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Utility
Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus
2 Dec 19
A sheet feeding device includes: a stacker that stacks sheets of paper; a suction conveyor disposed vertically above the sheets stacked in the stacker for sucking and conveying the sheets; a blower that blows air onto the sheets; and a regulating member disposed on a downstream side of the suction conveyor in a conveyance direction, facing an outlet of the sheets of the suction conveyor and projecting vertically upward, wherein the suction conveyor includes: horizontal portions provided on both ends in a width direction; and a recess provided in an intermediate portion and recessed vertically above the horizontal portions, and a lower limit of a projection height of the regulating member is set so that, when there is a vertical gap between a vertical upper end portion of the regulating member and the horizontal portions, a length of the gap is less than twice a thickness of the sheets.
Hajime Nakamura
Filed: 10 Jan 18
Utility
Ink sets and ink-jet recording method
2 Dec 19
Ink sets comprising an ink set A which comprises a yellow ink, a magenta ink, a cyan ink, and a black ink and an ink set B which comprises at least two inks selected from among an orange ink, a green ink, a violet ink, and a blue ink.
Masashi Ikeda, Katsunori Goi, Toshiyuki Takabayashi
Filed: 17 May 17
Utility
Surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence measurement device and surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence measurement method
2 Dec 19
The present invention pertains to a surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence analysis device and a surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence measurement method which use GC-SPFS and make it possible to detect a substance to be detected with high sensitivity.
Yukito Nakamura, Takatoshi Kaya, Kosuke Nagae, Akitoshi Nozaki, Fumio Nagai, Ryouta Ishikawa, Akiyuki Namatame
Filed: 7 Apr 14
Utility
Surface-plasmon enhanced fluorescence measurement method, surface-plasmon enhanced fluorescence measurement device, and analytical chip
2 Dec 19
First, an analytical chip having a prism, a metal film that includes a trapping region having immobilized on the surface thereof a trapping element for trapping a substance to be analyzed, and a mark in which the scatter of emitted plasmon scattered light differs from the scatter of plasmon scattered light emitted from the surrounding region, is disposed in a chip holder.
Masataka Matsuo, Hiroshi Hirayama, Yoshimasa Hamano, Tetsuya Noda, Yoshihiro Okumura
Filed: 28 May 15
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with image forming program
2 Dec 19
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming controller forming a toner image on an image carrying member, and transferring at a transfer position the toner image formed on the image carrying member onto a sheet being conveyed on a conveyance path, and a hardware-processor.
Masatoshi Hitaka
Filed: 10 Oct 17
Utility
Information processing system, electronic apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, electronic apparatus processing method and non-transitory computer readable medium
2 Dec 19
An electronic apparatus includes a terminal side association processing unit which associates first additional information with sound information, an imaging unit which images second additional information, and a detection unit which detects positional information and azimuth information of the imaging unit.
Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
Filed: 6 Jul 17
Utility
Operation screen display device and recording medium recorded with display program
2 Dec 19
An operation screen display device according to the present invention displays operation screens which have a hierarchical structure on a display surface, and displays a lower level window, in which a region of at least a part of an operation screen of a lower level layer associated with an operation key which is performed with a pinch out operation is displayed, on a display surface at a specified size based on a size specified with the pinch out operation by a user for any of a plurality of operation keys in the operation screen.
Yoriko Suzuki, Daiki Nishioka, Kazuhisa Kishimoto
Filed: 15 Sep 15
Utility
Electrophotographic image forming device
2 Dec 19
Keiichi Inagaki, Daisuke Kodama
Filed: 16 Oct 18
Utility
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
2 Dec 19
An image processing apparatus includes: an extractor that divides image data in block units and extracts a maximum value and a minimum value of each block from the compressed image data; an edge detector that detects an edge at a front end or a rear end of an image; a correction value calculator that corrects the maximum value, or the maximum value and the minimum value of each block positioned in a certain range from the front end or the rear end and calculates a maximum value and a minimum value after the correction; and a converter that determines a conversion formula of a pixel value by using the maximum value and the minimum value before the correction and the maximum value and the minimum value after the correction and converts each pixel value of the image data obtained by decompressing the compressed data so as to apply sweeping correction.
Koji Washio
Filed: 1 Feb 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus for displaying conference information, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, conference system and method for controlling conference system
2 Dec 19
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: an input unit that inputs an original data; an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet in accordance with the original data; an operation panel that comprises a display unit and an operating unit and that receives an operation for entering a job for forming the image on the recording sheet by using the image forming unit; a display control unit that displays one or more types of window on the display unit of the operation panel; and a conference information obtaining unit that obtains conference information of a conference held in a conference room which is placed near the image forming apparatus, from a predetermined conference management server that manages the conference information of the conference, wherein the display control unit displays the conference information on the display unit from the conference management server.
Hideaki Shimizu, Tohru Fujiwara, Kazuhisa Kishimoto, Katsutoshi Sawada
Filed: 19 Apr 17
Utility
Display device, image processing device and non-transitory recording medium
2 Dec 19
A display device, with a display part having a rectangular display area, capable of changing an orientation of the display part between a first orientation and a second orientation rotated by 90 degrees from the first orientation, comprises: a hardware processor that: detects whether the orientation of the display part is either the first orientation or the second orientation; displays a first screen on which an operation screen operable for a user is arranged on a whole surface of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the first orientation; and displays a second screen on which reduced the operation screen is arranged in a part of the display area and a content included in the operation screen is arranged in a remaining part of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the second orientation.
Kazuaki Tomono
Filed: 4 Dec 18
Utility
Radiation image capturing apparatus and radiation image capturing system
2 Dec 19
A radiation image capturing apparatus includes the following.
Kazuhiko Katsushima
Filed: 8 Jul 18
Utility
Information processing system, communication relay device, license server, program, and data recovery method
2 Dec 19
A communication relay device that relays communication performed between an image processing device and an application server via a network includes: an exchange key generating unit that generates an exchange key, and transmits the exchange key to the image processing device and a license server; a relay information generating unit that generates relay information used for relaying the communication; a storage unit that stores the relay information; a communication relay unit that relays the communication; a backup unit that transmits the relay information to a backup server connected to the network; an exchange key authenticating unit that determines whether or not an exchange sequence start condition is satisfied, and, when satisfied, acquires the exchange key and transmits the exchange key to the license server; and a setting reflecting unit that acquires the relay information from the backup server, and stores the relay information in the storage unit.
Masato Fujii
Filed: 15 Dec 16
Utility
Holding tray and bucky image capturing table
25 Nov 19
A holding tray holds an X-ray detection panel on a placing surface.
Shingo Nakayama, Takafumi Matsuo
Filed: 14 Jan 18
Utility
Ultrasound diagnostic device and method for controlling ultrasound diagnostic device
25 Nov 19
An ultrasound diagnostic device that transmits a push pulse into a subject and detects a shear wave propagating to adjacent tissue by repeating transmission of ultrasound to the subject and reception of reflected ultrasound from the subject, including a displacement detector that obtains reception signals in a time series by transmitting ultrasound to the subject and receiving reflected ultrasound from the subject, subsequent to transmission of the push pulse, and detects a displacement amount of the tissue inside the subject at each point in time at which the reception signals are respectively obtained; a wavefront extractor that extracts, based on the displacement amount of the tissue at each of the points in time, a wavefront of the shear wave at the corresponding point in time; and a wavefront image processor that generates a wavefront image that indicates a wavefront of the shear wave at each of the points in time.
Bumpei Toji
Filed: 28 Dec 15
Utility
Piezoelectric element, ultrasound probe and ultrasound imaging apparatus
25 Nov 19
The ultrasound probe includes a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric composition and an electrode that applies a voltage to the piezoelectric composition.
Masashi Ozawa, Hisashi Minemoto, Junichi Kato, Koetsu Saito
Filed: 13 Jun 17
Utility
Image processing device, image processing system, and program
25 Nov 19
An image processing device capable of assigning a basic function and a server function to hardware resources and operating the basic function and the server function, includes: a hardware processor that: detects occurrence of a failure related to the basic function or transition to a power saving mode; releases a specific hardware resource corresponding to a function that has become inoperable due to the occurrence of a failure or the transition to a power saving mode, of the basic function assigned to the hardware resources, in a case where the occurrence of a failure or the transition to a power saving mode has been detected by the hardware processor; and additionally assigns the server function to the specific hardware resource released by the hardware processor, of the hardware resources, to operate the server function.
Tatsuya Kitaguchi
Filed: 15 Aug 18
Utility
Image reading apparatus and image forming system
25 Nov 19
An image reading apparatus includes a reader, a conveying path, a conveyer, a conveyer housing, and a frame.
Kenji Kawatsu
Filed: 13 Mar 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
25 Nov 19
An image forming apparatus includes: image former forming an image on a sheet; a sheet storage storing the sheet; a sheet feeder feeding the sheet stored in the sheet storage to the image former; a sheet characteristic detector detecting characteristics of the sheet fed by the sheet feeder; and a hardware processor controlling image forming in the image former on the basis of the sheet characteristics detected by the sheet characteristic detector, wherein the sheet feeder feeds a first sheet in order to detect the sheet characteristics by the sheet characteristic detector before forming an image by the image former, and after the sheet characteristic detector has finished detecting the characteristics of the first sheet, the sheet feeder feeds a second sheet on which the image is to be formed by the image former under image forming conditions set on the basis of the detected characteristics of the first sheet.
Shinya Tanigami
Filed: 4 Sep 18
Utility
Image processing apparatus, error recovery image display method for the same, and recording medium
25 Nov 19
An image processing apparatus includes: a display; a memory that stores multiple key frames of a video guide on how to recover from an operating error; an error sensor that detects the operating error; and a display processor that allows the display to display at least one of the multiple key frames as a still frame for a digest along with an operation button for video playback, when the error sensor detects the operating error, the multiple key frames being stored on the memory, and that further allows the display to play back the video guide by serially displaying the multiple key frames, when the operation button is pressed.
Kenichi Komaba, Shinichi Asai, Yu Sonoda
Filed: 2 Jul 17