Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroaki Kubo

Gen Sasaki

Kaitaku Ozawa

Toshimichi Iwai

Nobuhiro Mishima

Hisashi Uchida

Takehisa Yamaguchi

Kenji Matsuhara

Kazusei Takahashi

Atsushi Ohshima

Masaya Hashimoto

Yasuhiro Morimoto

Tomoaki Nakajima

Hiroshi Ootsuka

Toshihiko Otake

Toru Ishii

Kazuo Inui

Hirokazu Kubota

Yoshiaki Shibuta

Hideki Nagata

Shoji Imaizumi

Katsuyuki Nanba

Takeshi Minami

Katsuhiko Akita

Masahito Niikawa

Toshihiro Hamamura

Tsutomu Honda

Akihiro Torigoshi

Yuji Okamoto

Nobuo Hashimoto

Manabu Inoue

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Masami Yamada

Takehiro Katoh

Kenji Mizumoto

Yoshihiko Azuma

Yasutaka Ito

Hirokazu Yagura

Atsushi Tamura

Kenji Nakamura

Keizou Ochi

Keisuke Teramoto

Hideaki Soejima

Yuji Tanaka

Yukari Maeda

Hironori Harada

Takeshi Morikawa

Takashi Okada

Shinichi Fujii

Shigeto Ohmori

Hironobu Nakata

Noriyuki Okisu

Tougo Teramoto

Kazuchika Sato

Kazuhiko Yukawa

Ayumi Itoh

Naohiro Kageyama

Yoshiki Tokimoto

Jun Kunioka

Kiyoshi Seigenji

Mutsuhiro Yamanaka

Keiji Tamai

Hiroshi Kiten

Takashi Kato

Takeshi Ogoshi

Kazuki Akaho

Yuuichi Kunisaki

Yoshito Konishi

Hitoshi Yano

Takuya Kishimoto

Masayuki Funakoshi

Takeru Butsuzaki

An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: detects a defect that occurs when an image processor performs an image process on process data; produces verification data when the defect is detected during the image process, wherein the verification data is formed in a case that at least one portion of the process data, to be processed by the image processor, is changed and causes a same defect that occurs during the image process on the process data; and externally outputs the verification data instead of the process data.

Information processing apparatus, image control method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with image control program

A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

Device for simulating an image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: generates image data in a raster form on the basis of PDL data described in a page description language; stores the image data generated by the hardware processor; and outputs a predetermined signal in a case where an image of the image data stored in the hardware processor is determined as an image including a predetermined pattern, wherein the hardware processor executes pattern recognition with respect to a region, which includes printing data, in the image of the image data, and does not execute the pattern recognition with respect to a region, which does not include printing data, in the image of the image data.

Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

An image processing apparatus includes a first memory used for first rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an input image, and a second memory used for second rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an image obtained by the first rearrangement processing, and performs correction processing that includes the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing on the input image. One of the first and second memories is capable of higher-speed random access than the other memory and has a smaller memory capacity than the other memory. One of the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing is processing for rearranging a group of pixels in each of a plurality of block images generated from the input image, and the other rearrangement processing is processing for rearranging pixel rows among the block images. The one rearrangement processing involves random access to the one memory.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

A virtual execution device includes a hardware processor, the hardware processor forming a virtual device by simulating an image forming apparatus in operation, in the case where a predetermined allowing condition is unsatisfied by an operation state of the image forming apparatus, acquiring a plurality of respective jobs that have been externally received by the image forming apparatus before the allowing condition becomes unsatisfied by the operation state of the image forming apparatus as reference jobs, selecting one or more reference jobs as exclusion jobs from among the plurality of acquired reference jobs, causing the virtual device to process subject jobs that are not the one or more selected exclusion jobs among the plurality of acquired reference jobs, and in the case where the allowing condition is satisfied by an operation state of the virtual device, specifying the exclusion jobs as cause jobs that have caused errors in the image forming apparatus.

Virtual execution device, virtual execution method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing virtual execution program

A method includes: associating content with erasure completion information indicating the content has been erased; forming an image of the content and an image at a time of formation indicating the erasure completion information; in a case where an erasure image is formed to be superimposed on at least a part of the image of the content on the recording medium, forming an image at a time of discarding indicating the erasure completion information and the erasure image, where the image at the time of discarding is associated with the content; and in a case where the erasure completion information is identified by the image at the time of formation and the image at the time of discarding included in single image data output when the image capturing device image-captures the recording medium, determining that the content associated with the erasure completion information has been erased.

Content management system, content management method, and recording medium

An information processing apparatus that has an electronic mail function and is capable of operating in cooperation with a portable terminal includes: a communication unit configured to perform a communication with the portable terminal; a terminal control unit configured to transmit a command of activating an address book application to the portable terminal, and to acquire a transmission destination address and a user address from the portable terminal; a mail creating unit configured to create an electronic mail in which the transmission destination address is set to a transmission destination of the electronic mail, and the user address to a transmission source of the electronic mail; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image to be transmitted with the electronic mail; and a mail transmitting unit configured to attach the image acquired by the image acquiring unit to the electronic mail, and to transmit the electronic mail.

Information processing apparatus that has an electronic mail function and is capable of operating in cooperation with a portable terminal and program thereof

A management server communicable with portable information devices includes: a group generating portion that generates a group to which two or more portable information devices belong; an identification information receiving portion that receives the identification information from a transmission source device, which receives from any one of fixed terminals each located geographically at a fixed position, identification information corresponding to related information assigned to the fixed terminal; a group determining portion that, in response to receipt of the identification information from the transmission source device, determines a group to which the transmission source device belongs; and a linked transmitting portion that transmits the identification information received from the transmission source device, in order to allow each of one or more portable information devices which belong to the group determined, to display the related information corresponding to the identification information received from the transmission source device.

Information sharing system, information sharing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with information sharing program

A server for providing a plurality of objects made correspond to a marker is provided. The objects have content differing from each other. The server includes a transmitter configured to preferentially send, in response to a request for the objects based on the marker, an object which has not yet been sent to any of 'N' (N&#x2265;2) terminals of the objects to a requesting terminal of the 'N' terminals, the requesting terminal having made the request.

Server and method for providing content, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

An image reading device comprises: a feeder that feeds a document along with a predetermined path; a first reading part that reads a first side of the document at a first position in the path and creates a first image; a second reading part that reads a second side of the document at a second position which is located posterior to the first position in the path and creates a second image; a synthesizing part that lays the first image and the second image on top of one another and creates a composite image; and a detecting part that detects a characteristic pattern of a specific document from the composite image created by the synthesizing part.

Image reading device and non-transitory readable recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes: a raster data output that executes a first process of outputting raster data; a data transferer that generates image determination-purpose data, and executes a second process of storing the generated image determination-purpose data in a buffer; and a hardware processor that: executes a third process of determining whether an image presented by the image determination-purpose data contains a specific image, generates schedule information indicating a time schedule of the first, second, and third processes, determines each set of raster data on whether the time schedule satisfies an overflow condition, and performs control to extend the buffer, wherein the overflow condition is a condition that a part of a period of the second process overlaps with a part of a period during which the image determination-purpose data for which the third process has not been completed occupies an entire area of the buffer.

Image processing apparatus that performs different processes in parallel, method, and program

An image forming apparatus includes a main processor, a first memory, a sub processor, and a second memory. The second memory stores a snapshot that includes an executable program obtained by loading one or more programs in the first memory. The main processor switches from a drive mode to a stop mode. The sub processor activates the main processor in response to any one of a plurality of activation factors being detected, cuts off power in response to an operation mode being switched to the stop mode, and supplies power to the main processor and the first memory before the main processor is activated. The main processor reads out a snapshot associated with an activation factor from the second memory and stores the snapshot into the first memory in response to being activated by the sub processor.

Image forming apparatus, activation control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with activation control program

Portable information devices each include a portable-side communication unit to communicate with an image processing apparatus within a range of a predetermined distance, and a portable-side control unit. The portable-side control unit executes the steps of: specifying a linked process; displaying an operation screen for accepting a setting value corresponding to the linked process in a state in which the portable-side communication unit is unable to communicate with the image processing apparatus; accepting a setting value from a user; in response to the portable-side communication unit becoming able to communicate with the image processing apparatus, transmitting a setting request and receiving a response to the setting request from the image processing apparatus; if the response indicates to start the linked process, transmitting/receiving data in cooperation with the image processing apparatus; and if the response requests a setting value, displaying an operation screen for setting the requested setting value.

Cooperation system including cooperating portable information device and image processing apparatus, and cooperation method

An image processing system for generating a processed image depending on an input image is provided. The system includes an image processing portion configured to add, to the processed image, an AR marker which is an image for identifying missing information missing from information of the input image; an AR content generating portion configured to generate an AR content corresponding to the missing information; an AR marker recognizing portion configured to recognize the AR marker contained in a photographed image obtained by photographing the processed image; and an AR display processing portion configured to display the AR content stored in association with the recognized AR marker in a manner to be superimposed on the processed image.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a deactivation method for deactivating a power-saving mode of each of the specific processing apparatuses; a detection portion for detecting that particular processing data for the particular processing is not delivered to, among the specific processing apparatuses, a destination specific processing apparatus of the particular processing data, and a deactivation portion for performing, when the detection portion detects that the particular processing data is not delivered to the destination specific processing apparatus, deactivation processing for deactivating a power-saving mode of the destination specific processing apparatus based on the deactivation method, stored in the storage portion, for the destination specific processing apparatus.

Apparatus and method for deactivating power-saving mode, relay device, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

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