Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a paper support having resin layers coated on both sides of a base paper, and in particular, to a silver halide photographic material exhibiting superior glossiness and improved sharpness, long-term stability, fingerprint resistance and pressure resistance. The silver halide photographic material comprising on one side of the paper support having resin coat layers on both sides of a base paper, one or more light-sensitive layers and one or more light-insensitive layers, wherein after the photographic material of an L-size (having a length of 89 mm in a machine direction of the base paper and a length of 127 mm vertical to the machine direction) is processed, the photographic material exhibits an image clarity (C-value) of 20% to 60% which is determined using a 1.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a recording head constituted by arraying a plurality of recording elements, in which relative movement is caused between the recording head and a recording material to perform recording in the recording material, the apparatus includes: a first drive control member which drives the recording elements before recording in the recording material is started, and a second drive control member which drives the recording elements, on the basis of an input signal value which is used to drive the recording head after an original image is converted by such as image processing and a drive of the recording head, in order to perform recording in the recording material, wherein the second drive control member drives the recording elements such that recording in a predetermined low record amount is performed in a predetermined low record amount area.

Abstract: A lens unit in which at least one of a subject side lens group and an image side lens group is moved toward an image side to be retracted along an optical axial direction, including a subject side lens group supporting frame to support the subject side lens group, an image side lens group supporting frame to support the image side lens group, a guide member to guide the image side lens group supporting frame from a predetermined position on the subject side to the image side by a predetermined length in parallel to an optical axis, and a moving and displacing device to move the image side lens group supporting frame from the predetermined position on the subject side to the image side by length longer than the predetermined length in parallel to the optical axis, and displace the image side lens group supporting frame from an optical path.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet recording paper comprising the steps of: (a) applying a first coating composition containing inorganic microparticles and a binder onto a support to form a porous ink absorbing layer; (b) drying the porous ink absorbing layer; (c) applying a second coating composition onto the porous ink absorbing layer during the drying step (b); and (d) drying the porous ink absorbing layers, wherein the second coating composition exhibits a pH buffering function, and both conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied at the same time: Condition (1) pHb?pHc<1.0<pHc?pHa, Condition (2) pHa<pHb, wherein pHa, pHb, and pHc are respectively a pH value of the first coating composition, a pH value of the second coating composition, and a pH value of a surface of the ink jet recording paper.

Abstract: A zoom lens system for forming an optical image of a subject on the image-sensing surface of an image sensor has three lens units, namely, from the object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit having a positive optical power, and a third lens unit having a positive optical power, and achieves zooming by varying the distances between the individual lens units in such a way that, during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the distance between the first and second lens units decreases. The first lens unit is composed of two or more lens elements, and the first lens element, i.e., the lens element disposed at the object-side end of the first lens unit, is a plastic lens element. Moreover, a prescribed conditional formula is fulfilled.

Abstract: The ink jet recording material having: a support; a porous layer containing a hydrophilic binder and articulates, formed onto a support; wherein a coating solution is provided onto the porous layer, the coating solution being adapted to make a property to a specific light different from a property of a lower structure.

Abstract: An image processing method includes the steps of: an occupation ratio calculating step of dividing a photographed image data into a plurality of regions based on at least one combination of: predefined brightness and hue; and distance from a frame edge of the photographed image and brightness; and calculating a occupation ratio of each of the plurality of regions which represents a ratio of each of the plurality of regions in the whole photographed image data; an index calculating step of calculating an index determining a type of a photographed scene by multiplying the occupation ratio of each of the plurality of area calculated in the occupation ratio calculation step to a predefined index according to a photographing condition; an image processing condition determining step of determining an image processing condition for the photographed image data using the index calculated in the index calculating step.

Abstract: A communication method comprises a transmitting a first signal while decreasing its output from a first communication apparatus to a second communication apparatus, receiving the response signal from the second communication apparatus, detecting the lower limit of the transmitted power output that can be received by the second communication apparatus based on the transmitted power output of the first signal transmitted and the response signal received, and a second signal transmission step of transmitting a second signal from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus with the transmitted power output based on the power output detected in the minimum output detection step.

Abstract: A position detector includes a pair of magnetic sensors spaced from each other and a magnetic force generator movable relative to the pair of magnetic sensors. The length of the magnetic force generator along the space between the magnetic sensors is equal to or larger than a length of a space between the magnetic sensors. Preferably, the length of the magnetic force generator along the space between the magnetic sensors is equal to or larger than a sum of the length of the space between the magnetic sensors and an allowable moving distance of the magnetic force generator.

Abstract: An image recording method includes: obtaining an image data; performing a predetermined process to the obtained image data; creating a print based on an output data obtained from the outputted image data through an LUT; and changing a density of a specific density area in the image on the print; wherein the creating the print includes changing a part of the LUT substantially according to a density change instruction corresponding to the changing the density.

Abstract: A package of color photographic film exhibiting enhanced storage stability, wherein a strip of film is wound on a spool, and packed in a metallic film magazine which provides light shielding, and then the packed film is hermetically sealed in a moisture proof envelope, not employing a plastic canister. In this package of color photographic film, contained is the color photographic film having a subbing layer between a substrate and a photographic constitution layer, which subbing layer has a specific dry layer thickness and contains gelatin as the main content of a binder.

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording material including a support having thereon a metal containing compound derived from a divalent metal salt and a compound represented by Formula (I), the metal containing compound having a property to form a metal-chelated dye by heating with a metal chelating dyes represented by Formulas (1), (2) or (4).

Abstract: There is described an image-processing method for generating output-referred image data. The method includes the steps of: designating a hardness adjusting value for the output-referred image data; changing a gradation conversion curve based on the hardness adjusting value, so as to generate a first-revised gradation conversion curve; designating a brightness adjusting value for the output-referred image data; changing the first-revised gradation conversion curve, based on the brightness adjusting value, so as to generate a second-revised gradation conversion curve; and generating the output-referred image data, based on the second-revised gradation conversion curve. The first-revised gradation conversion curve is generated by modifying a shape of the gradation conversion curve residing in a region other than a specific region, based on the hardness adjusting value of the output-referred image data.

Abstract: The information input device comprises: a design template having template information which can be changed by at least input information; and information input section for inputting template information; and an information processing section for processing the input information that is input by the information input section in accordance with the template information.

Abstract: An image forming method containing the steps of (a) forming an image on a thermal transfer sheet of a thermal transfer recording material, and (b) transferring the image onto an image receiving sheet of the thermal transfer recording material, wherein the thermal transfer sheet including a substrate having thereon a yellow ink layer containing a thermally transferable yellow dye, a magenta ink layer containing a thermally transferable magenta dye, and a cyan ink layer containing a thermally transferable cyan dye, the image receiving sheet including a substrate having thereon a thermally transferable dye receiving layer; at least one of the thermally transferable dyes is reactive with a dye fixing agent, and satisfies Formula of (Aa/Am)×100?75; and a printing rate of each of the yellow ink layer, the magenta ink layer and the cyan ink layer is not more than 2.5 msec./line.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protective layer transfer sheet for forming an image by the method which comprising the steps of overlaying a thermal transfer image receiving sheet and a thermal transfer recording ink sheet, forming an image on the thermal diffusible dye receiving layer by heating, and forming a protective layer on the image by transferring the thermal transferable protective layer unit by heating, in which the thermal transferable protective layer unit is constituted by plural transferable resin layers and at least one of the resin layers contains a metal ion-containing compound and a layer other than the resin layer containing the metal ion-containing compound contains a UV absorbent, and a barrier layer is arranged between the metal ion-containing layer and the UV absorbent containing layer.

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording material containing: (i) a thermal transfer sheet comprising a support having thereon an image transfer layer containing a dye and a first binder resin; and (ii) an image receiving sheet comprising a support having thereon an image receiving layer containing a second binder resin, wherein the dye in the image transfer layer has a melting point (MP1) of not more than 130° C.

Abstract: A thermal transfer image receiving sheet comprising a support having an image receiving layer on one surface of the support and a backing layer on the other surface of the support, wherein, (a) a first electrical resistance of the thermal transfer image receiving sheet is in a range of 1×108-1×1012 ohms per square before the transferable protection layer is transferred; and (b) a second electrical resistance of the thermal transfer image receiving sheet is in a range of 1×108-1×1012 ohms per square after the transferable protection layer is transferred and after the backing layer is removed, the first and second electrical resistances being measured by a salt bridge method.

Abstract: There is described a method of managing information on the release of restriction on use that permits license management even where linkage of a hardware key is limited, without sacrificing the user work efficiency. The method for controlling a release information set for releasing a function from an application disabled status thereof, includes the steps of: instructing an operation for transferring the release information set from a first storage section, in which release information sets corresponding to the plurality of functions are stored, to a second storage section by selecting one of the plurality of functions provided in the apparatus; specifying the release information set to be transferred as instructed in the instructing step; reading out the release information set, specified in the specifying step, from the first storage section; storing the release information set, read in the reading step, in the second storage section.

Abstract: This image creating service system has a network 1, a user terminal 3 connected to the network 1 for ordering image creation, and an ordering server 2 connected to the network 1 having selection information of a plurality of image preparer, selects a predetermined image preparer from the selection information of a plurality of image preparer from the user terminal 3, and orders image creation to the selected image preparer.