Konica Minolta Patente

Provided is an image formation device (100) comprising: an image former (40) that discharges liquid droplets onto a recording surface of a medium to form an image; a reader (45) that reads an opposite surface image on a side opposite to the recording surface of an image formation medium (Q) on which the image is formed on the recording surface of the medium (P) by the image former (40); and a determiner (13) that determines pass/fail of the image formation medium (Q) based on the opposite surface image read by the reader (45).

The actinic radiation-curable inkjet ink includes (A) a polymerization initiator, and (B) a polymerizable compound. The (A) polymerization initiator includes (A-1) a polymerization initiator represented by the following General formula (1), and the (B) polymerizable compound includes (B-1) a polymerizable compound having two or more polymerizable functional groups. <img class="EMIRef" id="6c505da5-5ca6-4004-9d61-50669ce49df4-ia01" /> (In General formula (1), R represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group)

An image processing method includes applying an error diffusion method to M-valued input image data to output N-valued output image data, with N < M. When a value of a pixel of interest in the input image data is greater than zero and less than a predetermined value, the method further includes determining a value of a corresponding pixel of interest corresponding to the pixel of interest in the output image data to be a value other than zero based on a value of a surrounding pixel around the corresponding pixel of interest in a first range.

An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance section that conveys a textile in a conveyance direction; an image forming section that ejects ink onto the textile with an inkjet head and forms an image; and a conveyance controller that controls the conveyance section such that a front end portion of the textile in the conveyance direction is conveyed to an image formation start position in the inkjet head when the image is formed.

An image forming apparatus (1) includes a conveyance section (3) configured to convey a textile in a conveyance direction, an air blow section (51) configured to blow air from an inner side toward an outer side of the textile in a width direction thereof orthogonal to the conveyance direction, a water spray section (52) configured to spray water onto an end portion of the textile in the width direction onto which the air has been blown by the air blow section (51), and an ink ejection section (6) configured to form an image by ejecting ink onto the textile onto which the air has been blown and the water has been sprayed.

The present invention provides an inkjet printing apparatus capable of more stably forming a high-quality image by reliably removing a foreign substance on a textile.The inkjet printing apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes: a conveyor 10 having a conveyance belt 11 to convey a textile 90; a pressing roller 20 that comes in contact with the textile 90 and presses the textile 90 against the conveyance belt 11; an ink ejection section 30 provided downstream of the pressing roller 20 in a conveyance direction FD of the textile 90 and ejecting ink onto the textile 90 conveyed by the conveyance belt 11 to form an image; and a dust removal mechanism 40 provided between the ink ejection section 30 and the pressing roller 20 to remove a foreign substance on the textile 90 conveyed by the conveyance belt 11.

a dose management apparatus, a dose setting method, and a dose setting program, which are capable of setting an appropriate dose for dose management in dynamic imaging are provided. A dose management apparatus includes: a ratio acquisition section that acquires a ratio between a first reference value of a dose defined for a case where a first site of a subject is imaged as a still image by irradiation with radiation and a second reference value of a dose defined for a case where the first site is imaged as a dynamic image by irradiation with radiation; and a first setting section that sets, based on the ratio and a third reference value of a dose for a case where a second site is imaged as the still image, a fourth reference value of a dose for a case where the second site is imaged as the dynamic image.

A method for producing a library that includes a plurality of types of aperiodic polymers, each of the aperiodic polymers being an aperiodic polymer, and the method including: generating that is generating a plurality of types of the aperiodic polymers by combining two or more types of monomers selected from a monomer group; evaluating that is evaluating, by using an evaluation function, diversity in a combination of the generated plurality of types of the aperiodic polymers; and extracting that is extracting a combination of the aperiodic polymers for which an evaluation result is equal to or greater than a threshold value. The evaluation function is a function for evaluating diversity based on two or more types of parameters.

The present disclosure provides a conveyance apparatus that makes it possible to avoid a situation in which a job is redone due to an incorrect sheet in a print job in which ring binding processing is performed on a binder sheet to form a booklet. The conveyance apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller that determines whether the binder sheet during conveyance is conforming or non-conforming, based on an arrangement of a punch hole or a shape of the punch hole in the binder sheet specified from a read image, and executes abnormality conveyance processing on the binder sheet during the conveyance in a case where a non-conforming binder sheet is detected among a plurality of the binder sheets during the conveyance.

A coating material that is used for coating a transfer member (201) included in an image forming apparatus, the coating material including a resin having a urethane structure as a resin component. The coating material does not include a resin containing a fluorine atom and a resin containing a silicon atom, and when a component based on hydrogen bonding and dipole-dipole interaction of surface free energy in a coating film after coating is defined as γ<SV>h and a dispersion component of the surface free energy is defined as γ<SV>d , 0. 1≤γ <SV>h ≤7 and 0. 1≤γ <SV>d ≤40 are satisfied.

A printing apparatus suppressing damage to a leading end portion of a recording medium while suppressing the recording medium from falling off from a conveyance section. The printing apparatus includes: a conveyance section that conveys a recording medium in a conveyance direction in a state where a leading end portion of the recording medium is gripped and held by a gripping claw; a printing section that performs printing on the recording medium being conveyed; a gripping state detection section that detects a gripping state of the gripping claw with respect to an recording medium; and a determination section that determines presence or absence of abnormality in the gripping state of the gripping claw based on a detection result of the gripping state detection section.

An object of the present invention is to provide an analysis system capable of accurately analyzing the state of a dispersion liquid without performing complicated measurement or examining each parameter. The analysis system for achieving the object is an analysis system for analyzing a state of a dispersion liquid containing a liquid dispersion medium and a solid dispersoid dispersed in the dispersion medium, and includes: a signal generator for generating signals based on interaction of the dispersion liquid with two or more types of luminescent probes; a detector for detecting the signals from the signal generator; and an analyzer for analyzing the signals detected by the detector to analyze the state of the dispersion liquid. Each luminescent probe is a compound including a binder for interacting with the dispersion medium and/or the dispersoid and a light emitter whose light emission behavior changes due to the interaction.

An image forming apparatus of the present invention is an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium conveyed from upstream to downstream. The image forming apparatus includes: an ink ejection section for ejecting an ink onto a recording medium; and an active ray irradiation section for irradiating, with active rays, the recording medium onto which the ejected ink has landed and which is conveyed from an upstream side to a downstream side in an active ray irradiation region. The active ray irradiation section irradiates, with active rays, the recording medium such that when the active ray irradiation region is divided into two in a central portion thereof in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, maximum irradiance of the active rays is located on the downstream side.

A skeleton detection apparatus (20) includes an image acquisition section (211) that acquires an image (I), an image enlargement section (213) that generates an enlarged image (E1) by enlarging a predetermined area of the image (I), and a skeleton position information acquisition section (214) that acquires skeleton position information on a person (R1, R2, R3) included in the image (I) and the enlarged image (EI).

An image forming apparatus (1) includes: a conveyance belt (33) to which an underlay agent is not applied and that conveys a wet fabric (P) placed on the belt; and an image forming section (4) that applies ink to the wet fabric conveyed by the conveyance belt to form an image.

A droplet ejection apparatus (1) that ejects a droplet from a droplet ejection head (111), the apparatus including: a suction cap (31) for covering an ejection surface of the droplet ejection head; a suction pump (33) that suctions liquid from the droplet ejection head in a state where the suction cap covers the ejection surface; a suction tube (32) provided between the suction cap and the suction pump; and a suppressing section that suppresses clogging of the suction tube with liquid.

One aspect of a dynamic event detection apparatus (100) of the present disclosure includes: an input reception section (101) that receives an input of a moving image (201) captured by an imaging apparatus (10); a time-series-change moving image generation section (103) that generates a time-series-change moving image (211) indicating a time-series change in a moving object (206) appearing in the moving image (201); a contrast enhancement section (107) that enhances, based on the time-series-change moving image (211), contrast of a motion region in which the moving object (206) appears on the moving image (201); and a dynamic event detection section (111) that detects, based on the moving image (231) after contrast enhancement, whether a dynamic event as a target occurring.

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.

An image inspection apparatus (100) including a controller (81) that detects a misregistration of an image formation position on a recording medium on which an image is formed by an image forming section (40). The controller has: a first detection mode in which the misregistration is detected based on a formation position of a position detection image formed at a predetermined position on the recording medium by the image forming section; and a second detection mode in which the misregistration is detected without the position detection image being formed by the image forming section.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image reader (161) configured to acquire a read image (40;41;43) by reading an image of a printed material; an inspection determination section configured to determine inspection (55) by comparing the read image read by the image reader with a correct image; a first post-inspection processing section (51) configured to perform a first post-inspection processing on a first inspection error in a first area (4011;4021;4111;4121;4311;4321) of the read image; and a second post-inspection processing section (52) configured to perform a second post-inspection processing different from the first post-inspection processing on a second inspection error in a second area (4012;4022;4112;4122;4312;4322) of the read image.

A print job management method is for managing a print job to be executed by an image formation engine (36). The method includes: obtaining information on a first scanner profile for converting read data of a printed material on which an image has been formed by a first print job; setting the first scanner profile in association with the first print job, based on the obtained information on the first scanner profile, obtaining information on a second scanner profile for converting read data of a printed material on which an image has been formed by a second print job; and setting the second scanner profile in association with the second print job, based on the obtained information of the second scanner profile.

Provided is an inkjet recording apparatus capable of easily printing an image, which has been caused to match a three-dimensional pattern, in an image printing region. The inkjet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance section that conveys, in a conveyance direction, a medium on which a three-dimensional pattern is formed in an image printing region; an image printing section that is provided above a conveyance surface of the conveyance section and prints an image in the image printing region; a height measurement section that measures a height of the image printing region with respect to the conveyance surface; a height data generation section that generates height data of two-dimensional coordinates indicating the height of the image printing region, based on a measurement result of the height measurement section; and an image data correction section that enlarges or reduces the image data so as to cause a position of the image data of the two-dimensional coordinates for forming the image in the image printing region to match a position of the height data.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner including a toner base particle and an external additive. The external additive includes at least an inorganic fine particle, the inorganic fine particle has a surface modifying agent on a surface thereof, the electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a free component, a weight-average molecular weight of the free component is 1000 or more and 20000 or less, a content of the free component is 2 mg/kg or more and 700 mg/kg or less, and the free component is a chloroform extract from a methyl ethyl ketone insoluble matter extracted from the electrostatic charge image developing toner with methanol.

An image diagnostic method is executed by an image diagnostic device for an image formed by an image forming apparatus including: an image forming engine; and a reader that reads a medium. The image diagnostic method includes: adjusting an image formation position; and, after the adjusting, diagnosing a state of the image forming engine. The adjusting includes: causing the image forming engine to form a first pattern on a first medium for adjusting the image formation position; causing the reader to read the first medium; and adjusting the image formation position based on the reading result. The diagnosing includes: causing the image forming engine to form a second pattern on a second medium for diagnosing the state of the image forming engine; causing the reader to read the second medium; and acquiring a diagnosis result of the state of the image forming engine based on the reading result.

An epoxy resin composition including an epoxy resin, a polythiol, a photobase generator, and a sensitizer. The epoxy resin composition includes one or more kinds of the epoxy resin, at least one kind of the epoxy resin has two or more epoxy groups in one molecule, and the polythiol contains an ester bond and has five or more mercapto groups, or the polythiol contains a nitrogen atom and a mercapto group is bonded to the nitrogen atom via an alkylene group.

A treatment method for inkjet textile printing includes applying a treatment liquid (200a) to a textile (100) (S01) when performing printing by applying a recording ink (200b) containing a reactive dye to the textile (100). The textile (100) is a textile on which a water droplet has a diameter of less than 15 mm five seconds after 0.3 g of water is dropped thereto. The treatment liquid (200a) contains urea or ethylene urea. A content of a sizing agent in the treatment liquid (200a) is 1% by mass or less.

An image forming method for forming a toner image on a continuous medium using a toner. An area ratio of an element derived from an inorganic fine particle to a total area of all elements measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ESCA) of the toner image is within a range of 4 to 10%, the toner has a toner base particle, and the toner base particle contains a release agent and an amorphous polyester.

Provided is an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium and includes: a fixer that includes a housing, in which an opening is formed, and fixes the image formed on the recording medium; a wind blower that blows wind in the housing; and a guide that guides the wind blowing out from the opening such that the wind is diffused in the image forming apparatus.

An information processing system includes an imager that captures an image of a predetermined monitoring area, a detector that detects a person and a cleaning member from a video captured by the imager, and a determiner that determines, based on a plurality of body areas set according to a size of the person detected by the detector and a position of the cleaning member within the body areas, an order of cleaning work performed by the person and a cleaning degree.

Disclosed is a function film (100) that is a water-repellent film, the function film including at least a water- repellent layer (34) and an unevenness layer (31). The water-repellent layer has a surface on which a first water-repellent material and a second water-repellent material are exposed, and the unevenness layer contains an inorganic substance as a main component and has a fine unevenness structure.

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An electrostatic latent image developing toner satisfies the following: in measurements 1 to 3, an amount of change in endothermic peak start temperature owing to a change in maintaining temperature is 2°C or less. Measurement 1: A toner sample is maintained at 40°C for three hours; the temperature is decreased to 0°C at a rate of -10°C/min; and differential scanning calorimetry is performed while increasing the temperature to 200°C at a rate of 10 °C/min. Measurement 2: After Measurement 1, the temperature is decreased to 0 °C at a rate of -10°C/min; and thereafter measurement is performed in the same manner as the measurement 1 except that the maintaining temperature is 50°C. Measurement 3: After Measurement 2, the temperature is decreased to 0°C at a rate of -10°C/min; and thereafter measurement is performed in the same manner as the measurement 1 except that the maintaining temperature is 60°C.

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