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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,270,875 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a toner image carrying member, an image transfer device, a fixing device, a registration unit, a guide member, an... |
| US-8,270,856 |
Apparatus including a re-transfer unit to re-transfer a recording medium
and method of image forming An image forming apparatus is provided, which forms a releasing agent absorption toner image on an in-between printed sides area of a moving surface of an image... |
| US-8,270,854 |
Image forming apparatus and output setting method of consumed status of
consumable items of the image forming... An apparatus in which a plurality of consumable items are loadable to the apparatus. The apparatus includes a consumption status detecting unit to detect a... |
| US-8,270,757 |
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus A magnification chromatic aberration included in image data in a color filter array captured by an imaging device is corrected by performing a coordinate... |
| US-8,270,716 |
Selectively compressing picture and text areas of an image to maintain
highest quality and effective compaction Image processing is done by separating image data into foreground image data, background image data, and mask image data. The foreground image data is divided... |
| US-8,270,271 |
Optical recording medium and information recording method An optical recording medium has a multi-layer structure recording layer structure recording layer portion including plural recording layers provided with tracks... |
| US-8,270,053 |
Holding mechanism for long length optical element, optical scanning
device, and image forming device A holding mechanism for a long length optical element, which extends in a main scanning direction that is a movement direction of a deflected luminous flux by... |
| US-8,270,030 |
Image processing apparatus and method for converting image data into a
specified resolution Example embodiments are directed to an apparatus and method of image processing. Moving speed control processing performed by a control unit causes an image... |
| US-8,270,026 |
Light source driving device with relationship-based drive signal
generating circuit, optical scanning device,... A write control circuit includes a first data switching circuit that sets a correspondence relationship between signals from line buffers and input signals to a... |
| US-8,270,025 |
Image forming apparatus having blank sheet ejection preventing function
and blank sheet ejection preventing method An image forming apparatus for printing out one or more pages in an electronic file having color information in the form of at least one of character... |
| US-8,270,013 |
Printing system, printing method, and computer program product An information processing apparatus generates print data in response to a print request, stores the print data in a storage unit, and enters a standby state for... |
| US-8,269,956 |
Optical element, refractive index sensor, refractive index sensor array,
and biosensor An optical element for resonating and reflecting incident light having a wavelength includes a periodic structure formed of protrusions and recessions. A period... |
| US-8,269,852 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus and an imaging method which can obtain an image in which a dynamic range is expanded at one shooting are provided. In a case where a pixel... |
| US-8,269,797 |
Appropriately scaled map display with superposed information Methods, apparatuses and systems are provided for determining an appropriate scaling of a map display or providing an appropriately scaled map display. |
| US-8,269,786 |
Method for reading and writing image data in memory A method for reading and writing a memory having n rows and A columns includes a first step of writing data in 0th to (n-2)th rows by a first technique; a... |
| US-8,269,527 |
Hysteresis comparator circuit and semiconductor device incorporating same A hysteresis comparator circuit that compares first and second input signals to output a hysteresis output signal includes a constant current source, a first... |
| US-8,269,473 |
AC high voltage power supply device, charging device, developing device,
and image forming apparatus An AC high voltage power supply device includes a comparison circuit configured to compare a first signal of a sinusoidal waveform and a second signal of a... |
| US-8,269,435 |
Motor control unit, motor control method and image forming apparatus Time information indicates time required for reflecting a speed control indicating value actually on the rotation speed of the motor, the speed control... |
| US-8,268,746 |
Thermosensitive recording material Provided is a thermosensitive recording material which can be produced through high-speed coating, which is excellent in head-matching property, and which can... |
| US-8,268,666 |
Field-effect transistor and method for fabricating field-effect transistor A method for fabricating a field-effect transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an active layer forming a channel region,... |
| US-8,268,527 |
Toner, developer, developing device, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus, image forming method, and... A toner is provided including a core particle comprising a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, and a shell layer comprising particles of a vinyl... |
| US-8,268,526 |
Toner, developer and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to toner compositions containing: toner particles made of: binder resin; colorant; and a wax which is dispersed in the toner... |
| US-8,267,511 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an ink discharge unit including nozzles to discharge ink and to form an image on a recording medium; a conveyer belt to... |
| US-8,267,394 |
Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A sheet feeding device that can be incorporated in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeder including a belt unit including an attraction belt facing... |
| US-8,267,340 |
Airflow pulverization and classification device, and pulverization method The airflow pulverization and classification device includes a pulverizer and a classifier. The pulverizer includes a pulverization chamber including a... |
| US-8,266,978 |
Gear train assembly and image forming apparatus including same A gear train assembly includes a first gear, a second gear, a first lubricant receiver, and a second lubricant receiver. The first gear meshes with the second... |
| US-8,266,543 |
Device driver and a method of customizing layout of a user interface A device driver or method that operate a periphery device. A display mode storage unit stores setting items, which are operable by a user using a user interface... |
| US-8,266,541 |
Message window display control apparatus, method, and program product A disclosed technology is for controlling the operation of displaying message windows. Plural message windows are not displayed at the same time in response to... |
| US-8,266,462 |
Image forming apparatus including a boosting-step-down transformer and
power control method A fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium to the recording medium by heating and pressurizing the toner image. An auxiliary power... |
| US-8,266,358 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium An image processing device including a first control unit to control a normal operating mode during which image processing is performed, a second control unit... |
| US-8,266,119 |
Contents management system, image processing device in contents management
system, and link information... A disclosed contents management system includes a management server for managing contents and an information processing device for performing a process on the... |
| US-8,265,652 |
Geographic tagging of network access points A system for geographic tagging of network access points comprises a plurality of access points that have been configured to provide location information as... |
| US-8,265,527 |
Developing unit, image forming apparatus incorporating same, and method of
controlling amounts of toner A developing unit, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a developer case to accommodate a two-component developer including toner and... |
| US-8,265,524 |
Transfer device, image forming apparatus, and waste toner container A transfer device includes a cleaning device, a waste toner bottle, a connecting unit, and a regulating unit. The cleaning device removes waste toner remaining... |
| US-8,265,494 |
Image forming apparatus including a toner supply controller to control a
supply of toner An image-information acquiring unit acquires the image information divided at least in one of a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction. A supply... |
| US-8,265,476 |
Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a present date and time information obtaining device to obtain present date-time information at a time performing a present... |
| US-8,265,475 |
Focus-point selection system, autofocus system, and camera A focus-point selection system comprising an image sensor, a target detector, a location detector, and a first selector is provided. The focus-point selection... |
| US-8,265,430 |
Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing system includes a plurality of clients, a plurality of servers, and a computer. The computer includes a user application and a multi-target... |
| US-8,265,386 |
Imaging apparatus A disclosed imaging apparatus includes a wide-angle optical system having at least chromatic aberration of magnification; an imaging device including color... |
| US-8,264,781 |
Zoom lens, information device, and imaging apparatus A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power, a third lens group having a... |
| US-8,264,752 |
Image reading system and program for reading electronic paper, and image
forming apparatus including the image... An image reading system includable in an image forming apparatus includes a document feed tray to contain original documents including either or both of a... |
| US-8,264,747 |
Image reading device and image reading method In an image reading device, a sampling-and-holding circuit generates a plurality of analog image signals by sampling an image signal at each ... |
| US-8,264,743 |
Information processor, information processing method, and recording medium An information processor includes a display part displaying a configuration pattern combining values set for corresponding two or more of printing conditions; a... |
| US-8,264,723 |
Printing apparatus, printing system, and computer program product A printing apparatus performs a printing process for a printing job including at least one print data and a series of process commands from a host apparatus. A... |
| US-8,264,717 |
Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, information
processing method, information... An image forming apparatus has a plurality of application execution environments, and includes a control part in each of the application execution environments,... |
| US-8,264,715 |
Approach for implementing locked printing with remote unlock on printing
devices An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with remote unlock. The printing device includes a locked print process that is... |
| US-8,264,713 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and information processing
apparatus In an image forming apparatus, a delivery instruction receiving part receives a delivery instruction for instructing a delivery form a request originator, and a... |
| US-8,264,709 |
Lock printing based on distance from client to printer A method, apparatus, system, and computer-readable storage medium for setting a print mode of a printing device. The method includes receiving, from a client... |
| US-8,264,705 |
Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer readable
information recording medium A first part calculates corrected image data for each pixel in the range in which the reading parts of the adjacent image sensors overlaps in the main scan... |
| US-8,264,588 |
Digital camera A digital camera has a display, a magnification input device, and a magnification control device. The display simultaneously displays images. The magnification... |
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