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20080296825 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention is to provide a miniaturized sheet processing apparatus in that a conveying length a conveying distance need not be increased even though the number of sheets per bundle increases. A glue applying bookbinder that partially glues sheets and performs a pressing process to form a sheet bundle. The glue applying bookbinder includes a processing tray that stacks sheets, a glue applying portion that applies a glue on the sheets on the processing tray, and pressing portions that press the sheets on the processing tray. The glue applying portion is arranged such that the glue applying portion can be moved from a first standby position outside the sheets stacked on the stacking portion to a second standby position, different from the first standby position, outside the sheets through an upper surface of the sheets, and the pressing portions are moved integrally with the glue applying portion. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298929 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - The invention is to stabilize an amount of application of a glue to sheets, to stabilize adhesive force between the sheets, and to further improve the productivity of a glued sheet bundle. A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray | 12-04-2008 |
20090256304 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes sheet bundle boundary detecting unit which detects a boundary of sheet bundles added to a sheet storage case, and control unit which controls a feeding condition of sheet feeding unit based on a detection result of the sheet bundle boundary detecting unit. With this, overlapping-feeding and miss-feeding at the boundary between the sheet bundles are reliably prevented. | 10-15-2009 |
20100008705 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus of electromagnetic induction heating-type capable of providing a proper relative heat-generation distance with a magnetic flux generation member even when the magnetic flux generation member is bent by its own weight or thermally deformed includes at least an exciting coil, a holder for holding the exciting coil, and a rotatable fixation roller for generating heat by magnetic flux from the exciting coil to heat a material to be heated. The holder has an outer diameter φd | 01-14-2010 |
20130032996 | DRAWING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided that can surely position a unit in an apparatus body with a simple configuration where the number of components is small. A drawing apparatus, which draws a sheet feeding cassette as a unit to a predetermined position of the apparatus body to position it, includes : a leaf spring that is an elastic member to jump-buckle; an engaging unit disposed in the leaf spring; and an engaged unit engaged with the engaging unit. When the unit is loaded on the apparatus body, the engaging unit engages the engaged unit, the elastic member jump-buckles, and accordingly the unit is drawn to the predetermined position of the apparatus body. | 02-07-2013 |
20130328262 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a manual feed portion provided on a side surface of a housing that accommodates an image forming portion and having an abutting portion against which a downstream end in a sheet feeding direction of a sheet inserted into a gap between the manual feed portion and the side surface abuts. The manual feed portion also includes a holding portion configured to hold the sheet such that a sheet surface is held along the side surface of the housing in the condition in which the downstream end of the sheet abuts against the abutting portion. | 12-12-2013 |
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20090190211 | OPTICAL DIFFUSING SHEET, OPTICAL DEFLECTING SHEET, AND TRANSMISSION TYPE SCREEN - An optical diffusing sheet is provided, which prevents deterioration in image quality which might result from warping of the sheets due to environmental changes, and is capable of, even if a substrate is broken by an accident, preventing scattering of pieces of the broken substrate. An optical diffusing sheet is used in a transmission type screen that emits imaging light projected from an incident side to an emergent side. The optical diffusing sheet includes a highly rigid substrate layer with a light-transmissibility and a high rigidity, and a plurality of layers laminated on the highly rigid substrate layer. The plurality of layers includes at least a pair of anti-scattering layers disposed on opposite sides of the highly rigid substrate layer for preventing scattering of the highly rigid substrate layer. At least one layer of the two or more layers includes an optical diffusing element that diffuses imaging light. | 07-30-2009 |
20100195020 | LIGHT CONTROL SHEET, SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - A light control sheet, used in a surface light source device having a light source to control a travel direction of light emitted from the light source, including: a base layer; a lens layer having unit lenses arranged on the light outgoing side of the base layer; a light selection layer disposed on the light incident side of the base layer and a light selection layer disposed on the light incident side of the base layer and having light transmission parts transmitting the light therethrough and the light reflection parts reflecting the light; and a support layer disposed on the light incident side of the light selection layer. Each light transmission part is disposed in a region including a position opposite to an apex of each corresponding unit lens in a normal direction to the sheet surface. The light reflection parts are respectively arranged alternately to the transmission parts. | 08-05-2010 |
20100246161 | OPTICAL SHEET, SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical sheet is incorporated in a direct type surface light source device including a light source and is configured to allow light emitted from the light source to exit after changing a travel direction of the light. The optical sheet has a light exiting side lens part including unit lenses juxtaposed to one another and each unit lens is convex toward a light exiting side. A light scattering layer, configured to scatter the light, is provided to each unit lens. The light scattering layer extends along a light exiting side surface of each convex unit lens and constitutes the light exiting side surface of the unit lens. A thickness of the light scattering layer around an apex portion of each unit lens is greater than the thickness of the light scattering layer around each end portion of the unit lens. | 09-30-2010 |
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20080225200 | OPTICAL MEMBER, SURFACE LIGHT UNIT, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An optical member that will be incorporated in a surface light source unit and that is scarcely deformed while it is used as a component of the surface light source unit. The optical member comprises optical sheets layered on each other. The optical sheets at least includes: an outermost optical sheet on the light-entrance side, which is situated outermost on the light-entrance side; and a high-rigidity optical sheet situated on the light-exit side of the outermost optical sheet on the light-entrance side, a rigidity of the high-rigidity optical sheet being higher than a rigidity of the outermost optical sheet on the light-entrance side. | 09-18-2008 |
20100231823 | OPTICAL SHEET, SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical sheet ( | 09-16-2010 |
20110069384 | OPTICAL DIFFUSING SHEET, OPTICAL DEFLECTING SHEET, AND TRANSMISSION TYPE SCREEN - An optical deflecting sheet for a transmission type screen that emits imaging light projected from an incident side to an emergent side. The optical deflecting sheet includes a highly rigid substrate layer with a light-transmissibility and a high rigidity, and a plurality of layers laminated on the substrate layer. The plurality of layers includes at least a pair of anti-scattering layers disposed on opposite sides of the substrate layer for preventing scattering of the substrate layer. At least one layer of the two or more layers includes an optical deflecting element that deflects imaging light by refracting or reflecting the imaging light. The optical deflecting element is a prism part formed by arranging a plurality of unit prisms each having an incident surface on which light is incident and a total reflecting surface for reflecting at least a part of light incident on the incident surface. | 03-24-2011 |
20120033155 | PROTECTIVE FILM, LOWER POLARIZING PLATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROTECTIVE FILM - There is provided a protective film to be bonded to a polarizer to form a lower polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display panel. The protective film for a lower polarizing plate includes a matrix of a resin material and a diffusing component dispersed in the matrix. At least one-side surface, which is to face the polarizer, of the protective film is flat. | 02-09-2012 |
20130039031 | OPTICAL MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical module ( | 02-14-2013 |
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20090009830 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section in which writing units are disposed in a sub-scanning direction for each color, the writing units having writing elements arranged in a main scanning direction, and which forms a color image by superimposing an image of each color formed by the writing units, an image converting section to convert an input image data to an image data of a color which corresponds to each writing unit, a storage section to store information according to an arrangement of the writing elements for each writing unit, a correction section to correct an output timing for each pixel of converted the image data for each color based on the information according to the arrangement of the writing elements for each writing unit, a setting section to set an operation mode according to an image forming and a control section to control a correction based on the operation mode. | 01-08-2009 |
20090190178 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image memory to store image data to form an image with pixels aligned in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction; a print head; and a correction section to perform correction processing on the image data to correct misalignment which occurs when an image is formed, wherein the correction section includes: a memory which can perform burst transfer; a first control section; line buffers; and a second control section, wherein the first control section successively writes the image data in the burst access unit in the memory and reads the image data in the burst access unit while controlling the address of the memory according to a first control signal generated based on previously set information concerning correction; and the second control section selects image data to output according to a second control signal generated based on the information. | 07-30-2009 |
20110157607 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a magnification variation section to perform a magnification variation to image data configured by arranging a plurality of lines in a sub-scan direction perpendicular to a main scan direction, in which a first pixel train is arranged as one of the plurality of lines, by inserting a pixel into a second pixel train in the sub-scan direction or by thinning-out a pixel from the second pixel train based on a set magnification variation ratio, wherein the magnification variation section inserts pixels in adjacent second pixel trains at positions that are discontinuous in the main scan direction, or thin-outs pixels in adjacent second pixel trains at positions that are discontinuous in the main scan direction. | 06-30-2011 |
20120176630 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image processor obtaining image data divided in packing units, comprising: a parallel processing unit performing an image conversion processing in parallel on the pixel data arranged in a sub scan direction in the packing unit, based on the obtained pixel data and the intermediate value for the pixel data, to calculate an output value after the conversion of the pixel data and an index value; an intermediate value calculating unit calculating an intermediate value based on the respective index values calculated by the parallel processing units regarding pixels within a predetermined relative position range; and a first retention unit for delaying the start of the image conversion processing to one pixel data for a delay period set to be equal to or longer than a period required for obtaining the one pixel data and calculating the intermediate value for the one pixel data. | 07-12-2012 |
20150317544 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus, including: an output image processing section which performs, on image data, predetermined image processing according to image formation; an output section that outputs processed image data, on which the image processing is performed, in accordance with an operation timing according to the image formation by an image forming section; a correction section which corrects setting of the image processing on the image data; an image processing control section which controls an operation of the output image processing section, stores the processed image data in an external storage section and controls the correction section to perform correction depending on a predetermined correction condition; and an output control section which reads out the processed image data from the external storage section and inputs the processed image data to the output section. | 11-05-2015 |
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20150229401 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER - An optical transceiver converts a received optical signal to an electric signal and converts the electric signal to a digital signal, and has an adaptive equalizer to adaptively equalize the digital signal, a synchronization part to synchronize a first polarized wave and a second polarized wave contained in the adaptively equalized digital signal and having polarization axes perpendicular to each other, and a symbol offset determination part to determine an amount of symbol offset between the first polarized wave and the second polarized wave based upon symbol synchronization information of the first polarized wave and the second polarized wave supplied from the synchronization part, the symbol offset determination part being configured to repeat determination of the amount of symbol offset and restart the adaptive equalizer until the symbol offset is minimized. | 08-13-2015 |
20150295740 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A communication system includes a transmitting device that transmits a signal based on pluralities of symbol coordinates on a constellation and pluralities of trajectory coordinates between respective ones of the pluralities of symbol coordinates, average coordinates of the pluralities of trajectory coordinates being different coordinates from coordinates of origin, and a receiving device that accumulates pluralities of trajectory coordinates between respective ones of the pluralities of symbol coordinates on the constellation in the signal received from the transmitting device, and estimates a phase of the signal received from the transmitting device based on a value representing a difference between average coordinates of the pluralities of trajectory coordinates accumulated and the different coordinates. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295747 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A communication system includes a transmission device that transmits a signal, based on a plurality of symbol coordinates on a constellation, which characterize a shape having a predetermined rotational asymmetrical shape, and a receiving device that accumulates symbol coordinates on the constellation in the signal received from the transmission device and estimates the phase of the signal received from the transmission device, based on a difference between the direction of a shape characterized by the accumulated symbol coordinates and the direction of the predetermined shape. | 10-15-2015 |