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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,525,692 |
Method and apparatus for image reading capable of obtaining adequate white
reference data for shading correction An image reading method and apparatus. A reader is mounted and reads one side of an original document being conveyed at a reading position. A contact glass... |
| US-7,525,688 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and information
recording medium A subject area extracting unit extracts a main-subject area from the color image data; a correction amount calculating unit calculates a gradation correction... |
| US-7,525,561 |
Optical scanner and image forming apparatus An optical scanner is capable of effectively correcting a difference with respect to the sub-scanning direction between the positions of optical spots for... |
| US-D591,339 |
Laser printer |
| US-D591,337 |
Toner cartridge holder |
| US-D591,336 |
Toner cartridge |
| US-7,523,073 |
Charging method and charging apparatus A method of charging for use of a facsimile apparatus, using an information processing unit provided therein, is disclosed that includes the steps of (a) the... |
| US-7,522,857 |
Toner, image forming apparatus using the same and process cartridge The object is to provide a toner which can be smoothly replenished by a toner replenishing device using a powder pump even when the toner contains a releasing... |
| US-7,522,853 |
Method and unit of controlling applied voltages for uniformly charging a
photoreceptor A method of controlling AC voltages applied to a charging member to bring a photoreceptor to a state of uniform charging, with reduced time required for setting... |
| US-7,522,850 |
Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, developing unit, and image
forming method A carrier and a dummy toner are stored in a developing unit of a process cartridge in a brand new status. A plurality of process cartridges corresponding to a... |
| US-7,522,778 |
Image decoding technique for suppressing tile boundary distortion An image decoding device for decoding a hierarchically encoded compressed code obtained by dividing an image into a plurality of tiles and performing discrete... |
| US-7,522,510 |
Electron beam applying apparatus and drawing apparatus An electron beam applying apparatus includes: a thermal field emission type electron source emitting an electron beam; an electrostatic lens disposed immediately... |
| US-7,522,494 |
Control of laser emission power for recording information on optical disc An optical disc apparatus for recording and reproducing information with respect to a rewritable optical disc includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce... |
| US-7,522,489 |
Initialization method, reproduction method, computer-executable program
product, computer-readable recording... When an information recording medium is initialized, a block is determined to record the dummy data by referring to identification information for identifying a... |
| US-7,522,432 |
Switching regulator and control circuit and method used therein A switching regulator that performs voltage regulation using synchronous rectification in step-up and step-down modes includes input and output terminals, an... |
| US-7,521,164 |
Toner, and, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus and image forming method A toner which includes a toner material, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula: 0.degree. C..ltoreq..DELTA.Tm.ltoreq.20.degree. C. where .DELTA.Tm... |
| US-7,521,161 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, undercoat layer coating liquid
therefor, and image forming apparatus and... An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; an undercoat layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate; and a... |
| US-7,520,579 |
Image forming apparatus having droplet speed control An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, and a drive pulse generator. The recording head includes a nozzle to discharge a droplet of recording... |
| US-7,520,498 |
Sheet punch device, sheet processing device, image forming system,
program, and recording medium A sheet punch device for punching a sheet with a punch edge comprises a motor performing a punching operation and a position detection unit detecting a position... |
| US-7,520,339 |
Apparatus for achieving integrated management of distributed user
information An apparatus for managing user information regarding a plurality of users includes a source determining unit configured to receive from a client a request for... |
| US-D590,871 |
Toner cartridge holder |
| US-7,519,906 |
Method and an apparatus for visual summarization of documents A system and a method for visually summarizing a document comprising a display, a processor coupled to the display, and a memory coupled to the processor. Stored... |
| US-7,519,756 |
Method and apparatus for controlling connections of PC cards and a
passive-card-adapting card used for... A PC card control apparatus includes a PC card connector, a card detector and an interconnection switching circuit. The PC card connector is configured to... |
| US-7,519,729 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring remote devices through a local
monitoring station and communicating with a... A method and apparatus for monitoring at least one network connected device (monitored device) using a controller is disclosed. Initially, the ... |
| US-7,519,706 |
Method and system of remote monitoring and support of devices, including
handling email messages having message... In a system for remotely monitoring networked devices and appliances, email messages are sent across networks, the email messages containing configuration,... |
| US-7,519,698 |
Method and system for extracting information from networked devices in a
multi-protocol remote monitoring system A method, system, and computer program product for storing information configured to be used for a plurality of communication protocols to extract status... |
| US-7,519,317 |
Developer container, developer supplying device, and image forming
apparatus A developer container has a main part accommodating a developer therein and is detachably attached to an image forming apparatus. The developer container... |
| US-7,519,303 |
Image forming apparatus with color shift correction An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt that moves while keeping contact with a photosensitive element at a transfer position, a... |
| US-7,519,095 |
Vertical-cavity, surface-emission type laser diode and fabrication process
thereof A vertical-cavity, surface-emission-type laser diode includes an optical cavity formed of an active region sandwiched by upper and lower reflectors, wherein the... |
| US-7,518,969 |
Light source driving unit and optical storage apparatus A light source driving unit includes a modulating signal generating section generating modulating signals based on driving waveform generating information of a... |
| US-7,518,967 |
Position control method and device, and optical disk device A position control method is disclosed that is capable of precisely and stably controlling a position of an object lens relative to a recording medium. When... |
| US-7,518,963 |
Phase difference detection circuit and optical disk device A phase difference detection circuit that is formed by digital circuits having a small circuit area. In the phase difference detection circuit, the circuits for... |
| US-7,518,946 |
Memory control device A memory control device is disclosed that comprises a clock generator that generates a reference clock, a DLL circuit that receives the reference clock from the... |
| US-7,518,869 |
Information processing apparatus with a chassis for thermal efficiency and
method for making the same An information processing unit and a method for making the same with a cooling structure for a heat generating element, for example a CPU, which can efficiently... |
| US-7,518,760 |
Image reading apparatus A digital copying device, which serves as an image reading apparatus for improving processing speed by adjusting the timing of various operations when reading is... |
| US-7,518,750 |
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-7,518,742 |
Image processing apparatus with ground-tint pattern recognition and
abnormality detection An image processing apparatus includes a controlling unit that controls all units of the image forming apparatus, a reading unit that reads an image, a... |
| US-7,518,628 |
Image forming apparatus capable of effectively correcting main scanning
misregistration An image forming apparatus includes a light source, a deflector, beam detectors, a clock generator, a measurement mechanism, a frequency corrector, and a phase... |
| US-7,518,625 |
Image forming apparatus and associated methodology of forming an enlarged
image An exposing unit optically writes respective color-separated image data on a photosensitive drum to form a latent image by using both a forward direction... |
| US-7,518,161 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device, surface-emission laser diode, and
production apparatus thereof, production... A semiconductor light-emitting device has a semiconductor layer containing Al between a substrate and an active layer containing nitrogen, wherein Al and oxygen... |
| US-7,518,086 |
Method and device for adjusting wavelength distribution pattern in laser A plurality of configurations is simultaneously formed in a material by a single laser beam having a desired distribution pattern of wavelengths. An input laser... |
| US-7,517,625 |
Image forming apparatus and process cartridge An image forming apparatus including: an electrophotographic photoreceptor; a non-contact charger located close to the electrophotographic photoreceptor,... |
| US-7,517,410 |
Micro adhesive nozzle and adhesive applying apparatus A micro adhesive nozzle for applying adhesive on a printed circuit board is disclosed. The nozzle includes a nozzle tip portion with a protruding portion... |
| US-7,516,955 |
Paper feed tray, paper feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus
including paper aligning units A tray unit can accommodate a stack of recording mediums. A side fence performs alignment of the stack of the recording mediums in one direction and an end fence... |
| US-D590,439 |
Corona wire cartridge |
| US-D590,436 |
Toner cartridge holder |
| US-7,516,494 |
Method, apparatus, and system for outputting information and forming image
via network, and computer product An information output apparatus includes a tray determining unit that determines an output tray to which printed sheets are output, a secret information... |
| US-7,516,450 |
Remote management system, intermediary apparatus therefor, and method of
updating software in the intermediary... A remote management system for performing remote management of electronic apparatuses via a communication line and an intermediary apparatus by a managing... |
| US-7,516,335 |
Network control device for an image forming apparatus that enables a
network filter during a grace time before... A main Central Processing Unit (CPU) controls enabling and disabling a function of a network filter, and disables a function of a packet type filter... |
| US-7,516,193 |
Method and system for diagnosing, collecting information and servicing a
remote system A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central... |
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