Abstract: An electrostatic image developer contains a toner and a carrier having a resin coating layer formed on the surface of a core material containing a ferrite component, wherein a ratio R1/R2 is from 0.88 to 0.92 where R1 is the resistance value (?) of the developer having a toner concentration of 2 mass % in a state formed into a magnetic brush, at an applied voltage of 104 V/cm, and R2 is the resistance value (?) of the developer having a toner concentration of 12 mass % in a state formed into a magnetic brush, at an applied voltage of 104 V/cm.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a polyester resin, the electrostatic image developing toner having a sulfur element concentration S at % and a nitrogen element concentration N at % which satisfies 0.5?N/S?10, the nitrogen element concentration N being from 0.002 at % to 2.5 at %.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit, a representative-image generating unit and a vector converting unit. The extracting unit extracts pixel blocks from image data. The representative-image generating unit generates representative images from the pixel blocks extracted by the extracting unit, based on a similarity between the pixel blocks. The vector converting unit converts the representative images generated by the representative-image generating unit into vector information.

Abstract: There is provided a computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for controlling archiving of an electronic document, the program causing the computer to function as: a requirement memory that stores a document archive requirement for each rule; and an archive processor that judges, on the basis of the requirement memory, each document archive requirement corresponding to each rule to be applied to an electronic document to be archived, determines an archive mode which satisfies all of the judged document archive requirements, and executes a process to archive the electronic document in an archiving device in the determined archive mode.

Abstract: A hologram recording material contains a molecule having intrinsic birefringence and a photoresponsive macromolecule represented by the following formula (1). in formula (1), L1 representing a bivalent linking group, X representing a group having a substituent constant ? based on Hammett's rule of a value of more than 0, the maximum absorption wavelength of an azobenzene group bonding to X being approximately 360 nm or less, A representing a group that is a component of a repeating unit with a carbon number of 2 or more that is a component of a macromolecular main chain, nx representing an integer of 1 or 2, and n representing an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: A copying apparatus detects as to whether or not an IC chip is present in an original paper. When the IC chip is detected, the copying apparatus reads data from this IC chip. When the read data is additional information, which can be printed as an image, the copying apparatus stops a printing process, and notifies a message indicating that the read data is the additional information to the user and then, waits for an instruction issued by the user. When the user instructs to print the additional information, the copying apparatus prints the image read from the original paper and the additional information read from the IC chip on a printing paper in an output format designated by the user.

Abstract: A cleaning unit includes: a cleaning housing which is open toward an image carrier and has a waste toner accommodating part; a cleaning member which scrapes and collects the waste toner on the image carrier; a waste toner storage part storing the waste toner temporarily; and a waste toner conveying member which conveys the waste toner scraped and collected by the cleaning member from the waste toner storage part toward the waste toner accommodating part, wherein: the waste toner conveying member moves in the advancing/retracting direction along the waste toner storage part; and when the waste toner conveying member moves in the retracting direction, the waste toner conveying member moves in contact with the waste toner, and when the waste toner conveying member moves in the advancing direction, the waste toner conveying member moves without contacting the waste toner.

Abstract: An image display medium has: a display substrate that is at least transparent; a back substrate opposing the display substrate with a gap therebetween; at least two or more kinds of moving particle groups that are chargeable and that are different colors, the moving particle groups being enclosed between the display substrate and the back substrate and moving between the substrates in accordance with an electric field formed between the substrates; a transparent liquid for dispersing the moving particles, the transparent liquid being enclosed between the display substrate and the back substrate; and a colored member disposed between the display substrate and the back substrate, and having gaps through which the moving particle groups can move, and being a color that is different from the colors of the moving particle groups.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laminate film for electrophotography including a substrate, a laminate layer formed on one surface of the substrate, and a non-laminate layer formed on the other surface of the substrate, wherein the non-laminate layer contains at least a resin and fine particles and satisfies the inequalities (1) 1.5?R?5; (2) 0.1?t<R; and (3) 7/R?n, wherein R represents a volume average particle diameter (?m) of the fine particles; t represents a thickness (?m) of the non-laminate layer; and n represents the number of the fine particles contained in the non-laminate layer per 10,000 square ?m in the substrate plane direction (particles/(100 ?m)2).

Abstract: The present invention provides a piezoelectric element at least including a piezoelectric layer, a first higher-potential electrode layer formed in contact with the piezoelectric layer on one face of the piezoelectric layer, and a second lower-potential electrode layer formed in contact with the piezoelectric layer on the face of the piezoelectric layer opposite to the first electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer contains a metal A having a standard electrode potential of higher than 0 V and a metal B having a standard electrode potential higher than that of the metal A in which the metal A is present in the largest amount by weight of the total amount of the metal elements contained in the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer contains a metal C having a standard electrode potential lower than that of the metal A, in which the metal C is present in the largest amount by weight of the total amount of the metal elements contained in the second electrode layer.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining and using interaction models. Discourse functions, prosodic features and turn information are determined from the speech information in a training corpus. Statistics, decision trees, rules and/or various other methods are used to determine a predictive interaction model based on the discourse functions, the prosodic features and the turn information. Predictive interaction models are optionally determined for individual users, genres, languages and/or other characteristics of the speech information. The predictive interaction model is useable to predict turns in a dialogue based on the discourse functions and prosodic features identified in the speech information. Speech information is presented and/or received based on the predictive interaction model.

Abstract: An ink jet injection system performs detecting an ink injection condition by ejecting ink droplets so as to form a detecting pattern on a recording medium. When the detecting pattern is formed, the ink droplets are ejected at almost the same position in the state in which the transportation of the recording medium is stopped or a feeding speed of the recording medium is set slower than that during a normal printing operation.

Abstract: In a sheet carrier of an image-forming apparatus, a gate, a carrier guide and a cover are cooled by air exhausted from an exhaust port of a guiding guide and an exhaust hole of the gate, and dew condensation is prevented. A recording paper where a full color toner image is fixed to one side is cooled by blowing the air exhausted from the exhaust port of the guiding guide and the exhaust hole of the gate against the recording paper. A pinch roller and a detection sensor are cooled by blowing the air exhausted from the exhaust port of the guiding guide and the exhaust hole of the gate against the pinch roller and the detection sensor. Since a heat of a fixing device is not absorbed by applying the air to the fixing device, no unnecessary surplus energy is consumed for maintaining a temperature required for fixing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a screen including at least one operation target item constituting a target of an operation; a recording unit that records pieces of information depicting operations performed by a user on operation target items displayed on the display unit as pieces of operation history information; and a screen reproducing unit that reproduces screens displayed at points in time at which the respective operations were performed on the basis of the pieces of operation history information recoded in the recording unit.

Abstract: A system that assures a user that two specific devices have exchanged information correctly over an insecure communication channel. In a typical application, the channel would be a wireless network connection and the information would consist of the public keys of the two devices. The exchanged public keys would subsequently be used to secure any further communication between the two devices. The system requires that both devices have an output modality interpretable by a human. One of the devices must have an input modality that can be operated by the user. The input and output modalities can be very simple e.g., they can consist of a button and LEDs. The users would press the button multiple times. On each press, the LEDs on both devices display a color and the user compares the colors and that they are synchronous. A noticeable delay or color difference signifies a security threat.

Abstract: A method for driving a light modulation element includes: applying light to the light modulation element in accordance with an image to be displayed on the light modulation element while applying a DC voltage between a pair of electrode layers of the light modulation element; and applying a pulse voltage having an opposite polarity to the DC voltage applied so far between the pair of electrode layers with the light being applied, and terminating the applying of the light when the applying of the pulse voltage is terminated. The applying of the light, the applying of the pulse voltage and the terminating of the applying of the light are executed sequentially.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that has a display control unit that causes, when one or more of setting items for specifying a processing are sequentially specified by a manipulation made by an operator, a display unit to display processing information sets each including setting items in a predetermined order on the basis of the sequentially specified setting items, and has a processing execution unit that executes a processing specified by setting items included in a processing information set specified by a manipulation made by the operator among the displayed processing information sets.

Abstract: A power feed system includes: an information device; a terminal device that is connected the information processing device, and that has a power source; and a selection unit that selects, as power utilized by the terminal device, at least one of first power from the power source of the terminal device and second power supplied from the information processing device according to an operating state of the terminal device.

Abstract: A toner for electrophotography contains a binder resin and a coloring agent, and is characterized in that the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin, and a low-molecular compound having at least one of a naphthalene skeleton and a biphenyl skeleton, and the crystalline polyester resin contains 0.5 to 30 construction mole % of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid-derived constitutional component. Further, a developer for electrophotography and an image forming method using the toner for electrophotography are disclosed.