Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Sony Co., Ltd.

Canon Research Kaisha

Tadashi Yamamoto

Akihiko Nakatani

Kiyoshi Kaneko

Yasuyuki Tamura

Masanori Takenouchi

Toshiaki Harada

Makoto Shioya

Genji Inada

Masayoshi Tachihara

Hiroto Takahashi

Tatsuo Kimura

Jun Ashiwa

Toshiharu Inui

Nobuyuki Kuwabara

Makoto Takamiya

Masashi Miyagawa

Kosuke Yamamoto

Kazuhiro Nakajima

Shizuo Sawada

Takuya Tsujimoto

Yasuhiro Unosawa

Koichi Igarashi

Haruhiko Takahashi

Souichi Sugiura

Yasutaka Mitani

Hitoshi Kishino

Kumao Toyoshima

Ryuya Horiuchi

Kiyoshi Yamauchi

Akira Ishibashi

Takeshi Tanaka

Yusuke Kohyama

Shuzo Kaneko

Yoshihiro Ishida

Yukio Sato

Masahiko Enari

Mineo Kaneko

Yoshifumi Hattori

Masao Ikeda

Norio Ohkuma

Tsutomu Toyono

Yoichi Tosaka

Masafumi Wataya

Isao Ebisawa

Haruyuki Matsumoto

Kazuhiro Nakata

Shigetaka Tomiya

Etsuo Morita

Mitsutoshi Kuno

Shinichi Hirasawa

Noriyoshi Ishikawa

Taro Inoue

Hidenori Umeno

Shunji Tanaka

Toru Ohtsuki

Sumio Iwase

Katsumi Ando

Shigeru Nagasaka

Makoto Futatsugi

Takaaki Hoshino

Yasue Mikata

A detection unit to optically detect a discharge condition of a droplet is disclosed. The detection unit includes a light emitting element and a light receiving element disposed on opposite sides of an area through which a droplet discharged from a droplet-discharger passes. A diaphragm plate having an aperture and another diaphragm plate having at least two apertures arranged at a pitch in a discharge direction are respectively disposed near front surfaces of the two elements. When light emitted from the light emitting element passes through the apertures, two light beams are received by the light receiving element. When the droplet is discharged and passes in front of the apertures, the two light beams are blocked sequentially by the ink droplet, which causes the quantity of light received by the light receiving element to change, thereby inducing a change in an output from the light receiving element. Based on the change in the output, a discharge-condition of the droplet is determined.

Droplet discharge-condition detecting unit, droplet-discharging device, and inkjet recording device

A recording head includes an ink-discharging surface and nozzles. The ink-discharging surface is provided with ink-discharging ports of the nozzles. A light-emitting element and a light-receiving element are disposed opposite each other close to the ink-discharging surface. The light-receiving element outputs a detection signal. A reflector is provided on the ink-discharging surface and reflects light emitted from the light-emitting element toward the light-receiving element. One of the nozzles is driven and whether the nozzle discharges an ink drop is checked on the basis of change in the detection signal due to interception of the reflected light by the ink drop. If the nozzle discharges an ink drop, then whether the nozzle discharges the ink drop in an appropriate direction is checked on the basis of change in the detection signal due to interception of the direct light by the ink drop.

Ink jet recording apparatus and method and program for checking nozzles thereof

Disclosed is an information reading/printing apparatus in which a carriage supports and moves a printing unit for printing information on a printing medium and a reading unit for reading information. The position of the carriage moved in each of left-to-right and right-to-left directions is detected.

Reading of information by bidirectional scanning using image reading/printing apparatus

Disclosed is an image reading apparatus in which the band width for reading by one scanning is variable in accordance with the original size, the reading mode, etc. R, G, and B image data of the k-th band is successively read in one-band width to store image data R1, G1, and B1 of pixel coordinates X(n, m). Then, the original is fed so as to cause partial overlapping of the (k+1)-th band with a lower predetermined pixel region of the k-th band, and R, G, and B image data of the (k+1)-th band is read in one-band width to successively store image data R2, G2, and B2 of pixel coordinates X(n, m'). The image data obtained through overlap reading of the k-th band and the (k+1)-th band is averaged to calculate correction image data, which is transferred to a host computer along with along other image data which has not been averaged as read image data. And, it is possible to optimize reading time according to the kind of original, reading mode, etc., without involving a deterioration in image quality.

Image reading apparatus

The invention provides an image reading apparatus for performing high-precision image read by canceling out noise based on digital signal processing and superimposed on an effective portion of an analog signal. The image reading apparatus superimposes digital-based data and data-clock-based fixed noise on an sensor output signal in reference data acquiring operation as well to output data with the fixed data being canceled out in image read-operation.

Image reading apparatus and method and storage medium

In an inkjet printing apparatus which holds a printhead for performing printing by using ink supplied from an ink tank via an ink supply channel, the ink tank has a tank-side terminal for detecting the presence state of ink in the ink tank. The printhead has a head-side terminal for detecting the presence state of ink in the printhead. The printing apparatus detects at least one of the presence state of ink in the ink tank, printhead, and ink supply channel by selecting a terminal used for detection between the tank-side terminal and the head-side terminal.

Inkjet printing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

In an image processing apparatus, after a current band of an image has been read, an original is fed at a distance of the upper half band width of the current band. When the next band is read, the current band at the lower half band width is overlappingly read. The band data at the lower half band width of the current band is stored in a memory, and the next band is read. Averaging processing or function processing is applied to the band data which has been overlappingly read.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

In reading an original by mounting reading means (scanner unit) on a recording apparatus, the advancing width of the original is so reduced that the reading bands k, k&plus;l, . . . , are partially overlapped. For example in the color image reading, in generating the data of the (k&plus;1)-th band, the data of a range overlapped with the k-th band are corrected by the data of the k-th band (for example by simple averaging), thereby achieving image reading without bandwise density fluctuation regardless of the reading mode and the original size.

Image reading apparatus, method and memory medium therefor

A data transfer circuit or a recording apparatus includes an address setting unit for setting a start address for a buffer memory, an offset setting unit for setting an offset for the buffer memory, and an address creating unit for creating a predetermined number of consecutive transfer addresses to be supplied for the buffer memory using a reference address. The circuit also includes an arithmetic logic unit that, after the address creating unit has created transfer addresses using the start address as a reference address, calculates a new reference address in accordance with the offset relative to the start address so as to provide the new reference address to the address creating unit.

Data transfer circuit and a recording apparatus and method using a predetermined offset for calculating start

This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus which can implement high-precision, high-resolution image scanning, and can prevent disturbance of the scanned image, when it mounts a scanner unit. To achieve this object, an image processing apparatus which has a recording head detachable from a main body and/or a scanner unit detachable from the main body, has a carriage for supporting and moving the recording head or scanner unit, an encoder for measuring the moving position of the carriage, and outputting a signal indicating that the carriage is located at a predetermined moving position, and a signal generation circuit for generating a scanning time signal of the scanner unit in accordance with the signal output from the encoder upon scanning an image by the scanner unit.

Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, information scanning apparatus, recording apparatus, information scanning method, and storage medium

A main electrode region of a semiconductor element is provided in a semiconductor region on the surface of a semiconductor substrate, and first and second interlayer insulating films are deposited on this semiconductor region. A metal interconnection is provided on top of the second interlayer insulating film. The main electrode region and the metal interconnection a shape having a first tapered portion with an isotropic taper angle &thgr;3, which starts from the interface between the first and second interlayer insulating films, and a second tapered portion with an anisotropic taper angle &thgr;4, which starts from a point within the second interlayer insulating film. As a result, the shape of the face of the contact plug connecting to the metal interconnection is anisotropic, having dimensions which are greater in the direction parallel to the metal interconnection than in the direction perpendicular to the metal interconnection. The shoulders of the contact hole which are parallel to the metal interconnection are smoothed by anisotropic recession caused by the second tapered portion. Therefore, barrier metal film can be deposited approximately evenly inside the contact hole. Since the diameter of the contact hole does not increase perpendicular to the metal interconnection due to the anisotropic taper angle &thgr;4, the intervals between adjoining metal interconnections can be minimized. The metal interconnection and the contact plug can be comprised from the same conductor or different conductors. The metal interconnection may, for instance, be a DRAM bit line or the like.

Semiconductor device having high density interconnections and method for manufacturing the same

Tone recording method using ink jet recording head that records pixels using a plurality of liquid droplets

Silicon oxide layers are provided in a substrate. That part of the silicon oxide layer which is located in a memory cell section MC has a thickness. That part of the silicon oxide layer which is located in a peripheral circuit section PC has a thickness, which is less than the thickness. The memory cell section MC has transistors, each having a source region and a drain region which contact the silicon oxide layer. The peripheral circuit section PC has transistors, each having a source region and a drain region which are spaced apart from the silicon oxide layer. The transistors of the peripheral circuit section PC are provided in well regions. A back-gate bias is applied to the transistors of the peripheral circuit section PC through impurity layers.

Semiconductor device having an SOI substrate

There is disclosed an image processing apparatus such that after completion of one scan of a scanner unit, a controller obtains a background value in a range to be read by one scan from an image processing IC and compares the background value with a binarization threshold value used in the present scan, and when it is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the background value is used in the next scan, and when it is equal to or larger than the predetermined value, by correcting the threshold value, an image can be read at a high quality.

Image processing system

An AlGaInP-based semiconductor light-emitting device is of a real-guide type and has excellent crystallinity and excellent laser characteristics. In an AlGaInP-based semiconductor light-emitting device having at least a first conductivity-type first cladding layer (3), an active layer (4) and a second conductivity-type second cladding layer (5), a stripe-shaped ridge (8) is formed on the second cladding layer (5) and first conductivity-type AlGaAs current confinement layers (19) with a band gap larger than that of the active layer (4) and whose refractive index is smaller than that of the active layer are formed so as to bury grooves (7) formed at both sides of the stripe-shaped ridge (8).

Semiconductor light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same

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