Abstract: The present invention provides a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image comprising a releasing agent containing a hydrocarbon, a binder resin, and a colorant, wherein, when an average carbon number of the hydrocarbon is designated as N, the hydrocarbon contains components having a carbon number in the range of (N?10) to (N+10) in an amount of 70% by mass or more in the entire hydrocarbon and has a weight-average molecular weight of 12,000 or more and 25,000 or less, a developer for developing an electrostatic latent image containing the toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, and an image-forming process using the toner for developing an electrostatic latent image.

Abstract: An image evaluation apparatus includes a pixel extraction unit, an intra-pair difference calculation unit, an inter-pair difference calculation unit and an evaluation unit. The pixel extraction unit extracts, from an input image, a pixel region including a pair of block-boundary pixels in a boundary position of coding blocks and a pair of non-block-boundary pixels in a position other than the boundary position. The intra-pair difference calculation unit calculates a difference between the extracted pair of block-boundary pixels as a first difference, and a difference between the extracted pair of non-block-boundary pixels as a second difference. The inter-pair difference calculation unit calculates a difference between the first difference and the second difference as an amount of block distortion of the extracted pixel region. The evaluation unit evaluates an amount of block distortion of the input image based on the calculated amount of block distortion of the extracted pixel region.

Abstract: A system and method are provided by which a user, at a client workstation, can efficiently, simply and effectively manipulate, and specifically crop, a high resolution image that has been scanned and/or otherwise stored in a server with which the client worksation is in web-based communication. The disclosed system and method reduce and/or eliminate the need to transfer a file containing a full high resolution image from the server to the client workstation across a web-based data transfer network. A cropping request may be generated by a user via a client workstation and only that request may be transferred to, and implemented through, the server, eliminating significant data transfer requirements regarding the transfer of the extremely large files associated with high resolution images required of conventional cropping methods. An addition advantage is reduction and/or elimination of a need for sophisticated image display and processing software to reside within each client workstation.

Abstract: A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for processing an image, the function includes: executing a job; creating a log image from an image handled in the job and accumulating the log image; transferring the accumulated log image to an external device; setting a transfer guarantee level of the log image to the external device; and controlling whether to execute a job or to transfer the log image, in accordance with the set transfer guarantee level.

Abstract: A resin particle liquid dispersion for an electrostatic image developing toner comprises: a terminal addition-polymerized polyester having an acid value of from about 5 to about 70 mg.KOH/g, and the terminal addition-polymerized polyester is obtained by a process comprising: polycondensing a polycondensable monomer having a composition comprising the components (a) to (c) described in the specification to obtain a polyester having an addition-polymerizable unsaturated group at a terminal; and addition-polymerizing the addition-polymerizable unsaturated group of the polyester having an addition-polymerizable unsaturated group at a terminal.

Abstract: An image adjustment apparatus includes: a feature information acquisition part that acquires feature information concerning a target image to be adjusted with respect to an adjustment item; an item decision part that selects an item as the adjustment item from among a plurality of predetermined adjustment item candidates based on the acquired feature information; and an adjustment amount acquisition part that presents the selected adjustment item and acquires an adjustment amount with respect to the presented adjustment item based on an input by a user, the target image being to be adjusted based on the acquired adjustment amount.

Abstract: A toner composition that includes a resin substantially free of cross linking, a cross linked resin, a polyester resin as a crystalline polyester resin, and a colorant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a toner particle having at least binder and colorant. The colorant is a dye complex comprising a dye, a nonionic surfactant and a complexing agent. The toner having this colorant exhibits improved color gamut.

Abstract: An encoder includes a prediction unit and a code generation unit. The prediction unit predicts target data and judges whether prediction is right or wrong. When the prediction unit judges that consecutive predictions for respective target data are wrong, the code generation unit generates coded data including symbols corresponding to the respective target data for which the consecutive wrong predictions are made, using a code representing number of the consecutive predictions judged as wrong.

Abstract: An optical waveguide film that can supply power at extremely low cost, and a light transmission and reception module using this film are provided. A macromolecular optical waveguide film is composed of a square-shaped waveguide core which extends in a film length direction, a conductive wires which extends in the film length direction and is arranged in parallel with the waveguide core, and a cladding which surrounds the waveguide core and the conductive wire. The two conductive wires are provided, and the waveguide core is provided between the two conductive wires.

Abstract: An image background remover is disclosed that performs background removal of JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compressed image data without first performing a complete decompression of the compressed image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs color conversion processing on an input image. The image processing apparatus includes a reducing unit, a first color converting unit and an enlarging unit. The reducing unit reduces the input image. The first color converting unit performs color conversion on the image reduced by the reducing unit. The enlarging unit enlarges the image color-converted by the first color converting unit.

Abstract: A history management apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects a character or a word included in image data which is processed in an image processing apparatus; and a storage unit that stores information to specify a detection position of the detected character or word in the image data and the image data in association with each other. The stored information is provided to an image data searching process using the character or the word and the detecting position as search conditions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, an electrifying member, a high voltage applying unit for applying to the electrifying member a high voltage in which a DC component of a constant voltage on an AC component of a constant current are superposed, a DC current measuring unit for measuring a DC current value flowing from the electrifying member to the photoconductor when the photoconductor is electrified, and a controller for integrating the DC current value measured by the DC current measuring unit for an application time of the DC component to the photoconductor, calculating an electrostatic charge quantity of a DC current flowing into an electrostatic capacitance unit constituting the AC generator and subtracting the electrostatic charge quantity from the integration result to calculate the electrified charge quantity corresponding to the film thickness of the photoconductive thin film.

Abstract: An extensible markup language document processing engine performs arbitrary processing on extensible markup language documents. The processing sequence of the extensible markup language document processing engine is not fixed, but rather can depend upon the information submitted with the job and upon determinations and analysis during the actual job processing. The extensible markup language document processing engine can also segment the document processing so that different fragments of the document are handled differently, thereby providing parallel processing capabilities. Moreover, the extensible markup language document processing engine can segment the document processing so that different fragments of the document are handled differently so that not all processing is blocked when a fragment requires a slow action, such as retrieval of information from the web.

Abstract: A radiation curable ink includes a curable monomer or oligomer, a curable wax, a colorant, and at least one initiator.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs color conversion processing on an input image. The image processing apparatus includes a block pallet conversion unit, a first color converting unit and a restoration unit. The block pallet conversion unit converts the input image in units of blocks into (i) pallet color information including pallet colors number of which is less than pixels included in one of the blocks and (ii) selection information used to select one of the pallet colors for each pixel. The first color converting unit performs color conversion on the pallet color information obtained by the block pallet conversion unit. The restoration unit selects for each pixel, based on the selection information, one of the pallet colors of the pallet color information, which is color-converted by the first color converting unit, to restores an image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for monochrome or binary compression, and more particularly compression of binary images segmented in a binary domain into at least two regions of different image types, where the regions are compressed using different compression techniques.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a fixing belt member configured to be endless and rotatable; driving force transmission members that are disposed on respective ends of the fixing belt member, and transmits a rotational driving force to the fixing belt member; and a pressing member that is disposed to push an outer surface of the fixing belt member and forms a fixing nip part between the pressing member and the fixing belt member, wherein each of the driving force transmission members is fixed to the fixing belt member over an entire peripheral area of the corresponding end of the fixing belt member.

Abstract: The bichromal element spinner apparatus provides the forming of substantially spherical bichromal elements from pigmented molten, but hardenable material compounds which are delivered centrally to a spinning webbed disk through opposite ends of hollow shaft that also spins with the disk. The molten materials are injected into cavities formed between the shaft and the web portions of the disk such that the molten materials are spun outwardly on the opposite surfaces of the disk towards the tip of the disk, where the hardenable materials adhere to each other without mixing, thereby spinning off to bichromal elements. Shrouds attached to the shaft and having no intervening support members over the spinning disk provide quiescent air mass between the disk and the shrouds so as to yield bichromal elements with substantial hemispherical integrity.