Abstract: A charge transport layer for an imaging member comprising a charge transport material with a nitrogen molecular defense system not exhibiting early onset of charge transport layer fatigue cracking. The nitrogen molecular defense system includes attaching bulky organic groups to charge transport materials. The bulky groups aid in preventing recrystallization of the charge transport molecule and shield the nitrogen from molecular attack, such as by oxidation. The charge transport layer exhibits excellent wear resistance, excellent electrical performance, and outstanding print quality.

Abstract: A system and method for allocation of actuators is provided. Electrodes having several voltages are assigned to actuators within correlation regions of the actuators. By varying the voltages, a desired actuation profile for the actuators may be achieved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus sets operation modes different from an operation mode corresponding to a genuine article when the replaceable unit of the non-article article is mounted thereto, such that a user can select an operation mode via a UI device. And then, the image forming apparatus stores history information regarding an operation mode selected by the selection of the user, attribute information of a mounted replaceable unit (for example, a determination result of determining whether or not the replaceable unit is the genuine article), and history information (the number of printing sheets, error codes, or the like) of a printing process which is made in the operation mode, to be associated with each other.

Abstract: A system and method for converting a page from a network into an image file suitable for assembly of or insertion into a document generated by a document creation algorithm. The system of the invention includes a browser for retrieving a page from the network. The page can be encoded as a page description language (PDL) file representative of the page. A production agent can be provided for translating the PDL file into an image file representative of the page. The image file is of a form and type suitable for assembly or incorporation into the document.

Abstract: An imaging member with a surface-grafted material having an inorganic material, a linking group, and a charge transport moiety capable of transporting holes or electrons, and the charge transport moiety is grafted to a surface of the inorganic material via the linking group, and further, an image forming apparatus having the imaging member.

Abstract: A web page providing method for providing a web page responsive to a request from a browser, including the steps of preparing a plurality of types of web pages responsive to a display request from the browser for each display request, selecting a web page based on specification information from among the plurality of types of web pages, and providing the selected web page for the browser.

Abstract: A method and a system for computing the function value of an input node based on function values of known nodes. A database of known nodes and their corresponding function values is formed. The known nodes are located such that a distance between any two adjacent known nodes is an integer power-of-two number. The database is searched for a first node such that the input node is located between the first node and an adjacent second node. The difference ? between the input node and the first node is computed. Then ? is shifted to the right by k positions, k being the logarithm in base 2 of the distance between the first and second nodes. The input node function value is computed by combining the first node function value with the product of the shifted ? and the difference between the function values of the second and first nodes. When used in MRC context, the above method and system is applied to each of the color MRC planes individually, instead of the merged output.

Abstract: systems, methods, and programs for reducing edge effects, the systems, methods, and programs include inputting an image mask, the image mask defining the location of a boundary to recieve a coating , modifying an edge of the image mask to reduced the thickness of the coating at the modified edge; creating a printing plate base on the modifide image mask; and using the printing plate to print the coating on a substrate.

Abstract: An electrophotographic imaging member includes a substrate, a charge generating layer, a charge transport layer, and an overcoating layer, where the overcoating layer includes a terphenyl arylamine dissolved or molecularly dispersed in a polymer binder.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a reading portion that reads an image of an original document, a detecting portion that detects a specific pattern image embedded in image data, a document size detecting portion that detects a size of the original document, and a controller that controls an output of the image data in accordance with the specific pattern image, and also controls not to output the image data if the size of the original document detected is smaller than a given size.

Abstract: There is proposed a hologram recording method that includes: generating signal light by superimposing a periodic intensity distribution or phase distribution on an intensity distribution of light that expresses binary digital data as a light/dark image; Fourier transforming the signal light; illuminating Fourier transformed signal light and reference light simultaneously on an optical recording medium; and recording the signal light as a hologram.

Abstract: A position measurement system for measuring positional coordinates of a point under measurement includes a first noise removal unit, a parameter determination unit and a second noise removal unit. The first noise removal unit removes noise from the measured positional coordinates to acquire first positional coordinate values The parameter determination unit determines a noise removal parameter on a basis of the first positional coordinate values. The second noise removal unit again removes noise from the first positional coordinate values with using the noise removal parameter, to acquire second positional coordinate values.

Abstract: An image forming control apparatus includes: a gradation correction curve generator and a calibration data generator. The gradation correction curve generator generates a gradation correction curve based on a correspondence between an output instruction values each representing a density of an image to be formed by an image forming apparatus and actual density values each representing a density of the image formed by the image forming apparatus. The gradation correction curve represents a correspondence between predetermined standard density values and the output instruction values. When an output instruction value corresponding to a maximum standard density value is smaller than a maximum output instruction value, the calibration data generator corrects the gradation correction curve so that the output instruction value corresponding to the maximum standard density value coincides with the maximum output instruction value, and generates the calibration data based on the corrected gradation correction curve.

Abstract: A document layout is adjusted to alter the quality of the document by generating an initial document with a plurality of blocks. A user can manually adjust the parameters of the document. Thereafter, a base quantized quality score is generated for the document based upon the manually changed parameters of the document. The parameters of the document are changed and a first quantized quality score for the document is generated. The first quantized quality score is compared with the base quantized quality score. If the first quantized quality score is closer to a preferred quantized quality score than the bench quantized quality score, the base quantized quality score is changed to equal the first quantized quality score and the parameters of the document to equal the changes. The changed document may be displayed after each comparison so that the user can accept the changed document.

Abstract: An information processing system including a support section that displays a document in a given region and supports creation of the document, an acceptance section that accepts a search request in relation to a search target when the search target is selected from the document in the given region, and a search section that searches for information related to the search target based on the search request in relation to the search target.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for controlling a job log, comprising: generating a job log after execution of a job; creating a log image from an image handled in the job; and performing transfer of the job log and the log image to an external device with predetermined timing.

Abstract: A document history device is communicatively connected with a document repository, a viewing station, a scanning station, a printing station, or a distribution device, each including a document history agent. The document history agent conveys information associated with a particular document so that the document history device can create a comprehensive history for the document wherein the history can provide information relating to how many document instances have been generated, how many document instances are currently active, who currently has access to the document instances, what would need to be done to completely destroy the document and all document instances, how recently has the document been accessed and by whom, who is a frequent source of information, which documents are most useful, what is the typical document lifetime, and/or what classes of documents does a particular user or class of users view.

Abstract: There is provided a computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a function for an image processing. The function comprises: executing a job; creating a log image from an image handled in the job; setting a creation guarantee level of the log image; and controlling the execution of the job to be completed after the log image is created, if the creation guarantee level is set to a high level.

Abstract: An image-processing apparatus includes a scanning portion that scans a document in which information is embedded; an image-outputting portion that outputs an image of the document that has been scanned; a detecting portion that detects information from the image of the document that has been scanned; an abnormality determining portion that determines whether or not there is an abnormality in the image of the document that has been scanned; and a controller that controls outputting of the image from the image-outputting portion, on the basis of a detection result by the detecting portion and a determination result of the abnormality determining portion.