05th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150029466 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A light source apparatus includes a light emitting device that has a first light emitting region outputting first excitation light and a second light emitting region outputting second excitation light, a phosphor layer that is so provided that the phosphor layer coincides with the first light emitting region in a plan view and emits fluorescence light, a reflector that is provided on the opposite side of the phosphor layer to the light emitting device, transmits the fluorescence light, and reflects the excitation light, and a light guide section that is disposed on an optical path between the phosphor layer and the reflector, and guides the second excitation light reflected off the reflector such that at least part of the reflected second excitation light enters the phosphor layer. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029467 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A small light source unit is provided which emits lights of the primary colors which are highly bright and which have a high color reproducibility and excitation light, and the light source unit includes a light source module and a light source control module and the light source module has a first light source which emits light having a first wavelength which is used as excitation light which excites a luminescent material, and a second light source which emits light having a second wavelength which is different from the first wavelength but which falls within a range of wavelengths of light of a similar color to that of the light of the first light source, and the light source control module controls individually the illumination of the first light source and the second light source. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029468 | PROJECTING TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus including a light source; a light source control unit configured to control electric power to be supplied to the light source; a light source cooling unit configured to cool the light source; a cooling control unit configured to control the light source cooling unit; an image display device; an illumination optical system configured to introduce light from the light source to the image display device, and a projecting optical system configured to project light modulated by the image display device. When the light source control unit receives a turn-off command, the light source control unit first lowers electric power to be supplied to the light source to a predetermined electric power lower than normal electric power to be supplied when the lamp is on, and then blocks the supply of the electric power to the light source, thereby turning the light source off. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029469 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image projection apparatus includes a light source in which a light emitting material emits light through an electric discharge between electrodes; an image forming unit that modulates an intensity of the light emitted from the light source to form an image; a cooling fan that cools the light source; an input unit that receives an input of an instruction signal for turning off a power source of the image projection apparatus; a voltage detector that detects a voltage value of the light source in lighting; a voltage value determining unit that determines whether the voltage value detected by the voltage detector is less than a preset threshold value when the input unit receives the instruction signal; and a cooling fan controller that performs an after-cooling operation of driving the cooling fan to cool the light source when the voltage value is less than the threshold value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029470 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS - An image projection apparatus according to the present invention, includes: an air-intake port that takes in outside air for cooling the inside of a housing; a heater that is provided near the air-intake port and generates heat with supply of electric power; a temperature sensor that is provided next to the heater; and a controller that monitors a decrease in the flow velocity of outside air taken in through the air-intake port based on temperature values measured by the temperature sensor. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029471 | IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE - An image projection device includes: a centrifugal fan that sends air circulating through a casing to a light source; a heat generator that generates heat with supply of power and that is provided in the vicinity of an ejection port of the centrifugal fan; a temperature sensor that is provided to be adjacent to the heat generator; and a controller that monitors lowering of the velocity of the air, which is sent from the centrifugal fan, on the basis of the value of a temperature measured by the temperature sensor. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029472 | OPTICAL DEVICE UTILIZED IN LASER PROJECTOR - An optical device utilized in a laser projector includes a circulatory air channel, a phosphor wheel disposed in the circulatory air channel, a thermal exchanger partially disposed in the circulatory air channel, and an air guiding component disposed in the circulatory air channel for guiding an air provided by the thermal exchanger toward the phosphor wheel. The temperature of the air passing through the phosphor wheel is lower than an environment temperature. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029473 | MOBILE INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION AND COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A mobile interactive presentation and collaboration system having a projector carriage is positioned rearward of a screen assembly such that a projector positioned on the projector carriage operates as a counterweight balancing the screen assembly to prevent die screen assembly from tipping forward. The projector carriage is positioned at the base of the screen assembly to lower the center of gravity of the system to further improve the stability of tire system. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029474 | PROJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE - A projective optical system comprises: a lens optical system including lenses; and a transmissive optical element having an anamorphic surface and being provided in an optical path between the lens optical system and a projected surface, wherein the transmissive optical element has a curvature with respect to a direction corresponding to a long side of a display screen of the image display element, and on a cross-sectional surface being perpendicular to the long side of the display screen, and with respect to light being emitted from the lens optical system and being incident to the transmissive optical element, a light intensity of a first light flux being incident to the transmissive optical element at a first incident angle is lower than a light intensity of a second light flux being incident to the transmissive optical element at a second incident angle being larger than the first incident angle. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029475 | COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - There are provided a coherent light source apparatus and a projector that achieve avoiding of an issue that uniformity in projected light is degraded by a speckle that inevitably appears upon projection of coherent light of a semiconductor laser, any other laser, etc., and each including: a coherent light source; a first optical system configured to project light derived from a first light emission region to form a second light emission region, the first light emission region being formed on basis of the coherent light source; a light deflection section configured to deflect a bundle of rays in vicinity of the second light emission region, the bundle of rays being related to formation of the second light emission region; a second optical system provided downstream of the light deflection section; and a light mixing section provided downstream of the second optical system, and configured to mix components of angles and positions of rays incident on an incident end. The second optical system is configured to form, in distance, an image conjugate to the first light emission region, and form, at the incident end, a third light emission region substantially conjugate to an exit pupil of the first optical system. The light deflection section is configured to continue to perform an operation that causes a direction in which the bundle of rays is deflected to be continuously changed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029476 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND EXPOSURE METHOD - An immersion projection optical system having, for example, a catadioptric and off-axis structure, reduces the portion of an image space filled with liquid (immersion liquid). The projection optical system, which projects a reduced image of a first plane onto a second plane through the liquid, includes a refractive optical element (Lp) arranged nearest to the second plane. The refractive optical element includes a light emitting surface (Lpb) shaped to be substantially symmetric with respect to two axial directions (XY-axes) perpendicular to each other on the second plane. The light emitting surface has a central axis (Lpba) that substantially coincides with a central axis ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029477 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS - An optical system for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has an optical axis, at least one mirror arrangement having a plurality of mirror elements that are adjustable independently of one another for altering an angular distribution of the light reflected by the mirror arrangement, and a deflection device which includes, relative to the optical beam path downstream of the mirror arrangement, at least one deflection surface at which a deflection of the optical axis occurs. The at least one deflection surface has refractive power. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029478 | Fuel Stream Generator, Source Collector Apparatus and Lithographic Apparatus - A fuel stream generator comprising a nozzle connected to a fuel reservoir, wherein the nozzle is provided with a gas inlet configured to provide a sheath of gas around fuel flowing along the nozzle is disclosed. Also disclosed are a method of generating fuel droplets and a lithography apparatus incorporating the fuel stream generator. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029479 | PROJECTION EXPOSURE METHOD AND PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY - A projection exposure method for exposing a radiation-sensitive substrate with at least one image of a pattern of a mask is provided. The method includes determining at least one light quiver parameter which describes a property of a light quiver, and controlling the operation of the projection exposure apparatus taking account of the light quiver parameter. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029480 | OPTICAL SYSTEM OF A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS - An optical system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus comprises at least one mirror arrangement, having a plurality of mirror elements which are adjustable independently of one another for varying an angular distribution of the light reflected by the mirror arrangement, a polarization-influencing optical arrangement, by which, for a light beam passing through during the operation of the projection exposure apparatus, different polarization states can be set via the light beam cross section, and a retarder arrangement, which is arranged upstream of the polarization-influencing optical arrangement in the light propagation direction and at least partly compensates for a disturbance of the polarization distribution that is present elsewhere in the projection exposure apparatus, wherein the polarization-influencing optical arrangement has optical components which are adjustable in their relative position with respect to one another, wherein different output polarization distributions can be produced by this adjustment in conjunction with the mirror arrangement. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029481 | METHOD OF OPERATING A PATTERNING DEVICE AND LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A lithographic reticle is illuminated to transfer a pattern to a substrate, inducing distortions due to heating. The distortions are calculated using reference marks in a peripheral portion of the reticle and measuring changes in their relative positions over time. A plurality of cells are defined for which a system of equations can be solved to calculate a dilation of each cell. In an embodiment, each equation relates positions of pairs of marks to dilations of the cells along a line (s, s1, s2) connecting each pair. Local positional deviations can be calculated for a position by combining calculated dilations for cells between at least one measured peripheral mark and the position. Corrections can be applied in accordance with the result of the calculation. Energy may be applied to the patterning device (for example by thermal input or mechanical actuators) to modify a distribution of the local positional deviations. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029482 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND EXPOSURE METHOD - An immersion projection optical system having, for example, a catadioptric and off-axis structure, reduces the portion of an image space filled with liquid (immersion liquid). The projection optical system, which projects a reduced image of a first plane onto a second plane through the liquid, includes a refractive optical element (Lp) arranged nearest to the second plane. The refractive optical element includes a light emitting surface (Lpb) shaped to be substantially symmetric with respect to two axial directions (XY-axes) perpendicular to each other on the second plane. The light emitting surface has a central axis (Lpba) that substantially coincides with a central axis ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029483 | Exposure Device, Exposure Method and Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Device - The present invention provides a highly controllable device for exposure from the back side and an exposure method, and also provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same. The present invention involves exposure with the use of the back side exposure device of which a reflecting means is disposed on the front side of a substrate, apart from a photosensitive thin film surface by a distance X (X=0.1 μm to 1000 μm), and formation of a photosensitive thin film pattern in a self alignment manner, with good controllability, at a position a distance Y away from the end of a pattern. The invention fabricates a TFT using that method. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029484 | STAGE APPARATUS, LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a stage apparatus which holds a substrate, including a first moving stage, a second moving stage supported by the first moving stage, a linear motor including a coil arranged on the first moving stage, and a magnet arranged on the second moving stage in correspondence with the coil, a first channel formed in the first moving stage to supply a first refrigerant for recovering heat from the coil not to contact the coil, a cover member arranged on the first moving stage to surround the coil and be spaced apart from the coil, and a second channel formed in the cover member to supply a second refrigerant for recovering heat from the cover member not to contact the coil. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029485 | SUBSTRATE HOLDER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SUBSTRATE HOLDER - An object holder ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029486 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DISTANCE BETWEEN VEHICLES - Disclosed herein is an apparatus for detecting a lead distance between a user vehicle and a target vehicle in front thereof. The apparatus includes first and second position sensitive devices (PSD) arranged in the user vehicle orthogonal to the distance and each having first and second light receivers configured to receive light emitted from the target vehicle, in which the first and second PSDs output voltage corresponding intensity of light received by the first and second light receivers, and a controller configured to receive voltages output from the first and second PSDs and calculate the distance using Equation 1: L=(KD/d)/(v1−v2). | 2015-01-29 |
20150029487 | DETECTION APPARATUS AND VEHICLE - A detection apparatus attachable to a structure includes a transmission unit to transmit a transmission signal; a receiving unit to receive a reflection signal of the transmission signal reflected from a detection target; and a detection processing unit to detect the detection target based on the reflection signal. The structure includes a transmission translucent portion and a receiving translucent portion. The transmission signal having a given wavelength range passes through the transmission translucent portion, and the reflection signal having a given wavelength range passes through the receiving translucent portion. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029488 | MEASURING SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A measuring system includes a smart terminal and a measuring device. The smart terminal includes a first power source module, a first processor, a first wireless communication unit and a memory. The measuring device includes a measuring module, a second power source module and a second wireless communication unit. The measuring system may include one or more applications to provide a rich set of functionalities. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029489 | MEASURING DEVICE HAVING A SCANNING FUNCTIONALITY AND A SINGLE-POINT MEASUREMENT MODE - Embodiments described herein relate to a measuring device, comprising a base that defines a vertical axis, an assembly that can be pivoted about the vertical axis relative to the base, and a beam deflecting unit for varying the orientation of a measurement axis, wherein the beam deflecting unit can be rotated about a horizontal axis relative to the assembly. The measuring device further has a distance measurement functionality for measuring distance by means of the measurement radiation, an angle measurement functionality for determining an orientation of the measurement axis relative to the base, a control and processing unit for processing data and for controlling the measuring device, and a scanning functionality, wherein when the scanning functionality is executed, a scan is performed, and a point cloud comprising the scan points is produced. The assembly also has an imaging system. The measuring device may have a single-point measurement mode. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029490 | LASER SCANNING DEVICE - A laser scanning device includes a light source and a light scanner that scans a laser light emitted from the laser light source. The light source emits the laser light so that the laser light is incident to the light scanner from a plurality of directions. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029491 | APPARATUS FOR MICROFLUID DETECTION - A apparatus for microfluid detection for detecting a sample fluid including a plurality of magnetic particles is provided. The apparatus for microfluid detection includes a microfluidic chip and a magnetic generating module. The microfluidic chip includes a substrate and microfluidic channels, wherein the sample fluid is carried by a carry surface of the substrate. The magnetic generating module is adapted for providing a positioning magnetic field and a surrounding magnetic field. The magnetic module controls to move the sample fluid and change a distribution of the magnetic particles in the sample fluid through the positioning magnetic field and the surrounding magnetic field. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029492 | MEASUREMENT OF TOTAL HEMOGLOBIN IN WHOLE BLOOD - A method for determining total hemoglobin concentration in a blood sample comprising spectrophotometric analysis of a blood sample at two wavelengths and determining a ratio of the detected radiation at a first wavelength to the detected radiation at a second wavelength; and determining a concentration of total hemoglobin in the blood sample based on the ratio. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029493 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE CENTRICITY OF A CONDUCTOR IN AN INSULATING CASING - A method for measuring the centricity of a conductor in an insulating casing, in which the string formed by the conductor with its insulating casing is moved along a conveying direction. A device for measuring the centricity of a conductor in an insulating casing includes an inductive measuring apparatus, first and second optical measuring apparatus and an evaluation apparatus. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029494 | Atmospheric Molecular Contamination Control with Local Purging - A local purging tool for purging a portion of a surface of a wafer with purging gas is disclosed. The purging tool includes a purging chamber configured to contain purging gas within a cavity of the purging chamber, a permeable portion of a surface of the purging chamber configured to diffuse purging gas from the cavity of the chamber to a portion of a surface of a wafer, and an aperture configured to transmit illumination received from an illumination source to a measurement location of the portion of the surface of the wafer and further configured to transmit illumination reflected from the measurement location to a detector. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029495 | DIAGNOSTIC MODULE - A diagnostic module may include an inspection device, a cleaning device, and in various other examples, a verification device. The inspection device may inspect an optical fiber end-face of an optical fiber. The cleaning device may clean the optical fiber end-face of the optical fiber. The diagnostic module may automatically move from an optical connector to another optical connector. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029496 | METHOD OF DEPOSITION MONITORING - The invention provides methods and compositions for measuring the formation of scale within a process system. The method involves measuring changes in the cell fouling as reflected on the refraction index measurements of a liquid medium with a refractometer and determining the scale formation from changes in the cell fouling factor. This allows for a refractometer to determine the formation of scale in locations that otherwise would not be measureable. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029497 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING HIGH-INTENSITY LIGHT BEAMS - Systems and methods for measuring an intensity characteristic of a light beam are disclosed. The methods include directing the light beam into a prism assembly that includes a thin prism sandwiched by two transparent plates, and reflecting a portion of the light beam by total-internal-reflection surface to an integrating sphere while transmitting the remaining portion of the light beam through the two transparent plates to a beam dump. The method also includes detecting light captured by the integrating sphere and determining the intensity characteristic from the detected light. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029498 | MONITORING CHANGES IN PHOTOMASK DEFECTIVITY - A reticle that is within specifications is inspected so as to generate a baseline event indicating a location and a size value for each unusual reticle feature. After using the reticle in photolithography, the reticle is inspected so as to generate a current event indicating a location and a size value for each unusual reticle feature. An inspection report of candidate defects and their images is generated so that these candidate defects include a first subset of the current events and their corresponding candidate defect images and exclude a second subset of the current events and their corresponding excluded images. Each of the first included events has a location and size value that fails to match any baseline event's location and size value, and each of the excluded second events has a location and size value that matches a baseline event's location and size value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029499 | AUTO-FOCUS SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DIE-TO-DIE INSPECTION - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for detecting defects in a semiconductor sample having a plurality of identically designed areas. An inspection tool is used to construct an initial focus trajectory for a first swath of the sample. The inspection tool is then used to scan the first swath by following the initial focus trajectory for the first swath while collecting autofocus data. A z offset measurement vector for each identically designed area in the first swath is generated based on the autofocus data. A corrected z offset vector is constructed for inspection of the first swath with the inspection tool. Constructing the corrected z offset vector is based on combining the z offset measurement vectors for two or more of the identically designed areas in the first swath so that the corrected z offset vector specifies a same z offset for each set of same positions in the two or more identically designed areas. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029500 | BORESCOPE STEERING ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods provided herein. In one embodiment, a borescope system includes a probe to capture images and a display a settings menu, measurements, the images captured by the probe, or any combination thereof. In addition, the borescope system a processor programmed to display a user interface to enable a user to control movement of the probe, adjust settings, navigate menus, make selections, or any combination thereof. The processor is communicatively coupled to the probe, and the display, and is programmed to instruct the borescope to enter a live menu view when an articulation mode is selected from the settings menu. In the live menu view, the processor is programmed to instruct the display to display the images captured by the probe, and to enable a user to control the movement of the probe and adjust articulation sensitivity of the probe while viewing the images on the display. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029501 | Optical Cup - The present invention relates to a system for conducting the identification and quantification of micro-organisms, e.g., bacteria in biological samples. More particularly, the invention relates to a system comprising a disposable cartridge and an optical cup or cuvette having a tapered surface; wherein the walls are angled to allow for better coating and better striations of the light, an optics system including an optical reader and a thermal controller; an optical analyzer; a cooling system; and an improved spectrometer. The system may utilize the disposable cartridge in the sample processor and the optical cup or cuvette in the optical analyzer. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029502 | SPR SENSOR CELL, AND SPR SENSOR - The present invention provides an SPR sensor cell having very excellent detection sensitivity and an SPR sensor. The SPR sensor cell of the present invention includes a detection unit and a sample mounting portion adjacent to the detection unit, wherein the detection unit includes an under-cladding layer, a core layer formed so that at least a part of the core layer is adjacent to the under-cladding layer, a metal layer covering the core layer, and a protective layer formed between the core layer and the metal layer; and the protective layer is formed of a material having a band gap (Eg) of more than 1.0 eV and less than 7.0 eV. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029503 | Simplified Compressive Sensing Spectral Imager - A method for designing a spectral sensing device. The method includes: (1) performing computational operations on a computer, wherein the computational operations determine the positions of diffracted orders of an optical system model that models at least an array of light modulating elements and a diffraction grating, wherein the diffracted orders correspond to respective spectral components of input light to the optical system model, wherein the positions of the diffracted orders are determined at a target plane of the optical system model; and (2) storing the positions of the diffracted orders in a memory, wherein the positions determine corresponding locations for light detectors in the spectral sensing device. The spectral sensing device may be assembled by modifying an existing single pixel camera, i.e., by adding the diffraction grating and adding the light detectors respectively at said positions of the diffracted orders. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029504 | FOURIER-TRANSFORM INTERFEROMETER WITH STAIRCASE REFLECTIVE ELEMENT - An apparatus for performing Raman spectral analysis of a sample is described, comprising a coherent light source, an first optical chain to direct the coherent light to impinge on the sample, a second optical chain to direct the scattered light onto a diffraction grating, and a third optical chain to direct the diffracted light onto detection array. The diffraction grating is a plurality of alternating-slope stairsteps, wherein the portion of the step disposed parallel to the base of the diffraction grating is disposed so as to be orthogonal to the path of the scattered light from the second optical chain. The zeroth-order fringe is selected by a slit and directed onto camera. The resultant interferogram is Fourier transformed to produce a representation of the Raman spectrum. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029505 | Spark-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Electrode Assembly - A spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy apparatus can have a housing with an inlet and an outlet that define an analyte flow path. A laser can define a laser pathway generally transverse to an intersecting the analyte flow path. A pair of electrodes, which can have insulating shields, can be mounted within the housing and can define a spark path. An optical detection element defines an optical path. The apparatus can be used to identify an aerosolized analyte. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029506 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING SULFUR CONTENT IN FIBERS - The invention concerns methods for measuring sulfur content in a fiber or polymer resin sample comprising: a) contacting the sample with a solution comprising sodium hydroxide to convert sulfur to sodium sulfate, b) combusting the sample of step a) in a furnace to remove essentially all organic materials to produce a residue; c) dissolving the residue in concentrated nitric acid; and d) determining the sulfur content of the sample using ICP Emission Spectrometry. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029507 | ALIGNMENT METHOD FOR OPTICAL AXES OF COMPOSITE WAVEPLATE - An alignment method for optical axes of a composite waveplate includes rotating a rotatable waveplate, which rotates about a central axis with respect to a fixed waveplate, and adjusting the rotation angle thereof until the differences between the spectral parameters of the composite waveplate and ideal spectral parameters are smaller than preset values. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029508 | SAMPLE ANALYZING APPARATUS, DISEASE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA OF SAMPLE ANALYZING APPARATUS - A sample analyzing apparatus comprising a measurement unit configured to measure samples obtained from subjects, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the presence or absence of a disease regarding each sample, a memory in which a measurement result obtained by the measurement unit and the presence or absence of the disease obtained by the obtaining unit are stored in association with the sample, and a communication unit configured to transmit disease information based on the presence or absence of the disease stored in the memory to a receiving apparatus installed in an external facility. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING A MULTIPHASE FLUID - A device is presented. The device includes an electromagnetic guiding device to provide electromagnetic radiation, a reflector that reflects a portion of the electromagnetic radiation to generate a reflected portion of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein the reflector is fully immersed in a multiphase fluid, and a processing subsystem that analyzes the multiphase fluid based upon at least a portion of the reflected portion of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein a principal optical axis of the electromagnetic guiding device substantially aligns with a principal optical axis of the reflector. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029510 | TONER-AMOUNT DETECTION SENSOR - A toner-amount detection sensor includes a board, a sensor cover, a light emitter, a light receiver, a light-shielding wall, and two locking parts. The light emitter is surface-mounted on the board. The light receiver is surface-mounted on the board. The light-shielding wall is located between the light emitter and the light receiver, abuts the board, and abuts the sensor cover or extends from the sensor cover. The two locking parts are formed at opposite ends of the sensor cover to press the board to lock it from outside the light emitter and light receiver relative to the light-shielding wall, using the abutment between the light-shielding wall and the board as a supporting point. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029511 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION AND/OR SHAPE OF AN ASSOCIATED OBJECT - The present invention relates to an optical sensing system ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029512 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - A surface emitting laser comprises an upper reflecting mirror, a lower reflecting mirror, and an active layer located between those mirrors. A cavity of the surface emitting laser consists of the upper reflecting mirror and the lower reflecting mirror. In the surface emitting laser, a plurality of individual light receiving portions is located in an optical path inside the cavity in order to detect a laser beam. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029513 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM WHICH PROVIDE MICROSCOPIC IMAGES OF AT LEAST ONE ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE AT A PARTICULAR RESOLUTION - Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods can be provided which can generate data associated with at least one portion of a sample. For example, at least one first radiation can be forwarded to the portion through at least one optical arrangement. At least one second radiation can be received from the portion which is based on the first radiation. Based on an interaction between the optical arrangement and the first radiation and/or the second radiation, the optical arrangement can have a first transfer function. Further, it is possible to forward at least one third radiation to the portion through such optical arrangement (or through another optical arrangement), and receive at least one fourth radiation from the portion which is based on the third radiation. Based on an interaction between the optical arrangement (or the other optical arrangement) and the third radiation and/or the fourth radiation, the optical arrangement (or the other optical arrangement) can have a second transfer function. The first transfer function can be at least partially different from the second transfer function. The data can be generated based on the second and fourth radiations. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029514 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ON-LINE REAL-TIME MEASURING THE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY AND OUT-OF-PLANE DEFORMATION BY USING PHASE-SHIFTING SHADOW MOIRE METHOD - The present invention is directed to a system and method for on-line real-time measuring the surface topography and out-of-plane deformation by using phase-shifting shadow moiré method. Digital Phase-Shifting Shadow Moiré Method is applied to a system, which receives the reflected images from the surface of transparent or non-transparent plate projected under a light beam passing through a grating. Next, by image correction program, the skewed interference fringe pattern is recovered to the image as if the image acquisition equipment is placed normal to the surface. Furthermore, the received images are processed with Phase-Shifting to show the surface topography of the plate. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029515 | LASER DEVICE - The invention relates to a laser device, comprising a laser configured to generate laser light and a laser control module configured to receive at least a portion of the laser light generated by the laser, to generate a control signal and to feed the control signal back to the laser for stabilizing the frequency, wherein the laser control module comprises a tunable frequency discriminating element which is preferably continuously frequency tunable, and where the laser control module is placed outside the laser cavity. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029516 | DEVICE FOR OPTICALLY SCANNING AND MEASURING AN ENVIRONMENT - A laser scanner device for optically scanning and measuring an environment includes a base, a measuring head which is rotatable relative to the base, and a mirror which is rotatably relative to the measuring head, wherein, in at least one operating mode, the laser scanner is mounted on a cart by a mounting device, the cart moves the base which is fixedly connected with the mounting device, the measuring head rests relative to the base, the mirror rotates, and the measuring head is locked with the mounting device by a locking mechanism. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029517 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THICKNESS OF OBJECT - Methods for measuring a thickness of an object including acquiring at least one of a wavelength domain spectrum for an amplitude ratio (Ψ) and a phase difference (Δ) of reflected light from a film material, converting the wavelength domain spectrum into a 1/wavelength domain spectrum, acquiring a resulting spectrum by performing fast fourier transform (FFT) on the 1/wavelength domain spectrum, and measuring a thickness of the film material from the resulting spectrum may be provided. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029518 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a white layer density determination unit. The calculation unit calculates, based on multiple color component signals to be used for image formation, an image layer halftone percentage of an image layer to be formed on a recording medium. The white layer density determination unit determines, based on the image layer halftone percentage, a white layer halftone percentage of a white layer to be formed as an underlying layer of the image layer on the recording medium. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029519 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING EXPOSURE ON PHOTORECEPTOR DRUM - In a case where a determination is made that a density of a pixel of interest is greater than a threshold, or in a case where a pixel having a greater density than the threshold is present in a neighborhood of the pixel of interest at a predetermined distance from the pixel of interest, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which a predetermined density has not been added is performed on a photoreceptor drum at a position corresponding to the pixel of interest. Otherwise, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which the predetermined density has been added is performed on the photoreceptor drum at the position corresponding to the pixel of interest. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029520 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes: a protected area determining unit that determines a protected area to be protected by forming a transparent color material pattern made of a transparent color material on recording paper; a grain-direction acquiring unit that acquires a grain direction of the recording paper; a pattern determining unit that determines a direction of the transparent color material pattern based on the acquired grain direction; a pattern generating unit that generates the transparent color material pattern in the determined direction; and a color material forming unit that forms the transparent color material pattern in the determined direction on the protected area of the recording paper. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029521 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus prints an image in a right direction based on an open/close state of a flap of a held envelope and on a position of the flap received from a user. A control method for controlling a printing apparatus, includes determining whether an envelope having a flap is held by a holding unit with its flap opened or the envelope is held by the holding unit with its flap closed, receiving, from a user, a front end, a far side, or a back end in the conveyance direction of the envelope as a position of the flap of the envelope held by the holding unit, and performing control such that a direction of an image to be printed on the envelope is decided based on a result of the determination and on the received position of the flap, and the image is printed on the envelope. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029522 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit, an intermediate data generation unit, an extraction unit, a conversion unit, an addition unit, a determination unit, and a drawing processing unit. In the case where the determination unit determines that intermediate data for spot color image data have background image data, the drawing processing unit performs a drawing process so as to add a color of spot color image data and a color of the background image data of the spot color image data on the basis of color transparency information added by the addition unit, color information on spot color image data converted by the conversion unit, and color information on the background image data. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029523 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image processing apparatus, an area separating unit classifies a property of a pixel in an image into any of plural properties that include at least a character property and an image property, a black generation and UCR processing unit performs a black generation process and a UCR process for the image, and a process amount specifying unit specifies a black generation amount and a UCR amount used in the black generation process and the UCR process to the black generation and UCR processing unit. Further, the process amount specifying unit sets the black generation amount and the UCR amount on the basis of a smallest color component value of a pixel with the image property using a conversion characteristic that varies in accordance with a lightness value, a chroma saturation value and a hue value of the pixel with the image property. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029524 | HOST APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING FILE THEREOF, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A host apparatus connectable to an image forming apparatus and a method are provided. The host apparatus includes a storage configured to store a portable document format (PDF) file, an object extractor configured to extract at least one object that requires color conversion from among objects included in the stored PDF file, a color conversion processor configured to perform color conversion process for each of the extracted objects by using a color conversion function corresponding to each of the extracted objects, and a communication interface configured to transmit the PDF file where the color conversion process is performed to the image forming apparatus. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029525 | SHEET SUPPLY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet supply apparatus includes: a tray on which a stack of sheets can be placed, an air blowing section that blows air towards the stack of sheets to float at least a topmost sheet, a sucking and conveying section, above the tray, that sucks said floating sheet(s) and conveys said sheet(s) in a prescribed direction, and a first light source that emits a first stripshaped slit light having a vertically extending component such that the slit light crosses at least a first edge of a first floating sheet and a second edge of a second floating sheet. An image capture section captures an image of the first slit light, a calculating section calculates a vertical clearance between the first and second sheets, and an air amount adjusting section adjusts an amount of air to be blown by the air blowing section based on the calculated vertical clearance. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029526 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD - A system includes a processing apparatus, and an information apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a first communication unit that transmits identification information of the processing apparatus to the information apparatus. The information apparatus includes a second communication unit that receives the identification information transmitted by the first communication unit, and a driver installing unit to install a driver for controlling the processing apparatus corresponding to the identification information. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029527 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In a printing system, the information processing apparatus includes: a first obtaining unit which obtains hardware information of a printing apparatus at the time of installation of a printer driver associated with the printing apparatus; a unit which decides on a printer driver to be installed from among a plurality of printer drivers that are associated with the printing apparatus and differ from one another in specifications based on the hardware information; a second obtaining unit which transmits to the printing apparatus attribute information of the printer driver that has been decided on, and obtains as a response thereto a configuration file for expanding functions of the printer driver that has been decided on; and a unit which installs the printer driver that has been decided on, and performs functional expansion for the printer driver using the obtained configuration file. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029528 | Information Processing Device, and Method and Computer-Readable Medium Therefor - An information processing device including a communication unit communicating with a conversion device, and a control unit configured to select one or more target spreadsheets from among spreadsheets contained in target information, the target information being described in a format of a markup language and contains the spreadsheets, each of the spreadsheets being individually identified based on tag information contained in the target information, generate transmission information based on the one or more selected target spreadsheets, control the communication unit to transmit the generated transmission information to the conversion device, and control the communication unit to receive one or more pieces of image information from the conversion device, each of the one or more pieces of image information being generated through conversion by the conversion device based on a corresponding one of the one or more selected target spreadsheets included in the transmission information transmitted to the conversion device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029529 | Image Forming Apparatus, Remote Operation Device, Remote Control Method, Remote Operation Method, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Remote Control Program, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Remote Operation Program - An image forming apparatus includes: a setting information transmitting portion to transmit setting information including a setting screen stored in a screen storage area, screen identification information thereof, and a setting value stored in a setting value storage area to a remote operation device; a remote setting portion to, in response to remote operation information being received after transmission of the setting information, update the setting value stored in the setting value storage area with a setting value included in the remote operation information; and a remote setting screen update portion to generate a setting screen based on the setting value stored in the setting value storage area and update the setting screen stored in the setting screen storage area, after the setting value is updated. An operation is specified based on positional information included in the remote operation information in the updated setting screen. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029530 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WHICH STORES COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device may be configured to have data, which is outputted by a first application, be processed by a second application, which is selected from among a plurality of applications. The information processing device may send execution instruction information that instructs an execution of the scan process to the image processing device. The information processing device may acquire the one or more image data from the image processing device. The information processing device may acquiring property information indicating an execution property of the scan process. The information processing device may extract one or more supporting applications supporting the execution property. The information processing device may display identification information for identifying the one or more supporting applications on the display. The information processing device may receive an input indicating a selection of the second application and process the one or more image data by the selected second application. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029531 | IMAGING DEVICE HAVING INFORMATION PROTECTION FUNCTION - Provided is an imaging device having an information protection function, comprising an imaging control unit, an interface control unit, and at least two interfaces, and further comprising a changeover switch unit provided between the interfaces and the interface control unit, configured to change over the physical communication or physical isolation between the interfaces and the interface control unit. The imaging device provided in the solution maintains the physical communication or physical isolation between the interfaces and the interface control unit via the changeover switch unit, reduces the possibility of communicating between the interfaces via the interface control unit, thus avoiding the leakage of user data via the communicated interfaces, and reducing potential network security risk. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029532 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) DEVICE SUPPORTING NFC FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTHENTICATION THEREOF CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS - An image forming apparatus for authenticating a near field communication (NFC) device, which receives information about an application being executed on an NFC device when the NFC device is tagged, determines an authentication method based on the received information, receives and authenticates a log in information corresponding to the determined authentication method from the NFC device, and allows the use of the image forming apparatus based on a result of authentication. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029533 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS BUTTON FOR ACCESSING SERVER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that makes it possible to easily create an access button on a Web browser, for accessing a server from the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus is capable of communicating with the server via a network. The image forming apparatus requests the server to perform authentication of the image forming apparatus, and receives a result of the authentication from the server. When the received result of the authentication indicates success, favorite information including a URL of the server is registered. A button for accessing the server is displayed based on the favorite information. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029534 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a first receiving unit receiving a print request; a first specifying unit specifying user identification information stored in a first memory unit in association with first identification information related to a transmission source of the print request; an acquiring unit acquiring second identification information from the print request when the user identification information is not specified by the first specifying unit; a second memory unit storing data related to the print request in association with the user identification specified by the first specifying unit or the second identification acquired by the acquiring unit; a second receiving unit receiving the user identification or the second identification information from an apparatus connected with the information processing system through a network; and a sending unit sending the user identification received by the second receiving unit or the date stored in the second memory unit to the apparatus. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029535 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing system that provides a service to a service using apparatus includes a management information storage unit that stores management information associating service identification information of the service, user identification information of a user using the service, and device identification information of the service using apparatus; an authentication unit that authenticates user authentication information for user authentication and/or device authentication information for device authentication acquired from the service using apparatus; a service identification unit that identifies the service associated with the authentication information based on the management information and the authentication information that has been authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a use request for the identified service acquired from the service using apparatus. The execution unit determines a content of a predetermined output request acquired from the service using apparatus and controls output of data according to the output request. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029536 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION GATHERING METHOD - A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - If an event that requires reboot of an image forming apparatus has occurred, a time remaining until a shutdown time set for an automatic shutdown function is compared against a threshold value, and if the time remaining is shorter than the threshold value, the image forming apparatus shuts down without rebooting. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029538 | FACSIMILE DEVICE - A multifunction peripheral includes: a facsimile communication section, an image memory, a job management section, a transfer instruction reception section, a password creation section, a data transfer control section, and a delete instruction reception section. When the delete instruction reception section has received a delete instruction, the job management section compares a password indicated by the delete instruction with a password created in correspondence with facsimile data of a fax job targeted for deletion by the delete instruction, and deletes the fax job indicated by the delete instruction under condition that the passwords agree with each other. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029539 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for providing a user interface of an image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus are provided. The method includes displaying a setting user interface (UI) to set a function of the image forming apparatus, and when a user manipulation is not input to the setting UI for a predetermined time before a user finishes setting the function, temporarily storing setting information that the user has input through the setting UI. The method includes when a predetermined event occurs, re-displaying the setting UI corresponding to the setting information. Accordingly, the UI is effectively provided. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029540 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR FORMING WIRELESS CONFIGURATION BY USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) - An image forming apparatus that supports a near field communication (NFC) function includes an NFC tag for storing installation information of an application; a wireless communication module for receiving a profile including wireless configuration data from a mobile device, wherein the wireless configuration data is input by a user in execution of the application that is installed in the mobile device by using the installation information; and a control unit for forming wireless configuration based on the profile. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029541 | MOBILE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE SCREEN, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING USER INTERFACE SCREEN IN THE MOBILE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A mobile device or an image forming apparatus for providing a user interface, wherein the mobile device or the image forming apparatus receives product specifications of the mobile device or the image forming apparatus via near field communication (NFC) to determine a layout of the user interface of the mobile device or the image forming apparatus, and displays the user interface having the layout determined with respect to a predetermined application before. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029542 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system has a terminal apparatus, an information processor, and an image processor connected to one another. The information processor includes first and second virtual machines, a first receiving unit receiving a connection request from the image processor, a first forwarding unit forwarding the connection request to the first machine, a second receiving unit receiving another connection request from the terminal apparatus, and a second forwarding unit forwarding the another connection request to the second machine. The first machine includes an acquiring unit receiving from the image processor job information according to a job set by a user and acquiring second machine information based on the job information, a job transfer requesting unit requesting the second machine to transfer the job based on the second machine information, and a connecting unit receiving the job from the second machine and connecting the first machine and the image processor. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029543 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system has a terminal apparatus, an information processor, and an image processor connected to one another. The information processor includes first and second virtual machines, a first receiving unit receiving a connection request from the image processor, a first forwarding unit forwarding the connection request to the first machine, a second receiving unit receiving another connection request from the terminal apparatus, and a second forwarding unit forwarding the another connection request to the second machine. The second machine includes an acquiring unit receiving identifying information of the image processor selected by a user and acquiring first machine identifying information based on the identifying information, a connection transfer requesting unit requesting the first machine to transfer an authority to connect to the image processor based on the first machine identifying information, and a connecting unit receiving the authority and connecting the second machine and the image processor. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-AWARE PRINTING SERVICE - A method of providing a context-aware printing service includes storing schedule information of a user; storing contents related with the schedule; identifying a location of a mobile terminal of the user and a current time; determining whether the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; transmitting a guide message to print out the contents to the mobile terminal if the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; sending, by the mobile terminal, a printing request to an image forming apparatus; and printing out the contents. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029545 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An application is determined, which has a function of printing data using a printer and requests capability information of the printer. Based on the determined application and the capability information of the printer, sizes of selection candidates of a recording medium to be used for printing are decided. The decided sizes are provided to the application. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029546 | MAIN BODY DEVICE, SLAVE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM UPDATE METHOD - An update program is acquired in a main body device from an external device, a generation of noise from a noise generating source that has possibility to generate noise to a communication between the main body device and the slave device is suppressed, and after that, a slave device update program is transferred from the main body device to the slave device in the second communication method (second communication speed) which is faster than the first communication method (first communication speed). | 2015-01-29 |
20150029547 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device includes: a rule acquiring part for acquiring a printing rule from a print server; a job generating part for generating a print job containing header information showing settings of the print job and sending the generated print job to the print server; an initial determination part for making an initial determination to determine whether or not the printing rule is applied to the print job generated by the job generating part based on the header information of the print job and displaying a result of the initial determination on a display part; and a job controlling part for continuing a process on the print job in response to a user instruction to continue, and suspending the process on the print job in response to a user instruction to suspend after the result of the initial determination is displayed on the display part. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029548 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING SERVER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A information processing device includes: a job generating part for generating the print job in response to a user instruction; and a job transmitting part for separating job information and header information showing settings of the print job and sending the separated header information to a print server. The print server includes: an initial determination part for making an initial determination to determine a printing rule applied to the print job based on the header information and sending a result of the initial determination to the information processing device; and a job controlling part for continuing a process on the print job in response to receiving a continue instruction from the information processing device, and suspending the process on the print job in response to receiving a suspend instruction from said information processing device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029549 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a printing apparatus, and a first controller configured to generate a first print job designating one of a plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus, and a second print job not designating any one of the plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus. A printing apparatus includes an image forming unit, an operation unit, and a second controller configured to determine whether a print job received from the image processing apparatus is the first print job or the second print job. When the first print job is received, the second controller controls the image forming unit to execute the first print job using the sheet tray designated by the first print job, while when the second print job is received, it is executed using a sheet tray designated through the operation unit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029550 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An information processing device comprising: a data sharing unit causing an application to process data output from a data output source application; a communication interface configured to perform communication with an external device; and a processor that, when executing the instructions, performs operations comprising: acquiring an image data set from the external device through the communication interface; defining plural image data groups, each of the plural image data groups including at least one of the plurality of image data included in the image data set; selecting a plurality of the applications each of which is corresponding to each of the plural image data groups, respectively; and causing the data sharing unit to perform a sharing process of making each of the plurality of the selected applications process the at least one of the plurality of image data included in each of the plural image data groups, respectively. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029551 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus constituting a print system includes a reception unit configured to receive a job, a determination unit configured to analyze job data of the job, and determine whether or not the job involves a storage job for performing data storage processing to a non-volatile storage unit of the image forming apparatus, an analysis unit, and a communication unit. In a case where the job is determined to involve the storage job, the analysis unit performs simplified analysis processing for obtaining list display information for displaying storage target data stored by the storage job prior to the data storage processing. When the communication unit receives a display request for displaying a list of jobs including the storage job from a second image forming apparatus, the communication unit transmits, to the second image forming apparatus, list information including information about the storage target data. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029552 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A print server includes: a storing part for storing a printing rule defining an output condition for printing; a notifying part for notifying an information processing device of the printing rule and a setting change process which can be changed by a user through user operation to select corresponding to the printing rule; and a job converting part for changing a print setting of the print job based on the setting change process selected by the user thereby converting the print job to the print job matching the printing rule. The information processing device includes: an acquiring part for acquiring the printing rule and information relating to the setting change process; and a setting changing part for changing the setting change process performed by the job converting part to a different process within a range matching the printing rule. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029553 | DISPLAY OPERATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH DISPLAY OPERATING DEVICE - A display operating device includes a position detecting section, an axis decision section, a movement determining section, a display section, and a first rotation processing section. The position detecting section is configured to detect three positions on a touch surface. The axis decision section is configured to decide a first axis using first and second positions which are two of the three positions. The movement determining section is configured to determine whether or not a third position, which is the remaining one of the three positions, is moving. The first rotation processing section is configured to, when with the 3D object displayed on the display section the three positions are detected and the third position is determined to be moving, rotate the 3D object by a first predetermined angle about the first axis. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029554 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING DATA WITH PREDETERMINED FORMAT USING BLUETOOTH COMMUNICATION, AND METHOD OF STORING TEMPLATE DATA - A method and apparatus for printing data with a predetermined format transmitted from a terminal device using Bluetooth communication. The method includes receiving the data having the predetermined format from the terminal device using Bluetooth communication; combining the received data having the predetermined format with template data corresponding to the terminal device stored in a printing apparatus; and printing the combined data. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain the same printing result even when different printing apparatuses print the data by transmitting the data with the predetermined format from the terminal device to the different printing apparatuses using Bluetooth communication, and to obtain the same printing result when printing the data with the predetermined format by transmitting the data with the predetermined format from the terminal device or transmitting data obtained by combining the data with the predetermined format with the template data from the terminal device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029555 | PRINTING FROM A HANDHELD DEVICE VIA A REMOTE SERVER - Systems and methods are provided though which a transaction, e.g., in a multi-tier, distributed application may be initiated from a portable or hand-held device, such as a smartphone. A computer system or systems, possibly remote from the device, may approve the transaction, complete it, or both, and the remote computer system or systems may cause a document to be printed, e.g., by a printer physically proximate to the device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029556 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM TO BE EXECUTED BY THE SAME - An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing device; a display portion capable of detecting a touch of an input object; a storage storing preset-setting groups; a preset-setting-group-selection-screen display controller displays icons corresponding to the preset-setting groups; and an image-processing-device controller for controlling the image processing device. When at least two icons are displayed on the display portion such that one icon is displayed in a selected state manner, and a specific icon is displayed in a non-selected state manner, and when the specific icon is touched, the preset-setting-group-selection-screen display controller moves the specific icon located on a second area to a first area and moves the one icon located on the first area to the second area in a direction in which the specific icon is moved, and displays the specific icon in the selected state manner and display the one icon in the non-selected state manner. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029557 | IMAGE RETOUCHING PROGRAM - Provided is photo retouching software which is easy for photo studio personnel to use. Upon opening photo image(s), special photo retoucher converts photo image data thereof to working color space image data. At such time(s), if working ICC profile(s) is/are set which is/are different from ICC profile(s) previously embedded in such photo image file(s), color perceptual matching is carried out on the photo image data thereof based on such embedded ICC profile(s) and working ICC profile(s) when such photo image file(s) is/are opened. Furthermore, when such photo image(s) is/are displayed at monitor(s), such image data is converted to monitor color space image data through color matching using working ICC profile(s) and monitor ICC profile(s). | 2015-01-29 |
20150029558 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus includes a display unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a notification unit. The display unit displays jobs. The storing unit stores attribute information of a sheet to be stored in sheet holding units. The determining unit determines, from among the jobs displayable on the display unit, a job where attribute information of a sheet to be used by the job does not correspond to the sheet attribute information stored in the storing unit. The notification unit notifies a user of the number of jobs determined by the determining unit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029559 | Printing Device and Control Method of a Printing Device - A printer and a control method of a printer can print barcodes appropriately according to a given print medium by means of a simple, easy operation. The printer stores a constant preset value relationally corresponding to each type of print medium. The printer also stores an added correction value that is optionally input for each specific type of print medium. The constant value and the added correction value are used to adjust the printed state of the barcode, e.g. to adjust bar widths within the barcode. The print control unit prints barcodes using the constant value stored in the printer storage unit adjusted with the added correction value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029560 | Image Processing Device, and Image Processing System and Computer-Readable Medium Therefor - An image processing device including an image information acquirer and a control device configured to detect encircling lines written on a document sheet, based on acquired image information, determine an arrangement order of a partial image formed within each encircling line, detect first symbols each written on the document sheet and added to a corresponding partial image, the first symbols relating to how to lay out the partial images, determine a layout of the partial images based on the arrangement orders and the first symbols, extract, from the image information, a plurality of pieces of image information each of which is image information of a partial image within a corresponding encircling line, and generate layout image information in which the pieces of image information are arranged according to the layout. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029561 | SKEW ANGLE DETERMINATION - The skew angle of a document image is determined or estimated. The skew angle is determined or estimated by examining patterns found within a Fast Fourier Transform of a subset of the document image. This technique exploits the internal structure of the document designs to allow fast and accurate skew angle estimation, including for arbitrary document fragments. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029562 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a communication control section and a sending control section. The communication control section performs facsimile communication by way of an IP network. The sending control section performs connection confirmation processing of controlling the communication control section to send connection confirmation data in the form of image data for confirming connection to a receiving communication apparatus which the facsimile communication is directed to, and determining whether reception information indicating reception of the connection confirmation data has been sent back from the receiving communication apparatus, before sending target sending image data via the facsimile communication. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029563 | LID POSITION DETECTOR FOR AN IMAGE SCANNER - An image scanner includes a main body and a lid. The main body includes a scan window. The scan window is covered by the lid when the lid is closed and is exposed when the lid is open. A lid position detector detects whether the lid is open or closed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029564 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A image forming apparatus includes a color conversion unit, a toner-level-specifying unit and a color-conversion-properties-setting unit. The color conversion unit executes a color conversion process for converting input image data to image data for each color of a plurality of color toners. The toner-level-specifying unit specifies the levels of the plurality of color toners. The color-conversion-properties-setting unit causes adjusted input/output properties to be set in the color conversion unit as input/output properties for the color conversion process when the input image data has a saturation that is less than a predetermined value, the adjusted input/output properties being such that the amount used of the color toner having the lowest level is less than in predetermined standard input/output properties. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029565 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FEEDBACK BASED DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC CONTENT RECONSTRUCTION VERIFICATION - Provided are a device and a method for feedback based digital holographic content reconstruction verification. The device may include a generator to generate a holographic content by receiving a first parameter value, a reconstructor to reconstruct a hologram from the holographic content, and a feedback based interface to adjust the first parameter value to be a second parameter value by receiving feedback on the hologram. | 2015-01-29 |