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20100142999 | TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention realizes: a toner that ensures fixing property only by a laser fixing system where a toner is fixed by irradiation of laser light whose wavelength is adjusted to be in an absorption wavelength range of each color of the toner, and realizes an image without poor color reproducibility caused by an infrared absorbent; a two-component developer containing the toner; a developing device; a fixing device; and an image forming apparatus. A capsule toner, which is the toner of the present invention, is arranged such that the capsule toner has a two-layer structure where a coating layer is formed around a surface of a core particle serving as a toner matrix particle, and nb/na is in a range of 0.92 to 0.96 where nb/na is a ratio of a refractive index of a resin making up the coating layer (nb) to a refractive index of a resin making up the core particle (na). | 06-10-2010 |
20110097658 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER - The present invention provides an electrophotographic toner comprising a polyester resin as binder resin and a colorant, said polyester resin being the condensation product of at least one polyhydric alcohol with at least one polybasic acid, wherein said at least one polyhydric alcohol comprises cyclohexanedimethanol, said toner having a loss modulus of from 2×10 | 04-28-2011 |
20110229815 | LIGHT FIXABLE TONER AND TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - A light fixable toner which is not containing an infrared absorbent and fixed by light irradiation, and a two-component developer containing the light fixable toner are provided. The light fixable toner contains a binder resin, a colorant and an internal additive having an average particle size of 0.50 μm or more and 1.40 μm or less, and a shape factor SF-2 is 105 or more and 120 or less, a relative refractive index n | 09-22-2011 |
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20090022511 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - An image forming device has an imaging unit including: a rotating body; an exposure unit forming an electrostatic latent image on the rotating body; a developing unit developing the latent image using developer to form an image; and a transfer unit transferring the image to a recording medium, a memory storing data on correspondence between first image data, second image data and a first correction amount, the first image data representing a first latent image formed by a first turn of the rotating body, the second image data representing a second latent image formed by a second turn of the rotating body, and the first correction amount used for correcting the second image data so that density of the image on the recording medium closer to density of the second latent image; a correction amount determining unit determining the first correction amount corresponding to the first and second image data based on the data stored in the memory; and a correcting unit correcting the second image data based on the first correction amount. | 01-22-2009 |
20100202789 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided and includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on an image carrier with a transparent material and a coloring material; a controller that controls an order of an image forming with the transparent material and an image forming with the coloring material to be different between in an image portion and in a non-image portion in an image forming region on the image carrier; and a transferring unit that transfers the image formed on the image carrier onto a recording medium | 08-12-2010 |
20110064436 | IMAGE GLOSS CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image gloss control apparatus that includes a first control component and a second control component is provided. The first control component controls an image forming/fixing component, which forms an image on a recording medium using a colored image formation material and fixes the image, so that a first image is formed in a high gloss area having a high gloss level on the recording medium or an area including the high gloss area on the recording medium and is fixed. The second control component that controls the image forming/fixing component, so that a second image having a density lower than a density of the first image is formed in a low gloss area having a gloss level lower than the gloss level of the high gloss area on the recording medium where the first image is formed or the low gloss area on the first image and is fixed. | 03-17-2011 |
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20110058224 | COLOR PROCESSOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COLOR PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color processor includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first and second multi-valued color signals respectively indicating in a multi-valued manner quantities of first and second color materials used for reproducing color with a specific hue, the second color material having a different density from the first color material; a generation unit that generates first and second binary color signals by performing dither processing, respectively with first and second dither matrices, for the first and second multi-valued color signals acquired by the acquisition unit, the second dither matrix having the same angle and the same number of lines as the first dither matrix and being used for forming halftone dots at positions different from positions of halftone dots formed by use of the first dither matrix; and an output unit that outputs to a print mechanism the first and second binary color signals generated by the generation unit. | 03-10-2011 |
20120229819 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a correcting unit. The setting unit sets a gloss level of an image to be formed by forming plural toner images using a transparent toner and plural color toners having different colors and by fixing the plural toner images onto a recording medium in such a manner that the plural toner images are placed on top of one another on the recording medium. The correcting unit corrects image data defining density values per pixel of the toner images formed using the plural color toners of the respective colors so that a total density value that is a sum of a density value per pixel of the toner image formed using the transparent toner and density values per pixel of the toner images formed using the plural color toners of the respective colors may not exceed a predetermined threshold. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229820 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit, a generating unit, and a converting unit. The setting unit sets a gloss level of each of plural areas into which an image is divided. The image is formed by forming plural toner images having different colors using plural first toners and at least one second toner having at least one same color as the first toners and by fixing the plural toner images onto a recording medium so as to be superimposed on one another. The generating unit generates multi-level image data for each of the first toners and the at least one second toner in accordance with the gloss levels set by the setting unit. The converting unit converts multi-level image data of toners having the same color into binary image data. The converting unit also converts multi-level image data of toners having different colors into binary image data. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230584 | COLOR PROCESSING DEVICE, COLOR PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A color processing device includes a converter that converts a combination of values of N−1 colors obtained by eliminating a specific color included in N colors from an input color signal expressing a color by a combination of values of the N colors, into a corresponding combination of values of M−1 colors, N being 4 or larger, M being larger than N; and an output unit that, if a total value of the values of the M−1 colors after the conversion by the converter and a value of the specific color included in the input color signal exceeds a predetermined limit value, changes a value of at least one of M colors obtained by adding the specific color to the M−1 colors such that the total value becomes the limit value or smaller, and outputs values of the M colors as an output color signal. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230595 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a first output unit that performs predetermined image processing for image data, and outputs image data having m bits per pixel; a second output unit that performs pseudo gradation-increase processing by a dither method or a multilevel error diffusion method for the output image data, and outputs image data having n bits per pixel, where n09-13-2012 | |
20140043623 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A metallic color conversion unit performs color conversion on an input color value so that a color of a colorimetric value of a print result when a printer performs printing by using each of at least one process color toner by each corresponding amount, which is a conversion result obtained by performing the color conversion on the input color value in accordance with a metallic level designated, and by using a toner including a metallic particle by an amount, which is obtained by a metallic amount calculation unit in accordance with the designated metallic level, becomes close to a color of a colorimetric value of a print result when the printer performs the printing by using each of the at least one process color toner by each corresponding amount, which is a conversion result obtained by converting the input color value by a normal color conversion unit. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043625 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a color material layer forming unit and a proportion controller. The color material layer forming unit forms on a printing medium a first metallic color material layer including a color material having metallic particles, one or more process color material layers including color materials of one or more process colors, and a second metallic color material layer including a color material having metallic particles so that the first metallic color material layer, the one or more process color material layers, and the second metallic color material layer are stacked on the printing medium in this order. The proportion controller executes first control to increase a proportion of the second metallic color material layer with respect to the first metallic color material layer when a total amount of the color materials of the one or more process colors exceeds a predetermined value. | 02-13-2014 |
20150029518 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a white layer density determination unit. The calculation unit calculates, based on multiple color component signals to be used for image formation, an image layer halftone percentage of an image layer to be formed on a recording medium. The white layer density determination unit determines, based on the image layer halftone percentage, a white layer halftone percentage of a white layer to be formed as an underlying layer of the image layer on the recording medium. | 01-29-2015 |
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20090142687 | TONER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner which takes into account preservation of the global environment and which is excellent in fixability and storage stability and moreover, good in light transmittance and a method for manufacturing the toner, a two-compartment developer, a developing device and an image forming apparatus are provided. In toner including at least a binder resin and a colorant, the binder resin includes a resin which is a major component and a biomass-containing crystalline resin; and the crystalline resin is contained in an amount of 1 part by weight or more and 50 parts by weight or less based on 100 parts by weight of the binder resin, and a melting point of the crystalline resin is higher by a temperature of from 5° C. to 10° C. than a temperature at which a loss modulus G″ of the toner at a frequency of 1 Hz is 10 | 06-04-2009 |
20090148191 | COLOR TONER, DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color toner, a developer, a developing device for performing development by using the developer and an image forming apparatus having the developing device are provided. A developer, which contains a color toner formed by adding zinc oxide particles externally to the surfaces of toner base particles containing binder resin and colorant, in which the average primary particle size of zinc oxide particles falls in a range of 10 nm or more and 50 nm or less, the average particle size of primary-particle aggregates of zinc oxide particles is 0.3 μm or less and the zinc oxide particle is made of zinc oxide doped with aluminum, is charged in a developer tank of a developing device of an image forming apparatus for image formation. | 06-11-2009 |
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20120100421 | SECONDARY BATTERY - Disclosed is a battery | 04-26-2012 |
20130134564 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A semiconductor device implemented with structures to suppress leakage current generation during operation and a method of making the same is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type, a second insulation film, which has at least one aperture between first and second apertures, formed on top of a first insulation film. The semiconductor device layer structure accommodates tensile stress differences between device layers to suppress lattice dislocation defects during device manufacturing and thus improves device reliability and performance. | 05-30-2013 |
20140077286 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR - According to one embodiment, a field-effect transistor is provided with a first conductivity-type first semiconductor layer, a source layer formed of a second conductivity-type semiconductor, a drain layer formed of a second conductivity-type semiconductor, and a gate electrode. The source layer is located on the first semiconductor layer. The drain layer is also located on the first semiconductor layer and is separated from the source layer. The gate electrode is located adjacent to the side wall of the drain layer which faces the source layer, and may also be located adjacent to the side wall of the source layer facing the drain layer, and on the first semiconductor layer with a gate insulating film formed therebetween. The upper surface of the gate electrode is recessed with respect to at least the upper surface of the drain layer. | 03-20-2014 |
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20120288121 | ACOUSTIC CONTROL DEVICE - A DSP performs a sound volume adjustment processing that adjusts a playback sound volume in accordance with a signal level of acoustic data in acoustic contents. Further, when the DSP detects that the acoustic data is switched, the DSP initializes the adjustment to perform a reset processing that performs adjustment in accordance with the acoustic data which is a new playback target. When the changing instruction of the playback position of the acoustic data is accepted, an audio microcomputer instructs the DSP to perform the reset processing. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294461 | SOUND EQUIPMENT, VOLUME CORRECTING APPARATUS, AND VOLUME CORRECTING METHOD - Sound equipment is configured to average an average value of a signal level at each predetermined frequency band of a sound signal at a different averaging time, to weight the average value calculated at a different averaging time by using an individual weighting value, to obtain a representative value based on a weighted average value, to determine a gain of a sound signal based on an obtained representative value, to correct a volume based on the corresponding gain, and to correct a volume based on the gain. The representative value is obtained by selecting the average value at which a gain becomes minimum within each weighted average value. The averaging performs at least a first averaging using the averaging time corresponding to the sound signal that the signal level changes rapidly, and a second averaging using the averaging time longer than the averaging time of the first averaging. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296459 | AUDIO APPARATUS - An audio apparatus according to an embodiment includes an audio signal receiving unit, a music gap signal receiving unit, a playback unit, and a determining unit. The audio signal receiving unit receives an audio signal in which successive multiple music data are contained in a single block of data. The determining unit determines a boundary of the music data on the basis of the time at which the music gap signal that indicates the boundary of the music data by the music gap signal receiving unit and the duration of a silent period in the audio signal that is played back by the playback unit. | 11-22-2012 |
20130101138 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING ACOUSTIC SIGNAL - An acoustic device, which reproduces an acoustic signal of one acoustic source selected from a plurality of acoustic sources. A first averaging unit averages signal levels of the acoustic signal for a first time period to obtain a first average signal. A second averaging unit averages the signal levels for a second time period shorter than the first time period to obtain a second average signal. A selecting unit selects either the first average signal or the second average signal as one signal having a signal level higher than the other. A gain decreasing unit decreases a gain of the acoustic signal according to the signal level of the one signal if the signal level of the one signal is higher than a threshold value determined according to the one acoustic source. A correcting unit corrects the signal levels of the acoustic signal according to the gain. | 04-25-2013 |