Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Makoto Hirota

Masayuki Yamada

Kunio Yamada

Takashi Yamamuro

Kenichiro Nakagawa

Tsuyoshi Yagisawa

Shota Oba

Akira Ishii

Shigeru Inaba

Toru Misaizu

Yasuki Yamauchi

Toshiaki Fukada

Jun Abe

Hideo Kuboyama

Hiromi Ikeda

Akihiro Katayama

Yasuhiro Komori

Yoshitaka Nakajima

Hiroki Yamamoto

Hiromi Omi

Takashi Ochi

Tetsuo Kosaka

Miho Ikeda

Rei Ishikawa

Ryota Tomishi

Masayuki Ishizawa

Kuniyasu Yamanaka

Toru Ishikawa

Yuji Ikeda

Kunihiko Sato

Shinichi Kuramoto

Makoto Kanno

Tomoyuki Yoshii

Yoshifumi Ozaki

Yasuhiro Kusumoto

Toshihiro Kanematsu

Michio Aizawa

Tomonori Nakamura

Akihiko Noda

Atsushi Funada

Keisuke Kubo

Ryuji Hattori

Masanori Kato

Atsumi Kurita

Takashi Aso

Yasuo Okutani

Mitsuo Yamamoto

Shogo Shibata

Fumiaki Itoh

Takaya Ueda

Yasuaki Watanabe

Yoshifumi Takebe

Kazue Kaneko

Hiroaki Nakazawa

Toru Isosu

Junichi Maekawa

Kazuko Suzuki

Minoru Fujita

Masato Ito

Hideaki Miyata

Yoichi Watanabe

Takayuki Sunaga

Katsuhiko Kawasaki

Keisuke Uchiyama

Yoshio Shiina

Masahiro Andoh

Masaaki Fukuhara

Yoshinori Matsuno

An information processing apparatus is configured to transmit transmission target data to another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display at least one object corresponding to the transmission target data together with a live view image on a display screen, and a receiving unit configured to receive an association operation for associating any one of the objects with any one of photographic subjects included in the live view image on the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify another information processing apparatus associated beforehand with the photographic subject to be subjected to the association operation received by the receiving unit as a transmission destination to which the transmission target data corresponding to the object associated with the photographic subject is transmitted.

Information processing apparatus which cooperate with other apparatus, and method for controlling the same

An apparatus designs an animation expressing a transition of display forms of an object. A reception unit receives an operation for setting key frames in the animation at one or more time points on a time axis displayed on a screen, the time axis corresponding to the animation, and instructs a display form of the object at each of the set key frames. The reception unit receives, in a state when one or more key frames are set on the time axis and a display form of the object is instructed at each of the set key frames, an instruction for reflecting a display form of the object instructed to a first key frame of an already set one or more key frames as a display form of the object at a second key frame set on the time axis. A display control unit displays indicators representing the key frames.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

A transporting member includes multiple helical blades that helically extend around a rotation shaft and that have an upstream-side blade and a downstream-side blade, an end portion of the upstream-side blade and an end portion of the downstream-side blade overlapping in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the multiple helical blades transporting an object in the axial direction via rotation of the rotation shaft; a gap portion that divides the upstream-side blade and the downstream-side blade, the upstream-side blade and the downstream-side blade being arranged at a certain angular interval in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft; and a regulating portion that regulates an amount of the object that passes through a space between the upstream-side blade and the downstream-side blade in a direction in which the object is transported.

Transporting member, developing device, and image forming apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information representing a plurality of screens in each of a plurality of groups to which priorities are previously set, a determination unit configured to determine a group which is assigned the highest priority, and a control unit configured to display on a display unit a representative screen of the group assigned the highest priority.

Priority ordered user interface screens for controlling a device

A developing device includes a sleeve and a magnet roller having first and second magnetic poles, the second magnetic pole being disposed downstream of the first magnetic pole. A magnetic attraction distribution on the sleeve in a region from the first magnetic pole to the second magnetic pole is such that the magnetic attraction decreases from a position of the first magnetic pole toward the downstream side, a gradient of change in the magnetic attraction decreases in a region downstream of a region in which a gradient of reduction in the magnetic attraction temporarily increases, thereby forming an attraction reduction region in which the magnetic attraction is reduced so that developer cannot be held on the sleeve, and the gradient of change in the magnetic attraction increases in a region downstream of the attraction reduction region so that the magnetic attraction increases to a position of the second magnetic pole.

Developing device and image forming apparatus

A developer-agitating transporter includes helical blades that helically extend around a rotation shaft, the helical blades being arranged at different positions in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft; and a gap portion that divides each helical blade into a first blade portion and a second blade portion, which oppose each other across the gap portion, so that the helical blade is discontinuous in a direction in which the helical blade extends. The gap portion causes the first blade portion and the second blade portion to be arranged at a certain angular interval in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft, and at least one surface of adjacent ones of the helical blades that are adjacent in the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft has a sloped area that is sloped at an angle that changes with respect to an axial direction of the rotation shaft.

Developer-agitating transporter, developing device, and image forming apparatus

An object of the present invention is to enhance search accuracy when additional data to be added to editing target data is searched using handwriting input. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes inputting a pattern to editing target data, acquiring attribute information of the editing target data, searching additional data to be added to the editing target data by using the pattern and the attribute information, and displaying the additional data, which is searched by the search unit and added to the editing target data.

Apparatus for adding data to editing target data and displaying data

A developing device includes: a first developing body that develops a developing agent image on a development surface using a developing agent; a second developing body that develops a developing agent image on the development surface using the developing agent; and a sealing member that is disposed between a region where a first delivery pole and a second delivery pole are opposed to each other and the development surface, and adjacently to the first developing body and the second developing body at distances so small that developing agents formed as magnetic brushes on a first conveyance pole and a second conveyance pole respectively can touch the sealing member to secure sealing to prevent the developing agent from leaking to the outside of a device body.

Developing device and image forming apparatus using the same

A developing device includes a first developing member rotating such that a moving direction of a portion opposing the image carrier is opposite a moving direction of the image carrier. A second developing member is provided on a downstream side of the first developing member in a rotating direction of the image carrier rotating such that a moving direction of a portion opposing the image carrier is the same as the moving direction of the image carries. A distributing member is supported movably relative to a proximal portion where the first developing member is closest to the second developing member so as to distribute developer to the first and second developing members by contact with the developer, and a biasing member biases the distributing member upstream in the rotating direction of the first developing member.

Developing device, assembly, and image forming apparatus with a biasing member

A developing device includes first and second developer carriers facing each other in a facing region, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of developer, and a separation member. The first and second developer carriers respectively include first and second magnetic members that are respectively magnetized with first and second facing magnetic poles having opposite polarities. The separation member separates the developer so that the developer is supplied toward the first and second developer carriers. The separation member is disposed such that distances between the separation member and the first and second developer carriers are the smallest in a region in which a magnitude of a combined magnetic field of the first and second magnetic poles locally decreases as compared with a case where at least one of the first and second developer carriers is independently disposed due to interaction between the first and second facing magnetic poles.

Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same

A developing device includes: a first-developer-holding-member facing a surface of a rotating latent image carrier, it rotating such that a moving direction thereof is opposite to that of the carrier at a portion where they face; a second-developer-holding-member provided at a downstream-side of the first-developer-holding-member in a direction in which the carrier rotates, and facing the surface of the carrier, it rotating such that a moving direction thereof is the same as that of the carrier at a portion where they face; a ratio of circumferential speeds of the first-developer-holding-member and the second-developer-holding-member being variable; a splitting member that splits a developer for the first-developer-holding-member and the second-developer-holding-member by hitting against the developer located between the first-developer-holding-member and the second-developer-holding-member; a moving unit that moves the splitting member; and a control unit that controls the moving unit to move the splitting member to vary split ratio of the developer.

Developing device, assembly body, and image forming apparatus

An speech processing apparatus comprises a setting unit that sets an association between a speech recognition target vocabulary and the shortcut data for transitioning to a state to which a transition is made, when a user makes a transition to a state among the plurality of states using an operation input unit, an speech input unit that inputs an audio, a speech recognition unit that employs the speech recognition target vocabulary to recognize the audio that is input via the speech input unit, and a control unit that employs the shortcut data that corresponds to the speech recognition target vocabulary that is a recognition result of the speech recognition unit to transition to the state, in order to improve speech recognition accuracy for audio shortcuts, while also preserving the convenience of the audio shortcuts.

Speech processing apparatus and control method thereof

An information processing apparatus whereby advice having appropriate content can be given at an appropriate timing with regard to a method of user utterance, thereby making it possible to reduce the probability of misrecognition due to the method of utterance. An execution unit executes processing that conforms to the result of speech recognition. An analyzing unit analyzes the suitability of input speech for the speech recognition. A cancel instruction unit inputs an instruction to cancel the processing that has been executed by the execution unit. In response to the cancel instruction, a notification unit notifies the user of guidance related to speech input, based upon the result of the analysis unit.

Information processing apparatus for speech recognition with user guidance, method and program

The invention provides a user interface control apparatus and a method thereof, which can enhance operability of a user interface by replacing a presentation of a user interface designed by a developer of an application program with a UI component that is easy to use and is customizable for each user. A client computer acquires application software program that includes an element describing a presentation of a user interface and an element describing a data model expressed in the user interface by having a communication unit access an application server through a network. A UI component search unit searches a personal UI component library for a UI component having a presentation preferred by a user, which is replaceable with an element of the data model. A UI component replace unit replaces a second element of the application software with the searched for UI component.

User interface control apparatus and method thereof

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Makoto Hirota