Abstract: A diagnostic device includes an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, a generation unit, and a display. The acquisition unit acquires sound information. The extraction unit extracts, from the acquired sound information, device information related to a device to be analyzed. The generation unit performs time-frequency analysis on the acquired sound information, and generates a first analysis result expressing change over time in an intensity distribution at each frequency. The display displays a second analysis result chosen on the basis of the first analysis result and the device information, and the first analysis result.

Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus portable by a user includes a recording unit, a memory, an estimating unit, and an output unit. The recording unit records a sound that has been produced by another apparatus. The memory stores a cause of an unusual noise that occurs in the other apparatus and intensities of individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other. The estimating unit estimates a cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus, on the basis of intensities of individual frequency components of the sound recorded by the recording unit and content stored in the memory, the intensities being calculated from the sound. The output unit outputs information about the cause of the sound estimated by the estimating unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes multiple parts and a drive controller. The multiple parts are used to implement an image forming operation. The drive controller exerts control in such a manner that parts, each of the parts being possibly an abnormal-noise source, among the multiple parts are sequentially driven in predetermined order in an operating state for specifying a position at which abnormal noise is produced.

Abstract: Provided is a surveillance system including an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium, and detects abnormality in a predetermined surveillance region, and coordination equipment that operates in coordination with the image forming device, wherein the image forming device includes an image forming unit that forms an image on the recording medium, a detection unit that adopts an operation state including a normal mode in which the image forming unit operates normally, and a surveillance mode for detecting abnormality in the predetermined surveillance region, a switching unit that switches the operation state of the detection unit, and an output unit that outputs a message indicative of the occurrence of abnormality to the coordination equipment when the detection unit detects the abnormality.

Abstract: A reflection sensor includes the following elements. A light emitting unit emits light to an area of an image forming apparatus where first detection images of plural colors used for detecting amounts of their misregistration are formed. A first light restricting member/configuration restricts light emitted from the light emitting unit. A light receiver is disposed in an optical path of regular reflection light, and receives reflected light and outputs a signal representing an amount of received light. A second light restricting member/configuration is disposed in the optical path of the regular reflection light and restricts light to be received by the light receiver. The value obtained by dividing a diameter of the first light restricting member/configuration by that of the second light restricting member/configuration ranges from substantially 0.5 to 1.9, and the diameters of the first and second light restricting members/configurations are each 1.5 mm or smaller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes the following elements. An image forming unit forms an image by using plural predetermined colors. An index forming unit causes the image forming unit to form three or more consecutive image correcting indexes of one type by using an identical color, the image correcting indexes being used for correcting misregistration of an image to be formed. The image correcting indexes are sequentially transferred to an image carrier. A detector includes a light source emitting light to the image correcting indexes and a light receiver receiving light reflected by the image carrier and the image correcting indexes to generate a detection signal. A position specifying unit specifies a position of an image correcting index located at the center of three consecutive image correcting indexes by using the detection signal. A misregistration correcting unit corrects misregistration of an image to be formed by using the specified position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image processing unit acquiring image data, performing image processing, and generating color image data for respective colors; plural toner image forming units each forming and developing an electrostatic latent image on the basis of the color image data, and forming a color toner image; and a toner image holding member moving while holding each color toner image. Each electrostatic latent image has pixel rows arranged in a slow scan direction, with pixels aligned in a fast scan direction. The image processing unit performs, on the color image data, image processing to add or delete the pixel rows for a position of the electrostatic latent image in the slow scan direction. The number of the pixel rows corresponds to the amount of change in a moving velocity of the toner image holding member when each color toner image formed at the position is held.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes the following elements. An image forming unit forms an image by using plural predetermined colors. An index forming unit causes the image forming unit to form three or more consecutive image correcting indexes of one type by using an identical color, the image correcting indexes being used for correcting misregistration of an image to be formed. The image correcting indexes are sequentially transferred to an image carrier. A detector includes a light source emitting light to the image correcting indexes and a light receiver receiving light reflected by the image carrier and the image correcting indexes to generate a detection signal. A position specifying unit specifies a position of an image correcting index located at the center of three consecutive image correcting indexes by using the detection signal. A misregistration correcting unit corrects misregistration of an image to be formed by using the specified position.

Abstract: A reflection sensor includes the following elements. A light emitting unit emits light to an area of an image forming apparatus where first detection images of plural colors used for detecting amounts of their misregistration are formed. A first light restricting member/configuration restricts light emitted from the light emitting unit. A light receiver is disposed in an optical path of regular reflection light, and receives reflected light and outputs a signal representing an amount of received light. A second light restricting member/configuration is disposed in the optical path of the regular reflection light and restricts light to be received by the light receiver. The value obtained by dividing a diameter of the first light restricting member/configuration by that of the second light restricting member/configuration ranges from substantially 0.5 to 1.9, and the diameters of the first and second light restricting members/configurations are each 1.5 mm or smaller.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus is provided with: a toner image carrying member that moves while carrying a toner image; a transferring member that transfers, on a recording medium, the toner image that the toner image carrying member carries; a transporting unit that transports the recording medium along a transport path that passes through a transfer region where the transferring member transfers the toner image onto the recording medium; and a controller that controls a movement speed of the toner image carrying member. The controller changes the movement speed of the toner image carrying member in accordance with a position, on the transport path, of the recording medium that the transporting unit transports.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image processing unit acquiring image data, performing image processing, and generating color image data for respective colors; plural toner image forming units each forming and developing an electrostatic latent image on the basis of the color image data, and forming a color toner image; and a toner image holding member moving while holding each color toner image. Each electrostatic latent image has pixel rows arranged in a slow scan direction, with pixels aligned in a fast scan direction. The image processing unit performs, on the color image data, image processing to add or delete the pixel rows for a position of the electrostatic latent image in the slow scan direction. The number of the pixel rows corresponds to the amount of change in a moving velocity of the toner image holding member when each color toner image formed at the position is held.

Abstract: An image-forming device which is equipped with an image-holding member, an exposure section provided with plural light-emitting portions arranged in a first direction, a movement section that relatively moves the exposure section and the image-holding member in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and a light-emission control section. The light-emission control section causes the plural light-emitting portions to periodically emit light in accordance with image data representing an image that is to be formed on the image-holding member, to form the image on the image-holding member. The light-emission control section varies a light-emission period during formation of the image, so as to correct for periodic fluctuations within the image of at least one of density and magnification ratio in the second direction.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus is provided with: a toner image carrying member that moves while carrying a toner image; a transferring member that transfers, on a recording medium, the toner image that the toner image carrying member carries; a transporting unit that transports the recording medium along a transport path that passes through a transfer region where the transferring member transfers the toner image onto the recording medium; and a controller that controls a movement speed of the toner image carrying member. The controller changes the movement speed of the toner image carrying member in accordance with a position, on the transport path, of the recording medium that the transporting unit transports.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium measures, downstream of the image forming part in a transport path of the recording medium, speckles on the recording medium, and generates measured speckle data that represents speckles measured; stores the generated measured speckle data in a memory part, further measures, upstream of the image forming part in a transport path of a recording medium, the speckles of the recording medium; determines whether speckle data representing speckles analogous to speckles measured upstream of the image forming part is stored in the memory part, and, in the case where the decision result is affirmative, recognizes that the recording medium for which the speckles have been measured is a recording medium on which an image has been formed on it previous to having speckles measured upstream of the image forming part.

Abstract: An image-forming device which is equipped with an image-holding member, an exposure section provided with plural light-emitting portions arranged in a first direction, a movement section that relatively moves the exposure section and the image-holding member in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and a light-emission control section. The light-emission control section causes the plural light-emitting portions to periodically emit light in accordance with image data representing an image that is to be formed on the image-holding member, to form the image on the image-holding member. The light-emission control section varies a light-emission period during formation of the image, so as to correct for periodic fluctuations within the image of at least one of density and magnification ratio in the second direction.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a rotating polygon mirror and a correcting component that corrects misregistration of an image region in a predetermined direction. The correcting component carries out the correction by correcting image data used in modulating light beams reflected and deflected by any one reflecting surface among plural reflecting surfaces provided at the rotating polygon mirror, where the light beams scann a body-to-be-illuminated in the predetermined direction, correcting image data by each data unit used in modulating light beams which are reflected and deflected at the same reflecting surface, and correcting image data in accordance with a misregistration amount in the predetermined direction of the image region formed on the body-to-be-illuminated by the light beams which are reflected and deflected, where the misregistration amount is measured in advance for each reflecting surface of the rotating polygon mirror.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has: a recording head having plural unit recording heads divided in a direction orthogonal to a moving direction of a recording medium; a detecting section detecting at least offset of an image recorded by a vicinity of an end portion, in the direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the recording medium, of the plural unit recording heads; and a correcting section correcting recording offset of the recording head on the basis of results of detection of the detecting section.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet recording device that has a conveying unit for conveying a recording medium, plural recording head groups each structured by plural unit heads disposed along the conveying direction, and an ink receiving unit for receiving ink discharged from the unit heads. The recording head groups, correspond respectively to plural individual recording regions which are sectioned off in the recording medium transverse direction which is orthogonal to the conveying direction, are disposed so as to be at respectively different positions at adjacent individual recording regions along the conveying direction. The ink receiving unit is disposed so as to face ink drop discharging surfaces of the unit heads. The conveying unit is plural conveying belts disposed at positions evading trajectories of the ink drops from the unit heads as seen in a direction of a line normal to the recording medium so as to be divided in the conveying direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus with an image forming part and a fixing part for fixing images on a recording medium measures, downstream of the fixing part in a transport path, speckles on a recording medium, and generates measured speckle data representing the measured speckles; stores measured speckle data with standard speckle data representing speckles on a recording medium that has not undergone a fixing process; further measures, upstream of the image forming part, measures speckles on a recording medium; and when the stored standard speckle data is the most analogous to speckles measured for the second time, applies corrections in order to compensate for the lengthening of the recording medium by a fixing process to document images formed thereon, and when the stored measured speckle data is the most analogous to speckles measured for the second time, does not perform the corrections in order to compensate for the lengthening.

Abstract: The present invention provides an IC-tag-attached sheet wherein an IC tag is attached in a margin of a sheet for image formation.