Abstract: A developing device includes a development roller, a housing, a suction device, and a discharging device. The development roller rotates to pass a developer to an image carrier. The housing includes an opening, which allows the development roller to face the image carrier therethrough, and a flow-in path, which is a gap formed to allow air to flow therethrough between the development roller and an edge of the opening downstream in a rotation direction of the development roller. The suction device has a suction path having a distal end serving as a suction port that is open to an outside of the housing, and sucks air through the suction port. The discharging device includes a through-hole, which extends through the housing to connect an inside to an outside of the housing, and a discharge path, which extends from the through-hole to the suction port. The discharge path merges with the suction path.

Abstract: A search apparatus includes a request acquisition unit that acquires a search request from a user, a search processing unit that executes a search process on a basis of a search target designated in the search request, an information acquisition unit acquires user-related information related to the user, a selection unit, a selection unit, and a providing unit. The selection unit selects, as information expected by the user, a piece of search result information highly relevant to the user-related information if the search processing unit acquires, as search results, multiple pieces of information having mutually different semantic contents and being multiple pieces of search result information from among the multiple pieces of search result information having the different semantic contents. The providing unit provides the user with the information expected by the user selected by the selection unit as a search result responding to the search request.

Abstract: A system for printing at least one stretchable ink on a thermoformable substrate including an unwinder arranged to feed the thermoformable substrate from a first roll into a web drive subsystem, a surface energy modification device arranged to alter a substrate surface energy to enhance wetting and adhesion of the at least one stretchable ink to the thermoformable substrate, at least one printhead array arranged to deposit the at least one stretchable ink on the thermoformable substrate, at least one radiation curing device arranged to cure the at least one stretchable ink on the thermoformable substrate, a sensor array arranged to monitor the at least one stretchable ink on the thermoformable substrate, and a rewinder arranged to receive the thermoformable substrate and to form the thermoformable substrate into a second roll.

Abstract: A communication terminal includes an acquiring part that, when a data set including real data representing content of the data set and attribute data indicating an attribute of the real data is newly stored on a data storage device, acquires the attribute data from the data storage device without waiting for a user to instruct that the attribute data is to be acquired, and acquires the real data after the user instructs that the real data is to be acquired, and a notification controller that controls a notifying part to notify the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the acquiring part.

Abstract: A developer storage level detecting device includes: a main body having a transporting path through which a developer is transported; a developer transporting unit that is disposed to rotate in the transporting path and has a transporting section provided spirally around a rotating shaft; a swingable member that comes in contact with a surface of the developer being transported in the transporting path and swings while following at least a level of the surface of the developer stored; and a detecting unit that detects a swing state of the swingable member, wherein the transporting unit has a non-transporting section without the transporting section, and the swingable member is disposed to swing in the non-transporting section.

Abstract: A developing device includes: a developer storage unit that stores a developer; a developer transporting unit that is connected to the developer storage unit through an opening portion; a closing member that openably closes the opening portion; and a loosening section that acts simultaneously with opening of the opening portion by the closing member to loosen the developer at an inner end portion of the developer storage unit, opposite to the opening portion.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: a developer holder that is rotatably arranged opposing a latent image holder holding an electrostatic latent image, holds developer including carrier and toner charged to a predetermined regular polarity, has a potential of the same polarity as the regular polarity applied thereto, and develops the electrostatic latent image using the toner; an opposite electrode that is arranged opposing the developer holder with a predetermined gap therebetween; and a controller that changes at least one of a potential applied to the opposite electrode and a rotation direction of the opposite electrode in accordance with an area coverage of the electrostatic latent image of the latent image holder.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on a first surface of a medium; a support unit that supports the medium from a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a pressing unit that blows air from a first surface side so as to press a portion of the medium to be read by the reading unit against the support unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs a partial process with respect to each piece of divided image data obtained by dividing an input image expressed by input image data into partial regions using each object of an object group in which plural objects for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, including: an assignment section that assigns a dependency relationship of processes to the partial processes between the connected the objects and assigns a priority to each partial process; a registration section that arranges executable partial processes on the basis of the dependency relationship in accordance with the assigned priorities and registers the result in an executable partial process list; and an execution section that executes the partial processes in a descending order of the priorities in the executable partial process list registered by the registration section.

Abstract: A fixing belt member includes a base layer. The base layer contains a polyimide-based resin composition and at least one type of particles selected from the group consisting of acetylene black particles and graphitized carbon black particles.

Abstract: An information presentation apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a presentation unit. The acquiring unit acquires information about a function group desired by a user. The function group includes at least one type of function. The presentation unit presents at least one candidate of at least one function providing location with a move sequence. The at least one function providing location is capable of providing, in combination, the at least one type of function of the function group acquired by the acquiring unit. The at least one function providing location is among multiple function providing locations which are present within an area predetermined with respect to a position of the user. Each of the multiple function providing locations is capable of providing at least one type of function among multiple types of functions.

Abstract: An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image while moving in a sub-scanning direction, a casing that houses the image reading unit, a supporting member attached to a lower surface of the casing and having a pair of inclined surfaces that are inclined bilaterally symmetrically outward in a direction intersecting the sub-scanning direction while extending downward, and a guiding member provided in contact with the supporting member and extending in the sub-scanning direction, the guiding member guiding the supporting member movably relative to the guiding member.

Abstract: A transfer device includes first and second assemblies, a spring, and a moving mechanism. The first assembly is rotatable around a first rotation shaft. The first assembly includes an endless belt, and a transfer roller that presses a sheet against an image transport belt to transfer a toner image onto the sheet. The second assembly is rotatable around a second rotation shaft. The second assembly includes a cleaning blade that abuts a leading end edge thereof against a portion of the endless belt. The spring biases the second assembly to rotate around the second rotation shaft. The moving mechanism moves the transfer roller to be in contact with and separated from the image transport belt. The first assembly rotates around the first rotation shaft as the transfer roller moves. The second assembly follows the rotation of the first assembly to rotate around the second rotation shaft.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a grasping unit that grasps usages of a specific place that is used by users, and a user detector that detects plural users who use the specific place at different time points and satisfy a predetermined specific condition based on the usages grasped by the grasping unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify, from a character string recognition result for a form, a form feature that indicates at least a field in which the form is used or an attribute of a filling-out person filling out the form, accumulate past correction tendencies for character string recognition results for forms having respective identified form features, and obtain a correction tendency for a form having a form feature that is the same as the identified form feature from among the accumulated correction tendencies, and perform control to display a candidate correct expression for the character string recognition result for the form in accordance with the obtained correction tendency.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits, to an external apparatus, environment information indicative of an environment of an apparatus that uses an artificial intelligence and checking information for checking estimation processing of the artificial intelligence; a receiving unit that receives evaluation result information indicative of a result of evaluation of the estimation processing; and a controller that sets the estimation processing active in a case where the result of the evaluation is compliant with the environment. A criterion for the evaluation of the estimation processing varies according to the environment indicated by the environment information.

Abstract: Printing devices include a printing engine and a media tray connected to a frame. The media tray is adapted to hold a stack of media supplied to the printing engine for printing. A magnetic trailing edge guide that is shaped to contact a corner of the stack of media is connected to a tether that is connected to the frame. A storage device is connected to the frame, and the storage device is shaped to accommodate the magnetic trailing edge guide. The length of the tether allows the magnetic trailing edge guide to reach the corner of the stack of media and to reach the storage device. The magnetic trailing edge guide includes a magnetic element adapted to magnetically hold to at least the media tray and the storage device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for executing partial processes on each of plural image-section data items, corresponding to plural image sections obtained by dividing an input image into partial regions, in each object of an object group in which plural objects for executing image processing is connected in a directed acyclic graph form, the image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: assign dependency relationships to the partial processes between the objects; assign a priority to a partial process of an object arranged in a terminal stage of the object group; assign, as a priority of a partial process of an object arranged at a pre-stage side which has at least one partial process that is connected at a post-stage side and that has the dependency relationship assigned, a largest value of the priority; and execute a partial process having become executable according to the dependency relationship, according to the priority.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an extractor and a controller. The extractor extracts biological information and a motion of a head from a potential measurement result, which is a result of measuring a potential in the head of a human body. The controller performs control to enable the biological information and the motion of the head that have been extracted by the extractor to be simultaneously presented in association with each other.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a receiver and a switcher. The receiver receives data for executing a function of storing specific data in a preset private box. The switcher switches between first and second register modes when the function to be executed by using the data received by the receiver is copied into the image forming device. The first register mode is a mode in which a private box is manually registered in the image forming device. The second register mode is a mode in which a private box is automatically registered in the image forming device.