Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |