Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shunichi Maeda

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Mitsuo Nakamura

Yoshihiro Ogura

Tomoki Yoshida

Shingo Tamura

Keisuke Tsukada

An image processing apparatus includes: an image input unit configured to input image data; one or more applications configured to process the image data that has been input by the image input unit; an analysis unit configured to analyze a characteristic of the input image data; and a processing selection unit configured to select one or more of the applications suitable for processing the input image data, based on an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus comprises an operating module to which a touch operation performed with a pointing tool is entered; a calculating module that calculates a reference distance that is a distance between a reference point on an image display area of an operation display surface and a point on the image display area defined by a first operation performed on the operating module with a single piece of the pointing tool, calculates a control distance that is a distance between the reference point and a point on the image display area defined by a second operation performed on the operating module with a single piece of the pointing tool, and calculates a magnification ratio based on the reference distance and the control distance; and a magnification/reduction module that generates a scaled image by magnifying or reducing a display image displayed on the image display area by the magnification ratio.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable-recording medium

An operation inhibiting system includes an image forming apparatus in which programs are installed and an operation inhibition information providing apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a configuration information storing unit to store configuration information about the installed programs, an operation inhibition information acquiring unit to transmit the configuration information to the operation inhibition information providing apparatus, and to receive operation inhibition information that is transmitted from the operation inhibition information providing apparatus in response to the configuration information, the operation inhibition information indicating on a program-specific basis whether an operation to modify a configuration of an installed program is allowed, and an operation unit to inhibit the operation on the program based on the received operation inhibition information, wherein the operation inhibition information providing apparatus includes a unit that transmits the operation inhibition information responsive to the configuration information upon receiving the configuration information.

System, apparatus, and method for inhibiting operation that modifies program configuration

An information processor includes a first part storing one or more programs included in one or more packages; a second part correlating and retaining the package and version information of the programs on a program basis; a third part comparing, if one of the installed programs is to be installed, the version information of the installed one of the programs and the one of the programs to be installed; a fourth part determining whether the one of the programs to be installed is subordinate to a package other than a package including the one of the programs to be installed, if the version information of the one of the programs to be installed is determined to be lower; and a fifth part installing the one of the programs to be installed if the one of the programs to be installed is determined to be not subordinate to the other package.

Information processor, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium

An image forming device includes an information storage part which stores sales package information and function package information. A function package information updating part increments, when activation of a sales package is performed, an activation component number of each of program components of the sales package in the function package information, and sets a flag of one of the program components to an activated state when the flag of one of the program components prior to the activation indicates a deactivated state. A starting information updating part registers a component identifier of one of the program components into starting information when the flag of one of the program components is changed from the deactivated state to the activated state by the activation.

Image forming device, and activation method, activating or deactivating program on package basis

An information processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a system acquisition data conversion unit that converts system acquisition data acquired as information for use by one or more applications installed in the information processing apparatus into universal data, and an application usable data conversion unit that converts the universal data into application usable data usable by the one or more applications. The universal data are independent of the data structure of the system acquisition data and the data structure of the application usable data.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shunichi Maeda