Abstract: An ink jet printer comprises a plurality of print heads 23, 23' respectively communicating with interiors of mutually different ink tanks Tk, Ty, Tm, and Tc and each having an ink nozzle for ejecting ink accommodated in each of the ink tanks Tk, Ty, Tm, and Tc onto a printing surface, wherein the position of a distal end of the ink nozzle having a higher velocity of an ink droplet ejected from the distal end of the ink nozzle is disposed at a position apart farther from the printing surface than the position of a distal end of the ink nozzle having a lower velocity of the ink droplet, so as to reduce variations in a timing when the ink droplet ejected from each of the ink nozzles reaches the printing surface.

Abstract: A diagnostics system that performs checking, adjustments and other services on a recording apparatus. The system includes an imaging unit having a CCD line sensor assembly, a first board for processing dot sequential color video signals from the CCD line sensor assembly to produce them as digital signals, a second board for converting the dot sequential color video signals from the first board into simultaneous color video signals and for performing shading correction, a third board for performing predetermined image processing on the output from the second board, a fourth board for receiving video signals branched from the third board at predetermined positions to perform predetermined edit processing on the received video signals which are returned to the third board, an image output terminal for receiving the output from the third board, a film projector for projecting a film image, and a user interface.

Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided an inorganic-organic or semiconductive inorganic-organic composite material formed by polycondensing a metal alkoxide in the presence of an organic compound by a sol-gel process.According to other embodiment of this invention, there is provided a process for producing an inorganic-organic or semiconductive inorganic-organic composite material formed by polycondensing a metal alkoxide in the presence of an organic compound by a sol-gel process, which comprises adding to a sol solution of at least one metal alkoxide.Furthermore, according to another embodiment of this invention, there is also provided an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive support having formed thereon a charge generating layer and a charge transporting layer, wherein the charge transporting layer comprises a matrix formed by polycondensing at least one metal alkoxide and an organic compound as a charge transporting agent having an affinity with the metal alkoxide.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor has a photosensitive layer layered on a conductive substrate, and the photoreceptor comprise the improvement wherein a surface roughness of the conductive substrate is such that a center average roughness in standard length at 0.25 mm is not more than 0.6, and the center average roughness and a transmittance at a wavelength of light to which the photosensitive layer is exposed meet the following condition.

Abstract: In a apparatus for detecting toner shortage in a developing unit for use in an image recording system which forms a latent electrostatic image on a carrier by exposure based on an image signal and which develops the latent image to record the image, provided are a toner shortage sensor in a container for checking as to the presence or absence of a toner in the container at the location of the toner shortage sensor, a counter section for counting in a cumulative manner the number of image prints and the number of pixels produced by the image recording system when the toner shortage sensor detects a toner shortage, the counter section for successively subtracting the number of image prints and the number of pixels from the associated cumulative totals when the sensor detects the presence of toner in the container, and a control section for stopping at least the operation of the image recording system when the sumulative counting value of either the number of image prints or the number of pixels has reached a pr

Abstract: An image processing system in which input image information that is read from a document original is sujected to image processing on the basis of machine operating instruction information that is defined by a job control sheet, to obtain output image information. Machine operating instruction information borne by the job control sheet is read and interpreted, and it is judged whether or not the interpreted instruction is executable. When the machine operating instruction is executable, image processing of a batch of document originals following the job control sheet is executed to generate output image information, whereas, if the machine operating instruction is unexecutable, the batch of document original is fed forward without being processed up to the last document original that immediately precedes a subsequent job control sheet.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an icon aided run function display system wherein a function may be selected from a plurality of choices shown on a display means and having a function selection means for selecting the function and terminating the selection. Further, the present invention comprises an apparatus for selecting an additional device display in a recording apparatus having a plurality of selectively attachable devices. Moreover, the present invention comprises a call selection system having a function selection key wherein a plurality of selection functions and a function selection message are simultaneously display with the operation of a cursor.

Abstract: An electric motor includes at least a stator core carrying toroidal coils wound thereon, a magnet provided in opposition to the stator core so as to constitute a part of a rotor, and magnetic flux detection elements for detecting changes in magnetic polarity of the magnet so as to control a current flowing in the toroidal coils. The stator is provided with a select number of cut portions at its open end. The number of cut portions is not less than that of the magnetic flux detection elements. The winding positions of the toroidal coils are considered in order to maintain magnetic symmetry, the magnetic flux detection elements being provided in the cut portions.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for editing an entire image, including closed areas surrounded by other closed areas, contained within a framed area is disclosed. Image data obtained through a prescan is first written into a bit map memory, in the form of first data, e.g., 5. A closed area containing a point designated by a user is then painted with data of 3, for example. The entire area outside the closed area is painted with third data of 1, for example, using a start point that is a point outside the area of the original. Further, the bit map memory is painted with fourth data, e.g., a function number N corresponding to the type of the preset image edit processing, with the designated point as a start point of the painting and the third data as a pattern delineating the area painted with the fourth data. Through the above steps of processing, the framed area is entirely painted with the number N. Then, the number N is set to the value corresponding to the type of image edit processing.

Abstract: A color converter capable of conversions between various kinds of color signals appropriate for use over a network (i.e., RGB signals, various luminance/chromaticity separated signals that are expressed by linear transformations of said RGB signals, and CIE LAB signals, which signals may or may not be gamma-corrected) and the internal color signals of devices connected to the network can be realized by rewriting associated coefficients and constants using the same circuit. Accurate color conversions can always be accomplished with an inexpensive system layout.