Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.

Abstract: When three warnings (a brake abnormality, a charging abnormality and an oil pressure reduction) occur in a vehicle, a brake abnormality icon, a charging abnormality icon and an oil pressure reduction icon are displayed in an icon displaying region of a display. On the other hand, brake abnormality warning information, charging abnormality warning information and oil pressure reduction warning information are displayed, in an information displaying region, in a switching manner every fixed time period.

Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a circuit control device including switches of which first ends are connected to pressure generating elements; a voltage waveform generating device configured to generate a voltage waveform to be supplied to second ends of the switches; and a switch control device which causes the switches to close and open. The voltage waveform has a waveform such that, when the switch is caused to close and open so that a portion of the voltage waveform is applied to the pressure generating element, a droplet is ejected from a nozzle corresponding to the pressure generating element to which the portion of the voltage waveform has been applied, whereas when a whole of the voltage waveform is applied to the pressure generating element, no droplet is substantially ejected from the nozzle corresponding to the pressure generating element to which the whole of the voltage waveform has been applied.

Abstract: A method for causing fluid to be ejected from a fluid chamber of a jet in a printhead. An actuator is actuated with a first energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward a nozzle. Following a lapse of a first interval, the actuator is actuated with second energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward the nozzle. Following a lapse of a second interval as measured from the second energy imparting pulse, the actuator is actuated with a break-off pulse to cause fluid extending out of an orifice of the nozzle to break off from fluid within the nozzle, wherein the second lapse is longer than the first lapse and is an inverse of the meniscus-jet mass frequency.

Abstract: A method for causing fluid to be ejected from a fluid chamber of a jet in a printhead. An actuator is actuated with a first energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward a nozzle. Following a lapse of a first interval, the actuator is actuated with second energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward the nozzle. Following a lapse of a second interval as measured from the second energy imparting pulse, the actuator is actuated with a break-off pulse to cause fluid extending out of an orifice of the nozzle to break off from fluid within the nozzle, wherein the second lapse is longer than the first lapse and is an inverse of the meniscus-jet mass frequency.

Abstract: An encoder includes a separation unit separating image data into a plurality of data blocks, a variable length encoding unit variable-length-encoding the data blocks separated by the separation unit so as to generate variable length code sequences, a code block generating unit generating code blocks variable-length-decoded in parallel from a start end and a termination end by combining two variable length code sequences generated by the variable length encoding unit, and a bit stream generating unit generating a bit stream such that a boundary between the code blocks is recognized.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a circuit control device including switches of which first ends are connected to pressure generating elements; a voltage waveform generating device configured to generate a voltage waveform to be supplied to second ends of the switches; and a switch control device which causes the switches to close and open. The voltage waveform has a waveform such that, when the switch is caused to close and open so that a portion of the voltage waveform is applied to the pressure generating element, a droplet is ejected from a nozzle corresponding to the pressure generating element to which the portion of the voltage waveform has been applied, whereas when a whole of the voltage waveform is applied to the pressure generating element, no droplet is substantially ejected from the nozzle corresponding to the pressure generating element to which the whole of the voltage waveform has been applied.

Abstract: A method for causing fluid to be ejected from a fluid chamber of a jet in a printhead. An actuator is actuated with a first energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward a nozzle. Following a lapse of a first interval, the actuator is actuated with second energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward the nozzle. Following a lapse of a second interval as measured from the second energy imparting pulse, the actuator is actuated with a break-off pulse to cause fluid extending out of an orifice of the nozzle to break off from fluid within the nozzle, wherein the second lapse is longer than the first lapse and is an inverse of the meniscus-jet mass frequency.

Abstract: A liquid droplet ejecting head that drives pressure generating portions disposed in pressure chambers inside ejectors to thereby pressurize liquid inside the pressure chambers and cause liquid droplets to be ejected from nozzles communicated with the pressure chambers, wherein the ejectors are connected at a plurality of places via a plurality of communicating paths to common flow paths in which forcible liquid flows are formed, is provided.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid; a plurality of pressure chambers connected respectively to the plurality of nozzles; a common flow channel which is provided to be shared by the plurality of pressure chambers and has a plurality of supply flow channel connection ports and a plurality of circulation flow channel ports; a plurality of supply flow channels through which the liquid flows from the common flow channel to the plurality of pressure chambers via the plurality of supply flow channel connection ports; and a plurality of circulation flow channels through which the liquid flow from the plurality of pressure chambers to the common flow channel via the plurality of circulation flow channel ports, wherein the plurality of supply flow channel connection ports and the plurality of circulation flow channel ports are arranged so that a pressure differential of the liquid between the supply flow channel connection port and the circulation flow channel port which are conn

Abstract: A method for causing fluid to be ejected from a fluid chamber of a jet in a printhead. An actuator is actuated with a first energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward a nozzle. Following a lapse of a first interval, the actuator is actuated with second energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward the nozzle. Following a lapse of a second interval as measured from the second energy imparting pulse, the actuator is actuated with a break-off pulse to cause fluid extending out of an orifice of the nozzle to break off from fluid within the nozzle, wherein the second lapse is longer than the first lapse and is an inverse of the meniscus-jet mass frequency.

Abstract: An encoder includes a separation unit separating image data into a plurality of data blocks, a variable length encoding unit variable-length-encoding the data blocks separated by the separation unit so as to generate variable length code sequences, a code block generating unit generating code blocks variable-length-decoded in parallel from a start end and a termination end by combining two variable length code sequences generated by the variable length encoding unit, and a bit stream generating unit generating a bit stream such that a boundary between the code blocks is recognized.

Abstract: In a droplet ejecting system, after an ink droplet is ejected a reverberation pressure change is amplified to obtain an appropriate amount of reverberation pressure change, and the ink droplet is reliably separated from a meniscus when ejecting the ink droplet. To this end, voltage including an ejecting pulse for ejecting the ink droplet is applied to a piezoactuator to generate a pressure change in a pressure chamber, and voltage including a reverberation amplifying pulse is applied to the piezoactuator to amplify the pressure change in the pressure chamber in the next cycle subsequent to the cycle of the pressure change generated by the ejecting pulse.

Abstract: There is provided a grasp member joined to the top portion of an image pickup apparatus body including a lens barrel unit at the front end and a display unit at the rear end through leg portions. Here, the front one of the leg portions is joined to the image pickup apparatus body at an offset position to the left from an optical axis of light incident on the lens barrel unit.

Abstract: There is provided a filter device having: a supply path into which liquid flows; a first liquid chamber communicating with the supply path; a second liquid chamber communicating with the first liquid chamber; a first discharge path which communicates with the second liquid chamber, and from which liquid is discharged; and a filter provided between the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber. An intermediate portion of the first discharge path between an entrance and an exit of the first discharge path is higher than the entrance and the exit, and the entrance of the first discharge path opens in a vicinity of a floor portion of the second liquid chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a driving method of a liquid drop ejecting head in which an oscillatory wave is imparted to a liquid accommodated in a pressure chamber using an electromechanical transducer, which is driven by applying a predetermined driving waveform to the electromechanical transducer, thereby discharging a liquid drop from a nozzle to record an image. The driving method comprising: detecting an environmental temperature, and expanding and/or contracting the driving waveform to be applied to the electromechanical transducer, in a voltage axial direction and a time axial direction, in accordance with the detected environmental temperature, and applying the resulting driving waveform to the electromechanical transducer. Also disclosed is adjusting the waveform of a reverberation adjustor portion of the driving waveform, which adjusts a residual oscillation of the liquid, in accordance with the detected environmental temperature.

Abstract: A droplet ejection head driving method applies a driving voltage waveform to pressure-generating means, thus pressurizing a liquid in a pressure chamber and causing a droplet to be ejected. The driving voltage waveform includes a first voltage change process, which expands the pressure chamber, and a second voltage change process, after the first voltage change process, which shrinks the pressure chamber. A time interval between the first voltage change process and the second voltage change process is not more than ? of a resonance period Tm of a meniscus oscillation (a refill oscillation), which is governed by surface tension of the liquid at a nozzle portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid; a plurality of pressure chambers connected respectively to the plurality of nozzles; a common flow channel which is provided to be shared by the plurality of pressure chambers and has a plurality of supply flow channel connection ports and a plurality of circulation flow channel ports; a plurality of supply flow channels through which the liquid flows from the common flow channel to the plurality of pressure chambers via the plurality of supply flow channel connection ports; and a plurality of circulation flow channels through which the liquid flow from the plurality of pressure chambers to the common flow channel via the plurality of circulation flow channel ports, wherein the plurality of supply flow channel connection ports and the plurality of circulation flow channel ports are arranged so that a pressure differential of the liquid between the supply flow channel connection port and the circulation flow channel port which are conn

Abstract: A liquid droplet ejecting head that drives pressure generating portions disposed in pressure chambers inside ejectors to thereby pressurize liquid inside the pressure chambers and cause liquid droplets to be ejected from nozzles communicated with the pressure chambers, wherein the ejectors are connected at a plurality of places via a plurality of communicating paths to common flow paths in which forcible liquid flows are formed, is provided.