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Sony Group Corporation

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Thomson Licensing

Nobukazu Suzuki

Yoshio Ohashi

Masaru Uryu

Gen Ichimura

Masayoshi Noguchi

Yohei Fukuma

Shinji Tsuruta

Kohei Kikuchi

Yuichi Sato

Masao Yamamoto

Shuji Yamada

Motoya Kanda

Ken Uchida

Takashi Sakai

Yusuke Hattori

Hirokazu Niki

Akinori Hongu

Yutaka Miki

Yuu Kondou

Kunihiko Sasaki

Yoshiko Kanazawa

Terutaka Yana

Tsutomu Takamura

Kazuhiro Matsutani

Yasuo Kawabata

Koji Hashimoto

Toshio Shiobara

Yukio Tanaka

Ryo Sakai

Hiroshi Ikeda

Teppei Yokota

Yasuhiro Shirakawa

Daisuke Shiono

Yasuo Osada

Atsushi Ito

Takayuki Aoki

Shoichi Osada

Akihisa Inatani

Takayoshi Seki

Kaneaki Fujishita

Takahisa Tagami

Kotaro Iyasu

Hisayasu Mitsui

Atsuo Imai

Takeshi Yamamoto

Keijiro Yamashita

Nobuyuki Nishigori

Noriko Suwa

Tatsurou Hirano

Koji Hasimoto

Toshiaki Nakamura

Takumi Endoh

A system obtains a measured temperature of a fixing unit that fixes an applied agent applied on a print medium to the print medium by heat and identifies a print job whose temperature to be set associated with a type of print media to be used is closest to the measured temperature among a plurality of print jobs that are saved in a first saving unit and are yet to be identified. The temperature to be set is a temperature associated with each type of printing medium as the temperature to be set in the fixing unit when fixing. In addition, a printing control unit executes printing of the plurality of print jobs so that among the plurality of print jobs, an identified first print job or a print job for which a same type of print medium as the first print job is to be used is processed first.

Image output apparatus using a measured temperature, image output method, and storage medium

A sound output device including: an actuator that outputs a driving force in response to a drive signal; a vibrating body that includes a plurality of receiving parts and is vibrated by a driving force transmitted from the actuator; a transmission plate that is provided with a plurality of pressing parts that press the plurality of receiving parts, respectively; a coil spring that applies a biasing force to the transmission plate to press the plurality of pressing parts against the plurality of receiving parts, respectively; and a base body that receives one end face of the actuator, in which the vibrating body is pressed against another end face of the actuator by a biasing force of the coil spring applied via the plurality of pressing parts and the plurality of receiving parts.

Sound output device

Provided is an acoustic reproduction device that includes a first acoustic reproduction unit, and a second acoustic reproduction unit, in which the first acoustic reproduction unit includes a housing having a cylindrical shape and a vibration exciter that vibrates an end surface of one end of the housing. The second acoustic reproduction unit includes a speaker unit and a diffuser that changes a radiation direction of sound reproduced by the speaker unit. The housing, the speaker unit, and the diffuser are arranged so as to be substantially coaxial with a predetermined axis, and the diffuser causes a radiation direction of sound reproduced by the speaker unit and a radiation direction of sound from the first acoustic reproduction unit to be substantially a same.

Acoustic reproduction device

An edge including an inner notch extending in a diaphragm-side region, and an outer notch extending in a frame-side region near the inner notch, in which the inner notch and the outer notch have a depression with a depth equal to or larger than a thickness, and an angle B formed by an extending direction of the outer notch with respect to a line radially extending from an edge center is larger than an angle A formed by an extending direction of the inner notch with respect to the line.

Edge of diaphragm and speaker unit

Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality is improved. Included are a support fixed to a mount base, a speaker unit including a portion to be fixed, and a base casing holding the speaker unit, and the speaker unit is fixed to the support and the base casing with the portion to be fixed being sandwiched between the support and the base casing. With this configuration, the speaker unit will be held stably, a great oscillation from a diaphragm of the speaker unit is less transmitted to the parts other than the diaphragm of the speaker unit, to the member holding the speaker unit, or the like. Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality can be improved.

Speaker apparatus

A sound conversion efficiency and a sound quality is improved. Included are an oscillating element that is expanded and contracted in response to a drive signal, two oscillating bodies that are positioned on opposite sides across the oscillating elements, have end faces arranged respectively in contact with both ends of the oscillating element in an expanding and contracting direction, and are oscillated by expansion and contraction of the oscillating element, and an urging spring that urges the two oscillating bodies and press the end faces against both the ends, respectively. Thus, the oscillating element is expanded and contracted, and the oscillating bodies are oscillated with the end faces of the oscillating bodies urged by the urging spring being in contact with both the ends of the oscillating element in the expanding and contracting direction of the oscillating element.

Speaker apparatus that oscillates an oscillating body via an oscillating element

To reduce the driving loss in the diaphragm, and to ensure a good sound output in the wide bandwidth. It includes a circular coil bobbin at least partly disposed between a yoke and a magnet, a coil wound around the coil bobbin, the coil being configured to be moved with the coil bobbin where a driving current is supplied to the coil, a piezoelectric element having one end coupled to one end of the coil bobbin in a movement direction, the piezoelectric element being configured to be expanded and contracted and moved in a direction same as the movement direction where an electric current is supplied to the piezoelectric element, and a diaphragm having an inner circumference part coupled to another end of the piezoelectric element, and a coupled part of the diaphragm to the piezoelectric element and a coupled part of the piezoelectric element to the coil bobbin are positioned on a straight line in the movement direction.

Combined light and speaker

A sound output apparatus includes a diaphragm having a predetermined plane positioned at a rear surface side of a light provision unit, and a vibrator for providing vibration in a direction substantially orthogonal to the predetermined plane.

Sound output apparatus, sound output method and image display apparatus

A speaker system includes: a display panel having a display screen; a structure having a plate part functioning as an acoustic diaphragm located outside of a perimeter of the display screen and being supported by the display panel; and an actuator attached to the structure so that a displacement direction of the actuator may be a direction of a plate surface of the plate part.

Speaker system and speaker driving method

A speaker has an acoustic diaphragm, and an actuator that is driven based on a first acoustic signal. The actuator has a transmission portion that is directly or indirectly attached to the acoustic diaphragm and transmits a displacement output of the actuator to the acoustic diaphragm. The speaker also has a sounding body that is driven based on a second acoustic signal that is identical to or different from the first acoustic signal.

Speaker

A speaker apparatus includes: a diaphragm vibrating to output sounds and being formed in an annular shape having a center hole in the middle thereof; a driving section causing the diaphragm to vibrate; a light emitting member emitting light; and a heat controlling member radiating heat generated when the light emitting member emits light or conducting the heat to a heat radiating section, wherein at least a part of the heat controlling member is provided on an axis including the center axis of the diaphragm, and the light emitting member is disposed on an end face of the heat controlling member.

A method for image processing in which an area of a platen on which a document is placed is read and the platen image is processed includes extracting an object included in the platen image, detecting an area of the object and inclination of the area of the object with respect to the platen image, determining the minimum rectangular area which includes the area of the object, and is surrounded with four sides parallel to four sides of the platen image respectively, comparing an extent to which a pixel group constituting an edge of each area includes pixels constituting an edge of the platen image between the area of the object and the minimum rectangular area, and determining a minimum rectangular area as the area of the document if a pixel group includes a larger number of pixels based on the comparing or if the inclination is small.

Image processing method, program, and image processing apparatus for detecting an area of object and inclination of the area with respect to a platen image

A speaker device includes: an acoustic diaphragm; a vibration transfer member provided in a state of touching the acoustic diaphragm over a given length, which is configured to transfer vibration to the acoustic diaphragm; and an actuator configured to add vibration corresponding to an audio signal to be reproduced to the vibration transfer member to thereby transfer vibration to the acoustic diaphragm through the vibration transfer member and to generate sound.

Speaker device

A speaker apparatus includes: an actuator serving as a source of vibration; a vibration transmitting member connected to the actuator; and two sheet-like diaphragms provided opposite to each other in the thickness direction thereof with the vibration transmitting member and disposed in contact with the vibration transmitting member, wherein vibration generated at the actuator is transmitted to each of the two diaphragms through the vibration transmitting member to output sounds.

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Nobukazu Suzuki