Abstract: An information processor system includes a control unit for controlling the entire system mainly formed of a CPU, a display for displaying image data to be edited, a keyboard for entering various inputs, a plurality of mice for applying simple instructions of editing work instead of input from the keyboard, and a printer for printing out image data displayed on the display onto a sheet of paper. The display has four types of images displayed. A plurality of cursors corresponding to each of the plurality of mice are displayed on the screen.

Abstract: A fixing device capable of producing fixed images of excellent quality by using a thin-layer rotating heating member and a heating element capable of rapidly and directly heating a rotating heating member to shorten the warm-up time of the rotating heating member, and capable of suppressing fluctuation of the rotating heating member temperature when a recording member is inserted between the rotating heating member and a rotating pressure member after the rotating heating member has been warmed up. The fixing device has a heating roller heated by a resistance heating element, a pressure roller opposite the heating roller, a temperature detector to detect the heating roller temperature, and a control unit to control the power supplied to the resistance heating element based on the temperature detected by the temperature detector.

Abstract: A zoom lens system of the present invention comprises, from the object side, a front lens unit having a positive refractive power and a rear lens unit having a negative refractive power, and performs zooming by changing the spatial distance between the front lens unit and the rear lens unit. The rear lens unit comprises, from the object side, a positive lens and a negative lens, at least one surface of said positive lens being aspherical and the Abbe number and refraction factor of said positive lens being set appropriately.

Abstract: A laser beam scanning device which has an improved cylindrical mirror in an optical path from a laser source unit to a polygonal mirror. The cylindrical mirror has a finite radius of curvature only in a sub scanning direction, and the radius of curvature in the sub scanning direction varies in a main scanning direction such that the closer to a laser beam incident side, the larger and the closer to a laser beam emergent side, the smaller. The laser beam reflected by the cylindrical mirror is converged on a line substantially parallel to each reflective facet of the polygonal mirror.

Abstract: An assembly method of an air gap prism which has an air gap between a first glass member and a second glass member, the assembly method having steps of setting a first glass member on a positioning member, setting a sheet member on the positioning member so as to cover the first glass member, setting a second glass member on the first glass member covered with the sheet member so as to sandwich the sheet member between the first glass member and the second glass member, and cutting a portion of the sheet member protruding from the first glass member and the second glass member.

Abstract: A structure for holding a decentered lens inside a lens barrel, as well as an axisymmetrical lens. The structure includes: a lens barrel with a lens receiving part projecting inwardly and radially from an inner surface thereof; a decentered lens, with a first lens surface as a reference surface a centering axis of which is made to coincide with an axis of the lens barrel, and a second lens surface, which includes an annular flat surface around the second lens surface, in which the annular flat surface forms a recessed surface relative to the second lens surface, in which the annular flat surface is perpendicular to the axis of the lens barrel, and in which the annular flat surface contacts the lens receiving part of the lens barrel; and a washer, installed on the inner surface of the lens barrel, to fixedly hold the decentered lens, relative to the lens barrel, by pinching the decentered lens between the washer and the lens receiving part of the lens barrel.

Abstract: An input signal represented by values of many levels obtained by reading out an original image is applied to a pixel characteristic extracting unit for extraction of a characteristic of a pixel. Based on the extracted pixel characteristic, a gain calculating process is effected based on the pixel characteristic in a first gain calculating unit. An attribute flag showing an image characteristic extracted by the pixel characteristic extracting unit is added to the gain calculated error data which is stored. An area characteristic is determined in an area characteristic extracting unit based on the flag. Based on the determination result, error correction with high precision is carried out in a second gain calculating unit.

Abstract: A device, having a planetary gear and a single motor, in use for switching and transmitting a driving force of the motor to any one of station gears and for driving each station gear in both rotational directions. The operation of locking levers for preventing a planetary gear from revolving around a sun gear is controlled by a cam. The cam is actuated by a driving force of the motor. A spring frictionally connecting the cam and an output shaft of a speed reduction system is interposed therebetween, and a magnet is disposed so as to restrict the movement of the cam when the motor rotates. A sun gear is connected with the output shaft of the speed reduction system with a "play" or gap in order that the rotation of the sun gear is reversed behind time corresponding to the play when the rotation of the motor is reversed, thus making it possible to start actuating the cam earlier than the sun gear for making sure that the locking levers are shifted.

Abstract: An apparatus allowing double-leaved side wiring or saddle wiring of copied sheets of paper performs the following process for forming an image on a two-page spread. In accordance with the direction of the document set on the apparatus, whether or not the image formed on the document should be divided and turned to an image of a two-page spread is determined. When a two-page spread image is to be formed, a blank page is inserted to the images to be printed on the sheets, or the order of images to be printed is exchanged. Thus an image is properly formed on a two-page spread.

Abstract: An unmanned working vehicle of the present invention comprises a work mechanism section which performs a specified work, and a main body section having a wheel for moving said unmanned working vehicle and a driver for driving said work mechanism section or said main body section, wherein said driver having a weight and being arranged on the side opposite from said work mechanism section relative to said wheel, whereby the center of gravity of said unmanned working vehicle is located on or near said wheel.

Abstract: An electronic flash includes a primary emission unit for emitting flash light for illuminating an object, an auxiliary emission unit for emitting light having a different color temperature from the flash light; and a controller for controlling emission of the auxiliary emission unit to adjust the color temperature of illumination light to the object. This electronic flash makes it possible to change the color temperature of illumination light to an object quickly and easily.

Abstract: An optical prism having a first glass member which has a first surface on which an specific light is irradiated, a second surface which reflects a part of the specific light and passes through the rest of the specific light, and a third surface on which the part of the specific light reflected by the second surface is irradiated in a substantially vertical direction; and a second glass member which has a fourth surface which passes through the rest of the specific light passing through the second surface, and a fifth surface on which the rest of the specific light passing through the forth surface is irradiated in a substantially vertical direction; wherein the third surface and the fifth surface have a resin which hardens by being irradiated the specific light.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus using the electrophotographic method in which a toner image formed on an image carrier is transferred to a transfer medium, the image forming apparatus being equipped with a fixed-voltage transfer controller that controls the transfer voltage such that it will be maintained at a prescribed voltage, a current detector that detects the transfer current, a voltage detector that detects the transfer voltage, and a switching controller that, when the transfer current detected by means of the current detector falls outside a prescribed range, switches from fixed-voltage transfer control performed by the fixed-voltage transfer controller to fixed-current transfer control in which the transfer current is controlled such that the transfer current will be maintained at a prescribed control current, the image forming apparatus performing optimal image transfer at all times by, after the switching, setting as a new voltage level the voltage level detected by means of the voltage detector while

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of preventing image noise caused by separation discharge between a photosensitive member and a recording sheet while suppressing to a minimum limit the reduction in production efficiency, by detecting environmental conditions and changing the transport spacing of the recording sheet in accordance with the detected environmental conditions.

Abstract: A skirt located on a worm is inserted in a C-shaped hole of a photo-interrupter blade wheel, and a motor shaft passes thought the center of each of said members. The rotation of the worm is transmitted to photo-interrupter blades with a predescribed angle of play due to the relative dimensions of a notch formed on the skirt and the C-shaped hole.

Abstract: A flash-assisted photographing system including a camera having a taking lens capable of varying the focal length and a flash is provided with a light receiving unit having a plurality of receiving areas operable to separately receive light reflected by different areas of a photographic view, a detector operable to detect a focal length of the taking lens, and a controller operable to set weights for the receiving areas based on a detected focal length. Proper weights are set for the receiving areas even in the case of close-up photography which is highly influenced by camera shake. A main subject can be reliably exposed at a proper light emission.

Abstract: A digital copying machine capable of two-sided copying, which forms an image on one side of a paper sheet, transports the paper sheet through a sheet re-feeding path provided with a sheet turning over unit, forms an image on the other side of the paper sheet, and finally delivers the paper sheet outside. When two-sided copy mode is set in accordance with an instruction from the user, paper sheets are supplied at sheet intervals shorter than sheet intervals at which paper sheets are supplied in one-sided copy mode.

Abstract: A multi-beam emitting device which splits a light beam emitted from a light source into a plurality of beams with a beam splitter to emit a plurality of beams. As the beam splitter, an optical waveguide type acoustooptic element or the like is used. A multi-beam emitting device according to the present invention has a beam splitter which drives an acoustooptic element with a plurality of electric signals with different frequencies applied thereto so as to deflect a light beam emitted from a light source and split the light beam into a plurality of beams, a signal generator which generates the electric signals with different frequencies which are used for the drive of the acoustooptic element, a modulating circuit which turns on and off the electric signals generated by the signal generater individually based on a data signal, an intensity control circuit which controls the light source to change the intensity of the light beam emitted therefrom.

Abstract: A camera is provided with a photographing device for setting various photographing conditions which determine a state of a subject image to be obtained as a picture, the photography device including an exposure device having a plurality of selectively settable exposure modes for automatically setting at least one exposure value based on brightness of a subject, a mode selector for selecting one of the plurality of exposure modes, a calculation unit for calculating an amount indicative of the state of the subject image in accordance with the photographing conditions set by the photography device, an estimation unit for estimating visual effects which the subject image provides based on the calculated state amount, and a display device for displaying the visual effect corresponding to the exposure mode selected by the mode selection means in accordance with the estimated visual effects.

Abstract: A camera according to the present invention is a camera which feeds a film from a film feed opening of a patrone chamber and it includes a film feeder for feeding the film drawn from the film feed opening to a spool chamber through a film exposure portion, a detector for detecting whether or not the fed film passes through the film exposure portion, and a controller for controlling operation of the film feeder in response to an output of the detector.