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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7852517 | Control apparatus and method thereof, recording apparatus and method of controlling the same A position control unit performs control so that the position of a controlled object is detected, and as a result of the detection, a drive unit is reverse-directed if the controlled object is situated beyond an ultimate target position, and the operation of the dri... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7306216 | Power transmitting apparatus, power switching apparatus, and driving apparatus of multi-function machine using the same A driving apparatus of a multi-function machine includes a scanner unit scanning data recorded on a sheet of document and a document transport part to transport the sheet of document. A printer unit prints data on a sheet of paper for an output and includes a carrie... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7106901 | Method and apparatus for image classification This invention relates to a method and apparatus for image classification. More particularly, the present invention provides a technique to classify an image as a picture, a graphic or a mixed mode image. The classification is based on an approximation of a segmenta... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106015 | Motor control device and motor control method If a traveling speed of a carriage calculated by a speed converter is larger than an estimated speed in a deceleration section, braking is conducted by a braking method corresponding to a manipulated variable generated by a drive control unit. Owing to this type of ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6943523 | Brushless motor control system For self-switching control of a brushless motor (10) powered by means of a predetermined electrical cycle in order to cause the rotor to advance, the control system comprises an indicator device (100) for indicating the mechanical position of the rotor... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6728007 | Method of and apparatus for compressing discharged stencil in stencil printer Discharged stencils stored in a discharged stencil box of a stencil printer are compressed by a compression member driven by a DC compression motor. The cycle rate of pulses generated from a rotary encoder representing the speed of the compression motor is detected ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 5477342 | Facsimile machine and recording control method with variable polygon mirror rotation speed A facsimile machine includes a first part for emitting a scanning light beam which is used to record information, a second part for rotating a polygon mirror which reflects the scanning light beam, a third part for receiving information from a source and ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5418629 | Control device for a reader motor When the operating mode of a facsimile apparatus relates to only the reading of an original to be transmitted, coding, and storage into an image memory, the reading of the original, coding of the image signal, and storage of the image signal are executed ... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5239393 | Image reading apparatus An image processing system has a reading device for reading an image of an original line by line, which repeats the reading operation at a predetermined cycle. A moving device moves an image reading position of the reading device in accordance with a driv... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5164845 | Image reading apparatus Picture reading equipment having a reader for reading an image of the original, moving unit for moving an image reading position of said reader, and a driver for supplying a driving signal to said moving unit. The feed timing of the driving signal is so c... | 11/17/1992 |
| 4213156 | System for the phase locking synthesized high frequency pulses to a low frequency signal A source of clock pulses is coupled to a synthesizer of higher frequency pulses which comprises a frequency divider which is reset in response to each of the higher frequency pulses. A lower frequency square wave signal is applied to circuitry for generat... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4146908 | Method and apparatus for driving facsimile transceivers In a facsimile system, rotation of a transmitter drum carrying a document is synchronized with the rotation of a receiver drum carrying a copy medium. Synchronization of the rotating transmitter drum and the rotating receiver drum is assured by driving th... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4092576 | Method and apparatus for facsimile scanning A facsimile transceiver comprises a rotatably mounted drum and an information transducer juxtaposed to the drum for marking on a copy medium carried by the drum or detecting dark-light variations in a document carried by the drum. The drum is driven by a ... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4080632 | System and method for facsimile framing A facsimile system incorporating an up-down counter to achieve framing between a facsimile transmitter and a facsimile receiver. The facsimile receiver initially has a sweep rate different from a standard sweep rate. The up-down counter counts the facsimi... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4044383 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing facsimile transceivers In a facsimile system, rotation of a transmitter drum carrying a document is synchronized with the rotation of a receiver drum carrying a copy medium. Synchronization is achieved by rotating the transmitter drum at a substantially constant angular frequen... | 08/23/1977 |
| 3937883 | Braking circuit for use with phase synchronizing circuitry For use with a phase synchronizing circuit which synchronizes an A-C motor at the receiving end of a communication link with one at the transmitting end thereof by repeatedly applying to the main coils of the receiving end motor, reduced frequency signals... | 02/10/1976 |
