Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a first carriage having a print head independently movable in a main scanning direction, a second carriage having a print head movable with the first carriage, an encoder sheet, first and second home position reference units provided to the first and second carriages, a home position detector that detects the first and second home position reference units, and first and second position detectors provided to the first and second carriages, which detect positions of the first and second carriages by reading the encoder sheet. A control unit controls ejection of ink from the print head of the first carriage based on an output from the first position detector, and ejection of ink from the print head of the second carriage based on the output from the second position detector.

Abstract: A document illuminating system includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in an array, a reflective element which guides light emitted from the light emitting elements to a document read area of a certain width and length. The reflective element includes first to third reflective portions. The second reflective portion includes one or more planar reflective faces and is disposed so that the reflective faces reflect light from the light emitting elements to one or both of the first and third reflective portions without other reflective elements. The first and third reflective portions each include one or more planar reflective faces and are disposed so that their reflective faces oppositely illuminate the document read area together by reflecting light from one or both of the light emitting elements and the second reflective portion to the document read area without other reflective elements.

Abstract: A recording device including a paper feeder tray that accommodated a recording medium, a print head that discharges ink on the recording medium to record an image thereon, a transfer roller that transfers the recording medium and a printed test chart on which multiple marks are arranged, a control device that controls the transfer roller, a first detection device that detects a rotation position of the transfer roller, a second detection device that detects the multiple marks arranged on the printed test chart, and a transfer device that transfers the recording medium from the paper feeder tray to the second detection device, wherein the control device obtains an difference between an actual transfer amount of each of the multiple marks obtained by detecting the multiple marks by the second detection device and a predetermined theoretical transfer amount of each of the multiple marks relating to a rotation position of the transfer roller, calculates a correction amount for the rotation amount of the transfer

Abstract: A recording device including a carriage head, a recording head installed onto the carriage head, the recording head having an array of nozzles that discharges ink on a recording medium, a transfer roller that transfers the recording medium in a direction along the array of nozzles, a control device that controls rotation of the transfer roller, a first detection roller that detects a rotation position of the transfer roller, and a second detection device that detects a mark printed on the recording medium by the recording head, the control device including a print control device that controls printing the marks on the recording medium in the direction along the array of nozzles from the array of nozzles of the recording head while the carriage and the transfer roller remain still, a calculation device that calculates a correction amount for use in correction of a rotation angle of the transfer roller according to a difference between an actual transfer amount of the recording medium by the transfer roller at

Abstract: A document illuminating system includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in an array, a reflective element which guides light emitted from the light emitting elements to a document read area of a certain width and length. The reflective element includes first to third reflective portions. The second reflective portion includes one or more planar reflective faces and is disposed so that the reflective faces reflect light from the light emitting elements to one or both of the first and third reflective portions without other reflective elements. The first and third reflective portions each include one or more planar reflective faces and are disposed so that their reflective faces oppositely illuminate the document read area together by reflecting light from one or both of the light emitting elements and the second reflective portion to the document read area without other reflective elements.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, a detection algorithm storage, an abnormal area detecting unit and an outputting unit. The image acquiring unit acquires image data of a corpse. The detection algorithm storage stores an abnormal area detection algorithm. The abnormal area detecting unit uses the abnormal area detection algorithm to the image data of the corpse and analyzes the image data to detect an abnormal area. The outputting unit outputs information of the abnormal area detected by the abnormal area detecting unit.

Abstract: In a magnetic particle imaging apparatus that forms an image of a distribution of magnetic particles based on changes in a magnetic flux generated by magnetization of the magnetic particles, modulation coils that magnetize magnetic particles present in a field free area by applying a modulation magnetic field to the field free area, and detection coils are disposed such as to suppress an influence caused by a magnetic flux of the modulation magnetic field applied by the modulation coils and included in a detected magnetic flux.

Abstract: In a lighting device, a light source emits light. A second sandwiching member includes a second opposed surface opposing a first opposed surface of a first sandwiching member. The first sandwiching member and the second sandwiching member sandwich the light source in such a manner that the light source is detachably attached to the first sandwiching member and the second sandwiching member. A reflection member is provided on the first opposed surface of the first sandwiching member and the second opposed surface of the second sandwiching member to reflect the light emitted by the light source toward an irradiation region on an original document sheet. A positioning member is provided in the first opposed surface of the first sandwiching member and the second opposed surface of the second sandwiching member to position the light source with respect to the reflection member.

Abstract: An examination-item database storing a plurality of types of examination items capable of examining a predetermined disease and attributes of these examination items so as to correspond to one another is prepared, the degree of risk for the predetermined disease is calculated based on individual physical information, a criterion for selection of an examination item for examining the predetermined disease is generated in accordance with the calculated degree of risk, and an examination item having an attribute meeting the selection criterion is searched out from the examination-item database. In addition, the calculated degree of risk and the examination-item database are displayed so as to correspond to the predetermined disease. This makes it possible to perform the optimal examination for each individual in accordance with the degree of risk, thereby improving the efficiency of detection of a disease.

Abstract: A medical data generating apparatus includes a data processing unit, a work-status data generation unit, a display unit and a work-status restoration unit. The data processing unit acquires medical data from a database to perform data processing. The work-status data generation unit generates work-status data as a data record of medical data. The work-status data indicates a work status of the data processing. The display unit acquires medical data including at least one piece of work-status data from the database to list the acquired pieces of the medical data on a display device together with identification information of the acquired piece of the work-status data. The work-status restoration unit restores a work status of a data processing corresponding to a selected piece of work-status data based on the selected piece of the work-status data.

Abstract: An optical reader which reads image information on an original document by moving to the original document includes an illumination unit having at least one light source arranged on a substrate and illuminating the original document, a plurality of mirrors reflecting reflection light from the original document, a focusing lens focusing the reflection light from the original document reflected by the mirrors, and a photoelectric conversion element arranged in a focusing position of the focusing lens, a normal direction of an emission surface of the light source and a normal direction of a light-receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion element are the same direction, an original document reading position is set near an end portion of the optical reader in the normal direction.

Abstract: In an image reader, an optical scanning unit reads an original image on an original document sheet. In the optical scanning unit, a lighting device is detachably attached to a housing to emit light toward the original document sheet. The housing houses a reading device to read the light reflected by the original document sheet. A shield member is detachably attached to the housing to shield the reading device from the lighting device to form a space for the reading device inside the housing. A slit is provided in the shield member to guide the light reflected by the original document sheet to the space for the reading device. A second positioner is provided on the shield member to engage a first positioner provided in the housing to position the reading device with respect to the lighting device.

Abstract: A radiotherapy treatment support apparatus includes a storage unit which stores absorption dose volume data expressing a spatial distribution of absorption dose in a subject, a generation unit which generates fusion data associated with morphology volume data of the subject and the absorption dose volume data so as to be associated with a plurality of segments, and a display unit which displays an image which has the distribution of absorption dose superimposed on the two-dimensional morphology image of the subject using the fusion data.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage; a first head group including a recording head and disposed on the carriage; and a second head group including a recording head and disposed on the carriage adjacent the first head group in a staggered manner with respect to a sub-scan direction. The carriage is configured to move in a main scan direction in order to record an image on a recording medium. The recording apparatus further includes a forming unit configured to form plural test patterns including a first pattern formed by the recording head of the first head group and a second pattern formed by the recording head of the second head group. The test patterns are spaced apart from one another in the sub-scan direction. The position of the second pattern relative to the first pattern in the sub-scan direction is varied successively from one test pattern to another.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus is disclosed that includes plural line image sensors partially overlapped with each other in an overlapped reading portion, the image reading apparatus characterized by: plural light sources disposed so as to face the overlapped reading portion; a light source turn-on unit sequentially and independently turning on the light sources; an optical unit converging each light emitted from the light sources onto the overlapped reading portion; and a position shift detecting unit detecting a position shift of a reading position of the line image sensors in the overlapped reading portion based on data of the overlapped reading portion.

Abstract: An image reader feeds a document to read document information at a still position from below a glass platen. The image reader is configured to include a document feeder unit feeding a document in a predetermined direction, a glass platen provided below the document feeder unit, an illumination unit provided on or above the glass platen and including a surface light source which is long in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction and illuminates the document, and a document reader unit reading document information at a still position from below the glass platen. Such an image reader can illuminate documents efficiently with less electric power and achieve thinning of the illumination unit.

Abstract: A image reading apparatus includes a plurality of point light sources, arranged in a straight line state, configured to output light for lighting a document situated on a contact glass from a lower side of the contact glass, a light leading member, positioned in front in a light outputting direction of the light output from the point light sources, configured to lead the light output from the point light sources so as to irradiate along a main scanning direction toward the document situated on the contact glass, and a photoelectric conversion element configured to receive reflection light from the document. The light leading member includes positioning means configured to make a gap between each of the point light sources arranged in a line state and the light leading member constant and make an arrangement direction of the point light sources be positioned along a longitudinal direction of the light leading member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes a recording head having a plurality of nozzles and scanning in forward and backward scanning directions to form dot images on the recording medium, an imaging unit imaging an image on the recording medium, a detection unit detecting a positional shift amounts of the dot images and inclination amounts of the recording head based on calibration image data obtained by imaging two first marks and two second marks in a single view by the imaging unit, and a correction unit correcting a drive of the recording head based on the detected positional shift amounts and the inclination amounts of the recording head.

Abstract: The image read-out device comprises an integrally formed scanning optical unit in which a light source which emits light toward a document, a plurality of reflective mirrors reflecting the light which is emitted from the light source to the document and then reflected, an image forming lens converging the light reflected by a final reflective mirror which finally reflects the light, among the plurality of mirrors, and a light receiving sensor for receiving the light converged by the image forming lens are integrally mounted on a housing, the integrally formed scanning optical unit moving in a scanning direction and reading out an image of the document, wherein an opening is provided on each of top and bottom surfaces of the housing, and wherein the area of the opening provided on the bottom surface is equal or more than that of the opening provided on the top surface.

Abstract: A lighting unit, includes: a light source section wherein a plurality of light-emitting sources are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a direction of each light-emitting optical axis of each light-emitting source and linearly at predetermined intervals; and a reflecting section which reflects light emitted toward a direction along a document mounting surface from the light source section arranged along the document mounting surface toward an irradiated region of the document mounting surface, the reflecting section having: a first reflecting surface disposed closer to the light source section than to the irradiated region; and a second reflecting surface disposed more distant from the light source section than from the irradiated region.