Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kubota Corporation

Furuno Electric Company Limited

Ryota Kikuchi

Takanori Morimoto

Fumiya Yoshimura

Kenji Tamatani

Kotaro Yamaguchi

Ken Sakuta

Kunihiko Shimamoto

Yasuyuki Yabuuchi

Takafumi Morishita

Kohei Okura

Kuya Kaihori

Yu Koyama

An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a connector to connect a working device for agricultural work to the traveling vehicle body, a route creator to create a travel route along which the traveling vehicle body is to travel, a supply point setter to set, at a location off the travel route, a supply point where supply of material used during the agricultural work is to be received, a position detector to detect a position of the traveling vehicle body, an automatic operation controller to cause the traveling vehicle body to travel based on the position of the traveling vehicle body and the travel route and cause the traveling vehicle body to move to the supply point, and a notifier to provide a notification indicating that the traveling vehicle body is about to move to the supply point, while the automatic operation controller causes the traveling vehicle body to travel.

Agricultural machine, agricultural work assistance apparatus, and agricultural work assistance system

An agricultural work assistance system includes a display to display a map representing an agricultural field, and a controller configured or programmed to define or function as an area setter to set a first area and a second area located inward of the first area in the map displayed by the display, and a route creator to create, in at least one of the first area or the second area, a travel route along which an agricultural machine is to travel. The route creator is configured or programmed to set at least a portion of the travel route as an automatic steering route on which the agricultural machine is to be automatically steered and a travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be changed manually.

Agricultural work assistance system, agricultural work assistance apparatus, and agricultural machine

A travel line creation system for an agricultural machine, includes a position acquirer to acquire position measurement points for the agricultural machine, a display, a first generator to associate the position measurement points with a field displayed by the display and generate creation points on the field by shifting the position measurement points inward in an agricultural field, a second generator to create a travel line including a loop which passes through the creation points and calculate each of virtual lines by connecting together adjacent ones of the creation points, and a setter to extract a pair of virtual lines adjacent to each other and extending in different directions and set, as a work point regarding a breakpoint in work performed by a working device, one of the creation points shared by the extracted pair of virtual lines.

Travel line creation system for agricultural machine

An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a position detector to detect a position of the traveling vehicle body, a lifting device to link a working device to the traveling vehicle body, and an automatic operation controller to perform an automatic operation to cause the traveling vehicle body to travel and cause the working device to perform an agricultural job based on a travel route and the position of the traveling vehicle body. The lifting device is operable to, during the automatic operation, place the working device in a work position in which the working device performs the agricultural job, and the automatic operation controller is operable to cause the lifting device to keep the working device in the work position even after stopping the traveling vehicle body and/or the working device to end the automatic operation at a location short of an unworked area of the agricultural field.

Agricultural machine and agricultural assistance system

A travel control system includes a permission unit that permits outermost periphery automatic traveling if predetermined permission conditions are satisfied. The permission conditions include a first condition and a second condition. The first condition is that a reference value corresponding to a working width Wof a work deviceis larger than a lateral width Wof the work device. The second condition is that the reference value is larger than a threshold value determined by a threshold value determination unit. The threshold value determination unit determines the threshold value based on a reference distance Dbetween a front end position of a work vehicleand a reference position SP at which the work deviceis switched from a working state to a non-working state.

Travel control system

A sheet processing apparatus includes a plurality of folding devices, a control unit that controls a job involving a folding process, and an input unit that accepts settings for the job from a user. The input unit accepts, from the user, specification of a priority preference out of a plurality of predetermined preferences related to the folding process. The control unit selects, out of the plurality of folding devices, a folding device that can perform the folding process with the settings for the job made by the user as a target folding device. If a plurality of target folding devices are present, then based on the priority preference, the control unit determines, out of the plurality of target folding devices, a folding device with which to perform the folding process.

Sheet processing apparatus and control method therefor

A traveling route generating device is provided, which may include a user interface and processing circuitry. The user interface may receive a home route that is a route on which a ship travels upon departing from a home harbor or upon returning to the home harbor, the home harbor being a location from which the ship departs. The processing circuitry may generate a traveling route between one of a destination of the ship and a current location of the ship, and a location on the home route.

Device, method and program for generating traveling route

An image processing device includes: an estimated size setting section (ACS determination section) which sets a document size of a document sheet as an estimated size; a threshold deciding section (ACS determination section) which decides a first threshold according to the estimated size; and an ACS determination section () which determines that the document sheet is a color document sheet when a number of color pixels reaches the first threshold. When an actual size of the document sheet is smaller than the estimated size, the threshold deciding section decides a second threshold which is smaller than the first threshold, and the document sheet is determined to be a color document sheet when the number of color pixels is the second threshold or greater and is determined to be a black-and-white document sheet when the number of color pixels is smaller than the second threshold.

Image processing device having a function of automatically determining whether a document sheet is a color document or black and white document

A return-to-harbor notifying device is provided, which may include a user interface and processing circuitry. The user interface may receive an information related to a planned time of arrival at a home harbor that is a location to which a ship returns. The processing circuitry may generate a traveling route upon returning to the harbor, calculate a required time for traveling from a current location of the ship to the home harbor based on the traveling route, calculate a return-to-harbor start time of the ship based on the required time and the information related to the planned time of arrival, and notify a content based on the return-to-harbor start time.

Device, method, and program for notifying return-to-harbor information

An image forming apparatus includes first storage, a writing controller, a reading controller, a conveyance section, a detector, and a main controller. The conveyance section conveys a recording medium. The detector detects an overrun. Write addresses are designated in a predefined sequence from among addresses. Read addresses are designated in the predefined sequence from among the addresses. The writing process and the reading process are performed in storage areas included in the first storage in a first order. The overrun indicates that the writing and reading processes are performed in the storage areas included in the first storage in a second order that is opposite to the first order. While the conveyance section conveys the recording medium, the main controller controls the writing controller or the reading controller based on a detection result of the detector.

Image forming apparatus which detects an overrun

An image forming apparatus includes a controller. The controller generates page images of one or more pages by performing image processing on acquired input image data. The controller determines a job generation method to be either a first method or a second method. The job generation method is a method through which print job data is generated. The first method is a method through which the print job data is generated based on page image data indicating a page image of one page among the one or more pages upon completing the image processing on the page image of the one page. The second method is a method through which the print job data is generated based on the page image data of all pages included in the output image after completing the image processing on the page images of all the pages included in the output image.

Image forming apparatus that determines a job generation method based on image processing time

An authentication system, is provided, which includes a control device configured to confirm validity of using a program installed in the control device by confirming whether identification information of the control device satisfies a given condition, and to confirm whether the target device having a function to be used by the control device falls under a valid range of use based on device restriction information that indicates a restriction on the target device permitted to be used and is stored in the control device.

Program, method and system for authenticating control device

This image forming device is provided with: an image reading unit; a control unit which generates distribution data indicating the distribution of an angle of inclination of documents (D) read during a pre-determined time period, performs a test to determine whether there is a significant difference between the distribution data and standard distribution data, and on the basis of the test result determines whether maintenance of the image forming device is required; and a communication unit which, if it has been determined that maintenance is required, transmits a maintenance request notification to a service system.

Image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a print processing portion, a first determination portion, a first determination target excluding portion, and a print color mode switching portion. The first determination portion determines, for each page of the document sheets, whether or not each of a plurality of divided areas is of a color type that is different from the print color mode. The first determination target excluding portion excludes divided areas that are determined as being of a color type that is different from the print color mode in a first set number or more of pages of the document sheets, from determination targets of the first determination portion from then. The print color mode switching portion is able to switch the print color mode during the print process when the number of divided areas that are the determination targets of the first determination portion becomes a predetermined number or smaller.

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Ryota Kikuchi