Abstract: An image reader provided with an image pick-up unit which reads an image in a fast scanning direction in accordance with a fast scanning synchronizing signal, a drive unit which causes the image pick-up unit to move in a slow scanning direction in accordance with a drive control signal asynchronous with the fast scanning synchronizing signal, an intermittent read instruction unit which generates a stop instruction and a restart instruction for allowing the image reading to be performed intermittently by the image pick-up unit, a phase holding unit which, upon issuance of a stop instruction, recognizes and holds a phase difference between the fast scanning synchronizing signal and the drive control signal, and a phase control unit which, upon issuance of a restart instruction, corrects a phase difference between the fast scanning synchronizing signal and the drive control signal on the basis of the phase difference recognized and held by the phase holding unit.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to electrical detection of V-groove width during the fabrication of photosensitive chips, which create electrical signals from an original image, as would be found, for example, in a digital scanner or facsimile machine.

Abstract: A seamed flexible belt with interlocking seam members having an outer layer including a polyvinylbutyral and an isocyanate, or a polyurethane from the reaction of polyvinylbutyral and an isocyanate, for use in the xerographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.

Abstract: A component film having a surface layer and a polymer matrix layer, wherein the polymer matrix layer has a polymer and small molecules, and the polymer matrix is designed to allow the small molecules to diffuse through the polymer matrix layer to the surface layer upon the application of pressure or heat to the component film.

Abstract: A substrate on which a plurality of thin films having a plurality of cross-sections corresponding to the cross-section of a micro-structure are formed is placed on a substrate holder. The substrate holder is elevated to bond a thin film formed on the substrate to the surface of a stage, and by lowering the substrate holder, the thin film is separated from the substrate and transferred to the stage side. The transfer process is repeated to laminate a plurality of thin films on the stage and to form the micro-structure. Accordingly, there are provided a micro-structure having high dimensional precision, especially high resolution in the lamination direction, which can be manufactured from a metal or an insulator such as ceramics and can be manufactured in the combined form of structural elements together, and a manufacturing method and an apparatus thereof.

Abstract: In a network, a media coordination system provides secure multimedia communication channels in a collaborative network environment. The media coordination system provides automatic encryption, dynamic interconnection of streams of data, and user interface elements that provide users with control over the ultimate destination of their audio and video data. The infrastructure of the system includes a plurality of client workstations that are connected to a central server using point-to-point network connections. The central server maintains a persistent virtual world of network places with objects located therein. Streams of audio and video data are coordinated between client workstations operating in the persistent virtual world by a key manager object using channels, transmitters, and receivers. The client workstations multicast their audio and video data over the network to defined recipients after receiving a multicast address and an encryption key for a specific multicast channel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus analyzes and annotates a technical talk typically illustrated with overhead slides, wherein the slides are recorded in a video sequence. The video sequence is condensed and digested into key video frames adaptable for annotation to time and audio sequence. The system comprises a recorder for recording a technical talk as a sequential set of video image frames. A stabilizing processor segregates the video image frames into a plurality of associated subsets each corresponding to a distinct slide displayed at the talk and for median filtering of the subsets for generating a key frame representative of each of the subsets. A comparator compares the key frame with the associated subsets to identify differences between the key frame and the associates subset which comprise nuisances and affordances. A gesture recognizer locates, tracks and recognizes gestures occurring in the subset as gesture affordances and identifies a gesture video frame representative of the gesture affordance.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for improved transfer of charged developing material to a substrate in an electrophotographic printing apparatus by applying an oscillatory bias voltage to the charged developing material. The printing apparatus includes a toner transfer system having an intermediate transfer belt and a transfer station having a transfer charging device. The intermediate transfer member is provided with a biasing voltage, generating oscillatory electric fields in the transfer nip. As a result, the portion of the developed image present in the transfer nip is subjected to repeated transfer and back-transfer forces, resulting in fluidization, whereby the developed image is more efficiently transferred.

Abstract: A display is provided with an insulative layer with electrical properties which have been selected so that the display can be addressed with a stylus and which minimizes the effects of stray triboelectrically generated charges. Also provided is a method of addressing such a display by depositing charges on a surface of the display, maintaining sufficient charge to effect an image change, and then removing the charges.

Abstract: A tension and detensioning assembly includes a frame and a moveable tensioning roll for tensioning the continious loop belt. The moveable tensioning roll has an axis, a first end, a second end, a first position for tensioning the continous loop belt, and a second position when the continous loop belt is detensioned. When the moveable tensioning roll is in the second position, the first end is spaced a first distance from the first position, and the second end is spaced (from the first position) a second distance that is different from the first distance in order to enable safe, efficient and controlled, non-slipping removal and reinstallation of the flexible closed loop photoreceptor belt.

Abstract: Provided are a toner and its production, a developer, an image forming method and an image forming apparatus. The toner has excellent fixation characteristics of good releasability, hot offset resistance, folding resistance, surface glossiness, and OHP transparency. The toner contains a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent and an inorganic particles. The inorganic particles therein contain inorganic particles (A) having the mean primary particle size not less than approximately 5 nm and less than approximately 30 nm and inorganic particles (B) having the mean primary particle size not less than approximately 30 nm and less than approximately 200 nm.

Abstract: In electronic collated printing of an electronic document of plural electronic pages with a printer printing normal sheets with a normal jam rate but printing abnormal printing sheets with a substantially higher jam rate, where associated with the electronic pages is printing sheet selection information, there is provided here electronic separation of the electronic pages of the document which specify the abnormal printing sheets. The system then prints those separated pages onto their abnormal printing sheets prior to printing any of the other electronic pages, temporarily holds them in an interposer, then prints the other pages of the document onto normal sheets, and provides collated merging in the interposer to provide collated output of the entire electronic document.

Abstract: A toner donor roll for use in a development apparatus of an electrophotographic apparatus is disclosed. The donor roll includes a conductive core of a ceramic outer coating over the conductive core, the ceramic coating formed from thermal spraying a single homogeneous powder consisting of particles each of which contains a specific ratio of pure alumina and pure titania held together with an organic binder.

Abstract: A paper clip automatic attaching device includes (a) a support assembly including a set compiler tray defining (i) a sheet supporting set plane, (ii) a first open space below, and a second open above the set plane; and (b) a paper clip travel path assembly defining a paper clip travel path adjoining the set plane. The travel path assembly includes (i) a first support member having a first guide surface for guiding a first leg of the paper clip into a first position below the set plane, and (ii) a second support member having a second guide surface for deflecting a second leg of the paper into a second position above the set plane. The automatic paper clip attaching device also includes a clip holding assembly for holding a stack of the paper clips for feeding into the paper clip travel path; and a powered device for automatically pushing a lead paper clip, legs first, into an attached relationship with a set of sheets on the set plane.

Abstract: A method of extracting audio excerpts comprises: segmenting audio data into a plurality of audio data segments; setting a fitness criteria for the plurality of audio data segments; analyzing the plurality of audio data segments based on the fitness criteria; and selecting one of the plurality of audio data segments that satisfies the fitness criteria. In various exemplary embodiments, the method of extracting audio excerpts further comprises associating the selected one of the plurality of audio data segments with video data. In such embodiments, associating the selected one of the plurality of audio data segments with video data may comprise associating the selected one of the plurality of audio data segments with a keyframe.

Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising (a) a phase change carrier, (b) a cyan colored resin or wax comprising the reaction product of (i) a cyan colorant having at least one functional group selected from (A) hydroxyl groups, (B) primary or secondary amino groups, (C) mercapto groups, or (D) mixtures thereof, and (ii) an isocyanate, and (c) an organic acid selected from (i) organic sulfonic acids, (ii) organic phosphinic acids, (iii) organic phosphonic acids, or (iv) mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ink jet recording head of a type having a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with an ink chamber and arrayed two-dimensionally, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements driving the pressure chambers, respectively, the piezoelectric elements being actuated to apply pressure to ink in the pressure chambers and thereby eject ink droplets from nozzles communicating with the pressure chambers, respectively, the manufacturing method includes the steps of patterning a piezoelectric plate releasably bonded to a substrate, forming a piezoelectric element unit in which a plurality of piezoelectric elements are arrayed two-dimensionally on the substrate, bonding the piezoelectric elements of the piezoelectric element unit to a diaphragm plate; and then releasing the substrate from the piezoelectric elements.

Abstract: An optical address type spatial light modulator has a plurality of optical address type light modulation layers stacked on each other, each having a liquid crystal layer for reflecting visible light in a specific wavelength band or a liquid crystal layer for absorbing visible light in a specific wavelength band and coloring and a photoconductive layer for absorbing the visible light in the specific wavelength band and changing the resistance value in response to the light intensity of the visible light absorbed, the liquid crystal layer and the photoconductive layer being stacked on each other betwen electrodes.

Abstract: A charge transport composition containing aromatic amines with crosslinkable silanes as represented by the formula 1