Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Xo., Ltd.

Yuka Ito

Makoto Furuki

Shinji Hasegawa

Minquan Tian

Takashi Matsubara

Kazuhiko Hirokawa

Suguru Nakaso

Kazunori Anazawa

Miho Watanabe

Tomoko Miyahara

Kazunaga Horiuchi

Tomoco Miyahara

A recording medium includes a surface in which an infrared absorptance is less than a threshold value; and plural dot images that records information by an arrangement pattern formed on the surface, in which the infrared absorptance is equal to or more than the threshold value, and a specular gloss to infrared rays is equal to or less than 22%.

Recording medium and infrared reading method

An image forming apparatus includes a first image-forming material that contains a colored pigment and a second image-forming material that contains the colored pigment having a concentration lower than that of the first image-forming material, a first image forming unit that forms a code image representing encoded information on a recording medium using the second image-forming material, and a second image forming unit that forms a non-code image at a position other than the position of the code image on the recording medium using an image-forming material other than the second image-forming material.

Image forming apparatus, output device, computer-readable medium and recording medium

An image inspection device includes an acquiring section that reads an image formed on an image carrying medium using an image forming material and acquires first inspection image information; and a decoloring section that leaves an infrared absorbent on the image carrying medium, and decolors a decolorable composition on the image carrying medium by physical treatment or chemical treatment, wherein the image forming material contains the infrared absorbent having an optical absorption peak in an infrared region, and the image forming material contains the decolorable composition having an optical absorption peak in a visible region in a color-developed state and being decolored by physical treatment or chemical treatment.

Image inspection device and image forming apparatus

A perimidine-based squarylium dye contains a compound represented by Formula (I), 

Perimidine-based squarylium dye, dye-containing composition, and image-forming material

An image forming material includes a perimidine-substituted squarylium dye that has a structure represented by the following formula (I) and shows diffraction peaks at least at Bragg angles (2&#x3b8;&#xb1;0.2&#xb0;) of 17.7&#xb0;, 19.9&#xb0;, 22.1&#xb0;, 23.2&#xb0; and 24.9&#xb0; in its X-ray powder diffraction spectrum measured by irradiation with X rays generated from a Cu target with a wavelength of 1.5405 angstroms: 

Image forming material

The present invention provides a recording medium containing a first image formed with a first recording material; and a second image comprising a first region formed with a second recording material having approximately the same light fastness as that of the first recording material, and a second region formed with a third recording material having higher light fastness than that of the first recording material, a color of the second region being a color corresponding to any stage of a process of discoloration of the first region.

Recording medium and image forming apparatus

A black color material includes a squarylium compound represented by the following formula (1); and a blue color material: 

Black color material and toner

An image processing device provided with an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires invisible image data of an invisible image subject to forming on a recording medium with invisible coloring material and acquires source image data of a source image subject to forming on the recording medium with visible coloring material. The generating unit generates corrected-image-data of the source image data corrected according to the absorption wavelength characteristics of the invisible coloring material, such that the color of overlapping regions where both the invisible image and the source image are superimposed when formed on the recording medium approximates to the color of regions corresponding to the overlapping regions in the source image.

Image processing device and image forming device for generating corrected image data for a source image according to absorption wavelength characteristics of invisible coloring material

An image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following Formula (I): 

Image-forming material

A colorant comprising an aggregate of a molecule having a squarylium skeleton and having a maximum absorption wavelength at about 500 nm to about 600 nm in a molecular dispersion state.

Colorant and toner

A perimidine-substituted squarylium dye is represented by the following formula (I): 

Perimidine-substituted squarylium dye, dispersion medium, detection medium and image forming material

The black color material includes a condensation product of a pyrrole compound represented by the following formula (1) and a squaric acid represented by the following formula (2): 

The image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following formula (I): 

A display medium includes: a first substrate having transparency and provided with a transparent electrode on one face thereof, a member having a plurality of penetration holes, the member being placed on a surface of the transparent electrode, the penetration holes penetrating the member from the transparent electrode surface side, the ratio of the length of each of the penetration holes to the largest hole diameter being two or more; a second substrate placed so as to face the transparent electrode side of the first substrate; an electrolytic solution containing a metal ion and placed so as to fill a space between the first and second substrates; and a counter electrode placed in a position so as to be insulated from the transparent electrode and in contact with the electrolytic solution.

Display medium, display device and display method

A colorant contains a crystal of a compound represented by the following formula (1): the crystal having a crystal form showing main peaks at interplanar spacings d of 3.45&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, 3.63&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, 4.23&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, 6.65&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, and 7.84&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b; in powder X-ray diffraction pattern with CuK&#x3b1; radiation.

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Yuka Ito