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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8110519 | Polymer-supported metal cluster composition The objective is to present compositions obtained by supporting by polymers micro clusters of transition metals and the like that are useful as catalysts in various reactions and, once used, are readily recovered and reused. A polymer-supported metal cluster ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7488468 | Near infrared fluorescent contrast agent and fluorescence imaging A near infrared fluorescent contrast agent comprising a compound having three or more sulfonic acid groups in a molecule, and a method of fluorescence imaging comprising introducing the near infrared fluorescent contrast agent of the present invention into a living ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7473415 | Near infrared fluorescent contrast agent and method for fluorescence imaging A near infrared fluorescent contrast agent which is excellent in permeability in a living tissue and enables specific imaging of tumor and/or blood vessel, comprising a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7425636 | Thiadiazoline derivative (wherein R1 and R4 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkynyl, substituted or unsubstituted lower alken... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7381443 | Method for forming print with surface textures corresponding to printed image The hard copy has a transparent coat layer which is formed on an image recording surface of a recording medium on a side of which an image is recorded and covers at least a part of the image recording surface. The transparent coat layer has asperities corresponding ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7374280 | Image forming apparatus and method The image forming apparatus comprises: an ink ejection device which ejects droplets of a radiation-curable ink onto a recording medium; a conveyance device which causes the ink ejection device and the recording medium to move relatively to each other in a relative m... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7336286 | Method of and an apparatus for processing images In an image processing apparatus to conduct an on-screen display operation, the bus band of an image memory is minimized. The apparatus includes an image memory including a first memory area to store a first image data group of a first image for a background and a s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326476 | Fluorescent material, organic electroluminescent element and organic electroluminescent display An organic electroluminescent element having an organic light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode is provided, wherein the organic light-emitting layer comprises, as an organic light-emitting layer forming material, a fluorescent material comprising either... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323294 | Photographic colour material containing a resorcinol derivative as black coupler A color photographic material is disclosed comprising a black image forming coupler substituted in the 2, 4 and/or 6 position shown by formula (I) or formula (II), where in LINK represents a divalent linking group, BALL represents a group that prevents the coupler f... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316474 | Surface treatment apparatus and image recording apparatus The present invention provides a surface treatment apparatus containing a sheet heating unit for heating a sheet, a sheet cooling unit for cooling the sheet. The apparatus satisfying at least one of following conditions: (1) the ap... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314365 | Surface treating apparatus and image recording apparatus A surface treating apparatus includes: a sheet which includes; a base, and a thermoplastic resin layer disposed on the base; a contact member configured to convey the sheet while carrying out a surface treatment of the sheet; a surface property forming unit configur... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312826 | Digital camera apparatus with high speed imaging and energy saving features A digital camera 10 includes a systems control section 20. When the systems control section 20 receives any of operation signals from a key operation section 18, the systems control section 20 measures the passage of time with a ti... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306312 | Image forming apparatus and image processing method The image forming apparatus forms an image on a prescribed recording medium by carrying out digital halftoning using a threshold value matrix. The image forming apparatus comprises: a plurality of nozzles which eject ink toward the recording medium to form an image;... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304620 | Image display apparatus and image display method The method and apparatus for displaying an image using liquid generate a segment fluid row, in which plural liquid masses each of which includes first liquid having at least one predetermined coloring matter and are separated from each other are arranged in a row sh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293767 | Sheet sucking/feeding device In a sheet sucking/feeding device, actuators are independently and individually connected respectively to plural suction cups. At a point in time when a printing plate is sucked and raised up by a predetermined amount, every other one of the actuators is simultaneou... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277598 | Image processing apparatus, certification photograph taking apparatus, and certification photograph creation system A certification photograph creation system includes a certification photograph taking apparatus, an image input apparatus to input a photographed image, an image processing apparatus and a printer to output an image that has been subjected to the image processing as... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262002 | Silver halide emulsion and silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, being sensitized with selenium and gold, and further containing at least two compounds each having a function of oxidizing metallic silver clusters; a silv... | 08/28/2007 |
| D547783 | Electronic camera | 07/31/2007 |
| D547782 | Electronic camera | 07/31/2007 |
| D547343 | Electronic camera | 07/24/2007 |
| D546863 | Camera lens adaptor | 07/17/2007 |
| D546861 | Electronic camera | 07/17/2007 |
| D546364 | Camera lens adaptor | 07/10/2007 |
| D546363 | Camera lens adaptor | 07/10/2007 |
| D546361 | Camera body | 07/10/2007 |
| D546360 | Lens for camera | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242426 | Digital still camera for recording images in high and low sensitivity modes The present invention provides a digital still camera that can read high quality image data from a solid state image pickup device in both the low and the high sensitivity modes. The digital still camera according to the present invention includes shooting mode sele... | 07/10/2007 |
| D546362 | Camera lens adaptor | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236277 | Holographic recording medium and holographic recording method using the same A holographic recording medium has at least a recording layer with a thickness of L which comprises a recording layer material having an absorption coefficient of α and containing a photorefractive material, wherein the optical density αL represented by the produc... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235512 | Heat-sensitive recording material The present invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a substrate; and at least two heat-sensitive recording layers provided on the substrate, the heat-sensitive recording layers including microcapsules encapsulating an electron-donating dye ... | 06/26/2007 |
| D545355 | Printer | 06/26/2007 |
| 7222956 | Image display apparatus The image display apparatus includes an image display unit having an image display surface, an image forming unit for forming an image on the image display surface by ejecting ink droplets toward the image display surface and an image erasing unit for erasing the fo... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222952 | Method of preparing hard copies The invention provides a method of preparing a hard copy by forming a transparent coating layer on a recording medium in areas where image has been recorded. The invention has the first step of causing clear droplets to fly from a recording head toward the areas whe... | 05/29/2007 |
| D543226 | Electronic camera | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221395 | Digital camera and method for compositing images The digital camera includes an image pickup unit, an image storing unit, an image display unit, a reference image designating unit with which one or more of at least partial areas of an image to be referenced for image compositing are designated as a reference image... | 05/22/2007 |
| D542822 | Electronic camera | 05/15/2007 |
| D542826 | Electronic camera | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214733 | Positive type resist composition A positive type resist composition comprising: (A) a resin having a monocyclic or polycyclic alicyclic hydrocarbon structure, which increases the solubility in an alkali developing solution by the action of an acid; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon ... | 05/08/2007 |
| D541834 | Digital camera | 05/01/2007 |
| D541836 | Electronic camera | 05/01/2007 |
