1. A recording apparatus comprising:
a conveyor mechanism having a plurality of rollers, an endless conveyor belt which is stretched between the rollers and holds a recording medium on its outer circumferential surface, and a driver which drives the conveyor belt;
a recording head having a head main body which forms an image on the recording medium conveyed by the conveyor mechanism, a driver IC which drives the head main body, and a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of the driver IC;
a stopper which stops driving of the driver IC in a case where the temperature sensor has detected a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined maximum temperature;
a restarter which restarts driving of the driver IC in a case where, after the stopper stops driving of the driver IC, the temperature sensor has detected a temperature equal to or lower than a predetermined restart temperature; and
a conveyance controller which controls the driver so as to keep driving the conveyor belt while driving of the driver IC is being stopped by the stopper.
2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a container which contains the recording medium;
a placer which takes the recording medium out of the container and places the recording medium onto the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt; and
a placement controller which controls the placer,
wherein the placement controller controls the placer so as to make the recording medium taken out of the container wait at a position near the conveyor belt while driving of the driver IC is being stopped by the stopper, and to place the recording medium onto the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt when driving of the driver IC is restarted by the restarter.
3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one or more grooves are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt.
4. The recording apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the groove extends from one widthwise end to the other widthwise end of the conveyor belt.
5. The recording apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:
the recording head extends along a widthwise direction of the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt; and
the groove extends from a widthwise center to one widthwise end of the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt, in an oblique direction against a driving direction of the conveyor belt.
6. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the recording head includes
a passage unit which is formed therein with a common ink chamber and a plurality of individual ink passages each extending from the common ink chamber through a pressure chamber to a nozzle,
a reservoir unit which temporarily stores therein ink to be supplied to the common ink chamber, and
an actuator which has an individual electrode corresponding to the pressure chamber, a ground electrode given a reference potential, and a piezoelectric layer positioned between the individual electrode and the ground electrode; and
the driver IC is thermally coupled with at least either one of the passage unit and the reservoir unit, and outputs a drive signal to the individual electrode to thereby drive the actuator.
7. The recording apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the passage unit and the reservoir unit are made of a thermally-conductive material.
8. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording head further has a cover which covers the driver IC and is thermally coupled with the driver IC.
9. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, while driving of the driver IC is being stopped by the stopper, the conveyance controller controls the driver so as to drive the conveyor belt at a speed higher than while an image is being formed on the recording medium.
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 computer-implemented method of traversing objects in a display interface, the method comprising:
designating a first object at an initial object point within the display interface to receive an object focus;
receiving a command direction to cause a two-dimensional movement to a second object;
traversing in the command direction from the initial object point to an edge point of the first object within the display interface;
determining whether the second object is orthogonally aligned with the first object with respect to the command direction and based at least in part on the boundary of the first object or the edge point;
upon determination that the second object is orthogonally aligned with the first object, selecting a nearest edge point on the second object by traversing in the command direction from the edge point of the first object to the nearest edge point on the second object;
upon determination that the second object is not orthogonally aligned with the first object, selecting the second object based at least in part on a distance between the edge point and the second object; and
moving the object focus from the first object to the second object.
2. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining whether a second object is orthogonally aligned includes determining whether the second object is a nearest orthogonally aligned object with respect to the command direction from the edge point of the first object.
3. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining whether a second object is orthogonally aligned includes determining whether at least a portion of the second object is orthogonally aligned with at least a portion of the first object in the command direction.
4. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining whether a second object is orthogonally aligned includes determining whether the second object is intersected by an orthogonal imaginary line drawn from the edge point of the first object in the command direction.
5. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein selecting the second object based at least in part on a distance between the edge point and the second object includes traversing in the command direction from the edge point of the first object to the nearest edge point on the second object that extends at least partially beyond an axis defined through the edge point of the first object and perpendicular to the command direction.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the nearest edge point is selected by measuring a uniaxial distance in an x-axis or a y-axis component of the command direction to a candidate object and selecting the second object as the candidate object having a minimized uniaxial distance.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the nearest edge point is selected by measuring an absolute distance to a candidate object that includes distance components of both an x-axis and a y-axis and selecting the second object as the candidate object having a minimized absolute distance.
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a container order of objects is used to select one of two or more symmetrically oriented objects based at least in part on the command direction and edge point of the first object, the container order to select the second object.
9. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, performs acts comprising:
receiving a request to move an object focus in a command direction while the object focus is on a first object;
identifying an edge point on a boundary of the first object based on the command direction;
determining if one or more objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point in the command direction;
responsive to determining that one or more objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point in the command direction, using an orthogonal technique to move the object focus to a second object that is a nearest orthogonally aligned object; and
responsive to determining that no objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point in the command direction, using a distance technique to move the object focus to a second object that is selected based at least in part on a distance between the second object and the edge point.
10. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein the acts further comprise identifying a nearest edge point of the second object in the command direction relative to the first object.
11. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein the orthogonal technique uses an orthogonal alignment determined by extending edges of the first object in the command direction to determine whether the edges, when extended, would intersect or contain at least a portion of one or more objects.
12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein responsive to determining that no objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point, the distance technique selects a nearest object as the second object, the nearest object being at least partially in the command direction with respect to the first object while not being orthogonally aligned with the first object.
13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein the instructions further comprise selectably enabling a developer or a user to disable the orthogonal technique and employ the distance technique to select the second object.
14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein the command direction originates from an object point within an object based at least in part on interior navigation of the object.
15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein the second object is a parent object or a child object of the first object.
16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 9, wherein the second object is at least one of:
an edge of a page that includes the first object,
a previous page object, or
a subsequent page object.
17. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory to store computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a request to move an object focus in a command direction while the object focus is on a first object;
identify an edge point on a boundary of the first object based on the command direction;
determine if one or more objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point in the command direction;
responsive to a determination that one or more objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point in the command direction, move the object focus to a second object that is a nearest orthogonally aligned object; and
responsive to a determination that no objects are orthogonally aligned with the edge point in the command direction, move the object focus to a second object that is selected based at least in part on a distance between the second object and the edge point.
18. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the memory further stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to identify a nearest edge point of the second object in the command direction relative to the first object.
19. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the movement of the object focus to a second object that is a nearest orthogonally aligned object is performed using an orthogonal alignment determined by extending edges of the first object in the command direction to determine whether the edges, when extended, would intersect or contain at least a portion of one or more objects.
20. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the command direction originates from an object point within an object based at least in part on interior navigation of the object.
21. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the second object is at least one of:
an edge of a page that includes the first object,
a previous page object, or
a subsequent page object.