Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.

Hoya Corporation

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Saturn Licensing LLC

Showa Optronics Co., Ltd.

Ryosuke Sato

Kengo Nieda

Toshiki Takeuchi

Kenji Shigeno

Masato Izumi

Koichiro Kawaguchi

Yusuke Nakaya

Yasuhiko Ikeda

Masahito Yoshida

Kenji Sugiyama

Shigeru Toriihara

Akihiro Tomoda

Kosuke Yamamoto

Tetsuhiro Nitta

Hiroyuki Kinoshita

Hideyuki Terashima

Naohiro Iwata

Ippei Tsushima

Atsushi Sakamoto

Futoshi Hirose

Susumu Hirosawa

Masahiro Sugimoto

Kota Uchida

Kinichi Iwachido

Takashi Daimaru

Yuichiro Yanagi

Toshio Inami

Masayoshi Takahashi

Takakazu Bito

Noriyuki Sugiyama

Takeshi Murase

Takaaki Ishida

Takuto Moriguchi

Akio Okubo

Takashi Igarashi

Masahiro Jinbo

Akimitsu Hoshi

Masahiko Samukawa

Shigeru Kameyama

Kazuhiko Okazawa

Suk-Hwan Chung

Yukio Numakami

Masashi Machida

Yuki Tsujimoto

Kohei Fukui

Shunya Sunouchi

Hisanori Akiyama

Hisashi Enomoto

Ryo Shimizu

Kenichi Ohmori

Tadashi Fukumuro

Yasuhiro Yamashita

Keita Sonoda

Hideaki Kusama

Ryotaro Togashi

Tomonari Yahata

Yoshiaki Aida

Teruaki Shimoji

With a recording apparatus for performing recording onto a continuous sheet to be conveyed, for starting conveyance of the continuous sheet, control is started so that with a first conveyance roller for conveying the continuous sheet on the upstream side of a recording portion in a conveyance path of a continuous sheet being stopped, the speed of a second conveyance roller for conveying the continuous sheet on the downstream side of the recording portion in the conveyance path becomes a first speed, and control is changed so that the speed of the second conveyance roller becomes a second speed faster than the first speed, and moreover control of the first conveyance roller is started so that the speed of the first conveyance roller may become a third speed faster than the first speed and slower than the second speed.

Recording apparatus, and method for controlling recording apparatus

An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit to print on a printing medium and a drying unit to dry the printing medium. The drying unit includes an air blower having an entry and an exit, a heater to heat air from the blower exit, a casing, first and second collection paths, and an exhaust amount regulator as a regulation value disposed in each of the first and second collection paths. The casing includes a first portion to communicate with the heater, and includes a second portion to communicate with the first portion and to pass the printing medium through the second portion. The exhaust amount regulator switches between a first regulation state in which air circulates through the first portion and the first collection path and a second regulation state in which air circulates through the second portion and the second collection path.

Printing apparatus having drying unit and drying control method

A printing apparatus, which applies ink to a target print medium to form an image by a print unit, includes a plurality of temperature regulation units juxtaposed in a conveyance direction of the target print medium and each configured to regulate a temperature of the target print medium, a plurality of measurement units each configured to measure the temperature of the target print medium, and a control unit configured to make a temperature regulation capability of each temperature regulation unit variable, wherein each temperature regulation unit regulates temperature in a widthwise direction of the target print medium, each measurement unit measures the temperature in the widthwise direction of the target print medium, and the control unit controls the plurality of temperature regulation units based on the measured temperatures.

Printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a print unit configured to print an image on a print medium, a conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium to the print unit, a first feed unit configured to feed a first print medium to the conveyance unit, a second feed unit configured to feed a second print medium to the conveyance unit, and a control unit configured to control the first feed unit, the second feed unit, and the conveyance unit. The control unit is configured to start, in a state in which the first print medium is being conveyed by the conveyance unit, feeding of the second print medium to the conveyance unit by the second feed unit.

Printing apparatus, printing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A power transmission apparatus wirelessly communicates with a power reception apparatus using an antenna, wirelessly transmits power to the power reception apparatus using the antenna, measures, in a period during which the transmission of the power is stopped, one or both of a voltage and a current output from the antenna, performs, based on a measurement result obtained by the measurement, a determination process for determining that an object different from the power reception apparatus is present, restricts, in a case where it is determined that an object different from the power reception apparatus is present as a result of the determination process performed by the first determination unit, the transmission of the power, and controls the first determination unit not to use in the determination process the measurement result obtained by the measurement in a period during which communication is performed.

Power transmission apparatus, method for controlling power transmission apparatus, and recording medium

A control method according to one aspect of the technology is for use where a power supply of an apparatus having a first application and a second application is turned off during display of a screen of the second application and remains off, the first application being used to view a program, the second application being different from the first application. The control method includes: in a case where a power button is pressed, turning on the power supply of the apparatus to start simultaneously the second application and to display the screen thereof; and in a case where a channel selection button is pressed, turning on the power supply of the apparatus to start simultaneously the first application and to display an image of the program distributed on a selected channel.

Smart start-up of television

A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to form an ink image by discharging ink on a medium, and a heating unit configured to heat the ink image on the medium. The heating unit includes a heat generating unit configured to generate radiant heat, a reflecting unit that includes a reflecting surface configured to reflect the radiant heat of the heat generating unit, and a cooling unit configured to cool the reflecting surface by supplying a gas to the reflecting surface.

Printing apparatus and heating device

A laser annealing apparatus () according to the embodiment includes: a laser beam source () configured to emit a laser beam (L) to crystallize an amorphous silicon film () on a substrate () and to form a poly-silicon film (); a projection lens () configured to condense the laser beam to irradiate a silicon film (); a probe beam source configured to emit a probe beam (L); a photodetector () configured to detect the probe beam (L) transmitted through the silicon film (); a processing apparatus () configured to calculate a standard deviation of detection values of a detection signal output from the photodetector, and to determine a crystalline state of the crystallized film based on the standard deviation.

Laser annealing apparatus, inspection method of substrate with crystallized film, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device

A communication apparatus operable to perform communication with another communication apparatus that supports a first version of a predetermined communication method or a second version of the predetermined communication method different to the first version, registers a version of the communication method that the other communication apparatus supports, transmits, in a case where the version of the communication method that the other communication apparatus supports is registered, a signal according to the first version or the second version that is registered, and transmits, in a case where the version of the communication method that the other communication apparatus supports is not registered, both a signal according to the first version and a signal according to the second version.

Communication apparatus, method of controlling communication apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An exhaust gas purification system for an engine includes an exhaust passage extending from the combustion chambers of the engine, and an exhaust purifying unit disposed in the exhaust passage and configured to purify exhaust gas in the exhaust passage. The exhaust purifying unit includes a carrier disposed in the exhaust passage, a first purifier having at least a function of oxidizing components in the exhaust gas. The first purifier covers, as an underlayer, an outer surface of the carrier, and a second purifier having a function of purifying the exhaust gas by reducing, using occluded ammonia, the components in the exhaust gas that have been oxidized in the first purifier. The second purifier includes a superposed portion covering, as an upper layer, an outer surface of the first purifier.

Exhaust gas purification system

A zooming imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, at least: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having positive refractive power; a fifth lens group having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens group. During zooming, the distance between adjacent lens groups changes. During focusing from an object at infinity to a close object, the fifth lens group moves along an optical axis toward an imaging surface side. The second lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, at least: a 2a-th lens group; and a 2b-th lens group having negative refractive power. Image stabilization is performed by displacing the 2b-th lens group perpendicularly to the optical axis. The optical system satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.

Zooming imaging optical system

A laser annealing apparatus () according to an embodiment includes a laser oscillator () configured to generate a laser beam (L), a floating-type conveying stage () configured to float and convey a workpiece (W) to be irradiated with the laser beam (L), and a beam profiler () configured to measure a beam profile of the laser beam (L). The floating-type conveying stage () includes a conveying surface () opposed to the workpiece (W), and a bottom surface () on the side opposite to the conveying surface (). The beam profiler () is positioned below the bottom surface () of the floating-type conveying stage (). The floating-type conveying stage () includes a detachable part () in a part of it. An opening (S) is formed by detaching the detachable part () from the floating-type conveying stage (), the opening () extending from the conveying surface () to the bottom surface (). The beam profiler () is configured to measure the beam profile of the laser beam (L) through the opening (S).

Laser irradiation apparatus, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and method for operating laser irradiation apparatus

A printing apparatus according to an embodiment of this invention brings, out of a cleaning unit that cleans a transfer member in contact with a transfer member and an application unit that applies a reactive liquid with ink to the transfer member, the cleaning unit into contact with the transfer member to clean the transfer member by the cleaning unit at the start of the printing operation. Alternatively, out of the application unit and an absorbing unit that absorbs a liquid component from the reactive liquid applied by the application unit in contact with the transfer member, the printing apparatus brings the application unit into contact with the transfer member to apply the reactive liquid by the application unit.

Inkjet printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a transfer member that rotates, a printhead configured to form an image on the transfer member, and a transfer unit configured to transfer, to a print medium, the image formed on the transfer member. A detection unit is configured to detect a surface condition of the transfer member, and a specifying unit is configured to specify a region of the transfer member in which the surface condition is poor, based on a detection result output by the detection unit. In addition, a prohibiting unit is configured to prohibit image formation by the printhead for the region of the transfer member, specified by the specifying unit, for which the surface condition is poor.

Printing apparatus that specifies a region of a transfer member having a poor surface condition and prohibits printing in the region, and related print control method

An audio processing apparatus includes a transform unit that transforms time series audio data obtained from first and second microphones into first and second frequency spectrum data; a driving noise computation processing unit that computes a subtraction amount of the driving noise for each of frequencies from the first and second frequency spectrum data obtained by the transform unit; a generating unit that, on the basis of the first and the second frequency spectrum data obtained by the transform unit and the driving noise subtraction amount obtained by the driving noise computation processing unit, generates left and right channel frequency spectrum data in which the driving noise is respectively suppressed; and an inverse transform unit that inverse-transforms the left and right channel frequency spectrum data generated by the generating unit into left and right channel time series audio data, respectively.

Audio processing apparatus and control method thereof

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Ryosuke Sato