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Utility
Image processing device, image processing system and non-transitory recording medium with communication-based access control
20 Jan 20
An image processing device that provides an operation terminal device with an operation screen and receives input information from the operation terminal device, comprising a hardware processor that: communicates with the operation terminal device in either a first communication mode or a second communication mode, which is different from the first communication mode; determines whether the communication with the operation terminal device is in the first communication mode or the second communication mode; and creates a first screen, which is the operation screen imposed with no limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created first screen when the communication is determined to be made in the first communication mode, and creates a second screen, which is the operation screen imposed with a limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created second screen when the communication is determined to be made in the second communication mode.
Tomoko Maruyama, Hideyuki Matsuda, Kaoru Fukuoka, Jun Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Ohno, Eisaku Owada
Filed: 1 Jul 18
Utility
Management apparatus for designating one or more image forming apparatuses as preferential image forming apparatuses for requesting job information from a server
20 Jan 20
A management apparatus included in a system including a plurality of MFPs receives a use history of a user from at least one MFP among the plurality of MFPs.
Okihisa Yoshida
Filed: 1 Jun 15
Utility
Image forming method and toner set for developing electrostatic latent image
20 Jan 20
An image forming method uses a color toner including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner, and a black toner.
Hitomi Motani, Tomoko Mine, Kaori Matsushima
Filed: 16 Oct 18
Utility
Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing input assistance program and input assisting method
20 Jan 20
Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an input assistance program and an input assisting method.
Takashi Ajioka
Filed: 24 Jan 19
Utility
Dynamic analysis system
20 Jan 20
A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor and an output device.
Noritsugu Matsutani
Filed: 7 Mar 18
Utility
Electroluminescent device capable of preventing coloration of front reflected light
20 Jan 20
Provided is an electroluminescent device that emits light of a single color and includes a plurality of functional layers, in which an absorption peak is included in the emission wavelength and at least one absorption peak is included in a complementary color region of an emission wavelength in the range of 380 nm to 780 nm, an absolute value of a deviation (Δuv) of a color coordinate of front reflected light at the time of white color illumination from a blackbody locus is below 0.02, and a refractive index and a film thickness of each of the plurality of functional layers are determined to satisfy the formula D(θ)≥D(0)cos θ (0≤θ≤θD≤60 degrees) when an angle dependence of emission intensity is defined as D(θ).
Kou Osawa, Koujirou Sekine, Naoki Kimura
Filed: 28 Aug 16
Utility
Color adjuster and program
20 Jan 20
A color adjuster includes: a color specifier that specifies a color when an image former forms an image; a pre-modified candidate acquirer that obtains a calculated value to which a profile for forming an image is applied or a colorimetric value of an image forming result with respect to the color specified by the color specifier; a modification history database that stores the calculated value or the colorimetric value obtained by the pre-modified candidate acquirer, the calculated value and the colorimetric value being associated with a past modified value; a modified value determinator that determines a modified value of the calculated value or the colorimetric value obtained by the pre-modified candidate acquirer on the basis of the past modified value stored in the modification history database; and a modified value outputter that displays or outputs the modified value determined by the modified value determinator.
Toshiki Tsukano
Filed: 26 Aug 18
Utility
Image processing apparatus for arranging marks at scheduled cutting positions
20 Jan 20
An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) is an image processing apparatus used for a printing method.
Kazutoshi Yu
Filed: 28 Jan 18
Utility
Image processing apparatus having function for using auxiliary storage together with RAM as virtual memory, and for selectively applying different power-saving modes to auxiliary storage in accordance with available free space in RAM, and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program for the same
20 Jan 20
An image processing apparatus includes a memory, an auxiliary storage used as a virtual memory together with the memory, and a hardware processor.
Bounta Chitpasong
Filed: 23 Jan 18
Utility
Virtual execution device, virtual execution method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing virtual execution program
20 Jan 20
A virtual execution device includes a hardware processor, the hardware processor forming a virtual device by simulating an image forming apparatus in operation, in the case where a predetermined allowing condition is unsatisfied by an operation state of the image forming apparatus, acquiring a plurality of respective jobs that have been externally received by the image forming apparatus before the allowing condition becomes unsatisfied by the operation state of the image forming apparatus as reference jobs, selecting one or more reference jobs as exclusion jobs from among the plurality of acquired reference jobs, causing the virtual device to process subject jobs that are not the one or more selected exclusion jobs among the plurality of acquired reference jobs, and in the case where the allowing condition is satisfied by an operation state of the virtual device, specifying the exclusion jobs as cause jobs that have caused errors in the image forming apparatus.
Hisashi Uchida, Hirokazu Kubota, Toshimichi Iwai, Yuji Tanaka, Hiroaki Kubo, Hironori Harada
Filed: 17 Sep 18
Utility
Data processing system, data processing apparatus, server, and recording medium
20 Jan 20
A data processing system includes a data processing apparatus and a server.
Hiroyuki Kawabata
Filed: 13 May 18
Utility
Image processing apparatus controlling information transmission, control method thereof, and recording medium
13 Jan 20
An image processing apparatus that communicates with at least one server includes: a hardware processor that: receives an input of a schedule of maintenance on the server; transmits information to the server; prohibits transmission processing of information to the server during a maintenance period on the basis of the schedule received by the hardware processor; and a storage that stores information indicating prohibition of the transmission processing by the hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor transmits the information stored in the storage to the server after completion of maintenance of the server on the basis of the schedule.
Kenichi Nagasawa
Filed: 25 Dec 17
Utility
Transparent electrode and electronic device
13 Jan 20
Shun Furukawa, Shigeru Kojima, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takeshi Hakii
Filed: 31 Jan 16
Utility
Information processing terminal, information processing system, program, and control method
13 Jan 20
An information processing terminal capable of communicating with a sensor terminal including a first biological sensor which measures a first type of biological information includes: a reception unit receiving a measurement result of the first biological sensor from the sensor terminal; a second biological sensor measuring the first type of biological information; and a control unit authenticating the sensor terminal and establishing connection with the sensor terminal when the measurement result of the first biological sensor satisfies a predetermined condition on a measurement result of the second biological sensor.
Kazusei Takahashi, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Kubota
Filed: 10 Jun 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control method, and image forming apparatus control program
13 Jan 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a charging roller that charges the image carrier; a power supply part that applies a charging voltage to the charging roller; a current measurement part that measures a value of a DC component of a current flowing between the image carrier and the charging roller at at least two timings having mutually different elapsed times; and a hardware processor that measures an elapsed time from a start of application of the charging voltage by the power supply part, calculates a coefficient of an approximate expression indicating a relationship between the value of the DC component of the current flowing between the image carrier and the charging roller, and the elapsed time, and performs judgment related to life of the charging roller on the basis of the coefficient and a predetermined threshold.
Tsugihito Yoshiyama, Hokuto Hatano
Filed: 5 Dec 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program
13 Jan 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms a toner image based on input image information by superposing toners of plural colors on a recording material; a fixer that fixes the toner image formed on the recording material; a toner amount calculator that calculates, from the input image information, an amount of toners to be superposed on the recording material; and a hardware processor that controls the image former to supply an assistance toner that assists melting of the toners used for forming the toner image based on the input image information by an amount corresponding to the calculated amount of toners.
Hiroyuki Saito, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Tatsuya Furuta, Ryoei Ikari, Aiko Kubota
Filed: 30 Oct 17
Utility
Toner container and image forming device having a switching member in the structure of a shell
13 Jan 20
A toner container attachable to and detachable from a main body of an image forming device and including: a first chamber containing toner; a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber through a partition wall and downstream of the first chamber in a toner supply direction; and a switching member in the second chamber that is movable or rotatable and has a shell structure.
Shuan Yang, Naoki Nonoyama, Shigeru Sawano
Filed: 11 Oct 18
Utility
Displacement sensor and image forming device having the same
13 Jan 20
In a displacement sensor, an illumination optical system, which converts laser light emitted from an emission unit into first converging light, and irradiates with the first converging light a detection space through which a target moves.
Masahiko Takahashi, Makoto Ooki, Wataru Senoo, Atsushi Nagaoka, Hidenari Tachibe, Hajime Taniguchi, Takafumi Yuasa, Yoshitaka Otani
Filed: 4 Jul 17
Utility
Waste toner container and image forming apparatus including same
13 Jan 20
A waste toner container provided for use in an image forming apparatus includes: a body receiving, through an inlet, waste toner discharged from the image forming apparatus, and contains the waste toner; a conveyance member conveying the waste toner, which has been received through the inlet; a waste toner deposition chamber disposed downstream of the inlet in a waste toner conveyance direction such that the waste toner that has been conveyed is increasingly deposited therein, the chamber having a light-transmissive window through which amount of the deposited waste toner is optically monitorable from outside of the body; a conductive member disposed on an inner surface of the body so as to come into contact with the waste toner being conveyed; and a connection unit disposed between the conductive member and an earth member provided in the image forming apparatus to electrically connect between the conductive member and the earth member.
Shinji Yanase, Satoshi Fujii
Filed: 7 Nov 17
Utility
Method for manufacturing high aspect ratio structure, a method for manufacturing ultrasonic probe, high aspect ratio structure, and X-ray imaging apparatus
13 Jan 20
In respective methods for manufacturing a high aspect ratio structure and an ultrasonic probe, a plurality of holes extending in a direction crossing a main surface of a substrate are formed, a plurality of first regions and second regions excluding the first regions from the main surface are periodically defined, and partition walls between the plurality of holes formed in the substrate corresponding to the first regions are removed by etching so that part of each of the partition walls within a predetermined range excluding a bottom portion is left.
Mitsuru Yokoyama, Yuko Yamamoto
Filed: 27 Feb 18