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20110262156 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD OF REFERENCE INDEX ON TRANSFER BODY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit scanning and exposing an image carrier according to image data, to form a latent image; a transfer body on which a toner image is transferred and a reference index for setting an output start time point of the image data is formed; a detecting unit facing the reference index and outputting a detection signal changing in accordance with passing of the reference index; and a controller controlling the output start time point with the detection signal. The controller starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards second change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point, and ignores change of the detection signal after the second change. | 10-27-2011 |
20110293299 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD OF REFERENCE INDEX ON TRANSFER BODY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit forming a latent image; a transfer body on which a reference index for setting an output start time point of image data is formed; a detecting unit facing the reference index and outputting a detection signal changing in accordance with passing of the reference index; a measuring unit measuring change duration time; and a controller controlling the output start time point with the detection signal. The controller starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point if the change duration time is longer than a predetermined period, and ignores change of the detection signal after the change occurring first. | 12-01-2011 |
20110305478 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD OF REFERENCE INDEX ON TRANSFER BODY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit forming a latent image; a transfer body on which a reference index for setting an output start time point of image data is formed; a detecting unit outputting a detection signal changing according to passing of an adhesion material on the transfer body; a controller that starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards second change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point, and ignores change of the detection signal after the second change, to control outputting the image data; and a cleaning information outputting unit outputting information on cleaning the transfer body according to the number of changes of the detection signal in these periods. | 12-15-2011 |
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20100156981 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - An ink jet printing apparatus and an ink jet printing method are provided in which information about an ink amount ejected on each of unit areas into which a preceding print medium is divided and information about a size of a following print medium are acquired. A delay time for delaying a printing operation for the following print medium is set based on the information about the ink amount ejected on unit areas which are decided among the divided unit areas according to the information about the size of the following print medium. | 06-24-2010 |
20100328383 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A pattern forming method that includes forming a pattern for detecting defective discharges of a plurality of ink discharging nozzles and recording a first dot pattern with the plurality of ink discharging nozzles. The pattern forming method also includes recording a second dot pattern to be adjacent to at least one side of the first dot pattern in the predetermined direction. | 12-30-2010 |
20110085003 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT HEAD TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD - When the head temperature Tfinish, which is the head temperature at the time of completion of a preceding scan, is higher than the stable ejection temperature Tstable, the target temperature is made a temperature that is only a temperature value ΔT lower than the head temperature Tfinish. On the other hand, when Tfinish, the head temperature at the time of print completion, is lower than the stable ejection temperature Tstable, the target temperature is made a temperature that is only a temperature value ΔT higher than the head temperature Tfinish. Because of this it is possible to inhibit head temperature rise in the case where an image with a high print density is printed. | 04-14-2011 |
20110148965 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND RECOVERY METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus of the present invention is equipped with a recovery device for recovering an ink ejection state of a print head. The print head has a plurality of nozzle rows each for ejecting an ink of a different color, and a nozzle surface. The recovery device performs wiping of the nozzle surface and preliminary ejection from the print head. After the wiping, an evaluation patch is created by performing the preliminary ejection onto a printing medium, and the number of preliminary ejections of a specific nozzle is increased to a number larger the number of preliminary ejections of other nozzles based on an image of the evaluation patch. It is possible to appropriately decide the number of preliminary ejections for each nozzle according to color mixture parts that vary for every apparatus. | 06-23-2011 |
20130135380 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink jet printing apparatus including a plurality of print heads and a method for controlling the ink jet printing apparatus are provided which allows ink ejection to be immediately started. If temperatures of both a first print head and a second print head have become equal to or higher a reference temperature at least once, a printing operation or a preliminary ejection operation using the first print head and the second print head is started even when one of the temperature of the first print head and the temperature of the second print head is lower than the reference temperature. | 05-30-2013 |
20140292886 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - In an ink jet printing apparatus and control method using a plurality of parts of a printing unit, ink ejection can be immediately started. First and second heating units heat first and second parts of the printing unit. Each of the first and second heating units performs heating when the temperature of each of the first and second parts of the printing unit is lower than a reference temperature, and stops heating when the temperature of each of the first and second parts of the printing unit is at least equal to the reference temperature. A control unit controls ejecting of ink from the printing unit such that the printing unit starts ejecting ink according to both first and second information, the first and second information indicating that the temperature of the first and second parts of the printing unit once reached the reference temperature under certain circumstances. | 10-02-2014 |
20140300661 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT HEAD TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD - When the head temperature Tfinish, which is the head temperature at the time of completion of a preceding scan, is higher than the stable ejection temperature Tstable, the target temperature is made a temperature that is only a temperature value ΔT lower than the head temperature Tfinish. On the other hand, when Tfinish, the head temperature at the time of print completion, is lower than the stable ejection temperature Tstable, the target temperature is made a temperature that is only a temperature value ΔT higher than the head temperature Tfinish. Because of this it is possible to inhibit head temperature rise in the case where an image with a high print density is printed. | 10-09-2014 |
20150022586 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - In a case in which a cumulative value ΣNure of wetting coefficients is less than a wetting threshold value THNure, printing is carried out on a unit area through a print mode in which an image is completed through a first number of instances of a scan, and in a case in which the cumulative value ΣNure is equal to or greater than the wetting threshold value THNure, printing is carried out on a unit area through a print mode in which an image is completed through a second number of instances of the scan, where the second number is greater than the first number. | 01-22-2015 |
20150042713 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A recording apparatus to record an image to a recording medium includes a recording head having nozzles arranged in a predetermined direction in a nozzle array, scanning, recording control, obtaining, determining, and adjusting units. The scanning unit scans the recording head to the recording medium in a crossing direction. The recording control unit causes the recording head to record an adjusting pattern and a detecting pattern by discharging ink from a nozzle group. The obtaining unit obtains an information regarding number of defective discharge nozzles in the nozzle group based on the detecting pattern. The determining unit determines an adjusting value based on the recorded adjusting pattern where the indicated number is smaller than a threshold value, and not based on the adjusting pattern where the indicated number is larger than the threshold value. The adjusting unit adjusts the recording head recording position based on the determined adjusting value. | 02-12-2015 |
20150042715 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a printing apparatus including, a printhead; a preliminary discharge unit; a detecting unit detecting a size of a printing medium; and a scaling process unit. The scaling process unit scales an image to be formed on the printing medium in accordance with a detected size when a size of a printing medium indicated by size setting information and the detected size do not match each other. The preliminary discharge unit causes the printhead to perform preliminary discharge in accordance with a scaling result of the scaling process unit. | 02-12-2015 |
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20120147036 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - According to an aspect, a display system includes a first display unit for displaying a first image, a second display unit for displaying a second image; and a control unit for controlling the first display unit and the second display unit. The control unit causes a portion of the second image, which is contained in a specific area in the second display unit, to be displayed on the first display unit as the first image. The control unit makes selection of a change mode where a relative positional relationship between the specific area and the second image is to be changed and a fixed mode where the relative positional relationship between the specific area and the second image is fixed available. | 06-14-2012 |
20120182203 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - According to an aspect, a display system includes a first display unit, a second display unit, an operating unit, and a control unit. The second display unit is provided with a first icon arranged thereon. The operating unit detects an operation. When an operation of moving the first icon to a first area on the second display unit is detected by the operating unit, the control unit displays a first image associated with the first icon on the first display unit and in a second area on the second display unit. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182307 | PROJECTOR DEVICE AND PROJECTING METHOD - According to an aspect, a projector device includes an image projecting unit and a control unit. The image projecting unit projects an image. The control unit acquires brightness information of regions included in a projection surface on which the image projecting unit can project the image, and causes the image projecting unit to project, based on the brightness information of the regions, the image on a low-brightness region, among the regions, whose brightness is lower than that of another region. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182531 | IMAGE PROJECTING APPARATUS - According to an aspect, an image projecting apparatus that projects an image includes a light source, a light emitting port, an emitting unit, and a control unit. The emitting unit causes the light emitted from the light source to be emitted from the light emitting port in such a manner that an emission direction of the light emitted from the light source can be varied. The control unit controls the light source and the emitting unit to switch between a first projection mode and a second projection mode. When the image projecting apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the emission direction is a front direction of the light emitting port or obliquely upward with respect to the horizontal plane in the first projection mode, and the emission direction is obliquely downward with respect to the horizontal plane in the second projection mode. | 07-19-2012 |
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20110177271 | LIGHT MULTILAYER POLYESTER CONTAINER - A multilayer polyester container having a multilayer structure comprising inner and outer layers of a polyester resin and at least one intermediate layer of a barrier resin, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a barrier resin, a polyester resin and a clay, the barrier resin and the polyester resin being contained at a weight ratio of 2.5:7.5 to 5:5, and the intermediate layer, further, constitutes an sea-island dispersion structure in which a dispersion phase of the barrier resin is formed in a continuous phase of the polyester resin, enabling the thickness and the weight to be decreased. Even when filled with a carbonated beverage which spontaneously produces pressure, the multilayer polyester container effectively prevents interlayer peeling and deformation of when the cap is opened. | 07-21-2011 |
20110303685 | MULTILAYERED PLASTIC CONTAINER HAVING EXCELLENT DROP IMPACT RESISTANCE - A multilayered plastic container comprising, in at least a side wall portion of the container, an inner layer and an outer layer of a polyester resin, and an intermediate barrier layer of a barrier resin, wherein the lower end of the intermediate barrier layer in the radial direction of the container is positioned on the grounding portion of the container bottom portion or outside of the grounding portion of the container bottom portion in the radial direction of the container, featuring very excellent barrier property and drop impact resistance despite of its decreased thickness and weight. | 12-15-2011 |
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20090046280 | MASK DEFECT INSPECTION DATA GENERATING METHOD, MASK DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND MASK PRODUCTION METHOD - According to a mask defect inspection data generating method, a distance between inspection areas neighboring in a predetermined direction is calculated based on inspection area control information defined in photomask inspection data. It is determined whether or not the calculated distance between inspection areas is less than a predetermined distance. When it is determined that the distance between inspection areas is less than a predetermined distance, the inspection area is combined to produce an optimization inspection area. The produced optimization inspection area information is defined in inspection layout data for making a reference in die-to-database defect inspection. | 02-19-2009 |
20110237087 | PATTERN INSPECTION METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a pattern inspection method including processing design data for an inspection pattern based on information dependent on an illumination condition of illumination used to inspect the inspection pattern, generating reference data for the inspection pattern from the processed design data, and comparing data for an actually formed inspection pattern with the reference data. | 09-29-2011 |
20140232032 | LITHOGRAPHY ORIGINAL CHECKING DEVICE, LITHOGRAPHY ORIGINAL CHECKING METHOD, AND PATTERN DATA CREATING METHOD - In one embodiment, a lithography original checking method includes applying resin onto a first lithography original having a first concavo-convex pattern, hardening the resin, releasing the hardened resin from the first lithography original and producing a second lithography original having a second concavo-convex pattern corresponding to the first concavo-convex pattern, enlarging the second lithography original, detecting a defect on the enlarged second lithography original, and calculating a position of a defect on the first lithography original based on the position of the detected defect. | 08-21-2014 |
20140314305 | TEMPLATE INSPECTION DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a template inspection device used in imprint lithography, comprises an inspection image data acquisition unit configured to acquire inspection image data of an inspection target replica template pattern based on a master template pattern; a comparison data generation unit configured to generate comparison data by comparing the inspection image data of the inspection target replica template pattern with corrected reference image data, and a defect determination unit configured to determine a defect in the inspection target replica template pattern based on the comparison data generated by the comparison data generation unit. | 10-23-2014 |