838 results about "Recording media" patented technology

The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a take-up portion, a first memory, a consumed amount calculating portion, a first correcting portion, an operation signal input portion, and a second correcting portion. The take-up portion takes up a recording medium on which printing was performed by the printing head. The first memory stores a value related to a remaining amount or a consumed amount of the recording medium. The consumed amount calculating portion calculates a first consumed amount based on a fed amount by the feeder. The first correcting portion corrects the value stored in the first memory by the first consumed amount. The second correcting portion corrects the value r stored in the first memory by using a predetermined second consumed amount, triggered by input of the operation signal to the operation signal input portion.

To provide a printing apparatus and a control method for the printing apparatus that can reduce the time required to form an adhesive layer with a simple structure. [Solution] A printing apparatus comprising an endless conveyor belt for transporting a recording medium, a drive unit for circulating rotation of the conveyor belt, a heating unit, a printing unit for printing on the recording medium, and a control unit, wherein the control unit can select between a first mode in which, when the conveyor belt is not holding the recording medium and is circulating rotation, the heating unit heats the aqueous adhesive applied to the conveyor belt to form an adhesive layer on the conveyor belt, and a second mode in which, when the conveyor belt is circulating rotation, the heating unit heats the adhesive layer and the printing unit prints on the recording medium held by the conveyor belt.

An information processing method is executed by a system that assists an operator in remote control for moving bodies capable of moving autonomously and executing tasks. The method includes executing first to third transmission modes in accordance with an operation of an operator acquired by a front-end. In the second transmission mode, control of a target moving body is remotely instructed by transmitting a single travel instruction signal to the target moving body. In the third transmission mode, the target moving body is remotely controlled by transmitting continuous control signals to the target moving body. The method includes, in the second and third transmission modes, periodically transmitting a notification signal by the front-end to a back-end and executing, by the back-end, monitoring of the notification signal from the front-end and a stoppage of the target moving body when a delay occurs in a cycle of the notification signal.

An information processing apparatus capable of using information on a cut line which is a printing item that cannot be set by a printer driver and is printed on a recording medium is provided. The information processing apparatus including a printer driver includes a controller configured or programmed to function as an acquisition unit that acquires capability information on capability to perform printing on a sheet-like recording medium from a server providing a cloud print service or a printer, and a display control unit that displays a screen. The capability information includes first information on printing items capable of being set by the printer driver, and second information on a cut line, which is a printing item not capable of being set by the printer driver and is printed on the recording medium. The display control unit enables the second information to be displayed on the screen.

An image encoding / decoding method and device are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining reference samples separated by a distance of n samples from a current block and reference samples separated by a distance of m samples from the current block (wherein the reference samples separated by the distance of n samples include a top reference sample and a top-right reference sample, and reference samples separated by the distance of m samples include a left reference sample and a bottom-left reference sample); and generating a prediction block of the current block on the basis of a weighted sum of at least two of the determined reference samples, wherein the weight used in the weighted sum calculation is determined on the basis of the n or m, which may be natural numbers.

The present application provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, a control method of an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, a recording medium, and a computer program product. The present application is directed to accepting designation of a two-dimensional position on an ultrasonic image and being able to control the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in accordance with the designated position. A display section (118) accepts designation of a point on a displayed ultrasonic image through a touch operation or the like. A position information conversion section (130) converts coordinates of the point shown in a coordinate system of the ultrasonic image into coordinates in a coordinate system used by the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus (100) in ultrasonic beam scanning. A central control section (120) and a control position setting section (132) use the coordinates obtained through the coordinate conversion to perform control of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus (100) (e.g., setting of a ROI).

An image forming system including: a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor is configured to perform, a first control parameter determination operation that determines a value of a control parameter for sheet processing; a second control parameter determination operation that determines the value of the control parameter for the sheet processing by a method different from the first control parameter determination operation; and a selection operation configured to be capable of setting which of the first control parameter determination operation and the second control parameter determination operation is used to determine the value of at least one of a plurality of control parameters.

A verification system includes: a first verification device that verifies integrity of a first verification target; and a second verification device that has a higher security privilege than the first verification device and verifies integrity of the first verification device. The first verification device includes: a first verifier that refers to first verification related information including first verification target information and a first expected value, generates a first verification value by performing the predetermined operation on data on a first storage area storing the first program, and verifies integrity by comparing the first verification value with the first expected value; and a first updater that accepts a first update request for updating the first verification related information when receiving the first update request from the second verification device or when receiving the first update request while the first verification related information is updated, and updates the first verification related information.

A white ink printing method is provided that includes forming a white ink layer by applying a white ink to a predetermined region of a recording medium having a plurality of fabric grains. The forming the white ink layer includes forming a localized thick coating portion of the white ink layer. The localized thick coating portion is spanning a plurality of the fabric grains and not along a fabric grain direction.

A video decoding method and device according to the present disclosure may receive a bitstream including an encoded video picture and reconstruct the encoded video picture included in the bitstream. Here, the bitstream may include a quality metric SEI message. The quality metric SEI message may include a quality metric definition flag indicating whether information defining the quality metrics is included in the quality metric SEI message, and quality metric number information indicating the number of quality metric entries included in the quality metric SEI message.

This invention discloses an object tracking method using a LiDAR sensor. The method includes: clustering LiDAR data including multiple points of an object acquired by the LiDAR sensor; generating information on multiple segment boxes for each channel using the clustering results; and selecting, from the multiple segment boxes, the associated segment box of the target object at the current time point. The step of selecting the associated segment box includes: obtaining the correlation index between the current representative point of each segment box at the current time point and each of the tracking representative point and the previous representative point; using the correlation index, selecting candidate segment boxes for the associated segment box; and selecting the associated segment box at the current time point.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein an information processing program that causes a computer to execute a process including generating a set of a plurality of routes for a plurality of moving bodies that depart from a specific node and return to the specific node via a plurality of nodes, the plurality of routes representing an order in which the plurality of moving bodies visit a predetermined number of nodes among the plurality of nodes, solving a route selection problem generated using the generated set of routes and provided with constraints on a shipment volume of the specific node or a node serving as a delivery source of packages among the plurality of nodes, and outputting a result of solving the route selection problem.

According to one aspect of the present invention, an electronic musical instrument generates a string tone signal output from one of the left and right channels based on an input excitation signal corresponding to a specified pitch, and generates a string tone signal output from the other of the left and right channels based on an accumulated signal obtained by accumulating the outputs of the first closed-loop circuit (36A-39A), the second closed-loop circuit (36B-39B), and the third closed-loop circuit (36D-39D) arranged corresponding to the pitch.

An image encoding / decoding method and device according to the present disclosure may generate a candidate list of a current block and perform inter prediction of the current block on the basis of motion information of any one of multiple candidates belonging to the candidate list. The multiple candidates may include at least one of spatial candidates, temporal candidates, or derived candidates.

An information processing method includes: obtaining identification information for identifying a user; presenting content including a content event to the user; generating a substance that stimulates the user's sense of smell, at a timing of presenting the content event; and outputting correspondence information in which the identification information obtained, emotion information indicating an emotion of the user at the timing of presenting the content event, and substance information indicating the substance generated are associated with each other.

This invention provides an inkjet recording method that enables the recording of images with minimal misalignment of grid lines, even when recording images using a recording head having overlapping sections where the end ejection ports of adjacent ejection port rows overlap. [Solution] An inkjet recording method comprising the step of discharging aqueous ink from end discharge ports constituting an overlapping portion, allocated to a first discharge port row and a second discharge port row, to record an image on a recording medium, wherein the viscosity of the aqueous ink is 4.0 mPa·s or more, and the water-soluble organic solvent contains a water-soluble organic solvent (A) with a vapor pressure of 0.030 Pa or more and 0.200 Pa or less at 25°C, and a water-soluble organic solvent (B) with a vapor pressure of 1.000 Pa or more at 25°C, wherein the content (mass%) of water-soluble organic solvent (A) is 0.30 times or more by mass ratio to the content (mass%) of water-soluble organic solvent (B).

We provide the system. [Solution] A generation means for generating a digital book by integrating digital data acquired from various recording media with user profile information and related information acquired from an external database, Optimization means for optimizing the aforementioned digital book for different display devices, A means of sharing the generated digital book with an external third party, A system that includes this.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a training program that causes a computer to execute a process including first inputting a first image capturing a target compound to an encoder of an auto-encoder including a latent space that is isometric with respect to an input space, second inputting a latent variable output by the encoder and a typical compound model corresponding to a typical case of a three-dimensional structure of the target compound to a decoder of the auto-encoder, and updating parameters of the encoder and the decoder, based on a reconfiguration error between a second image reconfigured based on an output of the encoder and the first image.

This enables efficient layered printing by precisely positioning the lens layer relative to the image layer. [Solution] The printing apparatus divides and combines multiple original images in the sub-scanning direction to form a composite image, which is then printed with color ink to form an image layer. A solid image is printed on the image layer with transparent ink to form an intermediate layer. On the intermediate layer, a lens image consisting of multiple long lenses extending in the main scanning direction and aligned in the sub-scanning direction corresponding to the composite image is printed on the intermediate layer with transparent ink to form a lens layer. When forming the lens layer, the print head is moving in the main scanning direction when it ejects transparent ink onto the recording medium, and the transparent ink on the recording medium is cured by a curing device.

The present invention provides a visibility control device, a visibility control system, a visibility control method, a visibility control program, and a computer-readable recording medium on which the visibility control program is recorded, which can simultaneously alleviate psychological stress and create a sense of superiority, and maintain motivation for continuous billing by visualizing the effects of billing. [Solution] The visibility control system of the present disclosure includes a comparison unit that compares a first parameter related to a first user among a plurality of users with a first parameter related to a second user among a plurality of users, and a first display control unit that, as a result of the comparison by the comparison unit, if the first parameter of the first user is higher than the first parameter of the second user, restricts or excludes the display of the second user in the list of opponent candidates displayed on the first user's user terminal based on the second parameter related to the second user.

An image inspection apparatus (100) that compares a read image generated by reading a recording medium on which an image is formed with a reference image to detect misregistration of an image formation position on the recording medium, the apparatus including a controller (81) that: aligns an image included in the read image and an image included in the reference image; and detects the misregistration of the image formation position based on a deviation between a reference position in the read image and a reference position in the reference image in an aligned state. The controller selects a reference position used for detecting the misregistration from reference positions included in the read image and the reference image based on a position of an area in which an image is formed on the recording medium.

A printing apparatus includes an endless transport belt configured to transport a recording medium, a drive unit configured to circulate and rotate the transport belt, a heating unit, a printing unit configured to perform printing on the recording medium, and a control unit, in which the control unit is selectable between a first mode where an aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive applied to the transport belt is heated by the heating unit to form a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer at the transport belt in a state where the transport belt is being circulated and rotated without holding the recording medium, and a second mode where the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is heated by the heating unit and printing is performed by the printing unit on the recording medium held by the transport belt in a state where the transport belt is being circulated and rotated.

A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process including: identifying, among a plurality of jobs submitted to a system having a plurality of nodes, one or more jobs for which a waiting period during which the one or more jobs awaits execution exceeds a predetermined length, the one or more jobs being identified based on record information that for each of the plurality of jobs, indicates a number of nodes that execute the each of the plurality of jobs, a time point at which the each of the plurality of jobs is submitted, and a time point at which execution of the each of the plurality of jobs is started; and generating output information that visualizes, for each of the identified one or more jobs, the number of nodes that execute the each of the identified one or more jobs and the waiting period during which the each of the identified one or more jobs awaits execution.

The present invention relates to a markerless-based object recognition method for walking images and a computer-readable recording medium having a program for performing the same. The method comprises: a walking image acquisition step in which a walking image of a pedestrian walking without a marker is acquired; a preprocessing step in which the walking image is preprocessed; and an object recognition step in which a pedestrian is recognized as an object for each frame of the preprocessed walking image. The invention also relates to a computer-readable recording medium having a program for performing the same.

An image encoding / decoding method, a method of transmitting a bitstream and a computer-readable recording medium storing a bitstream are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise receiving information on a reference picture set of a current subpicture for inter prediction, deriving a reference subpicture of the current subpicture based on the information on the reference picture set, and performing a reference marking process on the reference subpicture.

A recording medium conveyance device includes a recording medium conveyance unit, a detecting member, a voltage application unit, and a control unit. The recording medium conveyance unit conveys a recording medium. The detecting member is disposed to face the recording medium conveyance unit with a predetermined interval therebetween. The voltage application unit applies a detection voltage between the recording medium conveyance unit and the detecting member. The control unit controls the recording medium conveyance unit and the voltage application unit. When the recording medium conveyance unit conveys the recording medium, the control unit controls the voltage application unit to apply the detection voltage, detects contact between the recording medium and the detecting member, on the basis of a change in the detection voltage with respect to a predetermined threshold value, and determines conveyance abnormality of the recording medium.

The present application provides an electrostatic chuck device, a pressure calculation method and a recording medium, the electrostatic chuck device adsorbs an object by electrostatic force, and has: an adsorption plate having an adsorption surface for adsorbing the object; a gas supply pipeline for supplying a heat-conducting gas to a gap between the adsorption surface and a surface to be adsorbed of the object; and a pressure calculation unit for calculating the pressure of the heat-conducting gas in the gap; a flow resistance element is arranged in the gas supply pipeline, and the flow resistance element becomes the resistance when the heat-conducting gas flows; and the pressure calculation unit calculates the pressure of the heat-conducting gas in the gap based on the pressure on one side of the flow resistance element, the flow of the heat-conducting gas passing through the flow resistance element, and the flow characteristic of the flow resistance element.