Abstract: A fixing device includes: a non-contact heating unit configured to heat a recording medium in a non-contact manner; and a contact heating unit configured to press and heat the recording medium on a downstream side of the non-contact heating unit in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, in which the non-contact heating unit controls an amount of heat applied to the recording medium according to information on whether the recording medium is black or not, and a thickness of the recording medium, and the contact heating unit controls the pressure applied to the recording medium according to the thickness regardless of whether the recording medium is black or not.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a non-contact heating unit configured to heat a recording medium being transported on a transport path in a non-contact manner; a facing member that is disposed along the transport path at a position facing the non-contact heating unit and that is configured to move with respect to the recording medium; and a tension unit configured to tension a facing member in a direction along the transport path.

Abstract: A transportation device includes a first transporter, a second transporter movable between a contact position and a separate position toward and away from the first transporter to hold a to-be-transported object between the second transporter and the first transporter in the contact position, and a transportation unit that transports the to-be-transported object to a nip area where the first transporter and the second transporter hold the to-be-transported object therebetween while the second transporter is located in the separate position. The second transporter moves from the separate position to the contact position to hold the to-be-transported object transported to the nip area by the transportation unit between the second transporter and the first transporter to transport the to-be-transported object.

Abstract: A heating device includes: a heating unit configured to heat a transported material being transported in a transport direction in a non-contact manner with respect to the transported material; and a facing portion that is disposed on a side opposite to the heating unit with respect to the transported material and faces the heating unit in a facing direction intersecting the transport direction, wherein a length of the heating unit in the transport direction is longer than a length of the facing portion in the transport direction, or a length of the heating unit in an intersecting direction intersecting the transport direction and the facing direction is longer than a length of the facing portion in the intersecting direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that faces an image holding unit and is configured to come into contact with and separate from the image holding unit with a continuous form paper continuous in a transport direction interposed between the transfer unit and the image holding unit and to transfer an image held by the image holding unit onto the continuous form paper; a displacement unit that displaces the continuous form paper to a position closer to the image holding unit when the transfer unit separates from the image holding unit; and a contact portion that contacts the continuous form paper from a downstream side in a displacement direction before the continuous form paper displaced by the displacement unit contacts the image holding unit.

Abstract: A similarity calculation unit (213) treats each of a plurality of classifications as a target classification, and calculates a similarity between a reference feature value, which is a feature value extracted from image data of the target classification, and a recognition feature value, which is a feature value extracted from recognition target data, which is image data to be recognized. An influence calculation unit (214) calculates an influence on the similarity with regard to each partial image of the recognition target data by taking as input the similarity with regard to each of the classifications and the recognition feature value. A feature identification unit (215) changes the recognition feature value in accordance with the influence.

Abstract: A projector apparatus includes a projection unit that projects an image on a projection target, a distance-measuring unit that measures a distance from an emitting end of the projection unit to the projection target, and a control unit that sets a luminance of projection light to a predetermined constant value when a distance measured by the distance-measuring unit is equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance and increases the luminance of the projection light such that the luminance does not exceed a set luminance of the projection light corresponding to the measured distance when the distance measured by the distance-measuring unit is larger than the predetermined distance.

Abstract: A production system acquires a plan of production of plural types of products to be produced through sequential attachment of prints, determines an order of production of the prints to be attached to the plural types of products, respectively, and produces the prints in the determined production order.

Abstract: In an entry field extraction device, a learning unit obtains a learning model by learning, from images of a plurality of documents, features corresponding to types of the documents. A feature field extraction unit extracts, from an image of a document sample, a feature field being a field indicating a feature corresponding to a type of the document sample, using the learning model. An entry field extraction unit extracts an entry field, being a field of an entry column, from a field that remains in the image of the document sample from which the feature field extracted by the feature field extraction unit has been excluded.

Abstract: In an authentication system (120) of a first organization that a first user belongs to, when the first user accesses a service of another organization from a user terminal of the first organization, an authentication device (300) receives a hello message from another organization system, encrypts the hello message using a client private key of the first user, and sends the encrypted hello message to said another organization system as a signature message.

Abstract: In an authentication system (120) of an organization that is another organization different from a first organization that a first user belongs to, a management device (200) accepts a registration transaction for a client certificate of the first user. Then, the management device registers the client certificate of the first user in a client certificate blockchain. When the first user accesses a service of another organization from a user terminal of the first organization, an authentication device (300) authenticates the first user using the client certificate of the first user in the client certificate blockchain.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a first fixing unit that fixes the first toner layer onto the medium, a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer on the first toner layer on the medium by using a toner having a melting point lower than a melting point of a toner that is included in the first toner layer, and a second fixing unit that performs, in a state in which a foil layer is superposed on the second toner layer, a fixing operation at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the first fixing unit performs a fixing operation.

Abstract: A conductive module applied to a battery pack includes a connection terminal electrically coupled to an electrode terminal, and a flexible substrate that includes a flexible base film having insulating property, a conductive layer in which a first circuit pattern is configured by a first conductor that electrically couples the connection terminal to a monitoring device, and a reinforcing protective film covering the conductive layer. The reinforcing protective film includes a first exposed portion that exposes a first connection end portion of the first conductor from the reinforcing protective film, and has relatively higher rigidity than rigidity of the flexible base film.

Abstract: A production system includes: a production unit that produces prints with which products are to be tagged; an information acquisition unit that acquires defect information that is information on defect of tagged products that are products tagged with prints; and a changing unit that changes conditions of production of prints in the production unit based on the defect information acquired by the information acquisition unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that faces an image holding unit and is configured to come into contact with and separate from the image holding unit with a continuous form paper continuous in a transport direction interposed between the transfer unit and the image holding unit and to transfer an image held by the image holding unit onto the continuous form paper; a displacement unit that displaces the continuous form paper to a position closer to the image holding unit when the transfer unit separates from the image holding unit; and a contact portion that contacts the continuous form paper from a downstream side in a displacement direction before the continuous form paper displaced by the displacement unit contacts the image holding unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a foil layer forming unit that forms a foil layer on the first toner layer on a surface of the medium on which an image is to be formed, and a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer below the foil layer on the surface of the medium, on which an image is to be formed, in such a manner as to compensate for image steps that are formed by the first toner layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a first fixing unit that fixes the first toner layer onto the medium, a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer on the first toner layer on the medium by using a toner having a melting point lower than a melting point of a toner that is included in the first toner layer, and a second fixing unit that performs, in a state in which a foil layer is superposed on the second toner layer, a fixing operation at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the first fixing unit performs a fixing operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a foil layer forming unit that forms a foil layer on the first toner layer on a surface of the medium on which an image is to be formed, and a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer below the foil layer on the surface of the medium, on which an image is to be formed, in such a manner as to compensate for image steps that are formed by the first toner layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member that transfers an image on the image carrier to a continuous medium, a fixing device that fixes the image transferred to the medium, and a transport member that is disposed downstream of the fixing device in a transport direction of the medium and that transports the medium. When the transport member transports the medium, the fixing device is passively rotated in accordance with movement of the medium.

Abstract: A production system acquires a plan of production of plural types of products to he produced through sequential attachment of prints, determines an order of production of the prints to be attached to the plural types of products, respectively, and produces the prints in the determined production order.