21st week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140139806 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING EYEBALL MOTION - Detecting position information related to a face, and more particularly to an eyeball in a face, using a detection and ranging system, such as a Radio Detection And Ranging (“RADAR”) system, or a Light Detection And Ranging (“LIDAR”) system. The position information may include a location of the eyeball, translational motion information related to the eyeball (e.g., displacement, velocity, acceleration, jerk, etc.), rotational motion information related to the eyeball (e.g., rotational displacement, rotational velocity, rotational acceleration, etc.) as the eyeball rotates within its socket. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139807 | SLIT LAMP MICROSCOPE - A slit lamp microscope capable of appropriately and easily carrying out the setting of the optical system is provided. In storage | 2014-05-22 |
20140139808 | PROJECTION DEVICE FOR INCREASING LIGHT-TRANSMITTING EFFICIENCY - A projection device for increasing light-transmitting efficiency includes a light-emitting unit, a light-guiding unit, an image display module and an image projection unit. The light-emitting unit includes a first light-emitting module for generating a first predetermined light source, a second light-emitting module for generating a second predetermined light source, and a third light-emitting module for generating a third predetermined light source. The light-guiding unit includes at least one photonic crystal fiber structure having a first light input terminal for receiving the first predetermined light source, a second light input terminal for receiving the second predetermined light source, a third light input terminal for receiving the third predetermined light source, and a light output terminal. The image display module is corresponding and adjacent to the light output terminal. The image projection unit includes at least one projection lens corresponding and adjacent to the image display module. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139809 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical element that can reduce the etendue of emitted light emitted from the optical element without having depend on the etendue of light-emitting elements is provided with a plasmon-excitation layer that is interposed between two layers having dielectric properties wherein, taking the plasmon-excitation layer as a border, the effective dielectric constant of the emission-side portion that is the emission layer side is higher than the effective dielectric constant of the incident-side portion that is the side of a carrier-generating layer, and the dielectric constant between the plasmon-excitation layer and the carrier-generating layer is higher than the dielectric constant between the carrier-generating layer and the light-incident surface. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139810 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A light source section is provided with a plurality of light sources. A pitch of the light sources in a first direction and a pitch in a second direction are regulated in accordance with a specific cross-sectional shape of a light beam. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139811 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A projector includes a power receiving terminal, a light source that emits light based on electric power supplied to the power receiving terminal, a light diffuser that adjusts the degree of diffusion of the light from the light source, a specifying section that alternately specifies one of illumination projection and image projection every time electric power supply to the power receiving terminal is started, and a light diffusion controller that controls the light diffuser so that when the specifying section specifies the illumination projection, the light diffuser diffuses the light from the light source, whereas when the specifying section specifies the image projection, the light diffuser transmits the light without substantially diffusing the light. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139812 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes an optical engine unit including a light source unit configured to emit light, a light modulating unit configured to modulate, according to image information, the light emitted from the light source unit, and a projecting unit configured to project the light modulated by the light modulating unit, a connecting unit connectable to a bulb socket, a power supply unit configured to supply electric power received from the connecting unit to the optical engine unit, and a cooling unit arranged between the connecting unit and the optical engine unit and configured to circulate the air to cool the power supply unit and the optical engine unit. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139813 | DOUBLE-SURFACE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS - A double-surface manufacturing method and an exposure apparatus in the manufacturing process of semiconductors and liquid crystal displays (LCD) are provided. In the exposure process, two masks in the exposure apparatus are subjected to alignment treatment; the substrate is conveyed to a position between the two masks in the exposure apparatus; and patterns of the two surfaces of the substrate are processed. The exposure apparatus comprises two masks, wherein a substrate to be processed is disposed between the two masks; and mask alignment marks are respectively disposed on the two masks. The embodiments of the present invention improve the accuracy of the patterns of the two surfaces of the substrate and the product quality in the double surfaces manufacturing of the substrate. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139814 | Methods and Scatterometers, Lithographic Systems, and Lithographic Processing Cells - In a method of determining the focus of a lithographic apparatus used in a lithographic process on a substrate, the lithographic process is used to form a structure on the substrate, the structure having at least one feature which has an asymmetry in the printed profile which varies as a function of the focus of the lithographic apparatus on the substrate. A first image of the periodic structure is formed and detected while illuminating the structure with a first beam of radiation. The first image is formed using a first part of non-zero order diffracted radiation. A second image of the periodic structure is formed and detected while illuminating the structure with a second beam of radiation. The second image is formed using a second part of the non-zero order diffracted radiation which is symmetrically opposite to the first part in a diffraction spectrum. The ratio of the intensities of the measured first and second portions of the spectra is determined and used to determine the asymmetry in the profile of the periodic structure and/or to provide an indication of the focus on the substrate. In the same instrument, an intensity variation across the detected portion is determined as a measure of process-induced variation across the structure. A region of the structure with unwanted process variation can be identified and excluded from a measurement of the structure. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139815 | IN-SITU METROLOGY - Metrology methods and systems are provided, which measure metrology targets during the exposure stage using reflected or diffracted exposure illumination or additional simultaneous illumination having longer wavelengths than the exposure illumination, The metrology measurements are used to correct the lithographic process in a short loop, enabling realtime and even predictive error correction, The metrology methods, tools and systems also include defect detection during the exposure stage. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139816 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THERMAL ACTUATION OF A MIRROR IN A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS - The invention concerns an arrangement for thermal actuation of a mirror in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, wherein the mirror has an optical effective surface and at least one access passage extending from a surface of the mirror, that does not correspond to the optical effective surface, in the direction of the effective surface, wherein the arrangement is designed for thermal actuation of the mirror via electromagnetic radiation which is propagated in the access passage, wherein the arrangement further has at least one heat radiating mechanism which produces the electromagnetic radiation which is propagated in the access passage, and wherein the heat radiating mechanism is actuable along the access passage. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139817 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND RANGE FINDER USING THE SAME - The invention provides a solid-state image sensor including a plurality of pixels, at least one pixel of the plurality of the pixels having a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions and a pupil-dividing member that causes light that passes through an exit pupil and is incident on a region defined by the member itself to be incident on the plurality of the photoelectric conversion portions, wherein potential profiles with respect to electric charge of the plurality of the photoelectric conversion portions change in a perpendicular line direction of the substrate, and wherein a distance between potential centroids in a section perpendicular to the perpendicular line of the plurality of the photoelectric conversion portions is longer on a back side that is a side opposite to a light incidence side than on the light incidence side. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139818 | Chirped Coherent Laser Radar System and Method - A laser radar system using collocated laser beams to unambiguously detects a range of a target and a range rate at which the target is moving relative to the laser radar system. Another aspect of various embodiments of the invention may relate to a laser radar system that uses multiple laser radar sections to obtain multiple simultaneous measurements (or substantially so), whereby both range and range rate can be determined without various temporal effects introduced by systems employing single laser sections taking sequential measurements. In addition, other aspects of various embodiments of the invention may enable faster determination of the range and rate of the target, a more accurate determination of the range and rate of the target, and/or may provide other advantages. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139819 | LASER SCAN SENSOR - The configuration includes a laser range finder ( | 2014-05-22 |
20140139820 | Methods for Measuring Fluid Flow in Subterranean Wells - A flow sensing apparatus includes a light source, at least one fiber Bragg grating and at least one optical fiber. The apparatus may be inserted into a flowing fluid stream, and the fiber Bragg grating detects the vortices of the Von Karman street in the wake of the apparatus. The fiber Bragg grating reflects light emitted from the light source, and the spectral nature of the reflected light provides information concerning the fluid velocity in the flowing stream. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139821 | Man-Portable Device for Detecting Hazardous Material - A man portable device for detecting the presence of hazardous material includes a pulsed or time-modulated light source and an objective scannable across the surface of a sample for projecting light from the light source onto a succession of spots on the surface of the sample. A spectrometer performs a spectral analysis of the induced fluorescence to create a first dataset defining a first vector as a function of wavelength. A time domain detector for measuring the time decay of the induced fluorescence collected simultaneously creates a second dataset defining a second vector as a function of time. A computer identifies hazardous material by performing independent multivariate analysis on the first and second vectors as the objective is scanned across the sample surface based on fluorescent signal models for hazardous materials in the spectral and time domains. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139822 | Multi-Spectral Defect Inspection for 3D Wafers - Multi-spectral defect inspection for 3D wafers is provided. One system configured to detect defects in one or more structures formed on a wafer includes an illumination subsystem configured to direct light in discrete spectral bands to the one or more structures formed on the wafer. At least some of the discrete spectral bands are in the near infrared (NIR) wavelength range. Each of the discrete spectral bands has a bandpass that is less than 100 nm. The system also includes a detection subsystem configured to generate output responsive to light in the discrete spectral bands reflected from the one or more structures. In addition, the system includes a computer subsystem configured to detect defects in the one or more structures on the wafer using the output. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139823 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF TWO COUPLED SHAFTS WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER - The invention relates to a device for determining the position of a first shaft ( | 2014-05-22 |
20140139824 | System and Method for Measuring Fiber Temperature Using OTDR Measurements - Systems and methods for calculating a relative temperature of a fiber-optic cable using bi-directional analysis traces with an optical time-domain reflectometer (“OTDR”). Analysis of bi-directional traces along a length of fiber-optic cable yields a scaled local backscatter coefficient of the fiber. Accordingly, an initial set of measurement data is collected at a first time interval and a base scaled local backscatter along a fiber is calculated. A subsequent set of measurement data is collected at a second time interval and a subsequent scaled local backscatter along the fiber is calculated. The exemplary systems and methods described herein determines a change in scaled local backscatter as a function of a difference between the base scaled local backscatter and at least the subsequent scaled local scaled local backscatter along the fiber, and then determines a relative temperature variation of the fiber as a function of the change in scaled local backscatter. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139825 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF MEASURING WAVEFRONT ABERRATION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A wavefront aberration measuring method forms a plurality of spot images by causing light, which is transmitted through a test optical system, to be incident on a lenslet array, and measures positions of the spot images. Based on the measured positions of the spot images, a wavefront aberration of the test optical system is calculated. When the positions of the spot images are measured, at least one lenslet forming the lenslet array is shielded from light, and the spot images are measured. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139826 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF MEASURING WAVEFRONT ABERRATION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A wavefront aberration measuring method forms a plurality of spot images by causing light, which is transmitted through a test optical system, to be incident on a lenslet array, and measures positions of the spot images. Optical paths from the positions of the measured spot images toward a light source are calculated, parameters of the test optical system when light rays from the positions of the spot images converge at the light source are specified, and a wavefront aberration of the test optical system corresponding to the parameters of the test optical system is calculated. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139827 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING ARTICLES - An apparatus for inspecting an article includes a laser assembly which is operable to direct a laser beam against a series of locations disposed along a line which extends across discontinuities in a surface of the article. The position of at least of one location against which the laser beam is directed is detected. The at least one location is spaced from discontinuities in the surface of the article. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139828 | Pattern Matching Method, Apparatus and Line Width Measuring Machine - The present invention discloses a pattern matching method, which is used in measurement process for line width measuring machine, comprising: reading a standard pattern used for matching on the at least one predetermined position of a measured sample; respectively comparing each standard pattern of the measured sample with prestored multiple designed original images corresponding to the standard pattern; determining that the pattern matching is successful if the standard pattern on the measured sample successfully compares with at least one designed original image, and proceeding with the subsequent line width measurement process; otherwise, determining that the pattern matching is failed. The present invention also discloses a corresponding pattern matching method and a line width measuring machine. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it can improve the accuracy and the success rate of the pattern matching when measuring the line width. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139829 | Inspection Beam Shaping For Improved Detection Sensitivity - Methods and systems for reshaping the beam intensity distribution of an illumination light supplied to a specimen under inspection are presented. A scanning surface inspection system includes a beam shaping element that flattens the beam intensity distribution of a beam of light generated by an illumination source. The reshaped illumination light is directed to the wafer surface over an illumination spot. With a flattened beam intensity distribution, the incident beam power can be increased without the beam intensity exceeding the damage threshold of the wafer at any particular location. In addition, the illumination spot is shaped by the beam shaping element to have a variable beam width in a direction parallel to the inspection track. The location of a defect within an inspection area having a variable beam width is estimated based on an analysis of the output of the detector. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139830 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN VERTICAL MEMORY - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for inspecting a vertical memory stack. On an inspection tool, incident light having a first wavelength range is used to detect defects on a surface of the vertical memory stack. On the inspection tool, incident light having a second wavelength range is used to detect defects on both the surface and throughout a depth of the vertical memory stack. The defects detected using the first and second wavelength range are compared to detect defects only throughout the depth of the vertical memory stack, excluding defects on the surface. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139831 | ACTUATABLE VISUAL INSPECTION DEVICE - A visual inspection device for inspecting interior passages of a system is disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the visual inspection device includes a visual inspection tool and a tube having a lumen disposed therein, the visual inspection tool being disposed at a distal end of the tube. A plurality of actuators are disposed along an axial extent of an exterior of the tube, and a locomotor is disposed on an exterior of the tube. A locator for tracking a location of the visual inspection tool is also provided as part of the visual inspection device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139832 | ROTATING OPTICS FOR MULTIPLE CUVETTE ARRAY - A system includes a testing instrument to hold a test card having multiple cuvettes radially spaced about a point on the card. A rotatable mount is supported in relation the point on the card when the card is held in the testing system. Optics are supported on the rotatable mount to provide radiation to the multiple cuvettes. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139833 | Spectrometer, Assembling Method Thereof, And Assembling System - A spectrometer comprising a waveguide module, a diffractive component, and a light sensor is provided. The waveguide module has a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface opposite to the first reflective surface, and a light channel between the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface. The diffractive component has a diffractive surface and a plurality of strip-shaped diffractive structures located on the diffractive surface. The sharpness of the profile of the strip-shaped diffractive structures on a first side of the diffractive surface is greater than that on a second side of the diffractive surface. When viewed along a direction perpendicular to the second reflective surface, the first side of the diffractive surface is positioned between the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface with a distance away from the second reflective surface. A method for assembling the spectrometer and an assembling system are also provided. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139834 | DEVICE AND PROCESS TO APPROXIMATE SOMATIC CELL COUNT OF UNTREATED MAMMALIAN MILK - Device and process to approximate somatic cell count (SCC) of untreated mammalian milk by the two variable equation SCC=f (FSL, FAT) with a forward scattered light factor (FSL) being obtained by detecting light scattered by the milk into an angular range within, and less than, the angular range 0.0 to 0.5 degrees away from the central axis of incident light, with a proxy (FAT) for the fat content of the milk, which may be obtained by detecting light attenuation of the milk sample, and with the function (f) being obtained by calibration of the device using reference milk samples. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139835 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE OF DEGREE OF CURE - A measurement device of a degree of cure, and more particularly, a measurement device of a degree of cure capable of using while being portable in a production line. The measurement device of the degree of cure includes: a light source; a light transmission and reflection mirror passing through a light irradiated from the light source and reflecting scattered light reflected and returned from a sample; a light splitting mirror transmitting and reflecting the scattered light so as to detect intensity of the scattered light reflected by the light transmission and reflection mirror; a detector detecting the intensity of the scattered light transmitted and reflected by the light splitting mirror; and a data obtaining unit collecting data of the intensity of the scattered light detected by the detector. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139836 | OPTICAL COUPLING LENS AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING OPTICAL ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT - An optical coupling lens includes a refraction surface, a first total reflection surface, a second total reflection surface, a first aligning member and a second aligning member. The refraction surface, the first total reflection surface and the second total reflection surface are orderly connected end to end. The first aligning member and the second aligning member are formed on the refraction surface. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139837 | SPR APPARATUS WITH A HIGH PERFORMANCE FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM - An apparatus may include a flow cell for a surface plasmon resonance test apparatus and a fluid delivery system operatively coupled to the flow cell and configured to deliver a plurality of fluids to the flow cell substantially continuously. The fluid delivery system may include two pumps for pumping the fluids. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139838 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING A SUBSTRATE IN A CHAMBER - The present invention provides methods, apparatus, and systems of sensing a substrate in a chamber. The invention includes emitting radiation of at least two different wavelengths; directing the emitted radiation of a first wavelength through a view port of a chamber at an interior of the chamber; directing the emitted radiation of a second wavelength through the view port of the chamber at a location of a hole in a blade of a substrate carrier; detecting any of the emitted radiation reflected by the blade, the interior of the chamber, or a substrate on the blade; and determining if a substrate is present on the blade based on the reflected radiation detected. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139839 | Self Calibration for mirror positioning in Optical MEMS Interferometers - A Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) interferometer provides for self-calibration of mirror positioning of a moveable mirror. The moveable mirror is coupled to a MEMS actuator having a variable capacitance. The MEMS interferometer includes a capacitive sensing circuit for determining the capacitance of the MEMS actuator at two or more known positions of the moveable mirror and a calibration module for using the actuator capacitances at the known positions to compensate for any drift in the capacitive sensing circuit. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139840 | Spatial Frequency Swept Interference Illumination - Spatial frequency swept interference (SFSI) illumination and imaging methods and devices that interfere two collimated coherent beams to generate an interference pattern of a plurality of illuminating sheets with sweeping spatial frequency. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139841 | FIBER OPTIC SENSING APPARATUS INCLUDING FIBER GRATINGS AND METHOD FOR SENSING PARAMETERS INVOLVING DIFFERENT PARAMETER MODALITIES - Optical-based apparatus and method for sensing parameters in connection with an asset, such as a pipeline, are provided. At least two sites in an optical fiber may include a respective fiber grating arranged to have a respective optical response in a wavelength spectrum having a distinguishing feature indicative of a value of a respective local parameter at a respective grating site. The two fiber gratings may be further arranged to form, in combination with a respective portion of the optical fiber which extends between the two sites, respective optical backscatter portions that when combined with one another are effective to sense an optical change in the fiber portion between the sites indicative of a value of a distributed parameter. This is a parameter modality different from a parameter modality of the respective local parameters at the respective grating sites. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139842 | System and Method For a Self-Referencing Interferometer - Systems and methods are described herein for a self-referencing interferometer. The interferometer can comprise an improved spatial phase shifter that reduces the number of components, size and complexity of the spatial phase shifter and maintains a common path for a combined reference beam and signal beam. The self-referencing interferometer further comprises a single mode fiber shunt for filtering the reference beam and further reducing the size of the interferometer. The angle of the reference beam can be tilted before being recombined with the single beam which further simplifies the spatial phase shifting component of the interferometer. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139843 | OPTICAL CANTILEVER BASED ANALYTE DETECTION - An apparatus for detecting a deflection of a beam, the apparatus comprising a beam having a first side and a second side; and a grating structure positioned adjacent the second side of the beam, the grating structure including an interrogating grating coupler configured to direct light towards the beam; wherein the beam and the interrogating grating coupler form a resonant cavity, and light input to the resonant cavity is modulated according to the deflection of the beam. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139844 | OPTICAL SOURCE APPARATUS AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - The optical source apparatus includes a deflector that includes a first deflector and a second deflector which deflect the light emitted from the gain medium in a first direction and a second direction, respectively, and a wavelength selection element that has a first region and a second region which select light having any wavelength in a first wavelength range and a second wavelength range out of the light illuminating the wavelength selection element through the deflector, respectively, wherein the first region is structured so that the wavelengths of light selected along the first direction are different from each other, the second region is structured so that the wavelengths of light selected along the first direction are different from each other, and the second region is positioned in the second direction with respect to the first region. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139845 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY METHOD - The present invention relates to an optical coherence tomography system having an interferometer, in particular a Michelson interferometer, having a reference arm for variable adjustment of an optical reference path length and having a measuring arm in which an object to be scanned can be disposed and/or is disposed in a sample volume, wherein a focusing system which is configured for focusing divergently incident light beams on a common point situated in the sample volume is disposed in the measuring arm between the beam splitter of the interferometer and the sample volume. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139846 | INTERFEROMETRIC DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD FOR MEASURING SURFACES, AND SUCH A MEASURING ARRANGEMENT - A distance measuring method for measuring surfaces uses a laser source having a frequency that can be modulated to tune a wavelength of a laser beam in a wavelength range. The laser beam is generated with a coherence length to provide a measuring beam and is emitted at the surface, located within a specified distance range, as a measuring beam. The measuring beam is back-scattered by the surface and is received again and used to interferometrically measure the distance from a reference point to the surface. The specified distance range lies at least partly outside of the coherence length. One portion of the laser beam is temporally delayed with respect to another portion, such that the one optical path difference caused by the delay matches the optical path difference that corresponds to a distance in the specified distance range plus or minus the coherence length of the laser. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139847 | DETERMINATION OF A MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH THE USE OF SECOND-ORDER PHOTON CORRELATIONS - An optical system and method for characterizing an object is provided. The system includes at least one light source configured to direct photons toward an object and an interferometer configured to receive photons from the object. The system also includes at least one detector system adapted to detect an optical signal at an output of the interferometer and to remove, from the detected optical signal, a signal portion representing first order photon correlations, when present. The system also includes a processor configured to receive data relating to second-order correlated photons from said at least one detector system, each photon or photon pair subject to at least two indistinguishable paths to a photon or photon pair, but differing in at least one of time and length. The processor is configured to characterize the object based on a self interference of the second-order correlated photons from a common location within the object. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139848 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a carriage, on which a recording head is mounted, to be driven by a driving source to reciprocate; and a drive control unit that controls driving of the driving source by PWM control. The drive control unit includes a detecting unit that detects at least any one of a position and a velocity of the carriage, a calculating unit that calculates PWM command values from detection results output from the detecting unit, a storing unit that stores a maximum value and a minimum value of the PWM command values, a comparing unit that compares a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value against a predetermined threshold value, and a stop-output command unit that, when the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value exceeds the threshold value, outputs a command to stop driving of the carriage. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139849 | DYNAMIC BLEED AREA DEFINITION FOR PRINTING OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SUBSTRATES - A method of defining a three-dimensional structure having multiple facets, such as a package, identifies an image that is to be printed on a first facet. It also identifies a second facet of the package that has a functional relationship with the first facet, determines whether the functional relationship is that of a crease, an edge, or another functional relationship, and automatically defines a bleed area by accessing a rule set and applying the rule set to the determined functional relationship. The bleed area includes an area in which the first image will be printed and that is outside of the location of the first facet. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139850 | PRINTER CALIBRATION USING MEASURED AND DETERMINED OPTICAL DENSITIES OF DIFFERENT PRIMARY COLORS FROM TEST PATCHES - The optical density of a first primary color is determined using two test patches. The first patch is printed with only the first primary color and a second primary color. The second patch is printed using the first primary color and a second primary color. The optical density of both patches is measured. The optical density of the first primary color is determined using the measured optical density of the second primary color and the measured optical density of the first patch. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139851 | Compensation For Alignment Errors In An Optical Sensor - A method of operating a printer to detect errors in an optical sensor includes forming a printed line across a first side of a print medium and generating first image data corresponding to the printed line with the optical sensor. The optical sensor generates second image data of the second side of the print medium as the print medium passes the optical sensor a second time. A detect in the optical sensor is identified with reference to a difference between process direction alignments of the line in the first image data and the second image data. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139852 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - As viewed for each processing unit in HS processing, a processing unit width is more than 1 pixel, so that threshold arrangement corresponding to a target quality of an image intended by a dither matrix is kept while a possibility of avoiding the zero number of dots from being generated can be enhanced. Moreover, the threshold arrangement is kept while a possibility of generating the same number of dots in processing units can be enhanced. Consequently, the threshold arrangement corresponding to a predetermined target quality of an image intended by a dither matrix is kept while it is possible to reduce occurrence of an uneven density caused by the HS processing. Thus, it is possible to prevent the threshold arrangement from being limited by the HS according to the degree of the reduction. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139853 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When an input image is shifted by 640 pixels from a test pattern with reference to the position of a nozzle, the remainder is obtained by dividing 640 pixels by pixels of the dither matrix in an x direction. For example, when the size of the dither matrix in the x direction is 256 pixels, the dither matrix is shifted by 128 pixels in a direction reverse to the x direction. In this manner, the phase of the dither matrix at the time of the quantization during test pattern printing matches the phase of the dither matrix at the time of the quantization during input image printing. Consequently, unevenness of the dither matrix at a position N becomes the same in both of the test pattern and the input image. The HS correction to density unevenness caused by the unevenness of the dither matrix becomes suitable for the input image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139854 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Nozzles in a print head are arrayed in a density of 600 dpi. Moreover, a dither matrix has a size of 16 pixels×16 pixels in 600 dpi. The dither matrix is repeatedly used. In the meantime, each of rectangles represents an HS processing unit. WHS=3 pixels. As a consequence, the relationship of a least common multiple below is established in a nozzle array direction: 3×WD=16×WHS. In this case, the cycle of interference unevenness can be prolonged to the least common multiple between WD and WHS, that is, 48 pixels (3WD). In this manner, the size of the dither matrix is not an integral multiple of the HS processing unit width, so that the cycle of interference unevenness can be prolonged more than the size of the dither matrix. Thus, the interference unevenness can be hardly recognized. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139855 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - One dither mask having a highest spacial frequency is selected from a plurality of dither masks. Next, a granularity is obtained with reference to a table based on the selected dither mask and an ejection amount level per area. Moreover, a difference in granularity between adjacent areas is calculated with respect to all of the areas. A maximum value is obtained out of the obtained differences in granularity, and then, the maximum difference in granularity is compared with a determination threshold. When the maximum difference in granularity is the threshold or greater, it is determined whether or not a dither mask having a spacial frequency lower than that of the selected dither mask is stored in a memory. When there are dither masks having lower spacial frequencies, a dither mask having a spacial frequency lower by one level than that of the selected dither mask is selected. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139856 | PRINTING CONTROLLING TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING USING THE SAME - A printing controlling terminal apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a printing controlling method thereof are provided. The printing controlling terminal apparatus includes a user interface that receives a command to print regarding a document, a determiner that determines if the document intended by the command to print is printed in color, a print data generator that generates print data regarding the document according to a result of the determining, and a communicator that transmits the generated print data to an image forming apparatus. The determiner divides each page of the document into a plurality of blocks, extracts color information from each of the plurality of blocks by applying weighted values to color values of the plurality of divided blocks, and determines whether to print the document in color based on the color information. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139857 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus causes a sheet processing apparatus to eject a sheet before a process of a job starts when the process for ejecting the sheet is set for the job, before the process of the job starts. A control method for controlling a printing apparatus includes determining whether a setting unit has made, for a job, a setting to cause the sheet processing apparatus to eject the sheet printed with the printing apparatus and discharged to the sheet processing apparatus, before the printing apparatus starts processing the job, and controlling the sheet processing apparatus to eject the sheet before the printing apparatus starts processing the job when it is determined that the setting unit has made, for the job, the setting to cause the sheet processing apparatus to eject the sheet. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139858 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing device includes: a data reading unit that reads a predetermined amount of data; a data-period selection unit that selects a data period in units of the predetermined amount of data; a data clipping unit that clips data from the read data with the data period; an intermediate-data conversion unit that converts the clipped data into intermediate data; and a coding processing unit that codes the intermediate data. The data-period selection unit has a match count unit that obtains count values of matches in data between pieces of divided data that are obtained by dividing the read data in units of respective predetermined periods, and selects one of the periods of divided data that provides largest one of the count values of matches or selects, when some of the count values are the same, largest one of the periods that provide the same count value. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139859 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A computer-implemented method is provided that comprises creating a virtual device object when an application accepts an instruction for creating the virtual device object by using a driver corresponding to an image processing device by a user; displaying the created virtual device object; extracting the driver selected in the instruction registering so as to register the driver with the virtual device object; and outputting a file by using the driver which the registering has registered with the virtual device object when the user selects the virtual device object by using the file. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139860 | PRINT PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PRINT PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention provides a print processing apparatus that has a printer execute printing in response to a request to print from an external apparatus connected via a network and includes a browser language information acquisition unit that acquires browser language information that indicates language setting of a web browser in the external apparatus in case of receiving a request to print offline from the external apparatus and a print language setting unit that sets print language used in printing in response to the request to print offline based on the acquired browser language information. The present invention also provides a print processing system that includes the print processing apparatus, the printer, and the external apparatus connected via the network. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139861 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING A PRINTER DRIVER FOR CHANGING AN OUTPUT DESTINATION - An application mounted in a data processing apparatus creates a document and issues a print request of the document. A printer driver receives the print request and creates print data by setting a format of the document as a specific format of model dependency, and changes a default output destination of the print data into a changed output destination. A spooler receives the print data and sends the print data to one of a plurality of image forming apparatuses designated by the changed output destination through a network interface. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139862 | CONTROL POINT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING - A control point includes a communication interface to search for one or more image forming apparatuses using digital living network alliance (DLNA), a user interface unit through which at least one piece of content is selected for printing using a user interface of the control point, and through which an image forming apparatus is selected from among the searched image forming apparatuses to perform printing, a DLNA stack unit to set a connection policy regarding connection to the selected image forming apparatus, and to selectively control the DLNA connection status to the selected image forming apparatus according to the connection policy, and a controller to control the communication interface to transmit print data corresponding to the selected content-for-printing and the connection policy to the selected image forming apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139863 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An image processing device that executes a job based on instruction operation by a user authenticated as a result of user authentication, comprises a human body communication controller that makes human body communication with a human body communication terminal held by a user through at least one human body communication antenna arranged around a device body, and an authenticating unit that performs user authentication based on user information the human body communication controller acquires from said human body communication terminal. The human body communication controller makes the human body communication terminal shift from a communication mode to a power-saving mode in response to authenticating a user by the authenticating unit. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139864 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a file management apparatus includes an operation panel, a communication unit configured to communicate with a device by near field radio communication, and a control unit configured to receive information about files stored in the device, display file names of the files on a display unit of the operation panel, accept one or more passwords given to the files by a user as a inputted through the operation panel, and transmit the passwords given to the files to the device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139865 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of communication interfaces connected to a plurality of communication networks that are independent from each other, the plurality of communication interfaces each receiving data from a terminal connected to at least one of the plurality of communication networks, the plurality of communication interfaces each transmitting data to the terminal on a basis of terminal identification information, a first acquiring section that acquires the terminal identification information of a destination terminal, and service information indicating a service that can be executed in the destination terminal, a second acquiring section that acquires service information indicating a service that can be executed in a candidate terminal, and a selecting section that selects one of the plurality of communication interfaces on a basis of the service information of the destination terminal and the service information of the candidate terminal. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139866 | Printer control mechanism for a device having a mobile operating system - A table-side hospitality device includes an integral printer mechanism, such as a thermal printer. The device comprises a general purpose processing unit on which a mobile- or embedded-device operating system, such as Android, executes. A control program (the device application) executing on the processing unit facilitates ordering, order management, invoicing and payment. When the application needs to print, it interacts with the printer directly, preferably using the general purpose input-output (GPIO) bus of the processor. In particular, during the print operation, the processor (via the general purpose I/O) outputs, as a set of control signals, a bit-map of the desired graphics (text, images, or the like), and these control signals drive the printer directly without requiring a dedicated micro-controller or OS-specific printer drivers. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139867 | PRINT DATA GENERATION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A print data generation apparatus generating print data includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields, template data which is associated with one of operation keys and in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed are set, link information associating arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions instructing the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, selecting, from among the plurality of records of the database, the record to be used for printing, and generating print data such that the texts that are respectively set for the fields of the selected record are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields by link information, by using the template data corresponding to the operated operation key. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139868 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes a plurality of communication apparatuses and a host apparatus that is connected to the plurality of the communication apparatuses through a network. The plurality of the communication apparatuses includes a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus obtains information about the second communication apparatus by using a second communication unit that performs communication with the second communication apparatus that has moved to a state in which the second communication apparatus cannot communicate through the network and reports to the host apparatus the obtained information about the second communication apparatus through a first communication unit that performs communication through the network. The host apparatus accepts a first command from a user for the second communication apparatus based on the information about the second communication apparatus reported by the first communication apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139869 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus communicably connected to another image forming apparatus through a network includes a printer unit, a communication unit enabling a connection with another image forming apparatus, and a control unit that executes a first operating system (OS) operating on the first image forming apparatus and a control program operating on the first OS and performing a process relating to image formation, and enables a second OS performing other processes in parallel with the operation of the first OS to be operable. The control unit selects and determines another image forming apparatus in which the second OS is operable based on a process state relating to the image formation of the image forming apparatus operating the second OS, transmits an operating state of the second OS at that time point to the other image forming apparatus, and executes the second OS on the other apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139870 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING DEVICE SPECIFIC PRINT OPTIONS TO REMOTE PRINTING SERVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling remote printing services to consistently obtain and utilize print capabilities of printing devices across a wide variety of connection topologies. A client device retrieves the print capabilities from one or more printing devices selected for printing a document. The document and the print capabilities are transmitted to a web print service for rending the document. The web print service generates a print job based on the document and the print capabilities of the printing device selected for printing the document. The web print service provides the print job to the selected printing device for subsequent printing. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139871 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A management apparatus obtains setting information from a replacement target device. Thereafter, it designates a distribution mode for distributing the setting information to a new device. If a replace mode is designated as the distribution mode, the management apparatus distributes the setting information to the new device and issues a power-off request to the replacement target device. The replacement target device that received the power-off request turns off its own power. The new device that received the setting information reflects the setting information in the new device in accordance with the designated distribution mode. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139872 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display position that includes a main region and a subregion, an operation portion that receives an input for producing a message and a movement operation for moving the message in the main region to the subregion, a storage portion that stores set data on the message and degree-of-importance data and a determination portion that determines, based on the degree-of-importance data, the degree of importance of the message. The display portion displays, in the subregion, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance is equal to or lower than a first criterion and continuously displays, in the main region, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance is higher than the first criterion. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139873 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a radio wave intensity measurement unit, and a communication control unit. The radio wave intensity measurement unit measures a radio wave intensity of radio waves received by the communication unit. The communication control unit performs control associated with communication disruption between the portable terminal and the communication unit when the measured result is lower than a predetermined first radio wave intensity and continuously decreases for a predetermined reference time. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139874 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device has a registration portion which accepts input of a message created by a user, a storage portion which stores the message inputted via the registration portion, a determination portion which extracts information on a display period of the message from the content of the message and which determines, based on the extracted information, an end time of display of the message, a time counting portion which counts time, and a display portion which displays the message stored in the storage portion until the end time determined by the determination portion. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139875 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT USES APPROPRIATE PRINT CONTROL DEVICE TO COMPLETE PRINTING AT HIGH SPEED - An image forming apparatus has a print engine, a job issuing device, two print control devices that control the print engine, and a job assignment device that assigns the print job to one of the two print control devices that is appropriate for the print job. Each print control device notifies the print engine of print information corresponding to the print job and manages already-indicated latest information, which is the latest print information. The print information is different from the already-indicated latest information. When making a switchover between the two print control devices to select a switched-to print control device, which is a print control device to which to assign the print job, the job assignment device causes the switched-to print control device to delete the already-indicated latest information managed by the switched-to print control device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139876 | Communication Relaying Technology and Image Processing Apparatus - A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a communication relaying program stored thereon and readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus, which is connectable to an image processing apparatus through a communication interface. The communication relaying program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing apparatus to perform operations including: a request receiving process of receiving a processing request from a client application; an extracting process of extracting a folder name from the processing request received by the request receiving process; a specifying process of specifying a particular image processing apparatus on the basis of the folder name extracted by the extracting process; and a request transmitting process of transmitting the processing request to the specified particular image processing apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139877 | Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium, Communication Relaying Method, Information Processing Apparatus, and Image Processing Apparatus - A communication relaying method, which is used in an information processing apparatus that is communicated to an image processing apparatus through a first communication interface, the method comprising: processes data, which is transmitted to and received from the image processing apparatus by execution of an application program, according to a particular protocol in accordance with transmission/reception through a second communication interface different from the first communication interface; registering a predetermined own-device address to feed transmission data according to the protocol, back to the information processing apparatus; and transmitting, in a case where the transmission destination address of transmission data processed by the processing is the own-device address transmit the transmission data through the first communication interface. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139878 | Communication Relaying Technology and Communication Relaying Apparatus - A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a communication relaying program which, when executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus, causes the information processing apparatus to perform operations including: generating a communication path unique for an image processing apparatus; generating selection screen information for displaying a screen for receiving selection of identification information of the image processing apparatus, the selection screen information being configured to, in response to selection of the identification information, allow a client application to transmit a processing request with designating the communication path for the image processing apparatus identified by the selected identification information; transmitting the selection screen information to the client application; receiving the processing request from the client application; and transmitting the processing request to the image processing apparatus corresponding to the communication path designated by the processing request. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139879 | Image Forming Apparatus That Allows for a Multi-Operation - Modules include ASIC modules for printing and ASIC modules for the scanner. A permission time slot, in which a bus request for inter-buffer memory data transfer is permitted, is allocated to each of a first module group including the ASIC modules for printing and a second module group including the ASIC modules for the scanner, in each of a first multi-operation in which print and image scan functions are operated in parallel and a second multi-operation in which copy and image scan functions are operated in parallel. The permission time slot is defined so that a value obtained by dividing the permission time slot allocated to the first module group by the permission time slot allocated to the second module group is larger in the first multi-operation than in the second multi-operation. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139880 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, JOB-PROCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND JOB-PROCESS CONTROL COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives a job; a prohibition process unit that performs a prohibition process on the job; a process decision unit that decides a handling process at a time of a prohibition violation based on predetermined process rule data; and a job-process control unit that, when a determination result of the prohibition process indicates the prohibition violation, controls a process of the job according to the decided handling process. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139881 | PRINT DATA GENERATION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A print data generation apparatus generating print data to print texts on a print medium, includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields and associating the records with operation keys, template data in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed on a print medium are set, link information associating the arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, and generating, when it is detected that one of the operation keys has been operated, print data such that the texts that are respectively set, in the database, for the fields of the record that corresponds to the operated operation key are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139882 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - There is provided an image forming device capable of performing overlay printing in which a desired image overlaps with a desired page. An image processing system includes a display control unit that displays a setting screen which enables at least one overlay image overlapping with a page to be selected from predetermined overlay images and which enables at least one target page to be selected from pages, an operation input unit that receives an operation, an information obtaining unit that obtains selected image information indicating a selected overlay image in the setting screen, target page information indicating a target page selected as a target with which the selected overlay image overlaps, and selection method information indicating a selection method used to select the target page, and an image setting unit that sets an overlay image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139883 | COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A color image processing apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a color image using recording materials of plural colors, an image processing unit configured to implement plural image processing methods that achieve plural types of pseudo-halftone representations, a color measurement unit configured to perform color measurement of the color image formed by the image forming unit, and a control unit configured to control execution of multi-color calibration in which the color measurement unit performs color measurement of a pattern image including plural multi-color patch images formed using recording materials of plural colors by using a smaller number of image processing methods than plural image processing methods used in single-color calibration for correcting reproduction characteristics of single-color images formed by the image forming unit and in which reproduction characteristics of a multi-color image formed by the image forming unit are corrected using a result of the color measurement. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139884 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING IMAGE PROCESSING AND PERFORMING DECORATION PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus which decorates color data contained in color image data with different decoration patterns for respective colors of the color data to output the color data includes a determination unit which determines a combination of a color of color data having a highest number of pixels among colors of color data contained in the color image data and a decoration pattern having a lowest number of pixels among the decoration patterns and a monochrome decoration output unit which decorates color data contained in the color image data in accordance with a combination of a color and a decoration pattern corresponding to the color determined by the determination unit for monochrome decoration output of the color image data. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139885 | DITHER PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND DITHER PATTERN - In order to print a unit area of a print medium by a first printing scan and a second printing scan, dither patterns are formed which can control the arrangement of dots on the print medium without adverse effects of density unevenness and graininess, that are caused by printing position displacement. Regarding first and second dither patterns, information indicating whether or not a threshold is already set to a reference pixel and one or more pixels around the reference pixel in the first dither pattern is obtained for cases where each pixel in the first dither pattern is the reference pixel. A pixel in the second dither pattern to which a predetermined pixel is to be set is determined based on the obtained information. The first and second dither patterns formed in the above manner are associated with the first printing scan and the second printing scan, respectively. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139886 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROGRAM - At the time of printing by reuse of a backing sheet, a print can not be performed on a blank area thereof. According to an image forming apparatus in the present invention it is determined whether or not a print content is enabled to be printed on a blank area of a document read by a reading unit, and in a case where it is determined that the print content is enabled to be printed, the print content is on the blank area of the document read by the reading unit. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM WITH UPLOADING PROGRAM STORED THEREON, AND UPLOADING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a scanning unit, an issuing unit, a storage unit, an information receiving unit, an identification unit, an authentication unit, and a communication control unit. The image data number issuing unit issues a unique image data number for image data. A user inputs the image data number of the image data, cloud information, a login ID, and a password into an external terminal. The external terminal transmits the input content to the image forming apparatus. The login authentication unit performs authentication on a cloud identified by the target cloud identification unit using the transmitted login ID and password. When login is successful, the upload control unit transmits the image data of the image data number to the cloud. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCANNING LARGE-FORMAT DOCUMENTS - A large-format scanner having an imaging element and connected to a PC by a standard interface of predetermined maximum bandwidth is provided with a variable-speed document feeder and with a device upstream of the imaging element for detecting the width transverse to the feed direction of a document being moved through the apparatus by the feeder. As soon as the document width is detected and before the document reaches the imaging element, any sensors of the imaging element that will not confront the document are turned off and the document speed is adjusted so that the sensors left on produce a data output of a bandwidth close to but below the maximum bandwidth of the interface, with wide documents being fed faster than narrow documents. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139889 | Image Reading Apparatus - When the two same CIS are used for a first image sensor and a second image sensor and they are arranged to face opposite sides of an original document with longer sides (i.e., a main scanning direction) thereof being aligned, if an arrangement order of the array of the imaging elements and the light guiding unit in a document conveying direction is the same, the connectors are located at opposite side ends in a front-rear direction. Thus, an electric cable connected to the connector of the second image sensor is arranged above the second image sensor and extends in a longitudinal direction. Additionally, a horizontal portion of the electric cable is supported on an upper surface of a casing accommodating the second image sensor. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139890 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a data generation portion that generates text-searchable electronic data by superimposing transparent text data obtained by causing, to be transparent, text data contained in document sheet data stored in advance in a storage portion, and image data read from a document sheet by an image reading portion. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139891 | SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH SCAN FUNCTION FOR TRANSMITTING E-MAIL AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING E-MAIL - A system provided with a scan function for transmitting an e-mail, and to a method for transmitting the email, wherein when a user wants to send an e-mail with a predetermined image as an attachment, the inconvenience of saving image data on a computer of the user through a scanner and then opening same when writing the e-mail is reduced, so as to provide convenience to the user. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139892 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus acquires communication setting information for communicating with an image processing apparatus by a second communication unit via a first communication unit. In accordance with the acquired communication setting information, communication by the second communication unit is established to execute, via the second communication unit, an image processing service provided by the image processing apparatus. When establishment of communication is detected, an operation window display request for executing the image processing service is transmitted via the second communication unit. The image processing apparatus receives the operation window display request from the information processing apparatus via the second communication unit. In accordance with the received operation window display request, an operation window for executing the image processing service is displayed. Image processing for input image data is executed on the basis of the settings set via the displayed operation window. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139893 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An illumination apparatus for use in an image reading apparatus that forms a reduction image of a read area of an original on an image pickup element by an imaging optical system, includes: a light source illuminating the original; and a light guide guiding light to the original; wherein the light guide has a first surface on which light is incident or that diffuses light, a second surface from which light exits toward the read area, and a third and fourth surfaces arranged between the first and second surfaces in a sub-scanning section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the light guide, the third surface arranged on a side closer to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, and the fourth surface arranged on a side farther from the optical axis, wherein the third and fourth surfaces are reflective surfaces having the same paraxial power which is appropriately set. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139894 | SCAN MECHANISM AND SCAN MODULE - A scan mechanism and a scan module are provided. The scan mechanism adapted to be used in a scan module includes a rack and a scan unit. The rack has an engaging surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of teeth disposed on the engaging surface. Each of the teeth comprises a top end, wherein the distance between the centers of any two adjacent top ends is W, the shortest distance from the top end of each tooth to the bottom surface of the rack is D, and W/D is from 0.56 to 0.79. The scan unit includes a gear engaged with the teeth of the rack and adapted to roll along the engaging surface of the rack, wherein the scan unit is slidably disposed on the rack through the gear. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139895 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus includes: a cover; a conveyor disposed to the cover and including a conveyance mechanism; a first platen contactable a first side of the document conveyed by the conveyance mechanism; a first presser disposed below the first platen for pressing a second side of the document conveyed by the conveyance mechanism toward the first platen; a movable reading device for reading an image of the document on a document table while moving below the document table; a stationary reading device disposed above the first platen for reading an image of the document conveyed by the conveyance mechanism; and a first urging member for urging the first presser toward the first platen. The first platen and the first presser are spaced from each other when the document cover is opened. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139896 | Image Reading Device Determining Conveying Path - In an image reading device, a scanning unit moves relative to the main unit between a base position and a moved position. A conveyance unit moves relative to the scanning unit between a base position and a moved position at which the cover closes the platen, and is formed with a first and second openings. The cover member moves between a base position at which the cover member covers a second opening and a moved position. The first and second detectors detect a state of the scanning unit, the conveyance unit, and the cover member. The conveyance unit conveys the document along one of a first and second conveying paths that is used to convey the document and is determined based on the state of the first and second detectors. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139897 | Image Reader - An image reader includes a moving portion, a transparent plate, a reference member, and a detecting portion. The reference member that is provided in at least one of a position that is not the manuscript contact surface in the first scanning direction and a position that is further to a side in a first direction from the transparent plate than the manuscript contact surface. The detecting portion is supported by the moving portion and includes a plurality of detecting elements, in the second scanning direction, detecting reflected light of light irradiated from a light source. A height position of the detecting portion when the reference member is on the side in the first direction is further to the side in the first direction than a height position of the detecting portion when the manuscript contact surface is on the side in the first direction. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139898 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - Disclosed is an optical scanning device, including a mirror, a first drive beam configured to swing the mirror around a first axis, and a second drive beam configured to swing the mirror around a second axis, wherein the second drive beam is provided in such a manner that a plurality of beams extending in a direction intersecting with a direction of the second axis are joined with adjacent beams at edge portions thereof, and thereby has a zigzag shape, and each of the plurality of beams includes a rib extending in a direction of a width of the beam. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139899 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes an image display, an optical component, a light control component. The image display emits light including an image. The optical component has a focal distance D1. The light control component is provided between the image display and the optical component on an optical path of the light. The light control component includes a central aperture transmitting a first portion of the light emitted, and a peripheral aperture provided around the central aperture and transmitting a second portion of the light. The light control component blocks a portion of the light other than the first and second portions. The focal distance D1, a distance D2 between the optical component and the light control component, and an aperture spacing d0 between the central aperture and the peripheral aperture satisfy a relationship: d0·D1/D2>2. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139900 | WAVELENGTH TUNABLE OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - A wavelength tunable optical transmitter includes a first waveguide receiving incident light through an input port and outputting the incident light to a first output port, a resonant modulator adjacent to the first waveguide and whose resonant wavelength is variable, and a second waveguide disposed optically in parallel to the first waveguide and outputting emitted light to a second output port. The resonant modulator includes a silicon resonator constituted by a crystallized silicon film in the form of a closed loop between the first and second waveguides, a first electrode within the silicon resonator and constituted by a silicon film of a first conductivity type, and a second electrode extending alongside part of the outer circumferential surface of the silicon resonator and constituted by a silicon film of a second conductivity type. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139901 | VEHICULAR REARVIEW MIRROR ELEMENTS AND ASSEMBLIES INCORPORATING THESE ELEMENTS - The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139902 | ELECTRO-OPTIC SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO REDUCE A PERCEIVED COLOR CHANGE - An electro-optic system is provided that includes a front element having first and second surfaces, a rear element including third and fourth surfaces, wherein the front and rear elements are sealably bonded together in a spaced-apart relationship to define a chamber, and an electro-optic medium contained in the chamber, and the electro-optic medium is adapted to be in at least a high transmittance state and a low transmittance state. The electro-optic system further includes a display device in optical communication with the electro-optic element, the display device including at least one light source and is configured to emit at least a first primary and a second primary, the first and second primaries each having a first hue (h | 2014-05-22 |
20140139903 | NESTED LOOP COHERENT BEAM COMBINING SYSTEM - A nested loop system for combining coherent laser beams, The system includes multiple laser amplifiers each configured for emitting one of the laser beams, an output beam splitter configured for sampling each laser beam and for coupling each sampled laser beam to an inner feedback loop module, an output beam sampler configured for splitting the combined beam into a primary and a sampled output beam and for coupling the sampled output beam to the inner feedback loop module, multiple inner loop phase modulators each paired with one of the laser amplifiers, and the inner feedback loop module. For each laser amplifier the inner feedback loop module is configured to use the sampled output beam and the sampled laser beam associated with that laser amplifier to create a different inner loop feedback signal and to couple that inner loop feedback signal to that laser amplifier paired inner loop phase modulator. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139904 | PASSIVELY VARIABLE EMITTANCE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - There is described a passive variable emittance device comprising: a substrate having a receiving surface adapted to reflect radiations having a given wavelength; an intermediary layer deposited on the receiving surface of the substrate and being substantially transparent to the radiations having the given wavelength; and a thermochromic layer deposited on top of the intermediary layer, the thermochromic layer being substantially transparent to the radiations having the given wavelength for a first temperature below a given transition temperature, and presenting both reflection and absorption for the radiations for a second temperature above the given transition temperature, a total optical thickness for the intermediary and thermochromic layers being substantially equal to one quarter of the given wavelength so that radiations reflected by the thermochromic layer at the second temperature destructively interfere with radiations transmitted by the thermochromic and intermediary layers and reflected by the substrate in order to obtain a first emittance for the passive variable emittance device at the second temperature being greater than a second emittance for the passive variable emittance device at the first temperature. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139905 | Apparatus for controlling resonant conditions within nonlinear resonator - A fiber laser system is configured with a nonlinear resonator cavity which includes a plurality of mirrors. One of the mirrors is a piezoelectric mirror capable of being displaced between multiple positions in response to a control signal generated by a digital controller. The generation of the control signal is caused by mismatch between a fundamental frequency, imputed into the resonant cavity and further split by a nonlinear crystal into resonant and harmonic frequencies, and the resonant frequency. The positions of the piezoelectric mirror and time interval the piezoelectric mirror may occupy these position are controlled so that the output radiation at the harmonic may be periodically interrupted which results in a pulsed output radiation. | 2014-05-22 |