59 results about "Recording media" patented technology

A management system for managing a plurality of computers and a plurality of pieces of software in a computer center includes: a selection data storage part for storing data regarding allocation destination selection, the data including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data represent states of execution of the pieces of software by the computers, respectively, and temperature data represent temperature distribution in the computers; an instruction generation part for extracting an overheated computer that is assumed to emit more heat as compared with the other computers, and a less-heated computer that is assumed to emit less heat as compared with the other computers, by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and generating an instruction for relocating at least a part of a piece of software allocated to the overheated computer to the less-heated computer; and an instruction part for outputting the instruction. This makes it possible to save energy for cooling the computers.

An image forming apparatus includes a toner image carrying member, an image transfer device, a fixing device, a registration unit, a guide member, an upstream-side transportation unit, and a downstream-side transportation unit. The image transfer device transfers a toner image from the toner image carrying member to a recording medium. The fixing device fixes the toner image. The registration unit transports the recording medium. The guide member guides the recording medium. The upstream-side transportation unit includes an upstream-side transportation member, disposed at an upstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium. The downstream-side transportation unit includes the downstream-side transportation member, disposed at a downstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium. The upstream-side transportation unit includes an upstream-side positioning member to position the guide member to the upstream-side transportation member. The downstream-side transportation unit includes a downstream-side positioning member to position the guide member to the downstream-side transportation member.

The present invention is an ink set for ink-jet recording using at least two kinds of inks comprising a first ink containing at least a pigment, a water-soluble solvent and water, and a second ink containing at least a pigment, a coagulant, a water-soluble solvent and water and having the absolute value of ζ-potential of not less than 10 mV. The present invention also provides an ink-jet recording method using the ink set for ink-jet recording, wherein an image is formed by applying the first ink and second ink on a recording medium so as to contact to each other. The present invention further provides an ink-jet recording apparatus comprising a recording head for ejecting at least the first ink and second ink.

A video processing apparatus controls an imaging apparatus capable of changing a focus position. A deriving unit derives a focus position where a certain object is focused on. A controller controls the imaging apparatus such that a focus position in the imaging apparatus is changed to the focus position where the certain object is focused on which is derived by the deriving unit in accordance with a certain operation.

A write-once-read-many optical recording medium enabling excellent recording and reproducing properties at a wavelength of blue-laser wavelengths or shorter, i.e. 500 nm or less, particularly at wavelengths of near 405 nm and high density recording. To this end, a write-once-read-many optical recording medium of the invention comprises a recording layer using a material represented by BiOx (0<x<1.5), in which a recorded mark comprises crystal of Bi and/or crystal of a Bi oxide. Another write-once-read-many optical recording medium comprises a recording layer which comprises Bi, oxygen, and M (M represents at least one element selected from Mg, Al, Cr, Mn, Co, Fe, Cu, Zn, Li, Si, Ge, Zr, Ti, Hf, Sn, Mo, V, Nb, Y, and Ta), in which a recorded mark comprises crystal of the elements contained in the recording layer and crystal of an oxide of the elements.

A recording medium feed apparatus has a manual feed tray provided in open or closed state, a feed roller feeding a recording portion a recording medium on the manual feed tray, an arm body having a first end portion rotatably attached to a housing and a second end portion, a feed roller unit having a front end portion provided with the feed roller and a base end portion rotatably attached to the second end portion, and a driving source transferring driving force to the feed roller, wherein the arm body and the feed roller unit are vertically housed inside the housing when the manual feed tray is closed, and as the manual feed tray changes from closed to opened state, the arm body tilts toward outside, while a folding angle of the feed roller increases so that the feed roller abuts against a recording medium on the manual feed tray.

An electronic apparatus includes a drive for recording/reproducing a recording medium, and a sound absorbing member having a Helmholtz resonator for insulating sounds at a predetermined frequency among sounds generated by the drive.

In a recording system having an accounting function, in recording a copy target information signal onto a recording medium, an identification signal for identifying the contents of the information signal is saved in a recording machine, and at the time of copy, the saved identification signal and the identification signal of an information signal to be newly recorded are compared with each other to discriminate whether or not copy and recording of the same information signal was carried out by the recording machine in the past, thereby discriminating whether or not recording should be permitted on condition that accounting is carried out, on the basis of the result of comparison. If the information signal was copied in the past, copy and recording is permitted on condition that accounting is carried out, thereby preventing unlimited first-generation copy.

The information rewriting method includes, defining to divide a display image of a monitor into a plurality of frames, the first group of frames being defined such that occurrence of an event corresponding to a mark or a marked indicator in a display region is recognizable, and the second group of frames being defined such that when data corresponding to the event that occurs in connection with the first group of frames are transferred from the server, the received data are stored in the storage as the data for the second group of frames, transferring the data from the server as data for the second group of frames and storing the data in an applicable storage of the processing terminal, and executing renewal of an image or reproduction of sound with the data stored in the storage as the data for the second group of frames.

An image processing apparatus includes a corrector for correcting a pixel value of each of a plurality of pixels forming each access unit to be processed, based on at least one of the parameter values corresponding to the access unit to be processed. The corrector includes an acquisition unit for acquiring input pixel values, a first mean value calculating unit for calculating a first mean pixel value, a second mean value calculating unit for calculating a second mean pixel value, a correction value determination unit for determining a correction value, and an adding unit for adding the correction value to the input pixel value of a target pixel.

A method of depositing a layer of a coating material (e.g., DLC protective overcoats of magnetic and magneto-optical recording media) on a surface of a substrate/workpiece, the layer including relatively thin and relatively thick regions defining a thickness gradient at a boundary therebetween, comprising steps of: (a) providing a filtered cathodic arc deposition (FCAD) process/treatment chamber comprising a FCAD source including means for providing a focused plasma beam containing ions of a coating material and means for scanning the plasma beam over a substrate/workpiece surface; (b) providing the process/treatment chamber with a substrate/workpiece including a surface for deposition thereon; and (c) forming on the surface a layer of coating material including the relatively thin and relatively thick regions defining the thickness gradient at the boundary therebetween by scanning the plasma beam over at least a portion of the surface.

A fixing device includes a heat source; a fixing member looped into a generally cylindrical shape to rotate in a circumferential direction thereof and partially heated by the heat source and to heat a surface of a recording medium bearing an unfixed toner image to fix the unfixed toner image thereon in a fixing process; a rotary pressing member disposed facing the fixing member to form a nip therebetween, through which the recording medium is transported in a transport direction; and a rotation driver to rotate one of the fixing member and the pressing member. In a case in which the fixing member is halted for a reason other than the fixing process while power of the fixing device is on, electric power is not supplied to the heat source and the fixing member is rotated by a predetermined amount or more after the fixing member is halted.

A front panel operating apparatus and method of a vehicle display device such as a car audio can include a main chassis for accommodating an audio device, a front panel provided in the front side of the main chassis that opens or closes to allow access to a record medium for the audio device. The front panel can have a display part in the front side thereof. A supporting panel can be hinge-coupled to a lower side of the front panel to move a lower end of the front panel forward and backward by sliding from a prescribed location of the main chassis in forward and backward directions of the main chassis. A vertical guide can be formed at the front side of the main chassis, and a protrusion formed on the front panel can be inserted into the vertical guide for controllably moving an upper portion of the front panel up and down.

A recording medium and a method for previewing and selecting digital audio/video data unit on the recording medium are provided. The recording medium includes an audio/video pack of the original film, an audio/video pack of the preview film, a background page, and a page control descriptor. After having received a switch button information from a user, a medium reproducing system reads, de-multiplexes, and decodes the information correspond to a specified audio/video pack of the preview film. The medium reproducing system also composes the decoded video data of the background page and the decoded video data of different resolutions to output to a display.

A digital photographing apparatus is provided. The digital photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit that generates photographed images from incident light, a live view generator that generates a live view image from the photographed images, and a display unit that displays the live view image. The live view generator determines the number of real-time photographed images to be combined, according to a set exposure time. The live view generator combines the real-time photographed images of the determined number to generate the live view image. The live view generator combines latest real-time photographed images of the determined number to update the live view image whenever a real-time photographed image is input.

A form for being overlaid with print data is edited through a simple method. Specifically, a tree is displayed on a screen for editing a composite form. When an icon included in the tree is moved, editing is carried in such a manner that composite-form data takes on a structure that corresponds to the editing operation, the editing being performed in dependence upon the type of icon moved and in conformity with the type of icon located at the destination of movement.

A hologram recording medium is a hologram recording medium which is irradiated with light for recording information therein or reproducing information therefrom. The hologram recording medium has a recording layer made of a photo-sensitive material capable of preserving an optical interference pattern, a reflective layer disposed on one side of the recording layer opposite to the side on which an light beam impinges, and a quarter wavelength plate interposed between the recording layer and the reflective layer.

A disc changer includes a disc cartridge having an insertion hole, a case body into which the disc cartridge is inserted, having first and second shells which can be separated in which a plurality of disc-shaped recording media are storable by being arrayed in the axial direction of the center axis, and a lock lever for locking the shells in a connected state; and a disc holder to hold the inserted disc cartridge, including an unlocking piece which unlocks locking between the shells by being inserted into the insertion hole when the disc cartridge is inserted into the disc holder to press the lock lever, and a restricting lever supported by the unlocking piece, including a restricting portion engaged with the case body when the unlocking piece is inserted into the insertion hole, so that locking between the shells is unlocked, the restricting lever restricting movement in the extracting direction.

A recording apparatus for performing recording on a data-rewritable recording medium having at least one recording layer includes a recorder configured to record data on the recording layer; and a controller configured to control the recorder so that dummy data is recorded in an order opposite to the order in which user data is recorded.

An optical pickup apparatus has a semiconductor laser source which emits a laser beam in a wavelength band of 405 nm having an elliptic light intensity distribution; a beam shaping element which shapes the light intensity distribution of the laser beam; a polarizing beam splitter having a polarized light separation film in contact with the air and reflecting the laser beam shaped by the beam shaping element on the polarized light separation film; and an objective lens which focuses the laser beam reflected on the polarized light separation film onto an optical information recording medium.

A recording apparatus includes: a housing including a recording-mechanism unit provided with a recording device that performs recording on a recording medium, peripheral walls of the housing being formed of a panel section, side-surface sections, and a rear-surface section; and a reading-mechanism unit that reads a document and covers and uncovers the top of the housing. The reading-mechanism unit includes a main body section having a document bed on which a document is mounted and an opening/closing body that covers and uncovers the document bed and has side surfaces. At least the main body section unit is accommodated in the interior of the peripheral walls of the housing when the reading-mechanism unit is closed. Each of the side surfaces of the opening/closing body and a corresponding one of the panel section and the side-surface sections are continuous with each other to form a single plane.

A cartridge device for a recording medium in which the effect of dust generated in a bearing portion between a cartridge main body portion and a lid member is suppressed for maintaining reliability even on prolonged use. A housing section 15 for a recording medium 1 formed in a cartridge main body portion 11 and a supporting void 17 for supporting a lid member 12 adapted for opening or closing a recording/reproducing aperture 16 are formed as voids separated from each other by a partitioning wall section 19. On the inner peripheral wall section in the supporting void 17 are formed an annular projection 22 and annular recesses 23 in continuation to one another. The lid member 12 is formed with supporting shafts 28 on the outer peripheral surface of which annular projections are formed in continuation to one another. The facing annular projections and annular recesses 23 are combined with one another, while other facing annular projections 23 and annular recesses 31 are combined with one another to form a radial step in the axial opening hole. The bearing void 17 and the supporting shafts 28 are supported inwardly of the step for preventing dust from flying to outside.