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20100097069 | EVALUATION SYSTEM, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device accurately evaluates the possibility of problems occurring due to the state of impure gas inside a discharge envelope in a high pressure discharge lamp. The image display device includes the high voltage discharge lamp and an evaluation unit ( | 04-22-2010 |
20120218526 | HIGH PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP WITH START-UP ASSIST MEMBER, LAMP UNIT, LAMP SYSTEM, AND PROJECTOR - The present invention provides a high pressure discharge lamp with a start-up assist member, a lamp unit, and a lamp system that reduce breakdown voltage and provide high design flexibility by reducing restriction on a position of an adjacent conductor. In a high pressure discharge lamp | 08-30-2012 |
20120287409 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT, AND PROJECTOR-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A high-pressure discharge lamp comprising an arc tube, the arc tube including: a light-emitting part which is substantially ellipsoidal; and sealing parts which extend from either end of the light-emitting part and in which bases of electrodes are sealed, the arc tube enclosing 0.2 mg/mm | 11-15-2012 |
20130335715 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP HAVING AN ARC TUBE IN WHICH A PAIR OF ELECTRODE RODS ARE DISPOSED, LUMP UNIT, AND PROJECTOR-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A high-pressure discharge lamp having an arc tube with a casing made of glass. The arc tube includes a light-emitting part and sealing parts connected to the light-emitting part. A pair of electrode rods are disposed within the glass casing such that their tips face each other with a gap therebetween and project into the discharge space, and their base ends are embedded in the sealing parts and overlap surfaces of metal foils provided in the sealing parts. Each base end is coated with a coating foil made of metal and having a C-like cross section with a slit formed between edges thereof. An end of the coating foil farthest from the light-emitting part is located closer to the light-emitting part than an end of the metal foil closest to the light-emitting part. | 12-19-2013 |
20140117836 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP AND PROJECTOR HAVING THE HIGH-PRESSURE LAMP - A high-pressure discharge lamp having an electrode including an electrode rod, a melted part and a coil part, and satisfying | 05-01-2014 |
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20130020910 | VIBRATION POWER GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - Disclosed is a vibration power generation device which is provided with: a frame section; a weight section provided inside the frame section; a flexure section that is joined between the frame section and the weight section and is configured to bend in response to a displacement of the weight section; and a power generation section that is located at least at the flexure section and configured to generate an alternating-current voltage in response to a vibration of the weight section. The frame section and the weight section are formed of a silicon substrate. The power generation section comprises, at its own surface, an elastic film formed of a resin material. The flexure section comprises the elastic film formed of the resin material having a Young's modulus smaller than that of silicon forming the frame section and the weight section. | 01-24-2013 |
20130023063 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FERROELECTRIC DEVICE - A seed layer having a predetermined pattern is formed on a side of one surface of a second substrate, and a ferroelectric layer is formed on the side of the one surface of the second substrate. A lower electrode is formed on the ferroelectric layer, and the lower electrode and a first substrate are bonded via a bonding layer. A laser beam with a predetermined wavelength is irradiated from a side of other surface of the second substrate to transfer a ferroelectric film, which overlaps with the seed layer, of the ferroelectric layer and the seed layer onto the side of said one surface of the first substrate. The laser beam passes through the second substrate, is reflected by the seed layer, and is absorbed by a second portion of the ferroelectric layer. The second portion does not overlap with the seed layer. | 01-24-2013 |
20130032906 | FERROELECTRIC DEVICE - A ferroelectric device comprises: a silicon substrate (a first substrate); a lower electrode (a first electrode) formed on one surface side of first substrate; a ferroelectric film formed on a surface of lower electrode opposite to first substrate side; and an upper electrode (a second electrode) formed on a surface of ferroelectric film opposite to lower electrode side. The ferroelectric film is formed of a ferroelectric material with a lattice constant difference from silicon. The ferroelectric device further comprises a shock absorbing layer formed of a material with better lattice matching with ferroelectric film than silicon and provided directly below the lower electrode. The first substrate is provided with a cavity that exposes a surface of shock absorbing layer opposite to lower electrode side. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038175 | VIBRATION POWER GENERATION DEVICE - A vibration power generation device comprising: a frame section; a weight section, a flexure section; and a power generation section. The weight section is provided inside the frame section. The flexure section is joined between the frame section and the weight section, and is configured to bend in response to a vibration of the weight section. The power generation section is composed of a laminate on one surface of the flexure section. The laminate has a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer and an upper electrode which are laminated in this order from the abovementioned one surface. The power generation section is configured to generate an alternating-current voltage in response to an oscillation of the weight section. A resonance frequency adjustment means is provided between the frame section and the weight section. | 02-14-2013 |
20130155631 | POWER GENERATING DEVICE AND POWER GENERATING MODULE USING SAME - The power generating device has a power generating section including a piezoelectric body; and a plurality of electrode pairs each constituted by a pair of electrodes placed on opposite sides of the piezoelectric body with regard to a thickness direction thereof to define a functional section therebetween, each of the functional sections is cooperated with the related electrode pair to define a power generating element. A plurality of the power generating elements includes a first and second power generating elements that give a polarization orientation opposite to each other in the thickness direction. The first and second power generating elements have the corresponding electrodes that are connected to each other by means of a wiring member on the same surface of the piezoelectric body with regard to the thickness direction thereof, such that all of the plurality of the power generating elements are connected in series. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162106 | VIBRATION POWER GENERATION ELEMENT AND VIBRATION POWER GENERATION DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A vibration power generation element includes a base substrate having a support portion and a cantilever portion, and a power generation unit for generating alternating current power in response to vibration of the cantilever portion. The power generation unit includes: a lower electrode formed on one surface side of the base substrate so as to overlap the cantilever portion; a first piezoelectric layer formed on an opposite side of the lower electrode from the cantilever portion; an intermediate electrode formed on an opposite side of the first piezoelectric layer from the lower electrode; a second piezoelectric layer formed on an opposite side of the intermediate electrode from the first piezoelectric layer; and an upper electrode formed on an opposite side of the second piezoelectric layer from the intermediate electrode. | 06-27-2013 |
20130285507 | VIBRATION POWER GENERATING ELEMENT AND VIBRATION POWER GENERATING DEVICE USING SAME - A vibration power generating element comprises: a substrate provided with a supporting part and a cantilever that is swingably supported by the supporting part; and a power generation part formed at the cantilever and generating AC power in response to swing of the cantilever. The power generation part is provided with first and second piezoelectric converters apposed at a region that overlaps the cantilever at one surface side of the substrate. The vibration power generating element is further provided with a common electrode and individual electrodes. The common electrode is electrically connected to a lower electrode shared by the first and second piezoelectric converters. The individual electrodes are individually connected to upper electrodes of the first and second piezoelectric converters, respectively. | 10-31-2013 |
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20090323114 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Upon receiving, from a source image forming apparatus, image data that has been subjected to a preceding stage of image processing in the source image forming apparatus, an image forming apparatus of the present invention judges whether or not the image data has added thereto related information, such as the model name of the source image forming apparatus, which specifies the contents of the preceding stage of image processing. In a case where the image data has related information added thereto, the image forming apparatus performs an image conversion process on the image data according to the related information so that the image data can be compatibly subjected to a subsequent stage of image processing in the image forming apparatus, and then stores the image data in a hard disk. This makes it possible to output a high-quality image even in a case where an image processing operation for image-quality adjustment is separately carried out in different image forming apparatuses. | 12-31-2009 |
20100208306 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In one embodiment, image reading apparatuses | 08-19-2010 |
20120147406 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A user is enabled to make different selection as to whether or not to include a blank page for each data processing. A storage portion stores setting information indicating whether or not to perform data processing of image data with a blank page excluded for each data processing, and a control portion judges whether or not each data processing is processing performed with a blank page of the image data excluded based on the setting information stored in the storage portion, and executes first data processing which is judged as processing performed with the blank page excluded by excluding the blank page as well as executes second data processing which is judged as processing performed without excluding the blank page concurrently with the first data processing by including the blank page. | 06-14-2012 |
20160050330 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A user is enabled to make different selection as to whether or not to include a blank page for each data processing. A storage portion stores setting information indicating whether or not to perform data processing of image data with a blank page excluded for each data processing, and a control portion judges whether or not each data processing is processing performed with a blank page of the image data excluded based on the setting information stored in the storage portion, and executes first data processing which is judged as processing performed with the blank page excluded by excluding the blank page as well as executes second data processing which is judged as processing performed without excluding the blank page concurrently with the first data processing by including the blank page. | 02-18-2016 |
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20120057802 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing device ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120066309 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing apparatus ( | 03-15-2012 |
20130080534 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content processing device calculates a content topicality degree representing a degree of topicality of a content which serves as a topic between sharing users, based on subject information relating to a subjects in the content, sharing user information and social information; extracts a sharing user who does not appear in the subject of the content as an unappearing sharing user; calculates a content appropriateness degree representing a degree of appropriateness of the content to be shared between the sharing users in such a manner that the value for the content appropriateness degree decreases, as the degree of intimacy between the extracted unappearing sharing user and the subject increases; calculates a content evaluation value based on the content topicality degree and the content appropriateness degree; determines a priority based on the calculated content evaluation value; and controls output of the content according to the determined priority. | 03-28-2013 |
20140112585 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Attribute information is extracted from content stored by users. A product expression model indicating a product display method is corrected using reference information pertaining to content characteristics suitable for the product expression model and using attribute information. Processing information is then determined for making the content suit the corrected product expression model. The content is processed according to the determined processing information and a product is generated using the corrected product expression model. | 04-24-2014 |
20140129640 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER- READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content processing device accumulates, at every predetermined time period, social information that defines the relationship and the degree of intimacy between users calculated based on lifelog information between the users; determines a time period when a content was generated, out of the predetermined time periods, from meta-information of the content; determines an evaluation time period from the determined time period; calculates a degree of intimacy between shared users during the evaluation time period; determines the priority of the evaluation time period according to the magnitude of the degree of intimacy; and controls output of the content generated during the evaluation time period according to the determined priority. | 05-08-2014 |
20140222922 | CONTENT CONTROL DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTENT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A content control device is provided with a receiving content accumulation unit which accumulates contents received from a terminal device connected via a network, an operation history information managing unit which manages operation history information indicative of a history on operations with respect to a first content accumulated in the receiving content accumulation unit, and a content control unit which generates control information for controlling a second content based on the operation history information, the second content corresponding to the first content and accumulated in the terminal device. | 08-07-2014 |
20150058948 | CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM, CONTENT SHARING METHOD, AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A content sharing system includes: a server; a first information communication apparatus; and a second information communication apparatus, in which the first information communication apparatus includes a reserve requesting unit which sends to the server a reserve request message for requesting to reserve a sharing space to be newly generated, the reserve request message including first identification information for identifying the second information communication apparatus or the user using the second information communication apparatus, and the server includes: a first storage; and a sharing space generating unit which, upon receiving the reserve request message, generates the sharing space in the first storage, and stores in the first storage the first identification information included in the reserve request message. | 02-26-2015 |
20150069915 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - A method for controlling a communications terminal is provided. The method includes causing a computer included in the communications terminal to store first illumination setting information and second illumination setting information in the memory; causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, at a certain illumination start time at which the illumination device is to be turned on, a first control signal corresponding to the first illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the first illumination state; and causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the sensor senses a motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time has passed, a second control signal corresponding to the second illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the second illumination state. | 03-12-2015 |
20150134375 | DISPLAY METHOD - A display method including: performing (S | 05-14-2015 |
20150145435 | CONTROL METHOD OF MOBILE DEVICE - A control method of a mobile device that controls one or more pieces of lighting equipment that illuminate a space includes: displaying a scene configuration screen that includes a configuration screen for configuring a new scene, and a configuration finish button; transmitting to the one or more pieces of lighting equipment a control signal based on configuration information indicating a lighting state configured by user operations on the configuration screen; activating the image capture unit after the configuration finish button is selected; storing in memory the configuration information from when the configuration finish button was selected as configuration information for the new scene, and also storing an image acquired by the image capture unit as a scene icon of the new scene; and displaying a new scene selection screen that includes the scene icon of the new scene. | 05-28-2015 |
20150186903 | CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - When there are no customers in a store, a laser is scanned along an aisle between product shelving units installed in the store, and if that laser is reflected midway in the optical path, it is determined that there is an object in the sensing range according to the laser. The determination result is then notified to a user by a site that corresponds to the position where the laser has been reflected being marked in a layout image that represents the product shelving units, displayed on a terminal device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189723 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL - A method for controlling a mobile terminal that includes a display and a memory, and that controls one or more lighting devices that illuminate one or more spaces. The method causes a computer of the mobile terminal and includes obtaining terminal location information indicating a location of the mobile terminal, rearranging one or more scene icons corresponding to the one or more scenes on the basis of the terminal location information and the one or more pieces of scene location information, displaying the rearranged one or more scene icons on the display, and transmitting, if one of the one or more scene icons is selected by a user, a control signal for controlling the one or more lighting devices to the one or more lighting devices, so that the one or more spaces are illuminated in an illumination state indicated by a scene corresponding to the selected scene icon. | 07-02-2015 |
20150193716 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD FOR STORE WORK RELATING TO LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM, AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD - An information display method is disclosed in a control system in which a lighting mode is selected from among a plurality of lighting modes, and lighting equipment is controlled at a lighting target area in accordance with the selected lighting mode. The method comprising: generating each of the merchandising values representing an index for evaluating a performance of at least one store; classifying each of the merchandising values in according with each of time periods; obtaining lighting mode information from the control system, the lighting mode information indicating the lighting mode selected in each of the time periods; and transmitting to the terminal device, each of the classified merchandising values and each pieces of the obtained lighting mode information corresponding to each of the classified merchandising values, in each of the time periods. | 07-09-2015 |
20150201480 | CONTROL METHOD FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A control method for a mobile device that controls one or more illumination devices, the mobile device including a display, a computer, and a memory, the control method causing the computer of the mobile device to execute acquiring a piece of mobile-device location information indicating a location where the mobile device is present, sorting one or more setting screens corresponding to the respective one or more illumination devices using information stored in the memory, the information indicating correspondences between the one or more illumination devices and one or more pieces of illumination-device location information indicating locations where the respective one or more illumination devices are present, displaying the sorted one or more setting screens on the display, and transmitting a control signal in accordance with setting information indicating an illumination state set through the setting screens, to the one or more illumination devices. | 07-16-2015 |
20150206188 | ITEM PRESENTATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - An item presentation system detects a movement of a customer in a store, and includes a presentation apparatus that performs the item presentation in the store based on detection results. The item presentation method of the item presentation system includes: detecting a first movement indicating that the customer enters a predetermined area around a product shelf; detecting a second movement indicating that the customer reaches out one hand to a first item as one of the items displayed on the product shelf; starting to count time from a moment that the second movement is detected if the second movement is detected after the first movement is detected; and causing the presentation apparatus to perform the item presentation on the item to which the customer reaches out the hand in the product shelf if the time counted becomes equal to a predetermined period of time. | 07-23-2015 |
20150212988 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A query input by a user is acquired, the structure of a target Web page is analyzed, a query related region relating to the query is determined from the target Web page, the query related region is adjusted on the basis of rectangle information indicating the size of the rectangle of a terminal screen and a query Web page is created, and the created query Web page is transmitted to a terminal device. | 07-30-2015 |
20150312288 | CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - A content information access control unit ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150348060 | CONTROL METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MERCHANDISING INFORMATION ON INFORMATION TERMINAL - An MD management device manages action statistics associated with each of a plurality of shelving units. Action statistics for one shelving unit indicate actions that store visitors make near the shelving unit. An information terminal device acquires, from the MD management device merchandising information for each shelving unit. Merchandising information for one shelving unit includes a value of statistics for the shelving unit. The information terminal device displays a store screen including one or more shelving unit icons each representing one of one or more shelving units located in a store. Further, the information terminal device displays a graphic item in the vicinity of each shelving unit icon. The graphic item is displayed in a display state that is in accordance with the value of statistics for the corresponding shelving unit. | 12-03-2015 |
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20090221253 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL APPARATUS USING MULTIPLE ADAPTIVE CONTROL METHODS - In the adaptive control apparatus, a computation unit computes weighting coefficients, using a first adaptive control method in a proportion α of a first computation amount, where the first adaptive control method has a first convergence rate and a first convergence error. Further, a computation unit computes weighting coefficients from initial values of the weighting coefficients computed by the computation unit, using a second adaptive control method in a proportion (1−α) of a second computation amount, where the second adaptive control method has a second convergence rate slower than the first convergence rate and a second convergence error smaller than the first convergence error. A controller controls determination of a ratio α/(1-α) based on a moving speed of a mobile unit, and controls the computation units to perform computing processes. | 09-03-2009 |
20120038537 | ANTENNA AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is an antenna including a planar conductor to be grounded, and a three-dimensional linear conductor having at least a linear conductor, another linear conductor, and still another linear conductor that are integrally formed. The linear conductor is provided perpendicularly to the major surface of the planar conductor. The another linear conductor is parallel to the major surface. Still another linear conductor is parallel to the major surface, and is provided perpendicularly to the another linear conductor. | 02-16-2012 |
20130170530 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio communication device of the present invention comprises a first antenna, a second antenna, a phase varying section which varies a phase of a first RF signal received by or transmitted from the first antenna, and a phase control means which causes the phase varying section to vary a phase amount which is a varied amount of the phase of the first RF signal received by or transmitted from the first antenna. Thus, it is possible to prevent that a size of a device configuration increases and avoid that a reception electric field level is lowered in a localized area. | 07-04-2013 |
20130210355 | OPTICAL DISC AND REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE - The objective of the present invention is to provide an optical disc which solves the problem that search for data recorded on an exchange-type medium such as an optical disc and the like and which allows search for data recorded in an optical disc to be performed with a simple operation. A transmitting/receiving antenna | 08-15-2013 |
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20080225141 | PHASE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, PHASE ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND DIGITAL CAMERA - A brightness level detector detects a brightness level of the digital imaging signal for each of the plurality of pixels. A shading detector sets a group of pixel regions distant from each other in a horizontal direction in the imaging element and then detects whether or not shadings are generated in the analog imaging signal based on a difference between the brightness levels of the group of pixel regions. A timing adjuster adjusts a phase of a peak sample pulse for detecting a peak level of the analog imaging signal, a phase of a reference sample pulse for detecting a signal level used as a reference in the correlated double sampling executed when the digital imaging signal is generated and a phase of a horizontal transfer pulse in the imaging element based on outputs of the brightness level detector and the shading detector. | 09-18-2008 |
20080309803 | PHASE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, PHASE ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND DIGITAL CAMERA - An intended-usage judger judges an intended usage of an inputted digital imaging signal. A selector selects one or a plurality of signals to be inspected from a group of signals constituting the digital imaging signal based on a result of the judgment by the intended-usage judger. A phase adjuster adjusts a phase of a pulse used when the digital imaging signal is picked up based on an output state of the signal to be inspected. | 12-18-2008 |
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20090207253 | AUTOMATIC PHASE ADJUSTING APPARATUS - A digital imaging signal obtained by converting an image data obtained by an imaging element into a digital value for each pixel is inputted to an automatic phase adjusting apparatus, and the automatic phase adjusting apparatus adjusts phases of pulses to be used for imaging based on the inputted digital imaging signal. The automatic phase adjusting apparatus is provided with a brightness level detector for calculating a brightness level of the digital imaging signal for a plurality of pixels in a first pixel region, a variability calculator for calculating a variability value which indicates signal variability of the digital imaging signal for each pixel for a plurality of pixels in a second pixel region, and a timing adjuster for adjusting the phases of the pulses in accordance with calculation results obtained by the brightness level detector and the variability calculator. | 08-20-2009 |
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20110200263 | IMAGE ENCODER AND IMAGE DECODER - An image encoder is provided which receives pixel data of N bits, where N is a natural number, and in which a difference generator calculates a difference between a pixel to be encoded, and a predicted value generated based on at least one pixel located around the pixel to be encoded, a quantizer quantizes a value obtained by subtracting a first offset value from the prediction difference value, and an adder adds the quantized value and a second offset together. An encoded predicted value decider predicts, based on a signal level of the predicted value, an encoded predicted value which is a signal level of the predicted value after encoding. A result of addition of the quantized value and the second offset value is added to or subtracted from the encoded predicted value to obtain encoded data of M bits, where M is a natural number, and N>M. | 08-18-2011 |
20120229636 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS, CAMERA, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image coding method includes: a predictive pixel generation step of generating a predictive value from at least one surrounding pixel located near a compression target pixel; a code conversion step of code-converting the pixel data to generate a Gray code; and quantizing bit change information (exclusive OR) between the generated Gray code and a Gray code of the predictive value to a quantization value, to compress the pixel data. This prevents significant image quality degradation, so that high image quality can be achieved. | 09-13-2012 |
20130176431 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - In an image encoding device, a predicted pixel generator generates a predicted value for pixel data based on at least one of pixels adjacent to a pixel to be compressed. A quantization processor quantizes a difference value between the pixel data and the generated predicted value to a quantized value having a smaller number of bits than that of the pixel data to compress the pixel data to the quantized value. In a quantization width determiner, an edge determiner determines whether or not there are both a flat portion and an edge portion, based on a characteristic of the difference value in the group, and an edge pixel determiner determines whether each of pixels included in the group is a pixel in an edge portion or a pixel in a flat portion, based on the difference value, whereby a quantization width used in the quantization processor is determined. | 07-11-2013 |
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20130027719 | OPERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR RECORDING PROGRAM - The operation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a touch panel, a determination unit, a shrinkage rate calculating unit, a window shrinking unit, and a multi window display unit. The shrinkage rate calculating unit that calculates, in a case in which the determination unit determines that an input operation on the plurality of setting item keys is detected within a predetermined time period, a shrinkage rate allowing equal allocation of space for a predetermined number of setting condition input windows in a display region based on the setting item number, and a size of the display region in a case of displaying only one setting condition input window on the touch panel. The multi window display unit that displays in the display region the predetermined number of setting condition input windows that are shrunk by the window shrinking unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20150062665 | Facsimile Device Performing Off-Hook in Preset Specified Number of Rings without Ring Apparatus - A facsimile device includes a main control unit and a sub-control unit. The first main control unit is configured to count a number of rings in a call signal sent from a public-line network and to put the facsimile device off-hook when the count value reaches a preset specified number of rings in the normal mode, and to suspend the count and off-hook functions in the energy-saving mode. The sub-control unit is configured to detect an incoming call signal and cause the main control unit to recover. The main control unit is configured to: calculate the number of rings in an incoming call signal in an elapsed time required from when the sub-control unit detects the incoming call signal until the main control unit recovers to the normal mode; and use the calculated number of rings to count the number of rings in an incoming call signal. | 03-05-2015 |
20150124296 | FACSIMILE MACHINE AND FACSIMILE SYSTEM THAT PERFORMS FAX TRANSMISSION TO SPECIFIC TRANSMISSION DESTINATION AND PERFORM FAX RECEPTION FROM SPECIFIC SENDER PERIODICALLY - Provided is a facsimile apparatus that prevents a transmission forgetfulness of a regular transmission. Every time a FAX is transmitted, a transmission history is accumulated in a transmission history table. A regular transmission detecting part refers to the transmission history table for every time zone corresponding to the check interval memorized in a setting table. Thereby, the regular transmission detecting part detects whether or not the regular transmission was carried out in the past. If the regular transmission is carried out, the transmission judging part refers to the transmission history table. The transmission judging part judges whether or not the regular transmission was carried out in the time zone for today. If judged the transmission being not carried out, an informing part reports that the regular transmission is not carried out to the mail address corresponding to the report destination memorized in the setting table. | 05-07-2015 |
20150281472 | TRANSFER-SIDE FACSIMILE MACHINE, FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECEPTION-SIDE FACSIMILE MACHINE - A multifunctional machine includes a facsimile communication portion and a control portion that makes the facsimile communication portion transfer facsimile data to a reception-side facsimile machine. When the facsimile communication portion starts to perform communication for data transfer with the reception-side facsimile machine, the facsimile communication portion receives, from the reception-side facsimile machine, a reception allowance/rejection signal in conformity with a facsimile communication protocol. When the control portion indicates the reception allowance of the transfer of the reception allowance/rejection signal, the facsimile communication portion is made to transfer the facsimile data to the reception-side facsimile machine. | 10-01-2015 |
20150364073 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND PORTABLE TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD - A portable terminal includes a display, a display processing module that can perform display processing of causing the display to display an image such that an image in a scroll target area which is at least a portion of an image display area on the display is scrolled, a calculation module that can perform calculation processing of calculating a scroll speed of the image in the scroll target area, and a brightness adjustment module that can adjust a brightness of an image displayed on the display such that, with respect to the brightness of an image displayed on the display when the scroll speed calculated by the calculation module is a first speed, the brightness of an image displayed on the display when the scroll speed calculated by the calculation module is a second speed becomes darker, the second speed being faster than the first speed. | 12-17-2015 |
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20100261321 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is provided a method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device. The manufacturing method is characterized by comprising (i) a step of forming an insulating film on the upper surface of a resin film, (ii) a step of forming a pattern of extraction electrodes on the upper surface of the resin film, (iii) a step of forming a semiconductor layer on the insulating film in such a manner that the semiconductor layer is in contact with the pattern of extraction electrodes, and (iv) a step of forming a sealing resin layer on the upper surface of the resin film in such a manner that the sealing resin layer covers the semiconductor layer and the pattern of extraction electrodes, wherein at least one forming step among the above (i) to (iv) is carried out by a printing method. In the manufacturing method, various layers can be formed by a simple printing process without using a vacuum process, photolithography, or the like. | 10-14-2010 |
20100283054 | FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - There is provided a method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device characterized by comprising (i) a step of forming an insulating film on the upper surface of metal foil, (ii) a step of forming an extraction electrode pattern on the upper surface of the metal foil, (iii) a step of forming a semiconductor layer on the insulating film in such a manner that the semiconductor layer is in contact with the extraction electrode pattern, (iv) a step of forming a sealing resin layer on the upper surface of the metal foil in such a manner that the sealing resin layer covers the semiconductor layer and the extraction electrode pattern, and (v) a step of forming electrodes by etching the metal foil, wherein the metal foil is used as a support for the insulating film, the extraction electrode pattern, the semiconductor layer, and the sealing resin layer formed in (i) to (iv) and used as a constituent material for the electrodes in (v). A TFT element can be fabricated by a simple process because the metal foil serving as the support need not be finally stripped off. Further, a high-temperature process can be introduced to the fabrication of the insulating film and the semiconductor layer because the metal foil is used as the support, whereby the TFT characteristic is improved. | 11-11-2010 |
20120001173 | FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - There is provided a flexible semiconductor device. The flexible semiconductor device of the present invention comprising a support layer, a semiconductor structure portion formed on the support layer, and a resin film formed on the semiconductor structure portion. The resin film comprises an opening formed by a laser irradiation therein, and also an electroconductive member which is in contact with the surface of the semiconductor structure portion is disposed within the opening of the resin film. | 01-05-2012 |
20120319159 | SUBSTRATE FOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - There is provided a substrate for light-emitting element, including a mounting surface on which a light-emitting element is to be mounted, the mounting surface being one of two opposed main surfaces of the substrate. The substrate of the present invention is provided with a protection element for the light-emitting element, the protection element comprising a voltage-dependent resistive layer embedded in a body of the substrate, and comprising a first electrode and a second electrode each of which is in connection with the voltage-dependent resistive layer wherein the light-emitting element is to be mounted such that it is positioned in an overlapping relation with the voltage-dependent resistive layer. | 12-20-2012 |
20130168677 | FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device includes (i) forming an insulating film on the upper surface of metal foil, (ii) forming an extraction electrode pattern on the upper surface of the metal foil, (iii) forming a semiconductor layer on the insulating film such that the semiconductor layer is in contact with the extraction electrode pattern, (iv) forming a sealing resin layer on the upper surface of the metal foil such that the sealing resin layer covers the semiconductor layer and the extraction electrode pattern, and (v) forming electrodes by etching the metal foil, the metal foil being used as a support for the insulating film, the extraction electrode pattern, the semiconductor layer, and the sealing resin layer formed in (i) to (iv) and used as a constituent material for the electrodes in (v). The metal foil need not be stripped, and a high-temperature process can be used. | 07-04-2013 |
20140038366 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING GATE ELECTRODE DISPOSED WITHIN AN OPENING OF A RESIN FILM - There is provided a flexible semiconductor device. The flexible semiconductor device of the present invention comprising a support layer, a semiconductor structure portion formed on the support layer, and a resin film formed on the semiconductor structure portion. The resin film comprises an opening formed by a laser irradiation therein, and also an electroconductive member which is in contact with the surface of the semiconductor structure portion is disposed within the opening of the resin film. | 02-06-2014 |
20150084080 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - There is provided a light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting element and a substrate for light-emitting element. The light-emitting element is in a mounted state on a mounting surface of the substrate, the mounting surface being one of two opposed main surfaces of the substrate. The substrate is provided with a protection element for the light-emitting element, the protection element comprising a voltage-dependent resistive layer embedded in the substrate, and comprising a first electrode and a second electrode each of which is in connection with the voltage-dependent resistive layer. The mounted light-emitting element is in an overlapping relation with the voltage-dependent resistive layer. A reflective layer is provided on at least one of the substrate and the voltage-dependent resistive layer such that the reflective layer is located adjacent to the first electrode which is in contact with a substrate exposure surface of the voltage-dependent resistive layer. | 03-26-2015 |
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20080199792 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In a disclosed image forming apparatus, a developing bias applied to a developer carrier or exposure energy with which an image carrier is exposed is adjusted such that an isolated one-dot image on the image carrier has a predetermined image density. When the image carrier is exposed to form dot images continuously arranged in a main scanning direction, the exposure time period for each dot image is shorter than that when the image carrier is exposed to form the isolated one-dot image. | 08-21-2008 |
20080267641 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DEVELOPMENT ERROR DETECTING METHOD - A disclosed developing device includes a developing roller; a supply roller that is in contact with the developing roller and configured to supply toner to the developing roller; a current measuring unit configured to measure an electric current that flows from the developing roller to the supply roller when the toner is supplied from the supply roller to the developing roller; and an error determining unit configured to detect a development error of the developing roller based on the electric current measured by the current measuring unit. | 10-30-2008 |
20080317513 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND DEVELOPMENT DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes either one of a process cartridge and a development device. The process cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the image forming apparatus, and integrally includes the development device. The development device includes a developer supplying member and a developer carrying member, at least one of which is formed of an elastic material, and which rotate in contact with each other. The developer supplying member is provided to be displacable in directions of contacting with and separating from the developer carrying member, and is biased toward the developer carrying member by predetermined biasing force. | 12-25-2008 |
20090176171 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In a disclosed image forming apparatus, a developing bias applied to a developer carrier or exposure energy with which an image carrier is exposed is adjusted such that an isolated one-dot image on the image carrier has a predetermined image density. When the image carrier is exposed to form dot images continuously arranged in a sub scanning direction, the exposure time period for each dot image is shorter than a time period for exposing the image carrier to form the isolated one-dot image. | 07-09-2009 |
20090274485 | Development device comprising process cartridge and image formation apparatus comprising development device - A process cartridge capable of lowering the line pressure of an abutment section of a layer thickness regulating member and thus reducing the stress on toner when the toner passes the abutment section. Toner adhering to the surface of a supply roller is supplied and applied to the surface of a development roller. The development roller is a roller covered with an elastic rubber layer and the elastic rubber layer is set to have a hardness which makes it possible to prevent toner degradation caused by a concentration of pressure exerted on an abutment section which abuts against a layer thickness regulating member. The surface roughness Ra is set at 0.3 to 2.0 μm, whereby the required amount of toner can be held by the surface. The resistance value of the elastic rubber layer is set at 10 | 11-05-2009 |