Abstract:
There is disclosed a method of feeding a dampening water to a plate cylinder in an offset printing press which is accelerated to, operated at and then decelerated from a predetermined speed for printing. The method comprises the step of programmatically controlling the feeding amount of the dampening water to increase in accordance with the increase in speed of the printing press along a first curve which is predetermined to indicate the relation of the feeding amount of dampening water to the speed of printing press, when the printing press is accelerated. The method further comprises the step of programmatically controlling the feeding amount of the dampening water to decrease in accordance with the decrease in speed of the printing press along a second curve which is predetermined to indicate the relation of the feeding amount of dampening water to the speed of printing press, when the printing press is decelerated. The first and second curves being different in feeding amount of the dampening water from each other.
Abstract:
A method for producing a tapered waveguide is produced using an undercut-type shadow mask having an overhanging part. The shadow mask includes a photoresist layer having the overhanging part and a metal layer for supporting the photoresist layer on a substrate. After the shadow mask is provided on the substrate, film-forming particles are caused to jump from above the shadow mask toward the substrate, thereby forming a dielectric film having a tapered part on the substrate. Then, the shadow mask is removed together with the film-forming particles thereon by lift-off. Then, an optical waveguide is formed on the substrate so as to cover the dielectric film having the tapered part. The thickness of the metal layer is preferably in the range of about 0.1 to 10 .mu.m and more preferably about 1 .mu.m.
Abstract:
In order to obtain a field angle wider than that determined by a lens of a photographing apparatus by means of image processing, a given image is selected as a reference image from a still image train acquired by photographing an object by time-serially changing the visual point position and direction, a procedure for coordinate-transforming specific points in the respective images onto a two-dimensional coordinate system identical to that of the reference image is derived, a two-dimensional space is Voronoi-divided in correspondence with the specific points based on the derived procedure, the respective images are coordinate-transformed using a coordinate transform procedure for transforming the respective images to the reference images, and the coordinate information of each of the coordinate-transformed images is inserted in one of the Voronoi domains including the specific points of the respective images.
Abstract:
An optical coupler of the present invention includes: an optical waveguide including a substrate, a first dielectric layer formed on the substrate, a second dielectric layer which is formed on the first dielectric layer and has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the first dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer which is formed on a part of the second dielectric layer and has a refractive index equal to or lower than the refractive index of the second dielectric layer; and a light introducing portion made of a transparent material having a refractive index higher than the refractive index of each of the dielectric layers, the light introducing portion being formed on the optical waveguide and introducing converged incident light into the optical waveguide, wherein the light introducing portion is provided across a surface of the second dielectric layer and a surface of the third dielectric layer and has, as a light incident surface, a flat portion allowing the incident light introduced into the optical waveguide to pass through without eclipse.
Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus for simultaneously recording plural image lines on a recording medium by scanning simultaneously with plural light beams along parallel scanning lines in a primary scanning direction, two light beam detectors each having a starting-side are arranged in such a way that the starting-sides are not in parallel to each other so that the distance between the starting-sides differs depending on the scanning line. The difference in the distances of two light beams is measured, and the deviation between the two light beams is determined on the basis of the difference in the distances.
Abstract:
In an image processing apparatus, when a hard copy of image data displayed on a display with reduced gradation and non-image data displayed on the display is simultaneously produced, the image data are automatically printed as data having original high gradation while being synthesized with the non-image data. When a hard copy of image data and non-image data displayed on a bit-map display having low gradation is produced, the image data having high gradation is printed by a full-color printer by reading original-image data having the high gradation from a hard disk and synthesizing the read data with the non-image data in an image memory by a printer control unit according to image control information stored in an image control table.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has a structure in which a gradation is reproduced when a laser beam, which is pulse-width-modulated corresponding to an image signal, scans the surface of a recording media. The image forming apparatus includes a pulse width modulation circuit having an automatic adjustment function to automatically adjust an input/output characteristics using a calibration signal as a trigger signal. The image forming apparatus further includes a calibration signal generator which generates a calibration signal just before an image formation.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an engine for an automotive vehicle designed such that a mixed gas supplied to the combustion is burned first in the periphery of the combustion chamber and then over the entire length in the peripheral direction of a cylinder, followed by burning the mixed gas in the center of the cylinder. Plural sources of ignition, i.e. ignition gaps of spark plugs, are so disposed at a peripheral end portion of the combustion chambers in spaced relationship with each other in a cylindrically peripheral direction as to allow the flame ignited by each of the spark plugs to coincide or collide with each other in the cylindrically peripheral direction and thereafter in the center of the cylinder. This arrangement can eliminate NOx and HC and perform dilute combustion, thereby improving fuel economy.
Abstract:
An image processing method and apparatus for detecting at least one region designated by at least one line of at least one closed loop on an original, wherein the original is scanned and an image formation is generated; the image information is processed for generating image data and region data which represent said at least one designated region; and the region data is processed for each scanning line. The processing of the region data comprises detecting a right end margin and a left end margin of the designated region for generating a marginal signal for the present scanning line corresponding to an interval from the right end margin to the left end margin; detecting a portion of the marginal signal continuous to a region signal for a preceding scanning line to generate a provisional region signal; detecting a portion of the provisional region signal which indicates an outside of the designated region for the present scanning line for generating an outside region signal for the present scanning line; detecting a region-designating signal for the present scanning line which is not continuous to the region signal for the preceding scanning line to generate a new region-designating signal for the present scanning line; and adding the new region-designating signal to, and for subtracting the outside region signal from, the provisional region signal to generate a region signal for the present scanning line.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an image processing apparatus for processing digital color image data, wherein there are provided an image input circuit for introducing color image signal into a conversion circuit which generates digital color image data including color data and density data, a data processing circuit which includes a plurality of image processing circuits for processing the color data and the density data, and wherein latch circuits are further provided to each of the plurality of image processing circuits so that the color code data and the density data are respectively latched every after passing through the plurality of image circuit.