Abstract: A fault diagnosis section activates a driving compornent alone, measures an operation state signal and a paper passage time, and stores feature values (Vm, ?v, Tqs, ?ts) extracted as a determination reference in a storage medium. A paper passage fault determination section determines whether or not a fault has arisen on the basis of the paper passage time when an apparatus is under normal operating conditions. A diagnosis target block determination section determines an order to operate a detail fault diagnosis when it is determined that there is a plurality of diagnosis target blocks.

Abstract: An image inspection device to automate and simplify inspection of an output image. A paper discharge tray of a printer is a different color from paper. A CCD camera is disposed above a paper discharge portion of the printer, at which paper is discharged, and can capture the whole upper face of the paper discharge tray. When, directly after a state in which there is no paper on the paper discharge tray, a print job is received and a first print-processed sheet is outputted to the paper discharge tray, a CPU controls the CCD camera to capture the paper discharge tray in this state. Captured image data including the paper is acquired, corrections are applied to the captured image data and to original image data by image processing, and image characteristics thereof are made substantially the same. Thereafter, the outputted image is inspected by comparison of the two data sets.

Abstract: A transfer device for transferring an object to be transferred in a predetermined direction has a drive mechanism unit, a transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit, a skew direction displacement information acquiring unit, and a transfer processing unit. The drive mechanism unit also has roll parts which cause the object to be transferred to move in the direction with a rotational force. The transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit and the skew direction displacement information acquiring unit radiate a predetermined measuring wave toward the object, so that the units acquire the displacement information in each of the directions. Based on the displacement information, the transfer processing unit performs a predetermined processing.

Abstract: All threshold data applied to processing is read into a register so that threshold data read from threshold matrix memory can be recycled until the end of a scanning line for processing, and is selectively output to a plurality of comparison means for executing parallel comparison processing. The threshold data set in the register is shifted in order for repetitive use. The threshold data of the next scanning line is read into the register during the comparison processing, and upon completion of processing of one scanning line, comparison processing on the next scanning line is executed as pipeline processing. Threshold data read from the memory needs to be executed only once for each scanning line for processing, and threshold data can also be read during halftone data generation of the preceding line.

Abstract: A fault diagnosis section activates a driving compornent alone, measures an operation state signal and a paper passage time, and stores feature values (Vm, ?v, Tqs, ?ts) extracted as a determination reference in a storage medium. A paper passage fault determination section determines whether or not a fault has arisen on the basis of the paper passage time when an apparatus is under normal operating conditions. A diagnosis target block determination section determines an order to operate a detail fault diagnosis when it is determined that there is a plurality of diagnosis target blocks.

Abstract: A transfer device for transferring an object to be transferred in a predetermined direction has a drive mechanism unit, a transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit, a skew direction displacement information acquiring unit, and a transfer processing unit. The drive mechanism unit also has roll parts which cause the object to be transferred to move in the direction with a rotational force. The transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit and the skew direction displacement information acquiring unit radiate a predetermined measuring wave toward the object, so that the units acquire the displacement information in each of the directions. Based on the displacement information, the transfer processing unit performs a predetermined processing.

Abstract: A circuit board inspection device for inspecting the operation of a circuit board having a predetermined part or wire formed therein includes a supporting substrate disposed substantially in parallel with the parts mounting surface of the circuit board, and a signal change detection unit made of a coil or a capacitor disposed in a position of the supporting substrate corresponding to the part or wire of the circuit board, with the supporting substrate being disposed substantially in parallel with the circuit board.

Abstract: An image defect inspecting apparatus of the present invention includes a template image producing section for producing a template image from reference image data, a corresponding image extracting section for extracting a predetermined image located at a position corresponding to a template image from digital data of a scanned image for inspection, data embedding sections for embedding desired same pattern data into the template image and the image extracted by the corresponding image extracting section, a normalized correlation value calculation processing unit for acquiring a normalized correlation coefficient from the template image and the extracted image, into which the pattern data is embedded, and a defect judging section for judging as to whether a defect is present by comparing the normalized correlation coefficient acquired by the normalized correlation value calculation processing unit with a predetermined threshold value so as to acquire a large/small relationship thereof.

Abstract: An image inspection device to automate and simplify inspection of an output image. A paper discharge tray of a printer is a different color from paper. A CCD camera is disposed above a paper discharge portion of the printer, at which paper is discharged, and can capture the whole upper face of the paper discharge tray. When, directly after a state in which there is no paper on the paper discharge tray, a print job is received and a first print-processed sheet is outputted to the paper discharge tray, a CPU controls the CCD camera to capture the paper discharge tray in this state. Captured image data including the paper is acquired, corrections are applied to the captured image data and to original image data by image processing, and image characteristics thereof are made substantially the same. Thereafter, the outputted image is inspected by comparison of the two data sets.

Abstract: A print processor is disclosed which comprises: an input unit for inputting print data including at least either texts or graphics and described in predetermined drawing instructions; an image output unit for outputting images based on data having a predetermined data structure; an intermediate data generating unit for generating intermediate data from the print data, the intermediate data being expressed in a format which is higher in abstract terms than the data structure and which includes at least one basic graphic; an rasterizing process unit for rasterizing the intermediate data into the data structure and for supplying the image output unit with the intermediate data thus rasterized; a determining unit for determining a number and a size of the basic graphics constituting the intermediate data generated by the intermediate data generating unit; an rasterizing time predicting unit for predicting the time it takes the rasterizing process unit to rasterize the intermediate data on the basis of the number

Abstract: An image reader device comprises photo sensing element arrays each of a plural number of blocks each consisting of a plural bits of photo sensing elements, a plural number of first switching elements, connected to the photo sensing elements, for transferring en bloc the charge of all bits generated in the photo sensing element array, a plural number of second switching elements, connected to the photo sensing elements, for resetting en bloc the charge of all bits left in the photo sensing elements after the charge transfer, a plural number of capacitor portions, connected to the first switching elements, for retaining the transferred charge, a plural number of third switching elements, connected to the first switching elements, for transferring the charge stored in the capacitor portions, a plural number of wiring capacitor portions, formed connecting to the third switching elements, for retaining the charge transferred by the third switching elements, common signal lines for connecting the third switching el