Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Tetsuya Nishino

Yoshihisa Tanaka

Masahiro Inoue

Daisuke Yoshida

Shoichi Sakaguchi

Yoshio Morita

Keisaku Matsumae

Yoshiki Yoshioka

Masaru Sato

Yoshiyuki Fujiwara

Yasushi Tsukamoto

Hiroshi Sakai

Shigeaki Nakamura

Seiji Onishi

Yukihiro Oi

Yoshio Shirai

Yasuhiko Kida

Toru Yasui

Takashi Oguma

Tetsuya Shibata

Toshitsugu Nishimi

Keiko Morita

Masaki Sone

Isaac Judd

Hiromasa Akamatsu

Naoaki Fukuoka

An image forming apparatus includes an activator, a command storage device and a controller. The activator activates a customer ID received by a UI, out of customer IDs stored in a customer ID storage device. The command storage device stores the activated customer ID in association with command information received by the UI. The controller changes a function setting of the image forming apparatus, according to the command information received from an external device, despite a security level being set to a high level, when function information included in the command information received from the external device via a communication device accords with the function information included in changeable command information stored in the command storage device.

Image forming apparatus that changes behavior setting according to instruction from external device

A visibility adjusting unit () displays on the display device () a user interface to specify a visibility level, detects with the input device () a user operation performed to the user interface such that the user operating specifies a visibility level, determines the visibility level based on the detected user operation, and converts the determined visibility level to a resolution in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule. The scan control unit () specifies to the image scanning unit () the resolution obtained in the conversion performed by the visibility adjusting unit () and causes the image scanning unit () to generate image data of the document image, and converts the generated image data to image data of a specified data type.

Image scanning apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a printing device, a specific character string detector, and a controller. The specific character string detector extracts a specific area image, enlarges the specific area image, executes character recognition processing on the enlarged specific area image to detect a character string, and determines whether or not the detected character string includes a predetermined specific character string. The controller prohibits copying of the document image when the predetermined specific character string is included in the detected character string. The size of the specific character string before enlargement is smaller than a lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing, and the size of the specific character string after enlargement is equal to or larger than the lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing.

Image processing apparatus

An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. The storage controller stores data in the storage when the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, transmits the data to a predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and stores the transmitted data in the predetermined storage device.

Information processing device having control unit that controls communication unit to transmit data generated or processed by processing unit to predetermined storage device, and information processing system including the same

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a management terminal device, and a mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device downloads and installs an application program, presents identification information to the management terminal device, and accepts a temporal ID. The management terminal device, upon accepting the identification information from the mobile terminal device, generates the temporal ID, presents the temporal ID to the mobile terminal device, and transmits the temporal ID to a user authentication device to register the temporal ID as a user ID of the guest user. When payment of a usage fee for the image forming apparatus by the guest user is completed, the management terminal device deletes registration of the temporal ID. The image forming apparatus performs user authentication when the guest user logs in to the image forming apparatus, and issues an invoice when the guest user logs out.

Image forming system

An image forming apparatus includes a reading section, a detection section, a determination section, and a decision section. The reading section reads an image of a first document and generates a document information item indicating the image and a sheet color of the first document. The reading section also reads an image of a second document and generates a document information item indicating the image and a sheet color of the second document. The detection section detects sheet colors based on the respective document information items. The determination section determines whether or not the sheet color each match any one of specific colors other than the white color. When the determination section determines that a sheet color matches one of the specific colors, the decision section decides a transmission address of the document information items based the one specific color.

Image reading device and image forming apparatus

An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. Each of a plurality of sheets of data is associated with each predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and information indicating a correspondence between the plurality of sheets and the predetermined storage devices is stored in the storage in advance. When the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, the storage controller performs a process of storing data in the storage and causing the communication unit to transmit data indicating the plurality of sheets to storage devices associated with the sheets with respect to each of the plurality of sheets, and stores the transmitted data in the storage devices.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method

An information processing apparatus includes a display section, a storage section, and a control unit. When accepting a predetermined gesture under a gesture acceptance control, the control unit allows the storage section to store window information indicating a size and a position of a window being displayed on the display section, creates an icon associated with a file being displayed in the window, and allows the display section to display the icon. When accepting a launch gesture on the icon under the gesture acceptance control, the control unit retrieves the window information from the storage section and allows the display section to display a window for displaying the file associated with the icon in the size and position indicated by the window information.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium with information processing program recorded thereon, and information processing method

This image forming apparatus () is equipped with: a document set detector (, S, S); a document size detector (, S, S, S); a manual feeder () with a manual feed tray () that is not equipped with a sensor for detecting the size of set manually-fed paper; a printer () that performs printing on the basis of image data; an operation panel () that receives setting for feeding paper from the manual feeder (); and a controller () that recognizes the size of a set document and performs manually-fed-paper automatic setting for recognizing the recognized size of the set document as the size of the manually-fed paper.

Image forming apparatus and control method for image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores therein organizational department codes previously set one corresponding to each of organizational departments for an organizational department member to use the image forming apparatus, a guest department code, which is previously set for department management guests, who do not belong to any of the organizational departments, to use the image forming apparatus, and department function management information for managing function-use permission/prohibition with respect to each of the organizational department codes and the guest department code. The input unit receives an input regarding whether a user is an organizational department member or a department management guest. On receiving a use request from a department management guest via the input unit, the control unit finds an available function based on the guest department code and the department function management information.

Image forming apparatus

At least one of a plurality of image forming apparatuses in an image forming system is a report accepting image forming apparatus that accepts a last exit report. Upon accepting the last exit report, the report accepting image forming apparatus executes a last exit process and transmits, to any other of the plurality of image forming apparatuses in the image forming system listed on a list, a last exit notification including a command for commanding the any other of the plurality of image forming apparatuses to execute the last exit process so that the any other of the plurality of image forming apparatuses also executes the last exit process.

Image forming system and image forming apparatus

A management server includes a communication unit configured to receive job data and transmit the job data to the image forming apparatus so that the image forming apparatus executes the job, and a registering unit. When the communication unit receives the job data containing account information, if it is determined that the account information contained in the job data satisfies the registration condition, the registering unit registers the account information contained in the job data. If it is determined that the registration condition is not satisfied, the registering unit does not register the account information contained in the job data.

Management server and image forming system including the same

When installing a driver program on a terminal device of a user who joins a group to which an image forming apparatus supported by the driver program is assigned, a non-transitory recording medium for installation of the driver program causes a computer in the terminal device to display an operation screen including a first and a second operation element. When the first operation element is selected, the computer is caused to create a document box for the user and add membership information of the user to group management data managed by a predetermined server. When the second operation element is selected, the computer is caused to create the document box, identify an image forming apparatus assigned to a former group of the user with reference to the group management data, delete a document box from the identified image forming apparatus, and add the membership information to the group management data.

Recording medium

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores an account management program. The account management program causes a computer in a mobile terminal apparatus to perform the steps of: receiving service table data from an image forming apparatus and storing the service table data in the mobile terminal apparatus; receiving account information required to use a service from a user; storing the account information in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the account information with the service; receiving an identification code of the service when the user logs in the image forming apparatus, and storing the identification code in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the identification code with the account information associated with the service; and receiving the identification code from the image forming apparatus when performing the service, and transmitting to the image forming apparatus the account information associated with the received identification code.

Non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an account management program, image forming apparatus and image forming system

An image forming apparatus includes a display device, an operation device, an information-for-display reception unit, and a display control unit. The display device displays information for display. The operation device is receives input of an operation by a user. The information-for-display reception unit receives the information for display from an external device. The display control unit controls the display device, and causes the display device to display the information for display when the information for display received by the information-for-display reception unit is directed to the user.

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Nishino