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20140285842 | PRINTER - A printer includes a display unit, a printing unit and a printing control unit. The display unit is configured and arranged to display a paper registration screen for registering or confirming attributes of paper held in a paper feeding unit when display conditions have been satisfied. The printing unit is configured and arranged to execute printing. The printing control unit is configured to, when prescribed printing start conditions are satisfied during a period in which the paper registration screen is being displayed, control the printing unit to start printing job using the attributes registered before display of the paper registration screen as the attributes of the paper held in the paper feeding unit used with the printing job. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293330 | PRINTER AND PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A printer includes a printing unit, a plurality of paper feeding units, a storage unit and a control unit. The printing unit is configured and arranged to execute printing based on a printing job. The paper feeding units are configured and arranged to supply paper to the printing unit. The storage unit is configured and arranged to correlate and store the paper feeding units and attributes of the paper held in the paper supply units. The control unit is configured to compare the attributes of the paper correlated with the paper feeding units with attributes of the paper specified with a printing job, and when there is no paper feeding unit for which the attributes correlated therewith is consistent with the attributes specified with the printing job, to display on a screen one of the paper feeding units in which to place the paper specified with the printing job. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293334 | PRINTER - A printer includes a printing unit, a paper feeding unit, a display unit and a control unit. The printing unit is configured and arranged to execute printing. The paper feeding unit is configured and arranged to hold paper. The display unit is configured and arranged to display a paper registration screen for registering or confirming attributes of the paper according to an operation on the paper feeding unit. The control unit is configured not to display the paper registration screen when non-display conditions have been satisfied even when the operation is performed. | 10-02-2014 |
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. | 03-05-2015 |
20150207947 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device for implementing printing on a medium includes a detection unit and a control unit. The detection unit is configured to detect loading of the medium into the printing device and withdrawal of the medium from the printing device. The control unit is configured to indicate contents displayed on a display screen. The control unit is further configured to generate a first signal of displaying a first screen on the display screen when the detection unit detects that the medium has been withdrawn from the printing device, and generate a second signal of displaying a second screen different from the first screen on the display screen when the detection unit detects that the medium has been loaded into the printing device. | 07-23-2015 |
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20090195546 | IMAGE DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND IMAGE DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - In order to prevent a duplicate of a still image from being generated, an MFP includes an image obtaining portion to obtain one or more still images, a moving image generating portion to generate a moving image in which the obtained still images are displayed sequentially, and a distribution portion to perform real-time streaming distribution of the moving image in response to a request from a PC connected to a network. | 08-06-2009 |
20110051929 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC CERTIFICATE CREATION METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a key creator that creates one set of a secret key and a public key for each user; a reader that reads out an electronic certificate to certify a user, created by a certificate authority, and the user's own secret key, from a portable recording medium having this electronic certificate and the user's own secret key recorded therein; and a certificate creator that creates an electronic certificate including the public key created by the key creator, by giving a signature using the user's own secret key read out by the reader. | 03-03-2011 |
20110145906 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF OPERATING IN ADMINISTRATOR MODE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an executing unit executing information processing, a control unit controlling an operation of the executing unit, a storage unit for storing specific information for executing an administrator mode and a communication unit for communicating with a smart card. When information matching the PIN code stored in the smart card and information matching the information stored in said storage unit are received, the control unit executes the administrator mode. | 06-16-2011 |
20140168702 | TERMINAL DEVICE, MAIL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A terminal device includes, as functions for transmitting a file with a digital signature via mail, a first communication unit for carrying out communication with a terminal device used by an authorizer when a distance from that terminal device is not greater than a prescribed distance, an obtaining unit for obtaining a value obtained from a file to be transmitted, which has been encrypted through encryption processing performed by making use of information exchanged with that terminal device, and a transmission instruction unit for outputting an instruction for mail transmission of the file and the obtained encrypted value. | 06-19-2014 |
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20080225272 | FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY APPARATUS - A fluorescence spectroscopy apparatus includes an excitation optical system, a fluorescence detector, a signal processor, and a computer. The excitation optical system alternately applies light beams with different wavelengths or different intensities to a specific region of a sample at shifted times. The fluorescence detector detects fluorescence generated from the sample. The signal processor performs signal processing for a signal detected by the fluorescence detector. The computer performs correlation analysis on a signal generated by the signal processor. | 09-18-2008 |
20080306713 | OPTICAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS METHOD - An optical signal analysis apparatus includes a photodetector and an analyzer. The photodetector is to detect light emitted from measurement points in a sample. The analyzer is to analyze a molecular interaction between two of the measurement points by using fluctuation signals corresponding to fluctuations of the light from the measurement points that are detected by the photodetector. | 12-11-2008 |
20090252414 | FLUORESCENT SIGNAL ANALYZING APPARATUS AND FLUORESCENT SIGNAL ANALYZING METHOD - A fluorescent signal analyzing apparatus includes an image input unit, a storage unit, an extracting unit, and an analyzing unit. At least one fluorescent image of a sample is input to the input unit. The storage unit stores data on the at least one fluorescent image input to the image input unit. The extracting unit extracts, for each of the fluorescent images, data on a fluorescence intensity in a desired region on the at least one fluorescent image from the data on the at least one fluorescent image stored in the storage unit. The analyzing unit calculates at least one of a correlation and a photon counting histogram for the desired region by use of the data on the fluorescence intensity. | 10-08-2009 |
20110317910 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An image analysis method includes acquiring images of spatially different analysis regions. Each of the images of the analysis regions is constituted by pixels including a plurality of data acquired simultaneously or time-serially. The method further includes obtaining a cross-correlation between two analysis regions by using data of pixels of images of the analysis regions. | 12-29-2011 |
20120201463 | Image Analysis Method and Image Analysis Apparatus - An image analysis method includes acquiring an image of an observation region including a plurality of pixels respectively having a plurality of time serially acquired data, setting an analysis region on the image of the observation region, setting a sub analysis region smaller than the analysis region, intermittently moving the sub analysis region in increments of a pixel interval over the entire analysis region, executing correlation analysis using data of pixels in the sub analysis region every time the sub analysis region is moved, so as to estimate at least a molecular number or a diffusion constant of the sub analysis region, and forming a molecular number or diffusion constant image by mapping the molecular numbers or the diffusion constants. | 08-09-2012 |
20150054938 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An image analysis method includes acquiring images of spatially different analysis regions. Each of the images of the analysis regions is constituted by pixels including a plurality of data acquired simultaneously or time-serially. The method further includes obtaining a cross-correlation between two analysis regions by using data of pixels of images of the analysis regions. | 02-26-2015 |
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20130236060 | Image Analysis Method and Image Analysis Device - An image analysis method includes acquiring fluorescent images of frames in time-series. Each fluorescent image comprises pixels in which pixel data are acquired in the time-series. The method further includes setting analysis areas to the acquired fluorescent images, calculating a classification value of the analysis areas, classifying the images into one or more groups on the basis of the classification value, calculating an average image of the analysis area every group, subtracting the average image from each image of the analysis area every group to calculate a new image of the analysis area, and calculating a correlation value on the basis of the new images every group. | 09-12-2013 |
20130236061 | Image Analysis Method and Image Analysis Device - An image analysis method includes acquiring fluorescent images of frames in time-series. Each fluorescent image comprises pixels in which pixel data are acquired in the time-series. The method further includes setting analysis areas to the fluorescent images, selecting the fluorescent images of two or more frames to be used in analysis, extracting data pairs each comprising two pixels in which acquisition time intervals are the same in the analysis area of each of the selected fluorescent images, and performing product sum calculation of each of the data pairs for all of the selected images to calculate a correlation value. | 09-12-2013 |
20140247976 | Image Analysis Method and Image Analysis Apparatus - An image analysis method includes acquiring an image of at least one frame that comprises pixels, setting at least one analytic region for the image of at least one frame, extracting data on the pixel corresponding to each analytic region, setting time intervals for data pairs for use in correlation calculations, performing a correlation calculation for each of the time intervals by use of the extracted data, and performing a fitting for each of the correlation calculation results. | 09-04-2014 |
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20100310785 | VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD FOR VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - It is an object of the invention to provide a vacuum processing apparatus that enables setting a timing interval between self-cleaning procedures simply and so as to have general-use, enables significantly lengthening this timing interval, and improves the production efficiency. In a plasma CVD apparatus ( | 12-09-2010 |
20110019190 | RESISTIVITY TESTING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR - An object is to efficiently measure the resistivity of a transparent conductive film with high accuracy in a non-destructive and non-contact manner. Provided is a resistivity testing device that includes a light emitting device that emits p-polarized emission light having a wavelength selected by a preliminarily performed test-condition selecting method toward a transparent conductive film, formed on a light-transmissive substrate conveyed along a manufacturing line, from a film-surface side at an incidence angle selected by the method; a light detecting device that detects reflected light reflected at the transparent conductive film; and an information processor that calculates an evaluation value related to the amount of light of the reflected light with respect to the wavelength on the basis of the intensity of the detected light and obtains a resistivity from the calculated evaluation value by using a correlation characteristic in which the evaluation value and the resistivity are associated with each other in advance. | 01-27-2011 |
20110092012 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A process for producing a photovoltaic device, wherein when providing an n-type amorphous silicon layer on an i-type amorphous silicon layer, a desired crystallization ratio can be achieved without reducing the deposition rate. The production process comprises a p-layer formation step of depositing a p-type amorphous silicon layer, an i-layer formation step of depositing an i-type amorphous silicon layer on the p-type amorphous silicon layer, and an n-layer formation step of depositing an n-type amorphous silicon layer on the i-type amorphous silicon layer, wherein the n-layer formation step comprises a first n-layer formation step of depositing a first n-layer on the i-type amorphous silicon layer, and a second n-layer formation step of depositing a second n-layer on the first n-layer, and the deposition conditions for the first n-layer formation step are conditions that yield a higher crystallization ratio than the deposition conditions for the second n-layer formation step, for deposition onto the same base material substrate. | 04-21-2011 |
20110194113 | THIN-FILM INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD - An object is to reduce the effect of a film thickness variation on the substrate surface of a thin film and improve the measuring accuracy. Provided are a light source that radiates single-wavelength light to an inspection-target substrate (W), which is formed by forming a thin film on a glass substrate from the glass substrate side; a light receiving element that is disposed such that the light receiving axis intersects with the optical axis of illumination light emitted from the light source at a predetermined inclination angle and that receives diffused transmitted light that has been transmitted through the inspection-target substrate W; and a computer ( | 08-11-2011 |
20110203630 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - A photovoltaic device that can prevent performance degradation caused by electrodeposition generated as a result of moisture penetration. In the photovoltaic device, two or more intermediate insulation portions that electrically insulate solar cell unit cells positioned adjacently in the X-direction are formed on the substrate center side of side insulation portions so as to extend in the Y-direction in a parallel arrangement across the X-direction, a conductive portion that electrically connects solar cell unit cells positioned adjacently in the X-direction is provided in a position partway along each of the intermediate insulation portions, and the solar cell unit cells where the conductive portion is positioned are electrically insulated from a solar cell unit cell positioned adjacently in the X-direction by another of the intermediate insulation portions positioned distant from the conductive portion in the X-direction. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205556 | THIN-FILM INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A thin-film inspection apparatus includes a storage section ( | 08-25-2011 |
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20150065128 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a display configured to display an image; a processor configured to control the display; and a storage configured to store information processed by the processor. The processor, in each communication area of a base station that is communicable with the communication apparatus, upon connection to an access point enabling communication with the base station by a different communication method, correlates and stores to the storage as connection history information, a connection history of connection to the connected access point and the communication area, and when the display is caused to transition from a non-displaying state to a displaying state, scans the access point corresponding to the communication area, based on the connection history information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150078367 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communications device includes a processor configured to detect a wirelessly communicating base station, using a given interval; determine whether identification information of the detected base station matches identification information of a base station detected last time; and set the given interval to a second interval upon determining that the identification information of the detected base station and the identification information of the base station detected last time match. The second interval is longer than a first interval that is set upon determining that the identification information of the detected base station and the identification information of the base station detected last time do not match. | 03-19-2015 |
20150257062 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A mobile terminal apparatus includes first communications circuitry that connects to a network through an access point; a storage device storing connection history information that includes entries associating area identification information that identifies a communication area of a base station to which second communications circuitry connects, network identification information that identifies the network, and access point identification information that identifies an access point that connected to the network in the communication area; and a processor that when in a communication area of a first base station identified by first area identification information, the first communications circuitry is connected to a first network identified by first network identification information, determines whether an entry that includes the first area identification information and the first network identification information together with different access point identification information has been retrieved from the connection history information and based on this determination, controls the first communications circuitry. | 09-10-2015 |
20150257108 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A mobile terminal device, when detecting that a display state of a screen transitions from non-display to display, starts a scanning operation of searching for an access point. If an access point of the same access point identification information is found successively a given number of times N, the mobile terminal device suspends the scanning operation of searching for an access point. If movement of the mobile terminal device is detected subsequent to suspending the scanning operation of searching for the access point, the mobile terminal device resumes the scanning operation for the access point. | 09-10-2015 |
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20090165230 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning tool comprises a cleaning body having such a layer structure that non-woven fabrics and fiber bundles are laminated onto each other. In the cleaning body, a hardening treatment is applied to the fiber bundles disposed in the storage space of a cylindrical part in which the holding part of a holder is stored. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172904 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning tool comprises a cleaning body in which non-woven fabrics and fiber bundles are laminated onto each other. In the cleaning body, the fiber bundles disposed on the outer surface of a cylindrical part in which the holding part of a holder is stored include fiber extending areas in which a plurality of fibers extend parallel with each other in a predetermined direction. These fiber extending areas form a second cleaning portion. | 07-09-2009 |
20090307860 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - It is an object of the present invention to provide effective technique for a higher cleaning effect and higher operability of a cleaning element. Representative cleaning element includes a fusion bonded part having a curved portion to project to the holding space. | 12-17-2009 |
20100037410 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - It is an object of the present invention to provide effective technique for a higher cleaning effect and higher operability of a cleaning element. According to the representative cleaning element, a distance d | 02-18-2010 |
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20100229317 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for realizing a higher cleaning effect in a cleaning tool having a sheet-type cleaning element for wiping an object to be cleaned. According to a representative cleaning element, the sheet pieces ( | 09-16-2010 |
20120297563 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning element includes a fiber assembly having a plurality of fibers extending in a predetermined direction and a nonwoven fabric disposed on the fiber assembly. A first fusion bonded part extends in a cross direction crossing the predetermined direction to fusion bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric, and a plurality of second fusion bonded parts formed discontinuously in the cross direction at a lateral side of the first fusion bonded part to fusion bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric. The first fusion bonded part extends all the way through the fiber assembly in a thickness direction of the cleaning element. The plurality of second fusion bonded parts extend only a part of said fiber assembly in the thickness direction. | 11-29-2012 |
20140075701 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - It is an object of the present invention to provide effective technique for a higher cleaning effect and higher operability of a cleaning element. According to the representative cleaning element | 03-20-2014 |
20140082872 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning element includes a fiber assembly having a plurality of fibers extending in a predetermined direction and a nonwoven fabric provided on the fiber assembly. A first fusion bonded part extends in a cross direction traversing the predetermined direction to fusion-bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric, and a plurality of second fusion bonded parts is provided discontinuously in the cross direction to fusion-bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric. Each of the second fusion bonded parts has a first area and a second area. A length in the predetermined direction from the first fusion bonded part to the first area is different from a length in the predetermined direction from the first fusion bonded part to the second area. | 03-27-2014 |
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20130260383 | THERMAL CYCLER AND CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL CYCLER - An attachment unit for attachment of a reaction container including a channel filled with a reaction solution containing a fluorescent probe and a liquid having a specific gravity different from that of the reaction solution and being immiscible with the reaction solution, the reaction solution moving close to opposed inner walls, a first heating unit heating a first region of the channel and a second heating unit heating a second region of the channel when the reaction container is attached to the attachment unit, a drive mechanism switching arrangement of the attachment unit, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit between a first arrangement and a second arrangement in which a lowermost position of the channel is located within a first region and a second region, respectively, a measurement unit measuring light intensity, and a control unit controlling the portions described above. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260421 | THERMAL CYCLER AND CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL CYCLER - An attachment unit for attachment of a reaction container including a channel filled with a reaction solution and a liquid having a specific gravity different from that of the reaction solution and being immiscible with the reaction solution, the reaction solution moving close to opposed inner walls, a first heating unit that heats a first region of the channel and a second heating unit that heats a second region of the channel when the reaction container is attached to the attachment unit, a drive mechanism that switches arrangement of the attachment unit, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit between a first arrangement and a second arrangement in which a lowermost position of the channel is located within a first region and a second region, respectively, and a control unit that controls the drive mechanism, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit are provided. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260449 | THERMAL CYCLER AND CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL CYCLER - A thermal cycler includes an attachment unit having an insertion opening for insertion of a reaction container including a channel filled with a reaction solution containing reverse transcriptase enzyme and a liquid having a lower specific gravity than that of the reaction solution and being immiscible with the reaction solution, a first heating unit that heats a first region of the channel, a second heating unit that heats a second region of the channel nearer the insertion opening than the first region, a drive mechanism that switches arrangement of the attachment unit, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit between a first arrangement and a second arrangement, and the control unit performs the first heating unit to be a temperature at which reverse transcription reaction progresses and the second heating unit to be a temperature at which the reverse transcriptase enzyme is not deactivated. | 10-03-2013 |
20150087026 | THERMAL CYCLER AND CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL CYCLER - An attachment unit for attachment of a reaction container including a channel filled with a reaction solution and a liquid having a specific gravity different from that of the reaction solution and being immiscible with the reaction solution, the reaction solution moving close to opposed inner walls, a first heating unit that heats a first region of the channel and a second heating unit that heats a second region of the channel when the reaction container is attached to the attachment unit, a drive mechanism that switches arrangement of the attachment unit, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit between a first arrangement and a second arrangement in which a lowermost position of the channel is located within a first region and a second region, respectively, and a control unit that controls the drive mechanism, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit are provided. | 03-26-2015 |
20150246355 | THERMAL CYCLER AND CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL CYCLER - A thermal cycler includes an attachment unit having an insertion opening for insertion of a reaction container including a channel filled with a reaction solution containing reverse transcriptase enzyme and a liquid having a lower specific gravity than that of the reaction solution and being immiscible with the reaction solution, a first heating unit that heats a first region of the channel, a second heating unit that heats a second region of the channel nearer the insertion opening than the first region, a drive mechanism that switches arrangement of the attachment unit, the first heating unit, and the second heating unit between a first arrangement and a second arrangement, and a control unit that controls the first heating unit to be at a temperature at which reverse transcription reaction progresses and the second heating unit to be at a temperature at which the reverse transcriptase enzyme is not deactivated. | 09-03-2015 |
20150275272 | BIOCHIP - A biochip; a liquid which has a different specific gravity from that of the reaction mixture and is immiscible with the reaction mixture; and an additive containing, as a principal component, a carbinol-modified silicone resin, a carboxyl-modified silicone resin, an amino-modified silicone resin, a polyether-modified silicone resin, a silanol-modified silicone resin, or a fluoro-modified silicone resin, wherein the vessel comprising, a flow channel that is capable of flowing a liquid droplet of a reaction mixture containing a surfactant in the longitudinal direction of the vessel. | 10-01-2015 |