Abstract: An image capturing apparatus equipped with a function of performing image stabilization by moving an image capturing section (image sensor) and capable of effectively cooling the image sensor without increasing the size of the apparatus. The apparatus includes an image sensor board on which the image sensor is mounted, an image stabilization mechanism for performing image stabilization by moving the image sensor board, a first duct having an air flow passage and movable, a second duct having an air flow passage and fixedly disposed and connected to the first duct, and a cooling fan for causing outside air to flow through the first duct and the second duct. The image sensor board is held on the first duct.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image with toner, a halftone processor configured to convert image data by performing halftone processing, a first determining unit configured to determine a first toner consumption amount for each page based on the image data, a second determining unit configured to determine a second toner consumption amount for each page based on the converted image data, a print percentage calculator configured to calculate a print percentage for one page based on the first toner consumption amount, a notifying unit configured to notify a remaining amount of the toner of the image forming unit based on the first toner consumption amount of a page of which the print percentage is larger than a threshold and the second toner consumption amount of a page of which the print percentage is equal to or smaller than the threshold.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which sheets targeted for sheet processing are stacked. In the apparatus, a control unit generates, in a buffer section provided in a conveyance path for conveying sheets to the stacking portion, a sheet bundle in which positions of sheets conveyed on the conveyance path are shifted in sequence to an upstream side in a conveyance direction and overlapped. An alignment unit performs alignment processing in the conveyance direction on the sheet bundle stacked on the stacking portion. A processing unit performs sheet processing on the sheet bundle on which the alignment processing has been performed. The control unit controls shift amounts of the positions of the sheets when the sheets are overlapped in the buffer section in sequence, according to sizes of the sheets conveyed on the conveyance path.

Abstract: A heating device includes a heat generating element, a switching element, a capacitor, a connecting portion, and a controller. When the connecting means is changed in state from an on state to an off state, the controller causes the capacitor to discharge an electric charge of the capacitor by bringing the switching element into a conduction state for a predetermined time after the connecting means is changed in state to the off state.

Abstract: An image processing device that can facilitate setting related to layer information based on distance information is provided. The image processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image including a subject through a lens unit, a distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance to the subject, a layer information generation unit configured to generate layer information on a layer for each distance based on the distance information, and a setting unit configured to set a reference for generating the layer information and switch display of a setting value capable of being set in accordance with the lens information of the lens unit.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes an urging mechanism configured to urge a holding member such that a feeding member is brought into contact with an upper surface of a sheet loaded on a sheet loading member by the holding member. The urging mechanism includes a swinging member, a pressing member, and an urging member. The urging mechanism is configured to urge the holding member such that (i) a force by which the feeding member presses an upper surface of a sheet in a first state in which a distance between a loading surface and the feeding member is a first distance is larger than (ii) a force by which the feeding member presses an upper surface of a sheet in a second state in which the distance between the loading surface and the feeding member is a second distance longer than the first distance.

Abstract: A control apparatus that is capable of quickly and easily reducing the positional deviation of a gaze point, occurring whenever a photographer's eye is brought into contact with a viewfinder. A position corresponding to a gaze point of a user is estimated and corrected based on a position of an indicator displayed on a display section and the position corresponding to the gaze point of the user associated with the position of the indicator. In a first mode, the correction is performed based on positions of a first number of indicators, and in a second mode, the correction is performed based on a second number, smaller than the first number, of indicators.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a supply portion for supplying an airflow, a blowing port that is formed in a slit-like form following a width direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of a discharged medium, for blowing out the airflow supplied from the supply portion, the blowing port being formed with a channel, through which the airflow flows, extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a conveyance region of the discharged medium, from an inlet side at which the airflow is introduced, to an outlet side, and a supporting member provided on the inlet side of the blowing port to support opposing wall faces of the blowing port, while allowing passage of the airflow. The blowing port has a narrow portion that partially narrows a width of the channel, father on the outlet side than the supporting member of the wall faces forming the channel.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording material using a developer charged with a regular polarity. In a first period, a voltage is applied such that an electrostatic force acts on the developer charged with the regular polarity in a direction from a supply member toward a developer carrying member, and in a second period, a voltage is applied such that an electrostatic force acts on the developer charged with the regular polarity in a direction from the developer carrying member toward the supply member, a polarity of a regulation voltage is equal to the regular polarity, an absolute value of the regulation voltage is greater than an absolute value of a regulation voltage in the first period, and a difference between a development voltage and the regulation voltage is greater than a difference between the development voltage and a supply voltage.

Abstract: A method of generating a media file, the method comprising: generating a first track of media data samples; generating at least one annotated region, the annotated region being associated with a geometry of the annotated region, the annotated region being associated with at least one region annotation describing the annotated region; wherein the annotated region is associated with the first track of media data samples; and generating a media file including the first track and the at least one annotated region, associated geometry and associated region annotation.

Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear unit having positive refractive power. The front unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first aspheric lens, a first negative lens, and a first positive lens. The rear unit includes, in order from the image side to the object side, a second aspheric lens, a second negative lens, and a second positive lens. The first aspheric lens includes an aspheric surface having an inflection point in a section including an optical axis. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A power source device includes first FET of which a source is connected to LIVE phase, second FET of which a source is connected to a drain of the first FET, third FET of which a source is connected to NEUTRAL phase, fourth FET of which a source is connected to a drain of the third FET, first capacitor connected between the source and the drain of the first FET, second capacitor serially connected between the drain of the second FET and the drain of the fourth FET, third capacitor connected between the source and the drain of the third FET, fourth capacitor connected between the LIVE and NEUTRAL phases, a detector to detect potentials of the LIVE and NEUTRAL phases, a controller controls the FETs based on a detecting result by the detector, and an inductive load connected between the drains of the first and third FETs.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of encoding video data comprising frames into a bitstream, frames being spatially divided into frame portions, the method comprising: encoding at least one frame portion into one or more first encoded units; wherein the method further comprises: signalling into said first encoded units, at least one frame portion identifier, a frame portion identifier identifying one encoded frame portion; and providing frame portion arrangement information comprising the frame portion identifier and spatial information about the frame portion.

Abstract: A control device includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a reception unit configured to be capable of receiving an input operation by an operation device that is a wearable-type device and an input operation by hand tracking; and a determination unit configured to determine which of the input operation by the operation device and the input operation by the hand tracking is employed as an input operation used to control an information processing system on a basis of priorities set in advance when simultaneously receiving the input operation by the operation device and the input operation by the hand tracking.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of encoding video data comprising frames into a bitstream, frames being spatially divided into frame portions, the method comprising: encoding at least one frame portion into one or more first encoded units; wherein the method further comprises: signalling into said first encoded units, at least one frame portion identifier, a frame portion identifier identifying one encoded frame portion; and providing frame portion arrangement information comprising the frame portion identifier and spatial information about the frame portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging member, a developing member, a transfer member, first and second gears, a drive source, and a control unit. The charging member contacts the photosensitive drum and forms a charging portion to charge a surface of the photosensitive drum. The control unit performs control in such a manner that an image forming operation of performing image formation by rotating the photosensitive drum at a first rotational speed is executable. Where the control unit executes the image forming operation, the control unit performs a switch operation of stopping the photosensitive drum in a state in which the photosensitive drum is driven, while a non-image forming operation to be executed after the image forming operation is executed, and rotationally driving the photosensitive drum again at a second rotational speed faster than the first rotational speed, a plurality of times.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device includes a modulator configured to provide modulation and a first coupler configured to wirelessly transmit a signal. The second communication device includes a second coupler configured to wirelessly receive a signal by being coupled to the first coupler by at least one of electric-field coupling or magnetic-field coupling and a demodulator configured to provide demodulation. The first communication device or the second communication device includes an equalizer configured to provide equalization.

Abstract: A converter lens according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a converter lens that has a negative refractive power and increases a focal length of an entire system. The converter lens includes a front group having a positive refractive power and a rear group having a negative refractive power, and the front group is a lens unit having a combined refractive power having a maximum positive refractive power in a case where the combined refractive power is obtained by combining a refractive power of each lens in order from the lens closest to an object toward an image side. At this time, a focal length of the front group, a focal length of the converter lens, and a lateral magnification of the converter lens when the converter lens is disposed on an image side of a master lens are determined as appropriate.

Abstract: A rotational operation device includes a rotary shaft, a cam unit that is formed around the rotary shaft and shifts in a rotary shaft direction parallel to the rotary shaft, a rotational operation member rotatable around the rotary shaft, a cam follower in contact with the cam unit, a drive member movable in the rotary shaft direction in accordance with a rotation of the rotational operation member, and a detector configured to measure a distance to the drive member and detect a rotation position of the rotational operation member based on the distance.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to perform a process of outputting information indicating a contact state between a mold and a composition on a substrate, wherein the processing unit obtains a plurality of points representing a contour shape of a portion where the mold and the composition on the substrate are in contact with each other while at least one process of a contact process and a mold releasing process is performed, and outputs the information indicating the contact state based on the plurality of points.