Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Hatanaka

Kenji Ueda

Hiroshi Nishida

Takeyoshi Sekine

Takenori Oku

Fumihiro Nagano

Yasushi Nakazato

Osamu Kizaki

Hiroshi Ishii

Atsushi Yoshida

Hideki Hashimoto

Ryusuke Mase

Ayumu Hashimoto

Hiroki Shirado

Masaki Nagase

Naoki Asaba

Masayuki Yabuuchi

Yusuke Shibata

Masahide Asano

Satoshi Mizuno

Masafumi Kishi

Shiho Shimosaka

Kazuho Satoh

Naoki Goh

Shunsuke Hayashi

Yuuji Nagamatsu

Tetsutaro Oishi

Kohichi Irie

Kazuhiko Nakajima

Kazuhisa Furuhama

Keiko Kawarabayashi

Kentaro Seo

Yuuta Sano

A system includes a device and one or more information processing apparatuses. The device includes a device-information generator configured to generate device information on the device; and an analyzer determining unit configured to determine any one of the device and the one or more information processing apparatuses as an analyzer for the device information. The one determined as the analyzer includes an analysis unit configured to perform an analysis based on the device information; and a service determining unit configured to determine a service to the device based on a result of the analysis.

System, service determining method, and computer program product

An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses for determining lifetimes of components, to be replaced by preventive maintenance, of respective electric devices. The information processing system includes a leading variable specifying unit configured to specify, based on variables that represent use states of the electric devices and failure data of the electric devices which have been obtained from the electric devices, a plurality of leading variables relevant to the lifetimes of the components; a lifetime matrix creating unit configured to classify a plurality of values of each of the leading variables into sections to create a lifetime matrix in which the lifetimes of the components are set with respect to combinations of the sections each of which relates to a different leading variable; and a lifetime outputting unit configured to determine the lifetimes of the components with respect to the respective electric devices.

System, method, and non-transitory recording medium for determining lifetimes of components of multifunction peripherals

An image reading apparatus includes: a plurality of light sources to emit light to a target to be read from a plurality of different irradiation positions; an illumination controller to sequentially and alternately turn on or off the plurality of light sources with a blinking cycle not perceptible to the human eye; an image capturing device to photoelectrically convert, pixel by pixel, reflected light of the light emitted to the target from the plurality of light sources to capture a plurality of read images; a memory to store one or more read images of the plurality of read images being captured; and a synthesizer to synthesize preset regions of the plurality of read images using the one or more read images stored in the memory to generate a synthesized read image representing the target, the preset region of each of the plurality of read images having an image level change caused by reflected light that is smaller than a threshold.

Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading method, and recording medium

An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores and associates a cause of a failure that has occurred in an electronic device, state information of the electronic device at the time the failure has occurred in the electronic device due to the cause of the failure, and a measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure. The information processing system further includes at least one processor that performs an acquisition process for acquiring the state information of the electronic device, and a failure diagnosis process for determining the cause of the failure that has occurred in the electronic device and the measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure based on the acquired state information of the electronic device.

Information processing system and failure diagnosis method

An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects the number of manuscript sheets; a calculating unit which calculates the anticipated number of sheets of recording media based on the detected number of sheets; a determining unit which determines whether the anticipated number of sheets calculated exceeds the predetermined number of sheets; and a bookbinding unit which binds multiple recording media, wherein the calculating unit calculates the anticipated number of sheets, further including a cover arranged on the outside of the multiple recording media which are stacked in an overlapping manner, and wherein the bookbinding unit binds multiple recording media without arranging the cover on the outside of the multiple recording media when an image is not formed on the cover if the determining unit determines that the anticipated number of sheets exceeds the predetermined number of sheets.

Image forming apparatus configured to modify a bookbinding operation based on a maximum number of bindable sheets, image forming method, computer program product, and storage medium having recorded the computer program product configured to perform same

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoshi Hatanaka