40th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140292928 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a supporting member which supports a medium; a transport device which transports the medium; first to fourth heads which eject first to fourth radiation curable type inks; a first irradiation section; a second irradiation section; a third irradiation section; and a fourth irradiation section which is arranged on the downstream side of the fourth head, in which the radiation rays respectively irradiated from the first irradiation section to the third irradiation section have a peak wavelength of 350 nm to 450 nm, and coloring materials included in the third ink and the fourth ink have higher absorption properties of the radiation rays with the peak wavelength than coloring materials included in the first ink and the second ink. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292929 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing method that is performed by using a first nozzle ejecting color ink that is used for printing an image on a medium, a second nozzle ejecting a process solution that is used for processing the surface of the medium. The printing method includes printing an image constituted by color dots on the medium by ejecting the color ink from the first nozzle so as to form the color dots on the medium and forming process dots in areas other than the image on the medium by ejecting the process solution from the second nozzle, transporting the medium in a direction opposite to a transport direction after the color dots and the process dots are formed on the medium, and coating the color dots and the process dots with the process solution after the medium is transported in the direction opposite to the transport direction. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292930 | PROCESSING AND APPLICATION OF LIQUID EPOXY ADHESIVE FOR PRINTHEAD STRUCTURES INTERSTITIAL BONDING IN HIGH DENSITY PIEZO PRINTHEADS FABRICATION - A method for forming an ink jet printhead comprises processing an epoxy adhesive such that negative effects from physical contact with particular inks are reduced or eliminated. Conventional adhesives processed using conventional techniques are known to gain weight, swell, and/or oxidize when exposed to certain inks such as ultraviolet inks and pigmented inks. An embodiment of the present teachings can include processing of an adhesive including a processes a particular adhesive comprising a cresol novolac resin and a dicydiandiamide curing agent using a particular process, such that the resulting epoxy adhesive is suitable for printhead applications. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292931 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A wall-shaped enclosure that forms a space which can accommodate a head chip is formed in a projecting manner at a lower end of a lower case member. Since a cylindrical thick part is formed at the lower end of the lower case member, the lower case member is unlikely to be bent, particularly around the wall-shaped enclosure and a part where the wall-shaped enclosure is disposed. The head chip that is disposed in the space of the lower case member which is unlikely to be bent is unlikely to be subjected to an external force, and the cover member absorbs torsion generated between the head chip and the lower case member so that the head chip is even more unlikely to be subjected to the external force. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292932 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - When a lower surface of a liquid ejecting head is formed by a nozzle plate and a cover member, a surface of the nozzle plate and a surface of the cover member are water-repellent surfaces and side surfaces of the nozzle plate and the cover member are relatively hydrophilic surfaces compared to the surfaces and a gap between the nozzle plate and the cover member is filled with a filling material. If at least the side surface of the nozzle plate is covered by the filling material, the nozzle plate can be protected from static electricity. Further, if the side surface of the cover member is filled with the filling material, wiping by a wiper is improved. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292933 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD MODULE AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A unit head has an inlet section that introduces ink from a side of a sub-tank through a porous member. The sub-tank has a pressure control section corresponding to each unit head, individually, and has an outlet section that delivers the ink from the pressure control section through a porous member. The pressure control section has a valve and a film that is displaced in response to a pressure change. The film is provided in an upper surface of the sub-tank. A frame has an inlet-side connection section to which the outlet section of the sub-tank is connected, an outlet-side connection section to which the inlet section of the unit head is connected, and a communication flow path that communicates with both connection sections. Both of the connection sections include porous members, and supply and receive the ink by a surface contact of the porous members with each other. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292934 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - The invention provides a liquid ejection head including a substrate provided with an energy-generating element for generating energy utilized for ejecting a liquid; and a nozzle plate provided with an ejection orifice from which the liquid is ejected as a droplet and an opening from which a static-removable gas for electrically neutralizing the droplet is jetted, the nozzle plate being joined to the substrate. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292935 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS, PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus includes a flow passage structure in which a liquid flow passage including a nozzle for discharging a liquid and a pressure chamber communicated with the nozzle, and a liquid sealing layer for covering the pressure chamber are formed; and a piezoelectric actuator which is arranged to contact with the liquid sealing layer of the flow passage structure. The piezoelectric actuator includes: an actuator substrate, which is arranged on a surface of the liquid sealing layer on a side opposite to the pressure chamber and which has a vibration layer and a columnar portion arranged between the liquid sealing layer and the vibration layer; and a piezoelectric portion which is formed as a film on a surface of the vibration layer disposed on a side opposite to the columnar portion. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292936 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A flexible cable includes a portion that is covered by a solder resist and an exposed portion that is not covered by the solder resist, in which the exposed portion contains a wiring terminal and at least continues to a position closer to an outside than an opening of a wiring member insertion side of a wiring vacant portion in a state in which the wiring terminal portion is connected to an element terminal of a piezoelectric element side and in which the wiring vacant portion is filled with an electrically insulating filling material in a state of covering a joining portion between the element terminal and the wiring terminal within the wiring vacant portion, and in a state in which a protective substrate, which forms the wiring vacant portion by partitioning, and the exposed portion of the flexible cable are not in contact with one another. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292937 | INK JET RECORDING HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An ink jet recording head includes a substrate having a plurality of discharge energy generation elements and having an ink supply port, a protective film provided on the substrate and configured to protect wiring connected to the discharge energy generation elements, and an ink discharge port forming member, wherein the protective film has a protruding portion, wherein the ink discharge port forming member has a beam-like protrusion, wherein the beam-like protrusion has a reinforcing rib, and wherein a separation film containing gold is formed at a portion where the protruding portion and the reinforcing rib are held in close contact with each other. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292938 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD MODULE AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A unit head has a head main body having a nozzle surface, and a substrate case having a fastening surface fastened to a fixation frame of a frame and accommodating a relay substrate. The fastening surface of a substrate case is formed at a position closer to a surface of an opposite side to a fixation frame than a side surface of a fastening surface side of the head main body, and the head main body is positioned further at an ink ejecting side than the fixation frame with the faster surface being fixed to the fixation frame, the other end of a first cable whose one end is connected to the electrode terminal of a piezoelectric element is connected to the relay substrate, a second cable connected to the relay substrate is drawn to an opposite side to a nozzle surface from a position close to a surface of an opposite side to the fastening surface, and the other end of the second cable is connected to a drive substrate. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292939 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - The invention provides a process for producing a liquid ejection head, including the steps providing an element substrate provided with an element for generating energy to be utilized for ejecting a liquid, a wiring substrate electrically connected to the element substrate through a lead wire, and a support member provided with a first support portion and a second support portion; applying a sealant to the second support portion; placing the element substrate on the first support portion and bringing the lead wire into contact with the sealant applied to the second support portion; and curing the sealant. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292940 | Process for Preparing a Dispersion, Dispersion, Use and Method - A process for preparing a dispersion comprising the stages: i) providing a dispersion comprising a particulate solid, a liquid medium and a dispersant having cross-linkable groups and a weight averaged molecular weight of from 1,000 to 70,000; and ii) cross-linking the dispersant in the presence of the particulate solid and the liquid medium thereby preparing a dispersion of an encapsulated particulate solid, wherein the cross-linking is performed such that 0.01 to 0.5 mmoles of cross-linkable groups in the dispersant are cross-linked per g of dispersant; said process also comprising at any stage: iii) adding a metal chelating agent to the dispersion; and after stage iii) the stage of: iv) removing at least some of the metal chelating agent from the dispersion. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292941 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT MODULE, ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER, ULTRASONIC DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT MODULE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A first piezoelectric element having a first piezoelectric layer and a second piezoelectric element having a second piezoelectric layer, which is different from the first piezoelectric layer, are included on the same substrate. The first piezoelectric layer has a d constant greater than a d constant of the second piezoelectric layer. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292942 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure element and a lead electrode that is joined to a wiring substrate which supplies a driving signal, and the pressure element, in which a surface of the lead electrode on the wiring substrate side in a connection region between the lead electrode and the wiring substrate becomes a concavo-convex surface, in which the lead electrode and the wiring substrate are fixed to each other at a periphery of the connection region and at least one portion of a concave portion of the concavo-convex surface of the lead electrode with a non-conductive paste, and in which the lead electrode and the wiring substrate are electrically connected to each other at a convex portion of the concavo-convex surface of the lead electrode on which the non-conductive paste is not present. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292943 | INK SET AND RECORDING METHOD - The ink set of the invention includes a first ink composition and a second ink composition. The first ink composition contains a first pigment and an alkanediol having 6 or less carbon atoms and having a normal boiling point of 245° C. or more. The content of the first pigment is 1.5% by mass or more, and the content of the alkanediol is 3% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less. The second ink composition contains a second pigment and a penetrant other than the alkanediol. The content of the second pigment is less than 1.5% by mass. The penetrant contained in the second ink composition has an osmotic force higher than that of the alkanediol contained in the first ink composition. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292944 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - An ink jet type recording head includes a plurality of pressure generation chambers which are filled with ink, and piezoelectric elements which eject ink droplet through nozzle openings which are provided so as to correspond to each pressure generation chamber by applying pressure to the ink in each pressure generation chamber. The pressure generation chamber has a shape such that the piezoelectric element in the opposite side to a protrusion side in which at least a portion of the piezoelectric element protrudes out of the pressure generation chamber is deformed more easily than that in the protrusion side. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292945 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - Provided is a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid from nozzle holes by changing a pressure in a liquid flow path in a pressure chamber. The liquid ejecting head includes a flow path member which is formed of ceramic, and in which the pressure chamber is formed; and a piezoelectric element which includes at least a first piezoelectric layer which is formed of ceramic. The first piezoelectric layer of the piezoelectric element is bonded to the flow path member, and the first piezoelectric layer faces the pressure chamber. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292946 | LIQUID-JET HEAD AND LIQUID-JET APPARATUS - A liquid-jet head includes: a passage member including a plurality of individual passages and a manifold communicating commonly with the individual passages, the individual passages each having a pressure generating chamber communicating with a nozzle orifice that ejects liquid, the pressure generating chambers being formed on one surface side of the passage member on an opposite side from the nozzle orifices, the individual passages and the manifold communicating with each other through communicating paths, and each adjacent two of the individual passages communicating with each other through the corresponding communicating path; and reinforcement walls each provided between the communicating paths in a parallel direction of the individual passages, the reinforcement walls defining the communicating paths. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292947 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING METHOD, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, PRODUCTION METHOD OF FINE PARTICLES, FINE PARTICLE PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND TONER - A liquid droplet ejecting method for ejecting a liquid from at least one ejection hole to form the liquid into liquid droplets, the method including:
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20140292948 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer between the first and the second electrodes. The piezoelectric layer includes a buffer layer disposed on the first electrode and containing Bi and an element selected from Al, Si, Cr, and Mn and a complex oxide layer disposed on the buffer layer and having a perovskite structure containing Bi, Fe, Ba, and Ti. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292949 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric layer is integrally formed in such a way that opening portions of a plurality of pressure chambers in a flow channel forming member are covered. In a region that corresponds to a position between adjacent pressure chambers in the piezoelectric layer, a hollow that penetrates the piezoelectric layer or that has a relatively thin thickness in the piezoelectric layer is formed along the sides of the opening of each of the pressure chambers. The hollow is formed to avoid a region along a corner of the pressure chamber in the region. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292950 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid from a nozzle of a nozzle plate by means of pressure change in a pressure chamber includes a first member made of ceramics and including the pressure chamber, a second member located between the first member and the nozzle plate, the second member being made of a metal and including a first flow path at a position upstream to the pressure chamber so as to regulate the amount of liquid which flows into the pressure chamber, and a ground wire that grounds the second member. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292951 | INKJET RECEIVER PRECOATS INCORPORATING SILICA - An inkjet receiving media comprising a substrate having a transparent topmost layer coated thereon at solid content of from 0.3 to 2.5 g/m | 2014-10-02 |
20140292952 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID SUPPLYING METHOD FOR LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head that ejects liquid which is supplied from two or more liquid housing portions that house liquid; two or more housing portion side flow paths which are provided to correspond with each of the liquid housing portions and which supply liquid from an upstream side that is a side of the liquid housing portions to a downstream side; and a flow mechanism which is capable of causing liquid to flow in the housing portion flow paths, and the flow mechanism causes liquid to flow in a housing portion side flow path corresponding with a liquid housing portion that does not supply liquid for a predetermined time set in advance among the housing portion side flow paths. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292953 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes a flow path portion that has a first communication path, a case member that has a second communication path, a seal member that is pinched between the case member and the flow path portion, and a cover member to which a head chip that discharges the liquid from a nozzle communicating with the second communication path is set. An opening that has a predetermined space formed inside is formed on a recording medium side of the case member. The cover member covers the opening in a state where the head chip is arranged in the predetermined space and the nozzle is exposed to an outside. The seal member allows the first communication path and the second communication path to be connected in a liquid-tight manner and seals the predetermined space on a case member side. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292954 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head includes: a nozzle including a nozzle opening and a nozzle communication channel communicating at one end thereof with the nozzle opening; a liquid chamber communicating with another end of the nozzle communication channel; a pressurizing element configured to pressurize liquid in the liquid chamber; circulation outlets formed at the nozzle; individual circulation channels communicating with the nozzle; and a common circulation channel at which communication ports respectively communicating with the individual circulation channels are formed, the circulation outlets arranged symmetrically with respect to a nozzle axis passing through a barycenter of the nozzle opening and perpendicular to a nozzle opening surface, and the individual circulation channels respectively communicating with the circulation outlets and a same common circulation channel, flow rates of liquid respectively passing through the circulation outlets when the liquid in the nozzle is circulated to the common circulation channel being equal to each other. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292955 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A liquid ejection device provided by the invention can be easily transported in a stable orientation in which the weight balance is kept. A printer of the invention includes a liquid ejection head for ejecting ink onto a sheet, ink tanks for storing ink to be supplied to the liquid ejection head, and tubes that connect the ink tanks to the liquid ejection head. An ink injection opening that enables the injection of ink is formed on the upper side of the ink tanks in the vertical direction, and one portion of the ink tanks and another portion of the ink tanks are respectively arranged on one side and another side that face each other across a sheet conveying region. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292956 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISCHARGING LIQUID - A liquid discharging apparatus, which discharges liquid from at least one nozzle on the basis of data, which includes a controller. When the controller is in a standby state and no liquid is being discharged from the at least one nozzle on the basis of the data, the controller performs a drawing operation wherein the liquid is drawn into the nozzle in a direction that is opposite to the direction that the ink is discharged from the at least one nozzle in order to form a space at a distal end portion of the at least one nozzle where no liquid is present. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292957 | Ink Cartridge and Method of Producing the Same - An ink cartridge includes a cartridge body defining an ink chamber, an ink supply portion provided at the cartridge body, an air flow path provided in the cartridge body, a cover, and a memory chip disposed on the cover. The cartridge body has an outer surface oriented in a first direction and an air communication port opened on the outer surface. The air flow path communicates with the ink chamber through a communication hole and with ambient air through the air communication port to permit communication between the ink chamber and ambient air. The cover covers the outer surface of the cartridge body and has an opening at a position aligned with the air communication port in the first direction. The memory chip closes the opening, external access to the memory chip permitting information to be electrically retrieved therefrom. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292958 | Liquid Cartridge Having Valve for Opening and Closing Air Flow Path - A liquid cartridge includes: a cartridge body defining a liquid chamber therein; a liquid supply portion provided at the cartridge body; an air flow path provided in the cartridge body; and a valve configured to open and close the air flow path. The air flow path is in communication with the liquid chamber through a communication hole and in communication with ambient air to permit communication between the liquid chamber and ambient air through the air flow path. The valve includes: a slidable valve main body disposed in an internal space defined by an inner peripheral wall of the air flow path; and a sealing member provided on the valve main body, the sealing member including a first elastic portion configured to seal the communication hole and a second elastic portion configured to be in contact with and in sliding contact with the inner peripheral wall. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292959 | Water-Based Ink for Ink-Jet Recording and Ink Cartridge - There is provided a water-based ink for ink-jet recording, including: a self-dispersible pigment; water; at least one compound A selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by a general formula (A1), a compound represented by a chemical formula (A2), and a compound represented by a general formula (A3); and at least one compound B selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by a general formula (B1), a compound represented by a chemical formula (B2), and a compound represented by a general formula (B3). | 2014-10-02 |
20140292960 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CARTRIDGE - The printing fluid supply apparatus comprises the printing fluid cartridge and a cartridge accommodating portion. The cartridge accommodating portion comprises a casing, and an engage member. The printing fluid cartridge comprises a main body including a chamber, an ink outlet portion, an engage portion, a contact portion, and a biasing member. The contact portion allows the engage member to rotate toward the first position by contacting with the engage member and allows the biasing member to make elastic deformation while the printing fluid cartridge installing to the casing. The engage member in the first position engages the engage portion, and the printing fluid cartridge is held in an accommodated position against the biasing portion when the printing fluid cartridge is achieved to the accommodated position in the casing. The biasing portion allows the printing fluid cartridge being held in the casing to move opposite to the insertion direction when the engage member rotates to the second position. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292961 | INK CONTAINER AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An ink container includes a liquid storing container and a container case. The liquid storing container is filled with an ink and provided with a spout discharging the ink at one end side. The container case contains the liquid storing container and fixes one end of the liquid storing container. The ink storing container contracts and lengthens in forward and backward directions in accordance with reduction in the ink from a state where the ink is filled inside. The container case includes a first housing part and a second housing part. The first housing part houses the liquid storing container in an ink filled state. The second housing part has the height dimension smaller than the height dimension of the first housing part and houses a lengthened amount of the liquid storing container at another end side of the first housing part depending on the reduction in the ink. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292962 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes delivering a non-aqueous light-curable ink composition stored in an ink container from the ink container to a head via an ink delivery path and discharging the ink composition from the head toward a recording medium. The non-aqueous light-curable ink composition contains a radically-polymerizable compound and has a surface tension of 25 mN/m or less. The non-aqueous light-curable ink composition stored in the ink container has a dissolved air content of 7 ppm or more. The non-aqueous light-curable ink composition has a dissolved air content of 30 ppm or less at delivery from the ink delivery path to the head. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292963 | INK JET DEVICE, INK CIRCULATING DEVICE, AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink jet device includes an ink jet head having a nozzle thorough which ink is discharged, an ink chamber communicating with the nozzle, an ink inlet from which the ink is supplied to the ink chamber, and an ink outlet from which the ink is recovered from the ink chamber, and an ink circulating unit having an ink tank that is in close proximity to the ink jet head and is connected to the ink inlet. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292964 | Liquid Discharge Recording Apparatus and Method for Recovering Liquid - A liquid discharge recording apparatus includes: a liquid; a liquid discharge head configured to discharge the liquid; an absorber configured to absorb the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head; and unsaturated fatty acid of which specific gravity is smaller than that of the liquid and which is contained in the absorber. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292965 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK CONTAINER - A printing apparatus includes an ink container tray which is capable of holding an ink container, a guide portion which guides the ink container tray in a movable manner between an ink container mounting position when mounting the ink container onto the ink container tray and an ink supply position, and a locking mechanism which, when moving the ink container tray, which is positioned further at the ink container mounting position side than a predetermined position between the ink supply position and the ink container mounting position, further to the ink supply position side than the predetermined position, stops the ink container tray from moving further to the ink supply position side than the predetermined position. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292966 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET PRINTING, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an ink composition for inkjet printing, the ink composition containing water, a coloring material, a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator represented by the following Formula (X), and polymer particles having a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or higher, a mass ratio of the polymer particles to the polymerization initiator represented by Formula (X) being in a range of from 1:10 to 10:1 [in Formula (X), each of R | 2014-10-02 |
20140292967 | BELT CLEANER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning roller is in press contact with a conveyance belt on the downstream side of a drive roller in a first direction. A controller controls a motor so that the conveyance belt is driven in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the cleaning roller cleans the conveyance belt. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292968 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes a first print head that discharges a first liquid that is cured through irradiation of light from a nozzle towards the recording medium; a second print head that discharges a second liquid in which a content rate of a tri-functional or higher polyfunctional monomer is different from that of the first liquid and that is cured through irradiation of light from a nozzle towards the recording medium, and is provided at a different position in the transport direction from the first print head; and an irradiator that irradiates the recording medium with light, and is arranged between the print heads in the transport direction, in which the irradiator emits light having directionality in a direction receding in the transport direction from a print head that discharges a liquid with a higher content rate from the print heads. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292969 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A first irradiation section has a light source and an emitting member. The light source generates radiation, and the emitting member is located between a first irradiation point and a virtual plane that extends through the edge of a nozzle surface closest to the first irradiation section tangentially to a curved surface. The radiation generated by the light source goes out through the emitting member. A control section controls a transportation speed in such a manner that ink dots formed at a dot formation point should move to the first irradiation point in a second time period that is equal to or shorter than a first time period. The first time period is the time period from the time immediately after the ink dots are formed to the time when the diameter of the ink dots reaches twice the nozzle pitch. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292970 | HOUSING FOR INK CURING APPARATUS - A double-walled housing ( | 2014-10-02 |
20140292971 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes: an apparatus casing in which a transport path for transporting a sheet is formed; a first sheet support unit having a first support surface configured to support the sheet; a feed unit configured to feed the sheet supported by the first support surface to the transport path; a second sheet support unit having a second support surface configured to support the sheet; a transport unit configured to transport the sheet from the first and second sheet support units via the transport path; and a recording unit configured to record an image on the sheet transported by the transport unit in the transport path. The first and second sheet support units are arranged on one side surface of the apparatus casing, and the first and second support surfaces are configured to incline with respect to a placement surface on which the apparatus casing is placed. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292972 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including: recording modules each having a first conveyance path; a first common tray having a support surface; and a second conveyance path connecting each first conveyance path and the first common tray, wherein the recording modules are disposed such that the first conveyance paths are parallel to and are spaced apart from each other in a direction orthogonal to the first conveyance paths, and wherein an angle formed by any continuous two path portions in the second conveyance path, an angle formed by the second conveyance path and the support surface of the first common tray, and an angle formed by the second conveyance path and each first conveyance path are made larger than 90° and are not larger than 180°, such that a maximum bending angle of a recording medium that is conveyed between the first common tray and each recording module is less than 90°. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292973 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including recording modules each having a recording medium conveyance path, the modules being identical in external shape and disposed such that conveyor surfaces thereof are parallel to each other and such that same-shaped portions thereof align with each other in a first direction intersecting the conveyor surface, wherein, in a certain cross section orthogonal to the conveyor surface and parallel to the first direction, where a dimension of each module in a second direction orthogonal to a conveyor surface is L1 and a dimension thereof in a third direction orthogonal to the second direction is L2, a dimension L3, in the second direction, of adjacent two of the modules in the first direction is smaller than twice the dimension L1 and a dimension L4, in the third direction, of the adjacent two modules is smaller than twice the dimension L2 and is larger than the dimension L2. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292974 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a discharge section that discharges a recording medium, a first bending member that is in contact with the recording medium and is transported toward the discharge section to bend the recording medium, a second bending member that is in contact with the recording medium on a further downstream side in a direction of the transport than a contact position of the discharge section, a mounting section where the recording medium that is discharged from the discharge section is mounted, and a first biasing member that is in contact with a surface on a rear end side in the transport direction of the recording medium mounted on the mounting section and on a side opposite to the recording surface to perform biasing toward a recording surface side on a further downstream side than the contact position of the discharge section. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292975 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a supporting stage that supports a recording medium; a recording processing unit, which includes a recording unit that opposes the recording medium that is supported by the supporting stage, and bridges an X axis direction so as to cross the supporting stage; and a Y axis movement unit causes the recording processing unit to move in relation to the supporting stage in a Y axis direction that is perpendicular to the X axis direction and is parallel to a supporting surface of the supporting stage, in which the Y axis movement unit includes a drive mechanism, which causes the recording processing unit to move in the Y axis direction in relation to the supporting stage, and a linear guide mechanism, which is disposed on a rear surface side of the supporting stage, and supports the recording processing unit to be free sliding in the Y axis direction in relation to the supporting stage. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292976 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording on a medium; a first roller that inverts the medium which is fed from a side of the recording head; and a second roller of which an outer circumferential surface is in contact with medium transportation paths before and after the medium is inverted by the first roller and which exerts a transportation force on the medium. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292977 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a first roller; a plurality of second rollers which are displaceably provided between a position that is contacted with the first roller and a position that is left apart from the first roller, and are disposed along an axial direction of rotation of the first roller; and a unit that switches roller position, which causes the second rollers located outside a region of a medium among the plurality of second rollers to leave apart from the first roller depending on a size of a medium that is transported. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292978 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit that performs recording on a recording surface of a recording medium, a discharge section that discharges the recording medium which is transported from the recording unit along a transport path, a first bending member that is in contact with the recording medium which passes through the recording unit in the transport path and is transported toward the discharge section to bend the recording medium, and a second bending member that is in contact with the recording medium on a further downstream side in a direction of the transport than a contact position of the discharge section where a feeding force is applied to the recording medium and maintains a bending shape of the recording medium which is bent by the first bending member as it is, in which the second bending member has mobility. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292979 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit that performs recording on a recording surface of a recording medium, a discharge section that discharges the recording medium, and a first bending member that is in contact with the recording medium which passes through the recording unit in the transport path and is transported toward the discharge section to bend the recording medium, in which the first bending member bends the recording medium in such a manner that the recording surface is directed inside by displacing both side portions of the recording medium in a width direction with respect to a central portion of the recording medium in the width direction of the recording medium at a position on a further upstream side in a direction of the transport than a contact position of the discharge section where a feeding force is applied to the recording medium. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292980 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording part configured to record onto a recording medium; a discharge part configured to discharge a recorded medium, which is the recording medium that has been previously recorded on; and a medium catcher part configured to catch the discharged recorded medium. The medium catcher part has a guide surface configured to guide a leading end of the discharged recorded medium toward a side (the direction of approach side) opposite to a discharge direction in which the recorded medium is discharged, at a lower side of the discharge part and is configured so that the guide surface is separable from the discharge part. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292981 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a housing with a recording unit, and a medium support part. The housing has a first medium path through which the recording medium is configured to pass. The medium support part is slidable with respect to the housing in a sliding direction. The medium support part has a second medium path through which the recording medium is configured to pass. The first and second medium paths have openings that are at least partially disposed on a sliding plane defined between the housing and the medium support part. A wall of the first medium path on one side in the sliding direction and a wall of the second medium path on the other side in the sliding direction are arranged not to contact with respect to each other while the medium support part slides towards the one side in the sliding direction. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292982 | Inkjet Recording Apparatus - An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292983 | LABEL PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND LABEL PRODUCTION METHOD - A label production apparatus includes a printing unit that prints a image onto a medium that includes a first base material, a second base material, and an adhesive layer between the first base material and the second base material; an inspection unit that inspects the image printed onto the medium; and a post-processing unit that cuts the first base material based on an inspection result from the inspection unit, the post-processing unit cutting the first base material using a first cut line that separates an area where the image is formed from the first base material in the case where a print defect has not been detected in the image, and cutting the first base material using a second cut line in which part of the first cut line is not cut in the case where a print defect has been detected in the image. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292984 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording head which performs recording on a medium; a first roller which reverses a medium which is transported from the recording head side; and a medium reception unit which is provided on the downstream side of the recording head on the medium transport path on which the medium is transported, in which the medium reception unit also functions as a first medium support unit which supports a medium which is inserted from a discharging direction side of the medium. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292985 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a medium supporting section that supports a recording medium, a recording section that performs a recording on the recording medium, and a medium path that has a first face and a second face facing each other, and that transports the recording medium through between the first face and the second face. The first face has a shape which is convex toward the second face. A plurality of rollers which are lined up in a transport direction of the recording medium are arranged on the first face. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292986 | RECORDING DEVICE - A printer includes a device main body having a recording head, and a double-sided printing unit that forms an inverting transport path for inverting a medium fed from the side on which the recording head is located and that is configured to be mountable in and removable from the device main body. A photosensor that detects paper within the double-sided printing unit when the double-sided printing unit is mounted in the device main body detects the paper within the double-sided printing unit via an opening provided in an upper area of the double-sided printing unit. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292987 | Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus - There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a transporting roller; a driven roller provided opposite the transporting roller to sandwich the recording medium between the driven roller and the transporting roller, while moving in an approaching-departuring direction based on a thickness of the recording medium; a first biasing member biasing the driven roller to the transporting roller; a platen; a recording portion configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles; and a cooperative portion moving along with the movement of the driven roller in the approaching-departuring direction to move the platen. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292988 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure discloses an electronic device comprising a battery container, a side wall, and a plate spring member. The side wall is disposed upright along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the dry battery. The plate spring member elastically urges the dry battery contained in the battery container. The plate spring member comprises a base portion, a contact portion, and a connection portion. The contact portion is in contact with a positive electrode or a negative electrode of the dry battery. The connection portion connects said base portion and said contact portion while bending. The connection portion comprises a first bent portion and a second bent portion. The first bent portion that is bent so as to connect said base portion and said contact portion in an inverted V-shape. The second bent portion comprises a projecting portion configured to project to the dry battery side. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292989 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer apparatus includes a printing medium supply unit that supplies a printing medium. An ink ribbon supply unit supplies an ink ribbon. A platen roller conveys the printing medium. A thermal head is arranged at a position opposite to the platen roller with the printing medium and the ink ribbon therebetween. The thermal head carries out printing by transferring the ink of the ink ribbon to the printing medium, A head pressing mechanism changes a distance or a pressure force between the thermal head and the platen roller. After the printing is ended, a control section controls the head pressing mechanism to raise the thermal head, the printing medium conveyance unit to convey the printing medium to a cutting position, and the head pressing mechanism to lower the thermal head immediately after the printing medium is cut. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292990 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PRINT HEAD - The present invention is and includes a conversion circuit for allowing a printer controller to send a different set of control signals for dot history control to an integrated circuit driver other than those which the integrated circuit driver is designed to receive. The conversion circuit includes a plurality of driver circuits coupled to a plurality of strobe signals from at least one strobe signal generator, wherein each of the plurality of driver circuits comprises a plurality of gating groups respectively coupled to the plurality of strobe signals, wherein each of the plurality of gating groups includes a plurality of gate units respectively coupled to a plurality of heating elements wherein at least one gate unit controls at least one coupled heating element according to a corresponding strobe signal. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292991 | PRINTING APPARATUS - To provide a printing apparatus with high printing quality that reduces a transport amount of an ink ribbon except printing operation and that suppresses skew of the ink ribbon, diameters of spools | 2014-10-02 |
20140292992 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus includes a printer body including an opening part that has a protruding part, a support part including a rotary shaft and rotatably attached to the printer body to rotate about the rotary shaft, a platen unit provided in the support part, and a shaft bearing including a projecting part and rotatably supports the platen roller. The opening part receives the shaft bearing. In a state where the platen unit is installed in the printer body, the projecting part and the protruding part contact each other. In a case of removing the platen unit from the printer body, the shaft bearing and the support part rotate in a same direction. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292993 | RECORDING-MEDIUM IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An effective image area can be properly corrected in accordance with the quantity of light from an irradiation unit by selecting, as the effective image area, pixels having light quantities more than or equal to a threshold value that allows accurate acquisition of a surface image of a recording medium, on the basis of a light quantity distribution of the light from the irradiation unit. This reduces the influence of mounting accuracy of the irradiation unit, and allows the recording medium to be identified accurately. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292994 | COLLECTIVE MARKING OF A SURFACE BY STEERING MULTIPLE LASER BEAMS GENERATED BY A LASER CONTROLLER - Disclosed are methods, systems, and/or apparatus for the collective marking of a surface by two or more laser beams generated by a laser controller. A method includes receiving one or more input signals from a controller of the laser system. The method also includes adjusting a first mirror through a first galvanometer scanner, a second minor through a second galvanometer scanner, a third mirror through a third galvanometer scanner, and a fourth mirror through a fourth galvanometer scanner based on the one or more input signals. The method further includes steering, through the first mirror and the second mirror, a first laser beam generated by the controller and transmitted to a marking head through a beam delivery vessel; and steering, through the third mirror and the fourth minor, a second laser beam generated by the controller and transmitted to the marking head through another beam delivery vessel. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292995 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical scanning device includes a rotating polygon mirror, a motor, a substrate, a heat releasing member and a heat transfer member. The rotating polygon mirror deflection scans light emitting by a light source. The motor rotatively drives the rotating polygon mirror. The substrate has a drive circuit part for controlling the motor. The heat releasing member releases heat generated from the substrate. The heat transfer member is sandwiched between the substrate and the heat releasing member to be compressively deformed. A receiving portion that part of the heat transfer member compressively deformed enters is formed in a first part of the heat releasing member in which the heat transfer member is provided. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292996 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A TIME TO START FORMING AN IMAGE - The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a polygon mirror has converged to the number of rotations that allows image formation to be performed, and the determination unit is capable of detecting a first timing and a second timing and determines that the polygon mirror has converged to a number of rotations that allows the image formation to be performed based on an earlier one of the first timing and the second timing. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292997 | COLOR REPRODUCTION OF DISPLAY CAMERA SYSTEM - A method including: outputting, for display on a display device, a plurality of test patterns; obtaining, from a camera, a plurality of test images of a subject exposed to the plurality of test patterns displayed on the display device; generating a first color transformation based on the plurality of test images; and adjusting a color balance of the camera based on the first color transformation. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292998 | Managing Use of Resources in Mobile Devices - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing use of resources in mobile devices. A method includes, in a mobile device comprising at least a display, a processor and a memory, reading data of a sensor of the device, determining from the sensor data that the device is in an operating circumstance for processing the data in a fashion that consumes a different amount of a resource, and processing the data in a fashion that consumes a different amount of the resource. | 2014-10-02 |
20140292999 | ANNOTATING A PRESENTATION IN A TELEPRESENCE MEETING - A processing system can include an encoder to encode a real-time transmission of a presentation. A memory buffer can copy and store images of the presentation and convert the images into snapshot images. A transmitter can transmit the snapshot images to an external annotation device, and a receiver can receive annotation data of an annotation performed on the snapshot images at the external annotation device. The annotation can be encoded, in accordance with the annotation data, into the real-time transmission of the presentation to display the real-time transmission with the annotation. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293000 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY TERMINAL, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, CONTROL METHOD OF DISPLAY TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An image processing device includes an image control unit that controls an operation of imaging a picture image; a detection control unit that controls an operation of detecting whether a direction of imaging the picture image is changed or not; and a display control unit that controls an operation of displaying a display image which is generated based on the imaged picture image, and displays an image for setting when the detection control unit detects that the direction of imaging is changed. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293001 | BIRDS-EYE VIEW PARKING ASSIST SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a birds-eye view system-based parking assist method, characterized in that according to the information of the birds-eye view system a parking assist device assists parking; the method specifically comprises the following steps: 1) the parking assist device selects a parking mode according to a mode select signal, wherein the parking mode includes parallel parking mode and angular parking mode; 2) the parking assist device receives speed information and steering information of a vehicle and panorama video information of the birds-eye view system, and calculates the real-time running direction and position of the vehicle; and, 3) in the currently selected mode, the parking assist device outputs parking guide information according to the panorama video information of the birds-eye view system and the current running direction and position of the vehicle, and displays the parking guide information on the user interface of the vehicle. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293002 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A posture detection unit detects posture information of three axes of portable equipment using at least one of a three-axis gyro sensor, a three-axis acceleration sensor and a three-axis geomagnetic sensor built in the portable equipment. A pan angle-elevation angle calculation unit calculates a pan angle and an elevation angle of a camera built in the portable equipment based on the posture information detected by the posture detection unit. A component image generation unit generates a component image in which the pan angle and the elevation angle calculated by the pan angle-elevation angle calculation unit are associated with an image picked up using the camera built in the portable equipment. A panoramic image generation unit combines a plurality of component images having pan angles or elevation angles different from each other to generate a synthesis image. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293003 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE COMPRISING AN EMBEDDED OBJECT AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for processing a stereoscopic image comprising a first image L and a second image R, an object being embedded on the first and second images modifying the initial video content of pixels associated with the embedded object on the first and second images. In order to ensure coherence between the disparity associated with the embedded object and the video information associated with the pixels of first and second images, the method comprises steps for:
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20140293004 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus comprises: an input unit configured to input an image signal obtained by photoelectrically converting, by an image sensor, an optical image incident via an optical system including optical image stabilization unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire optical image stabilization control information obtained by the optical image stabilization unit; and a motion of camera prediction unit configured to predict a motion of camera based on information obtained by eliminating influence of optical image stabilization by the optical image stabilization unit from the image signal input from the input unit based on the optical image stabilization control information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293005 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING 3-DIMENSIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE - Provided is a method and system of transmitting and receiving a three-dimensional (3D) broadcasting service, and more particularly, to a method and system for transmitting and receiving a reference image and a 3D auxiliary image for the 3D broadcasting service through a digital broadcasting network in real-time or in non-real time. According to the present invention, a smooth broadcasting service may be provided to terminals receiving a two-dimensional (2D) or 3D broadcast. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293006 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image output device comprising: a representative parallax acquisition unit; a provisional output parallax determination unit to determine a provisional output parallax for each of the stereoscopic image frames depending on an output condition of the stereoscopic video, based on the representative parallax for each of the stereoscopic image frames; an output parallax adjustment unit; and an output unit, wherein the provisional output parallax determination unit determines the provisional output parallax for a reference frame corresponding to the representative parallax for the reference frame, and determines the provisional output parallax for a target frame corresponding to the representative parallax for the target frame, in accordance with the provisional output parallax defined for each range of the representative parallax for the stereoscopic image frame, the reference frame being sequentially determined from the stereoscopic image frames, and the target frame being the stereoscopic image frame immediately after the reference frame. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293007 | METHOD AND IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR RENDERING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES FROM MONOSCOPIC IMAGES - A method and an image acquisition system for rendering stereoscopic images from monoscopic images are provided. In the present method, an imaging unit of the image acquisition system is moved laterally back and forth to capture a plurality of images. Then, a disparity between each two of the captured images is computed and a one or more pairs of images having an appropriate fixed disparity is selected from the captured images. Finally, the selected one or more pairs of images is displayed so as to render a stereoscopic image. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293008 | SELF DISCOVERY OF AUTONOMOUS NUI DEVICES - A system and method providing a capture device autonomously determining its own operational window in the presence of other such devices. The capture device includes an imaging sensor having a field of view and an illumination source. A processor includes code instructing the processor to scan the field of view another illumination source operating in a recurring window of time proximate to the capture device. If illumination occurs from another source within the recurring window, an operational window for the second illumination source is determined an a new a new operational window within the recurring window established for the capture device. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293009 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image representing reflected light of structured light is acquired, distance information is calculated, from the image, and a measurement line map storing the distance information is generated. The structured light forms a plurality of measurement lines at discrete positions, and the measurement line map is formed as a two-dimensional array in which one dimension includes elements in a number corresponding to a number of the measurement lines, and another dimension includes elements in a number corresponding to a number of pixels of the image in a lengthwise direction of the measurement lines. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293010 | SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING 3D PROPAGATION FOR DEPTH IMAGE-BASED RENDERING - A system is disclosed for executing depth image-based rendering of a 3D image by a computer having a processor and that is coupled with one or more color cameras and at least one depth camera. The color cameras and the depth camera are positionable at different arbitrary locations relative to a scene to be rendered. In some examples, the depth camera is a low resolution camera and the color cameras are high resolution. The processor is programmed to propagate depth information from the depth camera to an image plane of each color camera to produce a propagated depth image at each respective color camera, to enhance the propagated depth image at each color camera with the color and propagated depth information thereof to produce corresponding enhanced depth images, and to render a complete, viewable image from one or more enhanced depth images from the color cameras. The processor may be a graphics processing unit. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293011 | Scanner System for Determining the Three Dimensional Shape of an Object and Method for Using - A structured light 3D scanner comprising multiple pattern projectors each projecting a unique pattern onto an object by passing radiation through a stationary imaging substrate and one or more cameras for capturing the projected patterns in sequence. A processor processes the projected patterns based on a predetermined separation between the cameras. The processor uses this information to determine the deviation between the projected patterns and the reflected patterns captured by the camera or cameras. The deviation may be used to determine the three dimensional surface geometry of the object within the capture volume of the cameras. Surface geometry may be used to create a point cloud with each point representing a location on the surface of the object with respect to the 3D scanner. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293012 | CONTROLLING METHOD OF DETECTING IMAGE-CAPTURING GESTURE - A controlling method suitable for an electronic apparatus is disclosed herein. The electronic apparatus includes a first image-capturing unit and a second image-capturing unit. The controlling method includes steps of: obtaining a plurality of second images by the second image-capturing unit when the first image-capturing unit is operated to capture a plurality of first images for a stereo process; detecting an object in the second images; calculating a relative displacement of the object in the second images; and, determining whether the first images are captured by an inappropriate gesture according to the relative displacement calculated from the second images. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293013 | COLLABORATIVE IMAGE CONTROL - Systems and methods of conducting collaborative sessions between mobile devices may provide for determining a time delay associated with a set of participating mobile devices, and determining a command execution time based at least in part on a clock of a managing device and the time delay. One or more control messages may be transmitted to the participating mobile devices, wherein the control messages include the command and the command execution time. Upon receiving a control message, each participating mobile device may determine a local execution time based at least in part on the command execution time and an offset of the clock of the managing device relative to a local clock. Execution of the command can therefore be coordinated across the set of participating mobile devices. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293014 | Video Capture System Control Using Virtual Cameras for Augmented Reality - There is provided a system and method for integrating a virtual rendering system and a video capture system using flexible camera control to provide an augmented reality. There is provided a method for integrating a virtual rendering system and a video capture system for outputting a composite render to a display, the method comprising obtaining, from the virtual rendering system, a virtual camera configuration of a virtual camera in a virtual environment, programming the video capture system using the virtual camera configuration to correspondingly control a robotic camera in a real environment, capturing a video capture feed using the robotic camera, obtaining a virtually rendered feed using the virtual camera, rendering the composite render by processing the feeds, and outputting the composite render to the display. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293015 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL INTERFEROMETRIC MICROSCOPY - In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises an optical system with multiple detectors and a processor. The optical system is configured to produce images of an optical source in a first dimension and a second dimension substantially orthogonal to the first dimension at each detector at a given time. Each image from the images is based on an interference of an emission from the optical source in a first direction and an emission from the optical source in a second direction different from the first direction. The processor is configured to calculate a position in a third dimension based on the images. The third dimension is substantially orthogonal to the first dimension and the second dimension. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293016 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A CAMERA MOTION AND FOR DETERMINING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF A REAL ENVIRONMENT - A method for estimating a camera motion and for determining a three-dimensional model of an environment is provided that includes the steps of: providing intrinsic parameters of a camera; providing a set of reference two-dimensional imaged points captured by the camera at a first camera pose and reference depth samples; determining a three-dimensional model of the environment; providing a set of current two-dimensional imaged points captured by the camera at a second camera pose and current depth samples associated to the set of current two-dimensional imaged points and determining a current three-dimensional model; estimating a camera motion between the first camera pose and the second camera pose; determining a similarity measure between the three-dimensional model and the current three-dimensional model, and if it is determined that the similarity measure meets a first condition, updating the three-dimensional model of the environment and adding the set of current two-dimensional imaged points to the set of reference two-dimensional imaged points. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293017 | Method of Automatically Forming One Three-Dimensional Space with Multiple Screens - Multiple electronic displays are arranged to define an ensemble of the user's choosing. The processor generates and displays a uniquely encoded emblem encoding a unique identifier for that display. A camera captures at least one image of the ensemble so that the encoded emblem for each display is captured. The captured images are then processed to extract the following attributes: a) unique identifier of the display; b) position of the encoded emblem relative to the reference coordinate system; and c) pointing direction of the encoded emblem relative to the reference coordinate system. The processor collectively processes the attributes for each of the emblem images to compute for each display a transformation matrix that selects a portion of the image data for display on that monitor and performs pointing direction correction so that the information presented on that display appears spatially consistent with the information presented on the other displays. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293018 | Method and Device for Generating an Image View for 3D Display - There is described a method for generating an image view from at least one input image for a 3D display using a backward processing enabling post processing for handling holes in the image view. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293019 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEREOSCOPIC SUBTITLES BY ANALYZING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SPACE - An apparatus and method of producing stereoscopic subtitles by analyzing a three-dimensional (3D) space is disclosed, the apparatus including a camera position calculator to calculate a position of a first camera and a position of a second camera from a first image and a second image, respectively, a subtitle flat arranger to arrange a subtitle flat using a viewing direction of the first camera and a viewing direction of the second camera at the calculated positions, and a subtitle producer to produce subtitles using the subtitle flat. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293020 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display unit that displays a moving image, a detection unit that detects a position of a user, a calculation unit that calculates a moving speed of the user on the basis of a frame time and an amount of transition of the position detected by the detection unit, a position estimation unit that calculates an estimated position of the user when the moving speed calculated by the calculation unit is higher than a threshold value, and that does not calculate the estimated position when the moving speed is equal to or lower than a threshold value, and an image adjustment unit that performs adjustment of an image to be displayed on the display unit on the basis of the estimated position, when the estimated position is calculated by the position estimation unit. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING DEPTH OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - An apparatus for measuring a depth of a 3D image includes a display panel unit which produces a 3D image by displaying a left-eye and a right-eye image, a depth measurement unit which measures projecting distances or recessed distances of the 3D image and a real object, a parallax measurement unit which measures a distance between pupils of an experimenter based on the projecting distances or recessed distances of the 3D image and the real objects, and a depth value calculation unit which calculates an average value of the projecting distances or recessed distances of the real object with respect to a plurality of experimenters measured when a change in distance between pupils is the same as a change in distance between pupils measured by adjusting the projecting distance or recessed distance of the 3D image, and determines the calculated average value as a depth value of the 3D image. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293022 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller that controls a display of an object to be displayed such that when the object to be displayed is displayed stereoscopically in accordance with 3D image data that can be displayed stereoscopically, a display format of the object to be displayed positioned outside a fusional area of an observer is different from a display format of the object to be displayed positioned inside the fusional area. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293023 | LASER VIDEOGRAMMETRY - Systems and methods for measuring a surface of an object. The system, in one embodiment, includes a laser projector device mounted at a fixed location relative to an object being formed by a fabrication process, and a videogrammetry device mounted at another fixed location relative to the object. The laser projector device includes a laser element mounted on a two-axis gimbal assembly, and the gimbal assembly directs laser beams from the laser element onto target points on a surface of the object. The laser projector device measures angles of the laser beams to the target points, while the videogrammetry device simultaneously performs measurements of the target points by capturing video images of the laser beams reflecting off of the target points. A controller processes the measurements from the laser projector device and the videogrammetry device to calculate x, y, z coordinates of the target points in a 3D coordinate system. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293024 | FOLDABLE DISPLAY AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A foldable display and a method and apparatus for controlling the foldable display are disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a display device including a first display panel and a second display panel disposed on the first display panel, wherein the first and second display panels are folded along a first axis. The apparatus also includes a recognizer for recognizing folding of at least one of the first and second display panels and a display controller for controlling a display operation of the display device according to the recognized folding. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293025 | Method and Apparatus of Assembly and Retention of 3D Glasses - A 3D projection and viewing system comprising viewing glasses having a frame including a receptacle mechanism on an eyewear frame, the receptacle mechanism configured to receive a corresponding portion attached to a temple part of eyeglasses comprising the eyewear frame. The corresponding portion may be, for example, an insertable snap device that fits into the receptacle mechanism and includes a barb or other latch mechanism that “snaps” into place. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293026 | STREAMING VIDEO NAVIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The multimedia systems and methods disclosed herein permit rapid switching from one video stream to another in order to present similar images at different camera angles. The systems and methods further describe a virtual joystick and a moviola system. The virtual joystick allows a viewer to select for viewing in a main portion of a display, a sequence of images at a different camera angle than what was previously rendered on the main portion. The different camera angle is intuitively obvious based on a spatial relationship between two or more thumbnail display windows displayed in the virtual joystick. The moviola system allows rapid backwards navigation of a video stream that has already been received in a video receiver, and also allows slow motion backwards/forwards viewing starting from a paused image. | 2014-10-02 |
20140293027 | 3D Stereoscopic Image Generating Method, 3D Stereoscopic Image Generating System and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium that Stores 3D Stereoscopic Image Generating Program - To generate a stereoscopic image that can be enjoyed by viewers of a variety of different viewing environments, the left and right eye images are generated by inputting a viewing distance, a viewing parallax and the viewing size of the display. Decisions are then made using these inputted data about the shooting distance, shooting parallax, shooting size and image size. Two photographing devices are then positionally adjusted based on desired zoom magnification and the decided shooting distance, shooting distance and shooting subject. The left and right eye images are generated by editing the images based on the decided image size. | 2014-10-02 |