Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.

Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Jujo Paper Co., Ltd.

Akira Shimada

Kazumi Saeki

Takashi Harada

Toshiaki Minami

Toshio Kaneko

Fumio Fujimura

Tadakazu Fukuchi

Takayuki Mashimo

Shinichi Teshima

Toshihiko Tanaka

Masaaki Nishihara

Hikaru Miyaji

Yuzo Hayashi

Naoki Hanayama

Kazuo Nakagawa

Yukio Shibata

Nobuto Fujita

Kazuto Tsukinuki

Katsutoshi Ishimaru

Provided is a numerical value input apparatus that includes: an operation input unit that expresses numerical values of a plurality of digits by providing a plurality of numerical value setting operation units for each digit; with each of the plurality of numerical value setting operation units being biased to a side that is an initial state; and also includes a signal generation unit that, in a case in which an input confirmation key provided separately from the numerical value setting operation units is operated, confirms a numerical value that reflects the state of the numerical value setting operation units for each digit when the input confirmation key is operated, and converts the numerical value into an electric signal.

Numerical value input apparatus, character input apparatus

An information processing apparatus is provided capable of creating images of a plurality of question sentences and answer columns from a document. A document reading unit reads a document to which marking has been applied by a plurality of different patterns and acquires document image data. A marking pattern detection unit recognizes in each different pattern the marking in a marking region to which the marking of the document image data has been applied and detects a pattern of the marking. A question sentence creation unit creates, in each different pattern, question sentence image data in which partial image data in the marking region is deleted from the document image data. An output unit outputs the question sentence image data created by the question sentence creation unit.

Information processing apparatus that creates other documents from read document

Provided is a choice question creating apparatus creating a choice question on a question document. It includes an image reading part reading a question document to acquire image data; a character recognizing part executing recognition on image data, acquiring document text data; a sentence extraction part extracting from document text data; a correct answer identifying part identifying word as correct answer from sentence; a word dictionary database in which words are classified into categories and registered; a choice creating part selecting specific number of words from category in word dictionary database including correct answer, and arranges words selected, and word as correct answer identified by correct answer identifying part to create choice group; a question sentence transforming part deleting correct answer from sentence to transform it into question sentence, and a layout part arranging transformed question sentence, and created choice group to create a choice question.

Choice question creating apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a printing section, a storage section, and a control section. The printing section prints a toner image on paper. The storage section stores prescribed image data for which printing is permitted using disposal-scheduled toner that is scheduled for disposal as waste toner. The control section determines whether or not a preset disposal condition is satisfied. Upon determining that the disposal condition is satisfied, the control section determines whether or not prescribed image data is stored in the storage section. Upon determining that prescribed image data is stored in the storage section, the control section sets the operating mode of the printing section as a waste toner reduction mode in which the printing section uses the disposal-scheduled toner to perform printing based on the prescribed image data.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

Bis(cyclohexylphenol) compounds and their use

A thermosensitive recording sheet comprising a support and a thermosensitive color developer layer thereon containing a basic leuco dye and an organic color developer, said layer containing a bis-phenyl sulfone compound selected from bis-(3-phenyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)sulfone and bis-(2-methyl-4-hydroxy-5-cyclohexylphenyl)sulfone as the organic color developer.

Thermosensitive recording sheet

Maltooligosaccharide derivatives represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein at least one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 denotes a radical represented by: R.sup.3 --S(O).sub.m --R.sup.4 or R.sup.3 --CO--R.sup.4, and the rest of them denotes hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a phenyl radical, in which R.sup.3 is an alkyl radical containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R.sup.4 is an alkylene radical containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and m is 1 or 2, R.sup.5 denotes a substituted or non-substituted phenyl radical, and n denotes an integer of 1 to 8; and reagents comprising the maltooligosaccharide derivatives.

Maltooligosaccharide derivatives and reagents for determination of

The use of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone or sulfolane as a reaction promoter is effective in the production of 4-biphenylyl p-tolyl ether, which is useful as a sensitizer for heat-sensitive recording paper, by reacting p-phenylphenol with a p-halotoluene in the presence of a copper catalyst.

Method of producing 4-biphenyl p-tolyl ether

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Akira Shimada