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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,272,718 |
Image forming apparatus having recording head An image forming apparatus includes a recording head having nozzles for ejecting droplets, a liquid tank that stores liquid to be supplied to the recording... |
| US-8,272,713 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a liquid tank, a first fluid flow path supplying liquid to the recording head, a second fluid flow path... |
| US-8,272,636 |
Paper feed device, and paper feed cassette, manual paper feed tray, and
image forming apparatus including same A paper feed device including a paper feed unit configured to feed sheets; a separation unit configured to separate and feed the sheets fed from the paper feed... |
| US-RE43,687 |
Image forming method and system with a finishing capability An image forming system of the present invention includes an image forming method and section for forming an image on a sheet fed thereto. A stapler included in... |
| US-8,272,028 |
Approach for managing access to electronic documents on network devices
using document retention policies and... An approach for managing access to electronic documents uses document retention and document security policies. In response to detecting a request to access a... |
| US-8,272,027 |
Applying digital rights to newly created electronic A routing computer is connected to one or more multi-function peripherals (MFPs) on a network. A routing manager located in the routing computer contains user... |
| US-8,271,967 |
MFP software update using web service Techniques are provided for updating software components on an multi-function peripheral (MFP) using Web Services (WS). An MFP sends a multi-cast discovery... |
| US-8,271,792 |
Image processing apparatus, authentication package installation method,
and computer-readable recording medium An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes an installation unit that installs an authentication package providing a function related to... |
| US-8,271,703 |
Providing device defined user interface modifiers to a computer system In an embodiment, a computer-implemented process comprises, in a computer peripheral device that is configured to be coupled to a computer system, creating and... |
| US-8,271,621 |
Metadata communication system Techniques for communicating metadata are disclosed. According to one technique, a device comprises a configuration module. The configuration module contains... |
| US-8,271,589 |
Mail list exceptions A method and apparatus for sending messages to a list of members of a group with exceptions to one or more members of the group. In one embodiment, the method... |
| US-8,271,582 |
Relay device, relay method, and computer program product A relay device includes a first communication unit that receives a request including processing object data from a client device; a data processing unit that... |
| US-8,271,389 |
Creating and manufacturing documents that initially exceed equipment
finishing capacity Techniques described herein overcome many of the issues that have previously made the printing of a single copy of a book from a digital version unattractive... |
| US-8,270,886 |
Transfer nip roller, transfer device, and image forming apparatus In a transfer nip roller operative to transfer an image from an image carrier to a recording medium, a ratio (We3/Wt3)/(We30/Wt30) is 0.47 or more, where We3 is... |
| US-8,270,885 |
Image forming apparatus utilizing plural pressers of different weights and
image forming method forming an... An image forming apparatus, including: plural image bearers bearing toner images including a black toner image, which are developed with a two-component... |
| US-8,270,875 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a toner image carrying member, an image transfer device, a fixing device, a registration unit, a guide member, an... |
| US-8,270,856 |
Apparatus including a re-transfer unit to re-transfer a recording medium
and method of image forming An image forming apparatus is provided, which forms a releasing agent absorption toner image on an in-between printed sides area of a moving surface of an image... |
| US-8,270,854 |
Image forming apparatus and output setting method of consumed status of
consumable items of the image forming... An apparatus in which a plurality of consumable items are loadable to the apparatus. The apparatus includes a consumption status detecting unit to detect a... |
| US-8,270,757 |
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus A magnification chromatic aberration included in image data in a color filter array captured by an imaging device is corrected by performing a coordinate... |
| US-8,270,716 |
Selectively compressing picture and text areas of an image to maintain
highest quality and effective compaction Image processing is done by separating image data into foreground image data, background image data, and mask image data. The foreground image data is divided... |
| US-8,270,271 |
Optical recording medium and information recording method An optical recording medium has a multi-layer structure recording layer structure recording layer portion including plural recording layers provided with tracks... |
| US-8,270,053 |
Holding mechanism for long length optical element, optical scanning
device, and image forming device A holding mechanism for a long length optical element, which extends in a main scanning direction that is a movement direction of a deflected luminous flux by... |
| US-8,270,030 |
Image processing apparatus and method for converting image data into a
specified resolution Example embodiments are directed to an apparatus and method of image processing. Moving speed control processing performed by a control unit causes an image... |
| US-8,270,026 |
Light source driving device with relationship-based drive signal
generating circuit, optical scanning device,... A write control circuit includes a first data switching circuit that sets a correspondence relationship between signals from line buffers and input signals to a... |
| US-8,270,025 |
Image forming apparatus having blank sheet ejection preventing function
and blank sheet ejection preventing method An image forming apparatus for printing out one or more pages in an electronic file having color information in the form of at least one of character... |
| US-8,270,013 |
Printing system, printing method, and computer program product An information processing apparatus generates print data in response to a print request, stores the print data in a storage unit, and enters a standby state for... |
| US-8,269,956 |
Optical element, refractive index sensor, refractive index sensor array,
and biosensor An optical element for resonating and reflecting incident light having a wavelength includes a periodic structure formed of protrusions and recessions. A period... |
| US-8,269,852 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus and an imaging method which can obtain an image in which a dynamic range is expanded at one shooting are provided. In a case where a pixel... |
| US-8,269,797 |
Appropriately scaled map display with superposed information Methods, apparatuses and systems are provided for determining an appropriate scaling of a map display or providing an appropriately scaled map display. |
| US-8,269,786 |
Method for reading and writing image data in memory A method for reading and writing a memory having n rows and A columns includes a first step of writing data in 0th to (n-2)th rows by a first technique; a... |
| US-8,269,527 |
Hysteresis comparator circuit and semiconductor device incorporating same A hysteresis comparator circuit that compares first and second input signals to output a hysteresis output signal includes a constant current source, a first... |
| US-8,269,473 |
AC high voltage power supply device, charging device, developing device,
and image forming apparatus An AC high voltage power supply device includes a comparison circuit configured to compare a first signal of a sinusoidal waveform and a second signal of a... |
| US-8,269,435 |
Motor control unit, motor control method and image forming apparatus Time information indicates time required for reflecting a speed control indicating value actually on the rotation speed of the motor, the speed control... |
| US-8,268,746 |
Thermosensitive recording material Provided is a thermosensitive recording material which can be produced through high-speed coating, which is excellent in head-matching property, and which can... |
| US-8,268,666 |
Field-effect transistor and method for fabricating field-effect transistor A method for fabricating a field-effect transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an active layer forming a channel region,... |
| US-8,268,527 |
Toner, developer, developing device, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus, image forming method, and... A toner is provided including a core particle comprising a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, and a shell layer comprising particles of a vinyl... |
| US-8,268,526 |
Toner, developer and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to toner compositions containing: toner particles made of: binder resin; colorant; and a wax which is dispersed in the toner... |
| US-8,267,511 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an ink discharge unit including nozzles to discharge ink and to form an image on a recording medium; a conveyer belt to... |
| US-8,267,394 |
Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A sheet feeding device that can be incorporated in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeder including a belt unit including an attraction belt facing... |
| US-8,267,340 |
Airflow pulverization and classification device, and pulverization method The airflow pulverization and classification device includes a pulverizer and a classifier. The pulverizer includes a pulverization chamber including a... |
| US-8,266,978 |
Gear train assembly and image forming apparatus including same A gear train assembly includes a first gear, a second gear, a first lubricant receiver, and a second lubricant receiver. The first gear meshes with the second... |
| US-8,266,543 |
Device driver and a method of customizing layout of a user interface A device driver or method that operate a periphery device. A display mode storage unit stores setting items, which are operable by a user using a user interface... |
| US-8,266,541 |
Message window display control apparatus, method, and program product A disclosed technology is for controlling the operation of displaying message windows. Plural message windows are not displayed at the same time in response to... |
| US-8,266,462 |
Image forming apparatus including a boosting-step-down transformer and
power control method A fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium to the recording medium by heating and pressurizing the toner image. An auxiliary power... |
| US-8,266,358 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium An image processing device including a first control unit to control a normal operating mode during which image processing is performed, a second control unit... |
| US-8,266,119 |
Contents management system, image processing device in contents management
system, and link information... A disclosed contents management system includes a management server for managing contents and an information processing device for performing a process on the... |
| US-8,265,652 |
Geographic tagging of network access points A system for geographic tagging of network access points comprises a plurality of access points that have been configured to provide location information as... |
| US-8,265,527 |
Developing unit, image forming apparatus incorporating same, and method of
controlling amounts of toner A developing unit, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a developer case to accommodate a two-component developer including toner and... |
| US-8,265,524 |
Transfer device, image forming apparatus, and waste toner container A transfer device includes a cleaning device, a waste toner bottle, a connecting unit, and a regulating unit. The cleaning device removes waste toner remaining... |
| US-8,265,494 |
Image forming apparatus including a toner supply controller to control a
supply of toner An image-information acquiring unit acquires the image information divided at least in one of a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction. A supply... |
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