1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material; and
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:
a cooling section to cool the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to an interval between recording materials.
2. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to print modes, wherein the print modes having at least a simplex printing mode and a duplex printing mode.
3. The image forming apparatus of claim 2, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to duplex printing modes, wherein the duplex printing modes having at least a mode with magnification correction and a mode without magnification correction.
4. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a productivity of image formed sheets.
5. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a size of the recording material.
6. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling section to control the cooling section according to a ratio of the distance of the interval between recording materials to a traveling distance of a fixing member.
7. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling section controls an actuation of the cooling section according to the interval between recording materials.
8. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
9. An image forming-apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:
a cooling section to cool the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to a basic weight of the recording material.
10. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the control section controls the cooling section according to the basic weight of the recording material and an interval between recording materials.
11. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to print modes, wherein the print modes having at least a simplex printing mode and a duplex printing mode.
12. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to duplex printing modes, wherein the duplex printing modes having at least a mode with magnification correction and a mode without magnification correction.
13. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a productivity of image formed sheets.
14. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a size of the recording material.
15. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
16. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:
a cooling section to cool the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to print modes.
17. The image forming apparatus of claim 16, wherein the print modes having at least a simplex printing mode and a duplex printing modes.
18. The image forming apparatus of claim 17, wherein the space between recording materials is varied according to duplex printing modes, wherein the duplex printing modes having at least a mode with magnification correction and a mode without magnification correction.
19. The image forming apparatus of claim 16, wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
20. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:
a cooling section to cool the pressure member;
a temperature detecting section to detect the temperature of the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to the temperature detected;
wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A system for reducing data entry errors, comprising:
an input component controllable to display a plurality of keys selectable by a user in accordance with a controllable viewing mode, the input component receiving input by the user;
a display component controllable to display one or more key images;
a processor operatively coupled to the input component and the display component, and programmed to:
control the display component to display a key image or images corresponding to key selection input by the user on the input component;
ascertain a subset of the keys selectable by the user based upon respective likelihoods that each of the keys follows a previously selected key or keys within a predetermined language or subset thereof;
define the controllable viewing mode so that the input component displays each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a manner visually distinguishable by the user from each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys;
control the input component to display the plurality of keys selectable by the user in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein a location on the input component of each of the keys selectable by the user as displayed by the input component is the same regardless of the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the input component displays the plurality of keys in accordance with a QWERTY format.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component and the display component collectively are a touch sensitive display.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the input component displays a plurality of display elements and displays the plurality of keys selectable by the user within the display elements in accordance with the controllable view mode.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches, the input component further including a display device projecting images of the keys on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches, each of the keys selectable by the user presented on a respective one of the physical key switches, the input component further including a lighting device operative to project light on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component displays the keys in a circular format.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the keys selectable by the user are letters in the predetermined language.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to establish a target area on the input component of each of the keys to be substantially smaller than a displayed size of the respective key as displayed by the input component, the processor recognizing a key selection input by the user by contact within the respective target area of the key on the input component.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the input component displays each of the keys selectable by the user in a manner to have a three-dimensional format in which each key is displayed to have a respective top surface and respective side surfaces, and the target area of each of the keys corresponds to the respective top surface of the key displayed by the input component.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor defines the controllable viewing mode so that the input component is controlled to display each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a top surface and side surfaces, and to display each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a bottom surface and side surfaces.
13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a proximity sensor recognizing a presence of a finger adjacent the input component, wherein the processor is programmed to control the input component to display each of the displayed keys that are proximal to the finger in a magnified format.
14. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor controls the display component to display, at a location immediately adjacent to a location of the input component, a duplicate copy of recently selected keys so that the user is able to view and verify the keys being selected without viewing a portion of the display component not adjacent to the input component.
15. A predictive text entry system, comprising:
an input component controllable to display a set of letters selectable by a user and to display a set of word selections selectable by the user, the input component receiving input by the user;
a display component controllable to display one or more letter images or words;
a processor operatively coupled to the input component and the display component, and programmed to:
control the display component to display a letter or word corresponding to an input by the user on the input component;
determine a corpus based on a location of a cursor displayed on the display component;
ascertain a set of choices within the determined corpus that are statistically the most likely choices based on a previous input of a letter by the user;
control the input component to display the choices within the ascertained set of choices as the set of word selections selectable by the user.
16. The predictive text entry system of claim 15, wherein the display component displays one or more corpuses, and the processor determines the corpus in which to ascertain a set of choices based upon the displayed corpus that is adjacent to the cursor displayed on the display.
17. A method of reducing data entry errors in a system having an input component, a display component and a processor operatively coupled to the input and display components, the method comprising:
displaying, by the input component, a plurality of keys selectable by a user in accordance with a controllable viewing mode,
receiving, by the input component, input by the user;
displaying, by the display component, one or more key images based on the input by the user;
ascertain, by the processor, a subset of the keys selectable by the user based upon respective likelihoods that each of the keys follows a previously selected key or keys within a predetermined language or subset thereof;
defining the controllable viewing mode so that the input component displays each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a manner visually distinguishable by the user from each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein a location on the input component of each of the keys selectable by the user as displayed by the input component is the same regardless of the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying the plurality of keys in accordance with a QWERTY format.
20. The method of claim 17, wherein the input component and the display component collectively are a touch sensitive display.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying a plurality of display elements and displaying the plurality of keys selectable by the user within the display elements in accordance with the controllable view mode.
22. The method of claim 17, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches and a display device; wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises projecting by the display device images of the keys on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
23. The method of claim 17, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches and a lighting device, each of the keys selectable by the user presented on a respective one of the physical key switches, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises projecting, by the lighting device, light on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
24. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying the keys in a circular format.
25. The method of claim 17, wherein the keys selectable by the user are letters in the predetermined language.
26. The method of claim 17, comprising establishing a target area on the input component of each of the keys to be substantially smaller than a displayed size of the respective key as displayed by the input component, and recognizing by the processor a key selection input by the user upon contact within the respective target area of the key on the input component.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying each of the keys selectable by the user in a manner to have a three-dimensional format in which each key is displayed to have a respective top surface and respective side surfaces, and the target area of each of the keys corresponds to the respective top surface of the key displayed by the input component.
28. The method of claim 17, wherein defining comprises defining the controllable viewing mode so that the input component displays each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a top surface and side surfaces, and displays each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a bottom surface and side surfaces.
29. The method of claim 17, comprising recognizing a presence of a finger adjacent the input component, and wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying each of the displayed keys that are proximal to the finger in a magnified format.
30. The method of claim 17, further comprising displaying, by the display component, at a location immediately adjacent to a location of the input component a duplicate copy of recently selected keys so that the user is able to view and verify the keys being selected without viewing a portion of the display component not adjacent to the input component.
31. A method of predicting text entry in a system having an input component, a display component and a processor operatively coupled to the input and display components, the method comprising:
displaying, by the input component, a set of letters selectable by a user;
displaying, by the input component, a set of word selections selectable by the user,
receiving, by the input component, input by the user;
displaying, by the display component, one or more letter images or words based on the input by the user;
determining, by the processor, a corpus based on a location of a cursor displayed on the display component;
ascertaining, by the processor, a set of choices within the determined corpus that are statistically the most likely choices based on a previous input of a letter by the user;
controlling the input component to display the choices within the ascertained set of choices as the set of word selections selectable by the user.
32. The method of claim 31, comprising displaying, by the display component, one or more corpuses, and wherein determining comprises determining the corpus based upon the displayed corpus that is adjacent to the cursor displayed on the display component.