Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Kurashiki Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Ebara Corporation

Other

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Tsubakimoto Chain Company

Nec Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Hiroshi Yokota

Hiroshi Suganuma

Hiroo Kanamori

Toshio Danzuka

Hiroaki Takimoto

Yuichi Ohga

Tsutomu Tanaka

Seiki Satomi

Tomoyuki Hattori

Gotaro Tanaka

Kazuhiko Arimoto

Eisuke Sasaoka

Shinji Ishikawa

Kunihiko Tanaka

Yoichi Ishiguro

Michihisa Kyoto

Ichiro Tsuchiya

Shinji Hayashi

Masaki Miyashita

Masataka Takemura

Minoru Watanabe

Masumi Ito

Masahiro Takagi

Yukiko Ito

Tetsuo Miyajiri

Masaaki Tamai

Tatsuro Ikoma

Shuzo Suzuki

Takeshi Kokado

Motohiro Nakahara

Masumi Fukuma

Kouji Kubota

Naoki Yoshioka

Futoshi Mizutani

Katsue Koashi

Michio Oitaka

Junichi Yoshikawa

Kazuhiko Araki

Chishio Ueno

Kenichi Matsushita

Shigeru Tanaka

Masaru Fuse

Masahiro Hasegawa

Masashi Shimoyama

Akira Takahashi

Yoshihiro Sekimoto

Masayuki Shigematsu

Yoshiyuki Okuda

Kunio Fujiwara

Fumio Kuriyama

Kazuki Maeda

Yuichiro Kurokawa

Takao Edahiro

Yusuke Akama

Nobuo Tomita

Shinichi Kawaguchi

Tatsuhiko Saito

Nobutoshi Saito

Yuji Yano

Toru Kuwahara

Takeo Igarashi

Masahide Saito

Atsuhiro Tsuji

Kazuyoshi Takeda

Tatsuhiko Saitoh

Toshihiko Tanaka

Kazuhiro Matsumoto

Keiichi Takagaki

Hideki Minami

Takashi Ashihara

Naoki Yanai

Toshimi Habasaki

Kazuo Nakazawa

Hiromasa Yamashita

Shinzo Doi

Nobuyoshi Yasuda

Ichiro Ogasawara

Yukie Gotoh

Yoshihito Ishizue

Tamio Tsurita

Akio Shibata

Hidenobu Arimitsu

Rei Kiumi

Makiko Emoto

Takuya Kotsuji

Aiji Suetake

Satoru Hiraki

Keiji Fujita

Kentaro Fujita

Shinichi Ozaki

Kazunori Chida

Takenori Yao

Hiroyuki Sakachi

Kazuo Kouyama

Yasukazu Kawabata

Susumu Hamaguchi

Toshio Takahashi

Shigeru Yasukawa

Katsutoshi Shibayama

Masaaki Kimura

A conveying belt has a plurality of flushing openings and a detection hole, and the plurality of flushing openings are arranged in at least two rows along the main scanning direction. Furthermore, the discharge timing controller (a) detects a position of the detection hole in the main scanning direction with a belt sensor, (b) identifies the flushing opening corresponding to the nozzle based on the position of the detected detection hole in the main scanning direction, and (c) causes the print engine to perform flushing of the nozzle at a timing corresponding to the flushing opening.

Image forming apparatus

A mask processor sets a mask area based on a shape of a print sheet read by an image sensor, masks an outer peripheral portion of a print image using the mask area, and causes a print engine to form a mask-processed print image. The mask processor (a) identifies a pixel in which the print sheet is detected in a line image obtained from an output of the image sensor, (b) detects a sub-scanning-direction reference position corresponding to an edge of the print sheet based on the number of pixels in which the print sheet is detected, and (c) sets a linear edge of the mask area at a line spaced apart by a specific number of offset lines from a line where the sub-scanning-direction reference position is detected toward a center of the print sheet.

Image forming apparatus with sub-scanning-direction reference position

An image forming apparatus includes a recording head that ejects inks of different colors on a recording medium to form an image based on image data, a storage device that stores a plurality of different dot patterns for flushing, and a control device that functions as: a controller that allows the recording head to make flushing; an image area detector that detects an image area in the image data; an overlapping dot counter that counts a number of overlapping dots for each of the plurality of dot patterns according to which flushing is to be made on the image area, the number of overlapping dots being a number of dots in the dot pattern of the ink ejected on the image area; and a dot pattern assignor that assigns, according to the number of overlapping dots, the respective dot patterns for use in flushing with the inks of different colors.

Image forming apparatus and flushing control method for assigning respective dot patterns for use in flushing with inks of different colors according to number of overlapping dots in image

An image forming apparatus includes a reader configured to read a paper used for printing, a controller configured to generate paper information indicating the type of paper read by the reader, and a storage unit configured to store the paper information in association with history information of a paper. The controller updates history information corresponding to target paper information when the target paper information indicating a same type of paper as the paper indicated by newly generated paper information is stored, and causes the storage unit to store the newly generated paper information when the target paper information is not stored. The controller searches for paper information indicating the type of paper input in a search operation, and causes an operation panel to display the history information corresponding to the found paper information.

Image forming apparatus for performing printing on paper

A sheet reader reads the entire sheet which is transported. Based on the reading, a controller generates region classification image data for distinguishing between a region of the sheet and a region other than the sheet. The controller performs comparison processing in which reference image data that is the region classification image data of a first sheet in a print job and comparison target image data that is the region classification image data for another sheet are compared. The controller determines whether or not a sheet corresponding to the comparison target image data is abnormal.

Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus

A wireless apparatus includes an antenna, a circuit board configured to form a wireless communication circuit that is connected to the antenna, and a housing configured to accommodate the circuit board and formed by resin molding. A linear conductor extends from a ground of the circuit board.

Wireless apparatus, wireless abnormality notification system using same, and wireless remote control system

A plurality of lenses constituting a lens unit () are fixed to each other with use of an adhesive () applied between the plurality of lenses. The lens unit () is incorporated into an actuator () through an opening () of the actuator () and is held inside the actuator () so as to face directly an inner wall surface of the actuator ().

Camera module, electronic device in which camera module is mounted, and method for manufacturing camera module

An image forming apparatus has a sheet reading portion, an assimilation surveying portion, a color changing portion, and a printing portion. The sheet reading portion reads image data from a transparent sheet tinted with a predetermined color owned by a user. The assimilation surveying portion looks for, out of printable colors, a particular color that assimilates to the color of the read image data. The color changing portion changes, out of the data of a predetermined document accepted from the user, the color of the data of a concealable character, which is a character concealed when overlaid with the transparent sheet, to the found particular color. The printing portion prints, out of the data of the document, the data of the concealable character in the particular color.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method that can print concealable characters in a particular color

The object lensand the ocular lensare disposed in the lens barrel unitand the relay lens systemis disposed therebetween. The image sensoris disposed in the camera unitand the coaxial illumination unitis disposed therearound. The focus position shift memberis disposed at the image formation position Lin the lens barrel unit. The light from the coaxial illumination unitis imaged at the image formation position Land is shifted to a position Lby the focus position shift member. Since the position Lpositions at a position closer than a focus position, light through the object lensdiffuses to illuminate the object

Endoscope

An image forming apparatus includes a punch hole detection section, a position calculating section, an image adding section, and an image forming section. The punch hole detection section analyzes image data of a scan image obtained through scanning of an original document to detect two punch hole images. The position calculating section calculates a midpoint between the two punch hole images in the scan image when the two punch hole images are detected. The image adding section adds image data of a midpoint indicating image to the image data of the scan image so that the midpoint indicating image is added to the scan image at a position corresponding to the midpoint. The image forming section performs image formation on a sheet based on the image data of the scan image to which the image data of the midpoint indicating image has been added.

Apparatus and method for forming image obtained by adding midpoint indicating image to scan image on sheet

An image forming apparatus includes a determination section, acquisition section, generation section, notification section, and a management section. The determination section determines, when receiving a print job from a predetermined terminal apparatus via a network, whether or not the print job is a private print job. If the print job is a private print job, the acquisition section acquires, from another image forming apparatus coupled to the image forming apparatus to communicate with the image forming apparatus, information regarding the another image forming apparatus. The generation section generates a one time password on the basis of the acquired information. The notification section notifies the terminal apparatus of the generated one time password. The management section manages the generated one time password in association with the private print job and, when receiving the one time password from a user, executes the private print job associated with the one time password.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image processing apparatus displays a menu indicating one or more settings pertaining to image adjustment processing and a unique marker corresponding to a currently selected setting in the menu. A portable terminal detects the marker as depicted in a captured image that has been captured by an image capturing device and displays a screen indicating an effect of performing the image adjustment processing in accordance with a setting corresponding to the marker.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus and portable terminal configured to display an effect of performing image adjustment processing to image data in the image processing apparatus

A liquid component concentration meter measures the concentration of a liquid in a liquid supply tube from outside the liquid supply tube. The concentration meter includes a liquid supply tube; a light transmission unit; a light emission unit for irradiating light to the light transmission unit; a light reception unit for receiving light passed through the light transmission unit; a support member that movably supports the light emission unit and the light reception unit such that a measurement position is moved along the light transmission unit; a measurement-position moving mechanism for moving the support member such that the measurement position is moved within a predetermined area in the light transmission unit; and a data processing unit for calculating the concentration of the liquid in the liquid supply tube based on intensities of light received by the light reception unit at different measurement positions.

Liquid densitometer

An image processing apparatus has a line memory for writing and reading image data of one line. A write/read controller controls writing and reading the image data of one line in and from the line memory. A white line determiner determines whether an image corresponding to image data of one line being written in the line memory is a white line. An image processor performs specified image processing on the image data of one line read from the line memory by the write/read controller. An image processing controller generates an operation clock used in the image processor and causes the image processor to perform the specified image processing for the image data of one line determined not to be a white line and stops generating the operation clock and reads white data from a white data storage for the image data of one line determined to be a white line.

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image processing method

An optical element module according to the present invention includes a plurality of optical elements laminated therein, each optical element including: an optical surface at a center portion thereof; and a spacer section having a predetermined thickness on an outer circumference side of the optical surface, wherein an adhesive is positioned on a further outer circumference side of the spacer section, and the upper optical element and the lower optical element are adhered to each other such that an inside and an outside of the adhesive are ventable through a ventilating section of the adhesive.

Optical element wafer module, optical element module, method for manufacturing optical element module, electronic element wafer module, method for manufacturing electronic element module, electronic element module and electronic information device

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Hiroshi Yokota