Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Koshi Fukazawa

Masaaki Hibino

Kiyotaka Ohara

Hideki Nogawa

Akihiro Furukawa

Yohei Maekawa

Naoki Otsuka

Po Chun Chew

Atsushi Kojima

Hideto Matsumoto

Takahiro Ikeno

Sadaaki Miyazaki

Sunao Kawai

Takao Seki

A non-transitory storage medium stores a plurality of instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The plurality of instructions cause the information processing apparatus to execute first setup processing of allowing a particular port of a plurality of communication ports to be used by software used for communicating with a particular device through a communication interface. Before the first setup processing is executed, the plurality of instructions cause the information processing apparatus to execute determination processing of determining whether the first setup processing is executable for the particular port or not. When it is determined that the first setup processing is not executable for the particular port, the plurality of instructions causes the information processing apparatus to execute second setup processing of setting up the particular port as the communication port for which the first setup processing is executable.

Non-transitory storage medium storing plurality of instructions readable by computer of information processing apparatus and information processing apparatus

When receiving a sheet size measurement instruction through a user interface, an information processing apparatus transmits a width measurement instruction to a printer through a communication I/F. When receiving a measurement result of a sheet width from the printer, a controller extracts sheet information that meets the received measurement result and displays the extracted sheet information for user selection. When a user selection is received, the controller updates a print setting with selected sheet information. When a user selection is not received, the controller transmits a type-designated measurement instruction designating the sheet type. When the measurement result is received, the controller updates the print setting with a sheet length information included in the received measurement result.

Printer for determining appropriate printing medium

A set of program instructions, when executed by a computer of an information-processing device, causes the computer to perform: detecting; and registering. The detecting detects, after first print queue information is registered, second print queue information being registered. The first print queue information includes a first print queue name, a first print setting, and a first port ID. The first print queue name is based on a printer name acquired via a plug-and-play process for a printer connected to a first port. The second print queue information includes a second print queue name, a second print setting, and a second port ID. The second print queue name is based on the printer name and different from the first print queue name. The registering registers, in response to the detecting, third print queue information including the printer name, the first print setting, and the second port ID.

Information-processing device registering print queue information including print setting on memory

In an information-processing device, a controller executes a storage process to store a command program in the memory, and an acquisition process to acquire a plurality of pieces of identification information identifying respective ones of a plurality of devices detected by the wireless communication interface. The controller executes a determination process to determine a display style according to prescribed criteria for each of the plurality of pieces of identification information, and a display process to display on the display the plurality of pieces of identification information in respective ones of the plurality of display styles, and a setup process in response to receiving selection of at least a piece of identification information via the user interface. The setup process is to enable the command program to output commands to a device identified by each of the selected at least a piece of identification information via the wireless communication interface.

Information-processing device determining display style for displaying identification information

A composite service providing system including a plurality of network electronic devices communicatively connected with each other. The plurality of network electronic devices includes electronic devices, each of which is capable of providing at least one service. A plurality of services provided by a plurality of electronic devices are combined to constitute a composite service. The composite service providing system further includes a composite service designating system that designates a composite service to be provided, an electronic device determining system that determines an electronic device that provides each of a plurality of services necessary for providing the composite service designated with the composite service designating system, and a controlling system that control the electronic devices determined by the electronic device determining system to provide the services so that the composite service designated by the designating system is provided.

Composite service providing system

An image processing apparatus includes an indicator display unit that displays an indicator for specifying a selection region. The selection region has a quadrilateral shape defined by a third pair of parallel sides and a fourth pair of parallel sides, which are substantially in parallel with a first pair of parallel sides and a second pair of parallel sides of an image displayed on a display screen, respectively. The indicator indicates positions of the third pair and movably displayed in parallel with the second while the parallel sides of the third pair are retained at a predetermined distance. A position of the third pair is determined in accordance with a decided position of the indicator, and a position of the fourth pair is determined to substantially coincide with the second pair of the image. Image data corresponding to the determined selection region is selected as selected image data.

Image processing apparatus and computer program product

An image forming apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a file stored in a storage medium, an expansion unit that expands the acquired file, an expansion control unit that controls the expansion unit to skip expanding of unexpanded data that is found to be impossible to expand from the file and to continue the expanding of the file, and a print unit that executes printing in accordance with expanded data from the file.

Image forming apparatus for replacing page data expressed by unsupported format

In each of personal computers, information concerning an application software to process image data sent to a scanner is received. A dialog box is displayed and a user entry is made as to whether transmission is permitted or not. When transmission is rejected by the user, a notice of the rejection of transmission is given to the scanner. When transmission is permitted by the user, the application software is started and a notice of the permission of transmission is given to the scanner. Then, image data is received from the scanner and processed by the started application software.

Image data processing system, image data generating apparatus, terminal equipment and program product

Composite service providing system for a plurality of communicatively connected electronic devices

An imaging system is provided with an authentication data storage that stores a plurality of pieces of authentication data in relationship to user IDs respectively representing owners of the plurality of communication devices. Further included is a reading system that reads out one of the plurality of pieces of the authentication data corresponding to a user ID if the user ID is transmitted from the external device in relationship to the image data, and a searching system searches for a communication device with which a connection authentication is established using the authentication data read out by the reading system within a predetermined communication area with respect to the imaging system. An imaging system forms an image represented by the image data transmitted in relationship to the user ID from the external device when the communication device is detected by the searching system.

Printing system

A communication system includes a computer and a device. The computer includes a signal transmission unit to output a signal by wireless communication in accordance with a first wireless setting, and a setting data sending unit to transmit a second wireless setting data to the device in accordance with the first wireless setting. The device includes a detection unit to detect the signal output while changing a wireless setting for the device, a replying unit to return identification data corresponding to the source of the signal in accordance with a wireless setting used after detection of the signal, a receiving unit to receive the second wireless setting data in accordance with the wireless setting used after detection of the signal, after the replying unit transmits the identification data, and a setting unit makes the wireless setting in accordance with the second wireless setting data.

Wireless communication system for exchanging signals between computer and device and computer and device used in such system

A data transmission/reception system provides the recipient of image data with flexible options for handling the image data. The system transmits notification mail to a cellular phone owned by the recipient when transmitting facsimile data from a transmitting facsimile machine to a receiving facsimile machine. The recipient transmits a command from the cellular phone indicating how the facsimile data received by the receiving facsimile machine should be handled. In response to the command received from the cellular phone, the receiving facsimile machine either forms an image based on the facsimile data on paper or forwards the facsimile data to another facsimile machine near the recipient. Accordingly, the recipient can transmit a forwarding command instructing the receiving facsimile machine to transmit the facsimile data to a facsimile machine nearby when the recipient is in a remote location, thereby enabling the recipient to view an image based on the facsimile data at any time.

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Nagoya, Japan

Koshi Fukazawa