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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,616,923 |
Power guiding device and image forming apparatus having power guiding
device A shutter is rotatably supported by a first powder guiding member. When the first powder guiding member and a second powder guiding member occupy powder guiding... |
| US-7,616,922 |
Cleaning device for cleaning a surface of an image forming apparatus,
image forming apparatus, and process... A cleaning device that cleans the surface of an image carrier, includes a cleaning blade that contacts the surface of the image carrier, a lubricant-applying... |
| US-7,616,915 |
Image forming apparatus having a force-converting mechanism to detach a
rotary body A bearing detachably and rotatably holds a photoconductor. A bearing holder firmly holds the bearing. A rotating lever is provided on a rotation axis of a... |
| US-7,616,909 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus, a toner image formed on a photosensitive drum is primarily transferred onto an intermediate transfer belt. The toner image on the... |
| US-7,616,842 |
End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems with constrained
digital filters A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology... |
| US-7,616,841 |
End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology... |
| US-7,616,840 |
Techniques for using an image for the retrieval of television program
information A method for determining a video file such as a television program file is provided. The method comprises receiving information identifying an input image;... |
| US-7,616,815 |
Reformatting documents using document analysis information A method and apparatus for reformatting electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing layout analysis on an electronic... |
| US-7,616,813 |
Background area extraction in document layout analysis An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting a background area of a document image. The background area of the document... |
| US-7,616,628 |
Switched processor datapath Data-processing systems including processor datapaths that efficiently support computationally advantageous routing operations are disclosed. Data-processing... |
| US-7,616,384 |
Zoom lens and imaging apparatus A zoom lens includes, in order along an optical axis from a side nearest to a photographic subject to an imaging site, a first lens group I that comprises a... |
| US-7,616,364 |
Scanning optical system, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus
having a biconvex lens having a change of... A scanning optical system includes converges, with a single lens, a divergent luminous flux, which is deflected in a main scanning direction by an optical... |
| US-7,616,350 |
Data communication apparatus and method A data communication apparatus is provided with an image reader which reads a document image, a storage which stores image data of the document image read by the... |
| US-7,615,844 |
Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided that includes: a base insulating film; a metal thin-film resistor that is provided on the base insulating film; a lower-layer... |
| US-7,615,481 |
Method of manufacturing multilevel interconnect structure and multilevel
interconnect structure A method of manufacturing a multilevel interconnect structure using a screen printing method is disclosed. In the multilevel interconnect structure, an... |
| US-7,614,740 |
Image forming apparatus having a recessed part in outer covering An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image by scanning a recording head discharging droplets of a... |
| US-7,613,867 |
Information recording apparatus, information recording method and
recording medium recording program A controller 10 carries out a control such as to divide a cache memory 8 for temporarily storing data when recording and/or reproducing the data on a data... |
| US-7,613,802 |
Creating devices to support a variety of models of remote diagnostics from
various manufacturers The present invention relates to creating device objects for maintaining communication between a interfacing device and a controlling device. These device... |
| US-7,613,549 |
Approach for managing power consumption in buildings An approach for managing power consumption in a building includes receiving a signal that indicates that a user has entered or left the building. In response to... |
| US-7,613,419 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method characterized by a
particular nip time An image forming apparatus equipped with an image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit which forms a latent electrostatic image on the image... |
| US-7,613,404 |
Image forming apparatus transferring log information An image forming apparatus for performing a process relating to forming of an image includes a log management unit to manage generated log information, and a log... |
| US-7,613,386 |
Waterproof case for portable device A waterproof case for containing a portable device including at least one operation part offset in a direction perpendicular to an inserting direction of the... |
| US-7,613,091 |
Method for identifying double-layer disc and optical disc apparatus The object of the present invention is to enable the identification of double-layer disc type (recordable double-layer disc, rewritable double-layer disc and... |
| US-7,612,928 |
Optical scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus using the same and
method of regulating the optical... An optical scanning apparatus includes a plurality of light sources for emitting light beams and a rotary deflector for deflecting the light beams. A revolution... |
| US-7,612,920 |
Multifunction image forming apparatus and document information searching
method A control unit of a multifunction image forming apparatus obtains document information concerning copied documents, scanner read documents, and e-mail documents,... |
| US-7,612,570 |
Surface-potential distribution measuring apparatus, image carrier, and
image forming apparatus A surface-potential distribution measuring apparatus includes an electron gun, an electron-beam optical system, an electron-emission panel, a detector, and a... |
| US-7,612,455 |
Layered structure for electron device including regions of different
wettability, electron device and electron... A layered structure comprises a variable wettability layer including a material that changes a critical surface tension in response to energy provided thereto,... |
| US-7,611,815 |
External additive for toner for electrophotography, toner for
electrophotography, double-component developer... An external additive for a toner for electrophotography which contains oxide fine particles which contain silicon, in which the oxide fine particles have a... |
| US-7,611,762 |
Optical recording medium An optical disc having a transition linear velocity of 8-11 m/s when irradiating continuous light with 11.+-.1 mW and a wavelength of 660.+-.10 nm using a pickup... |
| US-7,611,656 |
Method and device for fabricating plastic molded article A method of fabricating a plastic molded article is disclosed. In the method, a compound liquid, including two component liquids insoluble in each other and... |
| US-7,611,238 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance belt stretched around a plurality of rollers and carrying and conveying a recording medium to the image forming... |
| US-7,611,138 |
Paper feeder and image forming apparatus using the same A paper feeder for feeding paper in an image forming apparatus is disclosed. The paper feeder includes multiple manual paper feed openings and multiple manual... |
| US-7,611,106 |
Attaching structure of supporting legs for apparatus An attaching structure of supporting legs for an apparatus is disclosed. The attaching structure of the supporting legs for the apparatus includes plural... |
| US-D603,450 |
Process cartridge for image forming apparatus |
| US-7,610,374 |
Method of initializing a data processing object associated with a
communication protocol used to extract status... A method, system, and computer program product for initializing at least one data processing object associated with a communication protocol used to extract... |
| US-7,610,372 |
Method and system for managing vendor and model information in a
multi-protocol remote monitoring system A method, system, and computer program product for managing information used by a plurality of communication protocols to extract status information related to a... |
| US-7,610,246 |
Information processing apparatus, control method therefor and computer
readable information recording medium An information processing apparatus handling a removable formation recording medium storing predetermined substance information and first license information... |
| US-7,610,008 |
Cleaning device, and process unit and image forming apparatus including
the cleaning device A cleaning device including an elastic blade whose tip is contacted with a surface of a rotating member in such a manner as to counter the rotated member to... |
| US-7,610,004 |
Apparatus for detecting amount of toner deposit and controlling density of
image, method of forming... An image forming apparatus includes a reference-pattern detecting transfer-body, a reference-pattern detecting unit, and a condition changing unit. The... |
| US-7,609,998 |
Transfer unit and image forming apparatus A transfer belt is driven by a plurality of supporting rollers. A unit frame supports the supporting rollers in a rotatable manner. At least one of the... |
| US-7,609,988 |
Heater, fixing unit and image forming apparatus having power supplied from
chargeable auxiliary power supplying... A heater is operable with a main power supply unit and a chargeable auxiliary power supplying unit. The heater includes a heater part having one or a plurality... |
| US-7,609,957 |
Photographing lens driving control device A photographing lens driving control device includes a plurality of lens groups (1A-1C) having a magnification function, a plurality of lens driving devices... |
| US-7,609,899 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium
thereof to smooth tile boundaries An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a coefficient correction unit for correcting only a high frequency... |
| US-7,609,897 |
Image coder and image decoder capable of power-saving control in image
compression and decompression An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply... |
| US-7,609,851 |
Embedding data into document and extracting embedded data from document An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of embedding data into a document or extracting embedded data from document. The data to... |
| US-7,609,764 |
Coding apparatus, coding method, program and information recording medium
that can suppress unnatural... A coding apparatus includes a coding process unit that performs one of a field-based coding process and a frame-based coding process with respect to an... |
| US-7,609,735 |
Providing a suitable output current to a laser diode A laser diode driving circuit capable of providing a suitable output current to a laser diode is disclosed. The laser diode driving circuit includes a current... |
| US-7,609,422 |
Document reading apparatus that reads a document image with a CCD image
sensor A document reading apparatus includes average output value detecting circuits and random value generating adder/subtractor circuits. The average output value... |
| US-7,609,412 |
Printing system, printing apparatus and terminal apparatus employed in
printing system, and printing method A printing system includes a printing apparatus, a terminal apparatus for transmitting and receiving information, a notification part notifying a user of the... |
| US-7,608,377 |
Image forming method and image forming apparatus To provide an image forming method including forming a latent electrostatic image on a latent electrostatic image bearing member, developing the latent... |
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