Abstract: A silica-titania composite has a BET specific surface area, as determined by BET analysis of a water vapor adsorption isotherm, in the range of 250 m2/g to 500 m2/g and a contact angle with water of 100° or greater. In the water vapor adsorption isotherm, an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is in a range of 65 cm3/g to 120 cm3/g, an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.5 is in a range of 150 cm3/g to 300 cm3/g, and an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.9 is in a range of 350 cm3/g to 500 cm3/g.

Abstract: A forming apparatus includes a discharge target device, a reducing device, and a discharge device. The reducing device reduces a section of a linear formation material in which a bundle of continuous fibers has been impregnated with resin. The discharge device moves relative to the discharge target device, discharges to the discharge target device the formation material the section of which has been reduced by the reducing device, and stacks plural layers formed of the formation material having been solidified.

Abstract: An image reading device includes at least one reference portion that is provided in a reading area of a reading unit provided with a moving mechanism, a memory unit that stores, as an initial value, positional data of the reference portion that is read by the reading unit, an acquisition unit that reads the positional data of the reference portion and acquires a displacement amount of the read positional data from the initial value, and an error handling unit that performs error handling when the displacement amount exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit and a correction information output unit. The reading unit acquires a saddle-stitched surface picture by reading a saddle-stitched surface of a saddle-stitched booklet formed through folding and stapling processes performed by a saddle-stitching device, and acquires a cover surface picture by reading a cover surface of the saddle-stitched booklet. The correction information output unit outputs correction information about a stapling position to the saddle-stitching device. The correction information is calculated on the basis of a difference between a cover-side fold line position on the cover surface picture, which is specified on the basis of a saddle stitch-side fold line position detected from the saddle-stitched surface picture, and a staple position detected from the cover surface picture.

Abstract: A display control device includes an operation-display unit and a controller. The operation-display unit hierarchically displays multiple functions using multiple screens and accepts an operation performed through an approach or touch of an object. The controller performs control so that, when the object approaches a function displayed on an original screen, a next screen associated with the function selected as a result of the approach of the object is temporarily displayed using a display mode corresponding to a relationship between the original screen and the next screen.

Abstract: For tourists, interactions with digital public displays often depend on specific technologies that users may not be familiar with (Quick Response codes, near field communication, and so on) may not have access to because of networking issues, may lack a required application or device technology, may not want to use because of time constraints, or may not want to use because they are worried about sharing their data with a third-party service. Example implementations described herein are directed to a system that allows users to seamlessly share content with a public travel kiosk system.

Abstract: A light-emitting component includes an insulating substrate, plural light-emitting elements, and plural thyristors. The plural light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate and constituted by a first stacked semiconductor layer, the first stacked semiconductor layer being obtained by stacking plural semiconductor layers. The plural thyristors are constituted by a second stacked semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate such that the light-emitting elements and the thyristors are arranged side by side, connected to the plural light-emitting elements, respectively, and turn on to drive the light-emitting elements to emit light or to increase an emitted light amount, the second stacked semiconductor layer being obtained by stacking plural semiconductor layers that are different from the semiconductor layers of the first stacked semiconductor layer.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first reception unit that receives first information indicating a storage location of a document to be printed; a first transmission unit that uses the first information to generate an authorization request, generates corresponding second information, and transmits the authorization request and the second information to a terminal used by a sender of the first information; a second reception unit that receives a corresponding authorization code; a controller that uses the authorization code to acquire an access token, and controls storage of the access token, the second information, and the first information in association with each other; and a second transmission unit that, if the second information is received from an image processing device, uses the corresponding access token and information indicating a storage location to acquire a document in the storage location, and transmits the document to the image processing device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member; a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member; an electrostatic charge image forming unit that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holding member; a developing unit that has an electrostatic charge image developer and that develops the electrostatic charge image on the surface of the image holding member with the electrostatic charge image developer to form a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image holding member to a recording medium; and a fixing unit that includes a fixing belt that comes into contact with the toner image transferred to the recording medium, a rotational member that is disposed in contact with the outer surface of the fixing belt and that forms a contact area between the fixing belt and the rotational member, and a heat source that is disposed so as to face the inner surface of the fixing belt to directly heat the fix

Abstract: A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt having a surface that receives a toner image, a support roller supporting the intermediate transfer belt, and a transfer unit that transfers the toner image from the intermediate transfer belt to a recording medium. The transfer unit includes a transfer belt and a transfer roller disposed opposite the support roller with the transfer belt and the intermediate transfer belt therebetween. The transfer roller has a volume resistance value of one-tenth or less of a system resistance value for a current of 120 ?A between the support roller and the transfer roller.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer that acquires an image to print onto a medium; a color converter that converts color in the image acquired by the image acquirer depending on a positional relationship between a white image forming section that forms an image on the medium with white color material and a color image forming section that forms an image on the medium with colored color material; and an image output unit that outputs the image whose color is converted by the color converter.

Abstract: A power supply unit includes primary and secondary circuits and a transformer. The primary circuit is connected to an alternating-current power supply and includes a switching device. The transformer includes primary and secondary windings. The primary winding receives an alternating current so that an alternating current is induced in the secondary winding. The received alternating current is generated through switching using the switching device. The secondary circuit rectifies, for output, the alternating current induced in the secondary winding. The primary winding includes first and second windings. When the alternating-current power supply is a power supply of a first voltage, the first winding is connected to the second winding in parallel in the primary winding. When the alternating-current power supply is a power supply of a second voltage higher than the first voltage, the first winding is connected to the second winding in series in the primary winding.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a detection unit and a generation unit. The detection unit detects a change in information to be used for access to content provided by a web service. The generation unit generates, in a case where the change is detected, second content in which the information with new settings is added to first content which is associated with the information before the change.

Abstract: A light guide device includes a light guide plate that includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface in one of which plural light exit portions are provided, that guides light introduced into the light guide plate while reflecting the light between the first surface and the second surface, and that refracts or reflects the guided light so as to cause the light to exit by using the plural light exit portions. The light guide device has an introduction portion that is provided in the light guide plate and that introduces at least part of light incident upon the introduction portion in plural directions in a plane where the light is guided by the light guide plate.

Abstract: A service providing system includes a moving apparatus and a service provision instruction apparatus. The moving apparatus moves to a user who is within a service provision area within a predetermined zone, the predetermined zone including the service provision area and a service prohibition area, and provides a service to the user. The service provision instruction apparatus recognizes a position of a user within the zone and instructs the moving apparatus to provide a service to the user when the user is within the service provision area.

Abstract: A print management device includes a control unit that performs a control for displaying of information indicating a spare capacity of at least one printing device based on a print plan and a print status of the at least one printing device that is performing printing. The print plan is derived based on capability information of the at least one printing device.

Abstract: A print management device includes: an estimation unit that estimates a completion prediction time of a print process that is planned in advance according to a processing capability of a printing device, the estimation unit estimating, in response to occurrence of an abnormality in the printing device, the completion prediction time based on actual performance information on the processing capability from a start of printing by the printing device to the occurrence of the abnormality and a recovery time determined in advance, the recovery time being a time needed for dealing with the abnormality; and a notification unit that notifies the completion prediction time estimated by the estimation unit.

Abstract: A guide structure includes a contact member disposed downstream of a nipping unit in a transporting direction in which a recording medium is transported, the nipping unit nipping the recording medium between a heating roller, which heats an image formed on the recording medium that is transported, and a pressure roller, which presses the recording medium against the heating roller, the contact member protruding toward the recording medium and being rubbed against an image surface of the recording medium, on which the image is formed, while being in contact with the image surface over a region extending in a width direction of the recording medium and while the recording medium is nipped by the nipping portion.

Abstract: A recording-medium container includes a press portion and an urging member. The press portion is disposed to be movable toward and away from a side of a recording medium stack loaded in the recording-medium container, and pressed against the side. The urging member urges the press portion toward the recording medium stack when a quantity of the recording medium stack exceeds a predetermined load.

Abstract: A printing management apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives order information about a printed material and print data of the printed material; a generating unit that generates bar code information about a bar code assigned to each page of the printed material based on the order information; an output unit that outputs the print data and the bar code information to a printer for executing processing including printing of the printed material; an acquiring unit that, in response to a failure occurring in the processing executed by the printer on a failure page, acquires the bar code information about the bar code assigned to the failure page; and a controller that controls the output unit so that the output unit outputs the bar code information about the failure page and reprint data of a reprinted material including the failure page to the printer.