Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Shinichi Kimura

Hiroyuki Tsujikawa

Yasuyuki Yabuuchi

Hiroshi Ueda

Katsuya Watanabe

Hiroyuki Harada

A conveyance path for a document (D) has a first conveyance path (R) that turns back midway and a second conveyance path (R) that extends rectilinearly. When the document (D) is of a particular type, if a setting to use the first conveyance path (R) has been made, a control section () has a warning message (MS) displayed.

Image reading apparatus which prevents damage to documents to be read which are thicker than regular paper

A conveying path for a document (D) includes a first conveying path (R) that turns back midway, and a second conveying path (R) that does not turn back midway. When the first conveying path (R) is used, a first side is read and the document (D) is discharged with the first side facing downward. When the second conveying path (R) is used, a second side is read and the document (D) is discharged with the second side facing downward. When the second conveying path (R) is used, a warning message (MS) is displayed.

Image-reading device

The image forming apparatus includes a printing device, an image reading device, a job management unit, and a document detection processing unit. The image reading device reads an image in a predetermined range in which a document can be arranged, as a read image. The job management unit acquires a front side image and a back side image of a card document, and prints the front side image and the back side image on both sides of a print sheet using the printing device. The document detection processing unit specifies a document image area of the front side image and a document image area of the back side image. The job management unit selects a larger size as the common image area size when a difference in size between the document image areas of the front side and the back side exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image acquiring unit and a security pattern attaching unit. The image acquiring unit is configured to acquire a target image. The security pattern attaching unit is configured to select a security level of a partial area in the target image among plural security levels, and attach a security pattern corresponding to the selected security level to a position corresponding to the partial area.

Image forming apparatus with an improved security system for prohibiting printing areas

An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading section; a character detection section detecting, based on image data of a document obtained through reading by the document reading section, characters included in an image formed on the document; a character concentration detection section detecting concentration of the characters detected by the character detection section; a character direction detection section detecting a direction of the characters whose concentration detected by the character concentration detection section is in a preset specified concentration range; and a document direction determination section determining, based on the direction of the characters detected by the character direction detection section, a direction of the image formed on the document as a document direction, wherein the character direction detection section, upon determination that the image on the document is a monochromatic image, defines, as the specified concentration range, a concentration range higher than predefined first concentration.

Image reader and image forming apparatus determining direction of document to be read

A sheet conveyance device includes a sheet placing portion, a guide member, a signal obtaining portion, and a notification portion. On the sheet placing portion, a sheet to be conveyed is placed. The guide member is disposed on the sheet placing portion so as to move in a width direction vertical to a sheet conveyance direction, and restricts, in the width direction, a position of the sheet on the sheet placing portion. The signal obtaining portion obtains an electric signal with a value corresponding to a position of the guide member. The notification portion, when a difference between the value and any of thresholds that are set in advance based on each sheet size in the width direction for determination of the size of the sheet, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined reference value, notifies that the sheet is separated from the guide member.

Sheet conveyance device, image processing apparatus, sheet conveyance method

According to a processing period for OCR processing of image data for character recognition for a given page, the image processing section determines whether or not to generate image data for character recognition for a next page subsequent to the given page in accordance with an image quality setting different from that set for the given page. Upon determining generation in accordance with an image quality setting different from that set for the given page, the image processing section determines the image quality setting for the next page based on document type and size of the given page of the original document. The image processing section generates image data for character recognition for the next page in accordance with the determined image quality setting.

Image processing device and image forming apparatus

An reading device includes: a reading region setting section setting a reading region set under an inclination correction by an inclination correction section to be larger than a reading region set without the inclination correction, an image reading section reading a document in the reading region to generate image data, and a determination section defining a target region from a whole region of the image data and analyzing a portion of the image data corresponding to the document in the target region thereby determining an attribute of the image data, defining, without the inclination correction, a region obtained by inwardly narrowing the whole region of the image data by a predefined first region as the target region, and defining, under the inclination correction, a region obtained by inwardly narrowing the whole region of the image data by a second region larger than the first region as the target region.

Image reading device, image forming apparatus, and image reading method

An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit for reading an image of a document at a reading position, a document feeding unit for discharging the document via the reading position, an abnormality detection unit for detecting a feeding abnormality, and a reading determination unit. The reading determination unit determines that the reading of the image of the fed document by the image reading unit is complete in a case where it is determined that a fed document, which is being fed by the document feeding unit, is not a final document, and it is detected that the leading edge of the fed document has reached the reading position, and when it is detected that the leading edge of the subsequent document has reached the reading position without the abnormality detection unit detecting any abnormality.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image display device is provided with a storage for storing an image, a display for displaying a preview of the image, a security setting receiving unit for receiving setting as to whether or not the preview of the image is to be displayed with security, an image processing unit for applying an image quality degradation process to the image for which the security setting receiving unit received the setting for displaying the preview of the image with security, and a preview display controlling unit for causing the image having the image quality degradation process applied by the image processing unit to be displayed at the time of the preview display of the image for which the setting for the security display was received.

Image display device and image forming apparatus with security control features

An image processing apparatus includes an image forming instructing section that notifies an image forming section, whether to perform a first printing processing with a plurality of colors including at least one chromatic color or a second printing processing with only black. A data obtaining section obtains pixel data from a plurality of pixels constituting an image; and an operating section inputs designated color data. A pixel data extracting section extracts pixel data of colors, except for a designated color indicated by the designated color data inputted through the operating section, from pixel data obtained by the data obtaining section. A printing type selecting section selects the first or second printing processing based on each pixel data extracted by the pixel data extracting section. The image forming instructing section notifies the printing type selected by the printing type selecting section as the type of printing processing to be performed.

Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image transfer system has an extracting section that extracts image areas from a document image read by a reading section. A digital signature providing section provides sender's digital signatures to the image areas according to degrees of secrecy. An image file creating section creates an image file including image areas with the sender's digital signatures provided by the digital signature providing section and a sending section sends the image file to a receiving section. A digital signature acquiring section acquires receiver's digital signatures for restricting image areas to be presented to a user. An image area selecting section selects image areas to be presented to the user in accordance with the sender's digital signatures in the image file received by the receiving section and the receiver's digital signatures acquired by the digital signature acquiring section. An output section outputs image areas selected by the image area selecting section.

Image transfer system and image forming apparatus

A multi-layer information storage mediumincludes: a data-reading surface; and eight recording layerstofor recording data which is read out by using a blue-violet light beam. Each of the recording layerstohas a user data area. A recording layer which is the most distant from the data-reading surfaceincludes a disk information areaand a defect management areafor recording management information concerning all of the recording layersto

Multi-layer information storage medium and information apparatus

With respect to layout data of a semiconductor integrated circuit, a latch-up verifying operation is carried out in high precision. In a latch-up verifying method, a well region, a transistor region, and a substrate contact region are extracted from layout data of a semiconductor integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate; and steps for separately setting over-sizing values are sequentially executed based upon the respective extracted information.

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Shinichi Kimura