Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an imaging apparatus, a carriage, and a processing section. A sensor in the imaging apparatus has a plurality of pixels placed in a row direction and a column direction in the form of a matrix. The imaging apparatus is disposed in the carriage so that the row direction of the sensor and the direction in which the plurality of nozzles constituting each nozzle row are placed become parallel. The processing section causes ink to be discharged from a nozzle row to be adjusted to print a test pattern. By using a two-dimensional scale as a reference in detection of landing deviation, the processing section detects the landing deviation caused by the nozzle row to be adjusted, according to the imaged test pattern.

Abstract: A failure time estimation device includes: a memory configured to store a machine-learned model obtained by performing machine learning using teaching data associating printer information including at least one of operation history of a printer, state information indicating a current state, and a print result image indicating a print result with failure time of the printer; and a controller configured to obtain the printer information and estimate the failure time of the printer using the obtained printer information and the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A printer includes: a memory configured to store a machine-learned model obtained by machine learning using teaching data associating at least one of reflectance of a print medium, transmittance of the print medium, and image data obtained by capturing an image of a surface of the print medium with a type of the print medium; and a print controller configured to determine a type of a print medium using at least one of reflectance of the print medium, transmittance of the print medium, and image data obtained by capturing an image of a surface of the print medium and the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A printer including a motor for transporting an object to be transported, the printer includes: a memory storing a machine-learned model configured to output a control parameter of the motor that brings a transport position of the object to be transported close to a reference based on one or more state variables including at least one of a speed of the object to be transported, an acceleration of the object to be transported, a movement amount of the object to be transported, a start position of movement of the object to be transported, an ambient environment of the printer, a value of a current flowing through the motor, a type of a print medium onto which printing is to be performed by the printer, and an accumulated movement amount of the object to be transported; and a controller configured to control the motor to perform printing by using the control parameter obtained based on the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an imaging apparatus, a carriage, and a processing section. A sensor in the imaging apparatus has a plurality of pixels placed in a row direction and a column direction in the form of a matrix. The imaging apparatus is disposed in the carriage so that the row direction of the sensor and the direction in which the plurality of nozzles constituting each nozzle row are placed become parallel. The processing section causes ink to be discharged from a nozzle row to be adjusted to print a test pattern. By using a two-dimensional scale as a reference in detection of landing deviation, the processing section detects the landing deviation caused by the nozzle row to be adjusted, according to the imaged test pattern.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage that stores a machine-learned model, an accepting section, and a processor. In the machine-learned model, according to a data set in which an association is made between discharge failure factor information related to the factor of a discharge failure and printed image information that represents an image formed on a print medium, a prediction condition has been machine-learned for the discharge failure. The accepting section accepts the discharge failure factor information from a printing apparatus. The processor predicts the discharge failure in the print head according to the accepted discharge failure factor information and the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A failure time estimation device includes: a memory configured to store a machine-learned model obtained by performing machine learning using teaching data associating printer information including at least one of operation history of a printer, state information indicating a current state, and a print result image indicating a print result with failure time of the printer; and a controller configured to obtain the printer information and estimate the failure time of the printer using the obtained printer information and the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A printer includes: a memory configured to store a machine-learned model obtained by machine learning using teaching data associating at least one of reflectance of a print medium, transmittance of the print medium, and image data obtained by capturing an image of a surface of the print medium with a type of the print medium; and a print controller configured to determine a type of a print medium using at least one of reflectance of the print medium, transmittance of the print medium, and image data obtained by capturing an image of a surface of the print medium and the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A printer including a motor for transporting an object to be transported, the printer includes: a memory storing a machine-learned model configured to output a control parameter of the motor that brings a transport position of the object to be transported close to a reference based on one or more state variables including at least one of a speed of the object to be transported, an acceleration of the object to be transported, a movement amount of the object to be transported, a start position of movement of the object to be transported, an ambient environment of the printer, a value of a current flowing through the motor, a type of a print medium onto which printing is to be performed by the printer, and an accumulated movement amount of the object to be transported; and a controller configured to control the motor to perform printing by using the control parameter obtained based on the machine-learned model.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an encoder that detects the rotation of a driving roller that forms a transport device, an imaging device that images a medium during transport by the transport device, and a controller. In a second detecting unit, the imaging device images the medium irradiated with light that the light emission controller causes the light-emitting unit to emit through a strobe control signal. The second detecting unit acquires movement amount of the medium using a plurality of images with different imaging times at which the medium is imaged. In the first detecting unit, a latching circuit holds a rotation amount of a driving roller totaled by a counter at a timing based on the strobe control signal. The controller controls the discharge timing of the print head based on the rotation amount and the movement amount.

Abstract: Transporting apparatus includes a transporting section configured to transport continuous-form paper, an imaging apparatus including a light applying section for emitting light toward the continuous-form paper, and an imaging element for taking images of continuous-form paper based on the light from the light applying section, a transportation amount computing section configured to compute the transportation amount of the continuous-form paper based on the images of the continuous-form paper, and a transporting control section configured to control the transporting section based on the transportation amount. The imaging element includes a valid pixel area including a plurality of pixels where electric charge can be accumulated in accordance with the light reflected on the continuous-form paper, and a shading area including a plurality of pixels where the reflected light can be shaded. The light applying section emits light within a duration of reading a pixel signal of the shading area.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an encoder that detects the rotation of a driving roller that forms a transport device, an imaging device that images a medium during transport by the transport device, and a controller. In a second detecting unit, the imaging device images the medium irradiated with light that the light emission controller causes the light-emitting unit to emit through a strobe control signal. The second detecting unit acquires movement amount of the medium using a plurality of images with different imaging times at which the medium is imaged. In the first detecting unit, a latching circuit holds a rotation amount of a driving roller totaled by a counter at a timing based on the strobe control signal. The controller controls the discharge timing of the print head based on the rotation amount and the movement amount.

Abstract: Transporting apparatus includes a transporting section configured to transport continuous-form paper, an imaging apparatus including a light applying section for emitting light toward the continuous-form paper, and an imaging element for taking images of continuous-form paper based on the light from the light applying section, a transportation amount computing section configured to compute the transportation amount of the continuous-form paper based on the images of the continuous-form paper, and a transporting control section configured to control the transporting section based on the transportation amount. The imaging element includes a valid pixel area including a plurality of pixels where electric charge can be accumulated in accordance with the light reflected on the continuous-form paper, and a shading area including a plurality of pixels where the reflected light can be shaded. The light applying section emits light within a duration of reading a pixel signal of the shading area.

Abstract: An imaging device 1 is configured to include an imaging element 10 and a DSP 20. The imaging element 10 includes a sensor register 13 that stores imaging control information, and the DSP 20 includes a mirror register 25 having a configuration equivalent to that of the sensor register 13. A system controller 23 controls such that identical imaging control information is stored in the sensor register 13 and the mirror register 25, and a timer section 29 is configured such that, in response to timer events generated with a period of a time interval T1, the imaging control information stored in the mirror register 25 is transmitted to the imaging element 10, thereby refreshing the sensor register 13.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that images a subject with three or more kinds of exposures, ratios of respective pairs of exposures of which adjacent to each other in an ascending order or a descending order are equal; and a combining unit that combines, on the basis of the ratios, pixel signals corresponding to the respective three or more kinds of exposures obtained by imaging the subject with the imaging unit.

Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes an HDR signal processor and a frame memory. The HDR signal processor obtains pixel data S1 and S2 obtained by imaging with a very short exposure time T1 and a short exposure time T2 earlier than obtaining pixel data S3 obtained by imaging with a normal exposure time T3, generates a luminance image data by separating illumination light component from the pixel data S1 and S2, the generation of the luminance image data starting when the pixel data S2 is obtained, and generates a gain for tone mapping from the luminance image data. On the other hand, the HDR signal processor generates an HDR image data from the pixel data S1 to S3, the generation of the HDR image starting when the pixel data S3 is obtained, and performs tone mapping by multiplying this image data by the gain.

Abstract: An imaging device 1 is configured to include an imaging element 10 and a DSP 20. The imaging element 10 includes a sensor register 13 that stores imaging control information, and the DSP 20 includes a mirror register 25 having a configuration equivalent to that of the sensor register 13. A system controller 23 controls such that identical imaging control information is stored in the sensor register 13 and the mirror register 25, and a timer section 29 is configured such that, in response to timer events generated with a period of a time interval T1, the imaging control information stored in the mirror register 25 is transmitted to the imaging element 10, thereby refreshing the sensor register 13.

Abstract: An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the photoelectric conversion elements being disposed in a two-dimensional matrix, the photoelectric conversion elements converting received light into electric charge and accumulating the electric charge; a reset processing unit for performing a reset process, the reset process being a process of removing electric charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements of the photoelectric conversion unit in a first sub-frame period among the first to N-th sub-frame periods, the N being a natural number of two or more, the first to N-th sub-frame periods being obtained by dividing each frame period of a frame rate corresponding to a normal exposure time into an N number of periods in the first to N-th order; and a pixel signal readout unit for reading out a pixel signal in a non-destructive manner, the pixel signal being an electric signal corresponding to an amount of electrical charge ac

Abstract: An image pickup device includes: an image pickup unit which picks up a subject at first and second exposure times; a high dynamic range (HDR) image data generating unit which generates first HDR image data configured by pixel data of which pixel values are expressed by a floating-point form in which a mantissa part has N bits (N is a natural number of 2 or more), a cardinal number is X (X is a natural number of 2 or more) and an exponential part of the cardinal number has M bits (M is a natural number of 2 or more), on the basis of first image data obtained by picking up the subject at the first exposure time and second image data obtained by picking up the subject at the second exposure time; an image processing unit which performs a predetermined image process including a floating-point arithmetic operation process, with respect to the first HDR image data generated by the HDR image data generating unit; and a HDR image data converting unit which converts the first HDR image data after the image process int

Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that images a subject with three or more kinds of exposures, ratios of respective pairs of exposures of which adjacent to each other in an ascending order or a descending order are equal; and a combining unit that combines, on the basis of the ratios, pixel signals corresponding to the respective three or more kinds of exposures obtained by imaging the subject with the imaging unit.