Abstract: A holding stand is constituted by a carrying case for holding sheets of electronic paper and a base for uprightly supporting the carrying case that is substantially vertical. From the holding stand, two page fields, each expressing the number of pages of sheets of electronic paper to be displayed and position page field expressing a current page position of electronic paper and incremented on each of the sheets, are added to image data, and the image data is output to the sheets of electronic paper. In each sheets, when the two page fields coincide with each other in comparison between the two page fields, an image based on the image data is displayed in a display region. When the two page fields are different from each other, the position page field is incremented by one, and the position page field is transmitted to the next electronic paper.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to facilitate filling out by hand an electronic paper and to realize digitization of contents with which the electronic paper is filled out by hand with a simple structure. A read image is obtained by optically reading a reading-object of the electronic paper. Based on the document information written on the electronic paper and writing-conditions during document writing, which are represented by the document information, a display image of the document in accordance with the read image information is formed. A written image is separated and extracted by converting a density only of pixels among the respective pixels of the read image, whose densities vary in accordance with the document writing and which correspond to a portion, to which ink of a pen for the handwriting is not adhered.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the semiconductor substrate with an insulating film interposed therebetween, the semiconductor layer being in contact with the semiconductor substrate via an opening formed in the insulating film; and a NAND cell unit formed on the semiconductor layer with a plurality of electrically rewritable and non-volatile memory cells connected in series and first and second select gate transistors disposed at both ends thereof.

Abstract: The liquid droplet ejection head comprises: first nozzles which eject droplets of a first liquid to an ejection receiving medium; second nozzles which eject droplets of a second liquid to the ejection receiving medium; first pressure chambers which are connected to the first nozzles and filled with the first liquid to be ejected from the first nozzles; first pressure generating devices which cause the first liquid to be ejected from the first nozzles by applying pressure to the first liquid inside the first pressure chambers; second pressure chambers which are connected to the second nozzles and filled with the second liquid to be ejected from the second nozzles; and second pressure generating devices which cause the second liquid to be ejected from the second nozzles by applying pressure to the second liquid inside the second pressure chambers, wherein the first nozzles and the second nozzles are arranged in a two-dimensional array and disposed adjacently in mutual proximity so as to be aligned in a sub-scan

Abstract: The liquid supply apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which includes: a plurality of bubble generating chambers in which liquid is heated to generate ejection bubbles causing the liquid to be ejected through ejection ports; a common flow channel connected to the plurality of bubble generating chambers and storing the liquid to be supplied to the plurality of bubble generating chambers; and bubble restricting members restricting passage of bubbles between the common flow channel and the plurality of bubble generating chambers; a liquid storage unit which is connected to the common flow channel and which stores the liquid to be supplied to the common flow channel; a first suctioning device which caps and suctions an ejection face of the liquid ejection head on which the ejection ports are arranged; and a pressure reduction device which reduces pressure of the liquid storage unit.

Abstract: The image forming method includes a recording step of recording an image on an image recording layer of an image recording medium according to image data, a material setting step of setting a coating film to be provided on the image recording layer according to glossiness data indicating glossiness of the image reproduced by the image data, a condition setting step of determining a condition of a surface processing of the coating film by considering the set coating film and according to the glossiness data, and a processing step of performing the surface processing of the coating film in accordance with the determined surface processing condition.

Abstract: The liquid ejection head includes: a large nozzle which ejects a large droplet of liquid; a small nozzle which has a smaller nozzle diameter than the large nozzle and ejects a small droplet of the liquid which has a smaller volume than the large droplet; a first heat generating element and a second heat generating element which are provided opposite to the large nozzle and the small nozzle respectively, and apply thermal energy to the liquid in at least one individual flow channel that supplies the liquid to the large nozzle and the small nozzle in such a manner that a bubble causing the large droplet of the liquid to be ejected from the large nozzle and a bubble causing the small droplet of the liquid to be ejected from the small nozzle respectively; a first liquid chamber which is provided between the large nozzle and the at least one individual flow channel and between the large nozzle and the first heat generating element corresponding to the large nozzle.

Abstract: A NAND cell unit is formed with an advanced gate forming process on a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, which is formed on a semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type with an insulating film interposed therebetween. First impurity-doped layers of a second conductivity type are formed on the semiconductor layer, which serve as channel regions of the select gate transistors Bit line contact- and source line contact-use second impurity-doped layers of the first conductivity type are formed at bit line and source line contact portions, sidewalls of which are covered with an insulating film.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus comprises: a liquid droplets ejection head which has a plurality of nozzles in a main scanning direction, the liquid droplets ejection head ejecting droplets of liquid toward a predetermined recording medium from one of the nozzles selected from the plurality of nozzles according to a predetermined image signal so that an image comprising a plurality of dots corresponding to the image signal is formed on the recording medium; a relative movement device which moves the liquid droplets ejection head and the recording medium relative to each other in a sub-scanning direction by causing the liquid droplets ejection head to scan the recording medium several times in order to eject the droplets of the liquid so that the adjacent dots in the sub-scanning direction are formed by overlapping with each other; a fixing time specifying device which specifies a fixing time during which each of the dots is fixed on the recording medium; a deposition order setting device which sets a deposition o

Abstract: The image forming apparatus comprises: an ink ejection device which ejects droplets of a radiation-curable ink onto a recording medium; a conveyance device which causes the ink ejection device and the recording medium to move relatively to each other in a relative movement direction by conveying at least one of the ink ejection device and the recording medium; a radiation irradiation device which irradiates radiation to the droplets deposited on the recording medium by the ink ejection device; a dot formation conditions determination device which determines a dot size of dots and a pitch between adjacent dots to be formed by the ejected droplets, according to print data; and a droplet ejection timing control device which sets an ejection interval between the droplets according to information relating to the dot size and the dot pitch determined by the dot formation conditions determination device, and controls an ejection timing of a subsequent droplet ejected subsequently in an overlapping fashion, in such a

Abstract: The image forming apparatus comprises: a droplet ejection head which ejects a droplet of a liquid having electrorheological properties toward a recording medium; an electric field application device which applies an electric field to the droplet deposited on the recording medium; a recording medium type determining device which determines a type of the recording medium; and an electric field intensity controller which controls intensity of the electric field applied to the droplet deposited on the recording medium by the electric field application device, in accordance with a determination result for the recording medium obtained through the recording medium type determining device, in such a manner that a permeation velocity into the recording medium of the droplet deposited on the recording medium becomes a prescribed permeation velocity.

Abstract: The full line type liquid droplet ejection head comprises: a plurality of pressure chambers; and a plurality of nozzles which correspond to the pressure chambers and are two-dimensionally arranged through a length corresponding to a full width of a recording medium conveyed in a sub-scanning direction relatively to the liquid droplet ejection head, wherein a nozzle pitch Pn in the sub-scanning direction between two of the nozzles mutually adjacent in the sub-scanning direction satisfies the following formula: Pn=(m+k)×Pd, where Pd is a minimum pitch between dots in the sub-scanning direction corresponding to a recording resolution in the sub-scanning direction of the dots on the recording medium, m is an integer not less than 1, and k is an arbitrary constant set in a range of 0.4?k?0.6.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a liquid chamber into which ink is filled; an ejection port through which the ink is ejected from the liquid chamber; a mist generation device which generates a mist from a surface of the ink inside the ejection port by applying vibration energy to the ink in the liquid chamber; an electric field generation device which generates an electric field causing the mist ejected from the ejection port to move to a recording medium; and a setting device which sets at least one of drive conditions of the mist generation device and a recording resolution in such a manner that a relationship Pt?d2 is satisfied, where d2 is an overlap-permissible diameter which is a minimum distance between centers of two mist dots formed by the mist on the recording medium that allows shapes of the two mist dots to be fixed as a prescribed shape when the two mist dots are deposited on the recording medium substantially simultaneously under substantially same ejection conditions so as to overlap part

Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a nozzle plate in which a nozzle is formed; a substrate which is opposite to the nozzle plate and is provided with a heat generating element; a bubble generation chamber which has an internal diameter greater than an internal diameter of the nozzle, at a boundary between the bubble generation chamber and the nozzle plate; a liquid storage chamber which stores liquid to be supplied to the bubble generation chamber through a supplying channel; a heat generating element drive device which drives the heat generating element to generate and expand an ejection bubble in the liquid in the bubble generation chamber so that the liquid in the bubble generation chamber is ejected from the nozzle by means of the ejection bubble; and an air bubble incorporation unit which incorporates air bubbles into the liquid stored in the liquid storage chamber.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor region; device isolation regions placed in the semiconductor region and extending in a column direction; a semiconductor layer placed on the semiconductor region and between the device isolation regions, and having a convex shape in cross section along a row direction; source/drain regions placed in the semiconductor layer and spaced from each other; a gate insulating film placed on the semiconductor layer between the source/drain regions; a floating gate electrode layer placed on the gate insulating film; an intergate insulating film placed on the floating gate electrode layer and upper surfaces of the device isolation regions; and a control gate electrode layer placed on the intergate insulating film and extending in the row direction.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a head which ejects droplets of liquid in accordance with an image signal; a sub tank which is integrated with the head; a liquid holding chamber which is arranged in the sub tank and has an intake port and an outflow port, the liquid being supplied to the liquid holding chamber through the intake port and supplied to the head through the outflow port; an air connection channel which is arranged in the sub tank and has a suction port through which air is sucked; a dividing plate which is provided in the sub tank and divides the liquid holding chamber from the air connection channel; a gas/liquid separating member which is disposed in a portion of the dividing plate and allows only air to pass between the liquid holding chamber and the air connection channel; a supply connection device which is capable of connecting with the intake port and the suction port; a liquid holding tank which is connected to the supply connection device and capable of communicating with the liqui

Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory includes a plurality of memory cell transistors, each of the plurality of memory cell transistors includes: a source region having a first conductivity type and in contact with a buried insulating layer on a supporting substrate; a drain region having the first conductivity type and in contact with the buried insulating layer; and a channel region having the first conductivity type and provided between the source region and the drain region so as to contact the buried insulating layer, wherein a thickness of the channel region is more than one nm and not more than a value obtained by adding seven nm to a half value of a gate length of the memory cell transistor.

Abstract: The liquid ejection head includes: a large nozzle which ejects a large droplet of liquid; a small nozzle which has a smaller nozzle diameter than the large nozzle and ejects a small droplet of the liquid which has a smaller volume than the large droplet; a first heat generating element and a second heat generating element which are provided opposite to the large nozzle and the small nozzle respectively, and apply thermal energy to the liquid in at least one individual flow channel that supplies the liquid to the large nozzle and the small nozzle in such a manner that a bubble causing the large droplet of the liquid to be ejected from the large nozzle and a bubble causing the small droplet of the liquid to be ejected from the small nozzle respectively; a first liquid chamber which is provided between the large nozzle and the at least one individual flow channel and between the large nozzle and the first heat generating element corresponding to the large nozzle.

Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: an ejection head having ejection holes which eject liquid droplets to land on an ejection receiving medium; a conveyance device which causes the ejection head and the ejection receiving medium to move relative to each other in one direction, by conveying at least one of the ejection head and the ejection receiving medium in a relative conveyance direction substantially perpendicular to a breadthways direction of the ejection receiving medium; a direction of flight deflecting device which deflects direction of flight of the liquid droplets ejected from the ejection head in a direction which includes at least a component that is substantially parallel to the relative conveyance direction; and a deflection control device which controls the direction of flight deflecting device, wherein when droplets are ejected during relative conveyance of the ejection receiving medium and a row of dots is formed in which dots that are mutually adjacent in the relative conveyance directi

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a liquid chamber into which ink is filled; an ejection port through which the ink is ejected from the liquid chamber; a mist generation device which generates a mist from a surface of the ink inside the ejection port by applying vibration energy to the ink in the liquid chamber; an electric field generation device which generates an electric field causing the mist ejected from the ejection port to move to a recording medium; and a setting device which sets at least one of drive conditions of the mist generation device and a recording resolution in such a manner that a relationship Pt?d2 is satisfied, where d2 is an overlap-permissible diameter which is a minimum distance between centers of two mist dots formed by the mist on the recording medium that allows shapes of the two mist dots to be fixed as a prescribed shape when the two mist dots are deposited on the recording medium substantially simultaneously under substantially same ejection conditions so as to overlap part