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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095063 | Image forming apparatus and method thereof An image forming apparatus having an improved structure to enable a user to conveniently operate the image forming apparatus at a front of the image forming apparatus, and a method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a main body formed with a discharge por... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081920 | Transfer material separating device, transfer device and image forming apparatus A transfer material separating device includes a transfer material moving member (intermediate transfer belt) adapted to move with a transfer material held in contact with and pressed against it so as to have a liquid developer image transferred onto the transfer ma... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8050617 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance unit that conveys plural single cut-sheet recording media arrayed along a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction; and an image forming unit that forms an image on the plural single cut-sheet recording media c... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7720430 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a developer image; a transfer member that transfers the developer image carried on the image carrier onto an image forming surface of a recording medium being conveyed; a fixation member that is disp... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7706737 | Mixed output printing system The disclosed embodiments are directed to the printing of mixed output jobs automatically as a single integrated job. More particularly, a merging module connects two print systems, for example, at approximately 90 degrees to one another, although other configuratio... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7426366 | Image forming apparatus and paper ejection method of image forming apparatus A drive unit for changing the driving rate of paper ejection rollers for ejecting sheets of paper after fixing is installed, and an image forming apparatus has an option, and when ejecting the sheets of paper to an intra-body paper ejection unit, after the sheets of... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7383016 | Electrophotographic device capable of performing an imaging operation and a fusing operation at different speeds An electrophotographic imaging device comprises generally, an image transfer station configured to transfer a toned image to a substrate, a fuser assembly configured to fuse the toned image to the substrate and a transport device configured to transfer the substrate... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7333764 | Paper guide and electrophotographic forming apparatus having the same A paper guide which does not make stripes on an image on a printing paper. The paper guide of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a guiding member for guiding the printing paper into a fusing unit, a plurality of guiding ribs formed on the guidin... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7300051 | Rippler for a paper deliverer A rippler may be installed on a paper deliverer used in conjunction with a paper sheeter, in between the vacuum belts of the sheeter. The rippler includes an upwardly projecting ridge, causing paper passing over it to develop a ripple, thereby increasing the rigidit... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7269385 | Sheet guide, fixing device and image forming apparatus A sheet guide sheet guide for guiding a recording sheet includes an outermost surface layer brought into contact with a recording sheet, which is formed of a material having a water contact angle of approximately 50° or less and one of a pencil hardness of 9H or mo... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7261478 | Systems and methods for handling defective RFID media according to available printer output options A printing device (10) such as a laser printer includes a radio frequency controller (38) which permits the detection and redirection of media having one or more defective radio frequency device tags, such as an RFID tag, to a specific one of two or mo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252286 | Compact printer paper path manual access improvement with collapsible air ducts Increased manual access spaces are provided even within a more compact printer for the movement or removal of printer components such as paper path baffles to be moved for the removal of jammed sheets and/or other hand or tool insertions by printer users and/or repa... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251426 | Image forming apparatus with loop detection and conveying speed control based thereon An image forming apparatus has transfer rollers for transferring an unfixed image, fixing rollers with a changeable conveying speed, discharging rollers with a changeable conveying speed thereof and for discharging the recording material on which the image has been ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7237969 | Dual output tray Embodiments herein comprise a printing/copying media output device or terminal that includes a single media output tray that can be used as a flat tray or a basket tray. The media output tray has a first portion that connects to a media output device, a second porti... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233751 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprising a main body having a copy function of printing an image read from a document on a paper sheet, a printer function of printing an externally input image on a paper sheet, and a paper ejection port to eject a printed paper sheet. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224928 | Sheet wrapping avoidable fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus A fixing apparatus includes a fixing member to be heated and a pressure-contacting member for pressure contacting the fixing member. The fixing apparatus directs and conveys a recording member through a nip formed between the fixing member and pressure applying memb... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7206542 | Sheet post-process apparatus and waiting tray A waiting tray comprises left and right lower face support members for supporting a sheet. These support members are formed so that a width of an opening portion formed therebetween is wide at a distal end side as compared with a proximal end side in a transport dir... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206543 | Sheet post-process apparatus and waiting tray A waiting tray comprises a waiting tray roller which ejects a transported sheet to a storage tray, a waiting tray roller drive source which drives the waiting tray roller so as to come into contact with the sheet or so as to be spaced from the sheet, and a waiting t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7173717 | Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same In a sheet post-processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus according to the present invention, the sheet post-processing apparatus is provided with discharge rollers for discharging a sheet, a fixed stacking portion for supporting a portion of the discharge... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7152528 | Digital printing machine The invention concerns a digital printing machine for sheet printing with a digital printing mechanism with free format in the peripheral direction, an intermediate cylinder which is connected downstream of the digital printing mechanism and is at least partially co... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7133639 | Medicine-bag printing apparatus To provide a medicine-bag printing apparatus provided with a conveying mechanism that can smoothly convey medicine bags and align them. A medicine bag (2 ) is printed by any one of a plurality of printers (11, 12 ) to be collected in a collecting porti... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130575 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device that fixes the toner image onto the recording medium by applying heat and pressure; ejection rollers provided away from the fixing device for ejecting the recording medium; a guide provided on at least one part of... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123873 | Printing system with inverter disposed for media velocity buffering and registration Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media or provide a velocity buffer transports with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies can... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7080948 | Paper ejecting mechanism and ink-jet printer having the paper ejecting mechanism A paper ejecting mechanism and an ink-jet printer having the paper ejecting mechanism. The paper ejecting mechanism includes an ejecting roller and a star wheel which eject a sheet of paper printed by a printhead into an output tray, and a paper stand installed unde... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079804 | Image forming apparatus To ensure stable feed of transfer material when a paper back vacuuming feed mechanism is employed in the path from a transfer section to a fixing section in an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus is such that the transfer section is arranged on the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7061637 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively collating a stack of single-/double-sided recording sheets in a desired ejection tray An image forming apparatus includes first and second image carrying members, ejection trays, and a sheet transferring mechanism. The first image carrying member carries images in increasing order of corresponding sheet numbers. The second image carrying member carri... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062218 | Quad-roll decurler A quad roll sheet curl control apparatus uses elastomer first and second rolls forming first and second nips with third and fourth rolls. The first and second rolls have compressible surfaces, while the third and fourth roll surfaces are formed of a substantially un... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058327 | Transfer apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method of belt-speed correction A belt rotates and carries a plurality of images. A scale is provided along at least one side of entire of the belt. A sensor reads the scale on the belt to obtain scale information. An actual speed calculating unit calculates a speed of the belt from the scale info... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046941 | Image formation apparatus An image formation apparatus including an image reading device that reads an image recorded on a document, an image forming apparatus in which the image can be formed on a recording medium, based on image information read by the image reading device, and an ejecting... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7024152 | Printing system with horizontal highway and single pass duplex Parallel printing systems include first and second adjacent electronic printers and at least one sheet bypass section extending around the second electronic printer to provide a sheet transporting path overlying the second electronic printer and bypassing the second... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020431 | Image forming apparatus with different transport speeds in transfer unit and fixing unit An image forming apparatus has an image bearing unit for bearing a toner image, a transfer device for transferring the toner image on the image bearing unit onto a sheet, fixing unit for fixing to the sheet toner image, and first and second sheet transport guides di... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020432 | Recording medium supporting member, recording medium conveying device for use in image forming apparatus and image forming system, and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes at least one image bearing member. A visual image forming device forms the visual images on the at least one image bearing member. A two-side transfer device transfers the visual images on the at least one image bearing member ont... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7010242 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit having a first printing section for forming a first image on the paper; a second image forming unit having a second printing section for forming a second image on the paper; and a paper conveying unit f... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6996351 | System and method for using a printer to collate a document A system and method are provided for using a printer to collate a document from preprinted pages. The method includes: loading document sections in at least one printer input media tray, although a plurality of document sections may be loaded into a corresponding pl... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6968150 | Systems and methods for adding post-collation operations and interleaved imaging jobs to an imaging job A system for adding a post-collation operation to an imaging job is disclosed. The system includes a computing device with executable instructions. The executable instructions are executable on the computing device and are configured to implement a method for adding... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965740 | Image forming apparatus and sheet detecting unit incorporated in the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit transferring a toner image on a first face of a sheet, a fixing unit fixing the toner image onto the first face of the sheet, and a sheet detecting unit detecting the sheet in a sheet transporting path. The sheet d... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6957035 | Vacuum assisted fuser entrance guide for an electrophotographic machine A fuser entrance guide in an electrophotographic apparatus, which supports a sheet of copy medium as it enters the fuser section. The guide has a curved base plate that has vacuum ports both at the edges and across the central area thereof. The ports in the central ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950622 | Manual paper feeding apparatus A manual paper feeding apparatus comprises a tray for manual paper feeding, a paper feed roller to feed the paper fed manually from the tray, a separation roller which is pressed to contact the paper feed roller, rotated at the pressed contact position in the direct... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6931229 | Apparatus and method of forming image using rotary developer A CPU 111 drives a transportation system driving motor 84 and turns on a paper feed clutch 85 after an exposure unit 50 starts forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive member of a photosensitive member unit 10, whe... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6912057 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving image data having color pages containing color images and monochromatic pages not containing any color images, a change unit for changing order of printing of the received image data in order to make color page p... | 06/28/2005 |
