| 10th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
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| 20150062546 | APPARATUS WITH SURFACE PROTECTOR TO INHIBIT CONTAMINATION - An apparatus is provided for protecting a surface of interest from particle contamination, and particularly, during transitioning of the surface between atmospheric pressure and vacuum. The apparatus includes a chamber configured to receive the surface, and a protector plate configured to reside within the chamber with the surface, and inhibit particle contamination of the surface. A support mechanism is also provided suspending the protector plate away from an inner surface of the chamber. The support mechanism holds the protector plate within the chamber in spaced, opposing relation to the surface to provide a gap between the protector plate and the surface which presents a diffusion barrier to particle migration into the gap and onto the surface, thereby inhibiting particle contamination of the surface. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062547 | Lithography Apparatus, a Device Manufacturing Method, a Method Of Manufacturing an Attenuator - There is disclosed an exposure apparatus, a device manufacturing method and a method of manufacturing an attenuator. According to an embodiment, the exposure apparatus includes a programmable patterning device configured to provide a plurality of individually controllable radiation beams; a projection system configured to project each of the radiation beams onto a respective location on a target; and an attenuator configured to reduce a standard deviation in maximum radiation flux or background exposure level that can be applied to the target by the radiation beams as a function of position on the target. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062548 | Lithographic Apparatus, Sensor and Method - A lithographic apparatus comprises an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam, a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate, a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, and a sensor. The sensor (S) comprises a photodiode ( | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062549 | ASSEMBLY FOR A PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS FOR EUV PROJECTION LITHOGRAPHY - An assembly for a projection exposure apparatus for EUV projection lithography has an illumination optical unit for guiding illumination light to an illumination field, in which a lithography mask can be arranged. The illumination optical unit comprises a first facet mirror, which comprises a plurality of mirror arrays with respectively a plurality of individual mirrors. The individual mirrors provide individual mirror illumination channels for guiding illumination light partial beams to the illumination field. The mirror arrays of the first facet mirror are arranged in an array superstructure. Gaps extend along at least one main direction (HRα) between neighboring ones of the mirror arrays. Furthermore, the illumination optical unit comprises a second facet mirror, which comprises a plurality of facets, which respectively contribute to imaging a group of the individual mirrors of the field facet mirror into the illumination field via a group mirror illumination channel. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062550 | PHOTOMASK, PHOTOMASK SET, EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD - There is provided a photomask capable of improving alignment accuracy with respective photomasks disposed on the front and rear faces of a substrate. A photomask has a drawing pattern for exposure formed on one face opposing a substrate, a first alignment mark for alignment with a substrate side mark formed on the substrate, the first alignment mark being provided in a region of the one face, the region opposing the substrate when the substrate is retained and the drawing pattern is not formed in the region, and a second alignment mark for alignment with a third alignment mark provided on another photomask, the second alignment mark being provided in a region which does not oppose the substrate when the substrate is retained. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062551 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR OF A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS - The invention relates to an optical system, in particular of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, with an optical system axis (OA) and a polarization-influencing optical arrangement. According to one aspect, the polarization-influencing optical arrangement comprises at least one polarization-influencing optical element, which has a monolithic design and linear birefringence, wherein the overall absolute value of the birefringence of all of the polarization-influencing optical elements deviates by at most +15% from the value lambda/2, wherein lambda is the working wavelength of the optical system, wherein the direction of the fast axis of this birefringence varies in a plane perpendicular to the optical system axis (OA) in the at least one polarization-influencing optical element, and wherein the distribution of the fast axis of the birefringence of the polarization-influencing optical element is brought about by radiation-induced defects, which are situated in at least one optically unused region of the element. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062552 | STAGE APPARATUS AND ITS DRIVING METHOD - Provided is a stage apparatus that includes a first stage configured to be movable by a predetermined stroke; a second stage configured to be movable on the first stage by a stroke shorter than the stroke of the first stage; and a controller configured to control a first driving unit, which changes the relative position of the second stage with respect to the first stage, or a second driving unit, which changes the position of the first stage, such that the relative position of the second stage with respect to the first stage is offset in the direction of movement of the first stage upon acceleration of the first stage whereas the relative position of the second stage with respect to the first stage is offset in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the first stage upon deceleration of the first stage. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062553 | DETECTION APPARATUS, LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a detection apparatus for detecting a position of a detection target, including an illumination optical system configured to perform dark-field illumination on a reference mark, and a detection optical system including a sensor configured to detect light from the reference mark and an optical system configured to guide the light from the reference mark to the sensor, and configured to detect a position of the reference mark in a first direction, wherein the reference mark includes one mark element in the first direction, and a width of the mark element in the first direction is set such that two edges of the mark element in the first direction are detected as one peak when the sensor detects the light from the reference mark. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062554 | MULTI-STAGE SYSTEM, A CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND A LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A multi-stage system includes a stator including a plurality of electric coils; a first stage including a first magnet assembly, the first stage moveable relative to the stator; a second stage including a second magnet assembly, the second stage moveable relative to the stator; a controller configured to position the first and the second stage relative to the stator by activating, respectively, a first subset of the plurality of electric coils to interact with the first magnet assembly and a second subset of the plurality of electric coils to interact with the second magnet assembly, the controller adapted to prevent at least one electric coil, to be simultaneously shared by the first and the second subset to position the first and the second stage on the stator, from activating. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062555 | LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEM - A LIDAR sensor system includes: a transmitting unit including one or more emitting units so as to transmit polarization lasers to an object; a receiving unit configured to receive reflection light reflected on the object; and a processing unit configured to sense the object from the reflection light, and the transmitting unit may include a first emitting unit emitting a first laser and a second emitting unit emitting a second laser having polarization light orthogonal to the first laser. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062556 | STUD MAPPING AND LAYOUT METHOD - In a method of establishing the location of a pair construction points for a stud in a building, the points are defined by x and y coordinates. A beam of laser light is used to determine a z coordinate of each of the pair of construction points on surfaces of the building. The construction points are established by directing a beam of laser light toward defined x and y coordinate locations and establishing the z coordinate location of the construction points on building surfaces that have the defined x and y coordinates. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062557 | STABILIZED DISTANCE MEASUREMENT IN THE OBSERVATION DEVICE - The invention relates to a portable observation device having an observation path for optical targeting of a target object, and comprising an optoelectronic rangefinder for measuring the distance in the direction of the targeting. The rangefinder includes a transmission unit for emitting a temporal sequence of pulses of optical radiation, a reception unit for receiving a portion of the optical radiation cast back by the target object and for determining signal information and an electronic evaluation unit, which a distance to the target object can be determined on the basis of a signal travel time between emission and reception of the optical radiation. When a trigger is actuated manually, the distance is determined including the signal information from a specified minimum number of pulses, which define a minimum length of a time window of the distance measurement. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062558 | Time-of-Flight (TOF) Assisted Structured Light Imaging - A method for computing a depth map of a scene in a structured light imaging system including a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and a projector is provided that includes capturing a plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images of the scene using a camera in the structured light imaging system, generating, concurrently with the capturing of the plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images, a time-of-flight (TOF) depth image of the scene using the TOF sensor, and computing the depth map from the plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images wherein the TOF depth image is used for phase unwrapping. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062559 | HANDHELD TACHOMETER - A handheld tachometer includes a body that controls light output, and calculates a rotational velocity of an object based on incident light reflected from the object, and a reflector that is positioned at a light output terminal of the body, to adjust an angle of output light or incident light. The reflector can be adjusted by driving a step motor. The body may also have a motor control interface for a user to adjust the driving direction and degree of the step motor. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062560 | CHECKOUT COUNTER - A classification device ( | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062561 | Stress Analysis of 3-D Structures Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering Technology - A method includes performing a first probing on a sample integrated circuit structure to generate a first Raman spectrum. During the first probing, a first laser beam having a first wavelength is projected on the sample integrated circuit structure. The method further includes performing a second probing on the sample integrated circuit structure to generate a second Raman spectrum, wherein a Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS) method is used to probe the sample integrated circuit structure. During the second probing, a second laser beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength is projected on the sample integrated circuit structure. A stress in a first probed region of the sample integrated circuit structure is then from the first Raman spectrum and the second Raman spectrum. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062562 | OPTICAL FIBER TESTING USING OTDR INSTRUMENT - A method for testing the operation of an optical fiber cable in a communication network using an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) instrument includes receiving a range of identifiers of fiber sets to be tested. Identifiers of a first fiber set are displayed. The first fiber set is included in the range and constitutes a next fiber set to be tested. A determination is made whether the first fiber set is connected to the OTDR instrument. In response to determining that the first fiber set is connected to the OTDR instrument, a test of the first fiber set is performed using the OTDR instrument. Identifiers of a second fiber set are displayed. The second fiber set is included in the range and constitutes a next fiber set to be tested. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062563 | OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER WITH HIGH RESOLUTION AND HIGH SENSITIVITY - An optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) system with an integrated high speed optical modulator is capable of operating at a speed similar to the OTDR pulse width to improve the measurement resolution and reduce the time required to acquire a high dynamic range OTDR measurement over existing approaches. ASICs can be used to control the modulator and generation of pulses. The high-speed optical modulator enables high resolution single-photon OTDR measurement by blocking out all return light except from the region of fiber under examination. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062564 | TESTING PERFORMANCE OF OPTICAL FIBERS IN THE FIELD - Checking continuity along an optical fiber includes mounting an inspection attachment member to a smart phone; inserting a first end of the optical fiber into a receiving arrangement of the inspection attachment member to align the first end with a light source of the smart phone; activating the light source of the smart phone to shine a light along the optical fiber; and determining whether the light is visible at an opposite end of the optical fiber. Certain types of inspection attachment members also are configured to align an end of an optical fiber with a camera lens of the smart phone. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062565 | OPTICAL COUPLING LENS AND METHOD FOR TESTING SAME - An optical coupling lens includes a first reference portion, a second reference portion and a main portion sandwiched between the first reference portion and the second reference portion. The main portion includes a first surface having at least one first converging lens, a second surface having at least one second converging lenses, and a reflecting surface. The second surface is substantially perpendicular to the first surface forming intersection line. An angle between the reflecting surface and the first surface is about 45 degrees. Each reference portion includes a reference member. The reference member includes a reference point. A connecting line of the reference points of the reference portions is substantially parallel to the intersection line. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062566 | LENS ASSEMBLY TESTING METHOD - A lens assembly testing method includes: providing a lens assembly having a first lens and a second lens placed on the first lens; determining whether a modulation transfer function value of the lens assembly is in a predetermined range; if not, separating the first lens and the second lens, and forming a first coating layer and a second coating layer on the first lens to obtain a coated first lens with a number of dots; capturing two images of the coated first lens; attaching the coated first lens on the second lens, and capturing another two images of the coated first lens; determining an actual moving distance of a chosen dot using a 3D-Digital image correlation method according to the four images; adjusting a size of the first lens according to the actual moving distance; and displaying the adjusted size of the first lens to a user. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062567 | LENS MODULE TESTING METHOD - A lens module testing method includes the following steps: providing a lens module having a lens and a barrel; determining whether a modulation transfer function value of the lens is in a predetermined range; if not, separating the lens and the barrel, and forming a first coating layer and a second coating layer on the lens to obtain a coated lens having a number of dots; capturing a first image of the coated lens; placing the coated lens in the barrel to obtain the lens module, and capturing a second image of the coated lens; randomly choosing one dot from the dots, and determining an actual moving distance of the chosen dot using a 3D-Digital Image Correlation according to the first image and the second image; adjusting a size of the lens according to the actual moving distance; and displaying the adjusted size of the lens to a user. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062568 | REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR INDICATING SLOPE AND ALIGNMENT AND RELATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - A reference system configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a light-emitting device having a first light emitter, a second light emitter, and a housing. The housing includes a base operably connected to the first and second light emitters. The first light emitter is configured to emit a planar light region having a vertical orientation. The second light emitter is configured to emit an indicator light beam. A slope of the indicator light beam is adjustable to change a position of the indicator light beam within a vertical adjustment field. The system further includes a controller configured to cause the first and second light emitters to rotate in concert relative to the base about a vertical axis so as to rotationally reposition the planar light region and the indicator light beam in response to a detected misalignment of the planar light region. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062569 | OPTICAL SENSOR - An optical sensor that a deterioration of detecting accuracy is suppressed is provided, and an optical sensor that an increase of the number of components and an increase of a physical constitution are suppressed is provided. The optical sensor has a light receiving element having a light receiving surface to receives light, a detector detecting an inclination of the light receiving surface in the vertical direction, and a correction portion correcting an output signal of the light receiving element based on an output signal of the detector. Furthermore, the optical sensor includes a raindrop detector detecting a raindrop, a light detector detecting an incident light, and a storage part storing these things. The raindrop detector includes a light emitting element, a first light receiving element, (212), and a first lens. The light detector includes a second light receiving element and a second lens. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062570 | INSPECTING APPARATUS AND INSPECTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an inspecting apparatus is provided with a contact position obtaining unit and an inspection status determining unit. The contact position obtaining unit obtains, by using an inspection result of whether there is a particle on an inspection surface of a holding object and coordinate information of a convex portion in an electrostatic chuck holding mechanism, a contact position of the inspection surface with the convex portion. The inspection status determining unit determines whether a size of the particle adhering to a contact region with the convex portion of the inspection surface is within an allowable range by using a first determining criterion value and determines whether the size of the particle adhering to a non-contact region with the convex portion of the inspection surface is within an allowable range by using a second determining criterion value larger than the first determining criterion value. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062571 | Tuning Wafer Inspection Recipes Using Precise Defect Locations - Systems and methods for determining one or more parameters of a wafer inspection process are provided. One method includes aligning optical image(s) of an alignment target to their corresponding electron beam images generated by an electron beam defect review system. The method also includes determining different local coordinate transformations for different subsets of alignment targets based on results of the aligning. In addition, the method includes determining positions of defects in wafer inspection system coordinates based on coordinates of the defects determined by the electron beam defect review system and the different local coordinate transformations corresponding to different groups of the defects into which the defects have been separated. The method further includes determining one or more parameters for an inspection process for the wafer based on defect images acquired at the determined positions by a wafer inspection system. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062572 | WHITE CELL FOR FLUID DETECTION - An optical absorption spectroscopy apparatus includes a field mirror and at least one object mirror configured to reflect transmitted light multiple times between the field minor and the at least one object mirror through a sample volume. At least one fold mirror is configured to allow the transmitted light to double pass across the field mirror. The apparatus can further include a light source and a detector configured to detect an optical absorption spectrum of the light transmitted from the light source through a sample volume. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062573 | OPTICAL DETECTION DEVICE AND OPTICAL DETECTION METHOD - According to embodiments of the present invention, an optical detection device is provided. The optical detection device includes an optics arrangement configured to generate an annular illumination pattern to illuminate a portion of a sample and further configured to receive a return light from the portion of the sample illuminated by the annular illumination pattern; and a detector arrangement configured to detect the return light. According to further embodiments of the present invention, an optical detection method is also provided. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062574 | COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS METHOD, COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In accordance with an embodiment, a componential analysis method includes dividing a sample structure into at least a first layer to be analyzed and a second layer located closer to a surface layer of the sample than the first layer, applying, to the sample, laser lights of first and second wavelengths respectively corresponding to the depths of the first and second layers, detecting Raman scattered lights respectively obtained from the sample by the application of the laser lights and then outputting first and second Raman signals, spectrally processing the first and second Raman signals to acquire first and second Raman spectrums, acquiring a differential spectrum by subtracting the second Raman spectrum from the first Raman spectrum, and analyzing the differential spectrum. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062575 | METHOD FOR MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF A SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM - A method of measuring the performance of a spectroscopy system including obtaining a plurality of component spectra for each component of a set of components that are to be identified by the system, the component spectra obtained for variations of at least one factor that affects the component spectrum. Sample spectra and then simulated, each sample spectrum simulated for a corresponding potential sample using at least one different component spectrum and/or a different amount of at least one of the component spectra to that used to simulate the other sample spectra. The sample spectra are analysed to obtain, for each sample spectrum, a measured quantity and/or quality for a characteristic of the corresponding potential sample and a measure of performance generated based upon the measured quantities and/or qualities. The invention also concerns apparatus for carrying out this method. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062576 | TRACE DETECTION OF ANALYTES USING PORTABLE RAMAN SYSTEMS - Apparatuses and methods for in situ detection of a trace amount of an analyte are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) insert including a passageway therethrough, where the passageway has a SERS surface positioned therein. The SERS surface is configured to adsorb molecules of an analyte of interest. A concentrated sample is caused to flow over the SERS surface. The SERS insert is then provided to a portable Raman spectroscopy system, where it is analyzed for the analyte of interest. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062577 | BACKGROUND CORRECTION IN EMISSION SPECTRA - A method for deriving a background-corrected portion of a measured optical emission spectrum comprising the steps of identifying two or more background correction points from the portion of the measured emission spectrum; deriving a background correction function fitted to the identified background correction points, and applying the background correction function to the portion of the measured emission spectrum so as to produce a background-corrected portion of the emission spectrum, wherein the background correction points are identified from the measured data points by consideration of the gradients between the measured data points. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062578 | ETCHING AMOUNT MEASUREMENT PATTERN, ETCHING AMOUNT MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND ETCHING AMOUNT MEASUREMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an etching amount measurement pattern is provided in a surface of a substrate. The pattern comprises a plurality of components two-dimensionally disposed and causing light incident on the pattern to be diffracted, | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062579 | Rotation Angle Measuring Device - A rotation angle measuring device provided with a fixed unit and a movable unit relatively rotating with respect to the fixed unit, comprising a light source installed on either one of the fixed unit or the movable unit and for emitting a detection light and a reference position signal light, a polarizing plate for converting a detection light emitted from the light source to a polarized light, a polarized light rotating unit for rotating the polarized light around an optical axis of the light source as the center, a reference position signal light emitted at a reference rotating position of the polarized light, a stationary polarizing plate provided on either one of the fixed unit or the movable unit and to stand still with respect to a rotation of the polarized light, a photodetection sensor provided on the fixed unit or on the movable unit and for receiving the polarized light passing through the stationary polarizing plate and the reference position signal light, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a detection waveform of a change of light amount based on a signal from the photodetection sensor, for detecting the reference position signal light and for calculating a relative rotation angle between the fixed unit and the movable unit from a phase of the detection waveform and a predetermined detection reference phase when the reference position signal light is detected. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062580 | POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION OF A REMOTE SENSOR - Described are methods and systems for vicarious polarimetric calibration and performance validation of a remote sensor. The system includes a plurality of reflective mirrors configured and arranged to reflect radiation from a source of radiation onto the remote sensor with accurately known polarimetric properties. Each of the reflective mirrors are located so that the target images do not overlap. The remote sensor is configured to receive the radiation reflected from the plurality of reflective mirrors and store the received radiation as image data (e.g., the image of each mirror appears as a point target). The system includes a processor configured to process the received data to provide direct calibration and performance validation for each polarimetric or spectral channel of the remote sensor. In addition, the calibration method removes all atmospheric effects except for transmittance and provides reference targets that have high polarimetric contrast, full spectrum performance and easy to deploy. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062581 | DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD - A defect inspection apparatus includes: a seed light generator including a pulse signal generator that generates a pulse signal and a polarization modulator that outputs pulse light of any one of two polarization states orthogonal to each other in synchronization with the pulse signal output from the pulse signal generator; a wavelength converting unit including a branching mechanism that branches the pulse light output by the polarization modulator of the seed light generator using polarization and a converting unit that wavelength-converts the pulse light branched by the branching mechanism into beams of two different wavelengths, respectively; an illumination optical system that illuminates a surface of an inspected target material with the beams of the two different wavelengths converted by the wavelength converting unit; a detection optical system including a detecting unit that detects light generated by the beams of the two different wavelengths illuminated by the illumination optical system; and a signal processing system including a distributor that distributes a signal based on the light detected by the detecting unit of the detection optical system for each wavelength, on the basis of the pulse signal output from the pulse signal generator, and a defect determining unit that processes a signal based on the light distributed by the distributor and determines a defect. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062582 | SENSOR APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A sensor apparatus includes an irradiation system with a light source configured to emit linearly polarized light of a first polarization direction onto a sheet-like object, in a direction oblique to a direction orthogonal to a surface of the object, a first photodetector arranged on an optical path of light that is emitted from the irradiation system and then is reflected at the object by regular reflection, a first optical element, arranged on an optical path of light reflected by diffuse reflection from an incidence plane of the object, configured to transmit linearly polarized light of a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first polarization direction, a second photodetector configured to receive light that has passed through the first optical element, and a detection unit configured to detect at least one of basis weight and thickness of the object. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062583 | Screening Method of a Phosphor-based Optical Film Used in a Backlight Module and Backlight Module Thereof - A screening method of a phosphor-based optical film used in a backlight module and a backlight module are proposed. The screening method includes steps of: a) dividing an internal surface of the backlight module without a phosphor-based optical film into multiple measurement zones, and gaining a transmittance spectrum of each of the measurement zones; b) gaining a chromatic value of each of the measurement zones matching the phosphor-based optical film; c) checking the chromatic values gained in b) to be within a range of standard chroma; the process of screening being finished if all of the chromatic values are in the range; matching at least one measurement zone with a new phosphor-based optical film if the chromatic value of the at least one of the measurement zones is not within the range, and returning to b). The present backlight module has higher saturation and penetration and better color uniformity. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062584 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE COLOUR OF AN OBJECT - A method for measuring the uniform diffuse reflectance R | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062585 | Optical Scanning And Measurement - Apparatus and methods for optical scanning, including an optical probe capable of motion for optical scanning with respect to both the interior and the exterior of a scanned object, the optical probe also including light conducting apparatus disposed so as to conduct scan illumination from a source of scan illumination through the probe; light reflecting apparatus disposed so as to project scan illumination radially away from a longitudinal axis of the probe with at least some of the scan illumination projected onto the scanned object; optical line forming apparatus disposed so as to project scan illumination as a line of scan illumination with at least some of the scan illumination projected onto the scanned object; and a lens disposed so as to conduct, through the probe to an optical sensor, scan illumination reflected from the scanned object. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062586 | SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY INCLUDING INTERFEROMETER - A system for performing optical spectroscopy measurements includes a light source for generating an input optical beam and an interferometer. The interferometer includes a beam splitter that splits the input optical beam into first and second light beams; a first light path that directs the first light beam through a sample containing an analyte to a first output port; and a second light path that directs the second light beam to the first output port. At least one of the first and second light paths adjusts a relative phase of a corresponding one of the first and second light beams, so that the first and second light beams are out of phase at the first output port, substantially canceling background light and outputting sample light corresponding to a portion of the first light signal absorbed by the sample in the sample cell. A detection system detects the output sample light. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062587 | HOLOGRAPHIC MICROREFRACTOMETER - An in-line holographic microscope is used for measurements of micrometer-scale particles and associated suspending fluid medium containing the particles. The system yields heterodyne scattering patterns that may be interpreted with Lorenz-Mie theory to obtain precise time-resolved information on the refractive index of the suspending medium for determining chemical composition, concentrations and makeup thereof. This approach can perform spatially resolved refractometry with measurements on calibrated refractive index standards and monitor chemical concentration in a microfluidic channel. Using commercially available colloidal spheres as probe particles and a standard video camera for detection yields volumetric refractive index measurements with a resolution of 2×10 | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062588 | DISTURBANCE DETECTION USING A PASSIVELY TERMINATED FIBER OPTIC SENSOR - A fiber-optic sensor can have a Michelson sensor portion and a Mach-Zehnder sensor portion. A first splitter-coupler can be configured to split incoming light between a first fiber portion and a second fiber portion. A first polarization-phase conjugation device can be configured to conjugate a polarization phase of incident light corresponding to the first fiber portion, and a second polarization-phase conjugation device can be configured to conjugate a polarization phase of incident light corresponding to the second fiber portion. Each of the first and second polarization-phase conjugation devices can be configured to reflect light toward a detector and through the respective first and second fiber portions. A coupler can be configured to join light in the first fiber portion with light in the second fiber portion, and a third fiber portion can be configured to receive light from the coupler and to illuminate a second detector. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062589 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT METHOD - A small and inexpensive optical measurement apparatus is provided in which noise due to optical interference such as inter-layer crosstalk or speckle is suppressed. The optical measurement apparatus includes a light source to emit laser light, a high-frequency superimposing unit to superimpose a high-frequency current on a driving current to drive the light source, a light branching element to branch the laser light into signal light and reference light, an objective lens to condense and irradiate the signal light on a measurement object, a condensing position scanning unit to scan a condensing position of the signal light, a light path length adjusting unit to adjust a light path length difference between the signal light and the reference light, an interference optical system which combines the signal light reflected or scattered by the measurement object and the reference light, and generates a plurality of interference lights different from each other in phase relation, and a photodetector to detect the interference lights. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062590 | EVALUATION OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIC DATA PRIOR TO SEGMENTATION - An efficient method of evaluating the level of contrast of an OCT dataset is presented. The method develops a metric to segregate useful and not-so-useful data in one or more OCT B-scans, in order to reduce spurious subsequent analyses of the data by downstream segmentation algorithms. It is designed to be fast and efficient and is applied to determining autofocus of an OCT instrument real-time and in identifying a real image from its complex conjugate twin. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062591 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR LOW-COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY (LCI) - Embodiments described herein involve low-coherence interferometry (LCI) techniques which enable acquisition of structural and depth information regarding a sample of interest. In one embodiment, a “swept-source” (SS) light source is used in LCI to obtain structural and depth information about a sample. The swept-source light source can be used to generate a reference signal and a signal directed towards a sample. Light scattered from the sample is returned as a result and mixed with the reference signal to achieve interference and thus provide structural information regarding the sample. Depth information about the sample can be obtained using Fourier domain concepts as well as time domain techniques. Several LCI embodiments employing a swept-source light source are disclosed herein. In another embodiment disclosed herein, an a/LCI system and method is provided that is based on a time domain system and employs a broadband light source. The systems and processes disclosed herein can be used for biomedical applications, including measuring cellular morphology in tissues and in vitro as well as diagnosing intraepithelial neoplasia, and assessing the efficacy of chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agents. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062592 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTILITY CONTRAST IMAGING - A system for motility contrast imaging a biological target within tissue comprising a CCD array; an illumination source for generating an incoming beam; a first beam splitter for receiving the incoming beam and producing an object beam and a reference beam; a second beam splitter for illuminating a multitude of biological targets with the object beam and for directing backscattered object beams towards the CCD array; a computer-controlled delay stage for zero-path-matching the reference beam to the backscattered object beams; a reference beam that intersects the backscattered object beams at an angle to produce a series of interference fringes that modulate Fourier-domain information; and a computer for receiving a time series of Fourier-domain information. The interference fringes between the backscattered object beam and the reference beam are recorded by the CCD array and passed to the computer which constructs a digital hologram at successive times. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062593 | POLARIZATION BASED INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTOR - A sensor and method for determining the optical properties of a sample material is disclosed. The sensor comprises a light source that generates a linearly polarized light beam having a predetermined polarization orientation with respect to the plane of incidence. The linearly polarized light beam is reflected off the sample and is split into second and third light beams where the second and third light beam consist of the combined projections of mutually orthogonal components of the first light beam. A signal processor measures the intensity difference between the second and third light beams to calculate the phase difference induced by the sample material. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062594 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SENSOR UNIT AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A method for operating an electronic device including a sensor unit that uses infrared rays is provided. In the method, a light source is illuminated using at least one light emitting device. Whether the illuminated light source is received by a light receiving device including at least one light receiving channel is determined. A relevant function corresponding to an amount of light of the light source received by the at least one light receiving channel is performed. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062595 | Apparatus and Method for Determining Reference Elements of an Environment - A method for determining reference elements of an environment, the method comprising at least the steps of: providing a ceiling value and a floor value; measuring, using a distance-measuring sensor, a set of environment point positions, each position comprising at least a first coordinate along a first direction and a second coordinate along a second direction non collinear with the first direction; determining reference elements of the environment comprising position of the set of environment point positions whose second coordinate is strictly smaller than the ceiling value and strictly higher than the floor value, and whose distance to the distance-measuring sensor, taken along the first direction, is a highest distance in a set of distances of environment points to the distance-measuring sensor, said distances being taken along the first direction. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062596 | OPTICAL IMAGING ARRANGEMENT WITH MULTIPLE METROLOGY SUPPORT UNITS - An optical imaging arrangement includes an optical projection system and a support structure system. The optical projection system includes a group of optical elements configured to transfer, in an exposure process using exposure light along an exposure light path, an image of a pattern of a mask onto a substrate. The support structure system includes an optical element support structure and a metrology support structure. The optical element support structure supports the group of optical elements, while the metrology support structure supports a group of metrology devices associated with the group of optical elements and configured to capture status information representative of at least one of a position and an orientation of each of the optical elements in at least one degree of freedom up to all six degrees of freedom. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062597 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PAGE CLASSIFICATION THEREIN - In a case of performing free size printing with a charging approach in which a charge classification is determined based on a color pixel utilization rate, the color pixel utilization rate calculating is performed using a total number of pixels in an image area cut out at a size for color pixel utilization rate calculation, rather than the generation image data on the whole, for a denominator. With this, the calculation result of the color pixel utilization rate is prevented from becoming inaccurate. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062598 | PRINTING QUALITY DETERMINATION BASED ON TEXT ANALYSIS - A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: analyzing text in a digital document, to identify a text segment referring to a figure of the digital document; mapping said text segment to said figure; identifying, in said text segment, reference to one or more non-grayscale colors of said figure, to determine a level of importance of said one or more colors to legibility of said figure; and printing said digital document in accordance with the level of importance. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062599 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING INK SAVING AMOUNT - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for calculating ink saving amount. The method comprises: generating, using an ink-saving solution, first cyan, magenta, yellow and black bitmap files that correspond to a printing layout; generating, using a non-ink-saving solution, second cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bitmap files that correspond to the printing layout; calculating dot percentages of all the bitmap files; calculating percentages of saving amount of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks according to the dot percentages of the first cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bitmap files, and the second cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bitmap files. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062600 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Shape information representing the shape of a path is obtained. End-point information representing a modification method for the end point of the stroke is obtained. Connection-point information representing a modification method for the connection point of the stroke is obtained. Stencil data of the stroke is generated based on the shape information, the connection-point information, and the end-point information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062601 | PRINT CONTROLLING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A print controlling apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives input data including: gloss control plane data indicating a surface effect type to be achieved on the recording medium with certain density information; and table identifying information for identifying a surface effect selection table indicating a corresponding relation between the surface effect type and the density information used to generate the gloss control plane data; an acquiring unit that acquires an independent data portion indicating a portion corresponding to the surface effect type capable of being achieved independent from competence of the printing apparatus, out of the surface effect selection table identified by the table identifying information included in the input data from an external device; and a generating unit that generates the clear toner plane data using the independent data portion acquired by the acquiring unit. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062602 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, RECORDING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device includes a display portion that displays a preview image of recording images. When pieces of data of the recording images include transparency information in addition to color information, the display portion displays the preview image of the recording images thereon while holding the transparency information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062603 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus is connected to an image forming apparatus to be capable of communicating with the image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing low cost printing information transmitted from the image forming apparatus; a receiving unit for receiving a printing instruction; and a control unit for determining whether first data or second data different from the first data is transmitted to the image forming apparatus according to the low cost printing information stored in the storage unit when the receiving unit receives the printing instruction. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062604 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND SCANNER - A scanner of the present invention includes a transport section configured to transport a transport medium and a control section configured to carry out feedback control on the transport section according to a transport state of the transport medium. The control section is further configured to reduce a gain in the feedback control in a case where the transport medium is transported in a first region where a load on the transport medium varies compared to a case where the transport medium is transported in a second region which is on an upstream side of the first region or in a third region which is on a downstream side of the first region. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062605 | Dynamic Multilingual Print Driver - In one example, we describe a method and system for displaying the Printing Preferences UI and graphical user interface and for the dynamic multilingual print driver. In one example, the system determines the language of the currently-logged-in user. In one example, the system determines the supported language that most closely matches the user's language. If unable to match, it uses the system's default language that was set during the initial installation. If that is not available, then it uses English as the language and declares an error (for the user or administrator), because the system has got a corrupted installation. Other details and variations are also presented here. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062606 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to receive a necessity of a restart operation for reflecting setting values of setting data, from a processing execution unit for executing by using the setting data, and to register necessity information in each category corresponding to the processing execution unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether import data includes setting data related to a category registered as a category requiring a restart operation in the registration unit, and a determining unit configured to, based on a result of the determination by the determination unit, determine whether a restart operation is necessary after the import data has been imported. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062607 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING POWER SAVE FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, having an SSD as an auxiliary storage device, which is capable of preventing loss of data in the auxiliary storage device caused by lapse of a retention period in a power save state or a power off state. In a case where the auxiliary storage device is determined to be an SSD based on type information that is acquired when the image forming apparatus is activated, a predicted retention period is calculated, and is set in a part of the apparatus that operates in the power save state. The part of the apparatus that operates in the power save state causes the image forming apparatus to transit from the power save state to a normal state based on the set predicted retention period. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062608 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display processing unit causes a display device to display a screen on the basis of screen image data. A screen change detecting unit watches the screen image data and detects a change of the screen image data. A transmission processing unit transmits the screen image data to a monitoring apparatus if the screen change detecting unit detected a change of the screen image data. A storage device stores excluding condition data. The transmission processing unit does not transmit the screen image data if the detected change of the screen image data satisfies the excluding condition specified by the excluding condition data and transmits the screen image data if the detected change of the screen image data does not satisfy the excluding condition specified by the excluding condition data. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062609 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A SETUP PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus and a user terminal apparatus are connected to a network. In the image forming apparatus, an input device receives an input of an identification code unique to the user terminal apparatus on the basis of a user operation, and an apparatus information transmitting unit searches for a user terminal apparatus on the network using the identification code and transmit apparatus information on this image forming apparatus to the found user terminal apparatus. In the user terminal apparatus, an identification code managing unit displays an identification code unique to this user terminal apparatus on the display device, an apparatus information acquiring unit receives the apparatus information transmitted from the image forming apparatus to which the identification code was inputted, a driver setup unit sets up the driver program on the basis of the received apparatus information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062610 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TEST SYSTEM, AND TEST METHOD FOR TESTING APPLICATION SCREEN - The application processing unit executes an application on an application screen. The command analyzing unit analyzes a test command on the application screen received from an external apparatus, converts the test command into a plurality commands in a plurality of executable formats, and generates a command list from the commands. The command executing unit retrieves a command from the command list and executes the command on application screen processing data. The capture processing unit acquires a capture image of an application screen that is generated by executing the command if the application of the application screen is executed. The application screen test executing unit retrieves a next command from the command list, outputs the next command to the command executing unit, and stores the capture image until all the commands in the command list have been executed. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062611 | IMAGING FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of receiving a raster image from an image processing controller includes: a transmitting unit transmitting device information of the image forming apparatus to an external device via the image processing controller; a determining unit determining whether the image processing controller is in a first power condition or in a second power condition consuming lower power than the first power condition; and a control unit allowing the transmitting unit to transmit the device information to the external device in a case where the determining unit determines that the image processing controller is in the first power condition, and in a case where the determining unit determines that the image processing controller is in the second power condition, restrict the transmitting unit to transmit the device information to the external device until the image processing controller returns to the first power condition from the second power condition. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062612 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE FOR USER AUTHENTICATION AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - A user authentication device provided on an apparatus as an object of operation acquires feature data representing notable portion of the user, using a camera device, after user authentication. Based on the acquired feature data, the user authentication device tracks the user by the camera (step S | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062613 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PREVENTING DATA LEAKAGE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of preventing leakage of data held in a nonvolatile main storage memory by a malicious program or the like even if a shutdown process was not normally performed last time. If it is judged, when the image forming apparatus is started, that the shutdown process was not normally performed last time, a whole or a partial area of the main storage memory is refreshed before starting the information forming apparatus. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062614 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image forming apparatus in which a first board including a first central processing unit (CPU) and a second board including a second CPU communicate with each other to control image processing, a monitoring unit monitors whether processing executed by the second CPU is normal. If the monitoring unit determines that the processing executed by the second CPU is not normal, a notification unit notifies the first CPU. The first CPU resets the second board according to the notification. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062615 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB SETTING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, if a setting content of a preset second setting item of a plurality of setting items included in pre-registration information selected by a selection portion is outside a range of use authority, a change portion changes the setting content of the second setting item to a content within the range of the use authority. In addition, a sequential display portion sequentially displays a setting screen for setting the setting content of the second setting item, in accordance with a setting operation on the setting screen. Furthermore, a second display control portion displays an authentication screen if the setting content of the second setting item is set on the setting screen so as to be outside the range of the use authority. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062616 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB SETTING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, if the number of specific items of a plurality of setting items included in pre-registration information selected by a selection portion is equal to or less than a threshold, a change portion changes a setting content of the specific item to a content within a range of use authority. A setting screen display portion displays a setting screen for setting the specific item whose setting content has been changed by the change portion. A second display control portion displays an authentication screen if the setting content of the specific item is set on the setting screen so as to be outside the range of the use authority. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062617 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes a job executing portion, a preview executing portion, and a log image obtaining portion. The job executing portion executes a job based on an image. The preview executing portion executes displaying a preview of the image before the job is executed. The log image obtaining portion obtains a log image as a history of the image and store the log image in a storage portion. The log image obtaining portion obtains a log image of the preview. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062618 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER TO CONTROL UNIT OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a power-on control unit configured to instruct a first voltage generation unit to generate a first voltage in accordance with a power-on instruction, determine whether or not the first voltage generated by the first voltage generation unit has become a predetermined voltage or higher, and instruct a second voltage generation unit to generate a second voltage when the power-on control unit determines that the first voltage has become the predetermined voltage or higher; and a power-off control unit configured to instruct the second voltage generation unit to stop generation of the second voltage in accordance with a power-off instruction, and instruct the first voltage generation unit to stop generation of the first voltage after a predetermined time period has elapsed from the power-off instruction. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062619 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - In an image forming apparatus which includes a first memory configured to store a program for executing a specific process, and a second memory configured to store a program read from the first memory, in a case in which the image forming apparatus shifts to a specific state, a content of the program stored in the second memory is verified. In accordance with the verification result, control is made to write the program read from the first memory in the second memory. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062620 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND POWER-SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a first unit and a second unit supplied with power that can be interrupted individually, a power supply switch configured to be operated by a user, to turn off a power supply of the information processing apparatus, a controller configured to perform shutdown processing of the information processing apparatus thereby interrupting supply of power to the first unit and the second unit, upon turning off of the power supply switch, a first timer unit configured to interrupt the supply of the power to the first unit, after a lapse of a first predetermined time after turning off the power supply switch, and a second timer unit configured to interrupt the supply of power to the second unit, after a lapse of a second predetermined time after turning off the power supply switch. The second predetermined time is longer than the first predetermined time. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062621 | PROVIDING AN INTEGRATED, FEATURE ORIENTED AD-HOC PRINTING DEVICE SELECTION SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CLIENT DEVICES - An integrated printer driver includes the capability to discover available ad-hoc printing devices and obtain the features and options currently supported by those ad-hoc printing devices. The integrated printer driver automatically selects a particular ad-hoc printing device based upon a user's selected feature and option set and allows a user to print an electronic document prior to an ad-hoc communications link being established with the particular ad-hoc printing device. The integrated printer driver renders the electronic document and generates a print job, and holds the print job until an ad-hoc communications link is established with the particular ad-hoc printing device. After the ad-hoc communications link has been established, the integrated printer driver determines whether the particular ad-hoc printing device is capable of successfully processing the print job and if so, causes the print job to be transmitted to the ad-hoc printing device. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062622 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes a plurality of loading units, and a registration management unit configured to display on a display screen a registration screen for receiving registration of attributes of printing media loaded in the loading unit. The registration management unit is configured to arrange selection elements corresponding to unregistered loading units so as to be selectable on the registration screen, and is configured to arrange on the registration screen registration elements for registering the attributes of the printing media loaded in the loading unit corresponding to a selected selection element. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062623 | PRINT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND PRINT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - When the user executes printing in a system to which plural printers are connected, the waiting time of each user is minimized, and the use of the plural printers is equalized. The print management device is connected to the terminal devices and the printers via a network, for example. The print management device saves the print jobs transmitted from each of the terminal devices. When receiving the print instruction from any one of the printers, the print management device transmits the print job corresponding thereto to the printer and makes the printer execute the printing. Also, the print management device collects and manages the print execution status of the printers. When receiving a new print instruction from the printer which is already executing the print job, the print management device calculates the waiting time of each of the printers and notifies the printer having the shortest waiting time. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062624 | ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT - To provide an electric equipment which has a function in which parameter is set, and enables a user to appropriately adjust the parameters regardless of an ability level of user. A plurality of reception screens having different degrees of detail for received instructions for adjusting parameters are displayed depending on the ability level of user to adjust the appropriate parameters, such as maintenance ability, or presence or absence of the specialized knowledge for the apparatus, or the like, thus the user adjusts the parameter using the reception screen suitable for the user. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062625 | STORAGE INFORMATION UPDATE METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM FOR MANAGING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND MOBILE DEVICE - A storage information update method, an image forming apparatus, a system for managing the image forming apparatus, and a mobile device are provided. The method is performed by an image forming apparatus to which at least one identification number is assigned, a storage configured to store the identification number of the image forming apparatus, and a terminal device communicable with the storage. The method includes acquiring, by the terminal device, the at least one identification number of the image forming apparatus and transmitting, by the terminal device, the received at least one identification number to the storage. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062626 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A management apparatus comprises: management unit which manages a power control rule for a change of a state of the one or more information processing devices; determination unit which determines whether or not the power control ability of the information processing device matches the power control rule; and setting unit which sets the managed power control rule to the information processing device if it has been determined that the power control ability of the information processing device matches the managed power control rule, and sets a new power control rule that matches the power control ability of the information processing device if it has been determined that the power control ability of the information processing device does not match the managed power control rule. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062627 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes a communication unit. When receiving a request to start communication from a second communication apparatus during communication with a first communication apparatus, the communication unit transmits to the second communication apparatus a communication disabled notification with a retransmission time period indicating a time until the request to start communication again. In addition, when receiving a request to start communication from a third communication apparatus after completing the communication with the first communication apparatus and before receiving the request to start communication sent again from the second communication apparatus based on the retransmission time period, the communication unit does not start data reception from the third communication apparatus so as to give priority to data communication with the second communication apparatus. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062628 | PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD OF OBTAINING SCANNED DATA FROM AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A portable terminal apparatus includes: a scan job generator that generates a scan job; a file format selecting portion that allows users to select a first file format; a display portion that displays scanned data; a first judgment portion that judges whether or not the first file format is enabled; a second judgment portion that judges whether or not a second file format is enabled; a file format setting portion that sets the first or second file format; a transmitter that transmits the scan job to the image processing apparatus; a data obtaining portion that obtains the scanned data from the image processing apparatus; a display controller that allows the display portion to display the scanned data in an enabled file format; a file converter that converts the scanned data into the first file format; and a storage that stores the scanned data in the first file format. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062629 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image forming system, a map image generation portion obtains positional information of image forming apparatuses having been detected, from the image forming apparatuses having been detected, and generates a map image that indicates, by disposing device icons representing the image forming apparatuses having been detected, a distance and a direction of each image forming apparatus having been detected, relative to a present position and a present orientation of a mobile terminal apparatus, based on the present position and the present orientation of the mobile terminal apparatus and the positional information of the image forming apparatuses having been detected. An output instruction portion transmits an output instruction, to the image forming apparatus corresponding to a device icon selected from among the device icons in the map image displayed on a display device. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062630 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes print condition receiving portion, save information holding portion, save information re-setting portion, print data generating portion. Save information holding portion temporarily holds a set value of a predetermined setting item among setting items of print conditions that have already been received via print condition receiving portion. Save information re-setting portion, after print condition receiving portion restarts the input of the print conditions, reads out the set value held by save information holding portion and set the set value in a corresponding setting item of the print conditions. Print data generating portion, after a print execution instruction is input via print condition receiving portion, generates print data in accordance with the print conditions received by print condition receiving portion. The print data generated by print data generating portion is printed by an image forming portion of a printing apparatus. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062631 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display device incudes a display section having a display surface, a display control section, and a touch panel. The display control section is configured to causes the display section to display a first display region and a first operating region. The touch panel is configured to detect a touch point in touch with the display surface of the display section. A page selected from a plurality of pages is displayed in the first display region. The first operating region has a size corresponding to the number of pages from the page displayed in the first display region to an end page of the pages. The display control section updates the page displayed in the first display region according to the number of to-be-updated pages determined based on a start point to an end point of the touch point within the first operating region. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062632 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus transmits print data to an image forming apparatus by using near field communication or to an image forming apparatus on a network, and at this time, gives preference as a print destination to the image forming apparatus using the near field communication over the image forming apparatus capable of communicating with the information processing apparatus using the network. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062633 | Communication Apparatus - Aspects of the disclosure provide a communication apparatus that can use preferable settings regardless of which of communication in a near-field wireless communication method and communication in a wireless communication method different from the near-field wireless communication method is used as a trigger to start a function. The communication apparatus may include a controller. The controller may, if communication carried out in a near-field wireless communication method, transmit at least one of first setting table and data created based on the first setting table to an external device, and, if communication is carried out in the wireless communication method, transmit at least one of second setting table and data created based on the second setting table to the external device. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062634 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus for performing image formation using a recording material includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a remaining amount of the recording material, a prediction unit configured to predict a remaining amount of the recording material based on data used for the image formation, a setting unit configured to set the predicated remaining amount of the recording material as a remaining amount of the recording material to be displayed, and a control unit configured to perform control so that when the predicted remaining amount of the recording material reaches a remaining amount of the recording material to be acquired next by the acquisition unit, the remaining amount of the recording material to be displayed is maintained at the remaining amount of the recording material to be acquired next by the acquisition unit until the acquisition unit acquires the next remaining amount of the recording material. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062635 | SHEET MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SHEET MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A sheet management apparatus includes a storing unit, an obtaining unit, and a setting unit. The storing unit stores a combination of a size and first property information of a first sheet and a size and second property information of a second sheet. The obtaining unit obtains a first size of a sheet held in a first sheet holding unit and a second size of a sheet held in a second sheet holding unit. The setting unit sets sheet property information such that the first property information is read out from the combination and the read first property information is set as sheet property information of a sheet held in the first sheet holding unit, and the second property information is read out from the combination and the read second property information is set as sheet property information of a sheet held in the second sheet holding unit. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062636 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an information processing apparatus, a data transmission portion transmits print data to an image forming apparatus, and a first detection portion detects communication terminals existing in a communication range of a near field wireless communication. In addition, a terminal selection portion selects one or a plurality of communication terminals from among the communication terminals detected by the first detection portion, and an authorization portion gives print authority of the print data transmitted from the data transmission portion, to the communication terminal selected by the terminal selection portion. On the other hand, in an image forming apparatus, a printing permission portion permits printing of the print data corresponding to the print authority, when the communication terminal having the print authority exists in the communication range of the near field wireless communication. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062637 | Image Forming Apparatus Having Function of Avoiding Overflow of Buffer and Image Forming Method - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of buffers, an auxiliary storage unit, a data receiving unit, a data transmitting unit, an asynchronous data write unit, a data prefetch unit, a data deletion unit, and an image forming unit. The data receiving unit inputs data into one of the plurality of buffers. The data transmitting unit outputs the stored data. The asynchronous data write unit stores the stored data into the auxiliary storage unit. The data prefetch unit prefetches, if no data to be output exists in another one of the plurality of buffers, the data stored in the auxiliary storage unit to the another one of the plurality of buffers. The data deletion unit deletes the data, transmitting of which has been completed. The image forming unit performs image formation for the data as page data. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062638 | DISPLAYING DEVICE HAVING TOUCH PANEL TYPE DISPLAYING UNIT - An image forming apparatus, as a displaying device, displays the 2nd printing page out of a plurality of printing pages on an operation panel when the 1st to 10th images were allocated to each of the printing pages. The image forming apparatus maintains an allocation state of the 1st printing page anterior to the 2nd printing page and changes an allocation state of at least one of images corresponds to the contact points with the operation panel, when the image forming apparatus receives a gesture operation moves the contact points. The starting points of the contact points are in the 2nd printing page displayed on the operation panel. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062639 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, LOG MANAGEMENT METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a storage control portion, a setting control portion, and a deletion control portion. The storage control portion stores logs of jobs executed by the image processing apparatus into a storage portion. The setting control portion sets an importance level of each of the logs based on a plurality of target items and weight conditions, wherein the plurality of target items are set in advance with regard to the image processing apparatus, the jobs, or the logs, and the weight conditions are set in advance respectively in correspondence with the target items. The deletion control portion determines an order of automatic deletion of the logs stored in the storage portion, based on the importance level set by the setting control portion. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062640 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To display a real image forming apparatus together with job information about printing jobs accumulated in this image forming apparatus. A mobile terminal acquires an identification number of an image-captured image forming apparatus by image recognition processing of image data. Further, mobile terminal generates a screen layout corresponding to a detection location of image forming apparatus obtained from the image data. Further, mobile terminal transmits, to a server, an inquiry request for address information, including the identification number. Server has address information about each image forming apparatus. When server receives the inquiry request for address information, it identifies image forming apparatus corresponding to the identification number, and transmits an IP address of identified image forming apparatus to mobile terminal. Mobile terminal uses the acquired IP address to acquire job information about printing jobs from image forming apparatus, synthesizing the job information with the image data for display. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062641 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - There are provided an image display control device, an image display control method, an image display control program, and an image display system that can efficiently select desired image information without spending a lot of time even if the amount of image information to be searched for is significantly large. In a standard scale obtained by matching the full range of the identification number with the entire position of a bar portion of a track bar, at a peripheral position of each slider, each identification number is assigned according to an enlarged scale that is larger than the standard scale. A selection range of the identification number is determined from the instruction position of the slider. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062642 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING DATA - A method and an apparatus for storing data as a coded two-dimensional pattern of pixels on a photographic medium are described. An image representative of the data to be stored is divided into a two-dimensional array of blocks. A representative color value is determined for each block to obtain a two-dimensional array of representative color values. At least part of the data to be stored is coded such that the resulting coded two-dimensional pattern of pixels resembles the two-dimensional array of representative color values. The coded two-dimensional pattern of pixels is printed onto the photographic medium. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062643 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of performing short-distance wireless communication with a mobile terminal even when the image forming apparatus is in a low power consumption state. The image forming apparatus operates either in a normal power supply state or in a low power consumption state. If an NFC communication is established with a mobile terminal, the image forming apparatus operating in the low power consumption state shifts to the normal power supply state. Even when the image forming apparatus has been in the low power consumption state, the image forming apparatus can acquire ID data of the mobile terminal via the NFC communication. After shifting to the normal power supply state, the image forming apparatus performs authentication processing with the ID data acquired via the NFC communication. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062644 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PROPERLY REPRODUCING DESIRED SETTINGS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of properly reproducing, even when a setting operation is interrupted by a cause unintended by a user, settings desired by the user, and thereby improving the user-friendliness. In a case where a cause of interruption of a job setting operation is generated at a timing other than a predetermined timing, information on the displayed screen and information on the job settings are stored. When the cause of interruption has been removed, the stored screen information and information on job settings are read out, and the interrupted state of the job setting operation is reproduced. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150062645 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING WEB BROWSER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which makes a web page of peripheral equipment such as a print controller connected to the image forming apparatus available without the need to manually register the web page of the peripheral equipment as a favorite or the like in a web browser installed in the image forming apparatus. A determination unit determines whether the print controller is connected to the image forming apparatus via an interface. A generation unit generates a URL including an IP address or a host name of the print controller. A display unit displays an icon for accessing a web page corresponding to the URL in a case where the determination unit determines that the print controller is connected to the image forming apparatus. | 2015-03-05 |
