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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6932995 | Method for producing bulk confectionery The invention concerns a method for making a chocolate-flavored confectionery which consists in coating at least a particle with alternative layers of fats and powders comprising cocoa. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922489 | Image interpretation method and apparatus A method of interpreting an image using a statistical or probabilistic interpretation model is disclosed. The image has associated therewith contextual information. The method comprises the following steps: providing the contextual information associated with the im... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6777153 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE CONTAINING UNIT WITH THIENYL STRUCTURE IN THE SIDE CHAIN, PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION, CHARGE CONTROL AGENT, TONER BINDER AND TONER WHICH CONTAIN THIS POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE, AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS WHICH MAKE USE OF THE TONER A polyhydroxyalkanoate characterized by having in the molecule a unit represented by Chemical Formula (1): wherein n may assume any one integral value within the range of from 1 to 8. Also disclosed are a process ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6764695 | Tablet and process for producing tablets A tablet including active substance affected by lubricant, wherein the tablet is comprised of compressed mixture of active substance and adjuvant except for lubricant, and lubricant exists only on the surface of the tablet but is not included in the tablet. Such a t... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6633334 | Solid-state image pickup device with optimum layout of building components around a photoelectric conversion portion To optimize the layout of a pixel portion, there is provided a solid-state image pickup device including a photoelectric conversion portion, a charge transfer portion for transferring signal charges generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, and a... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6528940 | Conductive liquid crystal device, and organic electroluminescence device In a conductive liquid crystal device, particularly an organic EL device, including a carrier transporting layer of a conductive liquid crystal and a functional organic layer disposed between a pair of electrodes, a protective layer having a carrier trans... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6507409 | Method for controlling information relating to the state of use in a printing apparatus, and a printing apparatus A printing apparatus can process all information relating to past states of use of the printing apparatus and appropriately notify the user of the state of use of the printing apparatus. A number of used recording sheets in the printing apparatus is accum... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6477318 | Image recording method and device in which color conversion information is recorded as sub-code information, and computer-readable recording medium therefor With the object of effecting color management of dynamic image data obtained under a variety of image capture conditions, when dynamic image data is recorded on a medium by means of a recording head, together with the dynamic image data, conversion charac... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6466333 | Streamlined tetrahedral interpolation A streamlined technique for obtaining interpolated color output values from corresponding color input values based on color output values stored in a color look-up table, with tetrahedral interpolation being applied so as to dissect each cubic grid of the... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6453066 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing method in which color-appearance matching of an output image to an input image is achieved regardless of ambient light. Color conversion is performed on image data representing an input image to fulfil color-appearance matching of an o... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6449065 | Method for capturing a document image, a scanner using the method and a document image management system using the scanner A document image capture method and scanner, and an image processing apparatus incorporating such a scanner, in which a document is scanned two or more times. The first scan preferably provides bi-level image data, which is analyzed to identify blocks of ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6437235 | Solar cell module, solar cell-bearing roof and solar cell power generation system A solar cell module has an outermost surface comprising a surface member on the light receiving face side of the solar cell module, a back face comprising a back face member on the non-light receiving face side of the solar cell module, and a photovoltaic... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6438604 | Digital video network interface A digital video network interface for transferring isochronous video data over an asynchronous local area network, including an isochronous interface for transmitting digital video data isochronously, a memory comprising first and second buffers for stori... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6421140 | Color space conversion with simplified interpolation A method for converting color coordinate values of a target color from a first three-dimensional color space to a second three-dimensional color space, includes looking up the target color in a look-up table and interpolating each color component of the t... | 07/16/2002 |
