Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Thk Co., Ltd.

Shinya Mori

Hiroyuki Kishi

Yuki Nakamura

Shinya Saito

Takuya Horie

Takeshi Shimamura

Ryuji Furusawa

Mitsumasa Wada

Satoshi Kashiwagura

Marie Horikawa

Teruaki Ooka

Yosuke Irie

Masanori Yoshino

An information processing device includes a memory to store a print job to be executed with an image forming apparatus and a specific printing rule, and circuitry. The circuitry acquires from an external device the specific printing rule according to a specific condition. The acquired specific printing rule is stored in the memory. The external device stores printing rules including the specific printing rule. Each printing rule defines at least a part of printing settings applied in executing the print job. The circuitry acquires from the memory the specific printing rule according to an attribute of printing associated with the print job in executing the print job, and executes the printing job while applying the acquired specific printing rule.

Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium

An information processing apparatus and method. The information processing apparatus has circuitry to extract metadata from output data which includes one or more sets of documents. A number is allocated to each of the one or more sets of documents, the allocated number corresponding to the number of a plurality of output apparatuses. An output destination is determined from among the plurality of output apparatuses based on the allocated number, and the output data is transmitted to the determined output apparatus.

Information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus is connected to output devices and includes a receiver, a selector, an output destination determiner, and an output data distributor. The receiver is configured to receive a request for outputting output data. The selector is configured to refer to correspondence information in which a condition that determines output device as an output destination of the output data and a validity period indicating a period during which the condition is available are associated for each of the output devices, and to select the condition whose validity period includes an output time point at which the output request is received, of the output data. The output destination determiner is configured to determine the output device as the output destination of the output data based on the selected condition and the output data. The output data distributor is configured to distribute the output data to the determined output device.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and output system for outputting data

A terminal device connected to one or more output devices via a network, includes an output destination distribution control unit that reads out an output destination of output data for which outputting is requested by a user from first information in which a condition for output data and an output destination are in correspondence with each other; and a confirmation screen display determining unit that refers to second information in which a user and an output destination that is previously selected by the user to distribute output data are in correspondence with each other, and causes, when the output destination read out from the first information is not in correspondence with the user in the second information, to display a confirmation screen of the output destination.

Terminal device, output system and output method

An output system includes a selection receipt unit that displays a function selection screen enabling a user to select a function based on an output request of data to be output received from the user and causes the user to select the function; a determination unit that determines, in response to the function selected by the user, an accumulation method and an accumulation destination of output data converted from the data to be output; an accumulation control unit that sends the output data converted from the data to be output based on the determined accumulation method of the output data and the output request to the determined accumulation destination and causes the determined accumulation destination to store the output data and the output request; and an output control unit that acquires the output data and the output request from the accumulation destination and outputs the output data.

Output system, terminal apparatus, and method of outputting data

A motion guide device including a track shaft having a rolling surface; a moving member movable along the track shaft; a first seal member in sliding contact with a surface of the track shaft to close a gap between the track shaft and the moving member; and a second seal member provided along the rolling surface of the track shaft and closes the gap between the track shaft and the moving member. The second seal member includes: a fixing substrate locked to the moving member; and a seal portion fixed to the fixing substrate along the rolling surface of the track shaft and includes a seal lip portion in sliding contact with the surface of the track shaft and an extended seal portion in close contact with the first seal member while being compressed by the first seal member when the first seal member is fixed to the moving member.

Motion guide device

A network system includes first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus that are connected through a network. The first information processing apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits a setting for an application to the second information processing apparatus. The setting includes an attribute indicating whether any change in the setting in the second information processing apparatus is permitted. The second information processing apparatus includes a receiver that receives the setting; and a function executing unit that executes a function of the application in accordance with the setting.

Network system and information processing method

An information processing apparatus, which is connected via a network to plural execution apparatuses, includes a receiving unit configured to receive function validity information from the execution apparatuses; a reception unit configured to receive an execution request for requesting the execution apparatuses to execute a requested function, which execution request does not include information identifying one of the execution apparatuses where the requested function is to be executed; a determining unit configured to determine execution apparatuses where the requested function is valid based on the function validity information; a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display information indicating the determined execution apparatuses where the requested function is valid based on the determination result; and a transmitting unit configured to send the execution request to a selected execution apparatus when a reception instruction to receive the execution request is entered on the selected execution apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus is connected to a first image forming apparatus and another information processing apparatus over a network. The information processing apparatus includes an apparatus information managing unit that registers, to a storage unit, apparatus information related to the first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus directly connected to the other information processing apparatus; a first request transmitting unit that transmits, to the first image forming apparatus, a first request to form and output an image; and a second request transmitting unit that transmits, to the other information processing apparatus, a second request to cause the second image forming apparatus to form and output an image.

Information processing apparatus, method for controlling an information processing apparatus, and image forming system

An image input apparatus determines whether an image input apparatus that has sent image data is an authorized sender when storing of the image data to a specific storage area is detected. According to a determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender, the image input apparatus applying one or more processes to the image data.

Apparatus, system, and method of image processing, and recording medium storing image processing program

An information processing apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus via a predetermined data transmission line includes a data analyzing part accessing a predetermined memory area which hold definition data in the information processing apparatus and analyzing the definition data for a display content of screens to be integrated when the information processing apparatus receives an instruction to integrate a plurality of the screens from a user, a data specifying part specifying data to be used for generating customizing screen definition data in which an integration display content of an integration screen is defined among the definition data based on an analysis result obtained by the data analyzing part, a generation part generating the customizing screen definition data based on data specified by the data specifying part, and a communicating part transmitting the customizing screen definition data generated by the generation part to the image processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

Rigidity and precision of a motion guidance apparatus are increased by improving track rail shape. A track rail has at least two rolling member rolling grooves (RMRGs) on the upper surface and at least one RMRG on each side surface, the RMRGs extending in the longitudinal direction. When the RMRGs are taken along a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the track rail, and two imaginary lines extending vertically downward are drawn from ends of the respective grooves located on the outer sides among upper surface RMRGs, all the side surface RMRG are positioned in the rail but outside the corresponding one of the two imaginary lines, and at least portions of the upper surface and the side surfaces of the track rail, on which the RMRGs are formed, the portions being in the vicinity of the respective RMRGs, are formed with an inclination angle.

Track rail and motion guidance apparatus including the track rail

An operating unit selects a piece of document data from among a plurality of pieces of document data from a document database. A relationship-information searching unit searches a relationship information database that stores relationship information in the form of parent-child relationship between the pieces of document data, for the relationship information pertaining to the selected piece of document data. A related-document-list creating unit creates from the retrieved relationship information, a list that indicates a hierarchical relationship between the selected piece of document data and other pieces of document data. A display unit displays the pieces of document data related to the selected piece of document data on a single screen based on the list.

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Shinya Mori