Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Motoki Koshigaya

Tsunahito Nakashita

Tatsuya Ogawa

Manabu Hada

Tsutomu Kubota

Hidetaka Tabuchi

Koichi Ito

Akitomo Fukui

Shintaro Okamura

An information processing apparatus includes a sterilization unit that performs sterilization with an ultraviolet light source a part of the information processing apparatus that is operated on, a management unit that manages lifetime information corresponding to a product lifetime of the ultraviolet light source and usage information corresponding to an irradiation time and an irradiation output of the ultraviolet light source, and a control unit that controls the ultraviolet light source in a first control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a first irradiation time and a first irradiation output or in a second control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a second irradiation time shorter than the first irradiation time and a second irradiation output higher than the first irradiation output.

Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus including at least one unit that receives a user operation, the information processing apparatus includes an ultraviolet irradiation device that performs disinfection processing for disinfecting at least a part of the at least one unit, an operation unit including a display that provides notification to a user, and a controller, wherein during the disinfection processing for the at least a part of the at least one unit, the controller causes the operation unit to provide notification to the user not to touch the information processing apparatus.

An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit for receiving an instruction given by a user, and according to receipt of a request of a print-and-delivery job from an external apparatus, performs print processing to produce a print and passes the produced print to a print delivery apparatus that delivers a print to a designated delivery destination. A controller controls an order of execution of jobs. In a state in which a print-and-delivery job has been registered in a job queue of the image forming apparatus, in a case where an instruction for executing a predetermined job which cannot be processed in parallel with the print-and-delivery job is received from the operation unit, the controller performs predetermined job priority control for causing the predetermined job to be preferentially executed.

Image forming apparatus that produces print for delivery, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus performs printing based on a print job and receives a completion notification from an automatic printed material delivery apparatus. Based on receipt of the completion notification, the image forming apparatus transmits a receipt acknowledgement request to a personal computer (PC) corresponding to a user (a requested user or a designated user) based on the job. Further, the image forming apparatus receives, from the PC, an acknowledgement notification based on a user operation performed on the PC in connection with the receipt acknowledgement request. In response to receipt of the acknowledgement notification, the image forming apparatus registers information indicating that the printed material has been received by the user based on the job as a job log of the job.

Image forming apparatus, printer driver, and system for outputting a printed material based on a print job

A coupling structure is provided in an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and constituted to couple a first sheet metal and a second sheet metal having an insulative layer on a surface of a metal layer, respectively. The coupling structure includes a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion and a coupling portion. The metal layer of the first conductive portion is exposed by the insulative layer being exfoliated by laser working in the first sheet metal. The metal layer of the second conductive portion is exposed by the insulative layer being exfoliated by laser working in the second sheet metal. The coupling portion couples the first sheet metal and the second sheet metal in a state in which at least a part of the first conductive portion and at least a part of the second conductive portion are contacted with each other.

Coupling structure of sheet metals in image forming apparatus

A communication system includes a communication apparatus and a communication terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with each other, wherein the communication terminal includes a first wireless communication interface configured to support a Bluetooth® standard and include a single antenna, and wherein the communication apparatus includes a second wireless communication interface configured to support the Bluetooth® standard and include a plurality of antennas, and includes one or more controllers configured to function as a unit configured to obtain angle information and field intensity information based on a result of reception of radio waves, by the plurality of antennas, transmitted from the single antenna; and a unit configured to transmit an establishment request for wireless communication based on the Bluetooth® standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface based on a fact that the angle information and the field intensity information satisfy a predetermined condition.

Communication system using wireless communication, communication apparatus, and control method

In a communication system including a communication apparatus and a communication terminal which are able to perform wireless communication with each other, the communication apparatus includes a first wireless communication interface conforming to a Bluetooth standard and including a plurality of antennas, and the communication terminal includes a second wireless communication interface conforming to the Bluetooth standard and one or more controllers configured to acquire angle information and radio field intensity information based on a result of a plurality of radio waves respectively emitted from the plurality of antennas having been received by the second wireless communication interface, and, in response to the angle information and the radio field intensity information having satisfied a predetermined condition, transmit a request for establishment of wireless communication conforming to the Bluetooth standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface.

Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method using wireless communication

An apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a user of information, and a controller configured to identify at least one unit based on an operation performed by the user among a plurality of units included in the apparatus, wherein the notification unit can notify the user of first information indicating the identified at least one unit and second information regarding disinfection of the identified at least one unit.

Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to make communication settings with ease. A mobile terminal as the information processing apparatus includes a Bluetooth controller that causes a Bluetooth communication section to receive a packet, a CPU that generates a device list, based on the packet, a display section that displays the device list. The CPU selects a device from the device list based on a received radio field intensity of the packet or selects a device from the device list based on a selection operation by a user. The mobile terminal further includes a wireless LAN controller that cause a wireless LAN communication section to transmit data to the selected device.

Information processing apparatus enabling communication settings to be made with ease, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium

A communication system includes a communication apparatus and a communication terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with each other, wherein the communication terminal includes a first wireless communication interface configured to support a Bluetooth&#xae; standard and include a single antenna, and wherein the communication apparatus includes a second wireless communication interface configured to support the Bluetooth&#xae; standard and include a plurality of antennas, and includes one or more controllers configured to function as a unit configured to obtain angle information and field intensity information based on a result of reception of radio waves, by the plurality of antennas, transmitted from the single antenna; and a unit configured to transmit an establishment request for wireless communication based on the Bluetooth&#xae; standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface based on a fact that the angle information and the field intensity information satisfy a predetermined condition.

To make is possible to use a peripheral device that consumes a current exceeding the rated current allocated to each port in a simpler system configuration in an electronic apparatus having a plurality of external interfaces. The electronic apparatus includes: a power source unit configured to supply a current to the external interfaces included in the electronic apparatus; a first power source control unit configured to guarantee a total current supplied for the two or more external interfaces and to perform current supply control for a specific external interface; and a second power source control unit configured to perform current supply control for the other external interfaces other than the specific external interface of the plurality of external interfaces by taking a current output from the first power source control unit as an input, and by the second power source control unit suspending current supply for the other external interfaces, the first power source control unit increases a current that can be supplied for the specific external interface.

Electronic apparatus and control method of electronic apparatus

A communication device communicates with an external apparatus including first and second Near Field Communication (NFC) circuits. The communication device includes a display configured to display information, a third NFC circuit, and a controller configured to cause display of first and second screens that prompt a user to carry out an operation for starting NFC communication. The first screen is displayed in a state in which the third NFC circuit is not permitted to perform specified communication with the first NFC circuit but is permitted to perform specified communication with the second NFC circuit, and the second screen is displayed in a state in which the third NFC circuit is permitted to perform specified communication with the first NFC circuit but is not permitted to perform specified communication with the second NFC circuit.

Information processing apparatus that executes a desired wireless communication, control method of information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An email requesting an attached file to be printed is received from an email server. In the case where printing of the attached file of the received email has not been completed, an error notification indicating that the printing has not been completed is sent to the email server as a reply to the received email.

Information processing apparatus, printing system, error notification method, and storage medium storing program thereof

A print server receives an email, which has been transmitted from a mobile terminal device and in which a printer is designated as the print output destination for an attached file to the email, from a mail server, stores the received email in a storage unit, and executes print processing of print data for the attached file to the email. The print server manages the email and identification information about a reply mail in association with each other and transmits the reply mail to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device provides a reprint instruction for the attached file by replying the email. The print server performs print processing of the attached file to an email managed in association with the identification information about the reply mail included in the replied email.

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Saitama, Japan

Motoki Koshigaya