Seiko Epson Corporation

Kikuo Ueno

Kenji Sakuda

Haruki Mine

Ryo Morihira

An electronic device includes a touch panel, an operation section that receives an operation, an NW communicator that communicates with a server device, a storage storing firmware, and a controller. After update information providing a notification of an update to the firmware has been received from the server device, the controller causes an update guidance icon providing a notification of a firmware update to be displayed on a home screen when the home screen is displayed on the touch panel. The home screen is displayed if the time period during which no operation is received by the operation section is greater than a predetermined time period.

Electronic device, image forming apparatus, and method for controlling electronic device

A multifunction peripheral includes a control unit that, when a registered user is using the multifunction peripheral, causes an operation panel to display information concerning an optional function that can be added to the multifunction peripheral, receives, with the operation panel, an evaluation of the user for the optional function, when receiving, with a communication I/F, an acquisition request for an evaluation for the optional function, generates an evaluation result obtained by aggregating evaluations of a plurality of registered users, and transmits the generated evaluation result to a transmission source of the acquisition request.

Information management method and image forming apparatus for obtaining evaluation of user for optional function of the image forming apparatus

A display apparatus includes an operation panel and a controller configured to control display of the operation panel. The controller is configured to cause a first button, a second button, and a display area for displaying a numerical value received by a first operation on one or both of the first button and the second button to be displayed on the operation panel. In response to receiving a second operation on the first button or the second button, the controller is configured to change the amount of change in the numerical value to be received by the first operation.

Display apparatus, image forming apparatus, and display control method

A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, a first displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, and a customized information processing step of enabling customized information corresponding to the customized printing screen to be confirmed after printing, when an execution instruction by a user is received during displaying the customized printing screen.

Printing method, information processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

A recording medium storing a computer program that causes a computer to control a multifunctional machine having a copy function and a scan function and causes the computer to execute a process, the process including receiving a setting of a copy gesture corresponding to the copy function, receiving a setting of a scan gesture corresponding to the scan function, broadcasting to users who are permitted to use the copy function a message including the copy gesture such that the users can recognize the copy gesture, broadcasting to users who are permitted to use the scan function a message including the scan gesture such that the users can recognize the scan gesture, and causing the multifunctional machine to execute control such that, when the copy gesture is received, the multifunctional machine performs copying and, when the scan gesture is received, the multifunctional machine performs scanning is configured.

Recording medium storing control program and electronic device for controlling use of function

An output product producing method includes acquiring output information, specifying an output condition for an output section, converting the output information into a code having an error-correction amount corresponding to the output condition, and causing the output section to output an output product including the code under the output condition.

Method of producing output product by outputting appropriate code corresponding to output condition, and storage medium storing code conversion program

An authentication apparatus in a multifunction peripheral is configured to display, in a screen, an account field and a password field so as to allow an input, inhibit an input in the account field before an input is made in the password field, mask a letter inputted in the password field, and restrict a letter string including a same letter that has been inputted in the password field, from being inputted in the account field.

Authentication apparatus and authentication program

Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a plurality of keys in which the character types of input candidate characters are switched using a toggle input method and a key control unit that changes an initial value of the character type of an input candidate character in the toggle input method to the character type of the character that is input and confirmed already when an arbitrary key among the plurality of keys is pressed.

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Nagano, Japan

Kikuo Ueno