MFG Patentanwälte Meyer-Wildhagen Meggle-Freund Gerhard PartG mbB

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 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.

A system, wherein the system includes:an event sensor including a plurality of event pixels, wherein each event pixel is configured to detect, based on a reference value and threshold values, a brightness change in a scene to generate an event, and wherein the event sensor is configured to output an event stream;a data source configured to provide a data stream, wherein the data stream includes sensor data or control data;a data processing device including circuitry configured to:receive the event stream from the event sensor and the data stream from the data source;predict, based on the event stream and the data stream, a change in the scene;generate, based on the predicted change in the scene and the event stream, a brightness prediction model for the at least one event pixel;send the brightness prediction model to the event sensor; andwherein the event sensor is configured to receive the brightness prediction model for the at least one event pixel from the data processing device and to adapt the reference value of the at least one event pixel in accordance with the received brightness prediction model.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 packet-filtering system described herein may be configured to filter packets with encrypted hostnames in accordance with one or packet-filtering rules. The packet-filtering system may resolve a plaintext hostname from ciphertext comprising an encrypted Server Name Indication (eSNI) value. The packet-filtering system may resolve the plaintext hostname using a plurality of techniques. Once the plaintext hostname is resolved, the packet-filtering system may then use the plaintext hostname to determine whether the packets are associated with one or more threat indicators. If the packet-filtering system determines that the packets are associated with one or more threat indicators, the packet-filtering system may apply a packet filtering operation associated with the packet-filtering rules to the packets.