Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Shota Kaneko

Tohru Nishikawa

Kazutaka Matsumoto

An image-forming apparatus employing an electrophotographic method that scans a surface of an image carrier with multi-beams emitted from a plurality of light emitting elements based on image data includes a density smoothing processor that performs a density smoothing process to smooth a density level difference of an image subjected to electronic bow correction, a density correction processor that performs density correction on the image subjected to the bow correction by light amount correction of a surface-crossing exposure segment, and a light emitting element driver controller that controls light emission of a plurality of light emitting elements of a light beam emitter based on the image data subjected to the density smoothing process and a control signal subjected to the density correction.

Image-forming apparatus and method for suppressing generation of a density level difference caused by reciprocity failure

An interface performs a flick operation with a button selected from buttons of representative characters for each of the syllabic lines of the Japanese syllabary that are array-displayed on a touch panel so as to specify any one of Japanese characters assigned to the representative character in advance. The interface includes a storage unit that stores association information in which up, down, left, and right directions are set to each of the characters assigned to the representative characters in association with each button and a guide image display processing unit that displays a guide image guiding arrangement directions set to the characters assigned to the representative characters prior to selection of a button of the representative character in an outside of an array display region of the representative character.

Interface, character input guide method, and program

An information processing apparatus is connected to an image forming apparatus in such a manner that communication is possible, the image forming apparatus forming an image in accordance with image-quality adjustment information that is set therein. The information processing apparatus includes a controller and a storage, the controller obtains, through the network, first information set in a first image forming apparatus, and second information set in a second image forming apparatus. The controller stores the first and second information in the storage, reads the first and second information from the storage, creates third information based on the first and second information, and transmits the third information, through the network, to the second image forming apparatus.

Information processing apparatus for setting image-quality adjustment information and image forming apparatus management system including the same

A server is connected to an image forming apparatus in such a manner that communication is possible, the image forming apparatus forming an image in accordance with image-quality adjustment information that is set therein. The server includes a setting-information creating unit that creates, from the image-quality adjustment information including setting information and status information, the image-quality adjustment information having been set in a machine to be replaced, and from status information in image-quality adjustment information that has been set in the image forming apparatus that is an adjustment target, setting information to be included in the image-quality adjustment information of the image forming apparatus; and a communication processing unit that transmits the created setting information to be included in the image-quality adjustment information of the image forming apparatus to be set in the image forming apparatus.

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Sakai, Japan

Shota Kaneko