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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,238,043 |
Imaging lens system and imaging apparatus An imaging lens system includes three lens groups having four lenses including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens arranged in order... |
| US-8,237,965 |
Apparatus, system, and method of communication An apparatus, method, and system of determining which one of monochrome image data and color image data is desired according to a user instruction, and sending... |
| US-8,237,958 |
Path detecting server, client apparatus, path detecting system, path
detecting method, and computer program product A client transmits a request, which requests a print processing path, to a path detecting server, and in response receives path information indicating a print... |
| US-8,237,940 |
Extensible control of document processing In an embodiment, a method comprises, in a print application management computer program that enables a user to generate a printed application using one or more... |
| US-8,237,937 |
Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable medium for processing image
data based on property information to... An image processing apparatus includes a generator, a storage, an image data format converter, and a sender. The generator generates print image data for... |
| US-8,237,814 |
Imaging apparatus and stored picture image playback method An imaging apparatus, which is capable of starting up in a shooting mode and in a playback mode, and capable of switching between the shooting mode and the... |
| US-8,237,763 |
Light source apparatus, and optical scanning apparatus and image forming
apparatus using the same A disclosed light source apparatus includes a light source including multiple light emitting devices; an optical element configured to transmit light emitted... |
| US-8,237,760 |
Light-source driving device, optical scanning device, and counting method A light-source driving device includes a high-frequency clock generating circuit that generates high-frequency clock signals of which phases are different from... |
| US-8,237,733 |
Page transition on electronic paper display A page transition file creation system and a method for creating a page transition file in a file format suitable for displaying transitions quickly on an... |
| US-8,235,499 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus in which air or dust does not enter a recording liquid tube when an ink cartridge is changed is disclosed. An engine unit, in which... |
| US-8,235,385 |
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the image forming apparatus are provided. When a finisher is installed onto the image forming apparatus... |
| US-8,235,177 |
Lubricant supply device, image forming apparatus, and pressing device A lubricant supply device includes a solid lubricant, a supply member contacting and rubbing the solid lubricant and thereby scraping a lubricant off the solid... |
| US-8,234,993 |
Impact detector and packaging container An impact detector includes a case, an impact indicator disposed on a front side of the case, to indicate an impact history of the impact detector, a first... |
| US-8,233,833 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a flexible endless fixing member that travels in a prescribed direction and applies heat and melts a toner image, a pressure applying... |
| US-8,233,829 |
Transfer belt unit and image forming apparatus A transfer belt unit satisfies the following conditions. An intermediate transfer belt has a thickness not less than 100 micrometers and not more than 200... |
| US-8,233,823 |
Belt device and image forming apparatus A belt is supported by a plurality of rollers and is driven to move in a predetermined direction. A flange member is configured to make contact with a portion... |
| US-8,233,818 |
Inner cap for toner container and toner container A toner container that can pass not only air but a toner, has toner sealing ability, and does not allow toner leakage even during transportation and an inner... |
| US-8,233,813 |
Image forming apparatus and image-density control method An image forming apparatus forms a plurality of tone patterns of different colors, each of which containing a plurality of toner patches having different toner... |
| US-8,233,209 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning system includes a light source, a polygon mirror, a first optical system, a second optical system, and a monitoring device. The light source... |
| US-8,233,168 |
Image forming apparatus for converting lights to generate and store
electrical power In an image forming apparatus, an energy converting unit receives light from an optical source and converts the light into electric power, and an electrical... |
| US-8,232,996 |
Image learning, automatic annotation, retrieval method, and device A first image having annotations is segmented into one or more image regions. Image feature vectors and text feature vectors are extracted from all the image... |
| US-8,232,493 |
Operating device An operating device is provided having a supporting member, a button, an elastic member, and a bearing member. The supporting member has an opening which passes... |
| US-8,232,376 |
Azo compound and method of preparing the azo compound An azo compound having the following formula (I): A(E)n (I) wherein A represents a residue of an azo compound, bonded with n pieces of E group through one or... |
| US-8,232,031 |
Naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid diimide derivative and electrophotographic
photoconductor having the same The present invention provides a naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid diimide derivative represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR00001## wherein... |
| US-8,231,966 |
Anti-reflection coating and its production method An anti-reflection coating comprising a mesoporous silica coating composed of mesoporous silica nano-particles formed on a substrate or a dense coating formed... |
| US-8,231,760 |
Image removing device, image removing method, and image forming/removing
system A disclosed image removing device includes a roller peeling member onto which a recording material with the image forming substance having thermoplastic... |
| US-8,231,201 |
Inkjet recording device In an inkjet recording device, ink droplets remaining on a nozzle surface are wiped off and the wiped off ink droplets are prevented from being scattered so as... |
| US-8,230,205 |
Image processing apparatus and program starting up method An image processing apparatus has first through n-th pluralities of programs which, when executed by a computer processor, perform respectively first through... |
| US-8,230,200 |
Image forming apparatus capable of creating, managing and using job
history and control method for the same An image forming apparatus includes a job-history managing unit that creates and manages a job history, registers a job history, as a job history instance,... |
| US-8,230,041 |
System, method, apparatus, and program for providing electronic manual When a customer operates a terminal to send a request for a provision of a manual page to the center via the Internet, the center determines whether the... |
| US-8,229,927 |
Apparatus, system, and method for information search A search option input by a user is obtained through a user interface and a search term is determined based on the search option. A document database is searched... |
| US-8,229,905 |
Adaptive document management system using a physical representation of a
document Systems and methods for creating a Token and using it to operate and modify a case file in a document management system are described. An exemplary embodiment... |
| US-8,229,811 |
System, computer program product and method for managing documents A system, method and computer program product for managing documents are disclosed. The system includes a document manger configured to receive job information... |
| US-8,229,335 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program
product An image forming apparatus, includes a transferring belt where a color image is formed; a conveyance belt transferring a recording medium where a monochrome... |
| US-8,229,325 |
Decelerator, drive device including same, and image forming apparatus
incorporating the drive device A decelerator for reducing a speed of rotation of a drive source and transmitting drive of the drive source to an image bearing member of an image forming... |
| US-8,229,324 |
Coupling device, and image forming apparatus A coupling unit includes two constant velocity joints arranged in series in the shaft direction. The coupling unit couples a driven shaft and a drive shaft.... |
| US-8,229,310 |
Image forming device including color photoconductor drums, photoconductor
drum drive controlling method for... An image forming device has a full-color image formation mode to form a color image using color photoconductor drums and a monochrome image formation mode to... |
| US-8,228,772 |
Optimum gap determined recording/reproducing apparatus A recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that includes a spindle motor unit including a spindle on which a flexible recording disk is placed, a stabilizer... |
| US-8,228,583 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device includes: a light source unit that includes a light emitting unit composed of a laser light source emitting linearly polarized light... |
| US-8,228,580 |
Optical scanner and image forming apparatus including a common optical
deflector and synchronization detector An optical scanner includes a plurality of scanning optical systems each of which scans a different surface to be scanned and includes a light source configured... |
| US-8,228,564 |
Apparatus, system, and method for identifying embedded information An information identification apparatus includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores computer programmed instructions which when... |
| US-8,228,553 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program
product An image processing apparatus including an image retrieving unit that retrieves image information of a revision document, which includes revision information... |
| US-8,228,551 |
Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus processes image data that contains a confidential image portion. The image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that... |
| US-8,228,539 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, which includes a plurality of image forming portions transferring a yellow image, a magenta image, a cyan image, and a black image... |
| US-8,228,538 |
Performance of a locked print architecture Techniques are provided for processing a job, such as a print job or a facsimile (fax) job. A printing device comprises multiple modules that are developed in... |
| US-8,228,536 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program
product for image processing... An image processing device includes an input filter configured to control an input process of data to be input as a subject of an image process, an output... |
| US-8,228,524 |
Image processing apparatus, device control program, and power control
method An image processing apparatus is provided that includes plural devices, a device control unit associated with each of the devices for controlling a power status... |
| US-8,228,518 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program
product An image determining unit determines a type of each of a plurality of images to be combined. A character identifying unit identifies a black character area in... |
| US-8,228,512 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method,
control program for eliminating conveyance... An image forming apparatus is disclosed that forms an image based on a control signal from an image processing controlling unit that processes input image... |
| US-8,228,343 |
Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image
displaying method An image processing apparatus includes a system control unit, and a display control unit. The system control unit judges whether a setting item that is newly... |
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