Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Tomoyuki Takeda

Takehiro Yoshida

Makoto Kobayashi

Takeshi Ono

Yasushi Ishida

Takashi Awai

Minoru Yokoyama

Akihiro Tomoda

Masakatsu Yamada

Satoshi Wada

Masaya Kondo

Takahiro Kato

Shigeo Miura

Muneki Nakao

Yoshiyuki Hirai

Masayuki Tomita

Akira Nakajima

Yosuke Ezumi

Shinichi Takata

Makoto Satake

Kazuki Miyamoto

Shinya Kogure

Takahiro Ushiro

Kaori Nakagawa

Takao Maitani

Akitoshi Kikuchi

Takeharu Uchizono

Mamoru Osada

Toru Nakayama

Hitoshi Ishii

Teruyuki Nishii

Yukio Nohata

Naomi Nakamura

Koji Okamura

Mitsuhiro Akagi

Shunichi Fujise

Hideki Shimizu

Taro Sakai

Mitsuo Morita

Hiromichi Uno

Koichiro Otsuka

Masatoshi Hidaka

Taizo Horikomi

Tomoyuki Shigefuji

Hideaki Takahashi

Michihiro Izumi

Hisao Terajima

Shigeru Koizumi

Daisuke Takaki

Katsuaki Uchiyama

Shunichi Tachibana

Makoto Mikuni

Akemi Sato

Shinnichiro Otsuki

Shinichi Okamoto

Makoto Yasunaga

An image-forming apparatus includes a first monitor which detects whether a non-paper-medium supplier is attached to the main body of the image-forming apparatus. When a normal copying process is selected, the copying process is stopped immediately if the first monitor determines that the non-paper-medium supplier is attached and an error message indicating that a printing process cannot be performed since the non-paper-medium supplier is attached is shown on the main body. In addition, if a facsimile is received while the non-paper-medium supplier is attached to the main body, the user is informed that the facsimile call is received. Accordingly, the user can change the setting of the image-forming apparatus so that the facsimile can be received. Thus, the facsimile is received manually if the non-paper-medium supplier is attached to the main body and is received by operation after the line is acquired by a handset telephone.

Image-forming apparatus and method for controlling the same

The invention is to enable a secure sharing of an internet resource with a partner in conversation by the IP telephone, in simple and inexpensive manner and not requiring cumbersome operations, by a communication terminal only, not relying on another equipment. Internet resource sharing means is provided for a shared utilization of a same internet resource (WEB data, FTP file etc.) among the communication terminals () in conversation. The sharing of the internet resource is executed by transmitting/receiving URL information of the desired internet resource by FTP or by an E-mail protocol, or by transmitting/receiving the internet resource itself by an HTTP proxy procedure with the partner communication terminal, in which either of the communication terminal and the partner terminal functions as an HTTP proxy server and the other functions as an HTTP client. The sharing of the internet resource can also be achieved by accessing to a server providing a desired internet resource, and changing the transmitting address of the packet transmitted in such operation to an IP address of the partner in conversation, in such a manner that a response packet of the server is transmitted to the partner in conversation.

Communication terminal, control method for communication terminal and control program for communication terminal

A combustion control apparatus is configured for a direct-injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine. The combustion control apparatus selects an extremely retarded combustion mode while the internal combustion engine is in a predetermined operating state. In the extremely retarded combustion mode, the combustion control apparatus sets ignition timing to be after compression top dead center, and sets fuel injection timing to be before the ignition timing and after compression top dead center. The combustion control apparatus inhibits the extremely retarded combustion mode while an exhaust purifier of the internal combustion engine is in a predetermined cold state.

Combustion control apparatus for direct-injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine

A communication terminal includes a resource transfer button for transferring URL information of an Internet resource to another party with which IP phone conversation has been established so as to allow the browser of the communication terminal of the other party to browse the Internet resource. The URL information of an Internet resource is registered to a one-touch key. Registering the selection information of the communication terminal of the other party and the URL information of an Internet resource enables the URL information thereof to be transferred to the communication terminal of the other party with which the phone conversation has been established immediately following calling the other party by pressing the one-touch key, so as to allow the browser of the communication terminal of the other party to browse the Internet resource. Thus, both the calling and receiving parties can browse the same Internet resource with the respective terminals.

Communication terminal, control method of the same, and control program of the same

A communication apparatus which performs IP communication and analog communication through an ADSL gateway obtains an IP address of a party station from an SIP proxy and transmits/receives communication data with the party station on an IP network based on a file transmission/reception protocol such as FTP or HTTP when a party station's telephone number corresponds to a VoIP network. The apparatus performs analog facsimile communication on a line switching network when the party station does not correspond to the VoIP network. Moreover, the apparatus performs the analog facsimile communication on the VoIP network or the line switching network when the party station corresponds to the VoIP network but does not have any digital communication means. Thus, in the apparatus corresponding to analog and network communication paths, it is possible to select an appropriate communication path and achieve high-speed and high-reliability communication without any complicated operation.

Communication terminal, control method of communication terminal, and control program of communication terminal

When the image forming apparatus shifts to the reduced power consumption mode, the image forming apparatus transmits an agency request command for requesting the server apparatus to respond to a status request, on behalf of the image forming apparatus, and the latest status thereof to the server apparatus. When there is a change in the status of the image forming apparatus in the reduced power consumption mode, the image forming apparatus transmits a changed status thereof to the server apparatus. The server apparatus receives a status request sent from an information processing apparatus connected to the network to the image forming apparatus, on behalf of the image forming apparatus. The server apparatus responds to the information processing apparatus in response to the status request, based on the status received beforehand from the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus having energy-saving mode, control method therefor, network system including the image forming apparatus, and control method therefor

In a communication system having a network capable of converting data in a first format into data in a second format to perform communication, and a data communication apparatus capable of performing communication of the data in the first format, the data communication apparatus transmits information indicating a priority level of an image such that the network can recognize the information, when transmitting the image to the network in the first format. The network converts the data in the first format transmitted by the data communication apparatus into data in the second format, and attaches priority level data, based on the information indicating the priority level of the received image, to the data converted into the second format when performing communication.

Network that converts data from a first format into a second format for communication, data communication apparatus capable of communication of data in a first format, communication system incorporating all the above, and control method for all the above

In control apparatus and method for an inner cylinder spark ignited internal combustion engine having a fuel injection valve configured to directly inject fuel into an inside of an engine cylinder and a spark plug, a super retard combustion is executed to set an ignition timing after a compression stroke top dead center and to inject fuel before the ignition timing and after the compression stroke top dead center during a predetermined engine driving condition and at least part of fuel is injected before the compression stroke top dead center to decrease a fuel injection quantity after the compression stroke top dead center during an interval which is immediately after an engine start and in which a pressure of fuel is relatively low.

Control apparatus and method for inner cylinder direct injection spark ignited internal combustion engine

Wireless mode between a scanner and an image communication apparatus is changed when the scanner completes read of an image, when the image is sent from the scanner to the image communication apparatus by the operation of the scanner, or depending on presence or absence of read original, and for example, low power consumption mode and communication mode are switched to each other.

Communication apparatus capable of communication with other apparatuses through wireless communication, communication system having the same communication apparatus, and method for controlling the same

A sub-CPU copes with a status obtaining request from a network in a sleep mode. Further, necessary least power control for updating a status in an image forming apparatus in the sleep mode is realized by the sub-CPU.

Image forming apparatus and power control method

There is provided a combustion control system for a direct-injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine, including a fuel injection valve that injects fuel directly into a cylinder of the engine to form an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber of the engine cylinder, a spark plug that ignites the air-fuel mixture, and a control unit that performs combustion retard control to set an ignition timing of the spark plug at a point after compression top dead center and set an injection period of the fuel injection valve at a time after compression top dead center and before the ignition timing in such a manner that a time interval from a start point of the injection period to the ignition timing increases with decrease in a temperature in the engine cylinder at a cold start of the engine.

Combustion control system and method for direct-injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine

In control method and apparatus for a direct injection spark ignited internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine comprising a fuel injection valve configured to perform an injection of fuel through an engine cylinder and a spark plug, a super retard combustion comprising: an ignition through the spark plug at a timing after a compression top dead center; and at least once fuel injection in which the injection of fuel is started at a timing after the compression top dead center and before the ignition, during a cold start of the engine, is executed, and an execution of the super retard combustion is inhibited for a predetermined interval of time immediately after the cold start of the engine.

Control method and apparatus for direct injection spark ignited internal combustion engine

Even in an apparatus connected to another apparatus which periodically transmits a command, a mode transition such as transition to a power saving stand-by mode can be performed. A mode change for Bluetooth communications and a mode change in a stand-by state are performed in cooperation with each other to efficiently switch between stand-by modes.

Apparatus with communication function, method of controlling apparatus, and storage medium storing program for controlling apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Tomoyuki Takeda