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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8331832 | Developing device, assembly body, and image forming apparatus A developing device includes: a first-developer-holding-member facing a surface of a rotating latent image carrier, it rotating such that a moving direction thereof is opposite to that of the carrier at a portion where they face; a second-developer-holding-member pr... | 12/11/2012 |
| 7697864 | Developing device A developing device includes a housing that stores developer; a developing roll that is rotatably supported in the housing and has a developing region with a roughened surface that supplies developer to an image region of an image holding member; a step portion that... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7603280 | Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output can output a music and synthetic speech that indicates contents of inf... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7349946 | Information processing system The system includes a computer for transmitting news information and a computer communicably connected to the computer for receiving the news information. The computer outputs the content of the news information as voice in an order predetermined based upon the cont... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7257352 | Image forming device and image forming method An image forming device for adequately forming an image in which images overlap one another. The priority order (display order) of the images overlapping with one another is judged for the area where images of different attributes overlap with one another. When the ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7203647 | Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output can output a music and synthetic speech that indicates contents of inf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 6993269 | Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus, image forming method and image processing method for forming/processing a three-dimensional image In an image processing section, a foam toner signal generator generates a foam toner signal corresponding to a foam toner amount to be transferred to a three-dimensional print designation region discriminated at a three-dimensional print region discriminator, and a ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6708012 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus that forms a raised print image by successively transferring foaming toner and non-foaming toner onto a recording medium in correspondence to print image information and heat-fixing onto the recording medium the foaming toner and the non-f... | 03/16/2004 |
