Abstract: A heating device includes a heater, a holder, a device frame, a primary positioner, a secondary positioner, and a tertiary positioner. The heater includes a heat generator. The holder holds the heater. The device frame is configured to support the holder. The primary positioner is configured to position the heater and the holder in a longitudinal direction of the heater. The secondary positioner is configured to position the holder and the device frame in the longitudinal direction of the heater. The tertiary positioner is configured to position the device frame and a body of an image forming apparatus in the longitudinal direction of the heater. The primary positioner and one of the secondary positioner and the tertiary positioner are disposed on an identical side defined by a center of the heat generator in the longitudinal direction of the heater.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a first rotator, a second rotator, a heater, and a discharger. The first rotator includes a conductive first layer, a non-conductive second layer, and a conductive third layer. The first to third layers exist in an order of the first layer to the third layer from a center of the first rotator to an outside of the first rotator. The second rotator forms a nip between the first rotator and the second rotator. A recording medium bearing a toner image passes through the nip. The heater is disposed inside a loop of the second rotator and heats the second rotator. The discharger is in contact with the first layer and the third layer and removes electric charge from the first rotator.

Abstract: An image reading device, an image forming apparatus, and a feed tray. The image reading device is provided with a light source that irradiates a sheet with light, and the light source is a sterilizing-light emitting light source that irradiates the sheet with light to sterilize the sheet. The image forming apparatus includes the image reading device, a housing including an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet, and a sterilizing-light emitting light source disposed in a sheet conveyance path in the housing. The feed tray for containing a plurality of sheets, the feed tray includes a sterilizing-light emitting light source.

Abstract: A management system includes circuitry to receive an operation request for a specific device of one or more devices from a communication terminal used by a user for who user authentication has been successfully performed by a management system. The one or more devices and the communication terminal are communicating with each other to execute an event managed by the management system. The circuitry stores, in a memory, operation identification information and access information in association with each other. The operation identification information identifies a device operation associated with the operation request. The access information is associated with the user and used to access external storage. The circuitry uploads data acquired by the specific device according to the device operation corresponding to the operation identification information to the external storage using the access information associated with the operation identification information.

Abstract: A system for displaying an image, includes circuitry that: receives a detection of use of a display device by a user; specifies the display device, based on information related to the display device; and displays, on a display, a display device image representing a specific area in an image captured by an image-capturing device, the specific area including at least a part of the display device that is specified.

Abstract: System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.

Abstract: An image-capturing system includes circuitry to receive multiple phase images for each of multiple phases. The multiple phase images include multiple first phase images captured under a first condition and one or more second phase images captured under a second condition different from the first condition, and the multiple first phase images are greater in number than the one or more second phase images. The circuitry calculates, for each of the multiple phases, a motion amount, at least, among the multiple first phase images of a same phase; performs correction on the multiple first phase images of the same phase based on the motion amount; and performs addition processing on the multiple first phase images of the same phase, so as to generate a summed phase image for each of the multiple phases.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a head, a detector, and circuitry. The head forms an image on a recording medium. The detector detects a vertical movement of the recording medium and a distance to the recording medium in a vertical direction. The detector includes an optical sensor to project light to the recording medium and receive the light reflected from the recording medium. The circuitry sets a first area based on a result of detection performed by the detector. The first area is an area in which the recording medium and the head collide with each other. The circuitry retracts the head to prevent the recording medium and the head from colliding with each other, in a case where a position of the head is in the first area.

Abstract: A drive transmission device includes a drive train including a plurality of drive transmitters, and a container. The plurality of drive transmitters of the drive train transmit a driving force of a drive source to a rotator rotatable around a shaft and a swing member rotatable around a shaft different from the shaft of the rotator. The container contains the drive train.

Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first group, a second group, an aperture stop, a third group, and a fourth group. The second group includes one positive lens. The third group includes two positive lenses and one negative lens. At least two of the third group are joined together to form a compound lens. The imaging lens has a fixed focal length and an angle of view of 120 degrees or more. Conditional expressions (1), (2), (3), and (4) below are satisfied: ?2.7?f1/f??0.7??(1) 2.2?f2/f?6.6??(2) 3.9?f3/f?14.3??(3) 2.8?f4/f?11.0??(4) where fi denotes focal length of i-th group with respect to a d-line, i denotes one of 1 to 4, and f denotes focal length of an entirety of the imaging lens with respect to the d-line.

Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display unit (300a, 300b) configured to emit image light, a light guide member (100a, 100b) configured to guide the image light and emit the image light to eyes of a wearer who wears the head-mounted display device, and a relay optical system (201a, 201b) arranged between the image display unit and the light guide member, and configured to relay the image light from the image display unit to the light guide member, and form an intermediate image at least once before the image light enters the light guide member.

Abstract: A system is disclosed.

Abstract: A three-dimensional modeling apparatus includes a carrier configured to carry a modeling material, a device configured to cause the modeling material carried by the carrier to fly to the surface of an object, and an external force applying member configured to apply a predetermined external force to the modeling material when the modeling material is flying.

Abstract: A heating device includes a rotating body, a heating source, a rotating body holder, and a lubricant of liquid or semi-solid. The heating source heats the rotating body. The rotating body holder holds both longitudinal ends of the rotating body rotatably. The lubricant of liquid or semi-solid adheres to the rotating body holder. A temperature of the rotating body holder is lower than a generation temperature of fine particles of the lubricant.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first controller including first control circuitry and first power supply control circuitry; and a second controller including second control circuitry and second power supply control circuitry. The first control circuitry controls an image former. The second control circuitry controls an external interface.

Abstract: A drive mechanism that drives a rotator to rotate includes a main motor, an assist motor, and processing circuitry. The main motor drives the rotator. The assist motor drives the rotator and assists a drive of the rotator by the main motor. The processing circuitry controls a speed of the main motor so that a rotational speed of the rotator is constant, and controls a motor voltage of the assist motor so that the motor voltage of the assist motor changes according to a change in a motor current of the main motor.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that displays, on a display, form management information including form information indicating content of a form and management information for managing the form information, the form information having been acquired based on an embedment code included in form image data of the form, and in response to an instruction to output the form management information, outputs the form management information to an extraneous source.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an image forming apparatus that includes a latent image bearer, an exposure device, a detector, and processing circuitry. The exposure device exposes the latent image bearer to form a latent image based on image data. The detector detects density unevenness, in a main scanning direction, of a toner image obtained by developing the latent image. The processing circuitry corrects only an exposure amount of the exposure device based on the density unevenness to form an image portion with a higher gradation than a prescribed gradation, the processing circuitry further configured to correct the exposure amount and the image data based on the density unevenness in the main scanning direction detected by the detector to form an image portion with a gradation equal to or lower than the prescribed gradation.

Abstract: A shared terminal includes: circuitry to control a display to display an image to a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a use of the shared terminal, and obtain, from a first privately-owned terminal owned by a first user of the plurality of users, first terminal identification information for identifying the first privately-owned terminal; a transmitter to transmit, to a terminal management server, an authentication request for authenticating the first privately-owned terminal to allow login of the first user into the shared terminal, the authentication request including the first terminal identification information of the first privately-owned terminal; and a receiver to receive an authentication result indicating whether the first privately-owned terminal is authenticated to allow login of the first user, from the terminal management server.

Abstract: A liquid discharge method for a liquid discharge apparatus having a plurality of print modes includes determining and changing. The determining determines the print modes by a determiner. The changing changes, based on the print mode determined by the determiner, a use nozzle width and a discharge amount of a spot color head in a line feed direction such that a print mode having a low print speed has a narrower nozzle width and a larger discharge amount than a print mode having a high print speed by a controller.