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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,134,761 |
Document processing apparatus, method thereof, and program product for
executing the method A document processing apparatus which scans a document is disclosed. The document processing apparatus includes a scanning condition managing unit for managing... |
| US-8,134,750 |
Printing with alternative halftone patterns in ink jet printing to reduce
ink penetration Systems and methods of printing to a tangible medium provide for reducing ink penetration via the controlled selection of halftone patterns. One method includes... |
| US-8,134,732 |
Communication apparatus A communication apparatus for transmitting a document to a recipient address specified out of multiple address-book addresses displayed based on address-book... |
| US-8,134,629 |
Image sensor driving unit and camera An image sensor driving unit, comprising a signal generator and a controller, is provided. The charge-transfer channel transfers the signal charges at a speed... |
| US-8,134,483 |
Data processing apparatus and method An apparatus includes: a storage storing data input and sliding stored data per input; first and second comparators comparing in parallel the input data with... |
| US-8,134,361 |
Magnetic sensor including magnetic field detectors and field resistors
arranged on inclined surfaces A magnetic sensor including sensor bridge circuits, each including a pair of magnetic field detectors and a pair of fixed resistors. The magnetic field... |
| US-8,134,348 |
DC-DC converter A DC-DC converter includes an error amplifying circuit to output an error signal by amplifying differences between a reference voltage and a feedback voltage... |
| US-8,133,652 |
Image processing method, and image processor The present invention provides an image processing method which includes at least any one of image recording and image erasing, wherein a light irradiation... |
| US-8,133,161 |
Conductive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A conductive member includes a conductive support and an electrical resistance adjusting layer formed on the conductive support. The electrical resistance... |
| US-8,132,994 |
Bookbinding system A punching processing unit punches holes in a paper bundle delivered from a preprocessing device. A bookbinding unit includes a cartridge for stocking a... |
| US-8,132,883 |
Image forming apparatus and sheet transporting apparatus An inkjet-type image forming apparatus includes a recording head configured to eject ink to form an image; a carriage where the recording head is provided, the... |
| US-8,132,808 |
Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A sheet conveying device includes a controller having a processing unit to cause a first detector to detect an uppermost sheet, an elevator to lift and stop a... |
| US-8,132,806 |
Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device includes: a lift-blowing unit which blows air to a plurality of sheets stacked on a tray to lift an uppermost sheet from the sheets; a... |
| US-8,132,749 |
Electrophotographic toner pulverizing apparatus and electrophotographic
toner pulverizing method To provide an electrophotographic toner pulverizing apparatus and an electrophotographic toner pulverizing method for preventing reduction in wear resistance of... |
| US-D655,748 |
Powder container for storing toner, carrier or the like |
| US-D655,747 |
Copying machine |
| US-8,131,886 |
Image forming apparatus, image processing device, control device, and
connection device A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image processing device including plural image processing units; a control device configured to control the... |
| US-8,131,874 |
Meta data customizing method A user apparatus makes a meta data obtaining request to a delivering apparatus, the request including designation of an element to customize, which element... |
| US-8,131,699 |
Menu distribution system, menu server, read/write device, method, and
computer readable recording medium Disclosed is a menu distribution system that provides a menu, which is viewable in a conventional manner and is customized for each customer. A customer allows... |
| US-8,131,199 |
Cleaning device for image forming apparatus, and process cartridge having
cleaning device A cleaning device for cleaning a surface moving member such as an image carrier of an image forming apparatus, and a process cartridge having the cleaning... |
| US-8,131,198 |
Image forming apparatus, fixing unit, and image forming method with
improved heating mechanism An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism to form a toner image on a recording medium according to image data and a fixing mechanism to fix... |
| US-8,131,197 |
Fixing device and electro photographic apparatus using the same According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fixing device including: a heating roller that generates a heat and is formed to have a... |
| US-8,131,190 |
Magnetic roller, development device, and image forming method A development device configured to develop a latent image with developer including toner and carrier includes a development roller configured to carry the... |
| US-8,131,187 |
Development device, image forming apparatus including the same, and method
of removing developer therefrom A development device includes a developer carrier facing an image carrier, a first developer transport path and a second developer transport path disposed... |
| US-8,131,176 |
Automatic initiation of print job preprocessing before release of print
job Print job management information, including management actions performed by a press operator, is collected from a print job manager. An evaluator evaluates the... |
| US-8,131,173 |
Driving apparatus and image forming apparatus A driving apparatus includes a driving unit, a driven unit driven by the driving unit, a driving control unit configured to control the driving unit by... |
| US-8,131,163 |
Image forming apparatus for performing an MICR printing operation An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit configured to form an image onto an image forming medium based on received print data by using a... |
| US-8,131,140 |
Linear actuator and camera shake correction mechanism A linear actuator includes a multipolar magnet configured such that an S pole and an N pole are linearly aligned in an alternating manner. The linear actuator... |
| US-8,131,081 |
Image processing apparatus, and computer program product An image processing apparatus includes a command-data storage unit, a handwritten-data recognizing unit, and a matching unit. The command-data storage unit... |
| US-8,130,951 |
Intelligent electronic document content processing A network device includes a content processing module that is configured to perform intelligent document content processing, such as confidential information... |
| US-8,130,944 |
Digital encrypted time capsule A method and apparatus for enabling and/or providing delayed decryption is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving encrypted information... |
| US-8,130,701 |
System, computer program product and method for accessing a local network
of electronic devices A method of managing electronic devices includes providing a main server including software for managing network resources from a single point of ... |
| US-8,130,435 |
Optical scanner and color image forming apparatus An optical scanner is disclosed that has an optical source unit that emits a laser beam; a vibration mirror by which the laser beam from the optical source unit... |
| US-8,130,404 |
Image processing system and image processing apparatus An image processing system is disclosed that is configured to input color image data, generate color image data identification information identifying the color... |
| US-8,130,396 |
Image formation management system, image formation management method, and
storage medium A disclosed image formation management system includes image forming apparatuses and a local management apparatus connected via a network to the image forming... |
| US-8,130,395 |
Network communication apparatus A disclosed network communication apparatus for performing communication via an IP network includes: a packet generation unit generating packets for call... |
| US-8,130,251 |
Method and apparatus for forming image An image forming apparatus includes a light source that emits a laser beam, a separating unit that separates the laser beam emitted from the light source into a... |
| US-8,130,250 |
Optical scanner and imaging apparatus using the same An optical scanner includes a light source modulated based on image data, an optical deflection and scanning part deflecting a light beam emitted from the light... |
| US-8,130,192 |
Method for reducing image artifacts on electronic paper displays A method and apparatus for reducing image artifacts on displays (e.g., electronic paper, etc.) are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating... |
| US-8,129,977 |
Reference voltage generating circuit and DC-DC converter including the
same A reference voltage generator includes a reference voltage generating circuit that outputs a second reference voltage; and a DA converter that DA-converts a... |
| US-8,129,970 |
Switching regulator with reverse current detection A switching regulator that includes an inductor, a first step-down switch to store charge in the inductor, a second step-down switch to discharge the charge, a... |
| US-8,129,966 |
Voltage regulator circuit and control method therefor A voltage regulator circuit and control method therefor. The circuit includes input and output terminals, an output transistor to pass a current from the input... |
| US-8,129,082 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming method using
electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming... A photoreceptor includes a conductive support body, an intermediate layer, and a photosensitive layer. The intermediate layer is made of gallium nitride (GaN)... |
| US-8,128,238 |
Projection optical system and image displaying apparatus Disclosed is a projection optical system including a projection surface configured such that an image conjugate to an object is projected, plural optical... |
| US-8,128,198 |
Image forming apparatus including carriage with recording head An image forming apparatus includes a first carriage, a second carriage, an endless belt member, and a driving source. The first carriage further includes a... |
| US-8,127,709 |
Image forming apparatus and foam application device A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium; and a foam application unit configured to... |
| US-RE43,227 |
Method and system of remote monitoring of image forming apparatus A method and system for monitoring and controlling machines, such as printers, copiers, facsimile machine and other image forming machines. A server is used for... |
| US-8,127,340 |
Communication apparatus An authentication unit performs an authentication processing to obtain a permission for a physical interface including a driver to establish a connection to a... |
| US-8,127,306 |
Integrating eventing in a web service application of a multi-functional
peripheral Techniques are provided for efficiently processing SOAP requests at a Web service application (WSA) of a multi-functional device (MFP). In one technique, a WSA... |
| US-8,127,279 |
Systems and methods for graphical indexer operation on documents with SOSI
characters Systems and methods associated with indexing of information in documents where the documents include line data with shift out/shift in ("SOSI") code point... |
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