An image forming apparatus includes a head, a detector, and circuitry. The head forms an image on a recording medium. The detector detects a vertical movement of the recording medium and a distance to the recording medium in a vertical direction. The detector includes an optical sensor to project light to the recording medium and receive the light reflected from the recording medium. The circuitry sets a first area based on a result of detection performed by the detector. The first area is an area in which the recording medium and the head collide with each other. The circuitry retracts the head to prevent the recording medium and the head from colliding with each other, in a case where a position of the head is in the first area.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.
An image-capturing system includes circuitry to receive multiple phase images for each of multiple phases. The multiple phase images include multiple first phase images captured under a first condition and one or more second phase images captured under a second condition different from the first condition, and the multiple first phase images are greater in number than the one or more second phase images. The circuitry calculates, for each of the multiple phases, a motion amount, at least, among the multiple first phase images of a same phase; performs correction on the multiple first phase images of the same phase based on the motion amount; and performs addition processing on the multiple first phase images of the same phase, so as to generate a summed phase image for each of the multiple phases.
A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store edge enhancement logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the edge enhancement logic to receive a plurality of pels in a continuous tone image (CTI), receive a first halftone design associated with each of the plurality of pels, receive compensation data for pel forming elements associated with each of the plurality of pels, receive edge enhancement inverse transfer functions, determine whether each of the plurality of pels is an edge pel, perform edge enhancement processing for each of the determined edge pels, including generating a final halftone design for the pel based on the first halftone design associated with the pel, the edge enhancement inverse transfer function associated with the pel, and the compensation data associated with the pel and perform compensation processing for each of the determined not edge pels, including generating a final halftone design for the pel based on the first halftone design associated with the pel, and the compensation data associated with the pel.
A heating device includes a planar heater, a heating rotator, a pressure rotator, and one or more charge eliminators. The planar heater includes a base and a resistive heat generator. The heating rotator contacts the heater and includes a conductive layer. The pressure rotator presses the heating rotator and has an outer surface including a conductive material. The one or more charge eliminators contact the conductive layer and the outer surface of the pressure rotator.
An ink contains water, a coloring material, a resin, and an organic solvent, wherein the dried layer of the ink has a surface free energy γS having a polar component γSp of from 3.5 to 20 J/m2 at 25 degrees C.
A paper feeding device includes: a bearing base to which a spool inserted into a paper roll, around which a paper is wound, is detachably attachable; a support including: a leading-end detection sensor to detect a leading end of the paper on the paper roll and output a sensor signal; and a roller disposed at a position in the support different from the leading-end detection sensor in a circumferential direction of the paper roll, to cause the leading-end detection sensor and the roller to contact a surface of the paper roll attached to the bearing base; and to cause the leading-end detection sensor and the roller to be directed toward an axial center of the spool; and a motor to rotate the spool in a feeding direction to feed the paper and in a reverse direction opposite to the feeding direction.
A display apparatus (400) includes: a reception unit that receives a plurality of captured images (415a-415f); a display control unit that displays, on a display, the plurality of captured images for selection (420) by a user, as a candidate of a movement destination of a mobile apparatus; an operation input unit that receives selection of one or more captured images from among the plurality of captured images being displayed; an autonomous movement request generator that generates autonomous movement request information including information on the one or more selected captured images; and a transmission unit that transmits the autonomous movement request information that causes the mobile apparatus to autonomously move to one or more movement destinations each corresponding to an area indicated by corresponding one of the one or more selected captured images.
An optical system includes: a light guide to guide image light; a partial reflector; and a reflector. The partial reflector transmits a first image light guided in a first direction from a first side of the partial reflector in a light guide; and reflects second image light to exit outside from a light emission surface of the light guide, the second image light being guided in the light guide in a second direction opposite to the first direction from a second side of the partial reflector. The reflector at the second side of the partial reflector reflects the first image light back to the partial reflector as the second image light in the second direction. A dimension of the light guide in a thickness direction is longer than a beam diameter of the image light guided in the light guide. The light emission surface has a negative power.
An image forming apparatus includes a body having an opening, a door on the body, a unit detachably attached to the body from the opening, a cover inside the door, a spring, and a lock. The door covers the opening at a first closed position. The unit is disposed at a mounting position inside the body. The cover is rotatable between a second closed position and an opening position in an opening direction. At the second closed position, the cover covers the unit at the mounting position. At the opening position, the cover forms an angle of 90 degrees or more with the body. The spring applies a force to the cover in the opening direction. The lock locks the cover at the second closed position. The cover displaced from the second closed position in the opening direction restricts a movement of the door to the first closed position.
A sheet ejection device includes a stacker to stack a sheet ejected to the stacker in a sheet ejection direction, and a contact member to pivot when the contact member is in contact with an ejection sheet moving to the stacker. The contact member includes an ejection sheet contact portion to contact the ejection sheet, a stacked sheet contact portion disposed opposite the ejection sheet contact portion and including a contact portion to contact a stacked sheet stacked on the stacker, and a pressing portion to press the stacked sheet. The pressing portion is disposed at an intersection between the ejection sheet contact portion and the stacked sheet contact portion. The contact portion has a curved shape convex in the sheet ejection direction.
A display device, a display control method, a non-transitory recoding medium, and a display system. The display device receives an image from a terminal device by wireless communication, outputs the image to a display, acquires operation information on the image being displayed at the display, and displays a first display component together with the image, the first display component for receiving an operation that executes to stop the output of the image and restrict transmission of the operation information to the terminal device.
G09G 3/20 - Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix
A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal. The apparatus includes a terminal management table storage unit configured to store therein a terminal management table in which terminal information including an identifier and an identification name of each transmission terminal is managed; a receiving unit configured to receive a terminal information request signal from the first transmission terminal, the terminal information request signal indicating a request for information for identifying the second transmission terminal, the first and second transmission terminals being in transmission therebetween; a terminal state acquisition unit configured to acquire the information for identifying the second transmission terminal from the terminal management table in response to the terminal information request signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the terminal state acquisition unit to the first transmission terminal.
A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store edge enhancement logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the edge enhancement logic to receive a plurality of pels in a continuous tone image (CTI), receive compensation data for pel forming elements associated with each of the plurality of pels, receive edge enhancement transfer functions, determine whether each of the plurality of pels is an edge pel, perform edge enhancement processing for each of the determined edge pels, including generating a final pel value for the pel based on the pel value for the pel, the edge enhancement transfer function associated with the pel, and the compensation data associated with the pel and perform compensation processing for each of the determined not edge pels, including generating a final pel value for the pel based on the pel value for the pel, and the compensation data associated with the pel.
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store defective print element determination logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the defective print element determination logic to receive a print image comprising evaluation marks and locator marks applied to a print medium by a plurality of pel forming elements according to print instructions and identify pel forming elements associated with print defect pels in the print image among the plurality of pel forming elements based on the evaluation marks, the locator marks and the print instructions.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
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COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION
A communication management server includes circuitry to receive, from a mobile device being movable in a real space and a first communication terminal, information indicating positions of the mobile device and the first communication terminal in the real space. The circuitry generates a virtual space image including an icon of the mobile device and an icon of the first communication terminal that are associated with corresponding positions in a virtual space to appear on the virtual space image based on the information received, and including an icon of a second communication terminal. The circuitry transmits the virtual space image to the second communication terminal and establishes voice communication between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal in response to receiving, via the second communication terminal, an operation of associating the icon of the second communication terminal with the icon of the mobile device on the virtual space image.
A maintenance device includes: a cap detachably contactable with a nozzle face of a liquid discharge head; a suction device to suck liquid from the cap; a waste liquid storage to store the liquid sucked from the cap by the suction device; a waste liquid channel connecting the cap and the waste liquid storage; a cleaning liquid storage storing a cleaning liquid to be supplied to the cap; and a cleaning liquid channel connecting the cap and the cleaning liquid storage. The suction device sucks: the waste liquid in the cap to discharge the waste liquid to the waste liquid storage through the waste liquid channel; and the cleaning liquid in the cleaning liquid storage to supply the cleaning liquid to the cap through the cleaning liquid channel.
An image processing device includes: a first contamination detection circuit to detect contamination on an image reading device using a first relative threshold value calculated from a standard deviation of pixel values of a same-density region in a read image obtained by the image reading device, the image reading device reading a reference image formed on a recording medium by a line head including a plurality of inkjet heads and that has density regions of a plurality of gradations; a second contamination detection circuit to detect contamination on the image reading device using a second relative threshold value calculated from a standard deviation of pixel values of an area in the read image, the area being divided for each of the plurality of inkjet heads; and a contamination processing circuit to eliminate an influence of the contamination on the read image when at least one of the first contamination detection circuit or the second contamination detection circuit determines the contamination.
A point cloud processing apparatus includes circuitry to generate a selection screen displaying a plurality of options each of which indicates a corresponding one of a plurality of qualities for point cloud processing that is performed on point cloud data representing a three-dimensional point cloud. The circuitry stores, in a memory, a processing result of the point cloud processing performed with one of the plurality of qualities on the point cloud data. The one of the plurality of qualities is a selected one of the plurality of options.
An image processing apparatus communicates with an image capturing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes circuitry to acquire an image of an imaging range of the image capturing apparatus, captured by the image capturing apparatus, recognize an identification that identifies an individual target object included in the image, calculate a trajectory of positions between which the target object included in the image moves, estimate an area in which the target object is present based on the trajectory, acquire the trajectory based on the positions at which the identification of the target object is recognized, and obtain individual area estimation information associating the estimated area corresponding to the acquired trajectory and the identification of the target object.
G06T 7/70 - Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras
G06V 10/25 - Determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI]
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POROUS INSULATING LAYER-APPLIED MATERIAL FOR ADHERING ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT MEMBER, STACK, ELECTRODE, ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING STACK, METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRODE, AND METHOD OF ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT
A porous insulating layer-applied material includes a base material; and an adhesive porous insulating layer on the base material; where the adhesive porous insulating layer is a porous structure having an co-continuous structure including a resin as a backbone; the resin is a cross-linked resin; and the adhesive porous insulating layer gives a peel strength of 2 N/m or more in a peel measuring method with use of a peel strength measuring element derived by preparing the base material as one of two base materials each having a size of 30 mm x 100 mm, disposing the adhesive porous insulating layer through one entire face of each of the two base materials to provide adhesive porous insulating layers, placing the adhesive porous insulating layers to face each other, and performing thermal adhesion under conditions at a temperature of 140°C and an air cylinder thrust of 500 N for 1 minute.
H01M 50/46 - Separators, membranes or diaphragms characterised by their combination with electrodes
H01M 10/0585 - Construction or manufacture of accumulators having only flat construction elements, i.e. flat positive electrodes, flat negative electrodes and flat separators
H01M 10/0587 - Construction or manufacture of accumulators having only wound construction elements, i.e. wound positive electrodes, wound negative electrodes and wound separators
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INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
In the present invention, the location of an unknown slope 80 is ascertained. A data management device 5 comprises a generation unit 54 that stitches together captured images pn obtained by dividing a target region 70 including the slope 80 and areas other than the slope 80 into a plurality of image-capture regions dn along the movement direction of a moving body 6 and capturing images of the plurality of image-capture regions dn by means of an image-capture device 7 installed on the moving body 6, and that generates an input/output screen 2000 which displays a composite image 2500 including the boundaries between the slope 80 and the areas other than the slope 80 in the movement direction of the moving body 6.
G06T 3/00 - Geometric image transformation in the plane of the image
E01C 23/01 - Devices or auxiliary means for setting-out or checking the configuration of new surfacing, e.g. templates, screed supports; Applications of apparatus for measuring, indicating, or recording the surface configuration of existing surfacing, e.g. profilographs
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LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS
A liquid discharge head includes: a first substrate having a joint region; a sheet member having a first face joined to the first substrate with a joining agent applied to the joint region of the first substrate; and a second substrate joined to a second face opposite to the first face of the sheet member and the first substrate, the sheet member interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second substrate has a gap facing the second face of the sheet member opposite to a portion of the first face of the sheet member joined to the joint region of the first substrate across the sheet member.
A retinal projection display device for projection of an image onto a retina of a wearer wearing an eyeglass-type support is provided. The retinal projection display device includes the eyeglass-type support including a temple; a light source; an optical scanner disposed in the temple and configured to scan light from the light source so as to form the image; a projector configured to project the image formed by the optical scanner onto the retina; an optical deflector disposed in the temple and configured to change a projection direction of the image formed by the optical scanner; and a translation member configured to translate the optical scanner and the optical deflector in a direction in which the temple extends.
To provide a method for producing a hydroelectric power generator. The method enables easy assembly and can promptly and easily perform replacement of parts, repair, and maintenance at a site of use, such as countries with emerging economies. A method for producing a hydroelectric power generator includes modeling a part having a shape corresponding to a shape of an electric generator using a 3D printer, and assembling a hydroelectric power generator with the part having the shape corresponding to the shape of the electric generator.
An image forming method includes forming an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image bearer, developing the electrostatic image with a toner to form a visible image, transferring the visible image onto a recording medium, and fixing the transferred visible image on the recording medium. The toner includes toner base particles each including a binder resin, a release agent, and particles of an inorganic antibacterial antiviral agent, and satisfies conditions (1) to (3) below. The image forming method satisfies a relationship of 2.0X (micrometers)≤Z≤2.5X (micrometers). Conditions (1) the number average particle diameter X of the particles of the inorganic antibacterial antiviral agent is 1.5 (micrometers)≤X≤2.5 (micrometers), (2) 3X (micrometers)≤Y≤4X (micrometers), and (3) an amount of the inorganic antibacterial antiviral agent in the toner is 2.8% by mass or greater, but 5.0% by mass or less.
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
A service system includes a mobile terminal and an information processing device capable of communication via a network. The mobile terminal includes a first transmission unit that transmits spherical images taken in respective imaging locations and positional information about the imaging locations to the information processing device. The information processing device includes a reception unit that receives the spherical images transmitted by the first transmission unit; a map data obtaining unit that obtains map data from a map data storage, the map data including the imaging locations of the spherical images; a path information creation unit that creates information about a path made by connecting the imaging locations in the map data obtained by the map data obtaining unit; and a content providing unit that makes content available for a request through the network, the content including the map data, the information about the path, and the spherical images.
H04N 1/32 - Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver
H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
H04N 21/2743 - Video hosting of uploaded data from client
H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, a stage, a guide rail, and an opening-and-closing cover. The liquid discharge head discharges a liquid to a recording medium. The stage moves in a vertical direction to move the recording medium on the stage. The guide rail holds the stage. The stage is movable in a conveyance direction intersecting the vertical direction. The opening-and-closing cover is slidable in one of the conveyance direction and a main scanning direction intersecting both the conveyance direction and the vertical direction. The opening-and-closing cover includes a retraction portion retractable above the stage.
An inkjet recording method is provided that includes the following steps: applying a pretreatment liquid to a fabric; applying a first white ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto an application region of the pretreatment liquid obtained in the applying of the pretreatment liquid, to form an image; applying a second white ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto the image formed in the applying of the first white ink; and applying a color ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto an image obtained in the applying of the second white ink.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41M 1/26 - Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
A display device includes a housing having a rectangular shape in plan view, a display having a screen surface exposed from a front face of the housing, and a stand disposed on a rear face of the housing and pivotable on a rotation axis at a center in a short-side direction of the housing, to open and close relative to the housing. The stand has a width in a long-side direction of the housing smaller than a width of the housing in the long-side direction.
An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display on a display unit a three-dimensional image that is determined based on an output of a light receiving unit that receives light projected on an object and reflected from the object, wherein the display control unit is configured to display, on the display unit, a display image including position identification information identifying a position of the light receiving unit obtained when the light receiving unit receives light reflected from the object, based on the position identification information identifying the position of the light receiving unit obtained when the light receiving unit receives light reflected from the object, and including the three-dimensional image.
The present invention has an object to develop and provide a target nucleic acid detection device having a low copy number of IPC nucleic acids placed therein, and a method for producing the device, to avoid a decrease caused in the detection sensitivity to a target nucleic acid through competitive inhibition of the target nucleic acid by addition of an internal positive control (IPC) nucleic acid. Provided is a target nucleic acid detection device in which a low copy number of IPC nucleic acids that do not inhibit the amplification reaction of a target nucleic acid is preliminarily placed in a reaction well.
B01L 3/00 - Containers or dishes for laboratory use, e.g. laboratory glassware; Droppers
B01L 7/00 - Heating or cooling apparatus; Heat insulating devices
C12Q 1/70 - Measuring or testing processes involving enzymes, nucleic acids or microorganisms; Compositions therefor; Processes of preparing such compositions involving virus or bacteriophage
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a holder, a pre-treatment head, a smoother, and a print head. The holder reciprocally moves while holding a recording medium. The pre-treatment head discharges a pre-treatment liquid onto a surface of the recording medium held by the holder. The smoother smooths the pre-treatment liquid, which is discharged onto the surface of the recording medium, along the surface of the recording medium by a movement of the holder. The print head discharges a printing liquid onto the surface of the recording medium with the pre-treatment liquid smoothed.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles; a diaphragm facing an inner face of the nozzle plate; multiple individual chambers between the nozzle plate and the diaphragm, the multiple individual chambers respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles; multiple actuators on a first face of the diaphragm opposite to a second face of the diaphragm facing the multiple individual chambers, the multiple actuators to deform the diaphragm to discharges a liquid in the multiple individual chambers from the multiple nozzles, respectively; a holder facing the multiple actuators and the diaphragm and joined to a peripheral portion of the diaphragm; a first joint at a first position around a periphery of the holder and joining the diaphragm and the holder; and multiple second joints joining the diaphragm and the holder at multiple second positions inside the first position, respectively.
A conveyance device includes a conveyance member, a guide, and a rotator. The conveyance member has a conveyance surface with a joint, the conveyance member to convey an object to be conveyed, with the object on the conveyance surface. The guide approaches the conveyance surface and guides the object from or to the conveyance member. The rotator contacts the conveyance surface. The guide displaces in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance surface, in conjunction with displacement of the rotator when the rotator contacts the joint.
A polylactic acid resin composition includes a polylactic acid resin in an amount of 99% by mass or more. A complex viscosity η*(20) of the polylactic acid resin composition is 2×103 Pa·s or higher. A ratio of the complex viscosity η*(20) to a complex viscosity η*(5), which is represented by [η*(20)/η*(5)], is 0.6 or higher. The complex viscosity η*(5) and the complex viscosity η*(20) are complex viscosities respectively measured 5 minutes and 20 minutes after the start of measurement using a parallel plate-type rotary viscometer under measurement conditions below:
A polylactic acid resin composition includes a polylactic acid resin in an amount of 99% by mass or more. A complex viscosity η*(20) of the polylactic acid resin composition is 2×103 Pa·s or higher. A ratio of the complex viscosity η*(20) to a complex viscosity η*(5), which is represented by [η*(20)/η*(5)], is 0.6 or higher. The complex viscosity η*(5) and the complex viscosity η*(20) are complex viscosities respectively measured 5 minutes and 20 minutes after the start of measurement using a parallel plate-type rotary viscometer under measurement conditions below:
[Measurement Conditions]
Parallel plates: 20 mm in diameter, made of aluminum;
Temperature: 200° C.;
Gap between the parallel plates: 1.00 mm;
Frequency: 1 Hz (6.28 rad/s);
Atmosphere: under dry air (dew point: −60° C.); and
Size of measurement sample: a strip that is 30 μm thick, 7 mm wide, and 35 mm long.
A sustained releasing particle contains a water-soluble physiologically active substance and a fat-soluble base material, wherein the sustained releasing particle has a ratio of a surface area to a volume is 0.6 or less.
A61K 45/06 - Mixtures of active ingredients without chemical characterisation, e.g. antiphlogistics and cardiaca
A61K 47/34 - Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds, e.g. polyesters, polyamino acids, polysiloxanes, polyphosphazines, copolymers of polyalkylene glycol or poloxamers
A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store print workflow manager and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory devices to execute the print workflow manager receive a print job including print data to be printed, wherein the print data comprises a first presentation format, convert the received print data from the first presentation format to generate second print data in a second presentation format, duplicate the second print data to generate third print data, process the second print data to generate data to be printed to a first page size and process the third print data to generate data to be printed to a second page size.
Systems and methods are provided for validating an autoencoder for a printing system. In one embodiment, a system stores values associated with individual features at a printing system and further stores times indicating when the values were determined at the printing system. The system also operates an autoencoder to perform time-compression upon the values and the times. Validating the autoencoder includes: determining predictive powers of the individual features prior to time-compression via partial F tests, determining predictive powers of the individual features after time-compression via partial F tests, and determining differences between the predictive powers of the individual features before time-compression and the predictive powers of the individual features after time-compression. Depending upon differences in the predictive powers, a report is generated indicating validity or invalidity of the autoencoder.
An image forming apparatus includes a belt unit and a detector unit including a detector that is disposed opposite a tension roller via a belt and a detector support that supports the detector. The detector support includes a first lateral end portion that is disposed at one lateral end of the detector support in an axial direction of the tension roller and is movably attached to an apparatus body. The detector support further includes a second lateral end portion that is disposed at another lateral end of the detector support in the axial direction of the tension roller and is attached to the apparatus body. The first lateral end portion includes an engaging groove that engages a shaft of the tension roller. The engaging groove has a mouth that is disposed at a downstream end of the engaging groove in a detaching direction of the belt unit.
An optical system for a virtual display device includes: a light guide; a partial reflector to: transmit first image light guided in a first direction from a first side of the partial reflector through the light guide; and reflect second image light to exit outside the light guide, the second image light guided in a second direction, different from the first direction, from a second side different from the first side through the light guide; a reflector at the second side of the partial; and a polarizer. The polarizer rotates a polarization of the first image light polarized in a first polarization direction; and rotates a polarization of the second image light to polarize the second image light in a second polarization direction. The partial reflector has a lower reflectance for light polarized in the first polarization direction than for light polarized in the second polarization direction.
A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a sound collector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The conveyor conveys a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction. The sound collector collects an operating sound generated by a conveyance of the sheet. The circuitry is to extract a feature amount of the operating sound collected by the sound collector, and determine, at different positions in the sheet conveyance direction based on the feature amount, whether an abnormal conveyance of the sheet occurs until the sheet is conveyed to a given position in the sheet conveyance direction.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
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ELECTRODE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND ELECTRODE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS
An electrode manufacturing method includes a first step of applying an electrode liquid composition in a desired shape at a desired position on a substrate, the electrode liquid composition containing an electrode mixture material; a second step of acquiring positional information as to where the electrode liquid composition is applied; and a third step of cutting only the substrate at a desired position in a region other than an electrode mixture material region where the electrode liquid composition is applied to obtain an electrode cut out in a desired shape.
An image processing method performed by an image processing apparatus includes acquiring multiple still images of omnidirectional views captured at different image-capturing positions in a site by an image-capturing apparatus; acquiring a moving image captured by the image-capturing apparatus during movement of the image-capturing apparatus from a first location to a second location in the site; estimating the image-capturing positions of the multiple still images based on the acquired moving image; and generating a processed image including the multiple still images associated with each other based on the estimated image-capturing positions.
A communication terminal including circuitry to: receive video data including a captured image, from a communication management server that manages the captured image of video data distributed from another communication terminal different from the communication terminal; determine whether any predetermined-area information indicating a predetermined area of the captured image to be displayed during a reproduction time of the video data is stored in a memory; and control a display to display an image representing the predetermined area indicated by the predetermined-area information, based on a determination that the predetermined-area information is stored in the memory.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
35 - Advertising and business services
41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
44 - Medical, veterinary, hygienic and cosmetic services; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services
Goods & Services
Downloadable and recorded application software; computer servers; cloud servers; telecommunication machines and apparatus; personal digital assistants; computers; computer programs and software; printer; scanners; multifunction printers [MFP]; downloadable image files; electronic publications, downloadable; computer programs and software using gaming for improving work skills and motivation at work; electronic publications, downloadable for improving work skills and motivation at work Advertising and publicity services; business management analysis and business consultancy; providing information relating to the sale of goods; Employment agency services; providing employment information; providing information about newspaper articles; Consulting services in the field of human resources development, namely, for the promotion of employee retention, career growth, and increased productivity for employees and employers; Consulting services in the field of human resources development, namely, for the promotion of employee retention, career growth, increased productivity improvement of work skills and motivation for employees and employers; Business consultation services in the field of business leadership development; Business collaboration services, namely, providing a national computer-based networking web site for health care educators and medical educators to collaborate across disciplines to help improve health care education and medical education Educational and instruction services relating to arts, crafts, sports or general knowledge; arranging, conducting and organization of seminars; providing online electronic publications, not downloadable; art exhibition services; book publishing; Business training consultancy services; Business training services; Virtual training services in the field of human resources; Educational services, namely, providing a learning and innovation center featuring fully customized leadership, motivational, educational, and brainstorming training Non-downloadable and online application software; design and development application software; providing online non-downloadable application software; design and development computer software; providing online non-downloadable computer software; computer software consulting; consultancy relating to computer systems; rental of server memory space; cloud server hosting; cloud hosting provider services; providing virtual computer systems and virtual computer environments through cloud computing; software as a service [SaaS]; platform as a service [PaaS] Providing medical information; medical examination services; dietary and nutritional guidance; nursing care
48.
LIGHT-SOURCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME
A light-source device includes an excitation light source, an optical member, and a wavelength converter. The excitation light source is configured to emit first color light. The optical member has a reflecting surface configured to reflect the first color light emitted from the excitation light source. The wavelength converter includes a wavelength conversion member on which the first color light reflected by the optical member is incident. The wavelength conversion member is configured to convert at least part of the first color light into second color light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first color light and emit the second color light. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface of the optical member does not intersect with a light flux of the first color light emitted from the wavelength converter.
G02B 27/18 - Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups , for optical projection, e.g. combination of mirror and condenser and objective
A developing device includes a developer bearer rotatable in a rotation direction and forming a developing range, a holder, and an entrance seal. The holder has a facing face facing the developer bearer upstream from the developing range in the rotation direction, a support face defining a part of an outer face of the developing device, and a relay face extending from one end of the support face to one end of the relay face connected to the facing face to form an acute tip portion closer to the developing range than the one end. The entrance seal has a free end projecting from the one end as a cantilever, and a length of the entrance seal from a tip of the free end of the entrance seal to the one end is shorter than a length of the relay face from the acute tip portion to the one end.
G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
G03G 15/09 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer using magnetic brush
A printing apparatus includes a removable member including a printing unit, a battery that drives the printing unit, a control board that controls the printing unit, and a body unit that holds the removable member, the battery, and the control board. The removable member and the battery are disposed on a straight line extending in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to a main scanning direction of the body unit. The control board is disposed in the body unit with a side, as a facing side, of the control board being along a height direction of the printing apparatus and facing the removable member and the battery in the main scanning direction.
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a base, circuitry, and a detector. The image forming device includes a recording head to form an image on a recording medium conveyed in a conveyance direction. The base supports the recording medium and is movable in the conveyance direction. A type of the base is changeable according to a type of the recording medium. The circuitry sets a detection range in the conveyance direction. The detector detects, before the image is formed, a collision between the recording head and the recording medium on the base, in the detection range set by the circuitry.
An information processing system includes one or more image capturing devices and circuitry. The one or more image capturing devices capture a first slip and a second slip to generate one or more images. The first slip has a first image code corresponding to a first type of identification information thereon, and the second slip has a second image code corresponding to a second type of identification information thereon. The circuitry is to manage a position of the first slip based on the first image code recognized from the one or more images, manage a position of the second slip based on the second image code recognized from the one or more images, and display the position of the second slip in response to an operation performed by a user.
G06K 7/12 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using a selected wavelength, e.g. to sense red marks and ignore blue marks
53.
ENVELOPE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM
An envelope processing apparatus conveys an envelope to an enclosing position and encloses an enclosure on which specific information is formed at a formation position. The enclosing device includes: an envelope conveyor to convey the enclosure to the enclosing position to insert the enclosure into the envelope; a sensor to acquire, as an image, a structure of the envelope during conveyance, and acquire transparent-portion information indicating a position of a transparent portion in the envelope; an envelope holder to hold the envelope in a state in which the enclosure is insertable; and control circuitry to output position adjustment information for adjusting a position of the envelope in a width direction of the envelope at the enclosing position or a position of the specific information in a conveyance direction of the envelope, based on relative positions between the formation position of the specific information and the position of the transparent portion.
A unit accommodation apparatus includes a first unit and a second unit that are to be installed into and removed from an apparatus body through an opening in an installation-removal direction and are held by a unit holder. The unit holder includes a first positioner that is disposed opposite one lateral end of the first unit and the second unit and is detachably attached to the first unit and the second unit. A second positioner is disposed opposite another lateral end of the first unit and the second unit and holds the first unit and the second unit in a state in which the first unit and the second unit are detachably attached to the second positioner. The first positioner and the second positioner secure a relative position of the first unit relative to the second unit in a direction parallel to a hypothetical orthogonal plane perpendicular to the installation-removal direction.
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
G03G 15/02 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for laying down a uniform charge, e.g. for sensitising; Corona discharge devices
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
55.
LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD MODULE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS
A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle substrate including a nozzle, from which a liquid is discharged in a discharge direction, on a nozzle face; a chamber forming plate on a first face of the nozzle substrate and including a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, the first face opposite to the nozzle face in the discharge direction; and a frame holding the chamber forming plate on a second face and including a rib on each end of the frame outside the nozzle substrate in a longitudinal direction orthogonal to the discharge direction, and a leading end of the rib protruding from the second face of the frame toward the nozzle face and not protruding from the nozzle face in the discharge direction.
An information processing system includes a user terminal that receives input from a user; an operator terminal that receives input from an operator; and one or more information processing apparatuses connected to the user terminal and the operator terminal. The information processing system includes circuitry configured to: acquire identification information from the user terminal and input information input to the user terminal; search response information for the input information; respond to the user terminal with the response information in response to the input information; determine, based on the identification information acquired from the user terminal, whether to perform a switching operation to perform a chat between the user terminal and the operator terminal; and control the switching operation based on a determination result.
H04L 51/02 - User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
H04L 51/046 - Interoperability with other network applications or services
H04L 51/216 - Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Downloadable and recorded computer software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; downloadable and recorded application software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; computer servers, document printers and scanners for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; downloadable and recorded computer software featuring a dashboard to review printing, scanning and mailing status; downloadable and recorded computer software featuring facility management and electronic device management; downloadable and recorded computer software featuring an activity log from multiple services; multifunction printers for use in printing, copying, facsimiles and scanning; downloadable computer software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; downloadable application software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working Providing temporary use of non-downloadable and online non-downloadable computer software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; providing temporary use of non-downloadable and online nondownloadable application software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; providing on-line data storage services; Providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software development tools for use in data file management, use in data analysis, use in information security management, use in device management and use in administration and operation management; providing software as a service (SaaS) for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the calibration logic to receive a reference halftone design, receive reference ink drop size data, receive a reference printer transfer function corresponding to the reference halftone design, a reference printer response target and a reference print substrate, receive first print measurement data corresponding to the reference halftone design, the reference printer transfer function and a first print substrate, receive first printer response target, generate a first intermediate print substrate transfer function based on the first print measurement data and the first printer response target, generate a first printer transfer function based on the first intermediate print substrate transfer function, the reference halftone design, the reference ink drop size data and the reference printer transfer function and generate a first print substrate transfer function as an approximation of a function with input values determined as the first printer transfer function evaluated at digital count values and output values determined as the composition of the first intermediate print substrate transfer function and the reference printer transfer function evaluated at the digital count values, wherein a transfer function comprises a mapping of an input digital count to an output digital count.
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
59.
SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE, AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a sound collector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The sound collector collects an operating sound when the sheet is conveyed. The circuitry is to extract a feature amount of the operating sound collected by the sound collector, select, among multiple sets of index data serving as index to determine whether an abnormal conveyance of the sheet is to be occurred, a set of index data corresponding to a conveyance condition of the sheet, and determine whether the abnormal conveyance of the sheet is to be occurred based on the feature amount and the set of index data selected from the multiple sets of index data.
B65H 26/02 - Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to presence of irregularities in running webs
60.
HEATING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS
A heating apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a liquid discharge apparatus. The heating apparatus includes a heating roller having a heat source inside, an end holder in which a portion of the heat source is disposed, the end holder holding an axial end of the heating roller rotatably, and an air supply device configured to supply air into the end holder in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the heating roller. The heating apparatus includes a heating roller having a heat source inside, and an end holder in which a portion of the heat source is disposed, the end holder rotatably holding an axial end of the heating roller. In the heating apparatus, the end holder has an air inlet opening through which air is supplied into the end holder and an air outlet opening through which air is ejected outside from inside the end holder.
A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle layer having a nozzle through which a liquid is discharged from a second side toward a first side, a liquid chamber substrate, and a drive circuit. The nozzle layer includes a vibration layer, a piezoelectric actuator adjacent to the nozzle and over the first side, a circuit connection over the first side, a first protective layer around the circuit connection, a second protective layer over the piezoelectric actuator, a first water-resistant film over the first protective layer, and a second water-resistant film over the second protective layer. The second protective layer is separated from the first protective layer. The first protective layer defines an opening above the circuit connection. The liquid chamber substrate has a liquid chamber communicating with the nozzle. The drive circuit is disposed over the second side and connected to the circuit connection to drive the piezoelectric actuator.
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a power source to generate a voltage, a voltage applying device facing the image bearer, the voltage applying device being applied with the voltage, and circuitry to control the voltage of the power source. The circuitry switches the voltage between a first direct current (DC) bias and a second DC bias different from the first DC bias, and changes the first DC bias in accordance with a speed of the image bearer, based on a DC component of a current flowing between the power source and the image bearer during application of the second DC bias.
G03G 15/02 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for laying down a uniform charge, e.g. for sensitising; Corona discharge devices
A display apparatus includes a plurality of connectors including a first connector and a second connector, a power supply, a display panel, and circuitry. Each of the plurality of connectors is connectable with one of a plurality of external devices including a first external device and a second external device. The circuitry is to detect that one of the plurality of external devices is connected to one of the plurality of connectors, perform negotiation on electric power with the external device that is detected, and control the power supply to output, based on a result of the negotiation, electric power to be used by the external device that is detected from the connector. In a case that the circuitry detects that the first external device is connected to the first connector and the second external device is connected to the second connector, the circuitry is further to control the power supply to output electric power, input from the first connector connected to the first external device, from the second connector to the second external device. In a case that the electric power to be output from the second connector is determined to be smaller in amount than the electric power to be used by the second external device, the circuitry is to control the power supply to reduce power consumption of the display apparatus to output an amount of the electric power to be used by the second external device from the second connector.
An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus acquires a print job, selects printing paper according to an operation on an operation device, acquires a color conversion dictionary from among color conversion dictionaries corresponding to respective representative paper sorted into a plurality of groups based on physical property of the selected printing paper, presents information on the color conversion dictionary through a display, receives an operation input indicating whether to accept or to reject a presented color conversion dictionary through the operation device, and converts color information of the print job using the color conversion dictionary accepted by the operation input received through the operation device.
An information processing apparatus outputs answer information corresponding to inquiry information that is input. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of databases each having at least a first field and a second field. The circuitry is configured to: perform morphological analysis on the inquiry information, to divide the inquiry information into morphemes; perform a first matching process based on the morphemes and the first field of each of the plurality of databases, to determine whether to adopt the database as an extraction source from which the answer information is to be extracted; and perform a second matching process based on the morphemes and the first field of the database, which is determined to be adopted as the extraction source, to output, as the answer information, data in the second field corresponding to data in the first field.
G10L 15/22 - Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialog
H04L 51/02 - User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Downloadable computer software to facilitate team and employee collaboration, communication and interaction; Downloadable and recorded computer software for enabling collaborative work by organizing workplace data, workflows and communications in one place; Downloadable and recorded computer software to collaborate Multifunction printers(MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; Downloadable and recorded computer software to customize groupware; Downloadable and recorded application software to collaborate Multifunction printers (MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; Downloadable and recorded application software to customize groupware; computer servers; computer printers; computer scanners; image scanners; laser scanners; portable document scanners; multifunctional printer; multifunctional photocopier; Computer software for use in controlling and improving workflow and business management. (1) Computer software development; platform as a service (PaaS) featuring computer software enabling users to collaborate by organizing workplace data, workflows and communications in one place; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for enabling users to collaborate by organizing workplace data, workflows and communications in one place; Development and provision of computer software for use in collaborating Multifunction printers(MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; Development and provision of computer software for use in customizing groupware; development and provision of application software for use in collaborating Multifunction printers(MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; development and provision of application software for use in customizing groupware; rental of server memory space; software as a service (SaaS), featuring software for use in collaborating Multifunction printers(MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; software as a service (SaaS), featuring software for use in customizing groupware.
An image forming apparatus, a system, and a method. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming engine to form an image on a recording medium, interrupts an image formation by the image forming engine in response to a malfunction, detects a recording medium on which the image formation is interrupted, and notifies an external device of a detection result of the recording medium.
A sheet conveying device includes a housing, an opening unit, and a drive rotator. The opening unit is openably close the housing, the opening unit including a driven rotator including first driven rollers at each end regions of an axis of the driven rotator, and a second driven roller at a center region of the axis. The drive rotator forms a conveyance roller pair with the driven rotator to convey a sheet. The second driven roller has an outer diameter greater than each of the first driven rollers.
B65H 29/20 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
An electronic device includes: a voltage divider circuit including a plurality of first resistors connected in series between a first node and a second node, and a plurality of second resistors connected in parallel between the second node and a ground line; and a voltage level detection circuit connected to the second node and to detect a voltage level of a divisional voltage generated at the second node.
G01R 31/28 - Testing of electronic circuits, e.g. by signal tracer
G05F 1/56 - Regulating voltage or current wherein the variable actually regulated by the final control device is dc using semiconductor devices in series with the load as final control devices
G06K 15/00 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store compensation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the compensation logic to receive a contone image, receive a first halftone threshold array, receive alignment correction data and generate a halftoned print image based on the contone image, first halftone threshold array and the alignment correction data by applying the alignment correction data to shift one or more of the contone image, the halftoned print image and the halftone threshold array based on one or more non-zero values of the alignment correction data, wherein for non-zero values of the alignment correction data, the contone image and the halftone print image are shifted in relation to each other and the halftone threshold array is shifted based on the alignment correction data.
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced flushing of printing systems. One embodiment is a printing system that includes an ink flushing controller. The ink flushing controller is able to identify an overlap region wherein nozzles at adjacent printheads of a marking engine overlap along a widthwise direction, to detect primary nozzles that print image data within the overlap region, and to detect overlap nozzles that do not have firing instructions to eject ink within the overlap region. The ink flushing controller is further able to analyze nozzle firing data for each overlap nozzle to determine inactive firing spans for each overlap nozzle, and in response to determining that an inactive firing span for an overlap nozzle exceeds a threshold, to generate a firing instruction directing the overlap nozzle to eject ink.
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor that bears an image and an intermediate transfer device that forms a primary transfer nip between the photoconductor and the intermediate transfer device. The intermediate transfer device primarily transfers the image from the photoconductor onto the intermediate transfer device at the primary transfer nip. A secondary transfer device forms a secondary transfer nip between the intermediate transfer device and the secondary transfer device. The secondary transfer device secondarily transfers the image from the intermediate transfer device onto a recording medium at the secondary transfer nip. At least one support shaft supports the intermediate transfer device. The at least one support shaft supports, on an identical axis, one lateral end and another lateral end of the secondary transfer device in a width direction of the recording medium.
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
73.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry transmits document data in response to a request signal transmitted from an information processing terminal and requesting output of the document data. Based on an information signal transmitted from the information processing terminal and indicating information that is not described in a document indicated by the document data, the circuitry generates latent-image data as a latent image including the information signal and the document data. The circuitry outputs the latent-image data and the document data.
A display system for performing a predetermined operation with respect to a moving body is disclosed. The display system includes an operation reception unit configured to receive a switching operation to switch an operation mode between a manual operation mode and an autonomous movement mode, the manual operation mode being selected for moving the moving body by manual operation and the autonomous movement mode being selected for moving the moving body by autonomous movement; and a display controller configured to display notification information representing accuracy of the autonomous movement.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Computer software, downloadable for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Application software, downloadable for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Computer servers; Printers; Scanners; Computer software, downloadable having function of Dashboard of printing, scanning and mailing status; Computer software, downloadable having function of facility management and electronic device management; Multifunction printers (MFPs) having functions of printer, copy, facsimile and scanner (1) Providing computer software, non downloadable for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Providing application software, non downloadable for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; On-line data storage services; Providing on-line and non downloadable applications and software tools; Software as a service (SaaS) for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Providing computer software, non downloadable having function of Dashboard of printing, scanning and mailing status; Providing computer software, non downloadable having function of facility management and electronic device management
76.
SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SHEET FEEDING DEVICE
A sheet feeding device includes a sheet stacker, first and second feeders, a separation member, first and second sensors, and circuitry. The sheet stacker stacks multiple sheets including a sheet. The first and second feeder feed the sheet stacked on the sheet stacker in a sheet conveyance direction. The separation member contacts the second feeder to form a nip region. The first and second sensors detect the first or second sheet. The circuitry is to determine that a trailing end of the first sheet reaches at a given position downstream from the first sensor, and start feeding the second sheet in response to detecting the trading end of the first sheet by the second sensor, detecting the trailing end of the first sheet by the first sensor, or determining that the trailing end of the first sheet reaches at the given position.
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
Provided is a cleaning blade including an elastic blade having a strip shape, and a supporting member supporting the elastic blade. The cleaning blade is configured to bring a leading end ridgeline portion of the elastic blade into contact with a cleaning target member that is moving, and remove a residual matter from a surface of the cleaning target member. At least a surface layer portion of the elastic blade including the leading end ridgeline portion is formed of a rubber having a hysteresis loss ratio of 15% or less.
National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Japan)
Inventor
Takada, Masahiro
Kawabata, Shigenori
Kinoshita, Akira
Abstract
A biomagnetic field measurement device includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a subject with radiation; an imaging unit having a light-receiving surface for receiving radiation, the imaging unit being configured to image the subject based on the radiation from the irradiation unit; a marker part configured to absorb the radiation from the irradiation unit; and a processing circuit configured to output biological information based on third position information of the marker part and an imaged result of the subject by the imaging unit, the third position information of the marker part being calculated from first position information of the marker part, second position information of the irradiation unit, and a captured image of the marker part imaged by the imaging unit.
A61B 90/00 - Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups , e.g. for luxation treatment or for protecting wound edges
A61B 6/04 - Positioning of patients; Tiltable beds or the like
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Downloadable and non-downloadable computer software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Downloadable and non-downloadable application software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Computer servers; Printers; Scanners; Computer software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Computer software creating a Dashboard for printing, scanning and mailing status; Computer software for facility management and electronic device management; Multifunction printers (MFPs) having functions of printer, copy, facsimile and scanner. Providing computer software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; Providing application software for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working; On-line data storage services; Providing on-line applications and software tools; Software as a service (SaaS) for printing, scanning, mailing, electronic device management, business collaboration and co-working.
80.
Automatic tuning compensation system that determines optimal compensation target values for each of plurality of tint levels
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store compensation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the compensation logic to receive measurement data corresponding to a print medium printed with a plurality of non-functioning pel forming elements, a plurality of functioning pel forming elements and a plurality of tint levels; wherein adjacent ones of the plurality of functioning pel forming elements print with compensation transfer functions applied and are located adjacent to the plurality of non-functioning pel forming elements, associate measurement data with the plurality of non-functioning pel forming elements, the compensation transfer functions and the plurality of tint levels and determine optimal compensation by selecting the compensation transfer functions that have corresponding measurement data values closest to compensation target values for each of the plurality of tint levels.
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store compensation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the compensation logic to receive measurement data corresponding to a print medium printed with a plurality of pel forming elements in adjacent printheads and a plurality of tint levels, wherein the plurality of pel forming elements comprise gap adjacent pel forming elements that print with applied compensation halftone design and non-gap adjacent pel forming elements, associate measurement data values with the gap adjacent pel forming elements, the applied compensation halftone design and the plurality of tint levels and determine optimal compensation by selecting the compensation halftone design that has corresponding measurement data values closest to compensation target values for each of the plurality of tint levels.
A conveying device includes a conveyor, a detector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a recording medium in a conveyance direction. The detector detects a skew amount and a shift amount of a posture of the recording medium to be sent to the conveyor and detects, in parallel, end positions of the recording medium in a width direction of the recording medium intersecting with the conveyance direction, at at least three different points in the conveyance direction on one end of the recording medium in the width direction. The circuitry controls an operation of the conveyor and causes the detector to detect a corner folded portion of the recording medium based on the end positions of the recording medium in the width direction detected at the at least three different points.
An enclosing device includes an envelope conveyance path, an envelope loader, an envelope-position restrictor, and an envelope-position adjuster. The envelope conveyance path conveys an envelope to an enclosing position at which an enclosure is enclosed into the envelope. The envelope loader loads the envelope to be supplied to the envelope conveyance path. The envelope-position restrictor restricts a loaded position of the envelope in the envelope loader. The envelope-position adjuster adjusts a position of the envelope with respect to a conveyance direction of the envelope while maintaining a state in which the envelope-position restrictor restricts the loaded position of the envelope.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Downloadable and recorded computer software; Workflow management software; Workflow management software that organizes data, workflows and workforce inputs; Downloadable and recorded computer software which combines Multifunction printers (MFP), printers, scanners and facsimile machines with groupware; Downloadable and recorded computer software to customize groupware; Downloadable and recorded application software; Downloadable and recorded application software which combines Multifunction printers (MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; Downloadable and recorded application software to customize groupware; computer servers; computer printers; scanners; Multifunction document printers for use in printing, copying, facsimiles and scanning. Development and provision of computer software; Development and provision of computer software for use in combining Multifunction printers (MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; Development and provision of computer software for use in customizing groupware; development and provision of application software; development and provision of application software for use in combining Multifunction printers (MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; development and provision of application software for use in customizing groupware; rental of memory space on servers to third parties for electronic storage of digital content, images, photos, and videos through cloud computing; provision of online application software (SaaS); software as a service (SaaS), featuring software for use in combining Multifunction printers (MFP), printers, scanners, facsimile machines with groupware; software as a service (SaaS), featuring software for use in customizing groupware; Workflow management platform as a service; software as a service, namely, the provision of a workflow management software that organizes data, workflows and workforce inputs.
85.
RESIN PARTICLE, TONER, DEVELOPING AGENT, TONER ACCOMMODATING UNIT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
A resin particle contains a binder resin, wherein the resin particle has a loss tangent δ of 1.8 or greater at angular velocity of from 0.1 to 100 rad/s as measured by frequency sweep at 80 degrees C.
C08G 18/10 - Prepolymer processes involving reaction of isocyanates or isothiocyanates with compounds having active hydrogen in a first reaction step
C08G 18/42 - Polycondensates having carboxylic or carbonic ester groups in the main chain
C08G 18/75 - Polyisocyanates or polyisothiocyanates cyclic cycloaliphatic
86.
LIQUID COMPOSITION, LAMINATED STRUCTURE BODY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED STRUCTURE BODY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POWER STORAGE ELEMENT OR POWER GENERATION ELEMENT
Provided is a liquid composition including a polymerizable compound and a liquid. The polymerizable compound includes a polymerizable compound having a functional group capable of forming a covalent bond with a hydroxyl group. The liquid composition forms a porous resin by polymerization. The light transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm measured while stirring the liquid composition is 30% or more. In a process where the liquid composition forms the porous resin by polymerization, an increase rate of a haze value of a haze measuring element before and after the polymerization is 1.0% or more.
An operation analysis system, an operation analysis apparatus, an operation analysis method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The operation analysis system acquires information related to printing from a printing device, calculates an operating rate of the printing device based on the information related to printing, determines whether the operating rate is equal to or lower than a first predetermined value, identifies a system configuration model for improving the operating rate of the printing device that has the operating rate equal to or lower than the first predetermined value based on a property of the printing device, and generates screen information of a presentation screen for presenting the system configuration model.
An absorber for absorbing liquid discharged from a liquid discharge head includes three or more laminated layers. The three or more laminated layers include an uppermost layer, a lowermost layer, and an inner layer. The uppermost layer of nonwoven fabric has through holes that penetrate through the uppermost layer in a lamination direction in which the laminated layers are laminated. The lowermost layer of nonwoven fabric has through holes that penetrate through the lowermost layer in the lamination direction. The inner layer is between the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer and has a porous structure higher in liquid absorption capacity than each of the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer.
A sheet feeder includes a sheet loading tray, an air blower, a side air blower, and processing circuitry. The sheet loading tray loads sheets. The air blower blows air to the sheets to float and separate the sheets. The side air blower blows air to the sheets to separate the sheets. The processing circuitry controls a tray elevator to rise the sheet loading tray to move the sheets to an upper limit position, after a predetermined time has elapsed from a time when the sheets are loaded on the sheet loading tray. The processing circuitry causes the air blower and the side air blower to blow air to the sheets to perform sheet separation and controls the tray elevator to lower the sheet loading tray to a position at which an intermediate remaining-sheet sensor is disposed, after the sheet separation ends.
B65H 3/08 - Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
B65H 3/48 - Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles
B65H 1/14 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device comprising positively-acting mechanical devices
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to generate an input-and-output screen. The input-and-output screen displays, in a superimposed manner, a map, a first position image indicating a first image capturing position positioned with respect to the map, and a second position image indicating a second image capturing position temporarily positioned with respect to the first image capturing position, and receives a position change operation being an operation of changing a relative position of the second position image with respect to the first position image.
A shock absorber and two packaging systems. The shock absorber is to he attached to an object to be packaged, and the shock absorber includes a first shock absorber including a first base structure having a frame shape and at least one first shock-absorbing rib disposed inside the first base structure, and a second shock absorber having a second base structure in a shape of a plate and at least one second shock-absorbing rib disposed on a plane of the second base structure. In the shock absorber, the first shock absorber and the second shock absorber are coupled to each other. One of the two packaging systems includes shock absorbers including the shock absorber, and two of the shock absorbers are used for each object to be packaged. In the other one of the two packaging systems, four of the shock absorbers are used for each object to be packaged.
B65D 81/02 - Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
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IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
An image processor includes a memory, a signal processing circuit to process a visible light component including an invisible light component and an invisible light component from an image sensor, a signal setting circuit to set a first enable signal valid in a first period based on execution of signal processing, and set a second enable signal valid after the first period elapses, an offset component removal circuit to remove an offset component from the visible light component and the invisible light component in a period in which the first enable signal is valid while storing data in process in the memory, and an invisible component removal circuit to remove the invisible light component from the visible light component, to output image data of a visible light component in a period in which the second enable signal is valid while storing data in process in the memory.
H04N 23/11 - Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof for generating image signals from different wavelengths for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths
A sheet processing apparatus includes a first guide plate and a second guide plate facing with a given space in a thickness direction and having second and third openings, a sheet conveyance passage between the first and second guide plates, and a sheet conveyor including a drive source, a drive roller, a first driven roller, and a second driven roller. The drive roller protrudes from the first guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the first opening. The first driven roller faces the drive roller and protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the second opening. The second driven roller protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the third opening. The second driven roller is disposed at a position shifted from the drive roller in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction and the thickness direction.
A vibration detector includes: a vibration member to vibrate in a thickness direction; a fixed end beam member connected to the vibration member at one end of the fixed end beam member in a first direction; a fixed member connected to another end of the fixed end beam member in the first direction; and a strain detection member on at least one of the fixed end beam member or the vibration member and to detect strain of the vibration member. A length of the one end in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and the thickness direction is shorter than a length of one side of the vibration member in the second direction, the one side of the vibration member is opposed to the fixed member in the first direction.
G01H 11/08 - Measuring mechanical vibrations or ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves by detecting changes in electric or magnetic properties by electric means using piezoelectric devices
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METHOD FOR CAPTURING IMAGE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
A method for capturing a subject, using an image capturing device mounted on a mobile apparatus. The image capturing device divides a target area of the subject into a plurality of image capturing areas in a moving direction of the mobile apparatus, and captures the plurality of image capturing areas, while moving with the mobile apparatus. The method includes: setting, as a focusing condition for the image capturing device, a focus distance that is commonly used to capture the plurality of image capturing areas in the target area, such that the plurality of image capturing areas are within depth of field; and capturing, with the image capturing device, the plurality of image capturing areas at the focus distance that is set as the focusing condition.
A maintenance management system includes circuitry. The circuitry, in a case that, in addition to a first maintenance, a second maintenance is to be performed, the second maintenance being a maintenance that is extraordinarily added differently from the first maintenance, sets a recommended time period for executing the second maintenance to be longer than a time required for the second maintenance, and displays a maintenance schedule including a recommended time period for executing the first maintenance and the recommended time period for executing the second maintenance.
A device manufacturing method for manufacturing a piezoelectric device, the device manufacturing method includes: forming a CMOS element on a first surface of a substrate; forming a piezoelectric element over the first surface of the substrate on which the CMOS element is formed; forming a first insulating film in a region where the piezoelectric element is formed when forming the CMOS element or the piezoelectric element, forming a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, an upper electrode layer, and a second insulating film on the first insulating film when forming the piezoelectric element; and forming a CMOS wiring layer of the CMOS element and a piezoelectric wiring layer of the piezoelectric element after forming the CMOS element and the piezoelectric element on the substrate.
In an image processing device, an image capturing section receives light reflected by a document, captures an image of the document with the light, and generates read data of the image. The light includes visible light and invisible light. The image includes a visible image and an invisible image. A first image processing circuit detects coordinates of first points on a boundary between the document and a white reference plate in the visible image and coordinates of second points on the boundary in the invisible image, calculates a first detection result, first detection error information, a second detection result, and second detection error information, and selects the first or second detection result based on the first and second error information. The calculation of the first detection result and the first error information and the calculation of the second detection result and the second error information are sequentially performed.
A transfer device includes a belt, a transferor, a holder, a biasing member, and a movement mechanism. The transferor is movable to contact the belt, The holder holds the transferor. The biasing member biases the transferor toward the belt. The movement mechanism contacts the holder and causes the transferor to move in a direction opposite to a direction in which the biasing member biases the transferor. The holder includes a contact portion to contact the movement mechanism and a holder portion. The contact portion includes a material having a higher rigidity than the holder portion.
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
