Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

E Ink Corporation

Fuifiim Business Imovation Corp.

Chikara Manabe

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Taishi Shigematsu

Miho Watanabe

Masaki Hirakata

Kazunori Anazawa

Naoki Hiji

Masaaki Shimizu

Kentaro Kishi

Shigeki Ooma

Shinsuke Okada

Takashi Isozaki

Takeo Kakinuma

Kei Shimotani

Tadayoshi Ozaki

Takashi Morikawa

Masato Matsuzuki

Yoshiyuki Taguchi

Kunio Miyakoshi

Maki Hasegawa

Yasuo Yamamoto

Daisuke Nakayama

Ryota Mizutani

Shigeru Yamamoto

Mieko Seki

Toshihide Aoshima

Hirotsugu Kashimura

Cao Jun

Hideo Kobayashi

Yuichi Inoue

Haruo Harada

Takeshi Matsunaga

Hiroaki Moriyama

Masaki Kataoka

Motohiko Sakamaki

Hiroshi Arisawa

Masaaki Abe

Chisato Urano

Takehito Hikichi

Atsushi Hirano

Taijyu Gan

Yasunori Okano

Masashi Hiratsuka

Hiroyuki Ueki

Masaaki Lawrence Araki

Hiroe Okuyama

Nami Tokunaga

Kentarou Kishi

Kazuyuki Hara

Jun Cao

An image forming apparatus includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an image for position detection from job image data; a first image forming unit configured to form the image for position detection on a recording medium; a second image forming unit disposed on a downstream in a feeding direction of the recording medium relative to the first image forming unit; a first detection unit configured to detect the image for position detection formed by the first image forming unit; and a determining unit configured to determine a correction amount of an image forming position of the second image forming unit based on a position of the image for position detection that is detected by the detection unit and a position of the image for position detection in the image data.

Image forming apparatus

An ejection apparatus includes: a first ejection unit configured to eject droplets on a recording medium conveyed in a conveyance direction to form an image for detection; a first detection unit disposed downstream of the first ejection unit and configured to detect the image for detection; a second ejection unit disposed downstream of the detection unit and configured to eject droplets on the recording medium; and a control unit configured to: predict a first elongation amount of the recording medium based on a first difference between a first set time period and a first detection time period from a reference time point to a first detection time point when the image for detection is detected by the first detection unit; and perform delay control on the second ejection unit for delaying an ejection timing of the second ejection unit based on the predicted elongation amount.

Ejection apparatus, ejection control device, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program causing computer to execute process for controlling ejection

An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to set an image position of a reference image in a transport direction of a recording medium to an arbitrary position on a specific page of the recording medium. The reference image is formed using a first color and serves as a reference for an image position of an image of a second color to be formed after the image of the first color is formed. The processor is also configured to adjust the image position for the second color on an adjacent page, located adjacently upstream of the specific page in the transport direction, by using image information of the reference image formed on the specific page.

Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, first and second detectors, and a corrector. The image forming unit includes first and second image forming units disposed downstream of the first unit in a transport direction of a recording medium and causes the first and second units to form predetermined correction images onto the recording medium. The first detector is disposed downstream of the first unit and upstream of the second unit in the transport direction, and detects the correction image formed by the first unit. The second detector is disposed downstream of the second unit in the transport direction and detects the correction image formed by the second unit. The corrector corrects an image position of the second unit in a width direction of the recording medium by using the correction images formed by the first and second units and detected by the first and second detectors.

An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of droplets ejecting members that are opposed to a continuous sheet being conveyed, are arranged in a sheet conveying direction, and eject droplets onto the continuous sheet; movement restriction members that restrict movement, in a sheet width direction, of one end portion, in the sheet width direction, of a portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet; and tension application members that give tension in the sheet width direction to the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet in a state that movement, in the sheet width direction, of the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet is restricted by the movement restriction members.

There is provided an electrophoretic particle which contains a core material particle formed of a composition containing a resin, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having any one of an imino group, a methylol group and an alkoxymethyl group in the molecule and a heterocyclic ring having a nitrogen atom, and a coloring agent.

Electrophoretic particle, electrophoretic particle dispersion liquid, display medium, and display device

An image forming device includes: a transporting route on which a recording medium is transported; an image forming unit that is provided on the transporting route and forms an image by discharging liquid droplets containing macromolecular particles on a front surface of the transported recording medium; a heating unit that heats the image formed on the front surface of the recording medium to a temperature higher than a glass transition point of the macromolecular particles; and a cooling unit that, before the image heated by the heating unit comes into contact with a member on the transporting route, cools the image formed on the front surface of the recording medium to a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition point of the macromolecular particles in a non-contact state with the image.

Image forming device and image forming apparatus

There is provided a dispersion liquid for electrophoretic display, containing a dispersion medium, a colored electrophoretic particle groupthat is dispersed in the dispersion medium and migrates in the dispersion medium according to an electric field, a non-electrophoretic particle groupthat is dispersed without migrating in the dispersion medium and has a color different from that of the electrophoretic particle group, and a compound having a neutral polar group and a hydrophobic group, which is contained in the dispersion medium in a ratio of about 0.01 to about 1 mass % based on the entire dispersion liquid.

Dispersion liquid for electrophoretic display, display medium, and display device

A particle dispersion for display includes color particles for display that move in response to an electric field and include first color particles and second color particles; and a dispersion medium that disperses the color particles for display, in which the second color particles have a larger particle diameter than a particle diameter of the first color particles and the same charging characteristic as a charging characteristic of the first color particles, and in the color particles for display, a ratio (Cs/Cl) of a charge amount Cs of the first color particles per unit area of display to a charge amount Cl of the second color particles per unit area of display is less than or equal to 5.

Particle dispersion for display, display medium, and display device

A display medium comprises: a pair of electrodes to which a voltage is applied; and a liquid crystal layer stack provided between the pair of electrodes. The liquid crystal layer stack contains a first liquid crystal layer having a first liquid crystal that undergoes transition into a specific alignment state in response to the voltage applied to the electrodes becoming equal to or greater than a first voltage value, and a second liquid crystal layer having a second liquid crystal that undergoes transition into the specific alignment state in response to the voltage becoming equal to or greater than a second voltage value. The second voltage value is greater than the first voltage value, and the second liquid crystal has a higher isotropic phase transition temperature than the first liquid crystal.

Display medium

A solar cell includes a p-type semiconductor substance, and an n-type semiconductor substance. The p-type semiconductor substance and the n-type semiconductor substance form a pn junction or a pin junction, and the p-type semiconductor substance or the n-type semiconductor substance includes a structure film having a plurality of carbon nanotubes electrically connected to each other.

Solar cell using carbon nanotubes and process for producing the same

A liquid crystal display element includes a first substrate having a first electrode on one surface thereof, a transparent second substrate having a transparent second electrode on one surface thereof, a first liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition, a color filter, and a second liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition, and at least one of the first and second liquid crystal layers includes an additive having dielectric properties, and the dielectric constant of the first liquid crystal layer is different from that of the second liquid crystal layer.

Liquid crystal display element, liquid crystal display device using the same, and image display method

A screen device of the present invention has a light collecting element array including a plurality of light collecting elements that collect incident light from a projector and a back surface sheet. The back surface sheet includes a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, a photoconductive layer disposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, and an image recording layer disposed between the first electrode plate and the photoconductive layer. At the back surface sheet, a light reflecting portion is formed at a light collecting region to which the light collected by the light collecting elements is irradiated, and a light absorbing portion is formed at a non-light collecting region to which the light collected by the light collecting elements is not irradiated.

Screen device, image projection system, and image projection method

The present invention provides a display medium which prevents a decrease in reflectance during storage at high temperatures, and a writing apparatus using the display medium. A photoconductive layer, a selective light transmission layer, and a liquid crystal layerare laminated between substratesand, which have electrodesand, respectively, to form a display medium. The selective light transmission layeras a color layer is composed of a deionized material. The ion concentration of the selective light transmission layeris controlled to be within a predetermined range.

Display medium and writing apparatus

A liquid crystal-containing composition includes a microcapsule. In the microcapsule, a liquid crystal is encapsulated by a shell material component containing polyurea. Monomer components included in the polyurea include a polyisocyanate component, a high molecular weight polyamine component and a low molecular weight polyamine component.

Liquid crystal-containing composition and liquid crystal display device therewith

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Kanagawa, Japan

Chikara Manabe