Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Akira Murakawa

Atsushi Kawai

Keisuke Hashimoto

Hirotomo Ishii

Mie Kawabata

Chiho Kawakami

Kimihiko Higashio

Hideyuki Matsuda

Naoko Hiramatsu

Shuhei Taguchi

Takao Shudo

Shinichi Ban

Toshiya Furubayashi

Tetsuji Abe

Kagumi Moriwaki

Kinya Hasegawa

Takahiro Fujii

Shuji Nakao

Masayuki Mukai

Takuma Masuda

Miyuki Ono

Masako Inoue

An image forming apparatus includes: a reception part that receives specification of a print mode and specification of a sheet type to be used for printing; a sheet supply part that sends a sheet to a sheet conveyance path; a detection part that detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path; and a hardware processor that controls a printing operation, wherein when a sheet type received by the reception part is a type for which printing in the print mode received by the reception part is allowed, the sheet supply part sends a sheet to the sheet conveyance path, the hardware processor determines whether or not the print mode received by the reception part is a prohibition mode, when it is determined that the print mode is the prohibition mode, the detection part detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feeding tray that stores a sheet; a sheet thickness measurement device that measures a sheet thickness of the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray; a hardware processor that: determines a type of the sheet of which the sheet thickness is measured, a sheet type associated with each of sheet thickness ranges, and the sheet thickness measured by the sheet thickness measurement device; and adjusts a first sheet thickness range to cause the first sheet thickness range to be expandable to at least one of an upper limit value side or a lower limit value side; and an image former that forms an image on the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray under image forming conditions corresponding to the sheet type determined by the hardware processor.

Image forming apparatus, sheet type determination method and program in the apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feeding tray that stores a sheet; a sheet thickness measurement device that measures a sheet thickness of the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray; a hardware processor that: determines a type of the sheet of which the sheet thickness is measured, a sheet type associated with each of sheet thickness ranges, and the sheet thickness measured by the sheet thickness measurement device; and adjusts a first sheet thickness range by expanding the first sheet thickness range to at least one of an upper limit value side or a lower limit value side; and an image former that forms an image on the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray under image forming conditions corresponding to the sheet type determined by the hardware processor.

A document viewing apparatus, having a touch screen, capable of receiving a handwritten input operation by the user in a state where a document image is displayed on a touch screen, a character string detection unit for detecting a character string included in the document image, a reference position determination unit that sets the reference position when an object is assigned to the character string in accordance with the operating position or operation trace of the handwritten input operation, a guide line drawing unit for drawing and displaying a guide line in accordance with an operation trace with respect to the reference position, and an object assignment unit that assigns a guide line as an object to the character string with the completion of the handwritten input operation.

Document viewing apparatus and program

An information processing apparatus capable of displaying an image on a predetermined display unit, includes: a reception unit that receives a written input on an image according to an operation of a user in a state where the image is displayed on the display unit; a generation unit that generates a written object according to the written input received by the reception unit; a reference detection unit that detects a reference direction of the image displayed on the display unit; a correction unit that corrects the written object on the basis of the reference direction detected by the reference detection unit; and a display control unit that displays the written object generated by the generation unit.

Information processing apparatus capable of correcting a written object on the basis of a detected reference direction

There is provided a network system capable of making communication between a portable information terminal and an image forming apparatus, the network system including: a charging processor that performs a charging processing, wherein the image forming apparatus includes: a first communication part that makes communication in a first communication system; a second communication part that makes communication in a second communication system; and an information reader that reads card information, the portable information terminal includes: a first terminal communication part that makes communication in the first communication system; a second terminal communication part that makes communication in the second communication system; and a card emulator that is operated in a card emulation function, the information reader reads card information of a card emulated in the card emulation function from the portable information terminal and the charging processor starts the charging processing, and performs the charging processing.

Network system, image forming apparatus, information processing program, and portable information terminal

A mobile terminal capable of communication with at least one image forming apparatus for transmitting waves for short-distance wireless communication includes a detection unit that detects, on the basis of the waves, a connection candidate device that is an image forming apparatus as a connection destination candidate in short-distance wireless communication, and a determination unit that determines a pairing mode of short-distance wireless communication in accordance with the number of connection candidate devices detected. When a single connection candidate device is detected as a connection candidate device, the determination unit determines, as the pairing mode, a first mode that does not involve an authentication operation in which a user of the mobile terminal authenticates a connection destination device for short-distance wireless communication, and when multiple connection candidate devices are detected as connection candidate devices, the determination unit determines a second mode that involves the authentication operation as the pairing mode.

Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and recording medium

A communication device capable of performing wireless communication measures an actual time from a first timing (at which a communication request instructing to perform communication with a specific device is informed from an application program on the communication device to an OS (Operating System) on the communication device) to a second timing (at which reply information in response to the communication request is informed from the OS to the application program). When the actual time is greater than a predetermined threshold, the communication device determines that an associating process has been performed by the OS in a specific period from the first timing to the second timing, the associating process previously registering the communication device and the specific device in association with each other. When the actual time is smaller than the predetermined threshold, the communication device determines that the associating process has not been performed in the specific period.

Communication device, communication system, and recording medium

An information processing device sends a print job to a print server for applying a printing rule to the print job. The information processing device comprises: a print job generation part for generating the print job; a display part for displaying a printing rule application result showing a result of application by the print server of the printing rule; a manipulation input part for receiving an entry of an instruction as to whether or not to continue a process relating to the print job with the printing rule application result being displayed; and a print job control part for making the process relating to the print job terminate in response to entry of the instruction to refuse continuation of the print job process, while making the print job process continue in response to entry of the instruction to permit the continuation of the print job process.

Information processing device, print server, print control system, print control method and computer readable recording medium for applying printing rule to print job

In a communication system wherein a device and a client communicate data with each other through a network, the device holds a root certificate including a public key in a pair of the public key and a private key and signed with the public key. When data is sent, a certificate creator creates a second certificate including the root certificate designated as a certificate authority at a higher level and signed with the root certificate, and the second certificate is sent to the client. In the client, the root certificate has been stored beforehand, and a verifier verifies the signature of the second certificate with the root certificate.

Communication system and method in public key infrastructure

An image forming device is provided with a use permission determining portion, an authentication process requesting portion and a job executing portion. The use permission determining portion performs determination whether or not use of the image processing device should be permitted for a user who wants to use the image processing device. The authentication process requesting portion requests the authentication server via a network to act for the determination when the use permission determining portion cannot perform the determination. The job executing portion performs the image processing of process specifics designated by the user when a determination result indicating that the user can use the image forming device is obtained.

Image processing device, control method thereof and computer program product

When a plug-in application 'HDD Backup Utility' is designated by the user from the start menu, an administration program is started. The administration program receives information as to which plug-in application was designated, and based on the received information, places a function button for the designated plug-in application (here, 'backup' and &#x201c;restore&#x201d; buttons corresponding to HDD Backup Utility) in a &#x201c;HOME&#x201d; display area. The user can readily find and select the button in the HOME display area. In this manner, the function button for the designated plug-in application is displayed in the position easily accessible by the user.

Administration device for image processing device uses plug-in application

An information processor is provided that can maintain security in the entire network and use recording media resources efficiently. An image forming apparatus includes a user information memorizing portion for memorizing local user data of users who have ever used the image forming apparatus, a user information deleting portion for deleting any one or more of the local user data when the local user data memorized in the user information memorizing portion has an amount greater than a predetermined value, an authentication request portion for requesting an authentication server to authenticate a user who desires to use the image forming apparatus, and a user information generating portion, when local user data of the user authenticated by the authentication server are not memorized in the user information memorizing portion, for generating local user data of the user in the user information memorizing portion to let the same memorize the generated data.

Information processor, method for managing the same and computer program product

In a recording medium, a device administration program for making a computer execute the following steps using a usage restriction definition file is recorded. The usage restriction definition file is capable of defining at least one administration function among a plurality of administration functions of a device and includes a device password for obtaining an authentication of the device. The steps comprises a step of reading a usage availability definition information of the administration functions and the device password from the usage restriction definition file, a step of transmitting the read device password to the device, a step of recognizing usage availabilities of a plurality of administration functions of the device based on the read definition information, and a step of executing processing for using only usage available administration function based on the recognized results.

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Akira Murakawa