Abstract: A hologram is recorded by irradiating, with a reference light beam, a region corresponding to an intensity distribution of a signal light beam on an optical recording medium. For example, the reference light beam having the intensity distribution which substantially coincides with the intensity distribution of the signal light beam is generated, and only the region which substantially coincides with the region irradiated by the signal light beam (i.e., the signal light beam defocused region) is irradiated with the reference light beam. This enables only the necessary region to be exposed and the regions which need not be exposed not to be exposed. Accordingly, the hologram can be recorded without losing information of the signal light beam and thus high-density recording can be realized.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical component, which has an electrically conductive composition that is stable at high temperatures, and includes a partially pyrolized carbon based powder filler and a host matrix. The present invention also relates to an electrophotographic system which further is stable at conventional ambient environmental use conditions, such as different humidity levels and/or ambient temperature ranges.

Abstract: Polymer particles comprising a cross-linked polymer core and a linear non-cross-linked polymer shell may be formed by emulsion polymerization. The polymer particles may be used in forming toner.

Abstract: In an optical transmission apparatus in which a plurality of nodes are optically connected to one another via an optical transmission path, a light signal which is coded so that a mixture ratio of 1 and 0 constituting data is made close to 50% is transmitted through the optical transmission path. When a light signal is not emitted from all of the nodes, a dummy signal which is an AC-like signal is emitted to the optical transmission path. Therefore, an optoelectric conversion section can be always set to an active state, and the signal recognizability can be prevented from being lowered.

Abstract: An image-processing device creates a sequential print-processing schedule for inputted print jobs on the basis of supply conditions of required resources, such as printing media and the like, and of attribute information of the print jobs. Before execution of a print job, the image-processing device acquires attribute information for the leading job in a print-waiting queue, and determines whether or not resources requested for that print job are supplied. If not, execution of that printing job is inhibited, and the next print job in line is performed. Thus, productivity of the device can be improved. However, it is also determined whether or not the print job meets a predetermined condition. If so, other jobs are blocked from overtaking the inhibited job and being performed first. The inhibited job waits until resources are supplied, and thus re-prioritization of the print jobs against the will of a user is prevented.

Abstract: A computer readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a process in which an authentication proxy terminal carries out authentication on behalf of a client terminal using a browser to one or more server terminals, the process which includes: performing user authentication between the client terminal and the authentication proxy terminal before an access from the client terminal using the browser to the server terminal; if the user authentication is properly performed, executing proxy authentication to the server terminal on behalf of the client terminal; and sending to the client terminal a script file that controls the browser so as to access the server terminal without involving the authentication proxy terminal at a time of the access using the browser from the client terminal to the server terminal after the proxy authentication is properly executed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of filling a powder into a powder supplying device including: a housing that accommodates the powder; a rotating member disposed rotatably within the housing; a sheet-shaped conveying member fixed to the rotating member, whose free end side region, which is different from a fixed portion, slidingly-contacts and moves along an inner wall of the housing by rotation of the rotating member to convey the powder; and a powder supply opening provided at the housing at a downstream side in a direction of conveying the powder, the method including filling, into the housing, the powder in an amount such that, at a time when usage of the powder supplying device starts, a height of the powder is greater than or equal to a height of a bottom surface of the rotating member.

Abstract: A support stand includes: scanner attachment portions to which one end portion and the other end portion of a scanner along a scanning direction are attached; a scanner fixing structure that fixes the one end portion of the scanner to the scanner attachment portions; and a scanner attachment structure that attaches the other end portion of the scanner to the scanner attachment portions such that the other end portion of the scanner is movable along the scanning direction.

Abstract: An image forming device that carries out color reproduction using plural of color materials having: a setting unit setting a color material curbing mode that curbs an amount of color material; and a color information inputting unit that inputs input color information. The image forming device further has a converting unit that, when the color material curbing mode is set by the setting unit, converts the input color information inputted by the color information inputting unit into output color information in a color material curbing region, on the basis of correspondence relationships that are set in advance such that a region that is color-reproducible by the image forming device is kept within the color material curbing region that is narrowed such that an amount of the color material is curbed.

Abstract: An information search system that enables efficient collection of information and support of formation of groups which people who share a same interest can join over a network. This system includes an intermediate server and a central server, wherein the intermediate server retains indexes for searching the content database on the central server. Users issue a search request to the intermediate server and search results are returned and recorded on the intermediate server as a search history. The search history is shared by users and used as references from which retrievable content can be selected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display medium including: a pair of substrates at least one of which has transparency; supporting members which partition a space between the pair of substrates into plural cells along surfaces of the substrates; metal ions which are injected into the plural cells and are deposited as metal fine particles by an electric field generated in the cells; and plural electrodes that have two or more types of electrode regions having different areas and that are provided in each of the cells on at least one of the pair of substrates.

Abstract: A microchannel device includes: a microchannel that comprises a stimuli-sensitive gel and is adjusted by giving a stimulation species to the stimuli-sensitive gel.

Abstract: A preferred embodiment reproduces an image by receiving an input contone array of M contone data values. The contone data values may lie within a range from 1 to N. The embodiment includes comparing each contone data value to an array of M sets of pattern look-up tables to generate an array of M pattern values. M may be a number of one or more. Each pattern value in the array of M pattern values may be decoded to a corresponding K by L multi-pixel pattern of binary data. The binary data is rendered by a reprographic device.

Abstract: An electrophotographic imaging member includes a substrate, a charge generating layer, a charge transport layer, and an overcoating layer, the overcoating layer being a cured film formed from a composition including at least a hydroxyl group-containing polymer or oligomer, a benzoguanamine compound containing at least one —CH2OR group, wherein each such R is independently an H atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms, and a charge transport compound.

Abstract: An embodiment described below provides a system that allows a user to provide an exact implementation or a close approximation to any desired Holladay dot to a printer with super-resolution encoding (SRE)/decoding (SRD) capabilities. In particular, the embodiment converts a desired Holladay dot to an SRE dot. The SRE dot or SRE look-up table may be uploaded to a printer that supports SRE/SRD.

Abstract: An electronic device including a memory area that stores a program to be executed by the computer and data, the electronic device connecting a computer and a server device in a communicable state. The program includes a first processing portion that retrieves connection information from the computer and writes the connection information in the memory area when the electronic device is connected to the computer, the connection information being necessary for obtaining a connection with the server device, and a second processing portion that causes the computer to carry out a procedure for obtaining a connection with the server device, using connection information necessary for a connection written in the memory area and transmitted from the server device to the computer.

Abstract: A color conversion device for color-converting an input image signal in an input color reproduction region of a source device, in a predetermined color space, by mapping the input image signal into an output color reproduction region of a destination device in the predetermined color space, comprising: a calculation portion for calculating a mapping destination in the output color reproduction region of a pre-specified characteristic point in the input color reproduction region; a correction portion for correcting the output color reproduction region such that a region including a saturation higher than the calculated mapping destination is eliminated; and a mapping portion for mapping the input image signal into the corrected output color reproduction region, is provided.

Abstract: A failure prevention diagnosis support system includes: an acquiring portion that acquires internal information about an internal state of an image forming apparatus; a storage portion that stores one or a plurality of logistic regression models that define an estimate value of a regression coefficient through a logistic regression analysis using the internal information obtained when the image forming apparatus is in a failed state and in a normal state; and a controller that performs a control operation to select a logistic regression model from the one or the plurality of the logistic regression models stored in the storage portion in accordance with the image forming apparatus, and to calculate risk degrees as objective variables that are indicators of failure degrees in the image forming apparatus by assigning the internal information acquired by the acquiring portion or the value obtained from the internal information to the selected logistic regression model.

Abstract: Allowing annotations to occur remotely from the device in which they are viewed enables the optimal viewing device and optimal annotation device for generating annotations. Specifically, the annotation systems allow a user to associate annotations with one or more portions of an object. An object identifier is created to identify one or more objects. This object identifier is then forwarded to the annotation device. On the annotation device, the user can associate annotations with a portion of the object based on either a textual or a graphical technique. Upon completion of the annotations, the system synchronizes the annotations with the object based on the object identifier and the selection portion.