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20110097129 | Printer and Method for Controlling the Same - A printer is provided that includes a double-side feeding path on which a first sheet is conveyed in a double-side printing operation, a manual feeding path on which a manually-fed second sheet is conveyed to a junction where the manual feeding path joins the double-side feeding path, a detector detecting the second sheet fed via the manual feeding path, and a controller configured to continue the double-side printing operation when the detector detects the second sheet during a continued-execution period, during which feeding of the second sheet is unlikely to have an influence on feeding of the first sheet even though the second sheet is fed via the manual feeding path in execution of the double-side printing operation. When the detector detects the second sheet outside the continued-execution period, the controller stops the double-side printing operation. | 04-28-2011 |
20110097130 | Printer and Method for Controlling the Same - A printer is provided that includes a printing unit printing an image on a sheet being conveyed on a printing path, a first feeder unit configured such that a sheet placed thereon is fed to the printing path via a first feeding path, a second feeder unit configured such that a sheet placed thereon is fed to the printing path via a second feeding path even while the first feeder unit is being replenished with sheets, and a controller configured to, in response to a first requirement being satisfied while the first feeder unit is forbidden to be replenished with sheets during a continuous printing operation, switch an actually-working feeder unit that works for actual sheet feeding in the continuous printing operation, to the second feeder unit, the first requirement including a condition that one or more sheets are placed on the second feeder unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20120020716 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device is provided with a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge unit having a discharge tray and configured to discharge the sheet from the printing unit to the discharge tray, and a control unit configured to control the sheet discharge unit to execute a slow discharge process between two subsequent print jobs, the slow discharge process being a sheet discharge process in which sheet discharging ability of the sheet discharge unit is impaired. | 01-26-2012 |
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20110080644 | HARD-COATED ANTIGLARE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE SAME - A hard-coated antiglare film that has an extremely low haze value, superior anti-fluorescent lamp glare properties, and anti-face glare properties, and can improve the depth of black in black display by preventing white blur from occurring, a polarizing plate, and the like. The hard-coated antiglare film includes: a transparent plastic film substrate; and a hard-coating antiglare layer containing fine particles, which is on at least one surface of the transparent plastic film substrate, and has a total haze value in a range of 0% to 5%. The number N | 04-07-2011 |
20120107605 | TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND TOUCH PANEL - Provided is a transparent conductive film including a hard coat layer having sufficient hardness, a superior abrasion resistance, and a superior soil resistance; also, provided are an electronic device and a touch panel using the transparent conductive film. A transparent conductive film | 05-03-2012 |
20140002899 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM, ANTI-GLARE FILM, COATING SOLUTION, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY | 01-02-2014 |
20140002901 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM, ANTI-GLARE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY | 01-02-2014 |
20140002904 | IMAGE DISPLAY, ANTI-GLARE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM | 01-02-2014 |
20140126064 | ANTI-GLARE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM - The present invention provides an anti-glare film having superior display characteristics of both having anti-glare properties and preventing white blur from occurring as well as having a higher production yield by preventing formation of a projection as a defect in outward appearance. The anti-glare film is an anti-glare film including: a translucent base: and an anti-glare layer on at least one surface of the translucent base, wherein the anti-glare layer is formed using an anti-glare layer-forming material containing a resin, particles, and thixotropy-imparting agents, the anti-glare layer includes a flocculated portion forming a convex portion on a surface of the anti-glare layer by flocculation of the particles and the thixotropy-imparting agents, and in the flocculated portion, the particles are present in the state of being gathered in an in-plane direction of the anti-glare layer. | 05-08-2014 |
20140345917 | DOUBLE-SIDED TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM AND TOUCH PANEL - Provided are a double-sided transparent conductive film which is good in appearance even when its transparent conductive layers are patterned, and has anti-blocking property, thereby being producible at low costs; a wound body thereof; and a touch panel. The double-sided transparent conductive film includes a base material film, and a base material film, and an optical adjusting layer and a transparent conductive layer which are formed in this order on each of both sides of the base material film, wherein an anti-blocking layer containing particles is formed at least one of: a location between the base material film and one optical adjusting layer; and a location between the base material film and the other optical adjusting layer, the anti-blocking layer has a flat portion and protrusion portions caused by the particles, and a value obtained by subtracting a thickness of the flat portion of the anti-blocking layer from a mode diameter of the particles is larger than a thickness of the optical adjusting layer. | 11-27-2014 |
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20080317405 | Optical switch and MEMS package - An optical switch switches ports through which a beam is input and output and includes an optical system through which the beam passes; a movable reflector that is enclosed in a casing and reflects, at a variable angle, the beam that has passed through the optical system; and a transmissive window that is disposed in the casing at a position through which the beam passes, is made of a uniaxial crystal, and obtains a phase difference with respect to the beam passing therethrough having a wavelength λ. The phase difference is λ | 12-25-2008 |
20090123165 | Dispersion compensating apparatus - A dispersion compensating apparatus compensates dispersion of an optical signal using reflection-type etalons. Each of the etalons reflects the optical signal and at least one etalon has, with respect to a group delay characteristic, a wavelength cycle and a finesse that are larger than those of the other etalons. Power supplies and temperature control units respectively shift, in terms of the wavelength, the group delay characteristics of the etalons. | 05-14-2009 |
20100020405 | VARIABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In order to perform dispersion compensation for an optical signal of light introduced from an input light collimator, a variable dispersion compensator includes: a group delay characteristic control unit which controls group delay characteristics at a group delay characteristic assignment unit; a positioning unit which positions a relative positional relationship between an optical axis position and an output light collimator in the case where the light from the input light collimator is output to an output light collimator through reflection on each of incident side planes of a plurality of reflective etalons; and a positioning control unit which controls the positioning unit so that the relative positional relationship becomes a positional relationship set in association with the group delay characteristics controlled by the group delay characteristic control unit, and minimizes loss deterioration in the case of changing the amount of dispersion compensation. | 01-28-2010 |
20100150550 | TRANSMISSION METHOD OF WDM LIGHT AND WDM OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - According to the WDM optical transmission system, for optical signals of respective wavelength in a WDM light propagated through a transmission path, a spectrum component at a center wavelength of each optical signal and a spectrum component in the vicinity of the center wavelength thereof are selectively attenuated by a spectrum correction optical filter, so that the WDM light is transmitted in a state where intensity of sideband components in the spectrum of each optical signal is relatively increased. As a result, even if spectrum width of the optical signal of each wavelength is limited when the WDM light passes through the band-limiting device on the transmission path, degradation of transmission characteristics caused by the attenuation of sideband components is reduced. | 06-17-2010 |
20100221002 | Optical signal processing apparatus - An OADM in a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system includes a wavelength selection switch that selects a predetermined wavelength from a multiple optical signal obtained by multiplexing a phase modulated signal and an intensity modulated signal and outputs the selected wavelength signal to a predetermined output port. The wavelength selection switch has a different delay for each wavelength of the multiple optical signal. For example, the wavelength selection switch includes a mirror array. Optical paths from the surfaces of mirrors arranged on the mirror array to the diffraction grating are different in the case of adjacent mirrors. | 09-02-2010 |
20100254715 | Driving method and driving apparatus for optical modulator, and optical transmitter using same - A driving apparatus supplies a drive signal to an optical modulator corresponding to a phase modulation format, and also, divides a part of an output light from the optical modulator; extracts some optical component of the divided light, which is distant from a carrier frequency by integral multiple of a modulation frequency, to detect a power of the optical component; and feedback controls a duty ratio of the drive signal or a cross-point level thereof so that the detected power approaches a minimum value. Thus, it is possible to stably perform phase modulation with high precision. | 10-07-2010 |
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20080212123 | Printer and output method employed in the printer - A printer which has a direct-printing function for reading and printing information stored in a storage device and which includes: an interface unit which receives the storage device, the storage device storing file information including content information for print or display and restrictive information for controlling output of the content information; a reading unit which reads the restrictive information from the storage device; a setting unit which sets indication information indicating the file information according to the content information and the restrictive information; and an indication outputting unit which outputs information based on the indication information set by the setting unit. | 09-04-2008 |
20080297848 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which inputs a keyword; a preparation unit which prepares list data relating to a print file containing the keyword among a plurality of print files stored in a storage unit; and a printing unit that prints a list based on the list data. | 12-04-2008 |
20090027711 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a selection section which selects a print target to be printed; an input section which inputs a print job for printing the print target selected by the selection section; an instruction section which instructs to continue the print job; and a printing section which executes a trial printing of printing a part of the print job including a plurality of pages input by the input section as a trial page, and thereafter, restarting and finishing the print job in response to that the instruction section instructs to continue the print job. | 01-29-2009 |
20120218597 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a receiving unit; a printing unit; a power feed unit including a non-power saving mode and a power saving mode, the power feed unit configured to change the mode; an input unit configured to receive an input of a switching instruction; a switching unit configured to switch the mode from the non-power saving mode to the power saving mode when a stop condition is satisfied, the switching unit configured to switch the mode when the switching instruction is input; and a change unit configured to change the stop condition to a second condition which is more likely not to be satisfied than a first condition, after the mode is changed from the non-power saving mode to the power saving mode and when the mode is switched from the power saving mode to the non-power saving mode by the switching instruction. | 08-30-2012 |
20130027717 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes an acquiring section, a determining section, a selecting section, and a printing section. The acquiring section is configured to access, based on reference information, a reference location on a network and to acquire print data from the reference location. The determining section is configured to determine whether the print data are constituted by a plurality of frames. The selecting section is configured to select at least one of the plurality of frames as a print target based on a user instruction when the determining section determines that the print data are constituted by the plurality of frames, and to select a single frame as the print target when the determining section determines that the print data are constituted by the single frame. The printing section is configured to print the print target selected by the selecting section. | 01-31-2013 |
20130135675 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - A server is provided that includes a connection establishing unit configured to establish a connection with an intended image processing device, an information acquiring unit configured to acquire user information for identifying a user who requests to establish the connection with the intended image processing device, a storage unit configured to store the user information acquired by the information acquiring unit, in association with the intended image processing device, and a changing unit configured to change a setting for each image processing device belonging to a group that includes image processing devices stored in the storage unit in association with user information identical to the acquired user information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130258387 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a receiving unit configured to receive a job from an external apparatus; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the basis of the job received by the receiving unit; and a control device. The control device configured to perform: an establishing process of establishing an allowance status in which the image processing apparatus is allowed to be designated as a job input destination from a user, with respect to the external apparatus; and a restricting process of restricting the image processing apparatus from being in the allowance status in a case where the image processing apparatus is in a restriction status in which the image processing is restricted. | 10-03-2013 |
20140092437 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND LOG RECORDING METHOD - A printing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store print data; a printing unit configured to print the print data; and a control device configured to, suspend, when a suspension condition of suspending the printing of the print data by the printing unit is satisfied, the printing of the print data until the suspension condition is not satisfied, and store a log related to the print data in a storage device, wherein, when the suspension condition is satisfied, the control device is configured to store the log in the storage device before the printing of the print data is started, and wherein, when the suspension condition is not satisfied, the control device is configured to store the log in the storage device after the printing of the print data is started. | 04-03-2014 |
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20120243926 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, a recording medium is fed by being switched between a first conveying path feeding a recording medium to a first image forming portion and a second conveying path feeding the recording medium to a second image forming portion without being enabled to pass through the first image forming portion. | 09-27-2012 |
20120269562 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a belt member for heating in a nip an image formed on a recording material; an urging portion, contacted to an inner surface of the belt member, for forming the nip; a guide portion, contacted to the inner surface of the belt member at an end portion, for guiding rotation of the belt member; a belt unit, including at least the belt member, the urging member and the guide portion, integrally detachably mountable to the image heating apparatus, wherein the belt member is detachably mountable to the belt unit; a frame for supporting the belt unit; and a limiting portion, provided on the frame, for limiting the belt member by abutment to an edge of the belt member. | 10-25-2012 |
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20140125918 | DIE STRUCTURE, TRANSFER MOLDING APPARATUS, TRANSFER MOLDING METHOD, OPTICAL MEMBER, AREA LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MOBILE DEVICE - A transfer molding method includes an insertion step of inserting a resin sheet between a first die and a second die, which are disposed opposite each other, a sandwiching step of sandwiching the resin sheet between the first and second dies while a transfer surface of a transfer member is brought into contact with at least one of surfaces of the resin sheet, and a transfer molding step of heating at least one of the first and second dies to melt at least a surface portion of the resin sheet with which the transfer surface of the transfer member is brought into contact, and exhausting residual air remaining in a recess through a groove portion connected to the recess when a thick portion is formed by the recess formed in the transfer surface. | 05-08-2014 |
20150021797 | METALLIC MOLD STRUCTURE, TRANSFER MOLDING APPARATUS, TRANSFER MOLDING METHOD, AND OPTICAL MEMBER FORMING APPARATUS - A transfer molding method includes supplying melted resin to a first metallic mold, conveying the first metallic mold onto which the resin was supplied to a position opposing a second metallic mold, performing transfer molding by sandwiching the resin between the two metallic molds, and cooling the resin after performing transfer molding. The performing transfer molding includes discharging residual air that remains in a recess via a groove portion. | 01-22-2015 |