Kyocera Mita Corporation

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kura Corporation Ltd.

Kura Sushi, Inc.

Kunihiko Tanaka

Hiroshi Yokota

Shinji Hayashi

Seiki Satomi

Masaki Miyashita

Masataka Takemura

Hidetoshi Nakamura

Ariyoshi Hikosaka

Daisuke Hashimoto

Yoshiaki Yasui

Hideya Muramoto

Kazuma Tanaka

Tadanori Sugimoto

Toshiaki Takeguchi

Seiji Ataka

Tomohiro Kuwahara

Makoto Tanaka

Naoyuki Sugiyama

A restaurant management system manages a restaurant. The restaurant management system includes: a conveying path that extends along seats for customers in the restaurant and conveys an item; an event execution device that is conveyed on the conveying path in the restaurant and performs an event on the conveying path; and an event control unit that controls the event execution device to perform the event in response to a request by a customer. The event execution device includes a display device that displays a particular image. The event control unit executes an event start step of controlling the display device that is conveyed on the conveying path to display the particular image, as the event, on the conveying path when the event execution device reaches a seat for which the event is to be performed.

Restaurant management system and restaurant management method

A connector connects two containers to each other, each of the two containers being configured to house a plate on which a food or a drink is placed and being conveyed on a conveying path. The connector includes: a pair of attachment portions each of which is attached to a respective one of the two containers; and a connecting portion that is configured to connect the attachment portions to each other. The connecting portion has a length so that a display member that presents a display visible to a customer is attached to the connecting portion.

Connector

The present invention provides a food and/or beverage item counting device to be provided in a food and/or beverage item provision system including a transport path that passes along a customer table to transport carriers each configured to allow a food and/or beverage item to be placed thereon, the food and/or beverage item counting device including: a first information acquiring unit disposed upstream of the table and configured to acquire information relating to each of the carriers on the transport path; a second information acquiring unit disposed downstream of the table and configured to acquire information relating to each of the carriers on the transport path; and a first calculating unit configured to calculate the number of the food and/or beverage items taken out from the transport path to the table, wherein each of the carriers is provided with identification information for identifying the carrier.

Food and/or beverage item counting device

A system includes: an entrance accepting unit configured to accept a seat-waiting request from a customer and store the request as acceptance information; a vacant seat processing unit configured to set any seat among a plurality of seats that has become vacant, as a vacant seat in association with seat information relating to the seat; a seat setting unit configured to associate the seat-waiting information with seat information relating to a vacant seat in a predetermined order under a predetermined condition when any seat among the seats for customers has been set as the vacant seat by the vacant seat processing unit; and a start setting unit configured to record eating and/or drinking start information that indicates start of eating and/or drinking in association with the seat information upon the acceptance information being associated with the seat information by the seat setting unit.

Food and drink provision system

The present invention provides a housing body that is to house a container on which a food and/or beverage item is to be placed and that is to be transported along a transport path, the housing body including: a placement table having a placement position where the container is to be placed; a lid body that is attached to the placement table so as to be openable and closable; an opening/closing mechanism for causing the lid body to transition to a closed state when the container is placed at the placement position of the placement table, and causing the lid body to transition to an open state when the container is moved away from the placement position; and an operation portion for moving the container away from the placement position.

Housing body

The present invention is an attachment configured to be attached to a hot-water supply faucet including a nozzle portion that has a discharge outlet that is open downward, and a press button that is disposed below the discharge outlet and horizontally rearward of the discharge outlet, with hot water being discharged from the discharge outlet when the press button is pressed rearward, the attachment including: an attachment body; and a fixing means for fixing the attachment body to the hot-water supply faucet, wherein the attachment body includes: a fulcrum portion that is attachable to the nozzle portion; a body portion extending downward from the fulcrum portion; and a support portion that is attached to a lower end portion of the body portion, wherein the body portion is formed so as to extend downward past a front surface of the press button, and when the support portion is pressed by a vessel into which hot water is to be poured, the attachment body is configured to pivot and press the press button with the fulcrum portion serving as a fulcrum.

Attachment and hot-water supply device provided with the same

An image reading apparatus includes: a conveyance portion configured to convey a first medium; a first imaging portion; a first reading processing portion configured to cause the first imaging portion to read a first image of a first reading surface of the first medium conveyed by the conveyance portion; a second imaging portion; a second reading processing portion configured to cause the second imaging portion to read a second image of the second reading surface of the second medium by scanning while the second imaging portion is being moved along a second reading surface of a second medium placed on a medium placement surface; a reading control portion configured to control the first reading processing portion and the second reading processing portion to operate in parallel with each other; and a synthesis processing portion configured to generate a synthesized image by synthesizing the first image and the second image.

Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus comprising a first imaging portion and a second imaging potion that are caused to read first and second sides of a medium in parallel to generate a synthesized image including first image and second image read from a first imaging portion and a second imaging portion

An image processing apparatus includes a still image data creation unit and a still image data extraction unit. The still image data extraction unit calculates a first feature value of the sampling target still image data, determines whether the sampling target still image data is first extraction target still image data as an extraction target based on the first feature value, and calculates a second feature value of adjacent still image data. The adjacent still image data are a plurality of still image data in a range preset in time series of the first extraction target still image data. The still image data extraction unit determines whether the adjacent still image data is second extraction target still image data as an extraction target or not based on the second feature value and extracts the first extraction target still image data and the second extraction target still image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

An image forming apparatus has a sheet reading portion, an assimilation surveying portion, a color changing portion, and a printing portion. The sheet reading portion reads image data from a transparent sheet tinted with a predetermined color owned by a user. The assimilation surveying portion looks for, out of printable colors, a particular color that assimilates to the color of the read image data. The color changing portion changes, out of the data of a predetermined document accepted from the user, the color of the data of a concealable character, which is a character concealed when overlaid with the transparent sheet, to the found particular color. The printing portion prints, out of the data of the document, the data of the concealable character in the particular color.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method that can print concealable characters in a particular color

An image forming apparatus includes a punch hole detection section, a position calculating section, an image adding section, and an image forming section. The punch hole detection section analyzes image data of a scan image obtained through scanning of an original document to detect two punch hole images. The position calculating section calculates a midpoint between the two punch hole images in the scan image when the two punch hole images are detected. The image adding section adds image data of a midpoint indicating image to the image data of the scan image so that the midpoint indicating image is added to the scan image at a position corresponding to the midpoint. The image forming section performs image formation on a sheet based on the image data of the scan image to which the image data of the midpoint indicating image has been added.

Apparatus and method for forming image obtained by adding midpoint indicating image to scan image on sheet

This image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit, an average-density calculation unit, a statistical processing unit, and a blank-page determination unit. The image reading unit reads an original image and outputs image data of the original image. The average-density calculation unit calculates an average density value of block image data for a plurality of block images, which are obtained by dividing the original image, based on the image data output from the image reading unit. The statistical processing unit determines a characteristic value of the average density value distribution associated with the block images. The blank-page determination unit determines whether or not the original image is a blank image based on the characteristic value determined by the statistical processing unit.

Image reading apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a determination section, acquisition section, generation section, notification section, and a management section. The determination section determines, when receiving a print job from a predetermined terminal apparatus via a network, whether or not the print job is a private print job. If the print job is a private print job, the acquisition section acquires, from another image forming apparatus coupled to the image forming apparatus to communicate with the image forming apparatus, information regarding the another image forming apparatus. The generation section generates a one time password on the basis of the acquired information. The notification section notifies the terminal apparatus of the generated one time password. The management section manages the generated one time password in association with the private print job and, when receiving the one time password from a user, executes the private print job associated with the one time password.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image processing apparatus displays a menu indicating one or more settings pertaining to image adjustment processing and a unique marker corresponding to a currently selected setting in the menu. A portable terminal detects the marker as depicted in a captured image that has been captured by an image capturing device and displays a screen indicating an effect of performing the image adjustment processing in accordance with a setting corresponding to the marker.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus and portable terminal configured to display an effect of performing image adjustment processing to image data in the image processing apparatus

An image processing device includes a mode instruction information obtaining section, a color determination threshold storage section, a mode determination section, and an automatic color determination threshold adjustment section. The mode determination section, using a color determination threshold, determines a mode to be a color mode when the image data belongs to a color mode range, and determines the mode to be a monochrome mode when the image data belongs to a monochrome mode range. The automatic color determination threshold adjustment section adjusts the color determination threshold so as to widen a mode range corresponding to the mode determined by the mode determination section, when the mode indicated by the instruction information obtained by the mode instruction information obtaining section is different from the mode determined by the mode determination section.

Image processing device, image forming apparatus, and image processing method

In a food management system for managing a food carried by a food plate carrier put on the conveyor line, the food plate carrier comprises a mounting platform having a plate resting portion for resting thereon a plate, and a cover for covering the plate resting portion, the cover being attached to the mounting platform in such a manner as to open and close with respect to the plate resting portion, and the food management system comprises an IC tag attached to the food plate carrier, a reader for reading data on the food from the IC tag, an open-close detector for detecting opening and closing of the cover of the food plate carrier, and a controller for computing data on the food, based on the data read by the reader and the data on the opening and closing of the cover detected by the open-close detector.

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Osaka, Japan

Kunihiko Tanaka