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Utility
Ink Jet Head Maintenance Apparatus and Ink Jet Recording Apparatus
28 Oct 20
An ink jet head maintenance apparatus includes a suction member which includes a suction hole to suction ink and in which air in the suction hole is suctioned from one opening of the suction hole by a suction operation unit.
Jun MARUBAYASHI, Taishi SHIMIZU
Filed: 27 Dec 17
Utility
Information Processing System and Non-transitory Recording Medium
28 Oct 20
An information processing system includes: a display; and a hardware processor that: receives user's voice as a voice operation; updates a screen to be displayed on the display based on the received voice operation; determines whether to display the updated screen on the display; and displays the updated screen on the display unit upon determining to display the updated screen.
Teppei Nakamura
Filed: 8 Apr 20
Utility
Ultrasonic Signal Processing Apparatus, Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus, Ultrasonic Signal Processing Method, and Ultrasonic Signal Processing Program
28 Oct 20
An ultrasonic signal processing apparatus includes: a push wave transmitter that causes the ultrasonic probe to transmit a push wave for causing displacement in a subject; a detection wave transmitter that causes the ultrasonic probe to transmit a detection wave after the transmission of the push wave; a detection wave receiver that receives an ultrasonic wave reflected from the region of the interest by using the ultrasonic probe and converts the ultrasonic wave into a reception signal; a phasing adder that sets a plurality of observation points in the region of the interest and performs phasing addition for each of the plurality of the observation points to generate an acoustic line signal; and a mechanical property calculator that calculates a mechanical property of the subject in the region of the interest based on an acoustic line signal for each of the plurality of the observation point.
Yasuhito Watanabe, Kazuya Takagi
Filed: 14 Apr 20
Utility
Conference Support Device, Conference Support System, and Conference Support Program
28 Oct 20
A conference support device includes: a voice input part to which voice of a speaker among conference participants is input; a storage part that stores a voice recognition model corresponding to human emotions; a hardware processor that recognizes an emotion of the speaker and converts the voice of the speaker into a text using the voice recognition model corresponding to the recognized emotion; and an output part that outputs the converted text.
Kazuaki KANAI
Filed: 2 Apr 20
Utility
Inkjet Image Forming Apparatus and Transfer Control Method
28 Oct 20
An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a transferer and a hardware processor.
Midori SHIMOMURA, Yukimasa AZUMA
Filed: 26 Apr 20
Utility
Image Forming System, Photographing Device, Image Forming Device and Non-transitory Recording Medium
28 Oct 20
An image forming system includes: an image forming device that produces a printed output based on a print job sent by an information processing device; and a photographing device arranged at a position in which a photographing of the image forming device is enabled.
Yoshiaki Shibuta
Filed: 8 Apr 20
Utility
Stereoscopic Image Forming Method and Stereoscopic Image Forming Apparatus
28 Oct 20
Provided is a stereoscopic image forming method for forming a color stereoscopic image on a recording medium having a thermal expansion property, the stereoscopic image forming method including the steps of: fixing a color image on the thermally expandable recording medium using a color material; and irradiating the fixed color image with light of a light source having a maximum emission wavelength in a wavelength range of 280 to 780 nm that is absorbed by a compound contained in the color material to generate heat of the compound.
Seijiro TAKAHASHI, Kouji SUGAMA, Michiyo FUJITA, Haruo HORIGUCHI
Filed: 5 Mar 20
Utility
3D Image Forming Method and 3D Image Forming Apparatus
28 Oct 20
A 3D image forming method for forming a color 3D image on a recording medium having a thermal expansion property includes irradiating a medium surface on which the toner image is formed with light having a maximum emission wavelength in a wavelength range of 280 nm or more and 780 nm or less and being allowed to be absorbed by a compound contained in toner.
Kouji SUGAMA, Michiyo FUJITA, Seijiro TAKAHASHI, Haruo HORIGUCHI
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Control Program for Image Forming Apparatus
28 Oct 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet; a fixing device that includes a heating member and heats the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming device, to fix the image on the sheet; a detector that detects a temperature in the fixing device; and a hardware processor that performs PID control of a turn-on rate of the heating member according to a deviation between a detected temperature by the detector and a target temperature, the PID control being in accordance with an expression including at least a proportional term or an integral term and further including a constant term of a value corresponding to an operation condition of the apparatus, wherein the hardware processor calculates an average turn-on rate of the heating member during execution of the operation, and updates the value of the constant term.
NOBUYASU TAMURA
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
Ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus
26 Oct 20
An ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes the following.
Makiko Urabe, Kazushi Ota, Manami Okada
Filed: 2 Oct 16
Utility
Optical film and method for producing optical film
26 Oct 20
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical film which has thermochromic properties that a near-infrared light shielding ratio can be controlled according to temperature environment and which has a low haze and has excellent crack resistance and adhesiveness even when the optical film is used over a long period of time, and a method for producing the same.
Shoji Nishio
Filed: 1 Oct 15
Utility
Organic electroluminescence module, smart device, and illumination device
26 Oct 20
The organic electroluminescence module has a touch function of detecting contact or proximity of an operation body.
Kazuyoshi Omata, Tsukasa Yagi
Filed: 27 Nov 16
Utility
Image forming device, and control method and program thereof
26 Oct 20
An image forming device that forms an image through exposure of any one of a plurality of photosensitive members to light, image developing, and image transfer.
Takumi Michibata
Filed: 13 Mar 19
Utility
Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and recording medium
26 Oct 20
An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of devices each including a hardware processor; and a display shared among the devices, wherein in response to detection of a pointer in a display region of the display, the display transmits detected position information indicating a detected position of the pointer to each of the devices, and the hardware processor of one of the devices determines whether a user operation by the pointer is an operation directed to the one of the devices, in accordance with the detected position information received from the display.
Satoshi Uchino
Filed: 18 Dec 18
Utility
Image forming device that manages execution permission without increasing administrative workload required for remote operation
26 Oct 20
An image forming device includes: a central processing unit (CPU); and a storage connected to the CPU and that stores permission levels required for execution of user instructions in a first table for an internal web user interface (UI) application and in a second table for an external web UI application installed on an external device.
Takashi Oikawa
Filed: 21 Aug 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Recording Medium Storing Control Program for Image Forming Apparatus, and Control Method for Image Forming Apparatus
21 Oct 20
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes: a driver that presses and separates two rollers via a belt; a detector that detects a position of the belt in an axial direction of one roller of the two rollers; and a hardware processor that calculates, based on a detection result by the detector, a first movement amount of the position of the belt in the axial direction when the belt is made to travel for a predetermined time in a state where the two rollers are separated and a second movement amount of the position of the belt in the axial direction when the belt is made to travel for the predetermined time in a state where the two rollers are pressed.
Daisuke MURAKAMI
Filed: 2 Apr 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Control Method
21 Oct 20
An image forming apparatus fixes a toner image onto a sheet by a fixer, and includes: a re-feeding path that normally conveys the sheet having passed through the fixer and guides the sheet toward the fixer; and a hardware processor that switches between first control to discharge the sheet having passed through the fixer toward a discharge destination and second control to re-feed the sheet having passed through the fixer to the fixer through the re-feeding path, depending on a type of an image which is a source of formation of the toner image.
TETSUYA SAKAI, YOSHINORI TSUTSUMI, KENJI TSURU, MUNENORI NAKANO
Filed: 16 Apr 20
Utility
Image Processing Apparatus and Recording Medium
21 Oct 20
An image processing apparatus including a processor that performs: compressing target data for printing; decompressing the compressed target data; and when the resolution of the uncompressed target data is higher than the resolution of low-resolution data included in the compressed target data, generating sample data by decompressing only the low-resolution data, the sample data to be used for a process of detecting data of a particular image from the target data.
Hiroaki KUBO
Filed: 2 Apr 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Method of Controlling the Same
21 Oct 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a job acquirer that acquires a print job; a photoconductor including a surface on which a toner image is to be formed; an electrifying member that electrifies the photoconductor; an exposure member that exposes the photoconductor; a developing member that supplies toner to the photoconductor; a cleaner that cleans the photoconductor; and a controller connected to the job acquirer to control the image forming apparatus, wherein the controller computes a first non-toner region that is provided on the surface of the photoconductor when the toner image is formed on the photoconductor, the first non-toner region not containing toner in a longitudinal direction of the surface of the photoconductor, and the controller causes the exposure member and the developing member to form the toner image on the photoconductor and to form a set of toner patches in the first non-toner region.
YAN SHEN, HIDEO YAMAKI, FUTOSHI OKAZAKI, YASUYUKI INADA, TAKAHIRO KURODA, YU MUKOBAYASHI, YOSHITAKA NOMURA, MOTOKI NAKANO
Filed: 8 Apr 20
Utility
Image Inspection Apparatus, Image Inspection Method, and Non-transitory Computer-readable Medium Used for Image Inspection
21 Oct 20
An image inspection apparatus is provided to allow a user, when checking a scan result of automatic inspection, to check a really-inspected area.
Tetsu KAWASAKI
Filed: 14 Apr 20