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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,596,063 |
Defect management method, reproduction method, recording medium,
information recording apparatus, and... A method of managing a defective area in an information recording medium having a user data area, a replacement area, and a defect management information area is... |
| US-7,595,940 |
Lens barrel, lens driving apparatus, camera, and mobile information
terminal A lens barrel capable of accurately detecting a position of a retractable lens retaining frame. A frame female member for rotating a frame around a lead screw... |
| US-7,595,903 |
Collaboration system, method and software program for image forming
apparatuses The collaboration among the image forming devices is practiced on the computer network for efficiently utilizing the printing resources. When a large print job... |
| US-7,595,826 |
Method a system for improving resolution in color image data generated by
a color image sensor An intensity value is independently estimated based upon interpolated values as well as measured sensor values according to the location of an individual sensor... |
| US-7,595,812 |
Image forming apparatus, printer apparatus, facsimile apparatus, and
copying machine An image forming apparatus includes a light source that emits a light beam in a main scanning direction according to image data to be used for image formation, a... |
| US-7,593,737 |
Transportation management system, transportation management method,
communication sheet, and communication antenna A disclosed transportation management system includes a database including operational information and operator information that correspond to a target object, a... |
| US-7,593,682 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and process cartridge An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging device, a transfer device, a lubricant supplying device, a developing device to develop... |
| US-7,593,680 |
Image forming apparatus including a fixing apparatus capable of
effectively maintaining fixability for an... An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming mechanism that forms a toner image on a recording medium and a fixing mechanism that fixes the toner... |
| US-7,593,679 |
Heat recycling image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, a recording medium with a toner image is heated in a heat fusion region to fix the toner image on the recording medium. The image... |
| US-7,593,674 |
Body member of a powder container The body member of a powder container of the present invention includes a bag-like powder storing body storing powder and formed with an opening at one end, and... |
| US-7,593,671 |
Developing device, a developing method, a process cartridge and an image
forming apparatus A developing device includes a developer bearing member, a developer supplying conveyer, a developer receiving conveyer and a developer agitating conveyer. The... |
| US-7,593,661 |
Power-saving control method of image forming device, and image forming
device In a power-saving control method of an image forming device, the image forming device is set in a power saving state when an input operation is not performed by... |
| US-7,593,660 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming system which makes clear the point in time at which initial information transmission for all peripheral devices connected to an image forming... |
| US-7,593,657 |
Powder transferring device capable of detecting an amount of the powder A powder transferring apparatus provided with a powder electrostatic transferring device includes a plurality of transferring electrodes configured to generate... |
| US-7,593,652 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming system that calculate operation
amount of components thereof Process units, a transfer unit, a belt cleaning unit, a secondary transfer unit and a fixing unit each include a storage unit that stores therein information on... |
| US-7,593,583 |
Apparatus, method and program for compressing information An information compression apparatus which compresses information and uses a DCT frequency conversion algorithm includes a plurality of block registers, a... |
| US-7,593,578 |
Coding and decoding of image data with additional information An apparatus for coding and decoding includes a decoding unit which decodes compressed and coded data to restore original image data, a storing unit which stores... |
| US-7,593,542 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit to extract watermark data from image data of an image; a generating unit to generate a watermark image... |
| US-7,593,297 |
Information reproducing method and apparatus An information reproducing method includes the steps o of reading information from an information medium that is rotated, and determining a rotation velocity of... |
| US-7,593,296 |
Optical disk, program, recording medium, information recording apparatus
and recording method A method for recording information in a rewritable optical disk having plural recording layers is disclosed. The method includes the steps of selecting either a... |
| US-7,593,150 |
Diffraction optical element, light beam detection device, optical scanner
and image forming apparatus An optical element for diffracting a light beam includes a diffractive surface having a one-dimensional periodic structure. The periodic structure and... |
| US-7,593,149 |
Optical scanning unit having more maintenance-friendly adjustable lens
having a support member with first and... An optical scanning unit includes: a light source configured to emit a light beam; a lens arranged so that the light beam emitted from the light source passes... |
| US-7,593,121 |
Image forming apparatus, program adding method, and a recording medium An image forming apparatus include a program for performing a process concerning image formation by using a hardware resource, and a slot which a recording... |
| US-7,593,029 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical deflector of the present invention includes a movable mirror and torsion bars supporting the mirror and formed integrally with the mirror. The mirror... |
| US-7,593,028 |
Optical scanning method, optical scanner and image forming apparatus An optical scanner can write a full-color image without occurrence of writing position differences even if a record density is switched. The optical scanner... |
| US-7,592,861 |
Reference voltage generation circuit, and constant voltage circuit using
the reference voltage generation circuit A reference voltage generation circuit includes: a first field-effect transistor that is an n channel-type field-effect transistor of a depletion-type, wherein... |
| US-7,592,855 |
Trimming circuit and semiconductor device A trimming circuit is disclosed. The trimming circuit includes a first trimming circuit having resistors and fuses, and a second trimming circuit having a... |
| US-7,592,854 |
Temperature sensing circuit A temperature-sensing circuit includes a first circuit block outputting an output voltage having negative or positive temperature coefficients and a second... |
| US-7,592,116 |
Indium-containing carrier for electrophotography, developer using the
same, and developer container The object of the present invention is to provide a carrier for electrophotography which includes a core material and a coating layer comprising particles on a... |
| US-7,591,551 |
Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, an AC bias is supplied to a conveyance belt, and the amount of charge on the printing side of a recording sheet is decreased. The... |
| US-7,591,458 |
Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveyance apparatus can convey a recording paper (12) in a stable condition irrespective of a kind of the material of the recording paper (12). The... |
| US-D600,743 |
Toner cartridge holder |
| US-7,590,661 |
Advanced Web Services on a legacy platform A technique is provided for allowing the implementation of Advanced Web Services on a legacy platform. Logical work is separated into modules and the target... |
| US-7,590,379 |
Image formation device A safe and space-saving image formation device that reduces, with a simpler configuration, generation of abnormal images by blockage, skewing, etc. by the... |
| US-7,590,376 |
Fixing method, a fixing apparatus, an image formation method, and an image
formation apparatus An energy-saving fixing apparatus for use in image formation apparatuses such as a copying machine is disclosed.A recording medium is sandwiched by a pair of... |
| US-7,590,374 |
Conveyor device and image forming apparatus A toner-conveying device includes a movable plate. The movable plate is movable between a holding position such as to couple a cap of a toner container to a... |
| US-7,590,360 |
Method and apparatus for selecting image forming apparatus having enough
toner An image forming apparatus network system having a first image forming apparatus connected with a plurality of second image forming apparatuses over a network,... |
| US-7,590,289 |
Method, apparatus, and program for image processing capable of preventing
and detecting tampering, and a medium... A method, apparatus, and program for image processing are provided to perform operations of generating a verification document image and detecting tampering on... |
| US-7,590,159 |
Surface-emission laser diode operable in the wavelength band of 1.1-1.7
micrometers and optical... A surface-emission laser diode includes a distributed Bragg reflector tuned to wavelength of 1.1 .mu.m or longer, wherein the distributed Bragg reflector... |
| US-7,589,910 |
Zoom lens, camera, and personal digital assistant The zoom lens includes a first lens group G1 having a negative refracting power, an aperture stop FA, a second lens group G2 having a positive refracting power,... |
| US-7,589,879 |
Method and apparatus for attaching part, light scanning apparatus and
image forming apparatus A method for attaching a part, including preparing an optical part-holding member for holding an optical part and a housing member having a bottom wall and... |
| US-7,589,878 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus A common photodetecting unit detects a plurality of beams scanned by a plurality of polyhedral reflection mirrors provided in a multiple stages with a common... |
| US-7,589,857 |
Image forming apparatus and address information processing method An image forming apparatus and an address book process request processing method are disclosed to improve access security to an address book. The image forming... |
| US-7,589,846 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively correcting
alignment errors of elementary color... An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to perform an image processing operation for forming a plurality of elementary-color... |
| US-7,589,782 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method for reducing release time lag An imaging apparatus includes an exposure period setup part for generating a timing signal, an image pick up device control part for controlling an operation of... |
| US-7,589,778 |
Digital camera A digital camera includes an imaging device driven by at least two kinds of drive modes, an image display device having a number of pixels less than a number of... |
| US-7,589,756 |
Optical scanning device, image forming apparatus, optical scanning
correcting method, and image forming method A beam detecting unit detects at least one of a position of an optical beam in a sub scanning direction and a position of the optical beam in a main scanning... |
| US-7,589,509 |
Switching regulator A switching regulator that includes a switching transistor configured to control an output current by switching, a proportional current generator configured to... |
| US-7,589,307 |
Image display apparatus that reduces illuminance irregularity,
projection-type image display apparatus using... An illumination apparatus includes: a light source including at least one light-emitting element, the light-emitting element being configured to emit light and... |
| US-7,588,385 |
Coupling device and image forming apparatus using the same An image forming apparatus includes a driving source, a rotary element and a coupling device. The coupling device includes an inner coupling having a cylindrical... |
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