Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Hitoshi Komatsu

Toshimitsu Kaku

Hiromichi Fujisawa

Kazunori Hashimoto

Soichi Isono

Yasushi Fukuda

Sadao Minakawa

Yuji Yamane

Kazuki Torai

Takashi Kawakami

Kiyoshi Honda

Hiroshi Ide

Kunihiko Hayashi

Toshio Niihara

Satoshi Kawamura

Kiyoshi Matsumoto

Yutaka Watanabe

Shigenori Okamine

Yasuaki Nakano

Shozo Kadota

Tatsuya Ichikawa

Hirohide Endo

Hiroshi Shiota

Kiyomichi Kurino

Masae Takabayashi

Takuma Suwa

Ryosuke Hironaka

Akira Otsu

Kunihiko Kizaki

Nobuhiro Matsumura

An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to, when humidity detected by a humidity sensor is equal to or above a preset value with paper sheets stacked in a paper sheet holder being fed to an image forming unit, perform control to set a separation operation time used to separate in a separation operation a single paper sheet from multiple paper sheets stacked in the paper sheet holder to be longer than the separation operation time used when the detected humidity is lower than the preset value.

Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

Multibeam optical disk record and reproduction apparatus and method, in which at least two light beams generated are concentrated in different positions of on recording tracks of a recording medium to record or reproduce data to or from the recording medium on the different positions at the same time. The light beams are moved independently of each other across the recording tracks so that any one light beam is movable during the recording or reproducing of data by another light beam. This allows parallel recording/reproducing with a plurality of light beams without producing areas unaccessed due to the jumps of the light beams.

Multibeam optical disk record and reproduction apparatus and method

In a rotary type storage apparatus and a control method thereof, a plurality of concentric or spiral information tracks are set and also each of the plural information tracks is subdivided into a plurality of sectors along a circumferential direction, which constitute a plurality of information recording planes. Also, in this apparatus and method, there are provided a plurality of read/write heads employed at each of the information recording planes and accessible to the information tracks, and also a head drive mechanism for positioning these plural read/write heads to the information tracks. At least one of the plural information recording planes corresponds to such a recording plane where a substitution information track has been set, on which a substitution sector corresponding to a failed sector present at another information recording plane is recorded.

Rotary type storage apparatus and control method thereof

Spectro photometer

Control table for spectro photometer

Pattern segmentation and recognition in which hand-written characters are transformed electrically into 2-dimensional image patterns, wherein if ambiguity exists in segmenting a unit pattern including a character from the image patterns, character recognition is not made compulsively, but a plurality of possible unit patterns are first established. Then, the various unit patterns are segmented, and each unit pattern is identified to be a partial pattern, linked patterns, etc., so that each character is recognized on a basis of total judgement, whereby ambiguity of segmentation is resolved.

System and method for segmentation and recognition of patterns

A digitized multilevel signal is encoded on the basis of unit combinations each including a run-length bit field indicative of run-length at each of the signal levels and a single continuation bit indicative of transition of the signal levels. The encoding is so modified that a virtual run of zero length is inserted when the transition of the signal levels at adjacent sampling points departs from a predetermined order. Polarity of the continuation bit is inverted upon every transition of the signal level.

Multilevel signal compression method

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hitoshi Komatsu