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20110140343 | MEDIUM CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium conveying device includes a first guide member, a second guide member, a conveying member, and a support member. The first guide member guides one face of a medium to be conveyed and opposed to the one face when the medium is conveyed. The second guide member guides the other face of the medium and is opposed to the other face when the medium is conveyed, the second guide member being movable between a close position and an open position. The conveying member is provided in a conveying passage formed by the first guide member and the second guide member being at the close position in order to convey the medium in the conveying passage. The support member keeps the second guide member at the open position and is provided at a position outer than the second guide member in a direction that the medium is conveyed. When the second guide member is at the open position, the medium in the conveying passage is removable from the conveying passage. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142515 | MEDIUM CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium conveying device includes an alignment member, a skew conveying member, and a removal member. The alignment member faces one end of a medium and aligns the medium while contacting with the medium when the medium is conveyed in a first direction. The skew conveying member conveys the medium in a second direction crossing to the first direction so that the one end comes in contact with the alignment member and that includes a drive member and a driven member opposed to the drive member and driven by the drive member. The removal member has a tip end coming in contact with a face of the drive member to remove a deposit on the face. The removal member is placed along a rotation direction of the drive member so that the tip end faces downstream of the rotational direction. | 06-16-2011 |
20120248679 | SHEET TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet transport device includes an abutment member that moves downstream in a sheet transport direction and against which a leading end of a sheet that has been transported from upstream in the sheet transport direction abuts; and a transport unit that transports the sheet whose leading end has abutted against the abutment member further downstream. The abutment member moves at least to the transport unit in a state in which the leading end of the sheet abuts against the abutment member, and the abutment member is separated from the leading end of the sheet after the transport unit has started to transport the sheet. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251211 | RECORDING-MATERIAL TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND RECORDING-MATERIAL TRANSPORT METHOD - A recording-material transport apparatus includes a retracting member that moves at a speed lower than a transport speed of a recording material transported from an upstream side in a transport direction, to a downstream side in the transport direction along a transport path for the recording material, and that retracts from the transport path after a leading end of the recording material contacts with the retracting member, a first transport member that transports the recording material from the upstream side in the transport direction toward the retracting member, and a second transport member that further transports the recording material in contact with the retracting member to the downstream side. After the leading end of the recording material contacts with the retracting member, without being paused, transport of the recording material with the first transport member is continued to deliver the recording material to the second transport member. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251212 | RECORDING-MATERIAL TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND RECORDING-MATERIAL TRANSPORT METHOD - A recording-material transport apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording material, a detector that detects a position of the recording material in intersecting directions intersecting a transport direction in which the recording material is transported by the transport unit, and a moving member that moves the recording material transported by the transport unit to a predetermined position in a predetermined one of the intersecting directions on the basis of a detection result of the detector. | 10-04-2012 |
20120288309 | SHEET TRANSPORTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet transporting device includes a regulating member is arranged so that an edge of a sheet is abutted against the regulating member while moving toward downstream in a transporting direction of the sheet, and a first transport member that transports the sheet toward the regulating member while moving toward the downstream in the transporting direction, and that pushes the sheet against the regulating member while slipping on a surface of the sheet in a state where the sheet is abutted against the regulating member, wherein the regulating member and the first transport member moving together toward the downstream in the transporting direction. | 11-15-2012 |
20120300261 | RECORDING MATERIAL TRANSPORTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording material transporting device includes a transport path along which a recording material is transported, a first transporting unit that includes a first rotating member and a second rotating member being arranged apart from each other in a direction crossing the transport path, the first transporting unit correcting skew of the recording material by rotating the first rotating member and the second rotating member in a different speed, and a second transporting unit that includes a third rotating member and a fourth rotating member being arranged apart from each other in the crossing direction, the second transporting unit correcting skew of the recording material by rotating the third rotating member and the fourth rotating member in a different speed, wherein the third rotating member and the fourth rotating member are arranged between the first rotating member and the second rotating member. | 11-29-2012 |
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20100073519 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a first image storing unit that stores a first history image including a first picked-up image forming a picked-up moving image; an image transforming unit that transforms, on the basis of transformation information concerning the first picked-up image and a second picked-up image forming the picked-up moving image located after the first picked-up image on a time axis of the picked-up moving image, the second picked-up image; and an image combining unit that causes a second image storing unit different from the first image storing unit to store the transformed second picked-up image, overwrites the first history image stored in the first image storing unit on the second picked-up image stored in the second image storing unit, and combines the first history image and the second picked-up image. | 03-25-2010 |
20100245612 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a determination unit determining whether each character included as a subject in a captured image is an unnoted non-main character; and a controller controlling an image-related process which is a process related to an image on the basis of a status of the character determined as a non-main character. | 09-30-2010 |
20110052081 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector for detecting a face region from an image including a face of a user, a part detector for detecting a positional layout of a part of the face included in the face region detected by the face detector, a determiner for determining an attribute of the face on the basis of the positional layout of the part detected by the part detector and calculating a score indicating attribute determination results, a model selector for selecting, on the basis of the score calculated by the determiner, a model that is to be displayed in place of the face of the user in the image, and an image generator for generating an image of a face of the model selected by the model selector and synthesizing the image of the face of the model with the face of the user within the face region. | 03-03-2011 |
20120301860 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A correction unit corrects parameters of an ensemble learner having a plurality of weak learners that receive characteristic amounts extracted from an input image and output weak hypotheses indicating whether or not a predetermined target is reflected in the input image using correction information. A discrimination processing unit integrates the weak hypotheses output from the weak learners with respect to the characteristic amounts using the ensemble learner of which the parameters are corrected and discriminates whether or not the target is reflected in the input image based on an integrated value of the weak hypotheses. The correction information is calculated based on a light source illuminating the target in a correction information calculation unit | 11-29-2012 |
20130027393 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an image generation unit configured to generate a viewpoint image in a case where a watch point set in a three-dimensional virtual space is viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint, a detection unit configured to detect a movement of an operator, and a viewpoint displacement unit configured to displace the virtual viewpoint with the set watch point as a reference on the basis of the detected movement of the operator. | 01-31-2013 |
20140058703 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates particularly to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which can improve sleep efficiency. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technique has: an acquisition unit which acquires information which indicates an action schedule of a user; and a first determination unit which determines whether the user needs to wake up or sleep, and determines the degree of necessity of waking up when determining that the user needs to wake up and the degree of necessity of sleeping when determining the user needs to sleep, according to the action schedule of the user. The present technique is applicable to a mobile device such as a mobile telephone, a PDA and a digital camera. | 02-27-2014 |
20140132794 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a determination unit determining whether each character included as a subject in a captured image is an unnoted non-main character; and a controller controlling an image-related process which is a process related to an image on the basis of a status of the character determined as a non-main character. | 05-15-2014 |
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20090161539 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION - A signal transmission method checks, when detecting an occurrence of a communication request, whether the communication request is a high speed communication (step S | 06-25-2009 |
20090207803 | BASE STATION AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A disclosed base station in a mobile communications system which uses a single-carrier technique for uplink includes a classifying unit which classifies, for each of multiple user apparatuses according to a path loss between the respective user apparatus and the base station, the multiple user apparatuses into two or more groups; and a scheduler which plans allocating of uplink resources to the user apparatuses. Uplink signals of each user apparatus that have multiple frequency components lined up in equal frequency intervals are multiplexed using a distributed frequency division multiplexing technique such that they are made mutually orthogonal on a frequency axis, the scheduler plans the resource allocating such that the user apparatuses belonging to different groups utilize different group bands or different time slots, and the group bands are specified by dividing a system band into groups. | 08-20-2009 |
20100304790 | RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS - A shared AMP includes: a transmission/reception processor section (TRX-B) for a second mobile communication system configured to perform frequency convers ion processing on an inputted transmission baseband signal for a mobile communication system B, and to output a transmission radio frequency signal for the second mobile communication system; a power level adjuster section (VA) configured to adjust a power level of an inputted transmission radio frequency signal for a first mobile communication system; a combiner section (COM) configured to generate a transmission radio frequency signal, by combining the transmission radio frequency signal for the first mobile communication system outputted from the power level adjuster section (VA) and the transmission radio frequency signal for the second mobile communication system outputted from the transmission/reception processor section (TRX-B) for the second mobile communication system; and a common amplifier section (PA) configured to amplify a power level of the transmission radio frequency signal outputted from the combiner section (COM) at a predetermined amplification rate, and to output the resultant signal. | 12-02-2010 |
20110070886 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, LOCATION REGISTRATION METHOD, HANDOVER METHOD, EXCHANGE, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO CONTROL STATION - Provided is a mobile communication system configured to permit a cell under a femto radio base station Node B# | 03-24-2011 |
20110142102 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD, DEMODULATION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND FADING FREQUENCY DECISION DEVICE AND METHOD - In this invention, a channel estimation value of data symbols of a data channel is calculated by weighting and averaging pilot symbols in a parallel time multiplexing method. Also, a channel estimation value of data symbols during each data symbol interval is calculated by dividing data symbols in a slot into a plurality of data symbol intervals, selecting pilot symbols suitable for calculation of a channel estimation value of data symbols during each data symbol interval and weighting and averaging that pilot symbols. Also, a fading frequency is detected based on an inner product value of pilot symbols. Weighting factors are changed based on the detected fading frequency. Also, a channel estimation value is calculated by weighting and averaging pilot signals using a plurality of weighting sequences. The calculated channel estimation value is used to demodulate received data. The output data with the highest quality is selected by judging reliability of these plurality of demodulated data. It is also possible to select some weighting sequences based on the result of the reliability judgment of the demodulated data for predetermined period of time. In this case, after the selection, demodulation is performed by using these selected weighting sequences only. | 06-16-2011 |