Abstract: A decolorizing apparatus includes first and second heating units, first and second heat source units, and a controller. The first and second heating units decolorize an image using decolorable colorants which are decolorized if heated. The first heating unit heats one surface of a sheet. The second heating unit heats a remaining surface which is opposite to the one surface of the sheet heated by the first heating unit. The first heat source unit heats the first heating unit. The second heat source unit heats the second heating unit. The controller includes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the controller performs a decolorizing process on both the surfaces of the sheet by heating the first and second heating units using the first and second heat source units.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing messages input from a plurality of clients. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a first message input from a first client, a second message input from a second client, and a user selection input from the second client. The user selection is of a first portion of the first message and indicates that the second message is a comment on the first portion of the first message. The apparatus also includes a control unit in communication with the acquisition unit. The control unit is configured to perform a first control action in response to the acquisition unit obtaining the first message, the second message, and the user selection. The first control action results in the first message, the second message, and a first link connecting the first portion of the first message and the second message being displayed on the plurality of clients.

Abstract: A data processing unit extracts identification information which identifies contents of displayed dynamic content from a Web page displayed on a display device and holds the identification information in a content information holding unit. A display control unit checks, in relation to dynamic content contained in a Web page to be newly displayed on the display device, whether or not identification information which identifies contents of the dynamic content at a specific time point is held, if the Web page is the same Web page as a currently displayed Web page or is a Web page displayed previously, and displays the dynamic content of the newly displayed Web page based on the identification information about the dynamic content contained in the newly displayed Web page if the identification information is held.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a heating member configured to heat a medium, a pressurizing member configured to convey the medium, a main heating source configured to switch and heat a first area and a second area of the heating member, an auxiliary heating source configured to simultaneously heat the first area and the second area, detecting members configured to respectively detect surface temperatures of the first area and the second area, an auxiliary-heating-condition storing section configured to store a energizing time and a non-energizing time of the auxiliary heating source at a start of image formation, and heating-source control sections configured to respectively control the heating in the main heating source and the heating in the auxiliary heating source. The heating-source control sections acquire the energizing time from the auxiliary-heating-condition storing section and control the heating in the auxiliary heating source.

Abstract: A method enables a computer to execute software and to monitor software execution, the method comprising: acquiring, by one or more processors, image data of a screen image displayed on a display device while monitored software is executed; acquiring, by one or more processors, peripheral information, wherein the peripheral information is a state of software and hardware in which the software is executed, at a time of acquisition of the image data; and adding, by one or more processors, the peripheral information to the image data and storing the image data having the peripheral information added thereto into a storage device, so that, in response to an image based on the image data being displayed on the display device, a content of the peripheral information acquired by the peripheral information acquiring unit is displayed along with the screen image.

Abstract: A decolorizing apparatus includes first and second heating units, first and second heat source units, and a controller. The first and second heating units decolorize an image using decolorable colorants which are decolorized if heated. The first heating unit heats one surface of a sheet. The second heating unit heats a remaining surface which is opposite to the one surface of the sheet heated by the first heating unit. The first heat source unit heats the first heating unit. The second heat source unit heats the second heating unit. The controller includes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the controller performs a decolorizing process on both the surfaces of the sheet by heating the first and second heating units using the first and second heat source units.

Abstract: A method enables a computer to execute software and to monitor software execution, the method comprising: acquiring, by one or more processors, image data of a screen image displayed on a display device while monitored software is executed; acquiring, by one or more processors, peripheral information, wherein the peripheral information is a state of software and hardware in which the software is executed, at a time of acquisition of the image data; and adding, by one or more processors, the peripheral information to the image data and storing the image data having the peripheral information added thereto into a storage device, so that, in response to an image based on the image data being displayed on the display device, a content of the peripheral information acquired by the peripheral information acquiring unit is displayed along with the screen image.

Abstract: A image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image, a developer supplying unit that supplies a developer to the electrostatic latent image and forms a developer image, a transfer roller that transfers the developer image to a recording medium, a heating roller with a heater therein, a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the heating roller, a heating roller driving mechanism that drives the heating roller, and a controller that cools down the heating roller if the controller determines that the temperature sensor detects a temperature equal to or higher than a first temperature within a threshold time after completion of image forming.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes: a heating roller including a heat generating member on the inside; a pressing roller arranged to be opposed to the heating roller across a recording medium conveying path; a first temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature of the heating roller; a second temperature sensor set in non-contact with the pressing roller; a driving motor configured to drive the heating roller, and a control section configured to receive outputs from the first and second sensors and control, if the control section determines that a creep phenomenon is present in the pressing roller, the driving motor to extend a pre-run operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sticking preventing device including a main conveying path connected from a fixing device, a first conveying path connected to the main conveying path, a second conveying path branching from the main conveying path and having a conveying route longer than that of the first conveying path, a switching device provided at a branching point of the first conveying path and the second conveying path and configured to switch a recording-medium conveying route to the first conveying path and the second conveying path, and a temperature sensor provided above a discharge port of the first conveying path and a discharge port of the second conveying path, and a control unit configured to, if the temperature of a recording medium to be discharged detected by the temperature sensor is equal to or higher than the temperature at which sticking occurs, displace the switching device to switch the conveying route from the first conveying path to the second conveying path.

Abstract: An application with a function for inputting feedback incorporated into it is created and presented with the present embodiment. By this means, feedback about the problems in the running of the application may be obtained efficiently. In addition, an application with a function for inputting feedback about the components that define the operations of the application and a function that maintains a correspondence between the feedback descriptions and the components that are the target of the feedback incorporated into it is created by the present embodiment. By this means, the component in the application that the feedback concerns may easily be determined.

Abstract: An application with a function for inputting feedback incorporated into it is created and presented with the present embodiment. By this means, feedback about the problems in the running of the application may be obtained efficiently. In addition, an application with a function for inputting feedback about the components that define the operations of the application and a function that maintains a correspondence between the feedback descriptions and the components that are the target of the feedback incorporated into it is created by the present embodiment. By this means, the component in the application that the feedback concerns may easily be determined.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a composition for a holographic recording medium which allows for producing a disc medium filled with a photopolymer by a very simple method such as hot press method, with high dimensional precision, high uniformity and high productivity. The composition for a holographic recording medium contains a binder, a polymerizable polymer, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the binder is a polymer capable of forming a three-dimensional crosslinking structure by non-polymerization reaction. An aspect is preferable in which the polymer capable of forming a three-dimensional crosslinking structure by non-polymerization reaction is at least one of (A) a polymer which has an ionic group and formed a salt with the counterion of the ionic group and (B) a polymer having a crystal structure.

Abstract: To provide a fixing technique that can control occurrence of fixing failure in image formation processing immediately after warm-up from a state in which a heating roller is cold.

Abstract: A fixing device according to this invention includes a notifying mechanism which requests replacement of a web when the length up to the end portion of the web capable of taking unnecessary toner becomes shorter than a predetermined length. The degree of moving an unused portion of the web to a web-taking unit is reduced at a predetermined ratio until the web is replaced.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition comprising at least a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a photo-radical generator, and an amine compound represented by the following Formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 independently represent an optionally substituted aliphatic group, or may be bound to each other to form a ring, A represents an optionally substituted divalent aliphatic linking group, or may be bound to R1 or R2 to form a ring, B represents an optionally substituted divalent linking group selected from an amide linkage, a sulfonamide linkage and an ester linkage, or may be bound to R1 or R2 to form a ring, and Ar represents an optionally substituted aromatic group.

Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to provide a composition for hologram recording media that can produce high-quality hologram recording media efficiently with less time-consuming and without being affected by moisture, to provide volume-type hologram recording media that are adapted to high-density recording, to provide a method for producing the volume-type hologram recording media that can produce efficiently the hologram recording media with lower cost, and also to provide a hologram-recording method and to provide a hologram-reproducing method that utilizes the hologram recording media respectively. Accordingly, the present invention relates to a composition for hologram recording media, comprising a polymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, a non-polymerizable compound, and an organic gelling agent and the like.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention can suppress overshoot by shifting the OFF timing of the central heater lamp from that of the end heater lamp or the recovering timing of the central heater lamp from that of the end heater lamp, when the heating member at a second temperature dropped from a first temperature (optimum fixing temperature) is returned to the first temperature again.

Abstract: Following the end of warm-up, a control unit confirms whether the warm-up time is 10 seconds or more. If the warm-up time is 10 seconds or more, the control unit controls a maximum lamp turn-on time for alternate turn-on at 1.0 second as long as an idle time (t) from the end of warm-up is less than two minutes. When the idle time exceeds two minutes, the control unit controls the maximum lamp turn-on time for alternate turn-on at 2.5 seconds.

Abstract: At least, a temperature of the surface of a heating roller 13 in a region through which paper of small width passes, and a temperature of the surface of a heating roller 13 in a region through which paper of small width does not pass where paper of large width is carried are detected. Warming up operation is continued, and when a temperature of the surface of a heating roller 13 in the either region reaches a temperature capable of fixing, a ready display is lighted. Thereafter, the surface of the heating roller 13 not having reached a temperature capable of fixing is heated by forcibly lighting a heater lamp till the fixed conditions are satisfied, and at the time of the forcible lighting operation, the surface of the heating roller 13 in a region having reached a temperature capable of fixing is not heated.