Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Masaru Ohba

Akihiro Miyazaki

Naoki Oikawa

Munehisa Fuda

Yoichi Nishida

Yasunori Sato

Masanobu Yoshida

Ryuhei Waragai

Yukihiko Natsui

Takayuki Ejima

Tsuyoshi Sawamoto

Yusaku Matsumoto

An image forming apparatus includes a sheet bundle housing unit that houses recording sheets piled as a sheet bundle; a swing member having a sheet contact portion on one end side, and swinging between a projection position at which the sheet contact portion projects above a sheet placement surface of the housing unit and a non-projection position at which the sheet contact portion does not project above the sheet placement surface, the swing member moving from the projection position to the non-projection position by the sheet bundle; a sheet detection unit that detects the sheet bundle in the housing unit using the swing member; and an interlocking mechanism that moves the swing member to the non-projection position, regardless of presence or absence of the sheet bundle in the housing unit, by interlocking with the housing unit being pulled out from an apparatus body.

Image forming apparatus

It is an object of the present invention to provide a contents reproducing device which can perform an intermittent operation with improved responsiveness to user request. The contents reproducing device according to the present invention includes: an input operation unit (), a system state managing unit (), a system information storing unit (), a contents reproduction control unit (A) (), a state after next candidate extracting unit (), a contents reproduction control determining unit (), and a contents reproducing unit (). The contents reproduction control determining unit () determines whether or not a candidate related to the contents reproduction control is in the state after next candidates extracted by the state after next candidate extracting unit (). Therefore, the contents reproducing device according to the present invention can improve responsiveness to the user request by shortening the cycle of the intermittent operation of the contents reproducing unit () when it is determined that there is a possibility that a user request related to the contents reproduction control is inputted, and by lengthening the cycle of the intermittent operation of the contents reproducing unit () when it is determined that there is no possibility that a user request related to the contents reproduction control is inputted.

Contents reproducing device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masaru Ohba