Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080235624 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus executes a function corresponding to a menu item of application software which menu item is selected by a user. The information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit which executes plural small functions of which the function corresponding to the selected menu item is formed, a recipe data forming unit which forms recipe data in which an executing condition and an executing order of the plural small functions corresponding to the selected menu item are defined, and an information process executing unit which causes the information processing unit to execute the plural small functions based on the formed recipe data. | 09-25-2008 |
20090067880 | CHARGING MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A charging member having a support, a conductive elastic layer formed on the support and a surface layer formed on the conductive elastic layer, wherein the surface layer contains a polysiloxane having an acrylic group and an oxyalkylene group. This provides a charging member to the surface of which toners and external additives used in the toners can not easily cling even because of repeated use over a long period of time and which therefore enables charging and image reproduction which are stable over a long period of time, even when used in the DC contact charging method; and further provides a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have such a charging member. | 03-12-2009 |
20090080933 | CHARGING MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A charging member has a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a first unit, a second unit and a third unit each of which is represented by a specific formula. The ratio of the sum of the mole numbers of the first and second units to the sum of the mole numbers of the first to third units is in a specific range. | 03-26-2009 |
20090238601 | CHARGING MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A charging member is provided in which a toner, an additive for use in the toner, or the like is hard to adhere to the surface even under repeated use for a long time, and hence the charging and image output are made stable for a long time even if the charging member is used in the DC contact charging method. Also provided are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member. The charging member includes a support, a conductive elastic layer formed on the support, and a surface layer formed on the conductive elastic layer, characterized in that the surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a fluoroalkyl group and an oxyalkylene group, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member. | 09-24-2009 |
20100070216 | POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION APPARATUS, POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION METHOD, AND STATE TRANSITION DATA GENERATION METHOD - A power consumption calculation apparatus is disclosed, including: a work load measurement part, a management part, and a power consumption calculation part. The work load measurement part measures a work load of a job executed by an image forming apparatus and records a measured value, at predetermined time intervals. The management part manages state transition data indicating power consumption and a required time for each of states of the image forming apparatus which transits in response to an execution of each job. The power consumption calculation part calculates a power consumption amount corresponding to one job execution at each predetermined time interval when it is determined that the job is executed, based on the measured value and the state transition data. | 03-18-2010 |
20100235656 | Device, method, and computer program product for computing electric power consumption - A disclosed electric power consumption computation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire apparatus information from an apparatus connected to the electric power consumption computation device via a predetermined data communication path, and a computation unit configured to compute electric power consumption of the apparatus based on information on a number of output sheets output by the apparatus contained in the apparatus information acquired by the acquisition unit and a TEC value of the apparatus. | 09-16-2010 |
20130163039 | MOBILE TERMINAL, OUTPUT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DATA OUTPUTTING METHOD FOR THE MOBILE TERMINAL - According to an embodiment, provided is a mobile terminal, that includes: an operation display unit that displays information and receives operation input; an operation detection unit that detects operation of the operation display unit; a motion detection unit that detects a motion of the mobile terminal; a data selection unit that selects data to be output; an output destination determining unit that determines an external apparatus serving as an output destination of the selected data; and an output instruction unit that gives an instruction of outputting the data to the external apparatus when the motion is detected by the motion detection unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130171971 | PORTABLE TERMINAL, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A portable terminal includes a motion detecting unit that detects a motion of the portable terminal; an authentication information storage unit that stores therein authentication information for use in user authentication; and an authenticating unit that execute user authentication process based on the motion and the authentication information. | 07-04-2013 |
20130329949 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD - An image recognition apparatus includes a reception part that receives an image that has been read; a determination part that determines a registered object to correspond to an object included in the received image that has been read from among previously registered plural objects; a reflecting part that reflects colors of the image that has been read in previously stored plural similar objects each similar to the registered object determined by the determination part; and a printing control part that causes a printing apparatus to print the plural similar objects in which the colors have been reflected by the reflecting part. | 12-12-2013 |
20140062675 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DEVICE COOPERATION METHOD - A data processing apparatus includes a motion determining unit and a data processing unit. The motion determining unit detects a predetermined motion of a mobile terminal. The data processing unit selects a device to perform a device cooperation process with and to communicate with the mobile terminal based on a predetermined sound output by one or more devices, which are positioned nearby the mobile terminal, when the motion determining unit detects the predetermined motion of the mobile terminal. The predetermined sound are different for each of the devices. | 03-06-2014 |
20140237416 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus executes a function corresponding to a menu item of application software which menu item is selected by a user. The information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit which executes plural small functions of which the function corresponding to the selected menu item is formed, a recipe data forming unit which forms recipe data in which an executing condition and an executing order of the plural small functions corresponding to the selected menu item are defined, and an information process executing unit which causes the information processing unit to execute the plural small functions based on the formed recipe data. | 08-21-2014 |
20140267423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes: a terminal device; and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a plurality of pieces of workflow information each including information that specifies a process constituting a service; a receiving unit that receives service identification information, device identification information, and an image transmitted from a terminal device; a selecting unit that selects a piece of the workflow information corresponding to the service identification information and the device identification information from the pieces of the workflow information; and an executing unit that executes a service in which the image is processed into an image including a movie in accordance with the workflow information selected by the selecting unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278997 | ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING - An electronic advertising system includes: a registration unit configured to register, in association with indexes by which objects advertised by a first advertiser included in images are retrieved, advertising information advertised by a second advertiser; a reception unit configured to receive a captured image; an object search unit configured to obtain degree of similarity between an object extracted from the captured image and the objects retrieved by the indexes, and to search a storage unit for one or more objects based on the degree of similarity; and a present unit configured to present, to a transmission source of the captured image, the advertising information associated with an index corresponding to an object retrieved by the object search unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140333528 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An information processing device includes: an operation unit to receive a user's operation; a first communication unit to perform communication with an external device; a first content acquisition unit to acquire first content generated in response to the user's operation; a second content acquisition unit to acquire second content received from the external device; a content storage unit to store the first and second content in association with their respective acquisition times; a display; and a display control unit. The display control unit causes the display to: display a time axis as well as first and second display regions; display the first content at a position on the time axis indicating the time associated with the first content in the first display region; and displays the second content at a position on the time axis indicating the time associated with the second content in the second display region. | 11-13-2014 |
20150054968 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD, AND CONNECTING DEVICE - In the present invention concerning an information sharing system, a connecting device sets a destination to share information. The connecting device communicates with a terminal device by wireless communication, and performs authentication of the terminal device, which obtains a captured image by capturing an image of a subject, and transfers the captured image received from the authenticated terminal device to the destination, and then generates display information for displaying the captured image. The connecting device transmits the generated display information to a display sharing device, which displays thereon a screen based on information acquired through communication. | 02-26-2015 |