Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Taketomo Naruse

Ryohei Saito

Akiyoshi Sahara

Takayuki Ochiai

Akihiro Chiba

An object is to manage the remaining amount of liquid of a specific liquid container. A control method executed in an information processing apparatus including an image-capturing unit is characterized by: obtaining a captured image of a liquid container which is acquired by capturing an image using the image-capturing unit; obtaining a first identifier for uniquely identifying the liquid container from the captured image; identifying a remaining amount of liquid in the liquid container, based on the captured image; and transmitting the first identifier and the remaining amount of liquid to an external apparatus.

Control method executed in information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

An apparatus that executes a job, broadcasts a wireless signal prior to establishing a connection by wireless communication with an external apparatus. The wireless signal includes information relating to the apparatus, by which it can be identified whether execution of a job by the apparatus is possible, in a predetermined packet.

Communication apparatus having power related predetermined processing, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

Communication apparatus using an advertising signal, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

An audio control device receives a print instruction by audio and causes a print apparatus connected to an external access point to execute a print process in accordance with the print instruction received by audio.

Print system, print apparatus, control method, and storage medium

When a voice instruction received by a voice control device is an instruction to cause an output apparatus to execute output, a candidate of the output apparatus is notified. The voice control device receives, by voice, a designation of the output apparatus from the candidate of the output apparatus. The output apparatus corresponding to the received designation executes the output based on the voice instruction.

Voice control system, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

The image forming apparatus manages information on a consumable item by a management chip and includes a control unit configured to control the management chip, and the management chip includes: a chip-side storage unit whose storage area is made up in units of blocks; a simultaneous writing unit configured to simultaneously write information on the consumable item in units of the blocks in the chip-side storage unit; and a predetermined unit writing unit configured to write information on the consumable item in predetermined units smaller than the block unit in the chip-side storage unit, and the control unit performs control so as to write information on the consumable item by the simultaneous writing unit at timing at which there is time constraint and performs control so at to write information on the consumable item by the predetermined unit writing unit at timing at which there is no time constraint.

Image forming apparatus and management method of consumable item

Communication apparatus having first or second state determination, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

Communication apparatus having specific state determination method of controlling the same, and storage medium

A system includes a first communication apparatus having an acquisition unit to acquire connection information and a public key stored in a first memory of a short distance wireless communication unit of a second communication apparatus, an encryption unit to encrypt, by using the acquired public key, data to be processed by the second communication apparatus, and a transmission unit to transmit the encrypted data to the second communication apparatus via an established long distance communication. The second communication apparatus includes a decryption unit to decrypt, by a private key which corresponds to the public key and is stored in a second memory of the second communication apparatus, the transmitted encrypted data. While the second communication apparatus operates in a power saving state, the public key is acquired by the first communication apparatus, and the private key is not able to be acquired by the first communication apparatus.

System, communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium storing program

An information processing apparatus on which a non-contact IC tag can be mounted transmits information to a terminal apparatus when a state of the information processing apparatus changes. The information is the changed information which should be written to the non-contact IC tag.

Printing system, information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

A printing apparatus, including: a printing unit configured to print a plurality of images on a continuous sheet; and a cutting unit configured to cut the continuous sheet per each of the images, wherein, when printing images, information indicating a value obtained by counting the number of the cut sheets cut by the cutting unit is recorded in an area other than the image on the continuous sheet.

Apparatus and method for printing on and cutting a continuous sheet

In an information processing apparatus capable of executing a first wireless communication method and a second wireless communication method having a communication range wider than that of the first wireless communication method, an apparatus to be caused to execute predetermined processing is searched for using both the first wireless communication method and the second wireless communication method. When a common apparatus has been found by both the first wireless communication method and the second wireless communication method, the common apparatus is decided as the apparatus to be caused to execute the predetermined processing by the second wireless communication method.

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Yokohama, Japan

Taketomo Naruse