Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Naohiko Kubo

Yuka Saito

Hiroya Uruta

Nobuyuki Iwata

Naritake Kondoh

Takahiro Hirakawa

Naruhiko Ogasawara

Daisuke Masui

Satoshi Miyazaki

Daisuke Okada

Yutaka Matsumoto

Hiroshi Gotoh

Hiroshi Baba

Masahiro Hayashi

Yasuyuki Igarashi

Hideaki Matsui

Yusuke Kudo

Tomoyuki Takahira

Takeshi Yoshizumi

Kohji Yamamoto

Takayuki Inoue

Nobuhiro Shindo

Zentaroh Ono

Naoya Tamura

Mari Tatezono

Wataru Naya

An output system includes circuitry to generate information on a character string in response to an authentication request including user identification information transmitted from an output apparatus. The circuitry further transmits the information on the character string to an information processing device. In response to receiving the information on the character string and the user identification information from the output apparatus that has received the information on the character string and the user identification information from the information processing device, the circuitry further performs authentication for a user identified by the user identification information, based on the information on the character string and the user identification information, and transmits an authentication result to the output apparatus.

Output system, information processing system, including circuitry to generate a character string to perform authentication for a user, and authentication method

An information processing system includes a program and an output system. The program causes an information processing device to function as a first communication unit configured to transmit, to the output system, an output request of data, and to receive, from the output system, identification information for identifying the output request of the data. The output system includes a processing control unit configured to acquire the identification information issued for the output request of the data in response to the output request from the information processing device, a second communication unit configured to transmit, to the information processing device, the identification information acquired by the processing control unit, and a third communication unit configured to transmit, to an output device, the data acquired from a storage destination associated with the identification information, upon receiving from the output device the output request of the data with the identification information being designated.

Information processing system and method for processing data output requests and identification information

An information processing apparatus manages multiple users who operate respective communication terminals to participate in a meeting held in a virtual place. The information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor, and is configured to execute managing a participating user who participates in the meeting, based on a notice from a communication terminal operated by the participating user, the notice using a unique identifier for the virtual place, and the unique identifier being unique among identifiers respectively assigned to multiple virtual places; generating data for displaying a web page in a web browser of the communication terminal operated by the participating user; and transmitting the generated data to the communication terminal operated by the participating user, wherein the managing determines whether all participating users have exited the meeting based on notices from the multiple communication terminals, to end the meeting.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to display, on a display, a first display area used for displaying an image shared with a plurality of devices as a shared image, and a second display area used for receiving a user input; and switch a display mode of the shared image based on a user operation of changing a display style of the second display area.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

A content server manages contents used in one or more events. The server includes one or more memories that store, for each one of one or more participants of an event, one or more capture images, each capture image being an image of particular content of a plurality of contents used in the event and having been captured to a personal terminal of the participant during the event in response to an operation to capture the image of the particular content to the personal terminal. The server further includes circuitry configured to transmit distinction information distinguishing each capture image to a particular information processing terminal.

Content server, information sharing system, communication control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores an application and a module related to an operation of the application, and circuitry configured to detect a difference between a first character string included in a first file associated with the application and a second character string included in a second file associated with the module as difference information, the second character string corresponding to the first character string, transmit the difference information indicating the detected difference to a server, and update the second file in accordance with an update notification of the second file transmitted from the server.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and method of updating file

An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a display unit, a storage unit, an accepting unit, and an association control unit. The accepting unit accepts an operation. The association control unit performs control of associating operation information indicating the operation accepted by the accepting unit and an image of a region, which corresponds to the operation accepted by the accepting unit, on a screen displayed on the display unit into an associated set and storing the associated set in the storage unit.

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and print system

An image forming apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores print data and transformation data transformed into a printable format by reflecting a print condition on the print data; a detection unit that detects an error when the transformation data stored in the storage unit is printed; a decision unit that decides a resolution print condition which is a print condition for resolving an error based on a content of the error and a device state when the error is detected; a transformation unit that acquires the print data from the storage unit and transforms the acquired print data into transformation data on which the decided resolution print condition is reflected; and a print control unit that prints the transformation data transformed by the transformation unit.

Image forming apparatus for detecting error and transforming print data into another transformation data

An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores therein print data and first converted data obtained by reflecting a first print condition in the print data and converting the print data into a printable form; an input receiving unit that receives an input of a reprint instruction to reprint the first converted data; an acquiring unit that acquires a second print condition for reprinting the first converted data; a determining unit that determines whether the first converted data is printable in the second print condition by comparing the acquired second print condition against the first print condition; a converting unit that converts, when it is determined that the first converted data is unprintable in the second print condition, the print data into second converted data by reflecting the second print condition in the print data; a print control unit prints out the second converted data.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program product

An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a displaying unit which displays a predetermined number of menu items in plural menu items on a screen, an inputting unit which selects a menu item from the menu items displayed on the screen by the displaying unit, and a storing unit which registers the menu item selected by the input unit in a user custom menu table for each user having registration regions where a predetermined number of menu items are stored.

Image forming apparatus, control method and computer-readable recording medium storing control program for controlling displayed menu items

In an image forming device, when a priority of outputting input data determined by a priority determining unit is higher than a priority of in-process data during image expansion performed by one of PDL interpreter units, a PDL control unit determines whether the one of the PDL interpreter units supports an interruption process, and an output sequence changing unit changes an output sequence stored in an output sequence storing unit such that, when the one of the PDL interpreter units supports the interruption process, another of the PDL interpreter units performs image expansion of the input data earlier than the image expansion of the in-process data, and when the one of the PDL interpreter units does not support the interruption process, another of the PDL interpreter units performs the image expansion of the input data later than the image expansion of the in-process data.

Image forming device for executing a designated process with priority without canceling a previously accepted process

An image forming apparatus which requests authentication for login processing based on user information when a user requests specific processing includes a communication interface for receiving data, a print mechanism for performing printing processing on data, a registration mechanism for registering a plurality of user information, a storage mechanism for storing an access control list and an administration mechanism. The administration mechanism administers login processing of a plurality of users based on hierarchy information of the registered users and registered contents of the access control list, and to administer permission of the operation processing requested by the user. When the user instructs specific processing of data which is a guest job having no authentication information, the processing of the data is carried out.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naohiko Kubo