Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kiyoto Motoyama

Hiroshi Sugimura

Katsuhiro Nagayama

Takashi Usui

Kiyoshi Takato

An information processing system includes a relay server, an image forming apparatus, and a plurality of content servers. The image forming apparatus requests the relay server to transmit a print content selected by a user. When receiving a transmission request of the print content transmitted from the image forming apparatus, the relay server acquires the print content from the content server of contents provider which provides the print content, and the relay server configures a print condition according to the type of the print content in accordance with a print condition table. The relay server transmits first data to the image forming apparatus. The first data includes the print content and a setting command corresponding to the print condition according to the type of the print content.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, control program, and control method

Provided is a consumables discharge device that discharges toner via an image carrier and an intermediate transfer body including a patch forming unit that forms a patch in a patch printing region to be formed on the intermediate transfer body via the image carrier by using the toner discharged from a developer tank after adjusting a range of the patch printing region in one or both of a gap region existing between image forming regions adjacent to each other of the intermediate transfer body and both end regions adjacent to both ends of an image forming region in a width direction of the intermediate transfer body, based on one or both of a size and a direction of a recording medium to be printed as input information.

Consumables discharge device, image forming apparatus, multifunction machine, and consumables discharge method

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an easy-to-manufacture organic-inorganic hybrid photoelectric conversion element having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and excellent durability. A photoelectric conversion elementfurther comprises a closely packed titanium oxide layer, a porous titanium oxide layer, an organic-inorganic hybrid crystal layer, and a hole transport layerbetween a first conductive layerand a second conductive layer, wherein the hole transport layercomprises a compound with the following structure (I): where Rto Rare each the same or different and represent hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted alkylamino group, substituted or unsubstituted arylamino group, or substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, provided that a case in which all of the Rto Rare hydrogen atom is excluded; and m, n, o, and p are each the same or different and represent an integer of 1 to 5, provided that when any of the m, n, o, and p is an integer of 2 or more, the corresponding R groups may each be the same or different.

Photoelectric conversion element and method for manufacturing the same

An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a self-similar image storing sectionthat stores a pattern of a self-similar image; a superimposed image data generating sectionthat generates superimposed image data from a self-similar image, based on the pattern of the self-similar image; an image combining sectionthat combines original image data with the superimposed image data; and a control sectionthat controls operations of the above-mentioned sections. The superimposed image data generating sectionadjusts a pattern of a self-similar image so that a size of a superimposed image corresponds to a draw size of an original image which draw size is determined by the control section. It is therefore possible to combine the original image data with the superimposed image data so that the superimposed image is suitably drawn regardless of the draw size of the original image.

Image processing apparatus, image data output processing apparatus and image processing method

An image forming apparatus, an image forming method, a program, and a recording medium that succeed in reducing recording agent consumption without causing image quality degradation are provided. A modification region processing section detects, out of image data, A locations where a region identification signal provided from a region separation processing section changes from a ground region mode to a character region mode, and vice versa, as the boundary between the ground region and the character region, and thereby specifies a modification region which is continuous with the ground region and overlaps with a part of a periphery of the character region which is contiguous to the ground region. The modification region is assigned color data indicating a color that can be represented by the recording agent for use in ground region formation thereby to generate image data.

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Sakai, Japan

Kiyoto Motoyama