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20110145843 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FUNCTION ADDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an application platform including at least one interface having an implementation that is blank, and an applying part configured to apply at least one additional program, capable of being dynamically added to another program, to the interface. | 06-16-2011 |
20130332166 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND OUTPUT METHOD - A processing apparatus includes: a voice recognition unit that recognizes a voice of a user; a condition recognition unit that recognizes a current condition of a user; a search result acquisition unit that acquires a search result searched on the basis of the voice recognized by the voice recognition unit; an output manner determination unit that determines a manner of outputting the search result on the basis of the current condition recognized by the condition recognition unit; and an output control unit that causes an output unit to output the search result acquired by the search result acquisition unit in the manner determined by the output manner determination unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339013 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND OUTPUT METHOD - A processing apparatus includes: a search result acquisition unit that acquires a search result searched based on a voice of a user recognized by a voice recognition unit; a user data storage unit that stores therein a knowledge level so as to be associated with a user; an expression data storage unit that stores therein a plurality of pieces of expression data expressing provision contents provided to the user as the search result so as to be associated with a plurality of different knowledge levels, the plurality of pieces of expression data having different professional levels; a knowledge level identifying unit that identifies a knowledge level of the user with reference to the user data storage unit; an editing unit that edits the search result based on the expression data associated with the identified knowledge level; and an output unit that outputs the edited search result. | 12-19-2013 |
20140082581 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing apparatus includes a first program that causes the data processing apparatus to perform a display of a first screen relating to a process using hardware specific to the data processing apparatus, and to perform the process in accordance with setting data input via the first screen, includes an interface that receives setting data relating to the process from a second program, and causes the data processing apparatus to perform the process in accordance with the setting data received from the second program. | 03-20-2014 |
20140359631 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL - An information processing system includes a detection unit configured to detect an end of a second application program that cooperates with a first application program operated by a user; a report unit configured to report the end to the first application program, and end the first application program; and a request unit configured to request a third application program to display information relevant to the end of the second application program. | 12-04-2014 |
20150081268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATON PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM PRODUCT - Disclosed is an information processing system having one or more computers. The information processing system includes a request receiver configured to receive a request from a program causing an apparatus to execute a predetermined process, a simulator configured to simulate the process executed by the apparatus in accordance with the request, an instruction receiver configured to receive a status change instruction for changing a status of the simulator from a user, and a status changer configured to cause the simulator to change a status of the simulator in accordance with the status change instruction. In the information processing system, the simulator simulates the process executed by the apparatus in the status changed by the status changer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150187022 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing system comprises: an accepting unit that accepts identification information for identifying a user of an apparatus; a reading unit that reads an image on a document to output image data; an extracting unit that extracts character string information including a character string in the image and first position information on the character string in the image from the image data; a storage unit that stores therein allocation information in which an item relating to settlement is associated with second position information on the item on the document; an allocating unit that compares the allocation information with the character string information to allocate the item to the character string; and a transmitting unit that transmits settlement information including the character string, the item allocated to the character string, and the identification information. | 07-02-2015 |
20150355918 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus including: a shared operation unit that performs verification of operation of inter-model common processing common to multiple models out of processes of an application with a first program for realizing operation common to the models, and sends a result of the operation verification to the application; a processing requesting unit that requests an external device to perform verification of operation of model-dependent processing specific to each model with a second program for realizing operation specific to each model; and an acquiring unit that acquires a result of the verification of operation of model-dependent processing from the external device, and sends the result to the application, and external devices that perform verification of operation of model-dependent processing specific to each model out of the processes of the application with the second program for realizing operation specific to each model. | 12-10-2015 |
20160125175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an identification part configured to, in response to a user's operation to start any given one of a plurality of first application programs, determine whether the start of the one of the first application programs is allowed; and a request part configured to request the one of the first application programs to display a first screen which indicates the start of the one of the first application programs is not allowed when the identification part determines that the start of the one of the first application programs is not allowed, and request a second application program to display a second screen including a message when the identification part determines that the start of the one of the first application programs is allowed and when the message needs to be given. | 05-05-2016 |
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20120320544 | ELECTRICAL CONTROL UNIT - An electrical control unit comprises a case having a groove on a first contact surface thereof, a cover having a protrusion on a second contact surface thereof, a printed wiring board received in a board receiving space defined between the case and the cover, and an adhesive received in the groove, wherein when the cover is put on the case having the protrusion inserted into the groove, the adhesive in a still soft condition is forced to move toward a space between the first and second contact surfaces for bonding the same, and wherein when the printed wiring board is properly put in the board receiving space, a peripheral outer surface of the board serves as an extra part of an inside wall of the groove. | 12-20-2012 |
20130069320 | Seal Structure for Electronic Control Device - Seal structure for electronic control device having a seal portion formed between an outer peripheral surface of a connector and an inner peripheral surface of a housing, and provided with a seal groove and a protruding line. The seal portion has a deep bottom portion having a seal groove, a shallow bottom portion whose seal groove is shallower than that of the deep bottom portion, and a connecting portion connecting these deep and shallow bottom portions. Width of the seal groove of the shallow bottom portion is set to be larger than the deep bottom portion As a position of a seal groove of the connecting portion gets closer to the deep bottom portion from the shallow bottom portion, depth of the seal groove of the connecting portion is set to be gradually larger, and width of the seal groove of the connecting portion is set to be gradually smaller. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070432 | Seal Structure for Electronic Control Device - A seal structure for an electronic control device having a circuit board housed in a watertight space a housing that is formed by fitting a plurality of fitting members together, has first and second seal portions which are formed at a fitting surface portion between the fitting members that are fitted together. One side of a pair of the fitting members of each of the first and second seal portions is provided with a seal groove, the other side is provided with a protruding line. An auxiliary seal groove and an auxiliary protruding line are formed on opposing surfaces of the seal groove and the protruding line at a merged part where the first and second seal portions meet each other. The auxiliary seal groove and the auxiliary protruding line continuously extend from the seal groove up to an end surface of the protruding line. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072040 | Electronic Control Device - An electronic control device has a circuit board to which, at one side thereof, a connector is fixed; a housing having a pair of connector sandwiching members that sandwich the connector, a part of the connector being exposed to an outside of the housing and a remaining part of the connector and the circuit board being housed in a watertight space of the housing, and one of the connector sandwiching members being set to be higher in rigidity than the other; a seal portion filled with a sealant; and a shift suppression unit having a protruding portion formed at one side of the higher-rigidity connector sandwiching member and the connector and a hollow portion formed at the other side The shift suppression unit suppresses a shift of the connector with respect to the housing by fitting of the protruding portion and the hollow portion together. | 03-21-2013 |
20140065877 | SEAL STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS - A seal structure includes a connector-lower-surface-side flat seal portion constituted by a surface-joint portion between a lower surface of a connector and a lower housing member; and a groove seal portion constituted between a groove and a protrusion fitted into the groove. The groove is provided in one of inner surfaces of outer circumferential edge portions of an upper housing member and the lower housing member. The protrusion is provided in another of these inner surfaces. The seal structure further includes a linking seal portion connecting the connector-lower-surface-side flat seal portion with the groove seal portion. The linking seal portion includes a deep-bottom portion having a seal groove continuous with the groove seal portion, a shallow-bottom portion having a seal groove shallower than the seal groove of the deep-bottom portion and continuous with the connector-lower-surface-side flat seal portion, and a connecting portion linking the deep-bottom portion to the shallow-bottom portion. | 03-06-2014 |
20140080329 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE - An electronic control device including a circuit board, a connector with connector pins having a board connecting portion at which the connector pins are electrically connected with the circuit board, a pair of housing members accommodating the circuit board and the connector therebetween, a waterproof seal portion through which connection between the connector and the pair of housing members and connection between the pair of housing members are provided in a fluid-tight manner, the waterproof seal portion including a connector-side waterproof seal portion disposed between the connector and one of the pair of housing members which is opposed to the board connecting portion of the connector pins, and a barrier portion disposed between the board connecting portion of the connector pins and the connector-side waterproof seal portion. | 03-20-2014 |
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20090064198 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs a command, a wireless interface unit that wirelessly exchanges data with an image forming apparatus in a direct manner, a transmission/reception control unit that controls an operation of the wireless interface unit, and a program processing unit that performs an installation process of a program. The transmission/reception control unit causes the wireless interface unit to receive a driver module from the image forming apparatus. The program processing unit performs an installation process of the driver module received by the wireless interface unit. | 03-05-2009 |
20150094873 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a power supply controller that selects either commercial power or a secondary battery as a power supply and a main controller that controls the power supply controller. The main controller includes a power supply availability determination unit that determines whether or not both the commercial power and the secondary battery are available and a power supply selection unit that instructs the power supply controller to select the secondary battery as the power supply during a predetermined secondary battery usage period and instructs the power supply controller to select the commercial power as the power supply at times other than the secondary battery usage period in case both the commercial power and the secondary battery are available. | 04-02-2015 |
20150195417 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a status indicator that displays status of a battery, a controller that controls an operating mode of the information processing apparatus and supplies power to the status indicator, and an instruction acceptance unit that accepts user instruction to display to the status indicator. The controller turns off the status indicator in transitioning to the energy saving mode, and, in the energy saving mode, turns on the status indicator in response to the instruction acceptance unit accepting the user instruction to display and turns off the status indicator in response to the user instruction to display being released. | 07-09-2015 |
20150306868 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND RECORDING - An image forming apparatus driven with stored power from a battery includes an image forming unit to perform printing; a battery remaining amount detecting unit to detect a remaining amount of the stored power of the battery; and an enforced printing unit to determine whether the detected remaining amount of the stored power of the battery reaches a threshold value indicating to stop printing, and controls the image forming unit to continuously perform printing even when it is determined that the detected remaining amount reaches the threshold value. | 10-29-2015 |
20160142574 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first detector to detect the image forming apparatus being driven by an AC adapter, a second detector to detect the image forming apparatus being driven by a battery, a third detector to detect an occurrence of power failure, and a first device to shut down a power supply of the image forming apparatus in a case of the power failure. | 05-19-2016 |
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20110234663 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a first ejecting head for ejecting a black ink; a second ejecting head disposed upstream of the first head and configured to eject a liquid that acts on an ink; third ejecting heads disposed downstream of the second head and configured to respectively eject color inks, the third ejecting heads including a specific third ejecting head disposed between the first and second heads; a head moving mechanism configured to move the specific third head between a print position and a retracted position; and a controller which controls the apparatus and which includes, an image-data storage portion, a head control portion configured to control the heads, and a head-movement control portion configured to control the head moving mechanism to move the specific third head from the print position to the retracted position when monochrome printing is conducted in which only the black ink is ejected. | 09-29-2011 |
20140035989 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - When it is determined that jamming of a recording medium has occurred and an image to be formed on the recording medium is a color image, a liquid ejection apparatus performs recovery action for first nozzle of a first liquid ejection head ejecting black liquid and second nozzles of second liquid ejection heads ejecting color liquid which is not black, after the jamming of the recording medium is resolved. On the other hand, when the image to be formed on the recording medium is a monochrome image, the liquid ejection apparatus performs the recovery action for the first nozzles of the first liquid ejection head. | 02-06-2014 |
20150092207 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to: determine whether a change of a signal from a sensor indicates a case where a recording medium is conveyed by a conveyance mechanism or a case where the recording medium is placed on a placement unit without conveying by the conveyance mechanism, based on whether the recording medium is conveyed by the conveyance mechanism; start, when the reading unit is operated to start reading the image within a first predetermined time after the signal from the sensor is changed, monitoring to determine whether the recording medium is placed on the placement unit without conveying by the conveyance mechanism; and store, when it is determined during the monitoring that the recording medium is placed on the placement unit without conveying by the conveyance mechanism, data indicating an irregularity reading in the storage unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150277815 | NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A non-transitory storage medium storing a program executable by a computer of a control device that controls a recording device and a reading device, wherein, when the control device receives a command for a cooperative operation in which the reading device reads an image from a recording medium and the recording device records the read image on a recording medium, the program causes the control device to: obtain, from each of the recording device and the reading device, operation mode information relating to an operation mode set for each of the recording device and the reading device; and where the operation mode information of the recording device or the reading device indicates a quiet mode and the operation mode information of the other of the recording device and the reading device does not indicate the quiet mode, control the other of the recording device and the reading device to perform a quiet operation. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090080310 | Optical disk recording method, optical disk device, program, and recording medium - In an optical disk recording method adapted to record information on an optical disk by a light beam incident to the disk in one direction, the disk has a plurality of rewritable recording layers including a first layer nearest to a plane of incidence and a second layer distant from the plane of incidence. A target layer where user data is to be recorded is specified from the first and second layers. Prior to recording the user data to a requested address in the second layer when the target layer is the second layer, a partial region of the first layer corresponding to a same radial position as the requested address in the second layer is set to either a non-recorded state or a recorded state depending on a characteristic of the disk. The user data is recorded to the requested address in the target layer. | 03-26-2009 |
20090132829 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, METHOD FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY OF COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A disc stores therein a computer program and encrypted information. A BIOS is executed at the time of start-up and starts the computer program. A TPM is connected to the BIOS by a low-speed bus. The TPM includes a register for storing data. A blob stores therein true hash values of the computer program and the BIOS in advance. The BIOS includes a hash value calculating unit that calculates hash values of the computer program and the BIOS and stores those hash values in the register. The TPM compares the hash values stored in the register with the hash values stored in the blob and decrypts information in the blob if the hash values agree with each other. | 05-21-2009 |
20090144573 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image onto a recording sheet based on image data; a controlling unit configured to control a print execution process for the printing unit and to control all units of the image forming apparatus; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor, while the printing unit and the controlling unit are in a power-saving mode in which power supply to the printing unit and the controlling unit is stopped, whether there is a resuming factor for resuming operation from the power-saving mode. The monitoring unit includes a requesting unit configured to send, to the printing unit, a request to resume operation and a request to set a printing mode, before sending a request to resume operation to the controlling unit, in the event that the resuming factor is detected. | 06-04-2009 |
20090279141 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an image processing apparatus, an image memory handler (IMH) sets an engine descriptor for an engine unit and a virtual descriptor for a virtual video input driver, thereby controlling moving of image data from a local memory (MEM) to a hard disk drive (HDD). In a process in which the engine unit writes the image data into the MEM in such a manner defined by settings described in the engine descriptor, the virtual video input driver handles occurrence of an interrupt to a PCI direct access in such a manner that the image data is moved from the MEM to the HDD properly. | 11-12-2009 |
20110279847 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit, an acquiring unit, a transmission control unit, and a printing control unit. The reading unit reads images of multiple pages of originals. The acquiring unit acquires device information from connected child devices. The transmission control unit determines a child device which takes charge of part of a printing process of the read images and images to be transmitted to the child device based on the acquired device information, and transmits the determined images to the determined child device. The printing control unit determines printing order according to the acquired device information, and transmits an instruction to print the images in the determined printing order to the child device. | 11-17-2011 |
20140115343 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, METHOD FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY OF COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A disc stores therein a computer program and encrypted information. A BIOS is executed at the time of start-up and starts the computer program. A TPM is connected to the BIOS by a low-speed bus. The TPM includes a register for storing data. A blob stores therein true hash values of the computer program and the BIOS in advance. The BIOS includes a hash value calculating unit that calculates hash values of the computer program and the BIOS and stores those hash values in the register. The TPM compares the hash values stored in the register with the hash values stored in the blob and decrypts information in the blob if the hash values agree with each other. | 04-24-2014 |
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20120013964 | PLASTIC ARTICLE, METHOD OF SHAPING PLASTIC ARTICLE, AND OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE HAVING PLASTIC ARTICLE - A plastic article is formable by using a metal die having a cavity to accommodate melted resin therein at a given pressure. The plastic article includes a transfer face to which is transferred a face shape of the metal die, a projection disposed at least one face other than the transfer face, an incomplete transfer face having a concave shape disposed at the same face on which the projection is disposed, formed by an incomplete transfer of a face shape of the cavity of the metal die, and an incomplete transfer face having a convex shape disposed at least one face other than the transfer face. | 01-19-2012 |
20120063811 | RESIN CASTING MOLD, MOLDED RESIN PRODUCT, OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A resin casting mold includes a mold member forming a cavity that includes first and second surfaces facing each other in a first direction. The mold member further includes an insert member which forms a part of a third surface and which is slidable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. At least one cross-sectional shape of the cavity satisfies h | 03-15-2012 |
20140253995 | INJECTION MOLD, OPTICAL COMPONENT, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an injection mold for molding an optical component including an optical surface, a non-optical surface separated from the optical surface, and a rib provided to an edge portion of the optical surface, and longer in a direction parallel to the optical surface than in a direction perpendicular to the optical surface. The mold includes a transfer piece including a transfer surface that molds the optical surface and a movable cavity piece including a non-transfer surface that molds at least a portion of the non-optical surface. The transfer surface and the non-transfer surface define a cavity to be filled with resin. The movable cavity piece is moved away from the resin during a process of cooling the resin. At least a portion of the non-transfer surface is located closer to the rib than a boundary between the transfer surface and the rib. | 09-11-2014 |
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20110142467 | HEATING CONTROLLING DEVICE, HEATING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD - There is provided a heating controlling device having: a receiving section receiving heating instructions for plural heaters; and a controller that, when the receiving section receives a heating instruction to heat another heater while two or more heaters other than the heater for which the heating instruction is received are heating, stops heating of the heaters that are heating, after a first predetermined time period elapses from the control to stop heating, starts heating of the heater for which the heating instruction is received, and each time a number of second predetermined time periods elapses from the control to start heating, restarts heating, on the basis of predetermined priority rankings, of the heaters that were controlled to stop heating. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142507 | HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heating apparatus of the present invention includes a press member that undergoes driven rotation by contacting a heating member that rotates, the press member conveying a recording medium while nipping the recording medium between the press member and the heating member; a contact and separation mechanism that contacts the press member against the heating member and separates the press member away from the heating member; and a drive mechanism that rotationally drives the press member when the press member is separated from the heating member by the contact and separation mechanism. | 06-16-2011 |
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20110129998 | CLEANING LIQUID FOR LITHOGRAPHY AND METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING - Provided are a cleaning liquid for lithography that exhibits excellent corrosion suppression performance in relation to tungsten, and excellent removal performance in relation to a resist film or the like, and a method for forming a wiring using the cleaning liquid for lithography. The cleaning liquid for lithography according to the present invention includes a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, an inorganic salt and an anti-corrosion agent represented by a general formula (1) below. | 06-02-2011 |
20110195573 | CLEANING LIQUID FOR LITHOGRAPHY AND METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING - Provided are a cleaning liquid for lithography that exhibits excellent corrosion suppression performance in relation to ILD materials, and excellent removal performance in relation to a resist film and a bottom antireflective coating film, and a method for forming a wiring using the cleaning liquid for lithography. The cleaning liquid for lithography according to the present invention includes a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, a water soluble organic solvent, water, and an inorganic base. The water soluble organic solvent contains a highly polar solvent having a dipole moment of no less than 3.0 D, a glycol ether solvent and a polyhydric alcohol, and the total content of the highly polar solvent and the glycol ether solvent is no less than 30% by mass relative to the total mass of the liquid for lithography. | 08-11-2011 |
20130126470 | STRIPPING SOLUTION FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY AND PATTERN FORMATION METHOD - A stripping solution for photolithography including hydrofluoric acid, a basic compound represented by general formula (b-1), and water. In the formula, R | 05-23-2013 |
20130172224 | CLEANING LIQUID, AND ANTICORROSIVE AGENT - In a cleaning liquid containing (A) an anticorrosive agent, and (B) a solvent, a compound represented by the following formula (1): | 07-04-2013 |
20130206039 | SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT AND SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD - A monosilane compound or bissilane compound of a specific structure having dimethylamino groups is contained in a surface treatment agent used in the hydrophobization treatment of substrate surfaces. | 08-15-2013 |
20140018281 | CLEANING LIQUID AND ANTICORROSIVE AGENT - A method of cleaning a substrate having a metal layer including copper or a copper-containing alloy, the method including cleaning the substrate using a cleaning liquid that includes a mercapto compound represented by one or both of the following formulas (1) and (2), and a solvent containing water and a water-soluble organic solvent: | 01-16-2014 |