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Patent US5245389 - Image forming apparatus - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsAn image forming apparatus wherein the copying operation is performed not only in an automatic density specifying mode but also in a manual density specifying mode according to select by an operator. When the ratio of the frequency of select of the manual density specifying mode to the frequency of select...http://www.google.com/patents/US5245389?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5245389 - Image forming apparatusAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS5245389 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 07/798,140Publication dateSep 14, 1993Filing dateNov 26, 1991Priority dateNov 27, 1990Fee statusPaidPublication number07798140, 798140, US 5245389 A, US 5245389A, US-A-5245389, US5245389 A, US5245389AInventorsTsugihito Yoshiyama, Tadafumi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ideyama, Yoshihiko Hatta, Masazumi ItoOriginal AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (8), Referenced by (9), Classifications (9), Legal Events (4) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetImage forming apparatus
US 5245389 AAbstract
An image forming apparatus wherein the copying operation is performed not only in an automatic density specifying mode but also in a manual density specifying mode according to select by an operator. When the ratio of the frequency of select of the manual density specifying mode to the frequency of select of the automatic density specifying mode has exceeded a predetermined value, the image forming apparatus is adapted to execute an image adjustment process by detecting the state of components, for example, charge wires for the purpose of adjusting the density of copy images formed in the automatic density specifying mode.
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:specifying means for specifying a desired image density; command means for commanding start of a copying operation; determining means for determining the frequency of use of the specifying means and the frequency of use of the command means; image forming means for forming an image on a recording medium; varying means for varying conditions for image formation by the image forming means; and control means for causing the varying means to vary the conditions for the image formation when the ratio of the frequency of use of the specifying means to the frequency of use of the command means has exceeded a predetermined value. 2. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:charging means for charging the surface of a photoreceptor, exposure means for exposing the photoreceptor surface charged by the charging means, developing means having a developing sleeve for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor surface, and applying means for applying a bias voltage to the developing sleeve, wherein the varying means varies each of the charging, exposing and applying means. 3. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the varying means varies the conditions for image formation when the frequency of use of the specifying means has exceeded a predetermined value.
4. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the varying means varies the conditions for image formation when a paper cassette has been removed from the body of the image forming apparatus.
5. An image forming apparatus comprising:density control means for controlling the density of an image to be formed wherein the image is formed at one of a standard density level and a second density level other than said standard density level; inputting means for inputting said second density level; command means for commanding start of a copying operation; determining means for determining the frequency of use of the inputting means and the frequency of use of the command means; image forming means for forming an image under predetermined conditions at the standard density level ;and modifying means for modifying said predetermined conditions every time an output of said determining means exceeds a predetermined level. 6. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 5 wherein the modifying means modifies the predetermined conditions when the ratio of the frequency of use of the inputting means to the frequency of use of the command means has exceeded a predetermined value.
7. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 6 wherein the modifying means modifies the predetermined conditions when the frequency of use of the inputting means has exceeded a predetermined value.
8. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 5 wherein the modifying means modifies the predetermined conditions when a paper cassette has been removed from the body of the image forming apparatus.
9. An image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 5 wherein the image forming means include charging means for charging the surface of a photoreceptor, exposure means for exposing the photoreceptor surface charged by the charging means, developing means having a developing sleeve for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor surface, and applying means for applying a bias voltage to the developing sleeve.
10. A method performed in an image forming apparatus comprising the steps of:specifying a desired image density; commanding start of a copy operation; determining the frequency of the specifying of the desired image density and the frequency of the commanding of the copy operation; varying the image density when the ratio of the frequency of the specifying of the desired image density to the frequency of the commanding of the copy operation has exceeded a predetermined value. Description
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium by the electrophotographic process.
The electrophotographic process has already found wide use in copying machines, facsimile systems, page printers and the like for forming images.
The electrophotographic process comprises the steps of uniformly charging the surface of a photosensitive member, exposing the surface of the photosensitive member to light in accordance with image data to form a latent image, developing the latent image with a toner image by depositing toner on the latent image, transferring the toner image onto recording paper, and fixing the transferred image to the paper.
Image forming apparatuses for practicing the electrophotographic process are adapted that when the power source is turned on, the operation values of various components or portions for determining the conditions for the process, such as the surface potential of the photosensitive member, amount of exposure and toner concentration, are set to initial values which are determined to give copy images of standard density.
Further copying machines, for example, have an operation key for specifying the density of copy images to be formed. With such a copying machine, electrophotographic process conditions, such as the amount of exposure, are altered according to the density specified. by the operation key, whereby copy images are formed with a density higher or lower than the standard density.
However, when used for a long period of time, the copying machine undergoes changes, which include adhesion of impurities to the photosensitive member, abrasion of the member, deterioration of the developer, deterioration of the exposure lamp, soiling of the optical system and alteration in the circuit constant of the control circuit.
For this reason, the conventional copying machine when used for a long period of time fails to produce copy images of standard density when components are set to initial operation values. More specifically, the copying machine has the problem of becoming unable to give a proper image density when the machine is set in the standard mode wherein no density adjustment is made by the operator.
This problem may be overcome by detecting various state values associated with the electrophotographic process conditions by suitable sensors every time a predetermined number of copies has been made or every time a predetermined period of time has elapsed and adjusting the process conditions based on the detected values for image adjustment.
Nevertheless, the time when image adjustment is made by detecting the state values with the sensors is not always the time when the image adjustment is needed. Consequently, the machine will be held out of copying operation while unnecessary image adjustment is executed and therefore still has the problem of being inefficient to use.
The main object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus which is capable of producing copy images of proper density in the standard mode even if used for a prolonged period of time.
Another object of the invention is to provide an image forming apparatus adapted to produce copy images of proper density at all times by image adjustment executed at an appropriate time.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image forming apparatus which is capable of performing an efficient copying operation.
These objects of the present invention are accomplished by an image forming apparatus comprising:
specifying means for specifying a desired image density,
command means for commanding start of a copying operation,
means for adjusting the density of the image to be formed by the image forming means, and
control means for causing the image density adjusting means to execute image density adjustment when the ratio of the frequency of use of the specifying means to the frequency of use of the command means has exceeded a predetermined value.
FIG. 1 is a main flow chart schematically showing the operation of a copying machine according to a first embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an image adjustment process;
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary front view in section showing the copying machine;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary enlarged view showing an optical system;
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the copying machine;
FIG. 6 is a plan view showing an operation panel of the copying machine; and
FIG. 7 is a main flow chart schematically showing the operation of a copying machine according to a second embodiment of the invention.
With reference to FIG. 3 showing the main components of a copying machine A, a photosensitive drum 5 is disposed which is rotatable in the direction of arrow Ma at a constant peripheral speed v. Arranged around the photosensitive drum are a sensitizing charger 6, inter-image eraser 10, developing unit 7, transfer charger 28, separating charger 29, cleaner 9 and main eraser 8. Disposed between an exposure position X2 and the inter-image eraser 10 is a surface electrometer 90 for measuring the surface potential of the drum 5. Interposed between the separating charger 29 and the cleaner 9 is a reflective photosenser (AIDC sensor) 19 comprising a light-emitting element 19a and a photodetector 19b for measuring the density of a reference toner image.
The sensitizing charger 6 is a scorotron charger having charge wires 61 and a mesh grid 63. A constant high voltage is supplied to the charge wires 61 from a high-voltage transformer 62 which is on-off controlled by the CPU 201 to be described later. The amount of charges to be applied by the charge wires 61 to the surface of the drum 5 is controlled by controlling the potential of the grid 63, whereby the drum 5 is set to a desired surface potential. The surface potential of the drum 5 is settable stepwise to nine levels, i.e., levels 1 to 9, which are centered at level 5 as a standard and arranged at a voltage interval of 15 volts. For example ar level 5, the surface potential of the drum 5 is 650 volts. In the following description, the level to which the grid 63 of the sensitizing charger 6 is set will sometimes be referred to as "HV level."
The surface of the drum 5 is uniformly charged by passing a charging position Xl opposed to the charger 6, and is exposed to light at the exposure position X2 by an optical system 20. Some of the charges on the surface of the drum 5 are locally removed by the exposure, whereby a latent image corresponding to a document D is formed on the surface of the drum 5. The charges over the surface area other than the image area are erased by the inter-image eraser 10.
The optical system 20 comprises an exposure lamp 21 for illuminating the document D placed on a document support glass plate 1, mirrors 22a to 22d for guiding the reflected light from the document D to the exposure position X2, and a projection lens 23. During scanning of the document D with light, the exposure lamp 21 and the mirror 22a move in the direction of arrow Mb at a velocity v/m (wherein m is a copying magnification), while the mirrors 22b, 22c move at a velocity of v/2m.
The latent image formed on the surface of the drum 5 is developed by the developing unit 7 to a visible toner image.
Using a developer comprising a mixture of magnetic carrier and insulating toner, the developing unit 7 forms a known magnetic brush and deposits the toner on the latent image (over the unexposed area where charges are present) for normal development when the image passes a developing position X3. The unit 7 includes a developing tank 70 having arranged therein a developing sleeve 71 housing a magnetic roller 72, bristle height regulating plate 73, bucket roller 74 and screw roller 75. A toner concentration sensor (ATDC sensor) 80 is provided under the screw roller 75.
When the bucket roller 74 rotates in the direction of arrow Mc, the developer is attracted to the outer peripheral surface of the developing sleeve 71 magnetically by the magnetic roller 72 and transported to the deveIoping position X3 with the rotation of the sleeve 71 in the direction of arrow Md. The ATDC sensor 80 measures the weight ratio T/C (wt %) of the toner to the whole developer from the magnetic permeability of the developer.
A toner hopper 76 provided at the top of the developing tank 70 has a toner, replenishing roller 77 at its bottom. When rotatably driven by a replenishing motor 78, the toner replenishing roller 77 supplies toner from the toner hopper 76 to the screw roller 75. The toner replenishment is then mixed with the developer already present within the tank 70 by being agitated by the rotation of the screw roller 75 and forwarded to the bucket roller 74. The agitation and mixing cause triboelectric charging, whereby the magnetic carrier and the toner are charged to polarities opposite to each other. At the developing position X3, the toner, which is of negative polarity, is electrostatically attracted by the surface charges of the photosensitive drum 5 and adheres to the surface of the drum 5. To prevent the adhesion of toner due to the charges remaining on the surface of the drum 5 (the charges remaining on the light-exposed area) at this time, a predetermined developing bias voltage VB is applied to the developing sleeve 71.
On the other hand, paper P delivered from a removable paper cassette 40 is transported as timed with the rotation of the drum 5 by a timing roller 30, and the toner image is transferred to the paper P at a transfer position X4 by the transfer charger 28. The paper P bearing the transferred toner image is acted on by the separating charger 29 for the removal of the charges and thereby separated from the drum 5. The paper is sent to an unillustrated fixing unit, which fixes the toner image to the paper P with heat and pressure.
The cleaner 9 thereafter removes residual toner from the surface of the drum 5. The main eraser 8 removes residual charges from the surface in preparation for the subsequent exposure.
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view showing the optical system 20 on an enlarged scale.
A slider unit 24 including the exposure lamp 21 and the mirror 22a is reciprocatingly movably disposed under the document support glass plate 1 for scanning the document D with light as described above during the copying operation. The unit 24 is brought to an adjusting position Y1 or Y2 for the adjustment of images to be described below.
Adjusting seals 25a and 25b corresponding to the adjusting positions Y1 and Y2, respectively, are affixed to the lower surface of the upper cover 26 of the body of the copying machine A. The adjusting seal 25a has a reflectance corresponding to the background area (white area) of usual document paper, while the adjusting seal 25b has a reflectance corresponding to a gray background area (halftone image).
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a control circuit 200 of the copying machine A.
The control circuit 200 comprises as its central component a CPU (central processing unit) 201 for controlling the copying machine A in its entirety.
The CPU 201 receives outputs from various sensors, such as an output voltage VT from the ATDC sensor 80, output voltage VP from the AIDC sensor 19 and output voltage VD from the surface electrometer 90. The CPU 201 feeds control signals to an exposure lamp power source 50 for turning on the exposure lamp 21, a high-voltage power source 60 for applying a high voltage to the grid 63, a high voltage source 40 for applying the developing bias voltage VB, etc. The CPU 201 has connected thereto other components, such as an operation panel 100, RAM 210 for storing various items of data for control and ROM 211 for storing programs and the like.
FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the operation panel 100 of the copying machine A.
The operation panel 100 is divided into an operation portion 219a for setting copying conditions such as the number of copies, density of copies, etc., and a display-operation portion 219b relating to the indication of state of various components.
Arranged in the operation portion 219a are a print key 101 for starting a copying operation, sevensegment LEDs 102 for indicating the number of copies, etc., ten number entry keys 104 to 113 corresponding to the numerals of 1, 2, ..., 9, 0, respectively, a clearstop key 103 for cancelling the specification of copying conditions, up and down keys 114, 115 for specifying the density level of copies stepwise, a density indicator 116 for indicating the density level specified, a mode selection key 130 for effecting change-over between density specifying modes, etc.
Further arranged in the display-operation portion 219b are a message display 117 comprising a liquid crystal display, and serviceman keys 118 to 124.
The serviceman keys 118 to 124 are used chiefly by the serviceman for displaying or processing the control data stored in the RAM 210 and other maintenance work.
For initialization following the turning-on of the power source, an automatic density specifying mode is selected with a mode display LED 131 turned on. Every time the mode selection key 130 is depressed, one of the automatic density specifying mode and a manual density specifying mode is alternately selected. The automatic density specifying mode may be made changeable to the manual density specifying mode also when the up key 114 or down key 115 is depressed.
When the manual density specifying mode is selected for the operator to specify a desired density level, the mode display LED 131 goes off, and an LED 116a positioned in the center of the density indicator 116 and corresponding to a standard density alternatively goes on. Every time the up key 114 is depressed in this state, the density level rises stepwise from the standard density, lighting up the LEDs of the density indicator 116 one after another leftward from the central LED 116a. Alternatively, every time the down key 115 is depressed, the density level lowers stepwise, turning on the LEDs of the indicator 116 one after another rightward.
When a particular density level is specified in the manual density specifying the mode, the amount of exposure (EXP level) is altered according to the specified density level. More specifically, when the standard density level is set (when the LED 116a goes on), a standard value predetermined with reference to a case wherein standard documents (documents with black images on white paper) are copied is set as the EXP level. When darker images are to be formed, a value smaller than the standard value is set as the EXP level, whereas when lighter images are to be formed, a value greater than the standard value is set as the EXP level.
Incidentally, when no key is manipulated within a predetermined period of time after the manual density specifying mode has been selected, an autoresetting process executed by the CPU 201 automatically changes the mode to the automatic density specifying mode.
With the automatic density specifying mode selected, a copying operation is executed by a variation exposure method wherein the EXP level is adjusted in accordance with the amount of light reflected from the document D during exposure scanning, or by a fixed exposure method wherein the EXP level is set according to the overall density of the document D detected by prescanning. The operation produces a sharp copy image wherein the image area and the background area are apparently distinguished even if the document D is newspaper or a blue print of drawing having a dark background area or is a document written in pencil or like document having a light image area.
With the copying machine A thus constructed, the components thereof participating in the electrophotographic process are set to predetermined standard operation values. This permits the machine to operate under the standard conditions for the electrophotographic process to make copy images of proper quality.
However, if the copying machine A has been in use for a prolonged period of time, the components undergo changes due to the lapse of time. Consequently, the machine gradually becomes unable to produce copy images of proper quality if the set operation values remain the standard values. These changes include, for example, soiling of the charge wires 61 which leads to irregularities in images, and deterioration of the drum 5 or the developer which entails a reduced sensitivity or background fogging.
Aside from the alteration of the set operation values in conformity with the density level specified by the operator (hereinafter referred to as the "specification of density") as stated above, the copying machine A is therefore adapted to execute an image adjustment process by detecting the state of the components and determining proper values for the operation thereof in accordance with the result.
Although this process can be executed at a desired time, downtime during which the machine is held out of copying operation would then occur every time the process is practiced, consequently rendering the machine A less efficient to use. Accordingly, the process is practiced not at a time determined irrelevantly to the image quality but at a suitable time when the image quality has presumably become impaired actually as will be described below.
FIG. 1 is a main flow chart generally showing an example of operation of the copying machine A.
When the power source is turned on to start the contemplated program, the CPU 201 first initializes its components (step #1) and accepts signals from operation keys on the operation panel 100 and sensors for input processing (step #2).
Next, the print key 101 is checked as to whether it is on (step #3). If the print key 101 is found depressed, control for a copying operation is executed in accordance with the copying conditions, such as the number of copies, magnification and density, which are specified on the operation panel 100 (step #4).
The value on a copy counter a is incremented to count the number of times the print key 101 is depressed (step #5).
Before depressing the print key 101, the operator specifies the density level and like copying conditions. When the same density level as in the preceding copying cycle is to be specified at this time, the operator need not depress the key concerned, whereas admitting by the operator of the density level previously set is herein interpreted as a mode of specification of density. It therefore follows that the number of times the print key 101 is depressed, namely, the count value on the copy counter a, indicates the frequency of specification of density.
Subsequently, the specification of density included in the copying conditions and made before the depression of the print key 101 is checked as to whether it is standard specification (step #6). The term "standard specification" refers to a case wherein the operator specifies the automatic density specifying mode which is automatically selected upon the initialization of the present copying machine A as previously described, while a case wherein the manual density specifying mode is specified is referred to as "nonstandard specification."
When the standard specification has been made, the value on a standard density specifying counter b is incremented (step #7).
Thereafter, upon completion of the specified number of copies, a ratio of c represented by Equation (1) is determined (steps #8 and #9).
c=(a-b)/a                                                  (1)
wherein a and b are count values on the copy counter a and the standard density specifying counter b, respectively.
Equation (1) reveals that the ratio c is the proportion of nonstandard specification in all instances of density specification. This value serves as an index for determining whether image adjustment is needed.
The manual density specifying mode is specified as nonstandard as stated above usually when the operator positively intends to adjust the image density as he desires or according to the density of the document D, whereas it is likely that the operator will use this mode negatively as an expedient in the case where a proper image quality is unavailable in the standard automatic density specifying mode. Accordingly, the frequency of nonstandard specification of density (the value of ratio c), if great, appears to indicate that there are many instances of negatively specifying the automatic density specifying mode. Thus, the great value of c can be interpreted as indicating the case of impaired copy image quality (need for image adjustment) due, for example, to the deterioration of some components participating in the electrophotographic process.
Accordingly, the CPU 201 executes the image adjustment process when the count value on the copy counter a is in excess of a predetermined value, with the ratio c exceeding a predetermined value (e.g., 0.4)(steps #10, #11 and #12).
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the image adjustment process.
First, a wire cleaner 65 (FIG. 5) is operated to automatically clean the charge wires 61 (step #21), followed by steps #22 to #24 of adjusting the set operation values of components to make the electrophotographic process conditions proper .
Stated more specifically, the sensitizing charger 6 is turned on, and the surface potential VH of the photosensitive drum 5 is measured by the surface electrometer 90 with the exposure lamp 21 off. The potential of the grid 63 is then so adjusted that the surface potential VH becomes a standard value of the dark potential VO corresponding to the nonexposed area (black area) during copying.
Next, the slider unit 24 of the optical system 20 is moved to the aforementioned adjusting position Y1, the exposure lamp 21 is turned on to expose the drum 5 to the reflected light from the white adjusting seal 25a, and the residual potential (light potential) VR of the drum 5 is thereafter measured. The residual potential VR generally rises with the deterioration of the photosensitive drum.
The above-mentioned developing bias voltage VB is determined based on the residual potential VR. Equation (2) represents the optimum value of developing bias voltage VB in conformity with the standard electrophotographic process conditions which are determined by the configuration, material and the like of the photosensitive drum 5, the developing unit 7, etc.
VB=VO+100 (V)                                              (2)
If the difference between the developing bias voltage VB and the residual potential VR becomes smaller than 100 volts, the toner adheres to the unexposed area, soiling the background. Conversely, if the difference becomes greater than 100 volts, the carrier in the developer adheres to the drum 5.
Subsequently, the slider unit 24 is moved to the adjusting position Y2, the drum 5 is exposed to the reflected light from the gray adjusting seal 25b, and the gray potential Vi of the drum 5 is thereafter measured. Further the latent image produced at this time is developed, and the density of the toner image obtained is measured with the AIDC sensor 19.
The ROM 211 has stored therein data showing the relationship between the output VP of the AIDC sensor 19 and the amount of deposited toner MT.
A developing efficiency γ is determined from the data in the ROM 211 and Equation (3).
MT=γ(Vi-VB)                                          (3)
Next, the initial charge potential Vo of the drum 5 at the charging position Xl (see FIG. 3) is calculated from Equation (4) so that the amount of toner, MTo, to be deposited on the unexposed area will be optimum. The operation value of the sensitizing charger 6 to be set is determined in accordance with the initial charge potential Vo.
Vo=(MTo/γ)+VB                                        (4)
The slider unit 24 is thereafter moved to the adjusting position Y1 again, the drum 5 as charged to the initial charge potential Vo is exposed to light, and the resulting surface potential ViL of the drum 5 is measured. The voltage for turning on the exposure lamp 21 is determined to adjust the EXP level so that the surface potential ViL satisfies Equation (5).
ViL=VB-80(V)                                               (5)
In this way, the components are set to the adjusted operation values for producing images of proper quality. Thereafter, the copy counter a and the standard density specifying counter b are reset (step #25), and the register storing the ratio c is cleared.
FIG. 7 is a main flow chart schematically showing the operation of another copying machine A as a second embodiment of the present invention. The construction of the second embodiment and the image adjustment process to be executed therein are the same as those of the first embodiment and therefore will not be described again.
Like steps #1 to #9 of FIG. 1, steps #31 to #39 are executed in succession for initialization, input processing, inquiry as to whether the print key 101 is on, copying, incrementing of the value on the copy counter a, checking of the specified density, incrementing of the value of the standard density specifying counter b, checking of completion of copies and calculation of the ratio c.
The ratio c is thereafter checked (step #40). If the ratio C is up to a predetermined value, the sequence returns to step #32.
Alternatively, when the ratio c is in excess of the predetermined value, an inquiry is made as to whether the paper cassette 40 has been installed in place (step #41). When the cassette 40 is not in place, image adjustment is executed (step #42).
In the foregoing embodiments, steps #11 and #12 or steps #41 and #42 to be executed by the CPU 201 correspond to the function of the image adjusting means of the present invention.
With the embodiments described above, the result of judgment by the operator as to the quality of images is reflected in determining whether image adjustment is necessary. This assures more timely image adjustment than when the adjustment is made at a time that is determined according to the period of use or the number of copies produced, consequently obviating downtime (period during which copying operation is prohibited) due to unnecessary image adjustment.
With the first embodiment described, the image adjustment is executed utilizing waiting time following the completion of a copying operation until the start of the subsequent copying operation, so that the downtime due to the execution of the adjustment can be minimized.
According to the second embodiment, the image adjustment is made utilizing a period of time during which the paper cassette 40 is removed for replacement or replenishment of paper P, i.e., downtime during which the machine is prohibited from copying. This will result in some delay in executing the image adjustment but serves to eliminate the downtime that would occur when the adjustment is made solely, consequently precluding a reduction in the efficiency of the copying machine A to be used.
With the embodiments described above, the operation panel 100 may be provided with an image adjustment cancel key for interrupting the image adjustment to cancel the prohibition of copying operation. The copying operation to be started after the interruption of the adjustment in this case can be conducted under the electrophotographic process conditions employed before the adjustment. The image adjustment is to be resumed after the completion of the copying operation.
The ratio c used in the foregoing embodiments as a standard value for determining whether the image adjustment is needed can be determined suitably, for example, based on statistical data as to the use of the machine.
Although the copying machine A described above and embodying the present invention is settable selectively in one of the automatic density specifying mode and the manual density specifying mode, the invention is applicable also to copying machines having the manual density specifying mode only. In this case, specifying the median of the variable density range, for example, can be standard specification of density, and specifying a value darker or lighter than the median can be nonstandard specification of density.
Further the adjustment of density need not be accomplished solely by varying the amount of exposure but may be realized by some other method, for example, by varying the developing bias value. Moreover, the image adjustment is not limited to the process of the embodiments but may be made with respect to a single component or by other combination of steps.
The present invention can be embodied as digital copying machines, laser printers and like image forming apparatus wherein the electrophotographic process is practiced.
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Talk:Home of the Brave (1986 film) - Wikipedia
Talk:Home of the Brave (1986 film)
The current consensus is that film and soundtrack articles should be separate. I don't have time to do it right now, but unless someone beats me to it I'll probably split the article up in the near future. 23skidoo 03:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Go for it. Fantailfan 12:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
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The Weather - The Washington Post
After spending a week fielding such fascinating questions as "Nuff snow for ya?" I am convinced that bad weather reveals the essential nature of humanity. Not (as the news commentators pontificate) its "essential goodness," but rather, its essential flakiness.
So, before you read all about it in Psychology Today magazine, let me share with you the cast of characters who inevitably emerge from an emergency.
At the very top of this list is, of course, Fred the Family Forcester. Fred is the cousin or uncle you hear from at weddings, funerals, hurricanes and blizzards. He begins to run down his alphabetically arranged telephone calls 24 hours before the storm, bearing warnings like gifts. Ay any given moment he knows the wind-chill factor and the exact location of every second cousin with a hatch to batten down.
The only family that doesn't need its Fred is one with a Polly Prepared. Polly has been ready for the worst since the Hurricane of '56. She has two kerosene lamps, and a year's supply of canned food on a shelf in the fallout shelter in her basement next to the snowshoe rack. When devastation finally strikes, she is properly pleased because, after all, She Told You So.
Polly would be aghast if she met Frank the Fatalist. Before an inch of snow has covered the earth, Frank has decided that hibernation is the better part of valor. He doesn't own a shovel, and he decided long ago that the only snow-removal system he was interested in was spring.
While Frank settles into February and March reading "War and peace," Dutiful Dan is, of course, on his way to work. Dan - strong of will and weak of mind owing to generations of inbreeding - is a familiar figure on the New England landscape. At the hint of a blizzard he dons his Nanook of the North outfit and heads for the office. Every company has its Dan who is hired to set a standard against which the rest of us can fail.
Dan will long be remembered - in truth, he wouldn't allow himself to be forgotten - as the one who walked seven miles in a blinding snow storm, and slept at the office for four nights to man the helm, keep the ship afloat, and generally convince everyone that he is indispensable.
If Dan is looking for competition, I can only refer him to Can-You-Top-This Caroline. Everyone knows Caroline. Whatever difficulty you have been through, whatever you will go through, you can bet that Caroline has been through more. If it took you three hours to get home from work the night of the storm, it took her four. If you have 36 inches of snow in your yard, she has 54 inches - never mind that she lives on the same street. If you have run out of fresh food and have begun worrying about scurvy, Caroline has run out of milk for her 2-month-old triplets and is worrying about starvation.
There are, of course, other character types. There is Florida Frieda, the aunt who calls from her winter home in St. Petersburg to make sure you're safe and sound and - incidentally - to tell you how she's suffering, too. Just last night it was 60 degrees and she and Uncle Bert had to wear jackets.
There's also Suzie Self-Centered, who takes the storm as a personal affront: "How could this happen to me when I have an important appointment tomorrow?" And then there is Nellie Neighbor who doesn't think your children are dressed warmly enough for the weather.
But I confessed that my favorite of all the characters who come out of the drifts is Snowbelt Sam, the Abominable Chauvinist of the North. If he isn't beating his breast and rolling naked in snow mounds, Sam can be found extolling the virtues of adversity. Self-reliance! Man against the elements!
While you are digging deep into the snow in search of lost garbage pails, Sam and his wife, Pollyanna, will tell you that bad weather is good for the soul. While you and your friends are pushing each other's cars, saying prayers over jump-start cables, he will talk about the Wonderful Community Spirit.
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javascript - generate random opacity number using math random - Stack Overflow
I am trying to generate a random number for the css opacity.
opacity: randomOpacity
function randomOpacity() {
opac = Math.random() < 1;
console.log(opac);
javascript jquery math random opacity share|improve this question edited Sep 22 '12 at 21:35
There are multiple errors with your fiddle:
You are spawning 300 divs that are all absolutely positioned. They stack on top of each other and so would appear black regardless.
You aren't actually calling the function (missing parentheses)
Math.random() < 1 is going to return True instead of a number.
You aren't returning opac from your function.
You were calling randomize(), which isn't defined.
Corrected version: http://jsfiddle.net/RucKd/1/
answered Sep 22 '12 at 21:42
I was going to try to make a review of that code too, but good job man. I wouldn't have managed to write all that in less than 20 minutes more. +1
Also, randomize() is not defined in the fiddle so you may remove it from there and add to the error list. =]
1 var opac = 0; opac = Math.random(); return opac; is plainly redundant as well, return Math.random(); has the same effect, which makes the use of a function call just unnecessary. But never mind that.
I stripped down my original code, so some of it is useless in the jsfiddle I wrote. Thank you very much for your help Christophe! Is there a way to limit the random number so its random between 0 and .25 max?
Just Math.random() * 0.25
for (var i = 0; i < 300; i++){
class : "test",
opacity : randomOpacity
function randomOpacity(){
opac =  (Math.random());
return opac;
remove position : absolute;, with this css all your divs at the same place .test{
background-color : black; }
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Math.random() already generates a random number between 0 and 1, so:
class: "test"
}).css('opacity', Math.random()).appendTo("body");
edit: Re-inserted your loop in my answer and removed absolute pos from the fiddle. Read @ChristopheBiocca (+1)'s answer for a more complete code review.
answered Sep 22 '12 at 21:38
The css functions alters a css attribute, Math.random() returns 0-1 so you can just drop it in. The following code alters the opac div's opacity.
<div id="opac">
$("#opac").css('opacity', Math.random());
$(document).ready calls everything inside it once the page is loaded, good idea to use for things like this. share|improve this answer answered Sep 22 '12 at 21:38
$('#foobar').css({ opacity: Math.random() });
Math.random() always returns a value between 0 and 1 and you can put it directly in the function that creates divs. Also, the position: absolute in your CSS places every div in the same place, so you are not able to see the result correctly. Try this:
Anyway, the randomize() function is not defined.
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Warning on 'mortgage rescue' firms
Debt-ridden homeowners sell up to companies and rent their property back - but they can then face eviction
Sunday 9 September 2007 05.16 EDT First published on Sunday 9 September 2007 05.16 EDT
Homeowners struggling with spiralling mortgage costs have been warned to beware of companies which promise a quick way out of debt but could cost them their houses.
A new wave of 'mortgage rescue' firms is targeting financially stretched owners, promising to solve their debt problems by buying their homes quickly and free of fees. Although the companies typically pay as little as two-thirds of the property's market value, people are attracted to the deals because they believe they will be able to carry on living in their homes indefinitely. But according to the Citizen's Advice Bureaux and the housing charity Shelter, some homeowners have unknowingly signed up to unprotected, short-term tenancies, leaving them in danger of being made homeless with little notice. The Wolverhampton Citizen's Advice Bureau alone has advised on 17 cases of people losing their homes through such contracts in the last couple of months.
The warning comes as increasing numbers of homeowners struggle with their mortgages. The courts have seen a 98 per cent increase in the first quarter of the year of mortgage possession orders compared to the same period in 2004; and last week the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reported that mortgage payments are swallowing the biggest share of take-home pay for 17 years.
Hayley Rowley, a specialist adviser with Citizen's Advice, said the mortgage rescue companies' activity has increased in line with mortgage arrears and repossessions, and some are becoming increasingly aggressive.
Homeowners are often contacted by firms after their names are listed in court repossession actions. 'The more predatory companies trawl through possession actions in the county court and approach people on the day and, if there is enough equity in the property, offer to buy it from them and rent it back,' she explained.
Their tactics can be aggressive and one company representative had to be escorted off court premises for hounding potential clients. Some even parade outside courts with sandwich boards.
'With a growing number of people living in the shadow of rising debt and of mortgage arrears, companies offering a way out are increasingly attractive to those struggling to keep a roof over their heads,' said Adam Sampson, chief executive of Shelter. 'But in reality, some packages are misleading, pushing people into housing insecurity and leaving them financially worse off.'
Shelter has been advising Christopher Roberts, a 63-year-old retired civil servant who faces eviction from his home of 55 years after selling it to a company called Repossessions Stopped less than two years ago. The company paid him £95,000 for the house in Stourbridge, West Midlands, although he believes its market value was closer to £145,000.
'I sit here shaking sometimes, trying to think of what to do for the best,' he said. Although he said that the whole point of the deal as he understood it was that he could keep his home for the rest of his life, he signed up to an assured shorthold tenancy, and the agreement gave no indication that he would be allowed to remain in the property indefinitely.
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The mother of three, who still lives in the house with her two daughters and a grandchild, said: 'It's my home and I've been living here for 27 years. I raised my kids in this house and it would be devastating to have to leave. All my memories of the kids are here, the neighbours are fantastic, and my mum and dad live close by.'
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Process received email with Python or Django? - Stack Overflow
I understand how sending email works through Django, but I want users to be able to respond to the email. If the email they send (and I receive) contains a message that matches a certain string, I will call a function.
I have done a few google searches but there seems to be no good solution other than to just make the script myself. Please correct me if there is something out there that could do this; otherwise, what could I use to get started on how to write my own script to do this?
python django share|improve this question asked Jan 2 '13 at 19:36
I think you'll have to make the script yourself. However, this might be useful for that: stackoverflow.com/questions/1225586/checking-email-with-python
We are doing something similar with plone by configuring postfix to do a HTTP request to plone when receiving an email to a specific domain. This should also easily be possible with django, so that you just have to configure your server and write a view in django which receives the email.
1) Set up your DNS so that a MX record for the domain points to your server.
2) Configure a postfix virtual alias /etc/postfix/virtual:
django@example.com django-mail-in
3) and /etc/aliases:
django-mail-in: "|/usr/local/bin/mta2django.py http://127.0.0.1:8000/mail-inbound"
4) The /usr/local/bin/mta2django.py is called by postscript and sends the mail to the mail-inbound django view. This mta2django.py should work:
def post_message(url, recipient, message_txt):
""" post an email message to the given url
print "Invalid url."
print "usage: mta2django.py url <recipient>"
sys.exit(64)
data = {'mail': message_txt}
if recipient and len(recipient) > 0:
data ['recipient'] = recipient
except (IOError,EOFError),e:
print "error: could not connect to server",e
sys.exit(73)
exitcode, errormsg = result.split(':')
if exitcode != '0':
print 'Error %s: %s' % (exitcode, errormsg)
sys.exit(int(exitcode))
print 'Unknown error.'
sys.exit(69)
# This gets called by the MTA when a new message arrives.
# The mail message file gets passed in on the stdin
# Get the raw mail
message_txt = sys.stdin.read()
# If mta2django is executed as external command by the MTA, the
# environment variable ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT contains the entire
# recipient address, before any address rewriting or aliasing
recipient = os.environ.get('ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT')
recipient = sys.argv[2]
post_message(url, recipient, message_txt)
5) Write a django view /mail-inbound which receives the mail and does the things you need it to do. In the request you have:
mail - the full email message
recipient - the original recipient (useful when you do not catch a specific email address but the whole domain / subdomain)
You can parse the email using the python email module:
msg = email.message_from_string(request.get('mail'))
As I'm no postfix expert, I'm not sure if editing /etc/postfix/virtual and /etc/aliases is sufficient. Please consult the postfix documentation for details.
share|improve this answer answered Jan 2 '13 at 20:21
Use Mailgun. You'll need to give MailGun a URL that it would POST to and you can parse the email message.
http://documentation.mailgun.net/quickstart.html#receiving-and-parsing-email
Django doesn't provide any email receiving support.
Lamson may be a good alternative if you need something more advanced than checking out email using poplib, or something more pythonic than interacting with postfix.
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Re: [londroid] Has this app been done yet ? "An app to change your ringtone on SOMEONE ELSE'S phone...." - The London Android Group - Londroid (London, England)
Re: [londroid] Has this app been done yet ? "An app to change your ringtone on SOMEONE ELSE'S phone...."
Monday, January 30, 2012 12:25 PM
Thanks all for your feedback.To answer some of your questions ....It's not for "us" - ie the typical demographic on londroid-list - it's aimed at the ringtone mad market. These people aren't going to be in client meetings when their phone shouts "Oi you get down the pub".
Vringo are trying to do this, but their app (while it's not crashing !!!) is quite "frictiony" - ie of not low friction - not "attractive" and requires phone number, username, password, password confirmation, signup per month etc etc . The app I am putting together requires no login, just install and choose your ringtone, and forget.
Appreciate the collective thoughts that you've sent. I may ask some of you to help me test a not-very-pretty demo in the next week or two.Thanks,
Richard.On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Al Sutton <[address removed]> wrote:
Out of interest; Who would actually use an app like this? I think it's probably worth looking at this aspect before putting in too much effort (unless it's just a brain stretching exercise :))
Personally I wouldn't want it on my phone because I like to assign the ringtones I want to people so I know who is ringing, allowing someone else to change their tones when they call me could get "interesting" when I'm on business.
On 30 Jan 2012, at 08:13, Martyn Davies wrote:Hi Richard,
Take a look at Vringo, who have been doing something similar to that, pushing video ringtones to the phones of your friends so that they get a personalized ring when you call them. I don't know how successful that's been, but they have been banging away at it for some years now.
Regards,MartynOn 29 January[masked]:54, Richard Green <[address removed]> wrote:
Chaps - before I plough more of my rare spare time into an app, can you scratch your respective heads and think if this has been done.
In a nutshell : An app to change your ringtone on SOMEONE ELSE'S phone....ie it will allow me to change the ringtone on my friend's phone when I ring them to something I want it to play ( Rick Astley, 007 , mission impossible, whatever).
It's mainly aimed at the ringtone mad market... which is obviously pretty popular.I've done a proof of concept on Android - works pretty well using c2dm and app engine (my fave poisons at the moment).
But before I get a nice design etc etc, I was just curious if you chaps had seen it done before.Thanks,Richard.
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The Delhi government had written to the DDA recommending cancellation of six hotel plots for failing to apply for the necessary environment clearance. , reports HT Correspondent.
delhi Updated: Jan 28, 2009 00:47 IST
It does not look like the Capital would be ready by 2010 to host the seven lakh tourists expected to turn up for the Commonwealth Games.
The economic slowdown and bureaucratic red-tapism seems to have put a question mark on the timely completion of the 33 hotels, plots for which were auctioned by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) over the last two years.
A fortnight ago, the Delhi government had written to the DDA recommending cancellation of six hotel plots for failing to apply for the necessary environment clearance. These plots are located at Anand Vihar, Mandawali, Vivek Vihar, Mayur Vihar and Alipur.
Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta told HT: “These hotels have not applied for environmental clearance till date despite repeated reminders. So we have written to the DDA asking them cancel the allotment of these plots. But the DDA is yet to respond.”
This is not the sole instance of the hotel project running into trouble.
Last month, it came to light that a group of developers who bought two hotel plots from DDA have defaulted on payment within the stipulated time fixed by the agency. The developers have now asked the Union urban development ministry to bail them out by extending the payment deadline. But till the permission comes through, the DDA has directed the developers to halt construction at both the sites.
The ministry is yet to give permission to th eDDA.
The Union tourism ministry has said that Delhi and adjoining NCR would require 30,000 rooms to accommodate the approximately 7 lakh tourist expected to turn up for the Games.The 33 plots auctioned by DDA for developing star and budget hotels are expected to generate about 6,000 hotel rooms. But till date construction on not even a single hotel has been completed.
First Published: Jan 28, 2009 00:46 IST

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