Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Kazuhisa Kishimoto

Hideaki Shimizu

Katsutoshi Sawada

Yukihiko Ichikawa

Tohru Fujiwara

Toshihisa Yamanaka

Yasuyuki Kamai

Daiki Nishioka

Yoriko Suzuki

When 'operation which is not directly connected to job execution' is performed in an operation screen of a terminal device, by setting an image formation device to a power saving state, energy saving is achieved. An image formation system has: a power mode determining unit determining a shift condition of shifting to any of power states on the basis of an operation directly connected to job execution and an operation which is not directly connected to job execution, which is input to an operation screen displayed in an operation terminal; and a power state control unit shifting an MFP to any of the power states on the basis of the shift condition determined by the power mode determining unit.

Image formation system and control method of image formation system capable of determining mode shift condition

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: an input unit that inputs an original data; an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet in accordance with the original data; an operation panel that comprises a display unit and an operating unit and that receives an operation for entering a job for forming the image on the recording sheet by using the image forming unit; a display control unit that displays one or more types of window on the display unit of the operation panel; and a conference information obtaining unit that obtains conference information of a conference held in a conference room which is placed near the image forming apparatus, from a predetermined conference management server that manages the conference information of the conference, wherein the display control unit displays the conference information on the display unit from the conference management server.

Image forming apparatus for displaying conference information, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, conference system and method for controlling conference system

An operation screen display device according to the present invention displays operation screens which have a hierarchical structure on a display surface, and displays a lower level window, in which a region of at least a part of an operation screen of a lower level layer associated with an operation key which is performed with a pinch out operation is displayed, on a display surface at a specified size based on a size specified with the pinch out operation by a user for any of a plurality of operation keys in the operation screen.

Operation screen display device and recording medium recorded with display program

Disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program is stored, wherein the program causes an information processing device to: obtain conference information of a conference; and prepare and display a print instruction window having a function for receiving a selection of a print apparatus used for a printing in a list of one or more print apparatuses by displaying the list and having a function for receiving an instruction for starting the printing, the print instruction window indicating the obtained conference information.

Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and conference system

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image of an identification card; a printing unit; a utilization purpose entry receiving unit configured to receive an entry of a utilization purpose of a document to be printed by the printing unit; and a control unit configured to overlap a text indicating the utilization purpose received by the utilization purpose entry receiving unit, with the image of the identification card, and to instruct the printing unit to print the overlapped text and the image of the identification card.

Image forming apparatus for printing copy of id card with utlization purpose text overlapped thereon, and image forming method and tangible computer-readable recording medium for the same

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores therein a distributed printing control program executed in a system to perform distributed printing by outputting a specified number of sets of paper sheets by using plural image forming apparatuses, where the number of the sets is instructed by a job. The program causes an apparatus belonging to the system to function as a control section. The control section divides the job into plural jobs, where each of the jobs causes one of the image forming apparatuses to eject plural sets of paper sheets shifted in alternate directions such that, when sets of paper sheets ejected by the plural image forming apparatuses are stacked up together, all the sets of paper sheets are shifted in alternate directions to enable each of the sets to be separated from others. The control section further subjects the divided jobs to the plural image forming apparatuses.

Non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing distributed printing control program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a body area network communication part that performs communication with a terminal apparatus carried by a user, using a user's human body as a communication channel; a display and operating part having a display part that displays a screen and having, on the display part, an electrode for body area network communication, the screen receiving an operation performed by the user; and a control part that displays on the display part an operation key for allowing information stored in the terminal apparatus to be obtained by the body area network communication, when it is determined at the time of the user touching the electrode that communication between the body area network communication part and the terminal apparatus can be performed.

Method and apparatus for communicating user information using body area network

A printing system, comprises a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network and including sheet trays and a detecting section provided to each sheet tray and to detect a capacity of empty space of each sheet tray; and a sheet managing section to obtain a capacity of empty space of each sheet tray of each image forming apparatus and to compare the capacity of empty space of each sheet tray with a capacity of one bundle of sheets as a unit of supply. In the case that the capacity of empty space of a sheet tray among the plural sheet trays of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is equal to or larger than the capacity of one plural bundle of sheets, the sheet managing section notifies that sheet supply can be conducted by one bundle of sheets as a unit of supply to the sheet tray.

Printing system, sheet supply supporting method and control program

Described is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to create a vacant tray. The apparatus includes a paper sheet managing section to conduct consecutive operations including: acquiring the residual amount of the paper sheets accommodated in each of plurality paper sheet trays; calculating a total sum of residual amounts of paper sheets having the same attributes; comparing the above-calculated total sum with the maximum accommodating capacity of each of the paper sheet trays currently accommodating the paper sheets concerned; and notifying the operator of the fact that a vacant tray can be made by collecting the paper sheets concerned into a specific paper sheet tray, if there exists such paper sheets and a combination of paper sheet trays that make the total sum of the residual amounts of the paper sheets equal to or smaller than the maximum accommodating capacity of the specific paper sheet tray.

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Mitaka, Japan

Kazuhisa Kishimoto