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| 20120131517 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF There is provided an information processing apparatus with an interface with high convenience for a user. A reference speed is set according to an amount of movement or a movement time period of a pointer of a stylus or a finger. It is determined based on a movement spe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131295 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM When an accessible state of an external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not storing in the external memory unit, a data processing apparatus cancels the accessible state of the external memory unit if the external memory unit is not set as a backup ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131143 | USER DEVICE IDENTIFYING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM A Web application receives a request from a Web browser, and provides an instruction to a Web browser to redirect the Web browser to a signature application. The Web browser is redirected to the signature application, and then the signature application generates a signa... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130950 | DATA REPLICATION TO MULTIPLE DATA NODES In a distributed file system, replicating data to multiple data nodes including first and second data nodes includes monitoring a stream of data in a channel of communication through a tunnel between a client and the first data node. A channel of communication is establ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130270 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD This invention provides an image processing apparatus which allows an operator to easily recognize relevance between morbid portions, which exist in a plurality of layers, according to a disease. An image processing apparatus according to this invention includes an opht... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130222 | MEASURING APPARATUS A measuring apparatus is used, the apparatus including a probe having an element detecting an acoustic wave that has propagated through an object, an acoustic lens disposed between the probe and the object, and a signal processor obtaining object information from an ele... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129997 | ELASTIC MEMBER FOR INK JET Provided is an elastic member for ink jet, including a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer and a thermoplastic resin, in which the elastic member further includes at least a nonionic surfactant having an ethylene oxide adduct, and the content of the nonionic surfactan... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128965 | MESOPOROUS FILM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MESOPOROUS FILM A method of producing a mesoporous film includes a step of preparing a mesostructured film containing a surfactant and an inorganic oxide; a step of holding the mesostructured film in an atmosphere containing a compound having the following formula; and a step of removi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128957 | INJECTION FOAMING MOLD, METHOD OF PRODUCING FOAMED PLASTIC PRODUCT, AND FOAMED PLASTIC PRODUCT Provided is an injection foaming mold capable of preventing, when formed resin molding is performed by a partial core back, degradation of an outer appearance and component precision, and occurrence of swelling when a portion that is not subjected to the core back is ta... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128396 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS The image forming apparatus comprising an image bearing member configured to carry a toner image and a rotatable belt member stretched by a plurality of stretching members and configured to carry and convey a recording material and a transfer member configured to transf... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128394 | CLEANING MEMBER A cleaning member, for use in an image forming apparatus in which a developer image formed on an image bearing member is to be transferred onto a developer image receiving member to form an image, for removing a developer remaining on the image bearing member after the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128392 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING TRANSFER RESIDUAL TONER ONTO IMAGE BEARING MEMBER A charge member charges secondary transfer remaining toner on an intermediate transfer member to a polarity opposite to a normal charge polarity. The remaining toner is moved by a transfer bias, from the intermediate transfer member onto an image bearing member. A BK st... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128390 | CORONA DISCHARGER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A corona discharger, including a shield and a charging wire provided in the shield, for generating corona discharge by applying a voltage to the charge wire, the corona discharger includes a winding-up portion for winding up the charging wire by rotation thereof to move... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128389 | CORONA DISCHARGER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A corona discharger, including a shield for generating corona discharge by applying a voltage to a charging wire, the corona discharger includes a moving portion for moving the charging wire along a stretching direction; a stretching portion for stretching the charging ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128388 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128383 | IMAGING FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME An image forming apparatus has a function for adjusting the position at which a toner image is formed on a printing material, based upon amount of light reflected from a toner image that has been formed on an image carrier. The light-emitting unit emits light that irrad... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128381 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable belt, a detection unit configured to detect, at a detecting position, an object on the belt, a cartridge that is attachable to and detachable from a main body of the apparatus independently of the belt, and an openable and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128380 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH CONTROLS SETTING OF CONTRAST POTENTIAL This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of bringing the output density close to a target density even if the charge amount of toner particles changes. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit having an image carrier and a developing ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128379 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT CORRECTS CLOCK PHASE DIFFERENCE An image forming apparatus capable of forming a high-resolution image without complicating a circuit construction. A difference between a phase of an operation clock for a ED detection unit and a phase of an operation clock for an image processing unit is measured by a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128346 | SHUTTER DEVICE A blade lever is provided with a roller bearing portion, which extends towards a shaft around which a roller is rotatably supported to prevent falling off of the roller. The roller bearing portion is provided within a range of movement of the shaft when the blade lever ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128345 | SHUTTER DEVICE When a blade drive spring has been overcharged when a second cam gear has caused a drive lever to move to a position beyond a position of attraction of an armature by a yoke, a blade lever does not contact the drive lever even if the blade lever has been driven in a dir... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128343 | IMAGING APPARATUS After a first cam bear has unlocked a blade lever, a second cam gear is driven from a mirror-down position to a mirror-up position. Accordingly, a first blade and a second blade are driven in a direction of opening an aperture by an urging force of a blade return spring... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128342 | SINGLE-LENS REFLEX CAMERA USING PHASE DIFFERENCE DETECTION METHOD A single-reflex camera includes a mirror box, and a focus detecting unit. The mirror box further includes a first opening on a side of the image-pickup optical system, which the light flux that has passed the image-pickup optical system enters, and a bottom plate arrang... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128341 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PHOTOMETRIC VALUE An image capturing apparatus comprises: a photometry unit configured to perform photometry on a subject and output a photometric value; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of photometric values from the photometry unit during a predetermined period of tim... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128225 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus which processes an image obtained by tomosynthesis shooting by using a radiation source and a two-dimensional detector. The image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of projection data output fro... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128204 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select a plurality of specific areas of a target object, a learning unit configured to learn a detection model that relates to each of the plurality of specific areas, a generation unit configur... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128129 | X-RAY FLUOROSCOPIC RADIOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD An X-ray fluoroscopic radiographing apparatus comprises a display unit that processes a received X-ray moving image and instantaneously displays the moving image; a storing unit that stores the received moving image as a non-processed raw image; an instructing unit that... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127593 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A control unit starts a first operation when a first detection unit detects rotation of an operation member in a first direction by an angle not less than a first angle and changes a control value for the first operation when a second detection unit detects rotation of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127587 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM A zoom lens system includes a first unit having a positive refractive power, a second unit having a negative refractive power that moves for magnification-varying, a third unit having one of a positive refractive power and a negative refractive power that moves for magn... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127582 | OPTICAL SYSTEM The optical system of the present invention includes a plurality of lens groups and a variable focus lens. Here, the variable focus lens satisfies the following condition:
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| 20120127575 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LENS APPARATUS A lens apparatus includes: a correction unit moving perpendicularly to an optical axis and including a correction optical system correcting an image blur; a driving unit driving the correction unit; an engaging unit movable between an engaging position where the engagin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127557 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IRRADIATING A MEDIUM An apparatus includes an irradiating unit, a spatial light modulator configured to modulate a wavefront of an electromagnetic wave, a device configured to receive a signal from a position of the medium by irradiating the electromagnetic wave, and a controller configured... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127545 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD When a lightness level expressed by a selected pixel value is equal to or larger than a threshold, the use amounts of respective color materials of a first color material group, and those of respective color materials of a third color material group are stored in a memo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127544 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM In an image reading apparatus, when a document is divided into a plurality of files and transmitted in conjunction with document reading, in order to store its transmission history, a division position of the obtained files is reflected and stored in the division positi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127541 | IMAGE READING SYSTEM, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHODS AND PROGRAMS THEREOF The present invention provides an image reading system and an image reading apparatus with which an environment for performing a specific scan mode can be constructed with ease according to the functions of connected information processing apparatuses and the scan envir... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127535 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus for performing screen processing on input image data via passes may include a screen processing unit, a detection unit, and a correction unit. The screen processing unit receives image data as received image data and performs screen process... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127531 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS An image processing apparatus stores, in a buffer, an image data of c bits in the main scanning direction and y lines in the sub scanning direction, and reads out a pixel data of p bits that configures the image data stored in the buffer. Note that c is a common multipl... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127519 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A client PC generates and spools data for print according to a user's printing operation, and generates identification information for identifying itself from its own IP address to present it to the user. When the identification information is input in a multifunction p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127510 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus capable of collecting electronic data efficiently and avoiding sharing highly confidential and secure electronic data with an indefinite number of users. The information processing apparatus is connected to an external apparatus throu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127505 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD SUITABLE FOR THE PRINTING SYSTEM There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing a trial printing function that minimizes unnecessary consumption of time and supplies. Images that are inputted are accumulated in a memory. An output mode is set and a setting is made as to whether trial... | 05/24/2012 |
