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Utility
Image forming apparatus
28 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus including a polygon mirror that deflects a light beam, the image forming apparatus includes: an optical sensor arranged such that the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror enters the optical sensor; and a hardware processor that measures an output level of the optical sensor and calculates, as a remaining life of the polygon mirror, an operation time of the polygon mirror to when the output level becomes a threshold value in a case of assuming that the output level ongoingly changes at a rate of change over time that is a change amount of the output level per unit operation time of the polygon mirror, using the measured output level.
Yutaka Yamamoto, Tatsuya Eguchi, Shigetaka Kato, Taku Kimura
Filed: 6 Mar 19
Utility
Correction value calculation method, image forming apparatus, program, and inspection image
28 Sep 20
A correction value calculation method includes: forming, on a recording medium, an inspection image in which two or more types of individual inspection images is formed; calculating a first correction value group including first correction values, and a second correction value group including second correction values, wherein, in the calculating, a combination of the first correction value regarding positional deviation of a light beam that affects density of the individual inspection image, of the first correction value group, and the second correction values regarding an influence amount of multiple exposure effect according to an image pattern corresponding to the individual inspection image, of the second correction value group, and the first correction value group and the second correction value group are calculated on the basis of density information regarding each density of the individual inspection image and the combination of the first and second correction values.
Shoichi Nomura
Filed: 28 Oct 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and correction control program
28 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image, which is desired by a user and different from a predetermined pattern, on a sheet; an output information detector that detects output information on a first image formed on a first sheet by the image former; and a hardware processor that: acquires an correction amount of a third image, which is formed on a third sheet after the first sheet and a second sheet, according to a detection result of the first image by the output information detector and image information on a second image formed on the second sheet after the first sheet by the image former; and controls the image former so as to correct the third image based on the correction amount acquired by the hardware processor.
Daiki Yamanaka, Takaaki Kooriya, Hiroshige Kidera
Filed: 2 Aug 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus locks down storage area of cache memory stores portion of image forming program for executing real-time image forming process
28 Sep 20
An image forming device that executes an image forming program for real-time mechanical control and another program, using a single cache memory for the image forming program and said another program.
Yuji Toshinaga, Shigeki Nozawa
Filed: 16 Jul 17
Utility
Touch panel sharing support apparatus, touch panel sharing method, and computer program
28 Sep 20
A touch panel sharing support apparatus applicable for sharing a touch panel by a first system and a second system independent of each other, includes: a storage that stores definition data defining a first region for the first system and a second region for the second system, on a touch surface of the touch panel; a hardware processor that discriminates which of the first region and the second region a touched position on the touch surface belongs to on the basis of the definition data; and a transmitter that transmits operation data concerning operation onto the touch surface to the first system in a case where the hardware processor discriminates that the position belongs to the first region and transmits the operation data to the second system in a case where the hardware processor discriminates that the position belongs to the second region.
Satoshi Uchino
Filed: 16 Dec 18
Utility
Image inspection system, image inspection method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing image inspection program
28 Sep 20
An image inspection system including: an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet; an image reading apparatus that reads the image formed on the sheet through the image forming apparatus; and an image inspector that inspects the image read by the image reading apparatus.
Masaya Ikuta
Filed: 28 Aug 19
Utility
Decorative image forming method
28 Sep 20
The present invention provides an image forming method for forming a decorated image having a resin layer and a powder contacted with each other, the method including: forming a resin layer on a recording medium; and supplying a powder onto the recording medium, in which, in viscoelasticity measurement of the resin layer, storage modulus G′(1) at 90° C. is 1.0×103 Pa or more and 1.0×106 Pa or less upon carrying out the measurement from 30° C. to 100° C. under conditions of a frequency of 1 Hz and a temperature increasing rate of 3° C./min.
Kazumi Oura, Michiyo Fujita, Kaori Matsushima
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Radiographic imaging apparatus and radiographic imaging system
28 Sep 20
A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a base, a signal line, a reader and a hardware processor.
Keisuke Koeda, Kazuhiro Sakino
Filed: 23 Apr 18
Utility
Radiographic image processing apparatus, scattered radiation correction method, and computer readable storage medium
28 Sep 20
A radiographic image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor, which determines the intensity of an edge in a radiographic image obtained by radiographically imaging a subject, sets a weighting factor to be used in extracting a frequency component from the radiographic image according to a determination result of the edge intensity, extracts the frequency component from the radiographic image using the weighting factor having been set, multiplies the extracted frequency component by a scattered radiation content rate to estimate a scattered radiation component in the radiographic image, multiplies the estimated scattered radiation component by a scattered radiation removal rate to generate a scattered radiation image representing the scattered radiation component to be removed from the radiographic image, and performs scattered radiation correction on the radiographic image by subtracting the scattered radiation image from the radiographic image.
Eri Nemoto, Ryohei Ito
Filed: 22 Jan 19
Utility
Control device of permanent magnet synchronous motor and image forming device
28 Sep 20
A control device of a permanent magnet synchronous motor that is a control device of a sensorless-type permanent magnet synchronous motor in which a rotor using a permanent magnet rotates by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing in an armature includes: a driver that applies a voltage to the armature and drives the rotor; an initial position estimator that estimates an initial position which is a magnetic pole position of the rotor that is stopped; and a controller that controls the driver so as to apply a pulse train including a voltage pulse for searching the initial position for each of n angle positions dividing a search range of an electrical angle of 360 degrees to the armature, wherein the pulse train includes a first pulse and a second pulse.
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Daichi Suzuki, Yuta Tachibana
Filed: 1 May 19
Utility
Processing apparatus performing control of power supply during an inspection process of a device provided to the processing apparatus
28 Sep 20
A processing apparatus to which an option is mountable, the processing apparatus including: a power supply unit; a device that (i) is controlled by the option mounted to the processing apparatus or controls the option and that (ii) performs a process corresponding to an inspection of whether or not the device operates normally; and a switching unit that switches on and off supply of electric power from the power supply unit to the device.
Hisataka Funakawa
Filed: 15 Jul 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus, instruction acceptance method, and computer readable program
28 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus to be used together with equipment to be used by a user with both hands, the image forming apparatus includes: an acceptor that does not accept, by voice, an instruction for processing to be performed by the image forming apparatus before the user holds the equipment but accepts, by the voice, the instruction while the equipment is being used with both of the hands.
Tomohiro Yamaguchi
Filed: 8 Jul 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, method of displaying screen for selecting application, and computer program
28 Sep 20
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that may include: an acquisitor that may obtain a first icon of each of a plurality of applications; a generator that may generate a second icon of each of the plurality of applications by superimposing the first icon onto each base image having a same size or a shape; and a display controller that may cause a display to display a selection screen in which the second icon of each of the plurality of applications is arranged to allow a user to select any of the plurality of applications.
Yoichi Kurumasa, Taketoshi Yamahata, Ryosuke Nishimura, Atsushi Kondo, Eisaku Owada
Filed: 24 Jun 19
Utility
Image processing apparatus with malicious code detection processing and control program
28 Sep 20
An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing part; a storage part including a nonvolatile region that stores data in a nonvolatile manner; and a hardware processor that controls the image processing part, wherein the nonvolatile region includes a plurality of storage regions, the storage part stores setting information indicating whether each of the plurality of storage regions is a target of malicious code detection processing, and the hardware processor performs the malicious code detection processing only on a storage region that is the target of the malicious code detection processing based on the setting information among the plurality of storage regions.
Atsushi Tamura, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Sugita
Filed: 10 Apr 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus with multiple activation modes, activation method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with activation program
28 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes a hardware resource, and a hardware processor that controls the hardware resource, wherein the hardware processor activates the hardware resource in a first activation mode in response to entry of a user into a first range, and activates the hardware resource in a second activation mode that causes production of sound at a volume level higher than a volume level of sound produced in the first activation mode in response to entry of the user into a second range that is smaller than the first range.
Takehisa Nakao
Filed: 10 Mar 19
Utility
Data processing apparatus with URL risk assessment, data output method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with data output program
28 Sep 20
A data processing apparatus includes a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor acquires data that is input externally as input data, detects link information that is included in the input data and represents a position of another data on a network, in the case where the link information is detected, determines a risk level of the other data represented by the link information, in the case where the risk level of the other data is determined to be equal to or higher than a predetermined risk level, produces correction data by processing a portion representing the link information in the input data, and outputs the correction data externally instead of the input data.
Daisuke Sakiyama, Akihiro Torigoshi
Filed: 2 Jul 19
Utility
Document creation support device and program
21 Sep 20
A document creation support device that supports work when a new document is created on the basis of a first document that includes at least one first reported matter, includes a hardware processor that: extracts a second reported matter related to the first reported matter from a second document that differs from the first document; and presents support information on the basis of the extracted second reported matter.
Kouichi Tomita
Filed: 14 Mar 19
Utility
Image processing apparatus for sending user interface data
21 Sep 20
An image processing system comprises: an image processing device capable of displaying a screen; and a terminal device that communicates with the image processing device and operates the image processing device via a remote control.
Teppei Nakamura
Filed: 14 Jan 16
Utility
Radiation image imaging apparatus and radiation image imaging system
21 Sep 20
A radiation image imaging apparatus includes the following.
Koutarou Kanamori
Filed: 7 Aug 19
Utility
Illumination device
21 Sep 20
An illumination device is provided with: a planar first electrode; a planar second electrode arranged to face the first electrode; a light emitting layer which is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and emits light in accordance with a current flowing between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first sensor that is electrically connected to the first electrode and detects an electrostatic capacitance of the first electrode; and a second sensor that is electrically connected to the second electrode and detects an electrostatic capacitance of the second electrode.
Masatoshi Yoneyama, Kazuyoshi Omata, Tsukasa Yagi
Filed: 14 Aug 17