Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hirokazu Kameda

Masaaki Endo

Takeaki Nakano

Norio Shimura

Masaya Kikuta

Manabu Kuchiki

Hitoshi Nishikori

Takeshi Yazawa

Daisaku Ide

Jun Yasutani

Fumiko Yano

Manabu Kanazawa

Tetsushi Kohno

Masanori Echigo

Munetaka Yamaguchi

Kenichi Yoshida

Hiroaki Hasegawa

Chisei Sumita

Gou Sasaki

Ken Hoshino

Daiki Kadomatsu

Takeshi Nakamura

Shigeki Abe

Kosei Tanaka

Tetsushi Kono

Shigehi Abe

A nail printing apparatus includes a print head that prints an image on a nail, a finger rest that is a rest on which a finger is placed and that is movable in a height direction, and a sensor that is arranged at a position above the finger rest as well as below the print head in the height direction and that is movable in a movement direction and capable of detecting a nail within a detection range. A control unit controls height adjustment in which the sensor is moved in the movement direction so that a first position of a nail area is included in the detection range of the sensor and then the finger rest is moved upward until the sensor detects the nail.

Nail printing apparatus and control method

An object of one embodiment of the present disclosure is to provide a product with a high added value to a user by preventing an unnatural character string from being combined, combination of no character string, and the like in a case where there is no voice or almost no voice before or after an image selected from within a moving image. One embodiment of the present disclosure is an image processing apparatus including: a selection unit configured to select, from a moving image including a plurality of frames, a part of the moving image; an extraction unit configured to extract a voice during a predetermined time corresponding to the selected part in the moving image; and a combination unit configured to combine a character string based on a voice extracted by the extraction unit, with the part of the moving image selected by the selection unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and medium

An object of one embodiment of the present disclosure is to provide a product with a high added value to a user by preventing an erroneous character string from being combined in a case where a voice before and after an image selected from within a moving image is a mixed voice. One embodiment of the present disclosure is an image processing apparatus including: a selection unit configured to select, from a moving image including a plurality of frames, a part of the moving image; an extraction unit configured to extract a voice during a predetermined time corresponding to the selected part in the moving image; and a combination unit configured to combine a character string based on a voice extracted by the extraction unit, with the part of the moving image selected by the selection unit or a frame among frames corresponding to the part.

In the present invention, a part of the recording elements in accordance with a position of a print medium with respect to a printing head when printing is performed after the detection is performed among the plurality of recording elements arranged in a conveyance direction during conveyance of the print medium are used for printing if the width of the print medium is detected by the sensor. Then the image of printing target of the size in accordance with the width of the print medium is printed on the print medium.

Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium

By suppressing deviation of dot-formation positions stemming from insufficient accuracy in conveying a printing medium due to eccentricity of a conveying roller, a printed image in which unevenness is less visible is obtained. An accumulated amount of conveyance errors is decreased by narrowing a nozzle-use range and reducing a conveyance amount over an entire printing region according to a mode used for printing an image in which the coverage of a printing medium is low due to a small number of ink colors to be used, for example, a mode used for printing a monochrome image by using a black ink dominantly in all of the density regions.

Ink jet printing apparatus and printing method

By suppressing deviation of dot-formation positions stemming from insufficient accuracy in conveying a printing medium due to eccentricity of a conveying roller, a printed image in which unevenness is less visible is obtained. An accumulated amount of conveyance errors is reduced by narrowing a nozzle-use range and by reducing a conveyance amount over an entire printing region according to the number of colors to be used and desired printing quality in printing an image. Moreover, the nozzles used when the nozzle-use range is narrowed are not fixed, and are switched to be used as appropriate. This prevents only certain nozzles from being used concentratedly, and allows all of the nozzles to maintain substantially the same ejection performance.

When the time period is night, processing advances to step Sto set the initialization speed of a line feed motor to the first speed (v1), and to step Sto execute initialization operation of the line feed motor at the first speed (v1). When the time period is morning or daytime, the processing advances to step Sto detect a cover open/closed state. When the cover is open, the processing advances to step Sto set the initialization speed of the line feed motor to the first speed (v1). When the cover is closed, the processing advances to step Sto set the initialization speed of the line feed motor to the second speed (v2) which is higher than the first speed (v1). The processing advances to step Sto execute initialization operation of the line feed motor at the second speed (v2).

Printing apparatus and control method therefor

An ink jet printing system is provided which has an ink jet printing apparatus and a host and which alleviates a data processing load on the ink jet printing apparatus, prevents a reduction in a printing operation speed, and realizes a cost reduction. The ink jet printing apparatus of this invention has an ink receiving member for receiving waste ink ejected onto an overrunning area outside edges of a print medium and an accumulated value memory section for storing an accumulated value equivalent to waste ink volumes ejected onto the ink receiving member. The host includes a waste ink volume setting section for obtaining a value equivalent to a waste ink volume and a data sending section for sending data to the ink jet printing apparatus. The accumulated value memory section of the ink jet printing apparatus stores the accumulated value equivalent to waste ink volumes obtained by the host.

Data processing apparatus, data processing method, program, and ink jet printing system

An object of this invention is to provide an ink jet printing apparatus that can detect a state causing a printing operation failure without adding a sensor and also enhance the ease of handling on the part of the user while keeping an apparatus cost from rising. For this purpose, in a serial type ink jet printing apparatus, a travel range in which the print head can be moved is detected and it is decided whether the detected travel range is a proper travel range. When, for example, the travel range is determined to be less than a preset range, it is decided that there is an obstacle in a path of the print head and a decision result is displayed. When the travel range is determined to be a certain range, it is decided that the ink tank is not properly mounted on the print head and the corresponding indication is made.

Ink jet printing apparatus and method of controlling ink jet printing apparatus

A printing apparatus of the invention acquires a velocity and an acceleration of a printing medium when a rear end of the printing medium passes through a detection lever. A correction amount for the rear end of the printing medium is determined in accordance with the velocity and the acceleration of the printing medium. The correction amount is a transportation amount of the printing medium during a physical return time after the rear end of the printing medium passes through the detection lever until the detection lever is detected by a sensor. A remaining region from a printing position of a print head up to the rear end of the printing medium is controlled in accordance with the correction amount for the rear end of printing medium.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hirokazu Kameda