Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Satoru Hayama

Keiji Okumura

Keiichi Taguchi

Noriaki Okamoto

Yoshio Sugishima

Takeshi Aoki

Jun Miyoshi

Chikashi Kajikawa

Yuichiro Iwase

A coordinate measuring unit measures an x-coordinate, a y-coordinate and a z-coordinate indicating an object position according to a change in the position of an object located within a predetermined distance from a panel surface. A display control unit causes a display unit to display a first mark image defining a peripheral distance of a positon determined by the x- and y-coordinates together with predetermined images. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the first mark image such that an area defined by the first mark image becomes smaller as the z-coordinate becomes smaller.

Display apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a data generation portion that generates text-searchable electronic data by superimposing transparent text data obtained by causing, to be transparent, text data contained in document sheet data stored in advance in a storage portion, and image data read from a document sheet by an image reading portion.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

An original reading system includes an original reading unit, a storage unit, a display portion, a selection unit, and a control unit. The original reading unit reads an image of an original to generate image data. The storage unit stores name data regarding a name that is assigned to the image data. The storage unit can store the image data. The display portion displays a name based on the name data stored in the storage unit. The selection unit selects a name displayed on the display portion. The control unit sets the name selected by way of the selection unit as a name of the image data generated by the original reading unit, and stores the image data into the storage unit.

Original reading system, image forming system, and image forming apparatus

A sheet feeder includes a tray on which sheets are to be placed, a rope connected to the tray, a pulley which includes a shaft and on which the rope is taken up such that the winds thereof are aligned in an axial direction of the shaft, and a motor for moving the tray upward by rotating the pulley about the shaft in a direction to take up the rope to locate the uppermost sheet on the tray at a sheet pickup position. A sheet remaining amount detection device applied to this sheet feeder includes a position detector for detecting a present position which is a present take-up position of the rope on the pulley in the axial direction, and a remaining amount detecting section for detecting the remaining amount of the sheets on the tray based on the present position detected by the position detector.

Sheet remaining amount detection device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a vibration sensor that transmits a detection signal in response to a vibration pattern and a sheet feeder cassette unit that stores recording papers, is opened/closed by extraction/insertion, and generates a specific vibration pattern while being opened or closed. The image forming apparatus includes an open/close detector unit that detects an opened/closed state of the sheet feeder cassette unit when detecting a predetermined vibration pattern based on the detection signal of the vibration sensor.

Image forming apparatus

A sheet stack handling apparatus discharges sheet stacks from a bin of a sorter disposed on the side of an image forming apparatus, and includes a sheet stocker, a sheet stack transporting route, and a sheet grasping mechanism. The stack handling or discharge apparatus is disposed on the front side of the sorter. The sheet stocker is disposed in the bottom of the discharging apparatus and stores the sheet stacks. The sheet stack transporting route is provided in the discharging apparatus and extends laterally from the side of the bin and downward to the sheet stacker. The sheet stack grasping mechanism is disposed under the sheet stack transporting route. The sheet stack grasping mechanism grasps a sheet stack in a bin of the sorter, then moves length-wise away from the image forming apparatus, and then moves width-wise to transfer the stack from the bin into the sheet stocker.

Apparatus for discharging sheets from a sorter

Image forming apparatus including a sheet finish-processing unit for finish-processing sheets discharged from a copying machine to which the unit is laterally positioned and stored thereby into a plurality of stacks. A sheet stack finish-processing mechanism of the unit, incorporating a stapler, is shiftable by an associated drive mechanism in the widthwise direction along the adjacent end of a positioned stack in storage. A sheet stack handling mechanism therein draws the end of the positioned stack into a finishing locale of the finish-processing mechanism, and subsequent to a finishing (stapling) operation, returns the finished sheet stack into storage. Thereupon, the stack is transversely discharged frontward of the image forming apparatus from storage, during which operation a subsequent finishing operation is concurrently executable; by such discharge a number of copy stacks greater than the number of stacking storages can be processed. The stacks are linearly inserted into and withdrawn from the finish-processing mechanism, eliminating the need for complex movements thereof, and allowing the finish-processing mechanism to be functional at a number of linear positions along the stack end margin. Furthermore, the sheet stacks are discharged to the apparatus front, wherein they are readily accessible for removal by an operator.

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Osaka, Japan

Satoru Hayama