Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electronic element manufacturing method which provides a low manufacturing cost and excellent performance stability, and specifically an organic electronic element manufacturing method which provides a low manufacturing cost, and minimizes emission unevenness, lowering of emission efficiency and shortening of lifetime due to deterioration of gas barrier property of sealing. The organic electronic element manufacturing method is featured in that it comprises the steps of forming an organic electronic structure composed of a first electrode, at least one organic layer and a second electrode on a flexible substrate, and applying a flexible sealing substrate to the organic electronic structure, followed by heating treatment, wherein a heating temperature, at which the heating treatment is carried out, is less than Tg (glass transition temperature) of the substrate and not less than Tg of the sealing substrate.

Abstract: Provided are a wafer scale lens, which is so short in an optical total length with respect to an image height that it can correct an aberration satisfactory, and an optical system including the wafer scale lens and having a thin lens element on the side closest to the image. The optical system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power relative to an object, and a second lens arranged on the side of the image of the first lens and having a recessed shape on the side of the object. At least one lens is arranged on the side of the second lens.

Abstract: A transparent conductive film which is excellent in transparency, electrical conductivity, in-plane uniformity and durability is disclosed, comprising a metal conductive pattern and a transparent conductive material on a transparent film substrate, wherein the transparent conductive material contains a conductive polymer and at least one of a conductive fiber and a conductive metal. A production method thereof is also disclosed.

Abstract: An image processing system includes an information processing apparatus and one or a plurality of image processing apparatuses that can be connected to the information processing apparatus via a network. A function whose function set value is to be displayed on a function setting screen is identified from identifying information included in screen information made by the information processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes an identifying information storage part in which identifying information of a function is stored, and of the functions whose identifying information is stored, all function set values of the identified function are displayed on a display part in a mode that can be selected by a user.

Abstract: A cylindrical heating element comprising a cylindrical member, a metallic pattern provided on at least one of outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member, which is capable of generating heat by being electrified, and a resistive pattern for detecting temperature provided on at least one of the outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member. A fixing device which passes a recording medium on which an unfixed toner image is held through a nip formed by a rotating member for heating and a rotating member for pressurizing which is pressed against the rotating member for heating to fix the toner image on the recording medium with heating under pressure, the rotating member for heating comprising the cylindrical heating element.

Abstract: Disclosed is an input display apparatus including: a handwriting input unit to receive a handwriting input; a particle migration type of display unit to enable display contents to be partially rewritten; and a control unit to control a display operation of the display unit, for displaying each stroke which is input via the handwriting input unit; wherein the control unit controls the display unit so as to display a currently input stroke which is currently input via the handwriting input unit, in a simple display in which a delay required to display the currently input stroke is short as compared with a normal display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section attached on an apparatus main body, having a forming and writing section that forms and writes an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier based on image information, and a transfer section which transfers a developed image after the electrostatic latent image has been developed, onto a sheet; a sheet conveyance section detachably attached on the apparatus main body, which conveys the sheet to the image forming section; a sheet detection section attached on the apparatus main body, which detects a sheet position conveyed to the image forming section by the sheet conveyance section; and a position correction section which corrects an image writing position for an image in the image forming section based on information of the detected sheet position.

Abstract: A method for creating a luminance effect, including: obtaining a source image in a red-green-blue (RGB) color space; obtaining a luminance effect parameter; generating an international color consortium (ICC) device link profile based on the luminance effect parameter; and converting the source image in RGB color space to a final image in RGB color space using a color conversion function with the ICC device link profile.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a retardation film which uses a low-substituted cellulose ester and has improved retardation after saponification and improved wet heat stability of internal haze; a polarizing plate which uses the retardation film; and a liquid crystal display device. An optical film of the present invention contains a cellulose ester and a compound represented by general formula (1), and is characterized in that the compound has an average degree of substitution within the range of 3.0-6.0 and contains a component having a degree of substitution of 4 or less in an amount of 30-80% by mass (inclusive). (In the formula, R1-R8 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylcarbonyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted allylcarbonyl group, and R1-R8 may be the same as or different from one another.

Abstract: A method for creating a duotone color effect from a lightest color and a darkest color, including: obtaining a source image in a red-green-blue (RGB) color space; obtaining a lightest color RGB tuple and a darkest color RGB tuple; generating an international color consortium (ICC) device link profile based on the lightest color RGB tuple and the darkest color RGB tuple; and converting the source image in RGB color space to a duotone image in RGB color space using a color conversion function with the ICC device link profile.

Abstract: A network system including at least one client and a user account management server is provided. The user account management server includes a user account saving portion for saving a user identifier and a user password for a cooperative server with which at least one client works in coordination for specific processing. Each of the clients includes an application storage portion for storing an application for the specific processing, a reference information storage portion for storing reference information to be referred to when the application is executed, a location information obtaining portion for obtaining location information indicating a saving location of the user identifier and user password, a user account obtaining portion for obtaining, based on the location information, the user identifier and the user password from the user account management server, and an update portion for updating the reference information to indicate the user identifier and the user password.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including; an exposure section provided with, a light emitting element, a polygon mirror to receive light beams from the light emitting element, and to expose an image carrier using light beam via the polygon mirror based on image data; an image processing section to adjust image magnification by image processing of the image data; and, a control section configured to select at least either of a first magnification adjustment to change a rotation speed of the polygon mirror and a second magnification adjustment to carry out image processing of the image data by the image processing section, based on comparison results between a paper interval time during recording paper conveyance in image formation and the first magnification adjustment time required to stabilize polygon mirror rotation in the first magnification adjustment, when adjusting image magnification with respect to recording paper.

Abstract: In order to enable multiple logins by a same user, the authentication server includes a registration portion to store a user record including a fingerprint image for authentication of identity of a user and owner authentication information stored in a IC card issued to the user; an identity authentication portion to compare a fingerprint image received from one of MFPs with the one included in the user record for authentication; a first permission portion to transmit a permission signal permitting login based on the authenticated fingerprint image to the MFP that transmitted the fingerprint image; an owner authentication portion to compare owner authentication information received from one of the MFPs with the one included in the user record for authentication; and a second permission portion to transmit a permission signal permitting login based on the authenticated owner authentication information to the MFP that transmitted the owner authentication information.

Abstract: This invention provides an acrylic resin containing film, which is transparent and highly heat resistant and has significantly improved brittleness, and a polarizing plate using the acrylic resin containing film. Further yield in punching work and laminating work of the polarizing late is improved and a liquid crystal display device which can maintain good visibility in long term use is also provided by the polarizing plate. The acrylic resin containing film is composed mainly of an acrylic resin and is characterized in that the film contains the acrylic resin and the cellulose ester resin in a weight ratio of 51:49 to 95:5 and further contains a retardation control agent.

Abstract: A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a browsing setting table storage portion for storing a keyword specified by a user, an update presence/absence determination portion for retrieving, from information publicized through a server, publicized information that includes updated or newly added contents and that also includes the keyword stored in the browsing setting table storage portion, and a printing control portion for controlling a printing unit to print the publicized information thus retrieved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, includes: a pair of panels which constitute a main body skeletal structure of the image forming apparatus and face each other; a main body skeletal structure shaft which connects between the pair of panels and is fixed to each of the pair of panels; and a unit which is installed between the pair of panels and needs positioning based on the main body skeletal structure shaft, wherein an exposed section which is provided on the main body skeletal structure shaft and serves as a measuring reference position for a measuring instrument when a positional relationship between the main body skeletal structure shaft and the unit is measured by use of the measuring instrument after completing assembling of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A shape memory alloy drive device has drive control portion for displacing a shape memory alloy up to a target displacement value by applying a voltage or an electric current to the shape memory alloy by servo control, and also has contact detection portion for detecting a predetermined change in a drive control value, or, for example, a sharp increase in the drive control value, representing the amount of the voltage of the electric current applied by the drive control portion. When detecting a predetermined change, the contact detection portion determines that a movable portion having a lens etc. mounted thereon is in contact with a stationary mechanism. The shape memory alloy drive device further has drive limiting portion which, when the determination described above is made, causes the drive control portion to limit the target displacement value within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A print control apparatus that makes it possible to conduct the print controlling operations in the interruption printing mode, so as to optimize the beneficial balance between the interrupting side and the interrupted side. The apparatus includes a job-status parameter acquiring section to acquire job-status parameters including a residual printing time of the first print job, a printing time of the second print job, a first priority degree representing an implementation priority of the first print job and a second priority degree representing another implementation priority of the second print job and a controlling section to determine whether or not the interruption printing operation should be allowed, namely, an availability of the interruption printing operation, based on the residual printing time of the first print job, the printing time of the second print job, and at least one of the first priority degree and the second priority degree.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus reads out job ticket data indicating first conditions used for executing a job and a permission to change each of the first conditions and lack thereof. The image processing apparatus, then, reads out a functional conditions table indicating a first group made by grouping second conditions having a common concept and a second group made by grouping the first group having a common concept. Then, the image processing apparatus presents, as options for changing a first condition to which applying a change is prohibited, second conditions included in a first group to which a second condition that is the same as the first condition belongs. The image processing apparatus presents, as options for changing a first condition to which applying a change is allowed, second conditions included in a second group to which a second condition that is the same as the first condition belongs.