Abstract: When text is taken in with a scanner, the reflection of the light from a sheet of paper, etc. causes a tinge on the sheet of paper. The tinge around each letter is printed as minute dots, and the outlines of printed letters are blurred and the clearness or distinctness of the letters are decreased. When printing text taken in through a scanner unit 30, by reducing (or reducing to zero) the ratios of occurrence of small dots in a gradient range “n” or “m” of the data for printing (CMYK signals) generated from image data (RGB signals), or converting such ratios of occurrence of small dots into the ratios of occurrence of large dots based on the weight ratio, the blur of each letter that may be caused by the small dots can be reduced, and the clearness and distinctness of each letter can be improved.

Abstract: A multi core system for allocating a task generated from a control system program to an appropriate CPU core and executing the task includes a trial-execution instructing part configured to cause a second CPU core to trial-execute a task which a first CPU core executes before the multi core system transfers the task from the first CPU core to the second CPU core and causes the second CPU core to execute the task, a determining part configured to determine whether an execution result by the first CPU core matches an execution result by the second CPU core, and an allocation fixing part configured to fix the second CPU core as the appropriate CPU core to which the task is allocated if the determining part determines that the execution result by the first CPU core matches the execution result by the second CPU core.

Abstract: In the process of control of an image scanning device that creates image data by scanning an image from a recording medium on which the image is recorded, the image scanning device is controlled to acquire first image data by scanning the image at a first scanning resolution; image type is judged on the basis of this first image data; and in the process of controlling the image scanning device to scan the image at a second scanning resolution, second image data is acquired under image acquisition conditions dependent on the image type indicated by the judgment result in the image judgment step.

Abstract: An original color image is read to generate color image data. The color image data is converted into coordinate data including values associated with a first coordinate value and a second coordinate value in a color space. The first coordinate value is indicative of brightness. It is acquired correction data including values corresponding to the second coordinate value which are determined in accordance with the values included in the coordinate data and associated with the first coordinate value. The coordinate data is corrected with the correction data. A color image is printed with the corrected coordinate data, thereby obtaining a copied image of the original color image.

Abstract: When making judgments of image type, image data is input, and a judgment is made as to whether the type of image indicated by the image data is a first type; for image data judged as being of the first type, a judgment is made as to whether the image is of a second type. For image data not judged as being of the first type, a judgment is made as to whether the image is of a second type.

Abstract: An ECU performs stop control for operating an engine for a prescribed time after an ignition switch is turned off. During performance of the stop control of the engine, the ECU prohibits an update of an accelerator press-down degree signal and controls an opening degree of a throttle valve such that, the opening degree of the throttle valve becomes constant regardless of an amount of pressing-down of an accelerator pedal, in order to prevent a variation in an output of the engine due to an operation of the accelerator pedal.

Abstract: A coil driving a contact of an ignition and injection relay is connected to a connection line of a main relay and an ECU. When an ignition switch is turned off, the ECU drives an ignition device and an injection device for a prescribed period thereafter. Then, the ECU turns off a main relay to perform self-shutting-off, and the ignition and injection relay is turned off interlocked with an operation of the main relay being turned off.

Abstract: An original color image is read to generate color image data. The color image data is converted into coordinate data including values associated with a first coordinate value and a second coordinate value in a color space. The first coordinate value is indicative of brightness. It is acquired correction data including values corresponding to the second coordinate value which are determined in accordance with the values included in the coordinate data and associated with the first coordinate value. The coordinate data is corrected with the correction data. A color image is printed with the corrected coordinate data, thereby obtaining a copied image of the original color image.

Abstract: There are provided an aqueous shellac coating agent comprising shellac, a basic amino acid and/or a basic phosphate as well as a production process therefor; a coated food and a coated drug that have been coated with such a coating agent; a glazing composition for oil-based confectionary which is in a liquid form and comprises an aqueous shellac solution (A) containing shellac, a basic amino acid and/or a basic based confectionary in which this glazing composition is applied, to oil-based confectionary to be glazed, thereby generating a glaze; and glazed oil-based confectionary produced using this process for glazing oil-based confectionary.

Abstract: An ECU performs stop control for operating an engine for a prescribed time after an ignition switch is turned off. During performance of the stop control of the engine, the ECU prohibits an update of an accelerator press-down degree signal and controls an opening degree of a throttle valve such that, the opening degree of the throttle valve becomes constant regardless of an amount of pressing-down of an accelerator pedal, in order to prevent a variation in an output of the engine due to an operation of the accelerator pedal.

Abstract: A coil driving a contact of an ignition and injection relay is connected to a connection line of a main relay and an ECU. When an ignition switch is turned off, the ECU drives an ignition device and an injection device for a prescribed period thereafter. Then, the ECU turns off a main relay to perform self-shutting-off, and the ignition and injection relay is turned off interlocked with an operation of the main relay being turned off.

Abstract: There are provided an aqueous-shellac coating agent comprising shellac, a basic amino acid and/or a basic phosphate, as well as a production process therefor; a coated food and a coated drug that have been coated with such a coating agent; a glazing.

Abstract: When making judgments of image type, image data is input, and a judgment is made as to whether the type of image indicated by the image data is a first type; for image data judged as being of the first type, a judgment is made as to whether the image is of a second type. For image data not judged as being of the first type, a judgment is made as to whether the image is of a second type.

Abstract: In the process of control of an image scanning device that creates image data by scanning an image from a recording medium on which the image is recorded, the image scanning device is controlled to acquire first image data by scanning the image at a first scanning resolution; image type is judged on the basis of this first image data; and in the process of controlling the image scanning device to scan the image at a second scanning resolution, second image data is acquired under image acquisition conditions dependent on the image type indicated by the judgment result in the image judgment step.

Abstract: The high proof bending stress structure member of the present invention includes a thin wall frame structure member, a solidified granular material comprising a first granular material each of which is charged closely inside the thin wall frame structure member, such that one of the first granular material is in contact with another first granular material adjacent thereto, and a thermoplastic resin foam which fills the gap between each of the first granular material and which is welded to the surface of the first granular material whereby connecting the first granular material to each other, and the inner wall of the thin wall frame structure member with the first granular material.

Abstract: A color conversion method for converting color in a first color system representing color of input image data to color in a second color system representing amounts of a plurality of inks used for printing is provided. The method comprises the steps of: providing a color conversion lookup table for use in converting color component values of the first color system to color component values of the second color system; and executing color conversion to generate an output value consisting of color component values of the second color system from an input value consisting of color component values of the first color system by referencing the color conversion lookup table, wherein a same output value is generated from different input values representing different colors in predetermined color range of color in the first color system.

Abstract: When text is taken in with a scanner, the reflection of the light from a sheet of paper, etc. causes a tinge on the sheet of paper. The tinge around each letter is printed as minute dots, and the outlines of printed letters are blurred and the clearness or distinctness of the letters are decreased. When printing text taken in through a scanner unit 30, by reducing (or reducing to zero) the ratios of occurrence of small dots in a gradient range “n” or “m” of the data for printing (CMYK signals) generated from image data (RGB signals), or converting such ratios of occurrence of small dots into the ratios of occurrence of large dots based on the weight ratio, the blur of each letter that may be caused by the small dots can be reduced, and the clearness and distinctness of each letter can be improved.

Abstract: A resin particle of a first embodiment in accordance with the present invention contains a resin and coil-shaped carbon fiber. Content of the coil-shaped carbon fiber in the resin particle is 15 wt % or less. A resin particle of a second embodiment in accordance with the present invention contains a resin, coil-shaped carbon fiber and a foaming agent. Content of the coil-shaped carbon fiber in this resin particle is 15 wt % or less. The resin particles of both the first and second embodiments can be used for the purpose of absorbing electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: To provide a data processing apparatus that allows the occurrence of a gate disturb effect to be reduced and the reliability of data processing using the internal flash memory to be improved. A loop process section of a program stored in flash memory is held in a storage area in SRAM that corresponds to a range from an address specified by the SRAM start address storage to a value specified by a SRAM size storage, thereby the section is read only from the SRAM when the loop process is performed the subsequent times. Thus, if the program is looped, the flash memory is not accessed and therefore the frequency of normal reads from the flash memory decreases to minimize the occurrence of the gate disturb effect, allowing the flash memory to hold data that is stable for an extended period of time.

Abstract: A lookup table used for converting RGB signals to CMYK signals is formed so that all the CMYK signals are converted to black (K)-100% when each of RGB is in a predetermined range from a value indicating the deepest color state, and also converted to 0% (white) when each of RGB is in a predetermined range from a value indicating the lightest color state. With this setting, when a read-out original is printed in the printer having a scanning function, a black character portion can be printed with clear black while removing the background.