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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,086,050 |
Multi-resolution segmentation and fill A multi-resolution segmentation and fill technique is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a plurality of layers using image data from... |
| US-8,086,045 |
Image processing device with classification key selection unit and image
processing method An image processing device is disclosed that classifies images in an image database and displays the classified images for searching, and is able to easily... |
| US-8,086,044 |
Block-based iterative multi-pass data filling technique for compound
document compression A method and apparatus for data filling is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an image and a mask associated with the image and... |
| US-8,086,038 |
Invisible junction features for patch recognition The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to... |
| US-8,085,457 |
Light source system, optical scanner, image forming apparatus, and
light-amount control method A light source system includes a splitter that split light beams F0 emitted from a light source into at least light beams FM and light beams FS, and an optical... |
| US-8,085,455 |
Optical scanning device, method of adjusting the same, and image forming
apparatus A coupling optical system couples a light beam emitted from a light source that includes a two-dimensional array of light-emitting elements, including a first... |
| US-8,085,444 |
Image generating apparatus, image generating method, image display medium,
and computer readable recording medium A leak-prohibited image to be subjected to leak prohibition is comprised of dots DT so that two dots are included in an 8.times.8 matrix at a resolution of 600... |
| US-8,085,437 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes an expansion unit to expand image data to first matrix data including a plurality of rows and columns, a first mask unit to... |
| US-8,085,431 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and recording medium An image processing apparatus for performing image reduction correction on target image data corresponding to pixels, includes a deletion position specifying... |
| US-8,085,341 |
Digital camera including remaining battery voltage check A digital camera has a battery that supplies electric power, a battery level detector, a time detector, a remaining voltage calculator, and a boot controller.... |
| US-8,085,312 |
Image input apparatus, image input method, personal authentication
apparatus, and electronic apparatus An image input apparatus that inputs an image of an object residing within a living body is disclosed. The image input apparatus includes a light source that... |
| US-8,085,306 |
Imaging apparatus having a biasing part configured to generate a biasing
force to bias a part of the image... The magnitude of magnetic attraction generated between an electromagnetic coil and a magnetic metal member (or an amount of electric current flowed to the... |
| US-8,085,242 |
Input control device and image forming apparatus An input control device and an image forming apparatus capable of providing an easy-to-use operating environment even for a user having difficulties operating... |
| US-8,084,181 |
Carrier and method for producing the same, developer and image forming
method To provide a method for producing a carrier including treating a coating layer on a surface of a core material with a polymer precursor in a supercritical fluid... |
| US-8,084,179 |
Electrostatic image developing toner having specific variation coefficient
of number distribution,... A toner including: toner particles which include: a colorant, a releasing agent, and a binder resin. The number average particle diameter of the toner particles... |
| US-8,084,176 |
Toner, developer, and image forming method The present invention provides a toner which includes at least a binder resin, and a colorant, wherein the toner has a concentration of radioactive carbon... |
| US-8,084,170 |
Electrophotographic photoconductor, electrophotographic process cartridge
containing the same and... An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photoconductor having an extremely low increase in friction coefficient and wear, while... |
| US-8,084,113 |
Multi-layered phase-change optical recording medium A multi-layered phase-change optical recording medium having a first substrate and a second substrate, and a plurality of information layers, wherein each of... |
| US-8,083,342 |
Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method An inkjet recording apparatus, includes: a black ink ejecting portion configured to eject a black ink containing a self-dispersion pigment; color ink ejecting... |
| US-8,083,339 |
Ink set, treating liquid, recording liquid, image recording apparatus and
image recording method To provide an ink set including a recording liquid and a treating liquid capable of obtaining a high-quality-image printed matter. To provide the ... |
| US-8,082,461 |
Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a controlling unit, and a monitoring unit to monitor, while the printing unit and the controlling unit are... |
| US-8,082,449 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method,
information processing program and recording... An information processing apparatus including a recording medium setting part in which a recording medium is set is provided. The information processing... |
| US-8,082,328 |
Method and apparatus for publishing documents over a network An apparatus and method for publishing an electronic document on a network is described. In one embodiment, an apparatus for publishing an electronic document... |
| US-8,082,309 |
Delivery system and computer program product When delivery data input to a delivery server is directly input to an MFP by an applicant, an examination request flow is determined as a flow to be executed... |
| US-8,081,917 |
Image-bearing member protecting agent, protective layer forming device,
process cartridge and image forming... To provide an image-bearing member protecting agent used for forming a protective layer on a surface of an image bearing member, the agent including: a... |
| US-8,081,916 |
Protective agent for image bearing member, protective layer setting unit,
and process cartridge A protective agent for an image bearing member of an image forming apparatus. The protective agent is applied onto a surface of the image bearing member and... |
| US-8,081,913 |
Image forming apparatus An intermediate transfer belt and a photosensitive member form a transfer nip. An electrode is arranged close to an inner surface of the intermediate transfer... |
| US-8,081,905 |
Image forming apparatus and method of correcting rotation angular velocity
of image bearing member An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, an image forming device forming a latent image on the image bearing member and visualizing the... |
| US-8,081,904 |
Belt drive control unit, belt drive control method, belt drive control
program, and image forming apparatus... A belt drive control unit controls a rotation of belt supported by first and second rollers. Each of rotations of the first and second rollers are detected as... |
| US-8,081,897 |
Seal member, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming
apparatus A seal member covers a space between a developing roller and a casing of a developing device. The seal member includes a flexible sheet and a reinforcing member... |
| US-8,081,896 |
Image forming method and apparatus for convenient replacement of developer
container An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism for forming an image, at least one developer container replaceably provided in the image forming... |
| US-8,081,894 |
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling heating of fixing unit
therein When a user has performed an operation with respect to an image forming apparatus, a control mechanism informs that a user has performed an operation with... |
| US-8,081,869 |
Time-varying image recording device A time-varying image recording device controls a recording operation for recording time-varying image data in a recording medium. The time-varying image data is... |
| US-8,081,827 |
Compressed data image object feature extraction, ordering, and delivery A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for processing document images. In one embodiment, the method comprises extracting one or more features corresponding... |
| US-8,081,549 |
Information recording and reproducing apparatus and a method of
controlling an information recording and... An information recording and reproducing apparatus records data on and reproduces data from each of a plurality of recording layers of a recording medium. A... |
| US-8,081,394 |
Information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing method
and fade-in memory, with summary... An information recording apparatus has a plurality of fine particles forming an array on a plane in close proximity of each other, each of the plural particles... |
| US-8,081,355 |
Illumination unit, image read apparatus, image formation apparatus An illumination unit for use in an image read apparatus is provided which illuminates a surface of an original document with illumination light, reads an image... |
| US-8,081,344 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing
program An image processing apparatus implements appropriate image processing on image data stored in a storage unit of the image processing apparatus easily and... |
| US-8,081,333 |
Image transmitting apparatus and image transmitting method An image transmitting apparatus includes a reading condition determining unit that determines whether a first reading condition is satisfied that the first... |
| US-8,081,331 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an input part for inputting information, a processing part for processing the information; a storing part for storing the... |
| US-8,081,242 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus, includes: an image sensor having a light receiving surface with a plurality of pixels and a plurality-of-color separation filter, which... |
| US-8,081,203 |
Light-amount detecting device, light source device, optical scanning unit
and image forming apparatus A light-amount detecting device includes: a light source which emits a light beam; a branching optical element which divides the light beam emitted from the... |
| US-8,081,188 |
Image delivering apparatus and image delivery method A determining unit determines a vector conversion method for a character image based on the character image and model information of a terminal device that... |
| US-8,081,100 |
Read signal processor, image reading apparatus, and image forming
apparatus A read signal processor includes an output unit that serializes a plurality of bits of digital data for each of the colors to obtain a plurality of serial... |
| US-8,081,093 |
Code transforming apparatus and code transforming method A code transforming apparatus inputs therein a first codestream of a target file, and outputs a second codestream transformed from the first codestream. In the... |
| US-8,080,683 |
Electrochromic compound and electrochromic display device using the same An electrochromic compound represented by the following General Formula (1). A-(CX.sub.2).sub.n--B General Formula (1) In the formula, A is a monovalent... |
| US-8,080,358 |
Reusable electrophotographic recording medium and method for producing the
same, image forming method, and... Disclosed is an electrophotographic recording medium that contains a support and an olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer, wherein the olefin-maleic anhydride... |
| US-8,080,190 |
Method of molding a toner bottle using up to 8-sided recycled flake A method of molding a toner bottle including separating polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles that have not accommodated oily or colored materials from... |
| US-8,080,096 |
Protecting agent for image bearing member and production method therefor,
protection layer forming apparatus,... To provide an image bearing member protecting agent that includes at least a hydrophobic organic compound and an amphiphile organic compound. Preferred... |
| US-8,079,679 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a carriage, a plurality of sub-tanks, a main tank, and a plurality of supply tubes. The carriage includes a plurality of... |
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