Abstract: A print area is acquired from a spool file of each page, and the acquired print area is compared with a print area of a target sheet fed from a printing apparatus. It is determined whether the sheet can be replaced with a sheet smaller than a sheet size set in print data. If it is determined that the sheet can be replaced with a sheet smaller than the sheet size set in the print data, a sheet size changing screen showing information concerning replaceable sheet size candidates is displayed in a display unit. A print control command used for changing the sheet size set in drawing information that is input to a sheet size selected on the sheet size changing screen is added to the print data and the print data to which the print control command is added is transmitted to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A transfer method for transferring data between a digital still camera and a printer in direct communication with each other. The digital still camera stores an image file of an input image and a conversion file including conversion information for carrying out color conversion in a preset color space common to both the digital still camera and the printer. The method includes a first transfer step of transferring from the digital still camera to the printer the conversion file and a second transfer step of transferring the image file from the digital still camera to the printer. The printer carries out color conversion of and outputs the image of the image file transferred in the second transfer step using the conversion information included in the conversion file transferred in the first transfer step.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acceptance section that accepts a plurality of image data which are objects of image formation processing, and instruction description in which at least one instruction of image formation processing performed to the accepted image data, and instruction of at least one attendant processing to be performed accompanying the image formation processing are described; an acquisition section that acquires setting information for representing setting of an image formation apparatus for executing the image formation processing; an instruction generation section that generates at least one processing instruction based on the instruction description, the accepted image data, and the setting information, wherein the processing instruction is generated for image data to which same image formation processing and same attendant processing are to be performed; and a sending section that sends the processing instruction to the image formation apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a printing system, printing method, and printing program for printing the content data of the website browsed by the terminal which mounted memory has a small capacity such as mobile phone. The mobile phone transmits the access information such as address information of the content data to be printed held in the web server to the print server; the print server access the web server based on the access information, downloads the content data to be printed and transmits the content data to the multi-function printer; and the multi-function printer prints the content data.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of archiving and transmitting image data of a customer to a development laboratory (20), wherein the customer inputs the image data at an input device (1) and there selects at least one image product (15) to be produced by the development laboratory (20) as an order, from which order data are produced by the input device (1). In order in that respect to provide a possible way of archiving image data, it is provided in accordance with the invention that the image data and the order data of the customer after the selection of the at least one image product (15) are stored on a separate data carrier (9) and that on the basis of said data carrier (9) which is transmitted to the development laboratory (20) the at least one selected image product (15) is produced and delivered with the data carrier (9) to the customer. The invention also concerns a corresponding device and a corresponding data carrier for archiving and transmitting image data.

Abstract: A printer system facilitating establishment of customer service level requirements includes at least one printing device, a system computer in communications with the printing device, and at least one user computer in communications with the system computer. A database stored in the system computer includes a decision table having a rules set comprising at least one of customer cost rules, shop schedule rules, resource availability rules, and capacity rules. A method of establishing customer service level requirements for web based production print jobs includes uploading at least one digital file defining print job content from the user computer to the printer system computer via the Internet. At least one specification variable, selected from the number of copies to be printed, the print job cost, the print job quality, or the delivery date is selected.

Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a printing program causing a computer to execute a process includes searching a keyword from text data and generating a signal for holding printing of the text data when the keyword has been found.

Abstract: A method for providing three-dimensional graphical representations of printer outputs is disclosed. A determination is initially made as whether or not a print datastream includes medium control. If the print datastream includes medium control, medium control information are extracted from an include medium map within the print datastream in order to rasterize the medium control on a texture map. The rasterized texture map is then applied to a three-dimensional page object. The three-dimensional page object is subsequently displayed on a display device for an end user to view.

Abstract: A system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an image processing path and a print engine coupled to the image processing path. The image processing path processes an input image in a wavelet domain.

Abstract: A management label has a color loss determination area that enables easy determination of color loss. An identification color printing area 11 where an inventory control color for managing products and a color loss determination area 15 for determining color loss are printed on the label side 10a of an inventory management label 10. The color loss determination area 15 contains a color loss determination section 18 including the letters “NG” printed with a black coloring agent, and a background portion 19 that is printed using cyan, magenta, and yellow coloring agents. When there is no color loss and the letters “NG” and background portion 19 are printed normally, the letters “NG” and background portion 19 are both gray and the “NG” letters cannot be read. If one of the colors is lost, the printed colors change, the letters “NG” become discernable, and color loss can be easily determined.

Abstract: A method and system for color calibration or color output device spectrophotoically measures at test target including a preselected test color value. A multi-dimensional LUT of the device is generated representative of the color information including the at least one preselected color. Producing a second image width device including the at least one preselected color located at a plurality of spatial locations in the second image. A second sensor measures the second image and a plurality of spatial locations having the preselected color for generating reflectance information for the preselected color at the plurality of spatial locations. An error is determined between the measured color of the one preselected color and the reflectance information at the other pixel locations. A multi-dimensional LUT is adjusted to minimize spatial uniformity errors at the other pixel locations, thus calibrating device color output spatially.

Abstract: A system and method for improving the appearance of a raster image that includes glyph shapes is provided. A pair of glyph shapes is defined. Each glyph shape is differentiated two-dimensional machine readable data of relatively uniform appearance. Each of the glyph shapes is assigned to a different bit value. Digital data from an input source is encoded into a bitmap image space by representing a bit value for each item of the digital data as the glyph shape corresponding to that bit value. A raster image of the encoded glyph shapes is generated from the bitmap image space.

Abstract: A computer-executable information tracking method, an image forming apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a program to adequately track the information flow of a paper document are disclosed. The method includes a first detecting step of, whenever an input or output of information is performed using a paper as a medium, detecting paper identification information that uniquely identifies the paper from other paper; a storing step of associating and storing the paper identification information with information regarding the input or output of information in a recording device; a second detecting step of detecting the paper identification information of a designated paper; an information searching step of searching for the information regarding the input or output of information on the designated paper by comparing the paper identification information of the designated paper with the paper identification information stored in the recording device.

Abstract: A digital camera supplies an image file to a printer and instructs the printer to print the image. If notification, which indicates that printing has failed due to the image file, is received from the printer, the digital camera reduces the data size of the image file and then again supplies the image file to the printer and instructs the printer to print the image.

Abstract: In an image processor, a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) decoder decodes JPEG-compressed image data and stores the image data in a first Static Random Access Memory (SRAM). A Modified Modified Read (MMR) decoder decodes MMR-compressed separation data and stores the separation data in a second SRAM. A multivaluing unit performs multivalue processing on the separation data such that the total length of the separation data and the image data are 32 bits for each pixel. An image synthesizer synthesizes the separation data and the image data multivalued for each pixel into data with a length of 32 bits.

Abstract: This image data processing device DP1 is equipped with a frame video data acquiring unit 40 and driving video data generator 50. The frame video data acquiring unit 40 acquires first frame video data FR(N) that shows first original images, as well as second frame video data FR(N+1) that show second original images that are displayed following the first original images. The driving video data generator 50 generates first through fourth driving video data DFI1(N), DFI2(N), DFI1(N+1), DFI2(N+1) that respectively show first through fourth driving images to be sequentially displayed on the image display device. First and second driving video data DFI1(N), DFI2(N) are generated based on first frame video data FR(N). Third and fourth driving video data DFI1(N+1), DFI2(N+1) are generated based on second frame video data FR(N+1). The color of the pixel in a part of the second driving image constitutes the complementary color of the color of the corresponding pixel in the first driving image.

Abstract: There are provided a sensor which is small, suitable for reflow soldering by automatic cleaning and automatic mounting, can be manufactured in batch, and has a switch function, and a manufacturing method of the sensor, and a portable telephone having the sensor built therein. There are provided a sensor having a switch function, the sensor being composed of a first substrate composed of a semiconductor by which a conducting part of the switch is formed, a second substrate composed of the semiconductor by which a conducting part of the switch is formed or an insulator by which the conducting part of the switch is formed, and a moving member having conductivity, wherein any of the first substrate and the second substrate has a cavity-shaped portion and the moving member having conductivity is confined by the first substrate and the second substrate, and a manufacturing method of the sensor, and an electronic device having the sensor built therein.

Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes a document feed device configured to separate documents and to feed the documents one by one from a paper feed tray, an image reading device configured to read an image of each the documents at a reading position provided on a reading glass plate, and a document holding member arranged on a front surface side of the reading glass plate at a position opposing the image reading device. The document reading apparatus also includes a first and a second reading pattern mark provided on the document holding member at a first and second position opposing the surface of the reading glass plate, respectively. The first and second reading pattern marks have a length which is greater than a width of each of the documents.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image reading apparatus: transporting a document using an automatic document feeding unit in a predetermined direction while the document floats above a platen glass member; reading an image on the document, at a predetermined reading location, by irradiating a portion on the document at the reading location using a light source disposed below the platen glass member, and by receiving reflected light from the portion on the document; converting the reflected light into image data; detecting the floating amount of the document from the platen glass member; and setting a value of an image parameter for correcting the image data for the document, based on the detected floating amount of the document.

Abstract: A scanning device includes an input tray, an input path, an output path, an output tray, a first scanning head, a second scanning head and a sheet-transporting mechanism. The input tray stores a plurality of documents. The input path is connected to the input tray and the output path, and the output tray is connected to the output path. The first scanning head on the input path scans a backside of each document to output a backside image signal. The second scanning head on the output path scans a front side of each document to output a front side image signal. The sheet-transporting mechanism transports each document from the input tray to the output tray sequentially along the input path and the output path. The sheet-transporting mechanism transports each document in the input path in one direction and in the output path in a reverse direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is capable of accurately reading out a document without various data transmission between a document feeding section and a document reading section. The reading position setter sets a fresh document reading position (RP3) at a position where no foreign object (F) adheres. A shift distance calculator calculates a shift distance (Z) between an upstream-most reading position (RP2) and the refresh document reading position (RP3). A delay time calculator calculates delay time based on the calculated shift distance (Z). A start signal sender instructs the document reading section to start reading a document (P) when the leading end of the document (P) reaches the upstream-most reading position (RP2). An ASIC outputs the instruction to start reading the document to an A/D with a delay of the feed delay time found by the delay time calculator to instruct an image sensor to start reading the document (P).

Abstract: Described is an illumination arrangement for an imager. A device comprises a scanning engine, a housing with the scanning engine residing inside the housing and an illumination arrangement coupled to the housing providing illumination for the scanning engine. The illumination has a direct line of sight to an object at which the scanning engine is directed.

Abstract: During a display of a slideshow of a composite image comprising a plurality of images, a user operates a print bookmark, resulting in composite images and individual images that can be printed being set and stored as print candidate images. By displaying, in a list; stored candidate images on a display unit as print candidate images, an image processing apparatus is provided which enables the user to specify a desired image for printing.

Abstract: A holographic record carrier is a holographic record carrier in or from which information is recorded or reproduced by irradiation of light, comprising: a holographic recording layer for storing a light interference pattern based on components of coherent reference light and signal light as a diffraction grating in the inside thereof; and a reflective function layer laminated on a side opposite to the light incidence side of the holographic recording layer, the reflective function layer being sensitive to the intensity of irradiated light so that a non-reflective region appears in an irradiated portion thereof.

Abstract: A hologram record carrier has a substrate and a reflective layer, wherein recording or reproducing of information is performed by light irradiation. The hologram record carrier further comprises a holographic recording layer that reserves an optical interference pattern comprising components of coherent reference light and signal light as a diffractive grating therein, and a two-dimensional recording layer that is laminated in a film thickness direction of the holographic recording layer and whose physical property changes in response to light intensity.

Abstract: An electro optical device includes a plurality of electro optical elements arranged on a surface of a first substrate, a plurality of positive diffractive lenses each for focusing a bundle of rays by diffracting light emitted from the each electro optical element, and a light shielding layer on which a plurality of apertures through which light diffracted by the each positive diffractive lens pass are formed.

Abstract: The invention describes a collinear optical head for a reflection-type holographic recording medium, which is capable of obtaining an increased capacity. The optical head presented here allows for high capacity by combining holographic multiplexing methods, based on a shift and/or phase-coded reference beam, and/or scanned reference beam and/or angle and/or confocal addressing techniques. The parallel reading method and the format of the holographic recording medium ensure high-speed data transfer. Combined multiplexing is implemented in the system by means of a confocal optical arrangement that reduces crosstalk between adjacent holograms by filtering out object beams unintentionally reconstructed from non-addressed holograms.

Abstract: An apparatus to control the incident angle of a reference beam, includes a first lens element to allow the reference beam to be incident on a holographic recording medium, and a driving portion to provide the reference beam to the first lens element and to move in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to change the incident position of the reference beam on the first lens element in a radial direction of the first lens element, wherein the incident angle of the reference beam incident on the holographic recording medium is determined according to the incident position of the reference beam in a radial direction of the first lens element.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to prevent lowering of a dynamic range of a hologram recording medium without lowering an average data transfer rate, and to provide stabilized recording sensitivity. A scheduler determines a recording interval time from the point of time when light is irradiated to record a certain hologram of holograms to be multiplex-recorded to the point of time when light is irradiated to record a succeeding hologram in such a manner that at least parts of the holograms are recorded one over the other in a certain recording area. A recording interval time controller controls a light source to irradiate the light depending on the recording interval time determined by the scheduler.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a duplicate hologram recording medium includes: a positioning section configured to place the duplication master and the duplicate hologram recording medium at predetermined relative positions; an angle selective plate arranged between the duplication master and the duplicate hologram recording medium, the angle selective plate having an angle selective film whose transmittance changes in accordance with an incidence angle of a light beam; and a duplicating-reference-beam generating and radiating section generating a duplicating reference beam, and radiating the duplicating reference beam at such an incidence angle that the duplicating reference beam is transmitted through a predetermined region of a recording layer of the duplication master and is reflected by the angle selective film.

Abstract: An apparatus for the distribution of laser light from a light source (3) and/or an entry light waveguide (1) on to at least two and in particular a plurality of exit light waveguides (2), wherein the apparatus has at least one light deflection element (4) which rotates, preferably continuously, in operation of the apparatus and which is provided for deflecting laser light out of the entry light waveguide (1) and/or the light source (3) in the direction of the exit light waveguides (2).

Abstract: A MEMS-based projector may be included in various user devices. A selective fold mirror, a MEMS-based projector, and a polarization rotator may be oriented to reflect a beam within the device for external projection. Alternatively, a total internal reflection prism may take the place of a selective fold mirror or a polarization rotator and may reduce the number of necessary components in the user device. Various optical components may be placed in the MEMS-based projector and arranged in different positions to reflect a light beam in a desired direction for external projection. The components that make up the MEMS-based projector may depend on the available footprint in the device and the direction in which the light beam is to be projected. Some optical components may provide multiple functionalities which would otherwise require multiple components and may reduce the size of the projector.

Abstract: A mirror device of one embodiment of the invention is for a projection system corresponding to one of a pixel and a sub-pixel of image data to be projected by the projection system. The mirror device comprises a plurality of tiltable mirrors. The mirrors are cooperatively tilted based on the one of the pixel and the sub-pixel of the image data, to reflect light projected incident thereto in accordance with the one of the pixel and the sub-pixel of the image data.

Abstract: An optical apparatus is disclosed which is capable of preventing degradation of image quality caused by an ND filter. The optical apparatus includes an aperture stop having an aperture variable in size, and an ND filter movable with respect to the aperture of the aperture stop, an actuator that drives the ND filter, and a controller that controls the actuator. The ND filter includes a part having a size that can fully cover a first aperture that is the aperture with the aperture stop being narrowed. The controller controls the actuator so that the ND filter is moved without a halt between a first position where the part is retracted with respect to the first aperture with the aperture stop being narrowed, and a second position where the part fully covers the first aperture in any stop operation.

Abstract: Light in the visible spectrum is modulated using an array of modulation elements, and control circuitry connected to the array for controlling each of the modulation elements independently, each of the modulation elements having a surface which is caused to exhibit a predetermined impedance characteristic to particular frequencies of light. The amplitude of light delivered by each of the modulation elements is controlled independently by pulse code modulation. Each modulation element has a deformable portion held under tensile stress, and the control circuitry controls the deformation of the deformable portion. Each deformable element has a deformation mechanism and an optical portion, the deformation mechanism and the optical portion independently imparting to the element respectively a controlled deformation characteristic and a controlled modulation characteristic. The deformable modulation element may be a non-metal.

Abstract: A polarizer includes a base; a grid formed on the base; and low-reflective members formed on surfaces of the grid. The low-reflective members face an incident direction of an external light, so that a bright room contrast and a visibility can be improved.

Abstract: A reflective light modulator is provided. The reflective light modulator includes: a transparent electrode passing through light from a light source; a driving substrate configured to reflect the light from the transparent electrode; a light-modulating material sandwiched between the transparent electrode and the driving substrate; and a transparent glass substrate. The transparent glass substrate is arranged in contact with the surface of the transparent electrode substrate on the light source side. Furthermore, the transparent glass substrate has a thermal conductivity of 0.003 cal/(cm·sec·K) or more at 20° C.

Abstract: A light sideband sequence having a uniform intensity distribution is generated by inputting a light beam to an electro-optic phase modulator from a laser source, subjecting a phase modulation to the light beam and setting a predetermined spatial distribution of the phase modulation index to cancel out the spatial distribution of the light beam.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electro-optical device including: a plurality of electro-optical elements of which the intensity of emitted light is controlled according to drive signals; a plurality of unit circuits which output the drive signals; and a plurality of signal generation circuits which generate control signals according to correction data, wherein the plurality of unit circuits include a plurality of independent unit circuits which generate the drive signals according to the control signal generated by any of the plurality of signal generation circuits and gray scale levels of the electro-optical elements, and a dependent unit circuit which generates the drive signal according to a control signal supplied to a first independent unit circuit and a control signal supplied to a second independent unit circuit among the plurality of independent unit circuits and the gray scale levels of the electro-optical elements.

Abstract: A variable optical attenuator comprising a separation/combination birefringent element, fixed polarization rotation means, a convex lens, variable polarization rotation means, and a mirror which are arranged in that order. The fixed polarization rotation means has a compensation film Faraday element placed in a cylindrical permanent magnet, and the variable polarization rotation means has a base film Faraday element that is placed outside the cylindrical permanent magnet, and an electromagnet applying a variable magnetic field thereto. Thereby, both the Faraday elements are magnetized in directions different from each other.

Abstract: A micro-electro mechanical light modulator device includes a movable reflective plate, a fixed partial reflective plate, an optical gap defined between the reflective plate and the fixed plate, and an actuator configured to move the reflective plate through an operating range wherein a neutral state position of the reflective plate approximately corresponds to a black state value of the optical gap.

Abstract: The present invention provides an acoustooptic device usable even with light in the ultraviolet region, free from laser damage and optical damage, and excellent in acoustooptic performance and an optical imaging apparatus using the same. The acoustooptic device according to the present invention includes a high-frequency signal input part (65), a transducer part (64), and an acoustooptic medium (6). A high-frequency signal input from the high-frequency signal input part (65) is converted into a mechanical vibration by the transducer part (64), and an optical characteristic of the acoustooptic medium (6) varies depending on the mechanical vibration. The acoustooptic medium is formed of a Group III nitride crystal. The optical imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a light source, an acoustooptic device, a driving circuit, and an image plane.

Abstract: The invention relates a wire grid polarizer that includes a micropatterned substrate having channels. An electrically conductive material is disposed on the micropatterned substrate in strips having a width of 10 to 20 nm and oriented either parallel or perpendicular to the channels.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a micromirror device with multi-axis rotational and translational motion. Newly introduced structure of the top electrode plate improves structural stability, flexibility, and more motion efficiency of the micromirror device. The invention also improves controllability of micromirror motion by designing the appropriate flexible structure to generate desired motion. With side-by-side arrangement of the micromirror devices, the micromirror devices are built as an array to form a micromirror array lens.

Abstract: A deformable mirror formed out of two layers of a nanolaminate foil attached to a stiff substrate is introduced. Deformation is provided by an electrostatic force between two of the layers. The internal stiffness of the structure allows for high-spatial-frequency shapes. The nanolaminate foil of the present invention allows for a high-quality mirror surface. The device achieves high precision in the vertical direction by using foils with accurately controlled thicknesses, but does not require high precision in the lateral dimensions, allowing such mirrors to be fabricated using crude lithography techniques. Such techniques allow structures up to about the meter scale to be fabricated.

Abstract: This invention relates to MEMS display apparatus and methods for assembly thereof that include a plurality of light modulators having components substantially surrounded in a liquid that reduces the effects of stiction and improves the optical and electromechanical performance of the display apparatus. The invention also relates to methods for aligning components of a MEMS display to establish a correspondence between the plurality of light modulators and a plurality of apertures to regulate the transmission of light through the apparatus.

Abstract: An optical device employs a fluid host medium (30) including a polar liquid (31) and an apolar liquid (32). The optical device further employs one or more electro-optically sensitive flakes (40-42) disposed within fluid host medium (30). To facilitate a switching of the optical device among a plurality of optical states (e.g., varying degrees of light reflecting states, light absorbing states, light fluorescing states and/or light transmitting states), each flake (40-42) has one or more hydrophilic layers (44) interfacing with the polar liquid (31) and/or one or more hydrophobic layers (45) interfacing with the apolar liquid (32).

Abstract: An electrophoretic display panel with a fast response speed and its fabrication method are disclosed. The electrophoretic display panel includes a first array substrate including a gate line and a data line extending perpendicularly to each other, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The electrophoretic display panel also includes a second array substrate coupled the first array substrate and including a common electrode capable of forming an electric field with the pixel electrode, a spacer formed on at least one of the first array substrate or the second array substrate to define a charging region in the pixel region; and an electrophoretic medium in the charging region between the first and second array substrates.

Abstract: A mixture of a first material having high chemical affinity for the electrophoretic particles 6a and a second material having low chemical affinity therefor is used as a binder for fixing microcapsules 5 between a first electrode 3 and a second electrode 4.

Abstract: To induce a targeted non-linear optical effect by a high-peak-power light by using a light pulse from a semiconductor laser without using a light pulse from a large, high-average-power solid laser such as titanium sapphire laser. A semiconductor laser pulse beam with a wavelength of 1550 nm (for example, repeatability of 1 MHz) from a semiconductor laser (laser diode: LD) is efficiently amplified in two stages, front-end and main EDFAs. An optical filter removes a spontaneous emission light component that is noise. An optical filter picks up, from the amplified pulse beam, second harmonic light pulse produced by the non-linearity of an optical device (frequency polarization inversion Mg-added LiNbO3:PPMgLN) to produce a super-continuum light in a 800 nm wavelength region from a photonic crystal fiber (PCF).