Abstract: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client device in the initial document request. Instead of having to manipulate multiple formats which the original documents are in and supported by the server, the client-side device is preferably optimized in hardware and/or software to support and otherwise take advantage of the requested compression format. The compressed document is then delivered to the client device, in whole or in part, selectively or progressively over time per individual requests prior to displaying the received data to the end-user. Depending on the requested delivery mode, server-side documents are preferably compressed using wavelet compression methods, such as the JPEG 2000 standard, known in the arts.

Abstract: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client device in the initial document request. Instead of having to manipulate multiple formats which the original documents are in and supported by the server, the client-side device is preferably optimized in hardware and/or software to support and otherwise take advantage of the requested compression format. The compressed document is then delivered to the client device, in whole or in part, selectively or progressively over time per individual requests prior to displaying the received data to the end-user. Depending on the requested delivery mode, server-side documents are preferably compressed using wavelet compression methods, such as the JPEG 2000 standard, known in the arts.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a job execution unit, a log generation unit, a log storage unit, a feature amount extraction unit and a replacement unit. The job execution unit executes a processing job of image data. Te log generation unit generates image log information for identifying the executed processing job and identifying the processed image data. The log storage unit stores the generated image log information. The feature amount extraction unit extracts a feature amount of the image data identified by the image log information. The identity determination unit compares feature amounts extracted from pieces of the image data identified by pieces of the image log information, to determine identity among the image data. The replacement unit replaces information to identify a piece of the image data, which are determined to be identical, with information to identify another piece of the image data.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first reading unit that reads an image on a front side of a document being transferred along a transfer path; a second reading unit that reads an image on a rear side of the document; a reversing unit arranged downstream of the first and the second reading units that turns the document over and place it on the transfer path; and a controller that causes, when a error is detected in the first or second reading units, the reversing unit to turn the document over and place it on the transfer path, so that a reading unit in which the error is not detected reads the image on the side to be read by the reading unit in which the error is detected.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a holographic recording medium including a recording layer in which information is recorded by irradiating a signal light and a reference light simultaneously to the layer, and a reflecting track on which a servo signal light is reflected, the reflecting track being formed on or above a recording layer surface to which the signal light is irradiated.

Abstract: A recording-medium management system includes a recording-medium management apparatus and a disposal processing apparatus. The recording-medium management apparatus manages pieces of identification information attached to recording media. The disposal processing apparatus disposes of a recording medium when receiving disposal permission from the recording-medium management apparatus based on the identification information. The disposal processing apparatus includes a disposal processing unit, a restricting unit, a reading unit. The disposal processing unit disposes of the recording medium. The restricting unit restricts disposal by the disposal processing unit. The reading unit reads identification information from the recording medium, which is positioned by the restricting unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including an engine section that forms an image on a sheet of paper utilizing laser light on the basis of image data described in a page description language in printing data, which includes a decomposition processing section that acquires the image data from the printing data, a printing buffer section that accumulates the image data acquired by the decomposition processing section, and an engine controller that, in a case where it is identified that a sender terminal of the printing data is an image reading apparatus, causes the engine section to start to print the image data at a time when a prescribed number of a band of the image data is accumulated in the printing buffer section.

Abstract: Polythiophene may be processed using a method including providing a composition including the polythiophene and a liquid including at least one hydrocarbon having at least 6 carbon atoms; heating the composition to a temperature of at least about 50° C.; and separating solid polythiophene from the heated composition. Alternatively, the method may include providing a composition including polythiophene and an organic liquid; heating the composition to dissolve a portion of the polythiophene in the organic liquid; and separating solid polythiophene from the heated composition.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an inputting unit, an extracting unit, a reading unit and processing unit. The inputting unit converts, into a format which can be processed within the image processing device, and inputs, digitized document data for region designation that includes region information expressing a region which has been designated in advance in order to carry out a predetermined processing. The extracting unit extracts the region information from the document data for region designation and the reading unit reads a document image for carrying out the predetermined processing. The processing unit extracts, from the document image read by the reading unit, a region corresponding to the region information extracted by the extracting unit, and carries out the predetermined processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical waveguide manufacturing method. A polymer resin with different refractive index from the polymer film is applied to a polymer film and is cured, so that a double-layered polymer film, which has a cladding layer and a core layer with higher refractive index than the cladding layer, is manufactured. The core layer is cut by the dicing saw having a blade for enabling cutting of a resin layer, so as to be processed into core portions of the optical waveguide. Cut concave portions of the core layer are filled with polymer resin having the same refractive index with the cladding layer. The core portions are further covered with the polymer resin, and the polymer resin is cured so that a cladding resin layer is formed.

Abstract: A gloss-imparting device for imparting a gloss on a color image, the gloss-imparting device has a transparent toner image-carrying body, a transparent toner image-forming unit, a heating/pressurizing unit, and a cooling/releasing unit. The transparent toner image-carrying body carries a transparent toner image formed of a transparent toner thereon. The transparent toner image-forming unit forms the transparent toner image on the transparent toner image-carrying body. The heating/pressurizing unit heats and pressurizes the transparent toner image and the base material to bring them into contact. The cooling/releasing unit cools the transparent toner image and releases the base material from the transparent toner image-carrying body. The transparent toner image is transferred and fixed onto the base material by the heating/pressurizing unit.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus includes a classification section, a distribution-information generation section and an inverse-quantization-value generation section. The classification section classifies quantization indices contained in input code data into a plurality of groups. The distribution-information generation section generates distribution information of the quantization indices for each group, based on the quantization indices classified by the classification section. The inverse-quantization-value generation section generates inverse quantization values, which correspond to the respective quantization indices, based on the distribution information generated by the distribution-information generation section.

Abstract: A document deciding apparatus includes: a light source; a light-quantity detection unit detecting a reference light quantity based on irradiation of the light source, and respective light quantities of plural colors based on reflection from or transmission through a document; a decision unit deciding whether the document is colorless or colored, in accordance with a predetermined criterion on the basis of the light quantities of plural colors detected by the light-quantity detection unit; and a control unit performing a control so as to alter the criterion of the decision unit or a value corresponding to the light quantities detected by the light-quantity detection unit, on the basis of a change of the reference light quantity detected by the light-quantity detection unit.

Abstract: A question answering system includes a question sentence analyzing unit, a question keyword identifying unit, a passage acquiring unit and an answer generating unit. The question sentence analyzing unit determines whether or not an input question sentence is an ambiguous question. The question keyword identifying unit extracts a question keyword from the input question sentence. The passage acquiring unit executes a search process to which the question keyword is applied. The answer generating unit generates answers in a form of a list of predicates extracted correspondingly to the question keyword, based on passages acquired by the passage acquiring unit.

Abstract: An optical address type spatial light modulator has a plurality of optical address type light modulation layers stacked on each other, each having a liquid crystal layer for reflecting visible light in a specific wavelength band or a liquid crystal layer for absorbing visible light in a specific wavelength band and coloring and a photoconductive layer for absorbing the visible light in the specific wavelength band and changing the resistance value in response to the light intensity of the visible light absorbed, the liquid crystal layer and the photoconductive layer being stacked on each other between electrodes.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for fabricating spring structures that minimize helical twisting by reducing or eliminating stress anisotropy in the thin films from which the springs are formed through manipulation of the fabrication process parameters and/or spring material compositions. In one embodiment, isotropic internal stress is achieved by manipulating the fabrication parameters (i.e., temperature, pressure, and electrical bias) during spring material film formation to generate the tensile or compressive stress at the saturation point of the spring material. Methods are also disclosed for tuning the saturation point through the use of high temperature or the incorporation of softening metals. In other embodiments, isotropic internal stress is generated through randomized deposition (e.g., pressure homogenization) or directed deposition techniques (e.g., biased sputtering, pulse sputtering, or long throw sputtering). Cluster tools are used to separate the deposition of release and spring materials.

Abstract: There is provided an image formation device including: a receiving section, which receives content information of a printing object from a content recording server via a network; a judgement section, which judges a category of the received content information; a specification section, which specifies a printing method and printing parameter in accordance with the judged category; and a printing section, which prints the printing object with the printing method in accordance with the specified printing parameter.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device comprising: (i) reading a plurality of destination data elements from a medium that is separate from the communication device, and (ii) transmitting data from the communication device to one or more other communication devices corresponding to one or more of the destination data elements.

Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a bis(urea-urethane) compound of the formula wherein R1 and R1? each, independently of the other, is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, R2 and R2? each, independently of the other, is an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arlyalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, R3 is an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arylalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, and R4 and R5 each independently of the other, is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.

Abstract: A transmission job originating station for controlling transmission of job information, based on the processing of a print job in a printing system, is provided. The control system includes a document generating subsystem for providing at least a portion of the print job to be delivered to a print machine and a user interface for programming a set of information including one or more confirmation destinations with each confirmation destination being disposed remotely of the transmission job originating station. The transmission job originating station further includes a control subsystem which, in response to the processing of at least a portion of the print job at the printing machine, reads the set of information and determines each confirmation destination, programmed with the user interface, to which the job information is to be transmitted.