Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Kobelco Cranes Co., Ltd.

Koji Inoue

Masahiro Shigenobu

Toru Ohnishi

Akihiro Mouri

Noboru Toyama

Yoichi Takada

Takashi Kosaka

Hirofumi Todo

Takashi Inoue

Hideaki Okamoto

Shigeto Adachi

Yosuke Muraki

Makoto Aikawa

Jun Yasutani

Kenichi Inoue

Toshiyuki Hiroi

Akio Sugimoto

Takeshi Sakaguchi

Tetsuya Ogawa

Takashi Hiekata

Iwao Takiguchi

Hiroyuki Mitani

Hiroaki Kawai

Hiroyuki Takamatsu

Keiichirou Takeuchi

Kensuke Fujimoto

Nobuhiro Kitabatake

Tetsuji Tamura

Shintaro Sasai

Takayasu Fujiura

Junji Yasuda

Toshiro Yamashita

Hiroshi Hashimoto

Toshihisa Iriyama

Kyoji Zaitsu

Hirofumi Hojo

Takashi Hase

Eiichiro Yoshikawa

Naoki Kikuchi

Toshiaki Shimoda

Naoya Fujiwara

Taku Higashiyama

Norio Suzuki

Ryuji Yamamoto

Yutaka Kawata

Takahiro Araki

Takashi Kagawa

Shintaroh Sasai

Osamu Ozaki

Masakatsu Maruyama

Hirofumi Fukuyama

Kiyotaka Ishibashi

Takashi Tokuyama

Yasushi Maeda

Akira Kobayashi

Akio Arai

Yukito Furukawa

Hirokazu Sawada

Keizo Tokushige

Ken-ichi Inoue

Kaneo Yamada

Tatsurou Asano

Izuru Nagahara

Sunao Takahashi

Makoto Kimura

Chikara Ichihara

Fujiwara Naoya

An ink jet recording apparatus according to the present invention includes: a conveying unit that conveys a recording medium; a pretreatment unit that performs corona treatment on a surface of the recording medium; an ink image forming unit configured to be able to form an ink image by applying an ink of at least two colors, the ink containing an anionic pigment; a brightness measuring unit that measures brightness of the ink image; and a corona treatment intensity changing unit configured to change a corona treatment intensity of the pretreatment unit based on a result of the brightness measuring unit.

Ink jet recording apparatus and ink jet recording method

A control apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a position of an optical system based on an image signal, and a predicting unit configured to predict an in-focus position of the optical system based on the position acquired by the acquiring unit. The acquiring unit acquires the position of the optical system by performing interpolation processing in a range equal to or wider than an interval between first accumulation center time for a first frame in the image signal and second accumulation center time for a second frame in the image signal.

Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium

Provided is an ink jet printing method including: subjecting a printing medium to corona discharge treatment; and applying an ink containing an anionic pigment to a surface of the printing medium subjected to the corona discharge treatment, wherein the corona discharge treatment has a discharge quantity of 3,400 W·min/mor more.

Ink jet printing method

There is provided a transfer type ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming section forming an image by applying, onto a transfer body, a reaction liquid for increasing a viscosity of ink and ink containing an aqueous liquid medium and a coloring material; a liquid absorbing section having a porous body that absorbs at least a part of a liquid component from the formed image; a heating section heating the image treated by the porous body; a transfer section that transfers the heated image onto a recording medium; and a deterioration prevention treatment section including a deterioration preventing agent applying device that applies, onto the porous body provided in the liquid absorbing section, a deterioration preventing agent that prevents deterioration of the transfer body.

Transfer type ink jet recording apparatus and transfer type ink jet recording method

Provided is an imaging apparatus including: a plurality of pixels; a scan unit configured to perform a first scan that outputs, from a first pixel of the plurality of pixel, a first signal based on a light flux that has passed through a first region of an exit pupil of imaging optics and a second scan that outputs, from a second pixel of the plurality of pixels, a second signal based on a light flux that has passed through a second region that is a part of the first region; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to set a second exposure time of the second pixel to be shorter than a first exposure time of the first pixel; and an exposure time setting unit configured to set the first exposure time and the second exposure time based on a determination result of the determination unit.

Imaging apparatus capable of maintaining image capturing at a suitable exposure and control method of imaging apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus includes: an image forming unit for forming an ink image containing a liquid component and a coloring material on a moving ink receiving medium; and a liquid absorbing unit having a liquid absorbing member which absorbs at least a part of the liquid component from the ink image by coming into contact with the ink image on the ink receiving medium, in which, in a moving direction of the ink receiving medium, a curvature radius Rof the ink receiving medium at a contact start position between the liquid absorbing member and the ink image and a curvature radius Rof the liquid absorbing member at the contact start position satisfy a relationship in which R&#x3e;0, R&#x3c;0, and |R|&#x2264;|R

An intermediate transfer body is efficiently heated, and thus, transfer properties of an image and durability of the intermediate transfer body are ensured. A heating unit heats the intermediate transfer body by using a plurality of heating sources which are positioned by being shifted, with respect to a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body. The plurality of heating sources includes a first heating source and a second heating source. A degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the second heating source is greater than a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the first heating source. The second heating source is positioned on an upstream side, with respect to the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body, from the first heating source.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An inkjet recording method includes applying an aqueous ink and a reaction liquid for increasing the viscosity of the ink to an ejection target medium to form an ink image thereon. The ink image is then subjected to a liquid absorbing treatment using a porous body having a liquid absorbing surface. In the liquid absorption treatment, the liquid absorbing surface is brought into contact with the ink image to absorb at least a part of the liquid component from the ink image by the porous body and the porous body is used repeatedly while it is sometimes carried out from the liquid absorption treatment region for cleaning. Contact information of the porous body including the number of contact times and a contact pressure in each contact is stored and the gas permeability state of the porous body is evaluated by using such contact information.

Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus

An ink jet printing method includes an ink image forming step of forming an ink image onto an ink receiving medium, a liquid absorbing step of performing liquid absorption treatment in which an aqueous liquid component is at least partially absorbed by a porous body from the ink image, by contacting a liquid absorbing surface of the porous body of a liquid absorbing member with the ink image in a liquid absorption treatment region, and a conveying step of conveying the porous body conveyed from the liquid absorption treatment region to the liquid absorption treatment region again. The method also includes a porous body checking step of forming a test pattern for testing an image quality, detecting the image quality of the test pattern, subjected to the liquid absorbing step, by an image quality detecting device, and determining a state of the porous body from obtained detection results.

Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus

liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head including a plurality of electrodes arranged in parallel, a common electrode positioned to face the liquid discharge head, and a control unit configured to control a voltage to be applied to each of the plurality of electrodes to control the plurality of electrodes as a discharging electrode, which is to discharge a liquid, or as a non-discharging electrode, which is to discharge no liquid, wherein the control unit adjusts a value of the voltage to be applied to the electrode that is to be driven as the non-discharging electrode, based on the voltage to be applied to the electrode adjacent to the electrode that is to be driven as the non-discharging electrode.

Liquid discharge apparatus and control method for liquid discharge apparatus

A control apparatus includes a determiner () configured to determine a focus direction based on a refocus signal generated from a first pixel signal and a second pixel signal, and a focus detector () configured to perform a focus detection by a phase difference detection method based on the first and second pixel signals obtained after driving a lens in the focus direction.

Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element configured to photoelectrically convert an optical image, and a controller configured to control a drive of a focus lens based on a signal outputted from the image pickup element and control a frame rate to drive the image pickup element, and the controller is configured to detect an in-focus position based on a signal outputted from the image pickup element which is driven at a first frame rate, and to switch the frame rate of the image pickup element to a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate while performing a first operation to drive the focus lens to the in-focus position.

Image pickup apparatus, method of controlling image pickup apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A rotatable heating member incorporating a heat source configured to heat a toner image on a sheet includes an elastic layer and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer. When thermal effusivity of the surface layer is Bs and thermal effusivity of the elastic layer is Be, the following relationship is satisfied:&#x2212;0.04&#x3c;(Be&#x2212;Bs)/Be&#x3c;0.04.

Rotatable heating member and image heating apparatus

An imaging lens-exchangeable image capturing apparatus comprises: a detection unit arranged to detect a focus state; a setting unit arranged to cause a user to set correction information for correcting the focus state or correction information for correcting control of a focus position based on the focus state; an acquisition unit arranged to acquire first lens identification information for identifying an attached imaging lens; an input unit arranged to enable the user to input second lens identification information for identifying the attached imaging lens; a storage unit arranged to store, for each imaging lens, the correction information, the first lens identification information, and the second lens identification information in association with each other; and a focus adjustment unit arranged to adjust a focus based on the detection result of the focus state and the correction information.

Imaging lens-exchangeable image capturing apparatus and control method therefor

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