Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tomohiro Kawasaki

Kunihiko Shimamoto

Yoshitaka Matsuki

Toru Nakayama

Akihiro Kyogoku

Yoshiaki Doyama

Xinhui Dai

Izumi Yoshida

An OCR system which acquires character data from a form () through OCR processing is characterized by: managing an OCR information table () in which an issuer name of an issuer on the form () is associated with a font name of a font used in the OCR processing; and, when the OCR processing is performed on an issuer-recorded content reading target area in the form (), performing the OCR processing (S) in the font indicated by the font name associated in the OCR information table with the issuer name of the issuer of the form ().

OCR system

An image processing apparatus includes a document area extracting module configured to extract a document area from the captured image, the document area being an area of the document, a note area extracting module configured to extract a first note area from the captured image, the first note area being an area of the first note positioned at a first position of the document area of the first page, a character determining module configured to determine the first character included in the first note area by optical character recognition, a document image generating module configured to mask the first note area included in the document area, and generate a document image, a file name generating module configured to generate a file name including the first character, and a file generating module configured to generate an electronic file of the document image having the file name.

Image processing apparatus for generating an electronic file of a document image from an optically captured image, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium that records image processing program for generating an electronic file of a document image from an optically captured image

An image forming system includes a portable terminal device, an image forming apparatus, and a marker registration circuit. A display device in the image forming apparatus displays a marker associated with location information of a user who has instructed execution of printing on a recording medium. The portable terminal device includes an information acquisition circuit and a position notification image output circuit. The information acquisition circuit photographs the marker displayed on the display device using an imaging device, so as to acquire the location information registered in the marker registration circuit, and the location information is associated with the marker photographed by the imaging device. The position notification image output circuit outputs a position notification image that notifies an output device of a position corresponding to the location information acquired by the information acquisition circuit.

Image forming system that identifies who has performed printing

An image forming system includes a portable terminal device, an image forming apparatus, and a marker registration circuit. The image forming apparatus prints a marker associated with location information of a user who has instructed execution of printing on a recording medium. The portable terminal device includes an information acquisition circuit and a position notification image output circuit. The information acquisition circuit photographs a marker printed on a recording medium using an imaging device so as to acquire the location information registered in the marker registration circuit, and the location information is associated with the marker photographed by the imaging device. The position notification image output circuit outputs a position notification image that notifies a position corresponding to the location information acquired by the information acquisition circuit to an output device.

An electronic device includes: a display device; a toner color determining section configured to determine, from print data, one or more use toner colors as the colors of toners for use during printing based on the print data; a degree-of-recommendation determining section configured to determine a degree of recommendation of the image forming apparatus according to a probability of a situation preventing printing on the image forming apparatus; and a degree-of-recommendation display section configured to allow the display device to display the degree of recommendation determined by the degree-of-recommendation determining section, wherein the degree-of-recommendation determining section is configured to acquire apparatus information about the image forming apparatus from a server on a network and determine the probability according to whether information, included in the apparatus information, on the toners of the use toner colors determined by the toner color determining section meets a specified criterion.

Electronic device that displays degree-of-recommendation, image forming system, and recording medium

An augmented reality operation system includes: an image-taking device, a display device, an MFP, an augmented reality processing section displaying, on the display device, a synthetic image obtained by synthesizing an operation image illustrating an operation section for operating the MFP with a taken image taken by the image-taking device, and an operation reception section receiving operation on the operation section in the operation image. The operation reception section, based on a position (on the synthetic image) of a hand taken by the image-taking device and a position of the operation section on the synthetic image, receives the operation on the operation section.

Augmented reality operation system and augmented reality operation method

An image forming system includes a portable terminal device and an image forming apparatus. The portable terminal device includes a job information acquisition circuit, an augmented reality circuit, and a job moving circuit. The job information acquisition circuit acquires job information indicative of the print job executed by the image forming apparatus. The augmented reality circuit causes a display device to display a composite image where a job information image based on the job information acquired by the job information acquisition circuit is combined on a location corresponding to the image forming apparatus on a captured image captured by an imaging device. The job moving circuit moves the print job between the plurality of image forming apparatuses corresponding to an operation input by an input device with respect to the job information image displayed on the display device by the augmented reality circuit.

Image forming system that moves print job between a plurality of image forming apparatuses and recording medium

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a save mode setting unit, a reference cost obtaining unit, a minimum monetary-sum extraction unit, and a usage volume setting unit. The minimum monetary-sum extraction unit is configured to extract a minimum monetary sum for each tone from reference costs for a plurality of image forming modes. The usage volume setting unit is configured to: obtain a post-reduction cost where a reduced monetary sum by the save mode is subtracted from the minimum monetary sum; and set reference usage volume as usage volumes for the dark color material and the light color material in the save mode, the reference usage volume being obtained based on the reference costs for the image forming modes corresponding to the post-reduction cost.

Image forming with save mode for reducing color material cost

An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to set a background color in color line image data to one of white and transparent and express a line-drawing color of a line-drawing object by achromatic brightness when performing black-and-white printing based on the color line image data. The image processing unit includes: an origin setting unit configured to set a brightness of the background color to an origin on a brightness axis of a hue coordinate system in a case where the background color in the color line image data is a color other than white; and a first brightness setting unit configured to set a distance from the origin to a coordinate of the line-drawing color in the hue coordinate system as a brightness of the line-drawing object for the black-and-white printing.

Image process for ensuring visibility of color image in black and white printing

A printing system includes a host computer with an application and an image forming apparatus. The host computer includes a color space setting unit and print data creating unit. The color space setting unit sets a color space that can create grayscale images. The print data creating unit performs color conversion on a print object created by the application to create print data, the color conversion being appropriate for the color space. The image forming apparatus includes a grayscale image creating unit and printing unit. The grayscale image creating unit performs color conversion on the print object, which is included in the print data, to create a grayscale image, the color conversion being appropriate for the color space of the print object. The printing unit performs printing according to the grayscale image.

Printing system, a printing method, and a computer program for performing color conversion on a print object

An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit that reads image data, a drawing data storage unit that stores object data comprising the read image data so as to allow the stored object data to be distinguished between a vector object and a raster object, a vector gray determination unit that determines whether each of stored vector objects is formed of an achromatic color, a raster gray determination unit that determines whether each of stored raster objects is formed of an achromatic color, and an output data creation unit that converts the stored object data into multicolor when the stored object data includes a chromatic color and converts the stored object data into monochrome when the stored object data is formed only of achromatic colors.

Image forming apparatus

The blocking unit generates first block property data having a first value if all pixels in the block image do not have a color of the color plane, and generates first block property data having a second value if at least one pixel in the block image has the color. The gamma correction unit performs gamma correction for the block image having the second value and does not perform gamma correction for the block image having the first value. The screen process unit generates a block dot image by performing a screen process for the block image after the gamma correction. The toner adhesion amount calculating unit identifies values of the first block property data of block images adjacent to an objective block image, and identifies the toner adhesion amount of the object block as a value changed correspondingly to the identified values of the first block property data.

An image forming apparatus includes an additional image creating unit, a composite image creating unit, and a printing unit. The additional image creating unit is configured to create an additional image by using information associated with externally acquired software data if the externally acquired software data comprises specific software data. The composite image creating unit is configured to create a composite image in which the additional image and an image of an original are composited. The printing unit is configured to print the composite image.

Apparatus, program product, and method for creating and printing a composite image including an additional image associated with externally acquired software

An image forming system according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a component data acquiring unit that acquires a component from color lookup table data; a verifying unit that determines whether or not the component of the color lookup table data acquired by the component data acquiring unit has been generated according to a predetermined generating rule; and a download data generating unit that downloads the color lookup table data and generates download data to be used in image forming processing from the color lookup table data after the verifying unit determines that the component has been generated according to the generating rule.

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Osaka, Japan

Tomohiro Kawasaki