Seiko Epson Corporation

Hitoshi Yamakado

Toru Miyamoto

Yu Gu

Atsushi Nagahara

Toshio Tanaka

Gu Yu

Tsuyoshi Kameda

Toru Takahashi

Hiroyuki Kuramoto

Shinji Miwa

Osamu Shinkawa

Hirotaka Ohashi

Noboru Yanagisawa

Yusuke Nakajima

Jun-ichi Takenuki

A providing apparatus includes a communication unit performs communication with a network that uses a blockchain, and a processing unit that controls the communication unit. The processing unit generates a transaction for registering with the blockchain a service providing processing program for performing service providing processing on electronic equipment that is a management target, and issues the generated transaction to the network through the communication unit. The service providing processing program performs processing that makes a request to a service provider, which is indicated by information on the service provider stored in the blockchain, for a service.

Providing apparatus and processing system

A providing device includes: a communication unit communicating with a network using a blockchain; and a processing unit controlling the communication unit. The processing unit generates a transaction for registering, into the blockchain, a charging processing program for performing charging processing according to a status of use of an electronic apparatus that is a management target, and issues the generated transaction to the network via the communication unit.

Providing device, processing system, and communication method

A processing system includes a storage unit that receives and stores information on electronic equipment from an equipment control unit, and a command relay unit that receives a control command from an information processing unit that performs processing which is based on the information stored in the storage unit. The command relay unit transmits the control command along a second communication path that is different from a first communication path that is a communication path between the information processing unit and the equipment control unit with the storage unit in between, and thus performs relay of the control command between the information processing unit and the equipment control unit.

Relaying control commands across network boundaries

The advantage of the invention is to prevent malicious use of a leaked e-mail address. A printing system has a printer, and a server device which causes the printer to conduct printing of print target data included in an e-mail when receiving the e-mail that designates the printer as a printing place. The printing system has an expiration date setting section that sets an expiration date in an e-mail address that uses the printer as the printing place, a mail address registering section that registers the generated e-mail address and the set expiration date by being associated with each other, and an expiration date managing section that manages the registered expiration date and disables the e-mail address whose expiration date has expired.

Printing system, printing device, server, and printing method for setting expiration information for email address of printing device

There is disclosed a document edit support device including: an object obtaining unit that obtains an object as data expressing at least one of a text and an image, which are included in a document as an edit target and are to be located in a layout area; a grid line obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of grid lines in the layout area; and a grid line selection unit that selects at least one of the plurality of grid lines selected by the grid line obtaining unit, so that a predetermined condition is satisfied by blank spaces which remain when the object obtained by the object obtaining unit is located along the selected at least one of the plurality of grid lines.

Document edit support device and storage medium

A document edit device includes: an object obtaining unit that obtains objects each being data expressing at least one of a text and an image which are included in a document as an edit target to be edited; an object selection unit that selects at least two target objects from among the objects obtained by the object obtaining unit, the target objects each being an object as a processing target to be processed; a golden rectangle forming unit that forms a golden rectangle having a predetermined positional relationship with at least one target object of the at least two target objects selected by the object selection unit, based on a size or position of the at least one target object; and a position change unit that changes positions of the at least two target objects such that they are inscribed to the golden rectangle formed by the golden rectangle forming unit.

Document edit device and storage medium

A document editing support device includes: an object obtaining unit that obtains at least one object as data representing at least one of a text and an image included in a document as a target to be edited; a split ratio storage unit that stores a predetermined split ratio; a reference line setting unit that extracts two lines from at least one of a circumscribed polygon and a boundary and sets the extracted lines as reference lines, the circumscribed polygon being of an object other than a target object, a location of which is to be determined relative to at least one object obtained by the object obtaining unit, and the boundary being of a layout area where objects are to be located in the document; a virtual line generation unit that generates a virtual line that splits an interval between the two reference lines set by the reference line setting unit, at a split ratio stored in the split ratio storage unit; and a location unit that determines a location of the target object, the location of which is to be determined, along the virtual line generated by the virtual line generation unit, within the layout area.

Document editing support device, program, and storage medium

An image ordering rule is selected from among multiple image ordering rules that use mutually different types of image characteristic values to determine the order of arrangement of images. The image characteristic value used by the selected image ordering rule is obtained for each of a plurality of images. The order of arrangement of a plurality of images is determined based on the selected image ordering rule and the image characteristic values for a plurality of images. The number of images to be placed on each page is determined based on the maximum number of images that can be included in each page of the electronic album. An electronic album in which a plurality of images are laid out on multiple pages in sequential order is created in accordance with the order of arrangement of a plurality of images and the number of images to be placed on each page.

Image arrangement for electronic album

A document editing device includes: a data set storage unit that stores a plurality of data sets, each including a character string, an attribute of the character string, and a font size for the attribute; a threshold value storage unit that stores a threshold value indicating an acceptable range for a ratio between font sizes for at least two of a plurality of attributes stored in the data set storage unit; a ratio calculation unit that calculates the ratio between the font sizes for at least two of the plurality of attributes stored in the data set storage unit; and a resize unit that changes the font sizes for at least two of the plurality of attributes so as to cause the ratio between the font sizes for at least two of the plurality of attributes to fall within an acceptable range if the ratio calculated by the ratio calculation unit is outside [SN1]the acceptable range indicated by the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage unit.

Document editing device, program, and storage medium

A document edit device includes: object obtaining unit configured to obtain an object; a calculating unit configured to calculate a golden division line, the golden division line being a line that divides at the golden ratio a distance between two reference lines, each reference line being determined on the basis of a target area in which the object is displayed; and an editing unit configured to edit a size of the object so that the object contacts two lines, the two lines being selected from among the calculated golden division line and the boundary of the target area.

Document edit device, program and computer-readable storage medium

A dither matrix generator includes: a main-cluster generator that generates at least one main-cluster in a matrix, the matrix including a plurality of cells, the main cluster area including a predetermined number of cells; a sparest searcher that searches a sparest area in the matrix, the sparest area being the area other than the area of main-cluster; a sub-cluster generator that generates at least one sub-cluster area, the sub-cluster area including a smaller number of cells than that of the main-cluster; a dither value allocator that allocates dither values to the plurality of cells of the matrix, the cells in the main-clusters having smaller dither values than those in the sub-cluster areas, the cells in the sub-cluster areas having smaller dither values than those in the areas other than the main-cluster and the sub-cluster areas.

Dither matrix generator, print product, method for generating a dither matrix, program product, and image processing device

There is disclosed a grid system selection supporting device comprising: a storage unit that stores use histories for a plurality of grid systems; and an extraction unit that extracts at least one of the plurality of grid systems, based on the use histories.

Grid system selection supporting device, grid system selection supporting method, and storage medium

An image display system includes: a storage section that stores plural image data sets and layout information indicating layout of one or plural sub images forming, as a whole, a background image behind a main image; a main image select section that selects one image data as a main image data set expressing a main image, from the plural image data sets; a characteristic specify section that specifies a characteristic of the main image data set selected by the main image select section; a sub image extract section that extracts, as one or plural image data sets each expressing a sub image, one or plural image data sets each having a characteristic making a relationship with the characteristic specified by the characteristic specify section, among the plural image data sets stored in the storage section except the main image data set, whereby the relationship satisfies a predetermined condition; and an image display section that displays the main image selected by the main image select section and the one or plural sub images extracted by the sub image extract section, in accordance with the layout information stored in the storage section.

Image display system and server device

A printing device includes a print head having a plurality of nozzles capable of ejecting ink on a print medium and of forming one or more types of ink dots on the print medium; an ink dot setting unit that determines an ink dot setting for each pixel of image data by comparing a gradient of the each pixel with, from among thresholds in a matrix for each of respective pixels, a threshold corresponding to the each pixel of image data; a print head controller that controls ejection of ink from each nozzle of the print head on the basis of an ink dot setting determined by the ink dot setting controller; and a threshold matrix correction unit that corrects a predetermined threshold of the matrix depending on ink output characteristics of each nozzle of the print head.

Printing device and print image processing device

A recycling facilitating system including an item identification data input unit for inputting item identification data, an item disassembly data memory for storing item disassembly data in correspondence with the item identification data, an item disassembly data retrieval unit for retrieving the item disassembly data, a disassembly diagram constructing unit for constructing the disassembly diagram based on the item disassembly data, and a disassembly diagram output unit for outputting the disassembly diagram; the disassembly diagram constructing unit determines the progress status of an operation step of disassembling the item to be recycled by identifying a component that was removed during the operation step, and, in accordance with the progress status, constructs one of a plurality of disassembly diagrams, which can be constructed from the item disassembly data that was retrieved by the item disassembly data retrieval unit.

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Hino, Japan

Hitoshi Yamakado