Abstract: An operating device to operate an electronic device, includes: a display that displays a status of the electronic device; an execution part that restarts an operation of the electronic device; and a stoppage part that stops the operation of the electronic device, the display and the execution part being provided as a group, and the stoppage part being provided away from the display and the execution part.

Abstract: An image reader includes a light source that irradiates light to a recording material on which an image is formed, a generation section that receives light reflected from the recording material and generates image information from the received light, and a processing section that extracts information corresponding to a window region of the recording material set in advance, as correction information, from the image information generated by the generation section when light from the light source is irradiated to the recording material on which the image is formed.

Abstract: A document reading device includes: a document reading device main body; and an opening/closing body with one end supported rotatably with respect to the document reading device main body while another end openably/closably provided, the other end of the opening/closing body being provided with a handgrip having a depression sloped toward inside of the opening/closing body in accordance with approach of the opening/closing body to the document reading device main body in a closed status with respect to the document reading device main body.

Abstract: A detection device includes: an imaging unit that forms an image of an incident beam on an image detection unit; an emission unit that includes a guided portion that is guided to a guiding portion provided at the imaging unit and guiding an attachment-detachment operation of the guided portion, a positioned portion that is positioned in a positioning portion provided at the imaging unit, and an emission member that emits a beam toward a direction of a transportation path such that a beam reflected from the medium is incident to the imaging unit; and a setting unit that includes a positioned portion that is positioned in a positioning portion provided at the emission unit when a drawing unit is pressure-inserted into the image forming apparatus and a setting surface that sets a position on the medium at which the beam is reflected.

Abstract: An attaching and detaching body includes: a main body of the attaching and detaching body that is attached to a to-be attached and detached apparatus; a memory that stores information concerning the attaching and detaching body; a memory support section that is provided in the main body of the attaching and detaching body and that supports the memory; and a restriction body that is attached to the main body of the attaching and detaching body and that, when attached to the main body of the attaching and detaching body, is arranged on a locus along which the memory departs from the memory support section.

Abstract: A photovoltaic device is disclosed. The photovoltaic device includes a substrate, an anode, a cathode, and two semiconducting layers. The first semiconducting layer comprises a phthalocyanine. The second semiconducting layer includes a blend of a polythiophene with an electron acceptor. The complementary absorption profiles of these layers result in a device having greater absorption and efficiency.

Abstract: Presently disclosed embodiments relate generally to layers that are useful in imaging apparatus members and components, for use in electrophotographic, including digital, apparatuses. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an electrophotographic imaging member having its outer surface patterned such that friction with the cleaning blade is significantly reduced.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an inlet connected to an outlet of a container body for developer; a leakage preventing member arranged in the surroundings of the inlet and preventing leakage of the developer; and recesses that are arranged on an upstream side and a downstream side of the outlet with reference to the direction of movement that the developer container body moves when the developer container body is moved in a state that the developer container body is supported by a container support section and that are formed in a shape depressed in a direction of departing relative to an opening and closing member for opens and closes the outlet, the recesses collecting developer having adhered to the leakage preventing member when the developer container body is moved.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a line information reception unit, a prediction determination unit, a feature amount calculation unit and a line determination unit. The line information reception unit receives a set of information indicating (i) information on an image having a possibility of being line and (ii) line element being a rectangular pixel lump constituting a line. The prediction determination unit determines whether or not a target line element matches a predicted value based on the received information. The predicted value indicates line element which is predicted when the target line element constitutes a line. The feature amount calculation unit calculates feature amount of the image when the prediction determination unit determines the target line element does not match the predicted value. The line determination unit determines whether or not the image is a line based on the calculated feature amount.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body; an image forming part provided in the image forming apparatus main body, to form an image on a recording medium; an operation part used for operation of the image forming apparatus; a support part provided on a bottom surface of the image forming apparatus main body and in contact with a mounting surface for the image forming apparatus main body to support the image forming apparatus main body; and a convex part provided on the bottom surface, the convex part being provided on the operation part side from the support part, and forming a clearance between the convex part and the mounting surface.

Abstract: A detection device includes: a detection member that includes an emission member emitting a beam toward a direction of a transportation path and a beam receiving member receiving a reflected beam reflected from a medium; a transmissive member that is provided to allow a regular reflected beam of the beam reflected from the medium to be obliquely incident thereto, and through which the beam emitted from the emission member is transmitted; and a multiple-layered antireflective film that is provided on the transmissive member, the antireflective film being formed such that a maximum value of reflectivity of a first incident beam incident at the same angle as an incident angle of the regular reflected beam becomes smaller than a maximum value of reflectivity of a second incident beam incident in the direction perpendicular to the transmissive member within a visible light wavelength range.

Abstract: A developing unit includes: a developing roller; a first conveying member provided in a first container, having a first shaft and a spiral blade, that agitates and conveys developer; a second conveying member provided in a second container connected to the first container via a hole, having a second shaft and a spiral blade, that agitates and conveys the developer; and a supplying member having a third shaft and a paddle blade, that supplies the developer conveyed by the first or the second conveying member to a developing roller, wherein: at least one of the first and second shafts includes a first portion that faces the hole and a second portion that does not face the hole; and a diameter of the at least one of the first and second shafts in at least a part of the first portion is smaller than a diameter in the second portion.

Abstract: There is provided a resin composition including cellulose ester in an amount of from about 50 to about 95 phr and an acrylonitrile-styrene copolymer-containing resin in an amount of from about 5 to about 50 phr.

Abstract: Methods and systems begin when a printing device receives a print job. The methods and systems identify a document type within the print job using a processor of the printing device. The methods and systems also determine if the document type requires an audible alarm using the processor. The methods and systems print the print job using a printing engine of the printing device. If the document type requires the audible alarm, the methods and systems produce an audible alarm using a speaker of the printing device after the printing is complete.

Abstract: A discharge device includes a transport unit that transports a medium in the form of a sheet having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface; a contact member that comes into contact with the second surface of the medium transported by the transport unit, and that moves in a first direction in which the contact member presses the medium to a side of the first surface, and in a second direction opposite to the first direction within a predetermined range; a guide member provided so that the guide member does not come into contact with the contact member, that guides the medium transported by the transport unit while contacting the first surface of the medium, after the contact member comes into contact with the medium; and a discharge unit that discharges the medium guided by the guide member.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the amount of media on an elevator that supports a media stack in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include sensing one or more identification mark on a segmented positional reference scale, determining the elevator's position based on the sensed one or more identification mark, and determining an amount of media on the elevator based on the determined elevator position.

Abstract: A system and method for machine translation are disclosed. Source sentences are received. For each source sentence, a target sentence comprising target words is generated. A plurality of translation neighbors of the target sentence is generated. Phrase alignments are computed between the source sentence and the translation neighbor. Translation neighbors are scored with a translation scoring model, based on the phrase alignment. Translation neighbors are ranked, based on the scores. In training the model, parameters of the model are updated based on an external ranking of the ranked translation neighbors. The generating of translation neighbors, scoring, ranking, and, in the case of training, updating the parameters, are iterated with one of the translation neighbors as the target sentence. In the case of decoding, one of the translation neighbors is output as a translation. The system and method may be at least partially implemented with a computer processor.

Abstract: A printing authentication system includes an identification information storage unit, a providing unit and a specifying unit. The identification information storage unit stores, as an identification information set, plural pieces of user identification information given to a same user. If authentication is valid with regard to an authentication request accompanying specific user identification information, the providing unit reads out a specific user identification information set including the specific user identification information from the identification information storage unit and provides the specific user identification information set. If user identification information, associated with print data, of a requester who requests printing of the print data matches any one of the user identification information constituting the specific identification information set, the specifying unit specifies the print data as a printing target.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided with a one-way valve to enable a single conduit to supply ink to an ink reservoir and withdraw purged ink from a receptacle into the ink reservoir. A bi-directional pump is operated in both directions in an alternating manner to withdraw ink from the receptacle when supplying the ink reservoir with ink.

Abstract: A medium pressurizing device includes: two rotating bodies that rotate and allow a recording medium held in a contact part to pass; a pressurizing member that applies, to one of the rotating bodies, a pressure of pressing the one toward the other; a drive roll disposed downstream from the contact part in a conveyance direction, and rotating thereby transmitting a conveyance driving force to the recording medium; and a following roll contacting the drive roll, and rotating by following rotation of the drive roll, thereby conveying the recording medium held therebetween. The device further includes: an axis member rotating by receiving a driving force; and a cam member fixed to the axis member, acting on the pressurizing member, and following rotation of the axis member, thereby changing the pressure. The following roll has a hollow, and the axis member is disposed to pass through a space in the hollow.