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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184910 | Image recognition device, image recognition method, and image scanning apparatus having image recognition device An image recognition device has a first resolution converter 202 that lowers resolution of an input image, an area reader 203 that reads out a processing area from an output of the first resolution converter 202, a second resolution converter | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184353 | Barcode scanning device and method for producing high density scanning pattern by the same Barcode scanning device (3) includes a rotatable polygon mirror (27) and a first fixed reflection mirror (33). The polygon mirror (27) comprises a first reflection surfaces (c), (e) and a second reflection surfaces (a), (b), (d), (f). The... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184007 | Wireless tag reader/writer In a wireless reader/writer according to one example of the present invention, a reader/writer main body 120 emits a radio wave with a different output power from an antenna 121 when a base unit 140 is detected to be mounted on an enclosure. In ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182389 | Driving force transmitting device, image forming apparatus, and driving force transmitting method A technique that makes it possible to switch high-torque power transmission with a compact and simple configuration is provided. A driving force transmitting device that transmits driving force received by one of a first rotating body and a second rotating body to t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181957 | Sheet conveying apparatus and sheet conveying method To provide a sheet conveying technique that can realize highly accurate skew correction with an inexpensive and simple apparatus configuration. A sheet conveying apparatus includes: first and second rollers that are arranged in positions different from each other in... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181956 | Sheet transport device for image forming apparatus A sheet transport device includes: a registration roller pair that includes a first roller and a second roller lower in abrasion resistance than the first roller, and nips and transports a recording medium; and a drive mechanism that provides a rotation to the first... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180257 | Photoconductive image forming apparatus with retractable shutter unit An image forming apparatus includes a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate light on the surface of a photoconductive member and form an electrostatic latent image, a developing unit configured to form a developer image corresponding to the electrostatic la... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179671 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes: a hard disk drive unit including a hard disk drive configured to read various data from and write various data in a magnetic disk incorporated therein; a housing of an apparatus main body configured to hold the hard disk... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179410 | Paper sheet sensor adjusting method In a state where a sheet exists, an current I is gradually increased. When an voltage V reaches a light receiving level Vx, the current I at the time is stored as I1. The voltage V immediately before the voltage V reaches the light receiving level Vx is store... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179409 | Thermal printer A print-dot counting section counts a number of print dots of print data. An adjusting section adjusts to reduce, according to the number of print dots counted by the print-dot counting section, one of conveying speed of a print medium by a conveying unit and energi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177225 | Automatic document feeder with reversing path An automatic document feeder of the present invention is provided with a turning/discharging path in a reversing path in order to read images on both sides of documents in lengths less than the main size and discharge in a discharging tray. Further, an aligning wall... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177211 | Sheet folding apparatus, image forming apparatus using the same, and sheet folding method A sheet folding apparatus includes: a saddle-stitching unit configured to stitch a center of a sheet bundle; a folding unit configured to fold the sheet bundle at the center to form a fold; a loading base onto which the sheet bundle conveyed from the folding unit is... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174727 | Image forming apparatus that displays finished graphical image indicating multiple draft images arranged in matrix form A first display area and a second display area are disposed in each setting screen concerning setting of photocopy processing, a draft graphical image and a finished graphical image are set in which present set contents are reflected every time the set contents are ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174714 | System and method for management of consumable items in an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of an embodiment of the invention includes a first storage unit to store, based on stored information stored in wireless tags attached to a plurality of consumable items, an application to manage the stock number of the plurality of consum... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172213 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying motor for conveying a sheet along a conveying path, a skew detecting unit configured to detect a quantity of skew of the conveyed sheet, a hole punching section arranged downstream from the skew detecting unit, an at... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172068 | Coin slope A sloping surface slopes downward. Longwise ribs are provided to be adjacent to each other on the sloping surface. The longwise ribs extend from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface. A diagonal rib diagonally crosses a directio... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169634 | Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus In a watermark process section in an image processing apparatus, a visible watermark pattern read-out section reads out a visible watermark pattern that is stored in a memory. An invisible watermark generating section draws an invisible watermark on the read-out vis... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167436 | Display shelf with placing tables and transmission-type screens having projecting parts and laterally-facing displays A display shelf system includes a display shelf, which includes a plurality of placing tables which are adapted to have an article placed thereon. A plurality of transmission-type screens are arranged with the placing tables, respectively. A projector projects a pro... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167308 | Image forming apparatus and method for selecting discharge destination for sheet of image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is composed of a main body, an image forming portion provided in the main body to form an image on a sheet, a top receiving tray provided on a top of the main body to load the sheet on which the image is formed in the image forming portion... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167294 | Tray, sheet post-processing apparatus, and sheet-alignment method According to one embodiment, a tray includes a take on surface on which a sheet is placed, a projecting portion configured to stick out from the take on surface, and a slip stopper including a sheet-slip stopper portion having a larger frictional coefficient with th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166489 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program having multi-processing mode An image processing apparatus that executes, on the basis of a command transmitted from a driver apparatus, predetermined processing corresponding to the command includes a setting-information acquiring unit that acquires setting information indicating setting conte... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163452 | Developing agent, image forming method and image forming apparatus A developing agent includes a carrier; a toner in which an inorganic oxide external additive has a coverage of from 60 to 120% relative to a core toner; and a charging auxiliary particle having charge properties of a positive electrode and having a volume average pa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162307 | Sheet processing apparatus In a sheet processing apparatus that, for example, sorts or staples sheets after image formation, when preceding finishing is not completed on a processing tray, a third sheet fed anew into a waiting tray of a sheet placing member configuring a sheet waiting unit, w... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162304 | Sheet finisher, image forming apparatus using the same, and sheet finishing method A sheet finisher of the invention includes a saddle stitch unit configured to stitch a center of a sheet bundle in which printed sheets are bundled, a fold unit configured to fold the center stitched by the saddle stitch unit and to form a fold line, a fold reinforc... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161418 | System and method for generating an informational media display on a document processing device The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating an informational media display on a document processing device. A document processing signal representing the status of a document processing operation on an associated document processing dev... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159710 | Image scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus and image scanning method An image scanning apparatus according to the invention includes a face-side scanning unit and a back-side scanning unit that simultaneously scan both sides of an original, a page memory in which each image element outputted from the face-side scanning unit and the b... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159516 | Multibeam laser control device for image forming apparatus An image data is pre-processed in parallel by a pre-processing unit (A) and a pre-processing unit (B) arranged in parallel. The image data is transferred in synchronization with an image processing signal obtained by ORing a BD signal and an interpolation signal. La... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157259 | Movable tray drive control device and movable tray drive control method According to an embodiment, a drive control unit which drive-controls a movable tray on which a sheet discharged from a predetermined sheet discharge port is stacked, in such a manner that the movable tray sequentially descends according to a sheet discharge operati... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155573 | Image forming apparatus and fuser apparatus According to an embodiment of the invention, a heat uniforming member, which has an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of a hollow member and in which thermal deformation generated by thermal expansion remains, is set in the inside of the hollow member ha... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155544 | Image forming apparatus and image adjusting method involving a fluctuation-information acquiring unit and a control unit that forms a gradation pattern A technique that can stably realize highly accurate image adjustment processing regardless of deterioration in an image forming characteristic and the like is provided. An image forming apparatus that forms, on an image formation medium, a gradation pattern formed a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155541 | Fixing device which detects anomaly of heater A fixing device shifts to the anomaly detection mode in arbitrary timing except during printing. In the anomaly detection mode, a first heat generation member and a second heat generation member are off and only a third heat generation member is turned on for a pred... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154773 | Image communication apparatus and image communication control method According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image communication apparatus comprising a first FAX communication unit configured to make communications with a partner apparatus according to a first FAX communication function using a public t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150306 | Fixing device for image forming apparatus A fixing device according to an embodiment of the invention is provided with a center coil and a side coil to induction heat a metal roller which supports a belt. An auxiliary pressurizing member which is adjacent to an opposing roller which supports the belt and pr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150299 | Toner supplying apparatus and toner supplying method for image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes plural developing devices arranged at a fixed interval, plural toner cartridges arranged at an interval smaller than the interval among the developing devices, and plural sub-hoppers that receive toners stored in the toner cartrid... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150275 | Toner cartridge A toner cartridge comprises a toner container which contains toner, a driving member which rotationally drives a conveying member, an agitating member which agitates a toner in the toner container while being rotated, a driven member which rotates in association wit... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149471 | Image reading apparatus, image reading method and image reading program for cross-talk noise reduction An image reading apparatus in which cross-talk noise occurring between plural reading units is reduced, an image reading method and an image reading program are provided. There are included plural reading units that respectively operate at different timings, a noise... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149444 | Printing control system A print system in which a printer and a client personal computer are connected to a network. The printer may include a storage unit configured to store a residual quantity information of sheets of paper in a paper feed cassette, a communication unit configured to tr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146908 | Stapling unit, sheet finishing apparatus, and stapling method Certain embodiments provide a stapling unit including a stapler, a processing tray, a stapler moving mechanism, a sensor configured to scan sheets in a sheet width direction, and a controller configured to drive the stapler. The controller measures sheet width of th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146905 | Sheet finisher, image forming apparatus using the same, and sheet finishing method A sheet finisher of the invention includes a saddle-stitching unit to stitch a center of a sheet bundle, a folding unit to fold the center and to form a fold, a first and a second rollers that move along a direction of the fold while nipping and pressing the fold of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145099 | Image scanning unit and image forming apparatus including the image scanning unit A pair of carriage rails are provided in parallel to each other in a casing. A carriage moves along the carriage rails. Both ends in a longitudinal direction of each of the carriage rails are fixed to the casing. A cross member functioning as a lens base is suspende... | 03/27/2012 |
