Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.

Meiji Seika Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaru Shimura

Seiji Saito

Shinji Katagiri

Kazuhiro Doda

Kenji Kanari

Ken Nakagawa

Takashi Shimada

Tsuguhiro Yoshida

Michio Uchida

Shigeru Hoashi

Takamitsu Soda

Takeo Kawanami

Hideo Nanataki

Takaaki Akamatsu

Kiyoto Toyoizumi

Akinori Takayama

Masahiro Suzuki

Masaru Ohno

Kazunobu Ohkuri

Taro Nakagami

Shinsuke Kobayashi

Hideaki Hasegawa

Shuichi Tetsuno

Yuji Kawaguchi

Yasunari Watanabe

Hiroaki Sakai

Ichiro Yasumaru

Takashi Shibuya

Seiji Inada

Taro Minobe

Tatsuya Kobayashi

Takayasu Yuminamochi

Yuuichirou Inaba

Shuuichi Tetsuno

Tomoo Akizuki

Katsuhiro Sakaizawa

Naoki Enomoto

Tomohiro Nakamori

Jun Suzuki

Hiroshi Takami

Satoshi Tsuruya

Kenta Kawamoto

Takayuki Tanaka

Yuichiro Inaba

Takahiro Ikeda

Tatsuya Kinukawa

Kouji Yasukawa

Tomoya Kuruma

Eiichi Hamana

Michiaki Iwata

Kengo Kawamoto

Masahiro Tambo

Koichi Suzuki

Yuki Yamamoto

Kazushi Watanabe

Toshiyuki Karakama

Takayasu Kon

Takehiko Suzuki

Tomio Noguchi

Shigeharu Inouye

Seiji Shibahara

Hideki Matsumoto

Masaharu Ohkubo

Akihiko Uchiyama

Yuichi Hasegawa

Hidekazu Matsuda

Takashi Shomura

Hirokazu Tatsuta

Eiichi Tanaka

Nobuto Minowa

Takeshi Kawamura

Asako Kaneko

Masao Ando

Masaji Sezaki

Masaharu Goto

Shuichi Gomi

Minoru Matsuguma

Yuichiro Koyama

Kei Sawanaka

Shinji Miyadoh

Tomoya Machinami

Takuya Otani

Keiichi Imamura

Shigeharu Inoye

Kei-ichi Imamura

Kazuo Yamanaka

Yuuichiro Inaba

Yuuichirou c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Inaba

An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.

Imaging forming apparatus with enhanced primary transferability where primary transfer is performed with electric current flowing in circumferential direction of intermediate transfer belt

A controller which causes a light emitting element to continuously perform minute emission for a plurality of dots in a level in which toner is not attached to a non-image section on an image bearing member is provided. The controller controls a first driving current for an image section and controls a second driving current used to perform the minute emission by the light emitting element in the non-image section several times in one job. In the image section, a driving current obtained by adding the first driving current to the second driving current is supplied so that the light emitting element emits light.

Color image forming apparatus

To propose an information processing apparatus and information processing method and program capable of allowing users to share their viewpoints or lines of sight in a situation where a plurality of users share content for which the users can move their viewpoints or line-of-sight directions. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information indicating a first user's line of sight detected in response to presentation of a content; and a management unit configured to associate the acquired line-of-sight information with the content as control information for controlling the presentation of the content to a second user different from the first user.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective image forming stations.

Image forming apparatus having transfer power source that applies voltage to secondary transfer member to perform secondary transfer of toner images from electrically conductive intermediate transfer belt to recording materials, toner images on image carrier primarily transferred to belt by transfer power source and contact member in which an electric potential is formed by constant-voltage element, transfer power source and auxiliary power source

Provided is an image display device configured to display a free viewpoint image that tracks a movement of observer's head and trunk. The line-of-sight direction and trunk orientation of the user are individually oriented in a free viewpoint space displayed on a display devicebased on posture information of the user's head and trunk, which are respectively obtained from a head motion tracking deviceand a trunk motion tracking deviceA behavior that is natural in real space can be represented by moving a line of sight to a front direction of the trunk on a space in a state where the line of sight does not match the front direction of the trunk. An unnatural UI that goes straight to the line-of-sight direction is prevented regardless of orientation of the trunk.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer program, and image processing system

Image forming apparatus having intermediate transfer belt, secondary transfer member that contacts outer surface of intermediate transfer belt, opposed member opposed to secondary transfer member via intermediate transfer belt, contact member that contacts inner surface of intermediate transfer belt, and constant-voltage element through which opposed member and contact member are grounded

Image forming apparatus where primary transfer is performed with electric current flowing in circumferential direction of intermediate transfer belt

Image forming apparatus using stretch member and contact member to maintain potential with a current flowing to intermediate transer belt

A process for automatically creating a measurement method suitable for plasma ion source mass spectrometry, including: semi-quantitatively measuring all elements in the sample that affect the measurement; determining a plasma condition based on the total concentration of the semi-quantitatively measured elements; for each of the semi-quantitatively measured elements, estimating signal strengths of the element and an interference component in the sample to be measured and based on the resultant estimates, estimating the concentration of the element; and, based on the estimated signal strengths of the elements and the interference components and the estimated concentrations of the elements, creating at least one mass spectrometry method including at least one of: (1) a plasma condition; (2) an internal standard to be added to the sample; (3) a tuning condition for the collision/reaction cell; (4) a mass-to-charge ratio used in the mass spectrometer; and (5) an integration time used in the mass spectrometer.

Method to generate data acquisition method of mass spectrometry

In an image forming apparatus that performs primary transfer by allowing a current to flow to an intermediate transfer belt in the circumferential direction of the belt, the image forming apparatus has a control unit that can execute a second mode in which a second current amount which is larger than a first current amount is supplied from a current supply unit to an intermediate transfer belt and a toner image is primarily transferred only from a first photosensitive body to the intermediate transfer belt. The control unit can adjust surface potentials of the first photosensitive body and a second photosensitive body, and makes the absolute value of the surface potential of the second photosensitive body less than the absolute value of the surface potential of the first photosensitive body when the second mode is executed.

Image forming apparatus

Image forming apparatus using stretch member and contact member to maintain potential with a current flowing to intermediate transfer belt

An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear convex portions. The image forming apparatus of the present invention prevents a friction force between the belt and the transfer device rubbing the belt from increasing and brings a transfer member into a stable contact with the belt for conveying the toner image, thereby suppressing increase in drive torque of the belt which rubs the transfer device and suppressing occurrence of image failure.

An image forming apparatus includes a movable belt; a transfer member opposed to the image bearing member with the belt therebetween; wherein the transfer member has a contact surface substantially parallel with a surface of the belt and contacted to the belt, and wherein when the belt is moving, the belt rubs the contact surface, and a toner image is transferred from such a part of image bearing member as is opposed to the contact surface; and a supporting member for supporting the transfer member, the supporting member being swingable.

Image forming apparatus having movable endless belt supporting member

Image forming apparatus using stretch member and contact member to maintain potential with current flowing from current supply member to intermediate transfer belt

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Masaru Shimura