Abstract: A developing device includes a developer container configured to contain a developer, a developing carrying member configured to carry and feed the developer to a developing position, and a regulating member configured to regulate an amount of the developer carried by the developer carrying member, wherein the developer carrying member includes a magnet provided non-rotatably and stationarily inside the developer carrying member, and wherein the developer carrying member is provided with information regarding magnetic flux density of the magnet.

Abstract: An image processing device comprises: one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: generate a high-resolution combined image by aligning a plurality of time-series images with each other in a high-resolution image space having a resolution higher than the plurality of time-series images based on an amount of displacement between the plurality of time-series images, and combining the plurality of time-series images; generate a low-resolution combined image by aligning the plurality of time-series images with each other in a low-resolution image space having a resolution equal to or lower than the resolution of the plurality of time-series images based on the amount of displacement, combining the plurality of time-series images through weighted addition; calculate a feature quantity pertaining to a pixel-value change direction at each region in the generated low-resolution combined image; and correct the high-resolution combined image based on the calculated featur

Abstract: A force for adjusting a relative position of a regulating blade relative to a development rotary member supported by a development frame member is applied to the regulating blade so that a gap between the development rotary member and the regulating blade when attached to an attachment portion falls within a predetermined range in a rotational axis direction of the development rotary member in a state that the regulating blade is separated from the attachment portion with an adhesive applied. The regulating blade is attached, with the adhesive, to the attachment portion with the adhesive applied so that the gap between the development rotary member and the regulating blade with the force applied falls within the predetermined range.

Abstract: A force for adjusting a relative position of a regulating blade relative to a development rotary member supported by a development frame member is applied to the regulating blade so that a gap between the development rotary member and the regulating blade when attached to an attachment portion falls within a predetermined range in a rotational axis direction of the development rotary member in a state that the regulating blade is separated from the attachment portion with an adhesive applied. The regulating blade is attached, with the adhesive, to the attachment portion with the adhesive applied so that the gap between the development rotary member and the regulating blade with the force applied falls within the predetermined range.

Abstract: An image processing device includes one or more processors configured to: generate a high-resolution combined image by aligning the plurality of images with each other in a high-resolution image space based on an amount of displacement between the plurality of images, and combining the plurality of images; generate at least two low-resolution combined images by generating at least two groups each composed of at least two images by dividing the plurality of images in the time direction, aligning the at least two images in each of the groups with each other in a low-resolution image space based on the amount of displacement, and combining the at least two images through weighted addition; calculate, in each region, a feature quantity pertaining to a correlation between the generated at least two low-resolution combined images; and correct the high-resolution combined image based on the calculated feature quantity.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes: an imager that includes an optical system that is telecentric at least on an object side, and that acquires an image of an imaging object; a rotor that relatively and rotationally moves the imager and the imaging object about an axis orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system; an encoder that detects a rotation angle formed by means of the rotor; and a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to calculates, by a principle of triangulation, a height dimension of the imaging object on the basis of a result of matching processing of two images acquired by the imager before and after a rotational movement by means of the rotor and the rotation angle detected by the encoder.

Abstract: A fixing method of fixing a regulating blade made of a resin to a mounting portion of a developing frame made of a resin so that the regulating blade is in non-contact with a developer carrying member, the fixing method including: imaging the mounting portion; determining a target value of a gap between the developer carrying member and the regulating blade based on characteristic information of a shape of the imaged mounting portion; giving, to the regulating blade, a force for deflecting the regulating blade to adjust a relative position of the regulating blade with respect to the developer carrying member that the gap falls within a predetermined range including the target value over a longitudinal direction of the developer carrying member; and fixing the regulating blade to the mounting portion in a state in which the regulating blade has been deflected and the gap falls within the predetermined range.

Abstract: A target value for a gap between a developer bearing member supported by a developing frame member and a regulating blade that is fixed to the developing frame member is determined based on input information about a local maximum peak value of magnetic flux density of a predetermined magnetic pole which is located closest to the regulating blade when the regulating blade is fixed to the developing frame member among a plurality of magnetic poles included in a magnet fixedly located inside the developer bearing member and configured to generate a magnetic field for causing a developer to be borne by the developer bearing member.

Abstract: A target value for a gap between a developer bearing member supported by a developing frame member and a regulating blade that is fixed to the developing frame member is determined based on input information about a local maximum peak value of magnetic flux density of a predetermined magnetic pole which is located closest to the regulating blade when the regulating blade is fixed to the developing frame member among a plurality of magnetic poles included in a magnet fixedly located inside the developer bearing member and configured to generate a magnetic field for causing a developer to be borne by the developer bearing member.

Abstract: There is provided a developing device including, when viewed in a section perpendicular to a rotational axis of a rotatable developing member, a recessed portion to grip a resin-made regulating blade formed on an upstream side of the regulating blade with respect to a closest position where the regulating blade comes closest to the rotatable developing member in a rotation direction of the rotatable developing member, and a vertical length of the recessed portion in a direction vertical to a straight line passing through the closest position and a rotation center of the rotatable developing member is 0.5 mm or more.

Abstract: When the area of a developing frame member corresponding to the maximum image area of an image bearing member is, in a section perpendicular to a rotational axis of a developing rotary member, divided by a straight line passing through the center of rotation of the developing rotary member and the center of rotation of the image bearing member and a perpendicular line passing through the center of rotation of a first conveying screw with respect to the straight line, a gate portion is provided at a bottom portion of the developing frame member in a divided area of the developing frame member not provided with the attachment portion, and a gate portion is not provided at the bottom portion of the developing frame member in a divided area of the developing frame member provided with the attachment portion.

Abstract: When a developing device is seen in a cross section orthogonal to a rotation axis of a rotatable developing member, a resin-made regulating blade has a cutout over an entirety of a region from a first position where the regulating blade is closest to the rotatable developing member to a second position 0.5 mm downstream of the regulating blade from the first position in a rotation direction of the rotatable developing member, and a cut amount of the cutout at the second position is 0.3 mm or more.

Abstract: A method of fixing a regulating blade made of a resin material includes an adhesive applying step of applying an adhesive onto a mounting portion; a first force applying step of applying a first force to the regulating blade so that the regulating blade is urged against the mounting portion; a second force applying step of applying a second force to the mounting portion so as to support the mounting portion; and a fixing step of fixing the regulating blade to the mounting portion by curing the adhesive applied on the mounting portion in the adhesive applying step in a state that the first force is applied to the regulating blade in the first force applying step and that the second force is applied to the mounting portion in the second force applying step.

Abstract: A developing device includes an accommodating member, a developer carrying member, a feeding screw provided with a helical blade, a bearing portion, and a guiding portion including an inclined surface. With respect to the developer feeding direction, a position of an edge of a receiving port of the accommodating member on a bearing portion side is closer to the bearing portion than a most-upstream end of the blade with respect to the developer feeding direction. With respect to the developer feeding direction, a position of a downstream end portion of the inclined surface is remoter from the bearing portion than the most-upstream end of the blade with respect to the developer feeding direction.

Abstract: A method of attaching a regulating blade made of resin to an attachment portion of a development frame which is made of resin and includes the attachment portion for attaching the regulating blade includes applying an adhesive to the attachment portion, applying a hardening accelerator to the regulating blade, and attaching the regulating blade to the attachment portion via the adhesive applied to the attachment portion and the hardening accelerator applied to the regulating blade. The regulating blade is disposed opposite to and not in contact with a development rotary member configured to bear and convey a developer toward a position at which an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member is developed, and configured to regulate an amount of the developer to be borne on the development rotary member.

Abstract: When a developing device is seen in a cross section orthogonal to a rotation axis of a rotatable developing member, a resin-made regulating blade has a cutout over an entirety of a region from a first position where the regulating blade is closest to the rotatable developing member to a second position 0.5 mm downstream of the regulating blade from the first position in a rotation direction of the rotatable developing member, and a cut amount of the cutout at the second position is 0.3 mm or more.

Abstract: A fixing method of fixing a regulating blade made of a resin to a mounting portion of a developing frame made of a resin so that the regulating blade is in non-contact with a developer carrying member, the fixing method including: imaging the mounting portion; determining a target value of a gap between the developer carrying member and the regulating blade based on characteristic information of a shape of the imaged mounting portion; giving, to the regulating blade, a force for deflecting the regulating blade to adjust a relative position of the regulating blade with respect to the developer carrying member that the gap falls within a predetermined range including the target value over a longitudinal direction of the developer carrying member; and fixing the regulating blade to the mounting portion in a state in which the regulating blade has been deflected and the gap falls within the predetermined range.

Abstract: There is provided a developing device including, when viewed in a section perpendicular to a rotational axis of a rotatable developing member, a recessed portion to grip a resin-made regulating blade formed on an upstream side of the regulating blade with respect to a closest position where the regulating blade comes closest to the rotatable developing member in a rotation direction of the rotatable developing member, and a vertical length of the recessed portion in a direction vertical to a straight line passing through the closest position and a rotation center of the rotatable developing member is 0.5 mm or more.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second image groups in different first and second directions; a flatness calculation unit configured to calculate first flatness representing a gradient of a shading component in the first direction and calculate second flatness representing a gradient of a shading component in the second direction; a flat area detection unit configured to detect an area, as a flat area, including a position having a minimum gradient of a shading component in an image based on the first and second flatness; and a correction gain calculation unit configured to calculate a correction gain for correcting shading in an image with reference to a correction gain in the flat area by using a luminance ratio in the common area.

Abstract: An image-processing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with: a storing portion that stores a pupil-image function of an imaging optical system; and a reconstructing-processing portion that reconstructs, on the basis of the pupil-image function stored in the storing portion and input light-field images, a three-dimensional image of an imaging subject by means of repeated computations that give an initial value. The reconstructing-processing portion uses the three-dimensional image reconstructed on the basis of, among the light-field images of a plurality of frames acquired in a time series, the light field image of a preceding one of the frames in a time-axis direction as the initial value.