Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.

Sp Air Kabusiki Kaisha Corporation

Kunihiro Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Kusama

Kentaro Matsumoto

Miyuki Enokida

Takuya Kotani

Yasuo Fukuda

Yuichi Bannai

Osamu Izumisawa

Takashi Hanamoto

Haruki Nakao

Tadashi Yoshida

Yoshihiro Ishida

Hidefumi Ohsawa

Junichi Yamakawa

Hidefumi Osawa

Katsutoshi Ushida

Naoki Matsuki

Fuminori Hirose

Toshihiko Sato

A magnetic armature is attracted and driven by a magnetic force which is intermittently generated between magnetic poles, and a piston reciprocated by being pushed back by a coil spring is not rotated by the coil spring. When the magnetic armature () as attracted between the magnetic pole members () by the magnetic force comes to a predetermined rotational angle position about the axis, the armature receives a rotational torque that is derived from the magnetic force and acts in a direction opposite to that of the rotational torque applied by a coil spring (), thereby preventing the armature from being rotated in the predetermined direction. More specifically, the armature () has a circular cross-section as a whole and has a chamfered part (') parallel to the axis. When the chamfered part enters between the magnetic pole members, the armature receives a rotational torque that is derived from the magnetic force.

Electromagnetic reciprocating fluid device

An electromagnetic reciprocating fluid apparatus includes a magnetic circuit device in which magnetic pole members project inward from an annular magnetic circuit member so as to oppose each other. The magnetic pole members and the annular magnetic circuit member have a uniform thickness. First and second additional annular magnetic circuit members are set on both sides of the annular magnetic circuit member to constitute a part of the magnetic circuit device, thereby minimizing the increase in magnetic reluctance due to magnetic flux concentration at the joints between the magnetic pole members and the annular magnetic circuit member.

Electromagnetic reciprocating fluid apparatus

Printing apparatus including a layout setting screen. The layout setting screen includes a layout selection area for displaying choices of a layout corresponding to a selected print media, a list display area for displaying a list of printing previews of a plurality of pages in accordance with the selected layout, and a preview display area for displaying the printing preview of the page selected in the list display area, on a larger scale than that in the list display area. If the choice of the layout in the layout selection area is changed while the layout setting screen is being displayed, the apparatus changes the display in each of the list display area and the preview display area to a display corresponding to the layout of the changed choice.

Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program

Modified image data is composed by combining unprocessed original image data and modification information expressing a modification process applied to that original image data, enabling the original image data to be recreated from modified image data without deterioration in picture quality. In addition, recording modification information at each process step enables past modifications to be undone and redone at any time.

Image editing apparatus and image editing method

To generating a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, an original image is divided into tiles and a material image having a characteristic similar to that of an image in each tile is applied to the tile. If more than one version of image data having different resolutions is provided as the image data for the material image, a low-resolution version of the image data is used to calculate a characteristic quantity of the image. Thus, the amount of time required to generate the mosaic image can be reduced.

Method, apparatus, and storage media for image processing

According to the present invention, in a borderless printing mode, a printing region is determined from an original image, a region expanded outward is determined for borderless printing based on the determined region. When the thus determined region exceeds the region of the original image, an image in the surplus portion is extrapolated based on an image at end portions of the original image, and printing data is formed based on the extrapolated image and image data of the expanded region.

Image processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and program

This disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus or an image processing method, and takes as its technical problem the fact that conventionally it is difficult to perform a process of carving out a rectangle with high precision in a noisy environment. Therefore, as to an image made by binarizing an original image, histograms of the numbers of horizontal and vertical black pixels thereof are created and trapezoidal approximation is performed on the histograms so as to detect vertex coordinates indicating an extent of a rectangular area in the binary image. An inclination direction of the rectangular area in the extent is detected so that the rectangular area can be detected from the binary image with high precision.

Apparatus and method for image processing

An image processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium can arrange images concentrically with respect to a circular label. image data and a type of an arrangement pattern of image data are selected and the shape and the arrangement of images are changed in accordance with the number of image data selected and a type of arrangement pattern selected so as to generate post-arrangement image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program for implementing image processing method, and recording medium recording program

Compressor

A pneumatic rotary tool has a housing formed primarily from plastic so that the weight and price of the tool are substantially reduced. The air motor is formed for economic assembly while permitting greater structural stability should the housing deflect under an impact. The tool includes a torque selector which controls the amount of pressurized air allowed to enter the air motor, thereby controlling the torque output of the motor. The user may adjust the torque selector to a number of set positions which correspond to discrete torque values. The tool additionally incorporates early and late stage exhaust ports, so that backpressure within the air motor does not slow motor rotation or decrease tool power.

Pneumatic rotary tool

Binary data to which meta-data is to be appended, and meta-data to be appended to the binary data are loaded. The meta-data has an XML format. The loaded meta-data is connected after the loaded binary data. The data synthesized in this manner is output as a single file as a whole. In this file data, since header information remains the same as that before connection of the meta-data, binary data can be reproduced by an existing browser or the like. A binary file with meta-data can be discriminated by checking if data in a correct XML format is present at the end of data.

Data processing method and apparatus

Apparatus and method for image processing to label an object in a binary image

In conventional technique, a layout result is displayed on only one page, and a print result cannot be roughly observed by reduced display of all pages. For this reason, a specific image printed on a specific page cannot be overlooked, and a user must print the image while imaging an image result. When a user tries to change a layout method in the middle of a printing operation, the user must inconveniently restart the operation. In order to solve the problem, a printing apparatus for printing an image selected from images stored in a storage medium includes an image display unit for displaying the image in the storage medium as a list, a printing object selection unit for selecting an image to be printed with reference to the image display unit, a print medium selection unit for selecting medium on which the image is printed, and a print layout selection unit for selecting an arbitrary layout from layouts depending on the medium selected by the print medium selection unit.

A plurality of images and image features of each of the plurality of images are stored in a form correlated with the images in an external storage device of an image retrieval apparatus. In retrieval of a desired image from the plurality of images that have been stored in the external storage device, a plurality of image features regarding one image are acquired by varying, over a predetermined range, each of the image features that have been stored in the external storage device. A fuzzy image search is conducted by calculating the degree of similarity between each of the plurality of images and a retrieval source image based upon the image features that have been acquired and the image features of the retrieval-source image.

Image retrieval method and apparatus

In a conventional client/server type image database for centralized management of image data, upon transmission of image as a search result from a server to a client, since it takes time for the client to display the image due to a network band, the image search cannot be always performed efficiently. Accordingly, in a client process, a feature amount is extracted from a search image, and the extracted feature amount is transmitted to a server process. Then, the result of search by the server process based on the feature amount and a GUID specifying the image database are received from the server process, and image data which is not cached in the client, is requested from the server process based on the search result and the GUID.

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Kunihiro Yamamoto