Quotables
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced."
Scientific American ; Jan. 2 edition, 1909
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130084094 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus including a heating rotating body (first body) and a pressurizing rotating body (second body) disposed in a pressure contact state, and commencing image forming when a temperature of the first body reaches a predetermined temperature lower tha... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130084091 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus for fixing a toner image to a recording sheet by transporting the recording sheet through a fixing nip formed by a heating rotating body and a pressing rotating body that press against each other. The image forming apparatus includes an idle r... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130077985 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus having; image supporting members provided for a plurality of colors; chargers to be impressed with charging biases to charge the respective image supporting members; developing devices to be impressed with developing biases to develop latent i... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130073456 | SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM INCLUDING PLURALITY OF SUBSYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING THE SAME SERVICE, AND SERVICE PROVISION METHOD A subsystem of a first kind includes a first fee table receiving portion for receiving a first fee table, a user-restricted provision portion for providing a service, and an uncollected history record transmitting portion to transmit to a summation server an uncollected... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130071134 | POWER CONTROL METHOD, POWER CONTROL DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A power control method for supplying AC power to a first load and a second load is provided. The method includes supplying, to the first load, AC power corresponding to a range of a phase angle 0 to a phase angle φ1 in each half cycle; and supplying, to the second load... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130069891 | Operation Panel with Hardware Key An operation panel includes an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen, a touch panel sensor unit for accepting touch input to the LCD screen concerning operation, a hardware key, and a touch panel control microcomputer for detecting a position of touch input accepted by th... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130067541 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing device, comprises: a display part on which various types of information are displayed; a storage part for storing therein a variety of data; a first browser for accessing an external server and acquiring a web page from the external server, thereby c... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130063779 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING PRINT JOB An apparatus for assigning a print job is provided. The apparatus includes a detector configured to detect an ambient temperature of each of a plurality of areas, said each of the areas including at least one printer and at least one air conditioning system; a selection... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130057883 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEACTIVATING POWER-SAVING MODE, RELAY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a ... | 03/07/2013 |
| 20130057684 | CONTENT DISPLAY SUPPORT SYSTEM When an image of content reproduced by a first reproduction device is shot, a content display support device obtains the shot image and positional information that specifies the position and orientation of a shooting device. The content display support device generates ... | 03/07/2013 |
| 20130055109 | DISPLAY DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM A display data generation device which generates display data to display a plurality of objects on a shared image screen utilized by a plurality of users, includes: a processing and judgment section which identifies a user who has conducted an operation to any one of th... | 02/28/2013 |
| 20130053995 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MOLDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM A three-dimensional object molding apparatus to mold a three-dimensional object by sequentially stacking a molding material including at least: an input section for inputting information including three-dimensional shape information of a target to be molded necessary to... | 02/28/2013 |
| 20130044341 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM The image forming apparatus includes an operation input unit having a first touch screen, a reception unit configured to receive information regarding an operation target file from a mobile terminal in accordance with a drag-and-drop operation across the first touch scr... | 02/21/2013 |
| 20130044340 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING A TOUCH PANEL An image processing apparatus includes an operation panel as a touch panel and a CPU for performing processing based on a gesture thereon. The CPU includes a determination unit for determining a detail of processing corresponding to the gesture. When the detail of proce... | 02/21/2013 |
| 20130038886 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, AND NON-TRASNITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PRINTING PROGRAM A printing system of the present invention includes: a generating unit which performs a rasterizing process to print data while performing a color conversion process by applying a multi-dimensional lookup table for calibration, which is for matching a color of the image... | 02/14/2013 |
| 20130034365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT REMOVES RESIDUAL TONER ON IMAGE BEARING BODY WITH CLEANING BLADE An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing body, a latent image forming section that forms a latent image on the image bearing body, a development section that develops the latent image using toner, a transfer section that transfers a toner image to a transfer... | 02/07/2013 |
| 20130034360 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus having; a latent image support member; a latent image forming unit for forming an electrostatic latent image on the latent image support member; a developer support member for supplying toner to the latent image support member to develop the e... | 02/07/2013 |
| 20130028646 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PRINTING AND RECORDING MEDIUM In a sheet collection planned to be prepared, when there exists a monochrome sheet group comprised of one or more consecutive monochrome sheets all of whose front and back sides are monochrome pages, between two color sheet groups comprised of one or more consecutive co... | 01/31/2013 |
| 20130028621 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus having; an electrostatic latent image support member; an electrostatic latent image forming section; a developer support member; a first voltage applying device for applying a developing bias voltage that is a superimposed voltage of a first D... | 01/31/2013 |
| 20130027746 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS IDENTIFYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing system comprises a portable terminal and multiple image processing apparatuses. The portable terminal comprises: a determining portion which determines a target identification operation proving the identify of a target image processing apparatus; a d... | 01/31/2013 |
| 20130021634 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY METHOD When a portable terminal shoots a photo of a plurality of image processing apparatuses, a maintenance order is decided based on the respective states of a plurality of image processing apparatuses in a shooting range of the portable terminal. A tag representing the main... | 01/24/2013 |
| 20130021633 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH DISPLAY UNIT An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel to preview an image page by page. The image forming apparatus stores a feature of an image of a page previewed on the operation panel and extracts a regularity from the stored feature of the image. When a feature of... | 01/24/2013 |
| 20130019178 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM, PRESENTATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation ... | 01/17/2013 |
| 20130019160 | APPLICATION COOPERATION SYSTEM INCLUDING SERVER AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND APPLICATION COOPERATION METHOD An application cooperation system includes an instruction screen display control portion which causes a browsing portion to display a scan instruction screen, a scan control portion which stores image data output from a document reading portion, an external screen recei... | 01/17/2013 |
| 20130016366 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PERFORMING COMBINE PRINTING When an instruction for combine setting is accepted, a reduction ratio of an original image is set as a first reduction ratio based on an orientation of the original image and an orientation of output paper. When an instruction to change the reduction ratio for the prev... | 01/17/2013 |
| 20130014218 | SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD PERFORMED UNDER THE SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS DIRECTED TO THE SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH PROGRAM DIRECTED TO THE APPARATUSES Provided is a system including a first image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus connected via a network. When a second image forming apparatus is added to the network, the second image forming apparatus generates parent setting information indicat... | 01/10/2013 |
| 20130010045 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor detecting an operating ambient temperature of the polygon motor, and a controller controlling the polygon motor and the paper feed mechanism. If the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is equal to or gr... | 01/10/2013 |
| 20130009971 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREVIEW IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing apparatus comprises: an image processor which performs a plurality of image processing operations on one target data object separately; a display; and a controller which extracts from the target data object a plurality of data sections changed by the... | 01/10/2013 |
| 20130003095 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM In an image forming apparatus, when a first state (which allows a process of accepting a job involving image processing) continues over a shift timer period without reception of an execution request for the job, a state control part performs an operation of shifting fro... | 01/03/2013 |
| 20120331279 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE STARTUP METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM An information processing device, comprises: a connection unit connected to a predetermined storage part storing therein startup mode determination information in which a startup mode corresponds to a specified hardware configuration and/or software configuration is con... | 12/27/2012 |
| 20120327447 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus operates in modes including a normal mode and a power saving mode less in power consumption than the normal mode. The image forming apparatus includes an operation unit for receiving an instruction from a user. The operation unit has an operat... | 12/27/2012 |
| 20120327443 | TERMINAL DEVICE CAPABLE OF REMOTELY OPERATING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THEREIN COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE, AND REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM INCLUDING TERMINAL DEVICE An image forming apparatus is configured to output image data including a content to be displayed on an operation panel to a terminal device. The terminal device includes a display unit, a determination unit for determining whether a plurality of images can be displayed... | 12/27/2012 |
| 20120324571 | INFORMATION INPUT DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF An information input display device, having an input section for inputting information and a display section for displaying the information, which enables an access to protected information after being authenticated by an authentication processing executed after startin... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120324352 | CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM AND CLIENT DEVICE OF CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM A server 2 is stored with a print setting program D which takes a form of a Rich Internet Application including an image edit section D6 for generating an image data (post-change image data) in which a change instruction at the time of print setting by a w... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120324336 | COMPUTER AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM A terminal is provided which displays, on a display, specific web pages with the web pages customized based on cookies that are provided for the web pages and stored in a cookie storage portion, the web pages being provided for processing devices for performing specific... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120322461 | CONNECTION CONTROL DEVICE ESTABLISHING CONNECTION BETWEEN PORTABLE TYPE MOBILE TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE BY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION A connection control device acquires information on a position in which a user performs manipulation input to information processing device and information on a travel distance of a portable type mobile terminal. The connection control device compares the acquired piece... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120321365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND POST PROCESSING METHOD An image forming apparatus includes a feeder having a longer side direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of a recording medium, and feeds a maximum size recording medium with a longer side first, an image forming unit having a maximum sheet feed width correspond... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120321339 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A feeder has a longer side direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of a recording medium, and is configured to feed a maximum size recording medium with a longer side first. An image forming unit has a maximum sheet feed width corresponding to a longer side lengt... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120320419 | PRINTING SYSTEM, SERVER FOR DISTRIBUTING PRINT JOB, METHOD FOR RESUBMITTING PRINT JOB, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM A printing system includes a registration portion configured to, when a print job to print an image onto a sheet of paper is executed after specified conditions are modified, store attribute data containing a user identifier and a job identifier into a storage portion, ... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120320418 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING FIRST IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SECOND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DEVICE An image processing system includes a first MFP (Multi-Function Peripheral), a second MFP, and an operation panel. The operation panel is attachable to and removable from each of the first and second MFPs. The first MFP accepts a job. The operation panel includes a stor... | 12/20/2012 |
