Hoya Corporation

Oki Data Corporation

Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.

Bussan Nanotech Research Institute, Inc.

Tsuyoshi Okubo

Ken Takamatsu

Takayuki Tsukada

Jiayi Shan

Subiantoro

Koichi Handa

Jian Jiang

An image formation apparatus includes: a data generation unit configured to generate image data based on image formation data giving an instruction to print an image including image regions, the image data indicating pixel values of the image regions; and an image formation unit configured to form the image on a recording medium based on the image data generated by the data generation unit. The data generation unit generates the image data such that a boundary between one of the image regions and an image region adjacent to the one image region is highlighted, if the pixel value of the one image region and the pixel value of the adjacent image region are approximate to each other.

Image formation apparatus and method of forming image

An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an user's input, a display configured to display a status of the image processing apparatus, and a controller configured to limit an operation of the input unit. The controller is configured, if the image processing apparatus is not in progress of any image processing when a certain condition is satisfied, to display information of the limitation of the operation of the input unit at the display. The controller is configured, if the image processing apparatus is in process of an image processing when the certain condition is satisfied, to display a status of the image process at the display, and then to display the information of the limitation at the display after the image process is completed.

Printing apparatus and image processing apparatus that restricts user input under certain conditions

An image forming device has an image processing unit that generates first image data on the basis of image forming data describing an object. The first image data specify first gradation values of at least one black or chromatic color. The image processing unit also identifies certain pixels in an area in which the object is disposed, and generates second image data specifying a second gradation value that is greater than a predetermined gradation value for the identified pixels. An image forming unit forms a first image, based on the first image data, by using at least one black or chromatically colored developing agent, and forms a second image, based on the second image data, by using a white developing agent, thereby reproducing colors in white areas while reducing the usage of the white developing agent.

Image forming device and image forming method

An composite material is disclosed, which includes carbon fibrous structures which are capable of being included in a relatively large amount in the composite material, and which are capable of improving the physical properties, such as electric, mechanical, or thermal properties. The carbon fibrous structure comprises (a) carbon fibrous structures each of which comprises a three dimensional network of carbon fibers, each of the carbon fibers having an outside diameter of 15-100 nm, wherein the carbon fibrous structure further comprises a granular part, at which the carbon fibers are bound in a state that the carbon fibers are extended outwardly therefrom, and wherein the granular part is produced in a growth process of the carbon fibers, and (b) an material other than the carbon fibrous structures, wherein the amount of carbon fibrous structures added is more than 30% and not more than 100% by weight of the total weight of the composite.

Composite material

A composite material includes a matrix and carbon fibrous structures. The carbon fibrous structure has a three dimensional network of carbon fibers, each having an outside diameter of 15&#x2013;100 nm, and has a granular part with which carbon fibers are bound in a state such that the carbon fibers extend outwardly from the granular part, and the granular part being produced in a growth process of the carbon fibers. The additive amount of the carbon fibers is in the range of 0.1 to 30% by weight of total weight of the composite material.

A compound capable of giving optical materials that may be high in both refractive index and Abbe's number and may be excellent in heat resistance and transparency, and a process that may produce the same with good efficiency are disclosed. The compound may be a cyclic disulfide compound including a structure represented by the following general formula (1) or (2) and having a sulfur content of from 50 to 85% by weight:wherein X represents a chain having carbon and/or sulfur as a skeleton, inclusive of cyclic ones; and the number of elements constituting X is from 1 to 4.

Cyclic disulfide compound, process of producing the same and optical product comprising the same

Thiol compound, method for producing the same and optical product made with the same

Episulfide compound, method for producing the same and optical product comprising the same

Asymmetric disulfide compounds and methods for their preparation are described. An optical product can be made of a polymer that is obtained by using at least one asymmetric disulfide compound as an essential monomer component. These polymers can be used to form an optical product having a high refractive index and a high Abbe's number and having superior heat resistance, superior weather resistance and superior transparency.

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Tsuyoshi Okubo