a light source for reading for applying light onto an original to read, a light source for erasing for applying light of specific wavelength onto the original to decolorize image area, having been printed with color-changing agent having characteristic to become colorless by the light, a reading section for receiving reflected light from the original, an output section for outputting image data of the original, and a control section configured to compare first image data obtained by applying light from the light source for reading to the original, and second image data obtained by applying light from the light source for reading again to the original after applying light from the light source for erasing to the original, to determine whether the agent has been used in the image, and control at least either the reading operation or the output operation based on that determination. | 08-25-2011 |
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| 20080271275 | Cleaning Brush - A brush using water alone to clean up toilets, baths, kitchens, tableware, kitchen utensils or the like. Phosphate ingredients contained in the higher alcoholic type detergents and nonionic detergents currently in use do enhance the cleansing effect, but are nutritive substances to plankton and the cause of its abnormal propagation. Resulting pollution of rivers, lakes and marshes, in particular their coasts, has been a social problem to be solved as soon as possible. The present cleaning brush can remove ordinary dirt, stains or the like, without using such pollution-causing detergents. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090119862 | Cleaning Cloth - The present invention provides a cleaning cloth, in which a large number of parallel ridge regions are formed at predetermined intervals in a nonwoven cloth made of synthetic resin fibers each having a small diameter so that the fibers protrude by needle punching means. This makes it possible for edges of a large number of ridge regions arranged in parallel to each other to function as cleaning edges to clean a surface of an article to be cleaned effectively. Further, since the ridge regions have the predetermined width, an appropriate strength of the ridge regions can be secured to restrain the quantity of compressive deformation of the edge parts by a frictional force during cleaning. Thus, a high cleaning performance can be exhibited. | 05-14-2009 |
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| 20100060923 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus which can efficiently perform detection and decode processing carried out in parallel for a plurality of kinds of codes. For achieving the above object, an apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus capable of causing a printing unit to print a first code that can include both of copy prohibition information and copy permission information and a second cod that can include only the copy prohibition information of the copy prohibition information and the copy permission information, wherein the copy prohibition information is included in the first code, when the first code is printed together with the second code by the printing unit. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100328728 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a LVBC extraction unit configured to make a determination as to copy restriction based on the LVBC, a copy restricted image pattern analysis unit configured to make a determination as to the copy restriction based on the copy restricting information, a job control unit configured to decide whether the copying of the copy target image is permitted or prohibited by referring to the determination result by the copy restricted image pattern analysis unit based on the determination result of the LVBC extraction unit, and a print unit configured to output the copy target image in a case where the deciding unit decides that the copying of the copy target image is permitted. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110032576 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF READING PLURAL DOCUMENTS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a device that prevents unauthorized copying of a document to which copy inhibition information is added. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110304879 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING OUTPUT CONTROL INFORMATION, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To change a detection target region of output control information for each function to be used in an MFP having multiple functions. A device that outputs document data has a detection unit configured to detect, from document data, information to control output of the document data and a control unit configured to control the output of the document data according to the detected information, and the device includes a setting unit configured to set a detection target region by the detection unit either to the entire surface or to a specific region of the document data. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110317201 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING COPY PROHIBITION INFORMATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a copying machine that installs the function of preventing unauthorized copying, when copy prohibition information is extracted, whether output is permitted or prohibited in each of different types of output processing is set, and, when the copy prohibition information is extracted from a document image, if a setting for permitting the output in the output processing in which an output start is instructed is made, the output is performed. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120140258 | APPARATUS FOR DEALING WITH A CODE AND A CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS - One aspect of the present invention relates to copying a paper document including no information in the original user information area and also no information in the latest user information area. Another aspect of the present invention relates to copying document including no information in the original user information area but some information in the latest user information area. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120188581 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING OUTPUT OF ENCODED IMAGE-ADDED DOCUMENT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a digital multifunction peripheral having a function of preventing unauthorized duplication, a situation is prevented in which a document to which encoded images having contradictory contents are added is created. An apparatus having a control unit configured to perform detection processing of an encoded image for a document image and add a different encoded image to a document image form which an encoded image is detected by the detection processing and output the document image, characterized in that the control unit does not perform output of a document image to which the different encoded image is added upon receipt of an instruction not to perform the detection processing from a user. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120314242 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to a device having a first determining unit configured to determine whether version information included in a two-dimensional code included in an input image is version information that is supported by the device and a second determining unit configured to determine to prohibit printing of the input image when the included version information is determined to be version information that is not supported by the device or to determine whether to permit or prohibit printing of the input image based on information other than the version information included in the two-dimensional code when the included version information is determined to be version information that is supported by the device. With this arrangement, it is possible to execute processing in accordance with version information included in a two-dimensional code. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120320403 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF READING PLURAL DOCUMENTS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a device that prevents unauthorized copying of a document to which copy inhibition information is added. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130051692 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - When embedded information having a data format version that is not supported by an image processing apparatus currently being employed is extracted, the image processing apparatus can not determine whether the embedded information should be output, even though the embedded information is available to be displayed. Ina case wherein embedded information having a data format for a next generation, which is not supported by the image processing apparatus currently being employed, is extracted, output of the embedded information is halted to prevent the unintentional output of data. | 02-28-2013 |
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| 20080304772 | Hydrostatic guide system - A hydrostatic guide system including a guide table, a transfer table, a floating amount sensor attached to the transfer table, and a control unit. The transfer table has an inner portion, in which a magnetic attraction unit including a yoke and an electromagnet is embedded, and an outer shell portion, which covers the side surface and the upper surface of the inner portion. After the inner portion houses the yoke and the electromagnet, a gap around the yoke and the electromagnet is filled with a material having appropriate strength, so that the inner portion is integrated with the outer shell portion, and the transfer surface is flattened as whole. A surrounding groove is provided around the transfer table, and pressurized fluid supplied into the groove is jetted out to the guide table. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20120018489 | ULTRASONIC HORN - An ultrasonic horn used in, for instance, a wire bonding apparatus and formed with mounting flanges, including a slit and a cross-sectional shape varying portion; the slit being on the central axis in the horn's longitudinal direction and extending fore and aft relative to the center of the mounting flanges, the length of the slit(s) being equal to or greater than the width direction of a flange region that is between the opposing flanges, and at least a part of the cross-sectional shape varying portion being on the outer surface of the horn at a slit region in which the slit is formed. The stress center point in the cross-section of the ultrasonic horn at the flange region is positioned more to the inside than a straight line joining the stress center points in the cross-sections of the ultrasonic horn at the front and rear end portions of the slit. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018490 | ULTRASONIC HORN - An ultrasonic horn used in, for instance, a wire bonding apparatus and formed with mounting flanges, including a slit and a cross-sectional shape varying portion; the slit being on the central axis in the horn's longitudinal direction and extending fore and aft relative to the center of the mounting flanges, the length of the slit(s) being equal to or greater than the width direction of a flange region that is between the opposing flanges, and at least a part of the cross-sectional shape varying portion being on the outer surface of the horn at a slit region in which the slit is formed. The stress center point in the cross-section of the ultrasonic horn at the flange region is positioned more to the inside than a straight line joining the stress center points in the cross-sections of the ultrasonic horn at the front and rear end portions of the slit. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018491 | ULTRASONIC HORN - An ultrasonic horn used in, for instance, a wire bonding apparatus and formed with mounting flanges, including a slit and a cross-sectional shape varying portion; the slit being on the central axis in the horn's longitudinal direction and extending fore and aft relative to the center of the mounting flanges, the length of the slit(s) being equal to or greater than the width direction of a flange region that is between the opposing flanges, and at least a part of the cross-sectional shape varying portion being on the outer surface of the horn at a slit region in which the slit is formed. The stress center point in the cross-section of the ultrasonic horn at the flange region is positioned more to the inside than a straight line joining the stress center points in the cross-sections of the ultrasonic horn at the front and rear end portions of the slit. | 01-26-2012 |
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| 20080299819 | CONNECTION DETECTION DEVICE - A connection detection device is mounted on an apparatus which has a circuit board with connectors and load circuits connected to the circuit board via each of the connectors. The connection detection device that detects a connection state between the circuit board and the load circuits includes a plurality of serial connection circuits in which pull-down resistors are connected in series with each of the connection detection signal lines wired to a predetermined contact of the connectors of the circuit board, wherein the pull-down resistors have different resistance values, a pull-up resistor connected to a parallel connection circuit in which the plurality of serial connection circuits are connected in parallel, a detection unit to detect voltage values of a connection point between the pull-up resistor and the parallel connection circuit, and a determination unit to determine the connection state between the circuit board and the load circuits by the detected voltage value. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090041493 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a patch detection sensor for detecting an intermediate transfer belt and image information of toner images transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt, a distance measurement sensor for detecting the distance between a light emitting portion of the patch detection sensor and the surface of the intermediate transfer belt facing the patch detection sensor, and a control unit for correcting the image information detected by the patch detection sensor based on the distance information detected by the distance measurement sensor and controlling image forming conditions so as to correct at least one of density and color misregistration of toner images based on the corrected image information. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090324276 | FAN DRIVE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING FAN DRIVE APPARATUS - A fan drive apparatus includes a first fan, a second fan configured to form an air flow space, which has an intake side and an exhaust side, in cooperation with the first fan, a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit configured to output drive voltages to drive the first fan and the second fan respectively, a current detection unit configured to detect a drive current for the second drive circuit when the first fan and the second fan are driven, and a control unit configured to control the second drive circuit to change the drive voltage applied to the second fan, and determine a drive voltage so that a variation amount of the drive current detected by the current detection unit with respect to a change of the drive voltage is equal to or less than a predetermined value. | 12-31-2009 |