Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Bridgestone Corporation

Japan Display Inc.

Shinji Yamakawa

Midori Aida

Hiroshi Takahashi

Takashi Saitoh

Yukio Sakano

Michiyoshi Tachikawa

Kazuo Murai

Yoshio Kaneko

Takeshi Ukai

Toshiya Hikita

Tadato Hashiguchi

Shojiro Kaita

Shigeo Kurotaka

Kyoji Omi

Hiromi Okubo

Kouji Ishigaki

Kohtaro Osakada

Hiroyasu Sumida

Shigenaga Takano

Haruhiko Fukuda

Makoto Hidaka

Fumihiro Hasegawa

Yasuyuki Nomizu

Masayuki Hayashi

Koichi Noguchi

Masaaki Ito

Hitoshi Itoh

Kazuyuki Sunohara

Tomio Sasaki

Yoshimichi Kanda

Daisuke Takeuchi

Shinichiro Wada

Kouichi Noguchi

Yasushi Kamo

Keiichi Nomura

Hajime Ichimura

Tetsuya Okamae

Ouji Maruyama

Toshihiko Kuroi

Kazuhisa Otsubo

Kounosuke Maruyama

Provided is novel polybutadiene having high isotacticity. The polybutadiene has a triad isotacticity (mm) of 72% or more.

Polybutadiene, method of producing polybutadiene, polybutadiene composition, tire, and resin member

To provide a catalyst composition having high polymerization activity. To provide a polymer manufacturing method. To provide a polymer manufactured by the polymer manufacturing method. To provide a rubber composition including the polymer. To provide a tire using the rubber composition. A catalyst composition including a compound represented by Structural Formula I below, wherein the compound has an OH group at at least one position of the bipyridyl ring; M is a transition metal, a lanthanoid, scandium, or yttrium; Rand Rare a hydrocarbon group having one or more carbon atoms or a halogen atom; and Rand Rmay be the same or different from each other. A polymer manufacturing method including a step of polymerizing one or more selected from the group consisting of a conjugated diene compound and a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond in the presence of the catalyst composition. A polymer manufactured by the manufacturing method. A rubber composition including the polymer. A tire using the rubber composition. 

Polymerization catalyst composition, polymer manufacturing method, polymer, rubber composition, and tire

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a substrate including a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region; at least one driver IC including connecting terminals with a first surface fixed to face the non-display region; first wires supplying a signal to the display region; first bumps connected with the first wires; second wires transferring a signal to and from outside; second bumps connected with the second wires; and inspection wires. The connecting terminals of the driver IC include first connecting terminals overlapping the first or second bumps in plan view, and second connecting terminals not overlapping the first or second bumps in plan view. The inspection wires include a connecting conductor between themselves and at least one of the second connecting terminals. The inspection wires are pulled out to an outside of the driver IC in plan view.

Display Device

An image inspection apparatus for inspecting a recording medium having first and second sides is devised. The image inspection apparatus includes a penetrated-image information obtaining unit to obtain information of penetrated-image; an inspection information storage to store information of upper permissible limit of image penetration; a pre-print image penetration inspection unit to obtain an image penetration level from the first side to the second side, to compare the obtained image penetration level and the upper permissible limit, and to inspect an image penetration from the first side to the second side; a pre-print image penetration prediction unit to predict, before an image is formed on the second side, an image penetration level from the second side to the first side; and a post-print image inspection unit to inspect images on the first and second sides after forming the image on the second side.

Image inspection apparatus, image forming apparatus, image inspection method, and image inspection program

An image processing apparatus includes a reflection member configured to reflect scanning light; a scanner unit configured to scan a document to generate image data and scan the reflection member with the scanning light to generate detection-reference image data; and a detecting unit configured to detect image noise in the generated detection-reference image data in a detection range of a desired number of contiguous pixels in a sub-scanning direction so that the image noise extending in the sub-scanning direction of the generated detection-reference image is detected.

Image processing apparatus, image noise detecting method, and computer-readable recording medium which averages pixel values of multiple pixels aligned in the sub-scanning direction

An image inspection apparatus that compares a reference image with an inspection image obtained by scanning a printed medium on which the reference image has been printed, to determine whether the printed medium is acceptable is provided. The image inspection apparatus includes a first inspecting unit that compares the reference image exclusive of an edge in the reference image with the inspection image exclusive of an edge in the inspection image to perform inspection; a line-image detecting unit that detects a line image that contains the edge from each of the reference image and the inspection image; a second inspecting unit that compares the line image detected from the reference image with the line image detected from the inspection image to perform inspection; and a determining unit that determines whether the printed medium is acceptable based on results of these inspections.

Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and computer program product

An image processing apparatus includes a scanner that receives image data, an area extracting unit that extracts image data of visually different image areas from the received image data, an HDD that stores therein the extracted image data, a criterion storage unit that stores a plurality of criteria for identifying each of the image areas as one of processing areas, a device interface unit that receives a selection of an image segmentation mode from a user, a selecting unit that selects a criterion from the criteria stored in the criterion storage unit based on the selected image segmentation mode, and a processing unit that identifies each of the image areas as one of the processing areas based on the selected image segmentation mode and performs image processing corresponding to the identified processing area.

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product

In an image processing device which compresses image data which is created by electronizing of a document, to generate compressed image data, a document type judgment unit determines a type of document from the image data. An image compression unit performs a compression encoding of the image data based on a result of the determination of the document type judgment unit.

Image processing device, image compression method, image compression program, and recording medium

An image-processing device applies a predetermined process to input image data so as to output the processed image data. The image-processing device comprises a medium-density detection unit, an expansion unit, and a non-character edge judgment unit. The medium-density detection unit detects a medium-density field of an image represented by the image data. The expansion unit applies an expansion process to the medium-density field detected by the medium-density detection unit. The non-character edge judgment unit judges the medium-density field applied with the expansion process by the expansion unit as a non-character edge field of the image represented by the image data.

Image-processing device processing image data by judging a detected and expanded medium-density field as a non-character edge field

An image processing apparatus includes a maximum/minimum density detecting unit which detects a center pixel of a matrix of N&#xd7;N pixels in image data that has a maximum or minimum density. A determination unit determines whether the absolute value of a difference between an average of densities of diagonal pixels of the matrix and a density of the center pixel is larger than a threshold value. A peak pixel detecting unit detects peak pixels of the matrix, each peak pixel being the center pixel having a maximum or minimum density, and the absolute value of the difference with respect to the center pixel being larger than the threshold value. A dot region detecting unit detects one of neighboring pixels of the matrix as being a dot region based on the number of the peak pixels in a target region and the number of the peak pixels in each of neighboring regions.

Image processing apparatus including low-linear-density dot region detection unit, and image forming apparatus including the same

The quality of the reproduced image in separating the character portions and the areas near or surrounding the character portions has been improved. In particular, as the result of the character edge enhancement, the possibility for mistakenly processing white areas around the character edges has been substantially reduced and the correct detection rate for character edges in high line density areas has been substantially increased.

Method and system for processing character edge area data

An image processing apparatus includes a maximum/minimum density detecting unit which detects a center pixel of a matrix of N&times;N pixels in image data that has a maximum or minimum density. A determination unit determines whether the absolute value of a difference between an average of densities of diagonal pixels of the matrix and a density of the center pixel is larger than a threshold value. A peak pixel detecting unit detects peak pixels of the matrix, each peak pixel being the center pixel having a maximum or minimum density, and the absolute value of the difference with respect to the center pixel being larger than the threshold value. A dot region detecting unit detects one of neighboring pixels of the matrix as being a dot region based on the number of the peak pixels in a target region and the number of the peak pixels in each of neighboring regions.

An original image comprises a printed region on which a predetermined printed matter is realized and a background region on which no printed matter is realized. The shape of a peripheral zone in the original image comprises the shape of the background region, which shape exists particularly at the peripheral region of said original image. It is determined whether or not the original image comprises the special document by detecting the peripheral zone. Further, the original image has an outer-frame region, having a predetermined shape at the peripheral region of the original image. The determination is carried out using a result of measuring the width of the outer-frame region. Further, the width of the outer-frame region comprises a width along a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction extending along the outline of the original image.

Original-discrimination system for discriminating special document, and image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus and duplicator using the original-discrimination system

An image processing apparatus that distinguishes between alphanumeric symbols on a white background and those on a mesh pattern and performs individual image data processing includes an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog data to digital data, a first determiner for determining a region as a white picture element region when the region is composed of a predetermined white picture element and a plurality of white picture elements surrounding the predetermined white picture element in the digital data, a conditional variant setter for setting a conditional variant to white picture elements in the white picture element region, a potential thin line extractor for extracting a potential thin line pattern using a black picture element that has been corrected after being extracted from the digital data and a white picture element that has been corrected after being extracted from the digital data, and a second determiner for determining which one of an alphanumeric symbol on a white background, an alphanumeric symbol on a mesh pattern, and a design pattern is similar to the potential thin line pattern based on the conditional variant and the potential thin line pattern extracted by the potential thin line extractor, and for renewing the conditional variant based on a determination result of the second determiner.

Image processing apparatus and method for distinguishing alphanumeric

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Shinji Yamakawa