Abstract: A method of printing a subject on a medium by use of a printing device including a printhead assembly, wherein the printhead assembly has at least one printhead having an array of marking elements, is accomplished by scanning the printhead assembly along a medium by a succession of passes, the passes being offset from each other in a direction transverse to a scanning movement of the printhead assembly relative to the medium. The subject consists of textual and non-textual material, and pixels of the subject are loaded into the printing device. The method provides for separating pixels of the textual material from pixels of the non-textual material, and printing pixels of at least a portion of the subject by passing the printhead along the medium in a plurality of the passes. In an offsetting of successive ones of the passes, a translation of the printhead in the transverse direction accumulated over the succession of the plurality of passes does not exceed a transverse dimension of the printhead.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing JPEG compressed digital image data wherein only the DC components of the compressed image data are required to obtain a statistical subsampling of the corresponding uncompressed image data. JPEG compressed image data are received that represent an input digital image, and the JPEG compressed image data include a plurality of DC components. DC components are extracted from the JPEG compressed image data, and the extracted plurality of said DC components represent a subsampling of the input digital image. At least some of the plurality of extracted DC components are input to an automated image enhancement system. The DC components input to the automated image enhancement system are used to derive at least one of a final correction tone reproduction curve and a sharpness filter for enhancement of the input digital image represented by the JPEG compressed data.

Abstract: A method for aligning an endless belt having an optimum position within an acceptable range on associate guide rollers in a machine by manually placing the belt over an outboard end of the guide rollers and sliding the belt inward over the guide rollers to a first rough position. When it is determined that the belt has reached an acceptable range of positions, the belt is steered inward using a given operational steering angle. When it is determined that the belt has reached an optimum position, the belt is driven at an operational speed and steered inward and outward to maintain the optimum position.

Abstract: A graphical input and display system having a user interface for selecting object(s) to be operated on by the system includes input devices permitting a user to select and establish image object(s) received from various image input sources. A processor, connected to the system, receives requests for various image element selection operations and also accesses a memory structure. The system memory structure includes a user interaction module, which allows a user to select image elements without pre-selecting an element selection mode, as well as data memory.

Abstract: An emulsified cosmetic offering superior sensation of use and r stability comprises 0.1 to 25 wt % of aqueous moisturizing components, 2 to 80 wt % of oil solution components, and 0.1 to 30 wt % of spherical resin particles having hydrophilic groups on their surfaces and an average volume particle size of 2.0 &mgr;m to 20.0 &mgr;m. The spherical resin particles are made by applying alkali cleaning or acid cleaning to aggregation particles after resin polymerization, and the volume particle size distribution GSDv of the spherical resin particles is 1.3 or less, and the shape factor SF1 thereof is 100 to 140.

Abstract: A simple and low cost semiconductor light emission element exerting high performance and a process for producing the same are provided. The semiconductor light emission element contains a nitride semiconductor layer containing at least one or more element selected from Group IIIA elements and one or more element selected from Group VA element, a dissimilar semiconductor having a polarity different from the nitride semiconductor layer, and a light emission layer provided between the dissimilar semiconductor and the nitride semiconductor, in which electrons or positive holes are injected from semiconductors of the dissimilar semiconductor and the nitride semiconductor layer to the light emission layer to carry out light emission.

Abstract: A sheet supply apparatus for supplying stacked sheets includes a standard sheet tray provided with a standard side guide that regulates a position in the width direction of the stacked sheet, and an extension sheet tray extendably disposed upstream of the standard sheet tray in a sheet feeding direction, wherein the extension sheet tray has an auxiliary side guide that regulates a position in the width direction of a sheet feeding direction upstream portion of a long sheet. A sheet handling apparatus using the sheet supply apparatus.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image is provided that can prevent occurrence of blister even with coated paper having a coated surface, exhibits excellent releasing performance in oilless fixing, and realizes both high glossiness and OHP transparency for an image to be formed. A process for producing the toner, a developer containing the toner, and a process for forming an image using the toner are also provided. The toner for developing an electrostatic latent image contains a binder resin, a releasing agent and a colorant, in which the binder resin has a number average molecular weight (Mn) in a range of from 9,000 to 18,000 and a molecular weight distribution represented by a ratio (Mw/Mn) of a weight average molecular weight (Mw) and a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 2.5 or less, and the binder resin contains a vinyl resin.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the topic structure of a document including text utilize a Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) model and select segmentation points based on similarity values between pairs of adjacent text blocks. PLSA forms a framework for both text segmentation and topic identification. The use of PLSA provides an improved representation for the sparse information in a text block, such as a sentence or a sequence of sentences. Topic characterization of each text segment is derived from PLSA parameters that relate words to “topics”, latent variables in the PLSA model, and “topics” to text segments. A system executing the method exhibits significant performance improvement. Once determined, the topic structure of a document may be employed for document retrieval and/or document summarization.

Abstract: Tag side antennas attached at cartridge accessories and main body side antennas can be disposed sufficiently close to one another and facing one another without an increase in size of a device, even if the tag side antennas cannot be attached so as to cover end surface portions of the cartridge accessories and/or the number of the cartridge accessories mounted at the device main body is large. Tag side antennas disposed at each of toner cartridges are formed by conductive wiring in coil shapes. The toner cartridges are supported such that axes of these coils are substantially orthogonal to an insertion/removal direction at a cartridge holder. A main body side antenna is also formed by conductive wiring in a coil shape, has a coil axis substantially orthogonal to the insertion/removal direction, and may be supported interposed in a space between two of the toner cartridges.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus, capable of guaranteeing display operations when a destination terminal is a portable terminal apparatus, while the display operations are adapted to display capability of this portable terminal apparatus. The data processing apparatus includes a storage which stores first data therein, a convert section for converting the first data into second data, and a transmit section which transmits the second data to the destination. A judgment is made whether a destination is a portable terminal apparatus. When the destination is judged to be portable terminal apparatus, the convert section converts the first data into the second data based upon display capability of a data display apparatus of the data display apparatus.

Abstract: An added information encoding part repeatedly arranges two kinds of copy inhibition code arrays of the unit two-dimensional arrays to which copy inhibition codes are assigned, and condition code arrays of the unit two-dimensional arrays to which codes for removing the copy inhibition are assigned, into a two-dimensional array according to given rules. A background image formation part generates a background image in which copy inhibition pattern image areas and condition pattern image areas are repeatedly and two-dimensionally arranged according to given rules, while referring to this array, and the pattern images corresponding to respective codes stored in the background image formation part, and stores the generated background image into a background image buffer. An image composing part reads out document images from a document image buffer, and the background image from the background image buffer, and superimposes them into a composite image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an unfixed toner image on a recording sheet, a first fixing unit for fixing the unfixed toner image on the recording sheet, a second fixing unit for further fixing the toner image on the recording sheet fixed by the first fixing unit, and a control unit for selecting a first fixing mode in which only the first fixing unit is used for fixing the toner image on the recording sheet or a second fixing mode in which the first and second fixing unit are used for the fixing. The width of the recording sheet, which the second fixing unit can fix is narrower than of the recording sheet 16, which the first fixing unit can fix.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus is provided which includes: an image forming part that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording sheet; a first fixing part that performs primary fixation to the recording sheet that bears the unfixed toner image; and a second fixing part that performs secondary fixation to the recording sheet fixed by the first fixing part. In the image-forming apparatus, the second fixing part exists above the image forming part.

Abstract: A toner process comprising mixing an acidified dispersion of an acicular magnetite with an anionic latex, an anionic carbon black dispersion, and an anionic wax dispersion.

Abstract: A fluid ejector system including at least one fluid ejection ejector for ejecting a main drop of a fluid. Each main drop of fluid has satellites that are formed upon ejection. An aperture plate having at least one channel is provided to alter the flight path of the satellites while allowing the main drop to pass through.

Abstract: In a document feeder with a superposed sheet input tray and sheet output stacking tray for feeding and then restacking print media paper sheets of variable dimensions, the lateral setting (repositioning) of the at least one variable position side guide of the input tray to the sides of the input sheets automatically correspondingly resets the corresponding side guide of the underlying output stacking tray, to reduce sheet scattering in the sheet stacking, especially skewed sheets. This may be accomplished by a simple direct mechanical integration of these respective side guides into a single repositionable component with upper and lower extending sheet edge guide portions.

Abstract: An image processing device which carries out processing for composing a first image (a color patch image for printing simulation) and a second image (a color patch image for printer management) with image data of a print job, and printing-out. When image data is received from an image processing terminal, image data of a first image and a second image are generated by first and second image generating sections. A first image composing section composes image data of an object of printing and first image data. A color correcting section carries out color correction on the composed image. A second image composing section composes the second image and an image which has been composed by the first image composing section and color corrected. In this way, appropriate printing simulation using an output device such as a printer is possible.

Abstract: A process which involves the heating of a magnetite dispersion, a colorant dispersion, a latex emulsion, and a coagulant, wherein the coagulant can be a polymetal halide, and the mixture is aggregated by heating below the latex resin glass transition temperature, and thereafter heating above the latex resin glass transition temperature, followed by cooling and isolating the product, which product can be a toner.

Abstract: A recognition device which judges whether a target is identical with a predetermined reference, comprising: a holding unit which holds the target; multiple deformation units which deform the target held by the holding unit with at least one degree of flexibility in deformation; multiple deformed amount estimation units which correspond to the deformation units in a one-to-one relationship and estimate a deformed amount of the target from the reference with respect to the flexibility in deformation according to the corresponding deformation unit; an estimated error evaluation unit which evaluates an estimated error of the deformed amount estimated by the deformed amount estimation unit; an adjustment unit which operates any of the deformation units with precedence according to the estimated error evaluated by the estimated error evaluation unit; a similarity calculation unit which calculates a similarity between the reference and the target which is deformed by the deformation unit operated with precedence by