Abstract: In order to achieve designation of a talk room of a chat service to share image data generated by scanning in an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server, based on received information indicating a talk room of the chat server, the chat server controlling displaying of information indicating received image data on the talk room, includes a scanning unit configured to scan an image of an original document and generate image data based on the image, a designation unit configured to designate a talk room of the chat server, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by the scanning unit and information indicating the talk room designated by the designation unit to the chat server.

Abstract: The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon and a pulse counting unit that counts the pulse. The pulse counting unit includes first and second counters, a selection circuit for selecting a signal input to the first and second counters, and a control unit. The control unit controls the selection circuit to perform a first connection mode in which a counter of a first number of bits is configured by the first and second counters, and a second connection mode in which a counter of a second number of bits smaller than the first number of bits is configured by at least one of the first and second counters. The second connection mode includes a third connection mode in which pulses are counted in parallel by the first and second counters.

Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.

Abstract: A communication device that supports first and second communication standards using an OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technique allocates, based on a frequency resource that has been allocated for a first other communication device in accordance with the first communication standard that uses a first pattern for allocating a frequency resource, a frequency resource for a second other communication device that conforms to the second communication standard that uses a second pattern for allocating a frequency resource. The communication device specifies, from among frequency resources in the second pattern, a second frequency resource that partially or entirely overlaps with a first frequency resource that has been allocated to the first other communication device, and allocates a frequency resource that are not included in the second frequency resource in the second pattern to the second other communication device.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit having ejection parts, each configured to eject ink by using a piezoelectric element to be displaced in response to a change in electric potential. The inkjet printing apparatus also includes a circulation unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The circulation unit executes ink circulation in a circulation path inclusive of the printing unit. The determination unit ejects the ink from each ejection part, detects residual vibration generated at an ejection part due to ink ejection, and determines an ejection state of ink ejection at the ejection part based on the detected residual vibration. The inkjet printing apparatus determines a printing state of ink ejection in the printing unit based on the ejection state. The control unit causes the determination unit not to make the ejection state determination in parallel with causing the circulation unit to execute the ink circulation.

Abstract: A communication device conforming to a standard of a IEEE 802.11 series determines one or more frequency bands that the communication device can use for communication, generates a frame in which information of the determined one or more frequency bands is included, and transmits the generated frame. The frame includes a Multi-band element for notifying the information of the determined one or more frequency bands, and the information indicating the determined one or more frequency bands is included in a Band ID field for identifying the frequency band in the Multi-band element. The determined one or more frequency bands include a 6 GHz band.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a pixel array in which pixels including first, second, and third pixels are arranged. In a top plan view of the pixel array, the first and second pixels are arranged along a first direction, and the first pixel is away from the second pixel in a positive direction of the first direction. The first and third pixels are arranged along a second direction and are connected to a first line. The second pixel is connected to a second line. The first and second lines are connected to first and second processing circuits, respectively. The first and second processing circuits are arranged along the first direction, and the first processing circuit is away from the second processing circuit in a negative direction of the first direction. Calculation processing is performed on outputs from the first and second lines.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head including a conversion element that generates energy required to eject liquid, a first protection layer that blocks contact between the conversion element and the liquid, a second protection layer that partially covers the first protection layer and functions as a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode through the liquid, and an ejection port that ejects the liquid, and a control unit configured to control a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode in printing to a predetermined value by changing at least one of potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode. The control unit sets the potential difference based on at least one of a condition and a configuration of the liquid ejection head.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that composites a plurality of images that have been captured with different exposure amounts, the image processing apparatus comprising at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as following units: a specification unit configured to specify a signal value indicating an upper limit value of an output dynamic range with respect to at least one of the plurality of images; and a decision unit configured to decide on composition percentages of the plurality of images based on the signal value specified by the specification unit.

Abstract: A packing box formed of a corrugated board paper includes a box body accommodating an object, an inner lid closing an opening at a side of the box body, and an outer lid folded at a folding portion to overlap an outer surface facing an outside of the inner lid. A rear surface of the outer lid includes an adhesive portion adhered to the outer surface of the inner lid, and a first slit cut from the rear surface and not reaching up to a front surface. The first slit is provided so as to surround the adhesive portion together with the folding portion. The rear surface includes a second slit cut from the rear surface and not reaching up to the front surface. The second slit is cut so as to extend between an outer edge of the outer lid and the first slit from the outer edge toward the first slit.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus comprises an exposure head, a memory and at least one processor. The exposure head includes light-emitting elements, and a rod lens array. A photosensitive body is rotationally driven. The light-emitting elements are arranged in a direction intersecting a direction of rotation of the photosensitive body. The rod lens array forms an image of light on the photosensitive body. The light is outputted from any of the light-emitting elements based on image data, passes through the rod lens array and reaches the photosensitive body. The memory stores correction data for correcting a streak image. The at least one processor corrects the image data based on the correction data read out from the memory.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet printing method including: subjecting a printing medium to corona discharge treatment; and applying an ink containing an anionic pigment to a surface of the printing medium subjected to the corona discharge treatment, wherein the corona discharge treatment has a discharge quantity of 3,400 W·min/m2 or more.

Abstract: A liquid storage container includes a container main body that is capable of storing a liquid and at least a portion of which includes a translucent outer wall; a support member that is integrally formed with the container main body; and a rotation member that is rotatably supported by the support member. The rotation member includes a float that rotates due to fluctuations in a liquid level of the liquid, and a display member that rotates in conjunction with the float and is capable of displaying a position of the float to an outside through the translucent outer wall.

Abstract: An image stabilizing apparatus includes a driver configured to drive an optical system configured to correct an image blur in a direction that includes a component in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, detectors configured to detect position information on the optical system, and a controller configured to control the driver. The detectors are disposed at a first detecting position and a second detecting position on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis. At the first detecting position, position information in a first detecting direction and position information in a second detecting direction different from the first detecting direction are detected. At the second detecting position, position information in a third detecting direction is detected. At least two of the first to third detecting directions are orthogonal to each other.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid-ejection-apparatus including: a retention-chamber to retain liquid; a turning-member located in the retention-chamber and turns about a shaft-portion according to a height of a liquid-surface of the liquid in the retention-chamber; and a sensor-unit to detect turning of the turning-member. The turning-member includes a float-portion having a lower specific gravity than the liquid in the retention-chamber and a detected portion located above the float-portion and detected by the sensor-unit. A liquid-holding-portion is formed, the liquid-holding-portion extending to the shaft-portion from at least one of a side-surface-portion and a bottom-surface-portion of the float-portion and which can hold the liquid in the retention-chamber.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device comprising a pixel portion in which pixels each including a photoelectric converter are arranged, a sample/hold unit configured to sample a signal generated in the photoelectric converter via a vertical signal line and hold the signal, and a converter configured to perform an analog/digital conversion is provided. In the sample/hold unit, a first sample/hold circuit that samples a signal for when the photoelectric converter is reset and a second sample/hold circuit that samples a signal for when a photoelectric conversion operation is performed are connected to one vertical signal line. The pixel portion is arranged on a first substrate, a part of a group configured by the sample/hold unit and the converter is arranged on a second substrate, and another part of the group is arranged on a third substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that enables correct detection of the remaining amount of liquid such as ink. A liquid ejection apparatus has a liquid ejection head which ejects a supplied liquid, a storage unit which stores a liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejection head, a pivot member which is immersed in a liquid stored in the storage unit and is pivotally movable according to an amount of the liquid, and a detection unit which detects the amount of the liquid using the pivot member, wherein at least one of a specific gravity and size of the pivot member differs according to a specific gravity of a liquid stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: Provide is a liquid storage bottle capable of discharging liquid while preventing the liquid stored therein from remaining. The liquid storage bottle has a bottle body and a nozzle for pouring out the liquid stored in the bottle body, and inside the nozzle, a first fluid passage and a second fluid passages each of which opens to an outside on a tip end side of the nozzle and parallel to each other, and a communication passage which opens to an inside of the bottle body on a base end side of the nozzle and communicates with both the first and second fluid passages, are formed, and an inner circumferential surface of the communication passage is inclined inwardly toward the first and second fluid passages.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a supporting base arranged to support a panel arranged to detect incident radiation, a power supply including a positive terminal portion and a negative terminal portion, a substrate connected to the positive terminal portion and the negative terminal portion, an insulating sheet arranged between the supporting base, and the power supply and the substrate, wherein the power supply and the substrate are fixed to the insulating sheet, and a sheet fixing member arranged to fix at least one sheet end of a plurality of sheet ends of the insulating sheet to the supporting base.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that enables correct detection of the remaining amount of liquid such as ink. A liquid ejection apparatus has a liquid ejection head which ejects a supplied liquid, a storage unit which stores a liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejection head, a pivot member which is immersed in a liquid stored in the storage unit and is pivotally movable according to an amount of the liquid, and a detection unit which detects the amount of the liquid using the pivot member, wherein a pivot position of the pivot member differs according to a specific gravity of a liquid stored in the storage unit.