Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Adv Antest Corporation

Lsi Medience Corporation

Hiroaki Fukuda

Hiroyuki Kawamoto

Yuji Takahashi

Fumio Yoshizawa

Yasuyuki Nomizu

Yoshiyuki Namizuka

Hideto Miyazaki

Sugitaka Oteki

Shinya Miyazaki

Takeharu Tone

Rie Ishii

Takako Satoh

Yasunobu Shirata

Yohsuke Muramoto

Junichi Takami

Hiroyoshi Funato

Shigeyoshi Misawa

Tomoyuki Yoshida

Satoshi Ohkawa

Junichi Takahashi

Atsushi Togami

Shuji Kimura

Suguru Sangu

Isao Miyamoto

Izumi Itoh

Masato Takada

Taroh Terashi

Dai Kurabayashi

Takuroh Sawada

Paru Kondo

Ryoji Mizumachi

Akira Murataka

An image processing device includes: a first contamination detection circuit to detect contamination on an image reading device using a first relative threshold value calculated from a standard deviation of pixel values of a same-density region in a read image obtained by the image reading device, the image reading device reading a reference image formed on a recording medium by a line head including a plurality of inkjet heads and that has density regions of a plurality of gradations; a second contamination detection circuit to detect contamination on the image reading device using a second relative threshold value calculated from a standard deviation of pixel values of an area in the read image, the area being divided for each of the plurality of inkjet heads; and a contamination processing circuit to eliminate an influence of the contamination on the read image when at least one of the first contamination detection circuit or the second contamination detection circuit determines the contamination.

Image processing device, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory recording medium

A diagnostic device includes a reception unit and a determination unit. The reception unit is configured to receive context information and sensing information. The context information corresponds to a certain operation of a target item that constitutes a target device. The context information is a piece of a plurality of pieces of context information each describing an operation of the target item determined depending on a type of operation of the target device. The sensing information is on a physical quantity that varies in accordance with the operation of the target item. The determination unit is configured to determine a state of the target item based on the sensing information detected while the target item is performing the certain operation, and based on a model corresponding to the received context information. The model is a model of one or more models respectively defined for one or more pieces of the context information.

Diagnostic device, computer program, and diagnostic system

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium and an output device configured to output information for a user. The image forming system further includes circuitry configured to acquire, from a reading device read data of the image on the recording medium; calculate a correction value of an image density of the read image; cause the image forming apparatus to form, on a recording medium, a corrected image based on the correction value; and acquire, from the reading device, read data of the corrected image; and cause the output device to output report information representing a relation between a density variation value of the corrected image and a threshold of the density variation value.

Image forming system, density adjusting method, and recording medium

It is an object of the present invention to provide an animal urinary function measuring device and an animal urinary function measuring method each with high accuracy in sampling a urine amount of an animal. There are provided an accommodating portion which accommodates an animal other than humans, a collecting portion which is provided below the accommodating portion and collects urine discharged by the animal in the accommodating portion, a reticulated portion which is provided below the accommodating portion, allows the passage of the urine of the animal into the collecting portion, collects an object other than the urine, and whose wire diameter of a net thereof being not more than 0.5 mm and whose mesh size being not less than 1 mmand not more than the maximum mesh size determined by at least one of the excrement of the animal accommodated in the accommodating portion and a predetermined object used to accommodate the animal in the accommodating portion, a measuring portion which measures the weight of the urine collected by the collecting portion, and a data recording portion which records data measured by the measuring portion.

Animal urinary function measuring device and animal urinary function measuring method

An information processing apparatus includes a sound collector configured to collect an operation sound of a sound collection target device to obtain sound data; a context information obtaining unit configured to obtain context information at a time of an operation of the sound collection target device; a feature generator configured to generate feature of sound data corresponding to the context information; and a clustering unit configured to generate an operation status table of the sound collection target device by using the feature.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium for detecting an abnormity from sound data

In response to receiving a sound signal representing sounds originated from a viewer for each one of a plurality of projectors, which are collected at each one of a plurality of microphones that are associated with the plurality of projectors, a projector control apparatus generates, for each one of the plurality of projectors, distance information indicating a distance of the viewer relative to the projector using the sound signal, and determines a layout of a projection image to be displayed by at least one of the plurality of projectors, based on the distance information of each one of the plurality of projectors.

Apparatus, method, and system of controlling projection image, and recording medium storing image projection control program

An image processing unit includes a first image processing unit that processes image data from a reading unit and a second image processing unit that processes image data from either one of the first image processing unit and a storing unit. A control unit determines a processing to be performed on the image data by the second image processing unit depending on a result of a processing performed on the image data by the first image processing unit, and selects an image processing route depending on a processing to be performed on the image data by the second image processing unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product

In a first route, image data from an image reading unit is processed by both a first image processing block and a second image processing block and sent to a storage unit, and in a second route, the image data processed by the first image processing block is stored in the storage unit and image data from the storage unit is processed by the second image processing block and sent to the storage unit. The control unit switches a process of the second image processing block according to a result of a process of the first image processing block, and switches an input source to the second image processing block according to a process content of the second image processing block.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for proceesing reading blocks

An image data correcting device eliminates a back projection image without eliminating an image corresponding to a low-intensity halftone image. An intensity difference detection part detects an intensity difference between first image data corresponding to a part of a predetermined small area and second image data corresponding to the remaining parts of the predetermined small area. A halftone detection part determining whether the first image data corresponds to a halftone image. An intensity change part changes an intensity of the first image data to a predetermined low intensity, when the intensity difference is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value and the first image data does not correspond to the halftone image and the intensity of the first image data is equal to or smaller than a second predetermined value.

Image data correcting device for correcting image data to remove back projection without eliminating halftone image

An image processor includes a plurality of image processing devices that perform image processing, a storing unit that stores related data set for image data stored in the image processor, a translating unit that translates the related data to internal data, a converting unit that converts the internal data to information corresponding to a program and data used for image processing, and a downloading unit that downloads the information to the image processing devices. The image processing devices perform the image processing based on downloaded information.

Image processor, image processing method, and computer product

The image processing device comprises a first function block section formed of functional blocks which require a supply of power so as to maintain the image processing device in an operating state when the power supply is on, and a second function block section formed of functional blocks which need not be supplied with the power so as to maintain the image processing device in an operating state even when the power supply is on. The supply of power to the second function block section can be stopped when desired, while continuing the supply of power to the first function block section, thereby saving the power.

Image processing device, method for saving power consumption of the image processing device, and a computer product

An image processing apparatus can obtain a copy image having excellent reproducibility with a relatively simple structure of a processing unit that processes image data. The image processing apparatus generates image formation data by processing image data. A gradation processing unit binarizes the image data according to an error diffusion process so as to convert the image data into binary image data. A character/line drawing detection unit determines whether a part of the binary image data corresponds to a character/line drawing portion that consists of characters or line drawings so as to detect the character/line drawing portion. An image processing unit applies an image processing to the part of the binary image data by using an image processing method according to a result of determination of the character/line drawing detection unit.

Apparatus and method for processing binary image produced by error diffusion according to character or line drawing detection

A polarization control device includes a support substrate on which a metal compound structure is formed. The metal compound structure is formed with at least two metal fine structures arranged periodically in a range equal to or smaller than a wavelength of an incident light.

Polarization control device

A programmable image processor capable of realizing a plurality of image formation operations is comprised of an SIMD type data operation processing section, RAMs, memory controllers, and memory switches. The memory controller and the memory switches selectively connect the plurality of RAMs to the data operation processing section thereby changing the memory capacity allotted to each image formation operation among a plurality of image formation operations.

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Hiroaki Fukuda