Abstract: A fuser device includes a belt part rotating in a tension free state to carry a medium in a medium carrying direction, a first nip forming part arranged inside the belt part, a second nip forming part arranged outside the belt part sandwiching the belt part with the first nip forming part so that a nip area is formed therebetween, and a regulation member regulating a movement of the belt in a width direction of the belt part. The regulation member is configured with a belt regulation part and a slant part. The belt regulation part has a flat shape arranged near one of side edges of the belt part along the nip area with a predetermined gap (W6). The slant part extends from an edge of the belt regulation part.

Abstract: An expression estimation device configured to estimate an expression of a person from an image has an expression determination unit that analyzes the image of the person to generate first expression information indicating an expression of the person, a motion determination unit that analyzes the image of the person to determine a type of motion of the person, and an expression estimation unit that generates second expression information indicating the expression of the person according to the first expression information generated by the expression determination unit and the type of motion determined by the motion determination unit.

Abstract: A fuser includes a pressure application part that applies pressure to a medium for forming a print image; an annular body rotatably supported for carrying the medium for applying heat to the medium for forming the print image; a fuser part heat generation body arranged for generating heat to apply heat to the annular body; a first temperature detection end arranged in contact with one end part outside a medium carrying corresponding range of a surface of the annular body and detects temperature of the annular body outside the medium carrying corresponding range. The medium carrying corresponding range is a range in which the medium is carried. A heat generation interruption part that, in response to the temperature of the annular body that is detected via the first temperature detection end, interrupts heat generation of the fuser part heat generation body.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt, a first roller provided on an inner circumference side of the fixing belt, a second roller provided on the inner circumference side of the fixing belt and located upstream of the first roller in a conveying direction of a recording medium, a heat source provided on the inner circumference side of the fixing belt, a first reflecting portion provided between the heat source and the first roller, and a second reflecting portion provided between the heat source and the second roller. The second reflecting portion is provided apart from the first reflecting portion.

Abstract: Included are a reference image retrieving section (23) which retrieves a reference image with use of an entered keyword, a related image retrieving section (25) which retrieves a related image which (i) is included in a related range correlated with the keyword and (ii) relates to the reference image, and an image outputting section (27) which outputs the reference image and the related image as a retrieval result.

Abstract: A novel amine derivative expressed by general formula (1) (in the formula: G1, G2, and G3 are the same or different and represent CH or a nitrogen atom; R1 represents a chlorine atom, an optionally-substituted C3-8 cycloalkyl group, or the like; R2 represents —COOR5 (in the formula, R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a carboxyl protective group), or the like; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, or the like; and R4 represents an optionally-substituted condensed bicyclic hydrocarbon group, an optionally-substituted bicyclic heterocyclic group, or the like), or a salt thereof is useful in procedures such as the treatment or prevention of conditions related to excessive keratinocyte proliferation.

Abstract: An image processing device selects an image in which sharpness of a photographic subject is relatively high compared with sharpness of a background. The image processing device includes a photographic subject detection unit that identifies a photographic subject region on an image, which includes a predetermined photographic subject, by detecting the predetermined photographic subject from the image, a background region identifying unit that identifies a background region on the image, which is other than the photographic subject region, a sharpness identifying unit that identifies sharpness of the photographic subject region and sharpness of the background region, a score calculation unit that calculates a score based on a difference in the sharpness between the photographic subject region and the background region, and a determination unit which determines the image as an optimum image when the score indicates that photographic subject region is clearer than the background region.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display screen; an image output unit configured to output an image to the display screen; a region setting unit configured to extract one or more objects included in the image and to set a first region, which is a region corresponding to each of the objects; an operation acquisition unit configured to acquire a coordinate on the display screen that has been designated by a user; and an image zooming unit configured to zoom in the image, which is being displayed, on the basis of the designated coordinate. The image zooming unit zooms in the object included in the first region when the designated coordinate is within the first region.

Abstract: A gesture input device that controls a control device on the basis of a gesture action of a user has a gesture detecting unit that detects a gesture from an image picked up by a camera, a first gesture determining unit that determines that the gesture detected by the gesture detecting unit includes a first gesture, a second gesture determining unit that determines that the gesture detected by the gesture detecting unit includes a second gesture, and a control signal generating unit that sets a period in which the first gesture determining unit determines that the gesture includes the first gesture as a second gesture valid period in which recognition of the second gesture is valid and generates a control signal on the basis of the second gesture when the second gesture determining unit determines that the gesture includes the second gesture in the second gesture valid period.

Abstract: An image recognition apparatus is provided, comprising: an extraction unit extracting feature amount data of a subject from an image; a database registering a plurality of pieces of feature amount data extracted from different images of one registered object; and a comparing unit identifying whether or not the subject is the registered object by comparing the feature amount data extracted by the extraction unit and the feature amount data of the registered object registered in the database, a registration unit, using an image for registration, adding feature amount data of the registered object to the database in accordance with a predetermined condition which includes a first condition: if new data, which is the feature amount data extracted from the image for registration, is similar to registered data, which is the feature amount data of the registered object already registered in the database, the new data is not added.

Abstract: A fixing device according to the invention comprises a first belt in an endless form, a first heat source for heating the first belt, a first reflection member reflecting heat from the first heat source toward the first belt, and a first temperature detecting member for detecting temperature of the first reflection member by contacting the first reflection member, wherein the first reflection member is disposed between the first heat source and the first temperature detecting member. The fixing device is able to accurately detect the temperature of the member heated by the heat source.

Abstract: A fusion device for fusing a developer image on a medium includes a first belt member that has an endless shape, a first roller and a second roller arranged on an upstream side of the first roller in a medium carrying direction, and a pressure application part arranged on the other side of the medium carrying surface to face the first roller and the second roller. A roller radius (r2) of the second roller is smaller than a roller radius (r1) of the first roller, and the first belt member is configured to carry the medium in the medium carrying direction in a non-stretched state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-medium conveying device, which has a first sheet-medium stacker part provided on a casing so as to be capable of being opened from and closed to the casing; a second sheet-medium stacker part provided on the first sheet-medium stacker part so as to be capable of being drawn from and inserted into the first sheet-medium stacker part; and an auxiliary member provided on the first sheet-medium stacker part so as to be capable of being moved, the auxiliary member being engaged with the second sheet-medium stacker part so as to be moved together with the drawing of the second sheet-medium stacker part so that the auxiliary member covers a gap portion between the main sheet-medium stacker surface and the expanded sheet-medium stacker surface when the second sheet-medium stacker part is in a drawn state.

Abstract: A lead type piezoelectric resonator device includes a piezoelectric resonator plate and a lead terminal that supports the piezoelectric resonator plate. The piezoelectric resonator plate is provided with a terminal electrode that is electrically connected to the lead terminal, and the lead terminal is provided with a bonding layer that is electrically connected to the piezoelectric resonator plate. The piezoelectric resonator plate and the lead terminal are electromechanically bonded to each other by the terminal electrode and the bonding layer. A bonding material containing an Sn—Cu alloy is produced from the terminal electrode and the bonding layer by the bonding of the terminal electrode and the bonding layer.

Abstract: A developer storage container includes a storage portion for storing a developer therein, an opening for ejecting the developer stored in the storage portion, and an opening-and-closing member for opening and closing the opening. A concave portion is formed on the opening-and-closing member so that the concave portion faces the opening.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt, a first roller provided on an inner circumference side of the fixing belt, a second roller provided on the inner circumference side of the fixing belt and located upstream of the first roller in a conveying direction of a recording medium, a heat source provided on the inner circumference side of the fixing belt, a first reflecting portion provided between the heat source and the first roller, and a second reflecting portion provided between the heat source and the second roller. The second reflecting portion is provided apart from the first reflecting portion.

Abstract: A fuser includes a pressure application part that applies pressure to a medium for forming a print image; an annular body rotatably supported for carrying the medium for applying heat to the medium for forming the print image; a fuser part heat generation body arranged for generating heat to apply heat to the annular body; a first temperature detection end arranged in contact with one end part outside a medium carrying corresponding range of a surface of the annular body and detects temperature of the annular body outside the medium carrying corresponding range. The medium carrying corresponding range is a range in which the medium is carried. A heat generation interruption part that, in response to the temperature of the annular body that is detected via the first temperature detection end, interrupts heat generation of the fuser part heat generation body.

Abstract: A superior antitumor agent is provided. A salt of 1-(2-deoxy-2-fluoro-4-thio-?-D-arabinofuranosyl)cytosine shows at least one or more of such characteristics as (1) it has superior antitumor activity, (2) it shows superior crystallinity, (3) it shows high water solubility, (4) it does not show deliquescent property, (5) it shows superior flowability, (6) it shows superior tableting property, (7) it can be manufactured with less environmental load, and (8) it can be manufactured in a large scale, and therefore it is useful as a bulk drug for medicaments.

Abstract: A developer container includes a developer containing member that contains developer; an opening part through which the developer is externally supplied, and a pressure absorbing mechanism that is provided on an external portion of the developer containing member. The pressure absorbing mechanism is configured to deform in an inward direction toward the developer container when an external force is applied to the developer container.

Abstract: An image display apparatus configured to zoom display an image to be displayed on a display area has a position specifying unit that specifies a position of an object contained in a displayed image, a position deciding unit that decides a positional relationship between an outer frame of the display area and the position of the object, and a zoom speed changing unit that changes a zoom speed in the zoom display depending on the decided positional relationship.