Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Kasai

Akihiro Masukawa

Kosuke Ito

Shinji Fukunaga

Hiroshi Satomi

Atsushi Inoue

Jiro Izumi

Toshiyuki Noguchi

Kikuo Naito

Atsushi Furuta

Koichiro Tanaka

Satoshi Watanabe

Yosato Hitaka

Shigeyuki Mitani

Yoichi Matsuyama

Tomonobu Hiraishi

Makoto Tamari

Yasushi Higuma

Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether or not the image data has already been acquired by the second information processing apparatus, and information that pertains to the number of times of acquisition of the image data by the second information processing apparatus is managed, and whether or not unwanted image data is transferred to the second information processing apparatus, and whether or not image data illicitly leaks to the second information processing apparatus are monitored on the basis of the managed information. The first information processing apparatus (photo site) prepares required image data in accordance with the current state of a series of processes to be executed by the second information processing apparatus (print site), and passes it to the second information processing apparatus, thereby preventing the first information processing apparatus that saves image data from passing unwanted image data to the second information processing apparatus that processes image data.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium that stores program for implementing it to be readable by information processing apparatus and that program

The invention relates to printing print data and advertisement data and charging for the printing so that a printing fee is reduced in accordance with the printing of the advertisement data. A size of the advertisement data to be printed is input and the advertisement data and the input size are transmitted to a control apparatus. The control apparatus receives a print sheet size designation and output information, determines a layout which corresponds to a type of the output information, to secure an advertisement area for printing the advertisement data on the determined layout. The advertisement data is selected in accordance with the secured size in the layout, and at least one of a number of times of printing the advertisement data, a unit price of the advertisement data, print position settings of the advertisement data, a size adjusting method of the advertisement data, and an arrangement orientation of the advertisement data. Print data is then generated and a bar code indicating a print fee for printing of the output information, which is reduced in accordance with the advertisement data being printed, is added to the generated print data.

Information providing system and method therefor

An information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing an information providing program, which enable to extract actually desired information and appropriately extract information desired next, are provided. A predetermined code is input from a P service terminal (). A P service server () searches the first database for first information corresponding to the code and extracts the information. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, second information is searched for from the second database and extracted. The extracted second information is attached to the first information. The first information or the first information having the second information is returned to the P service terminal ().

Information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing information providing program

An information providing method of providing information to a user includes the steps of receiving a providing request of first information from the user, acquiring contents of the first information from a database, presenting to the user a charge which the user bears when the first information is provided in each of a plurality of information providing forms of the first information, receiving an information providing form selected by the user, and processing the contents of the first information and providing the contents to the user in accordance with the selected information providing form.

Information providing method and information providing system

A portable terminal apparatus for communicating with an external device by a cable or radio has a means for selectively sending, to the external device, an information identification code loaded from the external device by the cable or radio.

Portable terminal apparatus and terminal apparatus

A printing control system has a contents provider and a printout service provider connected via a network. The contents provider comprises a device for generating viewing screens, a device for generating a conditions settings screen from printout information and service information obtained from a printout service provider, a device for generating a confirmation screen for setting the conditions, and a device for transmitting the contents selected with the viewing screen, and the printout service provider comprises a device for transmitting the service information, and a device for generating printing data from the contents provided from the contents provider. This provides contents providers with contents providing means other than downloading data, and users with services for various printing forms other than home-use printers.

Printing control device and printing control method, printing control system, and recording medium

This invention is to make it unnecessary for a user to input all codes for identifying information, and reduce cumbersomeness and input error in code input. For example, to generate a code that means predetermined processing such as acquisition of specific information or acquisition of specific mail data, a user inputs, through a service terminal, a number section predetermined for the information to be acquired. The service terminal automatically generates the code of a classification section and attaches it to the number section input by the user. The number section and classification section, which are integrated, are output to a service server as a code.

Code generation method, terminal apparatus, code processing method, issuing apparatus, and code issuing method

In an information registration method of assigning a code to information and registering the information, information, a predetermined code assigned to the information, the first valid dates of the predetermined code, and the second valid dates of the information which are linked to each other are registered. This information registration method prevents any disadvantage due the valid dates of information having a code.

Information registration method, information management method, information registration apparatus, information management apparatus, and storage medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Kasai