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20140172494 | MULTI-BASE INVENTORY DEPLOYMENT COMPUTATION DEVICE - The invention displays multiple inventory period combinations, as multiple multi-base inventory deployment proposals having assessed values for items such as cash flow and inventory value, each of said assessed values being within a range entered by an inventory deployment decision-maker. For each product included in request information, the invention finds a minimum period (the total lead time from when a given item leaves the applicable warehouse until the item reaches the base that sells the applicable product) and a maximum period (the total lead time needed for all component parts configuring the item to reach the warehouse, added to the minimum period), for each item configuring said product and each warehouse base. The invention computes product-specific inventory period combination information for each warehouse base, and creates inventory period combination information by combining said product-specific inventory period combination information for each product type. The invention performs an inventory management calculation for the inventory period combination information, computes the value of an assessment index, and compares said value to the maximum value thereof. The invention selects an inventory period combination having an assessment index value within a permitted range, as a candidate display proposal. For the candidate display proposal, the invention computes a display evaluation value for each display proposal evaluation item by multiplying a display evaluation coefficient by an inventory value. | 06-19-2014 |
20140297552 | LOGISTICS DESIGNING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Technology capable of obtaining logistics routes for optimizing total costs including not only costs regarding transportation and others but also tariffs in performing global design for logistics and cost calculation is provided. The present design for logistics device ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140372181 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF BUSINESS UNITS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF BUSINESS UNITS - The present invention determines a configuration of sites that enables low-cost operation under normal circumstances, and maintains the stockout rate of end products at an appropriate value when trouble occurs. A device for determining the configuration of sites, comprising: a storage unit for storing information about sites, including information about the names and classification of the sites, transportation information including information pertaining to supply routes between the sites, cost information including the cost generated by the manufacture and procurement of products and commodity items, and trouble probability information including the probability of trouble occurring at the sites; and a stockout rate and cost evaluation unit for calculating the stockout rate and cost of the end products by setting the lowermost stream of the information about the sites as the starting point and creating a plurality of combinations for the configuration of the sites while varying the allocation ratios of the supply routes included in the transportation information, setting a commodity item in the site constituting the uppermost stream in the information about the sites as a starting point for each of the resulting combinations for the configuration of the sites and tracing end users in accordance with the supply routes included in the transportation information, calculating the stockout rate of each of the commodity items for each of the sites from the trouble probability information, calculating the cost of each of the commodity items for each of the sites from the cost information, and accumulating the results. | 12-18-2014 |
20150363732 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTING DETERMINATION OF SUPPLY GROUP AND PROGRAM FOR ASSISTING DETERMINATION OF SUPPLY GROUP - To perform overall supply group calculation for an entire supply chain that involves evaluating management cost based on the number of bases included in a supply group and allowing a supply group to receive a supply of a product from another group under a condition different from its own condition, provided is a supply group determination assisting device configured to group suppliers, factories, warehouses, and markets, which are bases and for which supply plans are formulated, into supply groups. The supply group determination assisting device includes: a storing unit configured to store supply information including a plurality of records each of which associates information about a shipment arrival base and information about a sender base with a transport lead time or transport cost of transportation between the shipment arrival base and the sender base; and a supply group determining unit configured to use, as an evaluation value, the transport lead time or transport cost of the supply information stored in the storing unit, and group the shipment arrival bases and the sender bases into a plurality of groups by grouping the shipment arrival bases and the sender bases in the plurality of records based on magnitude of the evaluation value. | 12-17-2015 |
20150379450 | SUPPLY RULE GENERATING DEVICE AND SUPPLY RULE GENERATING PROGRAM - Provided are a device and method for providing means for enabling companies or business entities to supply one another with a finished product, a partly finished product, or a part. A supply rule generating device includes a storing unit and a processing unit, and calculates a supply rule, which is a condition for enabling two or more companies or business entities that procure or supply the same part or same product to accommodate one another with a part, a partly finished product, or a finished product. The processing unit is configured to: calculate a production plan and a stock plan for each of the two or more companies or business entities so that a shipment quantity stored in a shipment plan storing unit is fulfilled, based on information stored in a stock and in-progress storing unit and information stored in a production information storing unit; calculate, from the calculated production plan and stock plan, a surplus stock quantity of the company or business entity at each of a plurality of points in future time, and a time point at which the company or business entity needs to re-stock when the surplus stock quantity is supplied to another company or business entity; and calculate an accommodation quantity and accommodation condition of a part, a partly finished product, or a finished product that is suppliable to another company or business entity. | 12-31-2015 |
20160104088 | DEMAND-SUPPLY ADJUSTING DEVICE AND DEMAND-SUPPLY CONDITION CONSOLIDATING METHOD - A logistics network that is optimum under consolidated demand-supply conditions is obtained. A demand-supply information storing unit stores demand-supply information about demand and supply. A similarity degree calculating unit calculates a degree of similarity between items that are included in the demand-supply information. A grouping unit groups together the items included in the demand-supply information together, based on the degree of similarity. An impact degree calculating unit calculates, for items that are grouped by the grouping unit and for items that are not grouped by the grouping unit, the degrees of impact of the items on demand-supply conditions to be used in processing of searching for an optimum logistics network. A determining unit determines, based on the degrees of impact calculated by the impact degree calculating unit, whether or not the demand-supply conditions of the items are to be used in the logistics network search processing. | 04-14-2016 |
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20090237114 | DECODER CIRCUIT - A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal. | 09-24-2009 |
20100301902 | DECODER CIRCUIT - A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal. | 12-02-2010 |
20110216620 | DECODER CIRCUIT - A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal. | 09-08-2011 |
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20120177707 | METALLIC OXIDE PARTICLE-CONTAINING RESIN POWDER, DISPERSION LIQUID AND AQUEOUS DISPERSION ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SAME, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING METALLIC OXIDE PARTICLE-CONTAINING RESIN POWDER, AND COSMETIC MATERIAL - The present invention relates to metallic oxide particle-containing resin powder of in which metallic oxide particles having a UV shielding function, in which the average particle diameter of the resin powder is 0.1 μm to 1 μm, are contained in a (meth)acrylic-based resin. The metallic oxide particles are particles that include one or two or more selected from the group of zinc oxide, titanium oxide, cerium oxide, and iron oxide, and have an average particle diameter of 0.003 μm to 0.1 μm. The content of the metallic oxide particles in the resin powder is 1% by mass to 80% by mass, and the metallic oxide particles are dispersed in the resin powder without being exposed on the surface of the resin powder. The powder includes fine particles, and the UV absorbing performance and the transparency with respect to visible light rays are improved. | 07-12-2012 |
20150147370 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING METALLIC OXIDE PARTICLE-CONTAINING RESIN POWDER - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing metallic oxide particle-containing resin powder including: dispersing metallic oxide particles having a specific average particle diameter and a UV shielding function in a (meth)acrylic-based resin monomer to produce a (meth)acrylic-based resin monomer dispersion liquid; suspending or emulsifying the (meth)acrylic-based resin monomer dispersion liquid; and, adding a polymerization initiator to cause suspension polymerization or emulsification polymerization, thereby generating metallic oxide particle-containing resin powder, and provides metallic oxide particles which are dispersed in the resin powder without being exposed on the surface of the resin powder, the powder includes fine particles, the UV absorbing performance, and the transparency with respect to visible light rays are improved. | 05-28-2015 |
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20080276793 | BEAT ENHANCEMENT DEVICE, SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OUTPUTTING BEATS - In a sound output device, a sound input unit acquires a sound signal reproduced by a reproduction device. A beat extractor extracts a beat component of the sound signal based on a spectrogram, and generates a beat waveform having information of a beat timing and a beat intensity. An output signal generator amplifies the sound signal with the beat waveform being a gain, using the beat timing and beat intensity which the beat waveform has. A sound output unit outputs the beat enhanced sound signal as a sound by performing D/A conversion on the beat enhanced sound signal. | 11-13-2008 |
20100091139 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A replacement area is set within an image expressed with captured image data. A pixel area with image content that can be processed without greatly altering the entire image content, for instance, may be designated as the replacement area. Replacement image data are generated by executing processing for replacing all of or part of the pixel data in the replacement area with insertion image data. The insertion image data are image data containing text, graphics or the like, such as an advertisement, a message or a translation. Consequently, various types of information can be provided in the replacement image data, a message from the user can be incorporated in the replacement image data, or better user convenience can be assured through the replacement image data. | 04-15-2010 |
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20090060615 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus includes fixing recording material on a sheet; conveying, by a conveying unit, the sheet on which the recording material is fixed; and controlling the conveying unit such that the conveying unit reciprocates the sheet on a conveying path along which the sheet is conveyed. | 03-05-2009 |
20090190183 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - In a copy generation management on paper, the present invention aims to detect a falsification in embedded information and increase the capacity of embedded information while maintaining security. The image processing device embeds second additional information into document image data embedded with first additional information. The image processing device deletes a part where the first additional information is embedded in the document image data, and embeds the second additional information into the part of the first additional information thus deleted. The image processing device further embeds third information different from the first and second additional information at a position different from position at which the second additional information is embedded. Further, the embedding means embeds the third information at a position indicated by the second additional information. | 07-30-2009 |
20090319492 | APPARATUS PROCESSING USER GENERATED DATA AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - An apparatus uninstalling a target application includes a processing unit configured to move user generated data from a user-generated-data storage area managed by the target application to be installed to a user-generated-data storage area managed by another application that is installed. | 12-24-2009 |
20100037224 | APPLICATION PLATFORM - Activation and deactivation of multiple applications on a multi-function peripheral are more appropriately performed to enable users to comfortably use the multi-function peripheral at a workplace having various operating environments. At a time of a logout, control is performed to select and activate at least one of applications in a shutdown state, the selected application being likely to be used at the next login. Further, the number of applications being activated is limited to a predetermined number or less. | 02-11-2010 |
20120047510 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device includes a priority task startup detection unit to detect that startup of a priority task is completed, a job acceptance unit configured to change a status to a job acceptable status and accept a job when it is detected that the startup of the priority task is completed, a first startup control unit to start the non-priority task when a predetermined time has elapsed since it is detected that the startup of the priority task is completed, and a second startup control unit to start the non-priority task a job is accepted from the time it is detected that the startup of the priority task is completed to when the predetermined time has elapsed and if all processing of all jobs, including the accepted job is terminated. | 02-23-2012 |
20120057742 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT PROCESSING BARCODES WITH LINK INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO OTHER BARCODES - In a copy generation management on paper, the present invention aims to detect a falsification in embedded information and increase the capacity of embedded information while maintaining security. The image processing device embeds second additional information into document image data embedded with first additional information. The image processing device deletes a part where the first additional information is embedded in the document image data, and embeds the second additional information into the part of the first additional information thus deleted. The image processing device further embeds third information different from the first and second additional information at a position different from position at which the second additional information is embedded. Further, the embedding means embeds the third information at a position indicated by the second additional information. | 03-08-2012 |
20120092711 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, JOB MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store job data transmitted from an information processing apparatus, a display unit configured to display information of the job data stored in the storage unit when an execution instruction for executing the job data is received in response to a user operation, and a deletion unit configured to determine whether the display unit displays the information of the job data and, to suspend deletion processing for deleting the job data from the storage unit in a case where the deletion unit determines that the display unit displays the information of the job data, whereas to delete the job data from the storage unit in a case where the deletion unit determines that the display unit displays no information of the job data. | 04-19-2012 |
20130070280 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - Print data is always stored securely in printing to prevent printing of the print data by another person in reprinting without being aware by the user of whether to storage it securely. To accomplish this, print data received from a data processing apparatus is stored, and print processing is executed. When reprinting of the stored print data is instructed after printing, input of authentication information for reprinting is requested. When authentication information input in accordance with the request and authentication information of the stored print data coincide with each other, print processing based on the stored print data is executed. | 03-21-2013 |
20140079417 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In a printing apparatus having full-color and monochrome print processes and a method therefor, whether a page to be printed is color or monochrome is checked. The presence of an immediately preceding page which is successively printed before a page to be printed that is determined to be monochrome, and the attribute of the immediately preceding page are determined. The presence of a succeeding page which is successively printed after the page to be printed, and the attribute of the succeeding page are determined. The number of pages corresponding to the determination results is set. The print process of the page to be printed is decided on the basis of the presence of succeeding pages corresponding to the number of pages and their attributes. | 03-20-2014 |
20140119765 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SHORTENING TIME REQUIRED FOR START-UP, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which, to the extent possible, prevents an operation for protecting a printer engine from being uncompleted before power to the printer engine is shut down due to cancellation of a process that should be carried out by the printer engine. When a predetermined time period has elapsed since an instruction to reduce power consumption was detected, power to the printer engine is shut down. When the instruction is detected, a canceling instruction for canceling the process that should be carried out by the printer engine is issued to the printer engine. Responsive to this, a cancellation process for the process is started, and an engine protecting instruction for protecting the printer engine without waiting for completion of the cancellation process is issued to the printer engine. After the operation for protecting the printer engine is carried out, power to the printer engine is shut down. | 05-01-2014 |
20150063842 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided in which, in a case where a calculated value is less than a predetermined value (for example, “low” level, or “out” level), and information indicating that a remaining toner amount is less than the predetermined value has not been acquired from a toner container, the predetermined value or a value a predetermined amount greater than the predetermined value is set as an initial value of the remaining toner amount. | 03-05-2015 |
20150375538 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a stored sheet to a position where the sheet can be picked up based on received instructions to pick up the stored sheet on which an image is printed. The printing apparatus performs control such that the sheet is not conveyed by the conveying unit while the sheet is being stored in the storage unit. | 12-31-2015 |