Abstract: An apparatus and method for isolating at least one of a plurality of applications included in an electronic device are provided. The method includes selecting at least one of the plurality of applications included in the electronic device, preprocessing the at least one selected application so as to be at least one modified application included in a sandbox isolating the at least one selected applications from others of the plurality of applications, and installing the at least one modified application on the electronic device so as to be executed only according to the sandbox.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for isolating at least one of a plurality of applications included in an electronic device are provided. The method includes selecting at least one of the plurality of applications included in the electronic device, preprocessing the at least one selected application so as to be at least one modified application included in a sandbox isolating the at least one selected applications from others of the plurality of applications, and installing the at least one modified application on the electronic device so as to be executed only according to the sandbox.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is capable of printing a position-coding pattern. A first print engine prints a position-coding pattern and holds a first developer material therein. A plurality of second print engines each print a corresponding image in accordance with print data, the image being different from the position-coding pattern, each of the second print engines holding a corresponding second developer material therein. The first developer material is charged to a first average amount of charge and has a first distribution of amount of charge. The second developer material is charged to a second average amount of charge and has a second distribution of amount of charge, such that the first average amount of charge is larger than the second average amount of charge, and that the first distribution of amount of charge has a smaller standard deviation than the second distribution of amount of charge.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is capable of printing a position-coding pattern. A first print engine prints a position-coding pattern and holds a first developer material therein. A plurality of second print engines each print a corresponding image in accordance with print data, the image being different from the position-coding pattern, each of the second print engines holding a corresponding second developer material therein. The first developer material is charged to a first average amount of charge and has a first distribution of amount of charge. The second developer material is charged to a second average amount of charge and has a second distribution of amount of charge, such that the first average amount of charge is larger than the second average amount of charge, and that the first distribution of amount of charge has a smaller standard deviation than the second distribution of amount of charge.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for reducing power consumption at a cache includes determining a nonuniform architecture for a cache providing an optimum number of cache ways for each cache set in the cache. The nonuniform architecture allows cache sets in the cache to have associativity values that differ from each other. The method also includes implementing the nonuniform architecture in the cache to reduce power consumption at the cache. In another embodiment, the method also includes determining a code placement according to which code is writeable to a memory separate from the cache. The code placement reduces occurrences of inter cache-line sequential flows when the code is loaded from the memory to the cache. The method also includes compiling the code according to the code placement and writing the code to the memory for subsequent loading from the memory to the cache according to the code placement to further reduce power consumption at the cache.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for characterizing processor designs and estimating power consumption of software programs executing on processors. A power model of a processor may be obtained by performing simulation using one or more training programs to obtain average power consumption during one or more windows of operation, then using the results to select parameters and coefficients for a processor characterization equation that can estimate power consumption while minimizing error.

Abstract: A toner includes a base toner that contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax. The base toner includes at least one endothermic peak specific to the wax in a range of 60 to 100° C., and a total endothermic of not less than 2 mJ/g. The base toner meets a condition expressed by (?/M)×100?23 where M is an average particle diameter and ? is a standard deviation of a first population of particle diameters after toner particles having diameters smaller than a certain value have been removed from a second population of the particle diameters, the certain value lying on a smaller side of an average particle diameter of the second population. The toner has a flow-ability of not smaller than 60%. The base toner is blended with at least 0.3 weight parts of a first external additive and at least 0.3 weight parts of a second external additive.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for improving performance of a processor having a defective cache includes accessing first object code and generating second object code from the first object code. The generation of the second object code takes into account one or more locations of one or more defects in a cache on a processor such that one or more instructions in the second object code are written only to nondefective locations in the cache.

Abstract: A method of producing a developer includes the steps of: kneading at least a resin and a colorant; reducing the kneaded resin and colorant to coarse powders; adding an additive agent to the coarse powders; reducing the coarse powders with the additive agent to fine powders; and classifying the fine powders to provide the developer.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for characterizing processor designs and estimating power consumption of software programs executing on processors. A power model of a processor may be obtained by performing simulation using one or more training programs to obtain average power consumption during one or more windows of operation, then using the results to select parameters and coefficients for a processor characterization equation that can estimate power consumption while minimizing error.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for reducing power consumption at a cache includes determining a code placement according to which code is writable to a memory separate from a cache. The code placement reduces occurrences of inter cache-line sequential flows when the code is loaded from the memory to the cache. The method also includes compiling the code according to the code placement and writing the code to the memory for subsequent loading from the memory to the cache according to the code placement to reduce power consumption at the cache. In another embodiment, the method also includes determining a nonuniform architecture for the cache providing an optimum number of cache ways for each cache set in the cache. The nonuniform architecture allows cache sets in the cache to have associativity values that differ from each other. The method also includes implementing the nonuniform architecture in the cache to further reduce power consumption at the cache.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for reducing power consumption at a cache includes determining a nonuniform architecture for a cache providing an optimum number of cache ways for each cache set in the cache. The nonuniform architecture allows cache sets in the cache to have associativity values that differ from each other. The method also includes implementing the nonuniform architecture in the cache to reduce power consumption at the cache. In another embodiment, the method also includes determining a code placement according to which code is writeable to a memory separate from the cache. The code placement reduces occurrences of inter cache-line sequential flows when the code is loaded from the memory to the cache. The method also includes compiling the code according to the code placement and writing the code to the memory for subsequent loading from the memory to the cache according to the code placement to further reduce power consumption at the cache.

Abstract: In order to control the filming, a developer comprises developer primary particles, each comprising at least a resin and a colorant and an additive agent added to the developer primary particles and having a particle diameter smaller than that of the developer primary particles, wherein an extrication amount of the additive agent in the developer primary particles is smaller than 5.2×10?5 part by weight with respect to the developer primary particles.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided that a way memoization, which may utilize a memory address buffer element that is operable to store information associated with previously accessed addresses. The memory address buffer element may be accessed in order to reduce power consumption in accessing a cache memory. A plurality of entries associated with a plurality of data segments may be stored in the memory address buffer element. For a selected one or more of the entries there is an address field that points to a way that includes a requested data segment. The memory address buffer element includes one or more ways that are operable to store one or more of the data segments that may be retrieved from the cache memory. One or more of the previously accessed addresses may be replaced with one or more tags and one or more set indices that correlate to the previously accessed addresses.

Abstract: A method of producing a developer includes the steps of: kneading at least a resin and a colorant; reducing the kneaded resin and colorant to coarse powders; adding an additive agent to the coarse powders; reducing the coarse powders with the additive agent to fine powders; and classifying the fine powders to provide the developer.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a toner-supplying roller and a developing roller assembled into a developing unit. The toner-supplying roller supplies toner to the developing roller. The developing roller applies the toner to an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductor to form a toner image. The toner image is transferred onto a print medium at a transfer unit, and finally fused into a permanent image at a fixing unit. The toner includes a wax that remains solid at room temperature and melts at a fixing temperature. At least one of the toner-supplying roller and the developing roller is a silicone roller on which oligomer in the form of siloxane is deposited. The silicone roller contains non-cured siloxane in the range of 10 to 8000 PPM.

Abstract: A developer contains a resin material, a colorant, and a lubricant. The ratio of a weight part of the lubricant to a weight part of the colorant is in the range of 0.3 to 10.0. The colorant has a mean particle diameter in the range of 20 to 50 nm and a mean aggregate diameter in the range of 20 to 600 nm. The ratio of the weight of the lubricant to the weight of the colorant may be in the range of 0.5 to 5.0. An image forming apparatus incorporates the developer cartridge that holds the developer.

Abstract: In order to control the filming, a developer comprises developer primary particles, each comprising at least a resin and a colorant and an additive agent added to the developer primary particles and having a particle diameter smaller than that of the developer primary particles, wherein an extrication amount of the additive agent in the developer primary particles is smaller than 5.2×10−5 part by weight with respect to the developer primary particles.

Abstract: This invention uses a toner which has |x|?60, wherein a blow-off charge level is defined as x[?c/g], or a toner which has 11.0?log ?, wherein a volume intrinsic electric resistivity is defined as ?[?c/g]. Alternatively, this invention uses a capsulated toner consisting of a core and a shell resin enclosing the outer of the core, characterized in that the shell resin does not comprise a charge control agent (CCA) for controlling a charge level, but the core only comprises said CCA.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for isolating at least one of a plurality of applications included in an electronic device are provided. The method includes selecting at least one of the plurality of applications included in the electronic device, preprocessing the at least one selected application so as to be at least one modified application included in a sandbox isolating the at least one selected applications from others of the plurality of applications, and installing the at least one modified application on the electronic device so as to be executed only according to the sandbox.