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20130002942 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY SHOE, AND CONNECTOR - An accessory which is controlled by a control signal supplied from a camera, includes: a terminal section having a plurality of terminals located adjacent to each other in an array that extends in an array direction, the plurality of terminals including at least a power terminal to which power is supplied from the camera and a signal input terminal to which the control signal is input from the camera; and a ground portion corresponding to the power terminal. The power terminal is disposed at a first end of the array the signal input terminal is disposed near a second end of the array opposite the first end, and the ground portion is disposed in a position further away from the power terminal than is the signal input terminal. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002944 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CAMERA CONTROL PROGRAM - An accessory is an accessory supplied with power from a camera. The accessory includes an accumulation section that accumulates power, a receiving section that receives a control command, for instructing a charging operation on the accumulation section, from the camera, a charging section that charges the accumulation section with the power supplied from the camera in accordance with the control command, and an accessory control section that outputs, to the camera, a charging request that requests to output the control command from the camera. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010134 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY SHOE, AND CONNECTOR - An accessory capable of communicating with a camera, includes a terminal section having a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals include a startup state providing terminal that provides, to the camera, a detection level by which the camera detects that the accessory is capable of being started up, a data signal terminal that outputs a data signal including information regarding the accessory to the camera, and a first reference potential terminal having a reference potential of the detection level and the data signal. The startup state providing terminal is disposed adjacent to the data signal terminal, and the first reference potential terminal is adjacent to the data signal terminal, and is disposed with the data signal terminal interposed between the startup state providing terminal and the first reference potential terminal. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010185 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY SHOE, AND CONNECTOR - An accessory communicates with a camera. The accessory includes a terminal section which has a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals includes a startup state providing terminal that supplies, to the camera, a detection level in order for the camera to detect that the accessory is capable of being started up, a data signal terminal that outputs a data signal, which includes information regarding the accessory, to the camera, and a first reference potential terminal which becomes a reference potential of the detection level and the data signal. The startup state providing terminal is arranged side by side with the data signal terminal, and the first reference potential terminal is arranged side by side with the data signal terminal such that the data signal terminal is disposed between the startup state providing terminal and the first reference potential terminal. | 01-10-2013 |
20150244924 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY SHOE, AND CONNECTOR - An accessory capable of communicating with a camera, includes a terminal section having a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals include a startup state providing terminal that provides, to the camera, a detection level by which the camera detects that the accessory is capable of being started up, a data signal terminal that outputs a data signal including information regarding the accessory to the camera, and a first reference potential terminal having a reference potential of the detection level and the data signal. The startup state providing terminal is disposed adjacent to the data signal terminal, and the first reference potential terminal is adjacent to the data signal terminal, and is disposed with the data signal terminal interposed between the startup state providing terminal and the first reference potential terminal. | 08-27-2015 |
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20090002752 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing control apparatus to store print data in a storage area from a print application and to send the print data to a print apparatus. The printing control apparatus includes a control unit to send, when a billing code is set in a first received print data, the print data to the print apparatus and to control, when no billing code is set in the first received print data, an order of the print data so that subsequent data is sent before (or instead of) the first received print data, a display control unit to display a list of the print data received from the print application, and a setting unit to select one or more print data from the list of the print data displayed by the display control unit to set a billing code according to input by a user. Related methods are also disclosed. | 01-01-2009 |
20090147306 | PRINT SYSTEM, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD - Administration such as the administration of the upper limit of a user is performed in an administration server, so as to control printing for each user, and data of a permission list is updated in a printer, so as to perform communication control and interrupt a communication performed for a client apparatus after the job execution. | 06-11-2009 |
20100220355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a spooler for spooling jobs received from an application; a spooler monitor; an archive unit for archiving a job; and a port monitor; the port monitor being configured to: detect if the spooler starts a job, in a case that the port monitor detects that the spooler starts a job, request control parameters from the spooler monitor and archive unit; and in a case that a control parameter received from the archive unit indicates that the job is to be archived, and a control parameter received from the spooler monitor indicates that another operation is to be performed on the job, cause the archive unit to archive the job and cause performance of the other operation. | 09-02-2010 |
20110176170 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of setup programs for respective printer drivers registered by a management apparatus, an update unit configured to set configuration information of the printing apparatus for installing the printer drivers with respect to the stored setup programs and to update the setup programs, and a provision unit configured to transmit information of the stored setup programs to an information processing apparatus according to a request from the information processing apparatus and to provide a setup program selected by the information processing apparatus. | 07-21-2011 |
20110304883 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD TO BE USED THEREIN - A printing system including a printer for storing a setup program for installing a printer driver and an information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus starts up the setup program acquired from the printer, when the printer driver is installed, identifies an attribute of an OS running on the information processing apparatus, creates a port having a port name according to a predetermined format according to the identified attribute of the OS, and installs the printer driver. | 12-15-2011 |
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20080298212 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE AND FOCUS POSITION CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a focus position control method includes irradiating a beam to an optical disc via an objective lens, receiving reflected light and outputting a signal, generating a focus error signal, detecting an amplitude of a signal high-pass-filtering the signal, detecting an intensity of a signal low-pass-filtering the signal, supplying a driving voltage corresponding to the focus error signal to a drive coil configured to move the objective lens to an optical axis direction of the beam when the amplitude is larger than the first value, or when the amplitude is not larger than the first value and the intensity is smaller than the second value, and supplying a driving voltage having a constant voltage value to the drive coil when the amplitude is not larger than the first value and the intensity is not smaller than the second value. | 12-04-2008 |
20090003185 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical disc apparatus includes a laser diode configured to irradiate a laser beam onto an optical disc, a laser drive circuit configured to supply the laser diode with a laser drive current superposed with a high frequency electric current according to defined conditions of the high frequency electric current in order to turn the laser beam output from the laser diode to a multimode laser beam, a detecting section configured to detect a frequency condition of the high frequency electric current to reduce a quantity of interlayer crosstalk, and a setting section configured to set the detected condition in the laser drive circuit. | 01-01-2009 |
20090059765 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DISCRIMINATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, the invention provides an optical disk device having an irradiation section which applies a laser beam to an optical disk, a detection section which receives a reflected light emitted from the irradiation section and reflected from the optical disk to output a detection signal, and a discrimination section which performs focus search using the irradiation section and the detection section and determines whether the optical disk is a triple layer optical disk on the basis of the detection signal upon performing focus search. | 03-05-2009 |
20090161501 | FOCUS CONTROL METHOD AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, when a focus servo goes off and the distance between an objective lens and a recording layer of an optical disc does not coincide with a focal length of the objective lens, a control voltage or current corresponding to an optical disc wobble stored in a memory is superimposed on a control voltage or current supplied to a driving mechanism to move an objective lens along an optical axis for re-focusing, and the superimposed voltage or current is supplied to the driving mechanism. Therefore, pull-in of a focus servo for re-focusing is possible in a short time. | 06-25-2009 |
20090252006 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical disc device includes a semiconductor laser which generates laser light to irradiate an optical disc, and an automatic power control circuit which detects an optical output of the semiconductor laser, sets driving current data equalized to reflect the detection result, and drives the semiconductor laser based on the driving current data. This optical disc device further includes a protection circuit which monitors the driving current data set in the automatic power control circuit to invalidate the driving current data in a case where the abnormality of the driving current data is detected. | 10-08-2009 |
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20090096831 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a first support member fixed to a chassis and configured to guide the motion of a carriage, and a second support member provided farther from a platen than the first support member. The gap between a recording head and the platen is changed by moving the second support member. | 04-16-2009 |
20090141098 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a head set lever which fixes a head cartridge to a carriage section. The head set lever is movable between a first position at which the head cartridge is fixed to the carriage section and a second position at which mounting and removal of the head cartridge on and from the carriage section is permitted. Attachment of an ink tank to the head cartridge is inhibited when the head cartridge is mounted on the carriage section and the head set lever is arranged at a position other than the first position. | 06-04-2009 |
20110132957 | RECORDING-MEDIUM-CONVEYING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A device includes a conveying roller configured to convey a recording medium, a follower roller configured to press the recording medium against the conveying roller, a detector configured to detect a direction of skew of the conveyed recording medium, and a changer configured to change a state of contact between the recording medium and the conveying roller in accordance with a result of the detection by the detector such that a length of a portion of the conveying roller that is in contact with the recording medium in a conveyance direction is larger on a side toward which the recording medium is skewed than on an opposite side. | 06-09-2011 |
20120176453 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a head set lever which fixes a head cartridge to a carriage section. The head set lever is movable between a first position at which the head cartridge is fixed to the carriage section and a second position at which mounting and removal of the head cartridge on and from the carriage section is permitted. Attachment of an ink tank to the head cartridge is inhibited when the head cartridge is mounted on the carriage section and the head set lever is arranged at a position other than the first position. | 07-12-2012 |
20120268542 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus has a pair of bearings | 10-25-2012 |
20130001859 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - Even in printing apparatus that make use of a plurality of kinds of sheets, the degradation of image quality is reduced. A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a sheet stacking unit; a sheet conveying unit being in contact with the sheet stacked on an uppermost portion, of the stacked sheets, and conveying the sheet; a separation unit separating the sheets into only one sheet of the uppermost portion by a separation slope that abuts a tip portion of the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit; and a guide unit connected to the separation unit and guiding the sheet, in which an angle between the sheet stacking unit and the separation slope is switched to a first angle and a second angle smaller than the first angle by a rotation center of the separation unit provided in a vicinity of a connection portion of the separation unit and the guide unit. | 01-03-2013 |
20150239702 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A sheet stacking device that can appropriately stack, at a fixed position, sheets that are discharged to a discharge tray, and a printing apparatus are provided. A presser member holds down, at a pressing position, the sheets stacked on the discharge tray. The presser member is moved from the pressing position to a retraction position in a period after discharging of a sheet has been started and before discharging of a succeeding sheet is started. | 08-27-2015 |
20150251865 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller, a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that the trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and the leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet. | 09-10-2015 |
20150256694 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a first feeding roller, a feeding motor configured to drive the first feeding roller, a second feeding roller, a conveyance roller, a conveyance motor configured to drive the conveyance roller, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet, a detection sensor configured to detect the leading edge of the printing sheet, and a control unit configured to, when the printing unit performs a printing operation on a preceding sheet, drive the feeding motor in synchronization with the conveyance motor before the detection sensor detects the leading edge of a succeeding sheet, and continuously drive the feeding motor so that the conveying speed of the succeeding sheet by the feeding motor becomes higher than that of the preceding sheet after the detection sensor detects the leading edge of the succeeding sheet. | 09-10-2015 |