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20090271413 | TRIAL LISTENING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - The present invention provides a content distribution system capable of improving user convenience and effectively distributing content for trial listening. A terminal apparatus includes: a content database that stores plural kinds of content data for trial listening received from a content distribution server; a usage history information recording unit that records usage history information of a user; a user preference estimating unit that estimates user preference on the basis of the usage history information of the user recorded in the usage history information recording unit, and generates preference information; a content extracting unit that calculates similarity between the preference information and each of the content data for trial listening stored in the content database, and extracts content data for trial listening having high similarity from the content database; and a content data playing unit that plays the extracted content data for trial listening. | 10-29-2009 |
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20120072466 | CONTENTS CREATING DEVICE AND CONTENTS CREATING METHOD - To provide a contents creating device and a contents creating method capable of distributing contents having an article arrangement with high relativity to a user as distribution destination. A contents creating device | 03-22-2012 |
20120221965 | Discussion Enlivenment Assistance Device, Discussion Enlivenment Assistance Method, and Computer Program Therefore - A discussion enlivenment assistance device includes: a state visualization unit which generates discussion state data displaying index values indicating a state of each discussion site; a user characteristic presentation unit which generates participating user characteristic data in relation to users participating in a discussion site specified by a user, the participating user characteristic data displaying index values indicating profiles of the users in a discussion; a user control unit which generates invitation nominated user data displaying an invitation nominated user appropriate for the discussion site specified by the user; and a display unit which displays the discussion state data, the participating user characteristic data, and the invitation nominated user data. | 08-30-2012 |
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20090216622 | MUSIC-LINKED ADVERTISEMENT DISTORIBUTION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - Degrees of association between categories of songs (hereinafter, song categories) corresponding to information showing advertisement distribution target categories and distribution object advertisements are determined in advance in an advertisement DB. A song categorization module calculates degrees of association between an acoustic feature amount of a song being played (hereinafter, current song) and feature amounts of the song categories, and a song-related distribution object advertisement candidate group extraction module determines a distribution object advertisement corresponding to a song category with a high degree of association is determined as a distribution object advertisement. An advertisement presentation module provides information on the distribution object advertisement to a user along with current song information. | 08-27-2009 |
20100100443 | User classification apparatus, advertisement distribution apparatus, user classification method, advertisement distribution method, and program used thereby - It is an object to provide user classification apparatus, a user classification method, and a program used thereby, which classify users based on search log and support the analysis of customer trends, and advertisement distribution apparatus, an advertisement distribution method, and a program used thereby, which distribute advertisements based on the analysis of customer trends. The user classification apparatus is provided with a search log database, a user search log information extracting unit extracting search log information of a user, an analyzed keyword extracting unit extracting search keyword information contained in search log information, a search session dividing unit dividing the search log information of the user into a plurality of search sessions, a search session class extracting unit generating a class, a user belonging class calculation unit classifying the user into the class, and a user search log analysis result display unit displaying the classification result. | 04-22-2010 |
20130216203 | KEYWORD-TAGGING OF SCENES OF INTEREST WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT - Extraction of scenes of interest from video content is disclosed, which includes: collecting comments from a comment server, which contain keywords associated with the video content; segmenting the video content into scenes; measuring the number of ones of the comments which were posted for each scene, as a post count; detecting ones of the scenes, each of which has the post count equal to or larger than a predetermined number, as a plurality of scenes of interest; extracting, per each scene-of-interest, at least one of the keywords which is contained in the comments with a number equal to or larger than a pre-selected number, as a comment keyword; and tagging each scene of interest with the comment keyword, per each scene-of-interest. | 08-22-2013 |
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20090202281 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear convex portions. The image forming apparatus of the present invention prevents a friction force between the belt and the transfer device rubbing the belt from increasing and brings a transfer member into a stable contact with the belt for conveying the toner image, thereby suppressing increase in drive torque of the belt which rubs the transfer device and suppressing occurrence of image failure. | 08-13-2009 |
20090257779 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for forming image on a recording medium includes a photosensitive member, a motor, a belt, and a drive member to rotate the belt, the drive member including a driven coupling. The apparatus also includes a drive coupling to rotate by a driving force generated by the motor, the drive coupling being movable in an axial direction to take an engagement position at which the driving force is transmittable to the driven coupling, and a release position. The apparatus further includes a transfer member to transfer a toner image onto the recording medium or the belt, a voltage application unit to apply a voltage to the transfer member, and a control unit to cause the voltage application unit to apply the voltage to the transfer member after the drive coupling moves to the engagement position and the driving force is transmitted to the driven coupling. | 10-15-2009 |
20100098459 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material includes an opening provided to a main assembly of the apparatus; a first openable member movable between a closed position in which a first portion of the opening is closed and an open position in which the first portion of the opening is opened; a second openable member movable between a closed position in which a second portion of the opening is closed and an open position in which the second portion of the opening is opened; and a movable member, movable between a set position inside the main assembly and an outward position in which the movable member having passed through the first portion of the opening is located at an outermost position in a movable range of the movable member, capable of supporting a plurality of cartridges, side by side, each including at least one of an image bearing member on which a latent image is to be formed and developing means for developing with a developer the latent image formed on the image bearing member. The first openable member located at the open position is located below the movable member located at the outward position. An outermost end of the movable member located at the outward position is vertically aligned with or located inside an outermost end of the first openable member located at the open position. | 04-22-2010 |
20110293324 | COLOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus in which a cartridge tray supporting a plurality of cartridges is movable through a plurality of opening portions to respective outside positions outside an apparatus main body. In the color electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the plurality of cartridges are removably mounted to the apparatus main body to form an image on a recording medium. The color electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes: a cartridge tray ( | 12-01-2011 |
20110318035 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for forming image on a recording medium includes a photosensitive member, a motor, a belt, and a drive member to rotate the belt, the drive member including a driven coupling. The apparatus also includes a drive coupling to rotate by a driving force generated by the motor, the drive coupling being movable in an axial direction to take an engagement position at which the driving force is transmittable to the driven coupling, and a release position. The apparatus further includes a transfer member to transfer a toner image onto the recording medium or the belt, a voltage application unit to apply a voltage to the transfer member, and a control unit to cause the voltage application unit to apply the voltage to the transfer member after the drive coupling moves to the engagement position and the driving force is transmitted to the driven coupling. | 12-29-2011 |
20120087700 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear convex portions. The image forming apparatus of the present invention prevents a friction force between the belt and the transfer device rubbing the belt from increasing and brings a transfer member into a stable contact with the belt for conveying the toner image, thereby suppressing increase in drive torque of the belt which rubs the transfer device and suppressing occurrence of image failure. | 04-12-2012 |
20120201569 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided for forming an image on a recording material. An opening is provided to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, with first and second openable members being movable between closed positions in which portions of the opening are closed and open positions in which portions of the opening are opened. A movable member is movable between a set position inside the main assembly and an outward position in which the movable member, having passed through the opening, is located at an outermost position. The movable member is capable of supporting a plurality of cartridges, side by side, with each of the cartridges including at least one of an image bearing member on which a latent image is to be formed and developing means for developing with a developer the latent image formed on the image bearing member. | 08-09-2012 |
20120269557 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear convex portions. The image forming apparatus of the present invention prevents a friction force between the belt and the transfer device rubbing the belt from increasing and brings a transfer member into a stable contact with the belt for conveying the toner image, thereby suppressing increase in drive torque of the belt which rubs the transfer device and suppressing occurrence of image failure. | 10-25-2012 |
20130136509 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, one of a plurality of support members supporting an intermediate transfer belt is a guide member configured to regulate the rotational direction of the intermediate transfer belt while being held in sliding contact with the intermediate transfer belt at a position opposite the secondary transfer member across the intermediate transfer belt. This guide member is equipped with a first resistor portion in sliding contact with the intermediate transfer belt and a second resistor portion of a higher electrical resistance than the first resistor portion, with the second resistor portion provided upstream of the first resistor portion in the rotational direction of the intermediate transfer belt. | 05-30-2013 |
20130164049 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member unit including a toner image carrying member; a transfer unit including a movable endless belt for transferring the toner image from the carrying member onto a transfer material, a plurality of stretching members for stretching the endless belt, and a supporting portion, provided at a end portion with respect to a widthwise direction, for supporting the stretching members; and a main assembly frame provided at a position opposing the supporting portion and including a positioning portion for determining a positions of the plurality of stretching members, wherein the supporting portion is movable relative to the main assembly frame. | 06-27-2013 |
20140147158 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus include a door through which a tray carrying a cartridge passes, wherein in interrelation with the door closing operation, (i) movement of the tray from a movable position to an image forming position, (ii) movement of a drive transmission member, for transmitting a driving force to the cartridge from a main assembly, from a first spacing position to a drive-connecting position, (iii) movement of an urging member for urging the cartridge to the main assembly from a second spacing position to a contact position, and (iv) movement of an electric energy supply member, for supplying electric power to the cartridge from the main assembly, from a third spacing position to an electric energy supplying position, are carried out in the order named. | 05-29-2014 |
20140219692 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear convex portions. The image forming apparatus of the present invention prevents a friction force between the belt and the transfer device rubbing the belt from increasing and brings a transfer member into a stable contact with the belt for conveying the toner image, thereby suppressing increase in drive torque of the belt which rubs the transfer device and suppressing occurrence of image failure. | 08-07-2014 |
20150055974 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus, to which process cartridges each including a photosensitive drum and a developing roller, includes: a movable member movable between an inside and an outside of a main assembly of the image forming apparatus in a movement direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the photosensitive drum; a mounting portion for supporting the process cartridges, wherein the process cartridges are detachably mountable to the mounting portion from a direction crossing the longitudinal direction and the movement direction; and an interrelating member, movable in interrelation with movement of the movable member, for moving the developing roller relative to the photosensitive drum so that a distance between a rotation center of the photosensitive drum and a rotation center of the developing roller is decreased with respect to the movement direction when the movable member is moved from the inside to the outside of the main assembly. | 02-26-2015 |
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20120004321 | Orally Disintegrating Tablet - It is an object to provide an orally disintegrating tablet produced by dry granulation and compression, having a hardness of 40 N or more, a disintegration time of 30 seconds or shorter, a friability of 0.1% or less, and an excellent feeling upon ingestion, that is capable of disintegrating with a small amount of water, having a rapid disintegration time, and being maintained stably in a tablet form, which could not been achieved by conventional procedures. Disclosed is an orally disintegrating tablet produced by dry granulation which contains a medicinal ingredient with silica, and sugar alcohol or/and sugar. | 01-05-2012 |
20120294947 | Oral Preparation Having Improved Quality - Provided is an oral preparation that contains a medicinal component having an unpleasant taste and that has better qualities, for example, generation of an analogue can be reduced, better than oral preparations that are produced by conventional techniques and that contain a medicinal component having an unpleasant taste. This objective is achieved by adding a coating agent on the medicinal component and a disintegrator that has a carboxymethyl group. | 11-22-2012 |
20140093567 | Method for Producing Orodispersible Tablets - A method for easily producing orodispersible tablets that secure an eluting behavior of a principal agent in the digestive tract and mask unpleasant taste in the oral cavity is provided. Provided is a method for producing orodispersible tablets which includes mixing an additive to a principal agent to form principal agent particles as a granulation process, coating the principal agent particles with a coating agent to form coated particles as a coating process, and tableting the coated particles to form tablets as a tableting process, wherein the additive used in the granulation process contains a pH regulator, and the coating agent used in the coating process contains a pH-dependent polymer dissolving at pH 5 or more. | 04-03-2014 |
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20080246942 | Radar device - A laser radar sensor includes a photoreceptor, a dummy circuit, an amplifier, a selector, and the first and the second detection circuits. A photoreception signal outputted from the photoreceptor and an output signal of the dummy circuit are amplified by the amplifier, and inputted to the second detection circuit. A noise component included in the photoreception signal based on the output signal of the dummy circuit when distance detection is not performed. The distance detection is performed based on the reception signal from which the noise component is removed. As a result, a reduction in detectable distance of the laser radar sensor is less likely to occur. Furthermore, the noise component is detected using the dummy circuit and the selector. Thus, the consideration of the predetermined rotation angle is not required in optical system design and limiting factors in the optical system design can be reduced. | 10-09-2008 |
20090161710 | Laser array circuit - A laser array circuit decreases the size of a circuit pattern. A laser-diode (LD) driving switching element with a low on resistance is used in common with and switches conduction and non-conduction of a large current to each of a plurality of charge capacitors and charge switching elements that accumulate charge in the charge capacitors in respective drive circuits. An LD array and the LD driving switching element are closely located on a light-emitting board. By laying out the LD array and charge capacitors considering only the positional relationship therebetween, the size of a circuit pattern including LDs and the charge capacitors can be decreased. | 06-25-2009 |
20140078488 | OPTICAL RADAR DEVICE - An optical radar device for scanning an object that reduces the effects of stray light is provided. The optical radar device has a light source, a light scanning section, a light path change section, a light receiver, and an opposite phase signal adder. The opposite phase signal adder adds an opposite phase signal to the output signal from the light receiver. A rise timing of the opposite phase signal is delayed by a predetermined time relative to an output timing of the pulse light, and the opposite phase signal has an opposite phase with respect to a phase of the reflected light. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078489 | OPTICAL RADAR DEVICE - An optical laser device for scanning an object is provided. The optical radar device includes a light source that outputs a beam having an elliptical cross section. The beam is output towards a light scanning section that rotates a mirror plate about an axis for (i) reflecting the beam toward the object and (ii) reflecting a reflected light received from the object. The device also includes a light path change section that guides the beam toward the light scanning section and guides the reflected light from the light scanning section in a direction that is different from a direction of the light source. A light receiver receives the reflected light. Further, the elliptical cross section of the beam has a major axis and the major axis is substantially parallel to the axis of the mirror plate. | 03-20-2014 |