Abstract: A disclosed license management system includes a sales management apparatus and a license management apparatus. The sales management apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits a registration request including configuration information of a group including a combination of plural selected programs; a product registration unit that receives an input of license information corresponding to the group, associates and stores the license information with the group, in a product information storage unit as product information; and a sales management unit that transmits a list of the product information in response to a reception of a purchase request for purchasing the program, the product information being stored in the product information storage unit. The license management apparatus includes a group information storage unit that stores the configuration information included in the registration request.

Abstract: A license management device includes a license identifier generator unit generating a license identifier and license information corresponding to a group of application programs, the license identifier associated with a group identifier of the group and the license information on the group, a group information storage unit storing the group identifier with a product identifier of each application program, a license information storage unit recording the license identifier corresponding to the group identifier with the product identifier of the application program, a determination unit determining, on receiving the license identifier associated with the application program, whether the received license identifier is recorded in the license information storage unit, and a sending unit sending via a network, if the received license identifier is recorded in the license information storage unit, a license file corresponding to the recorded license identifier to provide a permission to use the application program

Abstract: A motor drive circuit includes: a drive circuit configured to drive a motor whose coil current decreases with increase in counter electromotive voltage of a motor coil; a detection circuit configured to detect whether or not a current value of the coil current is greater than a predetermined value; a first control circuit configured to control the drive circuit so that the current value of the coil current becomes smaller than or equal to the predetermined value, when it is detected that the current value of the coil current is greater than the predetermined value; and a second control circuit configured to control the first control circuit so that the first control circuit does not control the drive circuit based on a detection result of the detection circuit until a predetermined time has elapsed from a start of supply of the coil current.

Abstract: A license management apparatus including an issuing unit configured to generate and issue a license identifier and license information, the license identifier being associated with a product identifier of at least one purchased program and also with the license information for the purchased program; a storing unit configured to store the license identifier in a license information storing unit; a determining unit configured to receive a license identifier via a network, and to determine whether the license identifier is stored in the license information storing unit; and a sending unit configured to send via a network instruction information to acquire the purchased program or a program entity corresponding to the product identifier associated with the license identifier, and to also send via a network a license file configured to allow usage of the purchased program, in the case that the license identifier is stored in the license information storing unit.

Abstract: An injection molding apparatus includes a forming mold provided with a gas inlet through which a gas is introduced into an area between a rear molding surface in a cavity and a resin material inside the cavity. A plurality of the gas inlets is provided along a passage direction of the resin material in the cavity. In injection molding the resin molded article, a molten resin material is introduced into the cavity from a resin inlet and, when filling the inside of the cavity with the resin material, the introduction of the gas is sequentially started, beginning with a gas inlet provided in an area inside the cavity which is first filled with the resin material, thereby sequentially pressing the relevant resin material against a front molding surface of the cavity.

Abstract: An information recording medium is provided that includes a recording portion (3), which is irradiated with a recording light or a reproducing light so that information is recorded or reproduced thereto or therefrom. The recording portion (3) contains a first phosphor and a photon-mode photosensitive material. The first phosphor has a property of absorbing a first light having a wavelength of ?1/n and then emitting a second light having a wavelength longer than that of the first light, where ?1 is a wavelength of the recording light. The photosensitive material absorbs the second light and then exhibits a change in an optical constant thereof. A n-photon absorption sensitivity of the first phosphor with respect to the recording light is greater than a n-photon absorption sensitivity of the photosensitive material with respect to the recording light, where n is an integer not less than 2.

Abstract: In a document outputting method for editing a document managed by a document management service, which provides the document when an edit or an output of the document is permitted, an output condition property candidate obtain request for obtaining an output condition property candidate including an edit property indicating edit contents executable for the document and an output property indicating an output method executable when the document is output is received, and the output condition property candidate is provided to a request originator sending the output condition property candidate obtain request.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, screen information for displaying a plurality of function options available for a predetermined process is generated. A screen generating program and option information showing the plurality of function options is transmitted in response to an request from an apparatus that is connected through a network and the user uses. The predetermined process is conducted by using a hardware resource when receiving the setting parameter indicating the function option set by the user from the plurality of the function options that the apparatus displays by executing said screen generating program, from the apparatus.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, screen information for displaying a plurality of function options available for a predetermined process is generated. A screen generating program and option information showing the plurality of function options is transmitted in response to an request from an apparatus that is connected through a network and the user uses. The predetermined process is conducted by using a hardware resource when receiving the setting parameter indicating the function option set by the user from the plurality of the function options that the apparatus displays by executing said screen generating program, from the apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative sheet which enables to provide a decorative molded article excellent in design property even if the decorative sheet is applied to a decorative molded article requiring deep drawing, and a decorative molded article using the decorative sheet. The decorative sheet is formed by integrally laminating a base material-side adhesion layer, a porous decor sheet, a protective layer-side adhesive layer, and a surface protective layer in this order from a rear surface side. The decorative molded article is obtained by forming a curved portion in the decorative sheet and injection-molding the base material resin at the rear surface side of the decorative sheet.

Abstract: An optical recording medium which is a multilayer optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers and records or reproduces information by the irradiation of light having a wavelength of ?0. At least one recording layer out of a plurality of recording layers includes a variable absorption film. The variable absorption film contains a material in which an electron energy has a band structure, and the absorption end of an absorption spectrum moves toward a longer wavelength side with a rise in temperature when light is absorbed by transition between electron bands, has a first absorptance to light having a wavelength of ?0 when a film temperature is a first temperature (application environment temperature), and has a second absorptance higher than the first absorptance to light having a wavelength of ?0 when a film temperature is a second temperature higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for performing a process relating to forming of an image includes a log management unit to manage generated log information, and a log transfer unit to transfer log information of a type specified in log transfer information among the log information managed by the log management unit to a transfer destination specified in the log transfer information.

Abstract: A slot-loading disc device is provided that, even if an ejection failure occurs due to contact between a disc and peripheral components, can eliminate the ejection failure. The slot-loading disc device (1) comprises: a conveying mechanism (9) for loading a disc (3) through a disc insertion opening (11) to a disc mount (7) and ejecting it from the disc mount (7) to the disc insertion opening (11); an ejection failure detector for detecting an ejection failure in which the ejection to be performed by the conveying mechanism (9) is prevented; and a conveyance controller for, when the ejection failure is detected, performing a back-and-forth control in which the disc (3) is moved back in a loading direction and then conveyed again in an ejection direction.

Abstract: A scuff plate of the invention is a scuff plate which has a luminous unit of which a side surface of side surfaces forms a luminous surface, a light source unit which emits light to the luminous unit, and a light guiding unit which is disposed in such a manner that a side surface thereof faces the luminous surface, wherein the light guiding unit has a luminous surface portion which expands in an intersecting direction relative to a front surface thereof. The scuff plate of the invention provides a scuff plate which has superior design properties without increasing the thickness of the whole thereof.

Abstract: A switching control circuit, controlling a transistor, of a voltage generating circuit generating an output voltage of a target level from an input voltage applied to the transistor, comprising: an error amplifier circuit outputting an error voltage obtained by amplifying an error between a voltage according to the output voltage and a first reference voltage; a first comparison circuit comparing the error voltage with a second reference voltage to output a first control voltage; a second comparison circuit comparing the error voltage with a third reference voltage to output first and second voltages a charging and discharging circuit for charging and discharging a capacitor based on the first and second voltages; a third comparison circuit comparing a charged voltage of the capacitor with a fourth reference voltage; and a control circuit outputting a second control voltage for turning off the transistor according to a result of the third comparison circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a single crystal wafer, wherein the main surface has a plane or a plane equivalent to a plane tilting with respect to a [100] axis of single crystal by angles of ? (0°<?<90°) for the [011] direction, ? (0°<?<90°) for the [01-1] direction and ? (0°??<45°) for the [10-1] or [101] direction. Thus, a single crystal wafer that can sufficiently bear device production processes even with a small wafer thickness is provided and thereby loss of single crystal raw material is reduced. Further, by using such a wafer, MIS type semiconductor devices and solar cells are provided at a low cost.

Abstract: A switching control circuit, controlling a transistor, of a voltage generating circuit generating an output voltage of a target level from an input voltage applied to the transistor, comprising: an error amplifier circuit outputting an error voltage obtained by amplifying an error between a voltage according to the output voltage and a first reference voltage; a first comparison circuit comparing the error voltage with a second reference voltage to output a first control voltage; a second comparison circuit comparing the error voltage with a third reference voltage to output first and second voltages; a charging and discharging circuit for charging and discharging a capacitor based on the first and second voltages; a third comparison circuit comparing a charged voltage of the capacitor with a fourth reference voltage; and a control circuit outputting a second control voltage for turning off the transistor according to a result of the third comparison circuit.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, screen information for displaying a plurality of function options available for a predetermined process is generated. A screen generating program and option information showing the plurality of function options is transmitted in response to an request from an apparatus that is connected through a network and the user uses. The predetermined process is conducted by using a hardware resource when receiving the setting parameter indicating the function option set by the user from the plurality of the function options that the apparatus displays by executing said screen generating program, from the apparatus.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, screen information for displaying a plurality of function options available for a predetermined process is generated. A screen generating program and option information showing the plurality of function options is transmitted in response to an request from an apparatus that is connected through a network and the user uses. The predetermined process is conducted by using a hardware resource when receiving the setting parameter indicating the function option set by the user from the plurality of the function options that the apparatus displays by executing said screen generating program, from the apparatus.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to acquire optimum recording characteristics of an optical recoding medium having multiple data layers, with respect to each of the multiple data layers without increasing learning time required for learning a relation between aberration amount and optimum recording compensation with respect to each of the multiple data layers. The present invention includes a wavefront converter which is driven in such a manner as to reduce the aberration amount detected by an aberration detector. An output controller holds learned data as to the relation between the driving amount of the wavefront converter and the output of a light source, and controls the output of the light source based on the driving amount of the wavefront converter and the learned data.