An image processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry sets a setting value for each of a plurality of setting items regarding an input image generation process. The circuitry receives designation of one or more setting items on which determination is to be performed as to whether the setting value matches a characteristic of an input image obtained by imaging a medium from among the plurality of setting items. The circuitry acquires the input image. The circuitry performs determination of whether the setting value matches the characteristic of the input image for each of the designated one or more setting items. The circuitry notifies information regarding a result of the determination or control an apparatus that generated the input image to stop an image generation process when the result of the determination indicates that the setting value does not match the characteristic of the input image.
A media conveying apparatus includes a media table on which media are to be placed, a conveyor, an ejector, an ejection table, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys the media placed on the media table. The ejector ejects the media conveyed by the conveyor. The ejection table is movable and disposed above the media table to stack the media ejected by the ejector. The circuitry controls the ejection table to be lowered based on an amount of media stacked on the ejection table while the media on the media table are sequentially conveyed. The circuitry controls the ejection table to be raised in response to completion of conveyance of all the media on the media table.
B65H 31/10 - Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled one above another and applied at the top of the pile
B65H 43/06 - Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable detecting, or responding to, completion of pile
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KEYBOARD APPARATUS IN WHICH TOUCH PAD IS LOCATED BASED ON FITTS'S LAW
A keyboard apparatus includes an enclosure, a plurality of keys located on a top face of the enclosure, and a touch pad provided on at least one side face of the enclosure. A shortest distance D between a key assigned to a home position out of the plurality of keys and an upper end of a side face on which the touch pad is provided, and a width W of the touch pad satisfy an equation below
A keyboard apparatus includes an enclosure, a plurality of keys located on a top face of the enclosure, and a touch pad provided on at least one side face of the enclosure. A shortest distance D between a key assigned to a home position out of the plurality of keys and an upper end of a side face on which the touch pad is provided, and a width W of the touch pad satisfy an equation below
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G06F 3/02 - Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
G06F 3/0354 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
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INPUT DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
An input device includes a first touchpad, a second touchpad, and circuitry. The circuitry outputs a first code assigned to a single operation on the first touchpad when the single operation is performed on the first touchpad, and a second code assigned to a combined operation when the combined operation is performed. The combined operation is a combination of operations on both the first touchpad and the second touchpad. When the single operation is performed on the second touchpad while the circuitry is outputting the first code, the circuitry continues to output the first code without outputting the second code, or when the operation on the second touchpad ends and the operation on the first touchpad continues while the circuitry is outputting the second code, the circuitry continues to output the second code without outputting the first code.
G06F 3/038 - Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
G06F 3/02 - Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
G06F 3/023 - Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes
G06F 3/0354 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
An input device includes a housing, a touch pad, and a guide portion. The touch pad is disposed on at least one of a right side surface, a left side surface, a front side surface, and a rear side surface of the housing along the at least one side surface. The guide portion is disposed on the at least one side surface. The guide portion is located below the touch pad. The guide portion extends along the at least one side surface. The guide portion protrudes outward relative to the touch pad.
G06F 3/0354 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
G06F 3/02 - Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
G06F 3/038 - Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
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KEYBOARD DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
A keyboard device includes a key switch corresponding to a character, a plurality of touchpads, a memory to store mapping information, a communication interface to communicate with an information processing apparatus, and circuitry. In the mapping information, a code to be output to the information processing apparatus is set for each combination of operations on the plurality of touchpads. When a combination of operations on the plurality of touchpads is received, the circuitry identifies a code corresponding to the combination of operations on the plurality of touchpads based on the mapping information and outputs the identified code to the information processing apparatus via the communication interface.
G06F 3/02 - Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
G06F 3/0354 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry set a profile including setting values of setting items regarding at least one of imaging processing, image processing, or conveyance processing. The circuitry acquires an input image in which a medium is imaged. The circuitry identifies characteristic information pieces respectively relating to the setting items in the input image. The circuitry determines whether the profile matches a characteristic of the input image by comparing the characteristic information pieces in the input image with information based on the setting value of each setting items included in the profile. The circuitry notifies information regarding a determination result or stop an image generation process by an apparatus that generated the input image in a case where the determination result indicates that the profile does not match the characteristic of the input image.
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to set first setting information regarding an input image generation process; acquire an input image in which a medium is imaged according to the first setting information; determine, based on the input image, whether the first setting information matches a feature of the input image; and identify second setting information matching the feature of the input image when determining that the first setting information does not match the feature of the input image. When processing the input image according to the second setting information is feasible, the circuitry processes the input image according to the second setting information to generate a processed image, and outputs display data for displaying the processed image on a display.
A media ejecting apparatus includes an ejection roller to eject a medium, a first ejection tray located below the ejection roller, a second ejection tray located above the ejection roller, a guide located in a vicinity of the ejection roller and rotatable around a rotation shaft of the ejection roller between a first position to guide the medium ejected by the ejection roller toward the first ejection tray and a second position to guide the medium ejected by the ejection roller toward the second ejection tray, a driving mechanism including a motor to move the guide between the first position and the second position, and control circuitry configured to control the driving mechanism. The guide located at the second position guides the medium between the ejection roller and the guide to the second ejection tray.
B65H 29/60 - Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
B65H 29/20 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
Provided is a medium conveying apparatus which is prevented from being used with a roller cover open. A medium conveying apparatus includes a housing, a loading tray provided to be attachable and detachable relative to the housing and be movable between a fixed position where the loading tray is fixed to the housing to place a medium and an inclined position inclined relative to the fixed position for mounting the loading tray to the housing, a roller to separate the medium, and a cover provided to be openable and closable relative to the housing and be swingable between a closed position where the cover covers the roller and forms part of a guide surface of a medium and an open position for attaching and detaching the roller. The loading tray includes a contact part to come into contact with the cover and push the cover toward the closed position when the loading tray is located at the inclined position or when the loading tray moves from the inclined position to the fixed position with the cover located at the open position.
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
B65H 5/38 - Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation immovable in operation
Provided is a medium conveying apparatus to suppress soiling of the surface of a conveyance roller. A medium conveying apparatus includes a plurality of conveyance rollers located on a downstream side of the feed roller and the separation roller in a medium conveying direction and spaced in a direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction to convey the medium, and a plurality of facing rollers located to respectively face the plurality of conveyance rollers. The plurality of conveyance rollers and the plurality of facing rollers are located such that, in a width direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction, a distance between inner edges of a plurality of second nip regions formed at positions where the plurality of conveyance rollers and the plurality of facing rollers are respectively in contact with each other is greater than a distance between outer edges of a first nip region formed at a position where the feed roller and the separation roller are in contact with each other and less than a minimum width of a medium supported by the medium conveying apparatus.
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller to convey a medium, an imaging device to generate an input image acquired by imaging the conveyed medium, and a processor to extract edge pixels from the input image, detect a degree of roundness at a corner of the medium in the input image based on the edge pixels, determine whether the conveyed medium is an ID card based on the degree of roundness, and control the conveying roller based on a result of the determination or outputs the result of the determination.
A media ejecting apparatus includes a conveyance roller, an ejection roller, and circuitry. The conveyance roller conveys a first medium and a second medium following the first medium. The ejection roller ejects the first medium and the second medium. The circuitry reduces a first ejection speed at which the ejection roller ejects the first medium. The circuitry determines a first skew of the first medium and a second skew of the second medium, and changes at least one of a reference for determining whether to reduce the first ejection speed, when to reduce the first ejection speed, a conveyance speed at which the conveyance roller conveys the second medium, or a time during which the conveyance roller stops conveying the second medium, based on the first skew or the second skew.
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
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MEDIA CONVEYING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE MEDIUM
A media conveying apparatus includes a media tray, a feed roller, a first media sensor, a second media sensor, and circuitry. The first media sensor is located downstream from the feed roller in a media conveyance direction. The first media sensor is located inside of a side wall of a media conveyance path and outside of a maximum size media supported by the media conveying apparatus placed on the media tray in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction. The second media sensor is located downstream from the first media sensor in the media conveyance direction. The circuitry executes error handling based on a detection result of the medium by the first media sensor and a detection result of the medium by the second media sensor.
B65H 7/10 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to incorrect side register
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
Provided is a medium conveying apparatus to be able to satisfactorily install a roller to assist conveyance of a medium to a loading tray. A medium conveying apparatus includes a loading tray including a placement surface provided with an opening, to place a medium, a roller to assist conveyance of the medium, and a holding part provided on the placement surface, to hold both ends of a rotation axis of the roller. The holding part includes a first arm and a second arm standing on a front side of the placement surface. At least one of the first arm and the second arm is provided to be bent outward in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying direction when the roller is installed from a back side of the placement surface through the opening.
B65H 1/06 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile for separation from bottom of pile
A media conveying apparatus includes a media table, a feed roller to feed a medium placed on the media table, a separation roller located to face the feed roller, a first motor to drive the feed roller, a second motor to drive the separation roller, and circuitry. The circuitry determines whether multi-feed of the medium has occurred and controls the first motor and the second motor such that the feed roller rotates after the separation roller rotates to return the medium to the media table when it is determined that the multi-feed of the medium has occurred.
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
A media conveying apparatus includes circuitry to set setting information regarding an input image generation process, a conveyor to convey a plurality of media sequentially, and an imager to image each of the plurality of media according to the setting information to obtain an input image. The circuitry further determines, based on the input image, whether the setting information is compatible with the medium imaged in the input image. When the circuitry determines that the setting information is incompatible with the medium imaged in the input image, the circuitry suspends conveying subsequent media and outputs information about the determination result.
A media conveying apparatus includes circuitry configured to set setting information regarding an input image generation process, a conveyor to convey a plurality of media sequentially, and an imager to image each of the plurality of media sequentially conveyed by the conveyor according to the setting information to obtain an input image. The circuitry determines, based on the input image, whether the setting information is compatible with the medium imaged in the input image; and calculates a degree of the number of media for which the setting information is determined to be incompatible among the plurality of media. When the degree is greater than a threshold, the circuitry stops conveying subsequent media and outputs information on a result of determining whether the setting information is compatible with the medium imaged in the input image.
Provided is a medium conveying apparatus capable of conveying a medium satisfactorily. A medium conveying apparatus includes a first conveyance roller pair, a first pressing part to press one roller of the first conveyance roller pair to the other roller, a second conveyance roller pair, and a second pressing part to press one roller of the second conveyance roller pair to the other roller. A pressing force of the second pressing part is less than a pressing force of the first pressing part. At least one roller of the first conveyance roller pair and at least one roller of the second conveyance roller pair are driven by a same motor. A diameter of at least one roller of the second conveyance roller pair is greater than a diameter of at least one roller of the first conveyance roller pair.
A media ejecting apparatus includes: an imaging device to image a medium to generate an input image, an ejection roller located downstream from the imaging device in a media ejection direction to eject the medium imaged by the imaging device, a sensor located between the imaging device and the ejection roller to detect a part of a trailing end of the medium, and circuitry. The circuitry detects an amount of inclination of the medium. The circuitry determines whether an entire trailing end of the medium has passed an imaging position of the imaging device based on the amount of inclination when a part of the trailing end of the medium passes the sensor and generate a determination result. The circuitry controls the ejection roller based on the determination result.
B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE MEDIUM
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires setting information relating to conveyance processing, image-capturing processing, or image processing of an image reading apparatus and a storage destination of a file that is generated in accordance with the setting information. The setting information and the storage destination are set by a user. The circuitry identifies characteristic information of an existing file present in the storage destination. The circuitry determines whether the setting information corresponds to the characteristic information and generates a determination result. The circuitry notifies the user of information relating to the determination result in a case where the determination result indicates that the setting information does not correspond to the characteristic information.
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires capability information relating to conveyance processing, image-capturing processing, or image processing of an image reading apparatus, and a storage destination of a file that is generated by the image reading apparatus. The circuitry identifies characteristic information of an existing file present in the storage destination. The circuitry determines whether the capability information of the image reading apparatus corresponds to the characteristic information and generates a determination result. The circuitry notifies a user of information relating to the determination result based on the determination result indicating that the capability information does not correspond to the characteristic information.
Provided are a medium ejection apparatus, a control method, and a control program to enable precise determination of whether abnormal ejection of a medium has occurred. A medium ejection apparatus includes an ejection roller to eject a medium, a tray to stack the medium ejected by the ejection roller, a first optical sensor located above the ejection roller and including a first light emitter to emit light toward the tray and a first light receiver to generate a first optical signal based on received light, a second optical sensor located above the ejection roller and including a second light emitter to emit light toward a downstream side of the tray in a medium ejecting direction and a second light receiver to generate a second optical signal based on received light, a determination module to determine whether abnormal ejection of the medium has occurred based on the first optical signal and the second optical signal, and a control module to execute abnormality processing when it is determined that abnormal ejection of the medium has occurred.
B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
B65H 29/14 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands and introducing into a pile
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MEDIA CONVEYING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
A media conveying apparatus includes a conveyor to convey a medium, an imager to image the conveyed medium to obtain an image, and circuitry. The circuitry determines whether the conveyed medium has an adhering object, controls the conveyor to stop conveyance of a subsequent medium following the conveyed medium based on a determination result indicating that the conveyed medium has an adhering object, controls the conveyor to resume medium conveyance according to a received instruction to resume medium conveyance, and controls the conveyor to stop medium conveyance again in response to completion of conveyance of a first medium that is firstly conveyed after the conveyance of the subsequent medium is stopped.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
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Provided are a medium conveying apparatus to able to satisfactorily feed a medium. A medium conveying apparatus includes a loading tray, a feed roller to feed a medium placed on the loading tray, a separation roller located above the feed roller to face the feed roller, a bottom surface guide located at a first position where contact between a bottom surface of the medium placed on the loading tray and the feed roller is restricted, before medium feeding, and located at a second position where contact between the bottom surface of the medium placed on the loading tray and the feed roller is allowed, at a time of medium feeding, a first guide engaged with the bottom surface guide located at the first position to restrict contact between a front edge of the medium placed on the loading tray and the separation roller, before medium feeding, and a second guide located between an upstream edge of the separation roller in a medium conveying direction and a central part of the separation roller to regulate the front edge of the medium at a position apart upwardly by a predetermined distance from a nip part of the feed roller and the separation roller, at a time of medium feeding.
A media feeding apparatus includes: a feed roller, a separation roller, and a pressing portion to press one of the feed roller and the separation roller against the other to form a nip region. A surface of the feed roller has grooves extending in a width direction of the feed roller. The grooves are arranged with a pitch such that at least one groove is always present in the nip region during feeding of the medium. A width of each groove is 0.5 mm or greater and is set such that a contact area ratio is 0.5 or greater, the ratio being a value obtained by {(a surface area of the feed roller in the nip region−an area of the at least one groove of the feed roller in the nip region)}/(the surface area of the feed roller in the nip region). A surface of the separation roller has grooves extending in a circumferential direction of the separation roller.
A medium conveying apparatus includes medium conveying apparatus includes a housing including a locking portion, a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion, a feed roller, a separation roller located to face the feed roller, and a guide mechanism including a locked portion locked with the locking portion, a first shaft portion supported by the first supporting portion, a second shaft portion supported by the second supporting portion, and a conveyance guide portion to regulate a medium fed between the feed roller and the separation roller. The guide mechanism is swingably supported by the housing about the first shaft portion in a state where the locked portion is locked with the locking portion. The guide mechanism is swingably supported by the housing about the second shaft portion in a state where a locking of the locking portion and the locked portion is released.
A media conveying apparatus includes first and second rollers, first and second sensors, and circuitry. The rollers are spaced apart in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a medium conveyance direction, to rotate independently to convey the medium. The first and second sensors are disposed downstream from the first and second rollers, respectively, in the medium conveyance direction. The circuitry sets circumferential speeds of the first and second rollers to a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, respectively, to correct a skew of the medium when the first sensor detects the medium before the second sensor. The sensors are disposed in a same position when viewed in the orthogonal direction. The position of the first sensor in the orthogonal direction is the same as a rotational center position of the medium that rotates at a speed ratio of the second speed to the first speed.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
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INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
Provided is an information processing apparatus to improve usability when a user sets an imaging mode or an image processing mode. An information processing apparatus includes a storage where, for each of a plurality of imaging modes or image processing modes, a comparative imaging mode different from the imaging mode or a comparative image processing mode different from the image processing mode, a sample image being an image of a sample medium imaged with the imaging mode or an image acquired by executing an image processing of the image processing of the image processing mode on an image of the sample medium, and a comparative sample image being an image of the sample medium imaged with the comparative imaging mode or an image acquired by executing an image processing of the image processing of the comparative image processing mode on the image of the sample medium are stored in advance, a communication device to communicate with an image reading apparatus, a display to display a sample image and a comparative sample image of an imaging mode or an image processing mode specified by a user side by side, and a setting module to set an imaging mode or an image processing mode set by the user to the image reading apparatus through the communication device.
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveyance roller to convey a medium, a DC motor to drive the conveyance roller, a processor to rotate the DC motor, an encoder to output a first pulse signal whose cycle varies according to a rotation speed of the DC motor, and an imaging device to acquire an image acquired by imaging a conveyed medium in response to a pulse of a second pulse signal whose cycle is constant. The processor detects a number of pulses of the second pulse signal included in a predetermined cycle of the first pulse signal, and discards images acquired by the imaging device in the same number of pulses as difference between the detected number of pulses and a reference number, in a next cycle of the predetermined cycle of the first pulse signal, when the detected number of pulses exceeds the reference number.
A data file providing method includes a step of, by a scanner, uploading a data file generated by scanning process to a file relay apparatus on the Internet. The data file providing method includes a step of, by the file relay apparatus, storing the uploaded data file in a temporary storage location. The data file providing method includes a step of, by the scanner, displaying information indicating a uniform resource locator (URL) of the temporary storage location. The data file providing method includes a step of, by the file relay apparatus, transmitting the data file stored in the temporary storage location in response to a web access based on the URL.
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to receive, from a reading unit that reads a document having multiple pages, multiple page data individually corresponding to the multiple pages of the document; and transmit, to an external storage, the multiple page data to be stored in the external storage. The circuitry starts the transmitting, to an external storage, the multiple page data to be stored in the external storage before reading all pages of the document completes. The circuitry receives an edit instruction for editing page data transmitted to the external storage among the multiple page data; and transmits, to the external storage, edit data for reflecting the edit instruction in a content to be displayed based on the multiple page data read from the external storage, so as to cause the external storage to execute processing corresponding to the edit instruction for editing the page data having been transmitted.
Provided is a medium conveying apparatus to enable suitable feeding of a plurality of types of media. A medium conveying apparatus includes a guide member including an opening or a notch and configured to form a conveyance surface of a medium, a feed roller located inside the opening or the notch and configured to feed the medium, a separation roller located to face the feed roller, and protruding parts located on left and right sides of the separation roller relative to a medium conveying direction. The guide member includes recessed parts positioned on left and right sides of the feed roller relative to the medium conveying direction. The protruding parts are located at positions facing the opening or the notch, or the recessed parts in such a way that the medium is conveyed between the protruding parts and the recessed parts. A tip of each of the protruding parts is positioned on the feed roller side of a nip part of the feed roller and the separation roller.
An object processing apparatus includes a first imaging device to capture a surface of a subject to obtain a surface image. The object processing apparatus includes a second imaging device to capture an internal object in the subject to obtain an internal image. The object processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to determine whether the subject is a battery-containing product that has a built-in battery based on the surface image and the internal image to generate a determination result. The object processing apparatus includes a processing device to operate based on the determination result.
G06V 10/80 - Fusion, i.e. combining data from various sources at the sensor level, preprocessing level, feature extraction level or classification level
G05B 19/4155 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by programme execution, i.e. part programme or machine function execution, e.g. selection of a programme
G06T 7/70 - Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras
An information processing system includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires a captured image by capturing a document. The circuitry performs an analysis process using the captured image. The circuitry selects, for each of at least one setting item of a plurality of setting items relating to image processing to be performed on the captured image, at least one setting value from among configurable setting values as a candidate for a recommended setting. The circuitry performs image processing repeatedly on the captured image while changing setting values of the plurality of setting items with a setting value of the at least one setting item restricted to the at least one setting value selected as the candidate for the recommended setting. The circuitry determines recommended settings for the plurality of setting items relating to image processing to obtain an image suitable for character recognition.
A swing controller includes a swing member including a swing shaft on which the swing member swings and a contact portion, and a torsion coil spring. The torsion coil spring includes a rotation support shaft on which the torsion coil spring rotates, a fixed first arm, and a second arm on which the contact portion slides. The rotation support shaft is at a position different from a position of the swing shaft. When the swing member swings in a predetermined direction, a reaction force in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction is applied to the swing member by a friction force between the contact portion and the second arm.
A medium conveyance apparatus includes a housing having a frame, a placing table provided on the housing to be openable and closeable and configured to place a medium when the placing table is in an opened state, a to-be-engaged portion provided on the frame, an engagement part provided on at least one side of the placing table to face the to-be-engaged portion when the placing table is in a closed state, a to-be-contacted portion provided on the frame, and a contact portion provided on the placing table. In the medium conveyance apparatus, when the placing table is in the closed state, the engagement part engages with the to-be-engaged portion and maintains the closed state of the placing table. In the medium conveyance apparatus, when the placing table is in the closed state, the contact portion contacts the to-be-contacted portion and restricts movement of the placing table and thereby restricting separation of the engagement part from the to-be-engaged portion.
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
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INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE MEDIUM
An information processing system includes circuitry. The circuitry performs image processing on an image to generate a processed image. The circuitry acquires a correct character string for a text area in the processed image. The circuitry acquires a recognized character string by performing character recognition on the text area in the processed image. The circuitry performs collation between the correct character string and the recognized character string. The circuitry displays one or more windows reflecting a result of the collation between the correct character string and the recognized character string on a display for allowing a user to evaluate whether the image processing is suitable for character recognition. The circuitry controls a displaying manner of at least one window of the one or more windows to vary according to the result of the collation.
An information processing system includes circuitry that: acquires a character recognition result that is a result of character recognition performed on a target image; extracts, from the character recognition result of the target image, a plurality of candidate character strings that are candidates of an item value of an extraction target item; generates, for each of the plurality of candidate character strings, a feature quantity based on positional relationships between the candidate character string and a plurality of item keywords in the target image, the plurality of item keywords being keyword word strings for use in extraction of the item value of the extraction target item; stores a trained model in a memory; and inputs the feature quantity of each of the plurality of candidate character strings in the target image to the trained model so as to extract the item value of the extraction target item.
An information processing system includes: circuitry that: acquires a character recognition result of an identification target image; stores a frequently occurring word string of a predetermined document type; detects the frequently occurring word string from the character recognition result of the identification target image to acquire information on a position of the frequently occurring word string in the identification target document; generates a feature quantity of the identification target document using the information on the position, the feature quantity including a positional relationship feature quantity related to a positional relationship between the frequently occurring word string and another word string in the identification target document; stores a trained model that identifies the predetermined document type; and inputs the feature quantity of the identification target document to the trained model to identify whether the identification target document is a document of the predetermined document type.
An information processing system includes circuitry to determine a recommended setting by performing a comparison analysis using one or a plurality of first images and one or a plurality of second images. The recommended setting is a setting different from a setting used in obtaining the one or the plurality of second images by the second image reading apparatus or the second image processor. The recommended setting is a setting causing one or a plurality of third images to be closer to the one or the plurality of first images than the one or the plurality of second images. The one or the plurality of third images are obtained from the single-sheet original document or the multiple-sheet original document by the second image reading apparatus and by the second image processor to which the recommended setting is applied.
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MEDIUM CONVEYANCE APPARATUS TO DETERMINE WHETHER TILT ANGLE OF MEDIUM HAS CHANGED BASED ON TIME FROM WHEN ANY SENSOR DETECTS MEDIUM TO WHEN ANOTHER SENSOR DETECTS MEDIUM
A medium conveyance apparatus includes a first sensor located at a center part in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveyance direction; a second sensor located at a downstream side from the first sensor in the medium conveyance direction and at the center part in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveyance direction, a third sensor located at a downstream side from the second sensor in the medium conveyance direction and at the one side in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveyance direction, and a processor to determine whether a tilt angle of the medium being conveyed has changed based on a time from when the first sensor detects the medium to when the second sensor detects the medium when the first sensor detects the medium first, the third sensor detects the medium second, and the second sensor detects the medium third.
B65H 7/10 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to incorrect side register
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
45.
MEDIUM CONVEYANCE APPARATUS WITH A PLURALITY OF SOUND WAVE SENSORS DRIVEN BY SINGLE DRIVE SIGNAL AND OUTPUTTING SOUND WAVE SIGNALS AT DIFFERENT TIMINGS
A medium conveyance apparatus includes a drive signal output circuit to output a drive signal at a predetermined timing, a first sound wave emitter to output a sound wave based on the drive signal outputted at the predetermined timing, a first sound wave receiver to output a first sound wave signal corresponding to the received sound wave, a second sound wave emitter to output a sound wave based on the drive signal outputted at the predetermined timing, a second sound wave receiver to output a second sound wave signal corresponding to the received sound wave, a processor to determine a state of the medium based on the first sound wave signal and the second sound wave signal, and an output circuit to output the first sound wave signal and the second sound wave signal to the processor at timings different from each other.
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
46.
MEDIUM CONVEYING DEVICE, MEDIUM FEEDING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
A medium conveying apparatus includes a feed roller to feed a medium, a separation roller located to face the feed roller, a regulating guide provided to be movable between a first position where contact of the medium with the feed roller and the separation roller is regulated and a second position where contact of the medium with the feed roller and the separation roller is not regulated, and a processor to control the feed roller, the separation roller, and the regulating guide. When feeding of a medium is started, the processor controls the feed roller, the separation roller, and the regulating guide such that the feed roller feeds the medium after the regulating guide moves from the first position toward the second position and the separation roller contacts the medium.
B65H 3/66 - Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
A medium ejection device includes a housing, an ejection roller, an opposing roller, and a tray. The housing includes: a medium conveyance path tilted to be lower toward a downstream end of the path in a medium ejecting direction to eject a medium downward; and a wall portion disposed below a nip surface between the ejection roller and the opposing roller. The wall portion is not overlapped, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the medium ejecting direction, with a circle that is centered at an intersection point between an extension line of the nip surface and a placement surface of the tray and passes through a point closest to the intersection point on outer circumference surfaces of the ejection roller and the opposing roller such that, when the ejected medium falls down, a rear end of the medium does not come into contact with the wall portion.
B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
A medium conveying apparatus includes a motor, a first shaft, a conveyance roller, a second shaft, a driven roller, and a presser. The motor generates a driving force. The first shaft is rotated by the driving force. The first shaft extends linearly in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveyance direction. The conveyance roller is fixed to the first shaft to convey a medium. The driven roller is mounted on the second shaft to rotate following the conveyance roller. The presser presses a center portion of the second shaft in a direction perpendicular to the medium conveyance direction to a downstream side in the medium conveyance direction.
A medium conveying apparatus includes: a housing having an engaged portion and a guide surface; a placement tray having an engaging portion and a placement surface; and a side guide mounted on the placement surface and protruding downstream beyond the placement tray in a medium conveying direction to restrict a medium in a width direction. The engaged portion restricts entry or removal of the engaging portion when the placement surface forms a first angle with the guide surface, and allows entry or removal of the engaging portion when the placement surface forms a second angle different from the first angle with the guide surface in attachment of the placement tray to the housing or detachment of the placement tray from the housing. A downstream end of the side guide in the conveying direction does not intersect with the guide surface as viewed from the width direction when the placement surface forms the second angle.
B65H 1/06 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile for separation from bottom of pile
50.
APPARATUS FOR SELECTING LEARNING DATA, METHOD OF SELECTING LEARNING DATA, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
An apparatus, a method, and a program stored in a non-transitory recording medium each of which acquires a data file, specifies an operation performed by a user on the acquired data file, and determines whether to adopt the acquired data file as learning data for machine learning based on the specified operation.
An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry identifies an outer edge of a document with respect to image data optically read from the document and fills an outside from the outer edge in the image data with a predetermined color.
A subject determination apparatus includes a display having a display screen, a camera to capture a subject, and circuitry. The circuitry displays a pattern image on the display screen. The circuitry obtains an image including the subject while the pattern image is being displayed on the display screen as a captured image. The circuitry determines whether the pattern image reflected by the subject appears in the captured image.
G09G 5/377 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of individual graphic patterns using a bit-mapped memory - Details of the operation on graphic patterns for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns
A medium conveying apparatus includes a mounting table having a mounting surface on which a medium is to be placed, a side guide disposed on the mounting surface and including a restricting surface to restrict the medium in a width direction of the medium, and a recessed portion disposed at an upstream or downstream end portion of the side guide in a medium conveyance direction of the medium. The recessed portion has an upper surface and a side surface. The side surface includes a first portion having a first angle with respect to the restricting surface and a second portion having a second angle with respect to the restricting surface. The second angle is different from the first angle.
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
54.
MEDIUM CONVEYING APPARATUS DETECTING BOUND MEDIUM BASED ON LIFT OF MEDIUM
A medium conveying apparatus includes a pick roller feeding a medium, a separation roller placed on a downstream side of the pick roller in a conveying direction of a medium, an arrival detection sensor placed on a downstream side of the separation roller in the conveying direction and detecting arrival of a medium, a lift sensor detecting a lift of a medium between an upstream side of a roller nip of the pick roller and a downstream side of a roller nip of the separation roller, and a processor. The processor determines that a medium is a bound medium when a lift of a medium is detected by the lift sensor in a first predetermined period after detection of a front edge of a medium in a conveying direction by the arrival detection sensor, and executes abnormality processing when a medium is determined to be a bound medium.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
B65H 7/18 - Modifying or stopping actuation of separators
55.
MEDIUM CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING A SKEW OF A MEDIUM USING THREE SENSORS
A medium conveying apparatus includes a plurality of feed rollers, each feed roller rotating independently at a respective speed to feed a medium, a first sensor located on a downstream side of the plurality of feed rollers in a medium conveying direction and also in a central part in a direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction, to detect the medium, a second sensor and a third sensor located on both sides of the first sensor in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction, to respectively detect the medium, and a processor to change the speed of one of the plurality of feed rollers at least until the first sensor detects the medium when any of the second sensor or the third sensor detects the medium and the first sensor does not detect the medium within a predetermined time.
B65H 9/00 - Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
B65H 7/08 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to incorrect front register
B65H 9/20 - Assisting by photoelectric, sonic, or pneumatic indicators
56.
MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
A medium conveying apparatus includes a loading tray to place media, a feed roller to separate and sequentially feed the media placed on the loading tray, a motor to drive the feed roller, a sensor located on a downstream side of the feed roller in a medium conveying direction to detect a medium, and a processor to control the motor. In a separation period from a start of medium feeding by the feed roller to detection of a front edge of the first medium by the sensor, when feeding a first medium of a plurality of media placed on the loading tray, the processor controls the motor to rotate the feed roller at a constant speed, and when feeding a second or subsequent medium, the processor controls the motor to rotate the feed roller at a first speed and then at a second speed higher than the first speed.
B65H 29/68 - Reducing the speed of articles as they advance
B65H 3/52 - Friction retainers acting on under or rear side of article being separated
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
57.
DATA FILE GENERATION APPARATUS, DATA FILE GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE MEDIUM
A data file generation apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry generates a data file. The circuitry writes the data file to an external storage area that is external to the data file generation apparatus. The circuitry writes identification information of the data file to the external storage area as deletion candidate information indicating a candidate for a file to be deleted. The circuitry deletes the deletion candidate information when the data file is successfully stored in the external storage area.
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveyance roller to convey a medium, an imaging device to image the medium, a DC motor to drive the conveyance roller, a processor to detect that a front end of the medium reaches between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, set a current limit value of the DC motor to a first limit value until the front end of the medium reaches between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, and change the current limit value to a second limit value larger than the first limit value after the front end of the medium has reached between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, and drive the conveyance roller by rotating the DC motor based on the second limit value when the imaging device performs imaging.
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 7/18 - Modifying or stopping actuation of separators
59.
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
A scanner device 2 comprises an information processing unit 20, a wireless LAN chip 310 that performs wireless communication in accordance with control by the information processing unit 20, and a resident power supply 350 that supplies electric power to the information processing unit 20 and the wireless LAN chip 310. The resident power supply 350 supplies electric power to the wireless LAN chip 310 and maintains an active state before the information processing unit 20 starts up.
A medium feed apparatus includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor to detect rotation of the separation roller, and a processor. The processor controls a motor to put the separation roller on hold from when starting the feed of the medium to when the second sensor detects a front end of the medium and generate the drive force from when the second sensor detects the front end of the medium to when the first sensor detects a back end of the medium, and controls the motor to stop the feed roller while generating the drive force if the third sensor detects rotation of the separation roller in the opposite direction to the medium feed direction during feed of the medium.
B65H 3/52 - Friction retainers acting on under or rear side of article being separated
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
61.
MEDIUM FEED APPARATUS TO ADVANCE SUCCEEDING SHEET OF MEDIUM WHEN PRECEDING SHEET OF MEDIUM PASSES PICK ROLLER
A medium feed apparatus includes a stacking tray, a pick roller located at an upstream side from a feed roller and separation roller in the medium conveyance direction, a first sensor located at an upstream side from the pick roller in the medium conveyance direction, a second sensor located at a downstream side from the feed roller and the separation roller in the medium conveyance direction, and a processor to rotate the pick roller and the feed roller in a medium feed direction to feed a plurality of sheets of the medium stacked on the stacking. The processor stops the pick roller when the second sensor detects a front end of a preceding sheet of the medium and rotates the pick roller again to advance a succeeding sheet of the medium when the first sensor detects a back end of the preceding sheet of the medium.
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
A medium conveying apparatus includes an imaging unit provided to be movable in a direction perpendicular to a conveying surface for conveying a medium, to image the medium, a roller pair provided on an upstream side of the imaging unit in a medium conveying direction, the roller pair including a first roller provided to be movable in a direction perpendicular to the conveying surface, and a second roller facing the first roller, and a conveyance guide provided on a rotation shaft of the first roller, to move in conjunction with a movement of the first roller. The conveyance guide includes a guide surface extending at least from a downstream end portion of a nip portion of the roller pair to an upstream end portion of the imaging unit in the medium conveying direction and being flush with a lower surface of the imaging unit.
A medium conveying apparatus includes a pair of conveyance rollers including a first roller and a second roller facing the first roller on an upward side of the first roller, to convey a medium between the first roller and the second roller, and a pair of guides including a lower guide located on an upstream side of the pair of conveyance rollers in a medium conveying direction and an upper guide facing the lower guide, to guide the medium to the pair of conveyance rollers. The upper guide is movably located upwardly according to a conveyance of the medium and the lower guide is movably located downwardly according to the conveyance of the medium so that a space between the pair of guides is changed according to the medium.
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller to convey a medium, an overlap detection sensor, a processor to detect an overlap portion in which it is determined that an overlap has occurred on the medium based on a detection output by the overlap detection sensor for the medium conveyed by the conveying roller, calculate an overlap length where the overlap portion is continuous based on a detection result of the overlap portion, determine whether a multi-feed has occurred based on the overlap length, and execute an abnormal processing for the multi-feed based on a determination result of the multi-feed. The processor determines that a first overlap portion and a second overlap portion are continuous when a distance between the first overlap portion and the second overlap portion is within a predetermined distance in calculating the overlap length.
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
B65H 7/18 - Modifying or stopping actuation of separators
A medium conveying apparatus includes a pick roller feeding a medium, a separation roller located on a downstream side of the pick roller, a conveyance roller located on a downstream side of the separation roller, a medium sensor being located on a downstream side of the separation roller and detecting the medium, a lift sensor detecting a lift of the medium on an upstream side of the conveyance roller, a passing sensor being located on an upstream side of the separation roller and detecting passing of the medium, and a processor to determine that the medium is a predetermined medium when a lift of the medium and passing of the medium are detected in a predetermined period after the medium is detected, and execute abnormality control when the medium is determined to be the predetermined medium.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
A medium conveying apparatus includes a pick roller, a first lift sensor located on one side of the pick roller, a second lift sensor located on another side of the pick roller, a first detection sensor located on a same side as the first lift sensor, a second detection sensor located on a same side as the second lift sensor, and a processor to determine whether the medium is a predetermined medium, based on a detection result of a lift of the medium by the first or second lift sensor and to execute abnormality control when the medium is determined to be the predetermined medium, wherein the processor makes it difficult for the medium to be determined as a predetermined medium when it is detected that the first detection sensor side of the medium precedes the second detection sensor side.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
In an image capturing device, an image-capturing target medium is placed on a mount. An image capturing unit is disposed to face the mount and captures an image of the image-capturing target medium, which is placed on the mount, from above of the image-capturing target medium. A memory unit stores a third reference image that is obtained when a first reference image, which is a reference image captured by the image capturing unit, is corrected using a second reference image, which is estimated to be captured by the image capturing unit under the assumption that a reference medium is present over the entire image capturing range of the image capturing unit. A correcting unit corrects the gradation of the image of the image-capturing target medium, which is captured by the image capturing unit, based on the gradation of the third reference image.
H04N 25/61 - Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise the noise originating only from the lens unit, e.g. flare, shading, vignetting or "cos4"
An object recognition device includes an illuminator configured to illuminate an object, an imager configured to take a first-type image of the object when the object is illuminated by the illuminator under a first illumination condition, and take a second-type image of the object when the object is illuminated by the illuminator under a second illumination condition different than the first illumination condition, and circuitry configured to calculate a position of the object based on the first-type image and the second-type image.
Provided are a medium conveyance apparatus, control method, and control program to enable determining whether multi-feed of a medium has occurred by a greater precision. A medium conveyance apparatus includes a storage device to store in advance region information of a predetermined region in a medium, a feed roller to feed the medium, a slant detection module to detect an amount of slant of the fed medium, an overlap detection module to detect region information of a region in which overlap has occurred in the fed medium, a correction module to correct the detected region information based on the amount of slant, and a multi-feed determination module to determine that multi-feed of the medium has occurred if the corrected region information does not correspond to the stored region information and determine that multi-feed of the medium has not occurred if the corrected region information corresponds to the stored region information.
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
B65H 7/08 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to incorrect front register
A media conveyance device is provided with: a device body (1) in which a conveyance path (8) is formed; a paper feed tray (2) (95) supported by the device body (1); a paper output tray (3) (91) supported by the device body (1); a conveyance unit (11) that conveys a paper feed medium loaded on the paper feed tray (2) (95) along the conveyance path (8) and loads the paper feed medium on the output tray (3) (91); a first mechanism (34) that swings the paper output tray (3) (91) so that the paper output tray (3) (91) is stored in the device body (1), and stops the swinging of the paper output tray (3) (91) midway in the swing from a deployed position in which the paper output tray (3) (91) is deployed to a storage position in which the paper output tray is stored; and a second mechanism (35) that shortens the paper output tray (3) (91) when the swinging of the paper output tray (3) (91) is stopped.
A medium conveying apparatus includes a first optical sensor located on an upper part of the housing and in a central part of the housing in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying direction, a second optical sensor located on an upper part of the housing and on a side of the first optical sensor in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction, and a processor to detect a folding of a medium based on the first signal or the second signal, and stop feeding of the medium by the feed roller in accordance with a detection result of the folding of the medium. The first light emitter emits first light toward a downstream side of the medium in the medium conveying direction, and the second light emitter emits second light toward an upstream side of the medium in the medium conveying direction.
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
72.
MEDIUM EJECTION APPARATUS INCLUDING EJECTION TRAY FORMED WITH RECESSED PART AND BEAM PART
A medium ejection apparatus includes a housing, an ejection roller, and an ejection tray attached to the housing to be able to rotate and having a first surface and a second surface, formed at a back side of the first surface, to stack the medium ejected by the ejection roller. The first surface and the second surface are formed by a single member. The first surface is formed with a first recessed part extending in a medium ejection direction and a first beam part extending in the medium ejection direction and sticking out from the first recessed part. The second surface is formed with a second recessed part extending in the medium ejection direction due to the first beam part and is formed with a second beam part extending in the medium ejection direction and sticking out from the second recessed part due to the first recessed part.
B65H 29/14 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands and introducing into a pile
B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
B65H 31/10 - Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled one above another and applied at the top of the pile
B65H 31/20 - Pile receivers adjustable for different article sizes
B65H 31/02 - Pile receivers with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
73.
FILE PROVISION SYSTEM, FILE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND FILE PROVISION METHOD
A file provision system includes a file generation apparatus and a file relay apparatus. The file generation apparatus includes first circuitry. The first circuitry provides a user terminal with device identification information identifying the file generation apparatus and access destination information indicating an access destination to the file relay apparatus. The first circuitry transmits the device identification information of the file generation apparatus to the file relay apparatus. The file relay apparatus includes second circuitry. The second circuitry receives the device identification information from the user terminal in response to an access from the user terminal. The second circuitry transmits the data file received from the file generation apparatus corresponding to the received device identification information to the user terminal as a source of the access or transfer the data file to a transfer destination designated by the user terminal as the source of the access.
An object recognition device includes an illuminator configured to illuminate an object, an imager configured to generate an image of the object such that overexposure occurs in the image, and circuitry configured to calculate a position of the object based on the image.
Provided are a medium feed device, a medium feed method, and a control program that make it possible to appropriately reduce the occurrence of multi-feed of media. The medium feed device comprises a stage, a feed roller that sequentially feeds a plurality of media placed on the stage, a separation roller facing the feed roller, a detection unit that detects the front end position of the media at a nip part between the feed roller and the separation roller, and a setting unit that sets a characteristic value of the separation roller. The setting unit changes the characteristic value according to the inter-medium distance between the front end position of a preceding medium and the front end position of the medium next to the preceding medium detected by the detection unit in the nip part.
Provided are a medium conveying apparatus, a control method, and a control program to enable determining whether multi-feed of the medium has occurred with higher accuracy. A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying module to convey a medium, a detection module to detect transmission information of ultrasonic waves transmitted through the medium or thickness information of the medium at a plurality of positions in the medium conveyed by the conveying module, a determination module to determine whether multi-feed of the medium has occurred, by comparing a value based on the transmission information or the thickness information with a threshold, for each of the plurality of positions, and a control module to execute an abnormality process when it is determined that multi-feed of the medium has occurred. The determination module changes a determination sensitivity of whether multi-feed of the medium has occurred, according to a position in the medium at which the transmission information or the thickness information has been detected by the detection module.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
Provided is a media discharge device with which media can be desirably discharged onto a plurality of trays on which the discharged media are placed. This media discharge device has: a discharge roller that discharges the media; a first tray which has a first placement surface and on which the media discharged by the discharge roller are placed; a second tray which is provided so that the second tray can be drawn out from the first tray, has a second placement surface, and on which the media discharged by the discharge roller are placed; and a plurality of rollers that are disposed on at least one of the first tray or the second tray at intervals in a direction perpendicular to the media discharge direction, and that each protrude from the first placement surface or the second placement surface and assist the discharge of the media.
Provided are a medium ejection device, a control method, and a control program with which it is possible to satisfactorily eject a medium. The medium ejection device comprises: an imaging unit; a plurality of ejection rollers disposed on the downstream side of the imaging unit in the medium ejecting direction at intervals in a direction orthogonal to the medium ejecting direction; a plurality of detection sensors disposed between the imaging unit and the plurality of ejection rollers at intervals in a direction orthogonal to the medium ejecting direction; and a control unit that conveys a medium captured by the imaging unit with the plurality of ejection rollers having peripheral velocities different from each other to execute skew correction of the medium. The control unit executes the skew correction if the elapsed time from passage of the rear end of the medium through one of the plurality of detection sensors to passage through another detection sensor is less than or equal to a first threshold, and does not execute the skew correction if the elapsed time is greater than the first threshold.
B65H 9/00 - Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor
B65H 29/20 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
80.
AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
In an authentication apparatus, a camera captures an image including a face image that is an image of a face of an imaging target person, a touch screen displays the face image, a display control unit causes the touch screen to display a guide frame for guiding the imaging target person to an imaging position of the face based on a display position of the face image in the touch screen, and a personal authentication unit performs personal authentication using the face image when the face image is located within the guide frame.
A medium ejection apparatus includes an ejection roller, an ejection tray to stack a medium ejected by the ejection roller, a drive mechanism to drive the ejection roller, a processor to detect a size of the medium ejected by the ejection roller, and control the drive mechanism to control a conveyance speed of the ejection roller when ejecting the medium. The processor changes the conveyance speed of the ejection roller from a first conveyance speed to a second conveyance speed lower than the first conveyance speed in the middle of ejecting the medium. The processor changes the second conveyance speed in accordance with the size of the medium.
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
82.
MEDIUM CARRYING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM
Provided are a medium carrying device, a control method and a control program for allowing the pages of a book-formed medium to be more favorably turned. This medium carrying device comprises: a housing that has a first roller and a second roller arranged above the first roller; a unit that has a third roller and that is so provided as to be rockable relative to the housing; a first driving mechanism that can drive the first roller and the second roller independently; a second driving mechanism that can drive the third roller; and a third driving mechanism that can rock the unit relative to the housing. While a book-formed medium is being sandwiched between the first roller and the second roller, the first driving mechanism is controlled to drive at least the second roller, thereby bending only the page of the front surface of the book-formed medium toward the third roller side; the third driving mechanism is then controlled to shift the unit to a rocking position having a given angle relative to the housing; and when the unit has been shifted to the rocking position, the second driving mechanism is controlled to rotate the third roller, thereby performing an operation of turning the page of the front surface of the book-formed medium.
An image reading device includes a mount table in which a mount surface is formed, a guide portion in which a guide surface is formed, the guide surface facing a side end face of a first portion of a booklet medium that is mounted on the mount table such that the mount surface faces the booklet medium, and an image capturer configured to capture an image of a second portion of the booklet medium, the second portion being different from the first portion, wherein a front cover slit is formed at an end of the guide portion on a side close to the mount surface.
Provided are a medium conveyance device, a medium conveyance method, and a control program whereby it is possible to suitably execute positional alignment of the leading end of a medium by a conveyance roller while suppressing an increase in device costs. This medium conveyance device includes: a feed roller; a first conveyance roller that is disposed downstream of the feed roller; a second conveyance roller that is disposed downstream of the first conveyance roller; a motor for simultaneously driving the first conveyance roller and the second conveyance roller; a sensor that is disposed upstream of the first conveyance roller; a determination unit for determining whether the rear end of a medium has passed the second conveyance roller; and a control unit that causes the first conveyance roller to stop or rotate in the reverse direction, controls the feed roller, and executes positional alignment of the leading end of the medium at the position of the first conveyance roller. When the leading end of a first medium is detected by the sensor and it is determined by the determination unit that the rear end of a second medium preceding the first medium has passed the second conveyance roller, the control unit executes positional alignment of the leading end of the first medium.
B65H 9/00 - Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
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MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE, MEDIUM CONVEYANCE METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
Provided is a medium conveyance device capable of better executing alignment of the leading end of a medium by a conveyance roller. The medium conveyance device has: a feed roller for feeding the medium; a separation roller disposed opposing the feed roller; the conveyance roller, which is disposed downstream of the feed roller in the direction of medium conveyance, conveys the medium by rotating in a first direction, and executes alignment of the leading end of the medium by stopping or rotating in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a setting unit for setting a torque to be applied to the separation roller. The setting unit sets the torque to be applied to the separation roller after the conveyance roller starts the alignment of the leading end of the medium to a value smaller than the torque to be applied to the separation roller before the conveyance roller starts the alignment of the leading end of the medium.
Provided are a medium conveying device, a medium feeding method, and a control program that make it possible to align leading edges of media in a more favorable manner before medium feeding starts. This medium conveying device comprises: a feed roller for feeding media loaded on a loading platform in order starting with the lowermost one; a separation roller disposed above the feed roller and opposed to the feed roller; a restriction member provided to push up the media loaded on the loading platform from below, and thus restrict the media from making contact with the feed roller, the restriction member being movable up and down; a pressing member provided to press the media loaded on the loading platform from above, the pressing member being movable up and down; a conveyance roller provided on the loading platform and located upstream of the feed roller and the separation roller in the medium conveyance direction; a drive mechanism for driving the restriction member, the pressing member, and the conveyance roller; and a control unit that controls the drive mechanism so that the drive mechanism causes up-down movements of the restriction member, up-down movements of the pressing member, and rotation of the conveyance roller so as to vibrate the media loaded on the loading platform before the feed roller and the separation roller start medium feeding.
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
B65H 3/56 - Elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on separated article or on edge of the pile
Provided is a media ejection device with which it is possible to suitably classify ejected media while suppressing any increase in device size. This media ejection device has: an ejection roller for ejecting media; a first ejection platform provided below the ejection roller; a second ejection platform provided above the ejection roller; a guide member capable of moving between a first position, at which the media ejected by the ejection roller is ejected toward the first ejection platform, and a second position, at which the media ejected by the ejection roller is ejected toward the second ejection platform; a driving mechanism that moves the guide member between the first and second positions; and a control unit for controlling the driving mechanism. The guide member is disposed in the surroundings of the ejection roller so as to be capable of rotating about the rotational axis of the ejection roller. When positioned at the second position, the guide member guides the media between the surface of the ejection roller and the guide member, and ejects the media toward the second ejection platform.
Provided are a medium conveyance apparatus, control method, and control program is to enable more precisely detecting an end part in a main scan direction of a medium from an image. A medium conveyance apparatus includes a conveying module to convey a medium, an imaging device to capture an image of the conveyed medium, a storage device to store a low reliability region inside an input image of a medium captured by the imaging device based on a positional relationship between an imaging position of the imaging device and arrangement position of the conveying module, an edge pixel detection module to detect edge pixels from the input image, an end part detection module to detect an end part in a main scan direction of the medium based on edge pixels detected from a region not including the low reliability region inside the input image, and an output control module to output information relating to the detected end part.
An image reading apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing, an imaging sensor, a reference member provided to be able to move between a first position facing the imaging sensor and a second position, a cam to make the reference member move, and an abutting member provided to make the cam move. The abutting member is located at a projecting position sticking out from the first housing, to make the cam move so that the reference member moves from the first position to the second position when the second housing is closed with respect to the first housing. The abutting member is provided so as to be able to retract when the second housing is opened and closed with respect to the first housing and abuts against the cam in the state located at the projecting position.
A medium ejection apparatus includes an ejection tray having a first stacking surface, and an extension tray rotatably attached to an end part of the ejection tray at a downstream side in a medium ejection direction, and having a second stacking surface. An end part of the ejection tray at the downstream side is provided with a first abutting part and a second abutting part. An end part of the extension tray at the ejection tray side is provided with a first abutted part and a second abutted part. The second stacking surface is located forming a first angle with respect to the first stacking surface by the first abutted part abutting against the first abutting part. The second stacking surface is located forming a second angle, different from the first angle, with respect to the first stacking surface by the second abutted part abutting against the first abutting part.
B65H 31/20 - Pile receivers adjustable for different article sizes
B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
B65H 29/14 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands and introducing into a pile
B65H 31/02 - Pile receivers with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
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MEDIUM CONVEYING APPARATUS TO SET TORQUE OF MOTOR ACCORDING TO POSITION OF MEDIUM TRAY
A medium conveying apparatus includes a motor, a medium tray, a roller, and a processor to control the motor so that the medium tray is located at a position at which the medium placed on the uppermost side of the media placed on the medium tray abuts on the roller each time a particular number of media of the media placed on the medium tray is conveyed, and detect a position of the placing surface. The processor sets the torque of the motor to a first torque when a position of the placing surface is a first position, and sets the torque of the motor to a second torque smaller than the first torque when a position of the placing surface is a second position above the first position.
B65H 1/14 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device comprising positively-acting mechanical devices
B65H 1/18 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device controlled by height of pile
Provided is a container sorting system, wherein: a camera 20 captures images of a waste group on a conveyor belt conveying the waste group; an image recognition unit 12 recognizes a desired container in the waste group based on the images captured by the camera 20; a first extraction unit 31a extracts the desired container from the waste group conveyed on the conveyor belt; a presence/absence determination unit 15 determines whether any object is present in the extracted desired container; and a sorting device control unit 17 controls whether to have the first extraction unit 31a perform an operation to return the extracted container onto the conveyor belt based on whether any object is present in the extracted container.
This invention provides a database service even for a node that does not belong to a group used for cluster reconfiguration, and maintains data consistency across the cluster. The present invention comprises a service provision unit that, when a cluster with a multi-master configuration is divided into a plurality of groups and a self group which includes a self node device was not selected as a group for the cluster reconfiguration, provides a database service of the self node device to a node device of a plurality of node devices constituting the cluster. The present invention also comprises a synchronization unit that, when the self group is not a group selected for the cluster reconfiguration but the self node device is in a state in which rejoining the cluster is possible, synchronizes the database of the self node device to a database of another node device belonging to the group selected for the cluster reconfiguration.
G06F 11/20 - Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
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NODE DEVICE, CLUSTER RECONFIGURATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CLUSTER SYSTEM
The present invention makes it possible to properly select a node group for the reconfiguration of a cluster. A node device among a plurality of node devices that constitute a multi-master cluster comprises: a usage information acquiring unit that repeatedly acquires pieces of usage information for a plurality of node devices, the pieces of usage information respectively indicating the usage status of each of the plurality of node devices; and a determining unit that, when the cluster is divided into a plurality of groups, uses evaluation values for the plurality of node devices, the evaluation values respectively corresponding to the pieces of usage information of the plurality of node devices acquired before said cluster was divided, to determine whether to set the local group that includes the host node device as a group for the reconfiguration of said cluster.
G06F 11/20 - Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
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MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE, MEDIUM FEEDING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
Provided is a medium conveyance device that is capable of more suitably restoring a medium when overlapping delivery of the medium has occurred. The present invention has a placement platform, a feeding roller for feeding a medium placed on the placement platform, a separation roller disposed facing the feeding roller, a first motor for driving the feeding roller, a second motor for driving the separation roller, an assessment unit that assesses whether or not overlapping delivery of the medium has occurred, and a control unit that controls the first and second motors so as to return the medium to the placement platform if the assessment unit has assessed that overlapping delivery of the medium has occurred, the control unit controlling the first and second motors such that, when the medium is returned to the placement platform, the feeding roller is rotated after the separation roller is rotated.
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
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MEDIUM CONVEYING DEVICE, MEDIUM FEEDING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
Provided is a medium conveying device capable of separating media more satisfactorily. The medium conveying device comprises: a feed roller for feeding media; a separation roller disposed to face the feed roller; a regulation guide movably provided between a first position at which contact of the medium with the feed roller and the separation roller is regulated and a second position at which contact of the medium with the feed roller and the separation roller is not regulated; a first motor for driving the feed roller; a second motor for driving the separation roller; a third motor for moving the regulation guide; and a control unit that controls the first motor, the second motor, and the third motor so that the feed roller rotates after the separation roller in a rotating state comes into contact with the medium when the feeding of the medium is started.
Provided are a medium transport device, a control method, and a control program that make it possible to more accurately determine whether a jam of a medium will occur or not. This medium transport device comprises: a mounting table; feeding rollers for feeding a medium; a first medium sensor that is disposed downstream of the feeding rollers in a medium transport direction, and that is disposed, in a direction orthogonal to the medium transport direction, inside the side walls of a medium transport path and outside a medium of a maximum size supported by the medium transport device when the medium is mounted on the mounting table; a second medium sensor that is disposed downstream of the first medium sensor in the medium transport direction; a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the result of detection of the medium by the first medium sensor and the result of detection of the medium by the second medium sensor, whether a jam of the medium will occur or not; and a control unit that executes anomaly processing if the determination unit determines that a jam of the medium will occur.
Provided is a media conveyance device whereby jamming of media can be suppressed. This media conveyance device has: a feed roller for feeding media; a separation roller disposed facing the feed roller; a first conveyance roller disposed on a downstream side of the feed roller in a media conveyance direction; a second conveyance roller disposed facing the first conveyance roller; a first pressing part arranged so as to intersect with a first nip part between the feed roller and the separation roller as viewed from the direction orthogonal to the media conveyance direction, the first pressing part pressing, in a first direction, the media fed in the direction orthogonal to a media conveyance path; and a second pressing part arranged on the downstream side of the first nip part in the media conveyance direction and so as to intersect with a first imaginary straight line extending the first nip part downstream in the media conveyance direction as viewed from the direction orthogonal to the media conveyance direction, the second pressing part pressing, in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the media fed in the direction orthogonal to the media conveyance path.
An object processing device (1) comprises: an object processing device body (21, 22); a base member (31) to which the object processing device body (21, 22) is fixed; a plurality of wheels (48, 49) which are rotatably supported by the base member (31); a first fixing leg (47) which is fixed to the base member (31); and an adjustment mechanism (42) which moves a second fixing leg (41) such that the second fixing leg (41) is disposed at a movement position or a fixing position. When the plurality of wheels (48, 49) are in contact with the floor (7), the first fixing leg (47) is separated from the floor (7). The second fixing leg (41) is separated from the floor (7) when disposed in the movement position and is in contact with the floor (7) when disposed in the fixing position. When the second fixing leg (41) is disposed in the fixing position, the base member (31) is inclined such that the first fixing leg (47) and the second fixing leg (41) contact the floor (7) and all of the plurality of wheels (48, 49) are separated from the floor (7).
An object processing device (1) comprises: a holding part (34) for holding an object (71); holding part actuators (33, 35) for causing the holding part (34) to move; and a contact member (41) that is supported so as to be moveable with respect to the holding part (34). When the holding part (34) is holding the object (71) and before the object (71) is raised, the contact member (41) contacts second sections (73, 74) of the object (71) which are spaced apart from a first section (75) where the object contacts the holding part (34), in order to reduce tilting of the object (71).
