Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Hiromi Sakata

Nobuhiko Kozuka

Shigeo Koyama

Tetsuya Maeda

Shingo Mori

Yasuyuki Hirai

Yasuhiro Matsuo

Yasuyuki Ishiguro

Toshinori Nishimura

Dai Shigenobu

Hidehiro Tabuchi

Masahiro Higashitani

Masami Kai

Atsushi Kano

Ryutaro Yamagata

Miki Teshima

Toshio Watanabe

Masahiro Sako

Yukio Hashimoto

Shigeo Kurando

Koji Maeda

Masahide Iseki

Toshio Yoshiyama

Michiko Tashiro

Takaji Washio

Hideaki Tsudaka

Masayuki Tobinaga

Hidekazu Sakagami

Kuniaki Nakano

Yoshinobu Takemura

Chigusa Mochizuki

Minoru Kishigami

Kenzo Ono

Masami Yamada

Yasuhiko Kida

Toshikazu Matsui

Yoshihisa Tanaka

Ryusuke Nakatani

Keisaku Matsumae

Shinichi Nakanishi

Hiroyuki Tsuji

Ichiro Takahashi

Tadashi Fujioka

Masanori Itakiyo

Hiroshi Hiraoka

Mitsuru Adachi

Kazuhiro Morimoto

Kouji Ujino

Kunihiko Ishikawa

A display input device includes a reception processing portion, a change processing portion, and a display processing portion. The reception processing portion, based on correspondence information indicating a correspondence between a plurality of characters and a plurality of operation keys used for inputting a password of a preset number of characters, receives an operation of any one of the operation keys as an input operation of a character corresponding to the operation key. The change processing portion changes the correspondence relationship when the operation of the operation key is performed a preset specific number of times that is less than the number of characters of the password, or at a preset specific interval. The display processing portion displays the correspondence information at a predetermined position, different from a position of the operation keys, on an input screen used for inputting the password.

Display input device for receiving password input, information processing apparatus, display input method

An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel and a control unit. The control unit includes a processor that executes a control program. The control unit functions as a first setting section that, when a number of character types in a password for registration is more than a predetermined number of character types, sets a number of times of password re-entry to be more than that of a case where the number of character types in the password for registration is less than or equal to the predetermined number of character types. In addition, the control unit functions as a display control section that performs display control of a display unit, and as a practice mode execution section that causes the display unit to display a password re-entry screen on which a plurality of keys are arranged for the number of times set by the first setting section.

Information processing apparatus that sets the number of times of password re-entry and prompts user to perform password re-entry at set number of times

A control portion specifies an allowance time from a job reception time to a time at which a job sender reaches a self-apparatus, on the basis of allowance time specifying information acquired per print job data. Furthermore, the control portion controls a start time of a print process in accordance with an order in which an elapsed time from the job reception time is determined to have reached a planned start time. The planned start time is a time which is back-calculated from a time point when the allowance time elapses after the job reception, on the basis of a time required for the print process.

Image forming apparatus controlling print timing

An image reading device includes an image scanning portion, a page classification portion, a preview output portion, a page classification correction portion, and a file replacement portion. The preview output portion generates a primary image data file including: a plurality of pieces of page image data; and page classification information that allows the non-blank page and the blank page to be separated from each other, and displays, on a display portion, an image of the non-blank page and an image of the blank page so as to be separated from each other. The page classification correction portion corrects the page classification information according to correction operation. The file replacement portion replaces the primary image data file with a secondary image data file that does not include the data of the blank page.

Image reading device and image forming apparatus with blank page skipping function

To provide an operation apparatus and image forming apparatus which can adequately notify users of status information of other apparatuses connected to the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus has: status information acquiring meansfor acquiring status information of a multi-functional printerassociated with a specific tab item from the multi-functional printer; status information converting meansfor converting the acquired status information into tab-type status information; tab item displaying meansfor displaying tab-type status information in a tab display area which displays the specific tab item and which displays the other associated tab items in a tab display area which displays other tab items other than the specific tab item; and condition screen displaying meansfor displaying a setting condition screen associated with the specific tab item to be displayed in one screen together with the tab which displays the tab-type status information.

Operation apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same

Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing a printed matter from being inadvertently taken away by other users. The image forming apparatus mainly includes a first determination part, a second determination part, and a job control part. The first determination part determines whether there exists a second printing job to be executed subsequent to the first printing job. The second determination part determines whether the time measured by the timer part has passed a predetermined period if it is determined that there exists the second printing job. The job control part performs interval control for causing the printing part to execute the second printing job after the predetermined period has passed if it is determined that the predetermined period has not yet passed.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of preventing printed matter from being taken away by other users

An image forming apparatus has a judgment portion, a job control portion, and an operation portion. When print data is received by a reception portion, the judgment portion checks whether or not a detection portion is outputting a detection signal. When the detection portion is found to be outputting the detection signal, the job control portion inhibits a printing portion from executing the print job for the print data received by the reception portion and instead stores the print data in a storage portion. The operation portion accepts an instruction to print for an image represented by the print data stored in the storage portion. When the instruction is entered on the operation portion, the job control portion makes the printing portion execute a print job for the print data stored in the storage portion.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and a group management server. The plurality of image forming apparatuses each include a document-box management unit. The document-box movement processing unit transmits a command to at least one of a first image forming apparatus assigned to a group before the movement and a second image forming apparatus assigned to a group after the movement, the command causing movement of a document box of the moved user from the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus. The document-box management unit in at least one of the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus accepts the command. The document-box management unit forwards the document box of the moved user from the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus.

Image forming system and image forming apparatus that forward document box of moved user

An electronic device includes a log management unit and an assist function managing unit. The log management unit stores job logs containing, in relation to jobs, set content and execution result, and at least one of: required time, or printed sheet count and printed page count. The assist function managing unit: (a) extracts failed-job job logs in which the execution results indicate failure from the log management unit; (b) extracts successful-job job logs, corresponding to the failed-job job logs, in which, for jobs on a document executed immediately after a failed job on the document, the execution results indicate normal termination; and (c) registers, as operation assist functions, alternative user operations in terms of setting operations for successful jobs corresponding to the failed jobs that meet predetermined conditions in terms of the at least one of: required time, or printed sheet count and printed page count.

Electronic device that automatically registers alternative user operation

An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feed section including a plurality of sheet feed cassettes, a designation receiving section configured to receive a designation of a sheet feed cassette for exclusive use from among the plurality of sheet feed cassettes; an exclusive use control section configured to put the sheet feed cassette the designation of which has been received by the designation receiving section into an exclusive use state and, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, switch the sheet feed cassette from the exclusive use state to a non-exclusive use state; and a sheet discharge control section. When the predetermined condition is satisfied, the sheet discharge control section allows the discharge of particular paper sheets remaining in the sheet feed cassette in the exclusive use state before the sheet feed cassette is switched from the exclusive use state to a non-exclusive use state.

A log managing unit identifies respective required time lengths for user operations performed to set setting values to plural setting items until a function is performed, and stores a setting operation log. An assistance function managing unit extracts at least one of (a) setting operation logs that include user operations returning to an initial screen of the function without setting the setting values after a user operation is performed to the initial screen, (b) setting operation logs that a required time length per step of the user operations on the basis of the required time lengths exceeds a predetermined value, and (c) setting operation logs that a total required time length of the required time lengths until the setting values are set exceeds a predetermined value, and registers to an operation assistance function a predetermined number of setting items with longest required time lengths in the extracted setting operation logs.

Electronic apparatus

An image forming apparatus to which a portable storage medium can be connected includes a storage unit, a connecting unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores default setting information. A portable storage medium that can store user-specific setting information customized to the individual users is connected to the connecting unit. When the portable storage medium in which the user-specific setting information is stored is connected to the connecting unit, the control unit performs a process based on the user-specific setting information stored in the portable storage medium without changing the default setting information stored in the storage unit.

Image forming apparatus to which portable storage medium can be connected

To provide enhanced operability to users incapable of setting complicated operations such as handicapped people, children, and old people. An operation panel section displays a plurality of settable functions to receive an input of the plurality of the settable functions. An input controller switches an input mode through an operation panel section between a standard mode in which any function can be set and a universal mode in which limited functions can be set with visibility higher than the standard mode.

Image forming apparatus and input operating device for use in the same having a universal mode in which limited functions can be set with recognition higher than in a standard mode

An image forming apparatus is provided with a display device for displaying an operation guide to an operator, and a display controller for causing the display device to display an operation procedure comprised of a plurality of operations as the operation guide while automatically switching the respective operations in rotation.

Image forming apparatus with controller for automatically switching displays of operation procedure in rotation

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