Abstract: Provided is a fixing apparatus that fixes an unfixed image on a sheet by causing the sheet to pass through a fixing nip formed by pressing a belt by a pressurizing roller, a lubricant being applied on an inner peripheral surface of the belt, the pressurizing roller being disposed on an outer peripheral side of the belt, and the fixing apparatus includes: a non-rotary pad including a pressed part disposed on an inner peripheral side of the belt and pressed by the pressurizing roller via the belt, and a guide that is disposed upstream of the pressed part in a belt circulating direction and guides the belt to the fixing nip; and a pressure application part that applies a pressure between an end of the belt in a belt width direction and the guide at a position upstream of and immediately before the fixing nip in the belt circulating direction.

Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor is capable of sending, to a console, a command indicating permission of radiation emission. The console controls a radiation emitting apparatus that emits radiation. The hardware processor is also capable of outputting a first control signal to a radiographic imaging apparatus that generates a radiograph based on the first control signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wavelength conversion film including at least two or more dyes and absorbing irradiation light to emit light at a longer wavelength than that of the irradiation light. The wavelength conversion film includes a first dye having a maximum absorption wavelength in a red light region, and a second dye absorbing excitation energy of the first dye to emit light in a near infrared region.

Abstract: There are provided an inkjet head, an inkjet image forming apparatus, a nozzle plate manufacturing method, and an inkjet head manufacturing method capable of improving durability against wiping on an ink discharge surface. The inkjet head includes a nozzle substrate including nozzle holes from which ink is discharged. The nozzle substrate has an irregularity structure formed on an ink discharge surface such that neither ink particles contained in the ink nor a wiping member that wipes the ink discharge surface get caught by the irregularity structure.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a powder holding member that holds a powder pattern constituted by powder on a surface; and a transfer member that constitutes a nip part for nipping a recording medium on which an image pattern is formed with the powder holding member, and pastes powder constituting the powder pattern to the image pattern at the nip part.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus of a scanning type includes: a treatment liquid head that ejects a treatment liquid having a flocculation effect on a coloring material ink and a coloring material; and an ink head that ejects the coloring material ink in a single carriage, wherein the ink head does not pass through a treatment liquid discharging part after discharging the treatment liquid in a same scan.

Abstract: A method for generating a searchable file from a document. The method includes identifying an object within the document and a formatting attribute of the object, determining an inferred semantic characteristic of the object by comparing the formatting attribute with a plurality of inference rules, wherein the inferred semantic characteristic comprises an estimation of author-defined semantic characteristic of the object, generating metadata based at least on the inferred semantic characteristic and the formatting attribute of the object, wherein the metadata comprises text data that is searchable by a search application for the searchable file to identify the object within the searchable file, and generating, based on the document, the searchable file comprising the metadata.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is connected to a voice processing server that analyzes text data transmitted from a voice input/output apparatus that converts an instruction by an utterance of a user to the text data and outputs the text data, and outputs an instruction obtained by analysis and utterance language information indicating a language of the utterance, and the information processing apparatus includes: a communicator that communicates with the voice processing server; a destination searcher that determines on the basis of the utterance language information whether to include a space character in a target of the search, and searches for a name indicated in a search character string from a destination list on the basis of a result of the determination; and a hardware processor that performs control to transmit a search result of a destination by the destination searcher to the voice processing server via the communicator.

Abstract: A user inputs a speech including a keyword via a speech input device; a first processor searches a job history by the keyword, the job history being stored on a storage, the job history including a job record, the job record including a set of values having ever been used for a job executed by an image processing apparatus. A job record specifying device includes a second processor that conducts an analysis on different values in multiple job records; selects a speech with reference to the different values; transfers the speech to a speech generator; and finds a specific job record from the multiple job records using a keyword extracted from a speech inputted via the speech input device in response to the speech outputted by the speech generator. The image processing apparatus reflects a target set of values in the specific job record, to the setting of a job.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a toner image former that forms a toner image on an outer peripheral surface of a photosensitive rotating body and that transfers the toner image having been formed onto a transfer receiving object; a detector that detects a grayscale abnormality of the toner image on the photosensitive rotating body or the transfer receiving object; a cleaner that cleans the outer peripheral surface of the photosensitive rotating body; and a hardware processor that causes the cleaner to clean when the detector detects the grayscale abnormality at a same position in a main scanning direction per circumferential length of the photosensitive rotating body in a sub-scanning direction.

Abstract: The toner for developing an electrostatic charge image of the present invention contains a toner base particle comprising a binder resin and at least two kinds of organic pigments, and alumina as an external additive. The at least two kinds of organic pigments comprises: a pigment P1 having an absorption maximum wavelength ?max (nm) of greater than 400 nm and less than 600 nm when dispersed in methyl ethyl ketone; and a pigment P2 having an absorption maximum wavelength ? max (nm) of 600 nm or more and 700 nm or less when dispersed in methyl ethyl ketone.

Abstract: A radiography control apparatus includes a display that includes a display screen and a hardware processor. In causing the display screen to display a list of information on an examination that is set for a patient and that relates to taking a radiographic image, the hardware processor causes the display screen to display, in a display area, an imaging item that is included in the examination and categorized into a category based on a set categorization criterion, separating the imaging item by the category.

Abstract: An inkjet recorder includes: a drum that is rotatable about a rotation axis and conveys a recording medium; a head unit including an ejection surface that ejects ink that forms an image on the medium conveyed to the drum, the head unit being movable between a recording position at which the ejection surface faces the drum and a cleaning position separated from the recording position in a direction parallel to the rotation axis; and a cleaning unit that is disposed at a position being adjacent to the drum in the direction parallel to the rotation axis and facing the ejection surface of the head unit located at the cleaning position, and cleans the ejection surface, wherein the head unit includes heads having the ejection surface, the cleaning unit includes a cleaning member, the cleaning member has a cleaning surface, and the cleaning surface cleans the ejection surface.

Abstract: There is provided a projection system including a plurality of projectors that perform edge blending, each of the plurality of projectors including: an image display element; a light blocking plate that reduces an amount of light in an edge overlapping portion of a light bundle; and an aperture diaphragm that changes an amount of light traveling-toward an object to be projected, wherein when a circle formed by an outermost perimeter of a light passing region obtained when the aperture diaphragm is completely opened is defined as a reference circle, the aperture diaphragm partially covers the inside of the reference circle such that an outline of the reference circle is divided into three or more sections in a state where the aperture diaphragm is narrowed to make an area of the light passing region inside the reference circle half the reference circle.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transferer that transfers a toner image on an image carrier formed by an image former onto a paper sheet; a fixer that heats and thereby fixes the toner image on the paper sheet; a read image acquisitor that acquires read image data of the paper sheet on a downstream side of the fixer in a conveyance direction, the read image data being generated by a reader that reads an image of the paper sheet; and a hardware processor that: controls a conveyance speed of the paper sheet in the transferer and/or the fixer, and changes or updates the conveyance speed based on an image of the acquired read image data.

Abstract: Provided is a compound that is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized, and is not significantly colored. Provided is a photoresponsive compound represented by the following general formula (1), the photoresponsive compound being fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized: R1—Z1?Z2—R2??General formula (1) wherein Z1 and Z2 are N or CH, while Z1?Z2, R1 contains an aromatic hydrocarbon structure, R2 contains an aromatic heterocyclic structure, and a hydrogen atom is bonded to at least one carbon atom bonded adjacent to a carbon atom in the aromatic heterocyclic structure bonded to the Z2.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions to control a computer of an information processing apparatus that processes information obtained from a patient terminal connectable to a healthcare worker terminal and to an electronic prescription server that stores electronic prescription information and dispensing information, the instructions causing the computer to execute: obtaining, from the patient terminal, the dispensing information associated with the electronic prescription information; obtaining, from the patient terminal, medicine taking information on a patient; associating the dispensing information and the medicine taking information with each other and creating integrated information; and outputting the integrated information to the healthcare worker terminal or the patient terminal.

Abstract: A posture of a component is to be accurately determined. A posture determination method is to determine, based on an image acquired for a component having a plurality of surfaces, a posture of the component. This posture determination method includes recognizing an outer shape of the component from the image, detecting a feature amount of a surface shape in a determination area being a part of the component based on the outer shape of the component recognized in the recognizing, and determining. In the determining, the posture of the component is determined by comparing a first reference amount indicating a reference feature amount in the determination area of a first surface of the component and a second reference amount indicating a reference feature amount in the determination area of a second surface of the component with the feature amount detected in the detecting.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image former that forms a color image by superimposing images of respective colors formed on respective different photoconductors on an intermediate transfer body, the image former continuously forming color images of pages on one continuous paper, and the image forming apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that performs job management for each color and generates print job data in which a margin region having a first width is set on an upstream or a downstream in a sheet passing direction of an image forming region of each page; a second hardware processor that detects a color shift amount of each color of the image forming region; and a third hardware processor that corrects a formation position of the image forming region to be a print target page next on the print job data for a color in which a color shift has occurred.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a resin composition for forming three-dimensionally shaped objects having high dimensional accuracy. In order to achieve the purpose, the resin composition is used in a three-dimensional shaping method wherein either forming a thin layer that comprises a particulate resin composition and selectively irradiating the thin layer with laser light are repeated or melt-extruding a resin composition into a filament shape and forming a layer of the filament-shaped extruded resin composition are repeated, thereby forming a three-dimensionally shaped object. The resin composition has a particulate or filament shape, comprises polysaccharide nanofibers and a resin, and has a content of the polysaccharide nanofibers of 1-70 mass %. In the resin composition, the maximum value of loss modulus at temperatures in the range of (melting temperature)±20° C. is 10-1,000 times the minimum value of loss modulus at temperatures in the range of (melting temperature)±20° C.