Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tadashi Nagata

Yoh Masuyama

Keisuke Iwasa

Tsuyoshi Endoh

Tomoki Shibukawa

Aritaka Hagiwara

Nobuaki Tomidokoro

Fumiyoshi Kittaka

Hajime Kubota

Yutaka Yagiura

Kiyohiko Shinomiya

Motoyuki Katsumata

Shigeo Negoro

Kohichi Hirai

Kohji Ishikura

Kazuhide Tanabe

Akira Miyazaki

Yasuhito Shinchi

An information processing apparatus includes an event detection unit detecting at least one event; a registration unit registering corresponding information in which the event, which is detected by the event detection unit, is associated with a program; and a display unit displaying a screen, which is generated by the program, in accordance with the event, which is detected by the event detection unit, based on the corresponding information which is registered in the registration unit.

Information processing apparatus controlling screen to be displayed

An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores, associating with first identification information of a first program, which causes the information processing apparatus to function as a display control unit that displays a screen and to function as a process control unit that executes a process according to an input to the screen, information indicating whether there is a change in the screen and whether there is a change in the process; and a request unit that requires, when there is a change in the screen, a second program related to second identification information associated with the first identification information and stored in the storage unit, to display a changed screen, and that requires, when there is a change in the process, a third program related to third identification information associated with the first identification information and stored in the storage unit, to execute a changed process.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and storage medium for authenticating user login and screen customization

A display input device includes a display panel to display a screen thereon, the screen including a plurality of display areas, and a memory to store specification information, GUI information, and layout information. The GUI information includes information on a plurality of GUIs to be displayed on the screen, the plurality of GUIs being classified into a plurality of groups of GUIs. The layout information associates each one of the plurality of display areas with one group of the plurality of GUIs to be displayed on each display area. The display input device further includes circuitry to scale each display area in accordance with a change in the size or the resolution of the screen, and change one of a size of at least one GUI to be displayed in the scaled display area and a number of GUIs to be displayed in the scaled display area.

Display input device, image forming apparatus, display control method, and non-transitory computer recording medium for an improved GUI including a plurality of display area types

An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.

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

An information processing system includes a first storage that stores user information about one or more users of the information processing system; a second storage; a first determining unit that determines, depending on whether a program sets the second storage to store predetermined user information from the user information stored in the first storage, the predetermined user information being used in the program, whether to store the predetermined user information in the second storage; and a user information process unit that obtains the predetermined user information from the user information and stores the predetermined user information in the second storage if the first determining unit determines that the predetermined user information is to be stored in the second storage.

System, apparatus, and method for allowing a program to cache user information

An information processing system includes an operation part that receives an operation performed by a user; and a body part that operates based on a request from the operation part. The operation part includes a power control part that, when receiving a power turning off instruction from the body part, reboots the operation part and causes the operation part to stand by in a power saving state in which some of operations are stopped, and, when receiving a start up notification from the body part, causes the operation part to return from the power saving state.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus and start up control method

An information processing apparatus includes a data format determination unit determining whether data read by near field wireless communications correspond to data read in a peer-to-peer mode; a data attribute determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on attribute information of the data when it is determined that the data correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; a communication method determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on a communication method used when the data are read, when it is determined that the data do not correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; and an application use processing unit performing processing so that the application identified by the data attribute determination unit or the application identified by the communication method determination unit can use the data.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

Information processing system wherein a reboot process of a first of two devices is controlled independently of an image forming process, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a display unit which displays a screen in which is performed an operation for controlling another apparatus; and a control unit which manages an error occurring in the other apparatus and controls displaying/non-displaying of error information which indicates an occurrence of the error, wherein the control unit controls the displaying/non-displaying of the error information based on a relationship between the error occurring and the screen displayed by the display unit.

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

Information processing system includes an operating unit and main element and reboot unit that reboots only operating unit in asynchronization with main element

An information processing system, an operating device, and computer-readable storage medium. The operating device acquires, from an operation application program installed in the operating device, function information that indicates a function provided by the operation application program, acquires use authority information that is stored in a use-authority information storage device and is related to user identification information on an operating user that operates the operating device, determines whether the operating user has authority to use the function provided by the operation application program by using the use authority information acquired and the function information acquired, and performs the function when the operating user has the authority to use the function.

Information processing system, an operating device, and a computer-readable storage medium

A control system for an image processing apparatus that uses an information processing device. The image processing apparatus includes an authentication processor that authenticates users with reference to user information that associates, for multiple users, information regarding the user with starting screen information used to start operating the image processing apparatus and a screen information transmitter that transfers screen information to the information processing device independent of the image processing apparatus. The screen information is used to display the starting screen on the image processing apparatus based on the starting screen information associated with the user authenticated by the authentication processor. The information processing device includes a screen information management unit that receives the screen information and a screen display processor that displays the starling screen on a display unit of the information processing device based on the received screen information.

Image processing apparatus, control system for image processing apparatus, and recording medium storing a control program for image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes an operations unit configured to be directly operated by a user; a main unit configured to operate based on a request from the operations unit; a determination unit configured to determine a device that is to use an external storage device of the operations unit, in accordance with one of a function of the main unit that is activated through the operations unit and an application of the operations unit; and a switching unit configured to switch a current connection of the external storage device to a connection between the determined device and the external storage device.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes an intrusion detection unit that detects an intrusion of an intruder; an imaging unit that images a monitor area; an imaging control unit that activates the imaging unit and causes the imaging unit to start imaging; and an imaging instruction unit that instructs the imaging control unit to activate the imaging unit and cause the imaging unit to start imaging, in a case where the image processing apparatus is in an energy-saving mode, in which the imaging unit is inactive, when the intrusion detection unit detects the intrusion of the intruder, without switching the energy-saving mode to a normal mode, in which the imaging unit and an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording medium are active.

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Tadashi Nagata