Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Nec Corporation

Konica Corporation

Elpida Memory, Inc.

The University of Tokyo

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Nec Toshiba Space Systems, Ltd.

Kompath, Inc.

Hiroshi Oyama

Atsushi Takahashi

Tadashi Matsudaira

Masayuki Watanabe

Kenji Izumiya

Shinpei Kawasaki

Katsunori Takahashi

Tadayuki Ueda

Youbao Peng

Satoshi Miyajima

Remi Ishikawa

Utami Soma

Masashi Sugano

Takanobu Shiki

Kiyoto Kojima

Satoshi Ogata

Takeshi Tamada

Kenji Tamaki

Naoki Matsushima

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Shigeharu Tsunoda

Takashi Nara

Yumiko Izumiya

Yoshiki Katayama

Norio Joichi

Katsuyuki Ikuta

Kosuke Sasaki

Yasuo Amano

Yumiko Higashi

Takumi Shirakuma

Tatsuo Ishizuka

Makoto Maruya

Masaaki Goto

Taichi Kin

Takehito Doke

Haruaki Takahashi

Toki Saito

Nobuhito Saito

Emi Sawayama

Satoshi Kiyofuji

A medical image processing device acquires a user operation. The medical image processing device specifies, from a three-dimensional medical image in which one or more organs appear, an organ of interest to which to apply information. The medical image processing device applies predetermined information to the organ of interest that has been specified. The medical image processing device controls a display device so as to display the three-dimensional medical image.

Medical image processing device, medical image processing method, medical image processing program, and surgical support system

A control device includes a controller that determines, based on physical property information corresponding to physical property of a recording sheet and read information on an image evaluated as abnormal through reading of an image on the recording sheet by a reading section on a recording sheet conveyance path, a process condition under which an image forming section performs image forming on the recording sheet.

Control device and image forming system, and computer readable recording medium storing control program

A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a plurality of driving parts each connected to one end of corresponding one of a respective plurality of rotating shafts; a first torque adjuster connected to another end of each of the plurality of rotating shafts, the first torque adjuster applying first torque to the plurality of driving parts; a second torque adjuster that applies, to the driving parts, second torque for adjusting the first torque to be applied to the driving parts by the first torque adjuster; and a hardware processor that controls the second torque to be applied to the driving parts in the second torque adjuster in accordance with a number of revolutions of the driving part.

Sheet conveying apparatus

A drive apparatus according to the present invention includes a stepping motor that transmits power to a rotating shaft of a conveyance roller, a brushless motor that transmits power to the rotating shaft of the conveyance roller, a first controller that controls an operation of the stepping motor so that the stepping motor rotates at a constant speed, and a second controller that controls an operation of the brushless motor. The second controller switches control of the brushless motor between, in accordance with a conveyance state of the sheet, assist control in which power of the brushless motor assists a rotation of the stepping motor, brake control in which power of the brushless motor prevents the rotation of the stepping motor, and neutral control in which power of the brushless motor does not affect the rotation of the stepping motor.

Drive apparatus and image forming apparatus

In order to enable to change a search condition of a set of SAR data, depending on a purpose of generating InSAR data, an SAR data search method according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes: receiving an input of a search condition comprising a search purpose and an observation date/time condition, switching the observation date/time condition to be used as the search condition, depending on the search purpose, and extracting, from a metadata storage unit configured to store metadata comprising an observation date/time associated with identification information of an SAR data, the identification information of a set of the SAR data that satisfies the search condition, and outputting the extracted identification information of each piece of the SAR data in the set.

SAR data search apparatus, method, and recording medium

A drive apparatus according to the present invention includes a first motor that transmits power to a rotating shaft of a conveyance roller for conveying a sheet, a second motor that transmits power to the rotating shaft of the conveyance roller, a storage that stores information indicating the driving force of the second motor during a period in which the conveyance roller conveys the sheet; and a controller that drives the second motor with the driving force indicated by the information during a period when the conveyance roller conveys the sheet, wherein the controller changes the information stored in the storage according to a load applied to the conveyance roller during the period when the conveyance roller conveys the sheet, and drives the second motor with a driving force indicated by the information after the change during a period when the conveyance roller conveys a next sheet.

An image forming apparatus includes the following. An upstream second conveying roller and a downstream second conveying roller form a loop on the long sheet. A deviation amount detector detects a deviation amount of the long sheet. A loop amount detector detects a loop amount in two positions in a width direction. A speed controller controls a rotating speed of the upstream second conveying roller and the downstream second conveying roller based on a deviation amount and a difference of loop amounts in two positions. Each of the upstream second conveying roller and the downstream second conveying roller includes a near roller and a far roller. The speed controller controls the rotating speed of the near roller and the far roller based on the deviation amount and the difference of the loop amounts in the two positions.

Image forming apparatus

A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a plurality of conveyors provided along a sheet conveying direction; a plurality of main driving parts that is respectively provided to the plurality of conveyors and independently drives the conveyors; an auxiliary driving part that drives the plurality of conveyors; and a transmitter that transmits driving force between the plurality of conveyors and transmits driving force of the auxiliary driving part to the plurality of conveyors.

Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus

A fixing apparatus comprises a fixing nip width adjustment unit configured to adjust the fixing nip width of a fixing nip portion; a braking force generation motor configured to generate an effective braking force in the direction to hinder rotation of an upper pressure roller; and a control unit configured to perform restore control for rotating the upper pressure roller and a lower pressure roller by driving a drive motor and speed keeping control for keeping the rotational speed of the braking force generation motor no higher than a predetermined speed during the restore control in a non-fixing period in which the fixing nip width adjustment unit is controlled to decrease the fixing nip width smaller than in a fixing period and a braking force is applied to the fixing side member by the braking force generation motor.

Fixing apparatus for fixing images formed on sheet and image forming apparatus provided with this fixing apparatus

A fixing apparatus included in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing heater that performs heat fixing, a control unit that controls the fixing heater based on control patterns, a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the fixing heater, and a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage that is applied to the fixing heater. In each control pattern, turn-on period of the fixing heater and turn-off period of the fixing heater are set according to a control cycle of a half cycle duty control. The control unit controls the switching unit to turn on or off the fixing heater using a combination of the control patterns each satisfying a standard for preventing a flicker during each control period of time that is integral multiplication of the control cycle according to the temperature of the fixing heater and the voltage value allied to the fixing heater.

Fixing apparatus with a control unit for powering a fixing heater using a combination of control patterns, and image-forming apparatus using the same

A fixing apparatus includes an upper pressure roller, a fixing belt, a lower pressure roller which cooperates with the upper pressure roller and the fixing belt for forming a fixing nip portion which holds and conveys a sheet with a toner image therebetween; a drive motor which rotates the lower pressure roller; a plurality of motors each of which is capable of generating a braking force in the direction to hinder rotation of the upper pressure roller and an assist force in the direction to assist rotation of the upper pressure roller; a torque generation unit which generate an effective braking force in the direction to hinder rotation of the fixing side member as a combination of the braking and assist forces; and a control unit which switches the motor used to generate the braking force among the plurality of motors in accordance with a predetermined condition.

Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus

A paper feed apparatus is capable of correcting the skew of a sheet irrespective of a differential conveyance distance. The paper feed apparatus is provided with a first large volume paper feed apparatusA having a control unitwhich performs first correction control to correct the skew of a sheet by controlling a first conveyance unitand forming a loop of the sheet P before a paper stop rollers, and also performs second correction control to correct the skew of a sheet by controlling a second conveyance unitand forming a loop of the sheet before a paper stop rollers. In this case, the control unitcontrols the first conveyance unitand the second conveyance unitin order that the skew correcting ability of the second correction control becomes greater than the skew correcting ability of the first correction control.

Paper feed apparatus and image forming system

An image forming apparatus acquires sheet information indicating paper weight or the like of a transported sheet of paper. The apparatus also has a control portion and shifts a reference position which has been previously set to a direction orthogonal to a transporting direction of the sheet of paper based on the paper weight or the like of the transported sheet of paper. A deviation sensor detects a deviation of the sheet of paper with regard to the shifted reference position along the direction orthogonal to the transporting direction of the sheet of paper. A sheet shift portion shifts the sheet of paper to the shifted reference position based on the deviation detected by the deviation sensor.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

When conveying an envelope, a posture of the envelope is corrected by hitting a closed portion of the envelope, which is opposite side of an opened portion of the envelope, against a nip portion between upper and lower rollers of the pre-registration rollers and the envelope is then conveyed with the envelope being nipped by the upper and lower rollers of the pre-registration rollers. The upper and lower rollers of the pre-registration rollers nip the envelope to remove air from the envelope. When setting an envelope mode to control a conveying speed of the envelope based on a coverage rate of an image to be formed on the envelope, the conveying speed of the envelope is controlled by adjusting a rotation speed of the registration rollers based on the coverage rate of the set envelope mode.

Control method of feeder and image forming system

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to reduce the frequency of image defect occurrences to a level as lower as possible by detecting abnormalities generated with age on the photoreceptor member and/or in the cleaning section, so as to suppress an amount of spoiled paper sheets and material. The image forming apparatus includes: a light source that is disposed at a position located between a cleaning section and a charging section, to emit an inspection light, which is to be irradiated onto a photoreceptor member over a main-scanning direction thereof; a tight-contact type image sensor that has a line image sensor to receive the inspection light reflected from a surface of the photoreceptor member; and a control section to determine a status of a surface of the photoreceptor member, based on a result of analyzing the inspection light receive by the line image sensor.

Image forming apparatus with a photoreceptor

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Hiroshi Oyama