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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8325378 | Information processing apparatus and method for generating print data for a book with a cover sheet An information processing apparatus for making a bookbinding setup for a document includes a cover page determination unit for determining pages to be imposed on a cover from input data of a plurality of pages, a cover imposing processing unit for executing an impos... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8320018 | Method and means for converting image data in encoded format An output device which outputs pixel data corresponding to a color material used by a printing unit to the printing unit includes an image buffer which stores image data, a generation unit which generates density data corresponding to the color material based on ima... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8311363 | Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium This invention provides an image processing apparatus which handles process target image data as data of various kinds of layouts without storing image data of each layout in a memory, a method of controlling the same, and a computer-readable storage medium storing ... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8306378 | Optical pulse compressor Optical pulse compensator having a chirp unit including a normal dispersion fiber that provides a positive chirp to an input pulse and having a dispersion compensator including an anomalous fiber is provided. The nonlinear coefficient and the absolute value of the s... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8305616 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus sets print setting information applied to a document upon printing and finishing information applied to a printed matter of the document and designates a first printing apparatus for executing the printing. In the case where the f... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8254004 | Oscillator and optical deflector having oscillator An oscillating device includes an oscillator, an elastic supporting member for movably supporting the oscillator, a first supporting frame for supporting the elastic supporting member, and a second supporting frame extending along the elastic supporting member with ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8250490 | Display image control apparatus A plurality of object arrays in which a plurality of objects are sorted under a plurality of order conditions are generated. A display image is generated by sorting the objects in an order for each object array to line up in the first direction for each of the plura... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8250470 | Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program A template to be estimated is selected from a template list containing a plurality of types of templates for which usage conditions for layout control of content data in a page are respectively set. The usage condition of the selected template is estimated. A templa... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8249125 | Optical device including multilayer reflector and vertical cavity surface emitting laser Provided are an optical device including a multilayer reflector having a layer whose optical thickness is not λ/4, and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser using the optical device. A resonance frequency shift or a reduction in reflectivity which is caused by a... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8246989 | Dosage forms of bisphosphonates Oral dosage forms of a bisphosphonate comprised of a safe and effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a bisphosphonate, a chelating agent, and, means for effecting delayed release of the bisphosphonate and the chelating agent in the lower gastroi... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8243821 | For spatial Wyner Ziv coding A system (100) for encoding an input video frame (1005), for transmitting or storing the encoded video and for decoding the video is disclosed. The system (100) includes an encoder (1000) and a decoder (1200) interconnected through... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8238002 | Image reading apparatus and power control method There are provided an image reading apparatus capable of turning on the light source of a display such as an LCD during an image reading operation even when the apparatus operates upon power supply from an external apparatus via a USB bus, and a power control method... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8233161 | Image reading and recording apparatus An image reading and recording apparatus which can prevent a reading unit from unexpectedly being opened even when an operation of a reducing unit such as a damper for reducing an opening/closing force of the reading unit is added to an interlocking motion caused by... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8233022 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof It is determined whether a low density area in which pixels having density less than a predetermined density exist in succession is included in an image signal or not, and if the low density area exists, an image is formed by irradiating the laser light in a first c... | 07/31/2012 |
| 7525575 | Voice activated image capture device and method An image capture device is described having a remote photograph mode in which images can be captured without physical contact with the device. The device is activated by the user speaking a keyword. The image capturing device is arranged so that after being initiali... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7460801 | Image forming apparatus with control of power distribution to heat fixing device An image forming apparatus for forming an image by a power supply from a commercial power source, the image forming apparatus including: an image forming member for forming an image on a recording material; a heater for heating the image forming member; a heat fixin... | 12/02/2008 |
| D574665 | Inflatable tray | 08/12/2008 |
| D573400 | Heated food holding cabinet | 07/22/2008 |
| D571165 | Egg separator | 06/17/2008 |
| 7375820 | Interference measuring apparatus for detecting a plurality of stable phase difference signals Interference measuring apparatus having an optical system for dividing a coherent light beam into two light beams, and causing the divided two light beams to pass along discrete optical paths. The light beams are made into linearly polarized light beams orthogonal t... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373593 | Apparatus and method for automatically setting constraints within a document layout A user can efficiently perform a setting operation in an automatic layout system. An information processing apparatus having an automatic layout function includes a function for, in editing containers, measuring a distance between a first container placed on the doc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367553 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a recording head for effecting recording on a recording material in accordance with recording information; first feeding means including a grip roller and a pinch roller disposed downstream of the recording head with respect to a recor... | 05/06/2008 |
| D567014 | Egg bowl | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350914 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus is provided in which a space can be secured on a desk without performing a troublesome operation, and penetration of dust or foreign matter into a main body can be prevented when the apparatus is not used, and a sheet jam caused by closing of a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352484 | Printing system and management method therefor A computer transmits a command to change the operation of a print command to a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus changes the operation of the print command and records information (print record) associated with printing on a storage unit in accordance with ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349063 | Reflection mirror apparatus, exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method A reflection mirror apparatus, used in a reflection optical system of an exposure apparatus which performs exposure processing by guiding exposure light by reflection, has a mirror having a reflection surface to reflect the exposure light, and radiation plates for r... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344263 | Optical element and processing method for the same Forming an optical element curved surface mirror with a low surface roughness and high shape precision at a low cost by only forming without employing any one of various types of polishing operations during a manufacturing process. The present invention provides an ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7298900 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing program The present invention relates to an image processing method, an image processing apparatus and an image processing program for dealing with inverted characters (outlined characters) constituted by white pixels on a black ground in a tree structure same as that of no... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7200293 | Reconfigurable optoelectronic circuit A reconfigurable optoelectronic circuit adapted to alter its internal configuration includes logic circuits, electric connections and optical connections. It comprises a plurality of logic blocks of electronic circuit and an optical circuit interconnecting them and ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7077500 | Ink jet head and ink jet printer An ink jet head is provided with a plurality of nozzle arrays formed by many numbers of ink nozzles for discharging large-amount ink droplets and small-amount ink droplets. Although the ink jet head generates heat more on the middle portion thereof, it is cooled by ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072836 | Speech processing apparatus and method employing matching and confidence scores A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which each utterance matched to a feature model within a feature model memory (110) is associated with a confidence score indicative of the posterior probability of the word being correctly matched, gi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7048358 | Liquid discharge head and method for manufacturing such head The present invention provides a liquid discharge head and a method for manufacturing such a head, in which a discharging speed of a liquid droplet can be increased, a discharging amount of the liquid droplet can be stabilized and discharging efficiency of the liqui... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036910 | Liquid ejection head, recording apparatus having same and manufacturing method therefor A liquid ejecting head includes a card edge contact having a plurality of electrical contacts for transmission of a driving signal; a recording element substrate having a recording element for generating energy contributable to eject liquid onto a recording material... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7029095 | Ink jet printing apparatus and preliminary ejecting method The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus and a preliminary ejecting method. In both a full-line and a serial printer, the amount of ink passing through nozzles of print heads is sometimes decreased below a normal value before and during actual pr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7014987 | Manufacturing method of liquid jet head A manufacturing method of a liquid jet head, comprising a step of disposing a liquid flow path pattern containing a soluble resin on a substrate and disposing a coating layer containing a resin forming a wall of the liquid flow path so as to coat the liquid flow pat... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7008552 | Method for making through-hole and ink-jet printer head fabricated using the method A method for making a through-hole in a silicon substrate includes the steps of forming a high-impurity-concentration region in the periphery of a through-hole-forming region at a first surface of the silicon substrate, forming an etching stop layer over the through... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010483 | Speech processing system A speech processing system is provided which is operable to receive sets of signal values representative of a speech signal generated by a speech source. The system is operable to determine a measure of the quality of the speech signal by performing a statistical an... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6993840 | Manufacturing method of liquid jet head A manufacturing method of a liquid jet head comprises the following steps of forming a piezoelectric member which generates a discharge pressure for discharging a liquid on a substrate, disposing a vibration plate on the piezoelectric member, forming a liquid flow p... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6967727 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus for forming an image of multilevel image data includes a driving unit for driving an image forming element for image formation, an additional data generating unit for generating a digital signal string based on predetermined additional dat... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6951313 | Knife for disk chip cutting machines A knife for a disk chip cutting machine which is mounted between a carrier part and a clamping part and which includes a chip breaking surface extending into an opening adjacent an outer surface of the carrier part. The chip breaking surface includes a concave porti... | 10/04/2005 |
