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The invention relates to a distortion compensating apparatus, a wireless communication apparatus, and a distortion compensating method. The distortion compensating apparatus comprises the following units: an information measuring unit which measures a distortion component and an electric power component based on a radiation signal; a compensation coefficient calculating unit which calculates a compensation coefficient based on the distortion component and the electric power component; a signal transmitting unit which outputs a signal corrected by the compensation coefficient as a transmission signal; a signal converting unit which converts the transmission signal into a high frequency signal; an amplitude separating unit which amplifies the high frequency signal and separates a portion thereof as a signal to be fed back; a feeding-back unit which processes the separated portion and outputs the result as a feedback signal to the information measuring unit; and an electric power information extracting unit which outputs a portion of the high frequency signal as the radiation signal, extracts electric power information from the radiation signal, and directly outputs the electric power information to the information measuring unit.

The invention provides a sheet binding device, a sheet processing apparatus, and an image forming system. The sheet binding device includes: a pair of crimping members each including alternately-arranged multiple recesses and multiple protrusions to bind a sheaf of sheets by fitting the recesses and the protrusions with the sheet sheaf interposed therebetween. When the recesses and the protrusions of the pair of crimping members are fitted, slanted side faces of the protrusions of one of the pair of crimping members and that of the other one of the pair of crimping members are in contact with each other with a clearance left both between top portions of the protrusions of the one of the crimping members and bottom portions of the recesses of the other one of the crimping members and between top portions of the protrusions of the other one of the crimping members and bottom portions of the recesses of the one of the crimping members.

In a POS terminal apparatus, a specific commodity is selected (S2) as a reserved commodity from advertised commodities displayed on a display with touch panel for customers during execution of commodity registration processing by a commodity-registration processing section Then, the commodity-registration processing section causes the display with touch panel for customers and a display with touch panel for salesclerks to additionally display details information of the reserved commodity in details spaces of commodity lists displayed on respective screens of the displays. When a subtotal key is depressed, a deposit processing section calculates an amount of a deposit and causes the display with touch panel for customers to display the amount of the deposit. When a total key is depressed, a change calculating section calculates a change amount. A receipt printing section causes a printing device to print account settlement contents of purchased commodities and the reserved commodity and reservation indication on a receipt sheet.

The invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing system and method. The image processing apparatus sections an image to be processed into a plurality of blocks, rearranges the blocks into positions specified by an encryption key that uniquely specifies the positions of the blocks in the image, determines a computing method used to convert pixel values of pixels that form a minimum area included in each of the blocks after the blocks are rearranged based on the pixel values of predetermined pixels that do not belong to the minimum area, and converts the pixel values based on the computing method.

An image reading device and an image processing method are disclosed. The image reading device includes a touch panel, a storage unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes a screen display unit and a keyboard display unit, the screen display unit displays on the touch panel a screen area including a text input area where user input is possible, the keyboard The display unit displays a part of the screen area including the selected text input area and the keyboard screen on the touch panel when the user performs an operation of selecting the text input area by means of the touch panel.

At least one of ground contact pressure, shear stress and amount of skidding is measured at a measurement point (P) on a tread surface (4) of a tire (1). A sensor (3) is arranged on a road surface (2) and the measurement point (P) is made to contact the sensor while the tire rotates. An initial position of the tire is set, where the measurement point is at a previously-set reference position (D1) and the tire is at a running start position on the road surface. The tire is made to run from the initial position to obtain a rotation angle (Theta) difference between a tire rotation angle until the rotation axis (O) of the tire passes over the arrangement position of the sensor and a tire rotation angle Theta until the measurement point contacts the road surface. The tire is set at the initial position and rotated by without changing the running start position of the tire.

An image processing apparatus includes a decimating unit configured to decimate pixels in a target image to obtain a decimated image containing a smaller number of pixels than the target image; an extracting unit configured to extract similar pixels at each of which a similarity to a pixel of interest is a threshold or more, from a region containing the pixel of interest among pixels of the decimated image; a first calculating unit configured to calculate a correction candidate value based on pixel values of the similar pixels; a second calculating unit configured to calculate a correction candidate value for each decimated pixel, based on the correction candidate value calculated for each pixel of the decimated image; and a correcting unit configured to correct a target pixel value of a target pixel in the target image, based on the correction candidate value calculated by the first or second calculating unit.

A magnetic disk control apparatus includes an error determining unit and a correcting unit. When a correctable read error has occurred during read access to a disk drive, the error determining unit specifies an area on the disk drive where an error may occur due to the same cause as that of the correctable read error. The correcting unit corrects the area specified by the error determining unit by rewriting the area.

A group 13 nitride crystal has a hexagonal crystal structure containing a nitrogen atom and at least one type of metal atom selected from the group consisting of B, Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The group 13 nitride crystal has a basal plane dislocation in a plurality of directions. Dislocation density of the basal plane dislocation is higher than dislocation density of a threading dislocation of a c-plane.

A image processing apparatus includes a color converting unit (6); a registration list (35) that registers a plurality of paper profiles associated with a plurality of registered papers; a parameter managing unit (13) that includes a function of extracting a registered paper capable of approximating color reproduction characteristics of a user's paper sheet from among the registered papers registered in the registration list (35), based on a feature amount calculated from spectral reflectance characteristics of the user's paper sheet set in an image forming apparatus (42); and a user interface for receiving a user operation that instructs the parameter managing unit (13) to extract a registered paper capable of approximating the color reproduction characteristics of the user's paper sheet, and for presenting the registered paper extracted by the parameter managing unit (13) to the user.

The present invention provides a CAD apparatus for designing printing circuit board, method and a computer prodcut.In a computer aided design (CAD), apparatus, an editing unit displays an editing screen for editing a circuit diagram. An association-data acquiring unit acquires association data that defines an association between a first pin of a first connector included in the circuit diagram being edited on the editing screen and a second pin of a second connector to be connected to the first connector. An attribute display unit acquires, when the first pin is specified on the editing screen, attribute information of the second pin associated with the first pin based on the association data, and displays the attribute information.

The invention relates to a protective-agent applying device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus. The protective-agent applying device applies a protective agent mainly containing paraffin to a photosensitive element. The protective-agent applying device applies a protective agent to a surface of the photosensitive element in such a manner that when applying the protective agent for 10 minutes, the protective agent equal to or more than 0.5 mug / cm<2> adheres to the surface, and when applying the protective agent for 60 minutes, the protective agent equal to or less than 8 mug / cm<2> adheres to the surface.

A method is for manufacturing laminated glass. The method includes: cutting a first glass and a second glass out of one sheet of glass having a corrugation formed in a predetermined direction, in such a manner that corresponding sides of the first glass and the second glass are cut in a same cutting direction; and bonding the first glass and the second glass together in such a manner that the corrugation of the first glass and the corrugation of the second glass are aligned with each other.

The invention provides a decoding device and a decoding method. The decoding means decodes, into an audio signal, first encoded data which is encoded to a first time range based on a low frequency component of the audio signal, and second encoded data which is encoded in accordance with the audio signal. The low frequency components are used when generating the high frequency components of the audio signal and encoded into the second time range. In the decoding device, a high frequency component compensating unit compensates a high frequency component generated from the second encoded data based on the first time range. The decoding unit decodes the audio signal by synthesizing the high frequency component compensated by the high frequency component compensating unit and the low frequency component decoded from the first decoded data.

The invention provides a sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and sheet processing method. The sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet stacking unit on which sheets are accommodated and stacked as a sheet bundle; an aligning member that is movable along a trailing end, in a conveying direction, of the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacking unit and that aligns the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction by abutting thereon; a binding unit that moves along the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction and binds the aligned sheet bundle; and a moving unit that moves the aligning member in the sheet conveying direction. A distance from the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction to a binding position is adjusted by moving the aligning member in the sheet conveying direction.

The invention relates to an automatic document feeder, an image reading device, an image forming apparatus, and an image forming system. The automatic document feeder comprises: a first conveyance portion through which documents from a bundle of documents placed on a paper feeding tray are separated from one another and conveyed to a reading position; a second conveyance portion through which a document having been conveyed to the reading position is ejected onto a paper ejection tray; a detector that detects any one mode from a productivity mode and a silent mode; and a controller that controls, when the detector has detected the productivity mode, the first conveyance portion so as to bring a conveyance speed in the first conveyance portion to a first conveyance speed, and, when the detector has detected the silent mode, controls the first conveyance portion so as to bring a conveyance speed in the first conveyance portion to a second conveyance speed that is slower than the first conveyance speed.

A document acquiring unit in the invention, acquires document image data containing documents with images having a size larger than a size of a screen of a display unit; and a display control data appointing an order for reading the documents and a range of document image data to be displayed. A display control unit controls display of the appointed range by moving a display region on the screen based on the appointed order. A judging unit judges whether a width of a range of the acquired document image data in a row direction is wider than a width of the screen. The display control unit moves the display region according to a judged result of the judging unit.

An image processing apparatus includes a control unit and an output unit. The control unit includes an image output unit that arranges an image read by reading processing in an area shifted in a certain direction in a display area in which read image on which reading processing is performed by an image reading apparatus is displayed, and outputs the image to the output unit.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem wherein advertisements are often, concurrently distributed in the same area in order to increase the appeal effect of the advertisements, and, when a conventional content distributing method is used, the case where traffic concentrates to a server to delay the communication and advertisement cannot be distributed as scheduled occurs frequently. ŽSOLUTION: An advertisement server device transmits power supply control information for specifying the start time of an advertisement display device to the advertisement display device, the advertisement display device is connected to an uninterruptible power supply and has at least a control section and a storage section. The control section receives the transmitted power supply control information, stores the power supply control information in the storage section, and transmits the power supply control information to the uninterruptible power supply. The uninterruptible power supply stores the power supply control information transmitted by a start time control means, and starts the advertisement display device according to the power supply control information. A control section of the started advertisement display device randomly sets timing of accessing the advertisement server device and downloading the advertisement information from the advertisement server device, and executes the operation. Ž

An operation display unit displays an operation screen for receiving input. A first storage unit stores therein a file that contains a definition of a screen described in a markup language, and a compound content that contains a still image and a moving image. A browser unit displays a markup content based on the definition on the operation screen by executing the file. A displaying unit displays the compound content on the operation screen. A control unit controls switch between display of the markup content and display of the compound content on the operation screen.

An attribute determining unit determines an attribute of image data of an image. A still-image extracting unit extracts, when the attribute is a moving image, a still image from the image data. A feature-amount obtaining unit obtains a feature amount from image data of the still image and image data of a still image when the attribute is the still image. An arrangement-position determining unit determines an arrangement position of a display area based on the feature amount. A display-image generating unit generates a thumbnail image from the still image and displays a list of thumbnail images in the display area, based on the arrangement position and the display area.

A receipt-and-payment-information transmitting unit of a change dispenser transmits receipt and payment information of receipt and payment processing, which is started according to reception of a start instruction for independent operation, to a POS terminal. An icon display / deleting unit of the POS terminal causes a display device to display an icon indicating that receipt and payment information is received on a display screen. An alternation-processing prohibiting / releasing unit prohibits execution of operator alternation processing. A receipt-and-payment-information registering unit registers, in a storing unit, receipt and payment information including a receipt and payment type input from a receipt-and-payment-type input screen displayed according to an execution instruction for the icon. When receipt and payment types corresponding to all pieces of receipt and payment information are registered, the icon display / deleting unit deletes the icon from the display screen. The alternation-processing prohibiting / releasing unit 23 releases the prohibition of execution of the operator alternation processing.

A pair of registration rollers align a leading edge of a recording medium having a transparent section and a non-transparent section. A boundary sensor detects a boundary between the transparent section and the non-transparent section. The boundary sensor is provided on a downstream side of a direction of conveying the recording medium by the registration rollers.

A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet fastening unit of a pressing fastener method in which a bundle of sheets is fastened by using a pair of pressing fastener members; a conveying unit that conveys the bundle of sheets that are fastened by the sheet fastening unit; a separating unit that, after the sheet fastening unit performs a fastening operation on the bundle of sheets, moves both one and the other pressing fastener members, between which the bundle of sheets is interposed, so as to separate a sheet that adheres to the pressing fastener member; and a control unit that, after the separating unit finishes an operation to separate the sheet, controls the conveying unit so as to convey the bundle of sheets that are fastened by the sheet fastening unit.

The invention provides an image reading apparatus and an image reading system. The apparatus includes: a light source opposite to one surface of a medium; a backing member opposite to another surface of the medium and including a backing surface opposite to the another surface of the medium; an imaging unit opposite to the one surface of the medium and at a position different from the light source in a conveyance direction, and to pick up an image of the medium and the backing surface on which a shadow of the medium is formed due to light from the light source; and a processor to generate image data including the image of the medium and the backing surface based on a result by the imaging unit, wherein the backing surface is inclined with respect to the conveyance direction, and a gap between the path and the backing surface decreases from a light source side toward an imaging unit side.

The invention relates to a data encryption apparatus and method thereof, data decryption apparatus. The RAID system includes a RAID controller that sends to a disc apparatus data to be encrypted by a data relay apparatus connected to the RAID controller and the disk apparatus. When receiving a data transfer request packet indicating a first receivable size, the data relay apparatus establishes a second receivable size that is equal to or greater than the first receivable size and that is a multiple of an encryption data size. When the RAID controller receives a data transfer request packet containing the established second receivable size, and in response to the data transfer request packet thus received, the data relay apparatus receives data of the second receivable size sent from the RAID controller. The data relay apparatus also encrypts the received data in units of the encryption data size, and then the encrypted data is sent to the disk apparatus in units of the first receivable size.

A command processing unit outputs a format command to an HDD. While the HDD is being formatted, a format-error causing unit outputs a reset command to the HDD. The reset command causes abnormal end of the formatting of the HDD, which makes reading of data from the HDD impossible.