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| 7930307 | Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof When a folder icon is dropped on a scanner icon, a scan application determines a reference folder. The scan application searches the reference folder and, if necessary, a folder in an upper hierarchical layer for a read control information file. In accordance with t... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7561184 | Image sensing/playback apparatus, image data processing method, and data processing method The image sensing/playback apparatus has an image sensing device that senses an image of an object and obtains electrical image data, an input/output I/F that inputs/outputs image data from/to an external storage medium, and a system controller that sequentially per... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7552362 | Bridge, error notification method therefor and system In a bridge which connects between an expansion bus of a primary system and that of a secondary system, a local error such as an expansion bus error and CPU hang-up which occurs in the secondary system is recognized. The primary system is notified of the local error... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7392005 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable heating member configured to heat an image on a recording medium at a nip, driving means configured to drive the heating member, an endless belt configured to form the nip with the heating member, and a driving roller ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7321418 | Stage apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A stage apparatus includes a base, a stage movable on the base in first and second directions, a first member movable relative to the base in the first direction, and a second member movable relative to the base in the second direction. The first member is placed on... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318639 | Inkjet recording apparatus In a recording apparatus in which ink is supplied to a head from a main tank via a sub-tank, when ink is supplied to the sub tank from the main tank, the ink is first supplied to a flow path connected to the sub-tank, and then ink is supplied into an ink absorber ac... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7234803 | Ink jet recording cartridge having a lid for pressing an absorber and commonly usable in other ink jet recording cartridge configurations An ink jet cartridge including a case, in which the bottom portion where an ink jet recording head is disposed projects, and a lid for covering the top surface thereof. In an ink containing chamber defined by the these case and the lid, there is provided an absorber... | 06/26/2007 |
| 6700402 | Output control circuit and output control method There is provided an output control circuit provided in an integrated circuit that enables any arbitrary internal signal to be specified and output from any output terminal, and hence enable the monitoring of a large number of internal signals even if onl... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6690418 | Image sensing apparatus image signal controller and method Two image signals from a non-interlace scanning type CCD at predetermined horizontal and vertical sampling frequencies are respectively inputted to automatic gain controllers, then to a color separator where the input signals are separated into luminance ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6683652 | Interchangeable lens video camera system having improved focusing An interchangeable lens video camera system which can stably focus on a main target object under any conditions of the object or the environment. The camera system includes a lens assembly detachably attached to a camera for photoelectrically converting i... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6680746 | Apparatus and method for controlling configuration of video camera A camera control system for displaying a video image inputted from a plurality of cameras, wherein in order to easily control each camera, a map showing positions of cameras is prepared. Along with the map, icons indicating the positions of cameras are di... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6672586 | Sheet processing apparatus and method of controlling same, sheet processing method, and storage media therefor A sheet processing apparatus is provided, which is capable of achieving high quality processing and maintaining high productivity without giving rise to problems such as sheet jam or damage of sheets even when various sheets having different attributes ar... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6671102 | Projection optical system, projection type image display apparatus, and image projection system A projection optical system which sufficiently corrects variations in aberrations during focusing irrespective of a distance at which an object is located, i.e. whether the object is located at a point of infinity or at a short distance, while maintaining... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668082 | Image processing apparatus In an apparatus and method for creating a three-dimensional model of an object, images of the object taken from different, unknown positions are processed to identify the points in the images which correspond to the same point on the actual object (that i... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6644812 | Display apparatus and projection type display apparatus The present invention provides a display apparatus which can prevent the unevenness of the quantity of light in case of display giving priority to color reproducibility and can also correct the unevenness of the up rate to the brightness in display attach... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6643395 | Defect information processing apparatus and method A two-dimensional image of an object to be inspected is captured, and is converted into multi-valued digital data by an A/D converter (2). A vertical filter (4) computes difference values of the multi-valued digital image data in units of pixels within a ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6621640 | Projection display apparatus This invention can provide an optical system which has a diffractive optical element that can suppress generation of flare or the like due to light rays of unnecessary orders of diffraction caused by the wavelength dependence of the diffractive optical el... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6612758 | Printing system and method, storage medium, and image processing apparatus and control method therefor To reduce the period of time required after a remote printer is instructed to start a print job and before it starts printing and hence reduce the period of time for which the remote printer is occupied, thereby enhancing working efficiency, it is determi... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6520623 | Method and apparatus for printing A printing method which can complement an image defect caused by ejection failure and thus to obtain high definition image even when failure, such as faulty ejection or non-ejection failure, is caused in any of ejection mechanism as a plurality of printin... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6344661 | Light emitting element array, exposure device and image forming apparatus An exposure device having an array of a plurality of light emitting elements composed of at least an anode layer, a cathode layer and one or more organic compound layers interposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer all of which are formed on a... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6314241 | Camera A camera having a function of detecting the direction and intensity of a light source such as the sun is arranged to prevent a shadow from appearing by emitting a flash light when the result of detection indicates a condition under which a shadow is expec... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6279504 | Plasma CVD system A plasma CVD system has a reactor which can be evacuated, a substrate holding means in the reactor, a material gas feed means for feeding into the reactor a material gas for plasma CVD, a high-frequency power supply means for supplying an electrode high-f... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6278803 | Interpolation apparatus for offset sampling signals Interpolation apparatus for offset sampling of signals comprises a plurality of interpolation circuits whose interpolation methods are different from each other and a selection circuit which selects one of outputs of the interpolation circuits according t... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6278486 | Information signal controlling system An information signal processing device comprises a data holding device which is removably attachable to an information signal generating device for generating a first information signal and which holds information data corresponding to a plurality of kin... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6268967 | Zoom lens apparatus The present invention relates to a zoom lens apparatus used with a television camera and provides an apparatus constructed in such structure that, on the occasion of limiting an angle of view, a zoom state set and manipulated by a photographer is converte... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6252645 | Image reading apparatus with adjustable exposure In an image reading apparatus for reading an image recorded on a film, an amount of light being incident on a line sensor comprised in the apparatus and transmitted through the film is adjusted according to the image density of the film such that a relati... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6249489 | Information recording-reproducing method utilizing domain wall displacement, and magneto optical medium Disclosed herein is an information recording-reproducing method, wherein a domain wall is displaced on a recording medium in which information has been recorded, thereby conducting the reproduction of the information, the method comprising, projecting a l... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6242080 | Zinc oxide thin film and process for producing the film Provided are a zinc oxide thin film having an X-ray diffraction peak of the (103) plane of zinc oxide crystal, a photoelectric conversion element having the zinc oxide thin film, and production processes thereof. By these, the texture level of the zinc ox... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6223684 | Film deposition apparatus A film deposition apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a gas supplier, a gas exhauster, and a discharging means, the film deposition apparatus forming a deposited film on a substrate provided in the vacuum chamber by a plasma enhanced CVD process, wherein... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6147711 | Camera adapted for improved ordinary and low angle shooting A video camera comprises a grip part for holding a camera body, and a mechanism part having a tape path forming part which forms a predetermined tape path for a magnetic tape. The mechanism part has a tape path forming plane approximately in parallel to a... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6137977 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus using specific developer composition In the image forming machine of the invention, a two-component type developer has a spherical magnetic powder dispersion type carrier, which has a weight average particle diameter of from 15 to 60 μm. The external additive is present in the form of parti... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6110347 | Method for the formation of an indium oxide film by electrodeposition process or electroless deposition process, a substrate provided with the indium oxide film for a semiconductor element, and a semiconductor element provided with the substrate A method for forming an indium oxide film on an electrically conductive substrate by immersing the substrate and a counter electrode in an aqueous solution containing at least nitrate and indium ions and flowing an electric current between the substrate a... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6078752 | Illuminating device and photographing apparatus A flash device comprises a light source and an optical system for projecting light emitted from the light source onto an object, the optical system having a transparent member which is tapered toward the light source. The transparent member has an entranc... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6057070 | Method for forming a color image A method for forming an image is provided, in which a failure in transfer during image retransfer and peeling of toner are prevented, and a sufficiently excellent image is formed on a retransfer medium. In this method for forming an image, in which an ima... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6051350 | Image forming method In an image forming method for forming multi-color images or full-color images, first to third or fourth toners are used, and the amount of cross-linking agent contained in each of the toners becomes larger in the order of the toners laid on a recording s... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5998063 | Lithium secondary cell Provided is a lithium secondary cell having a positive pole and a negative pole separated by a separator in an electrolyte in a cell case, which has the negative pole comprising a substance which can contain lithium and/or the positive pole comprising a s... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5981864 | Photovoltaic element array and method of fabricating the same A metal layer (102) is formed on an insulating substrate (101), and a first transparent conductive layer (103) containing fluorine is formed on the metal layer (102). The metal layer (102) and the transparent conductive layer (103) are electrically divide... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5963006 | Apparatus for controlling stepping motor An apparatus for controlling a stepping motor used in feeding a sheet, for example, in a facsimile device, includes a driving unit for driving a stepping motor, and an controller for controlling the drive unit, depending upon drive conditions of the stepp... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5923824 | Color processing method A color processing method utilizing a plurality of devices having different color spaces as one virtual device. A scanner inquires a computer of color space and presence/absence of a color conversion function. If the computer has the color space conversio... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5920686 | Apparatus and method for print control A print control device allows image data to be generated from intermediate data and printed by a printing unit. The print control device comprises generating means for generating image data from intermediate data memorized in an intermediate buffer, a ban... | 07/06/1999 |
