Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Makoto Ikeda

Hiroyuki Nemoto

Takao Sonoda

Kousuke Tsuboi

Norihiro Nabeshima

Keita Suzuki

Takahiro Hashimoto

Taishi Hitomi

Takeshi Ishimaru

Toshiyuki Maeda

Tomihisa Saito

Shinya Matsubara

Kiyoto Miyoshi

Takatora Ando

Takashi Kishimoto

Shunichi Takaya

Hidemitsu Takeuchi

Atsushi Matsubara

Akio Tasaka

Hirohiko Iwase

Kouzou Fujino

Yuusuke Shiono

Toru Kawabe

Daisuke Genda

Mieko Ohkawa

Hiroaki Kato

Tetsushi Tsuda

Takeo Abe

Ryuta Nakajima

Shimei Tei

Tomomi Kukita

Kenji Kita

Yuuichi Kita

Ryuhei Uchiyama

Takashi Matsuda

Michiyuki Kitamoto

Hitoshi Inoue

Shigeru Takasao

Naveen Gunturu

Hisanori Ohshima

Yu Ota

Osamu Nagasawa

Akiko Shirai

Kenji Amano

Xianglian Li

An infrared output device is installed in a fixed apparatus whose position is fixed in a predetermined space. An input receiving device is configured to receive, through voice input, a control command to a first-type apparatus controllable by infrared ray. Upon the input receiving device receiving the control command, the infrared output device is configured to output infrared ray to the first-type apparatus.

Operating system, information processing device, control system, and infrared output device

An operating system that can control any apparatus is provided. The operating system includes an input receiving device, a first information processing device, a second information processing device, and an infrared output device. The operating system operates a first-type apparatus operable by communication of an infrared pattern and a second-type apparatus operable via a network. The first information processing device is connected to the input receiving device and configured to analyze operation information corresponding to an input operation. The second information processing device is configured to control the second-type apparatus (controlled apparatus (B)) via the network based on a control instruction. The infrared output device is configured to output an infrared pattern corresponding to a control instruction to the first-type apparatus (controlled apparatus (A)).

An operating system includes an air conditioner and an infrared output device. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit. The infrared output device is configured to receive first information on an instruction to a first-type apparatus other than the air conditioner and operable by an infrared signal and transmit an infrared signal corresponding to the first information to the first-type apparatus. The air conditioner further includes a management device configured to manage the first-type apparatus. The management device includes a command information receiving unit configured to receive second information on a command content, and a determination unit configured to determine whether there is a deviation between a behavior of the first-type apparatus and the command content, based on the behavior of the first-type apparatus and the second information.

An air conditioning system suppresses energy consumption by efficient shared use of air in a common space that is not subjected to air conditioning in an indoor area, among a plurality of air conditioners for the purpose of heat exchange. A plurality of air conditioners each include: a usage-side heat exchanger configured to carry out heat exchange with air in an air-conditioning target space; a heat source-side heat exchanger configured to carry out heat transfer to and from the usage-side heat exchanger; and a heat source-side fan configured to feed air from a common space to the heat source-side heat exchanger and to blow the air into the common space. The heat source-side heat exchangers of the air conditioners are disposed in the common space. A first ventilation fan whose airflow volume is changeable is disposed near an exhaust port through which air is discharged from the common space toward an outdoor area. A controller changes the airflow volume of the ventilation fan, based on information on an air temperature of the common space.

Air conditioning system

A web processing system which includes two rollers configured to rotate at the same phase while being in contact with a web which continuously exists along a movement passage and a suppressing mechanism for suppressing a tension variation of the web between the two rollers.

Processing system and control method for handling continuous sheet of material

An operating system that can control any apparatus is provided. The operating system () includes an input receiving device (), a first information processing device (), a second information processing device (), and an infrared output device (). The operating system () operates a first-type apparatus () operable by communication of an infrared pattern and a second-type apparatus () operable via a network. The first information processing device () is connected to the input receiving device () and configured to analyze operation information corresponding to an input operation. The second information processing device () is configured to control the second-type apparatus () (controlled apparatus (B)) via the network based on a control instruction. The infrared output device () is configured to output an infrared pattern corresponding to a control instruction to the first-type apparatus () (controlled apparatus (A)).

An image inspecting apparatus includes a reader that reads an image on a recording material formed in an image forming apparatus and generates read image data and an image analyzer that performs analysis to determine abnormality for the read image data by using a threshold value and creates an analysis result. The image analyzer makes pixels constituting the read image data a target pixel sequentially and performs determination of abnormality for the target pixel by using the threshold value calculated by using a threshold value calculating method. The threshold value calculating method includes a plurality of threshold value calculating methods, and a first threshold value calculating method is switched to other threshold value calculating method correspondingly to a number of pixels included in a region for calculating a threshold value.

Image inspecting apparatus and image forming system

In order to provide, to a roll-to-roll printing apparatus which seamlessly performs printing on a base material using a roll-to-roll method, performance for finely controlling the tension of the base material, the roll-to-roll printing apparatus includes a drive roll () that supplies a base material (B) to a plate cylinder, a drive roll actuator that rotates the drive roll (), a dancer actuator () that changes a path line length of the base material (B) to vary the tension of the base material (B), a tension detection device () that detects the tension of the base material (B), and a tension control device () that controls the drive roll actuator and the dancer actuator () in accordance with a result of the detection by the tension detection device () to compensate for a variation in the tension of the base material (B). When compensating for the variation in the tension of the base material (B), the tension control device () uses the drive roll actuator to perform relatively rough control, while using the dancer actuator () to perform relatively fine control.

Roll-to-roll printing apparatus

In an air conditioning system which conditions air in one air-conditioning-target space with a plurality of air conditioners each including a compressor, the energy consumption efficiency as a whole is improved. The air conditioners (to) each include a service-side heat exchanger exchanging heat between air of a room which is the air-conditioning-target space and a refrigerant, a heat-source-side heat exchanger exchanging heat between air of a common space and the refrigerant, and a compressor (to) compressing the refrigerant circulating through the service-side heat exchanger and the heat-source-side heat exchanger. When an air conditioning capacity falls within a predetermined range for at least two of the plurality of air conditioners (to), part of the air conditioners whose compressors are in operation has its compressor stopped.

A control apparatus of a web processing system that executes predetermined processing onto a web continuously existing along a movement passage, in which the web processing system includes a rotating body that rotates while being in contact with the web, and the control apparatus controls a rotation speed of the rotating body such that a circumferential speed of the rotating body at a contact surface with the web matches a transport speed of the web.

Control apparatus

An image inspection apparatus includes an image reader that reads an original image formed on a recording material based on a print job and generates a read image, and a hardware processor that analyzes the read image and performs an image inspection, wherein the hardware processor: acquires the read image from the image reader, detects an edge from the read image, and excludes a region near the edge from a target of the image inspection; performs a predetermined filter process on the read image after the exclusion process to generate a first reference image compares the read image after the exclusion process with the first reference image to generate a first comparison image; and binarizes the first comparison image using a predetermined threshold to detect points where a specific abnormality has occurred, and outputs a detection result.

Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and image inspection program

An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a sheet detection sensor; an image reader; and a hardware processor that: detects an image abnormality by analyzing the read image data and obtains a position in a sheet conveyance direction of the detected image abnormality in the read image data for each piece of the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; estimates a conveyance interval of the plurality of sheets based on a detection result by the sheet detection sensor, and determines whether a specific periodicity exists based on the estimated conveyance interval and the position of the image abnormality detected from the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; and when the specific periodicity is determined to exist, estimates a part corresponding to the specific periodicity as a failure point.

Image forming apparatus and failure point estimation method

An air conditioning system includes air conditioners having at least one installed function of multiple functions, a mobile terminal carried by a user, and information mediation devices configured to carry out exchange of information between the air conditioners and the mobile terminal using a public network. The mobile terminal has an air conditioning management program configured to manage the air conditioners. The air conditioners store installed function information relating to the functions installed in the air conditioners. The air conditioning management program of the mobile terminal reads out the installed function information via the information intermediation devices, and generates, in accordance with the installed function information, an air conditioner management screen image displayed on a display of the mobile terminal.

Air conditioning system and air conditioning management program

Provided is an image processing device used for image processing in an image forming device that executes linear image forming in a first direction repeatedly in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and executes two-dimensional image forming on a recording medium, the image processing device including: a processor configured to: acquire a phase of a member that contributes to image forming by rotating or circulating in the second direction and calculate, for each of different phases, an input/output gradation characteristic indicating a correspondence relationship in density in the same pixels in pre-output image data and post-output image data acquired by scanning of an image formed on the recording medium; calculates correction data to solve a difference between the input/output gradation characteristic in each of the phases and a reference input/output gradation characteristic; and correct the pre-output image data with the correction data of each of the phases.

Image processing device, image forming device, image forming system, and image processing program

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