Abstract: The present invention provides a fixing member having a heat resistant resin layer, a metal layer having two or more layers, and a releasing layer, in this order from the inner peripheral side, wherein a specific resistance of the metal layer disposed at the outer peripheral side is larger than a specific resistance of the metal layer disposed at the inner peripheral side in the at least two metal layers, and a modulus of an internal stress of the metal layer disposed at the outer peripheral side is 5 kg/mm2 or less. Further, a fixing device includes the fixing member, an electromagnetic induction heating device in which an electric field is applied to the fixing member, and a press member which press-contact the surface of a releasing layer of the fixing member. Furthermore, an image forming device having this fixing device is provided.

Abstract: A image forming apparatus for providing an enlarged user work space. The image forming apparatus includes a printing module with a housing, a scanning module positioned above the printing module, a modular work surface positioned above the printing module, and a document handler positioned above the modular work surface. The modular work surface includes at least a unitary central work surface. The central work surface includes a top surface having a width dimension extending in a horizontal sheet feed direction, the width dimension of the top surface of the central work surface being larder than a width dimension of the housing of the printing module.

Abstract: An image reader, which is connected to a printer to issue a print instruction to the printer by directly transmitting image data read by the image reader to the printer, comprises a paper feed direction information acquisition unit that acquires paper feed direction information from the printer according to the print instruction; a paper information acquisition unit that acquires paper information containing size and orientation of paper from the printer according to the print instruction; and a display that displays paper state information containing an orientation of paper consistent with the direction in which the paper is discharged by the printer based on the paper feed direction information and the paper information.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus that is connectable with one or more image forming apparatuses and able to configure a copy system together with the image forming apparatuses connected thereto, comprises an instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction to shift to a copy mode; and an instruction transmitting unit that transmits a releasing instruction to release a power saving state to at least one of the image forming apparatuses, when the instruction receiving unit receives the instruction to shift to the copy mode.

Abstract: The invention provides an image reading device comprising: an image reading section that reads an image from an input document and creates input image data; a specifying section that extracts a specific character string or a specific image from the input image data created by the image reading section; a database that stores specific character strings, and an access target for rewriting information, in association with one another; an updating section that rewrites the input image data using the data obtained from the access target specified by the specific character string or the specific image extracted by the specifying section, creating output image data; and an image output section that outputs the output image data created by the updating section.

Abstract: A translating device has: an input unit that inputs a document; a unit that specifies a target language; a unit that translates the inputted document into the translated document written in the target language; a memory that stores a set of condition data and advertisement data assigned to the condition data, or a set of a keyword and advertisement data assigned to the keyword; a unit that selects advertisement data from the memory, the advertisement data being assigned either to condition data or a keyword; a unit that determines an insertion location at which to insert the advertisement data selected by the data selection unit into the translated document, by taking into account a layout of the translated document; a unit that generates an output image of the translated document by inserting the advertisement data at the insertion location; and a unit that outputs the output image.

Abstract: A translation device has an input unit that inputs image data from a document; a detecting unit that detects a security information image, which indicates that the inputted image is a confidential image, from the inputted image data; a translating unit that translates the security information image detected by the detecting unit; and an outputting unit that outputs the translated image of the security information image.

Abstract: An information reading device for reading identification information from a medium to which at least one magnetic element for generating a signal upon receiving a magnetic field is provided, which includes a plurality of detecting parts that detect a signal generated from the magnetic element according to the magnetic field applied to the medium, and an information reading part that reads information formed by the magnetic element based on a combination of detecting parts which have detected the generated signal.

Abstract: The invention provides a photopolymerizable composition comprising: flame-retardant particles which contains a hydrated metal and have an average diameter of about 1 to 500 nm; and a photopolymerization reactive material. The hydrated metal preferably includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydrated magnesium, hydrated calcium, hydrated aluminum, hydrated zinc, hydrated barium, hydrated copper and hydrated nickel. A cover layer which comprises an organic compound or a polysilicone is preferably formed on surfaces of the flame-retardant particles. The invention provides a flame-retardant resin-formed article which is formed of the photopolymerized photopolymerizable composition. A flame retardancy of the article measured in accordance with the UL-94 test preferably scores HB or higher.

Abstract: A translation device has a dictionary that stores a set of words and their corresponding meanings in plural languages; an input unit that inputs a document; a recognizing unit that recognizes text in the inputted document; an analyzing unit that devides the text recognized by the recognizing unit into words; a translating unit that translates each of the words obtained by the analyzing unit into a translated term by using the dictionary; and an output unit that outputs an output image containing the translated term for a key word.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus disclosed herein includes an extracting unit that extracts a pixel cluster of a predetermined size from input image data, and a coding unit that codes the input image data, based on correlation between pixel clusters extracted by the extracting unit.

Abstract: A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Abstract: A waste toner reclamation process includes collecting waste toner, screening the collected waste toner, meltmixing the screened waste toner with a second toner, and extruding, grinding and classifying the mixed toner product, wherein the collected waste toner comprises a mixture of different colored toner particles.

Abstract: A document translation method having extracting a term from a document, executing a substitute process and outputting the term in a predetermined manner. The process of executing a substitute process on the term is performed in a translating process when the term from the document matches a term predetermined by a user. The substitute process is corresponding to the term and predetermined by the user.

Abstract: An image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and an image receiving layer provided on at least one side of the substrate, wherein the image receiving layer includes particles having a volume average particle diameter which is greater than a thickness of the image receiving layer, and both surfaces of the image transfer sheet have surface resistivities at 23° C. 55% r.h. which are within the range of 1.0×108 to 1.0×1013?. Also provided are an image recorded medium and a method for manufacturing the image recorded medium which use the image transfer sheet for electrophotography.

Abstract: The present invention provides information providing system including: a wireless sheet attached to an article; and an information notifying apparatus which notifies information on the article in response to a radio signal sent from the wireless sheet, wherein, the wireless sheet includes a wireless measuring unit which, when receiving a radio signal, generates and sends a radio signal having identification data and data of physical quantity measured in the wireless sheet, and the information notifying apparatus includes: a transmitter/receiver which exchanges radio signals with the wireless sheet; a storage unit which stores the identification data and the article information in association with each other; and a notifying unit which extracts from the received radio signal, the identification data and the physical quantity data, and reads the article information stored in association with the identification data in the storage unit, and notifies the article information and the physical quantity data.

Abstract: A metnod and apparatus adjusting the lateral position of an LED bar may minimize image banding in image-on-image systems having multiple LED bar imagers. A photoreceptor may be transported past a plurality of marking stations. At each marking station an LED bar imager extends in a direction perpendicular to the direction of transport of the medium. A mark may be sensed at each station and the lateral position of the LED bar, perpendicular to the direction of transport of the medium, may be adjusted according to the deviation of the position of the mark from a desired position.

Abstract: A print image display device includes an event detection unit that detects an occurrence of an event in an UI for setting a printing parameter; a preview image generating unit that generates, in response to the event, a plurality of print images the printing parameter of which is different from each other; a display that displays the plurality of print images for preview; and a print parameter setting unit that sets, upon selection of one of the print images, the printing parameter according to the selected print image.

Abstract: A distribution estimation method that estimates a distribution of signal for each of a plurality of components, includes, in estimating a distribution of a target component, approximating distribution data indicating a distribution of signal of other component by a function regarding the component, and calculating distribution data for the target component by the function based on the approximated process.

Abstract: A printing system in which a print job is generated from original image data which have been read by an image reading apparatus, and the print job is transmitted to a printing apparatus to effect printing, wherein the printing apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects the cancellation of processing of the print job, and a job notifying unit that transmits to the image reading apparatus a job cancellation notification that the print job has been canceled, in correspondence with the detection of the cancellation of processing of the print job, and wherein the image reading apparatus aborts the read processing of the original in correspondence with the reception of the job cancellation notification transmitted from the job notifying unit.