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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047586 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM A communication apparatus includes a communication unit, an acquisition unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the acquisition unit to acquire again information for generating video data to be transmitted to an external apparatus by the communication unit f... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047297 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus that can communicate with an external apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to receive an instruction to change a parameter in the external apparatus, and a sending unit configured to send a control signal for causing the ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046480 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF This invention is directed towards a medical image processing apparatus capable of providing effective information on glaucoma by integrating the tomographic image of the retina obtained by an optical coherence tomograph (OCT: Optical Coherence Tomography) and visual fu... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045310 | FIXING BELT AND FIXING DEVICE A fixing belt includes a cylindrical base composed of a metal and a polyimide resin layer formed on the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical base, in which the polyimide resin layer has an imidization rate of 70% to 93%, and comprises a polyimide resin containing... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044682 | LENS-INTERCHANGEABLE CAMERA BODY AND CAMERA SYSTEM CAPABLE OF CHANGING COMMUNICATION METHOD WITH SELECTED SHOOTING MODE The present invention relates to a camera system. The system includes a selector configured to select one of a still image shooting mode and a movie shooting mode, and
| 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044680 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR An imaging apparatus includes a light metering unit, a setting unit configured to set an exposure condition including exposure time and an aperture value at a time of flash photography based on a result of light metering by the light metering unit, and a first calculati... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044678 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING AUTOFOCUS FUNCTION, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGING APPARATUS An apparatus includes an imaging unit, a focus detection unit configured to detect a focusing state of a focus lens, a designation unit configured to receive a designation of an in-screen position of an object displayed on a display screen, and a control unit configured... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044675 | FOCUS ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD A focus adjustment apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an object image input via a focus lens to output image data, a focus adjustment unit configured to perform focus adjustment by controlling a position of the focus lens based on the image data, a... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044363 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER A surface emitting laser includes a plurality of semiconductor layers including an active layer over a substrate, and emits laser light in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The semiconductor layers including the active layer define a resonator t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043981 | DISPLAY MODULE A display module includes a display panel, a unit disposed on an outer side of the display panel, and an adhesive sheet with which the display panel and the unit are stuck together. The adhesive sheet has a first adhesive surface adhering to the display panel and a seco... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043929 | ZOOM LENS BARREL A lens control apparatus having a zoom lens includes first and second operation members that give a zoom instruction for moving the zoom lens, and a controller that changes a zoom stop position to a first pattern according to the operation of the first operation member,... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043859 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A print data processing apparatus includes a first processor configured not to execute a command to convert print data to intermediate data when a resource is rasterized in accordance with a command to rasterize the resource of the print data, and to convert the print d... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043856 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus is used in a network environment including a plurality of printing apparatuses and a plurality of client devices which form printing data for realizing a printing processing in the plurality of printing apparatuses. Regarding an assoc... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043855 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A print data processing apparatus includes a first processor and a second processor. The first processor rasterizes a resource of print data corresponding to pages that precede an m-th page, in a case where a plurality of pages of print data share the resource, and gene... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043844 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME A document management apparatus according to the present invention includes a management unit configured to manage a document, a request unit configured to request an image processing apparatus to generate an operational element that instructs execution by a reading uni... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043843 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus according to the present invention can display necessary information in the order according to an identified user even if a display area for displaying information is limited. The information processing apparatus includes a display un... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043840 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE A problem that setting (setting the kind of a paper or a printout method) for achieving the print effect (gloss effect or matte effect) at a maximum is very complicated and therefore, a manual setting thereof by a user is very difficult. When image data which a user des... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043838 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD When recording is performed in a pixel region by M (M is an integer equal to or larger than 2) passes with N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) recording element groups, density variation due to a deviation between recording positions of dots that are recorded ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043767 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS An illumination optical system and a projection display apparatus include a beam combining portion and a condensing lens condensing a beam from the beam combining portion. The beam combining portion combines beams from first and second lamp units each including a lamp a... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043701 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME A video processing apparatus determines whether a video signal of a predetermined resolution is a pseudo-resolution video signal generated from a video signal of resolution lower than the predetermined resolution. The video processing apparatus generates a first frequen... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043681 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to photoelectrically convert an object image incident via a focus lens to acquire image data; a detection unit configured to detect a size and a position of an object based on the acquired image data; an adjustment unit c... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043667 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus for generating corrected image data from a plurality of input image data by performing an iterative calculation process includes an input unit configured to input the plurality of input image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043666 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input image data representing a captured image photographed by a photographing unit, a region specifying unit configured to specify a region of an in-focus object in the captured image, a filter acquisit... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043657 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CORRECTING CHROMATIC ABERRATION There is a problem in that when magnification chromatic aberration correction is carried out, the difference in reproducibility of high-frequency components, depending on the spatial position, between a color for which position shift correction is not performed and a co... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043649 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD,AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM The present invention relates to generation of an appropriate high-resolution image with respect to a plurality of input images. An image processing apparatus including a unit for acquiring a relative movement amount for each first image be... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043565 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head includes heating the surface portion of power line that is to be in contact with a member made of resin, thereby forming, from a precious metal layer and a nickel layer, an adhesion layer made of an alloy containing pre... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043561 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD An information processing apparatus is provided for a recording apparatus that records an image on a recording medium using a recording head. The recording head includes recording element arrays arranged in parallel, and in which recording elements that discharge record... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043472 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF There is provided an apparatus that can prevent invoking of unintended functions in gesture operation. The apparatus displays gesture functions executable by movement of touch position, and when movement of touch position satisfies a first condition, confirms executable... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043151 | MOVABLE UNIT DRIVING APPARATUS A movable unit driving apparatus which drives a movable unit by a motor, the movable unit driving apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect that the movable unit passes a first position; a second detection unit configured to detect that the movable ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042839 | METHOD FOR MAKING OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A method for injection molding an imaging optical element to be used in an optical scanning apparatus for guiding a light ray in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction. In the imaging optical element, the light ray passes through at least one optical fun... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042670 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Provided are a coplanar structure thin film transistor that allows a threshold voltage to change only a little under electric stress, and a method of manufacturing the same. The thin film transistor includes on a substrate at least: a gate electrode; a gate insulating l... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038646 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus including a photosensitive member, a charging apparatus to charge a surface of the photosensitive member when applied with a charging voltage, and an exposure apparatus to expose the surface of the photosensitive member after being charged to ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038595 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM A communication apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus via communication lines conforming to HDMI standard, a first detection unit that determines whether a first signal is detected indicating that the communication unit and... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038443 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM When a button for setting a communication parameter is operated in a communication apparatus that has a communication-parameter receiving function (receiving apparatus) and that is currently participating in a network, the communication apparatus (receiving apparatus) s... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038379 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication apparatus in a second network, connected to a relay apparatus configured to relay a packet from a first network to the second network according to destination information of the packet from the first network, includes a receiving unit configured to recei... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038013 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus performs a density adjustment process for generating an image containing a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image for warning against the use of copy products. To help users to easily adjust the density of a latent image portion and a backgro... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110036776 | PROCESSING METHOD OF LIQUID A processing method of liquid includes: decomposing a resin in liquid by allowing ozone gas to contact the liquid containing a water-soluble carbonyl compound and the resin; and removing organic acid generated by decomposing the resin in the decomposing step from the li... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035659 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A display device is caused to display information indicating a pattern for determining an output target area in a web page, and an output target area in a web page that is being displayed using a browser is determined in accordance with a pattern corresponding to inform... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035657 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Information representing content of a plurality of elements which are included in a structured document defined as a layer structure is obtained, and one of the elements included in the structured document is selected in accordance with the content of the elements inclu... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD In an information processing apparatus for storing, based on a notification sent from a monitor unit used for monitoring a state of print processing of a printing apparatus, the status item presenting the state in a storage region, or deleting the status item stored in ... | 02/10/2011 |
