Abstract: When tone correction is performed by forming a tone patch and measuring density thereof, a contrast processing method used for Bk toner is applied to color toner patches (Y, M and C) to obtain relative density free from any influence of a background. More specifically, density of a predetermined standard gray chart is first measured by a density sensor, the measured value of the gray chart is then substituted into an equation expressing Bk toner density, and a constant of the density sensor is obtained by the least square method. By applying the obtained constant of the density sensor to an equation expressing color toner density, relative density of color toners to background density is obtained in a manner similar to that for the Bk toner.

Abstract: A capacitor that is adapted for construction over a substrate in the metal interconnect layers provided by conventional integrated circuit processes. The capacitor includes a first conducting layer separated from the substrate by a first dielectric layer and a second conducting layer separated from the first conduction layer by a second dielectric layer. The second conducting layer is divided into a plurality of electrically isolated conductors in an ordered array. Every other one of the conductors is connected to a first terminal, and the remaining conductors are connected to a second terminal. The first conducting layer includes at least one conductor which is connected to the first terminal. In one embodiment of the invention, the first conducting layer also includes a plurality of electrically isolated conductors in an ordered array, every other one of the conductors being connected to the first terminal and the remaining conductors being connected the second terminal.

Abstract: An automatic photographic processor apparatus automatically produces a strip of photographic prints, e.g. identification photos or self-portraits, in a short period of time with cutline markings.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent deterioration of measurement accuracy due to a substrate density change, by forming a density measurement image used for density measurement in a non-printing region of which substrate density change is smaller than that of a printing region. In order to achieve this object, there is provided, in an image formation apparatus for forming an image on an image support body in an electrophotographic system, an image processing apparatus. The apparatus forms the density measurement image in the non-printing region on the image support body, measures the density measurement image and controls an image formation condition of the image formation apparatus on the basis of a measurement of the density measurement image.

Abstract: A mechanism for capturing an image of an object client includes a camera having an optical axis extending in a direction toward the object client. A half mirror is mounted across and at an angle to the optical axis of the camera. A monitor displays an image taken by the camera. The monitor has an optical axis extending perpendicular to the optical axis of the camera and is reflected by the half mirror toward the object client. The camera is located at a position such that the optical axis thereof is offset from and not coincident with the optical axis of the monitor reflected from the half mirror.

Abstract: An automatic photographic processor apparatus automatically produce a set of photographic prints, e.g. identification photos or self-portraits, in a short period of time when a human object or client takes an image of himself or herself.

Abstract: The card producing apparatus which records magnetic data or printed data on many cards, which washes the cards and records predetermined data on predetermined areas of the cards so that there will not develop erroneous recording, and which rejects cards in case erroneous recording developed, all automatically. The card producing apparatus characterized by the structure comprising a feeder that takes out a predetermined number of accommdated cards every time, magnetic data recording means for recording magnetic data on cards, a cleaner for washing the surfaces of cards, a printer for printing data on the surfaces of cards, a stacker for accommodating cards on which data are recorded, card carrier devices in the apparatus, and a controller for controlling them.