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| 20080292349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member with an image bearing surface adapted to move in a given direction and carry a toner image thereon. A main cleaning device is opposed to the image bearing surface and electrically removes residual toner remaining on the image bearing surface. A power supply is adapted to apply to the main cleaning device a bias having a polarity reverse to a charge polarity of the residual toner. An auxiliary cleaning device is provided near and upstream of the main cleaning device with respect to the moving direction of the image bearing surface and can be brought into contact with the image bearing surface. A support structure supports the auxiliary cleaning device and permits the auxiliary cleaning device to be moved swingingly while following a displacement of the image bearing surface during the moving. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080304881 | ENDLESS BELT, BELT CONVEYOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An endless belt is provided with an endless belt body and a meandering prevention member in the form of a flat bar. The belt body includes a folded trace extending in the width direction thereof. The meandering prevention member is attached on one widthwise end of a circumferential surface of the belt body such that one widthwise end of the folded trace is covered thereby and the opposite longitudinal ends of the meandering prevention member abut each other in a rotating direction of the belt body. An abutting portion at the opposite ends of the meandering prevention member is arranged at a position displaced from the folded trace by a specified distance in the rotating direction of the belt body. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20110103850 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: an image bearing member configured to bear the toner image; a transfer element configured to transfer the toner image to the sheet; a first application element configured to apply a transfer voltage to the transfer element; a separator configured to separate the sheet from the image bearing member, the separator including a separation electrode configured to discharge an electrical current and the separation electrode including first and second separation electrodes aligned along the transfer element; and a partition configured to project between the transfer element and the separator so as to allow a current to flow from the transfer element to the first separation electrode while the partition suppresses a current flowing from the transfer element to the second separation electrode. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20120279270 | TURK'S HEAD STAND - In a Turk's head stand, double inner frames are disposed inside an outer frame. A first inner frame is disposed so as to be adjusted in the vertical direction, and a second inner frame is disposed so as to be adjusted in the horizontal direction. Four-way straightening rolls and position adjusting devices are incorporated inside the second inner frame. Mechanical structures for convexo-concave engagement are disposed on faces of the respective roll chocks and yokes and the inner frames opposed to each other, thereby to guide the respective roll chocks and yokes, by utilizing descending motions of the inner frames, after connection with a pressing device has been released, to form the stack body in series, and to enable the stack body to be withdrawn from the roll stand. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120285005 | FORMING APPARATUS - In a forming apparatus, inner frames are arranged in a forming roll stand so as to move up and down. Mechanical structures of convexo-concave engagement are provided on opposed faces between respective roll chocks and yokes and the inner frames. After connection with a pressing device is released, the roll chocks and yokes are guided utilizing the moving-downward motion of the inner frames, and a stack body is formed in series so as to be withdrawn from the roll stand. The stack body is disassembled utilizing the moving-upward motion of the inner frames, and the roll chocks and yokes can be guided to the desired positions inside the stand and locked. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130156465 | NEUTRALIZATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The light emitting portions | 06-20-2013 |
| 20150336406 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device includes a feed member, a conveyor belt, and a suction section. The feed member feeds a recording medium while in contact with a part of the recording medium. The conveyor belt conveys the recording medium having been conveyed by the feed member. The suction section sucks the recording medium onto the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt includes a first region that is to receive the part of the recording medium and a second region adjacent to the first region. The conveyor belt has a plurality of suction holes in communication with the suction section. The suction holes have a lower opening ratio in the first region than in the second region. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150375533 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device includes a conveyor belt and a suction section. The conveyor belt conveys a recording medium. The suction section sucks on the recording medium via the conveyor belt. The suction section includes a guide member that supports the recording medium via the conveyor belt. The guide member has a plurality of grooves including at least one pair of grooves that are adjacent in a conveyance direction of the recording medium. Each of the grooves in the pair has an end adjacent to an end of the other groove in the pair. The adjacent ends of the respective grooves in the pair each have a portion overlapping with a portion of the adjacent end of the other groove in the pair (groove overlapping region) in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction. | 12-31-2015 |
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| 20090116887 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING RESIDUAL TONER FROM DRUMS IN AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An apparatus and method for cleaning a plurality of drums in an image forming apparatus includes applying a first bias to each of a plurality of disturbing members, each disturbing member associated with a corresponding drum of a plurality of drums. While performing an image forming operation wherein at least one of the plurality of drums is not use, the bias is changed of a disturbing member corresponding to at least one of the plurality of drums not used in performing the image forming operation from the first bias to a second bias different from the first bias. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100008690 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT, AND METHOD OF EVALUATING THE SAME - It is an object of the invention to provide an image forming apparatus in which the quality of output images is improved by defining the relation between a measured value of an adhesion of toner and a physical property value of an intermediate belt and related technologies thereof. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100271413 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an ink-jet head configured to eject ink to form an image on a sheet; and a controller configured to control an amount of the ink ejected from the ink-jet head and reduce an ejection amount of the ink ejected to a damaged sheet to be smaller than an ejection amount of the ink ejected to an undamaged sheet. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100296839 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ITS CLEANER UNIT, AND CLEANER UNIT REPLACEMENT METHOD OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus in which occurrence of defective cleaning is prevented, replacement is easy, and occurrence of toner spillage can also be prevented. A cleaner unit of an image forming apparatus of the invention includes a cleaning member that is brought into contact with a toner bearing body in order to collect toner from the toner bearing body bearing the toner, a toner removal member to remove the toner from the cleaning member, and a waste toner storage part to store the removed toner, the cleaning member, the toner removal member and the waste toner storage part are integrally constructed into a unit structure, and the unit is constructed to be attachable to and detachable from the toner bearing body or a main body of the image forming apparatus. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110008078 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit, a second image forming unit, and an intermediate transfer medium. The first image forming unit includes at least one image bearing member on which a first image is formed. The second image forming unit includes an image bearing member on which a second image is formed. The first image is primarily transferred onto the intermediate transfer medium. When the intermediate transfer medium is moved to a first position, the first image is secondarily transferred onto the image bearing member of the second image forming unit and tertiarily transferred onto a transfer medium from the image bearing member. When the intermediate transfer medium is moved to a second position, the second image is transferred onto the transfer medium from the image bearing member of the second image forming unit. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110069996 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A technology for controlling the generation of damages of a photoconductive surface caused due to the attachment of a carrier to a photoconductor in an image forming apparatus using a two-component developing agent is provided. An image forming apparatus is configured to include an intermediate transfer body having prescribed elasticity on a transfer surface onto which a toner image is transferred; plural image carriers which transfer a toner image onto the transfer surface and which are disposed along a movement direction of the transfer surface of the intermediate transfer body; plural development sections which form toner images having a different color from each other with respect to the plural image carriers by using a two-component developing agent made of a toner and a carrier; and developing agent replenishment sections which replenish a toner and a carrier in the development sections. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110200345 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TONER IMAGE TRANSFER AND FIXING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON TONER IMAGE TRANSFER AND FIXING PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a photoconductive member, an intermediate transfer belt, a transfer and fixing belt, a fixing and pressing roller, and a heating device. The heating device heats a toner image on the transfer and fixing belt between a first toner image transfer position for transfer from the intermediate transfer belt onto the transfer and fixing belt and a second toner image transfer position for transfer from the transfer and fixing belt onto a sheet in a moving direction of a belt surface of the transfer and fixing belt and, at the same time, heats the sheet conveyed to the second toner image transfer position. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110200352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD OF CHARGING ROLLER - An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charging roller and a guide member. The guide member is disposed near an outer circumferential surface of the charging roller, and extends in an axial direction of the charging roller, a cleaning member for cleaning the charging roller is engaged with and disengaged from the guide member, and the guide member guides the cleaning member in the axial direction of the charging roller. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110274448 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, AND CHARGING ROLLER CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging roller, a gap keeping member, a determining unit, and a driving unit. The gap keeping member comes into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and keeps a distance between the outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and an electric resistance adjusting layer of the charging roller. The determining unit determines whether a contact section between the outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and the gap keeping member is worn. The driving unit shifts, if the determining unit determines that the contact section is worn, a contact position between the outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and the gap keeping member. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110293330 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND GAP MAINTAINING METHOD OF CHARGING ROLLER - An image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor that rotates about a first rotation axis; and a charging roller that rotates about a second rotation axis which is parallel to the first rotation axis, wherein the charging roller includes a conductive roller portion that extends in parallel with the first rotation axis and contains an ion-conductive agent, a flange portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the conductive roller portion further to the outside than an image forming area of the photoconductor in the second rotation axis direction so as to protrude outward from the outer peripheral surface in the radial direction of the conductive roller portion into a flange shape, and an insulating elastic layer that coats the outer peripheral surface of the flange portion and has an elasticity higher than that of a photoconductive surface of the photoconductor. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120008982 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO CHARGE PHOTORECEPTOR IN NON-CONTACT MANNER AND CHARGING MEMBER - An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor and a charging member. The photoreceptor includes a long-shaped raw pipe and a photoconductive layer that covers a center portion of the raw pipe in a longitudinal direction and forms exposed parts at ends of the raw pipe in the longitudinal direction. The charging member is arranged in parallel to the photoreceptor through a gap. The charging member includes a long-shaped conductive support body and a resistance adjustment layer that covers a center portion of the conductive support body in the longitudinal direction, and charges the photoconductive layer. Besides, the charging member includes a gap keeping member and a discharge preventing part. The gap keeping member is provided at a position outwardly spaced from a photoconductive layer opposite area by a specified distance in the longitudinal direction of the conductive support body, contacts the exposed part, and keeps a gap between the resistance adjustment layer and the photoconductive layer. The discharge preventing part covers a separation area between the resistance adjustment layer and the gap keeping member in the longitudinal direction of the conductive support body, and prevents discharge from the exposed part to the separation area. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120063794 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, GAP CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus according to the embodiments includes a photoconductor, a charging unit which charges the photoconductor and is disposed to face the photoconductor in a non-contact manner, a positioning portion which changes a gap interposed between the photoconductor and the charging unit, on the basis of at least the temperature. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063804 | CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A charging device includes a charging member that is arranged close to a rotating charge target member, and charges a charge target surface of the charge target member while rotating, a cleaning member that makes friction contact with the charging member to cause the charging member to be driven and rotated, and cleans a surface of the charging member, and a cleaning member driving part to rotate and drive the cleaning member. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120107019 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A technology for controlling the generation of damages of a photoconductive surface caused due to the attachment of a carrier to a photoconductor in an image forming apparatus using a two-component developing agent is provided. An image forming apparatus is configured to include an intermediate transfer body having prescribed elasticity on a transfer surface onto which a toner image is transferred; plural image carriers which transfer a toner image onto the transfer surface and which are disposed along a movement direction of the transfer surface of the intermediate transfer body; plural development sections which form toner images having a different color from each other with respect to the plural image carriers by using a two-component developing agent made of a toner and a carrier; and developing agent replenishment sections which replenish a toner and a carrier in the development sections. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20130259538 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed by exposure, an exposing device including a plurality of light sources and a plurality of lenses, which are provided along a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member, and configured to radiate light on the image bearing member, and a developing device arranged at a fixed distance apart from the image bearing member and configured to develop, according to application of a direct-current bias, the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member into a visible image using a two-component developer. | 10-03-2013 |
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| 20090128870 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE QUALITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A reading section outputs density information of a gradation pattern image of a recording member. A gradation correction characteristic generation section generates a first gradation correction characteristic f(x). At first image quality adjustment, a detection section detects densities of patch pattern images on an image carrier, and the gradation correction characteristic generation section generates a second gradation correction characteristic g(x). At normal image quality adjustment, the detection section detects densities of patch pattern images on the image carrier, and the gradation correction characteristic generation section generates a second gradation correction characteristic g′(x). A calculation section calculates a difference gradation correction characteristic g″(x) between the gradation correction characteristic g(x) and the second gradation correction characteristic g′(x). An image quality maintaining control section multiplies the difference gradation correction characteristic g″(x) by the first gradation correction characteristic f(x), and adjusts an image quality of an image formed on the recording member. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090148182 | IMAGE HOLDING MEMBER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CHARGING MEMBER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image bearing member that holds an image according to one aspect of the invention contains noble metal nanoparticles dispersed in at least a surface of a resin layer of the image bearing member. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090169263 | CARRIER PARTICLES FOR DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Carrier particles for a developer used in an image forming apparatus, in which the carrier particles contain a core material containing magnetic particles, and a coating layer formed on a surface of the core material, and the coating layer contains diamond fine particles or diamond-like carbon exposed on a surface of the coating layer. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090169275 | TRANSFER MEMBER IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The transfer member in an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention is a transfer member in an image forming apparatus for transferring a toner image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier onto a material to be transferred, wherein the transfer member includes a base material having thereon a surface layer for temporarily holding on the surface thereof the toner image to be transferred onto the material to be transferred and comprising a resin containing a diamond fine particle in the range of from about 0.01% to about 40%. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090280563 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC HYBRIDOMA USING ARTIFICIAL LYMPH NODE WITH GOOD EFFICIENCY - Provided herein is a method for efficiently producing a hybridoma producing a specific antibody using an artificial lymph node. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100271410 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS RESPONDING TO REQUEST DURING USE OF ERASABLE INK - An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit configured to form an image with erasable first ink; a second image forming unit configured to share a conveying path with the first image forming unit and form an image with not erasable second ink; a recording unit configured to record a level of use of a recording medium on the recording medium; a detecting unit configured to detect the level of use; and a control unit configured to control the first image forming unit or the second image forming unit according to a detection result of the detecting unit. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110064460 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging member which charges the image carrier and is arranged to provide an interval between itself and the image carrier, a power source to apply a voltage to the charging member, a measuring section to measure a voltage or a current between the image carrier and the charging member, and a gap adjustment section to adjust a gap between the image carrier and the charging member based on a measurement result of the voltage or the current. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110227295 | TWO-MATERIAL COMPOSITE GASKET - Disclosed is a two-material composite gasket, preferably a two-material composite annular gasket, for sealing a gap between two opposing surfaces, one of the surfaces having a concave gap portion, which is to be sealed by the gasket, the gasket having an oblong cross-sectional shape and having projections on the top end and bottom end thereof, the gasket including an upper low-hardness elastomer molded part formed of vulcanized rubber having a Shore A hardness of 5 to 35, a lower high-hardness elastomer molded part formed of vulcanized rubber having a Shore A hardness of 45 to 80, and a parting line bonding the low-hardness elastomer molded part and the high-hardness elastomer molded part, the parting line being positioned so that the height of the low-hardness elastomer molded part is 5 to 40% of the height of the entire gasket. The two-material composite gasket enables three-surface simultaneous sealing of a gap formed by three members, as typified in a joint structure composed of a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a chain cover of an automobile engine. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110296369 | OPERATION ANALYZING METHOD, OPERATION ANALYZING APPARATUS, OPERATION ANALYZING PROGRAM, AND OPERATION ANALYZING SYSTEM FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - An operation analyzing apparatus ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120096421 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - A semiconductor integrated circuit design apparatus ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120155769 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device comprises a region dividing unit which divides a captured image obtained by a camera unit into a plurality of regions, and an image compressing unit which compresses each of region images obtained by the division by the region dividing unit while changing the compression rate according to the distance from a predetermined point in the captured image to each of the region images and the distance from the camera unit to a target included in each of the regions. For example, the image compressing unit compresses the region image having a larger angle from the optical axis at a larger compression rate, thereby achieving compression in which the amount of data in low-quality regions is greatly reduced and the quality of high-quality regions is maintained. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120236024 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING DISPLAY IMAGE - Disclosed are a method for forming a display image and a display control device for displaying an image in which the position of a target is significantly easier to find. In a display control device ( | 09-20-2012 |
| 20130002712 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device is configured to cut out and display a moving object within an omnidirectional image. The image display device includes: a moving object position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of the moving object within the omnidirectional image; a determination unit configured to determine whether to correct an upward direction of a cutout image; a parameter correction unit configured to correct a cutout parameter when the determination unit determines to correct the upward direction of the cutout image; a cutout unit configured to cut images including the moving object out of the omnidirectional image based on the cutout parameter corrected by the parameter correction unit; and a display unit configured to display the images including the moving object, which are cut out by the cutout unit. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130057546 | PANORAMIC EXPANSION IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING PANORAMIC EXPANSION IMAGE - A panoramic image display device divides a panoramic expansion image into at least two panoramic images and displays the panoramic images. The panoramic expansion image display device including: a clipping reference position setting unit that sets a clipping reference position for the panoramic expansion image; an object detection unit that detects an object as a display target from the panoramic expansion image; a clipping position determination unit that determines a clipping position of the panoramic image according to a relationship between a detected object position and the clipping reference position; and a display image generation unit that displays the panoramic image clipped from the panoramic expansion image at the clipping position. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130230245 | PEOPLE COUNTING DEVICE, PEOPLE COUNTING METHOD AND PEOPLE COUNTING PROGRAM - A people counting device includes: a person presence region extraction unit which extracts a region in which a person is present by performing person detection in relation to an input image; a person presence state estimation unit which estimates a person presence state from an extraction result; a portion detector selection unit which selects a type of portion detector to be used for people count measurement based on the estimation result, and outputs portion detector information. The people counting device further includes: a portion detection process unit which performs a portion detection process for detecting a portion of a person based on the portion detector information; and a people counting unit which obtains a number of people within the input image from a portion detection process result. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130250025 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS RESPONDING TO REQUEST DURING USE OF ERASABLE INK - An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit configured to form an image with erasable first ink; a second image forming unit configured to share a conveying path with the first image forming unit and form an image with not erasable second ink; a recording unit configured to record a level of use of a recording medium on the recording medium; a detecting unit configured to detect the level of use; and a control unit configured to control the first image forming unit or the second image forming unit according to a detection result of the detecting unit. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130278774 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, CAMERA CONTROL DEVICE FOR USE THEREIN, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, CAMERA CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Each camera comprises an image generation unit for generating an image by capturing the image, a moving object detection unit for detecting a moving object from the image and transmitting information on the position of the moving object to the server, and an image transmission unit for, when the camera is selected by the server, transmitting an image. The server comprises an image delivery camera selection unit for selecting some cameras as image delivery cameras from among the cameras based on the information on the position of the moving object transmitted from each of the cameras, an image delivery camera notification unit for notifying the selection result to the cameras, and an image input unit for inputting the images transmitted from the image delivery cameras. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140027928 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CRACK-RESISTING RING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device an interlayer insulating layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and including a plurality of wiring layers; a seal ring disposed in the interlayer insulating layer, and surrounding a circuit region of the semiconductor substrate; a crack lead ring disposed in the interlayer insulating layer, and surrounding the seal ring; and a protective film disposed over the interlayer insulating layer, and covering the crack lead ring and the seal ring. The crack lead ring includes an uppermost wiring layer in an uppermost layer of a plurality of wiring layers. When the crack lead ring has a wiring in an underlayer below the uppermost layer, the uppermost layer wiring extends towards the outside of the device, relative to the wiring in the underlayer. The protective film has an end overlapped with an end of the uppermost layer wiring to form a step over the interlayer insulating layer. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140219503 | THRONGING DETERMINATION DEVICE AND THRONGING DETERMINATION METHOD - A thronging determination device for determining occurrence of a thronging state in which persons are gathered locally, includes an image receiving unit that receives a moving image, an image dividing unit that divides an input image received by the image receiving unit into local regions, and a degree-of-congestion estimating unit that judges the degree of congestion in plural ones of the local regions. If the degree-of-congestion estimating unit judges that the degree of congestion in the plural ones of the local regions is lower than a prescribed value, a thronging determination is performed using local regions that are smaller in number than the local regions that have been used in estimating the degree of congestion. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140313415 | CAMERA DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, IMAGE MONITORING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF IMAGE MONITORING SYSTEM - An image monitoring system that efficiently utilizes a network band and decrease the processing load of a server is provided. A second image decision processor analyzes an extracted image transmitted from a monitoring terminal, and evaluates the quality (reliability) of the extracted image. A reliability decision unit outputs an individual ID of the analyzed extracted image to a load estimation unit when the numerical value from the analysis output by the second decision processor becomes less than the preset threshold. The load estimation unit estimates the server processor load of a server and the network load. A resend request unit controls the resend request for an individual ID output from the negative load estimation unit corresponding to the server processor load and the network load. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140341472 | PERSON DETECTION DEVICE AND PERSON DETECTION METHOD - The purpose of the invention is to increase accuracy in detecting a person on the basis of the size of an object detection region in an omni-directional image. A height-and-width switching section for switching between the height and the width of the object detection region on the basis of the position of the object detection region in the omni-directional image is provided. It is determined on the basis of the height and the width of the object detection region for which the height and the width are switched by the height-and-width switching section whether the object detection region is a person detection region. As a result, the person detection region and a shadow detection region can be correctly separated in the omni-directional image. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20150071548 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE EVALUATION METHOD - An image pickup device transmits to a server a transmission sample including a detection image detected by a first detection section from a transmitting/receiving section under the control of a transmission sample control section. The server performs detection processing that requires more resources than those of the first detection section on the detection image transmitted by a second detection section from the image pickup device, and determines whether or not the detection image in question is spurious, based on a second detection score which is thereby obtained. A transmission frequency deciding section generates transmission frequency control information such as to raise the transmission frequency by an image pickup device that has a high frequency of spurious detection; a transmitting/receiving section transmits the transmission frequency control information to the image pickup device. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150160610 | RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A recording medium conveyor, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a first conveyor and a second conveyor disposed facing the first conveyor. The first conveyor and the second conveyor sandwich a recording medium therebetween and convey the recording medium to a downstream side of an image forming apparatus in a recording medium conveying direction. At least one of the first conveyor and the second conveyor includes a belt having an inner circumferential face, and a cooler to cool the recording medium. The cooler has a heat absorbing face that contacts the inner circumferential face of the belt and that has an air flow path formed thereon to expose the inner circumferential face of the belt to open air. | 06-11-2015 |
| 20150220030 | SHEET CONVEYOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SHEET CONVEYOR - A sheet conveyor, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a first conveyor to convey a sheet via a first sheet conveying path and move in a direction intersecting a sheet thickness direction, a second conveyor to convey the sheet via a second sheet conveying path and include a third conveyor and a fourth conveyor bringing either one close to and away from the other via the second sheet conveying path in the sheet thickness direction, a first attaching part provided to the first conveyor to attach the first conveyor to the sheet conveyor, and a state changer to change a state of one of the first attaching part to a movement allowed state and the second conveyor to a sheet releasing state in conjunction with a releasing action of the other of the first attaching part and the second conveyor. | 08-06-2015 |
| 20150294183 | PERSON COUNTING DEVICE, PERSON COUNTING SYSTEM, AND PERSON COUNTING METHOD - A person counting device according to embodiments of the present invention counts the number of persons passing through a doorway based on an imaged image in which the surroundings of the doorway are imaged. The person counting device includes a moving line acquirer that acquires a moving line for each person detected from the imaged image, a person counter that counts the persons that have passed through the doorway based on the moving line, and a display information generator that generates display information which represents the number of persons that have passed through the doorway based on the counting results of the person counter. The person counter detects an interruption of the moving line in the vicinity of the doorway, determines a similarity between the background image of the doorway and the person image, and includes a deemed counter that deems that the person has passed through the doorway. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20160048786 | MANAGING A PROJECT - A method and associated system for managing a plurality of projects. A project image representing each project is displayed in a position on a diagram for reflecting a progress status of each project. A degree of association between projects is calculated on the basis of influence information indicating that work of a project is affected by work of another project and resource information indicating resources allocated to the respective projects. A display unit displays, on the basis of the calculated degree of association between the projects, an association degree image indicating a degree of association between one project and another project in association with a project image representing the one project and a project image representing the other project on the diagram. | 02-18-2016 |
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| 20100132914 | HOT WATER SUPPLY DEVICE FOR HOUSE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a hot water supply device for a house capable of eliminating the necessity for installing a heat pump device or a hot water storage tank on a balcony. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20120257910 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An image-forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes an image carrier for carrying a toner image corresponding to an image to be formed on the recording medium, a cleaning device including a cleaning member for cleaning the image carrier by removing residual toner remaining on an image-carrying face, and a bias-applying unit for applying a first bias for removing residual toner charged to a first polarity by electrostatic force from the image carrier such that the cleaning member captures residual toner, and expelling the residual toner charged to a second polarity, which is an opposite polarity to the first polarity, by electrostatic force from the cleaning member toward the image carrier, between the image carrier and the cleaning member. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20150029272 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording portion, a transport mechanism, and a liquid holding portion. The recording portion has a recording head in which a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink are formed. The transport mechanism is arranged to face the recording portion and transports a paper sheet along the recording portion. The liquid holding portion is provided on an upstream side of the recording portion in a transport direction of the paper sheet, and holds liquid in a state where liquid surface of the liquid faces the transport mechanism. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150246557 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE INCLUDING CONVEYOR DEVICE - A conveyor device is arranged to face a recording head. The conveyor device includes a conveyance belt and a suction section. The conveyance belt conveys a recording medium. The suction section includes a guide member that supports the recording medium through the conveyance belt. The suction section sucks the recording medium through a plurality of first holes passing through the guide member and a plurality of second holes passing through the conveyance belt to attach the recording medium to the conveyance belt. None of the first holes are formed in a first region of the guide member. The first region is a region where a partial region pertaining to a feeding member overlaps with a head facing region facing the recording head. | 09-03-2015 |
| 20150273876 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device is installed opposite to a recording head in a recording apparatus. The conveyor device includes a conveyor belt and a suction section. The conveyor belt conveys a recording medium. The suction section includes a guide member having first through holes within a first region and second through holes outside of the first region. The guide member has a surface that is located opposite to the recording head with the conveyor belt therebetween and that has first grooves and second grooves therein. The first region includes at least a head facing region located directly opposite to the recording head. The first through holes are located inside of the first grooves. Each of the first grooves is shorter than the recording head. The second through holes are located inside of the second grooves. The suction section sucks on the recording medium through the conveyor belt and the guide member. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150273877 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device includes a guide member with through holes therein. The guide member has a surface with grooves therein. The through holes are located inside of the grooves. The through holes include a first through hole and a second through hole. The first through hole is located opposite to an ejection region of a recording head. The second through hole is located opposite to a non-ejection region of the recording head. The grooves include a first groove and a second groove. The first through hole is located inside of the first groove. The second through hole is located inside of the second groove. The second groove is longer than the first groove. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150273878 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device is installed opposite to a recording head in a recording apparatus. The conveyor device includes a conveyor belt that conveys a recording medium. The conveyor device further includes a suction section. The suction section includes a guide member having through holes and an air escape channel. The guide member is located opposite to the recording head with the conveyor belt therebetween. The suction section sucks on the recording medium through the conveyor belt and the guide member. The guide member has a surface having grooves therein. The surface faces the recording head with the conveyor belt therebetween. The surface has a recess located outside of a region where the grooves are located. The recess constitutes a part of the air escape channel. The air escape channel is in communication with one or more of the grooves. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150273879 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device is for installation opposite to a recording head in a recording apparatus. The conveyor device includes a conveyor belt and a suction section. The conveyor belt conveys a recording medium. The suction section includes a guide member through which a plurality of through holes pass. The guide member has a surface having a plurality of grooves therein and facing the recording head with conveyor belt therebetween. The respective through holes are located in the respective grooves. The grooves include a plurality of grooves that extend in a direction across a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The suction section sucks on the recording medium through the conveyor belt and the guide member. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150273880 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device is disposed opposite to a recording head. The conveyor device includes a conveyor belt and a suction section. The suction section sucks on a recording medium through the conveyor belt. The suction section includes an air flow chamber and a guide member. The air flow chamber is disposed opposite to one surface of the conveyor belt, and negative pressure for sucking the recording medium onto another surface of the conveyor belt is created in the air flow chamber. The guide member covers the air flow chamber and supports the conveyor belt. The air flow chamber includes a partition wall dividing the air flow chamber into first and second spaces. The first space includes a third space overlapping with the recording head with the conveyor belt and the guide member therebetween. Pressure in the first space is less negative than pressure in the second space. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150290953 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyor device includes a conveyor belt and a suction section. The conveyor belt conveys a recording medium. The suction section sucks on the recording medium through the conveyor belt. The suction section has a plurality of through holes. The suction section includes an air flow chamber. The air flow chamber has an air outlet in a bottom thereof. The bottom has first regions and a second region. The first regions are each located at a position opposite to a corresponding one of the through holes. The first regions are each located adjacent to the second region. The air outlet is located within the second region. | 10-15-2015 |
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| 20100016507 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN, PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME, AND MOLDED ARTICLE MANUFACTURED FROM THE SAME - The objective of the present invention is to provide a thermoplastic resin capable of producing a thin-walled article such as a film, a sheet and a bag stably by extrusion such as calender molding, and of leading to a thin-walled article wherein an undesirable phenomenon due to flow marks generated on the surface is improved and which is excellent in whitening resistance upon bending, and the like, and a method for the production thereof, a molded article and a composite article comprising thereof. The present thermoplastic resin comprises an acryl-based rubbery polymer reinforced resin having a graft ratio of 80% to 170%, a number-average particle diameter of an acryl-based rubbery polymer of 60 to 150 nm, an intrinsic viscosity of a component dissolved by acetonitrile of 0.4 to 0.8 dl/g, a content of a bound cyanidated vinyl compound in the component dissolved by acetonitrile of 20% to 30% by mass, and standard deviation of a distribution of the content of a bound cyanidated vinyl compound measured using liquid chromatography is 5 or less. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20140186080 | COOLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A recording-material cooling device includes a first cooling member, a second cooling member, an approach-and-separation member, and a positioning member. The first cooling member is disposed at a first face side of a recording material to absorb heat of the recording material. The second cooling member is disposed at a second face side of the recording material to absorb heat of the recording material. The approach-and-separation member brings the first cooling member and the second cooling member close to and away from each other. The positioning member positions the first cooling member and the second cooling member relatively brought close to each other by the approach-and-separation member. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140186081 | COOLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A recording-material cooling device includes a first belt, a first cooling unit, and a second cooling unit. The first belt is disposed at a first face side of a recording material. The first cooling unit has a first heat absorbing surface to contact the first belt to absorb heat of the recording material. The second cooling unit has a second heat absorbing surface to directly or indirectly contact the recording material to absorb heat of the recording material. The second cooling unit is disposed at a second face side of the recording material. The first and second cooling units are offset from each other in a transport direction of the recording material. Each of the first and second surfaces has a shape in which an inner area protrudes beyond opposed ends in the transport direction. The first and second surfaces overlap each other in a direction crossing the transport direction. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140308058 | COOLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A recording-material cooling device is disposed downstream from a fixing device in a transport direction of a recording material. The fixing device includes a fixing member and a pressing member to fix an unfixed toner image on the recording material. The recording-material cooling device includes a first cooling unit disposed at a same side as the pressing member relative to the recording material, a second cooling unit disposed at a same side as the fixing member relative to the recording material, and a third cooling unit disposed at the same side as the pressing member relative to the recording material. The first cooling unit, the second cooling unit, and the third cooling unit are arranged in an order of the first cooling unit, the second cooling unit, and the third cooling unit from upstream to downstream in the transport direction of the recording material. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20150227111 | COOLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A recording-material cooling device includes a first cooling member, a second cooling member, an approach-and-separation member, and a positioning member. The first cooling member is disposed at a first face side of a recording material to absorb heat of the recording material. The second cooling member is disposed at a second face side of the recording material to absorb heat of the recording material. The approach-and-separation member brings the first cooling member and the second cooling member close to and away from each other. The positioning member positions the first cooling member and the second cooling member relatively brought close to each other by the approach-and-separation member. | 08-13-2015 |
| 20160048106 | COOLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A recording-material cooling device includes a first belt, a first cooling unit, and a second cooling unit. The first belt is disposed at a first face side of a recording material. The first cooling unit has a first heat absorbing surface to contact the first belt to absorb heat of the recording material. The second cooling unit has a second heat absorbing surface to directly or indirectly contact the recording material to absorb heat of the recording material. The second cooling unit is disposed at a second face side of the recording material. The first and second cooling units are offset from each other in a transport direction of the recording material. Each of the first and second surfaces has a shape in which an inner area protrudes beyond opposed ends in the transport direction. The first and second surfaces overlap each other in a direction crossing the transport direction. | 02-18-2016 |
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| 20090237429 | Print data generating apparatus, method to generate print data, and computer usable medium therefor - A print data generating apparatus to generate print data to be used in a printing apparatus which is capable of ejecting ink drops in a specific color on one spot to form a pixel, including, a plurality of inkjet heads, each of which has nozzles aligned in line, a usable nozzle number determining unit to determine a number of at least one usable nozzle to be used, a count storing unit to store a count of ejecting operations of each nozzle to be performed, a usable nozzle extracting unit to extract the at least one usable nozzle among the grouped nozzles, and a print data generating unit to generate the print data, which controls the at least one usable nozzle to eject the ink. The usable nozzle extracting unit extracts at least one nozzle with a lower count of ejecting operations preferentially to be the at least one usable nozzle. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090237684 | Print data generating apparatus, printing apparatus, method to generate print data, and computer usable medium therefor - A print data generating apparatus to generate print data, which is to be used in a printing apparatus to form an image in a plurality of colorants, based on originally inputted image data representing the image, is provided. The print data generating apparatus includes a black enabled image data converter unit to convert the inputted image data into black enabled image data, which indicates scale values of a plurality of colors including a black color to be used in the image, a white scale value calculator unit to obtain scale values of a white color to be used in the image to be formed. The white scale value calculator unit calculates the scale values of the white color by inverting the scale values of the black color obtained in the conversion by the black enabled image data converter unit. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090244568 | PRINT DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD TO GENERATE PRINT DATA, AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A print data generating apparatus to generate print data is provided. The print data generating apparatus includes a maximum density setting unit, through which a maximum allowable density of a white colorant is designated, an image storing unit to store originally inputted image data, a data convertor unit to convert the inputted image data into a colorant-enabled data, which is information concerning pixels composing the image in scale values of the plurality of colors, and a density-adjusted data generating unit to generate white density-adjusted data, in which the scale values of the pixels in the colorant-enabled data are adjusted according to the maximum allowable density of the white colorant. The density-adjusted data generating unit adjusts the scale values of white in the pixels in the colorant-enabled data to be lower than or equal to scale values corresponding to the maximum allowable density. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244569 | Print data generating device, method to generate print data, and computer usable medium therefor - A print data generating apparatus to generate print data based on originally inputted image data is provided. The print data generating apparatus includes a transparentized color designating unit to designate a transparentized color, a color difference calculating unit to calculate a color difference between color scale values of a marked pixel and color scale values of the designated transparentized color, a data convertor unit to convert the image data into a colorant-enabled data, and an opacity-adjusted data generating unit to generate opacity-adjusted data, in which color scale values of the pixels in the colorant-enabled data are adjusted according to the color difference, when the color difference of the marked pixel is calculated to be smaller, the opacity-adjusted data generating unit adjusts the color scale values of the marked pixel to be closer to zero so that the color scale values of the marked pixel is adjusted to have lower opacity. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090249201 | PREVIEW DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD TO GENERATE PREVIEW DATA, AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A preview data generating apparatus to generate preview data, which is used to display a preview image representing an image to be printed on a recording medium, in reflection of a color of the recording medium, is provided. The preview data generating apparatus includes a base color input unit to input a base color being the color of the recording medium, a print data input unit to input print data in a printable format, which is used to print the image, a data conversion unit to convert the print data into a displayable format suitable for a display device, and a base color incorporated data generating unit to generate the preview data representing the image to be printed by incorporating the displayable-formatted data and the base color. | 10-01-2009 |
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| 20120075502 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT CORRECTS DETERIORATION OF IMAGE, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a data storing portion configured to store coefficient data for reconstructing an optical transfer function of an image pickup optical system in accordance with a type of the image pickup optical system and an imaging condition, a tap number determining portion configured to determine a tap number of the optical transfer function that is reconstructed by using the coefficient data in accordance with a size of one pixel of an image pickup element, and a reconstruction portion configured to reconstruct the optical transfer function in accordance with Nyquist frequency of the image pickup element and the tap number in a frequency space. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20130010158 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store information of an OTF or a PSF of an optical system for at least one of capturing conditions, and an image processor configured to generate secondary and higher components of a phase of an OTF or a shape component of a PSF corresponding to a capturing condition of a captured image through an interpolation based on at least two OTFs or PSF in the memory, while center-of-gravity positions or maximum intensity positions are accorded with each other or differential root-mean-square values of the point spread functions are minimum, and to restore the image utilizing the generated OTF or an OTF derived from the generated PSF. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130038749 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method of performing an image restoration processing of an image, includes the steps of generating a plurality of first optical transfer functions depending on a position of the image using coefficient data depending on an image pickup condition of the image, generating a plurality of second optical transfer functions by rotating the first optical transfer functions around a center of the image or around an optical axis of an image pickup optical system, generating an image restoration filter based on the first optical transfer functions and the second optical transfer functions, and performing the image restoration processing of the image using the image restoration filter. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130050539 | IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a process for causing a computer to execute a method including the steps of acquiring optical transfer function information corresponding to an image pickup condition of a picked-up image (S | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130100309 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT CORRECTS DETERIORATION OF IMAGE, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a data storing portion configured to store coefficient data for reconstructing an optical transfer function of an image pickup optical system in accordance with a type of the image pickup optical system and an imaging condition, a tap number determining portion configured to determine a tap number of the optical transfer function that is reconstructed by using the coefficient data in accordance with a size of one pixel of an image pickup element, and a reconstruction portion configured to reconstruct the optical transfer function in accordance with Nyquist frequency of the image pickup element and the tap number in a frequency space. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20140063325 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The image processing apparatus includes an image inputting part configured to acquire a captured image produced by an image pickup system including an optical system and an image sensor, a filter producing part configured to produce an image restoration filter, and a restoration processing part configured to perform an image restoration process on the captured image by using the image restoration filter to produce a restored image. The filter producing part is configured to set amplification factors for respective frequency components in the image restoration filter according to a frequency characteristic of an alias signal that may be generated in the image sensor. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140211038 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus ( | 07-31-2014 |
| 20150146996 | GENERATION METHOD OF IMAGE RESTORATION FILTER, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for generating an image restoration filter used to correct a deterioration of an image captured through an optical system includes a first step of setting a target restoration gain value representative of a target restoration degree of an absolute value of an optical transfer function of the optical system, within a restoration gain limiting value calculated by dividing a maximum value operable by a fixed-point arithmetic by a data point number of the optical transfer function, and a second step of generating, through the fixed-point arithmetic, a frequency characteristic of the image restoration filter based on the target restoration gain value set by the first step. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150358544 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an optical transfer function based on shooting condition information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire shake information, a control unit configured to select a method of image restoration based on the optical transfer function and the shake information, and an image restoration unit configured to perform the image restoration based on the selected method of the image restoration. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358563 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a relation between an aperture value and a shutter speed for image restoration, a control unit configured to set the aperture value and the shutter speed based on a shooting condition and the relation stored in the storage unit, and an image pickup unit configured to photoelectrically convert an optical image formed via an image pickup optical system with the set aperture value and shutter speed to output an image, and the image restoration is processing to reduce a deterioration of the image caused by an aberration of the image pickup optical system. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160063683 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WHICH PERFORM IMAGE RESTORATION PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus ( | 03-03-2016 |
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| 20120319374 | REAR WHEEL STEERING SYSTEM - A rear wheel steering system includes a rear rack shaft that slides in a vehicle-width direction to steer a pair of rear wheels, a recess formed in the rear rack shaft, and a pin member that is fitted into the recess from the outer side of the rear rack shaft, and is retracted to be disengaged from the recess. The pin member is fitted into the recess to lock sliding of the rear rack shaft in a neutral position, and the pin member placed in a retracted state is disengaged from the recess to cancel slide lock on the rear rack shaft. The rear rack shaft has guide grooves formed on respective sides of the recess in a longitudinal direction of the rear rack shaft so as to be contiguous with the recess, and used to guide the pin member, placed in the advanced state, toward the recess. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130066521 | CONTROL UNIT FOR VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM - In a control unit for a vehicle steering system, which controls an electric motor that is used to change a steering angle on the basis of a target route for a vehicle, a turning angle of a steered wheel with respect to a central axis of a shock absorber is set as a steered element angle, and the steered element angle is used in control over the electric motor. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130161117 | STEERING SYSTEM - A steering system includes: an operation mechanism that includes an operation member used to perform a steering operation; and a steered mechanism that is not mechanically coupled to the operation mechanism, and that steers a wheel based on the steering operation of the operation member. The operation mechanism includes a steering angle sensor that detects a steering angle of the operation member, and steering direction detection unit that detects only a steering direction of the operation member. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130245891 | VEHICLE STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM - The absolute value of a steering torque detected by a steering torque sensor is compared with a predetermined threshold. When the absolute value of the detected steering torque is smaller than the threshold, a steering reaction force is controlled on the basis of the steering torque; whereas, when the absolute value of the detected steering torque is larger than or equal to the threshold, the steering reaction force is controlled using a detected reaction motor current value as a reference value. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140318264 | VEHICLE TEST APPARATUS AND VEHICLE TEST SYSTEM - A vehicle test apparatus includes: a test article installation vehicle body to which four axles corresponding to four wheels that are a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a left rear wheel and a right rear wheel are attached, and on which a test article is installed; a first motion base that supports the test article installation vehicle body, and that allows the test article installation vehicle body to make motions of six degrees of freedom; and four second motion bases each of which supports a corresponding one of the axles, and each of which allows a corresponding one of the axles to make motions of six degrees of freedom. | 10-30-2014 |
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| 20130019122 | STORAGE DEVICE AND ALTERNATIVE STORAGE MEDIUM SELECTION METHODAANM Daikokuya; HidejirouAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Daikokuya; Hidejirou Kawasaki JPAANM Ikeuchi; KazuhikoAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Ikeuchi; Kazuhiko Kawasaki JPAANM Watanabe; TakeshiAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Watanabe; Takeshi Kawasaki JPAANM Kubota; NorihideAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Kubota; Norihide Kawasaki JPAANM Igashira; AtsushiAACI YokohamaAACO JPAAGP Igashira; Atsushi Yokohama JPAANM Kobayashi; KenjiAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Kobayashi; Kenji Kawasaki JPAANM Tsukahara; RyotaAACI KasawakiAACO JPAAGP Tsukahara; Ryota Kasawaki JP - A storage device includes: a determination unit to determine an operation of a storage group including a plurality of storage medium based on an access operation on a logical volume serving as an access target of the storage group; and a selection unit to select based on the operation of the storage group, when a failure of at least one of the plurality of storage medium is detected, an alternative storage medium from the at least one of the plurality of storage medium. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130047028 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A control device manages a plurality of storage devices so that data to be recorded is redundantly recorded in different storage devices. An error monitoring unit monitors an occurrence of an error in each of the plurality of storage devices to register information indicative of error occurrence conditions in an error information storage unit for each storage device. When the use of one of the plurality of storage devices is stopped, a rebuild controller determines a timing to perform rebuild processing based on past error occurrence conditions in the storage devices other than the one storage device of the plurality of storage devices by referring to information registered in the error information storage unit. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130054907 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage system including first storage devices constituting a first logical storage area, second storage devices constituting a second logical storage area; and a storage control apparatus. The storage control apparatus manages the first and second logical storage areas so that the data stored in the first and second logical storage areas have redundancy, and parity data for the data stored in the second logical storage area are stored in parity storage areas arranged in part of the second storage devices. When part of the first storage devices constituting part of the first logical storage area fail, the storage control apparatus generates part of the data stored, before the failure, in the part of the first storage devices, and stores the generated part of the data in at least part of the second parity storage areas in the second logical storage area. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054913 | STORAGE SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE - A rebuild control unit splits a rebuild process into partial processes and instructs an access processing unit to execute the partial processes. In the rebuild process, data identical to data recorded in a first storage device that constitutes RLU #1 is generated based on data read from, among storage devices constituting RLU #1, storage devices other than the first storage device and written to a spare storage device included in a storage system. Each partial process includes a combination of an operation of reading data from a split range created by splitting a data readout target range into fixed-size intervals and an operation of writing data in another storage device based on the data read from the split range. In response to the instruction from the rebuild control unit to execute the multiple partial processes, the access processing unit executes the instructed partial processes in parallel. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130067165 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE AND DISK ARRAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A disk array device includes hard disks from which RAID groups are configured. Therein, a volume setting unit sets one or more used areas. A data check control unit determines, on the basis of the state into which the used areas have been set, which areas in the RAID groups are subject to a diagnosis. A data check execution unit that executes a cyclical diagnosis on the areas determined, by the data check control unit, to be those subject to a diagnosis. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130151771 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE AND DATA WRITE METHOD - A disk array device includes: a plurality of disk devices including a strip that stores divided data or a parity; a control device to divide the stripe for each of the plurality of disk devices into the divided data having a size of the strip and write the divided data; and a memory to store new data that corresponds to the divided data stored in the strip, wherein the control device detects whether or not the new data is discrete and performs a first write operation or a second write operation when the new data is discrete. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130246862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MAINTENANCE METHOD OF AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes: processing units to perform information processing, the processing units being capable of continuing the information processing even if a processing unit in the processing units stops its operation; and a control unit to perform a potential failure detection process of restarting the processing units one by one and outputting information requesting replacement or repair of a processing unit that is not restarted up. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130262762 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage system includes a storage device having a command reordering function and a storage control apparatus that controls access to the storage device. Commands are issued to the storage device for reading or writing data. The storage control apparatus sets an upper limit to write data size or read data size specified in the commands during a predetermined period after a timeout of an issued command, so as to make it less likely for the storage device to postpone some of the issued commands. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140009850 | CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A control method of controlling a disk storage unit, includes: obtaining, by a computer, for a plurality of sectors allocated on a disk included in the disk storage unit, track identifying information that identifies a track to which sectors belong, in a first order starting from a first start sector; and storing, if first track identifying information obtained in a first sector of the plurality of sectors does not match second track identifying information obtained in a second sector of the plurality of sectors immediately before the first sector, a data length from the first start sector to the second sector in a storage unit. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140075240 | STORAGE APPARATUS, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage controller detects a failure of any one of storage units making up a RAID group. The storage controller incorporates plural hot spares HS into the RAID group, as substitute storage units for the detected failed storage. The storage controller restores the memory contents of the failed storage unit onto each of the hot spares incorporated into the RAID group. Upon detecting replacement of the failed storage unit in the RAID group, the storage controller incorporates into the RAID group, a replacement storage unit that has replaced the failed storage unit. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140089730 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGES - A processor copies first information stored in a first storage to a backup volume. The processor stores management information when a first piece of the first information is updated to second information after the copy. The processor executes, when a failure occurs in the first storage, first restoration based on the management information and reference information stored in reference storages other than the first storage. The first restoration restores the second information to a spare storage. The processor executes second restoration based on the management information and the reference information. The second restoration restores third information to the spare storage. The processor stops the second restoration when a failure occurs in a second storage while the second restoration is being executed. The processor executes third restoration based on the first information stored in the backup volume and the management information. The third restoration restores fourth information to the spare storage. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140250149 | IDENTIFYING ELEMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN A DOCUMENT - An information processing apparatus includes a text mining section configured to perform text mining on text data acquired from the outside and to output extracted information; an identification section configured to search a development database storing elements constituting a product and the relationship among the elements by using the information extracted by text mining to identify an element related to the information; and a notification section configured to notify the identified element to a user, a program for use in the information processing apparatus. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140289478 | CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A control device that controls a reading process of information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device and a unit storage area under control of a different control device in a distributed manner, the control device includes a processor. The processor executes a procedure including determining whether or not the reading process is a sequential reading process that reads information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device in an order of logical addresses and whether or not a reading target area of the sequential reading process includes a last address in the unit storage area, and reporting to the different control device control information related to a sequential reading process including the last address determined by the first determination unit. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140292765 | AGGREGATING GRAPH STRUCTURES - The present invention provides a display apparatus adapted to display a plurality of graph structures each of which is made up of a plurality of elements, by aggregating the plurality of graph structures into a single graph structure as well as provides a display method of the display apparatus and a program used for the display apparatus, the display apparatus including: an acquisition hardware unit adapted to acquire a plurality of graph structures; a distinguishing hardware unit adapted to distinguish the plurality of elements between unchanged elements which have not changed in the plurality of graph structures and changed elements which have changed with transition between/among the plurality of graph structures; an aggregating hardware unit adapted to aggregate the plurality of graph structures; and a display hardware unit adapted to display the aggregated graph structure such that the unchanged elements and the changed elements will be identifiable. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140380090 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to detect medium error regions in a first memory device. A medium error has occurred in each of the medium error regions. The processor is configured to conduct, on a first medium error region, data recovery processing for recovering data stored therein. The processor is configured to conduct copy processing for copying first data of a peripheral region of the first medium error region from the first memory device to a second memory device other than the first memory device. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150074452 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICES - A storage control device includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is configured to store therein a first score calculated for a first storage device. The processor is configured to add, upon detecting an event occurred in the first storage device, points corresponding to the event to the first score. The processor is configured to determine upon the addition, based on the first score and a second score, whether a sign of failure of the first storage device is detected. The second score is calculated for a first redundant unit of storage devices including the first storage device. | 03-12-2015 |
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| 20150143167 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage control apparatus for controlling a storage system including a plurality of storage devices includes a monitor unit that collects statistics from each of the storage devices; and a selection unit that, in the event of a failure of any of the storage devices, selects a storage device to which data in the failed storage device is to be reconstructed, based on the statistics collected by the monitor unit. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150161043 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus is communicatively connected to a storage device. The storage device includes a plurality of SSDs. The storage control apparatus includes a processing request controller and a device load detector. The device load detector detects an overload of an SSD by detecting a processing delay of the SSD. When the device load detector has detected an overload of an SSD, the processing request controller suppresses issuance of a request to process write-back with respect to a group by delaying issuance of the write-back. | 06-11-2015 |
| 20150278020 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus starts, in a group of storage apparatuses that store constituent data that constitute redundant data in a distributed manner in units of a stripe, in regard to respective stripes of a plurality of stripes obtained from a group of target storage apparatuses excluding one of the storage apparatuses, a plurality of rebuilding processes for restoring the constituent data; decides, for each rebuilding process, a stripe for which the rebuilding process is to be performed next, according to access loads on the respective storage apparatuses of the group of target storage apparatuses; and obtains, for each rebuilding process, constituent data corresponding to the decided stripe from the group of target storage apparatuses and executing the rebuilding process, and executes the rebuilding process, to restore constituent data stored in the excluded storage apparatus from the obtained constituent data. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20160041877 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus includes a controller to, when more storage devices, among a plurality of storage devices across which a plurality of information areas storing information representing redundant data and one or more spare areas are distributed, than the number of the spare areas fail, perform a rebuild process of information stored in a plurality of information areas of a failed first storage device included in the plurality of combinations of the plurality of information areas and the one or more spare areas, the rebuild process including restoring information corresponding to one information area of the failed first storage device included in one combination among the plurality of combinations, and determining a write destination storage device to which the restored information is to be written in accordance with the number of times information is read from a non-failed second storage device. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160062658 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage control apparatus, that controls a storage apparatus that includes a storage drive in which a plurality of logical volumes are set, includes a storage unit that stores load information for each of the plurality of logical volumes, and a control unit that determines to-be-rebuilt volumes, which are targets to be rebuilt, from the plurality of logical volumes, sequentially selects a logical volumes for which a volume-specific taken time is estimated, determines, for each selected logical volume, a volume-specific start time at which a rebuild will be started, estimates, by using the volume-specific start time and the load information about the selected logical volume, the volume-specific taken time for rebuilding the selected logical volume, and totals the volume-specific taken time estimated for each selected logical volume to calculate a total taken time taken for rebuilding the to-be-rebuilt volumes. | 03-03-2016 |
