Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica-Minolta Holdings, Inc.

Hiroki Yoshida

Mitsunori Nakamura

Satoshi Deishi

Masahiro Kitamura

Chiho Murai

An apparatus for outputting an image is provided. The apparatus includes a detection portion that detects a state of electronic paper placed on a predetermined location, and a transmission portion that sends, to the electronic paper, image data for displaying an image depending on the state of the electronic paper.

Apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium for outputting images to electronic paper

A manufacturer or the like provides consumable products used in an image forming apparatus with distribution information including a most recent license code and then markets the consumable products, and the image forming apparatus performs authentication processing by reading the distribution information from such consumable products. Receiving a connection request from an application executed by a personal computer, the image forming apparatus determines whether connection may be permitted or not by comparing the license code of the application included in the connection request with the distribution information provided to the consumable product.

Image forming apparatus and access control method between an image forming apparatus and a device external to the image forming apparatus

An image forming device is capable of making data communication with at least one printing device through a network. The image forming device comprises: a print job acquiring part for acquiring a print job created in response to user's instructions for printing; an image forming part for producing a printed output by executing the print job; an event detecting part for detecting occurrence of an event; and a print preview processing part for acquiring a first print preview image showing a printed output to be produced when the print job is executed in the image forming part, and a second print preview image showing a printed output to be produced when the print job is executed in the at least one printing device, and for outputting the first and second print preview images. The print preview processing part acquires and outputs the first and second print preview images when the event detecting part detects occurrence of the event.

Image forming device, information processing device, and method for outputting a plurality of print preview images when detecting an event that makes production of a printed output difficult

Provided are an authentication method, authentication system and a terminal device in which the authentication of a non-participating third node is can be simplified and can be executed in the case of multicast by using an authentication ticket in a distributed processing network system, the non-participating third node being intended to access each of the nodes, including a first and a second node, constituting a workgroup. The first node that has already participated in the workgroup authenticates the third node intended to participate in the workgroup and issues the authentication ticket including the signatures of both nodes, and when the authentication ticket is submitted to the second node, the second node permits the third node to access, without password-based-authentication, by authenticating the first node and the second node which have signed the authentication ticket.

Authentication system, authentication method and terminal device

An image processing apparatus receives and binarizes image data in accordance with first and second algorithms to output first and second binarized data which are in turn compared and in accordance with a result of the comparison a region to be corrected is determined in the first binarized data. The region to be corrected then has a value of a pixel binarized in accordance with a third algorithm and replaced with the binarized value.

Image processing apparatus, method and program binarizing received image data

In an image processing device, image data is divided into a plurality of band data including first and second band data. The first band data and the second band data have an overlap region, from which the first and second regions are extracted, respectively. The first region and the second region at least partially overlap with each other in the overlap region and have attributes different from each other, and the respective feature amounts are calculated. Based on these feature amounts, an attribute to be used for correction is decided. Then, an attribute different from the decided attribute between the attribute of the first region and the attribute of the second region is changed to the decided attribute.

Data processing device capable of processing image data with small memory capacity, image processing method, and program product

A personal computer is operable to sectionalize a document image to form a plurality of image areas each having an attribute associated with a compression mode. Then, it is determined whether the image areas overlap with one another to form an overlap area. When the overlap area is formed, the overlap area is separated from the engaged image areas. If one of the engaged image areas is included within the remaining image areas, an attribute for the overlap area is set up according to the inclusive relationship of the engaged image areas. If there is not such an inclusive relationship, the attribute in the overlap area is set up according to the occupancy rate of the overlap area to each of the engaged image areas, and weighting coefficients of the respective attributes of the engaged image areas.

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Hiroki Yoshida