Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording comprises water, self-dispersing type carbon black, an anionic surfactant, and a nonionic surfactant. The anionic surfactant is a surfactant represented by the formula (1) and/or a surfactant represented by the formula (2). The nonionic surfactant is a surfactant represented by the formula (3) or a mixture of a surfactant represented by the formula (4) and a surfactant represented by the formula (5). No ink discharge failure occurs, the long term stability is excellent, and it is possible to obtain a high quality image without any feathering.

Abstract: The present invention provides a motion compensating apparatus which is capable of enhancing the overall coding efficiency by taking the amount of coded information used to code a motion vector as well as the sum of difference absolute values of estimated differences into consideration in order to determine an optimal vector.

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a dispersible coloring agent, a propylene glycol ether, and a surfactant composed of a random copolymer represented by the following general formula (1):

Abstract: An ink container including water-based ink for ink-jet recording and a package in which the water-based ink is accommodated, wherein the water-based ink includes an inert gas dissolved therein and an amount of oxygen dissolved in the water-based ink for ink-jet recording is less than 3 mL/L.

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording, which is usable for an ink-jet recording apparatus having an ink-jet head provided therein with an ink flow passage formed of nickel or nickel alloy, includes a coloring agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The ink is blended so that a current density, which is obtained within an electric potential range of −600 to +300 mV, is not more than 100 &mgr;A/cm2 when anodic polarization measurement is performed by using a reference electrode of silver/silver chloride, a counter electrode of platinum, and a working electrode of nickel or nickel alloy. The ink does not corrode any part for constituting the flow passage in the ink-jet head.

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording is provided, which is excellent in time-dependent stability of ink characteristics, which can be stably jetted over a long period of time, and which makes it possible to perform the high quality recording. The water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a self-dispersing type water-insoluble particulate coloring agent, a compound represented by the following formula (1), a surfactant having a nitrogen atom in a molecule, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein a surface tension is 30 to 50 mN/m, and a ratio of change of the surface tension after storage at 60° C.

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording is provided, in which the color bleed is reduced at adjoining portions of inks and the deposition of dye or the like in a color ink is not caused when a plurality of colors are recorded on regular paper. The ink set for ink-jet recording, which is composed of inks of a plurality of colors, includes at least one first ink and at least one second ink having the following compositions respectively. The first ink contains at least one anionicity-added pigment. The second ink contains at least one anionic dye and at least one ethanolamine hydrochloride selected from the group consisting of monoethanolamine hydrochloride, diethanolamine hydrochloride, triethanolamine hydrochloride, and thioethanolamine hydrochloride.

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording is provided, which makes it possible to secure a high recording quality with a sharp image area edge by avoiding any blurring even when recording is performed on regular paper and which has satisfactory purge restoration performance. Therefore, no bubble remains in an ink flow passage, and no discharge failure is caused. Further, the discharge operation never becomes unstable. In the water base ink for ink-jet recording, the surface tension is not less than 40 mN/m, and the amount of dissolved oxygen is not more than 4 mg/L.

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording, which is usable for an ink-jet recording apparatus having an ink-jet head provided therein with an ink flow passage formed of nickel or nickel alloy, comprises a coloring agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The ink is blended so that a current density, which is obtained within an electric potential range of −600 to +300 mV, is not more than 100 &mgr;A/cm2 when anodic polarization measurement is performed by using a reference electrode of silver/silver chloride, a counter electrode of platinum, and a working electrode of nickel or nickel alloy. The ink does not corrode any part for constituting the flow passage in the ink-jet head.

Abstract: A toner composition having a high light transmission when printed on a transparent medium, in addition to being superior in strength and durability is provided. Binder resin particles manufactured through a dispersing polymerization method are colored using at least one kind of dye and are then subjected to a process of injecting an organic finely divided powder and a charge controlling agent and to a process of externally adding a hydrophobic silica and a conductive titanium oxide, thereby making a toner composition having a gel percentage of 2 to 15%.

Abstract: A water base ink set for ink-jet recording comprises a black ink which contains a black pigment, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent, and a color ink which contains a dye, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and at least one compound represented by the following formulas (1) to (3), wherein the nozzle clog-up at an ink-jet head and the malfunction of a purging pump, which would be otherwise caused by the aggregation of the black ink, can be avoided:

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording of the present invention comprises a black ink which has a surface tension of not less than 40 mN/m at 25° C., and a color ink which has a surface tension of not less than 40 mN/m at 25° C. The viscosity ratio of the color ink with respect to the black ink is not less than 1.3. The feathering of the ink is avoided, and the bleeding, which would otherwise appear at the boundary between the black ink and the color ink, is avoided.

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a surfactant represented by the following formula (1) or (2), dipropylene glycol, a coloring agent, and water: 1

Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording contains an amine compound selected from the group consisting of N-n-butylethanolamine, 1,4-bis(3-aminopropyl)piperazine, benzylamine, and an amine compound represented by a specified structural formula, a surfactant having a specified structural formula, a coloring agent, and water. It is possible to obtain a satisfactory rub resistance and a high printing quality with a sharp outline without causing any feathering on a recorded image. Further, it is possible to obtain a long term nozzle discharge stability by suppressing any corrosion on a metal member of a discharge head unit of an ink-jet recording apparatus.

Abstract: Two-dimensional addresses of lateral lines of a rectangular area are produced in a prescribed scanning order in a sender-memory control unit as readout addresses of a sender's memory, pieces of pixel data corresponding to the readout addresses are read out from the sender's memory, the pieces of pixel data read out are sub-sampled at a sample ratio of n:1 in a direction of each lateral line according to a quincunx method in a data transforming unit, two-dimensional write addresses of a receiver's memory are produced in a receiver-memory control unit, and pieces of sub-sampled pixel data are written in the receiver's memory. Accordingly, the pieces of pixel data can be sub-sampled and transferred at a high speed in a DMA transfer apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a digital video receiving apparatus for displaying a plurality of digital TV pictures on a plurality of receiving terminal apparatuses. The digital video receiving apparatus includes a tuner for extracting the received digital TV multiplexed signal, a demodulator for decoding the digital signals provided from the tuner, a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the multiplexed signals outputted from the demodulator to obtain a bit stream including a video signal, an audio signal and a data signal. The digital video receiving apparatus further includes a video decoder, an audio decoder and a data decoder for decoding signals outputted from the demultiplexer. The digital video receiving apparatus decodes the input multiplexed digital TV signal and outputs a video signal, an audio signal and a data signal corresponding to respective programs.

Abstract: A toner composition that permits printing of clear-cut and high image quality without developing a fog or a blur is provided.

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording is provided, in which the color bleed is reduced at adjoining portions of inks and the deposition of dye or the like in a color ink is not caused when a plurality of colors are recorded on regular paper. The ink set for ink-jet recording, which is composed of inks of a plurality of colors, comprises at least one first ink and at least one second ink having the following compositions respectively. The first ink contains at least one anionicity-added pigment. The second ink contains at least one anionic dye and at least one ethanolamine hydrochloride selected from the group consisting of monoethanolamine hydrochloride, diethanolamine hydrochloride, triethanolamine hydrochloride, and thioethanolamine hydrochloride.

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording comprises a first ink which contains glycerol and a first coloring agent, and a second ink which contains a water-soluble organic solvent incompatible with glycerol and a second coloring agent and which does not contain glycerol. The first ink and the second ink are mixed with each other at a low speed. Therefore, the inks permeate into the paper before the inks are mixed with each other. Thus, it is possible to avoid the color bleeding.

Abstract: A moving picture encoding system includes an encoding control unit for setting a target quantiser step size used to encode each of different types of pictures included in a unit group to be encoded, and for performing a control operation to generate and furnish a quantiser step size to an encoding unit so that a ratio among the target quantiser step sizes set for the different types of pictures is a predetermined one.