Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tomo Tsuboi

Tomoyuki Okamoto

Nobuo Kamei

Yasuji Takeuchi

Hisashi Uchida

Kazuo Inui

Yoshiaki Shibuta

Kazuo Matoba

Kazumi Sawayanagi

Takehisa Yamaguchi

Satoshi Deishi

Hideki Hino

Toshimichi Iwai

Akihiro Torigoshi

Ayumi Itoh

Yosuke Taniguchi

Kagumi Moriwaki

Yoshinori Sugahara

Kazuo Maatoba

Continuously after two contacts are made on a touch panel, when a gesture of moving the two contacts in a direction that a spacing therebetween is decreased and then releasing the two contacts after being moved is detected, an image forming apparatus identifies a program presented by an icon displayed in an area defined by the two contacts at least either of before and after being moved, as a program subjected to the gesture, and stores information that identifies the program subjected to the gesture. The image forming apparatus reads the information that identifies the program subjected to the gesture in accordance with a command related to the program subjected to the gesture to execute an operation related to the program, and transmits information depending on the operation to another device indicated by the command.

Image forming apparatus and terminal device each having touch panel

An output setting device for setting a scale ratio for image size change when an image is reduced or enlarged to be placed in an output page is provided. The device includes a touch-sensitive panel capable of detecting a multi-touch; and a setting portion setting, when a multi-touch gesture for giving a command to change the image size is made on the touch-sensitive panel, as the scale ratio for image size change, a scale ratio closest to a present scale ratio from among scale ratios available when the image is reduced or enlarged in accordance with the multi-touch gesture in such a manner that at least one of a vertical dimension and a horizontal dimension of the image size is made equal to any one of a vertical dimension and a horizontal dimension of any one of standard sizes with an aspect ratio of the image remaining unchanged.

Output setting device and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

In a material output system, if it is determined that a meeting management server has stored therein meeting information in which an authenticated person is included in prospective participants in a meeting, in which an installation place of MFP that has performed authentication agrees with a meeting room where the meeting is held, and in which the present date and time is included in a meeting room reservation time, MFP is instructed to output a material saved in a location associated with the meeting information. If it is determined that such meeting information is not stored in the meeting management server, the material output system displays a screen to allow output of the material saved in the associated location, for at least one piece of meeting information in which the authenticated user is included in prospective participants in a meeting. Accordingly, the material can be promptly distributed to the participant in the meeting.

Material output system for outputting meeting material for prospective participant in meeting

Identification information pieces used for establishment of a connection between an image processing apparatus and a portable terminal are generated and also linked to the data process conditions registered in advance. The generated identification information pieces are displayed on a display in a style allowing users to understand their linkages to the process conditions. Among those displayed thereon, a specific identification information piece is entered on the portable terminal and transmitted to the image processing apparatus, according to user instruction. Receiving the identification information piece, if the image processing apparatus judges that the identification information piece is appropriate, a connection between the image processing apparatus and the portable terminal is established by using the identification information piece, and then data processing is performed on the data to be processed and other data, under the process condition linked to the identification information piece used for establishment of the connection.

Image processing apparatus capable of wirelessly exchanging data, image processing method capable of wirelessly exchanging data, and image processing program capable of wirelessly exchanging data

An image forming apparatus judges whether or not a close-range wireless communication with a portable terminal is enabled during a period until a printer completes printing out print data. Based on a result drawn from the judgment and a print operation status of the image forming apparatus itself, which is indicated until completion of printing out the print data, the image forming apparatus deletes the print data from the memory or keeps the print data recorded in the memory.

Image forming apparatus, print data processing method thereof, and recording medium

A transmission-side MFP receives a user name, checks whether the user name is registered in a destination user list, and if so, transmits image data to a reception-side MFP. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. When a NACK is received or a time out occurs, the transmission-side MFP checks whether the user name is registered in an individual address book, and if so, transmits the image data using a corresponding transmission method. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. If a timeout occurs, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission failed.

Image transmission apparatus

An image processing apparatus that can be controlled according to multiple control methods for multiple types of control. The image processing apparatus includes a user identifier obtaining unit that obtains a user identifier; a specification input receiving unit that receives the input of one type of control specified from among multiple types of control as well as one of multiple control methods that are supplied for each type of control; a control method setting unit that, based on the specification input received by the specification input receiving unit, performs default configuration that sets one of the multiple control methods that are supplied for each of the other multiple types of control; a control method storage unit that stores the control method for the specified type of control as well as control methods for the other types of control set by the control method setting unit while associating them with the user that is specified by the user identifier obtained by the user identifier obtaining unit; and a controller that executes control with regard to the multiple types of control in accordance with the control methods stored in the control method storage unit.

Image processing apparatus that performs automatic control method setting

A job execution apparatus having the function of billing and refunding by electronic money, determines before job execution, an amount of money required for job execution, and bills before job execution, the determined amount of money to a payment medium having the payment function, which is set to a billing apparatus. And the job execution apparatus can transfer a refund to the payment medium set to the billing apparatus if a refund needs to be transferred. The job execution apparatus also can transfer a refund by a method other than the method of refunding to the payment medium by using the billing apparatus.

Job execution apparatus, billing and refunding method thereof and recording medium

An image processing apparatus realizes easy access with a Web browser of a terminal apparatus to a URL that has been accessed with a Web browser of the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus comprises a unit for managing URLs accessed by a user with a Web browser of a terminal apparatus in association with a user name of the user and a location of a terminal apparatus corresponding to the user name, and a unit for transmitting the URL to the location of the terminal apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, recording medium, and method for transmitting URL information of a web browser

The present invention is intended to reduce operation load of a responsible person corresponding to external address for transmission of an e-mail to the external address. In order to accomplish this, an e-mail transmission device transmits an e-mail based on an operation made by a user, comprising: a storage part for storing therein a destination address registration information in which a destination address of the e-mail, an address type information in which either of internal address or external address is registered as type of the destination address, and an address responsible for external address registered if the address type registered in the address type information is external address are associated with each other; and a transmission part for transmitting the e-mail to the destination address designated by the user from a plurality of destination addresses included in the destination address registration information. When the address type registered in the address type information associated with the designated destination address is external address, the transmission part reads the address responsible for external address associated with the designated destination address, creates the e-mail in which the address responsible for external address is set for a source address field and a return address field, and transmits the e-mail thereby created to the designated destination address.

E-mail transmission device, e-mail transmission method, and computer readable medium

An image forming system comprises an access control part, a storage part, an extraction part, and an acquisition part. The access control part determines whether to allow or prohibit access to a security image in which a password for access control is embedded. The storage part stores sharing member information which is information on sharing members who are users allowed to share the security image and a check image which is an image for check on the security image, being associated with each other. The extraction part for extracts the check image out of one or more images including the check image on the basis of a determination result on coidentity between the security image and each of the one or more images. The acquisition part acquires the sharing member information associated with the check image. Further, the access control part allows a login user who logs in to the image forming system to have access to the security image without requiring the login user to enter the password on condition that the login user is determined to be one of the sharing members on the basis of the sharing member information.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system involving sharing member information and a check image being associated with each other

The present invention provides an image formation apparatus that reconstructs and prints a document based on document data written in a markup language. The image formation apparatus arranges, by using browser software, text data included in the document data within a page of the document, and acquires image data from servers and arranges the image data within the page of the document. If the image formation apparatus fails to acquire one or more pieces of the image data, it judges whether each of the pieces of image data is important or not according to the attribute information of the image data. If judged negatively, the image formation apparatus executes printing of the document reconstructed based on the text data and/or the acquired pieces of image data. If judged affirmatively, the image formation apparatus cancels the printing of the reconstructed document.

Printing even though image data from a server cannot be acquired for printing

When a log-in is accepted at an image processing apparatus (for example, an MFP), a user terminal logged-in with the same log-in information is searched for, and information related to applications being active on that terminal is obtained. An interaction processing key indicative of an application related to a basic function selected as a function to be used is displayed out of the applications. When the user selects the interaction processing key to execute the desired processing, the MFP requests a job to the user terminal to execute the processing interactively with the corresponding application.

Image processing system with excellent operability

To provide a system in which image data created in an image processor is processed in association with an application activated on a user terminal. The system includes an image processor, and a user terminal connected with the image processor over a network. The image processor includes: an activated application identifying unit for obtaining information about an application activated on the user terminal; a one-touch key generating unit for generating a one-touch key including information for processing image data by the application activated on the user terminal; and a transmission unit for transmitting the image data to the user terminal. The user terminal includes: a receiving unit for receiving the image data from the image processor; and a one-touch key processing unit for processing the image data by the application activated on the user terminal, based on the information of the one-touch key.

Image processing system, image processor and image processing program

An image processing apparatus comprising: a test data generator that generates test data instead of actual data entered for executing a workflow consisting of a plurality of unit works, if an instruction is given to test the workflow; a test process executor that executes a test process by processing the generated test data according to parameters for executing the unit works; a test process suspender that suspends the test process if a trouble happens during the test process; a notifier that notifies a user of a trouble if it happens during the test process; a parameter modifier that is capable of modifying the parameters if the test process is suspended due to the trouble; and a test process resuming portion that resumes the test process after the parameters are modified.

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Itami, Japan

Tomo Tsuboi