Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ken Kuroda

Hideto Kohtani

Yoshihiko Suzuki

Shokyo Koh

Satoru Kutsuwada

Masahiro Iwadate

Hiroyuki Yaguchi

Takehito Utsunomiya

Eiichiro Kitagawa

Keiichi Iimoto

Masanori Sakai

Satoshi Imai

Shinichi Kanematsu

Kunio Yoshihara

Hiroshi Sumio

Hidenori Ozaki

Michiko Hirayu

A document processing apparatus for generating a binder document by binding a plurality of original documents makes access to a storage unit for storing the binder attribute information of the binder types of a plurality of kinds of binder documents, and acquires the binder attribute information corresponding to the binder type of the binder document to be generated. Also, the document processing apparatus acquires the document type of each of the plurality of original documents selected to be bound into the binder document to be generated. The binder document is generated employing the plurality of selected original documents, based on the document type acquired regarding the plurality of selected original documents and the binder attribute information.

Document processing apparatus and method

An apparatus includes a temporarily registered document creating unit configured to create a temporarily registered document in which a document to be registered is temporarily registered; a condition setting unit configured to set a condition used for updating the temporarily registered document to a finally registered document; a condition determining unit configured to determine whether the finally registered document meets the condition set for the temporarily registered document in response to a request for updating the temporarily registered document to the finally registered document; and an updating unit configured to update the temporarily registered document to the finally registered document in accordance with the request if the condition determining unit determines that the finally registered document meets the condition.

Data processing apparatus, method of registering electronic document, and computer program

This invention has as its object to easily verify alterations etc. of files stored in a folder. To achieve this object, an information processing method of this invention is a method of applying hash processing to files stored in a folder, which includes a designation step of designating a folder; a first generation step (steps Sand S) of generating hash data for each of files included in the folder designated in the designation step; a second generation step (steps Sto S) of generating one multiplexed hash data by repeating multiplexing each of the hash data generated in the first generation step in turn according to a predetermined order; and a step (step S) of storing the multiplexed hash data in association with the folder designated in the designation step.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

In a facsimile system having a server device connected to a local-area network system, to which a plurality of client terminals are connected, and connected also to an ISDN and a pay-station telephone network, the server device performs communication with the pay-station telephone network and the plurality of client terminals, performs communication with the ISDN and the plurality of client terminals, and changes over communication between the ISDN and the pay-station telephone network in accordance with a command from each of the plurality of client terminals.

Facsimile system

An image processing apparatus and method are provided which permit cooperation of a plurality of image input/output units having image data input and/or output functions. The apparatus is connected to another device using a communication line, and receives image processing conditions from the other device. The apparatus processes image information transferred from the other device in accordance with the image processing conditions. When image processing is inexecutable under those conditions, the apparatus transmits executable image processing conditions in place of those received from the other device.

Image processing using received processing conditions

When a job is executed in an image processing apparatus, a user is recognized by inputting a user ID from an operation unit. When an abnormality such as interferes with execution of the job occurs, data indicative of avoidance countermeasures for each user or each type of abnormality stored in a memory is referred to and the plural avoidance countermeasures are displayed sequentially from the one that is most frequently executed, and an optimum one is selected. After that, the frequency data for the selected avoidance countermeasure is renewed.

Control apparatus for avoiding equipment abnormality

In an image retrieval apparatus, a desired image is recorded on a storage medium so as to correspond to an index image, and a recorded image is retrieved using an index image selected by the user. When recording an image on a storage medium or when retrieving an image from a storage medium, an index image can be assigned using a mark sheet on which a plurality of index images are printed. The image retrieval apparatus prints a mark sheet having a format corresponding to the number and the size of index images input by the user.

Image retrieval apparatus capable of printing a mark sheet for retrieval

An image filing apparatus includes a reading unit for reading an image of a mark sheet. The mark sheet has a plurality of index areas on each of which an index image representing index information for retrieving an image stored in a storage medium is to be printed, a plurality of check areas on each of which a check for assigning the corresponding one of the plurality of index areas is to be entered, and a drawing area for drawing an index image to be newly registered, and for outputting an image signal. The apparatus also includes a detector for detecting which check area has been checked based on the image signal from the reading unit, a registration unit for registering, in the index area corresponding to the check area detected by the detector the index image drawn in the drawing area, and a provision unit for providing the index image drawn in the drawing area as index information of an original to be read by the reading unit after the mark sheet.

Optical image indexed document filer

An image forming apparatus includes a unit for inputting image information from an external apparatus, a unit for forming an image on a recording medium, a unit for reading an original, a unit for detecting a jam of the recording medium, a unit for being manually operated by an operator, and a unit for controlling a recovery operation from a jammed state. The apparatus includes a first mode for forming an image corresponding to the input image information, and a second mode for forming a composite image by synthesizing the image corresponding to the input image information with an image of the original read by the reading unit. The control unit starts the recovery operation from the jammed state in response to release of the jam in the first mode, and starts the recovery operation from the jammed state in response to a manual operation of the operation unit by the operator after release of the jam in the second mode.

Composite-image forming apparatus with control of recovery operation

An image synthesizing apparatus includes a reading unit which reads an image of an original, and an input unit which inputs print data from an external apparatus. A first setting unit sets a synthesis mode for synthesizing image data output from the reading unit and the print data input from the input unit for recordation, and a second setting unit sets a number of pages of different print data to be synthesized in the synthesis mode. A control unit is adapted, when the synthesis mode is set by the first setting unit, to maintain the synthesis mode until the different print data of the number of pages set by the second setting unit is input by the input unit, and to cancel the synthesis mode after the different print data of the set number of pages has been input.

Image synthesizing apparatus for synthesizing an image of an original

An synthetic-image forming apparatus including: an interface for inputting image information from a computer; a scanner for inputting original document image information; an operation portion for inputting region information indicating a region in which images are synthesized; an operation portion for selecting a printer base mode in which the image information from the interface is synthesized onto outside of the region and image information from the scanner is synthesized onto inside of the region or a scanner base mode in which the image information from the interface is synthesized onto inside of the region and the image information from the scanner is synthesized onto outside of the region; image forming portion for synthesizing the image information from the interface and the image information from the scanner in accordance with the mode selected by the operation portion and the region information supplied from the operation portion and forming an image on a selected sheet in accordance with the synthesized image information; and a control portion that inhibits an image forming operation of the image forming portion if image size included in the image information supplied from the interface and size of the selected sheet do not coincide with each other in the printer base mode and that permits the image forming portion to start the image forming operation if the image size of the image information supplied from the interface and the size of the selected sheet do not coincide with each other in the scanner base mode.

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Yokohama, Japan

Ken Kuroda