Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Tatsuya Hanayama

Kentaro Okamoto

Daijiro Kitamoto

Yui Kato

An image forming apparatus provided with a storage and a random access memory (RAM) includes an extended app manager that performs management of an extended app as an application for implementing a function other than the standard functions of the image forming apparatus in itself, and an extended app platform as a platform of the extended app. The extended app manager stores a source for extended app application program interface (API) that is a program for an extended app API as an API usable to the extended app, in a region for dynamic addition that is a region provided on the storage for purposes of dynamic addition of the source for extended app API, and the extended app platform uses the source for extended app API in the region for dynamic addition to load the extended app API on the RAM.

Electronic apparatus allowing running of extended app and computer readable non-transitory recording medium storing program

An electronic apparatus includes a controller circuit being configured to detect a first input information, the first input information being information input in an input device by a user, create a first image and display the first image on a display device, the first image being an image created based on the first input information, obtain the first input information and the first image, detect, from the storage device, second input information being same as the first input information, determine a similarity degree between the first image created based on the first input information and a second image in association with the second input information detected from the storage device, and where the similarity degree between the first image and the second image is smaller than a threshold, output a result that the similarity degree is smaller than the threshold.

Electronic apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium that stores image determination program

In an image forming system provided with a plurality of image forming apparatuses, at least one of the image forming apparatuses takes over an application owned by other the image forming apparatus, and acquires, from a transfer source, the number of times of application use indicating the number of times of using the application in the image forming apparatus being the transfer source of the application. When execution of the application is finished, the image forming apparatus determines between the image forming apparatus itself, and the transfer source of the application, in which the number of times of application use of the application is larger, based on the number of times of application use acquired from the transfer source, and transfers the application to the transfer source, when the transfer source has a larger number of times of application use than the transfer destination.

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Osaka, Japan

Tatsuya Hanayama