Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device are provided with: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors from above; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box bodies and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device lifting and lowering the lower conveyors and the pressing device.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device include: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; upper conveyors disposed so as to face the lower conveyors from above and supporting upper portions of the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the cutting knife and the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors along an up-down direction.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device includes lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; an upstream side positioning member and a downstream side positioning member movable along a transport direction and a thickness direction of each connected cardboard box body in upstream and downstream portions of the lower conveyors; a positioning drive device capable of independently moving the upstream side positioning member and the downstream side positioning member; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies and the cutting knife along an up-down direction.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device includes lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting blade disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors and the cutting blade along an up-down direction; and a control device controlling the pressing device based on a lifting/lowering height of a loading upper conveyor at a time when a pressing reaction force at a time when the loading upper conveyor presses the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies reaches a preset reference pressing reaction force.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device include: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; upper conveyors disposed so as to face the lower conveyors from above and supporting upper portions of the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the cutting knife and the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors along an up-down direction.

Abstract: An obstacle detection device (10) is provided with a distance measurement sensor (11) which measures a detection distance to an object to be detected, a detection image generation unit (30a) which generates a detection image indicating a presence of the object to be detected in a detection range, based on a result of measurement by the distance measurement sensor (11), a rainfall determination unit (30b) which performs a rainfall determination of whether or not a region in the detection range is in a rainfall state, a rain removal processing unit (30c) which executes a rain removal process for removing the isolated points from the detection image, and an obstacle determination unit (30d) which performs an obstacle determination of whether or not the object to be detected is an obstacle.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device includes lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting blade disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors and the cutting blade along an up-down direction; and a control device controlling the pressing device based on a lifting/lowering height of a loading upper conveyor at a time when a pressing reaction force at a time when the loading upper conveyor presses the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies reaches a preset reference pressing reaction force.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device are provided with: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors from above; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box bodies and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device lifting and lowering the lower conveyors and the pressing device.

Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device includes lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; an upstream side positioning member and a downstream side positioning member movable along a transport direction and a thickness direction of each connected cardboard box body in upstream and downstream portions of the lower conveyors; a positioning drive device capable of independently moving the upstream side positioning member and the downstream side positioning member; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies and the cutting knife along an up-down direction.

Abstract: An obstacle detection device (10) is provided with a distance measurement sensor (11) which measures a detection distance to an object to be detected, a detection image generation unit (30a) which generates a detection image indicating a presence of the object to be detected in a detection range, based on a result of measurement by the distance measurement sensor (11), a rainfall determination unit (30b) which performs a rainfall determination of whether or not a region in the detection range is in a rainfall state, a rain removal processing unit (30c) which executes a rain removal process for removing the isolated points from the detection image, and an obstacle determination unit (30d) which performs an obstacle determination of whether or not the object to be detected is an obstacle.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a compression processing section that compresses image data obtained by reading a plurality of documents into a file, a specifying section that specifies an amount of information for an image of each of the plurality of documents, and a compression size calculation section that calculates a size after compression of an image of each document in accordance with the specified amount of information. The compression processing section compresses the image by using the size after compression calculated by the compression size calculation section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a watermark adding section for adding a watermark for copy control to an image, where the watermark includes a dot pattern which becomes visible when copy, and a pattern adding section for adding a predetermined pattern to an appropriate position of an image, wherein the watermark adding section includes a watermark generating section for generating a watermark for copy control, where the watermark includes a dot pattern which becomes invisible when copy, a determining section for determining whether or not the pattern adding section adds the predetermined pattern to the image, when the generated watermark is added to the image, and a region setting section for setting a region where the predetermined pattern is to be appeared at a different portion where the dot pattern is added, when the determining section determines that the predetermined pattern is to be added to the image.

Abstract: In a printing system configured such that a computer and an image forming apparatus can be connected via a network, the computer sets a stamp image and transmits the set stamp image to the image forming apparatus via the network. The image forming apparatus includes a reading device that reads an original image, an image combining unit that reads out at least one stamp image from a storage unit, combines the stamp image with the original image read by the reading device, and forms a composite image, and a printing unit that prints the composite image on recording paper.

Abstract: In a printing system configured such that a computer and an image forming apparatus can be connected via a network, the computer sets a stamp image and transmits the set stamp image to the image forming apparatus via the network. The image forming apparatus includes a reading device that reads an original image, an image combining unit that reads out at least one stamp image from a storage unit, combines the stamp image with the original image read by the reading device, and forms a composite image, and a printing unit that prints the composite image on recording paper.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a line noise detection section for detecting line noise pixels included in input image data; a segmentation process section for determining a pixel in a text region; and a line noise removal process section for (i) determining a replacement-target line noise pixel by excepting, from the line noise pixels, the pixel in the text region and a pixel within a first distance from the pixel in the text region and (ii) replacing the replacement-target line noise pixel with another pixel other than the line noise pixels, which another pixel is included in the input image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (3) includes: a detection processing section which detects, for each page of an original document with a plurality of pages, the feature of image data of each page; a detection result calculation section (51) which (i) accumulates the feature detected and (ii) calculates a frequency of the feature of the original document; and a setting section (52) which sets a common feature, as the feature, to the image data of the plurality of pages of the original document in accordance with the frequency.

Abstract: In a printing system configured such that a computer and an image forming apparatus can be connected via a network, the computer sets a stamp image and transmits the set stamp image to the image forming apparatus via the network. The image forming apparatus includes a reading device that reads an original image, an image combining unit that reads out at least one stamp image from a storage unit, combines the stamp image with the original image read by the reading device, and forms a composite image, and a printing unit that prints the composite image on recording paper.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section for forming a test image including a plurality of patterns in which at least one pattern is more easily affected by a variation factor for density than another pattern, an accepting section for accepting an amount of adjustment for density, and an adjusting section for adjusting density of an image to be formed by the image forming section based on the amount of adjustment for density accepted by the accepting section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a compression processing section that compresses image data obtained by reading a plurality of documents into a file, a specifying section that specifies an amount of information for an image of each of the plurality of documents, and a compression size calculation section that calculates a size after compression of an image of each document in accordance with the specified amount of information. The compression processing section compresses the image by using the size after compression calculated by the compression size calculation section.

Abstract: Original image data obtained by reading an original is joined with watermark data associated with a watermark for copy control, which appears as a result of making a copy. The watermark generating section sets the spatial frequency of a chromatic halftone pattern of a foreground, which appears as a result of making a copy, lower than the spatial frequency of an achromatic halftone pattern of a foreground, which appears as a result of making a copy. Accordingly, it becomes more difficult to recognize a foreground in an original document when the foreground is generated using an achromatic color, while a foreground in the duplication is recognized clearly when the foreground is generated using a chromatic color.