Fujitsu Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Limited Kawasaki

Hiroshi Kamada

Katsuhito Fujimoto

Atsuko Tada

Kaori Suzuki

Asako Yumoto

Satoshi Kasai

Katsuhiko Hirota

Morito Shiohara

Takashi Kubota

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Takao Ishiyama

Koji Kurokawa

Kazumi Shibata

Tetsuya Taguchi

Yasuo Kadokura

Shuji Sato

Yosuke Tsurumi

Yuka Zenitani

Hirokazu Hamano

Sakon Takahashi

Masahiro Takagi

Masaaki Suwabe

Moegi Iguchi

Yasuaki Hashimoto

Takeshi Shoji

Asafumi Fujita

Takeshi Tanabe

Hiroaki Saijo

Masaaki Usami

Hideki Yanagishita

Yuta Saeki

Masakazu Iijima

Michio Take

Nobukazu Shima

Yoshiyuki Ohta

Tohru Ozaki

Fujio Sato

Michiteru Kodama

Ying-Li Hao

Hirokatsu Musha

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles, silica particles having an average particle diameter of 80 nm to 200 nm, lubricant particles N which has negatively chargeable property, and lubricant particles P which has positively chargeable property, wherein a content (s) of the silica particles, a content (n) of the lubricant particles N, and a content (p) of the lubricant particles P satisfy relationships of Expression (1): 0.002&#x2264;p/s&#x2264;0.2; and Expression (2): 0.02&#x2264;n/s&#x2264;0.5.

Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, and toner cartridge

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: toner particles; first silica particles having an average circularity of 0.9 to 1.0, a particle size distribution index of 1.05 to 1.25, and a compression aggregation degree of 60% to 95%; and second silica particles having an average circularity of 0.9 to 1.0, a particle size distribution index of 1.05 to 1.25, and a compression aggregation degree of 60% to 95%, wherein, when an average primary particle diameter of the first silica particles is set as Da (nm) and an average primary particle diameter of the second silica particles is set as Db (nm), relationships of the following Expressions (A1) to (A3) are satisfied: Expression (A1): 80&#x2266;Da&#x2266;120, Expression (A2): 120&#x2266;Db&#x2266;200, and Expression (A3): 10&#x2266;Db&#x2212;Da&#x2266;120.

An electrostatic charge image developing carrier contains a core particle and a resin coat layer on a surface of the core particle, wherein the core particle has a BET specific surface area of from 0.05 m/g to 0.10 m/g, and the resin coat layer contains a nitrogen-containing (meth)acrylate resin.

Electrostatic charge image developing carrier, electrostatic charge image developer, developer cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An electrostatic charge image developer contains toner including toner particles, and strontium titanate particles having a volume average particle diameter of 3 &#x3bc;m to 7 &#x3bc;m. The electrostatic charge image developer also contains a carrier including core particle, and a coating layer that coats the core particle and contains a cyclohexyl methacrylate resin.

Electrostatic charge image developer, developer cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A toner for developing an electrostatic image, includes: colored particles containing a colorant and a binder resin, and two or more kinds of inorganic particles that are externally added to a surface of the colored particles, in which the two or more kinds of inorganic particles contain titanium-containing particles and silica-containing particles, an exposure ratio of the surface of the colored particles is about 25% or less, and a ratio of the titanium-containing particles that are in contact with the colored particles is about 15% by number or less.

Toner for developing electrostatic image, method of producing toner, cartridge, image forming method, and image forming apparatus

A toner for developing an electrostatic image, includes: colored particles containing a colorant and a binder resin, and two or more kinds of inorganic particles that are externally added to a surface of the colored particles, in which the two or more kinds of inorganic particles contain titanium-containing particles and silica-containing particles, an exposure ratio of the surface of the colored particles is about 25% or less, and a ratio of the silica-containing particles that are in contact with the colored particles is about 10% by number or less.

The present invention provides a tandem-type image forming method using a trickle developing system, wherein the average circularity of a toner contained in at least a supplementary developer used for appropriately supplying a developer to a developing device is in the range of 0.940 to 0.980. In the toner, the ratio of the number of particles having an average circularity of 0.970 or greater, in a particle diameter range of a toner circle-equivalent diameter&#xd7;3/5 or less, is 5% or less, and the ratio of the number of particles having an average circularity of 0.950 or less, in a particle diameter range of a toner circle-equivalent diameter&#xd7;7/5 or greater, is 10% or less.

Image forming method, image forming apparatus and toner cartridge

After a gray scale image extracting unit converts an input document image to a gray scale image, a multi-code image binary-coding unit converts the image to a binary image having a value in which each pixel indicates either a background area or a plotting area in the image, and outputs the binary image to a binary image recognizing unit. In the multi-code binary-coding unit, a partial area extracting unit extracts one or more partial areas in the gray scale image. A partial image binary-coding unit executes a binary-coding process for each of the partial areas in the gray scale image. A binary image combining unit combines one or more partial binary images and constitutes a binary image of the entire gray scale image.

Color document image recognizing apparatus

A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image is provided that is excellent in releasing property upon fixing and shape controllability upon production of the toner. The toner for developing electrostatic latent image has a number average molecular weight in a range of from 10,000 to 30,000 and a ratio of a Z average molecular weight and a weight average molecular weight in a range of from 3.0 to 6.0.

Toner for developing electrostatic latent image, process for producing the same, process for forming image, apparatus for forming image and toner cartridge

The present invention provides an image forming process including the steps of: forming a latent image; developing the latent image with a toner to form a toner image; transferring the toner image onto a receiving body; and fixing the toner image to the receiving body, wherein the step of fixing is carried out using a fixing device including a heat-fixing roller, an endless belt, and a pressure member to allow the endless belt to travel around the heat-fixing roller at a given angle such that a nip is produced through which a recording sheet passes, with the pressure member being pressed to distort the heat-resistant elastic layer in the heat-fixing roller, and wherein the toner for developing the electrostatic latent image satisfies predetermined requirements.

Image forming process

An apparatus for determining whether polygons which form objects defined by graphic data generated by CAD intersect with virtually generated light rays. Polygons which are not intersected are removed from the graphic data as unnecessary for the generation of CG data. An apparatus is also described in which path passage points which pass through an animation path within a virtual world are interactively set. If an object exists that interferes with a path that joins adjacent path passage points, an alternate route path which detours around the interfering object is generated. An apparatus is also described in which a path of a moving object is interactively set on a perspective view of the virtual world as viewed from one direction. The position of the set path in the virtual world is calculated, and the position of the path in the direction of viewing is corrected to a position that is removed from an object by a prescribed distance.

Computer graphics data generating apparatus, computer graphics animation editing apparatus, and animation path generating apparatus

A character string extraction apparatus extracts an aggregate of basic components from a document image, such as a binary image, gray scale image, color image, etc., and judges whether each basic component is a character component using an inclusion relationship between the basic components. Then, the character string extraction apparatus extracts an aggregate of character components based on the judgment result and extracts a character string from the aggregate of character components.

Character string extraction apparatus and method based on basic component in document image

A computer graphics apparatus includes a walk-through function to simulate with a computer the concept of walking through a structure such as a building. Display processing time and calculation processing time for one frame of a computer graphic image are improved by an input unit which receives a viewline moving instruction to move a viewline of a computer image. A viewline control unit determines positions and directions of the viewline while a storage unit stores computer graphics data including three-dimensional data of objects, walk-through attribute data and viewline data. An image generation unit then generates images including animated images based on the position of the viewline and the computer graphics data. The resultant images are then displayed on an image display unit.

Computer graphics apparatus having an improved walk-through function

A document image tilt detection unit extracts a set of elements forming a character from a document image, extracts candidates for horizontal and vertical lines based on the character elements, estimates the reliability of each candidate for a line, and extracts a set of probable lines. Then, it estimates the tilt of the document image based on the arrangement of the character elements belonging to the line elements in the set of probable lines. A layout analysis unit extracts a set of lines in a fixed line direction from a set of basic elements forming the document image, and reciprocally performs the extraction of a column based on the correlation between lines and the extraction of a line based on the restrictions of the column. By providing the document image tilt detection unit and the layout analysis unit, the tilt of the document image containing both vertical and horizontal character lines can be detected, and lines and columns can be extracted at a high speed with high precision.

Document image recognition apparatus and computer-readable storage medium storing document image recognition program

The value of a reference feature vector calculated from a feature vector of an input pattern is transformed into a candidate category set, by a mapping described in a candidate table. Then, pattern recognition is performed using the candidate category set. By suitably setting the mapping, a high-speed process is performed while maintaining a recognition accuracy.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Kamada