Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Osaka University

Takashi Toyoda

Yoshizumi Nakao

Yasuo Masaki

Yoshimasa Imahori

Ryoichi Horisaki

Jun Tanida

Akihiro Kanekawa

Toru Yasui

Hiroyuki Takaishi

Masayuki Iwamoto

Katsuji Furushige

Masato Tanba

Tomonori Naota

Tomoki Oyasato

Takuya Tsuji

Kyoichiro Hayashi

Muneki Yamada

Yuya Maesono

Hideki Tennichi

Kouichi Kugo

A print control method includes a confidential print control step. The confidential print control step includes determining whether skip permission conditions set in advance for each of the plurality of pieces of user designation data are satisfied when the submission destination designation data of the confidential job data requested to be executed includes a plurality of pieces of user designation data assigned with prioritization orders, thereby specifying the user designation data falling within a print permission range according to the prioritization orders, and executing confidential print control for the user designation data within the print permission range. The confidential print control step includes causing to execute the print processing for the confidential job data on the condition that the input authentication data by which the user authentication process is successful matches the data corresponding to the user designation data among the plurality of pieces of registration authentication data.

Print control method and image forming apparatus determines skip permission conditions to execute print processing for confidential job data

An information processing apparatus includes first and second power feed control portions and a storage processing portion. The first power feed control portion stops power feed to a nonvolatile first storage portion when reading or writing data from/to the first storage portion is completed. In a case where power feed to the first storage portion is stopped, the storage processing portion stores specific data among data stored in the first storage portion into a second storage portion. When an access request for accessing data in the first storage portion has been received: when access-target data specified in the access request is not stored in the second storage portion, the second power feed control portion resumes power feed to the first storage portion; and when the access-target data is stored in the second storage portion, does not resume the power feed to the first storage portion.

Information processing apparatus capable of stopping power feed to nonvolatile storage portion, power feed control method

An image output control device controls an image output device that outputs an image. The image output control device performs an adjustment to make an output image close to a reference image of a reference image display apparatus preliminarily set. The image output control device includes a capturing unit and an image adjustment unit. The capturing unit captures the output image to generate output image data. The image adjustment unit calculates an adjustment amount for making the output image close to the reference image using the output image data to adjust image data using the calculated adjustment amount.

Image output control device, image output control method, image output system, and recording medium

To provide an electronic device that is capable of maintaining a backup performance of a specified type of data for a long period of time. An MFP has a feature to includes a HDD, an SSD, a data type determination part that determines whether or not data is a specified type of data, a writing control part that controls a data writing, the writing control part writing the data that is determined to be the specified type of the data to both the HDD and the SSD, the writing control part writes the data that is determined not to be the specified type of the data to only the HDD, among the HDD and the SSD.

Electronic device and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

An information processing device includes a volatile memory, a non-volatile semiconductor memory, a storage circuit, and a processor. The processor records corresponding update information in a first log area when updating actual data in a first actual data area by the update data. The processor collects the update information recorded in the first log area at a specific timing. The processor writes the collected update information to a second log area. After writing the collected update information, the processor initializes the first log area. When the second log area becomes full, the processor writes the actual data in the first actual data area to the corresponding second actual data area. After writing the actual data, the processor initializes the first log area and the second log area.

Information processing device that extends service life of non-volatile semiconductor memory and recording medium

An electronic device includes volatile memory, flash memory, and a CPU. The volatile memory includes a first actual data region that records actual data and a first log region that records update information including update data used for updating the actual data. The flash memory includes blocks and undergoes block unit initialization when writing is to be performed thereto. The blocks each include a second actual data region that records actual data and a second log region that records update information written from the first log region. The CPU writes update information corresponding to update data to the first log region when updating actual data using the update data. At a preset specific timing, the CPU collects update information recorded in the first log region, writes the collected update information to the second log regions in accordance with a specific order, and subsequently initializes the first log region.

Image forming apparatus that writes data from volatile memory to non-volatile memory

The image forming apparatus includes a non-volatile memory that stores data; a volatile memory into which the stored data is read for editing; a reading unit that reads the data from the non-volatile memory into the volatile memory; an editing unit that edits the read data; and a writing unit that writes the edited data into the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory further includes a writing type that is associated with the data and provides a rule of how to write at the time of writing the data into the non-volatile memory after editing the data on the volatile memory. The reading unit reads the writing type at the time of reading the data. The writing unit writes, based on the writing type associated with the edited data, the data into the non-volatile memory.

Image forming apparatus that performs writing into a non-volatile memory, and a method

The memory area managing unit(a) sets a protect flag to each virtual area allocated in a virtual memory space, the protect flag indicating whether a use of the virtual area has been finished or not, and (b) when a part or all of a first virtual area would overlap another second virtual area due to expansion or movement of the first virtual area, allows the expansion or the movement of the first virtual area accompanying with overlapping the second virtual area, if the protect flag of the second virtual area indicates that a use of the second virtual area has been finished. If the expansion or the movement is allowed, the memory pool managing unitadds a physical area in a physical memory space corresponding to an overlapping part of the first and second virtual areas into a memory pool to map to another virtual area.

Memory managing apparatus and image processing apparatus

There is provided an image forming apparatus that eliminates the need for separately preparing an encrypted file for each user. To achieve this, the image forming apparatus performs control of browsing of a browsing file that is browsed at a terminal. The document acquisition portion of the image forming apparatus acquires document data. The document encryption portion encrypts the document data with a public key as the browsing file. The position information setting portion sets position information to permit browsing of the browsing file encrypted by the document encryption portion in a viewer for causing the browsing file to be browsed at the terminal. In the case where it has been determined that the position information coincides with a current position, a browsing execution portion at the terminal uses a secret key to decrypt the browsing file for causing it to be browsed.

Image forming apparatus performing control of browsing of a file by a terminal, terminal, file browsing control system, image forming method, and recording medium

The respective jobs of copying, printing, scanning, and faxing processed by an integrated application are unitarily divided into four job steps. A package of function modules selectively used in the respective jobs is classified into four groups of input, create, edit, and output function modules according to the division. A data format is unified into bitmap by a create function module, and the bitmap data is processed by an edit function module for pagination or aggregation, etc. In response to receiving setting information and a job code, a job controlling module creates job step control blocks and writes the information therein to create a job. Each of job step controlling (JSC) modules to starts a function module for each page, and after the completion thereof, creates a thread control block for the next downstream side JSC module.

Multi-function peripheral apparatus for processing unified job steps

An operation control program controls a computer provided in an image forming apparatus to serve as: a service section which discriminates an operation of a service requested by a user, and constructs a job corresponding to the operation by selecting one or a plurality of job scenarios prepared in advance as constituting element of the job and using the selected job scenario; and a job performing section for executing sequentially a processing indicated by each job scenario constituting the job constructed by the service section.

Image forming apparatus that discriminates an operation of a service requested and constructs a job corresponding to the operation by selecting a job scenario prepared in advance

The invention provides a drawer type microwave oven having a turntable functioning as a uniform heating mechanism with a visual effect, while maintaining the ceiling height of a heating chamber and having improved usability. A turntable drive mechanismutilizing a thin deceleration mechanism and a pivot mechanism is disposed in a spaceformed between a bottom wallof the drawer bodyand a bottom wallof the heating chamber, and a power transmission mechanism is engaged in a detachable manner in conjunction with the movement of the drawer bodytogether with the door. Thus, a drawer type microwave oven capable of performing uniform heating by pivot rotation while maintaining the ceiling height of the heating chamber is realized.

Drawer type cooking device having turntable mechanism

A compound-eye imaging device comprises an imaging device body having 9 optical lenses and a solid-state imaging element for imaging unit images formed by the optical lenses. Assuming that the combination of each of the optical lenses with a corresponding divided area of the solid-state imaging element to image each of the corresponding unit images is an imaging unit, thereby forming multiple imaging units, the respective imaging units have randomly different optical imaging conditions. For example, the focal lengths of the 9 optical lenses are set to have random values in which the optical lenses are arranged to have random distances between adjacent ones thereof in a direction parallel to the major surface of the solid-state imaging element. This compound-eye imaging device substantially prevents unit images formed by respective imaging units from being the same, making it possible to easily increase the definition of a reconstructed image.

Compound-eye imaging device

An imaginary object plane is set in front of an imaging device body (plane setting step). A part of optical conditions of optical lenses are changed as variables, and positions of points (pixel observation points) on the imaginary object plane where lights coming from pixels of a solid-state imaging element and back-projected through the optical lenses are calculated (pixel observation point calculating step). The dispersion in position of the calculated pixel observation points is evaluated (evaluating step). Finally, a set of values of the variables giving maximum evaluated dispersion of the calculated pixel observation points is determined as optimum optical condition of the optical lenses (condition determining step). This reduces the number of pixels which image the same portions of the target object, making it possible to reduce portions of the same image information in multiple unit images, and to stably obtain a reconstructed image having a high definition.

Optical condition design method for a compound-eye imaging device

A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36&#xb0; to form a central unit image on the photodetector array, and left and right side lenses for receiving lights in left and right ranges each of 72&#xb0; in capture angle of 180&#xb0;; and four prisms in two pairs placed facing the side lenses. The two pairs of left and right prisms (more inclined and less inclined pairs) collect lights in divided two pairs of left and right ranges each of 36&#xb0; in the 72&#xb0; range (pairs closer to, and farther from, the front range), respectively, to form four side unit images on the photodetector array which are combined with the central unit image to reproduce a panoramic image without using wide-angle lenses or complex image correction process.

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Daito, Japan

Takashi Toyoda