Abstract: An electronic device including elements arranged on a substrate, each of the elements including an insulating layer, a first electrode, a functional layer, and a second electrode in mentioned order starting from a side closer to the substrate. The insulating layer has an inclined portion that is inclined relative to the substrate. The first electrode has a first portion positioned on the inclined portion and a second portion in contact with the functional layer. The second portion has a smaller inclination angle relative to the substrate than the first portion. A thickness of the functional layer positioned on the first portion in a direction normal to a functional layer surface in contact with the first portion is smaller than a thickness of the functional layer positioned on the second portion in a direction normal to a functional layer surface in contact with the second portion.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a stacking portion, a feed member provided above the stacking portion and configured to feed an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, and a trailing-end regulating member movable in the sheet feeding direction and configured to regulate a position of a trailing end of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion in the sheet feeding direction. The trailing-end regulating member includes a support portion configured to support a lower surface of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion. The support portion has a projecting shape in which a center portion of the support portion in a sheet width direction projects upward as compared with end portions of the support portion in the sheet width direction.

Abstract: A roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form is rotated in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. A sensor whose output is changed in accordance with a distance between the sensor and the sheet is used. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from an opposite direction to the forward direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first control value related to white balance based on an input image, a determination unit configured to determine whether a first area including the acquired first control value is changeable, a control unit configured to change the first area to a second area based on a result of determination by the determination unit, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a second control value related to the white balance to be applied to the input image in the second area in a case where the first area is changed to the second area, wherein the control unit changes the first area to the second area by stages.

Abstract: A method of encoding a motion information predictor index, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; when an Affine Merge mode is used, selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; when a non-Affine Merge mode is used, selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as a non-Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, one or more bits of the motion information predictor index being bypass CABAC coded.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic apparatus to obtain a first live view image corresponding to a first optical image inputted via a first optical system and a second live view image corresponding to a second optical image inputted via a second optical system having a predetermined parallax with respect to the first optical system, and perform control to display, when displaying the first live view image and the second live view image side by side, an indicator indicating a part displayed during playback display in an angle of view of the first optical system such that the indicator is superimposed on the first live view image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a reversing unit configured to convey a sheet conveyed from the image forming unit in a first direction, stop the conveyance, and then convey the sheet in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, an image detection unit disposed to detect at least a portion of the image on the sheet stopped by the reversing unit, and a control unit configured to control the reversing unit and the image detection unit. The control unit is configured to detect the image on the sheet by the image detection unit while the sheet conveyance is stopped by the reversing unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus provided in a moving object to capture an image of an area behind the moving object includes an imaging circuit and an optical system. The imaging circuit outputs an image based on an optical image input to a light-receiving surface. The optical system inputs the optical image to the imaging circuit. The optical system forms a first region at a first magnification and a second region at a second magnification lower than the first magnification. The second region is formed around the first region. The imaging apparatus is installed in the moving object so that, on the light-receiving surface of the imaging circuit, an axis passing through a center of the first region and extending in a direction from which the optical system receives light is inclined toward an upper side of the moving object with respect to a backward direction of the moving object.

Abstract: A buffer unit receives a sheet and temporarily holds a predetermined number of sheets so as to be overlaid on one another. A stacking unit stacks the predetermined number of sheets conveyed toward a first direction. A moving unit comes into contact with an uppermost sheet among the predetermined number of sheets stacked on the stacking unit and moves the uppermost sheet further toward the first direction. A regulating unit comes into contact with an end portion of the stack of sheets on the stacking unit to regulate the position of the stack of sheets. A control unit controls the predetermined number of sheets.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head has: a frame having a plurality of ejection ports for ejecting a liquid; a common liquid chamber; a plurality of individual liquid chambers through which the common liquid chamber communicates with each of the ejection ports; and a plurality of energy generating elements disposed in respective individual liquid chambers. A part of a wall of the frame that forms the common liquid chamber is formed of an elastic member capable of deforming elastically, so that a volume of the common liquid chamber can be modified.

Abstract: A sensor board comprising a substrate comprising a pixel region where pixels are arranged on a first surface of two surfaces, a scintillator arranged on one of the first surface and a second surface of the two surfaces and a light shielding member arranged on the surface on which the scintillator is arranged, is provided. The pixel region comprises a first region where a signal for radiation image is generated and a second region where a signal for correcting a signal output from the first region is generated. The scintillator is arranged to overlap the first region but not to overlap the second region. The light shielding member is arranged to cover the scintillator and overlap the second region. A portion of the light shielding member overlapping the second region is bonded to the surface on which the scintillator is arranged.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an authentication unit and a control unit. The authentication unit performs an authentication communication with an external device for determining whether or not the external device is a predetermined device. The control unit requests a second power that is greater than a first power from the external device, in a case where the external device is determined to be the predetermined device and the external device is determined to be a no-additional-cable-required type of power supply device.

Abstract: A developing device in an apparatus main body of an image forming device includes a developing container having an accommodation chamber to accommodate a developer and a developing chamber communicating with the accommodation chamber through a communication port, with the accommodation chamber and developing chamber being integrally formed such that the developing chamber is disposed below the accommodation chamber in a state where the developing device is in use in the apparatus main body. The developer container includes an abutting surface which forms the accommodation chamber and abuts a second end portion of a sheet opposite to a first end portion such that the sheet is maintained in a bent state until the second end portion of the sheet passes in front of an upstream end of the communication port in a rotation direction of the conveyance member and then reaches a light guide provided in the accommodation chamber.

Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a conveyance path, a buffer unit, a post-processing unit, and a processor. The conveyance path receives a sheet conveyed from a conveyance apparatus in a stage preceding the post-processing apparatus. The buffer unit forms a sheet bundle constituted by sheets. The post-processing unit loads the sheet bundle performs post-processing on the sheet bundle. The processor controls conveyance of the sheets and the sheet bundle and obtains, in a case of a delay amount, a delay amount of the sheet conveyed from the conveyance apparatus in the stage or a delay amount of a preceding other sheet bundle conveyed from the buffer unit to the post-processing unit. The processor sets a shift amount between plural sheets based on the delay amount obtained by the at least one processor.

Abstract: A fixing device includes first and second rotation members, a heater holder having a protrusion, and a heater having a heating element and a substrate having a longitudinal direction and a thickness direction. The protrusion is disposed at a position, which is outside a nip portion and on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of a recording material, and comes into contact with the first rotation member. The protrusion protrudes in the thickness direction toward the second rotation member without crossing a nip tangent line that passes through a contact surface between the first rotation member and the second rotation member and extends parallel to the contact surface, and a length in the longitudinal direction of the protrusion is shorter than a length in the longitudinal direction of the recording material of a maximum size which is able to be conveyed.

Abstract: A lens apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system disposed in parallel with the first optical system, and a lens mount attachable to a camera body. Each of the first optical system and the second optical system has a first optical axis, a second optical axis, and a third optical axis in order from an object side to an image side. A distance between the first optical axis of the first optical system and the first optical axis of the second optical system is longer than a diameter of the lens mount, and a distance between the third optical axis of the first optical system and the third optical axis of the second optical system is shorter than the diameter of the lens mount.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an imaging unit having an optical system forming an optical image, including low-distortion and high-distortion regions on a light receiving surface, and to image a side behind a first moving device, an image processing unit to generate image data by distortion correcting image data generated by the imaging unit, a detection unit to detect a second moving device that satisfies a predetermined condition from the image data corresponding to a region including the high-distortion region, and a display control unit to display narrow angle image data corresponding to the low-distortion region in the image data when the detection unit does not detect the second moving device, and to display wide angle image data corresponding to the low-distortion region and the high-distortion region when the detection unit detects the second moving device, to display the wide angle image date including the second moving device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a door, first and second switching portions, an interlocking portion, and an operating portion. The first switching portion is switched to a first state in which the door is rotatable from a closed position to a first opened position and a second state in which the door is rotatable from the first opened position to a second opened position. The second switching portion is switched to a third state in which the door is rotatable from the closed position to the first opened position and a fourth state in which the door is rotatable from the first opened position to the second opened position. The interlocking portion interlocks the first and second switching portions. The operating portion switches the first switching portion to the first and second states, and switches the second switching portion to the third and fourth states.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a stacking portion including a lifting portion, a feeding member feeding a sheet stacked on the lifting portion to a conveyance passage, a position detector detecting movement of the sheet stacked on to a feedable position to the conveyance passage, a driver including a motor and performing the lifting operation of the lifting portion, a rotation detector detecting rotation of the motor, and a controller. The controller determines a factor that the position detector does not detect the movement of the sheet stacked on the lifting portion to the feedable position within a predetermined time based on a detection result of the rotation detector while controlling the driver to lift up the lifting portion.

Abstract: An image forming including: a photoconductor; an exposure unit including a substrate provided with a plurality of light emitting portions configured to emit light to expose the photoconductor, and a first duct configured to guide an airflow that cools the substrate from one side to another side in a longitudinal direction of the substrate along the substrate; an IC mounted on the substrate; a fan configured to generate an airflow that cools the substrate; and a second duct configured to communicate with the first duct through a first opening portion, and guide the airflow generated by the fan, the first opening portion is located on the one side with respect to the center of the substrate in the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the IC is located between the center of the substrate in the longitudinal direction and the first opening portion.