Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Tatsuyoshi Haga

Shuichi Ito

Mikimasa Honma

Yuji Uchida

Hiroshi Sasada

An image forming device includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; and a controller that controls image formation. The controller can determine whether the image on the recording medium is normal upon reception of a reading result obtained by reading an image on a recording medium that has passed through the image forming unit, and can exercise such control that a recording medium with an image that has been determined to be normal and a recording medium with an image that has been determined to be abnormal are sorted according to a determination result, the controller having a function of, upon such reading, dividing a reading result related to a recording medium and making a determination on an image on the recording medium in accordance with reading results related to segments obtained by division.

Image forming device, inspection device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

An image forming apparatus including: a conveying unit that conveys a transfer medium; an image forming unit that prints an image on the transfer medium based on an image for printing; and a control unit that receives a detection result of an image detection unit that detects the image printed on the transfer medium, wherein the control unit has a determination function used when an image for which image detection is possible and an image for which image detection is not possible are added to a document image to form the image for printing, the determination function being adapted to exclude an area of the image for which image detection is possible and to determine a state of the printed image based on comparison of information of the detected image and information of the image for printing.

Image forming apparatus

A management system in which a plurality of managed apparatuses and a managing apparatus managing the plurality of managed apparatuses are connected so that they communicate via an HTTP server, wherein each of the managed apparatus includes: a communication section accessing the HTTP server and writing apparatus information indicating status of apparatus itself; a timing setting section setting a timing of accessing the HTTP server based on a unique value of apparatus itself set in advance; and a communication control section making the communication section operate periodically based on set timing information; wherein the managing apparatus includes; a communication section accessing the HTTP server and reading out the apparatus information of each of the managed apparatuses.

Management system and managed apparatus, and method of management

An image forming apparatus includes a printer unit to form an image and outputting the image on a sheet, a storage unit, a control unit to control hardware resources of the image forming apparatus including at least the printer unit and the storage unit by executing a first OS that is activated on the image forming apparatus and a control program operating on the first OS and that can execute second to N-th OSs that activate at least one application and an emulator disposed between the first OS and the second to N-th OSs to allow the second to N-th OSs to operate on the first OS, wherein the control unit can cause the first OS to enter into a sleep mode and inhibits the first OS from entering into the sleep mode when at least one of the second to N-th OSs is active.

Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same

An image forming apparatus including: a memory unit to store various pieces of information; and a control unit to execute backup control to store information stored in the memory unit into an external memory device and to make the image forming apparatus shift from an operating state to a predetermined standby state, wherein with the backup control, the control unit makes the image forming apparatus shift from the operating state to the standby state.

Image forming apparatus with backup control

A self-diagnosis function is used to acquire information showing the state of deterioration of a hard disk device, and when the hard disk device is deteriorated, a job is executed under the control which is different from that in the case where the hard disk device is not deteriorated. For example, copying job is executed in the HDD use mode in the case of non-deterioration, and copying job is executed in the HDD non-use mode (an image memory is used) in the case of deterioration. Further, the number of retrials by an alternative sector in the case of occurrence of errors of writing in a hard disk device in the course of job execution is changed according to the state of the deterioration.

Image processing apparatuses and systems for responding to writing errors associated with hard disk devices

A data storage apparatus having a plurality of hard disk drives, having: a deletion control section which executes complete deletion processes of the plurality of hard disk drives simultaneously; and a display control section to form a progress status display information of the complete deletion processes by the deletion control section, which display information represents all the progress statuses of the plurality of the hard disk drives, and to display the display information on a display section.

Data storage apparatus, image forming apparatus and data deletion method

Disclosed is a management system, which makes it possible to securely maintain the communication between the managing apparatus (host) and the managed apparatus (device) even when a certain malfunction has occurred in the network or the server. When the device cannot receive the request sent from the host, the device changes the communication mode from the bilateral communication mode to the unilateral communication mode, and then, when it becomes possible to receive the request, the device changes the communication mode from the unilateral communication mode to the bilateral communication mode to transmit the response to the host. Further, when the host cannot transmit the request to the device, or when the host cannot receive the response to the request, the host suspends an operation for transmitting the request, and then, when it becomes possible to receive the response to the request, the host resumes the operation for transmitting the request.

Management system, managing method and control program

In a data storage apparatus for storing data by making the data to be a file, a file is deleted, in a normal deletion processing, after contents of the file are destructed by overwriting the file to be deleted with data for elimination such as 'all-zeros'. On the other hand, with respect to storage processing, when storing new data, files waiting for deletion are investigated whether they are existent or not, excluding files being deleted currently in the normal deletion processing, and when files waiting for deletion are existent, either one of the files waiting for deletion is overwritten with new data to be stored.

Data storage apparatus, data storage method and image processing apparatus for secure data deletion

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a communication section connected to an information management apparatus to manage a data with a correspondence of the data to the management information and an input apparatus to accept a manuscript information, to communicate with each other; an image forming section to form an image on a recording paper; and a controlling section to transmit the management information to the information management apparatus through the communication section, to receive the data corresponding to the transmitted management information from the information management apparatus, to convert the received data into a barcode information, to form a composite information by combining the barcode information and the manuscript information received from the input apparatus, and to allow the image forming section to form an image of the composite information.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method and computer-readable medium

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a dedicated operation input section having various function keys provided with the image forming apparatus; a connection section to connect an external operation input section having various keys with the image forming apparatus; a memory section to memorize a correspondence information table for each user, in which relationship between the various function keys of the dedicated operation input section and the various keys of the external operation input section is specified; and a control section to control an image forming operation by referring to the correspondence information table for each user memorized in the memory section when an operation input signal is inputted into the control section through the connection section from any of the various keys of the external operation input section.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method and control program of the same

An image forming system having: an image forming apparatus for forming an image base on a job ticket; a remote operation apparatus for remotely operating the image forming apparatus via a network; and a controller for editing the job ticket according to a request from the remote operation apparatus, for generating a template image corresponding to an image forming processing based on the job ticket, which having been edited, and for controlling to display the template image.

Image forming system including an image forming apparatus which forms an image based on a remotely editable job ticket, and control method for image forming system

An image forming apparatus is provided which includes an image forming section for forming an image based on image data, a user-interface for accepting inputs from an operator and for displaying a display screen to the operator, a memory for storing the display screen, a communication section for sending information to an external device, and a controller for sending information concerning the display screen to the external device through the communication section.

Image forming apparatus with a display screen information transmission function

The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for updating internally stored data, and a data processing apparatus for transmitting instruction information to the image processing apparatus for instructing the updating of data. According to the image processing apparatus and the data processing apparatus of the invention, in the processing for obtaining, from a server, update data that are required to update application data for the image processing apparatus, and for updating the application data, the update data acquisition method is pre-designated through the operating unit of the image processing apparatus or the data processing apparatus. When the updating instruction information is entered in the image processing apparatus through the operating unit of the data processing apparatus or the image processing apparatus, new update data are obtained from the server in accordance with the acquisition method designated for the image processing apparatus. Then, the application data stored in the data storage unit of the image processing apparatus are efficiently and easily rewritten to the new update data, without a special tool or hardware being required.

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Hachioji, Japan

Tatsuyoshi Haga