Sony Corporation

Takanori Takahashi

Yuji Yakura

Kenji Okamoto

Kenji Suzuki

Takeo Eguchi

Kazuyasu Takenaka

Shinichi Horii

Soichi Kuwahara

Kyohei Koyabu

Shojiro Shibata

Hiromitsu Takeda

Shuji Tsunashima

Yoshiaki Haba

Keita Shirane

Ichiro Ujiie

Ikko Tanaka

An information processing apparatus that decodes a coded stream includes a memory storing the coded stream, a decoder generating image data by decoding the coded stream stored in the memory, a memory-transfer controller controlling transfer so that the coded stream is transferred to the memory prior to timing for outputting the image data, and a decoding controller controlling decoding by the decoder so that, in the coded stream stored in the memory, a reference picture that is referred to in picture decoding is preferentially decoded.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A printer is provided which sprays ink from nozzles to print recording paper P. It includes a paper feed/delivery mechanism () to carrying the paper P to which the ink is to adhere, nozzles () to spray the ink as droplets, an ink-spraying head () to spray the ink from the nozzles toward the paper P having been carried to a position opposite to the nozzles, an ink-spraying controller () to control the ink-spraying head () to spray the ink from the nozzles in predetermined timing, a temperature sensor () to detect the ambient temperature and/or humidity when spraying the ink from the nozzles, a speed discrimination unit () to judge whether the carrying speed of the paper P has been changed, a memory () having stored therein ink-spraying control data intended for controlling the spraying timing correspondingly to the type of the paper P, and a controller () to delay, when the carrying speed of the paper P has been increased in the process of printing, the timing of spraying ink in other color than black based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and ink-spraying control data for the type of the paper P, pre-stored in the memory, in relation to that which is before the carrying speed of the paper P is increased, thereby projecting the other ink than the black ink to a position to which the black ink is to be projected.

Liquid spraying apparatus and method

In a liquid discharging apparatus for discharging droplets from a liquid discharge nozzle to a discharge object to be discharged and in a method for controlling the liquid discharging apparatus, cleaning effects for the ink discharge nozzle and the adjacent areas can be enhanced, and the time required for a series of performance maintaining operations can be reduced. The apparatus includes a platen plate for supporting recording paper as the discharge object, defining a positional relationship between the discharge object and the liquid discharge head, and receiving the droplets discharged from the liquid discharge head. Ink droplets are preliminarily discharged from the ink discharge nozzle to the platen plate.

Liquid discharging apparatus and control method therefor

A density-adjusting method of a liquid-discharging apparatus having a head including a plurality of juxtaposed liquid-discharging units having respective nozzles, forming dots by landing droplets discharged from the nozzles onto a droplet-landing object, and providing half tones by arranging a dot array is provided. A density-measuring pattern including all pixel trains lying in the main scanning direction with a constant density is formed, the density of the pattern is scanned so as to obtain density information and the relationship between the number and the density of droplets with respect to each pixel train. Upon receipt of a discharge command signal, based on the obtained data with respect to each pixel train, the density of the pixel train corresponding to the discharge command signal is adjusted by making the number of droplets to be actually discharged from the nozzles different from that of droplets discharged according to the discharge command signal.

Liquid-discharging apparatus, and density adjusting method and system of the same

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Takanori Takahashi