Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: at least one replaceable part constituting the image forming apparatus; and a control section for controlling the replaceable part, wherein the control section is provided with a plurality of replacement standards for one replaceable part, and performs a replacement standard process in conformance to each of these replacement standards.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including an image forming section, a fixing unit, a memory section and a control section having a cleaning mode, wherein after the sheet is conveyed to the image forming section, the control section controls the image forming section not to form an image on the sheet, and the sheet is conveyed to the fixing unit, after which the control section controls to clean the fixing member by removing remaining toner, and when sheet jamming is caused at the fixing unit while the cleaning mode is practiced, the control section controls the memory section to store at least one characteristic of the sheet that causes the sheet jamming, and when a succeeding cleaning mode is practiced, the control section prohibits selection of the sheet having the characteristic stored in the memory section, and selects the sheet having other characteristics to practice the cleaning mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including an image forming section, a fixing unit, a memory section and a control section having a cleaning mode, wherein after the sheet is conveyed to the image forming section, the control section controls the image forming section not to form an image on the sheet, and the sheet is conveyed to the fixing unit, after which the control section controls to clean the fixing member by removing remaining toner, and when sheet jamming is caused at the fixing unit while the cleaning mode is practiced, the control section controls the memory section to store at least one characteristic of the sheet that causes the sheet jamming, and when a succeeding cleaning mode is practiced, the control section prohibits selection of the sheet having the characteristic stored in the memory section, and selects the sheet having other characteristics to practice the cleaning mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image trailing edge position determination device which determines an image data trailing edge position in a full bleed printing mode, an image data generating device which generates image data in which a position determined by the image trailing edge position determination device is an image data trailing edge, wherein a toner image is formed and outputted on the recording medium based on the image data generated by the image data generating device, in the full bleed printing mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, comprising: a control device which controls forming of a marginal area at least on one of sides of a recording medium in a full bleed printing mode, in which a toner image is formed and outputted based on an image data whose size is greater than that of a recording medium used for image forming through electricphotographing process on an entire area of the recording medium.

Abstract: This invention provides an image forming system in which one or a plurality of information processing apparatuses and one or a plurality of image forming apparatuses are connected to each other through a network, in which a first information processing apparatus includes a model information inquiry section which inquires about model information of each apparatus connected to the network, an image processing section which executes for the image data, image processing based on the model information, and a data distribution section which distributes job data based on the model information and the processed image data that has undergone the image processing on the basis of the model information to each of the apparatuses connected to each other through the network, and each of the image forming apparatuses includes a first data reception section which receives the job data based on the processed image data and model information from the data distribution section, and an image forming section which forms an image

Abstract: A method for variable bit rate encoding is composed of a step of obtaining first encoded data by encoding a video signal in a predetermined bit rate, a step of recording the first encoded data, a step of observing encoded information of the recorded first encoded data, a step of decoding the recorded first encoded data at a predetermined time interval, a step of obtaining second encoded data by encoding the decoded first encoded data in variable bit rate at the predetermined time interval on the basis of either one of a combination of the encoded information and an average variable bit rate to be targeted and another combination of the encoded information and information related to a target code rate, and a step of recording the second encoded data encoded in the variable bit rate. The method for variable bit rate encoding records the first and second encoded data in a recording medium while buffering the first and second encoded data respectively in the steps of recording the first and second encoded data.

Abstract: A video disk recorder has a function for carrying out a linking on an optical disk and contains a predetermined data building-in circuit for supplying a predetermined fixed data as a playback data. Upon linking, a linking point is placed in a CPM area on the optical disk and the fixed data is recorded in this CPM area. Upon playback of the CPM area in which the linking is carried out, the fixed data supplied from the predetermined data building-in circuit is read out as the playback data.

Abstract: A disk stores data groups (GOP) of compressed picture data arranged over sectors. A 1st data indicative of a compression method and a 2nd data indicative of the presence of the GOP are contained in a leading sector. Data D (independent frame) is located at the head of the GOP. The 1st and 2nd data and GOP are aligned in order. The 1st data related to a 2nd GOP is detected after data D of the 1st GOP is reproduced to reproduce data D of the 2nd GOP. Data D arranged by an interval in the GOP are reproduced. In a quick traverse/reverse mode, a 2nd data D next to a 1st data D already reproduced is detected from a position of the GOP corresponding to a value obtained by subtracting/adding a fixed value from/to an integerfold of the interval to reproduce the 2nd data. Data D scattered over sectors of a disk are reproduced. Each sector has a 1st and a 2nd field. The 1st field stores signals not interleaved relative to signals of the 2nd field. A positional data of a leading sector is recorded in the 1st field.

Abstract: A disk stores data groups (GOP) of compressed picture data arranged over sectors. A 1st data indicative of a compression method and a 2nd data indicative of the presence of the GOP are contained in a leading sector. Data D (independent frame) is located at the head of the GOP. The 1st and 2nd data and GOP are aligned in order. The 1st data related to a 2nd GOP is detected after data D of the 1st GOP is reproduced to reproduce data D of the 2nd GOP. Data D arranged by an interval in the GOP are reproduced. In a quick traverse/reverse mode, a 2nd data D next to a 1st data D already reproduced is detected from a position of the GOP corresponding to a value obtained by subtracting/adding a fixed value from/to an integerfold of the interval to reproduce the 2nd data. Data D scattered over sectors of a disk are reproduced. Each sector has a 1st and a 2nd field. The 1st field stores signals not interleaved relative to signals of the 2nd field. A positional data of a leading sector is recorded in the 1st field.

Abstract: A disk stores data groups (GOP) of compressed picture data arranged over sectors. A 1st data indicative of a compression method and a 2nd data indicative of the presence of the GOP are contained in a leading sector. Data D (independent frame) is located at the head of the GOP. The 1st and 2nd data and GOP are aligned in order. The 1st data related to a 2nd GOP is detected after data D of the 1st GOP is reproduced to reproduce data D of the 2nd GOP. Data D arranged by an interval in the GOP are reproduced. In a quick traverse/reverse mode, a 2nd data D next to a 1st data D already reproduced is detected from a position of the GOP corresponding to a value obtained by subtracting/adding a fixed value from/to an integerfold of the interval to reproduce the 2nd data. Data D scattered over sectors of a disk are reproduced. Each sector has a 1st and a 2nd field. The 1st field stores signals not interleaved relative to signals of the 2nd field. A positional data of a leading sector is recorded in the 1st field.

Abstract: A high density signal recording and reproducing apparatus comprises a disc drive comprising for recording and reproducing with an existing recording format a digital signal on and from a disc rotating at a rotational speed which is 1/N times a standard rotational speed, a circuit for generating N index pulses in one revolution time period of the disc, a selecting circuit for generating a selecting instruction which selects and designates an arbitrary track part on and from which the digital signal is to be recorded and reproduced out of N track parts of one track, a circuit responsive to the selecting instruction for generating a switching signal and an operation stop signal for stopping a recording or reproducing operation of the disc drive during a scanning period in which the remaining N-1 track parts excluding the arbitrary track part are scanned, and for passing out of the N index pulses in one revolution time period of the disc only one index pulse corresponding to the arbitrary track part, and a circui

Abstract: A tracking control apparatus for a disc reproducing apparatus comprises a circuit including a head for reproducing an FM video signal from a disc recorded with the FM video signal on concentric tracks or a spiral track formed on a recording surface thereof, a moving mechanism including a motor for moving the head in a radial direction of the disc, an extracting circuit for extracting a vertical blanking period portion of the reproduced FM video signal, a circuit for sampling and holding a D.C. level of the vertical blanking period portion and for obtaining a digital value indicative of the sampled and held D.C. level, a memory for storing the digital value, and a control circuit for controlling a write-in and a read-out with respect to the memory.

Abstract: A scanning circuit successively scans a multiplicity of input points, producing respective binary signals representing corresponding status in a chemical or electrical industry. The scanned output is stored in an update memory at an address which corresponds to each of the input points. Each of the scanned output is also compared with a signal read out from this memory which stores the result of the previous scanning, and in the absence of coincidence therebetween, the address corresponding to that input point and its associated status are stored in a temporary store. A second or main memory is accessed by an address signal which comprises the address of that input point and its associated status which are read out from the temporary store, so as to supply information representative of that input point, for example, the name of a particular instrument and its associated status, to a recorder for the purpose of recording.

Abstract: A synchronizing signal transmission system comprises: a circuit for mixing a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal from a synchronizing signal generator and producing a mixed synchronizing signal having a first voltage-level range wherein horizontal synchronizing pulses exist only in a period corresponding to the pulse width of the vertical synchronizing signal, a second voltage-level range wherein the horizontal synchronizing pulses exist in all periods, and a third voltage-level range wherein the horizontal synchronizing pulses do not exist in a period corresponding to the pulse width of the vertical synchronizing signal and exist in other periods; a transmission line for transmitting the mixed synchronizing signal; and a circuit for separating the mixed synchronizing signal thus transmitted in accordance with the first, seconds, and third voltage-level ranges, leading out a signal corresponding to the second voltage-level range thus separated as a horizontal synchronizing sign

Abstract: A detecting float is normally made floating on a first liquid, and when a liquid to be detected having a specific gravity less than the first liquid is oncoming, the detecting float sinks relative to the new liquid level as compared with the position which it assumed relative to the level of the first liquid. When the layer of the liquid to be detected increases to a given thickness, the detecting float sinks by a given distance or amount to permit the ingress of the liquid to be detected into the float, which therefore becomes heavier and sinks further downward. An external float surrounds the detecting float, and is formed with a liquid port at a location slightly below the level of the first liquid for allowing the passage of the liquid which reaches the internally located detecting float, but intercepting the liquid to be detected which is in the form of an oil film.