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20110267654 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Read image data is segmented into a plurality of regions in accordance with the attribute of the image data. A region to be printed using a transparent toner is set in accordance with the attributes of the plurality of segmented regions. A preview of the image represented by the image data is displayed, in which the region set to be printed using the transparent toner is distinguished from the remaining regions. An instruction to change the region to be printed using the transparent toner is accepted based on the displayed preview. Print data for the transparent toner to print, using the transparent toner, a region determined based on the change instruction to be printed using the transparent toner is generated. | 11-03-2011 |
20120014597 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPRESSION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAMS THEREOF - Image data is divided into blocks, each block has M×N pixels, the number of colors of each block undergoes reduction from M×N to each number of one to (M×N−1). Differences between pixel values for each block after color reduction, and pixel values for each block before first color reduction. A first table in which thresholds are associated with either the amount of data to be reduced or the amount of data to be remained, is acquired based on the acquired difference. A threshold at which the amount of data after compression drops to or below a target data amount is specified, based on the first table, and compressed data is generated based on image data after second color reduction using the specified threshold. | 01-19-2012 |
20130242327 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus including a first power supply state, a second power supply state, and a third power supply state includes a receiving unit configured to receive a job, a determination unit configured to determine whether the image forming apparatus is shifted from the first power supply state to the second power supply state, or from the first power supply state to the third power supply state based on a type of the received job, and a control unit configured to shift the power supply state of the image forming apparatus based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20140129399 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR SETTING PRINTING FEE - An apparatus determines whether an input image is color or monochrome, obtains the color amount in the input image, performs image processing on the input image, prints the processed input image, and sets a fee for printing the input image based on the obtained color amount. | 05-08-2014 |
20140168675 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COLOR OF OUTPUT IMAGE IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a case where image processing, in which a ratio of the number of color pixels greatly fluctuates, is executed after performing charging determination, an output result might not match a result of the charging determination. There is provided a device for determining a color of an output image in a case where an image to be printed is printed with an additional image attached thereto, the device including: a unit configured to divide the image to be printed into blocks of a predetermined size; a unit configured to calculate an average value of color components of pixels included in the block; a correction value calculation unit configured to correct a calculated average value using a correction value corresponding to the additional image; and a color/monochrome determination processing unit configured to determine, based on the corrected average value, whether the block is a color block or a monochrome block. | 06-19-2014 |
20140380016 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus of this invention calculates amounts of generated heat of respective areas of a plurality of areas of a SOC die when one or more function blocks required to execute an accepted job are operated, and preferentially allocates a memory area of a WideIO memory device stacked on a corresponding area to the function blocks to be operated in accordance with an order of areas corresponding to smaller calculated amounts of generated heat. | 12-25-2014 |
20150206115 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes white and gray text determination units and a setting unit to charge a color printing fee where a pixel for which a color printing flag is set is present in an input image, and to charge a black-and-white printing fee where a pixel for which the color printing flag is set is not present in an input image. The white determination unit determines whether a focused pixel in the input image is a white pixel. The gray text determination unit determines whether the focused pixel constitutes a gray text. Where the focused pixel is determined to constitute a gray text or be a white pixel, the setting unit sets a black-and-white printing flag for the focused pixel and, where the focused pixel is determined to neither constitute a gray text nor be a white pixel, the color printing flag is set for the focused pixel. | 07-23-2015 |
20150294205 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COLOR OF OUTPUT IMAGE IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a case where image processing, in which a ratio of the number of color pixels greatly fluctuates, is executed after performing charging determination, an output result might not match a result of the charging determination. There is provided a device for determining a color of an output image in a case where an image to be printed is printed with an additional image attached thereto, the device including: a unit configured to divide the image to be printed into blocks of a predetermined size; a unit configured to calculate an average value of color components of pixels included in the block; a correction value calculation unit configured to correct a calculated average value using a correction value corresponding to the additional image; and a color/monochrome determination processing unit configured to determine, based on the corrected average value, whether the block is a color block or a monochrome block. | 10-15-2015 |
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20100093941 | PROPYLENE-BASED POLYMER, PROPYLENE-BASED POLYMER COMPOSITION, PELLET AND PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE - Propylene-based polymers (A) are provided which, when used as pressure-sensitive adhesives to various adherends, show a desired initial adhesion and will not contaminate the adherends and which have excellent pellet handling properties. Pellets of the invention contain the propylene-based polymers (A). Pressure-sensitive adhesives of the invention contain the propylene-based polymers (A). The propylene-based polymer (A) includes 65 to 80 mol % of a structural unit derived from propylene, 5 to 10 mol % of a structural unit derived from ethylene and 15 to 25 mol % of a structural unit derived from a C4-20 α-olefin (wherein these percentages are calculated based on 100 mol % of the total of the structural unit derived from propylene, the structural unit derived from ethylene and the structural unit derived from a C4-20 α-olefin) and has a heat of crystal fusion of 5 to 45 (J/g) as measured by DSC. Compositions of the invention contain the propylene-based polymers (A). | 04-15-2010 |
20110165416 | 4-METHYL-1-PENTENE POLYMER, RESIN COMPOSITION CONTAINING 4-METHYL-1-PENTENE POLYMER, MASTERBATCH THEREOF, AND FORMED PRODUCT THEREOF - [Object] To provide a resin composition with excellent mold releasability and blocking resistance. | 07-07-2011 |
20140248488 | 4-METHYL-1-PENTENE POLYMER, RESIN COMPOSITION CONTAINING 4-METHYL-1-PENTENE POLYMER, MASTERBATCH THEREOF, AND FORMED PRODUCT THEREOF - [Object] To provide a resin composition with excellent mold releasability and blocking resistance. | 09-04-2014 |
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20120288973 | DISPENSING METHOD AND DISPENSING APPARATUS - Disclosed are a dispensing method and a dispensing apparatus for dispensing a coating material over an object to be applied by a dispensing device within a dispensing chamber including a top plate, a bottom plate and side plates, in which a fresh air inlet and an exhaust outlet are formed in an upper portion and a lower portion of the dispensing chamber, respectively; at least a discharge hole of the dispensing device is exposed to within the upper portion of the dispensing chamber;
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20140342480 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LED, APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LED, AND LED - Provided are a high-quality LED and LED member, and a method and a device with which it is possible to manufacture the same in large quantities and at minimal manufacturing cost. The present invention comprises a detachment/attachment unit for the LED or the LED member, a coating unit for performing automatic coating, and a drying unit. A coating is applied using the coating unit, and provisional drying is performed or hardening is accelerated using the drying device. Alternatively, coating and drying are repeated multiple times, after which drying or hardening is finally performed. | 11-20-2014 |
20150111313 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LED, APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LED, AND LED - Provided are a high-quality LED and LED member, and a method and a device with which it is possible to manufacture the same in large quantities and at minimal manufacturing cost. The present invention comprises a detachment/attachment unit for the LED or the LED member, a coating unit for performing automatic coating, and a drying unit. A coating is applied using the coating unit, and provisional drying is performed or hardening is accelerated using the drying device. Alternatively, coating and drying are repeated multiple times, after which drying or hardening is finally performed. | 04-23-2015 |
20150155448 | COATING METHOD AND DEVICE - [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To provide a method and apparatus for applying a coating material that reacts at ordinary temperatures and increases in viscosity with lapse of time or a coating material that is difficult to handle, such as an unstable slurry in which sedimentation occurs at high rate, to a high-value-added object to be coated. | 06-04-2015 |
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20080241101 | Skin vitalizing composition for external use anti-aging preparation - The invention provides an epidermal basement membrane structure formation accelerating preparation and a skin external preparation comprising a serine protease inhibitor, and optionally an accelerator of production of extracellular matrix protein components of the epidermal basement membrane. It also provides, as a means for producing artificial skin having an adequately formed basement membrane, an artificial skin-forming medium which comprises a serine protease inhibitor, and optionally an accelerator of production of extracellular matrix protein components of the epidermal basement membrane and a matrix metalloprotease inhibitor, as well as a method for producing the same. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248571 | Method of Production of Artificial Skin - A method for production of artificial skin by administering matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor or matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor and matrix protein production promoting agent. The matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor is N-hydroxy-2(R)-[[(4-methoxyphenyl)sulfonyl](3-picolyl)amino]-3-methylbutanamide hydrochloride. | 10-09-2008 |
20100035831 | ANTI-WRINKLE AGENT AND ADAM INHIBITOR - Disclosed is an anti-wrinkle agent for ameliorating a wrinkle (particularly a fine wrinkle) developed when the barrier function is decreased by dryness and the like. Also disclosed is an ADAM inhibitor. The anti-wrinkle agent or the ADAM inhibitor comprises an alkyl glucoside represented by the general formula: (1) [wherein R represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms] or a salt thereof. | 02-11-2010 |
20100113590 | ADAM INHIBITOR - Disclosed is an ADAM inhibitor which enables to prevent or improve conditions caused by increase in ADAM activity. Specifically disclosed is an ascorbic acid derivative represented by the general formula (1) below or a salt thereof. [chemical formula 1] (1), wherein R represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms. | 05-06-2010 |