Abstract: A drawing apparatus that displays a character rendered in an outline method includes a number-of-commands identification unit configured to identify a number of drawing commands required for the character based on outline data that corresponds to a shape of the character, a level determination unit configured to determine a level of an antialiasing process to be performed on the character based on the number of the drawing commands found by the number-of-commands identification unit, and a drawing unit configured to execute the antialiasing process of the level determined for the character by the level determination unit, when the character is drawn based on the outline data of the character.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets, as storage destinations for storing image data as a transmission history, a first external storage destination and a second external storage destination; accepts a transmission destination of image data; transmits image data to the transmission destination accepted by the acceptance unit; and stores the image data in the first external storage destination in accordance with the transmission destination of the image data not being a specific destination, and stores the image data to the second external storage destination in accordance with the transmission destination of the image data being the specific destination.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of keeping a command concerning an original reading process with a simple configuration and of receiving a command concerning a process that is operatable concurrently with the original reading process. A scanner unit reads an original. A transmission unit transmits image data to a destination. A first determination unit determines whether a processing command received from a client apparatus is a first command that requires transmission of image data obtained by reading with the scanner unit. A second determination unit determines whether the scanner unit is in an occupied state. A reply unit replies a busy signal indicating that the scanner unit is busy to the client apparatus that transmitted the processing command until the scanner unit is no longer in the occupied state, when the scanner unit is in the occupied state and when the processing command is the first command.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a surface modification treatment agent capable of achieving lower tackiness and lower friction, a member for an image forming apparatus and a toner fixing mechanism.

Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to be capable of executing color shift correction processing also in consideration of a mechanical inclination component in an image forming device. For solving the problem, the image forming device according to the present invention comprises information processing unit, first measurement requesting unit, holding unit of curve information, notifying unit of curve information, receiving unit of a measurement pattern image, measurement processing unit, determining unit of a result of the measurement processing, and second measurement requesting unit.

Abstract: Data communication with one or more servers is performed based on a plurality of sessions using the first communication protocol. Error detection is performed in at least one session out of the plurality of sessions. When an error is detected in the first session out of the plurality of sessions, a communication protocol used for data communication in the second session out of the plurality of sessions using the first communication protocol is changed from the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol.

Abstract: Provided are a Ni ball, a Ni core ball, a solder joint, solder paste and foamed solder which are superior in the impact resistance to dropping and can inhibit any occurrence of a poor joints. An electronic component 60 is constructed by joining a solder bump 30 of a semiconductor chip 10 to an electrode 41 of a printed circuit board 40 with solder paste 12, 42. The solder bump 30 is formed by joining an electrode 11 of the semiconductor chip 10 to the Ni ball 20. The Ni ball 20 according to the present invention contains purity which is equal to or higher than 99.9% and equal to or lower than 99.995%, sphericity which is equal to or higher than 0.90, and Vickers hardness which is equal to or higher than 20 HV and equal to or less than 90 HV.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus used in an image processing system which includes a storage unit configured to store print data received from an external apparatus and associated with an input user, a display unit configured to display information to an operation user, and an authentication unit configured to authenticate the operation user, the image processing apparatus comprising a control unit configured to execute processing to cause the display unit to display, in a case where print data associated with an authenticated user has been stored in the storage unit, a list of the print data associated with the authenticated user, and processing to cause the display unit to display, in a case where print data associated with a user different from the authenticated user has been stored in the storage unit, information related to the different user.

Abstract: An object is to provide a rubber member for coating a developing roll which is formed a uniform rough surface at a surface of the developing roll, does exert neither damage nor toner stress to the mating member or the toner while maintaining flexibility, is possible to secure a thickness which can sufficiently avoid the effect of the rubber, and can realize non-tackiness and low friction, which can be solved by a rubber member for coating a developing roll which is the rubber member for coating a developing roll obtained by coating a coating layer 13 component at around a developing roll having a rubber substrate layer 12 and curing the same, wherein the coating layer 13 component comprises a liquid binder which contains at least a polyol, an isocyanate compound and reactive silicone oil, silicone rubber particles 101 having a hardness (JIS K6253: 1997) by Durometer A (instantaneous) of 20 to 80 degree and a rubber particle size of 0.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a development roll rubber member that has a uniformly roughened surface on a rubber member surface, that is capable of ensuring a sufficient thickness without contaminating a peripheral portion while maintaining a flexibility in a coating layer and a convex portion without impairing softness of a rubber substrate layer, and that has the coating layer achieving non-tackiness and low friction, and a method of manufacturing the same, and the object is achieved by putting a reactive silicone oil, an isocyanate compound, and a diluent solvent capable of dissolving both the reactive silicone oil and the isocyanate compound into a reaction container, by causing a prepolymerization reaction in which the reactive silicone oil and the isocyanate compound are reacted into a polymerized state in the diluent solvent in the reaction container while dissolution in the solvent is maintained, by subsequently mixing a polyol and an isocyanate compound solution and using silic

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a conveyance roller conveying a print medium, a printhead printing an image on the print medium, a carriage supporting the printhead and movable in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the conveyance roller, and a detecting unit detecting a rotation amount of the conveyance roller. The detecting unit is a rotary encoder including a code wheel provided coaxially with the conveyance roller. The carriage can move to a position at which the carriage overlaps the code wheel in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the conveyance roller.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus including a first memory storing data, whether the first memory is in a state where the stored data is readable and data is unwritable is determined. When it is determined that the first memory is in the state, whether particular data is stored in the first memory is determined. When it is determined that the particular data is stored in the first memory, whether a second memory is connected to the information processing apparatus is determined. When it is determined that the second memory is connected, the particular data is read from the first memory and is written into the second memory.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of keeping a command concerning an original reading process with a simple configuration and of receiving a command concerning a process that is operatable concurrently with the original reading process. A scanner unit reads an original. A transmission unit transmits image data to a destination. A first determination unit determines whether a processing command received from a client apparatus is a first command that requires transmission of image data obtained by reading with the scanner unit. A second determination unit determines whether the scanner unit is in an occupied state. A reply unit replies a busy signal indicating that the scanner unit is busy to the client apparatus that transmitted the processing command until the scanner unit is no longer in the occupied state, when the scanner unit is in the occupied state and when the processing command is the first command.

Abstract: A communication apparatus having a transmission function for transmitting data to another apparatus using a transmission protocol selected from a plurality of transmission protocols. A multifunction printer (MFP) implementing the communication apparatus authenticates a user, and acquires destination information associated with the authenticated user. The MFP permits the use of a specific transmission protocol for transmission using the acquired destination information, and restricts the use of the specific transmission protocol for transmission using other destination information. Further, the MFP permits display of destination information matching the acquired destination information, but restricts display of other destination information, among destination information stored in a hard disk in association with the specific transmission protocol.

Abstract: A Cu core ball is provided that prevents any soft errors and decreases any connection failure. The Cu core ball includes a solder plating film formed on the surface of a Cu ball that is a Sn solder plating film or is made of a lead-free solder alloy, a principal ingredient of which is Sn. The solder plating film contains U of 5 ppb or less and Th of 5 ppb or less. The Cu ball has a purity of not less than 99.9% Cu and not more than 99.995% Cu. Pb and/or Bi contents therein are at a total of 1 ppm or more. The sphericity thereof is 0.95 or more. The obtained Cu core ball has an ? dose of 0.0200 cph/cm2 or less.

Abstract: A core ball wherein a junction melting temperature and a low alpha dose are set for suppressing a soft error generation and solving a mounting problem. A metallic powder as a core is a sphere. A pure degree of a Cu ball of the metallic powder is equal to or higher than 99.9% but equal to or less than 99.995%. A contained amount of one of Pb and Bi or a total contained amount of Pb and Bi is equal to or higher than 1 ppm. A sphericity of the Cu ball is at least 0.95. A solder plating film for coating the Cu ball comprises Sn—Bi based alloy. U contained in the solder plating film is equal to or less than 5 ppb and Th is equal to or less than 5 ppb. An alpha dose of the core ball is equal to or less than 0.0200 cph/cm2.

Abstract: A sheet stacking device that can appropriately stack, at a fixed position, sheets that are discharged to a discharge tray, and a printing apparatus are provided. A presser member holds down, at a pressing position, the sheets stacked on the discharge tray. The presser member is moved from the pressing position to a retraction position in a period after discharging of a sheet has been started and before discharging of a succeeding sheet is started.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a feeding unit, a separation surface, a first separation part configured to switch between a condition in which the first separation part is protruded from the separate surface and the sheet comes into contact with the first separation part and a condition in which the first separation part is retracted from the separate surface and the sheet does not come into contact with the first separation part and to be fixed to each of the two conditions and a second separation part configured to be movable in a direction from a condition in which the second separation part is protruded from the separate surface and the sheet is capable of come into contact with the second separation part to a condition in which the second separation part is retracted from the separate surface, according to a contact force received from the sheet.

Abstract: An image sending apparatus includes a first authentication unit configured to perform processing for first authentication to authenticate a user, a storage unit configured to store authentication information used when the first authentication unit authenticates the user, a sending unit capable of sending image data by a plurality of kinds of sending methods, a destination setting unit configured to set a destination to which the sending unit sends the image data, a second authentication unit configured to perform processing for second authentication required for the sending unit to send the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to use the authentication information stored in the storage unit when the second authentication unit performs the processing for the second authentication, based on the sending method by which the sending unit sends the image data to the destination.

Abstract: An electronic device with keys which is capable of improving the user's usability for the keys, wherein processes allocated to the keys can be switched. A switching unit switches processes allocated to at least a part of the plurality of keys according to a predetermined operation. A determination unit determines whether or not the switching unit is in a normal state. An invalidation unit invalidates a part of the plurality of keys in a case where the determination unit determines that the switching unit is not in the normal state. An execution unit executes, when the key not invalidated by the invalidation unit among the plurality of keys is pressed, a process allocated to the pressed key, in a case where the determination unit determines that the switching unit is not in the normal state.