Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Socionext Inc.

Takayuki Matsui

Taro Mikami

Keiji Ishiguro

Kazuhide Kobayashi

Masashi Murakami

Atsuo Matsunaga

Isamu Ishimura

Masayuki Kudo

Kazuhide Yanase

Tadao Inoue

Kiyotaka Iwamoto

Eiichi Moriyama

Masahiro Nakahira

Yoko Kubo

Ryougo Yanagisawa

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to, if it is determined that a connecting process of connecting a continuous sheet and another continuous sheet to each other is to be executed when a trailing end of the continuous sheet transported by a printing unit is detected, prohibit the continuous sheet from being transported in response to a user's operation at a time when the trailing end of the continuous sheet is detected.

Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit that receives an instruction for an operation and executes the operation, and an instruction unit that outputs the instruction to the operation unit. The operation unit includes a configuration storage unit that stores deployment configuration of one or more image forming apparatuses, and an instruction acceptance unit that accepts an instruction for an operation corresponding to the deployment configuration. The instruction unit includes an instruction output unit that receives a designation of an operation, and outputs an instruction for the designated operation to the operation unit, and a configuration reporting unit that, if the designated operation does not correspond to a first deployment configuration stored in the configuration storage unit, reports to the operation unit a second deployment configuration to which the designated operation corresponds, and stores the second deployment configuration in the configuration storage unit, before the instruction is output.

Image forming apparatus having deployment configurations

Provided is a printing device including a print data receiving unit, a page calculation unit that calculates a number of pages before stopping with using a page length of received print data and a distance from a printing mechanism unit to a visual recognition unit, a print instruction unit that changes the number of pages before stopping or a number of printed pages and performs print processing when the received print data corresponds to a control page for controlling printing, and a print stop unit that stops printing when the number of printed pages coincides with the number of pages before stopping.

Printing system with visual recognition unit

The DVD player includes: a reproducing unit reproducing audio data and video data; a first transmission unit converting, into first data in accordance with a first standard, the audio data and video data reproduced by the reproducing unit, and transmitting the first data to the television; a second transmission unit converting, into second data in accordance with a second standard, the audio data and video data reproduced by the reproducing unit, and transmitting the second data to the television; a display determination unit determining whether or not to display an error message regarding an error occurring in the first transmission unit based on whether or not the video is displayed using the first data; and a display control unit causing the message display unit to display the error message according to a result of the determination by the display determination unit.

Video and audio reproduction apparatus, and video and audio reproduction method

A mobile terminal device that executes a function setting operation is disclosed. When a memory card that stores various file types is inserted into the mobile terminal device, a decision processing portion reads identification information of the memory card and compares the identification information with stored identification information in a storing portion. If the read identification information and the stored identification information coincide, a function setting controlling portion executes a resetting of a display or of a sound function of the mobile terminal device by using the various file types stored in the memory card.

Mobile terminal device capable of restoring an original function

A video output apparatus includes a video output unit which outputs a video signal while switching the format of the video signal between a first format and a second format for expressing color differently. The video output apparatus also includes a mute signal generation unit which generates, as a muting video signal, a specialized video signal expressing a color in which the difference between the color displayed when the specialized video signal is interpreted in its own format and the color displayed when the specialized video signal is interpreted in a different format is a minimum. The video output apparatus further includes a selection unit, which selects one of the video signal outputted by said video output unit and the mute signal generated by said mute signal generation unit and outputs the selected signal, and a control unit, which causes the selection unit to select the mute signal in a period including the switch performed by the video output unit.

Video output apparatus, control method thereof, and video device

In a wireless network including a wireless LAN device having a base station function compatible with the IEEE 802.11e standard and a wireless LAN device having a terminal function compatible with the standard, a band-guaranteed data reception check timer' starts measuring a preset time when the terminal receives band-guaranteed data from the base station after a band acquisition response signal is transmitted from the base station to the terminal and a band-guaranteed data transfer is established between the base station and the terminal. If band-guaranteed data is not received from the base station before the measurement of the preset time is completed, the terminal determines that the wireless network connection has been disconnected to request the base station for re-connection of the wireless network after passage of the preset time. Therefore, even if the power supply to the base station is cut off to disconnect the wireless network connection between the wireless LAN devices, it is possible to immediately detect the disconnection of the wireless network connection and to re-connect the wireless network.

Wireless LAN device having terminal function, wireless LAN device having base station function, and wireless network having the wireless LAN device

In measurement of wireless channels in an IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN), in the case of multi-channel measurement as in North America in which eight wireless channels Ch1 through Ch8 are available, channel measurement according to a predetermined algorithm is made in which odd-numbered channels Ch1, Ch3, Ch5 and Ch7 are first measured, and if radio interference occurs in channel Ch5, channels Ch4 and Ch6 adjacent to channel Ch5 are measured. This shortens the measurement time that conventionally corresponds to measurement of the eight channels to the time of six channels, i.e., the sum of the measurement time for the odd-numbered channels and that for the channels adjacent to the interference-occurring channel.

Wireless device and wireless channel measurement controller

In a wireless network structure which includes a wireless LAN device having a base station function (host device) which is compliant with IEEE802.11h and at least one wireless LAN device having a terminal function (slave device) which is not compliant with IEEE802.11h, the incompliant terminal transmits a probe request to the base station for confirming the presence of the base station. When the base station has dynamically switched its channel (frequency), a probe response is not returned from the base station to the terminal. Thus, the incompliant terminal transmits a probe request through a different channel in order to confirm the presence of the base station. The incompliant terminal repeats the above channel search process till the base station is found.

Wireless network having IEEE802.11h-incompliant terminal wireless device communicating with IEEE802.11h-compliant base wireless device

In an interface control semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of protocol circuits for processing a protocol such as AV- or PC-oriented protocols engaged in an IEEE 1394 standard-compliant data transmission, power consumption is reduced. To achieve this, the interface control semiconductor integrated circuit including the protocol circuits is provided with a plurality of switches associated with the respective protocol circuits and each of the switches performs a switching between supply and shut-off of a clock. A clock is supplied to one of the protocol circuits which should be used whereas clock to unused protocol circuits are shut-off, by controlling each of the switches.

System for controlling the clock to each of a plurality of protocol circuits of an interface control integrated circuit based on the type of data to be transmitted

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Takayuki Matsui