Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shuichi Takenaka

Hiromi Kimura

Kiichi Hasegawa

A notification system that is capable of sending a message to a person who is highly related to the message. The notification system includes an image pickup unit that picks up an image including a person as an object, an obtainment unit that obtains a role of the person in the image based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit, a determination unit that determines a content of a message about a predetermined event corresponding to the role obtained by the obtainment unit, and a notification unit that notifies of the message determined by the determination unit.

Notification system notifying user of message, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of controlling an information processing apparatus comprises receiving identification information of a first message from a server providing a chat function, obtaining the first message identified by using the identification information, and generating a file in a predetermined format based on information of the first message.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus that includes a sheet feeding unit and forms an image on a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit. Electronic data item is acquired from a cloud service that manages a plurality of electronic data items. A sheet size is extracted from the electronic data item. An image of the electronic data item is formed on a sheet having the extracted sheet size. In a case where predetermined attribute information indicating a job using the cloud service is included in the electronic data item, the image of the electronic data item, appropriate to a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit, is formed on the fed sheet.

Image forming apparatus capable of printing image appropriate to sheet to be fed, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit storing a sheet, an image forming unit, a display unit, and one or more processors. The image forming unit forms an image on the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding unit. The display unit displays a screen. The one or more processors perform control to cause the display unit to display a first sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit on which a predetermined operation is performed based on the performance of the predetermined operation on the sheet feeding unit while a setting screen that prompts a user to make a copy-related setting is displayed. Where the predetermined operation is performed while a second sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit is displayed, the one or more processors cause the display unit not to display the first sheet setting screen.

Image forming apparatus, and method of controlling image forming apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to perform operations including receiving information indicating a predetermined object from an image forming apparatus, determining whether the object indicated by the information is included in image data for which a printing instruction has been issued by a user, designating a format of the image data, to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus, based on a result of the determining, converting the image data into the designated format, and transmitting the converted image data to the image forming apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium

A server system includes a determination unit configured to determine whether received print data is print data for which a predetermined print setting is made, an acquisition unit configured to acquire first print data from another server system, the first print data being determined to be print data for which the predetermined print setting is made by the determination unit, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the first print data acquired by the acquisition unit to an image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus to acquire second print data from the other server system without acquiring the second print data determined to be print data for which the predetermined print setting is not made by the determination unit.

Server system

In order to enable print setting that depends on functional characteristics of a printing apparatus also in printing processing that depends on an instruction from a client device that has not installed a printer driver of the printing apparatus, an information processing device includes setting management unit configured to transmit information on a print settings screen of the printing apparatus and display the print settings screen on a display of the information processing device, a reception unit configured to receive information on print settings of the printing apparatus, which is input on the print settings screen, from the information processing device, a storage unit configured to store the print settings into a memory unit in association with the information processing device, and a printing control unit configured to execute printing processing based on the print settings when print data is received from the information processing device.

Printing apparatus, printing control method, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus that prevents, when reducing variation in thickness of thin lines, the legibility of the thin lines from being adversely affected thereby. When print data is acquired, in a rendering process for printing based on the acquired print data, the rendering process including a line width adjustment process is executed. In a case where the line width adjustment process is executed on the print data, not only the line width adjustment process but also a process for thickening thin lines is executed.

Image forming apparatus capable of executing line width adjustment process, method of controlling same, and storage medium

In processing using a print data processing apparatus that parallelly interprets pages of print data, in the case where a command to reset the number of already interpreted pages is included in the print data, a certain page to be printed is not printed. In the case of detecting a command to invalidate contents interpreted hitherto, an interpreter stores the number of already interpreted pages at the time in point of the detection of the invalidation command in a cache. Then, the interpreter generates intermediate data in the case where the sum of the cached value and the number of already interpreted pages managed by the interpreter coincides with a processing-target page number.

Print data processing apparatus

Restriction processing for restricting communication with the network is executed, and a screen for starting establishment of a connection relationship in a state in which the restriction processing is executed is displayed on a display device. A connection relationship with a mobile terminal is established without intervention of the access point of the external apparatus using a wireless LAN interface capable of performing wireless communication, and predetermined information is acquired from the mobile terminal via the wireless LAN interface after establishment of the connection relationship.

Communication system, image forming apparatus, communication method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

An information processing apparatus includes a wireless interface configured to perform communication with an image forming apparatus, and at least one controller configured to function as a unit configured to acquire device information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus through the wireless interface, and a unit configured to selectively accept one of a first instruction to transmit the acquired device information to an external destination and a second instruction not to transmit the acquired device information to the external destination. The controller also functions as a unit configured to transmit, in a state where the first instruction has been accepted, the acquired device information to the external destination, and hold, in a state where the second instruction has been accepted, the acquired device information without transmitting the acquired device information to the external destination.

Information processing apparatus capable of acquiring and transmitting device information, communication system, communication method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

A printing apparatus includes a first interpretation unit configured to generate intermediate data of a page by interpreting print data, a second interpretation unit configured to generate intermediate data of another page by interpreting the print data, and a controller configured to perform, according to a specific print setting command indicating that a specific process is to be performed on all pages, control such that the specific process is performed on all the pages. The controller performs the control if the specific print setting command is included in a specific page.

Printing apparatus having interpreters interpreting print data, printing method, and storage medium

A communication terminal and a method of controlling thereof are provided for setting user information that includes at least a user name and a domain name, and transmitting a print job to which the user information is given to an image forming apparatus. Then, when logging in to the image forming apparatus by using the user information, based on whether the image forming apparatus is under domain management, it is determined whether or not to include information concerning a domain name in a login request for the image processing apparatus.

Communication terminal, method of controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

There is provided an image forming apparatus configured to process print data of a plurality of pages includes a plurality of interpreters configured to generate intermediate data of the plurality of pages by interpreting the print data, a control unit configured to specify different pages for different interpreters, and, for each specified page, cause a corresponding interpreter to generate the intermediate data of the specified page or specified pages, and a generation unit configured to generate a raster image of the page based on the generated intermediate data, wherein, based on interpretation of the print data of an invalid page, any one interpreter of the plurality of interpreters generates the intermediate data of a page subsequent to the invalid page without requiring the page to be specified by the control unit.

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Kashiwa, Japan

Shuichi Takenaka