Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first head having a first nozzle group in which nozzles from which a first liquid is ejected are aligned in a nozzle-row direction at a predetermined pitch and a second nozzle group in which nozzles from which a second liquid is ejected are aligned in the nozzle-row direction at the predetermined pitch, the nozzles in the first nozzle group being positioned between the nozzles in the second nozzle group in the nozzle-row direction; a second head having a third nozzle group in which nozzles from which the first liquid is ejected are aligned in the nozzle-row direction at the predetermined pitch and a fourth nozzle group in which nozzles from which the second liquid is ejected are aligned in the nozzle-row direction at the predetermined pitch, the nozzles in the third nozzle group being positioned between the nozzles in the fourth nozzle group in the nozzle-row direction; and a moving mechanism that moves the first head and the second head relative to a medium in a directi

Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a head unit having a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array that ejects a liquid of a same type as that of the first nozzle array and a movement mechanism that moves at least one between a target in which the liquid lands and the head unit in a movement direction that intersects with a direction of nozzle arrangement of each of the nozzle arrays. The second nozzle array is disposed in a position deviated from the first nozzle array in the movement direction and is disposed in a position deviated from the first nozzle array in the intersection direction such that an end part of the second nozzle array is located in a center part of the first nozzle array in the intersection direction that intersects with the movement direction.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a print head having nozzles for printing different size dots; an acquirer acquiring discharge deviation characteristic information of the nozzles; an acquirer acquiring M-level image data (M?3); an identifier identifying pixels relating to discharge deviation based on the discharge deviation characteristic information from the discharge deviation characteristic information acquirer out of respective pixels in the M-level image data; an adjuster adjusting pixel values of the pixels relating to the discharge deviation from the deviated pixel identifier; a generator generating N-level data (M>N?2) for image data in which the pixel value is adjusted; a generator generating the print data to which the dots having sizes corresponding to the respective pixels are allocated based on the N-level data, and a printer using the print head to print based on the print data.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a differential communication system that is preferable for performing differential communication in a dynamically configured network. [Solving Means] Portable terminals 100 to 120 each generates difference information from information to be transmitted, based on reference information held by itself, and transmits the generated difference information to an intended portable terminal. Also, upon receiving difference information, each of the portable terminals 100 to 120 determines whether or not reference information held by a transmission source of the difference information and reference information held by itself are the same. Upon determining that they are not the same, each of the portable terminals 100 to 120 obtains the reference information held by the transmission source of the difference information, and, based on the obtained reference information, restores, from the received difference information, information to be transmitted.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system to generate visual-guidance information in which the system can be reduced in size and cost and which ensures a proper eye flow. A layout unit operates in such a way that a layout image is segmented into multiple regions; the saliency features and positional information of the partial regions are calculated from image data, and the calculated saliency features are weighted. A starting-point region is then detected from among the multiple partial regions from the calculated saliency features and the reference points of the partial regions are detected from a visual-guidance feature space based on the weighted saliency features and the calculated positional information. Then the distance between the detected reference points is calculated and visual-guidance information is generated from the calculated inter-reference-point distance.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide a sight line inducing information display device, a sight line inducing information display program and a sight line inducing information display method able to precisely estimate the flowing direction of a sight line of an observer from the arrangement of partial areas itself. After image information of a visual document, etc. is divided into partial areas and is recognized, an initial noticing probability every partial area, its sight line inducing direction and its probability can be respectively calculated. The initial noticing probability, its sight line inducing direction and the probability can be respectively displayed. On the basis of these displays, the flowing path of the sight line of the user observing this visual document can be estimated. Thus, the flowing direction of the sight line of the observer can be precisely estimated from the arrangement of the partial areas itself.

Abstract: A printing device includes a light input unit that inputs light fluxes emitted from a light source to a measurement-target surface of a print medium on which an image is printed at a predetermined incidence angle, an image pickup unit that picks up an image of the measurement-target surface by collecting reflection light fluxes, which are reflected from the measurement-target surface of the print medium within a predetermined range of reflection angles, for the light fluxes input by the light input unit, receiving the collected light fluxes using a plurality of light receiving elements, and performing a photoelectric conversion process for the light fluxes received by the plurality of light receiving elements, and a measurement-target surface status value calculating unit that calculates a status value of the measurement-target surface representing a status relating to appropriateness or inappropriateness of the measurement-target surface of the print medium for printing based on image data having luminance i

Abstract: An image retrieval system including: a retrieval subject image storing unit storing images corresponding to first and second characteristic information among semantic characteristic information, physical characteristic information and prominence characteristic information; a retrieval key inputting unit inputting the first and second characteristic information as the retrieval key; a characteristic information converting unit obtaining remaining characteristic information, the physical characteristic information and the prominence characteristic information based on the two semantic characteristics, the physical characteristic and the prominence characteristic information; and an image retrieval unit retrieving an image matching or being approximate to third characteristic information other than the first and second characteristic information among the semantic characteristic, the physical characteristic and the prominence characteristic information, from the retrieval subject image storing unit by the charac

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide an eye-flow guiding level calculating system which can plan miniaturization and low cost of a device and surely obtain a suitable eye flow. A layout device, first, detects each vertex of an image object as guiding reference points, based on vector image data. And then, for every guiding reference point, two auxiliary lines are virtually formed to intersect the guiding reference point along an outline of the image object. Subsequently, the direction in which a bisector line of an obtuse angle among angles, made by the virtual auxiliary lines, extends outward from the guiding reference point is calculated as an eye-flow guiding direction. Further, for every guiding reference point, the distance from the center G of the image object up to the guiding reference point is calculated as an eye-flow guiding intensity. According to this construction, it is possible to quantitatively calculate in which direction the image object tends to guide the eye-flow.

Abstract: The invention provides a service-providing system that is suited to increase security of a user's privacy by preventing a user's personal information from be externally leaked out. A service-providing terminal sends a content list to a client terminal in response to a service-providing request, and when receiving a selection result of the digital content from the client terminal, selects the digital content to distribute from a plurality of digital content based on the selection result, and distributes the selected digital content to the client terminal. The client terminal is provided with a user information registration, in which user information is registered, and when receiving the content list from the service-providing terminal, selects a content-ID from the content list based on the user information in the user information registration, and sends a selection result to the service-providing terminal.

Abstract: To provide a document extracting device, a document extracting program, and a document extracting method, having a low cost and a small amount of computation required to extract documents, a document extracting device includes similarity computing device computing all degrees of similarity between a plurality of documents to be candidates for extraction, and document extracting device to extract a combination of documents whose sum of the degrees of similarity between the documents computed by the similarity computing device is the smallest when any number of documents are extracted from among a group of the documents. As a result, since the cost required for works of giving keywords to the respective documents is not required to extract the documents, and even when the number of documents is increased, the amount of computation required to extract the documents is not increased extremely.

Abstract: A printing device includes a printing head having nozzles for printing different size dots, a unit storing information representing a printing state of two nozzles printing two adjacent lines, a unit acquiring M value image data (M?3), a unit correcting a pixel value of at least one pixel corresponding to two nozzles directly corresponding to a banding phenomenon caused in the M value image data (M?3) and neighboring pixels based on the printing state information, a unit creating N-value conversion data by converting the pixel value corrected image data into an N value (M>N?2), a unit creating printing data to which dots having sizes corresponding to the pixels are allocated based on the N-value conversion data, and a unit printing by the printing head based on the printing data.

Abstract: A printing support system for reducing an environmental load that changes an input load of a print operation depending on data representing the environmental load includes: an environmental load calculation basis information storage unit that stores environmental load calculation basis information used to calculate the data representing the environmental load; a print request input unit through which a print request including a print setting is input; an environmental load calculation unit that calculates the data representing the environmental load on the basis of the print request input by the print request input unit and the environmental load calculation basis information stored in the environmental load calculation basis information storage unit; a print operation input unit through which a print operation for instructing to start printing is input; and a determination unit that, when it is determined that the print operation through the print operation input unit has been input more than a predetermined

Abstract: A printing device includes: a print head having nozzles for printing different size dots; an acquirer acquiring discharge deviation characteristic information of the nozzles; an acquirer acquiring M-level image data (M?3); an identifier identifying pixels relating to discharge deviation based on the discharge deviation characteristic information from the discharge deviation characteristic information acquirer out of respective pixels in the M-level image data; an adjuster adjusting pixel values of the pixels relating to the discharge deviation from the deviated pixel identifier; a generator generating N-level data (M>N?2) for image data in which the pixel value is adjusted; a generator generating the print data to which the dots having sizes corresponding to the respective pixels are allocated based on the N-level data, and a printer using the print head to print based on the print data.

Abstract: A meta-data generating apparatus includes a personal contents information loading unit which loads personal contents information, a text extracting unit which extracts text from other contents information relating to the personal contents information loaded by the personal contents information loading unit, and a meta-data generating unit which generates, on the basis of the text extracted by the text extracting unit, retrieval meta-data for the personal contents information loaded by the personal contents information loading unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a data management device which is well suited to grasp featuring parts from among a huge amount of data, which are capable of enhancing the reliability of extraction and which can immediately comply with a user's request. In particular, feature data for calculating the temporal transition of similarities concerning the contents of document data can be extracted from the document data of a document data registration database, the change point of the similarities can be specified on the basis of the extracted feature data, and document data are retrieved from within the document data registration database on the basis of the specified change point. In the retrieval, the document data which belong to the specified change point or the vicinity thereof can be retrieved.

Abstract: An image retrieval system including: a retrieval subject image storing unit storing images corresponding to first and second characteristic information among semantic characteristic information, physical characteristic information and prominence characteristic information; a retrieval key inputting unit inputting the first and second characteristic information as the retrieval key; a characteristic information converting unit obtaining remaining characteristic information, the physical characteristic information and the prominence characteristic information based on the two semantic characteristics, the physical characteristic and the prominence characteristic information; and an image retrieval unit retrieving an image matching or being approximate to third characteristic information other than the first and second characteristic information among the semantic characteristic, the physical characteristic and the prominence characteristic information, from the retrieval subject image storing unit by the charac

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a gaze guidance degree calculation system capable of implementing a compact and low-cost apparatus and surely obtaining a proper eye-flow. According to exemplary embodiments, a layout apparatus where a layout image is segmented into a plurality of regions, and positions of representative regions of the specific regions and gaze attraction strength indicating strength of gaze-attraction to the specific regions are calculated. Next, a plurality of the specific regions in the layout image are set by using a starting point as a reference, and gaze guidance strength indicating a degree of gaze-guidance from the starting point to the specific regions is generated based on the gaze-attraction strength of the representative points in the specific regions.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system to generate visual-guidance information in which the system can be reduced in size and cost and which ensures a proper eye flow. A layout unit operates in such a way that a layout image is segmented into multiple regions; the saliency features and positional information of the partial regions are calculated from image data, and the calculated saliency features are weighted. A starting-point region is then detected from among the multiple partial regions from the calculated saliency features and the reference points of the partial regions are detected from a visual-guidance feature space based on the weighted saliency features and the calculated positional information. Then the distance between the detected reference points is calculated and visual-guidance information is generated from the calculated inter-reference-point distance.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a line-of-sight guiding degree calculation system that can realize reduction in size and reduction in cost of an apparatus and can obtain an appropriate eye flow surely. First, a layout apparatus approximates an image object to a polygon on the basis of vector image data and detects respective apexes of the approximated image object as guiding reference points. Then, for each of the guiding reference points, the layout apparatus forms two auxiliary lines crossing the guiding reference point imaginarily along a contour of the image object and calculates a direction in which a bisector of an obtuse angle among angles formed by the imaginary auxiliary lines extends outward from the guiding reference point as a line-of-sight guiding direction. In addition, for each of the guiding reference points, the layout apparatus calculates a distance from a center of gravity G of the image object to the guiding reference point as a line-of-sight guiding intensity.