Abstract: An image forming device including an image carrier, a charge device, a developer device, power supply circuitry that applies a charge bias and a developer bias to the charge device and the developer device, respectively, a detector, and a hardware processor that operates as: a control unit that changes a fogging margin, which is a difference between charge bias and developer bias, and controls the power supply circuitry to set the charge bias and developer bias accordingly; a calculation unit that calculates amounts of change between detected values; and a determination unit that obtains differences between amounts of change, determines whether each difference is less than a defined value, and determines a position of a boundary between a first range greater than or equal to the defined value and a second range less than the defined value as a fogging margin to be used in forming a print image.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a piezoelectric element, which allows for forming a columnar microstructure with a small width and a high aspect ratio. The method is intended to produce a piezoelectric element 102 including a three-dimensional structure group 20 having a plurality of the three-dimensional structures 21 and 321 formed in a plate-like or columnar shape with a width of 30 ?m or less and a height of 80 ?m or more. The production method includes a first process of fabricating a plurality of plate-like or columnar precursor shapes 82a on a bulk material 81 formed of a Pb-based piezoelectric material, and a second process of reducing the width of the precursor shapes 82a to a predetermined value using an etching liquid.

Abstract: A post-processing device includes: multiple types of post-processing modules that are disposed at predetermined installation positions within the post-processing device and each execute post-processing to an output sheet on which an image is formed; and a controller that (i) detects the post-processing modules at the installation positions and (ii) determines and controls adjustment contents of the post-processing modules based on a detection result.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus including: a conveyor that conveys a sheet on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus; a reader that reads the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, by using a contact image sensor; and a first hardware processor that extracts an edge of the sheet by analyzing a read image by the reader, calculates a blur amount of the edge based on the extracted edge, and calculates a curl amount of the sheet based on the calculated blur amount.

Abstract: An image inspection device inspects an inspection image obtained by reading a sheet. The image inspection device includes a hardware processor that: performs inspection by comparing the inspection image with a reference image that is obtained by reading the original image that is printed on the sheet; determines whether a possibility of abnormality exists in the reference image based on a difference between the reference image and the inspection image; displays a difference portion between the reference image and the inspection image when determining that the possibility of abnormality exists in the reference image; receives a selection of a normality or an abnormality for each of the reference image and the inspection image; and replaces the reference image with the inspection image when the abnormality is selected for the reference image and the normality is selected for the inspection image.

Abstract: An image forming device may comprise: an attaching unit to which a removable toner bottle is attached; a toner storage that stores toner supplied from the toner bottle attached to the attaching unit; a detector that detects an empty state of toner in the toner storage; and a hardware processor that: supplies toner to the toner storage from the toner bottle when the toner bottle attached to the attaching unit is new; and switches a state of the toner bottle to an old state from a new state if the empty state detected by the detector is released.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming device that is disposed at a first conveyance path and forms an image on a recording medium that is a continuous sheet or a long sheet; a first conveyor that conveys the recording medium on the first conveyance path in a conveyance direction; an image reader that reads the image formed on the recording medium at a second conveyance path on a downstream side of the first conveyance path in the conveyance direction; a second conveyor that conveys the recording medium on the second conveyance path; and a controller that controls a speed of a drive source of the first conveyor and controls a torque of a drive source of the second conveyor.

Abstract: A cloud server is connected to a plurality of edge devices via a network, and includes: a storage that stores a common machine learning (ML) model that is pretrained and used for optimizing image analysis; and a processor that repeatedly executes: distributing the common ML model to each of the edge devices that optimize the image analysis using local data and that modify the common ML model to create a locally optimized ML model, collecting a key parameter of an optimization result, without collecting the locally optimized ML model or accessing the local data, from each of the edge devices, and updating the common ML model stored in the storage by reflecting the key parameter in the common ML model at a predetermined timing to continuously improve the common ML model for more accurate image analysis.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for processing and scheduling print jobs on a plurality of printers. The method includes: collecting job information on one or more past print jobs; collecting job information on a plurality of print jobs currently being processed, each of the plurality of print jobs being assigned to one or more operators from a plurality of operators; generating a process workflow visualization for the plurality of print jobs currently being processed with a processing mining algorithm based on the job information collected on the one or more past print jobs and the job information collected on the plurality of print jobs currently being processed; and displaying the process workflow visualization for the plurality of print jobs currently being processed.

Abstract: A method for extracting text from an input image and generating a document includes: generating an edges mask from the input image; generating an edges image that is derived from the edges mask; identifying, within the edges mask, one or more probable text areas; extracting a first set of text characters by performing a first optical character recognition (OCR) operation on each of one or more probable text portions, of the derived edges image, corresponding to each of the probable text areas; generating a modified image by erasing, from the input image, image characters corresponding to the first set of text characters extracted by the first OCR operation; and generating a document by overlaying the extracted first set of text characters on the modified image.

Abstract: A system that evaluates spoken content, includes: an acquirer that acquires each content spoken by a plurality of participants in a meeting or a briefing; an identifier for identifying each speaker of the each spoken content; and an evaluator for evaluating the each spoken content, wherein the identifier identifies whether the each spoken content is content spoken by a first speaker, or by a second speaker or apparatus that interprets content spoken by the first speaker, and the evaluator evaluates content spoken by an identified speaker that is the first speaker, or the second speaker or apparatus.

Abstract: An ultrasound transducer in which a plurality of pMUT cells are arranged. The pMUT cells have a plurality of resonance frequencies. Each of the pMUT cells includes a piezoelectric film that is polarized in a first direction that is a thickness direction or a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A setting method of a monitoring system including a light projecting and receiving unit having an emitting section and a scanning section to make light flux scan within a monitoring space, a processing section to measure a distance to an object by processing signals from the light projecting and receiving unit and to output a measurement point marker group provided with three-dimensional distance information for each measurement point, a display device, and a user interface to perform input of temporary attitude information, includes: inputting the temporary attitude information via the user interface to adjust an attitude or position of the measurement point marker group displayed on the display device; performing coordinate conversion for at least the measurement point marker group on a basis of the temporary attitude information having been input; and displaying the measurement point marker group after having been subjected to the coordinate conversion on the display device.

Abstract: A control device of an image forming system including an image former that forms an image on a recording medium formed of a continuous sheet or a long sheet includes a hardware processor that calculates a width of the recording medium on a downstream side of a fixer included in the image former in a transport direction of the recording medium and outputs a shrinkage amount or a shrinkage rate of the recording medium in the transport direction due to the fixer based on the width of the recording medium and shrinkage characteristic information of the recording medium.

Abstract: An inspection system according to the present invention includes: an abnormality detector that performs automatic inspection for detecting an abnormality on the basis of a read image obtained by causing a reader to read an image that is formed on a recording medium by executing a print job; and a hardware processor that, when the abnormality is detected in the automatic inspection, causes the reader to perform specific shading operation involving cleaning the reader after stopping the print job but before restarting the print job, wherein the specific shading operation is performed in a shorter time than normal shading operation involving cleaning the reader, the normal shading operation being performed except when the abnormality is detected in the automatic inspection.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a hardware processor which performs control of causing a display to display an ultrasound image subjected to attenuation correction, based on a received signal and setting of the attenuation correction, the attenuation correction correcting strength of the received signal lowered due to attenuation of ultrasound waves inside a subject based on a correction amount according to a reflection depth of the ultrasound waves inside the subject; and an input receiver which receives an input operation that designates an adjustment amount, wherein the hardware processor changes the setting of the attenuation correction based on the adjustment amount, and in the changing the setting of the attenuation correction, sets the correction amount, for each of different reflection depths, to an amount according to a product of the adjustment amount and a predetermined weighting factor, the predetermined weighting factor being set correspondingly to each of the reflection depths.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a plurality of identifiers that discriminates whether abnormal data that is information indicating an abnormal value is included in treatment data and detects the abnormal data; and a hardware processor that: customizes evaluation data used when evaluating discrimination accuracy of the plurality of identifiers; calculates the discrimination accuracy of each of the plurality of identifiers using the evaluation data customized by the hardware processor; and selects one identifier out of the plurality of identifiers as an identifier used for discrimination based on a calculation result by the hardware processor.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that prints an image on paper; a corrector that corrects a print position of the image on the paper; and a first sensor that is disposed on a conveyance path upstream of the image former, detects paper, and outputs detection data to the corrector, wherein the corrector obtains, on the basis of the detection data, an amount of change in a shape of first paper from a shape of second paper printed before the first paper is printed, and corrects a print position of a first image on the first paper on the basis of the change amount.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms a color image on a recording medium by superimposing images of colors formed by image forming units. The apparatus includes a processor that: acquires a read image by reading the recording medium on which the color image has been formed; forms a register patch outside a job image forming region of the recording medium; and corrects image forming positions of the image forming units based on the read image that includes the register patch. The register patch includes: a leading end patch and a rear end patch formed with a reference color material; and one or more measurement target color patches formed with measurement target color materials between the leading end patch and the rear end patch. The hardware processor corrects the image forming positions based on relative positions of the leading end patch, the rear end patch, and the measurement target color patches.

Abstract: An input device including a touchscreen sensor that detects a touch operation from a user, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium including a program, and a hardware processor that executes the program to operate as: an area determination unit that determines whether a detected touch operation is performed in a first detection area; a trajectory determination unit that, when it is determined that the detected touch operation is performed in the first detection area, determines whether or not the detected touch operation indicates an operation drawing a linear trajectory; and a detection control unit that, when it is determined that the operation drawing a linear trajectory is indicated, controls the area determination unit to determine whether a next touch operation is performed in a second detection area that is larger than the first detection area.