Abstract: A photothermographic material which comprises an image forming layer provided on at least one side of the face of a support, the image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a nonphotosensitive organic acid silver salt, a reducing agent, a polyhalogenated compound, and a binder, wherein an outermost layer which is the furthermost from the support is provided on the side of the face having the aforementioned image forming layer with respect to the support, and the outermost layer contains a binder, and wherein the binder in the outermost layer contains an aqueous dispersion of a polymer having at least one crosslinked structure.

Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising a support, an image-forming layer, a non-photosensitive intermediate layer A, and an outermost layer, wherein the image forming layer, the non-photosensitive intermediate layer A, and the outermost layer are disposed on the support in this order; the image-forming layer comprises a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a polyhalogen compound, and a binder; the non-photosensitive intermediate layer A comprises a binder in which a hydrophobic polymer constitutes 50% by mass or more of the binder; and the binder in the image-forming layer comprises a copolymer including a monomer represented by formula (M-1) CH2?CR01—CR02?CH2 as a copolymerization component, in formula (M-1), R01 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, or a cyano group; and R02 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, or a cyano group.

Abstract: The invention provides a photothermographic material having, at least on a surface of a substrate, an image forming layer including a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and adapted to be exposed with an X-ray intensifying screen, the material including a non-photosensitive intermediate layer A on a surface of the substrate at the side having the image forming layer and between an outermost layer farthest from the substrate and the image forming layer, wherein a binder of the non-photosensitive intermediate layer A includes a hydrophobic polymer by 50 mass % or more, or a photothermographic material in which the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content of 40 to 100 mol. %, and an image forming method for such photothermographic materials.

Abstract: A remote maintenance and diagnosis apparatus for making a diagnosis of a remote client appliance comprises a data acquisition unit that acquires data necessary to diagnose the client appliance, a diagnosing unit that make an automatic diagnosis of the client appliance based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit, and an automatic diagnosis result reporting unit that reports a result of the automatic diagnosis to the client appliance.

Abstract: A photothermographic material wherein at least an image-forming layer on at least one surface of a support, the image-forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, wherein, an outermost layer is provided as a layer most remote from the support on the side of the support where the image-forming layer is provided, a non-photosensitive intermediate layer A containing a binder and provided in adjacent with the image-forming layer and between the imag-forming layer and the outermost layer, wherein the binder of the non-photosensitive intermediate layer A contains 80% by mass or more of a polymer formed by copolymerizing a monomer represented by Formula (M), a non-photosensitive intermediate layer B containing a binder and provided between the non-photosensitive intermediate layer A and the outermost layer, and the binder of the non-photosensitive intermediate layer B contains 50% by mass or more of a hydrophilic polymer derived fr

Abstract: A silver alloy with color fastness includes silver as major component; and a small quantity of copper, zinc and nickel so that it can be prevented to oxidize, and it can use metal with easy procurement without special metal and manufacture a alloy with color fastness.

Abstract: A spectacle lens that can lower the slipperiness of a lens surface to an extent that allows an edging process by making without deteriorating the stain-proofing performance of the stain-proofing layer, when a stain-proofing layer is formed of two or more kinds of silane compounds including at least one or more kinds of fluorine-containing silane compounds, and as for the dynamic friction coefficient of lens surfaces defined by each of the two or more kinds of silane compounds as a single component, the highest value of the dynamic friction coefficients 1.4 times or more of the lowest value of the dynamic friction coefficients; and a manufacturing method thereof are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material having a support, at least one photosensitive layer containing a silver halide and a reducing agent and a non-photosensitive layer containing aggregates of a dye, wherein a transmission absorption spectrum of the aggregates has a maximum absorption wavelength within the range of 600-750 nm. The photothermographic material is easy to handle and provide an image having sufficient definition without residual color after development. The photothermographic material is suitable for light exposure with a red laser.

Abstract: An adhesive tape which is to be arranged between a lens and at least one of a plurality of chucks in an edge-machining apparatus comprises an adhesive face for being in contact with the lens. A measurement of an adhesive strength of the adhesive face is 4 gf (0.0392 N) or more when a polyethylene terephthalate plate which has been subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine-modified silicone parting agent is used as a test plate in an adhesive strength test method based on a 180°-peeling method as defined in JIS Z 0237 “adhesive tape/adhesive sheet test method”. A technique which can be used to edge the lens in which an antifouling layer is formed by using a fluorine-containing silane compound having an excellent antifouling effect is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material having a support, at least one photosensitive layer containing a silver halide and a reducing agent and a non-photosensitive layer containing aggregates of a dye, wherein a transmission absorption spectrum of the aggregates has a maximum absorption wavelength within the range of 600-750 nm. The photothermographic material is easy to handle and provide an image having sufficient definition without residual color after development. The photothermographic material is suitable for light exposure with a red laser.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ehat-developabel photosensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon an image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, wherein a binder of an outermost layer at a side of the support at which the image forming layer is provided includes a latex polymer such as an ionomer type urethane polymer latex in an amount of 85 mass % or more, preferably 90 mass % or more, and more preferably 95 mass % or more. The heat-developable photosensitive material may also have a layer adjacent to the outermost layer which layer contains a binder that gels due to temperature reduction or contains a binder containing a water-soluble polymer derived from animal protein in an amount of 50 mass % or more.

Abstract: An image compression apparatus includes a code size setting unit setting one or more code sizes, a compressing unit compressing an image that is divided into plural image quality levels in accordance with the code sizes, and a code generating unit generating code being dividable into each code size.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for generating data to be used for image processing, in which the image processing apparatus includes, a dividing unit dividing code data of a compressed image into a plurality of segments, a code size computing unit computing a code size corresponding to each of the plurality of segments, and a memory unit storing the corresponding relation between the code size and each of the plurality of segments.

Abstract: A heat-responsive-discoloring coloring composition, which is colored at a temperature lower than its discoloration initiation temperature (T) of 60° C. to 200° C.; which is substantially discolored at a temperature equal to or higher than the discoloration initiation temperature (T); and which does not recover its color once discolored, even when its temperature is lowered to a temperature lower than the discoloration initiation temperature (T) again, the heat-responsive-discoloring coloring composition comprising a polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 60° C. to 200° C.

Abstract: The thermally developable photosensitive material of the present invention has a support and including on at least one surface of the support a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for thermal development, a binder and a compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X represents a chalcogen atom; and Y represents an amino group, an N-alkylamino group, an N,N-dialkylamino group, an anilino group, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group or a sulfonamide group, and wherein when Y represents an alkoxy group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, an acylamino group or a sulfonamide group, Y and R1 may be bonded to each other to form a 5- to 7-membered ring.

Abstract: A photothermographic material contains a support having thereon an image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, and a non-photosensitive outermost layer on a side of the support where the image forming layer is provided, The photosensitive silver halide contains silver iodide in an amount of from 40 to 100% by mole, and a binder contained in the outermost layer contains at least one of a latex polymer and a water soluble polymer that is not derived from an animal protein in an amount of 50% by mass or more.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, first code data including multiple sets of code data in which image data of multiple static images are compressed and encoded, are synthesized. The first code data are converted into second code data that are compressed and encoded to be a single code data sequence where a motion image aligns the static images in chronological order as consecutive frames. In addition, the second code data may be converted into the first code data.

Abstract: A code stream generating part converts image data into two-dimensional wavelet coefficients, quantizes the same and coding the quantization result so as to compress the image data and generate a code stream. An additional information creating part creates additional information concerning the image data, and an additional information embedding part embeds the thus-created additional information into the code stream as a code in an off-rule zone which is not decoded by a JPEG 2000 standard rule.

Abstract: An image sending apparatus is provided, in which the image sending apparatus comprises an analyzing syntax of code sequence data, a generation unit generating another code sequence data from the code sequence data by using the analysis result, a unit to measure the load of the generation unit; a unit to generate a parameter corresponding to the load, wherein the generation unit generates the another code sequence data by using the parameter such that the data amount of the another code sequence data to be sent is adjusted according to the load.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, using distortion amount information showing how much a decoded image is degraded from an original image when data are eliminated from the data sequence is read from a code sequence in which the original image is compressed and encoded, an occurrence of an error in each unit of the code sequence is detected. A distortion amount of the decoded image against the original image is calculated when the code sequence is decoded after the data are eliminated from the code sequence by using the distortion amount information concerning the data in which the error is detected. Then, the decoding of the code sequence is cancelled based on a calculation result.