Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyota Mitsuyama

Kentaro Okamoto

Koji Ikawa

Ayaka Ikejima

Takashi Murakami

Masato Hirota

Katsuji Furushige

Makoto Kowaka

Yosuke Nakazato

Minoru Takahashi

Tomonori Naota

Tomihito Doi

Daijiro Kitamoto

Satoshi Imai

Wataru Tsukuda

Wataru Endo

Akira Yuki

A firmware update system according to an embodiment is characterized in that the firmware update system, when a target application is installed on an image forming apparatus on which first firmware is installed, installs second firmware that is compatible with the target application, and installs the first firmware on the image forming apparatus when the target application in uninstalled from the image forming apparatus.

Firmware update system, electronic apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon firmware update program

In an alternative print system, in case where an error making printing impossible occurs when an image forming device receives print data, the image forming device requests an alternative print as printing by an alternative device as an alternative image forming device of the image forming device itself to a print management system. When the alternative print is requested from the image forming device to the print management system, the print management system determines all of image forming devices included in one of the combination of the image forming devices to provide total printing speed equal to or higher than the printing speed of the image forming device that requests the alternative print to the print management system with the minimum number, and transmits the print data for the alternative print to the determined alternative device.

Alternative print system, print management system included therein, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for storing print management program to determine alternative image forming device for alternative print

An electronic apparatus includes a control portion () including: an installation portion () that associates the user who performs installation with the installed program; and a program use control portion () that permits all users to use a first installed program associated with a first user and permit a second user and a third user who attempts to install a second installed program associated with the second user to use the second installed program. When the third user who is a user other than an administrator attempts to install an application program that the third user is not permitted to use, if the application program is the second installed program, the installation portion () does not perform installation and causes the program use control portion () to permit the third user to use the second installed program.

Electronic apparatus

Provided is an image forming apparatus having a control circuit. The control circuit includes a standard application execution circuit, an apparatus control platform, and a standard application control circuit. The standard application execution circuit has the standard application execution service that executes a standard application. The apparatus control platform includes control service, apparatus control execution service, and an apparatus control management service. The control service controls hardware on an operating system. The apparatus control execution service executes the control service with an interface that is an executing procedure of the control service. The apparatus control management service instructs a call of the control service to the apparatus control execution service. The standard application control circuit manages a state of the standard application and provides an interface for using the hardware resources of the standard application execution service.

Image forming apparatus, method and recording medium that execute standard application to control hardware resources

Provided is an image formation device with which expanded is easy and the development cost can be reduced. A device control platform manages hardware resource in an operating system. A standard application service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing a standard application function from outside of a standard application execution unit. A platform service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing hardware resource from the outside of the device control platform. A standard function service enables the use of the standard application functions corresponding to the standard application service interface unit. An expanded function service enables the use of the hardware resource corresponding to the platform service interface unit. An expanded application management unit manages and executes expanded applications capable of calling the standard function service and the expanded function service.

Image formation device which can be expanded and image forming method for expanding an image formation device

An image forming system includes a print device, a print job accepting circuit, an interrupt permission circuit, and a distance acquisition circuit. The interrupt permission circuit permits the interrupt print with a count of paper sheets equal to or less than a count of printable sheets printed by the print device within an interruptible time that ensures execution of the interrupt print, within an acceptable extension time by which an extension of completion time of the interrupted print job is accepted. The interrupt permission circuit calculates the acceptable extension time based on a remaining count of printed sheets of the print job to be interrupted. The interrupt permission circuit calculates the interruptible time by at least reducing an arrival time taken to arrive at the printer for the requester arrives at the print device based on a distance acquired by the distance acquisition circuit from the acceptable extension time.

Image forming system that appropriately permits interrupt print, and recording medium

A cue point control apparatus used for capturing a display apparatus includes a control unit and a motion detecting unit. The control unit sets a marker while capturing, as a moving image, a presentation performed with displaying an image on a screen of the display apparatus. The motion detecting unit detects a motion of a user performing the presentation. When the control unit determines a set first motion of the user for the marker setting by the detected motion, the control unit sets a temporal marker in a frame of the moving image at a time when determining the first motion during the capturing.

Cue point control apparatus and recording medium that facilitate search of cue point during playback

Provided is the image forming apparatus, image formation method, and recording medium, which make unnecessary a change of the function in the side of a whole apparatus control platform, when the addition (extension) of the function of application is needed. Image processing service I/F, device operation service I/F, and network communication service I/F of a platform service I/F part are independent, without cooperating, respectively. Then, image processing service, device operation service, and network communication service of each part controlling service are called. That is calling a control service providing part of each part controlling service corresponding to the request from the standard application, directly, by each control service call part.

Image forming apparatus, image formation method, and recording medium that execute application

Provided is an image forming device includes a control circuit having (1) a device control platform managing a hardware resource on an operating system, (2) a standard application execution part executing a standard application utilizing the hardware resource under the control of the device control platform, (3) an extended application platform with a standard function service that allows for a utilization of a function of the standard application executed by the standard application execution part, and (4) an install service adding, without having to change a configuration of a standard firmware, an interface in order to cope with a function that is not available and allowing for utilization thereof.

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Kyota Mitsuyama