Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ryo Takemoto

Ayako Watanabe

Shinichiro Sakamoto

Osamu Torii

Hiroyuki Matsushima

Reiji Yukumoto

Takahiko Hayashi

Jun Satoh

Masato Nakajima

Tsuyoshi Endoh

Masafumi Nagao

Yasukiyo Nakamura

An information processing system that includes a service providing unit providing a service to an apparatus associated with a license; and a license administration unit administrating a provisionally registered license or a registered license, wherein the service providing unit includes a second memory storing a copy of license information, and an activation unit that receives a request to activate the license from the apparatus, activates the provisionally registered license or associates the registered license with the identification information of the apparatus, and requests a change of the license information stored in the second memory unit to be reflected on the license information stored in the first memory unit, wherein the activation unit adjusts a quantity of the identification information of the apparatus associated with the registered license based on the quantity of the apparatus by which a service included in the license information is made usable.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, method of administrating license, and program

The present invention provides a novel image output apparatus that includes an operation processing unit that processes an operation request from a user, a projecting unit that projects a display image from a video providing apparatus and UIs from the image projector, a determining unit that determines whether or not it is necessary to switch a source of a video signal by using a current input type and a source of a video signal with reference to a data table that associates an input type that indicates a type of a port from which an image to be projected is acquired with a source of a video signal that forms an image to be projected, and a controller that switches a source of a video signal and executes a process indicated by an operation request from a user if it is necessary to switch the source of a video signal.

Image output apparatus, method, and medium

An information processing apparatus is connected to a projector that projects an image and a gesture recognizing device that recognizes a gesture by a person. The information processing apparatus includes a projection image transmitter that inputs a projection image to the projector; an image capturing device that captures, when the gesture recognizing device has recognized a gesture, a projection image being projected by the projector; a transmission destination determining device that determines a transmission destination address based on a gesture recognized by the gesture recognizing device; and a captured image transmitter that transmits a captured image captured by the image capturing device to a transmission destination address determined by the transmission destination determining device.

Conference projection system with gesture-based image transmitting unit

An information processing system includes a receiving unit that receives user identification information and organization identification information from an external device, and an authentication unit that performs authentication of the user identification information and the organization identification information received by the receiving unit using a first storage unit storing one or more sets of user identification information in association with organization identification information. When the authentication unit receives a federated authentication request to access an external service from the external device that is authenticated, the authentication unit sends a federated authentication response to the external device if the organization identification information received from the external device and the external service designated in the federated authentication request are associated with each other in a second storage unit storing the organization identification information in association with information on one or more external services that have established a trust relationship for authentication.

Information processing system, information processing device, and authentication method

When a user or the like blocks a portion of a projected image, acquisition of position information about a drawing-designated position, which is designated using a pointing device, is inhibited, and a missing drawn portion is produced. However, a projection apparatus generates image data that is interpolated using a pattern image, thereby making it possible to draw a graphic object as drawn.

Projector system, and method for drawings

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus having a function to cooperatively output, via a cooperative image processing apparatus, document data, including a data sending unit that sends to the cooperative image processing apparatus the document data to be output, for which the total limited number of output times is set, with output setting information including an allocated number of output times for the document data individually allocated for the cooperative image processing apparatus; and a number updating unit that updates the total limited number of output times set for the document data based on the allocated number of output times by subtracting the allocated number of output times from the total limited number of output times, when the data sending unit sends the document data with the output setting information to the cooperative image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus and image processing system having a function to cooperatively output document data for which a total limited number of output times is set

An image forming apparatus connected to an image forming system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses is linked. The image forming apparatus comprises: a user environment information acquiring unit that acquires user environment information; a user environment information reflecting unit that generates the screen representing the settings by using the user environment information; a capability acquiring unit that acquires capability information representing capabilities; a settability determining unit that determines the settability of various settings; a display control unit that is a unit displaying the screen on the display unit and further displays the screen that represents a determination result of the settability determining unit on the display unit; a search unit that searches for a first image forming apparatus; and a search result output unit that further displays the screen representing a search result of the search unit on the display unit through the display control unit.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and method and program for supporting operation input

An image processing apparatus includes a processor and a storage device to store instructions which cause the processor to operate as a specially programmed processor. The processor executes a multi-application in which a plurality of applications is combined, each of the applications configured to input, process, and output image data; displays a screen including display areas to enter input- and output-setting items; displays a multi-application screen including a feedback display area; identifies, when a content of the input- and output-setting items is changed for one application of the applications, another application for which a content of the input- and output-setting items is changed by the setting change for the one application; identifies a difference before and after the change in the content of the input- and output-setting items of the another application; and switches a display of the feedback display area in accordance with the difference to setting-change-influence information.

Image processing apparatus and information display method used in the image processing apparatus

In an information processing device which is capable of adding a new program, a managing unit is configured to manage bibliographic information of each of electronic manuals associated with respective programs installed in the information processing device. A registering unit is configured to register, in response to addition of a new program, bibliographic information of an electronic manual associated with the new program, into the managing unit. A display data generating unit is configured to generate display data indicating a list of the electronic manuals, based on the bibliographic information managed by the managing unit. A displaying unit is configured display the list of the electronic manuals on a display device based on the display data.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryo Takemoto