International Business Machines Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Sony Corporation

East Japan Railway Company

Tada Kunio

Takuya Ishikawa

Akihiko Kasukawa

Masatoshi Kimura

Norihiro Iwai

Takayuki Kushida

Satoshi Arakawa

Jiayun Zhu

Chikafumi Yasumoto

Kei Otagiri

Akihiro Funakoshi

Tsend Ochir Bat Ulzii

Yosuke Tanaka

Tsuyoshi Miyamura

Shinji Nishimura

Michio Ohkubo

Yasumasa Kawakita

Yuji Sugiyama

Masayuki Iwami

Kenichi Ishikura

Hirotatsu Ishii

Toshikazu Mukaihara

Tomoko Murayama

Kunio Tada

Bokryong Lee

Seiichi Idei

Eisaku Kaji

Toshio Shimizu

Tetsu Kubota

Takao Ninomiya

Toshihisa Naka

Naoya Koide

Takeyoshi Matsuda

An image reading device includes a placement portion in which a placement surface on which an original document is placed is formed, an imaging portion that is arranged on a center side of the placement surface in an apparatus width direction above the placement surface in an apparatus upward and downward direction and images the original document, a display portion having a display screen of which at least a part is arranged on a far side of the placement surface in an apparatus depth direction and the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction between the placement surface and the imaging portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction, an irradiation portion that is arranged on the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiates the placement surface with light, and a pair of other irradiation portions that are respectively arranged on both sides of the irradiation portion in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiate the placement surface with light.

Image reading device and image forming apparatus

An image reading device includes a placement section on which a subject is placed, an image capturing unit that is disposed above the placement section and captures an image of the subject, an irradiating unit that is disposed above the placement section and irradiates the subject with light, and a display unit that is disposed between the placement section and the image capturing unit and between the placement section and the irradiating unit, the display unit being located at a position outside an image capturing range of the image capturing unit and an irradiation range of the irradiating unit.

Image reading device with display disposed between camera and placement section

A tool for predicting communication patterns and availability on one or more computer devices. The tool allocates an incoming mail identification to the incoming mail. The tool determines a location of origin for the incoming mail based, at least in part, on domain information and information from an address book. The tool determines one or more holidays, a day of a week, and a time of day utilizing a sending timestamp from the location of origin. The tool determines a sending tendency for the sender identification. The tool determines a response prediction rate for a per-determined timeframe based, at least in part, on the one or more holidays, the day of the week, the time of day and the sending tendency for the sender identification. The tool displays the response prediction rate and the sending tendency in one or more pop-up dialog windows.

Predicting recipient communication patterns and availability

Provided are techniques for new command assistance. A score is generated for each of a plurality of users based on a command execution history of a command by each of the plurality of users. A command template with the command and parameters of the command is generated in an order based on the command execution history of a user of the plurality of users having a high score. In response to receiving a portion of a new command, suggestions are provided for automatically completing the command using the command template.

Command assistance

Provided are techniques for identifying diagnosis commands from comments in an issue tracking system. A new issue ticket describing an issue for a test that failed and that has a test case identifier is received. A past issue ticket for the test that has the test case identifier is identified, where the past issue ticket identifies a set of issue ticket comments. A concluding owning team change event is identified in the set of issue ticket comments. A comment with a diagnosis command that triggered the concluding owning team change event is identified in the set of issue ticket comments. A suggestion of the diagnosis command is provided by highlighting the concluding owning team change event and the comment. The new issue ticket is assigned to an owning team of the concluding owning team change event.

Identifying diagnosis commands from comments in an issue tracking system

An operation panel includes: a housing; a reading unit configured to read information from a medium allowed to approach a predetermined position of the housing; a first operation unit provided outside a predetermined range including the position in a front surface of the housing and configured to receive an operation; and a second operation unit provided within the range, configured to receive an operation, and configured to receive the operation less easily than the first operation unit.

Operation panel and operation device

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer formed of a III-V group semiconductor crystal containing As as a primary component of a V group. A V group element other than As has been introduced at a concentration of 0.02 to 5% into a V group site of the III-V group semiconductor crystal in the semiconductor layer.

Semiconductor device

A method for minimizing power consumption of a laser printer includes receiving page description language (PDL) data corresponding to a printing task, identifying commands corresponding to the received PDL data, computing a total predicted rendering time corresponding to the identified commands, computing a print deferral time according to the total predicted rendering time wherein the print deferral time corresponds to an amount of time by which printing drum initialization can be deferred without delaying completion of the printing task, and configuring a printing drum to begin operation according to the print deferral time. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the method are also disclosed.

Power conservation in an image forming apparatus by delaying activation of a printing drum

Power consumption in laser printing

A sheet processing apparatus includes a vertically movable tray that moves vertically in accordance with an amount of stacked folded sheets which are transported and stacked thereon, a plate that is disposed above the vertically movable tray and that does not move in accordance with transport of a folded sheet, a recognizing unit that recognizes a predetermined height state of a sheet stacked on the vertically movable tray, and a controller that controls the vertically movable tray so as to, in response to a recognition of the predetermined height state of the sheet by the recognizing unit, move the vertically movable tray upward, press the sheet stacked on the vertically movable tray against the plate, and subsequently move the vertically movable tray downward.

Sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Provided is a post-processing device including a stacking member on which recording materials sequentially transported are stacked, a pair of discharge sections that nips and transports the recording material stacked on the stacking member, an accommodation section in which the recording materials are stacked and accommodated, and a moving member that moves between a contact position where the moving member comes into contact with the recording material stacked on the stacking member and a non-contact position where the moving member does not come into contact with the recording material, wherein when the recording material is transported to the stacking member, the recording material is supported from a rear surface at the contact position.

Post-processing device

An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control for selecting settings for an imaging operation of an imaging unit based on surrounding sound obtained by a sound obtaining unit and an image generated by the imaging unit.

Apparatus and method for controlling settings of an imaging operation

A computer-implemented printing device for converting a drawing command acquired from a computer into an intermediate language by parallel processing. The printing device includes: an intermediate language code generation unit that acquires a drawing command and printing data written in a page description language and converts it into an intermediate language code; an intermediate language processing unit that processes the intermediate language code generated by the intermediate language code generation unit to generate raster data; and a printing mechanism that performs printing processing based on the raster data generated by the intermediate language processing unit. A computer-implemented control device, control method, and program product is provided for executing the functions performed by the units of the printing device.

Printing device and method for parallel processing of data

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Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Ishikawa