Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ando Electric Company

Kazunori Hirabayashi

Takahiro Hagiwara

Koji Nagai

Kazuhiro Ogura

Akihiko Fujiwara

Mika Hirama

Shunichi Megawa

Shigeo Uchida

Yoshitaka Hashimoto

Akihiro Mizutani

Toshihiro Ida

Ryuichi Aoyama

Toshinori Fukuta

An image processing apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface acquires printing data including an image. If length in a longitudinal direction of the image is larger than a printing width of a medium on which the image is printed, the processor rotates the image.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method with image rotation

An image forming apparatus includes an interface, a printer, and a processor. The interface acquires first printing data. The printer prints an image on a medium. The processor extracts content blocks from the first printing data, rearranges the content blocks to generate second printing data, and controls the printer to print an image on the medium based on the second printing data.

Image forming apparatus and program for printing data generated for a sheet onto a label

According to one embodiment, an indication management device includes voice acquisition means, indication recognition means, importance degree determination means, and output control means. The voice acquisition means acquires a voice which is input by a voice input terminal. The indication recognition means recognizes details of an indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The importance degree determination means determines a degree of importance of the indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The output control means controls output of indication details to an output device in accordance with the degree of importance determined by the importance degree determination means.

Indication management device and control method therefor

In accordance with an embodiment, a positioning apparatus comprises a first interface and a processor. The first interface receives a positioning signal. The processor sets an interval for searching the positioning signal with a first interface to a first searching interval, sets the interval for searching the positioning signal to a second searching interval which is shorter than the first searching interval if it is determined that the positioning signal is received through searching in the first searching interval and uses the positioning signal received through searching in the second searching interval to specify a position of the positioning apparatus.

Positioning apparatus and positioning method

In accordance with one embodiment, a notification control apparatus comprises an interface and a control section. The interface receives first information sent from a terminal held by a user. The control section calculates, based on the information received by the interface, a distance from the notification control apparatus to the terminal held by the user, and carries out a control to send reply information to the terminal held by the user if the distance is within a given range, and not to send reply information if the distance is out of the given range.

Notification control apparatus for replying to received information and notification control method

A document distribution server includes a first communication interface that receives printing data corresponding to a document, a processor that generates image data corresponding to the document, based on the received printing data, a memory that stores the received printing data and the generated image data, and a second communication interface that distributes the generated image data in response to a request for a document which corresponds to the generated image data stored in the memory.

Document distribution server and document distribution method

A mark forming apparatus according to the present embodiment includes an image acquisition portion, a calculation portion, a detection portion, and a formation portion. The image acquisition portion scans and acquires an image formed on a sheet. The calculation portion calculates a color material attachment amount of the image from the image acquired by the image acquisition portion. The detection portion detects a predetermined mark which is already formed on the sheet. The formation portion forms a predetermined mark with a shape according to the color material attachment amount calculated by the calculation portion on the sheet in addition to the existing predetermined mark detected by the detection portion.

Mark forming apparatus, image forming apparatus, and mark forming method

A system includes a receiving unit and a controller. The receiving unit receives data about the number of processes performed in an image forming unit to form an image with a decolorable color material and data about the number of processes performed in a decolorizing unit to decolorize an image formed with the decolorable color material. Based on the data received by the receiving unit the controller calculates the number of media in user's use in a condition after they are subjected to image formation by the image forming unit and before they are decolorized by the decolorizing unit. The controller deters image formation by the image forming unit if the number of the media in user's use exceeds a first threshold, and allows the image forming unit to form an image if the number of the media in user's use does not exceed the first threshold.

Image processing system, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling use of medium

In a document data management apparatus to manage document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, management of the document data is performed in view of the reliability of an image reading processing of the image reading apparatus, so that the reliability of various processings using the document data is improved. There are included a document data acquisition unit to acquire document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, a reliability determination unit to determine reliability of an image reading processing of the image reading apparatus for the document data based on the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit, and a storage prohibition unit to prohibit, with respect to the document data for which the reliability determined by the reliability determination unit is lower than a specified threshold value, storage of the document data.

Document data management apparatus to manage document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus and a technique to improve reliability of various processing using document data

In an image processing apparatus according to the present invention, a scanning unit reads out image information regarding original document; an analyzing unit extracts layout information regarding character regions and character addition information added to characters within the character regions from the image information; an OCR processing unit converts the character regions included in the layout information extracted by the analyzing unit into character information; an extracting unit extracts one or more keywords comprised of a plurality of characters from the character information; a searching unit obtains meta-information by use of the extracted keywords; and an electronic document generating unit generates an electronic document according to description of a predetermined format by adding the meta-information to the character information. According to the present invention, it is possible to properly add secondly available information to electronized information.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

In a workflow management system for managing a workflow processing in which a processing object is document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, a technique to improve processing efficiency in the workflow processing is provided. The workflow management system includes a document data acquisition unit to acquire, as the processing object in the workflow processing, the document data made to correspond to reliability information as information indicating reliability of an image reading processing in the image reading apparatus, a reliability information acquisition unit to acquire the reliability information made to correspond to the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit, and a processing execution unit to execute, based on the reliability information acquired by the reliability information acquisition unit, a specified processing relating to an approval processing in the workflow concerning the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit.

Workflow management system and workflow management method

In a case where the remaining capacity of a RAMis small, the resolution of a rendering processing is made smaller than usual. By this, even if the remaining capacity of the RAMis small, banner printing using a long size print sheet P becomes possible.

Reducing the resolution of a rendered image for printing

An apparatus for detecting a succession of data comprises a comparator storing first and second data, respectively, a first flip-flop having an input supplied with the first data from the comparator, a gate having inputs supplied, respectively, with the second data from the comparator and the output of the first flip-flop, a second flip-flop having an input supplied with the output of the gate, and a pulse generator operating in synchronism with input data to produce a shift pulse signal delayed relative to the input data for a time required for the operation of the comparator. The shift pulse signal is applied to the inputs of the first and second flip-flops to thereby cause the output of the first flip-flop to be shifted to the second flip-flop only when the input data corresponding to the first and second data, respectively, are applied to the comparator. Thus, continuity in the input data can be detected. By providing additionally a selector on the output side of the flip-flops, identification of the data contained in the input data string can be accomplished.

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Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan

Kazunori Hirabayashi