Abstract: A recognition device which judges whether a target is identical with a predetermined reference, comprising: a holding unit which holds the target; multiple deformation units which deform the target held by the holding unit with at least one degree of flexibility in deformation; multiple deformed amount estimation units which correspond to the deformation units in a one-to-one relationship and estimate a deformed amount of the target from the reference with respect to the flexibility in deformation according to the corresponding deformation unit; an estimated error evaluation unit which evaluates an estimated error of the deformed amount estimated by the deformed amount estimation unit; an adjustment unit which operates any of the deformation units with precedence according to the estimated error evaluated by the estimated error evaluation unit; a similarity calculation unit which calculates a similarity between the reference and the target which is deformed by the deformation unit operated with precedence by

Abstract: A non-gouging sheet stripper assembly is disclosed for stripping copy sheets from a surface of a moving fusing member. The non-gouging sheet stripper assembly includes (a) at least one baffle forming part of a sheet path; (b) a finger shaft having a first end attached to the at least one baffle and a second distal end for forming a sheet directing first angle with the surface of the moving fusing member; and (c) a finger tip located at the second distal end of the finger shaft and having a contour for forming a sheet stripping second angle, that is different from the sheet directing first angle with the surface of the moving fusing member.

Abstract: Text, images, and/or graphics of variable content documents should be organized and laid out by a template to provide effective and quality documents. The best such template depends upon the variable content interaction with the template for each individual document. To analyze the qualitative nature of the template in quantifiable terms, the each variable content document is measure using various quantifiable factors; such as, balance, uniformity, white space management, alignment, consistency, legibility, etc.; that impact a qualitative nature of a document. Such quantifiable factors are then used to quantize the aesthetics, ease of use, eye-catching ability, interest, communicability, comfort, and convenience of the document, thereby giving a designer a measure of the quality of the template in the variable content document context.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic phase change carrier and a method for forming same, and a phase change ink including same. The organic phase change carrier comprises a colloidal dispersion of nanoparticles exhibiting a substantially uniform distribution of said nanoparticles discretely distributed therewithin, at least one curable monomer; a phase change inducing component, and an initiator. The organic phase change carrier exhibits a substantially uniform distribution of the nanoparticles so that they are discretely distributed therewithin, and are substantially resistant to the aggregation of the nanoparticles distributed therewithin.

Abstract: A microchannel cleaning method includes: generating bubbles by electrolyzing a fluid flowing through a microchannel; and passing the fluid containing the bubbles through the microchannel.

Abstract: There is provided an added information distribution apparatus including a receiving section that receives added information which are added to a shared electronic document; added information memory that stores information on the added information; a message management section that, when the receiving section receives added information, identifies pieces of added information which should be transmitted as a message from among the received added information or the stored added information in accordance with preset conditions for transmission, and compiles one or more pieces of identified added information together to compose a message; and a message transmission processing section that transmits the composed messages to members who share the electronic document.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes: a determination section that is connected to a storage and determines whether or not the storage is unauthorized; and a fraud handling section that erases information in all area of the storage as a fraud handling processing if the determination section determines that the connected storage is unauthorized.

Abstract: There is provided a document management apparatus including a copy document creation unit that retrieves an electronic shared document from a document memory and creates a document for edit which is to be transmitted to the user by copying the retrieved electronic document; a preliminary document creation unit that, before the document for edit is edited by the user, creates a preliminary document by copying the document for edit; an update detection unit that, when the user requests to store a document in the document memory, detects content which is edited by the user by comparing the document for edit with the preliminary document corresponding to the document for edit; and a document update unit that, when edited content is detected, updates an electronic document which is stored in the document memory and is corresponding to the document for edit with the detected edited content.

Abstract: An access management apparatus manages access to stored files from information processing apparatuses. The access management apparatus includes a network communication section, an access privilege policy setting section and an access control section. The network communication section has a plurality of protocols for accepting access to the files from the information processing apparatuses. The access privilege policy setting section enables one of the protocols when limitation of access to the files is started. The access control section limits access to be accepted when the one of the protocols is enabled, in accordance with settings stored in the access control section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an area splitting section that splits whole image areas of a first page before edition and a second page which has been edited into plural regions; an alignment section that performs relative alignments between each of the corresponding split regions of the first page image and the second page image, produced by the area splitting section; and an extraction section that extracts edit information from the second page image by comparing the first page image with the second mage image which have been aligned by the alignment section.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus includes a block dividing unit that divides an inputted data file into blocks each including plural data elements arranged in the order of encoding, a predicted data creating unit that creates predicted data for each of the blocks resulting from the division by the block dividing unit on the basis of data elements contained in other blocks, a comparing unit that compares the predicted data created by the predicted data creating unit with data elements contained in the blocks, and a code creating unit that creates codes for the inputted data file on the basis of results of the comparison by the comparing unit.

Abstract: There are disclosed an electrophotographic toner including a compound represented by formula (1) and a compound represented by formula (2). In Formula (1), R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aromatic group, and X? represents a molybdate anion or a tungstate anion. In Formula (2), R5+ and R6+ each independently represent a hydrogen ion, an ammonium ion, an iminium ion, or a phosphonium ion, and R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, and R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.

Abstract: A browsing management apparatus includes a location information generating portion that generates unique location information that includes a location of a content used in a conference and identification information identifying a participant of the conference, a transmitting portion that transmits the unique location information to the participant of the conference, and an identifying portion that receives an access designating the unique location information from a terminal device used by the participant of the conference and identifies the participant of the conference with the unique location information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an area specifying unit that specifies a print area to be printed on a print medium in a page of a document, and a processing controller that controls processing related to an electronic sticky note, in correspondence with a portion running off the print area in the electronic sticky note attached to the page, to arrange a description held in the electronic sticky note within the print area.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing silver triangular pyramid particles including: forming an electric field in an electrolytic solution including silver ions and a surfactant to reduce the silver ions into silver triangular pyramid particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color gamut contour creating device that includes a color gamut contour creating component and a color gamut contour smoothing component. The color gamut contour creating component generates color gamut contour data representing a color gamut contour of a color reproducing range in a preset color space of an output side device. The color gamut contour smoothing component generates smoothed color gamut contour data of the color gamut contour where the color gamut contour is smoothed based on the color gamut contour data.

Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes: performing process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying, for each consumer cluster, at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format of kinds of commodity information provision media and respective steps of a purchase process, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed for each cluster in regions to which the at least two are allocated.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image data input unit, a density variation detection unit and a position/size detection unit. The image data input unit inputs image data containing original image data obtained by reading an original. The density variation detection unit detects density variation from the image data input through the image data input unit. The position/size detection unit detects a position or a size of the original image data in the image data based on the density variation detected by the density variation detection unit.

Abstract: This invention is a method of producing a set of TRC's for a color printer's secondary halftone screens that is correlated with the printer's primary halftone screens. The method makes use of the printer/screen characteristic data that is normally gathered during screen calibration. However, instead of progressing from the data to a normal calibration for the secondary screens, the method goes backward through the data starting with the finished primary screen TRC's. The method insures that for every primary screen density, the closest possible secondary screen density is used when the same digital value is specified.

Abstract: A sensor includes: a receiver that receives signals sent from outside; a first converter that converts signals received by the receiver into acoustic waves; a second converter that converts the acoustic waves propagating along a predetermined area into signals; a transmitter that transmits the signals that are output from the second converter; and an attachment that is attached to a propagation path of the acoustic waves on the predetermined area, that undergoes an irreversible change in response to an environmental change and that changes the propagation characteristics of the acoustic waves on the predetermined area due to this change.