Abstract: A touch sensitive user interface of the type having a display screen for displaying images representative of menus and selectable list objects, for example; control logic responsive to the touch sensitive user interface for determining the contact position of a first probe and a second probe, such as two separate fingers, thereon, displaying menus including list objects representing primary and secondary features or functions respectively, so that a user may touch a selection on the primary menu with the first probe and subsequently touch an area on the display screen where a contextually related secondary menu is displayed for selection of contextually related features or functions.

Abstract: A second opening and closing door has a main body of the second opening and closing door, a sound absorbing member and a sound absorbing member cover. The sound absorbing member covers almost the entire surface of the main body of the second opening and closing door facing a guide member. The sound absorbing member cover is dyed black and made of an antistatic-treated cloth material which has air permeability, and is designed to cover almost the entire surface of the sound absorbing member facing the guide member. Further, the sound absorbing member cover is dyed with a dye which does not contain carbon, so that carbon-containing fibrous materials can be prevented from floating in an image forming apparatus while the light-shielding effect can be maintained.

Abstract: A media handling system comprises a configuration of N linked modules. Each module has an order based on the module's linkage in the configuration. Thus, a first module of order 1 links to a second module of order 2, the second module links to a third module of order 3, etc., and an (N?1)th module of order (N?1) links to an Nth module of order N. A feeder module feeds a sheet of media to downstream modules. Each downstream module sends a reporting message to an included controller. The reporting message includes the time the module processed the sheet and the module's reported type. For each reporting module, the controller determines the module's order and type based on the reported time and reported type in the module's reporting message. The controller validates the configuration by determining when the order and the type for the reporting modules match a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: A structured document inputted from a document input unit is decomposed into partial structures to be an editing unit in a document processing unit, and global structural information showing a relation between the partial structures is registered into a relational database. The decomposed partial structure is inputted to an editing unit processing unit, and information of elements as element information and a relation between elements in the partial structure as structural information are registered into the relational database. An ancestor-descendant relation between two elements can be determined easily and speedily by determining an ancestor-descendant relation between the partial structures of the global structural information and an ancestor-descendant relation of the structural information of the ancestor partial structure.

Abstract: A printing medium baffle for protecting printheads printing on an image transfer member from particulates associated with the printing medium. The baffle may have one or more adhesive surfaces.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner comprising a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the non-crystalline polyester resin is obtained by copolymerizing monomers in the presence of a titanium catalyst; the monomers comprise a polyhydric alcohol component and a monomer containing a sulfonic acid group, the polyhydric alcohol component comprises a propylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A, a ratio of an amount of the monomer containing a sulfonic acid group to the total amount of the non-crystalline polyester resin is 0.1 mol % to 20 mol %, and a content of titanium is 1 ppm to 1000 ppm by weight based on the amount of the resin. The invention also provides a method for producing the same, an electrostatic image developer and image forming method using the toner.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner that is made by adding electrically conductive powder as an external additive to toner particles comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the liberation rate of the electrically conductive powder is from 50 to 90%; and the number average particle size distribution index G of the toner particles, which is represented by the following formula (1), is 1.20 or less. particle size distribution index G=D50/D16??Formula (1) And an electrostatic latent image developing toner that is made by adding a metal oxide as an external additive to toner particles comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the liberation rate of the metal oxide is from 30 to 60%.

Abstract: Techniques for correcting for internal resistance losses in the secondary windings of a transformer to reduce errors in output voltage from a high voltage power supply.

Abstract: A printing system that receives an imaging media cartridge includes a rail and a dock to install the imaging media cartridge. The imaging media cartridge includes a housing that has pivots along an alignment axis substantially parallel to the rail. The imaging media cartridge further includes a roller that slides along the rail, the roller being disposed on the housing. The imaging media cartridge also includes a bracket disposed on the housing. To insert the bracket into the dock, the housing rotates on the pivots. To further adjust the position of the imaging media cartridge in the xerographic system, the housing rotates along at least one axis substantially orthogonal to the alignment axis. The rail includes a support beam and a flange. The roller includes at least a pair of wheel housings, each wheel housing having a pair of tandem wheels that glide along the rail. The tandem wheels face each other and glide along the flange and between the support beam.

Abstract: A coating member includes a substrate and a coating layer over the substrate where the coating layer includes carbon nanotubes dispersed in a polymeric binder. The member, which is suitable for use in an electrostatographic printing process, can be in the form of a fuser member, a fixing member, a pressure roller, or a release agent donor member.

Abstract: An material processing apparatus: includes: an original information storage unit that stores an electronic data on a material having an answer column; an image input unit that obtain an image data from the material in which the answer column is filled with an answer and an accuracy judgment on the answer is added; an original retrieval unit that retrieves an electronic data on an original of the material out of the stored data; a target area acquisition unit that grasps a recognition target area from the electronic data on the original; an additional data extraction unit that extracts additional contents in the recognition target area from the image data; a calculation unit that performs marking summation of the accuracy judgment; and a print unit that prints the marking summation result of accuracy on the material on which the accuracy judgment is added.

Abstract: An imaging member includes a conductive substrate, a charge generating layer, a charge transport layer, and an intermediate layer between the charge generating layer and the charge transport layer, the intermediate layer including a hole transport material, such as three different hole transfer materials, dispersed in a film forming binder, such as two different binder materials.

Abstract: Systems and methods of automated meter system may include a processor, disposed at the device, that generates a report including data directed to an amount of usage of the device, identifying information of the device, identifying information of the user, and identifying information of the manager, and a transmitter that enables transmission of the report to the manager. Systems and methods may also include identifying informatics of a billing service, the report being generated and transmitted to the billing service to provide information to the billing service enabling the billing service to perform at least on of: bill the user an amount commensurate with the number of copies made by the user within the specified period, and determine whether the number of copies exceeds a specified maximum value.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for simulating a print output of a printing machine. The image processing apparatus firstly acquires color value information for converting color value information of image data so that a color reproduced on one surface of a recording medium by the printing machine based on the color value information is reproduced as an output. The image processing apparatus secondly acquires show-through color profile information for converting the color value information so that the color reproduced on the one surface by the printing machine as seen from the other surface is reproduced. The image processing apparatus then generates image data formed by composing first image data obtained by converting the color value information based on the color profile information, with second image data obtained by converting the color value information based on the show-through color profile information and by inverting the converted color value information horizontally or vertically.

Abstract: A method of forming a conductive pattern such as an electrode on a compound semiconductor layer includes the steps of forming a first organic layer on the compound semiconductor layer, forming a second layer on the first organic layer, the second layer being resistant to plasma ashing, forming a pattern including a first aperture in the second layer, forming a second aperture in the first organic layer by the plasma ashing of the first organic layer using a mask of the pattern including the first aperture to expose the compound semiconductor layer in the second aperture, depositing a conductive layer over a region including the compound semiconductor layer exposed in the second aperture and the second layer, and forming the conductive pattern on the compound semiconductor layer by a lift-off process.

Abstract: A surface-coated flame-retardant particle comprising a flame-retardant grain and a coated layer provided on a surface of the flame-retardant grain, wherein the coated layer comprises an organic compound or a polysilicone, the flame-retardant grain comprises a metal hydrate and has a volume average particle diameter of 1 to 500 nm, and the metal hydrate comprises Mg and at least one of Ca, Al, Fe, Zn, Ba, Cu, and Ni. Also provided is a flame-retardant resin composition comprising the surface-coated flame-retardant particle.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a modified area deciding unit, a modified area correlation deciding unit, a display selecting unit and a displaying unit. The modified area deciding unit executes processing of deciding a modified area containing a pixel area, which is distinguished as postscript information, based on input image data. The modified area correlation deciding unit specifies a related information area corresponding to the modified area, which is decided by the modified area deciding unit. The modified area correlation deciding unit executes processing of deciding a correlation between mutual areas. The display selecting unit selects the postscript information and related information of the postscript information, based on the correlation between the mutual areas, which are decided by the modified area correlation deciding unit. The displaying unit executes processing of displaying output data in response to a selecting mode of the display selecting unit.

Abstract: A remote instruction system includes a controller that controls an image capturing portion to capture an image of a target and transmit a captured image to a remote terminal, and controls a projecting portion to project an annotation image onto the target according to an instruction on the captured image given by the remote terminal, and a relative position changing portion that is controlled by the instruction on the captured image given by the remote terminal and changes the position of the target relative to the image projection portion and the image capturing portion.

Abstract: An electrophotographic document production device having a transformerless high voltage power supply located distal to its load and a transformer at the point of load.