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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,403,305 |
Image processing system, apparatus and method for updating a printer
profile based on comparison of previous... A feature amount converting unit performs a color conversion of an input data. A history storage unit stores history information about a measurement of a color... |
| US-7,401,555 |
Device for and method of coupling shafts, image formation apparatus,
process cartridge, and belt unit A shaft coupling device for coupling a first shaft and a second shaft together includes a grip unit to be attached to the first shaft and including a grip... |
| US-7,401,277 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit and scan test method therefor A method for performing scan test on a semiconductor integrated circuit including at least two blocks to be tested. The method includes isolating each of the at... |
| US-7,401,237 |
Power supplying method and apparatus and a system using the same An apparatus includes at least one load, a control circuit, and a power supplying apparatus including a control-use power supply part, at least one... |
| US-7,401,125 |
System, computer program product and method for managing documents A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes a document manager that is configured to search for application... |
| US-7,400,851 |
Image forming apparatus with pressure applying members that apply pressure
to support shafts An image forming apparatus that has improved usability, while maintaining good positional relationship of units detachably installed inside the apparatus body.... |
| US-7,400,844 |
Image forming apparatus and process cartridge with a cleaner for removing
toner from an image bearing member An image forming apparatus including a latent image bearing member, a charger, a latent image forming device, a developing device, a surface moving member, a... |
| US-7,400,842 |
Heat exhaustion apparatus and image forming apparatus using same Heat exhaust holes are provided in a unit frame at positions just above respective imaging units. An exhaust fan causes air heated at developing elements to be... |
| US-7,400,839 |
Method and device for measuring surface potential distribution, method and
device for measuring insulation... A surface potential distribution measurement method and device including setting a sample having a surface with a surface potential distribution in a sample... |
| US-7,400,565 |
Reproduction method, a program, a recording medium, and a drive apparatus A method for reproducing contents of an information recording medium, having at least one data zone, is disclosed, wherein a determination is made as to whether... |
| US-7,400,420 |
Printer facilitating settings of parameters on print paper A printer provided with a printer controller and a printer engine, wherein the printer controller includes a user interface control unit with a function for... |
| US-7,400,210 |
Voltage controlled oscillator, PLL circuit, pulse modulation signal
generating circuit, semiconductor laser... An oscillation frequency control part includes a voltage-to-current converting circuit converting an input voltage to a current having a value corresponding to... |
| US-7,400,208 |
Temperature detector circuit and oscillation frequency compensation device
using the same A temperature detector circuit using a MOS transistor capable of reducing manufacture variation of a mobility and realizing stable output characteristics which... |
| US-7,399,660 |
Multi-chip semiconductor device with high withstand voltage, and a
fabrication method of the same A multi-chip semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip, and a plastic mold. The first semiconductor chip... |
| US-7,399,563 |
Electrophotographic photoconductor, and image forming process, image
forming apparatus and process cartridge... Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoconductor including at least a photoconductive layer on an electroconductive substrate, which comprises at least a... |
| US-7,398,684 |
Semiconductor sensor having weight of material different than that of
weight arranging part A semiconductor sensor is disclosed that includes a substrate including at least a semiconductor layer. The substrate includes a weight arranging part in the... |
| US-RE40,435 |
Modular copying system using light wave, electric wave, or sonic wave
interconnections A modular copying system including combinations of printer, scanner, and system controller modules formed as independent frames. The scanner module includes... |
| US-7,398,254 |
Component cost estimation system, component cost estimation method, cost
standard data providing system, cost... An external storage device of a component cost estimation system stores various cost information representing a component material and its cost in association... |
| US-7,398,038 |
Image forming apparatus using a toner container and a process cartridge An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a process cartridge including a developing device that includes a developer carrier and a toner... |
| US-7,398,026 |
Method and apparatus for controlling an image density An amount of toner transfer on a reference pattern is calculated by using an optical detecting unit that detects both regular reflection light and diffuse... |
| US-7,397,963 |
Method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced
size memory A method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding coefficients... |
| US-7,397,591 |
Optical scanner and image forming apparatus An optical scanner includes a light source, an optical coupler, an optical line image unit, a deflector, and an optical scanning unit. The optical scanning unit... |
| US-7,397,589 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the device An optical scanning device for scanning surfaces of an even number of photoconductors simultaneously includes a rotating deflecting device arranged substantially... |
| US-7,397,577 |
Printing system including different kinds of printers and a printer
selecting device therefor A printing system including a plurality of different kinds of printers and a printer selecting device therefore are disclosed. The printer selecting device... |
| US-7,397,502 |
Imaging apparatus including control device for controlling white balance An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device to photograph an object and to convert an image of the object into an electronic image signal, a feature... |
| US-7,396,630 |
Toner, developer including the toner, and method for fixing toner image A toner composition including toner particles including a binder resin including a modified polyester resin, and a second resin having a weight average molecular... |
| US-7,396,627 |
Method of preparing a toner, developer including the toner, container
containing the toner, and image forming... A method including contacting a toner including: a binder resin including an unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative monomer; a vinyl polymerizing monomer; and... |
| US-7,396,625 |
Toner, method for producing the same, and image-forming method using the
same To provide a method for producing a toner in which at least monomers are polymerized in at least one of a supercritical fluid and a subcritical fluid to thereby... |
| US-7,396,396 |
Emulsion ink A water-in-oil emulsion ink comprises a water phase and an oil phase, wherein the water phase comprises a carbon black pigment having a pH of less than 8... |
| US-7,396,372 |
Abrasive grain and method for producing it, polishing tool and method for
producing it, grinding wheel and... An abrasive grain including a porous particle material in which a large number of secondary particles contain gaps between primary particles bonded to each... |
| US-7,396,175 |
Sheet carrier and image forming device A sheet carrier, includes an upstream side sheet carriage part; a downstream side sheet carriage part; an overlapping detection part which is provided between... |
| US-7,396,106 |
Ink jet printing device and image forming apparatus An ink jet printing device comprises a head unit, a head-unit moving unit, a recording-medium moving unit, and a control unit controlling the head unit, the... |
| US-7,396,096 |
Inkjet recording device An inkjet recording device includes a nozzle module, a switching unit, a waveform generating unit, an image recognizing unit and a pulse width modulating unit.... |
| US-D572,751 |
Ink pouch of an inkjet printer cartridge |
| US-7,395,501 |
Techniques for annotating portions of a document relevant to concepts of
interest An automatic reading assistance application for documents available in electronic form. An automatic annotator is provided which finds concepts of interest and... |
| US-7,395,338 |
Information processing apparatus and session management method An information processing apparatus is provided, in which information processing apparatus communicates with a terminal connected to a network by using an HTTP... |
| US-7,395,009 |
Sheet carrier apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reader, and
post-processing apparatus A sheet carrier apparatus includes a sheet carrier guide to guide a sheet in a first direction and includes an opening; and a paper-dust removal member that is... |
| US-7,394,938 |
Automated techniques for comparing contents of images Automated techniques for comparing contents of images. For a given image (referred to as an "input image"), a set of images (referred to as "a set of candidate... |
| US-7,394,748 |
Method and apparatus for optical disk recording capable of reducing
settling time and generating an accurate... An optical disk recording apparatus includes a first comparator, a second comparator, a third comparator, a selection circuit, a control voltage generator, a... |
| US-7,394,578 |
Facsimile device reading lines of image data divisively in a sub-scanning
direction This facsimile device comprises inputting means for inputting image data of a subject copy having a width in a main scanning direction larger than an A3-size... |
| US-7,394,577 |
Method and apparatus for image processing method, and a computer product The image processing apparatus comprises an image data control section and a system controller. The image data control section is connected to any one or more of... |
| US-7,394,576 |
Facsimile apparatus for incorporating own facsimile number into
transmitter terminal information A facsimile apparatus can automatically register its own facsimile number into TTI, the own facsimile number being previously registered in the facsimile... |
| US-7,394,559 |
Network facsimile device and a method of controlling the network facsimile
device A network facsimile device connected to the Internet or a local area network, employs an electronic mail function, and has a function of exchanging image... |
| US-7,394,557 |
Image processing apparatus having a status holding function, and image
processing system including the same In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, an image storage device stores a plurality of image data. A status holding unit holds a status table... |
| US-7,394,490 |
Image scanning apparatus An image scanning apparatus has such a configuration that an item and a content of additional information such as previously set character information, sound... |
| US-7,394,470 |
Method for reversibly transforming data format, image processing
apparatus, program for reversibly transforming... In a method for reversibly transforming a data format, a forward transformation and a backward transformation are reciprocally conducted for data between unit... |
| US-7,394,307 |
Voltage regulator having reverse voltage protection and reverse current
prevention A voltage regulator having a MOS transistor driver includes a p-channel MOS transistor at a voltage input terminal Vin and a p-channel MOS transistor at a... |
| US-7,393,080 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a head part having a jet opening part configured to jet ink, a moisture retention cap configured to maintain moisture by... |
| US-RE40,414 |
Optical pickup apparatus Small-sized and light-weighted optical pickup apparatus capable of eliminating the effect due to the flaring light rays and performing the signal detection of... |
| US-7,392,310 |
Method and system for using data structures to store database information
for multiple vendors and model... In a communication system having one or more monitored devices communicatively coupled to a monitoring system, a database having information related to the one... |
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