Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a formation unit for forming patch images for calibration of an output image, a detection unit disposed on a paper conveyance path and configured to detect the fixed patch images formed on paper by the formation unit, and a correction unit for performing the calibration using the patch images detected by the detection unit is provided. When the formation unit forms the patch images, the formation unit arranges the images on both sides of a medium. On the front surface of the medium, a low-density patch image is formed, and on the back surface of the medium, a high-density patch image is formed. Alternatively, a media on which the patch image is formed is discharged once, and a user turns the medium upside down and feeds the medium again such that the first and second patch image formation positions differ from each other.

Abstract: A color image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image by correcting registration shifts during an image forming process by using image data and which prevents toner from being blown away and scattered during a fixing process by thinning pixels without making an erroneous decision. When multivalued color image is binarized, the threshold is corrected by using information on grayscale level correction. Further, when trailing phenomenon prevention operation is performed on the binarized image data, the patterns to be used for pattern matching are changed and selected according to whether the subscan direction line shifting point lies within the reference window.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having an ACC inhibitory action, which is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity, diabetes and the like, and having superior efficacy. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus displays a screen for designating cooperative processing in which the image processing apparatus and at least one other image processing apparatus cooperate based on externally received information, where if an execution instruction for processing to be executed by the image processing apparatus for the cooperative processing is received, the processing is executed. A screen displaying the status of processing in the at least one other image processing apparatus and a screen enabling designation of subsequent processing to be executed by the image processing apparatus are displayed based on the externally received screen information while the at least one other image processing apparatus is executing processing to be executed by the at least one other image processing apparatus for the cooperative processing after the execution of the processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that, even when a user forgets a user ID or the like in remotely logging in to the information processing apparatus from an external apparatus, permits login from the external apparatus insofar as another authentication means satisfies predetermined conditions. Authentication information input by the user when logging in is transmitted to a management server connected to a network, and a login authentication result for the user is received from the management server. Whether or not to permit login by the user from an external apparatus connected to the network is determined based on identification information on the external apparatus. Login by the user from the external apparatus is permitted when the received login authentication result is indicative of successful authentication, and the identification information on the external apparatus is included in the authentication result.

Abstract: The present invention provides to a compound having an ACC inhibitory action, which is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiac failure, diabetic complications, metabolic syndrome, sarcopenia, cancer and the like, and has superior efficacy. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention can intuitively perform processing such as printing relating to an application program that is opened by an information processing apparatus. Further, the present invention displays an image indicted by data, by a display unit of a data processing apparatus so that a user can easily confirm whether the data that is about to be processed by the data processing apparatus is the desired data.

Abstract: A method for controlling an apparatus, including a plurality of lockable discharge units configured to discharge a printed product having an image formed thereon based on a received job to any one of the plurality of lockable discharge units, includes managing information about a lockable discharge unit to which the printed product is discharged in association with information about a user, notifying the user to prompt picking up the printed product discharged to the lockable discharge unit based on the managed information, and determining whether a particular user is using the plurality of lockable discharge units based on the managed information, wherein, in a case where the particular user is using the plurality of lockable discharge units, the notification is performed.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus secures data from third parties in event of power loss by utilizing a backup power supply to provide power while data is erased from memory. The data is stored in a nonvolatile memory. A first voltage supply unit supplies voltage to the memory, and a second voltage unit supplies voltage to the memory when the first voltage supply unit is incapable of supplying voltage to the memory. When the first voltage supply unit becomes incapable of supplying voltage to the memory, the memory is controlled to erase the data stored therein using a selected one of a plurality of erasing processes depending on the status of processing of the data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for performing wireless communication with an image processing apparatus includes a specifying unit configured to designate, out of a plurality of directories stored in the information processing apparatus, an opened directory before performing wireless communication with the image processing apparatus, a receiving unit configured to receive image data from the image processing apparatus by performing the wireless communication, and a control unit configured to control the image data received by the receiving unit to be stored in the directory designated by the specifying unit.

Abstract: A color image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image by correcting registration shifts during an image forming process by using image data and which prevents toner from being blown away and scattered during a fixing process by thinning pixels without making an erroneous decision. When multivalued color image is binarized, the threshold is corrected by using information on grayscale level correction. Further, when trailing phenomenon prevention operation is performed on the binarized image data, the patterns to be used for pattern matching are changed and selected according to whether the subscan direction line shifting point lies within the reference window.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming device that realizes accurate image forming positioning at a desired position without any complex operation about the image forming position by firmware in the image forming device that can involve the unevenness or mounting position difference of lenses of a deflection scanning device. The image forming device obtains the amount of shift in a subscanning direction of image forming from the image forming position of the image data in the main scanning direction and from the curve correction information, adds dummy data by the number of lines of shifting the reading position of the image data at the image forming start position in accordance with the amount of shift obtained, and delivers the dummy data added and the image data to an image forming component.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus and a data erasing method therefor which are capable of suppressing the capacity of a backup power supply to be used (operating time) and eliminating the disadvantage that a third party steals a look at data to thereby improve security. Data is input, and predetermined processing is performed on the input data. The data is stored in a nonvolatile memory such as a HD. A first voltage supply unit supplies voltage to the memory, and a second voltage unit supplies voltage to the memory when the first voltage supply unit is incapable of supplying voltage to the memory. When the first voltage supply unit becomes incapable of supplying voltage to the memory, the memory is controlled to erase the data stored therein using a selected one of a plurality of erasing processes depending on the status of processing of the data.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that can restore a defective area on a storage medium, and can appropriately and immediately notify the user of image data which image data written in the defective area have been destroyed. To accomplish this, when the detection of a defective sector has been started, and a defective sector is detected, a CPU is notified of the logic block address of the defective sector, and a replacement prepared in a spare area is allocated to restore the defective sector. When image data is present in the defective sector, an image data file name pertinent to the logic block address of the defective sector is stored. And when the detection process has been completed up to the last sector, an email is transmitted to the box user pertinent to the logic block address for the defective sector.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating exhaust gases. The apparatus includes an adsorbing tower containing an adsorbent to adsorb an impurity gas included in the exhaust gases. A desorbing tower heats the adsorbent to desorb the impurity gas from the adsorbent so that the adsorbent can be re-used. A transfer unit circulates the adsorbent between the adsorbing tower and the desorbing tower. A controller controls the temperature of the adsorbent. A helical heater is arranged in the desorbing tower to heat the adsorbent.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating exhaust gases. The apparatus includes an adsorbing tower containing an adsorbent to adsorb an impurity gas included in the exhaust gases. A desorbing tower heats the adsorbent to desorb the impurity gas from the adsorbent so that the adsorbent can be re-used. A transfer unit circulates the adsorbent between the adsorbing tower and the desorbing tower. A controller controls the temperature of the adsorbent. A helical heater is arranged in the desorbing tower to heat the adsorbent.

Abstract: An active filter apparatus makes it possible for a filter adjusting circuit to require a small number of elements when the filter adjusting circuit is contained in an integrated circuit, to be not easily affected by variations in the characteristics of the elements which form the circuit, and to be capable of easily adjusting the frequency characteristics of the filter to be adjusted. A characteristics conversion device converts, on the basis of an input signal and an output signal of the filter, to a characteristics conversion signal whose amplitude when the adjustment is completed is considerably larger than that of the output signal. As a result, the amplification factor of the characteristics conversion device, necessary to detect a maximum or minimum value of a characteristics conversion signal, is considerably small. Therefore, it is possible to considerably decrease an offset error of the characteristics conversion device.