Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Mie Kawabata

Yoichi Kurumasa

Ryosuke Nishimura

Yoshiyuki Tamai

Mitsutaka Morita

Hiroshi Sugiura

Atsushi Tomita

Hideyuki Matsuda

Kazuhiro Tomiyasu

Shoko Haba

Jun Kunioka

Jun Shiraishi

Yuji Kawamura

Hiroyuki Ohno

Zhenhuan Qu

Shoji Imaizumi

Atsushi Kawai

Kentaro Nagatani

Tomoko Maruyama

Akira Murakawa

Toshihisa Motosugi

Toshimi Shinchi

Takashi Oikawa

Shinichi Asai

Tomokazu Kato

Takuya Okada

Takao Kurohata

Hideyuki Hashimoto

Hiroshi Iwamoto

Hiroaki Sugimoto

Toshiya Shozaki

Junichi Isamikawa

Yusuke Shinosaki

Masayuki Ito

Shohei Ichiyama

A moving image reproduction apparatus for reproducing a moving image for explaining a work including a plurality of steps, includes: a reproducer that reproduces the moving image; a progress display that displays an indicator indicating a progress of reproduction of the moving image and a position on the indicator where the moving image is being currently reproduced; and a candidate display that displays a candidate image corresponding to at least one jump destination included in the moving image when a predetermined operation is performed on the indicator.

Moving image reproduction apparatus, candidate jump destination display method, and computer program

An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feeding tray that stores a sheet; a sheet thickness measurement device that measures a sheet thickness of the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray; a hardware processor that: determines a type of the sheet of which the sheet thickness is measured, a sheet type associated with each of sheet thickness ranges, and the sheet thickness measured by the sheet thickness measurement device; and adjusts a first sheet thickness range to cause the first sheet thickness range to be expandable to at least one of an upper limit value side or a lower limit value side; and an image former that forms an image on the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray under image forming conditions corresponding to the sheet type determined by the hardware processor.

Image forming apparatus, sheet type determination method and program in the apparatus

An image forming apparatus displays part of function keys for menu items of basic functions so as to be stopped at a predetermined stop position. The image forming apparatus switches the function keys for menu items of basic functions to be displayed, by displaying another part of function keys for menu items of basic functions so as to be stopped at a predetermined stop position. When part of function keys for menu items of advanced functions are displayed so as to be arranged in a predetermined direction, the image forming apparatus accepts scroll operation and then moves the menu items of advanced functions by a distance decided based on the speed of the scroll operation.

Gesture-based menu scroll operation on a display apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feeding tray that stores a sheet; a sheet thickness measurement device that measures a sheet thickness of the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray; a hardware processor that: determines a type of the sheet of which the sheet thickness is measured, a sheet type associated with each of sheet thickness ranges, and the sheet thickness measured by the sheet thickness measurement device; and adjusts a first sheet thickness range by expanding the first sheet thickness range to at least one of an upper limit value side or a lower limit value side; and an image former that forms an image on the sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray under image forming conditions corresponding to the sheet type determined by the hardware processor.

An image processing apparatus capable of being remotely operated by a remote operation device includes an operation acceptor, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor executes a process corresponding to the operation accepted by the operation acceptor, in the case where a cooperation mode is set, executes a process in accordance with a command received from the remote operation device, acquires a type of a first medium used by the remote operation device, in the case where the cooperation mode is not set, notifies the user by using a second medium when an operation is accepted by the operation acceptor, and in the case where the cooperation mode is set, if the second medium is different from the first medium, notifies the user by using the first medium when an operation is accepted by the operation acceptor.

Remote control system method, and program for image processing apparatus

An information processing device of a cooperative system that further includes a portable device includes: a display that displays an image; a position detector that detects a position on a display surface of the display with which an object has made contact; and a hardware processor that detects the portable device in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact, establishes a communication path with the portable device, switches an independent mode not cooperating with the portable device to a cooperation mode cooperating with the portable device when a communication path with the portable device is established and the portable device is detected by the hardware processor, and displays a related image that is related to the portable device on the display in response to the hardware processor no longer detecting the portable device in the cooperation mode.

Cooperative system, information processing device, cooperation method, and cooperative program

An information processing apparatus includes: a display; a first processing unit; and a second processing unit, wherein the first processing unit includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first screen relating to first processing performed by the first processing unit to the second processing unit, the second processing unit includes a mounting section in which a peripheral device is mounted and a hardware processor, the hardware processor configured to: cause the display to selectively display either one of the first screen and a second screen relating to second processing performed by the second processing unit, and when the display displays the first screen, allow the peripheral device to be used for the first processing and, when the display displays the second screen, allow the peripheral device to be used for the second processing.

Information processing apparatus, peripheral device use method, and computer program

An information processing apparatus includes a display, a position detector that detects a position in a display surface of the display and a hardware processor. The hardware processor, in response to detection of the position with which an object has been in contact, detects a portable device; establishes a communication path with the portable device; detects a continuation state based on a state of the portable device or a state of the information processing apparatus; in the case where the communication path is established with the portable device, and the portable device is detected, switches to a cooperation mode; in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is detected, maintains the cooperation mode; and in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is not detected, switches from the cooperation mode to the single mode.

Cooperation system, information processing apparatus, cooperation method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with cooperation program

An image processing apparatus is provided. Firmware customized for a user who uses the image processing apparatus has been installed in advance in the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus has a hardware processor configured to monitor a condition of use of the image processing apparatus and determine whether or not the monitored condition of use is a condition of use adapted to the customized firmware, and to perform processing for updating to the latest standard firmware when it is determined that the monitored condition of use departs from the condition of use adapted to the customized firmware.

Image processing apparatus, distribution server, management server, and computer readable storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to switch a display mode of a menu screen for setting between a first display mode and a second display mode. On a menu screen of the first display mode, the controller (i) determines as display object function buttons a part of function buttons of a plurality of function buttons used to call up each of detailed settings screens each related to each of a plurality of functions provided in the image forming apparatus, (ii) displays the display object function buttons to be arranged in a row in a predetermined direction, and (iii) changes and displays the display object function buttons according to a scroll operation performed by a user. On a menu screen of the second display mode, the controller displays at least a part of function buttons of the plurality of function buttons to be arranged in a grid-like manner.

Image forming apparatus configured to display function setting buttons and switch display mode between first display mode and second display mode and image recording medium

A remote control apparatus for remotely controlling an image forming apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an operation screen for remotely controlling the image forming apparatus, an activation unit configured to activate a handwriting input application that is installed in the remote control apparatus in a state where image data for displaying a keyboard screen as the operation screen is received from the image forming apparatus, and a display control unit configured to display a handwriting input screen on the display unit, the handwriting input screen being an input screen for the handwriting input application activated by the activation unit.

Image forming system, image forming apparatus, remote control apparatus, and recording medium

An image forming apparatus capable of being remotely operated by a mobile terminal includes: a specification unit configured to specify an image to be displayed on the mobile terminal as an operation image for the image forming apparatus; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the number of display units of the mobile terminal; a decision unit configured to, when a plurality of images is specified as the operation images and the number of the display units of the mobile terminal is recognized as two or more, make a first decision that at least two of the plurality of images are to be displayed on at least two of the two or more display units of the mobile terminal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a display instruction based on the first decision to the mobile terminal.

Systems and methods for displaying remote operation screens of an image forming apparatus based on a configuration of display(s) of a mobile terminal

A hardware processor included in an image processing apparatus establishes a communication path with remote operation devices, selects one of the established communication paths as a valid path, executes a process in accordance with a remote operation command received via the valid path, in response to establishment of new communication paths different from the valid path, sets the new communication paths as waiting paths to which sequence numbers are supplied in a chronological order of establishment of the communication paths, determines whether a same waiting path to which a remote operation device that is the same as a remote operation device connected to the valid path is connected is present, and in the case where the same waiting path is present, in response to disconnection of the valid path, selects the same waiting path as a valid path regardless of the sequence numbers supplied to the waiting paths.

Communication path selection for remote control system of an image processing apparatus, remote control and communication path selection method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with remote control and communication path selection program

An image forming apparatus includes: a path establishing portion to establish a communication path with a remote operation device; an active device setting portion to set the remote operation device with which the communication path is established to be an active device; a process execution portion to execute a process in accordance with a remote operation received from the active device; and a standby device setting portion to, in response to a communication path being established with another remote operation device, set another remote operation device to be a standby device. The active device setting portion includes a sequential setting portion to, in response to detection of an end state in which no remote operation is received from the active device, set the standby device to be an active device.

Image forming apparatus, remote control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with remote control program

An image forming apparatus includes a display and a touch panel, and is provided with a normal mode in which processing is performed every time operation is performed with the touch panel and a play back mode in which processing is performed on the basis of recording of the operation, and the image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a gesture represented by a series of touch events, store gesture log data and touch event log data to a storage unit, and determine display control processing. In the normal mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture or an object. In the play back mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture log data or the touch event log data. The determined display control processing is executed.

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