Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tatsuya Ogawa

Motoki Koshigaya

Tsunahito Nakashita

Manabu Hada

Tsutomu Kubota

Hidetaka Tabuchi

Koichi Ito

Akitomo Fukui

An information processing apparatus includes a sterilization unit that performs sterilization with an ultraviolet light source a part of the information processing apparatus that is operated on, a management unit that manages lifetime information corresponding to a product lifetime of the ultraviolet light source and usage information corresponding to an irradiation time and an irradiation output of the ultraviolet light source, and a control unit that controls the ultraviolet light source in a first control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a first irradiation time and a first irradiation output or in a second control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a second irradiation time shorter than the first irradiation time and a second irradiation output higher than the first irradiation output.

Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus including at least one unit that receives a user operation, the information processing apparatus includes an ultraviolet irradiation device that performs disinfection processing for disinfecting at least a part of the at least one unit, an operation unit including a display that provides notification to a user, and a controller, wherein during the disinfection processing for the at least a part of the at least one unit, the controller causes the operation unit to provide notification to the user not to touch the information processing apparatus.

An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit for receiving an instruction given by a user, and according to receipt of a request of a print-and-delivery job from an external apparatus, performs print processing to produce a print and passes the produced print to a print delivery apparatus that delivers a print to a designated delivery destination. A controller controls an order of execution of jobs. In a state in which a print-and-delivery job has been registered in a job queue of the image forming apparatus, in a case where an instruction for executing a predetermined job which cannot be processed in parallel with the print-and-delivery job is received from the operation unit, the controller performs predetermined job priority control for causing the predetermined job to be preferentially executed.

Image forming apparatus that produces print for delivery, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus performs printing based on a print job and receives a completion notification from an automatic printed material delivery apparatus. Based on receipt of the completion notification, the image forming apparatus transmits a receipt acknowledgement request to a personal computer (PC) corresponding to a user (a requested user or a designated user) based on the job. Further, the image forming apparatus receives, from the PC, an acknowledgement notification based on a user operation performed on the PC in connection with the receipt acknowledgement request. In response to receipt of the acknowledgement notification, the image forming apparatus registers information indicating that the printed material has been received by the user based on the job as a job log of the job.

Image forming apparatus, printer driver, and system for outputting a printed material based on a print job

A communication system includes a communication apparatus and a communication terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with each other, wherein the communication terminal includes a first wireless communication interface configured to support a Bluetooth® standard and include a single antenna, and wherein the communication apparatus includes a second wireless communication interface configured to support the Bluetooth® standard and include a plurality of antennas, and includes one or more controllers configured to function as a unit configured to obtain angle information and field intensity information based on a result of reception of radio waves, by the plurality of antennas, transmitted from the single antenna; and a unit configured to transmit an establishment request for wireless communication based on the Bluetooth® standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface based on a fact that the angle information and the field intensity information satisfy a predetermined condition.

Communication system using wireless communication, communication apparatus, and control method

In a communication system including a communication apparatus and a communication terminal which are able to perform wireless communication with each other, the communication apparatus includes a first wireless communication interface conforming to a Bluetooth standard and including a plurality of antennas, and the communication terminal includes a second wireless communication interface conforming to the Bluetooth standard and one or more controllers configured to acquire angle information and radio field intensity information based on a result of a plurality of radio waves respectively emitted from the plurality of antennas having been received by the second wireless communication interface, and, in response to the angle information and the radio field intensity information having satisfied a predetermined condition, transmit a request for establishment of wireless communication conforming to the Bluetooth standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface.

Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method using wireless communication

An apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a user of information, and a controller configured to identify at least one unit based on an operation performed by the user among a plurality of units included in the apparatus, wherein the notification unit can notify the user of first information indicating the identified at least one unit and second information regarding disinfection of the identified at least one unit.

Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus which is capable of preventing a malfunction of a storage using flash memory caused by a decrease in the number of free blocks. The information processing apparatus controls a storage that includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller that controls the nonvolatile memory. The number of free blocks in the nonvolatile memory is detected, and in accordance with the detected number of free blocks, the memory controller is instructed to switch to one of the following writing modes: a first writing mode in which the memory controller writes data to the nonvolatile memory without performing garbage collection, and a second writing mode in which the memory control unit writes data to the nonvolatile memory and then performs garbage collection.

Information processing apparatus equipped with storage using flash memory, control method therefor, and storage medium

A communication system includes a communication apparatus and a communication terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with each other, wherein the communication terminal includes a first wireless communication interface configured to support a Bluetooth&#xae; standard and include a single antenna, and wherein the communication apparatus includes a second wireless communication interface configured to support the Bluetooth&#xae; standard and include a plurality of antennas, and includes one or more controllers configured to function as a unit configured to obtain angle information and field intensity information based on a result of reception of radio waves, by the plurality of antennas, transmitted from the single antenna; and a unit configured to transmit an establishment request for wireless communication based on the Bluetooth&#xae; standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface based on a fact that the angle information and the field intensity information satisfy a predetermined condition.

A storage control apparatus capable of suppressing reduction of the service life of a storage device, caused due to increase of the number of times of ON/OFF operation of a spindle motor, while suppressing occurrence of accidental failure of the spindle motor. The storage control apparatus is equipped with an HDD including a magnetic disk and the spindle motor for rotating the magnetic disk. A value indicating a use state of the storage control apparatus is acquired, and the operation mode of the HDD is set, based on the acquired value, to one of a suppression operation mode for suppressing the total rotation time of the spindle motor and a normal operation mode for suppressing the number of times of ON/OFF operation of the spindle motor.

Storage control apparatus equipped with storage device, method of controlling same, and storage medium

An object of the preset invention is to prolong the life of an HDD by performing load/unload control without reducing usability. The present invention is an information processing apparatus including: a hard disk drive; a control unit configured to perform control so that a load state in the hard disk drive is kept for a predetermined time; and a derivation unit configured to derive the number of times of load/unload in the hard disk drive, and the information processing apparatus further includes a change unit configured to change the predetermined time during which the load state is kept based on the operation time of the information processing apparatus and the number of times of load/unload.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Tatsuya Ogawa