Author: claimsbot

1. An information processing apparatus processing information of an optional function related to a function used in an image forming apparatus, comprising:
a receiving device receiving use history information related to a function of the image forming apparatus used by a user;
a storage storing said received use history information;
a collecting device collecting functions having high frequency of use based on said stored use history information;
an extracting device extracting, from optional functions prepared for said image forming apparatus, an optional function related to a function having high frequency of use; and
a transmitting device transmitting information related to said function of high frequency of use and related to said extracted optional function, to be presented to the user on said image forming apparatus, to said image forming apparatus.
2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising
an optional function storage storing an optional function introduced to said image forming apparatus; wherein
said transmitting device includes a transmitting unit for transmitting information related to said extracted optional function not introduced in said image forming apparatus.
3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
said collecting device includes a collecting unit collecting functions having high frequency of use by the category distinguished based on output rate of said image forming apparatuses;
said extracting device includes an extracting unit for extracting, by the category, an optional function related to a function having high frequency of use; and
said transmitting apparatus includes a transmitting unit for transmitting information related to the function having high frequency of use and related to said extracted optional function, to an image forming apparatus belonging to the same category.
4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, implemented by a management server performing remote-maintenance of said image forming apparatus.
5. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a transmitting device transmitting, if transmission is permitted, use history information to the information processing apparatus according to claim 1; and
a receiving apparatus receiving information related to said optional function from said information processing apparatus.
6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:
a selecting device allowing a user to select a function to be used; and
a display device for presenting, when a function having high frequency of use is selected by the user, information of an optional function related to said selected function to the user.
7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:
an input device used by the user to input whether information of the optional function is to be displayed or not; wherein
said display device includes a presenting unit presenting, if it is input by the user to display the information of the optional function, the information of said optional function to the user.
8. The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:
a communication apparatus communicating with a processing apparatus realizing said optional function by software; and
a result receiving device, when execution of an optional function is requested by the user, transmitting data to said processing device, and receiving result of operation executed by the software in said processing device, from said processing device.
9. The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:
a communication device communicating with an application providing apparatus providing software; and
a software receiving apparatus, when execution of an optional function is requested by the user, receiving software for realizing said optional function from said application providing apparatus.
10. An image forming system, comprising the information processing system according to claim 1 and the image forming apparatus according to claim 5.

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 quantity regulating module of an automatic tablet dispenser, comprising:
a module body including an inlet through which a tablet is put, a hopper-side supply part supplying the tablet put through the inlet to a hopper of a medicine packing machine, and a recollecting part returning the tablet put through the inlet to a location from which the tablet starts to be transferred;
a detecting sensor counting the number of tablets put through the inlet; and
a controller comparing the number of tablets counted by the detecting sensor to a predetermined quantity, transferring the tablets to the hopper-side supply part if the counted number of tablets is equal to the predetermined quantity, and transferring the tablets to the recollecting part if the counted number of tablets exceeds the predetermined quantity.
2. The quantity regulating module of claim 1, wherein the detecting sensor comprises at least one light-emitting part for emitting light, and at least one light-receiving part for receiving the light emitted from the at least one light-emitting part and determining whether a tablet passes therethrough.
3. The quantity regulating module of claim 1, wherein the at least one light-emitting part is positioned in correspondence to the at least one light-receiving part.
4. The quantity regulating module of claim 1, wherein the module body further comprises a stopper for dropping a tablet rapidly into the inlet or preventing another tablet fallowing the tablet from being successively dropped, when the detecting sensor senses the tablet.
5. The quantity regulating module of claim 1, wherein the module body comprises:
a rotating member disposed below the inlet, including a plurality of wings positioned in a radial direction to receive the tablet falling down from the inlet between the plurality of wings, and discharging the tablet selectively to the hopper-side supply part or to the recollecting part according to a rotating direction of the rotating member; and
a motor rotating the rotating member forward or backward to selectively open the hopper-side supply part or the recollecting part under the control of the controller.
6. The quantity regulating module of claim 5, wherein the plurality of wings are positioned at angles of 120\xb0.
7. The quantity regulating module of claim 1 or 5, wherein the module body further comprises a discharge unit for discharging the tablet transferred to the recollecting part to the outside.
8. The quantity regulating module of claim 7, wherein the discharge unit further comprises a door for discharging the tablet to the outside, and a solenoid for driving the door.
9. A quantity regulating module of an automatic tablet dispenser, comprising:
a supply unit supplying a tablet to a hopper of a medicine packing machine;
a transfer passage guiding the tablet supplied from the supply unit to be transferred to the hopper;
a first door being opened if the number of tablets supplied from the supply unit is equal to a predetermined quantity;
a first door opening or closing the transfer passage between the first door and the hopper; and
a controller causing the supply unit to supply another tablet when the second door is opened, and maintaining the first door closed if a tablet exists between the first door and the second door.
10. The quantity regulating module of claim 9, further comprising a recollecting passage returning tablets supplied from the supply unit to the supply unit if the number of the tablets exceeds the predetermined quantity.
11. The quantity regulating module of claim 9, wherein the second door includes a plurality of door plates opening or closing the transfer passage and positioned in a radial direction, and is rotated by a motor.
12. The quantity regulating module of claim 9, wherein a plurality of concave curved parts are formed respectively at intersections of the plurality of door plates, to prevent a tablet from being caught by the plurality of door plates.
13. A tablet dispensing method of an automatic tablet dispenser, comprising:
supplying a tablet from a supply unit to a transfer passage;
determining whether the number of tablets supplied from the supply unit is equal to a predetermined quantity;
determining whether a tablet exists between a first door and a second door positioned on the transfer passage;
closing the first door to keep a tablet transferred to the transfer passage from the supply unit if a tablet exists between the first door and the second door, and opening the first door and transferring to the second door the tablet transferred to the transfer passage from the supply unit if no tablet exists between the first door and the second door; and
opening the second door in response to a signal of the controller and discharging the tablet to the hopper.
14. The tablet dispensing method of claim 13, further comprising supplying another tablet from the supply unit to the first door, after the first door is opened and the tablet is discharged to the second door.
15. The tablet dispensing method of claim 13, further comprising recollecting tablets if the number of the tablets exceeds the predetermined quantity.

1. A compound represented by the following Structural Formula:
wherein at least 70% by weight of the compound is a single crystalline form of Form A in habit 2 of the compound and the single crystalline form of Form A in habit 2 is characterized by at least one, two or three major X-ray powder diffraction peaks at 2\u03b8angle selected from the group consisting of 10.76\xb0 , 14.49\xb0 and 16.33\xb0 .
2. The compound of claim 1, wherein the single crystalline form of Form A in habit 2 is characterized by major X-ray powder diffraction peaks at 2\u03b8angles of 8.60\xb0 , 10.76\xb0 , 14.49\xb0 , 16.33\xb0 , 18.74\xb0 , 19.18\xb0 , 20.92\xb0 , 23.65\xb0 and 24.12\xb0 .
3. The compound of claim 1, wherein the single crystalline form of Form A in habit 2 is characterized by X-ray powder diffraction pattern of FIG. 1.
4. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent and a compound of claim 1.
5. A compound represented by the following Structural Formula:
wherein at least 70% by weight of the compound is a single crystalline form of Form C of the compound and the single crystalline form Form C is characterized by at least one, two, three, four or five major X-ray powder diffraction peaks at 2\u03b8angle selected from the group consisting of 10.32\xb0 , 14.80\xb0 , 21.49\xb0 , 23.05\xb0 and 30.12\xb0 .
6. A compound represented by the following Structural Formula:
wherein at least 70% by weight of compound is a single crystalline form of Form D of the compound and the single crystalline form Form D is characterized by at least one, three, five, seven, nine or eleven major X-ray powder diffraction peaks at 2\u03b8angle selected from the group consisting of 7.52\xb0 , 13.22\xb0 , 13.90\xb0 , 17.23\xb0 , 22.06\xb0 , 22.66\xb0 , 23.35\xb0 , 24.97\xb0 , 26.65\xb0 , 28.44\xb0 and 29.19\xb0 .
7. The compound of claim 5, wherein the single crystalline form Form C is characterized by major X-ray powder diffraction peaks at 2\u03b8angles of 8.64\xb0 , 10.32\xb0 , 14.80\xb0 , 15.70\xb0 , 16.88\xb0 , 19.15\xb0 , 19.68\xb0 , 21.49\xb0 , 23.05\xb0 , 24.34\xb0 and 30.12\xb0 .
8. The compound of claim 5, wherein the single crystalline form Form C is characterized by X-ray powder diffraction pattern of FIG. 5.
9. The compound of claim 6, wherein the single crystalline form Form D is characterized by major X-ray powder diffraction peaks at 2\u03b8angle of 7.52\xb0 , 7.84\xb0 , 13.22\xb0 , 13.90\xb0 , 15.82\xb0 , 16.75\xb0 , 17.23\xb0 , 18.70\xb0 , 19.71\xb0 , 20.80\xb0 , 22.06\xb0 , 22.66\xb0 , 23.35\xb0 , 23.74\xb0 , 24.07\xb0 , 24.31\xb0 , 24.97\xb0 , 26.65\xb0 , 28.44\xb0 and 29.19\xb0.
10. The compound of claim 6, wherein the single crystalline form Form D is characterized by X-ray powder diffraction pattern of FIG. 7.
11. The compound of claim 6, wherein the single crystalline form Form D is characterized by the single crystal structure in P1 21n1 space group and having unit cell parameters: a =14.4 \xb10.1 \u212b; b =5.7 \xb10.1 \u212b; c=23.9 \xb10.1 \u212b; \u03b2=102.1 \xb10.1 \xb0 ; and V =1920 \xb11 \u212b3.
12. The compound of claim 1, wherein the crystal habit 2 is characterized by a polygon shape.
13. The compound of claim 1, wherein the crystal habit 2 has a length to width aspect ratio of greater than or equal to about 1 and less than or equal to about 2.
14. The compound of claim 1, wherein at least 70% by weight of the crystal habit 2 passes through a 150 micron screen.
15. The compound of claim 14, wherein the crystal habit 2 that passes through a 150 micron screen has a reconstitution time of less than 15 minutes.
16. The compound of claim 1, wherein the compound is substantially free of water and solvent.
17. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 4, wherein the compound is substantially free of water and solvent.

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 color conversion definition creating apparatus that creates a color conversion definition which defines a color conversion relationship between a first color expression area expressing a range of colors that can be expressed by a first device that mediates between an image and image data and a second color expression area expressing a range of colors that can be expressed by a second device that mediates between an image and image data, comprising:
an area conversion section that creates a plurality of conversion areas by executing an adaptive conversion of approximating a gray area in the first color expression area to a gray area in the second color expression area while causing areas other than the gray area to move following the gray area for each of a plurality of types of adaptive conversions having different ways of approximation;
an intermediate area creating section that creates an intermediate area by combining a first conversion area excluding a conversion area which has a chroma range most different from the chroma range of the first color expression area out of the plurality of conversion areas created by the area conversion section and a second conversion area excluding a conversion area having a brightness range most different from the brightness range of the second color expression area; and
a definition creating section that creates the color conversion definition by combining a correlation between colors in the first color expression area and colors in the intermediate area, and a correlation between colors in the intermediate area and colors in the second color expression area.
2. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the intermediate area creating section creates an intermediate area by combining a first conversion area which has a chroma range closest to the chroma range of the first color expression area and a second conversion area which has a brightness range closest to the brightness range of the second color expression area out of the plurality of conversion areas created by the area conversion section.
3. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when creating the intermediate area by combining the first conversion area and the second conversion area, the intermediate area creating section determines a color having chroma which is equal to the chroma of a color in the first conversion area and brightness which is equal to the brightness of a color in the second conversion area corresponding to the color in the first conversion area through the plurality of types of adaptive conversions as the color in the intermediate area.
4. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when creating the intermediate area by combining the first conversion area and the second conversion area, the intermediate area creating section mixes a color in the first conversion area and a color in the second conversion area corresponding to the color in the first conversion area through the plurality of types of adaptive conversions with heavier weights assigned to colors at greater distances from the gray area and determines the mixed color obtained by the mixture as the color in the intermediate area.
5. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the area conversion section executes a first adaptive conversion of approximating a white point in the first color expression area to a white point in the second color expression area and a second adaptive conversion of approximating a white point and black point in the first color expression area to a white point and black point respectively in the second color expression area and thereby creates two conversion areas.
6. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein using a target white point whose closeness to a white point in the second color expression area is greater than closeness of a white point in the first color expression area to the white point in the second color expression area and a target black point whose closeness to a black point in the second color expression area is greater than closeness of a black point in the first color expression area to the black point in the second color expression area, the area conversion section executes a first adaptive conversion of causing the white point in the first color expression area to match the target white point and a second adaptive conversion of causing the white point and black point in the first color expression area to match the target white point and target black point to thereby create two conversion areas.
7. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the area conversion section uses a target white point and target black point having chroma equal to the chroma of each of the white point and black point in the first color expression area and brightness equal to the brightness of each of the white point and black point in the second color expression area as the target white point and the target black point.
8. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a black and white acquisition section that acquires a white point and black point according to an operation, wherein the area conversion section uses the white point and black point acquired by the black and white acquisition section as the target white point and the target black point.
9. The color conversion definition creating apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a black and white calculating section that receives degrees of similarity of the target white point and the target black point to a white point and black point in the second color expression area according to an operation and calculates a white point and black point according to the degrees of similarity,
wherein the area conversion section uses the white point and the black point calculated by the black and white calculating section as the target white point and target black point.
10. A color conversion definition creating program storage medium incorporated in a computer, which stores a color conversion definition creating program causing the computer to operate as a color conversion definition creating apparatus that creates a color conversion definition which defines a color conversion relationship between a first color expression area expressing a range of colors that can be expressed by a first device that mediates between an image and image data and a second color expression area expressing a range of colors that can be expressed by a second device that mediates between an image and image data, the color conversion definition creating program constructing on the computer:
an area conversion section that creates a plurality of conversion areas by executing an adaptive conversion of approximating a gray area in the first color expression area to a gray area in the second color expression area while causing areas other than the gray area to move following the gray area for each of a plurality of types of adaptive conversions having different ways of approximation;
an intermediate area creating section that creates an intermediate area by combining a first conversion area excluding a conversion area which has a chroma range most different from the chroma range of the first color expression area out of the plurality of conversion areas created by the area conversion section and a second conversion area excluding a conversion area having a brightness range most different from the brightness range of the second color expression area; and
a definition creating section that creates the color conversion definition by combining a correlation between colors in the first color expression area and colors in the intermediate area, and a correlation between colors in the intermediate area and colors in the second color expression area.
11. A color conversion definition creating method for creating a color conversion definition which defines a color conversion relationship between a first color expression area expressing a range of colors that can be expressed by a first device that mediates between an image and image data and a second color expression area expressing a range of colors that can be expressed by a second device that mediates between an image and image data, comprising:
an area conversion step of creating a plurality of conversion areas by executing an adaptive conversion of approximating a gray area in the first color expression area to a gray area in the second color expression area while causing areas other than the gray area to move following the gray area for each of a plurality of types of adaptive conversions having different ways of approximation;
an intermediate area creating step of creating an intermediate area by combining a first conversion area excluding a conversion area which has a chroma range most different from the chroma range of the first color expression area out of the plurality of conversion areas created by the area conversion section and a second conversion area excluding a conversion area having a brightness range most different from the brightness range of the second color expression area; and
a definition creating step of creating the color conversion definition by combining a correlation between colors in the first color expression area and colors in the intermediate area, and a correlation between colors in the intermediate area and colors in the second color expression area.