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20090085932 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, an image-element group determining unit and a shape changing unit. The receiving unit receives (1) a command to form a blank space and (ii) information specifying a position where the blank space is to be formed in a drawing space for displaying a drawn image. The image-element group determining unit determines, as an image-element group, image elements having a predetermined relation with each other and being drawn in the drawing space. The shape changing unit performs a shape changing process collectively for the image elements of image-element group. The shape changing process includes at least one of (i) a process of moving image elements of the image-element group so as to move the image-element group away from the specified position where the blank space is to be formed, and (ii) a process of reducing the image elements of the image-element group | 04-02-2009 |
20100045762 | DESTINATION DEDICATING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT KIOSK APPARATUS, DESTINATION DEDICATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a destination dedicating apparatus including a destination information reading section and a destination information recording section. The destination information reading section is configured to read destination information from a storage area mounted on a consumable good when the consumable good is first mounted into a printing apparatus. The destination information recording section is configured to record the destination information read above into a storage area provided in the printing apparatus to thereby set the printing apparatus to a dedicated machine for the consumable good having the specific destination information. | 02-25-2010 |
20100107908 | DESTINATION DEDICATING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT KIOSK APPARATUS, DESTINATION DEDICATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a destination dedicating apparatus including a destination information reading section and a destination information recording section. The destination information reading section is configured to read destination information from a storage area mounted on a consumable good when the consumable good is first mounted into a printing apparatus. The destination information recording section is configured to record the destination information read above into a storage area provided in the printing apparatus to thereby set the printing apparatus to a dedicated machine for the consumable good having the specific destination information. | 05-06-2010 |
20100107909 | DESTINATION DEDICATING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT KIOSK APPARATUS, DESTINATION DEDICATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a destination dedicating apparatus including a destination information reading section and a destination information recording section. The destination information reading section is configured to read destination information from a storage area mounted on a consumable good when the consumable good is first mounted into a printing apparatus. The destination information recording section is configured to record the destination information read above into a storage area provided in the printing apparatus to thereby set the printing apparatus to a dedicated machine for the consumable good having the specific destination information. | 05-06-2010 |
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20090247996 | Laser treatment apparatus - A laser treatment apparatus for irradiating a laser beam to a patient's eye, comprises: a plurality of laser sources which emit treatment laser beams having different wavelengths, each laser source being held in a main body to be mountable and demountable and connected to a power source through a connector; a light delivery optical system having a mirror for making the laser beams from the laser sources coaxial with each other to deliver each laser beam to the patient's eye; an input unit for inputting mounting information of each laser source; a control unit which checks a predetermined operation of each laser source by a sensor at the time of activation to determine whether an abnormality is present or not in each laser source, and displays an indication that the abnormality is present on a display, wherein the control unit will not perform the operation check whether the abnormality is present or not in the laser source or laser sources unmounted in the main body, based on the mounting information input by the input unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20110245815 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating a patient's eye by irradiating a treatment laser beam thereto, comprises: an irradiation unit including a treatment laser source, and a scanner for scanning an irradiation spot of the treatment beam from the laser source onto a tissue of the patient's eye in two dimensions; a memory for storing a plurality of predetermined irradiation patterns in each of which a plurality of the irradiation spots of the treatment beam are arranged in a predetermined arrangement; an irradiation pattern selecting unit including a selection switch for inputting a signal to select a desired irradiation pattern from the irradiation patterns stored in the memory; an irradiation pattern changing unit including a change switch for inputting a signal to change a part of the arrangement of the irradiation pattern in which the irradiation spots are arranged on the basis of the selected irradiation pattern by the irradiation pattern selecting unit; and a control unit for controlling driving of the irradiation unit to sequentially irradiate the treatment beam based on the irradiation pattern changed by the irradiation pattern changing unit. | 10-06-2011 |
20110245816 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating a patient's eye, comprises: a treatment laser source for emitting a treatment laser beam; an aiming light source for emitting an aiming beam; an irradiation unit including a zoom lens for changing a size of each irradiation spot of the treatment beam and the aiming beam and a scanner for scanning each irradiation spot on a tissue of the patient's eye in two dimensions, the irradiation unit being arranged to irradiate the treatment beam and the aiming beam to the eye; an irradiation pattern setting unit including a switch for inputting a signal to set an irradiation pattern in which a plurality of irradiation spots of the treatment beam is arranged; and a controller for controlling driving of the irradiation unit to control a position of the irradiation spot of the aiming beam based on the set irradiation pattern during aiming before irradiation of the treatment beam, the controller being configured to divide the irradiation spots of the treatment beam in the set irradiation pattern into two or more groups and switch the positions of the irradiation spots of the aiming beam at a predetermined time interval based on the irradiation spots of the treatment beam in each group to irradiate the aiming beam so that the irradiation spots of the aiming beam in a group before switching and the irradiation spots of the aiming beam in another group after switching are not recognized simultaneously by an operator. | 10-06-2011 |
20140094783 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus includes: an irradiation optical system including an optical scanner for two-dimensionally scanning spots of a treatment laser beam and an aiming beam on eye tissue; a control unit to control the irradiation optical system to irradiate the treatment beam to a spot position based on an irradiation pattern of spots for treatment beam irradiation and based on an aiming rule associated with the irradiation pattern to irradiate the aiming beam to indicate the treatment beam spot position; and a movement unit to move an irradiation position of each beam. The control unit irradiates the treatment beam to a sequence of spots from a n-th position to a m-th position in association with the irradiation pattern, and then controls the movement unit and irradiates the aiming beam based on the aiming rule to a position different from the spot position just irradiated by the treatment beam. | 04-03-2014 |
20140121653 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for irradiating a laser beam to a patient's eye from a tip of a probe, includes: a probe connector to which fibers of the probe are connected; a splitting unit for splitting a laser beam from a laser source into a plurality of beams; and a control unit for controlling the apparatus. The control unit receives a command to select the number of laser beams to be irradiated from the probe tip; drives the splitting unit according to the received command to switch the number of delivered beams corresponding to the number of fibers to which the laser beam from the laser source will be delivered and increases output of the laser source when the number of delivered beams is switched to an increased number and decreases the output of the laser source when the number of delivered beams is switched to a decreased number. | 05-01-2014 |
20140324031 | LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - A laser treatment apparatus configured to emit laser light onto a tissue of a patient's eye, the laser treatment apparatus includes: a laser scanner configured to scan laser light emitted from a laser light source and switch a position of the tissue onto which laser light is emitted; a processor; and memory storing computer readable instructions, which are executed by the processor, causing the laser treatment apparatus to: (a) emit the laser light onto a first spot; (b) stop emitting the laser light onto the first spot for a stop time; (c) emit the laser light onto at least one second spot other than the first spot during the stop time; (d) emit the laser light onto the first spot again after the stop time elapses; and repeat (b), (c) and (d) several times to execute intermittent irradiation treatment onto a plurality of spots multiple times. | 10-30-2014 |
20150230986 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating an eye including: an irradiation unit including a laser source, and a scanner for scanning an irradiation spot from the laser source onto a tissue of the eye in two dimensions; a memory for storing a plurality of predetermined irradiation patterns in each of which a plurality of the irradiation spots are arranged in a predetermined arrangement; an irradiation pattern selecting unit including a switch for inputting a signal to select a pattern from the patterns stored in the memory; an pattern changing unit including a switch for inputting a signal to change part of the arrangement of the irradiation pattern in which irradiation spots are arranged on the basis of the selected irradiation pattern; and a control unit for controlling driving of the irradiation unit to sequentially irradiate the beam based on the irradiation pattern changed by the pattern changing unit. | 08-20-2015 |