Abstract: The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method which can correct displacement of a forming position of an image with high accuracy even when a recording medium is strained into an arbitrary shape. Positional information representing positions of each of multiple locating holes made in advance on a printed wire board (PWB) is obtained by a camera, a forming area of a wiring pattern image on the PWB is virtually divided into multiple quadrilateral areas on the basis of the positional information, in each divided area, raster data showing the image is converted so that, when it is assumed that there is no strain on the PWB, a formed wiring pattern image is matched to an image formed on a corresponding divided area, and, on the basis of the raster data after conversion, the image is formed on the PWB.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus, in which a light beam from a recording head is irradiated on a recording medium mounted on a recording stage, and the recording stage and the recording head are relatively moved, thereby allowing a predetermined image to be exposed on the recording medium, including a displacement detecting section that detects displacement caused by pitching vibration occurring accompanied by movement of the recording stage; a storage section that stores therein displacement-amount data detected by said displacement detecting section; a correction section that corrects, based on the displacement-amount data stored in said storage section, a timing at which the light beam is irradiated from the recording head; and a control section that controls, based on the timing corrected by said correction section, exposure for the recording medium, is provided to correct the displacement and reduce distortion of an image to be formed on the recording medium.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus and method in which an image is formed on a recording medium mounted on a recording stage by irradiating a light beam based on image data from a recording head while the recording head and the recording stage are relatively moved, in the exposure apparatus and method, storing in advance, in a storage section, shift-amount data of a detected displacement of an image-form position with respect to a stage surface of the recording stage in a direction intersecting a direction in which the recording stage moves, which displacement occurs accompanied by movement of the recording stage; carrying out shifting for each of pixels of an image formed by the image data based on the shift-amount data stored in the storage section; and controlling exposure for the recording medium based on image data of the shifted image, is provided to reduce distortion of the image.

Abstract: An electronic ticket providing system capable of distributing and browsing the information relating to a ticket can be realized while maintaining the security and transferability of an IC card. The electronic ticket information is divided into formal ticket data and provisional ticket data. The formal ticket data includes authentication information for admission, ticket notation item, authentication information for acquisition of information for a ticket owner. The provisional ticket data includes the ticket notation item, and authentication information for acquisition of information for a ticket purchase requester. The electronic ticket information is distributed from an electronic ticket vending server to a mobile telephone over a communications network. In the mobile telephone, the formal ticket data is stored in a removable storage medium such as an IC card, etc. having high security and transferability, and the provisional ticket data is stored in the internal memory.

Abstract: A data processing system, a data processing method, a data processing terminal used in the same, and a data processing program, which enable reliable downloading of information such as electronic ticket data while ensuring security even when an IC card is not set in the terminal. On the occasion when downloading electronic ticket data from a server of a ticket agency through a communication network, if a storage medium such as an IC card to store the data is not mounted in a data processing terminal, the data is encrypted and temporarily stored in an internal memory or a storage device having a capacity larger than that of the internal memory of the data processing terminal. When the storage medium has been mounted in the data processing terminal, the electronic ticket data is read out of the internal memory or the storage device. Thereafter, the electronic ticket data is decrypted and stored in the storage medium.

Abstract: The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method which can correct displacement of a forming position of an image with high accuracy even when a recording medium is strained into an arbitrary shape. Positional information representing positions of each of multiple locating holes made in advance on a printed wire board (PWB) is obtained by a camera, a forming area of a wiring pattern image on the PWB is virtually divided into multiple quadrilateral areas on the basis of the positional information, in each divided area, raster data showing the image is converted so that, when it is assumed that there is no strain on the PWB, a formed wiring pattern image is matched to an image formed on a corresponding divided area, and, on the basis of the raster data after conversion, the image is formed on the PWB.

Abstract: Misidentification, when a sheet-form recording material of a size different from an identified size is conveyed and wound on a rotating drum, is detected before proceeding to exposure processing, which is a subsequent process. When a trailing end of a printing plate is detected by a photo-interrupter, an actual plate length is calculated on the basis of an already known conveyance length and either a rotation angle of the rotating drum due to the operation of winding up till this detection or a product of a rotation linear speed of the rotating drum and a duration of the operation. If a difference between the actual plate length and an inputted plate length falls beyond pre-specified tolerance values, the printing plate is wound backward and separated from the rotating drum.

Abstract: The present invention provides a logistic PKI service system that improves reliability and security of its distribution portion. An article displayed on a shop terminal is purchased from a user's mobile terminal via a network. Then, a shop terminal receives distribution label data from a PKI. The user's mobile terminal receives authentication information transmitted by the PKI. The shop terminal generates a distribution label on the basis of the distribution label data from the PKI. Then, the shop terminal attaches the distribution label to the article and then requests a distributor to deliver the article. After the distributor delivers the article to a user, the user's mobile terminal reads information from the distribution label attached to the article. The user's mobile terminal then carries out information on the basis of the information from the distribution label and the authentication information from the PKI.