Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Rohm Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Kyocera Documents Solutions Inc.

Japan Vam & Poval Co., Ltd.

Takashi Murakami

Makoto Kowaka

Yosuke Nakazato

Yasuyuki Shintani

Kentaro Okamoto

Masato Hirota

Katsuji Furushige

Minoru Takahashi

Ayaka Ikejima

Tomonori Naota

Tomihito Doi

Kyota Mitsuyama

Koji Ikawa

Daijiro Kitamoto

Satoshi Imai

Wataru Tsukuda

Ryusuke Nakatani

Kazuki Dozen

Masaaki Aiba

Kazuhiro Aizu

Yosuke Kashimoto

Ryosuke Ogishi

Kumpei Fujita

Norifumi Miyahara

Yoshihiro Kimura

Kozo Tao

Sachio Nagamitsu

Takeshi Kokado

Shinichi Hashimoto

Masaki Kikuchi

Daisuke Kobayashi

Yoshiteru Nishikawa

Hiromi Yamagami

Keiji Sakaguchi

Keitaro Ado

Provided is a novel polishing composition. The polishing composition comprises a water-soluble polymer at least comprising a vinyl alcohol-based resin having a side-chain group of 3 carbon atoms or more.

Polishing composition

An image forming apparatus for accepting print jobs, determining the execution order of received jobs, and executing the jobs in the determined order manages an unspecified job priority as the execution priority of an unspecified job for which a value that affects the order of execution is not specified. The image forming apparatus can accept a priority-specified job for which an execution priority is specified and an unspecified job. The image forming apparatus determines the order of execution of this priority-specified job on the basis of the priority specified in the priority-specified job, and determines the order of execution of the unspecified job on the basis of the unspecified job priority, and can accept a specification of the unspecified job priority.

Image forming apparatus and computer-readable non-temporary recording medium that stores image forming program

An image forming apparatus manages restart setting information that defines settings related to restarting of remote connection with a computer, controls remote connection, and changes the restart setting information according to an instruction. When remote connection is terminated as a result of a function that terminates remote connection being executed, if the restart setting information includes a setting for automatically restarting remote connection, remote connection is automatically restarted and, if the restart setting information includes a setting for not automatically restarting remote connection, remote connection is not automatically restarted.

Electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

Provided is an image forming apparatus enabling more appropriate data deletion. The image forming apparatus includes an output setting circuit for performing output setting for adjusting an output of image data to a target output result by selection operation, an output operation circuit for performing output of image data by instruction operation so that a process corresponding to the output setting is performed, an association circuit for storing association information in which the output image data is associated with the output setting, a state determination circuit for determining whether or not the target output result can be obtained based on a current state of the apparatus, and a data deletion circuit for automatically deleting or selecting the deletion of the image data associated with the output setting based on the association information when it is determined that the target output result cannot be obtained.

Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing image forming program

Provided is an image forming apparatus having a control circuit. The control circuit includes a standard application execution circuit, an apparatus control platform, and a standard application control circuit. The standard application execution circuit has the standard application execution service that executes a standard application. The apparatus control platform includes control service, apparatus control execution service, and an apparatus control management service. The control service controls hardware on an operating system. The apparatus control execution service executes the control service with an interface that is an executing procedure of the control service. The apparatus control management service instructs a call of the control service to the apparatus control execution service. The standard application control circuit manages a state of the standard application and provides an interface for using the hardware resources of the standard application execution service.

Image forming apparatus, method and recording medium that execute standard application to control hardware resources

Provided is an image formation device with which expanded is easy and the development cost can be reduced. A device control platform manages hardware resource in an operating system. A standard application service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing a standard application function from outside of a standard application execution unit. A platform service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing hardware resource from the outside of the device control platform. A standard function service enables the use of the standard application functions corresponding to the standard application service interface unit. An expanded function service enables the use of the hardware resource corresponding to the platform service interface unit. An expanded application management unit manages and executes expanded applications capable of calling the standard function service and the expanded function service.

Image formation device which can be expanded and image forming method for expanding an image formation device

An image forming apparatus is provided which can insert a test-printed sheet on an arbitrary page into an intended page. The image forming apparatus includes a test print selection portion, an original document reading portion, a test print page specification portion, a test print portion, a sheet set member, a print instruction portion and a print portion, where from image data on the read original document, overall page information, information specifying the page on which the test print is performed and detection information indicating that the test print page is set in the sheet set member, based on the instruction from the print instruction portion, the print portion performs the print while inserting the test print page into the intended page.

Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing test print page insertion program

An image forming apparatus includes: a display device that displays an operation screen with respect to a user; an input device that receives an input operation from the user; a storage device; a work amount log table management circuit that specifies, for each job, an operation type and required time of each of a series of user operations made before executing the job, and stores the operation type and the required time in the storage device as a work amount log; and a work amount calculation circuit that reads out the work amount log from the storage device, specifies, based on the operation type in the work amount log, operations that can be substituted by a workflow that uses an operation aid function registered in the storage device out of the series of user operations, and proposes the substitution of the specified operations by the workflow to the user.

Image forming apparatus that proposes substitution of operations or series of jobs by workflow to user

An electronic apparatus includes a display device, a storage device, and a display control circuit. The storage device stores data for screens to be displayed on the display device. The display control circuit controls the display of the screens by the display device based on the data stored in the storage device. The display control circuit enables switching between a first mode in which data for a plurality of types of screens can be stored in the storage device and a second mode in which data for a single type of screen can be stored in the storage device. The first mode displays a screen on the display device based on only data permitted to be displayed on the display device among the data for the plurality of types of screens in the storage device.

Electronic apparatus with a display section on which screens are displayed and non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a display control program

Provided is the image forming apparatus, image formation method, and recording medium, which make unnecessary a change of the function in the side of a whole apparatus control platform, when the addition (extension) of the function of application is needed. Image processing service I/F, device operation service I/F, and network communication service I/F of a platform service I/F part are independent, without cooperating, respectively. Then, image processing service, device operation service, and network communication service of each part controlling service are called. That is calling a control service providing part of each part controlling service corresponding to the request from the standard application, directly, by each control service call part.

Image forming apparatus, image formation method, and recording medium that execute application

Provided is an image forming device includes a control circuit having (1) a device control platform managing a hardware resource on an operating system, (2) a standard application execution part executing a standard application utilizing the hardware resource under the control of the device control platform, (3) an extended application platform with a standard function service that allows for a utilization of a function of the standard application executed by the standard application execution part, and (4) an install service adding, without having to change a configuration of a standard firmware, an interface in order to cope with a function that is not available and allowing for utilization thereof.

Image forming device, image forming method and recording medium that allow application to run

An exemplary embodiment provides a hinge structure capable of achieving improved durability. The hinge structure includes a hinge pin having a first member and a second member having one end surface and the other end surface provided at a distance from each other in an axial direction, having a protrusion portion provided to protrude from one end surface in the axial direction, arranged to be opposed to the first member at the other end surface, and being pivotable with respect to the first member, and a hinge pin reception portion having a recess portion fitting to a part of the second member and the protrusion portion of the hinge pin. The protrusion portion has a first surface portion extending in a radial direction of the second member. The recess portion has a second surface portion which can be engaged with the first surface portion.

Hinge structure and electronic device

Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a grouping preference unit configured to register user preference information on a storage device based on a user operation, the user preference information indicating how objects within an image are to be classified into groups; an image analysis unit configured to detect the objects within the image; and a grouping unit configured to read the user preference information from the storage device and classify the objects detected within the image into the groups indicated in the read user preference information.

Image processing apparatus that groups objects within image

An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit configured to read information as image data, a character recognition unit configured to recognize individual characters included in the image data, a grouping unit configured to group the individual characters recognized into one or more character string based on character information indicating a format of the character, a character extraction unit configured to extract a character string for which a link is to be created based on an importance of the character string obtained by the grouping, a character search unit configured to search the image data in which the characters have been recognized for the character string having the same character base among the character strings extracted, and a link setting unit configured to link the character strings having the same character base that are retrieved to each other based on the importance.

Image processing apparatus that generates hyperlink structure data

A power collecting device () according to the present invention includes: a polling interval determination unit configured to determine a polling interval () as a time interval at which measured data () is collected from an appliance (); a band measurement unit configured to measure a communicable band () usable for communication between the power collecting device () and the appliance (); a sampling interval determination unit () configured to determine a sampling interval () as an interval between measurement times of a plurality of measured values included in the measured data () so that a data volume of the measured data () becomes equal to or smaller than a data volume that can be communicated at the polling interval () by using the communicable band (); and a data transmission request unit () configured to transmit, to the appliance () at the polling interval (), a data transmission request message () requesting the appliance () for transmitting the measured data () including the measured value obtained through the measurement at the sampling interval ().

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Osaka, Japan

Takashi Murakami