Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi, Ltd.

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Director General Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Hiroshi Gotoh

Takeshi Yoshizumi

Hozumi Yonezawa

Takahiro Hirakawa

Masaaki Igarashi

Shigeru Kusakata

Isao Shiojima

Ikuo Maeda

Yoji Shibata

Masaaki Takizawa

Jun Furuya

Kiyoshi Ishida

Masahiro Takahashi

Masami Emoto

Iwao Ishinabe

Kohji Yamamoto

Kenji Yokoi

Katsumi Mikamo

Toshiaki Watanuki

Yoshinobu Matsubayashi

Takushi Yoshimaru

Osamu Inoue

Fumitaka Takahashi

Syuichi Honda

Hiromasa Koike

Seiya Koura

Tatsuaki Sakurai

Minako Kazume

Yuka Tsukamoto

Satoshi Miyazaki

Yoshitaka Takahashi

Hiroshi Koide

Yutaka Matsumoto

Norimitsu Kurihara

Junichi Miyake

Hiroko Kaneko

Ken Nozaki

Naohiko Kubo

Isamu Shibata

Kiyoshi Yokomori

Ikuo Nagashima

Hideo Inuzuka

Kenshiro Hashimoto

Takeo Ozawa

Chiaki Uematsu

Jun Fukui

Hozumi Yonazewa

An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.

System and method for conferencing which displays questions

(Object) To provide an information processing system for controlling a screen-sharing terminal to perform a process, based on an instruction provided from an administrator terminal. (Means of Achieving the Object) An information processing system including: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and screen-sharing terminal controlling method

A terminal device passes data between programs. The terminal device includes a data passing unit configured to receive the data from a first program and pass the received data to a second program selected from among one or more second programs associated with a type of the received data; the first program configured to convert the type of the data, which is a passing target, from an original type into a unique type, and then pass the data to the data passing unit; and the second program configured to convert the type of the data received from the data passing unit into the original type from the unique type, the second program being associated with the unique type.

Terminal device and data passing method

A printer includes a communicating unit that receives a print job being a unit of execution of a printing process of a first printing protocol and a second printing protocol. The first printing protocol contains a series of process instructions and print data that allow the printing process to be performed from an interrupted point when the printing process is resumed after being interrupted. The printer also includes a print processing unit that performs the printing process by executing the print job, and a priority processing unit that preferentially selects a print job of the first printing protocol related to the interrupted printing process when receiving a print job of the first printing protocol related to the interrupted printing process and a print job of the second printing protocol after the printing process of the print job of the first printing protocol is interrupted.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and image forming method

A time limit for a printer to be restored to a printable state after an occurrence of a print error that prevents the printer from printing is variably set. If the printer is not in a printable state when an elapsed time since the print error occurred in the printer reaches the time limit being set or exceeds the time limit, a print start command is transmitted to another printer, and a job assignment is switched to the other printer.

Printing system, printing apparatus, computer program, and storage medium

A printing system includes a storage unit that stores printing status information and host apparatus identification information. The printing status information includes a printing status representing whether a printing processing of the print job is interrupted, and the host apparatus identification information represents the host apparatus as a requestor of the print job. The printing system includes a update unit that updates the printing status information based on a monitoring result of the printing apparatus; a job managing unit that judges whether to execute the print job according to the printing status information when receiving a processing request of the print job from the host apparatus; and a printing status information managing unit that decides printing status information to be stored in the storage unit. The printing status information managing unit first deletes, from the storage unit, printing status information on a print job transmitted from a low-ranked host apparatus.

Printing system, printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium

A printer includes a first receiving unit that receives a print job containing a printing requirement, where the printing requirement is set as either an indispensable requirement that is indispensable for executing the print job or a desired requirement that is desirable for executing the print job; a second receiving unit that receives, from each of external image forming apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, a printability level indicating whether the external image forming apparatus has a printing function satisfying the indispensable requirement or a printing function satisfying the desired requirement; a selecting unit that selects an image forming apparatus that executes the print job from the external image forming apparatuses by checking the printability level; and a print-operation control unit that sends the print job to the selected image forming apparatus and causes the selected image forming apparatus to execute the print job.

Image forming apparatus and print control method, and program product

A printing system including a plurality of host devices and a plurality of printing devices connected. The printing system includes: a storage unit; a first storage processing unit for storing, in the storage unit, a print status of a print job; an information updating unit for monitoring the plurality of printing devices and updates the execution status identification information stored in the storage unit; and a job management unit for determining, based on the print status, whether the print job is to be executed on the one printing device. When a processing request for the print job is sent from another host device while the printing process for the print job sent from the one host device is suspended in the one printing device, the job management unit allows the one printing device to execute the print job sent from the another host device.

Printing system, printing device, program and storage medium

An image forming apparatus prints images of different document sizes on paper having a predetermined paper size. The image forming apparatus includes a computation processing part to compute a print position of the image with respect to the paper, based on the document size, the paper size and moving amount computation information that is input thereto, and a print processing part to arrange and print the image on the paper, based on the print position computed by the computation processing part.

Image forming apparatus, method, and computer product for positioning images of different size on a given paper size

A printing apparatus performs a printing process for a printing job including at least one print data and a series of process commands from a host apparatus. A session setup unit sets up a session with the host apparatus and other printing apparatus. A status obtaining unit obtains a status of the other printing apparatus that is in session with the printing apparatus. Upon performing the print process, a job synchronizing unit maintains a synchronization of the print job with the other printing apparatus that is in session with the printing apparatus.

Printing apparatus, printing system, and computer program product

When a printing device is in a state in which a printing process of a print job including at least one print data and a series of process commands from a host apparatus cannot be executed, a printing processing unit transfers a printing right corresponding to the print job that is left unprinted to other printing device. When the printing device is in a state in which the printing process can be executed and if the printing right corresponding to the print job that is left unprinted is transferred to the printing device from the other printing device, the printing processing unit executes the printing process.

Printing device, printing system, and computer program product

In an image forming device, when a priority of outputting input data determined by a priority determining unit is higher than a priority of in-process data during image expansion performed by one of PDL interpreter units, a PDL control unit determines whether the one of the PDL interpreter units supports an interruption process, and an output sequence changing unit changes an output sequence stored in an output sequence storing unit such that, when the one of the PDL interpreter units supports the interruption process, another of the PDL interpreter units performs image expansion of the input data earlier than the image expansion of the in-process data, and when the one of the PDL interpreter units does not support the interruption process, another of the PDL interpreter units performs the image expansion of the input data later than the image expansion of the in-process data.

Image forming device for executing a designated process with priority without canceling a previously accepted process

A medium judgment program is recorded on an information recording medium. The program causes a computer to judge whether the medium is authorized. The judgment may be based on information on a unique value preformed in the medium in regard to each of the media. If the computer determines that the information recording medium is right or authorized, the program permits the computer to reproduce a main program. The main program is different than the medium judgment program. If the computer determines that the information recording medium is wrong or unauthorized, the computer is prohibited from reproducing the main program.

Recording medium and reading system

A method of creating an image file to be additionally written is disclosed to prevent logical inconsistency between the image file and existing recorded data in a target information recording medium. The method of creating an image file of target information to be additionally written in an information recording medium includes: a first step of creating image data of the target information; a second step of obtaining identification information of the information recording medium; and a third step of creating an image file having the image data in association with the identification information.

Method of creating and recording image file

A roll-shaped thermosensitive recording material having a thermosensitive recording layer, which includes as main components an electron donating coloring agent, an electron accepting color developer and a binder resin and which is formed overlying a substrate, wherein the roll-shaped thermosensitive recording material has a variation (R) of thickness of in the lateral direction of not greater than 3 &mgr;m. Alternatively, the roll-shaped thermosensitive recording material has a difference in thickness between the left side and the right side in the lateral direction of not greater than 0.7 &mgr;m.

Thermosensitive recording material, block copy sheet using the recording material and printing plate prepared by using the block copy sheet

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Hiroshi Gotoh