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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185474 | Image processing apparatus, image outputting method, and image outputting program embodied on computer readable medium In order to enable a still image to be checked while preventing leakage of confidential information contained in the still image, an MFP includes: an image acquiring portion to acquire a still image; an encoding portion to generate encoded data by encoding the acqui... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185031 | Fixing device and image formation apparatus Disclosed is a fixing device that easily suppresses an excessive temperature increase in a guide plate without extending a warm-up period, the device comprising: guide plate 156 that includes a low-resistance, electrically conductive layer, and guides fixing ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185011 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A first roll brush is formed from material having the positive triboelectric charge polarity against toner. A positive bias is applied to the first roll brush through a first collection roller by a first bias application device. A second roll brush is formed from ma... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184639 | Communication device suitable for setting IP address of server connected to network, network parameter setting method and network parameter settting program product In order to easily set IP addresses required for communicating with apparatuses connected to a network, an MFP includes a port scan unit for acquiring, by port scanning, an IP address of a server having a predetermined port open from one of the servers connected to ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184317 | Internet facsimile apparatus, communication processing method and communication processing program An Internet facsimile apparatus includes a network communication unit for communicating with an external apparatus in direct SMTP via a network; a printing unit for printing image data received through the network communication unit from the external apparatus; and ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184312 | Image processing system with excellent operability When a log-in is accepted at an image processing apparatus (for example, an MFP), a user terminal logged-in with the same log-in information is searched for, and information related to applications being active on that terminal is obtained. An interaction processing... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180850 | Data transmission device, data transmission system and address registration method A data transmission device receives an instruction from a user via a user interface to search for address information registered in an LDAP server. An address management module of the data transmission device acquires the address information from the LDAP server, an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180253 | Image forming apparatus collecting and distributing untransferred developer An electrophotographic image forming apparatus has an electrostatic latent image bearing members, developing devices each including developer and capable of developing corresponding electrostatic latent images on the electrostatic latent image bearing members into v... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177214 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus including: a stapler capable of performing a staple processing for sheets with plural staple modes; and a control section that determines a maximum number of sheets that can be processed in single staple processing with one staple mode o... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659750 | Operation panel for an electronic copying machine | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176537 | Image formation apparatus, function extension method, and a computer readable storage medium having function extension program stored therein An image formation apparatus: previously stores first information allowing functions that a plurality of users are authorized to use, respectively, to be determined; receives second information input to determine a user, the second information allowing that user to ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175880 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium An image processing apparatus comprises an image data input portion that inputs image data and a text data input portion that inputs text data. The text data inputted by the text data input portion is converted into voice data by a voice data converter, and this obt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174725 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus comprises a signal generator generating a clock signal associated with image forming in a main-scanning direction, an image forming unit including a write unit performing the image forming in the main-scanning direction on a paper relative... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174722 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that minimizes the consumption of power during physical formatting of the hard disk drive or the deletion of data therefrom and to a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus has a non-volatile st... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171405 | Information processing program, information processing method, and information processing device The present invention is intended to improve operability in page-by-page editing operation of a document file having multiple pages using a computer. A display processor displays multiple pages of the document file in list form on a display unit, selects an item to ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170451 | Developing apparatus including guide for preventing packing and leaking of developer and image forming apparatus provided with the same A housing of a developing apparatus is provided with a conveying member in a developer supplying and recovering portion, and with first and second agitating members rotating from the below to the above in portions opposed to each other in a developer agitating porti... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170427 | Sheet conveying device A sheet conveying device having conveyer rollers for conveying sheets one by one, a jam treater having a space and sheet guides for regulating a front side and a back side of a conveyed sheet. In the space of the jam treater, a sheet is guided, and the jam treater i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170426 | Image forming system, image forming device and information processing device Provides is an image forming system, comprising an image forming device and an information processing device connected to the image forming device, further comprising a function-detecting unit detecting that a second function is added to the image forming device hav... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169642 | Image forming system, image forming apparatus and device, and recording medium for erasing data in a memory unit An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus that are connected to each other via a network. The first image forming apparatus includes a transmitter unit transferring reproduced data of data for transfer to t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169638 | Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing program product suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image processing apparatuses In order to share user identification information among a plurality of MFPs without using a server, each of a plurality of MFPs forming an image processing system stores in a HDD registered user information which at least includes the user identification information... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165487 | Safety device and fixing device A fixing device has a fixing roller, a pressure roller, an electromagnetic induction heating section, a heat pipe, a temperature sensor and a control section. The fixing roller is heated by the electromagnetic induction heating section. The heat pipe is in contact w... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160485 | Fixing device and image forming device A fixing device includes: a pressure belt movable in a revolving motion; a fixing roller; and a pressure member for pressing an inner surface of the belt toward the roller. A fixing nip is formed between the roller and the belt while an elastically deformable surfac... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160470 | Cleaning roller for cleaning charging roller and image forming apparatus A cleaning roller for cleaning a charging roller in an image forming apparatus is disposed in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a charging roller to remove foreign matters attached to the outer peripheral surface of the charging roller. The cleaning roller... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154750 | Image forming apparatus and job information management method Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a first storage section to store a plurality of pieces of job information each having a plurality of data items corresponding to a plurality of items; a second storage section to store read-out definition informati... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154740 | Image processing apparatus for concatenating a read document image, method of generating an index of a concatenated image, and computer-readable recording medium having index generation program recorded An image processing apparatus includes a scanner for reading out documents, a first extraction unit for extracting text contained in document images, a second extraction unit for extracting at least one Web address from the text, a fetch unit for obtaining at least ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152164 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including first and second pairs of rollers for feeding a print medium; the second pair of rollers being disposed downstream from the first pair of rollers; a first detector for detecting the print medium slack in a specified degree by con... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152154 | Tab sheet insertion apparatus An image forming apparatus has a tab sheet supply unit and a control unit. The tab sheet supply unit supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a chapter tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657413 | Image forming apparatus with toner cartridge | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151362 | Image forming apparatus, function extending method and user authentication system An image forming apparatus includes an user authentication part 31 for executing authentication of a user, a function enabling part 32 for enabling at least one function available for the first user based on authority of the first user set in advance w... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150819 | Information-processing apparatus searching web server and downloading data, data searching method and data searching program executed in information-processing apparatus In order to efficiently search web pages, an MFP has browsing processing portion to receive a web page from a Web server, an execution instruction accepting portion to accept an execution instruction specifying processing to be executed with respect to the received ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150291 | Power management system, power management method and computer readable medium storing program, allowing power management of a plurality of image forming apparatuses When there are a plurality of candidate image forming apparatuses that are to be turned ON, a CPU refers to an MFP wearout degree table and obtains wearout degree of each candidate. Then, the CPU determines whether there is any candidate of which wearout degree is l... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145091 | Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning secondary transfer roller used therein A toner image is formed on an image carrier using a toner supplied from a developing roller to which a controlled bias voltage is applied; the toner image is primarily transferred onto an intermediate transfer member; the toner image is secondarily transferred onto ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140639 | Information-processing system, method for transmitting and receiving data, image-processing apparatus suited especially for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of image-processing apparatuses connected to network In order to efficiently store data that is to be transmitted or received, an image-processing system is provided with a plurality of MFPs and has: a designation unit to designate an arbitrary destination user as a receiver of data; a specifying unit to specify an MF... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139991 | Image forming apparatus containing color shading correction and bias correction of intermediate transfer belt A bias correction is carried out before a color registration correction is carried out so as to stabilize the running state of an intermediate transfer belt, thereafter the bias correction ceases and the color registration correction is carried out. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139990 | Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device including a housing, toner a developing roller, and a feed roller in pressure contact with the developing roller so as to form a nip portion and which feeds toner to the developing roller. The developing device including a feed stabilizing member... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139266 | Color printing control device, color printing control method, and computer readable recording medium stored with color printing control program The color printing control device outputs color material reduction processed data generated by applying a color material reduction process to each pixel of bitmaps converted to color material colors to be used in printing, when it is judged that the color material r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139259 | Image forming apparatus including tab sheet reversing function, computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus, and its control method A printer, as an image forming apparatus, reverses the front and back sides of tab sheets that became no longer necessary and discharges when a reverse discharge is specified. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139252 | Image forming system and image forming method There is described an image forming system, which makes it possible to speedily implement the reprinting operation, and to alleviate the burden of the printer controller. The system includes a printer controller to parse a print job described in a Page Description L... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139235 | Data processing method, image processing apparatus and recording medium A data processing method including reading first image processing apparatus structural information by the control unit from a portable storage medium, obtaining second image processing apparatus structural information by the control unit, determining whether to allo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135931 | Information equipment, method for supporting operation thereof, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program Information equipment having a memory area for which access restrictions are set is provided. The information equipment makes a determination, in response to operation for turning a security mode into a security level enhanced mode, on data in the memory area, wheth... | 03/13/2012 |
