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20090087565 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method includes the steps of: depositing droplets of an ink composition which contains at least water, organic solvent, coloring material particles and polymer micro-particles, one of the coloring material particles and the polymer micro-particles having a volume-average diameter that is 1.3 or more times larger than that of the other of the coloring material particles and the polymer-micro particles, the polymer micro-particles having a softening point (Tc) of 45° C. through 120° C. and a viscoelastic character that satisfies conditions of: | 04-02-2009 |
20090244235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by using an ink and a treatment liquid. The ink contains coloring material, and the treatment liquid contains a component which causes the coloring material to aggregate. The image forming apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits the treatment liquid onto the recording medium; an ink droplet ejection device which ejects and deposits droplets of the ink onto the recording medium; a plurality of heat fixing devices which perform fixing process of the image formed on the recording medium by removing stepwise a solvent component contained in the image, the heat fixing devices being arranged sequentially in a conveyance direction of the recording medium; and a fixing control device which controls the fixing process with the heat fixing devices so as to satisfy the following condition: if W | 10-01-2009 |
20100194805 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits on a recording medium a treatment liquid having a function to aggregate inks or increase viscosity of inks; an ink deposition device which includes a plurality of ink heads for ejecting the inks of at least two types in such a manner that the inks are deposited on the recording medium on which the treatment liquid has been deposited; and a heating-pressuring device which fixes the inks that have been deposited on the recording medium, wherein the ink deposition device ejects the inks from the plurality of ink heads in such a manner that following Relationships (A) and (B) are satisfied where M | 08-05-2010 |
20110205282 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYANCE METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits onto a recording medium a treatment liquid including an aggregating agent having a function of increasing a viscosity of ink; an ink ejection device which ejects droplets of the ink onto the recording medium; a conveyance device including: a conveyance body having curvature by which the recording medium is carried and conveyed, a holding device which holds a conveyance direction leading end of the recording medium, a plurality of suction holes for suctioning the recording medium with negative pressure, and a suctioning device which performs suctioning via the suction holes; a heating device which heats the conveyance body and the recording medium from an opposite side of the recording medium to the conveyance body; and a non-contact-type recording medium restricting device which is provided on an upstream side of the heating device in terms of a direction of conveyance of the recording medium so as to press in a non-contact fashion a trailing end of the recording medium from the opposite side to the conveyance body. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205321 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which ejects an aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink toward a recording surface of a recording medium; a holding and drying unit including: a suction holding drum which conveys the recording medium while holding a back surface side of the recording medium by suction through suction holes formed in an outer circumferential surface of the drum; and a hot air flow drying device disposed to face the outer circumferential surface of the drum; a transfer conveyance device which is arranged at a downstream side of the holding and drying unit and conveys the recording medium while holding a leading end of the recording medium and curving the back surface side in a convex shape; and a fixing unit including an ultraviolet light irradiation device which is arranged at a downstream side of the transfer conveyance device and irradiates ultraviolet light onto the image. | 08-25-2011 |
20120274718 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method includes the steps of: depositing an ink containing 10% or more and less than 30% of a water-soluble high-boiling-point organic solvent having an SP value of 28 or lower, onto a recording medium in accordance with an image signal, the ink having a viscosity of 10 cP or lower in a case where a temperature of the ink is 25° C.; removing water contained in the solvent of the ink on the recording medium, by a heating drying device; and heating and pressurizing the ink so as to fix the ink onto the recording medium. | 11-01-2012 |
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20090244236 | INK JET PRINTER AND METHOD OF INK JET PRINTING - An ink jet printer prints an image by ejecting ink on recording medium. Information of an ink volume of the ink for application to the recording medium, for example, dot number, is specified. A first dryer dries the recording medium before forming the image. A memory stores a data table of a relationship between the ink volume and a drive condition of the dryer. A drive condition determiner determines a drive condition of the dryer from the ink volume according to the data table read from the memory. A CPU controls the dryer in the drive condition determined by the drive condition determiner. Preferably, the drive condition determiner, if the ink volume is lower than a first tolerable amount causing occurrence of cockle on the recording medium, disables the dryer. | 10-01-2009 |
20100143592 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an ink set having at least: a magenta ink containing at least a pigment; and a cyan ink containing at least a pigment. A ratio of M/C, in which M is the concentration of the pigment in the magenta ink, and C is the concentration of the pigment in the cyan ink, is 1.6 or more. A ratio of S2/S1, in which S2 is the solid content of an ink that has the largest solid content among the inks included in the ink set, and S1 is the solid content of an ink that has the smallest solid content among the inks included in the ink set, is 1.2 or less. The invention further provides an image forming method having applying the inks of the ink set onto a recording medium. | 06-10-2010 |
20120212552 | MATTING AGENT APPLYING DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - A matting liquid coating section supplies a matting liquid to an outer peripheral surface of a pressing roller. At the matting liquid coating section, a web, that is a non-woven fabric or the like and in which is seeped a matting liquid formed from a liquid (silicon oil or the like) in which matting agent particles are dispersed at a predetermined concentration, is trained around a first rod and a second rod, and is made to abut an outer peripheral surface of the pressing roller while running along the outer peripheral surface. The matting liquid is transferred once to the outer peripheral surface of the pressing roller, and the matting agent particles that adhere to the roller surface are again transferred onto a surface of a recording medium. | 08-23-2012 |
20130222479 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - There is provided an inkjet recording apparatus including: plural jetting heads that jet respectively different types of photocurable color inks onto a conveyed recording medium and which, when layer-jetting the different types of photocurable color inks onto the recording medium, first jet the photocurable color ink having the largest light blocking effect among the plural photocurable color inks that the plural jetting heads layer-jet; and an irradiation device that applies light to the photocurable color inks that have been jetted onto the recording medium. | 08-29-2013 |
20140063159 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: a jetting head that jets, onto a recording medium, a curable ink composition including 0.5% by mass or more, based on a total amount of the ink composition, of a water-soluble organic solvent having an SP value of 21 (MPa) | 03-06-2014 |
20140063160 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: a jetting head that jets, onto a recording medium, a curable ink composition including 3% by mass to 18% by mass, based on a total amount of the ink composition, of a polyfunctional polymerizable compound, and water; a chain gripper that grips a leading end of the recording medium onto which the curable ink composition has been jetted from the jetting head, and conveys the recording medium; and an irradiation device that irradiates light to the recording medium which is conveyed by the chain gripper and onto which the curable ink composition has been jetted. | 03-06-2014 |
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20100078293 | Conveyance Control Device, Control Method Of Conveyance Device, And Observation Device - A conveyance control device includes a drive mechanism to drive a reciprocating body, an origin sensor, a drive amount detection unit for detecting the drive amount of the drive mechanism, and a movement detection unit for optically detecting the reciprocating body's shifting from a resting state to a moving state. After the reciprocating body is moved in one direction until the origin sensor turns from a first output state to a second output state, the reciprocating body is moved in the opposite direction until the origin sensor turns back to the first output state. A first drive amount from when the origin sensor turns to the second output state to when the reciprocating body shifts from the resting state to the moving state, and a second drive amount from when the reciprocating body shifts to the moving state to when the origin sensor turns to the first output state are acquired. | 04-01-2010 |
20130120552 | IMAGE SENSING DEVICE - The image sensing device ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130183751 | CARRIER DEVICE AND CULTURE APPARATUS - A carrier device may include a loading board, a moving mechanism to move the loading board horizontally for a storage member storing a plurality of containers for storing liquid to be loaded on the loading board; a base material having set thereon the loading board and moving mechanism, and a first mounting member mounted to the base material. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188033 | RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING OBSERVATION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN AND OBSERVATION APPARATUS - A recording medium having an observation program recorded therein, the program may cause a computer to execute: an entire-image-pickup process of picking up an image of a sample by picking up an image of an entire container containing the sample and a solution; a sample-mass-identification process of identifying a sample mass having the samples gathering therein, from the image picked up in the entire image-pickup process; a sample-mass-determination process of extracting shape information of the identified sample mass, and determining a state of the sample mass based on the shape information; a coordinate-detection process of selecting a magnifying-observation-target sample mass from the identified sample masses, and detecting coordinates of the center of the magnifying-observation-target sample mass. | 07-25-2013 |
20130251483 | STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes: a storage member provided with a pair of first rail members, extending along a horizontal direction, on both side faces thereof; a storage rack; a carrying mechanism to carry the storage member placed thereon in the horizontal direction to a storage location of the storage rack; and a pair of walls, provided so as to be opposed to the side faces of the storage member, respectively, having a pair of second rail members, extending in the horizontal direction, provided on side faces thereof opposed to the pair of first rail members, respectively, in a state where the storage member is stored in the storage rack, the storage member being guided to the storage rack with the pair of first rail members being supported by the pair of second rail members, when the carrying mechanism is moved in the horizontal direction toward the storage rack. | 09-26-2013 |
20130273646 | INCUBATOR AND CARRIER SYSTEM - An incubator includes: a mount table having placed thereon a container, a holding member holding the container, or a storage member storing the holding members in a vertical-multi-stage manner; a carrying-in door on one side-face of the incubator including first and second antennas in an interior; a discrimination unit to determine that the container or holding member is placed on the table if radio waves are transmitted/received between the first antenna and a tag of the container or holding member, and determine that the storage member is placed if radio waves are transmitted/received between the second antenna and the tag of the holding member in the storage member; and a warning unit to warn if the container or holding member is placed thereon and a specified storage destination is a place for storage member, or the storage member is placed and the destination is a place for holding member. | 10-17-2013 |
20150264235 | OBSERVATION DEVICE, OBSERVATION PROGRAM, AND OBSERVATION SYSTEM - An observation device ( | 09-17-2015 |
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20110176010 | MOBILE TERMINAL, ICON MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND ICON MATERIAL MANAGEMENT METHOD - A mobile terminal | 07-21-2011 |
20120026116 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a display device configured to display an image, a touch area detector configured to detect a touched area of the image displayed by the display unit, and a processor configured to change a tone of the touched area of the image. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026184 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first display controller configured to display a first image, a touch area detector configured to detect a touched area of the displayed first image, a first processor configured to change a tone of the touched area of the first image, a storage configured to store touched areas detected by the touch area detector, a second display controller configured to display a second image instead of the first image, and a second processor configured to change tones of the touched areas of the second image which are stored in the storage. | 02-02-2012 |
20120249571 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display method comprises uploading images from a terminal of users to a server via a network, storing the images uploaded by the users in the server, calculating a value of the stored images, displaying a predetermined number of images among the stored images at the terminal in a manner in accordance with the value of the images. | 10-04-2012 |
20130027435 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image display system includes a transmission unit configured to cause a terminal to transmit images to a server through a network, a storage configured to store the images transmitted by the transmission unit, a layout unit configured to write resized images of the images stored in the storage into a display buffer, and a display control unit configured to display resized images on the terminal, which are in a display region of the display buffer, wherein the display control unit is configured to change a position of the display region such that a first resized image is more frequently displayed than a second resized image. | 01-31-2013 |
20130243342 | NETWORK SYSTEM, MEMBERSHIP-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided a network system in which image data items are uploaded from a plurality of user terminals to a server and images are opened to public among the users. The system includes a category division unit configured to divide the works classified into the categories into a first group of works with each of which the counted browse request number of times is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, and a second group of works other than the works in the first group, and classify one of the first and second groups of the divided works as another category different from the categories. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251341 | MOTION PICTURE PLAYING METHOD, MOTION PICTURE PLAYING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a motion picture playing method for playing a motion picture image on a display unit, and the motion picture playing method includes a motion picture image-obtaining step for obtaining the motion picture image, a character string-obtaining step for obtaining a character string scrolled and displayed in a predetermined direction overlaid on the motion picture image obtained in the motion picture image-obtaining step, and a control step for controlling a display mode for scrolling and displaying the character string based on a length of the character string in the predetermined direction obtained in the character string-obtaining step, and a playing time of the motion picture image obtained in the motion picture image-obtaining step. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262582 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A social network service system includes a server wherein a terminal of a member is connectable to the server. The server includes a memory configured to store a home screen includes top image data for each member, a selector configured to select a type of an image processing, and a processor configured to process, at a predetermined timing, the top image data of a member in accordance with the type of the image processing which is selected by the selector. | 10-03-2013 |
20130293740 | MOBILE TERMINAL, ICON MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND ICON MATERIAL MANAGEMENT METHOD - A mobile terminal includes an image capturing unit, an image processing unit, a control unit, and a key input unit. The image capturing unit captures an image. The image processing unit continuously drives the image capturing unit and acquires data of a plurality of images. The control unit generates decorative data based on the plurality of image data, the decorative data including image data indicative of an image having only an object common to the plurality of images nontransparent. The key input unit inputs a character from an external operation. The control unit determines whether or not character information associated with decorative information is contained in a text constituted by the character information inputted by the key input unit, and substitutes the character information with the decorative data associated therewith if it is determined that the character information is included. | 11-07-2013 |
20130318164 | PICTURE CONVERSION SNS SYSTEM AND METHOD, APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL - A membership social network system includes a processor configured to select a picture type among a plurality of picture types, and to, according to parameters, change a tone of original image data, which is uploaded from a member terminal to a server, to a tone of a selected picture type, a browse controller configured to make a tone-changed image data, which is created by the processor, browsable on the member terminal, and a grouping module configured to group a member who uploads the original image data and a member who creates the tone-changed image data. | 11-28-2013 |
20140016861 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PICTURE STYLE CONVERSION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a line drawing conversion module configured to executes line drawing conversion of a source image, an image conversion module configured to form a plurality of divisional images having geometrical shapes, by connecting lines of a line drawing obtained by the line drawing conversion by the line drawing conversion module, and a coloring module configured to color, in specific colors, areas in the respective divisional images formed by the image conversion module. | 01-16-2014 |
20140028688 | ARM-WEARABLE TERMINAL, NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM COOPERATING WITH THE TERMINAL, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In a network service system, first data is uploaded from a terminal of a member to a server and second data and the first data are viewable by members. The terminal includes a display, a detector configured to detect a screen change operation in a first direction and a screen change operation in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a display controller configured to successively switch and display the first data on the display when the detector detects the screen change operation in the first direction, and successively switch and display the second data when the detector detects the screen change operation in the second direction. | 01-30-2014 |
20140067264 | COURSE CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, COURSE CREATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND COURSE CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A course creation support apparatus includes an acquisition module configured to acquire at least one of area information indicative of an area and landmark information indicative of a landmark, an identification module configured to identify a component of a circuit course based on the information acquired by the acquisition module, and a creation module configured to create a circuit course includes the component identified by the identification module. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071152 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first display controller configured to display a first image, a touch area detector configured to detect a touched area of the displayed first image, a first processor configured to change a tone of the touched area of the first image, a storage configured to store touched areas detected by the touch area detector, a second display controller configured to display a second image instead of the first image, and a second processor configured to change tones of the touched areas of the second image which are stored in the storage. | 03-13-2014 |
20140181183 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL, LAUNCHING METHOD OF PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - The present invention provides an information processing system including a portable information terminal having a plurality of functions and a wireless terminal which wirelessly communicates with the portable information terminal. The wireless terminal includes an acquisition unit for acquiring function information indicating a plurality of programs contained in the portable information terminal from the portable information terminal and a launch instruction unit for, in response to selection of a program of a plurality of programs indicated by the function information acquired by the acquisition unit, transmitting to the portable information terminal a launch instruction signal for instructing to launch the selected program. The portable information terminal includes a processing unit for starting execution of a program whose launch is instructed by the launch instruction signal following reception of the launch instruction signal from the wireless terminal. | 06-26-2014 |
20150120022 | TRAINING SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING TRAINING OF WALKING AND/OR RUNNING - A training supporting system has a training supporting apparatus and an exercise form analyzing apparatus, the both apparatuses being connected to each other through a communication network. The training supporting apparatus is worn on the arm of a user and measures acceleration rates of motion of the user's body where the apparatus is fitted on, at least in the three directions along X-, Y- and Z-axes, while the user is walking or running. Receiving the measured acceleration rates from the training supporting apparatus through the communication network, the exercise form analyzing apparatus analyzes an exercise form including balance between arm swing and foot landing, and sends back the analysis result of the exercise form to the training supporting apparatus through the communication network. | 04-30-2015 |
20150154480 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AMD IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a storage to store an original image, a processor to change a tone of a reduced image of the original image, a display to display a tone-changed reduced image, a connection determination unit to determine whether the image processing apparatus is connected to a network, a transmitter to transmit the original image to the server via the network together with data indicating a tone when the image processing apparatus is connected to the network, a controller to cause the processor to change the tone of the original image when the image processing apparatus is not connected to the network, and a receiver to receive the original image whose tone is changed by the server when the image processing apparatus is connected to the network. | 06-04-2015 |
20150379116 | NETWORK SYSTEM, MEMBERSHIP-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided a network system in which image data items are uploaded from a plurality of user terminals to a server and images are opened to public among the users. The system includes a category division unit configured to divide the works classified into the categories into a first group of works with each of which the counted browse request number of times is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, and a second group of works other than the works in the first group, and classify one of the first and second groups of the divided works as another category different from the categories. | 12-31-2015 |