Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing images having color combinations. Such combinations may be embodied in, for example, a black object being printed within a color object or in a black object that includes drops of process color within the object. In these circumstances, undesired image artifacts and halos are eliminated in images that include black portions that are adjacent color portions, and/or improved printed edges are created, by offsetting the corresponding black pixels relative to the color pixels and etching preselected pixels from the image before printing.

Abstract: The present invention is an organic electroluminescence device having one or two or more organic film layers formed on the surface of the substrate such that the organic film layer is held by an anode and a cathode, wherein at least one of the organic film layers is a layer comprising a cross-linked cured film containing compounds having a substituted silicon group having a hydrolyzable group, or a derivative thereof, and at least one of the compounds having a substituted silicon group having the hydrolysable group is a compound represented by the following general formula (I): General Formula (I) The present organic electroluminescence device can be driven at a low voltage and a high light-emission efficiency, has the better heat resistance, and maintain the stable light-emitting property for a long period of time. In addition, the present organic electroluminescence device can be obtained by lamination by solution coating.

Abstract: A bus communication system capable of determining an order of priorities based on IDs of transmitting nodes is provided. A communication unit writes its own node ID as a transmitting node ID into an arbitration field of a message packet that is to be transmitted from the communication unit to a bus, writes a node ID of a destination node into an auxiliary field defined at a predetermined location in the message packet, and transmits the message packet to the bus. A control unit rewrites the message packet transmitted from the communication unit by replacing the node ID written in the arbitration field with the node ID written in the auxiliary field, and transmits the rewritten message packet to the bus. Another communication unit, or the destination node, receives the message packet existing on the bus based on a match between its own node ID and the node ID indicated in the arbitration field rewritten by the control unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is capable of performing image formation at a processing speed of not lower than 150 mm/s. An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises a surface layer containing a siloxane-bases resin having charge-transporting properties and a crosslinked structure. A cleaning device comprises a brush member disposed such that the leading end of said brush comes in contact with said electrophotographic photoreceptor. The product (Rz×We) of the surface roughness (Rz [?m]) of said electrophotographic photoreceptor after 200,000 rotations thereof and the wear rate of said electrophotographic photoreceptor per 1,000 rotations (We [nm]) is not greater than 20.

Abstract: Provided are: a composite formed by mixing a carbon nanotube structure and a metal-containing material, the carbon nanotube structure having a network structure constructed by mutually cross-linking functional groups bonded to plural carbon nanotubes through chemical bonding of the functional groups together; and a method of manufacturing the same. The composite of the carbon nanotube and the metal-containing material is capable of effectively using characteristics of the carbon nanotube structure.

Abstract: Provided are a gas decomposing unit and an electrode for a fuel cell capable of stably supporting a gas decomposing catalyst. A gas decomposing unit and an electrode for a fuel cell each including: a carbon nanotube structure having a mesh structure in which functional groups bonded to plural carbon nanotubes are chemically bonded to mutually cross-link the plural carbon nanotubes; and a gas decomposing catalyst supported on the carbon nanotube structure. A method of manufacturing a gas decomposing unit characterized by including: an applying step of applying, to the surface of a substrate, a solution containing plural carbon nanotubes to which functional groups are bonded; a cross-linking step of chemically bonding the functional groups to build a mesh structure in which the plural carbon nanotubes mutually cross-link; and a supporting step of forming the carbon nanotube structure supporting a gas decomposing catalyst.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical circuit pattern, including: forming a patterned concave portion in a layer of a water repellent and oil repellent polymer material, which has a property of being decomposed due to light having a wavelength in a range of 150 to 220 nm, by irradiating light having a wavelength in a range of 150 to 220 nm and thereby decomposing and removing the polymer material at an irradiated portion; and filling a resin material having a refractive index higher than that of the polymer material in the concave portion.

Abstract: A method for transferring an image disposed on a medium with an image transfer device. The method comprises the steps of providing the image transfer device with a controller and a reader, reading the image on the medium with the reader, and forming with the controller a modified image from the image on the medium. The reader is operably connected to the controller for reading the image on the medium. The controller forms the modified image from the image on the medium in response to registering with the controller that the image on the medium is larger than a predetermined size. The modified image formed with the controller is smaller than the predetermined size.

Abstract: An image processing device can reproduce the original color of an electronic document on an output device faithfully and can simulate the appearance of color of a recorded product on a display device accurately. Color temperature information of an electronic document is recognized by an electronic document color temperature information recognition unit and delivered to a first color correction conversion unit. The first color correction conversion unit carries out color conversion based on the color temperature information of the electronic document so that a recorded product output from an output device assumes substantially the same color as the electronic document when it is observed under an illumination light source having a color temperature indicated by the color temperature information of the electronic document. An image is formed by the output device based on the color converted image signal to output the recorded product.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes and/or fullerenes reduces the pressure inside a system to 1.3 Pa or lower, supplies a carboniferous liquid state material to raise the pressure inside the system to at least 1.3 kPa to 93.3 kPa, generates arc discharges, supplies the carboniferous liquid state material in discharge plasma created by the arc discharges, and disintegrates or excites the carboniferous liquid state material, thereby producing the carbon nanotubes and/or the fullerenes. And, the manufacturing apparatus is equipped with at least a pair of electrodes that generate arc discharges into a vacuum chamber to create discharge plasma, a gas supply unit capable of supplying a carrier gas into the vacuum chamber, and a raw material supply unit capable of supplying a carboniferous liquid state material in the discharge plasma through an introduction tube.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating translations of natural language terms from a first language to a second language. A plurality of terms are extracted from unaligned comparable corpora of the first and second languages. Comparable corpora are sets of documents in different languages that come from the same domain and have similar genre and content. Unaligned documents are not translations of one another and are not linked in any other way. By accessing monolingual thesauri of the first and second languages, a category is assigned to each extracted term. Then, category-to-category translation probabilities are estimated, and using said category-to-category translation probabilities, term-to-term translation probabilities are estimated. The invention preferably exploits class-based normalization of probability estimates, bi-directionality, and relative frequency normalization.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus in which, if the image forming apparatus using only a normal toner is modified to be capable of forming an image formed of a special toner, an appropriate image can be formed in accordance with the characteristics of the special toner.

Abstract: An identification apparatus comprises an array of conductive pins fixed onto a base component placed onto a primary device and in communication therewith. A set of shaped identifiers has a plurality of holes through which respective pins on the array of fixed pins pass. Each identifier is uniquely configured with at least one distinct location containing a conductive sleeve fitted therein which allows the passage therethrough of that particular pin for further use by subsequently placed identifiers. Each pin is in individual communication with the primary device such that the primary device can thereafter identify the placed identifiers so as to subsequently perform certain functions or other desired operations based on the type, configuration, and/or number of identifiers placed thereon.

Abstract: A diptank applies coating solution to devices that are dipped therein. A reservoir tank contains a reservoir of coating solution. The diptank forms a coating solution overflow return that flows to the reservoir by means of a conduit and a self-adjusting return line. The self-adjusting return line comprises a plastic tubing with an upper portion, a central portion and a lower portion. The upper portion is coupled to the conduit. The tubing central portion is flexible and corrugated and arranged to extend and compress in its length. The lower portion is supported by an attached buoy that floats on the surface of the reservoir. The lower portion defines an outlet that discharges the coating solution overflow return to the reservoir. As a result, the coating solution overflow return is discharged to the reservoir at a fixed vertical distance or level with respect to the surface of the reservoir.

Abstract: A measure of similarity between two documents is computed. In computing the measure of similarity, a first list of rated keywords extracted from the first document and a second list of rated keywords extracted from the second document are received. The first and second lists of keywords are used to determine whether the first document forms part of the second document using a first computed percentage indicating what percentage of keyword ratings in the first list also exist in the second list. A second percentage is computed that indicates what percentage of keyword ratings along with a set of their neighboring keyword ratings in the first list that also exist in the second list when the first percentage indicates that the first document is included in the second document. The first percentage is used to specify the measure of similarity when the second percentage is greater than the first percentage.

Abstract: An action recognition apparatus acquires image data and outputs action information representing an action content of a human captured in the image data. The action recognition apparatus includes a face-portion specifying section, an acquisition section, a specifying section, and an information output section. The face-portion specifying section specifies a first image region including a face portion of the human from the image data. The acquisition section acquires skin-color information peculiar to the human from pixel values of the first image region. The specifying section specifies at least one second image region including a predetermined portion of a body of the human from the image data except for the first image region based on the skin-color information. The information output section outputs the action information representing the action content of the human based on position relation between the specified first image region and the specified second image region.

Abstract: To provide a capacitor capable of utilizing carbon nanotube characteristics effectively to obtain excellent electric or mechanical characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the same. The capacitor is characterized by including two opposing electrodes, at least one of the two electrodes being formed from a coating film of a carbon nanotube structure in which plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded constitute a mesh structure by cross-linking the functional groups through chemical bonding. The method of manufacturing a capacitor includes: a coating step for coating a surface of a base body with a solution that contains plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded; and a cross-linking step for forming a carbon nanotube structure layer in which the functional groups are chemically bonded to one another, thereby causing the carbon nanotubes to cross-link to one another and build a mesh structure.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, including toner particles that include at least a binder resin and a quinacridone pigment. The quinacridone pigment includes quinacridone represented by the following structural formula which has a ?-type crystal structure and quinacridone represented by the following structural formula which has a ?-type crystal structure.

Abstract: Output documents similar to an input document are identified. A query is formulated using a list of best keywords from the input document to search for a first set of output documents. The list of best keywords is defined with a maximum number of keywords less than the total number of keywords in the list of best keywords that are identified as belonging to a domain specific dictionary of words and as having no measurable linguistic frequency. Lists of keywords are identified for each output document in the first set of documents. A second set of similar documents is determined using a measure of similarity that is computed between keywords identified in the input document and each output document in the first set of documents.

Abstract: A light modulation medium comprises a light modulation element having a pair of substrates and plural light modulation layers arranged between the substrates to form a multilayer structure and made of cholesteric liquid crystal adapted to change the liquid crystal orientation in response to application of a predetermined electric field, in which the ratio of the threshold electric field at which the liquid crystal orientation is moved from a planar state to a focal conic state of a first light modulation layer of the light modulation element to that of a second light modulation layer is not less than 0.3 and the ratio of the dielectric constant in a planar state of liquid crystal orientation of the first light modulation layer to that of the second light modulation layer is not less than 4.