Abstract: A process for producing unsaturated polyester microparticles comprising: melt-mixing an unsaturated polyester and an oil in an extruder; washing the microparticles with an organic solvent to reduce the amount of oil; and removing the organic solvent to form the microparticles.

Abstract: A proxy logger is a proxy or gateway between a Semantic Query/Certification tool and a Multifunction device, such as a multifunction printer. A user specifies the beginning and end points of a specific operation and the proxy logger records network requests and decrypts/encrypts the traffic. The proxy logger and SQCT logs the results for later consumption. Using this method the Semantic Query/Certification tool may generate a certification report or enumerate how a semantic operation is performed for different models of MFDs. The output of the log will be used to build device management profile for the MFD.

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin including an amorphous resin including a polyester resin segment and a styrene acrylate resin segment and a release agent. The content of 1-amino-2-methoxybenzene in the electrostatic-image developing toner is 200 ppm by mass or less.

Abstract: A management apparatus includes an assignment unit, a receiver, and a storage unit. The assignment unit assigns issuance privilege key information representing privilege to issue document IDs to one or more processing apparatuses. Each of the one or more processing apparatuses is located on one of local networks and is configured to execute a protection process to generate a protected document from a document. The receiver receives from the one or more processing apparatuses document IDs issued for protected documents by the one or more processing apparatuses. The storage unit stores the document IDs received by the receiver. Each of the document IDs includes the issuance privilege key information assigned by the assignment unit to the one or more processing apparatuses, and information indicating identity of a document ID issued by one of the one or more processing apparatuses.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus as a first apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image onto a recording medium, a memory that stores first and second information, and a correcting unit that corrects an image formation position by the image forming unit in accordance with the first or second information. The first information is for correcting misregistration between a print position in the first apparatus and a print position in a second image forming apparatus as a second apparatus when an image is formed by the first apparatus and an image is subsequently formed by the second apparatus. The second information is for correcting misregistration between the print positions in the second and first apparatuses when an image is formed by the first apparatus, an image is subsequently formed by the second apparatus, and then an image is formed by the first apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus. The first image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that at least forms an image of a first color. The second image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image of a second color different from a color of an image formed by the image forming unit of the first image forming apparatus, and also includes an image forming unit that forms an image of the first color. The first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus use the first color to form positional-adjustment images for adjusting image formation positions between the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A display device includes a screen, first and second projectors, a detector, and a controller. The screen has first and second surfaces. The first projector projects a first horizontally non-inverted image as viewed from the first surface. The second projector projects a second horizontally non-inverted image as viewed from the second surface. The detector detects a person at least viewing one of the first and second surfaces. The controller controls switching of an operation between the first and second projectors in accordance with a detection result of the detector.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus. An internal storage unit encrypts a data encryption key used for encryption of data to an encrypted data encryption key and stores the encrypted key. A first verification unit verifies validity of its own external storage unit on the basis of identification information acquired from the external storage unit that stores backup data regarding the EDEK and the identification information of the external storage unit. Another verification unit verifies validity of the backup data stored in the external storage unit.

Abstract: A method and system for preventing a printed sensitive or secured print job being left unsecured after a print recovery process by determining if a printer has encountered an interruption in a printing of a print job; determining, when it is determined that a printer has encountered an interruption in a printing of a print job, an identification of a user associated with the interrupted print job; obtaining an authentication code and sending the obtained authentication code to the user identified as being associated with the interrupted print job; recovering from the interruption in the printing of the print job; placing, after recovery, the interrupted print job on hold; determining if a proper authentication code has been received from the user identified as being associated with the interrupted print job; and releasing the held print job when it is determined that a proper authentication code has been received from the user identified as being associated with the interrupted print job.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional object data representing a three-dimensional object with plural voxels, an attribute pattern reception unit that receives an attribute pattern of an attribute to be set for the plural voxels, a setting condition reception unit that receives a setting condition for setting the attribute for the three-dimensional object in accordance with the attribute pattern, and an attribute setting unit that sets the attribute indicated by the attribute pattern for at least one of the plural voxels in accordance with the setting condition.

Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a storage, request data reception and transmission units, a mode data reception unit, a specified condition conversion unit, a content identifier reception unit, a generation unit, and a display data transmission unit. The storage stores a service identifier, access destination information, and a conversion routine for the format of a specified condition specifying content, for each of storage services. The request data reception unit receives a service identifier and a specified condition from a client apparatus. The mode data reception unit receives mode data specifying a client apparatus display format. The specified condition conversion unit converts the specified condition into a server format, which is transmitted by the request data transmission unit using access destination information. The content identifier reception unit receives content identifiers from the server, for which the generation unit generates display data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, from plural pieces of first information viewed by a user, content information being information of contents described in the first information, an extraction unit that extracts a location in which the user has performed editing, from second information as a target of the user working, and a specifying unit that specifies the first information viewed during a period in which the user performs editing at the location or viewed before and after the editing among the plural pieces of first information from the content information.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that performs a process of acquiring a first setting value that relates to a network environment and that is previously designated by a user and storing the first setting value in a memory in response to a given instruction; and a controller that, when the processor has acquired the first setting value, performs control of acquiring a second setting value that differs from the first setting value and that relates to the network environment, and giving the processor an instruction that relates to storage of the first setting value and the second setting value in the memory.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device. The developing device transports a two-component developer by a transporting unit so that the two-component developer passes through a developing roller. The two-component developer is stored in a storage chamber provided with a transporting path. The transporting unit rotates in the transporting path. The developing device causes a portion of the two-component developer to overflow from a discharge port provided at the transporting path, and to discharge the two-component developer. The image forming apparatus has a period in which a first operation is executed, the first operation of reversely rotating the transporting unit at a high speed so that a rotational direction of the transporting unit is an opposite direction to that at a time of development and a rotational speed of the transporting unit is higher than that at the time of development.

Abstract: A brilliant toner includes a first toner which contains a first toner particle containing a flake-shape brilliant pigment; and a second toner which contains a second toner particle containing a flake-shape brilliant pigment, and has a different color from that of the first toner, and an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a first toner which contains a first toner particle; and a second toner which has a different color from that of the first toner, and contains the second toner particle, in which, based on a charge distribution of each of the first toner and the second toner obtained according to a charge spectrograph method, maximum peak positions of the first toner and the second toner are taken as P1 and P2, respectively, and full widths at half maximum of the first toner and the second toner are taken as W1 and W2, respectively, |P1?P2| is 3 mm or less, and |W1?W2| is 3 mm or less.

Abstract: A method of making a composite feed material for fused deposition modeling (FDM) is disclosed. The method comprises providing composite particles made by a process of emulsion aggregation, the composite particles comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer and at least one carbon particle material. A composite feed material is formed for fused deposition modeling from the composite particles. The composite feed material is in a form selected from a filament and a paste.

Abstract: A transport device includes a first belt member, a second belt member, a first roller, a second roller, a third roller, a fourth roller, a fifth roller, and a sixth roller. The second belt member is in contact with the first belt member to form a contact portion in cooperation with the first belt member. The first roller is capable of adjusting a tilt in a longitudinal direction of the first roller. The second roller is capable of adjusting a tilt in a longitudinal direction of the second roller. The third and fourth rollers are located adjacent to the first roller. The fifth and sixth rollers are located adjacent to the second roller. The third roller, the fourth roller, the fifth roller, and the sixth roller each have a uniform diameter in a longitudinal direction of the roller, and are disposed at positions other than the contact portion.

Abstract: A method and system for creating a visual representation of data is provided. The method may include receiving a user input to be represented by a glyph, generating, by a neural network, the glyph based on a vector extracted based on the received user input, linking an aspect of the generated glyph with an attribute of the data to be visually represented; and displaying the visual representation of the data created using the generated glyph to represent that linked aspect of the data.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport path along which at least one sheet is transported to a nip defined by a fixing roller and a displacement roller, a sensing unit disposed on the sheet transport path, an opening and closing member that is movable between a closed position at which the sheet transport path is formed and an open position at which the sheet transport path is exposed, and a guide member that is attached to the opening and closing member and that moves by following displacement of the displacement roller in such a manner as to maintain a certain distance from the sensing unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a sheet-shaped apparatus placed in a specific place, the sheet-shaped apparatus including a sensor built in the sheet-shaped apparatus to sense information indicating whether a user is present over the place in which the sheet-shaped apparatus is placed, an acquiring unit that acquires environmental information about the place, and a providing unit that provides information based on the information sensed by the sensor and on the environmental information acquired by the acquiring unit.