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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185037 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus including the same A sheet feeding device including a sheet feed cassette. The sheet feed cassette includes a tray extendable and contractible in a direction of sheet feed; a guide member having a long groove provided on a bottom plate of the sheet feed cassette in the direction of sh... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185032 | Used toner collection device and image forming apparatus A used toner conveyance device includes a lateral conveyance member for conveying used toner substantially in the horizontal direction, and a vertical conveyance member for upwardly conveying the used toner transferred from the lateral conveyance member. The vertica... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185025 | Device for developing an electrostatic latent image, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus including the same A developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier with toner. The developing device includes a developer carrier, a developer supplying unit that supplies a developer on the developer carrier, a layer shaping member that shapes th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185021 | Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device includes a developing unit, a developer agitating unit, a developer conveying unit, and a toner supplementing unit. The developing unit develops an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier with a developer containing toner and carrier. The ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184352 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device of opposed scanning type, includes: a plurality of light sources, being arranged substantially symmetrically about a rotating deflection unit; a group of pre-deflection optical elements including optical elements that make the light beams ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184345 | Image reading device and image forming apparatus In a first mode, an original is read with a first and a second carriages stopped. In a second mode, the original is read with the first and the second carriages moving in a sub-scanning direction with a distance between the original and an optical reading element ke... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179576 | Image processing apparatus A color correction unit corrects a color of an image signal. A reference data storing unit stores reference data corresponding to patches in a reference chart. A correction parameter generating unit generates image processing parameters based on the reference data a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178268 | Magenta toner and developer A magenta toner, produced by a method including suspending an oily liquid comprising a binder resin and a colorant in an aqueous medium, wherein the colorant comprises a naphthol pigment and a quinacridone pigment, and the quinacridone pigment comprises a pigment ha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177218 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device includes a loading tray configured to receive a plurality of sheets thereon; a sheet transporting unit which transports the uppermost sheet among the sheets to an image forming unit; a blowing unit which blows air to one end portions of the sh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176348 | Control device and information processing apparatus A control device includes a main control unit that serves as a main component for device control and to which power is supplied from a first power unit; a power control unit that controls the first power unit and to which power is supplied from a second power unit; ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175849 | Predictive failure reporting system, predictive failure reporting method, and method for maintaining image forming apparatus A determining unit determines whether the printer is in the predictive failure state based on the internal information of the printer acquired by the information acquiring unit. A failure risk computing unit performs a failure risk determination process for determin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175470 | Image forming apparatus having a function of predicting device deterioration based on a plurality of types of operation control information An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of types of operation control information of the image forming apparatus that indicate deterioration of a toner in the image forming apparatus or... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174750 | Optical deflector, optical scanner, image forming apparatus, and image projector An optical deflector, including a fixed base; a mirror having a light reflection surface; a pair of elastic support members oscillatably supporting the mirror; and a pair of drive beams formed of a beam-shaped member on which a piezoelectric is fixed, wherein the el... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174732 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing image A white reference member is used to obtain white reference data. An image sensor scans the white reference member line by line to obtain a plurality of lines of white reference data. A skipping unit skips the white reference data with a predetermined skipping ratio ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174709 | Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method The image data processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store image data having a process setting. The image data processing apparatus includes a selection screen display unit to display the one or more image data stored in the storage unit and to display a s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171056 | Data processor, data processing method, and computer product A data processor includes a storage unit, a decompressing module, an interface module, and a data retrieving module. The storage unit stores therein a compressed setting data file including setting data files each compressed in a compression format. The decompressin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170461 | Image forming apparatus including pre-heating unit An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a transfer unit, a pre-heating unit, a fixing unit, a first temperature sensor, and a first heat controller. The image carrying member carries a toner image. The transfer unit transfers the toner image ca... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170455 | Device and method for correcting misregistration, and image forming apparatus A misregistration correcting device includes an image forming unit, a sensor, a reading unit, and a determining unit. The image forming unit form a set of misregistration correcting patterns that includes a reference pattern. The sensors start detecting the set when... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170430 | Color image forming apparatus, color image forming method, computer program product An out-of-color registration table containing a correspondence of amounts of out-of-color registration detected by an out-of-color-registration amount detector and machine states detected by a machine state detector is prepared. The out-of-color registration table i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170344 | Image storage device, image storage system, method of storing image data, and computer program product for image data storing An image storage device includes a storing unit, a background recognizing unit, an attribute-information generating unit, and an image-data processing unit. The storing unit stores therein image data and first attribute information for each pixel. The background rec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169398 | Liquid crystal display control circuit, operation panel, and image forming apparatus A first output unit outputs a control signal for removing a residual electric charge from a liquid crystal display module that includes a backlight. A reference-signal obtaining unit obtains a reference signal for setting a reference when turning on the backlight. A... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166542 | Information processing apparatus, user information managing method, and computer program product An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk drive (HDD) that stores therein user information, an operating unit that performs an operation of setting of user authentication, a user information registering unit that registers user information for a user ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166057 | Data providing apparatus, data providing method and program A data providing apparatus for providing search result information corresponding to-be-searched data including a search query includes a storing part storing the to-be-searched data which has been non-reversibly encoded according to a predetermined method, and the s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165514 | Fixing device, and image forming method and image forming apparatus using the same A fixing device, and an image forming method and an image forming apparatus using the fixing device. The fixing device includes an application unit to apply a foam-like fixing agent including a softener to particulates including a resin on a medium, the softener sof... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165510 | Development device and image forming apparatus having electrodes that cause toner particles to form a toner cloud on the surface of the toner carrier The development device includes a toner carrier, a toner supplier, and a surface electrical potential controller. When the toner supplier supplies toner particles to the toner carrier, the toner carrier carries toner particles to adhere to a latent image formed on t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165490 | Image forming apparatus including a collecting portion inside guide members to collect and store liquid droplets An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a discharging unit, and multiple guide members. The transfer unit transfers an image onto a transfer sheet. The fixing unit fixes the image to the transfer sheet by application of heat and conveys t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165488 | Output control device, image forming apparatus, and output control method A storage unit stores therein a first correction amount and a second correction amount for correcting a first output amount of a first device. A correcting unit corrects, when the first output amount is smaller than a first target value, the first output amount base... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165483 | Image forming apparatus with control unit and for control method for controlling the same An image forming apparatus including a latent image bearing member a surface of which is rotated, a charging device, an irradiating device, a developing device, a transfer device, and a control unit. The control unit controls the image forming apparatus to perform s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164611 | Multibeam image forming A first beam splitter splits each laser beam into a first beam and a second beam. A deflecting unit deflects a direction of the second beam. A second beam splitter splits the second beam into multiple split beams. A first photoelectric converting unit measures inten... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162306 | Sheet aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet aligning apparatus includes an alignment surface formed in a planar shape and that presses an end of a sheet to move and align the sheet; and a holding unit that holds the end of the sheet at a position contacting the alignment surface in a state that a curl... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162305 | Sheet processing system, sheet-supply control method, and computer program product A sheet processing system includes a sheet processing device that includes a post-processing unit that performs a predetermined post-processing on a sheet member and a sheet supplying device that supplies the sheet member to the sheet processing device. The post-pro... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160482 | Belt device and image forming apparatus A belt member is supported by a plurality of roller members including a first roller member and moves in a predetermined direction of movement. A coupling member is coupled with the first roller member. An abutting member makes contact with the coupling member by ch... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159726 | Image reader, image processor, and computer program product An image processor includes a reading unit that moves a scanning optical system toward a reference white sheet to read the reference white sheet from a direction along which the scanning optical system returns to the carried document reading glass before reading one... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159722 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus capable of accurately compensating an increase or decrease of a toner area coverage resulting from shifting that is performed to correct skew is provided. A color density of image data represented by a correction target pixel is corrected ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159684 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product each to process a plurality of printer languages An image processing apparatus can process a plurality of printer languages having respectively different ROP calculation rules, and inputs a drawing command written in any one of the printer languages and performs rasterization into drawing data corresponding to the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154736 | Image forming apparatus, tray ID allocating method thereof, computer program product, and recording medium An image forming apparatus has at least one tray for feeding or discharging a sheet, and includes an input tray ID holding unit which holds an input tray ID that is optionally input so as to identify the tray, an initial tray ID holding unit which holds an initial t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154577 | Apparatus and method of controlling light level of a light source, and recording medium storing program of controlling light level of a light source An apparatus and a method of controlling a light level of a light beam irradiated by a light source are provided. The light source is caused to irradiate the light beam having a light level determined based on a light level correction value for a specific main scann... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150302 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method that detects an amount of color misalignment using reflected light A pattern forming unit forms a color-misalignment detection pattern on an image carrier. A light-intensity detecting unit detects the color-misalignment detection pattern formed on the image carrier by irradiating the image carrier with a light and detecting light i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150278 | Image forming apparatus including a sound sensor to determine cleaning failure In an image forming apparatus, a cleaning blade cleans residual toner adhered on the surface of an image carrier and a sound sensor collects a sound generated inside a casing of the image forming apparatus. A determining unit determines, based on the sound collected... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150179 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an encoder, a decoder, and a display unit. The encoder performs scalable encoding to encode input image data to obtain code data to be stored in a storage unit. The decoder decodes the code data stored in the storage unit to ob... | 04/03/2012 |
