Ricoh Company, Ltd.

The University of Tokyo

Nof Corporation

Yuuki Inoue

Masato Takahashi

Yutaka Nakamura

Koji Dan

Fujio Takahashi

Keiji Nagai

Yoshiaki Murata

Shogo Hyakutake

Kenichi Takeda

Satoshi Yamada

Kazuhiko Ishihara

Tomozumi Noda

Masaru Matsuda

Kyoko Fukazawa

Provided are a copolymer having enough biocompatibility to be used in a medical material application, and a method of forming a crosslinked body, which involves modifying a substrate surface with the copolymer so that the surface may be biocompatible. More specifically, a protein adsorption-suppressing effect and a cell adhesion-suppressing effect, which are features of a phosphorylcholine group, are imparted to the substrate surface. It has been found that the object is achieved by a copolymer containing a phosphorylcholine constitutional unit, a hydrophobic constitutional unit, and a photoreactive constitutional unit at a specific ratio.

Polymer and crosslinked body thereof

An order supporting apparatus connected to a monitoring apparatus over a network, the monitoring apparatus determining a supply status of devices in the network and sends supply shortage information regarding at least one of the devices determined to have a supply shortage to the order supporting apparatus. In particular, the order supporting apparatus includes a device information storage part that stores device information describing whether each device is monitored as a monitoring target, and maintenance contract information of each device, and a determination part that determines, based on the device information, whether each device is subject to the maintenance contract when the order supporting apparatus receives the supply shortage information. Further, the determination part deselects, in the device information, a device as the monitoring target when the device is determined to have a supply shortage by the monitoring apparatus.

Order supporting apparatus, control method for an order supporting apparatus, order supporting system, and computer readable storage medium

In a disclosed order support system, devices connected to a communication network are searched for and device information is acquired from each of the found devices. Specified information used for extracting devices to be monitor target candidates is obtained, which is specified according to a predetermined attribute in the device information. Based on the obtained information, devices to be monitor target candidates are extracted from among the found devices. A list of the extracted devices is displayed, and devices to be monitor targets are selected. Status information of a consumable element in each monitor target device is acquired and sent to an order-support apparatus. The order-support apparatus creates an e-mail including a URL of a website used for ordering the consumable element detected as being deficient according to the received status information, and sends the e-mail to an e-mail address associated with the device with the deficient consumable element.

Order support system, device monitoring method, and program product

An order supporting system includes a machine monitoring apparatus including an obtaining part for repetitively obtaining status data of plural supplies of plural machines connected to a network, a storing part for storing the status data obtained by the obtaining part, a detecting part for detecting change in the status of the supply by comparing the status data stored in the storing part and new status data that is newly obtained by the obtaining part, and a transmitting part for transmitting status data corresponding to the supply of the machine from which status change is detected by the detecting part, and an order supporting apparatus for receiving the status data transmitted from the transmitting part via the network and transmitting an electronic mail to a mail address associated to the machine corresponding to the transmitted status data in accordance with the received status data.

Order supporting system, order supporting method, and recording medium

A disclosed information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit configured to operate as a daemon process; an information displaying unit configured to operate as a process different from the daemon process and display a screen relevant to the information processing unit; a first ending unit configured to end the information displaying unit due to a first factor; and a second ending unit configured to end the information displaying unit due to a second factor different from the first factor. The information displaying unit ends the information processing unit in the event of receiving a request to end from the first ending unit and the information displaying unit does not end the information processing unit in the event of receiving a request to end from the second ending unit.

Information processing apparatus, process control method, and process control program product

An image processing method for performing color conversion among a plurality of image forming apparatuses, includes the steps of: a) producing a plurality of color profiles provided for performing color conversion on input image information within a same color space or through different color spaces; and b) selecting one of the plurality of color profiles whereby color in an image formed by one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses may be approximately equal to color of an image formed by another of the plurality of image forming apparatuses.

Image processing method, program, computer readable information recording medium, image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

Data containing at least a chroma component is obtained from an image data. Monochrome image data is generated from the chroma component image data. Which hue is to be output as it is specified, for example, by an operator. From the monochrome image data, the monochrome image data that corresponding to a portion of the colored image that has the specified hue is removed to obtain image eliminated data. The image eliminated data and the image data corresponding to a portion of the colored image that has the specified hue are combined to obtain an image processed data. The image processed data is converted into data that can be printed with a color printer.

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Chiba, Japan

Yuuki Inoue