Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Kazushige Muroi

Kazuma Aoki

Satoru Yanagi

Kohei Terada

Masaru Takeuchi

Masatoshi Kokubo

Satoshi Watanabe

Shigeki Akiyama

Jun Morikawa

Mitsuhiro Nozaki

An image forming apparatus includes a data receiving device, a memory, an image forming device forming an image on a recording medium and a control device controlling the memory to store therein a data aggregate received by the data receiving device. The data aggregate includes image data relating to an image and condition data relating to an image forming condition for forming the image on the recording medium by the image forming device. The control device determines whether command data relating to a command to the image forming apparatus is included in the data aggregate stored in the memory and, when it is determined that the command data is included in the data aggregate stored in the memory, executes a command based on the command data, instead of image formation by the image forming condition relating to the condition data.

Image forming apparatus, control method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage device having control program

A processor performs receiving a print instruction of printing image files stored in a server; transmitting a first request to the server, the first request requesting the server to transmit, to the printing apparatus, attribute information with respect to each file, the attribute information being at least one of a property and a print setting with respect to each file, the property including at least one of a data size, a file type, and color information of each file; receiving the attribute information with respect to each file from the server; determining a priority order of each image file based on the attribute information; determining a sequence of downloading the files based on the priority order; transmitting a second request to the server based on the sequence, the second request requesting the server to transmit each file; receiving each file from the server; and printing images based on each file.

Printing apparatus including download printing procedure

A copy machine includes a reading unit, memory and a printing unit. When reading and printing a document of a plurality of sheets, the copy machine performs: a preceding print mode for a former part of the document of the plurality of sheets, including storing an image data with a first compression ratio in the memory and starting printing of image of the former part of the document based on the stored image data before document reading of the reading unit is completed; and a memory print mode for a latter part of the document of the plurality of sheets, including storing the image data with a second compression ratio in the memory and starting printing of image of the latter part of the document based on the stored image data after the document reading of the reading unit is completed.

Copy machine with controlling of printing unit

An image reading system and an image reading apparatus is provided. The system or apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, a determining unit configured to determine whether there exists a folded portion at a corner of the original, and a generating unit configured to generate a file including an image area which stores image data of the original read by the reading unit and a non-image area which stores data other than the image data, and configured to write fold information in the non-image area if the determining unit determines that there exists a folded portion, the fold information indicating that the folded portion exists in the read original.

Image reading system and image reading apparatus

If a velocity calculated by a velocity calculating unit deviates from a normal range, a target velocity is used as a feedback amount, an actuation amount corresponding to a deviation Ve=0 between the feedback amount Vf=Vt and the target velocity Vt is calculated, and a driving power corresponding to this actuation amount is supplied to a motor. A conveyor belt can be driven stably without causing irregularity in a speed of the conveyor belt.

Image forming apparatus with a rotating body controlled in a feedback manner and image forming method using a rotating body controlled in a feedback manner

When a first period in which communication is performed by a first interactive communication unit and a second period in which utilization data is utilized have a period overlapping with each other, the utilization data are correlated with interactive communication content data, which are contents interactively delivered in the first period, by a correlation giving unit. When interactive communication is performed by the first interactive communication unit, the previous interactive communication content data are searched out using information on an interactive communication partner of the interactive communication as a search condition, thereby outputting the interactive communication content data and the utilization data correlated with the interactive communication content data by the correlation giving unit.

Information management system, information processing device, and computer usable medium

A motor control device includes: an operation amount setting unit that sets an operation amount of a motor for driving a driving target according to a predetermined driving signal; and a control unit that generates the driving signal. The control unit generates an initial driving signal such that a velocity of the driving target follows an external velocity command, generates a cyclic signal having a cycle according to an angular velocity of a motor shaft of the motor, and generates the driving signal by multiplying the initial driving signal and the cyclic signal, based on at least one of a position and a velocity of the driving target.

Motor control device, motor control method, and program

An information management system comprises: an external device a comprising interactive communication unit that interactively communicates with an interactive communication device through a public telephone line; an information processing device connected to the external device in a communication-practicable manner; and a third storage unit that stores utilization data, which is accessed by the external device and the information processing device. When a period specified by a start and end of a communication performed by the interactive communication unit of the external device and a period specified by the start and end of utilization of the utilization data overlap with each other, the utilization data are correlated with the communication of the interactive communication unit.

Information management system, information processing device, and program

One identification information piece to identify one data correlated with another data can be output as being correlated with the another data. In addition, when the one data is displayed or printed on the basis of the output one identification information piece or when another data associated with the one data is searched out, a score is given to the correlation of the one data with the another data and the one data correlated with the another data is preferentially output in accordance with the score.

Information management device, information management system, and computer usable medium

An evaluation device for a rotary drive that evaluates periodic velocity fluctuation of the rotary drive is provided. The evaluation device includes a rotational velocity fluctuation detector, a reference signal generator, and a multiplier-accumulator. The rotational velocity fluctuation detector detects rotational velocity fluctuation relative to a reference velocity of the rotary drive. The reference signal generator generates a reference signal, in which the reference signal has a period and a phase angle. The multiplier-accumulator performs a multiply-accumulate operation between the rotational velocity fluctuation detected by the rotational velocity fluctuation detector and the reference signal generated by the reference signal generator, so as to detect a fluctuation intensity at the phase angle of a component having the period, in which the component is included in the rotational velocity fluctuation detected by the rotational velocity fluctuation detector.

Evaluation device and method for rotary drive, corrective manipulated variable setting device and method, control device and method, and program

A speed direction corrector determines whether a speed Vp corresponding to a manipulated variable Up generated by a position controller is larger than a target speed Vt set in a target speed setting register (Vp&#x3e;Vt). If Vp&#x2266;Vt, the manipulated variable corresponding to the target speed Vt is corrected to the manipulated variable Up to produce a new manipulated variable Uf. If Vp&#x3e;Vt, a manipulated variable corresponding to the target speed Vt is set to the new manipulated variable Uf as is. As above, in a deceleration section where Vp&#x2266;Vt, the manipulated variable of a position control is reflected in the manipulated variable of a speed control. Combined use of the speed control and the position control becomes possible without a need to execute a complicated process in which the manipulated variable is regulated at the time of switching from the speed control to the position control.

Device and method for controlling motor

An image forming apparatus including: (a) a feed mechanism including a motor and a feeder moved by the motor for feeding a medium; (b) a recording head for ejecting an ink toward the medium to form an image; (c) a feed controller for controlling the motor so as to move the feeder to a target operating position that causes the medium to be positioned in a desired position; and (d) an ink ejection controller for causing ink ejection portions of the recording head to eject the ink toward the medium. The feed controller includes: a target-operating-position changer for changing the target operating position as an original target operating position to a modified target operating position in which influence of a cyclic variation of an operation velocity of the feeder is smaller than in the original target operating position. The ink ejection controller includes: an ink-ejection portion shifter for shifting the ink ejection portions in upstream or downstream direction in which the desired position is shifted as a result of change of the target operating position.

Image Forming Apparatus

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A motor control method/device is provided in which a speed change during a deceleration period is stabilized in performing a speed feedback control of a motor. In the motor control method/device, the speed feedback control is performed such that a speed of a body driven by the motor is consistent with a predetermined target speed. A deceleration directive corresponding to time elapsed since a predetermined deceleration control start timing is generated as the target speed using a deceleration function of the elapsed time, to perform the speed feedback control based on the deceleration directive, during a deceleration control period. The deceleration control period starts from the deceleration control start timing and ends when the driven body is stopped. The deceleration function monotonically decreases from the deceleration control start timing until the deceleration directive becomes zero (0) and its derivative is a monotonically decreasing or increasing function or a constant.

An apparatus for controlling an electric motor provided to drive a movable object such that a detected actual amount of motion of a movable portion of the electric motor or the movable object coincides with a target amount, comprising:

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