Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoshi Okuma

Noritsugu Okayama

Koichi Matsumura

Akio Suzuki

Hiroshi Matsuda

Yasuhiro Takahashi

Daisuke Shibata

Jun Tanaka

Toshiya Kanazawa

Kiichi Hasegawa

Kaori Yamada

Yuka Nagai

A sheet feeder apparatus includes a width detector for a sheet placed on a sheet placement portion, a conveyor for conveying sheets while separating the sheets one by one, a first detector for detecting a sheet having a first width at a plurality of first positions, a second detector for detecting a sheet having a second width that is not detected by the first sheet detector at a plurality of second positions, and a controller for determining skewing of a sheet based on a result of the detection of the sheet performed by the first detector if the width of the sheet is the first width, and determining skewing of a sheet based on a result of the detection performed by the second detector if the width of the sheet is the second width.

Sheet feeder apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet feeding units, a job reception unit configured to receive a print job, an instruction reception unit configured to receive a reservation instruction for reserving at least one sheet feeding unit of the plurality of sheet feeding units, an identification unit configured to identify a sheet feeding unit from among the plurality of sheet feeding units based on a setting of the received print job, and a notification unit configured to notify, in response to an execution instruction of a print job in which a sheet feeding unit for which the instruction reception unit has received the reservation instruction is identified, and in which a specific setting is not made, a user of information indicating that the sheet feeding unit is reserved.

Mechanisms for reserving a sheet feeding unit at an image forming apparatus, and control method thereof

An information processing apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus and a message communication service via a network includes a transmission unit configured to perform transmission based on data received from the image processing apparatus in such a way as to post a notification concerning the received data on a message communication space of the message communication service in which a user registered while being associated with the image processing apparatus is participating, and an execution unit configured to, in a case where the information processing apparatus has received, from the message communication service, data transmitted as a response from the user to the message communication space after the notification is posted, execute processing that is based on the data transmitted as a response.

Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

An information processing system includes a reading device configured to perform reading processing for reading an original, and one or more controllers configured to function as an acquisition unit that acquires a number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing, and an acquisition unit that acquires operation rate information about the reading device based on the number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing and a predetermined number of processing operations of the reading processing.

Information processing system for performing collection and aggregate calculation of operation history data about print processing in a printer

An information processing apparatus that is capable of managing information about operations preceding start of usage of a function while associating with information about operations performed between the start and end of usage of the function. The information processing apparatus includes an operation panel, a display control unit, and a recording unit. The operation panel has a display function and accepts an operation from a user. The display control unit controls the operation panel so as to display an operation object that causes to execute a predetermined function on a screen of the operation panel. The recording unit records information about events concerning operations performed between start and end of the predetermined function and information about an event preceding the start of the predetermined function into a storage unit while associating them to each other.

Information processing apparatus having operation panel that has display function and accepts operation from user, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and image processing apparatus for performing collection and aggregate calculation of operation history data about the image processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit configured to accept a first operation for giving an instruction related to a function assigned to hardware and a second operation for giving an instruction related to a function assigned to software, an instruction identification unit configured to identify an instruction content corresponding to the first operation and the second operation based on the first operation and the second operation when the acceptance unit accepts the second operation after accepting the first operation, and a storage unit configured to store, in a storage unit, the instruction content identified by the instruction identification unit, an operation log of the first operation, and an operation log of the second operation in association with each other.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to generate an operation instruction object related to a workflow based a generation instruction for the operation instruction object, display the operation instruction object on a display unit, and perform control to not display the operation instruction object on the display unit based on a received deletion instruction far the operation instruction object.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, information processing method, and storage medium, for supporting document workflows

An information processing apparatus comprises: an editing unit that accepts editing of a workflow formed by a plurality of jobs which are to be processed in one or a plurality of job processing apparatuses; an obtaining unit that obtains pieces of history information from the processed jobs; an extraction unit that extracts, from the obtained pieces of history information, a series of jobs having a job type arrangement in common with a job of interest out of the plurality of jobs forming the edited workflow and at least one of the jobs preceding or succeeding the job of interest; and a setting unit that sets a setting, selected by a user out of the displayed settings, as the setting of the job of interest.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and information processing system

An information processing apparatus having a display unit and an input device capable of detecting a plurality of designated points designated on a screen, and its method of controlling the same. The apparatus detects, on a plurality of coordinates a plurality of designated points that a user designates on the input device, a movement of the coordinates, and a change in a distance between two designated points accompanying the movement, and performs enlargement or reduction of a whole image displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user is a predetermined operation designating at least two points and a first condition is satisfied, and performs enlargement or reduction of a character displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user detected the predetermined operation and a second condition is satisfied.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

An operator depresses a voice registration key to set a voice registration mode, and registers the copy mode having been set at memory, and inputs the voice input for the copy mode registered through a microphone while depressing a voice input key, and registers the voice for the copy mode, so that a desired copy mode can be called at any time. When an operator inputs voice to call the registered copy mode while depressing the voice input key, the registered voice similar to the input voice is retrieved, and the copy mode corresponding to the voice is called from the memory and set.

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Toride, Japan

Satoshi Okuma