Abstract: A display control device includes a reception section that receives a scroll operation on a display screen, a specification section that specifies one or more items designated by a user among plural items displayed on the display screen, and a display control section that, in a case where the one or more designated items reach a reference position on the display screen as a result of scrolling, displays the plural items to be scrollable such that the one or more items are excluded from a scrolling target.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display a relationship diagram that is created according to an operation by an operator and expresses a relationship between a plurality of items by connecting the plurality of items together with relationship lines; and an output unit configured to output a display element indicating second data relevant to first data corresponding to at least one of the plurality of items in such a way that the display element is displayed on the relationship diagram.

Abstract: A production integrated management system for a printed material includes plural step management apparatuses that manage respective steps of a series of steps that constitute a printed material production process; and an integrated management apparatus that manages a job process in the printed material production process in an integrated manner on a basis of reports from the respective step management apparatuses. The integrated management apparatus includes: a sheet generating unit that generates a job process management sheet for management of all of the series of steps every time a printed material job is received in an initial one of the series of steps; and an adding unit that adds a status record to the job process management sheet on a basis of status information included in the reports from the respective step management apparatuses.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires a target temperature distribution of a model article having a target shape under a predetermined condition and an after-coating temperature distribution of a coated article obtained in a manner that a selected material is applied to the target shape and a surface of the model article is coated with the selected material under the condition, and an output section that outputs another material causing a difference between the target temperature distribution and the after-coating temperature distribution in a case of being applied to the coated article to be reduced.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that transports a sheet of paper carrying an unfixed image through a nip part to fix the unfixed image to the sheet, a first guide unit coming into contact with a side of the sheet that guides transport of the sheet, and a second guide unit coming into contact with an opposite side of the sheet that guides transport of the sheet. The first guide unit has a recess serving as a guide part, the recess being recessed in a direction away from a transport path of the sheet. The second guide unit has a bending part serving as a guide part, the bending part having a shape of a circular arc in cross-section, the bending part being disposed such that at least a portion of the bending part lies inside the recess.

Abstract: A light emitting element array includes a single semiconductor substrate, a plurality of semiconductor elements, which are formed on the single semiconductor substrate, and each of the semiconductor elements including a first distributed Bragg-reflector, an active layer formed over the first distributed Bragg-reflector, and a second distributed Bragg-reflector formed over the active layer. The array includes an electrode pad formed over the second distributed Bragg-reflector and a wiring formed at least partly over the second distributed Bragg-reflector and extending from the electrode pad toward the semiconductor elements. The semiconductor elements include a first semiconductor element, configured to emit laser light, and a second semiconductor element configured not to emit laser light and disposed at a position which is shorter distance along the wiring from the electrode pad than a distance along the wiring from the electrode pad to a position of the first semiconductor element.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first setting unit that sets how events in a relationship diagram change a second selling unit that sets, with respect to two of the events connected by a relationship line, whether a change in one of the two events is related to a change in another of the two events or there is no specifiable relationship between the changes; and a display unit that displays, according to the setting by the second setting unit, a relationship line in such a way that a relationship line indicating that a change in one event is related to a change in another event is distinguishable from a relationship line indicating that there is no specifiable relationship between a change in one event and a change in another event.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a first relations diagram and a second relations diagram in each of which plural items are connected to each other via arrows to represent relations between the plural items. The output unit outputs notification information that is a notification of a result of comparison between a first relation and a second relation. The first relation is a relation between a first pair of items included in the plural items in the first relations diagram. The second relation is a relation between a second pair of items included in the plural items in the second relations diagram. The second pair of items are the same as or similar to the first pair of items.

Abstract: A display system includes a step-image display unit, a delivery-date-image display unit, and a resource-information display unit. The step-image display unit displays, for each print order, a step image in which multiple steps that each execute a process using a resource assigned in advance are arranged on a time axis, the step image illustrating a printed material generating step. The delivery-date-image display unit displays an image illustrating a delivery date of each print order at a corresponding position on the time axis. The resource-information display unit displays information on another resource that is different from the resource assigned in advance to each of the steps and that is usable in each of the steps.

Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier includes: a light source part that is formed on a substrate, the substrate including a substrate surface; and an optical amplification part that amplifies propagation light propagating in a predetermined direction from the light source part and that emits the propagation light amplified in an emission direction intersecting with the substrate surface, the optical amplification part including a conductive region extending in the predetermined direction from the light source part along the substrate surface and a non-conductive region formed on a periphery of the conductive region, the conductive region including a reflection part that reflects the propagation light in a direction intersecting with the predetermined direction when viewed from a direction vertical to the substrate surface.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that sets, as an attribute to be used for manufacture of a 3D modeled object, an attribute of a 2D image to be used for forming the 2D image on a recording medium, when the 3D modeled object is manufactured by laminating recording media together.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that transports a sheet of paper carrying an unfixed image through a nip part to fix the unfixed image to the sheet, a first guide unit coming into contact with a side of the sheet that guides transport of the sheet, and a second guide unit coming into contact with an opposite side of the sheet that guides transport of the sheet. The first guide unit has a recess serving as a guide part, the recess being recessed in a direction away from a transport path of the sheet. The second guide unit has a bending part serving as a guide part, the bending part having a shape of a circular arc in cross-section, the bending part being disposed such that at least a portion of the bending part lies inside the recess.

Abstract: An energy recovery circuit in a print head includes at least one waveform rail, an array of piezoelectric actuators selectively electrically connectable to the waveform rail, the piezoelectric actuators creating a capacitive load, at least one pseudo jet capacitive load, selectively coupled to the waveform rail, depending upon how many piezoelectric actuators are connected to the waveform rail, and a first inductor coupled to the waveform rail, wherein the first inductor forms a resonant circuit with a waveform rail capacitance and returns energy to a power supply.

Abstract: Apparatuses include a laser cutter positioned within an enclosure that is capable of cutting printed sheets; however, this cutting produces debris made up of airborne dust of the sheet material and marking material. An air duct is capable of drawing an air stream of air and the debris out of the enclosure. A dispenser is positioned within the air duct where the air duct connects to the enclosure. The dispenser is capable of dispensing a dry powder of calcium carbonate into the air stream. The dry powder attaches to the debris. The combination of the dry powder and the debris forms waste, and a filter device (that is connected to the air duct) filters the waste. The filter device is capable of separating the air from the waste, to collect the waste and release the air free of the waste to areas outside the filter device.

Abstract: An electromechanical locking system includes one or more moveable locking elements and one or more actuators configured to move each of the one or more moveable locking elements between positions. The system includes a receptacle configured to receive a key, a sensor, a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium. The processor causes the sensor to scan the key and detect one or more features of the key, identify a first code that corresponds to the detected features of the key, and apply one or more functions to the first code to yield a second code. The second code includes one or more characters that each character corresponds to one of the plurality of positions. The processor causes the one or more actuators to move the one or more movable locking elements to the positions that correspond to the one or more characters of the second code.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display and a processor. The display displays an image. The processor causes the display to display a color presenting section that presents color-related information and a multilayer display section that displays a multilayer structure of color-related information selected from the color presenting section.

Abstract: A scanning device for automatically scanning and processing a document includes at least a port for communicating with a portable memory device, an image sensor and a processing device. The scanning device may detect a trigger event by detecting that the portable memory device is communicatively coupled to the port. The scanning device may automatically determine a scan instruction, automatically cause the image sensor to scan a physical document based on the scan instruction, determine a secure access token, and save the digital document file to the portable memory device with the secure access token. The secure access token may be an encryption key that is associated with a log-in password of an authenticated user of the scanning device. The scanning device may obtain the encryption key from a storage medium of the scanning device or from a network.

Abstract: A browsing control system includes a booklet that is acquired by binding a number of sheets, a specification unit that specifies a page number of a page opened in the booklet, and a controller that controls page turning of an electronic document depending on a difference between a page number specified by the specification unit before the page of the booklet is turned and a page number specified by the specification unit after the page thereof is turned.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for cooling a digital micromirror device are disclosed. For example, the apparatus includes a digital micromirror device (DMD), a housing coupled to the DMD, wherein a first side of the housing is coupled to a bottom of the DMD and a cooling block coupled to a second side of the housing that is opposite the first side. The cooling block includes a plate that includes a plurality of openings, a diaphragm coupled to the plate, an air inlet to generate an airflow across the plate, wherein the diaphragm creates a force to move the airflow in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction of the airflow towards the second side of the housing, and an air outlet to collect the airflow.

Abstract: A pressure-printed material preparing apparatus includes an attachment unit that attaches, powder which exhibits adhesiveness when pressure is applied, to a surface to be bonded of a recording medium; a fixation unit that applies pressure to the recording medium to which the powder is attached to fix the powder to the recording medium as an adhesive layer; a folding unit that folds the recording medium of which the adhesive layer is formed on the surface to be bonded, such that two portions of the surface to be bonded are opposed to each other; and an application unit that applies pressure to the recording medium in which the surfaces to be bonded are opposed to each other, to thereby bond the adhesive layer on one surface and the adhesive layer on the other surface.