KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160050322 | PRINTING SYSTEM, SERVER FOR DISTRIBUTING PRINT JOB, METHOD FOR RESUBMITTING PRINT JOB, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A printing system includes a registration portion configured to, when a print job to print an image onto a sheet of paper is executed after specified conditions are modified, store attribute data containing a user identifier and a job identifier into a storage portion, the user identifier being for identifying a user who has given a command to execute the print job, the job identifier being for identifying the print job; a determining portion configured to, when the user identifier is entered, determine whether or not the print job corresponding to the job identifier of the attribute data containing the user identifier can be executed in accordance with the conditions; and a re-execution portion configured to, when the determining portion determines that the print job can be executed in accordance with the conditions, execute the print job once again. | 02-18-2016 |
20150070722 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus which can prohibit any users but a user who has made a deposit from operating the image forming apparatus for a chargeable process. A communication controller of the image forming apparatus obtains pieces of proper information of cell-phones. An ID management section issues IDs for the respective pieces of proper information, and the communication controller sends the IDs to the corresponding cell-phones. At an input section, a user of one of the cell-phones inputs the ID sent thereto. Thereafter, the communication controller receives an access from a cell-phone and receives proper information of the cell-phone. In this moment, it is judged whether the cell-phone which has made an access is identical with the cell-phone of which ID was inputted at the input section. Only when the communication controller identifies the cell-phone, the communication controller permits the image forming apparatus to communicate with the cell-phone. | 03-12-2015 |
20140296383 | COPIER/PRINTER EXTERIOR PART USING HALOGEN-FREE FLAME-RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION INCLUDING RECYCLED POLYCARBONATE AND RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE - A copier/printer exterior part uses a halogen-free flame-retardant resin composition. The halogen-free flame-retardant resin composition includes 5 wt % to 50 wt % of unused polycarbonate, 20 wt % to 63 wt % of recycled polycarbonate 5 wt % to 35 wt % of recycled polyethylene terephthalate, 0.2 wt % to 2 wt % of a styrene-acrylonitrile-glycidyl methacrylate terpolymer, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a toughener, 10 wt % to 20 wt % of a flame retardant, 0.1 wt % to 0.8 wt % of a flame-retardant antidrip agent, 0.1 wt % to 1 wt % of an antioxidant, and 0.1 wt % to 2 wt % of a lubricant. The styrene-acrylonitrile-glycidyl methacrylate terpolymer includes 1 wt % to 5 wt % of glycidyl methacrylate and 20 wt % to 33 wt % of acrylonitrile. | 10-02-2014 |
20130323639 | Toner, Manufacturing Method Thereof and Image Forming Method - A toner comprising a modified polyester resin containing a structure represented by Formula (1a) or (1b), wherein, in Formula (1a) and (1b), R | 12-05-2013 |
20130302071 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER COMPRISING AN INORGANIC LAYER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THEREOF - An image forming apparatus may include an electrophotographic photoreceptor and an intermediate transfer member. An image may be formed by primary transferring a toner image held on a surface of an electrophotographic photoreceptor to an intermediate transfer member, and secondary transferring the toner image from the intermediate transfer member to a transferee material. A dispersive component of surface energy of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and a dispersive component of surface energy of the intermediate transfer member may satisfy a relationship of (the dispersive component of surface energy of the electrophotographic photoreceptor)≦(the dispersive component of surface energy of the intermediate transfer member). | 11-14-2013 |
20130278970 | Image Processing Apparatus - There is described an image processing apparatus, which makes it possible not only to eliminate the deterioration of the perceptibility, but also to determine the pages being suitable for applying the predetermined image processing. The control section determines specific pages, being suitable for applying a predetermined image processing, based on the attributes detected by the detecting section, so as to apply the predetermined image processing to the specific pages. On the other hand, the control section applies image processing, including a variable power processing, to both the partial image area and the partial character area by employing different magnification factors, so as to generate a size-changed partial image area and a size-changed partial character area, and to arrange both of them into a predetermined imaginary area being smaller than an area of the original image, so as to accommodate them within the predetermined imaginary area. | 10-24-2013 |
20130272818 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus, including a sheet processing section which performs predetermined processing on sheets of paper to form a booklet; a booklet ejection section which nips the booklet and ejects the booklet outside; an ejected paper stacking section on which the booklet ejected by the booklet ejection section is stacked; a shutter section which is provided between the booklet ejection section and the ejected paper stacking section and is openable and closable; and an opening and closing mechanism which performs an opening and closing operation that is opening the shutter section when the booklet is ejected by the booklet ejection section and closing the shutter section after the booklet is ejected. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272736 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus is provided that includes: a heating member that heats a recording sheet; a pressure member that presses the recording sheet between the heating member and the pressure member; an adjustment mechanism that causes the heating member and the pressure member to contact or to separate; and a control section that, at a time of a warm-up operation or an idling operation, based on a predetermined condition, controls the adjustment mechanism so as to cause the heating member and the pressure member to contact at a contact pressure that is lower than a contact pressure between the heating member and the pressure member at a time of image formation or is approximately identical to the contact pressure at a time of image formation. | 10-17-2013 |
20130268928 | SOFTWARE INSTALLING METHOD BASED ON ACQUIRED EQUIPMENT INFORMATION AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - Disclosed a software installing method to a computer including the steps of: installing a software program to the computer, the software program corresponding to an equipment connected to the computer; acquiring equipment information of the equipment from the equipment connected to the computer; and displaying the acquired equipment information of the equipment on the display section prior to the installing step. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266351 | FIXING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The print performance of an image forming apparatus is improved by adequately estimating the behavior of a sheet receiving separation air and controlling the output of separation air. A fixing control unit | 10-10-2013 |
20130265627 | LASER SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM - In a laser scanning optical system, at least one of one or more scanning optical elements is made of a material having a photoelastic coefficient equal to or greater than 20×10 | 10-10-2013 |
20130265610 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHICH STORES IMAGE CONTROL PROGRAM AND IS READABLE BY COMPUTER - An image forming apparatus includes an image processing section to process gradation characteristic of the image data based on a tone curve, an image forming section to form an image based on the image data processed by the image processing section; and a control section to control processing in the image processing section. The control section has a function to adjust characteristic of output density relative to input density of image data as the gradation characteristic as a tone curve via a setting screen, saves operational situations at the time of adjustment of the tone curve on the setting screen as a history, and, when the history is designated, reproduces a state at the time of the past adjustment for the tone curve on the setting screen by using the saved operational situations. | 10-10-2013 |
20130265609 | GRADATION CORRECTION DEVICE FOR GENERATING GRADATION CORRECTION DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH DENSITY DATA OBTAINED BY READING CONTROL STRIP, AND PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - Disclosed is a gradation correction device in which the control strip has white or light-colored end patches and has at least one reference point at each of both ends of the control strip, which is defined by two straight lines including a fine line drawn on at least a part of a peripheral edge of each end patch except a border between the end patch and an adjacent patch which is adjacent to the end patch, and in which the gradation correction device detects the reference point at each of the both end portions of the control strip in the read image data, and obtains the density data of each patch by specifying a position of each patch in the control strip in the read image data in accordance with the detected reference point. | 10-10-2013 |
20130264763 | CONTROL METHOD OF FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - When conveying an envelope, a posture of the envelope is corrected by hitting a closed portion of the envelope, which is opposite side of an opened portion of the envelope, against a nip portion between upper and lower rollers of the pre-registration rollers and the envelope is then conveyed with the envelope being nipped by the upper and lower rollers of the pre-registration, rollers. The upper and lower rollers of the pre-registration rollers nip the envelope to remove air from the envelope. When setting an envelope mode to control a conveying speed of the envelope based on a coverage rate of an image to be formed on the envelope, the conveying speed of the envelope is controlled by adjusting a rotation speed of the registration rollers based on the coverage rate of the set envelope mode. | 10-10-2013 |
20130263219 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - Disclosed is an authentication system including: an electronic apparatus; and a remote operating device to remotely operate the electronic apparatus, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises a main controller to control the electronic apparatus and a sub-controller to control the electronic apparatus independently from the main controller; and wherein in case that the remote operating device accesses to the electronic apparatus, after the main controller carries out a first user authentication, the sub-controller carries out a second user authentication. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260306 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR COLORANT, COLORANT COMPOSITION, TONER, INK FOR INK JET RECORDING AND COLOR FILTER - Provided is a production process for a colorant which contains a silicon phthalocyanine compound making it possible to reach a targeted particle diameter even by a conventional dispersing method and which is excellent in performances such as a color reproducibility, a light fastness, an electrostatic property, a transparency and the like, and a colorant composition, a toner, an ink for ink jet recording and a color filter which are excellent in the above performances. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259558 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing device includes a cutter including a movable unit moving toward or away from a predetermined position and cutting a sheet held in the predetermined position, a door provided to a housing having an opening, the door opening and closing the opening for an operation for the cutter. The sheet processing device further includes the housing holding the cutter, a locking member locking and unlocking the door closing the opening and a locking mechanism mechanically connecting the movable unit to the locking member and causing the locking member to lock or unlock the door depending on a position of the movable unit relative to the predetermined position. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259554 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that is orientatable in either a first position or a second position, the second position being different from the first position in inclination with respect to a horizontal plane, comprising: a platform configured to be stacked with a plurality of recording sheets used for image formation; a pickup roller in contact with the recording sheets and configured to pick up the recording sheets one at a time; a pressing member applying pressure to the platform against the pick-up roller; and a pressure changer causing the pressing member to change an amount of the pressure according to whether the image forming apparatus is in the first position or in the second position. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259550 | FIXING SOLUTION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - To provide a fixing solution and an image forming method in which faster fixing rate and faster drying rate can be achieved while the amount of fixing solution supplied is reduced and furthermore, a wet feeling in a formed image is reduced and an image having a high fixing strength can be formed | 10-03-2013 |
20130259545 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR BEARING MEMBER, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A mounting structure for a bearing member comprises the bearing member, bearing a rotary shaft; a frame body that includes a mounting hole; and a plurality of projections, each of the projections being formed at one of three or more positions on at least one of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing member and an inner circumferential surface of the mounting hole, the positions extending radially from a centre of the rotary shaft, the bearing member being press fitted into the mounting hole via the projections, each of the projections being formed at a circumferential position having no other projection formed at a position 180° therefrom with respect to the centre of the rotary shaft. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259496 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus calculates a positional deviation in the main and sub-scanning directions for each color by forming registration patterns in two arrays along a sub-scanning direction on an image carrier. Each registration pattern in one array is paired with an identical registration pattern in the other array. A first sensor has: a light-emitting element irradiating one registration pattern in a pair; a photodetector for regular reflection light; and a photodetector for diffuse reflection light. A second sensor has: a light-emitting element irradiating the other one in the pair; and a photodetector for regular reflection light. The relative positions of a pair of registration patters calculated using the respective sensors are corrected so as to reduce the positional deviation between the calculated positions by the amount of offset deviation estimated occur between positions detected by the respective sensors when the registration patterns are without positional deviation. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258400 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, EXTERNAL TERMINAL, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and an external terminal. The image forming apparatus has a receiving part for receiving operation input information on an operation input into an operation screen from the external terminal, a specifying part for specifying a first program to which an execution instruction is given through the operation screen on the basis of the operation input information, a determination part for determining a second program having the same function as that of the first program as an execution object program on the condition that the second program is installed in the external terminal, and a notification part for notifying the external terminal that the second program is determined as the execution object program. The external terminal executes a processing in accordance with the second program and displays a result of the processing executed in accordance with the second program. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258367 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a storage unit, an image processing unit and a control unit. The image processing unit (i) calculates a summed height of a color toner image formed on a sheet by summing up a height of the color toner image on the basis of input image data, (ii) calculates, on the basis of a target value for glossiness stored in the storage unit, a target total height of the color toner image and a clear toner image to realize the target value for glossiness, and (iii) calculates a height of the clear toner image by subtracting the summed height from the target total height. On the basis of the calculated height of the clear toner image, the control unit adjusts the height of the clear toner image formed on the sheet. | 10-03-2013 |
20130256988 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When conveyance checking mode is selected, an automatic setting screen is changed. In the automatic setting screen, components such as AD rollers, guide plates or sheet ejection rollers, which are used when conveying the sheet of paper, are selectable. When the components are selected, they are highlighted in color and their names are also represented. The sheets of paper stop at their stop positions corresponding to the selected components. A user removes the sheets of paper from their stop position and checks an image pattern formed on each of the removed sheets of paper. | 10-03-2013 |
20130256986 | SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet feeding device having; a first conveyance roller pair that feeds a sheet; a second conveyance roller pair that feeds the sheet, the second conveyance roller pair being provided downstream from the first conveyance roller pair in a feed direction in which the sheet is fed; and a third conveyance roller pair that feeds the sheet, the third conveyance roller pair being provided downstream from the second conveyance roller pair in the feed direction, in which, when an edge of the sheet that is located on the downstream side of the feed direction is skewed with respect to a direction perpendicular to the feed direction, the second conveyance roller pair slides in the perpendicular direction with the sheet slacking between the first conveyance roller pair and the second conveyance roller pair. | 10-03-2013 |
20130256982 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The control portion controls the sheet adjusting portion to alternately convey the sheet of paper fed from the sheet-feeding path for single-side printing and the sheet of paper fed from the sheet-feeding path for duplex printing to the image forming portion during the duplex printing mode. Images are alternately formed on the front surface of each of the sheets of paper and the back surface of each of the sheets of paper when three sheets of paper are conveyed to the image forming apparatus and they are left therein. The control portion controls the sheet conveying portion to release the contact of the conveying rollers after it is detected that the sheet of paper reaches the sheet adjusting portion. | 10-03-2013 |
20130256978 | DOCUMENT FEEDER, DOCUMENT READER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH IMPROVED ACCURACY OF DOCUMENT SKEW CORRECTION - A document feeder feeds document sheets one by one from a stack on a tray by pressing one or more pick-up rollers against an uppermost document sheet and guiding one widthwise edge of the document sheet. The width direction is perpendicular to a document transport direction. The document feeder includes: a document size obtainer that obtains size information indicating a width of the document sheet; and a center-of-contact shifting mechanism that shifts a center of contact of each pick-up roller along an axial direction of the pick-up roller according to the obtained size information. The center of contact is a central point of an area where the pick-up roller is in contact with the document sheet. Each pick-up roller is in a barrel shape. The center-of-contact shifting mechanism shifts the center of contact of each pick-up roller by axially tilting the pick-up roller relative to the document surface. | 10-03-2013 |
20130256968 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image processor applies a RIP process to PDL data in order of the first through the n-th sheets to convert it into a scanning line type image data. An image forming section | 10-03-2013 |
20130253213 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYANOACETIC ACID, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYANOACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING METAL CONTAINING COMPOUND - Provided is a method for producing cyanoacetic acid in a hydrolysis reaction of a predetermined cyanoacetate in the presence of an acid catalyst. Further, are provided methods for producing a cyanoacetic acid derivative and a metal containing compound by using the produced cyanoacetic acid as a staring material. Herein, the method for producing cyanoacetic acid enables the content of a malonic acid byproduct generated in the hydrolysis reaction to be greatly lowered, allowing the produced cyanoacetic acid to be used as a starting material without any purification treatments. Those advantageous effects result in the great improvement in the purity and yields of the cyanoacetic acid derivative and the metal containing compound produced by said cyanoacetic acid. Accordingly, the above mentioned methods make it possible to produce cyanoacetic acid, the cyanoacetic acid derivative and the metal containing compound, as excellent in the productivity and economical efficiency. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250342 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus being capable of executing a plurality of functions comprises: an entry portion which allows a user to issue a request for using any one of the functions and enter user authority information; a display portion; an authenticator which: requires user authentication via a user authentication screen displayed on the display portion; and judges whether or not the user authority information entered via the entry portion is appropriate for an authorized user for the function; and a function execution controller which executes the function as requested, if the authenticator judges that the user authority information entered via the entry portion is appropriate for an authorized user for the function, wherein the authenticator resets the result of the user authentication if the function execution controller successfully finishes executing the function. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250279 | Gloss Measuring Device and Image Forming Device Including Same - A gloss measuring device that measures a gloss of an image formed on a sheet which is being transported, the gloss measuring device includes a light emission portion that emits light toward the sheet, a light reception portion that receives the light reflected specularly off the image formed on the sheet, and a position adjustment unit that performs adjustment such that the sheet being transported is in a measurement reference position. | 09-26-2013 |
20130246973 | INFORMATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information device having a touch-sensitive panel for displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region is provided. The information device includes sets of data classified into at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order; a list display control portion for displaying, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which the sets of data classified into any one of the groups are listed; a scroll control portion for, when the data list is displayed, scrolling through the data list in accordance with touch operation of touching a position in the scrolled display region; and a support display control portion for displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction. The icons function as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of the three groups. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246923 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system comprising a communication terminal and an information processing device that allow communication therebetween. The communication terminal includes: a remote controlling part for acquiring an operation screen image, with which the user makes remote operation of the information processing device; and a cloud service connecting part for connecting to a service providing server providing a cloud service over a network, and acquiring a display screen image for using the cloud service from the service providing server in response to user's instruction, thereby causing the acquired display screen image to be displayed on the display part together with the operation screen image. The remote controlling part sends connecting information for connecting to the service providing server to the information processing device. The remote controlling part switches the display screen image displayed by the cloud service connecting part to the display screen image acquired by the information processing device. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246509 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system comprises a user terminal and an information processing device. A remote operation screen image for remotely operating the information processing device is displayed with the user terminal so that the information processing device is operated by remote control via the user terminal. The information processing device includes: a screen image controlling part for receiving operation information from the user terminal; a contents determining part for determining if contents accessed by a browser are internal contents of the information processing device when the operation information is a process request requiring start up of the browser; and a browser controlling part for starting up a first browser on the information processing device when the internal contents are to be accessed, and sending a browser start up instruction to cause start up of a second browser installed on the user terminal when external contents are to be accessed. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243505 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, a cleaning unit includes: a cleaning blade that scrapes off untransferred toner remaining on an image support; an application brush that contacts the image support on the downstream side in the rotational direction of the image support relative to the cleaning blade, the application brush rotating in a counter direction at a contact position with the image support, thereby scratching off lubricant particles from a solid lubricant provided at its periphery, and supporting and feeding the lubricant particles toward the contact position with the image support; and a moving force providing unit that provides the lubricant being fed by the application brush with an electrical moving force toward the image support, on the upstream side in the rotational direction of the application brush relative to the contact position of the image support and the application brush. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243503 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND GLOSS CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes a fixing unit configured to fix on a recording medium, a toner image formed on the recording medium, through heating and pressurization and a gloss control unit configured to lower gloss of a surface of the toner image by charging the surface of the toner image fixed onto the recording medium and heating the toner image such that toner contained in the toner image reaches a softening point or higher thereof. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243471 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having; a fusing unit that heats and presses a recording medium with an image transferred thereto, thereby fixing the image thereon; a first duct section in which air that contains emissions generated by the fusing unit flows; an ion generation unit provided away from the first duct section to generate ions; a second duct section in which air that contains the ions generated by the ion generation unit flows; a third duct section connected to the first and second duct sections, such that air flows in from the first and second duct sections, whereby the emissions are charged by the ions; a filter unit provided in the third duct section to trap the charged emissions; and a blowing unit that generates air flows from the connections with the first and second duct sections in the third duct section toward the filter unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243469 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image forming section configured to form an image on a recording sheet, a controller to execute a job, and an adjustment section configured to adjust a density of the image formed on the recording sheet by the image forming section during execution of the job. The controller discharges an inserting sheet onto the recording sheet having the image formed during the execution of the job when a value of the adjustment is larger than a predetermined value. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243468 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a serial tandem image forming system having a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a double-side printing job can be performed in a way according to the needs of users by taking into consideration an adjustment operation. The serial tandem image forming system includes an upstream apparatus | 09-19-2013 |
20130243453 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus has an outline surrounded by a casing. The casing has an opening. The image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit configured to fix an image formed on a recording medium, and a control unit. The fixing unit includes a heating fixing member. The control unit is configured to control an opening degree of the opening based on temperature of a surface of or in the vicinity of the heating fixing member, so as to prevent emission of a substance by an air current to outside of the casing through the opening, during an image forming operation. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242346 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is an image forming system where a plurality of image forming apparatuses for printing an image on a sheet based on a job, and outputting the image are connected with one another in a communicable manner, including a communication unit to carry out the communication, and a control unit to manage the job, and control the communication unit, where the control unit divides the job for sequentially processing a plurality of steps into a plurality of divided step jobs, executes a former part of the divided step jobs on an image forming apparatus which can execute the former part of the divided step jobs, and reserves a latter part of the divided step jobs on an image forming apparatus which can execute the latter part of the divided step jobs, and is different from the image forming apparatus, thereby enabling efficient execution of the job. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242345 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Image Processing Program - An image processing apparatus includes a target determining portion to determine process target data, an image processing control portion that stores processed data obtained by image-processing the process target data when the process target data can be stored upon acceptance of an execution operation, a history storing portion that stores history information including processing identification information of the image processing when the process target data cannot be stored, and a page generating portion that generates a page including a command linked to the process target data. The target determining portion determines designated data as the process target data upon acceptance of a data designating operation, and determines processed data as the process target data after the process target data is image-processed. When history information is stored, the page generating portion generates the page further including an image processing command to perform the image processing on the process target data. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242344 | SERVER, PRINT JOB CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A server includes a spooler which puts one or more jobs connected to one or more users in a spool queue; a user information receiver which receives from a printing apparatus, user information of a user who is logged on to the printing apparatus; a job search portion which finds one or more jobs connected to the logon user among the one or more jobs waiting in the spool queue, by using the user information received by the user information receiver; and a controller which controls such that the most recent job among the one or more jobs found by the job search portion is transferred to the printing apparatus and further controls, on the basis of one or both of: the job title of the most recent job; and the spool time the most recent job is put into the spool queue. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241853 | INSTRUCTION INPUT DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An instruction input apparatus comprising: a display being provided with a display screen; an electrostatic touch panel being deposited on the front of the display screen on the display, the touch panel being configured to input instructions to the instruction input apparatus; an approach sensor being configured to detect a user's hand approaching to a part of frame of the touch panel; a coordinate identification portion being configured to identify the coordinate of a contact position at which the user touches on the touch panel; and a controller being configured to, if the approach sensor detects the user's hand approaching to the part of frame of the touch panel, change a contact detectable area of the touch panel so that the contact detectable area will exclude the coordinate of the user's contact position which is identified by the coordinate identification portion. | 09-19-2013 |
20130235622 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device comprises: a rectifier circuit converting AC input voltage to DC; a smoothing capacitor connected to an output terminal of the rectifier circuit; a switching element turning on and off output from the smoothing capacitor to provide to a load; a switching controller controlling the switching of the switching element; a first signal input part generating a first signal for stopping the switching and keeping it stopped and inputting the first signal to the switching controller via a particular terminal thereof, when a trouble occurs on the power supply device; a detector detecting that the AC input voltage is a predetermined value or less; and a second signal input part generating a second signal for stopping the switching and keeping it stopped and inputting the second signal to the switching controller via the particular terminal, when the AC input voltage is the predetermined value or less. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235424 | DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING RELAY APPARATUS AND FIRST AND SECOND DISPLAY APPARATUSES - When a first remote panel accepts an operation to move a display screen, the first remote panel transmits information on the operation to a relay server. The relay server determines a destination display screen based on the received information, and transmits information on the destination display screen to each of an MFP (Multifunction Peripheral), the first remote panel, and a second remote panel. The relay server transmits data on the destination display screen to each of the first and second remote panels. After transmitting the information on the destination display screen, the relay server receives data on a neighboring screen of the destination display screen from the MFP. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235414 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMMUNICABLE WITH REMOTE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) receives, from a remote terminal, information on a first operation to request the MFP to execute processing. The MFP transmits, to the remote terminal, information on a screen in accordance with the information on the first operation, and receives, from the remote terminal, a report that a screen in accordance with the transmitted information is displayed on the remote terminal. The MFP receives, from the remote terminal, information on a second operation to request the MFP to execute processing, after receipt of the information on the first operation and before receipt of the report, and decides whether to execute or cancel the processing in accordance with the information on the second operation, depending on the type of the information on the second operation. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235408 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a display; a document image accepting unit for accepting input of a document image obtained by a scanner; a display control unit for causing a preview image of the document image accepted by the document image accepting unit to be displayed on the display while being moved in a prescribed direction in a sequential manner; an operation accepting unit for accepting an operation of image editing for document images, which are series of document images accepted by the document image accepting unit, including the document image corresponding to the preview image moving on the display; and an editing unit for performing the image editing accepted by the operation accepting unit for the document images. | 09-12-2013 |
20130229370 | OPERATION DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is an operation display device including: a touch panel unit to detect a touch position; a display unit; and a display control unit to execute a display according to a first display process on the display unit when a first operation is received on the touch panel unit, and to execute both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process when a second operation including an element of the first operation is received on the touch panel unit. | 09-05-2013 |
20130223870 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, having: a supply unit that forwards a sheet material; a rotor that feeds the sheet material; a memory unit that has stored therein a masking sound for noise; a derivation unit that derives a current position of the sheet material being fed; a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the current position derived by the derivation unit, whether or not the sheet material being fed has reached a second specified location at a predetermined distance upstream from the first specified location; a decision unit that decides output timing and/or output duration for the masking sound in the memory unit upon an affirmative determination by the determination unit; and a sound output unit that outputs the masking sound in the memory unit in accordance with the output timing and/or the output duration. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221613 | PAPER SHEET CONVEYANCE DEVICE FOR CONVEYING PAPER SHEET TO IMAGE FORMING SECTION AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING PAPER SHEET CONVEYANCE DEVICE FOR CONVEYING PAPER SHEET TO IMAGE FORMING SECTION - A paper sheet conveyance device for conveying a paper sheet to an image forming apparatus includes a corrugation roller for imparting corrugation onto both the left and right sides of a paper sheet, onto which an image has not been formed, with respect to a conveyance direction, by forming a curved portion along the conveyance direction. | 08-29-2013 |
20130216262 | ROTARY DAMPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A plurality of first viscoelastic bodies are disposed in insertion holes of a first rotary member. A plurality of second viscoelastic bodies are disposed in guide holes of a second rotary member. Each of the first and the second viscoelastic bodies has an elastic coefficient changing in accordance with aging due to use. A guide member moves a contact member along the insertion hole and the guide hole. The contact member applies a compressive load to the first viscoelastic body. The aging of the second viscoelastic body due to the compressive load applied thereto moves a position of the first viscoelastic body where the compressive load is received from the contact member toward a farther side from a rotational shaft side. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216244 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit to form an image on paper fed from the selected feed tray; a density sensor to measure a density of the image formed on the paper; and a control unit to control execution of an output paper density adjustment in accordance with a result obtained by forming a test image on the paper by using the image forming unit and by measuring the density of the test image formed on the paper by using the density sensor, wherein the control unit executes the output paper density adjustment by changing the feed tray for feeding the paper, from the feed tray designated in a print job to the substitute feed tray at a predetermined timing while the print job is executed, regardless of the paper setting information related to the substitute feed tray. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215476 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a processing unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image. The processing unit is configured to select a format of a file corresponding to the image acquired by the acquisition unit, by analyzing a feature of the image. The processing unit is further configured to create a file for each feature of the image in the selected format. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214606 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER-SOURCE DEVICE - Electronic device comprising: processing unit including accepting part accepting processing request from external device and executing process specified by request; secondary battery connected with external power source; and power-source device transitioning to operating state when request is accepted in waiting state, and transitioning to waiting state when processing unit completes executing process, wherein, in waiting state, power supply from external power source to processing unit is stopped and secondary battery supplies power to accepting part, and in operating state, power is supplied from external power source to processing unit. Power-source device includes controller executing first charge control operation to cause external power source to charge secondary battery when, in operating state, voltage of secondary battery is not higher than threshold, and end executing first charge control operation when transitioning to waiting state, controller updating threshold in response to increase in number of times first charge control operation is executed. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214477 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a plurality of trays to store an index sheet provided with a tab at a predetermined position of the index sheet, a setting section to set first information concerning the index sheet stored in the tray for each of the plurality of trays, a receiving section to receive second information concerning an insertion of the index sheet in a job, and a controller to control an execution of the job and an operation of feeding the index sheet. The controller automatically selects the tray in the execution of the job based on the first information and the second information. | 08-22-2013 |
20130212261 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system comprises an information processing device and a portable information terminal that allow communication therebetween. The portable information terminal includes: an application detection part for detecting a running application; a management part for detecting a cloud service to which the application connects and managing the application and the cloud service; a destination information generation part for generating destination information required for the information processing device to use the cloud service; and a transmission part for sending the destination information to the information processing device. The information processing device includes: a destination setting part for automatically configuring the destination to connect to the cloud service the same as that used by the running application on the portable information terminal in accordance with the destination information; and a data processing part for connecting to the cloud service to send and receive data. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209930 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Disclosed is a toner for electrostatic image development, having excellent low-temperature fixability and also having hot offset resistance and post-fixing separability. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209150 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device for heating and pressing a toner image on a recording medium, a non-contact heating device arranged downstream of the fixing device for heating the toner image without coming into contact with the toner image, and a pressure contact device arranged downstream of the non-contact heating device and having a smooth surface. The pressure contact device has first and second arrangement states switched according to the kind of the recording medium. In the first arrangement state, the pressure contact device is arranged so as to make pressure contact with the toner image. In the second arrangement state, the pressure contact device is arranged so as not to make pressure contact with the toner image. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208998 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR RESHAPING THRESHOLD MATRIX, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a probability conversion unit, a processor, and a threshold conversion unit. The probability conversion unit receives an initial pattern and converts it into a probability distribution space. The processor performs weighting on a density distribution space indicating a density of pixels determined to be dotted using the probability distribution space, determines pixels to be dotted and an order of the dotting in the weighted density distribution space, updates the probability distribution space until the order for all pixels in the initial pattern is determined, and repeats the determination using the updated probability distribution space. The threshold conversion unit converts the order of dotting into thresholds to obtain a threshold matrix. The probability conversion unit uses a threshold matrix preliminarily created to form a halftone dot as the initial pattern. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208312 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PRINT INSTRUCTION PROGRAM - Provided are a mobile terminal and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing therein a print instruction program. A mobile terminal for instructing one or more printing apparatuses connected to a network to perform printing, includes a touch screen and a control section. The control section is constructed to perform a first process of determining a position or positions of the one or more printing apparatuses viewed from the mobile terminal, and of displaying, on the touch screen, a direction or directions being accompanied with the position or positions of the one or more printing apparatuses; and a second process of, when the control section detects a flick operation on the touch screen along one of the direction or directions, transmitting a print job which gives a print instruction, to one of the one or more printing apparatuses corresponding to the one of the direction or directions. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208299 | PRINTING DEVICE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A printing device includes an authentication unit, a job input unit configured to receive input of a print job, a printing processing unit configured to perform printing processing for the print job, and an instruction input unit configured to receive input of an instruction on output of a printed matter of the print job. The printing processing in the printing processing unit is controlled in accordance with an instruction from a user successfully authenticated by the authentication unit. The printing device further includes a proxy registration processing unit capable of setting, for the print job, a user different from an issuer of the print job as a user who instructs output of the printed matter, and causes the printed matter to be output when the instruction on output is made by the user set as the user who instructs output of the printed matter. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207915 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a processing portion, a storage portion, and a touch pad. The processing portion is adapted to accept input of a value for a prescribed processing condition for an image forming job. The storage portion is adapted to store the value accepted by the processing portion. The touch pad is adapted to accept a touch operation. The processing portion updates the value stored in the storage portion based on a manner of change in touch position resulting from a second touch operation on the touch pad while a first touch operation in a prescribed region of the touch pad continues. | 08-15-2013 |
20130206064 | GLOSS PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet of paper is set on a paper-supplying portion of a back surface gloss processing apparatus while its top surface is faced upward. A gloss level sensor measures a gloss level of a back surface of the sheet of paper. Data of this measurement is compared with a previously set threshold value. When this measurement result does not exceed the threshold value, it is determined that the gloss processing has not been performed on the back surface thereof. It is then determined whether or not the presently set operation mode is a top surface gloss processing mode. When determining that the present operation mode is not the top surface gloss processing mode, the operation mode is automatically changed from a presently set back surface gloss processing mode to the top surface gloss processing mode. | 08-15-2013 |
20130206061 | GLOSS PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet of paper is set on a paper-supplying portion of a top surface gloss processing apparatus while its top surface is faced upward. A gloss level sensor measures gloss level of the top surface of the sheet of paper. Data of this measurement is compared with a previously set threshold value. Based on this comparison, it is determined whether or not the gloss processing has been performed on the top surface thereof. When determining that the gloss processing has been already performed, a warning message such that the gloss processing has been already performed on the top surface of the sheet, of paper is displayed on a screen. On the other hand, when determining that the gloss processing has not performed, the top surface gloss processing apparatus performs the gloss processing on the top surface thereof. | 08-15-2013 |
20130202336 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In an image forming method of wet fixing system, the fixing solution contains an ester compound represented by at least one of general formula (1) and general formula (2) below: | 08-08-2013 |
20130202331 | FIXING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - When an arm member | 08-08-2013 |
20130201511 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION STANDARDIZATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH OPERATION STANDARDIZATION PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an operating portion to output operation identification information in response to acceptance of an operation designated by an operation user, an application portion operative, in response to reception of one of process identification information items, to perform a process of the type corresponding to the received process identification information item, an association portion operative, at the stage when an application program is installed, to associate a plurality of types of processes determined by the application program respectively with sets of one or more operations among a plurality of types of operations, a process specifying portion to specify a process associated with the set of one or more operations specified by the operation identification information item(s) output from the operating portion, and an operation notification portion to output the process identification information of the specified process to the application portion. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201132 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL - An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) includes a display device with a touch panel for displaying a variety of information. A plurality of screens including a base screen and a pop-up screen overlapping one another are displayed on the touch panel. The MFP accepts operation on any one of the screens and identifies the user who performs the accepted operation. If the identified user does not have operation authority over the pop-up screen, the MFP does not specify the pop-up screen as a screen serving as a target of the operation but specifies the base screen as a screen serving as a target of the operation. | 08-08-2013 |
20130195528 | IMAGE FORMING APPARAUS - Brush rollers rotate in a direction indicated by an arrow while being in contact with an image formation surface to remove toner remaining on the image formation surface from an intermediate transfer belt. The brush rollers each mainly include a rotational shaft and a brush. The brush rollers face the intermediate transfer belt with brush winding directions being opposite from one another. The brush rollers rotate in the direction indicated by the arrow. Thus, seams of the brush rollers can be prevented from being in contact with the same portion on the image formation surface of the intermediate transfer belt. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194631 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, REMOTE OPERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises a detection part for detecting a state change of a hardware operating member in an operation part of the image forming apparatus and a transmitting part for transmitting screen control information in accordance with the state change detected by the detection part to the remote operation apparatus. The remote operation apparatus comprises a display part for displaying a simulated image representing the detection part of the image forming apparatus, a receiving part for receiving the screen control information, and a display control part for changing a first image which is the simulated image displayed on the display part before the state change into a second image which is the simulated image in which the state change is reflected, in response to a receipt of the screen control information. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194627 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A management system for managing a management target device includes: a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a user of the management target device; a management server configured to manage Air Tag information relating to the user; and a mobile terminal. The management server includes: a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information for the position of the user based on a result of the detection by the position detection unit; a generation unit configured to generate the Air Tag information including device-relating information and the positional information of the user; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the Air Tag information to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal displays an Air Tag image visualizing the device-relating information of the user by superposing the Air Tag image over a portion representing the user within a shot image of scenery around the mobile terminal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194603 | Apparatus for Outputting Image, Apparatus for Inputting Image, Computer, Method for Displaying Screen, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Computer Program - An apparatus for outputting an image is provided. The apparatus includes a printer; a storage to store screen data on a screen in which a plurality of objects are provided and on which settings regarding a process for printing an image onto paper with the printer are made; an obtaining portion to obtain image data on a target image to be outputted; a display device to display, if a medium to which the target image is outputted is electronic paper, the screen based on the screen data in a manner to hide or not to place an unrelated object which is included in the objects and is not related to the electronic paper; and an output portion to output the image data to the electronic paper based on conditions designated on the screen displayed in such a manner that the unrelated object is hidden or not placed. | 08-01-2013 |
20130190473 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Disclosed is a toner for electrostatic image development that has low-temperature fixability and hot offset resistance and also has document offset resistance. The toner contains a hyperbranched polymer which is a homopolymer formed using an inimer having, in its molecule, a polymerizable functional group and a polymerization initiating group or is a copolymer formed using the inimer and a vinyl-based monomer. The hyperbranched polymer is preferably a terminal-modified hyperbranched polymer and is preferably obtained by a living radical polymerization process. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189612 | TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - The present invention relates to a two-component developer which comprises a toner, and a carrier having a surface of a core material particle coated with a resin having a unit of general formula (1). The present invention provides a two-component developer which has enhanced environmental stability of carrier charging performance. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188211 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes a plurality of different rasterization processing units, a print image data acquiring unit, and a display image generating unit. The rasterization processing units each perform a rasterization process on print data to generate print image data. The print image data acquiring unit acquires at least one piece of print image data selectively using the plurality of rasterization processing unit. The display image generating unit generates a display image of each of the plurality of print image data. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188005 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a scanning optical device which performs scanning on a photosensitive drum with laser light. The scanning optical device includes a polygon motor unit, an emergence unit and a projecting unit. The polygon motor unit includes a polygon mirror which performs the scanning on the photosensitive drum with the laser light emitted from a light source. The laser light emerges from the emergence unit so that the photosensitive drum is irradiated with the laser light. The projecting unit projects to a first side where the photosensitive drum is disposed from a partition wall. The polygon motor unit is disposed in the projecting unit. The emergence unit is disposed on a second side separated from the first side by the partition wall. A gap is provided between the partition wall and the scanning optical device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130185665 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprises: a display which allows users to connect a first icon to a second icon on a first screen and is capable of displaying the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion and a second screen matching an event; a completion detector which detects completion of the connecting operation; a processor which performs an operation predetermined for the first and second icon when the connecting operation is completed; an event detector which detects occurrence of an event during the connecting operation; and a controller which performs, if an event occurs before completion of the connecting operation, a control operation consisting of: storing composition information of the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion; interrupting the first screen; and reproducing the first screen after disappearance of the second screen on the basis of the composition information. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182288 | ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An account management system includes an account management device, and an image forming device connected to the account management device via a network. The image forming device includes execution means for executing an image formation operation, and notification means for transmitting to the account management device a completion notification indicating that an image formation operation by the execution means is completed. The account management device includes an account management unit responding to reception of the completion notification for generating account information about the image formation operation corresponding to the completion notification. | 07-18-2013 |
20130177330 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for performing a thermal fixing for fixing an unfixed image onto a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip formed by a fixing rotator and a pressing member pressing the fixing rotator. The fixing device obtains a value indicating an amount of paper dust attached to the fixing rotator, and when the amount of paper dust indicated by the obtained value is equal to or larger than a permissible amount, performs a control so that a larger amount of heat is supplied to the recording sheet in the thermal fixing than when the amount of paper dust indicated by the obtained value is smaller than the permissible amount. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176222 | OPERATIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An operational display device includes a display portion for displaying an image based on image data including a specific portion, a detection portion for detecting an orientation in which the display portion is held, and a display control unit for controlling a manner of display on the display portion. The display control unit causes an image of the specific portion to be displayed as being zoomed-in and rotated in accordance with an orientation of holding of the display portion when the orientation in which the display portion is held is changed from a first orientation to a second orientation. | 07-11-2013 |
20130171559 | TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPING AGENT AND DEVELOPING METHOD - A two-component developing agent includes toner and a carrier including carrier particles. The toner includes a binding resin. The carrier particle includes a porous ferrite core particle and a resin covering layer. The resin covering layer covers the porous ferrite core particle. The resin covering layer includes ferrite particles. An average particle diameter of the ferrite particles ranges from 0.1 to 1.0 μm. | 07-04-2013 |
20130163047 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM - An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a determining unit, and a control unit. The image forming apparatuses are connected in series in a paper conveyance direction, and include first and second image forming apparatuses. The second image forming apparatus is disposed downstream of the first image forming apparatus in the paper conveyance direction. The determining unit determines whether image data is front-side data or back-side data at a time of duplex printing. The control unit controls the first image forming apparatus to print an image based on the back-side data, and controls the second image forming apparatus to print an image based on the front-side data. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163022 | Print System, Print Data Generating Device, Print Device, and Tangible Computer-Readable Recording Medium - Disclosed is a print system including a print data generating device to generate a variable print data, and a print device to carry out a print in accordance with the variable print data, wherein the print data generating device generates and outputs the variable print data including search information for searching and obtaining original information for a variable part from a database; and wherein the print device includes: an input unit to input the variable print data; a search unit to carry out a search for searching the original information in the database in accordance with the search information included in the variable print data; a processing unit to prepare a print image in accordance with the variable print data by reflecting searched information obtained by the search unit on the variable part; and a print unit to print the print image. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163011 | COLOR CONVERSION TABLE CREATING DEVICE, COLOR CONVERSION TABLE CREATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a device, a method, and a storage medium to create a color conversion table. According to one implementation, a color conversion table creating device includes, a color material amount limiting processing section; a first color conversion processing section; a second color conversion processing section; a combining section; a color material amount limiting inverse conversion processing section; and an output value determining section. The color material amount limiting processing section performs color material amount limiting of an input value in the color conversion table. The color material limiting inverse conversion processing section performs inverse conversion of the color material amount limiting after color conversion and combining the CMYK components. The output value determining section sets the inverted CMYK color components as an output value in the color conversion table. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162713 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISTRIBUTED PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores therein a distributed printing control program executed in a system to perform distributed printing by outputting a specified number of sets of paper sheets by using plural image fowling apparatuses, where the number of the sets is instructed by a job. The program causes an apparatus belonging to the system to function as a control section. The control section divides the job into plural jobs, where each of the jobs causes one of the image forming apparatuses to eject plural sets of paper sheets shifted in alternate directions such that, when sets of paper sheets ejected by the plural image forming apparatuses are stacked up together, all the sets of paper sheets are shifted in alternate directions to enable each of the sets to be separated from others. The control section further subjects the divided jobs to the plural image forming apparatuses. | 06-27-2013 |
20130159536 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device executing a job in cooperation with a server, comprises: an external terminal connecting part for establishing connection that allows communication with an external terminal; a server connecting part for conducting a negotiation to execute the job with the server and establishing connection with the server in response to receipt of a request from the external terminal; a transmission part for sending information that is received from the external terminal and addressed to the server after rewriting a source address of the information to an address of the image processing device; a screen image control part for outputting screen image information to the external terminal in response to receipt of the screen image information from the server; and a job execution control part for starting execution of the job with the server in accordance with a control command after receiving the control command from the server. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156453 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In an image forming apparatus, a control circuit rotationally drives a development roller at a predetermined rotation speed during a development process, in which the development roller has depression portions and land portions on a circumferential surface. The depression portions and the land portions are oblique grooves in the surface. While the development roller is rotationally driven, the control circuit controls the predetermined rotation speed such that a crossing angle approximates 90°. The crossing angle is formed by a screen line in the electrostatic latent image on the circumferential surface of the latent image support and an area where the land portion of the development roller substantially passes over the circumferential surface of the latent image support. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154176 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Sheets center-folded by a center-folder are placed on a main saddle. A buffer saddle is provided separately from the main saddle, on an opposite side of the center-folder across the main saddle. The pile of sheets saddle-stitched on the main saddle is placed on the buffer saddle. When viewed from above, the buffer saddle is movable in a direction separating from the main saddle that is a reverse direction to the center-folder, and in a direction orthogonal to the direction separating from the main saddle. A sheet processing device is arranged in the orthogonal direction where the buffer saddle is movable. | 06-20-2013 |
20130149008 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a driving source configured to generate power; a first rotator configured to be drivingly rotated by the power generated by the driving source; a first power transmission system configured to transmit the power from the driving source to the first rotator; a second rotator configured to be drivingly rotated by the power generated by the driving source; and a second power transmission system configured to transmit the power to the second rotator from the first power transmission system. A damper having a torsion spring constant and a torsion viscous damping constant making a maximum positional change value of the first rotator equal to or smaller than a predetermined positional change value is disposed between the first power transmission system and the second power transmission system. | 06-13-2013 |
20130145184 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus comprising: a main body including a reception unit and a processing unit; and a power supply device switches between an operation state for supplying power from an external power source to the main body and a standby state for supplying power from a secondary battery to the reception unit without supplying power from the power source to the main body. Charging of the battery with power from the power source is performed during the operation state and is terminated when a value indicating power level of the battery reaches a threshold value Vt satisfying (discharge lower limit VL+Vs)≦Vt06-06-2013 | |
20130142533 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Provided is a fixing device comprising: a fixing rotating body; a magnetizing coil; a pressing member forming a fixing nip through which a recording sheet passes; a demagnetizing coil unit set including a pile of demagnetizing coil units each including demagnetizing coils of different sizes, and canceling out part of magnetic flux generated by the magnetizing coil in a non-sheet-passing region; a sheet information acquisition unit acquiring sheet information including information relating to a width of the recording sheet; and an operation control unit controlling each demagnetizing coil according to the width, wherein in each demagnetizing coil unit, the demagnetizing coils are arranged such that a smaller demagnetizing coil is surrounded by a larger demagnetizing coil and the demagnetizing coils are in a same plane extending along a surface of the magnetizing coil, and a combination of sizes of the demagnetizing coils differs among the demagnetizing coil units. | 06-06-2013 |
20130139240 | NETWORK SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A network system including at least one client and a user account management server is provided. The user account management server includes a user account saving portion for saving a user identifier and a user password for a cooperative server with which at least one client works in coordination for specific processing. Each of the clients includes an application storage portion for storing an application for the specific processing, a reference information storage portion for storing reference information to be referred to when the application is executed, a location information obtaining portion for obtaining location information indicating a saving location of the user identifier and user password, a user account obtaining portion for obtaining, based on the location information, the user identifier and the user password from the user account management server, and an update portion for updating the reference information to indicate the user identifier and the user password. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135191 | INPUT DISPLAY APPARATUS, TANGIBLE COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND INPUT DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed is an input display apparatus including: a handwriting input unit to receive a handwriting input; a particle migration type of display unit to enable display contents to be partially rewritten; and a control unit to control a display operation of the display unit, for displaying each stroke which is input via the handwriting input unit; wherein the control unit controls the display unit so as to display a currently input stroke which is currently input via the handwriting input unit, in a simple display in which a delay required to display the currently input stroke is short as compared with a normal display. | 05-30-2013 |
20130128298 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CHANGING OPERATING STATE - An image forming apparatus can change an operating state between a normal mode and a power saving mode having power consumption lower than that of the normal mode. The image forming apparatus sets a detection range based on at least one of an angle of a manipulation panel, existence or non-existence of an output to the sheet discharge unit, and existence or non-existence of placement of the authentication device. The image forming apparatus detects an approach of a human body when the operating state is in the power saving mode. When a sensor detects that the human body approaches the detection range, the image forming apparatus returns the operating state from the power saving mode to the normal mode. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127725 | OPERATION INPUT SYSTEM AND OPERATION INPUT METHOD - Disclosed is an operation input system including: an operation display device; and a display device, wherein in case that the operation display device receives input of security information, the operation display device sets input keys in the key arrangement on a screen of the display unit and displays the operation window in which the input keys or at least contents of the input keys cannot be visually recognized, and the operation detecting unit receives the operation for the set input keys, and the display device controls display contents of the second display unit so as to display a state in which a virtual image of the input keys is combined with a situation in which an operator operates the display unit in accordance with an image shot by the camera so as to match a position of the virtual image with the set input keys. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127688 | DISPLAY SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH FIRST DISPLAY DEVICE AND SECOND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display system includes an image forming device and a mobile communication terminal. In the display system, the mobile communication terminal accepts a flick manipulation to move the screen, and transmits flick information on the accepted flick manipulation to the image forming device. The image forming device decides an area, which is a part of the screen of the mobile communication terminal and in which display is changed when the screen is moving, and sequentially transmits to the mobile communication terminal positional information on the decided area and screen data of the screen before the movement is completed since the movement is started, which is decided based on the flick information in the decided area. The mobile communication terminal displays the screen in the area of the transmitted positional information based on the transmitted screen data. | 05-23-2013 |
20130121716 | FIXATION UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixation unit which allows paper with a toner image formed thereon to be fed between a first roller and a second roller for fixing the toner image on the sheet. The fixation unit includes a drive controller. The drive controller rotates the first and second rollers on different driving conditions. The drive controller rotates the first roller at a constant circumferential speed at least in a state where the first and second rollers are in pressure contact with each other and rotates the second roller with a constant torque which is low enough for the second roller to stop rotating when the first roller stops rotating. | 05-16-2013 |
20130115552 | LIQUID DEVELOPER - A liquid developer used for wet-type image forming apparatuses includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin, a pigment, and a pigment dispersant, the pigment includes a pigment having an acid group, and the pigment dispersant is a basic polymer dispersant including units derived from ε-caprolactone. | 05-09-2013 |
20130111238 | Image Processing System, Image Processing Apparatus, Portable Information Apparatus, Image Processing Apparatus Coordination Method, Portable Information Apparatus Coordination Method, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Image Processing Apparatus Coordination Program, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Portable Information Apparatus Coordination Program | 05-02-2013 |
20130108953 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130108300 | FIXING DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
20130106748 | HANDWRITING INPUT DEVICE AND HANDWRITING INPUT CONTROL PROGRAM | 05-02-2013 |
20130101324 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The image forming apparatus includes a fixing-side member that comes into contact with an image-formation side of a sheet having a toner image formed thereon by an image forming section; a reverse-side supporting member that comes into contact with a reverse side of the sheet by being pressed toward the fixing-side member; a heat source that supplies heat to the sheet via the fixing-side member; an air separation section that discharges compressed air supplied by an air supply source, to a surface of the fixing-side member to separate the sheet from the fixing-side member; and a control section that controls a pressure accumulation operation in the air supply source. Moreover, the control section disables the pressure accumulation operation in the air supply source in a time period when an image forming process is not performed in the image forming section. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101310 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus according to the present embodiment has a fixing part, a drawer, a case member, and an exhaust duct | 04-25-2013 |
20130100507 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a control section which detects an offset of a recording sheet being conveyed, the offset being in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording sheet; performs an offset regulation control which adjusts a main scanning direction image area signal in accordance with the offset; and forms a patch at a non-transfer area on an image carrier, wherein the control section performs a first control based on the offset of the recording sheet for the offset regulation control while a sub scanning direction image area signal is active for image forming on the recording sheet, and performs a second control for the offset regulation control while the image area signal in the sub scanning direction is inactive. | 04-25-2013 |
20130095991 | SHEET FOLDER - A sheet folder includes a blade for bending a sheet, a pair of folding rollers for sandwiching the sheet bent by the blade, a heating unit for heating a folded part of the sheet sandwiched between the pair of folding rollers by the blade, a temperature detection unit for detecting a temperature of the folded part, and a control unit for keeping a state in which the sheet is sandwiched between the pair of folding rollers until at least one of a temperature change and a temperature of the folded part that are detected by the temperature detection unit satisfies a prescribed condition after the blade allows the sheet to be sandwiched between the pair of folding rollers. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093824 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus A includes: a light irradiation device | 04-18-2013 |
20130089356 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: image carriers, an intermediate transfer body, primary transfer members, support members, a secondary transfer unit, a cleaning member, an adjustment mechanism, and a control unit. The support members rotatably support the intermediate transfer body. The cleaning member abuts against the intermediate transfer body at a position other than a position opposite to the support member under a predetermined condition based on a reference tension of the intermediate transfer body. The adjustment mechanism can adjust an abutment condition between the cleaning member and the intermediate transfer body. The control unit controls the adjustment mechanism to adjust the abutment condition to be suitable for removing, by the cleaning member, recording materials remaining on the intermediate transfer body without being transferred onto the transfer material when a tension of the intermediate transfer body is changed from the reference tension. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089355 | CLEANING BLADE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning blade is described which hardly suffers from cut surface abrasion at the edge having a chamfered portion. A flat chamfered portion | 04-11-2013 |
20130088449 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a display for displaying operational information for executing image processing, an operation unit for giving an input instruction in association with a display region appearing on the display, and a controller for controlling the display in accordance with the input instruction on the operation unit. The controller is configured to determine whether an input instruction of a flick operation is given through the operation unit in association with a prescribed display region appearing on the display. If it is determined that the input instruction of the flick operation is given, the controller is configured to enlarge a range of the prescribed display region in which the input instruction is allowed, and to display the enlarged display region on the display. | 04-11-2013 |
20130084095 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device and an image forming apparatus capable of suppressing staying of toner in a brush and reducing stress on a brush by discharge products are provided. A cleaning device includes upstream and downstream cleaning brushes and a cleaning roller, which respectively contact the surface of a secondary transfer belt, and first to third bias applying sections. The first bias applying section applies a bias voltage having a polarity opposite to that of the normal toner to the upstream cleaning brush. The second bias applying section applies a bias voltage having a polarity opposite to that of the normal toner and set to be not less than the absolute value of the bias voltage applied to the upstream cleaning brush, to the downstream cleaning brush. The third bias applying section applies a bias voltage having the same polarity as that of the normal toner to the cleaning roller. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084094 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a heating rotating body (first body) and a pressurizing rotating body (second body) disposed in a pressure contact state, and commencing image forming when a temperature of the first body reaches a predetermined temperature lower than a fixing temperature. The apparatus acquires a value indicating a temperature of the second body upon commencement of warm-up, and when the value is below a threshold value, heats the first body until the temperature thereof reaches the fixing temperature while rotating the two bodies at a first speed, and when the value equals or exceeds the threshold value, heats the first body until the temperature thereof reaches the predetermined temperature while rotating the two bodies at a second speed slower than the first speed and further heats the first body until the temperature thereof reaches the fixing temperature while rotating the two bodies at the first speed. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084091 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus for fixing a toner image to a recording sheet by transporting the recording sheet through a fixing nip formed by a heating rotating body and a pressing rotating body that press against each other. The image forming apparatus includes an idle rotation unit that causes idle rotation of the heating rotating body and the pressing rotating body during a standby state of the image forming apparatus, a cumulative amount recording unit that measures an amount of the idle rotation and record a cumulative amount of the idle rotation, and a prohibiting unit that prohibits the idle rotation unit from causing the idle rotation when the cumulative amount reaches a predetermined allowable value. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083209 | Cooperation System, Mobile Information Device, Cooperation Processing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Cooperation Processing Program - A cooperation system includes an image forming apparatus and a mobile information device. The image forming apparatus includes a storage portion which stores source data, and an image forming portion which forms an image of the source data on a sheet of paper. The mobile information device includes an image pickup portion, an image pickup control portion which acquires a picked-up image that the image pickup portion outputs by picking up an image of the image formed on the sheet by the image forming apparatus, a source data acquiring portion which acquires the source data corresponding to the picked-up image from the image forming apparatus, a process target determining portion which determines, on the basis of the picked-up image, a process target part to be processed within the acquired source data, and a process executing portion which executes processing on the determined process target part within the source data. | 04-04-2013 |
20130078566 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - Disclosed are a low-environmental load toner for electrostatic image development and a production process of the toner. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078015 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus according to the present invention has a fixing member and a paper separation part. The fixing member fixes an image by heating and applying a pressure to a sheet of printing paper S on which a toner image is transferred, while transferring the paper S. The paper separation part has a blower part and an air ejecting part that ejects the air sent out from the blower part against a paper outlet port of a nipping part N of the fixing member. The air ejection part has ribs that divide the air flow sent out from said blower part. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078008 | DEVELOPER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer device includes two developer rollers arranged opposite to an image carrier. A first developer bias voltage (waveform Z) of a rectangular waveform obtained by superimposing an AC voltage on a DC voltage is applied to one of the developer rollers. A second developer bias voltage (waveform A) obtained by superimposing an AC voltage on a DC voltage is applied to the other developer roller. The waveform A is a waveform obtained by deforming the rectangular wave in the first developer bias voltage such that toner adhered to the image carrier is prevented from being dislodged by toner being subsequently scattered. According to the developer device, an optimal image density can be obtained at a low-density potential. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077985 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having; image supporting members provided for a plurality of colors; chargers to be impressed with charging biases to charge the respective image supporting members; developing devices to be impressed with developing biases to develop latent images formed on the image supporting members; a charging bias power supply, including high-voltage DC power supply circuits and an AC power supply circuit, for applying the charging biases, which are generated by superposition of direct-current voltages and an alternate-current voltage, to the chargers; and a control circuit that performs stop processing to stop applications of the charging biases and the developing biases. The control circuit performs processing to attenuate each of the direct-current voltages and each of the developing biases, and after all the direct-current voltages have become a predetermined stop potential, the control circuit performs processing to stop the outputs of the direct-current voltages and the alternate-current voltage. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077137 | SHEET-THROUGH DOCUMENT READING APPARATUS - A sheet-through document reading apparatus including: a document tray for containing a plurality of documents; a determination unit that determines a length of a document on the document tray; a feed unit that separates and feeds a document on the document tray; a resist convey unit that performs consistency processing on the document fed by the feed unit; a first drive unit that rotationally drives the resist convey unit; a read convey unit that feeds the document subjected to consistency processing by the resist convey unit; a second drive unit that rotationally drives the read convey unit; a reading unit that reads, at a fixed reading position, the document conveyed by the read convey unit; and a control unit for changing a relative conveying velocity between the resist convey unit and the read convey unit on the basis of a result of the determination by the determination unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20130073879 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a functional unit, a first power supply circuit supplying electric power to the functional unit from a commercial power supply, a second power supply circuit including a self-generation power supply, and a third power supply circuit including a power storage unit storing electric power and a charging circuit charging the power storage unit upon receipt of supply of electric power from at least one of the commercial power supply and the self-generation power supply. In accordance with the amount of power supply from the self-generation power supply, higher priority is given to supply of electric power to the functional unit from at least one of the second and third power supply circuits than to supply of electric power from the first power supply circuit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073456 | SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM INCLUDING PLURALITY OF SUBSYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING THE SAME SERVICE, AND SERVICE PROVISION METHOD - A subsystem of a first kind includes a first fee table receiving portion for receiving a first fee table, a user-restricted provision portion for providing a service, and an uncollected history record transmitting portion to transmit to a summation server an uncollected history record including a history record of providing a service. A subsystem of a second kind includes a post-collection provision portion for providing a service if a fee defined by a second fee table is collected, a collected history record transmitting portion to transmit to the summation server a collected history record including a history record of providing a service, a proxy provision portion for providing a service before a fee for the service is collected, and a switch control portion for comparing the first fee table with the second fee table and allowing the post-collection provision portion or the proxy provision portion to provide a service. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071168 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a sheet conveying unit, a TOD (Top of Data) control module for instructing the image forming unit to start generation of a toner image, a timing roller driving module for instructing the sheet conveying unit to start driving of the timing roller, an image synchronization module designed depending on the sheet conveying unit and the image forming unit, and a sheet information module for generating an image synchronization identifier for designating a pattern of image synchronization control related to printing of the toner image on the sheet, depending on a type of the sheet designated. The image synchronization module is activated when the formation of the toner image on the sheet has become possible, and activate each of the TOD control module and the timing roller driving module, with a relative time lag based on the image synchronization identifier. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus contains a first printer forming a first image on a surface of the sheet member, a reversing section reversing a surface of the sheet member and a second printer forming a second image on a back of the sheet member. The second printer contains a correction section correcting a deflection of the sheet member. A straight sheet-member-transporting path extends from the reversing section to the second printer. A distance between a position at which the sheet member enters the sheet-member-transporting path and a position at which the correction section corrects the deflection of the sheet member is set so as to be not smaller than a length of the sheet member having the largest size among the sheet members to be handled. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071153 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heating rotating body driven by a motor, a pressing member, a biasing unit, a switching unit that receives rotational power of the motor in order to either separate the pressing member and the heating rotating body or to allow the biasing unit to press the pressing member and the heating rotating body together, a power transmission mechanism that transmits the rotational power of the motor to the switching unit over a first path or a second path, the first path having a larger reduction ratio, and a transmission control unit that establishes and cuts off transmission of rotational power of the motor to the switching unit by the power transmission mechanism and that includes a path selection unit that selects the first path during separation and the second path during pressing by the switching unit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071152 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heating rotating body driven by a motor, a pressing member, a biasing unit, a switching unit that receives rotational power of the motor in order to either separate the pressing member and the heating rotating body or to allow the biasing unit to press the pressing member and the heating rotating body together, a power transmission mechanism that transmits the rotational power of the motor to the switching unit over a first path or a second path, the first path having a larger reduction ratio, and a power transmission targeting unit that switches the target of transmission of rotational power of the motor between the heating rotating body and the switching unit depending on the rotational direction of the motor and that includes a path selection unit that selects the first path during separation and the second path during pressing by the switching unit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071137 | POWDER COLLECTING DEVICE - A powder collecting device for conveying toner, a developer, waste toner and/or a waste developer in a conveyance pipe in one direction and for dropping it into a container through an opening made at an end of the conveyance pipe. The container is mountable in a body of an image forming apparatus such that the end of the conveyance pipe is inserted into the container, and is dismountable therefrom. An elastic sealing member, which has a larger area than a cross-sectional area of the end of the conveyance pipe, is attached to a portion of the container through which the end of the conveyance pipe is inserted into the container. A plurality of cuts are made in the sealing member such that the sealing member has at least an upper flap having a longer elastically deformable portion and a lower flap having a shorter elastically deformable portion. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071134 | POWER CONTROL METHOD, POWER CONTROL DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power control method for supplying AC power to a first load and a second load is provided. The method includes supplying, to the first load, AC power corresponding to a range of a phase angle 0 to a phase angle φ1 in each half cycle; and supplying, to the second load, AC power corresponding to a range of a phase angle φ2 to a phase angle π in each half cycle, wherein φ1 is larger than 0 and not more than π, φ2 is not less than 0 and smaller than π, and φ1 is larger than φ2. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070308 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT ENLARGEMENT/REDUCTION OF IMAGE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: an operation pixel arrangement unit to arrange the operation pixels to be inserted or deleted in a staggered form from one end of the image to the other end of the image in the second direction, so as to satisfy a first condition in which a distance in the first direction between the operation pixels adjacent in the second direction is 2 pixels or more and less than the predetermined number of pixels, and a second condition in which a direction in which the operation pixels adjacent in the second direction are apart from each other is reversed at intervals of not more than 2 pixels which are consecutive in the second direction; and an image enlargement/reduction unit to enlarge or reduce the image by inserting or deleting the operation pixels arranged by the operation pixel arrangement unit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069891 | Operation Panel with Hardware Key - An operation panel includes an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen, a touch panel sensor unit for accepting touch input to the LCD screen concerning operation, a hardware key, and a touch panel control microcomputer for detecting a position of touch input accepted by the touch panel sensor unit. An operation panel control unit allocates the operation accepted by the touch panel sensor unit to the hardware key when detecting a runway which is a state in which the touch panel control microcomputer cannot detect a position of touch input. Accordingly, the user's convenience can be improved. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069302 | SHEET FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet feeder includes a feed roller for feeding a sheet and a lifting plate for lifting the sheet to be fed to a feeding height of the feed roller. This sheet feeder further includes a wire for raising the lifting plate and a winding member formed with a winding configuration section for winding the wire. This winding configuration section is provided with a high-position winding section for a high-position side in a lifting height of the lifting plate and a low-position winding section for a low-position side. The high-position winding section is larger in winding radius than the low-position winding section. Accordingly, a sheet feeder having a simple structure capable of rapidly moving down the lifting plate and preventing impact of the lifting plate and an image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet feeder can be provided. | 03-21-2013 |
20130067541 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device, comprises: a display part on which various types of information are displayed; a storage part for storing therein a variety of data; a first browser for accessing an external server and acquiring a web page from the external server, thereby causing the display part to display the acquired web page; a second browser for accessing the external server and acquiring the web page from the external server, thereby causing the display part to display the acquired web page, and that is permitted to access a predetermined storage region in the storage part; a browser boot part for starting up any one of the first and second browsers; and a controller for permitting an access request for the predetermined storage region in response to receipt of the access request from the running browser only when the browser running by the browser boot part is the second browser. | 03-14-2013 |
20130065176 | LIQUID DEVELOPER - A liquid developer includes at least toner particles and an insulating liquid. The toner particles include a resin and a color material dispersed in the resin. 90 mass % or more of the insulating liquid is aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 11 to 16, and 20 to 60 mass % of the insulating liquid is aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 11 to 12. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064577 | TONER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND TONER CONTAINER - A toner supply system having: a receiving section that is set in a body of an image forming apparatus so as not to rotate; and a substantially cylindrical toner container that is mountable in and dismountable from the receiving section and that can be driven to rotate on an axis while being mounted in the receiving section, wherein: the toner container has a first toner feeder for feeding toner stored therein toward the receiving section while the toner container is rotated; and the receiving section has a supply port that permits toner fed thereto with rotation of the toner container to drop down and a toner stirrer that extends to a position close to the first toner feeder located inside the toner container while the toner container is mounted in the receiving section. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064575 | CHARGING DEVICE, IMAGING CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING CHARGING DEVICE - A charging device which includes a grid that has a curvature surface placed to face an outer circumferential surface of a photoconductive drum; a carrying member that carries the grid in a portion having a curvature to form the curvature surface of the grid; and position adjusting mechanisms that moves a position of the carrying member to adjust a position of the grid in a sub-scanning direction of the photoconductive drum, an imaging cartridge and an image forming apparatus having the same. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063779 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING PRINT JOB - An apparatus for assigning a print job is provided. The apparatus includes a detector configured to detect an ambient temperature of each of a plurality of areas, said each of the areas including at least one printer and at least one air conditioning system; a selection portion configured to select a printer included in a suitable area of the areas, the suitable area being an area where the ambient temperature detected is lower than a predetermined temperature; and an issuing portion configured to give a print job to the printer selected. | 03-14-2013 |
20130061929 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element, includes a substrate, a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer including semiconductors and sensitizing dyes, a positive bole transport layer including a solid positive hole transport substance, and a second electrode, wherein the solid positive hole transport substance contains a conductive polymer with a structure represented by the following Formula (1), and wherein the sensitizing dyes includes a compound with a structure represented by the following Formula (2) and at least one of compounds with respective structures represented by the following Formulas (4) to (9). | 03-14-2013 |
20130058693 | Sheet Conveying Device, Fixing Device, and Wet-Type Image Forming Apparatus - A sheet conveying device configured to convey a sheet of paper from upstream to downstream of a conveying route includes a plurality of wire ropes configured to support and convey the sheet of paper in the conveying route, in which the plurality of wire ropes are arranged apart from each other, and at least two of the wire ropes are arranged so that a distance between them becomes larger as they come closer to downstream of the conveying route. The sheet conveying device can reduce an area of contact with the sheet of paper and reduce the occurrence of abnormal conveyance when conveying the sheet of paper. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058691 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A fixing device comprising: an endless fixing belt having a multilayer structure including a non-magnetic conductive layer and a first magnetic conductive layer, the non-magnetic conductive layer having a thickness smaller than a skin depth of a material thereof, the first magnetic conductive layer having a thickness smaller than a skin depth of a material thereof and being located farther from an outside surface of the fixing belt than the non-magnetic conductive layer; and a supporting member disposed inside the endless fixing belt and including a second magnetic conductive layer having a thickness smaller than a skin depth of a material thereof. The first magnetic conductive layer and the second magnetic conductive layer have a higher specific resistance than the non-magnetic conductive layer, and the first magnetic conductive layer has been manufactured by plastic forming or plating. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057924 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device including: an outline detection unit which analyzes image data to detect an outer edge pixel forming the outline of image, and to determine an edge direction of the outer edge pixel; a thinning unit which processes thinning by reducing a pixel value of the outer edge pixel; and an outline adjusting unit. The outline adjusting unit determines a correction value of front end fading to be adopted to the outer edge pixel, depending on sheet-feeding direction when the image data is printed and the edge direction of the outer edge pixel; reduces the correction value of front end fading, depending on the ratio of reduction by the thinning of the pixel value of the outer edge pixel; and corrects the front end fading by adding the reduced correction value to the pixel value of the outer edge pixel. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057883 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEACTIVATING POWER-SAVING MODE, RELAY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a deactivation method for deactivating a power-saving mode of each of the specific processing apparatuses; a detection portion for detecting that particular processing data for the particular processing is not delivered to, among the specific processing apparatuses, a destination specific processing apparatus of the particular processing data, and a deactivation portion for performing, when the detection portion detects that the particular processing data is not delivered to the destination specific processing apparatus, deactivation processing for deactivating a power-saving mode of the destination specific processing apparatus based on the deactivation method, stored in the storage portion, for the destination specific processing apparatus. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057684 | CONTENT DISPLAY SUPPORT SYSTEM - When an image of content reproduced by a first reproduction device is shot, a content display support device obtains the shot image and positional information that specifies the position and orientation of a shooting device. The content display support device generates combination content by visualizing and embedding the positional information in the shot image and transmits the combination content to a second reproduction device. A portable terminal obtains the positional information from an image obtained by shooting the combination content reproduced by the second reproduction device. The portable terminal requests supplementary information by transmitting the positional information to the content display support device. The supplementary information associated with the positional information is transmitted from the content display support device to the portable terminal and displayed at the portable terminal. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057626 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system has a first image forming section to form an image on a sheet, wherein the first image forming section heats the sheet to fix the image on the sheet, a second image forming section to form an image to the sheet on which the image has been formed by the first image forming section, and a transporting section to transport the sheet from first image forming section to the second image forming section. The transporting section has a first transporting part to transport the sheet to a predetermined position, and a second transporting part to reverse a surface of the sheet which has been transported by the first transporting part as transporting the sheet from the predetermined position to an area below the predetermined position. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056074 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a dye-sensitized solar cell having at least a substrate, a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer containing a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye, a positive hole transporting layer containing a solid positive hole transporting material, and a second electrode, in which the positive hole transporting material contains a polythiophene-based polymer which is a conductive polymer formed via copolymerization of at least 2 compounds having a structure represented by Formula (1), (2), or (3) described in the specification. | 03-07-2013 |
20130055109 | DISPLAY DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A display data generation device which generates display data to display a plurality of objects on a shared image screen utilized by a plurality of users, includes: a processing and judgment section which identifies a user who has conducted an operation to any one of the objects when the operation is detected, and judges whether or not a display form of the object should be changed according to a change of the user who operated the object; and an image processing section to generate display data in which the display form of the object has been changed, in accordance with a judgment result of the processing and judgment section. | 02-28-2013 |
20130053995 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MOLDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A three-dimensional object molding apparatus to mold a three-dimensional object by sequentially stacking a molding material including at least: an input section for inputting information including three-dimensional shape information of a target to be molded necessary to produce a desired molded object; a database for storing weight information per unit volume of one or a plurality of the molding materials; a parameter generating section for calculating a filling rate indicating degree of denseness/sparseness of the molding material, or a mixture proportion of a plurality of the molding materials, based on the information necessary to produce the desired molded object obtained from the input section, and the weight information of the one or plurality of the molding materials obtained from the database, and generating molding information for stacking the molding material according to the calculated filling rate and mixture proportion; and a molding section for stacking the molding material. | 02-28-2013 |
20130052575 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoconductor including an intermediate layer having sufficient electron transportability and blocking property and capable of suppressing image defects such as fogging and dots. The electrophotographic photoconductor according to the present invention includes a conductive support, a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support, and an intermediate layer disposed between the conductive support and the photosensitive layer, wherein the intermediate layer comprises metal oxide particles and a binder resin. The metal oxide particles are surface-treated with an alkoxysilane oligomer represented by the following Formula (1): | 02-28-2013 |
20130050731 | Job Setting Registration Device, Image Processing Apparatus, Tangible Computer-Readable Recording Medium and Method for Registering Job Setting - Disclosed is a job setting registration device including: a job setting selection receiving unit to receive a selection instruction for selecting a job setting to be registered as a registered job setting for enabling the job setting to be reset by retrieving the job setting, from among job settings of a plurality of jobs which are currently executed in parallel by a predetermined image processing apparatus; and a registered job setting storing unit to store the selected job setting as the registered job setting in accordance with the selection instruction received by the job setting selection receiving unit. | 02-28-2013 |
20130048076 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - In the present invention, a dye-sensitizing solar cell with which high open voltage (Voc) and high short-circuit current (Jsc) are obtained is provided even though a conductive polymer is used as a hole transport material, whereby high photoelectric conversion efficiency can be obtained. Disclosed is a dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a substrate, a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer comprising a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye, a hole transport layer comprising a solid stale hole transport material, and a second electrode, wherein the solid state hole transport material contained in the hole transport layer comprises a conductive polymer formed by polymerizing a compound having a thiophene structure, and the hole transport layer has an ionization potential of 5.0-5.5 eV. | 02-28-2013 |
20130045034 | HEAT-PRODUCING FIXING BELT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a heat-producing fixing belt of a cylindrical shape which is composed of a heat-producing layer, an elastic layer, and a releasing layer in this sequential order from the inner side, and the heat-producing layer contains a polyimide resin and fabric containing carbon fiber and a pair of electrodes to supply power to the heat-producing layer making contact with the fabric containing carbon fiber are provided on both ends of the cylindrical shape. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044355 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: at least three storing devices; a detecting unit; and a control unit, wherein the striping is carried out by using all of the storing devices, and the mirroring is carried out by using at least two of the storing devices except at least one storing device. When one of the storing device is failed, in case that the mirroring was carried out by using the failed storing device, the mirroring is continued by using the one storing device which is not used for carrying out the mirroring instead of the failed storing device. The striping is carried out by using all of the storing devices except the failed storing device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044341 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The image forming apparatus includes an operation input unit having a first touch screen, a reception unit configured to receive information regarding an operation target file from a mobile terminal in accordance with a drag-and-drop operation across the first touch screen and a second touch screen provided in the mobile terminal, and an operation control unit configured to execute an action regarding the operation target file, based on the information regarding the operation target file received by the reception unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044340 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING A TOUCH PANEL - An image processing apparatus includes an operation panel as a touch panel and a CPU for performing processing based on a gesture thereon. The CPU includes a determination unit for determining a detail of processing corresponding to the gesture. When the detail of processing corresponding to the gesture includes a first detail of processing as processing on a file and a second detail of processing as processing on a displayed image and when the file targeted for the processing is stored in a storage device, the determination unit determines the detail of processing as the first detail of processing. | 02-21-2013 |
20130038886 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, AND NON-TRASNITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PRINTING PROGRAM - A printing system of the present invention includes: a generating unit which performs a rasterizing process to print data while performing a color conversion process by applying a multi-dimensional lookup table for calibration, which is for matching a color of the image to be printed by a printing unit by combining base colors to a target color and for keeping the color of the image consistent, to generate image data; a storage unit which stores the image data; a calibration unit which applies a first one-dimensional lookup table for calibration to calibrate the color information of the image data at a first round of printing the image, and applies a second one-dimensional lookup table for calibration newer than the first one-dimensional lookup table for calibration to calibrate the color information of the image data at a second round of newly printing the image. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038017 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing device includes: a first reservoir unit which reserves sheets; a sheet processing unit which implements predetermined processing for the sheets reserved in the first reservoir unit; a discharge unit which includes a stepping motor, and discharges the sheets from the first reservoir unit, the sheets being subjected to the predetermined processing by the sheet processing unit; an obtaining unit which obtains a value regarding weight of the sheets subjected to the predetermined processing; and a control unit which controls the discharge unit to lower a rotation speed of the stepping motor in a case where the value obtained by the obtaining unit is more than a predetermined value in comparison with a case where the value is less than the predetermined value. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038012 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus | 02-14-2013 |
20130034375 | CLEANING BLADE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning blade, which is configured to be pressed against a toner image carrier that rotates in one direction, for removing residual toner from the toner image carrier, the cleaning blade having: a contact layer that is located in a side to come into contact with the toner image carrier; and a supporting layer that is located in a side not to come into contact with the toner image carrier, wherein tensile stress characteristic curves of a material of the contact layer and a material of the supporting layer intersect with each other. An image forming apparatus having a toner image carrier and the cleaning blade. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT REMOVES RESIDUAL TONER ON IMAGE BEARING BODY WITH CLEANING BLADE - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing body, a latent image forming section that forms a latent image on the image bearing body, a development section that develops the latent image using toner, a transfer section that transfers a toner image to a transferred body, a pressuring and contacting section that pressures and contact the transfer section against and with the image bearing body via the transferred body, a cleaning blade that removes residual toner, and a controller. The controller analyzes a print pattern of the image to be formed on the sheet. The controller controls the pressuring and contacting section to change a contact state between the image bearing body and the transferred body while adjusting an image patch formed in a domain corresponding to an inter-sheet portion between the sheet and the next sheet on the image bearing body according to an analysis result. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034360 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having; a latent image support member; a latent image forming unit for forming an electrostatic latent image on the latent image support member; a developer support member for supplying toner to the latent image support member to develop the electrostatic latent image; a voltage applying device for applying a developing bias, which is a superimposed voltage of a DC voltage and an AC voltage, to the developer support member; a first selecting device for selecting a screen ruling; and a second selecting device for selecting a frequency of the AC voltage. The second selecting device selects a first frequency when the first selecting device selects a first screen ruling, and selects a second frequency lower than the first frequency when the first selecting device selects a second screen ruling higher than the first screen ruling. | 02-07-2013 |
20130032993 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus acquires sheet information indicating paper weight or the like of a transported sheet of paper. The apparatus also has a control portion and shifts a reference position which has been previously set to a direction orthogonal to a transporting direction of the sheet of paper based on the paper weight or the like of the transported sheet of paper. A deviation sensor detects a deviation of the sheet of paper with regard to the shifted reference position along the direction orthogonal to the transporting direction of the sheet of paper. A sheet shift portion shifts the sheet of paper to the shifted reference position based on the deviation detected by the deviation sensor. | 02-07-2013 |
20130031516 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING TOUCH PANEL - An image processing apparatus includes an operation panel as an example of a touch panel and a display device, as well as CPU as an example of a processing unit for performing processing based on a contact. CPU includes a first identifying unit for identifying a file to be processed, a second identifying unit for identifying an operation to be executed, a determination unit for determining whether or not the combination of the file and operation as identified is appropriate, and a display unit for displaying a determination result. In the case where one of the identifying units previously detects a corresponding gesture to identify the file or the operation, and when a gesture corresponding to the other identifying unit is detected next, then the determination result is displayed on the display device before identification of the file or the operation is completed by the gesture. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031395 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus being configured to support a power-saving mode which allows achieving low power consumption while keeping an idle connection without communication between the image processing apparatus and a communication device in a network environment, comprises: a first judgment portion which judges whether or not the communication device supports the power-saving mode; and a communicator which establishes a connection to the communication device at a first communication rate if the first judgment portion judges that the communication device does not support the power-saving mode, at a second communication rate which is faster than the first communication rate if the first judgment portion judges that the communication device supports the power-saving mode. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028646 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PRINTING AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a sheet collection planned to be prepared, when there exists a monochrome sheet group comprised of one or more consecutive monochrome sheets all of whose front and back sides are monochrome pages, between two color sheet groups comprised of one or more consecutive color sheets having a color page on at least one of front and back sides, an information processor determines that sheets in the monochrome sheet group and each one or each two sheets before and after the monochrome sheet group sandwiching the monochrome sheet group are saddle-stitched sheets formed by papers for saddle-stitching. The information processor determines that any sheet other than those determined to be the saddle-stitched sheets are sheets of an adhesive bound group. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028621 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having; an electrostatic latent image support member; an electrostatic latent image forming section; a developer support member; a first voltage applying device for applying a developing bias voltage that is a superimposed voltage of a first DC voltage and a first AC voltage to the developer support member; and a controller for controlling the first voltage applying device. The first voltage applying device is controlled to stop an output of the first AC voltage at a first frequency, to change the first DC voltage outputted therefrom from a first voltage value to a second voltage value and to start an output of the first AC voltage at a second frequency, in this order. The controller selects a screen ruling for each page in accordance with image data and determines the output from the first voltage applying device in accordance with the selected screen ruling. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027746 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS IDENTIFYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing system comprises a portable terminal and multiple image processing apparatuses. The portable terminal comprises: a determining portion which determines a target identification operation proving the identify of a target image processing apparatus; a display which displays information about the target identification operation; and an instructing portion which instructs the multiple image processing apparatuses to return answer information. The multiple image processing apparatuses each comprises: a detector which detects that the operation corresponding to the target identification operation has been performed; and a transmitter which transmits to the portable terminal, the answer information and apparatus information. Then the portable terminal further comprises: a receiver which receives the answer information and the apparatus information; and an identifying portion which identifies the target image processing apparatus based on the answer information and the apparatus information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130025682 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - An all solid-state dye sensitizing type photoelectric conversion element excellent in photoelectric conversion efficiency and stability of photoelectric conversion function due to the prevention of desorption of the dye, and a solar cell comprising the photoelectric conversion element are provided. The present invention relates to a photoelectric conversion element comprising a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer comprising a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye, and a solid hole transport layer, and a second electrode, on a substrate, wherein the sensitizing dye is represented by the general formula (1) and the solid hole transport layer comprises a polymer obtainable by polymerizing a compound represented by the following general formula (2) or a multimer of the compound. | 01-31-2013 |
20130021634 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY METHOD - When a portable terminal shoots a photo of a plurality of image processing apparatuses, a maintenance order is decided based on the respective states of a plurality of image processing apparatuses in a shooting range of the portable terminal. A tag representing the maintenance order is combined with the shot image and displayed on the portable terminal. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021633 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH DISPLAY UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel to preview an image page by page. The image forming apparatus stores a feature of an image of a page previewed on the operation panel and extracts a regularity from the stored feature of the image. When a feature of an image of a page previewed on the operation panel does not agree with the extracted regularity, the image forming apparatus displays a menu for correcting the feature that does not agree. | 01-24-2013 |
20130020756 | SHEET LOADING DEVICE AND POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet loading device that includes a tray having a sheet loading surface, transports sheets one by one to the tray along a transport path, and loads the sheets one by one onto the sheet loading surface, comprising: a guide member for guiding a sheet to the tray along the transport path; a drive member; a restriction member; and a bias mechanism. Along a course of movement for pressing a loaded sheet against the sheet loading surface, the guide member engages with the restriction member, causes the restriction member to move to a position for restricting forming of a curl on the loaded sheet, and thereby prevents the transport path from being blocked by the curl. When the engagement between the guide member and the restriction member is released, the restriction member returns to an initial position by bias force applied by the bias mechanism. | 01-24-2013 |
20130019178 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM, PRESENTATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMAANM MORIKAWA; TakeshiAACI Takarazuka-shiAACO JPAAGP MORIKAWA; Takeshi Takarazuka-shi JPAANM OZAWA; KaitakuAACI Itami-shiAACO JPAAGP OZAWA; Kaitaku Itami-shi JPAANM MINAMI; TakeshiAACI Amagasaki-shiAACO JPAAGP MINAMI; Takeshi Amagasaki-shi JPAANM SAKIYAMA; DaisukeAACI Kawanishi-shiAACO JPAAGP SAKIYAMA; Daisuke Kawanishi-shi JPAANM ANEZAKI; KazuyaAACI Amagasaki-shiAACO JPAAGP ANEZAKI; Kazuya Amagasaki-shi JP - A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation for distributing presentation material, based on a detail of detection of the gesture. | 01-17-2013 |
20130019160 | APPLICATION COOPERATION SYSTEM INCLUDING SERVER AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND APPLICATION COOPERATION METHODAANM BANDO; RyojiAACI Sakai-shiAACO JPAAGP BANDO; Ryoji Sakai-shi JP - An application cooperation system includes an instruction screen display control portion which causes a browsing portion to display a scan instruction screen, a scan control portion which stores image data output from a document reading portion, an external screen receiving portion which receives an external screen including an external control command from the external server for storage, an internal screen generating portion which generates an internal screen including an internal control command and an image data displaying area, an integrated screen generating portion which generates an integrated screen by combining the internal and external screens for output to the internal server portion, and a location information notification portion which obtains the integrated screen's network address from the internal server portion for output to the external server. The external server returns redirect information including the integrated screen's network address to the browsing portion in response to a transmission request. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016992 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSAANM WATANABE; KanehiroAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP WATANABE; Kanehiro Kanagawa JP - An image forming apparatus includes a main body, exposing portions each forming a latent image on a photosensitive drum based on image data by driving of a polygon motor, developing portions each developing the latent image formed on each of the exposing portions using toner, and a partition member provided between each of the exposing portions and each of the developing portions. Projecting portions each including the polygon motor project from the partition member toward a side of the developing portion. Each of the projection portions is overlapped with at least a part of each of the developing portions on a vertical direction. The cooled air flows to the overlap portion in which the polygon motor of each of the exposing portions and each of the developing portions are overlapped. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016405 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, THUMBNAIL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMAANM TSUTSUMI; TakahiroAACI Toyohashi-shiAACO JPAAGP TSUTSUMI; Takahiro Toyohashi-shi JPAANM Matsui; KenjiAACI Arakawa-kuAACO JPAAGP Matsui; Kenji Arakawa-ku JP - An image processing apparatus comprises: a divider which divides a document consisting of a plurality of pages, into separate block units; a block unit selector which selects a block unit most likely linked to a user to view a thumbnail image, among the block units obtained by the divider; and a thumbnail image generator which generates a thumbnail image based on an image and/or text from the block unit selected by the block unit selector. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016366 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PERFORMING COMBINE PRINTINGAANM SAWADA; KenichiAACI Toyohashi-shiAACO JPAAGP SAWADA; Kenichi Toyohashi-shi JPAANM KUNO; TakatsuguAACI Toyokawa-shiAACO JPAAGP KUNO; Takatsugu Toyokawa-shi JPAANM IMAMURA; MasahiroAACI Toyokawa-shiAACO JPAAGP IMAMURA; Masahiro Toyokawa-shi JPAANM TOMITA; AtsushiAACI Toyohashi-shiAACO JPAAGP TOMITA; Atsushi Toyohashi-shi JPAANM KURUMASA; YoichiAACI Toyokawa-shiAACO JPAAGP KURUMASA; Yoichi Toyokawa-shi JPAANM NISHIMURA; RyosukeAACI Toyokawa-shiAACO JPAAGP NISHIMURA; Ryosuke Toyokawa-shi JPAANM TOKUMOTO; TetsuyaAACI Toyokawa-shiAACO JPAAGP TOKUMOTO; Tetsuya Toyokawa-shi JP - When an instruction for combine setting is accepted, a reduction ratio of an original image is set as a first reduction ratio based on an orientation of the original image and an orientation of output paper. When an instruction to change the reduction ratio for the previewed original image is accepted, if a reduction ratio after the change (a second reduction ratio) falls within a prescribed range from the first reduction ratio, the first reduction ratio is set as a reduction ratio of the original image for arranging onto a sheet of output paper in combination. | 01-17-2013 |
20130015622 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER TRANSMISSION MECHANISMAANM HATA; MasakiAACI Nagoya-shiAACO JPAAGP HATA; Masaki Nagoya-shi JP - Image forming apparatus having sheet transport device transporting sheet through nip between pressing and drive members by applying rotational force to drive member via power transmission mechanism that includes: first and second rotational shafts connected to drive member and drive source, respectively; first and second rotation transmitting members attached to first and second rotational shafts, respectively; holding member including first and second contact parts disposed on opposite sides of second rotation transmitting member; and rotational move member switching to power non-transmission and transmission states by moving holding member rotationally to first and second positions in conjunction with opening and closing operations of opening/closing member of apparatus housing. Power is not transmitted between rotational shafts in power non-transmission state and transmitted in power transmission state. Rotational move member moves holding member causing contact parts to move second rotation transmitting member toward first and second directions, respectively. | 01-17-2013 |
20130014218 | SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD PERFORMED UNDER THE SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS DIRECTED TO THE SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH PROGRAM DIRECTED TO THE APPARATUSES - Provided is a system including a first image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus connected via a network. When a second image forming apparatus is added to the network, the second image forming apparatus generates parent setting information indicating that the first image forming apparatus previously connected to the network is its parent, and transmits the parent setting information to the first image forming apparatus. The first image forming apparatus generates parent-child relationship setting information indicating a parent-child relationship between the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus, based on the parent setting information from the second image foaming apparatus. The information processing apparatus registers the second image forming apparatus as a new output destination, based on information of the second image forming apparatus. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010339 | THRESHOLD MATRIX GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THRESHOLD MATRIX FOR GENERATING THRESHOLD MATRIX OF PREDETERMINED SIZE USED FOR HALFTONE PROCESSING OF MULTITONE IMAGE DATA USING DITHERING METHOD - A threshold generation device sets a ratio of a length along a main scanning direction to a length along a sub-direction based on a relation between image reproducibility in the main scanning direction and image reproducibility in the sub-direction of an image processing device for forming an image on a paper based on an image data obtained by the halftone processing. The device determines spatial frequency characteristics having a domain of an ellipse shape having set major axis and minor axis as peak values. The device sets a threshold value of each pixel of the threshold matrix in accordance with the determined spatial frequency characteristics. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010045 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor detecting an operating ambient temperature of the polygon motor, and a controller controlling the polygon motor and the paper feed mechanism. If the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is equal to or greater than a preset temperature, the controller controls, before operation for giving a command to start image formation is performed, the polygon motor to rotate; increases, in response to the operation, a rotational speed of the polygon motor up to a rated speed; and controls the paper feed mechanism to start conveying a sheet of paper at a time when a period of time variable depending on the detected temperature has elapsed, the period of time being preset to be shorter as the detected temperature increases, in expectation of a time required for the rotational speed of the polygon motor to reach the rated speed. | 01-10-2013 |
20130009971 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREVIEW IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: an image processor which performs a plurality of image processing operations on one target data object separately; a display; and a controller which extracts from the target data object a plurality of data sections changed by the image processing operations of the image processor and displays the extracted data sections all together on the display as preview images. | 01-10-2013 |
20130004891 | TONER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner comprising a modified polyester resin containing a structure represented by Formula (1a) or (1b), wherein, in Formula (1a) and (1b), R | 01-03-2013 |
20130004890 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - A toner used for electrostatic latent image development which is excellent in fixing separability with maintaining sufficient low temperature fixability even in a high-speed machine and is also superior in crashing resistance, comprising toner particles, each comprising a core particle and a shell layer provided on the surface of the core particle, wherein the core particle comprises a binder resin containing a styrene-acrylic resin and a first styrene-acrylic modified polyester, and the shell comprises a second styrene-acrylic modified polyester resin. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004191 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRANSFER CURRENT CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer member, a controller, a discharge electrode, a detector, and a storage section. The controller, based on an amount of change between parameter value detected by the detector after transfer by the transfer member and parameter value stored in the storage section, determines voltage necessary for the discharge electrode to take the same amount of current as an increase in transfer current of the transfer member from previously determined transfer current and applies the determined voltage to the discharge electrode. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a smoothing processing unit which performs smoothing processing, a thinning processing unit which performs thinning processing, an edge direction determination unit which determines an edge direction with respect to each pixel of the image data and a blending processing unit which decides a pixel value of each pixel of when the thinning processing and the smoothing processing are realized at same time. In the image processing apparatus, the blending processing unit decides a pixel value of a target pixel of when the thinning processing and the smoothing processing are realized at the same time depending on a combination of whether the thinning processing is performed or not and whether the smoothing processing is performed or not on the target pixel. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004098 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a thinning processing unit which performs thinning processing on image data and a smoothing processing unit which performs smoothing processing on the image data. The image processing apparatus further includes an edge direction determination unit which determines an edge direction with respect to each pixel of the image data, a blending processing unit which decides a pixel value of a target pixel of when the smoothing processing and the thinning processing are realized at the same time, and a thinning adjustment unit which determines whether a thinned pixel becomes isolated, and the thinning adjustment unit resets the change amount in pixel value due to the thinning processing of the thinned pixel to a value of zero, if the thinned pixel is determined to be isolated. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003095 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image forming apparatus, when a first state (which allows a process of accepting a job involving image processing) continues over a shift timer period without reception of an execution request for the job, a state control part performs an operation of shifting from the first state to a second state (which is lower in power consumption than the first state). Moreover, in a case where job acceptance started in the second state on the basis of a first execution request is failed and job acceptance started in the second state on the basis of a second execution request is also failed, the shift timer period is extended on the basis of a differential value of a difference between a first execution request reception time and a second execution request reception time, and a third execution request for the job in the first state is awaited. | 01-03-2013 |
20130000836 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF NON-CONTACT INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The non-contact information recording medium is made by forming the antenna circuit and connecting it to the IC module through connection terminals at the same time. This provides a high degree of freedom of patterning of the antenna circuit. The antenna circuit is formed on a recording substrate, in which an IC module has been embedded. A foil-bonding resin layer is formed on the connection terminals of the recording substrate, with a toner containing a binder resin by an electrophotographic method. Then a conductive foil is brought into contact with the foil-bonding resin layer to bond the foil to the resin layer, to connect the antenna circuit to the connection terminals and form the antenna circuit composed of the conductive foil. | 01-03-2013 |
20120331279 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE STARTUP METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device, comprises: a connection unit connected to a predetermined storage part storing therein startup mode determination information in which a startup mode corresponds to a specified hardware configuration and/or software configuration is configured and the plurality types of suspend data, each of which corresponds to the respective startup mode; a startup mode determination part for reading the startup mode determination information and determining the startup mode when being powered on; a suspend data obtaining part for selecting the suspend data corresponds to the startup mode determined by the startup mode determination part and obtaining the selected suspend data in the storage part; a starting up part for performing a startup process using the suspend data obtained by the suspend data obtaining part; and a startup mode updating part for updating the startup mode configured in the startup mode determination information after completion of the startup process. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328980 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - The toner for electrostatic image development has excellent charge properties, by which excellent toner particle size-controlling ability is achieved, and moreover the sharpening of a particle size distribution is achieved. The toner is composed of toner particles containing a binder resin. The process has an aggregating step of adding an aggregating agent containing a transition element into an aqueous medium of dispersed fine binder resin particles to aggregate the fine binder resin particles, and an aggregation-stopping step of adding an aggregation stopper composed on a sulfur atom-containing compound exhibiting a reducing action on the aggregating agent. The aggregating agent is a salt of a bivalent or higher metal selected from Sr, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Cu. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328347 | LOOP BRUSH, LUBRICANT APPLICATION MECHANISM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A loop brush includes a shaft and a ribbon having loop-shaped fiber bundles arranged regularly on a base cloth. The ribbon is wound around the shaft at a prescribed angle. An arrangement angle that is an angle of an arrangement line, which is a straight line connecting adjacent fiber bundles, with respect to a longitudinal direction of the ribbon differs from a winding angle that is an angle of the longitudinal direction of the ribbon with respect to a circumferential direction of the shaft. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328317 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a heat source, a fixing rotating body, a pressurizing rotating body, a feeding section for feeding a medium, a temperature adjusting section for controlling an amount of heat generated by the heat source, and a control section. The control section switches between a first mode in which the fixing rotating body and the pressurizing rotating body rotate at a first circumferential speed and the medium is fed to the image forming section at a first distance interval, and a second mode in which the fixing rotating body and the pressurizing rotating body rotate at a second circumferential speed higher than the first circumferential speed and the medium is fed to the image forming section at a second distance interval longer than the first distance interval. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327447 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus operates in modes including a normal mode and a power saving mode less in power consumption than the normal mode. The image forming apparatus includes an operation unit for receiving an instruction from a user. The operation unit has an operation region into which a prescribed instruction from the user is input. The image forming apparatus includes a first detection unit disposed corresponding to the operation region for detecting an input into the operation region from the user in the normal mode, and a second detection unit for detecting a human body located near the operation region in the power saving mode. The second detection unit is disposed on a substrate on which the first detection unit is disposed. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327444 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit to form an image on a paper in an image forming position; a transportation path to transport the paper to the image forming position; an acquisition unit arranged upstream of the image forming position in a paper transportation direction and to acquire a shift amount from an edge reference position to an edge of the paper in a paper width direction perpendicular to the paper transportation direction; a pair of resist rollers arranged upstream of the acquisition unit in the paper transportation direction and capable of swinging in the paper width direction; and a control unit configured to determine an instruction value based on a paper state and the shift amount before the pair of resist rollers moves, and to move the pair of resist rollers in accordance with the instruction value in the paper width direction. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327443 | TERMINAL DEVICE CAPABLE OF REMOTELY OPERATING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THEREIN COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE, AND REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM INCLUDING TERMINAL DEVICE - An image forming apparatus is configured to output image data including a content to be displayed on an operation panel to a terminal device. The terminal device includes a display unit, a determination unit for determining whether a plurality of images can be displayed on the display unit based on first image data output from the image forming apparatus, a switching unit for issuing a switching command to switch the displayed content on the operation panel to the image forming apparatus in response to the determination that the plurality of images can be displayed, and for obtaining second image data different from the first image data subsequent to the switching command, the second image data being output from the image forming apparatus; and a controller for displaying the first image data and the second image data on the display unit. | 12-27-2012 |
20120325319 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element excellent in photoelectric conversion efficiency and stability of photoelectric conversion function, a method for producing the photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell comprising the photoelectric conversion element are provided. The present invention relates to a photoelectric conversion element comprising a substrate, a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer containing a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye, and a hole transport layer, and a second electrode, wherein the hole transport layer comprises a polymer having a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1) or (2), and the sensitizing dye is represented by any of the general formulas (3A) to (3C). | 12-27-2012 |
20120324571 | INFORMATION INPUT DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An information input display device, having an input section for inputting information and a display section for displaying the information, which enables an access to protected information after being authenticated by an authentication processing executed after starting up of the information input display device, the information input display device including: an authentication processor which executes the authentication processing based on authentication information inputted by the input section; and an input display controller which, after the starting up of the information input display device and before being authenticated by the authentication processing, accepts inputting of prescribed information different from the authentication information through a screen displayed on the display section, and allows the display section to display the prescribed information on the screen. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324352 | CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM AND CLIENT DEVICE OF CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM | 12-20-2012 |
20120324336 | COMPUTER AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A terminal is provided which displays, on a display, specific web pages with the web pages customized based on cookies that are provided for the web pages and stored in a cookie storage portion, the web pages being provided for processing devices for performing specific processing. The terminal includes a customize data storage portion configured to store customize data therein, the customize data indicating selection details that are details designated to customize any one of the web pages, and a creation portion configured to create, when any one of the web pages is designated and the cookie storage portion does not store the cookie for said one of the web pages, a cookie indicating the selection details indicated in the customize data and to store the cookie into the cookie storage portion as the cookie for said one of the web pages. | 12-20-2012 |
20120322461 | CONNECTION CONTROL DEVICE ESTABLISHING CONNECTION BETWEEN PORTABLE TYPE MOBILE TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE BY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A connection control device acquires information on a position in which a user performs manipulation input to information processing device and information on a travel distance of a portable type mobile terminal. The connection control device compares the acquired pieces of information to determine whether the manipulation input performed by the user corresponds to a travel of the portable type mobile terminal. The connection control device establishes a wireless connection between the information processing device and the portable type mobile terminal according to a determination result. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND POST PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a feeder having a longer side direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of a recording medium, and feeds a maximum size recording medium with a longer side first, an image forming unit having a maximum sheet feed width corresponding to a longer side length of the maximum size recording medium, and prints a toner image onto the recording medium, and a sub feeder that can feed the maximum size recording medium to the image forming unit independently from the feeder. A post processing apparatus receives a printed recording medium and executes post processing on a side of the recording medium. A feeding source of the maximum size recording medium is selected from the feeder and the sub feeder for executing the post processing on the longer and shorter sides of the maximum size recording medium, respectively. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321363 | LOOP BRUSH ROLLER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Fiber bundle forms loops protruding beyond a surface side of a base member with constant spaces therebetween, in at least one of opposite ends located in a direction perpendicular to a weaving direction (W) of a ribbon brush, a weft extending between neighboring loops passes under a warp, and a weft extending through the loop passes above the warp. | 12-20-2012 |