Abstract: Degradation of a three-dimensional measurement accuracy of a stereo camera device that takes an image of an object in a wide wavelength band is suppressed.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a fixing-side member that comes into contact with an image-formation side of a sheet having a toner image formed thereon by an image forming section; a reverse-side supporting member that comes into contact with a reverse side of the sheet by being pressed toward the fixing-side member; a heat source that supplies heat to the sheet via the fixing-side member; an air separation section that discharges compressed air supplied by an air supply source, to a surface of the fixing-side member to separate the sheet from the fixing-side member; and a control section that controls a pressure accumulation operation in the air supply source. Moreover, the control section disables the pressure accumulation operation in the air supply source in a time period when an image forming process is not performed in the image forming section.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic photoelectric conversion element which has a reverse layer structure wherein at least a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer and a second electrode are arranged on a substrate in this order. The organic photoelectric conversion element is characterized in that: the photoelectric conversion layer is a bulk heterojunction layer that is composed of a p-type organic semiconductor material and an n-type organic semiconductor material; and a compound that has a linear or branched fluorinated alkyl group having 6-20 carbon atoms is contained as the p-type organic semiconductor material.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus according to the present embodiment has a fixing part, a drawer, a case member, and an exhaust duct 71. The fixing part is equipped with a fixing member for transporting a sheet of paper on which a toner image is transferred while heating and pressing the sheet of paper in order to fix the image and a blowing part for blowing air to a nipping part N of the fixing member. The drawer electrically connects the fixing part with the main unit of the image forming apparatus. The case member communicates with the fixing part and contains the drawer. The exhaust duct guides the air inside the case member to the outside of the image forming apparatus. The case member is equipped on one side facing the exhaust duct with an opening H that guides the air inside the case member to the exhaust duct.

Abstract: Disclosed are: an organic EL material which emits light having a short wavelength and has high luminous efficiency and long light emission life; an organic EL element which contains the organic EL material; and a lighting device and a display device, each of which comprises the organic EL element.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a head that ejects droplets of ink; a flow passage portion; and a temperature adjustment unit. The flow passage portion supplies the ink to the head. The flow passage portion includes, in a part thereof, a reservoir unit that reserves the ink. The temperature adjustment unit is capable of adjusting temperatures of the flow passage portion and the head independently of each other. The temperature adjustment unit controls the temperatures of the flow passage portion and the head so that the ink in the head becomes liquid from solid after ink in the flow passage portion is turned to liquid from solid.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a control section which detects an offset of a recording sheet being conveyed, the offset being in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording sheet; performs an offset regulation control which adjusts a main scanning direction image area signal in accordance with the offset; and forms a patch at a non-transfer area on an image carrier, wherein the control section performs a first control based on the offset of the recording sheet for the offset regulation control while a sub scanning direction image area signal is active for image forming on the recording sheet, and performs a second control for the offset regulation control while the image area signal in the sub scanning direction is inactive.

Abstract: The present invention provides a near-infrared reflective film and a near-infrared reflector, which can be used over large areas and are flexible, and have low haze and high visible light transmittance. The near-infrared reflective film comprises at least one unit composed of a high refractive index layer and low refractive index layer on a substrate, and is characterized in that the refractive index difference between an adjacent high refractive index layer and low refractive index layer is at least 0.1, and said high refractive index layer contains at least one type of compound (A) selected from: 1) a rutile-type titanium oxide having a volume-average particle diameter of not more than 100 nm; 2) a water-soluble polymer; and 3) the following group of compounds. Group of compounds: a carboxyl group-containing compound, hydroxamic acids, pyridine derivatives.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a radiation image capturing system includes a radiation image capturing apparatus; and a radiation generating apparatus. The radiation image capturing apparatus includes: a plurality of radiation detecting elements defined by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines; a scanning driving section; a switch section; a reading circuit; and a control section. The control section detects a start of emission of radiation from a radiation source. The control section includes a notifying section which notifies that start of emission of radiation is detected when the start of emission of radiation is detected.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical element for use in an optical apparatus having a light source which emits a light flux with a wavelength ? (350 nm???450 nm), the optical element containing: a molded portion formed by molding a resin; and one or a plurality of anti-reflection layers formed on the molded portion, wherein at least one of the anti-reflection layers is made of SixOy; and an elemental ratio r (r=y/x) designating an ratio of O to Si in the molecule of SixOy satisfies a requirement represented by Formula (1): 1.40?r?1.80.

Abstract: Provided is a proofreading device capable of accepting proofreader's marks, which includes: a user attribute identification section configured to identify an attribute of a user; a storage section configured to store proofreader's mark sets and attributes of users in association with each other and to store intermediate mark set to be used to place the proofreader's marks having the same meaning among the proofreader's sets in correspondence to each other; a proofreader's-mark-set selection section configured to a proofreader's mark set corresponding to the attribute of the user; a proofreader's mark conversion section configured to convert the proofreader's marks, added to a document by a first proofreader, into intermediate marks, to convert the intermediate marks into the proofreader's marks of the proofreader's mark set selected on the basis of the attribute of a second user, and to cause a display section to display the converted proofreader's marks together with the document.

Abstract: Provided are a resinous reflecting optical element that achieves high mirror surface precision by mitigating the warping effects associated with contraction during resin hardening and suppressing the distortion of a mirror surface that results from resistance to mold release, and a scanning optical device that uses said reflecting optical element.

Abstract: An image pickup lens includes: a first lens with a positive power, including a convex surface facing the object side; an aperture stop; a second lens with a negative power, including a concave surface facing the image side; a third lens with a positive or negative power; a fourth lens with a positive power, including a convex surface facing the image side; and a fifth lens with a negative power, including a concave surface facing the image side. The surface of the fifth lens facing the image side is an aspheric surface and includes an inflection point. The image pickup lens satisfies the predetermined condition relating to a focal length of the first lens.

Abstract: An image pickup optical system OP includes first and second prisms P1, P2 for bending incident light at an almost right angle. Optical axis AX at the incident surface of first prism P1 and optical axis AX at the outgoing surface of second prism P2 are almost parallel with each other. There is a lens element forming at least one power group on the optical path between first and second prisms P1, P2, wherein a power group closest to the incident surface of second prism P2 is a positive power group. The incident surface of second prism P2 has a concaved surface shape facing the object side, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied: ?4.2<fp2/f<?0.2 (fp2: a focal length of the second prism, f: is a focal length of the entire image pickup optical system), and 0.2<|f_1p/fp2|<1.5 (f_1p: a focal length of the power group closest to the incident surface of the second prism).

Abstract: The multi function peripheral 20 stores the common codes 40 which have been commonly assigned to plural types of message data having the same meaning in different languages, and sends the common codes and the language designation information to the data processing apparatus 60. The data processing apparatus 60 has the vernacular message group 70 in which the correspondence between the message and the common code has been established for plural languages. The data processing apparatus 60 extracts, from the vernacular message group 70, message data which are identified by combination between the common code and the language designation information received from the multiple function processing apparatuses 20, and sends the message data to the multiple function processing apparatuses 20. The multiple function processing apparatuses 20 switches display languages on the operation panel or the like by using message data received from the data processing apparatus 60.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image forming section; and a control section allowing the image forming section to form a belt-shaped pattern on sheets in such a way that a formation starting position of the belt-shaped pattern is shifted for a distance, obtained by dividing a measurement-distance by a number of sheets to be used, in a main-scanning direction sheet by sheet; collecting, sheet by sheet, pieces of density information each of which indicates the density of the belt-shaped pattern at a measurement position of measurement positions; creating data in which the pieces of density information respectively correspond to the measurement positions arranged in the main-scanning direction on each of the sheets; and correcting density unevenness of image data in the main-scanning direction based on the created data, wherein the image forming section forms an image based on the image data of which the density unevenness is corrected.

Abstract: Taper portions 151 and 161 are provided in the cavity of a stationary side die 110 and the cavity of a movable side die 120 in an injection molding apparatus, respectively, and a floating mechanism 170 is provided so that one taper portions are able to freely follows the other taper portions while die clamping. This configuration makes it possible to correct axial misalignment in each of the cavities.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image print which has a toner-holding layer on an image-supporting substrate in which the toner-holding layer holds a toner image formed by toner particles, wherein the toner-holding layer is composed of a hydrogel having a water content of 10% by mass or more and not more than 90% by mass.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an intermediate transfer member that maintains a good second transferability and a good cleaning property even when print is repeatedly carried out and continuously obtains a high quality toner image without the occurrence of a non-printing portion of a character image, and an image forming method and a image forming device that use the intermediate transfer member. The intermediate transfer member is used for an image forming device provided with a means which, after the toner image carried on a surface of a photosensitive member is first transferred to the intermediate transfer member, the toner image is second transferred to a transfer member. The intermediate transfer member is characterized in that including an inorganic layer on the most outer surface, wherein the inorganic layer defines a contact angle of 30°-60° with respect to methylene iodide and the hardness of the inorganic layer measured by a nanoindentation method is in the range of 3 GPa-10 GPa.

Abstract: A projection optical system receives light from a display device surface and enlarges and projects a display image thereon onto a screen surface. The projection optical system includes one or more reflective surfaces having an optical power between the display device surface and the screen surface, moves at least one optical device having an optical power to adjust focus and satisfies the following conditional formula: ?0.02<{(?1??2)?2}/{(?1+?2)?1}<0.