Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Keiko Morita

Takushi Dandoko

Michiko Tashiro

Kenta Toyamasaki

Tetsuya Nishino

Tetsuya Maeda

Dai Shigenobu

Ryota Maeda

Yasuhiro Iwashima

Kyoichiro Hayashi

Shinobu Yoshioku

A target selection portion selects one target attachment portion out of a plurality of attachment portions, and selects, when a detection state regarding a target storage unit attached to the target attachment portion out of a plurality of developer storage units changes from a developer-remaining state to a developer-empty state, a new target attachment portion as the target attachment portion. A notification processing portion executes, when a first notification mode is selected, empty state notification processing for outputting information representing the developer-empty state to a notification destination every time the developer-empty state of the target storage unit is detected. The notification processing portion executes, when a second notification mode is selected, the empty state notification processing when the developer-empty states of some of the plurality of developer storage units are detected.

Image forming apparatus

In an image scanning apparatus, an image scanning unit scans one or more page images from a document of one or more pages and generates image data of the one or more page images. An image acquiring unit acquires the image data, generates a document image file including the image data, and stores the document image file into a specific folder. A communication processing unit transmits to a specific destination a message that includes a network identifier of the document image file. A server unit transmits the document image file upon receiving a transmission request that specifies the network identifier. Further, the communication processing unit includes a shrink image of a predetermined page among the one or more page into the message; and the server unit performs image search for the shrink image as a search key upon receiving an image search request that specifies the shrink image.

Image scanning apparatus with an improved notification process using shrink images

An image processing apparatus includes a storage device where one or plural document boxes are arranged, and a box save processing unit. The box save processing unit is configured to determine a document box as a save location of an image file of a document image among the one or plural document boxes, specify a file name of the document image, and save the image file in the determined document box. Further, the box save processing unit (a) determines a file name extraction rule in box property data of the determined document box, (b) extracts a file name from an area specified by the file name extraction rule in the document image, and (c) specifies the extracted file name to the image file and saves the image file in the determined document box.

Image processing apparatus

A document reading device () includes a document reading unit () that optically reads an image of a source document, a character string recognizer () that recognizes a character string included in a designated region in the source image read by the document reading unit (), and an image storage controller () that stores the source image read by the document reading unit () in a storage device. The image storage controller () generates, when a character string recognized by the character string recognizer () in the source image in a designated page of the source document, and a character string recognized by the character string recognizer () in the source image in a preceding page are different from each other, one file including the source images up to the preceding page, and stores the file in the storage device ().

Document reading device generating separate files based on character strings recognized on different pages

In order to promote the use of a display panel as an operation panel part, if a communicable terminal device () is detected (S), a CPU () requests the terminal device () to transmit panel information (S), and determines, on the basis of the panel information, whether or not the operability of the terminal device () is higher than that of an operation panel part () (S). If the operability of the terminal device () is higher than that of the operation panel part (), the CPU () displays a terminal device utilization screen on a display panel () (S). If an operation of an image forming device () by the terminal device () is selected by a user, the CPU () generates data for displaying an image of an operation screen based on the display on the display panel () and a setting value set by the operation of the operation panel part (), and transmits the data to the terminal device () (S).

Image forming device that can be operated from a terminal device

A management server includes a communication unit configured to receive job data and transmit the job data to the image forming apparatus so that the image forming apparatus executes the job, and a registering unit. When the communication unit receives the job data containing account information, if it is determined that the account information contained in the job data satisfies the registration condition, the registering unit registers the account information contained in the job data. If it is determined that the registration condition is not satisfied, the registering unit does not register the account information contained in the job data.

Management server and image forming system including the same

Provided is an image forming apparatus that reflects setup information according to an intention of a user. The image forming apparatus is operational from each of a mobile terminal and an operation panel. Accordingly, the image forming apparatus has an operation determination processing part. The operation determination part, when the start key in the operation panel is pressed, determines to reflect either of setup information of the mobile terminal or setup information of an operation panel.

Image forming apparatus and image formation method that reflects setup information either of mobile terminal or operation panel

An image forming apparatus includes: an operating section; a plurality of human body sensors configured to detect an operator and issue a detection signal; an operation recording section configured to record whether the operating section has been operated within a predetermined time of detection; a setting section configured to, based on an operation history recorded in the operation recording section, set as a sleep non-cancel sensor, out of the human body sensors, a sensor for which an operation of the operating section within the predetermined time of detection occurred with a low frequency; and a mode shift section which, when, during a sleep mode of the apparatus, receiving the detection signal from the sleep non-cancel sensor, maintains the apparatus in the sleep mode and, when, during the sleep mode, receiving the detection signal from the sensor other than the sleep non-cancel sensor, shift the apparatus to the normal operation mode.

Electronic apparatus and image forming apparatus

A display input device includes an input unit which receives an operation input, and a display unit which displays a screen for operation input and includes an input result display area for displaying at least a number and a character. When there is an available function for inputting the number and the character, an input button for using the available function is displayed in the input result display area or in an adjacent area of the input result display area, while when there is no available function, the button is not displayed in the input result display area or in the adjacent area of the input result display area.

Display input device, image forming apparatus, displaying method of a display input device

Provided is a display input device including: a display portion for displaying setting screens for setting items; a storage portion for storing: a program that is a combination of setting items and is invoked to cause the display portion to sequentially display the setting screen for each of the setting items selected and registered in advance; and data for additional display, which is used for determining whether or not to perform the additional display in which the setting screen is added to the program, and which setting screen is to be additionally displayed; an input portion for receiving an input made to invoke the registered program; and a processing portion for determining, when the registered program is invoked, an additional setting item, which is the setting item to be added, based on the data for additional display, and causing the display portion to additionally display the additional setting item.

Display input device for adding and displaying a setting screen, display method for a display input device for adding and displaying a setting screen, and image forming apparatus

A ROM () stores image forming driver information associated with a plurality of size groups into which a plurality of sets of sheet sizes close to each other are respectively sorted. When a sheet size of an image transfer sheet designated by an operator through an operating section () and a sheet size of an image transfer sheet detected by an image transfer sheet sensor () are different from one another, but both of the image transfer sheet sizes fall in the same size group, a CPU () allows an image forming section () to execute an image forming processing in accordance with image forming driver information corresponding to the image transfer sheet size designated by the operating section ().

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Osaka, Japan

Keiko Morita