Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Immersion Corporation

Other

Satoshi Araki

Takashi Urabe

Taishi Takano

Maiko Yoshida

Takayasu Aoki

Masahiro Ikuta

Motonari Udo

Tsuyoshi Itou

Takafumi Hara

Yasuhito Noda

Ryo Mukaiyama

Susumu Ijichi

Junichi Ishikawa

Hajime Shimamoto

Sanya Attari

Asumi Matsumoto

Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez

David M Birnbaum

William S Rihn

Takaomi Kimura

Tsuyoshi Ito

Yuichi Izu

Shadi Asfour

Hiroki Sugiyama

Ushio Inami

Colin Swindells

Danny A Grant

Ken Iguchi

Christopher J Ullrich

Junichi Nakamura

Vahid Khoshkava

Robert W Heubel

Akihiko Nakatani

Yasuhiro Murase

Hiroshi Onoda

Liwen Wu

Jun Moriya

Naoki Yuasa

Shinsuke Yamashita

Suguru Kurita

Toshikazu Minoshima

Aleix Ingles Elias

Henry Newton-Dunn

Samuel John Thorne

According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a scanning device, and a controller. The image forming device forms a first test image and forms a second test image. The scanning device scans the first test image with a first amount of emitted light corresponding to a first input value and scans the second test image with a second amount of emitted light corresponding to a second input value. The controller selectively executes any one of a first correction process, a second correction process, or a third correction process on the basis of an event change.

Image forming apparatus that performs image corrections based on test images and control method for image forming apparatus

To provide an image forming device that can be efficiently maintained. According to one embodiment, the image forming device includes a plurality of photoconductors, an exposure device, a developer, and a processor. The exposure device irradiates a corresponding surface of the plurality of photoconductors with light corresponding to an image formed on a corresponding photoconductor of the plurality of photoconductors. The developer supplies a toner to the corresponding surface of the plurality of photoconductors on which an electrostatic latent image is formed by the light emitted by the exposure device. The processor adjusts, for every photoconductor, a contrast potential for supplying the toner from the developer to the electrostatic latent image formed on the corresponding surface of the plurality of photoconductors, and notifies a warning when there is a contrast potential whose difference from another contrast potential exceeds a reference value.

Image forming device

An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor, a memory, a fixing device, and a controller. The temperature sensor is configured to detect a temperature of an inside of the image forming apparatus. The memory is configured to store temperature history information regarding a history of the temperature of the inside of the image forming apparatus detected by the temperature sensor. The fixing device is configured to fix a toner image onto the paper sheet by heating the paper sheet to a fixing temperature. The toner image is transferred to the paper sheet using a toner stored in a toner cartridge of the image forming apparatus. The controller is configured to control a fixing temperature at the fixing device based on the temperature history information stored in the memory.

Image forming apparatus, fixing temperature determination method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Systems and methods for multi-user shared virtual and augmented reality-based haptics are disclosed. One illustrative method for multi-user shared virtual and augmented reality-based haptics includes determining a position of an object; determining a viewpoint of at least one observer with respect to the object; determining a haptic effect to be output based at least in part on the position and the viewpoint; and outputting the haptic effect.

Systems and methods for multi-user shared virtual and augmented reality-based haptics

According to one embodiment, an image forming device includes a fixing device and a controller. The controller obtains an identifier for identifying a user. The controller controls the fixing device based on the obtained identifier, history information, and temperature information, to be a fixing temperature associated with usage status information associated with the obtained identifier. The history information is information obtained by associating the identifier and the usage status information. The usage status information is information including a printing ratio in previous image formation by a user. The temperature information is information obtained by associating the usage status information and the fixing temperature.

Image forming device, image forming system, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium storing image forming program

Systems and methods for integrating haptics overlay in augmented reality are disclosed. One illustrative system described herein includes a haptic output device. The system also includes a display configured to output a visual effect. The system also includes a sensor for tracking a position of a proxy object. The system also includes a processor configured to: determine a modified visual effect based in part on data received from the sensor, determine a haptic effect based in part on data received from the sensor, transmit a display signal associated with the modified visual effect to the display, transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to the haptic output device; and output the haptic effect using the haptic output device.

Systems and methods for integrating haptics overlay in augmented reality

A wearable device for providing haptic effects includes a wearable housing configured to be worn on to a portion of a hand of a wearer and an actuator secured to the wearable housing. The wearable housing includes a first digit segment configured to conform to a finger of the hand and a second digit segment configured to conform to another finger or a thumb of the hand. The actuator is configured to receive a command signal indicative of a virtual interaction related to touching or grasping a virtual object. In response to the command signal, the actuator provides a force onto the portion of the hand or provides a force to render a resistance to movement of the first and second digit segments toward each other. The actuator uses the wearable housing to mechanically stabilize the force towards the portion of the hand. The wearable device may further include a sensor configured to sense a dynamic response to a user interaction with a real-world object which corresponds to the virtual object, the sensed dynamic response being used to assess a physical characteristic of the real-world object.

Systems and methods for providing haptic effects related to touching and grasping a virtual object

A toner includes first toner particles and second toner particles. Each of the first toner particles includes a plate-like colorant particle covered with binder resin particles, and a volume average size of the plate-like colorant particle is equal to or greater than 6 &#x3bc;m. Each of the second toner particles includes at least one of a binder resin and a releasing agent and not including a colorant, an aspect ratio of the second toner particles is equal to or smaller than 3, and a content ratio of the releasing agents with respect to the second toner particles is equal to or greater than 4 wt % and equal to or smaller than 24 wt %. A content ratio of the second toner particles with respect to the first toner particles is greater than 1 wt % and equal to or smaller than 75 wt %.

Toner having toner particles including a colorant and particles not including a colorant

A toner includes a crystalline polyester resin in an amount equal to or greater than 25% by mass. The toner satisfies the following formula when the toner is tested using a capillary rheometry measurement during which a pellet of the toner is pressed by a member while being heated: 0.3&#x2264;(first temperature&#x2212;second temperature)/(second temperature&#x2212;third temperature)&#x2264;1, where the first temperature is a temperature at which the member falls 4 mm, the second temperature is a temperature at which the member falls 2 mm, and the third temperature is a temperature at which the member starts to fall.

Toner containing crystalline polyester resin and method of manufacturing the same

A toner includes a plurality of toner particles containing a binder resin and one or more microcapsules that contain a fragrant material. A ratio of a number of toner particles that contain at least one microcapsule in a region from a surface thereof to 1 &#x3bc;m in depth with respect to a total number of toner particles in the region is equal to or greater than 60%.

Toner including microcapsules that contain a fragrant material

An image forming apparatus and an image forming method through which an effect of granting flavor to a printing object is excellent. In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a developing device and a fixing device. A toner is housed in the developing device. The fixing device includes a fixing roller and a pressure roller. The toner contains binder resin and a microcapsule in which perfume is encapsulated. A glass transition temperature of the toner is below 60 degrees centigrade. A nip part is formed by the fixing roller and the pressure roller. A pressure applied to an image receiving medium passing through the nip part is below 0.19 N/mm.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A method for producing toner includes adding a liquid containing dispersed resin particles into a liquid containing dispersed colorant particles having a volume average particle size of equal to or greater than 6 &#x3bc;m and having a zeta-potential sign opposite to a zeta-potential sign of the resin particles, until a zeta-potential of aggregates of the colorant particle and the resin particles has a sign opposite to the zeta-potential sign of the colorant particles, adjusting the zeta-potential of the aggregates, such that an absolute value of the zeta-potential of the aggregates is smaller than an absolute value of the zeta-potential of the resin particles by more than 10 mv, and adding a liquid containing dispersed resin particles having a zeta-potential sign that is the same as the sign of the adjusted zeta-potential of the aggregates, into a liquid containing the aggregates.

Method for producing toner by managing zeta-potentials of particles

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Satoshi Araki