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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,315,711 |
Image forming apparatus, process cartridge and cleaningless system An image forming apparatus of includes a developing device bifunctioning as a cleaning device for collecting toner grains left on a photoconductive drum after... |
| US-7,315,657 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program and
storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a determination part, an information obtaining part, a dynamic range setting part and a processing part. The determination... |
| US-7,315,651 |
Image recording apparatus and image data selection method An image recording apparatus includes means for recording image data in a recording medium; means for obtaining information for determining a data amount... |
| US-7,315,499 |
Optical disk apparatus, tilt compensation method, program, and information
recording medium An optical disk apparatus includes a tilt detection unit detecting the tilt value of an optical disk medium with respect to an optical system. A tilt... |
| US-7,315,410 |
Scanner element having a constant resonance frequency, and optical
scanning apparatus and image forming... A scanner element includes a frame part formed by a substrate, a movable plate formed inside the frame part and a torsion bar swingably supporting the movable... |
| US-7,315,409 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical scanning device deflects, by a common optical deflecting part, a plurality of groups of light beams emitted from a plurality of light sources and... |
| US-7,315,405 |
Image forming apparatus and image scanning method As a reading light source, a cold-cathode tube having three wavelengths and an LED array are used in combination. The cold-cathode tube and the LEDs are lit up... |
| US-7,315,402 |
Image forming apparatus and method for selecting an optimal image space
frequency for an output image An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form an output image using at least two or more image space frequencies and an image... |
| US-7,315,320 |
Optical writing system and method, and image forming apparatus receiving
an external parameter An optical writing system with at least two laser diodes capable of correcting hue deviations. The optical writing system is capable of correcting dot forming... |
| US-7,314,994 |
Music processing printer An audio processing device receives, processes, and outputs music and audio files to a variety of electronic and paper-based formats. In one embodiment, the... |
| US-7,314,797 |
Semiconductor device and its manufacturing method A semiconductor device is capable of being applied with both a positive and a negative voltage to its control gate, and writing to its memory requires a low... |
| US-7,314,693 |
Electrophotographic photoconductor, electrophotographic process,
electrophotographic apparatus, and process... The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoconductor comprising a photoconductive layer, a protective layer, and a conductive support, wherein... |
| US-7,313,862 |
Method of mounting components on a PCB A printed wiring board is disclosed. The printed wiring board includes a board recognition mark formed of a conductive foil, a first component land covered with... |
| US-D558,818 |
Inkjet copying machine |
| US-7,313,353 |
Fixing unit with heat-resisting resin base member and image forming toner
for use in the fixing unit A belt fixing unit, an image forming apparatus, and a toner material are disclosed capable of obviating undesirable fixing belt deformation and low image... |
| US-7,313,352 |
Image forming apparatus, method of controlling same, machine-readable
medium and process cartridge In an image forming apparatus, a pattern forming unit forms a pattern for ameliorating image positional displacement, and a detecting unit detects the pattern.... |
| US-7,313,349 |
Toner container and image forming apparatus The object of the present invention is to provide toner bottles and the like in which the possibility to damage the ring gear, in particular the teeth of the... |
| US-7,313,347 |
Cleaning device, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and toner A cleaning device, a process cartridge, an image forming apparatus, and toner to maintain improved cleaning performance for a long time. The cleaning device... |
| US-7,313,344 |
Image forming apparatus with detachable power-requiring unit and unit
positioning member An image forming apparatus includes a main body having an opening, and image bearing member or an intermediate transfer unit, and an arrangement. The image... |
| US-7,313,341 |
Image forming apparatus with another secondary power supply An image forming apparatus including: a fixing unit; a main power supply that provides a portion of the heaters with voltage; and a secondary power supply that... |
| US-7,313,340 |
Paper control of document processing A method and apparatus for using a sheet of paper to control document processing is described. In one embodiment, the method includes scanning a first sheet of... |
| US-7,313,336 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively recycling
toner An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of color toner development devices, a recycled toner development device, at least one cleaning device, a toner... |
| US-7,313,289 |
Image processing method and apparatus and computer-readable storage medium
using improved distortion correction In image processing method and apparatus of the present invention, image distortions caused by oblique imaging are corrected. A feature point of one of a... |
| US-7,313,286 |
Reversible DCT for lossless-lossy compression A reversible Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is described. The reversible DCT may be part of a compressor in a system. The system may include a decompressor with... |
| US-7,313,284 |
Image coding apparatus, program, storage medium and image coding method An image coding apparatus compressing and encoding image data, includes a frequency converging unit to perform frequency conversion on the image data; a... |
| US-7,313,075 |
Optical information recording method and apparatus An optical information recording method and apparatus which records information on a recording medium by irradiating the recording medium with an irradiation... |
| US-7,313,074 |
Objective lens, optical, pickup and optical information processing
apparatus using the same An optical pickup includes a first optical source producing a first optical beam having a wavelength .lamda.1, a second optical source producing a second optical... |
| US-7,312,912 |
Optical scanning apparatus, optical writing apparatus, image forming
apparatus, and method of driving vibration... An optical scanning apparatus includes a vibration mirror having a mirror surface that reflects an optical beam. A pair of torsion beams swingably support the... |
| US-7,312,787 |
Coordinate input detection device and method for electronic blackboard An electronic blackboard displays information and optically detects input information on a display/writing surface by determining the corresponding coordinates.... |
| US-7,312,515 |
Semiconductor apparatus including a thin-metal-film resistor element and a
method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor apparatus includes a wiring pattern, an insulating film, and a thin-metal-film resistor element. The insulating film is formed on the wiring... |
| US-D558,259 |
Finisher for a printer |
| US-7,310,795 |
Method and apparatus for simulating logic circuits that include a circuit
block to which power is not supplied A logic circuit simulation apparatus used in designing a logic IC (integrated circuit) is provided. The logic circuit simulation apparatus includes a power... |
| US-7,310,517 |
Techniques for archiving audio information communicated between members of
a group Techniques for archiving audio information communicated between members of a group using an audio communication system such as a point-to-multipoint audio... |
| US-7,310,447 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium In response to a partial codestream truncation command, a partial codestream truncation process unit temporarily truncates a code line of encoded data. The... |
| US-7,310,181 |
Optical deflection device and optical deflection method that control
occurrence of alignment defect An optical deflection device includes an optical deflection element having a pair of transparent boards arranged in a mutually opposing manner. A liquid crystal... |
| US-7,310,167 |
Color converting device emphasizing a contrast of output color data
corresponding to a black character A color converting device converts input CMYK data into output color data in a predetermined different format. The color converting device comprises a contrast... |
| US-7,310,163 |
Information input/output system, method and terminal therefor An information input/output system includes printer servers and facsimile servers, connected with the Internet respectively, and printers and facsimile... |
| US-7,310,154 |
Shape measurement system An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of an object. The image capturing apparatus includes a correspondence detector which detects a correspondence... |
| US-7,309,553 |
Oilless toner An oilless toner including at least (A) a cyclic olefin resin; (B) a resin having one or more carbon-carbon double bonds therein; and (C) a wax. |
| US-7,309,552 |
Electrophotographic photoconductor, electrophotography,
electrophotographic apparatus, process cartridge for... To provide a highly sensitive and highly durable electrophotographic photoconductor, electrophotography, photographic apparatus and process cartridge for the... |
| US-7,308,853 |
Bulk paper feeding device with intermediate conveyor for image forming
device Provided is a bulk paper feeding device with an intermediate conveyor comprising a carrier capable of carrying a large quantity of paper, a paper feeding... |
| US-D557,736 |
Copying machine with scanning and printing functions |
| US-7,308,675 |
Data structure used for directory structure navigation in a skeleton code
creation tool Programming the creation of a software system is facilitated by automating the generation of some of the program code that is necessary for the software system.... |
| US-7,308,443 |
Techniques for video retrieval based on HMM similarity A query is received. The query may be an object containing temporal information. A query model including static and temporal components is then determined for... |
| US-7,308,424 |
Electronic commerce system and electronic commerce method A message, including ordering data regarding a price of a product that a purchaser wants to purchase and personal information including a credit card number of... |
| US-7,308,226 |
Image forming method and apparatus with reduced reverse toner transfer An image forming method of the present invention sequentially transfers toner images formed on image carrier to an intermediate image transfer body one above the... |
| US-7,308,223 |
Method, device and image forming apparatus for developing an image using a
two-component developing agent A developing agent carrying member including magnets is disposed facing an image carrying member, a two-component developing agent containing toner and magnetic... |
| US-7,308,222 |
Toner supplying system for an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including an image carrier configured to have a latent image formed thereon, a developer carrier configured to supply toner, and a... |
| US-7,308,220 |
Belt unit of electrophotographic printing apparatus A belt unit of an electrophotographic printing apparatus, includes: two rollers for supporting a belt so as to be substantially in parallel with each other; two... |
| US-7,308,216 |
Image forming apparatus and method to supply power to a fixing device A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording material in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member configured to fix an image formed on... |
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