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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,252,207 |
Ink for inkjet recording, ink set for inkjet recording, ink media set for
inkjet recording, ink cartridge,... To provide an ink for inkjet recording containing water, water-soluble organic solvent, water-dispersible resin, fluorochemical surfactant or derivative... |
| US-8,251,595 |
Imaging apparatus A lens barrel includes a plurality of lenses moved between a collapsed state where at least one lens is collapsed and a photographic state where at least one... |
| US-8,251,359 |
Spine formation device, bookbinding system, and processing method of
bundle of folded sheets using same A spine formation device includes a sheet conveyer to convey a bundle of folded sheets with a folded portion of the bundle forming a front end of the bundle, a... |
| US-RE43,623 |
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-8,250,291 |
Image processing apparatus, access control method, recording medium An image processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory device including a first storage area configured to store one or more predetermined information... |
| US-8,249,491 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus including same A fixing device includes a heater, a rotary fixing member, and a rotary pressing member pressing against the rotary fixing member to form a nip therebetween... |
| US-8,249,486 |
Fixing unit, roller replacement auxiliary tool of fixing unit, and image
forming apparatus Disclosed is a fixing unit that includes a heating roller; a pressure roller capable of being brought into press-contact with the heating roller, one of the... |
| US-8,249,479 |
Apparatus and method of controlling an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is controlled such that the amount of heat supplied to an outer surface recording sheet to be placed onto an outer surface of a book... |
| US-8,249,477 |
Method of detecting position of toner pattern, optical sensor, and image
forming apparatus A light-emitting unit includes M (M.gtoreq.3) number of light-emitting elements. A light-receiving unit includes N (N.gtoreq.3) number of light-receiving... |
| US-8,249,474 |
Image forming apparatus which controls image forming conditions based on
residual toner of a detection pattern An image forming apparatus including a latent image carrier; a developing device to develop a latent image formed on a surface of the latent image carrier with... |
| US-8,249,472 |
Methods and apparatus for adjusting device power consumption based on
usage data Methods and apparatus for adjusting printing device power consumption based on previously acquired usage data. The printing device has multiple energy... |
| US-8,249,468 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes at least one image carrier and a recording medium conveyor forming a transfer nip therebetween, a conveyance member disposed... |
| US-8,248,684 |
Control of adaptive optics based on post-processing metrics Adaptive optics (AO) elements in imaging system allow dynamic and precise control over the optical wavefront to reduce uncontrolled wavefront errors in imaging... |
| US-8,248,672 |
Image writing unit, image forming apparatus, image writing method and
computer-readable information recording... A plurality of the light emitting device array units are arranged along a main scan direction in a staggered manner. In a density transformation mode, a... |
| US-8,248,671 |
Image processing apparatus and method and computer program product Service information provided by a user is notified to a central processing unit (CPU), and the CPU executes a computer program for an operation process of the... |
| US-8,248,670 |
Image scanning device and image forming apparatus with varying document
size detection periods An image scanning device includes a document table; a document pressing unit configured to press a document placed on the document table; a scanning unit... |
| US-8,248,669 |
Image reading device and image forming apparatus An image reading device includes a charge-coupled device that generates and outputs an image signal, a timing generator that outputs a frequency-modulated... |
| US-8,248,668 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and image forming
apparatus An image processing device including a first image reading unit to read image data on a front side of a document page, a second image reading unit to read image... |
| US-8,248,667 |
Document management device, document management method, and computer
program product An operating unit selects a piece of document data from among a plurality of pieces of document data from a document database. A relationship-information... |
| US-8,248,663 |
Image processing device, image processing method and remote-scan image
processing system using the same In the image processing device, method and system of the present invention, a destination identifier of an image file is stored, the destination identifier... |
| US-8,248,652 |
N-up sheetlet based imaging with flexible formatting of logical pages Methods and systems herein provide for flexible formatting of print jobs and their associated logical pages. One N-up printing system is adapted to receive a... |
| US-8,248,645 |
Printing system, printing device, host apparatus, and computer program
product A printing system includes a host apparatus and two or more printer devices connected to each other via a network. The host device sends print data to the... |
| US-8,248,642 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium
for recording a log of a job A log recording module records a log of a job executed in an image processing apparatus in a hard disk drive (HDD). A facsimile control module receives a... |
| US-8,248,641 |
Network printers having distributed print jobs function and utilizing
withhold printing commands A printing device is connected to a host apparatus and a lower level printing device. When the printing device receives printing target data from the host... |
| US-8,248,639 |
Printing supply information of an image forming apparatus An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product each capable of storing supply information of a printer supply of an image forming device, and... |
| US-8,248,511 |
Dual-mode extended depth-of-field imaging systems A digital-optical imaging system can be operated in two modes, which shall be referred to as broadband mode and grayscale mode. In broadband mode, different... |
| US-8,248,494 |
Image dynamic range compression method, apparatus, and digital camera A method of compressing an original dynamic range of an original image, includes a first step of obtaining a reduced image corresponding to the original image... |
| US-8,248,431 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and
recording medium An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes an extraction unit extracting predetermined color areas from an input image, a calculation unit... |
| US-8,248,427 |
Screen display method, information processing apparatus, and computer
program product An image forming apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus via a network. The image forming apparatus transmits setting information... |
| US-8,248,140 |
Semiconductor device for detecting power supply voltage A semiconductor device includes an internal circuit to perform a predetermined function at a plurality of different supply power voltages, a power supply... |
| US-8,247,473 |
Colorant dispersion of recording ink, and recording ink using the same The present invention provides a colorant dispersion for a recording ink containing at least a dispersant, a colorant, and water, wherein the dispersant is a... |
| US-8,247,150 |
Carrier for developing electrostatic latent image, two-component
developer, supplemental developer, process... A carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image which includes a core material and a resin coating layer provided on the core material. The resin coating... |
| US-8,247,149 |
Electrophotographic developer carrier, electrophotographic developer,
image forming method, process cartridge... To provide an electrophotographic developer carrier including a carrier core material, and a coat layer containing a binder resin and conductivity-imparted... |
| US-8,247,143 |
Photoreceptor, image formation method, image forming apparatus and process
cartridge A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, and a surface layer located... |
| US-8,246,156 |
Water-based pigment dispersion, production method thereof, water-based
pigment ink, production method thereof,... The object of the present invention is to provide a water-based pigment dispersion containing a pigment, a dispersing agent, a resin emulsion, and water, the... |
| US-8,246,030 |
Sheet folding apparatus and image forming system A sheet folding apparatus includes a first folding unit that folds a sheet of recording medium along first folds that extend orthogonal to a sheet conveying... |
| US-8,245,286 |
Information processing device, electronic certificate issuing method, and
computer-readable storage medium An information processing device acquires first identification information of a computer to which the device is coupled, and records correspondence information... |
| US-8,244,813 |
Output terminal apparatus for printing data by email An apparatus includes a communication unit which receives email through a communication line, the email having been sent by a user and including a first... |
| US-8,244,168 |
Image forming apparatus with movable transfer device An image forming apparatus includes a transfer device that transfers a toner image formed on an image bearer onto a transfer sheet and a fixing device that... |
| US-8,244,167 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus that includes an image reading part, an image forming part, a sheet discharge part, and a sheet stack part. The image reading part... |
| US-8,244,163 |
Toner container and image forming apparatus A toner container includes a container body that contains toner therein, and a cap portion that is held by a toner-container holding unit and includes a toner... |
| US-8,244,145 |
Image forming apparatus including image processing member determined by
method of evaluating distribution of... An image processing member that is included in an image forming apparatus employing method of evaluating and determining adhesion forces thereof, includes an... |
| US-8,244,039 |
Apparatus, method, and computer program product for acquiring processing
content for image data A first combination of feature and processing content of image data is stored in a storing unit in a first period, and a second combination of feature and... |
| US-8,243,865 |
Data processing apparatus A disclosed data processing apparatus includes: a binarization unit binarizing input data based on a threshold voltage; a capture unit capturing data from a... |
| US-8,243,348 |
Image processing apparatus and method and computer program product for
controlling the same A scanner-characteristic correcting unit converts read image data into normalized image data. A first image processing unit applies a first image processing on... |
| US-8,243,337 |
Image processor, image processing method, and computer program product For (CMYK) (x,y) data, a target-pixel checking unit calculates a target-pixel integrated value a(x,y) from CMYK binary data of a target pixel and a... |
| US-8,243,330 |
Apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium for performing
color material saving process An apparatus includes an obtaining part for obtaining image data of a document and a processing part for performing a color material saving process on the image... |
| US-8,243,319 |
Image processing apparatus and computer program product generates and
displayed processed image in a stack A finished-image generating unit generates a finished image showing a result of a process performed on a target image according to various function setting... |
| US-8,243,312 |
Network synchronizing system and information processing apparatus A network synchronizing system includes plural apparatuses. A first apparatus includes a first recording unit to record personal data of one or more users who... |
| US-8,243,308 |
Image processing apparatus for setting image quality mode and processing
image data based on supplemental... A first image-data processing unit unifies characteristics of input image data so that the image data is usable in an image writing unit and an external device,... |
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