Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Yukihiro Ohzeki

Katsuhiro Sakaizawa

Yasushi Sato

Junji Araya

Kimio Nakahata

Kazuyuki Marukawa

Kotaro Kashiwa

Tatsunori Ishiyama

Koichi Hiroshima

Kenya Ogawa

Akihiko Takeuchi

Yasunori Chigono

Masaharu Ohkubo

Yasumasa Ohtsuka

Toshio Miyamoto

Masaki Ojima

Koichi Tanigawa

Hiroto Hasegawa

Koichi Okuda

Takayasu Yuminamochi

Manami Sekiguchi

Hiromitsu Hirabayashi

Osamu Iwasaki

Hiroshi Sato

Shunji Nakamura

Hisashi Fukushima

Noboru Koumura

Takeo Eguchi

Hiroshi Sasame

Masanobu Saito

Yuichiro Ikemoto

Jun Murata

Shunichi Masuda

Hideyuki Yano

Kazuyasu Takenaka

Junichi Kato

Iwao Ushinohama

Tetsuo Saito

Kazushige Sakurai

Hiroaki Ogata

Takahiro Inoue

Yukihide Ushio

Hiroki Kisu

Kenji Muto

Akira Hayakawa

Katsuhiko Nishimura

Tadashi Furuya

Yoshiaki Nishimura

Yoshiro Tsuchiya

Izumi Narita

Michihito Yamazaki

Yoji Tomoyuki

Motoi Kato

Wataru Kato

Erika Asano

Harumi Kugoh

Makoto Nonomura

Naohiro Nakane

Iichiro Yamamoto

Yasushi Satoh

Miho Aoki

Kazunori Taira

To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing.

Image capturing system, image capturing device, and image capturing method

First image data captured by a first image pickup apparatus and second image data captured by a second image pickup apparatus are stored in storing means. Thus, it is possible to correlate images with each other by using identification information of a user or the image pickup apparatus and identification information of an image capturing time, an image capturing position, or an image pickup target (event). Further, the correlated image data is edited on the basis of editing structure data, thereby generating album image data.

Image processing systems and methods for automatically generating image album data from multiple cameras

Image editing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image editing method, and program

With a liquid discharge device, a maximum of N liquid droplets are discharged so as to land within each pixel region for forming a pixel corresponding to the pixel region, a target landing position is selected at random for each liquid droplet, from M liquid landing position candidates, forming an array in the direction of an array of nozzles, determined such that at least a part of the landing liquid droplet region corresponding to each landing position candidate is included within the pixel region, and the discharge direction of the liquid droplet is controlled such that the liquid droplet lands at the determined target landing position. The liquid discharge device having such a configuration has the advantage of preventing occurrence of streaks between dot columns in a printed image due to irregularities in an array of discharge portions.

Liquid discharge device and liquid discharge method

In accordance with the present invention, an image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic latent image, a charging device for charging the surface of the image bearing member, an electrostatic latent image forming device for forming the electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearing member charged by the charging device, a developing device, which includes a developer bearing member for bearing a single component developer, for performing development by bringing the single component developer into contact with the electrostatic latent image to form a visible image, a transfer device for electrostatically transferring the visible image to a transfer member, and a fixing device for fixing the electrostatically transferred visible image on the transfer member. The developer bearing member includes at least a conductive core bar, an electron-conductive layer composed of an elastic body, and an ion-conductive layer.

Image forming apparatus including a developer bearing member having multiple layers

A developer scraping member for scraping developer from a developer carrying member has a surface layer having a foamed member, a base layer provided inside of the surface layer, and an intrusion preventing layer provided between the surface layer and the base layer. The intrusion preventing layer prevents the developer, which has intruded into the surface layer, from intruding into the base layer.

Developer scraping member and developing apparatus

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus wherein a developer remaining on a photosensitive member after an image transfer process is removed by developing means, the apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a contact charging means including an electrode contacted to the photosensitive member to electrically charge the photosensitive member, the contact charging means being supplied with a bias voltage form a charging bias voltage source; exposure means for exposing the photosensitive member to form an electrostatic latent image thereon after the photosensitive member is electrically charged by the charging means; developing means for supplying the developer from a developer carrying member to a latent image portion of the photosensitive member to develop the photosensitive member and simultaneously removing the developer remaining on the photosensitive member after the transfer process and conveyed to a downstream of the contact charging means on the photosensitive member, to the developer carrying member by a potential difference between the developer carrying member supplied with a developing bias and a latent image of the photosensitive member; and control means for controlling the charging bias and a developing bias, during a preparatory pre-rotation process of the photosensitive member for preparation for an image forming operation, to maintain a potential difference between the photosensitive member and the developer carrying member at a level lower than that during normal image forming operation, by surface potentials of the developer carrying member supplied with the developing bias and of the photosensitive member charged by the charging means.

An electrophotographic apparatus includes a movable photosensitive member having a photoconductive layer, and a charging member for charging the photosensitive member. A latent image forming device forms an image on the photosensitive member, and an electric charge applying device applies an electric charge of a polarity opposite from a charging property of the charging member to the photosensitive member. The photosensitive member includes a rectifying layer on the photoconductive layer to provide, at an interface between the photoconductive layer and the rectifying layer, a p-n junction preventing electric charge of the opposite polarity from entering the photoconductive layer.

Electrophotography having photosensitive member with charge blocking

A hybrid type image forming apparatus capable of forming a high quality image by using two image forming units having different resolution from each other, perform high throughput image forming by selecting most suitable image forming method or methods depending upon a kind of input image data, and reducing its running cost. In the apparatus, input image data of resolution of 300 dpi is separated into monochromatic image data and color image data. The monochromatic image data is converted into that of 600 dpi so that four pixels of an image of 600 dpi make one pixel of an image of 300 dpi. Then, a monochromatic image is formed on the basis of the monochromatic image data of 600 dpi by the image forming unit employing the electrophotograph method. A print medium on which the monochromatic image is formed is conveyed to the image forming unit employing the ink-jet printing method where a color image is formed on the basis of the color image data of 300 dpi.

An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes a first conveying path for conveying a recording medium in order to form an image thereon using a first image forming device, a second conveying path for conveying a recording medium in order to form an image thereon using a second image forming device for forming an image according to an image forming method different from an image forming method of the first image forming device, a third conveying path for conveying a recording medium in order to form an image thereon using the first image forming device and the second image forming device, and a setting device for selectively setting one of a first conveying mode using the first conveying path, a second conveying mode using the second conveying path, and a third conveying mode using the third conveying path.

Image forming apparatus with ink jet and electrophotographic image

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Yukihiro Ohzeki