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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051776 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING PRINT PRICING ON SELECTIVELY VARYING OPERATING SPEED The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selectively varying the operating speed of an image-forming apparatus. The method includes selecting an identifier specifying a desired operating speed for executing a job on the image-forming apparatus. The method... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110262171 | Printing Device Having Correcting Function A correction unit executes a correcting function for measuring at least one of position and density of a test image in response to a correction instruction and correcting an operation setting of a printing unit based on the measurement result. Print data includes correc... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110236050 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE AND AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE FOR APPLICATION OF THE METHOD The present invention relates to a method for selectively removing magnetically attractable toner particles from an image-forming device, the image-forming device comprising a cleaning magnet system, configured to provide an activatable second magnetic field, the method... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110236049 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus including: a memory unit to store various pieces of information; and a control unit to execute backup control to store information stored in the memory unit into an external memory device and to make the image forming apparatus shift from an o... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110176825 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR An image forming system capable of immediately responding to a job command given by a user, reducing power consumption, and preventing the service life of component parts from being adversely affected. In a case where no printing is to be performed, a main controller of... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170892 | Drive transmission device and image forming apparatus including same A drive transmission device including at least one drive source, a drive transmission member, and a drive gear train. The drive transmission member includes an engaging part that engages a first rotary body provided within a unit detachably attachable to an image formin... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110158673 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PRINTING METHOD A printing apparatus connected to another printing apparatus to feed sheets to the another printing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from another printing apparatus, stop detection information regarding timing of a printing stop in another prin... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110020025 | Image forming system An image forming system is provided with an Image Forming Operation Unit, an Air Cleaning Operation Unit, a power source, and a Control Unit. The Control Unit has a coordinated OFF control function of coordinating a first power supply OFF control for turning off power s... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100329723 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM This invention provides an image forming apparatus which performs sleep control for a shift to the sleep mode for each function and provides a user-friendly operation system, and a method of controlling the same. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus sets a sh... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100322661 | PRINT OUTPUT SYSTEM, PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR THE SAME A system, a control apparatus, a control method and a computer program are provided which are configured to control a printing output in response to characteristics of a printing apparatus when a plurality of printing apparatuses has different characteristics. A host co... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316405 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RETURN PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image forming apparatus, which has a plurality of operation modes with different power supply conditions, includes an electric-energy accumulating unit for calculating electric energy consumption in a current operation mode; a return-time calculating unit for calcula... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100104311 | Image Forming Apparatus An image forming apparatus is swung with a stopper which is swingable simultaneously with a switching member, and which allows rotation of an output gear by being disengaged from the output gear with a swinging movement of the switching member to an ON side, and which s... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100021197 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus capable of toggling between image formation mode and energy conservation mode, the image formation mode allowing image formation on a recording medium, and the energy conservation mode having power consumption lower than that of the image form... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090317118 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A color printer of the invention is controlled to select DC motors needed to be newly activated according to a print mode when a print job occurs, determine an activation start time of each selected DC motor by sequentially going back activation times stored in relation... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090290895 | METHOD FOR PRINT ENGINE SYNCHRONIZATION A print engine synchronization method enables the movement of a first print engine dielectric support member (DSM) having one or more image frames as well as the movement of a second print engine DSM having one or more image frames by monitoring a first frame signal fro... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090290896 | PRINT ENGINE SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS A print engine synchronization system apparatus enables the movement of a first print engine dielectric support member (DSM) having one or more image frames as well as the movement of a second print engine DSM having one or more image frames by monitoring a first frame ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090285594 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A process unit is removably attached inside a main body of an image forming apparatus. The process unit includes a casing and a latent image carrier housed inside the casing. The latent image carrier can rotate in a forward direction and a reverse direction. An ID chip ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090010670 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method It is judged whether a sufficient time for executing all of three correction processings (a high density correction processing, a halftone correction processing, and a registration correction processing) can be secured or not. When the sufficient time cannot be secured,... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090010662 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus that includes: an image forming portion for forming an image in accordance with image data contained in an input command; and a controller for controlling the image forming portion, and is constructed such that the controller includes: a mode ... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090003869 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an opening-closing lid for opening and closing an opening portion formed in an apparatus main body; a detection unit for detecting an open state of the opening-closing lid; an execution unit for executing a specific operation; a main ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080292351 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC APPLIANCE A thermoelectric conversion element converts thermal energy of a user into electric power. A holding unit holds the electric power converted by the thermoelectric conversion element, and outputs the electric power. A switching unit switches between a first mode in which... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080285997 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium An image forming apparatus, an image forming method, and a storage medium. The image forming apparatus includes a memory, a frame creator to create at least one rendering frame in the memory, a renderer to render rendering data on the at least one rendering frame based ... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080205909 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM The image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires information on disaster; and a switching unit that switches an operational mode of the image processing apparatus from a first operational mode in which image processing is not performed when there ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080193156 | Image forming apparatus having high voltage circuit board and driving unit An image forming apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes a high voltage circuit board (14) and a driving unit (10). A frame (4B) is provided in the apparatus (1) to support an image forming unit (2). The frame ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080181648 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING PROCESS CONTROLLING METHOD A technique that can realize efficiency of control of an image forming process corresponding to a motion state of a user is provided. An image forming apparatus that performs a predetermined process according to a motion state of a user inc... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080063422 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming system which makes clear the point in time at which initial information transmission for all peripheral devices connected to an image forming apparatus serving as the main device is complete, even when the peripheral devices are attached in various comb... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080038007 | DIAGNOSITC DEVICE, DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, DIAGONOSTIC METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM A diagnostic system that effectively presents optimum products to the users by effectively using information about the use history of an image forming apparatus used by the users and other information specific to the image forming apparatus that may be stored in advance... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080031641 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a processing unit which performs an image recording process for recording an image on a recording medium based on image data; a movement mechanism which moves the processing unit; a first control section which controls the image recor... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080019725 | Peripheral unit, image forming apparatus and image forming system using the same A peripheral unit is disclosed including a pre-processing device for performing a pre-processing process, or a post-processing device for performing a post-processing process, wherein the peripheral unit is connectable to an image forming apparatus and has multiple prep... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070253724 | Image forming apparatus A delaying section for obtaining from an image processing section a printing rate of image data used for forming a toner image, and delaying in accordance with the obtained printing rate a start timing of a toner image forming by the toner image forming section. The del... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070253723 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM An image forming apparatus is operable with a first sheet processing device and a second sheet processing device connected to the image forming apparatus via a network. The image forming apparatus includes a memory configured to store a control program for the first and... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070248372 | Image forming apparatus When an instruction reception section receives an image forming instruction from an operator, a detector detects an toner image forming unit which performs an image forming operation in connection with the operator's instruction. A mode determining section determines wh... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070212082 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD A band-like developer (toner) image is formed on an image bearing member by a developing member without performing a charging operation by a charger for electrically charging the image bearing member and then is removed by a cleaner. Thereafter, the charging operation i... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070147868 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A printer in which, while achieving a stabilization of image quality by process control processing, the generation of unnecessary wait time to the user, shortening of lifespan of the apparatus and needless consumption of toner caused by unnecessary execution of the proc... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070147867 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM An image recording system is provided which includes two image recording apparatuses that can independently record images and can sequentially start up the two image recording apparatuses one by one rather than starting up at the same time. A bypass transporting path ap... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070143698 | Image processing apparatus having enhanced display function An image processing apparatus includes a display unit, which selectively displays a standby message, an operation message, and an additional message. The standby message indicates a standby condition of the image processing apparatus, and the operation message indicates... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070116486 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREOF An image forming apparatus is capable of executing an auto paper selection function for automatically selecting a paper size corresponding to a paper size of an input document from a plurality of paper cassettes, and an auto magnification selection function for automati... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070104495 | Method and apparatus for detecting cover opening of image forming apparatus and method and apparatus for controlling supply of power A method and apparatus for detecting a cover opening of an image forming apparatus and a method and apparatus for controlling the supply of power to the image forming apparatus by detecting cover opening are provided. A detection is made as to whether first and second c... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070098427 | Image forming device When a card reader detects that a magnetic card is inserted (YES in S1), an operative program stored in the magnetic card is installed in a storage unit by an installing unit (S3), while when the card reader detects that the magnetic card is removed (YES i... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070092280 | Image forming apparatus and control method of that apparatus An image forming apparatus adapted for a smooth mounting/dismounting of a process unit and for the reduction of wasteful power consumption is provided. Unless a new image signal is applied after completion of an image forming operation, th... | 04/26/2007 |
