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Ultrasound probe and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
16 Aug 22
An ultrasound probe including: a circuit substrate (23) having a recess in a first region on the lower surface side; a buffer layer (400) composed of an insulating material on a second region different from the first region of circuit substrate (23); and an element array layer (22) including a first piezoelectric element (100) for ultrasound transmission formed in the first region of the circuit substrate (23) without the buffer layer (400), and a second piezoelectric element (200) for ultrasound reception formed in the second region of the circuit substrate (23) on the buffer layer (400).
Kenji Suzuki, Yuta Nakayama
Filed: 13 Jan 20
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Ultrasound signal processing device and ultrasound signal processing method
16 Aug 22
An ultrasound signal processing device includes a transmitter that causes transducers to transmit an ultrasound beam, a receiver that, based on reflected waves received by reception transducers, generates reception signal sequences corresponding to the reception transducers, and a delay-and-sum section that, for a reference observation point in a region of interest, calculates delay times of reflected wave arrival to each of the reception transducers from the reference observation point as reference delay times and generates acoustic line signals by using the reference delay times corresponding to the reception transducers.
Yasuhito Watanabe
Filed: 2 Nov 18
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Image forming apparatus
16 Aug 22
An image forming apparatus includes: a first rotatable member; a second rotatable member that presses against the first rotatable member in a pressed state and separates from the first rotatable member in a separated state; and a hardware processor that sets a target speed of the second rotatable member based on a change in speed of the second rotatable member between a first speed in the separated state and a second speed in the pressed state.
Satoshi Nishida, Nobuhiko Okano, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yujiro Ishida
Filed: 1 Jun 21
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Image forming method and image forming system
16 Aug 22
Provided is an image forming method using a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image and an electrophotographic photoreceptor, and containing at least a charging step, an exposing step, a developing step and a transferring step, wherein the electrophotographic photoreceptor has a photosensitive layer, and the photosensitive layer contains a triphenylamine derivative having a specific structure as a charge transport material, and the toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains at least titanic acid compound particles as an external additive.
Seisuke Maeda
Filed: 15 Mar 21
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Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same
16 Aug 22
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.
Tatsuya Eguchi, Hiroshi Eguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Takeshi Ishida
Filed: 12 Jul 21
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Image forming system including first storage that stores paper ejected after image formation processing and second storage that stores paper transferred from first storage, control method of image forming system, and program for allowing computer to execute control method
16 Aug 22
An image forming system includes: a first storage that stores paper ejected after image formation processing; a second storage that stores the paper transferred from the first storage; a hardware processor that controls an operation of the image forming system; and a notifier that notifies of a state of the image forming system, wherein the hardware processor determines whether the paper remains in the first storage, and allows the notifier to notify that the paper is left untaken based on determination that the paper remains in the first storage.
Hiroaki Aizawa
Filed: 8 Apr 21
Utility
Image forming apparatus and temperature control method
16 Aug 22
An image forming apparatus, includes: a media sensor that detects a sheet type; a fixer that fixes the image on a sheet; a storage that stores a fixing temperature for each sheet type; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the fixer by pulse-width modulation (PWM) control and controls a temperature of the fixer to the fixing temperature corresponding to the sheet type detected by the media sensor.
Takahiro Tsujimoto, Takeshi Tamada, Tianhua Xu, Hiroaki Takatsu, Katsuyuki Ikuta, Akihiro Hayashi
Filed: 20 Aug 20
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Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and information processing apparatus
16 Aug 22
An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; and a recording material information detecting apparatus provided outside the image forming apparatus, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes a recording material information detector that detects recording material information about a recording material, and the image forming apparatus includes: an image former; an operation detector; and a hardware processor.
Sayaka Ogasawara, Hiroyuki Konishi
Filed: 11 May 21
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Three-dimensional Pose Estimation Method, Program, Recording Medium and Three-dimensional Pose Estimation Device
11 Aug 22
A method for estimating a three-dimensional pose from control points of an image of the object, includes: selecting, for each pair consisting of first and second control points that define a skeleton of the object, relative positions of the first control point with respect to the second control point on the image, estimating, for each of the selected relative positions, a relative depth of the first control point with respect to the second control point over the entire image based on an assumption that the second control point exists at each position on the image; detecting two-dimensional positions of the control points on the image for the object using the image; obtaining, based on the relative depth estimated for each of the selected relative positions and the two-dimensional positions of the control points, relative three-dimensional positions of the control points; and estimating the three-dimensional pose for the object.
Taiki Sekii
Filed: 15 Apr 20
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Information Processing Apparatus, Productivity Management Method, and Program
11 Aug 22
An information processing apparatus manages productivity by processing information obtained from one or more image forming apparatuses, and includes: a hardware processor that: acquires operation history information from the image forming apparatus; analyzes the operation history information and determines an improvement measure for improving the productivity based on an analysis result; and outputs the improvement measure.
TETSUREN NOGAWA
Filed: 4 Feb 22
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Image Processing Device and Storage Medium
11 Aug 22
Provided is an image processing device that includes a hardware processor.
Tomoaki TAKEMURA, Hisashi WADA, Hidekazu TAKAHASHI
Filed: 3 Feb 22
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Resin Composition, Filamentous Material, Three-dimensional Additively Manufactured Object, and Method for Producing Three-dimensional Additively Manufactured Object
11 Aug 22
Kazuaki NAKAMURA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Kenji GOTO
Filed: 6 Aug 20
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Inkjet Recording Device, Method for Adjusting Inkjet Recording Device, and Method for Controlling Inkjet Recording Device
11 Aug 22
An inkjet recording device includes an inkjet discharge head including a nozzle through which ink is discharged, a pressure chamber that communicates to the nozzle, and a pressure generator that generates a pressure change in ink in the pressure chamber according to application of a drive signal to cause ink to be discharged from the nozzle; a driver that is disposed outside the ink discharge head and that is provided with a drive circuit that outputs the drive signal; and a wire that electrically connects the driver with the ink discharge head and through which the drive signal output from the drive circuit and applied to the pressure generator.
Rieko SEIKE, Takakazu KUKI
Filed: 26 Apr 19
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Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus, Setting Control Method, and Setting Control Program
11 Aug 22
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus for generating an ultrasound image of a subject by driving an ultrasound probe in which a plurality of transducers are arranged in an array, includes a hardware processor that sets a region of interest of the ultrasound image and sets a scanning method of the ultrasound probe in accordance with a position of the set region of interest.
Ryota TORII, Tomohito SAKAI
Filed: 3 Feb 22
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Control Apparatus, Radiographic Imaging System, Control Method, and Recording Medium
11 Aug 22
A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
Masahiro KUWATA
Filed: 20 Aug 21
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Projection optical system and projection apparatus
9 Aug 22
A projection optical system includes: a first optical system and a second optical system disposed in that order from an enlargement side.
Atsuo Masui, Kazuhiko Inoue
Filed: 2 Jun 20
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Dynamic analysis system
9 Aug 22
A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor and an output device.
Noritsugu Matsutani
Filed: 9 Sep 20
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Image forming apparatus, control method, and control program including calculation of chromaticity
9 Aug 22
There is provided an image forming apparatus that forms an image with a plurality of coloring materials on a recording medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that calculates a chromaticity range having a color difference not less than a setting value to respective chromaticities of the plurality of coloring materials for use in formation of the image, as a base color range common between the plurality of coloring materials.
Yorihiro Yamaya
Filed: 12 Apr 21
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Inspection apparatus, image forming system, inspection program, and inspection method
9 Aug 22
An inspection apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: conducts an inspection on an image by comparing a scanned image with a correct image, the image being formed on paper in accordance with a print job, the scanned image being generated by reading the image, the correct image serving as a reference for the inspection of the image; and determines whether a page is a target for the inspection in accordance with a type of the paper on which the image will be formed according to print setting of the print job, wherein the hardware processor conducts the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to be the target for the inspection by the hardware processor, and does not conduct the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to not be the target for the inspection.
Shoichi Ayukawa
Filed: 14 Jan 20
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Radiography control apparatus, radiographic imaging apparatus, and radiographic imaging system
9 Aug 22
A console 3 included in a radiographic imaging system 100 includes a hardware processor that acquires a plurality of radiographs from a radiographic imaging apparatus 2 that repeatedly generates radiographs in a predetermined cycle, determines whether there is an anomaly that occurred during radiography of the acquired radiographs, and on determining that there is an anomaly, performs a predetermined anomaly operation.
Takahisa Uehara
Filed: 26 Sep 19