Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

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Shiro Takagi

Takeshi Ogaki

Yoshiko Takeda

Nobuhisa Yoda

Hiroshi Watanabe

Kazuaki Kidokoro

Koji Izawa

Minoru Sato

Akinori Iwase

Tadanobu Kamiyama

Kazuhiro Ogura

Tatsuya Haraguchi

An image forming apparatus includes a creating portion for determining whether or not document data give have a capacity greater than a first predetermined value, and creating code patterns by encoding the document data as it is, if the controller determines that the document data have a capacity smaller than the first predetermined value, a creating portion for reducing the document data by a second predetermined value and creating code patterns by encoding the thus reduced document data, if the controller determines that the document data have a capacity greater than the first predetermined value, and an printing engine for forming the thus created code patterns and the document data on a sheet of paper. With this arrangement, it is possible to print even large-capacity document data on the back of the sheet of paper in the form of code patterns.

Image forming apparatus and image processing apparatus for printing code pattern and method for printing code pattern

An electronic information management system includes a portable communication terminal having a data communication function, an electronic information server for storing electronic information including, e.g., document data or image data, and a printer. Each of the portable communication terminal, the electronic information server and the printer has a connection function to an internet. The portable communication terminal is connected to the internet through a radio relay device. Since a content of a bar code can be read by a scanner of the portable communication terminal so that electronic information data can be downloaded from the electronic information server or the electronic information can be printed based on the basis of the read information, desired electronic information data can be simply and rapidly obtained from the portable communication terminal, thereby improving usability.

Electronic information management system

In this invention, a function is added to a digital copying machine or a function of the digital copying machine is changed from a remote terminal by using a window image displayed on an operation unit of the digital copying machine. This allows an operator of the remote terminal to check the arrangement and shapes of actual operation buttons by which functions are displayed on the operation unit. It is possible to avoid choosing a wrong icon for assigning or changing a function and present changes of functions readily understandable by an operator.

Image processing system

A document management system records an operation history associated with an electronic document. When output of a document is instructed, it is determined whether an output history associated with the document exists in the recorded operation history. When it is determined that the output history associated with the document exists, a user is informed of the fact that the document has already been output, who output the document in the past, and when the document was output. The following operation errors can be prevented. That is, a specific document is repeatedly output by a plurality of users, and each operation is repeatedly performed.

Document management system and document management method applied thereto

CPU of a sheet processing apparatus reads a sheet by a scanner, stores the image of the sheet in an image memory, checks to determine whether expanding, reducing, rotating, synthesizing or other editing operations have been performed for the sheet image stored in the image memory and performs processing for converting the image to a recognizable size and rotating an image before recognizing the read sheet image when determining that editing has been performed. CPU further recognizes sheet ID information contained in the sheet image stored in the image memory by means of a character recognizing section, selects an unrecorded sheet image corresponding to the sheet ID information from a hard disk, stores the image in the image memory and prints out by way of a printer. Thus, sheets synthesized, expanded/reduced, rotated or edited in other ways can be recognized and high image quality of clean and unrecorded sheets can always be provided, thereby maintaining a good recognition rate.

Sheet processing apparatus, sheet processing method and information processing apparatus

Data is stored in a cache memory, a cache HDD, high frequently accessed optical discs, or low frequently accessed optical discs, and the data is transferred between the cache memory and the cache HDD under the control of a control device which predicts the access frequency of data on the basis of the access history, transfers modified data items and only data items frequently accessed and not allocated to a high frequently accessed optical disc from the cache memory to the cache HDD, and deletes the remaining, thereby improving the use efficiency of the cache HDD.

Large capacity storage apparatus having storage cells, an accessor, a

Document information on each document is registered On the other hand, a journal of operations by a user is acquired, where the journal of operations involves the contents of a job indicating which document and how it has been used during the job execution. Job information on each job is registered such that the job information includes, as an attribute, the contents of the job in the acquired journal of operations. Use of such job information and document information enables a job to be retrieved from the documents or a document to be retrieved from the jobs in accordance with the specification by the operator.

Document management method, document retrieval method, and document

Sheet processing apparatus, sheet processing method and information

Removable storage-medium assembled-type large-capacity information

An instruction sheet designer designs a handwriting sheet which allows execution of an arbitrary program by handwriting job instructions. The format of the handwriting sheet is stored as print data in a print data memory. If a job instruction is to be input, the handwriting sheet is printed on the basis of the print data stored in the print data memory or information based on the print data is displayed on the screen at a terminal. The job contents can be instructed in a look and feel manner in accordance with a sheet input, a key input, or a mouse input.

Job processing apparatus and method for preparing an instruction sheet

Terminals, printing apparatus, and digital copying machines are connected to one network N. A document managing portion of the printing apparatus stores document data received through the network N to a document data storing portion, and generates managing data of document data so as to be stored in a document managing table. When an error processing portion detects the occurrence of an error with reference to a table during the printing of document data, an error processing portion determines the other printing apparatus for a substitutive printing with reference to various kinds of tables, and transmits document data. A report sheet issuing portion generates a report sheet image showing a name of a substitutive printing apparatus, a current state of the apparatus having an error, measures to remove the error, etc., and a printing portion prints the report sheet image.

Print processing method for a plurality of printing apparatuses

An image processing system has a scanner for reading image information of a sheet, on which a first instruction for transferring image information of an electronic document and image information of a paper document to an arbitrary program at a first terminal as a single transferred document and a second instruction for starting an arbitrary second terminal for creating the electronic document, together with the image information of the paper document, a function for starting the program at the second terminal to create the image information of the electronic document on the basis of the second instruction, and a function for transferring the image information of the paper document and the image information of the electronic document as a single transferred document to the first terminal on the basis of the first instruction.

Image processing system for transferring electronic document and paper

There is provided a disk array apparatus designed to realize high-speed recovery processing in occurrence of an error while preventing a reduction in total storage capacity due to the use of parity disks. A disk with a high access frequency is set in a group constituted by a small number of disks, whereas a disk with a low access frequency is set in a group constituted by a large number of disks. In a group constituted by a small number of disks, since the number of disks used for recovery is small, the disk access frequency in recovery processing becomes low, and high-speed recovery processing can be realized. In a group constituted by a large number of disks, since the ratio of the parity disk capacity to the total capacity is low, a reduction in disk capacity is small.

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Yokohama, Japan

Shiro Takagi