Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Tomokazu Kato

Yoshiyuki Tamai

Syuzi Maruta

Kazuhiro Araki

Masazumi Ito

Eiichi Yoshida

Tomoyuki Atsumi

Takatsugu Kuno

Hiroyasu Ito

Hidenobu Nakamura

Hiroyuki Asai

Hiroaki Ikeda

Yoshiaki Takano

Kentaro Nagatani

Akinori Yoshida

Takashi Noda

Motomi Takemoto

Keiichi Nomura

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Yoichi Kurumasa

Hiroshi Sugiura

Kadotaro Nishimori

Hiroshi Iwamoto

Hiroshi Murakami

Takashi Oikawa

Jun Kunioka

Yusaku Tanaka

Koichi Amiya

Yukina Hisada

Kimihiko Higashio

Kazuo Inui

Hiroki Ueda

Hideyuki Hashimoto

Mie Kawabata

Kaoru Fukuoka

Shinichi Asai

Junko Natsume

Mitsutaka Morita

Yuji Kawamura

Syuji Maruta

Jiro Goto

Hiroshi Sumiyama

Eiichiro Kawasaki

Toshiyuki Yamashita

Yoshihito Hirano

Tatsuji Nozawa

Masatoshi Nakamura

Hiroyuki Kishimoto

Masami Toyama

A device for causing a display unit to partially display a screen having a scroll region in which a content is scrolled and an operation region is provided. The device includes: a setting portion that sets a target region which is a part of the screen displayed by the display unit; a change instructing portion that instructs the setting portion to change the target region based on operation on the operation region; a determination portion that judges, when the setting portion changes the target region, whether or not a size of the operation region of the target region is smaller than a set value; a display change portion that causes the setting portion to perform processing of increasing the operation region displayed by the display unit; and a generating portion that generates section screen data representing a content in the target region.

Device for generating display data, information device, and display system for displaying scroll region and operation region

Disclosed is sprint apparatus, including: an information reporting unit that prepares a file indicating a predetermined situation to be reported, by using information having a predetermined format which can be displayed by a filer, and stores the file in a storing area which can be browsed by an external device via a network.

Print apparatus and print system that reports the situation of the print apparatus

An image forming system includes an input control part and a display control part. The input control part receives an operation input from a user. The display control part selectively displays a setting screen for mode setting and a job list screen displaying a list of jobs. In more detail, the display control part displays the job list screen on the display part when a first instruction which is a display instruction for the job list screen is received during a setting operation period for mode setting. Further, the display control part hides the job list screen and displays an information display screen relating to an operation which is performed during the setting operation period, on the display part, when a second instruction which is a non-display instruction for the job list screen is received while the job list screen is being displayed.

Image forming system and computer-readable recording medium

An image forming apparatus which can be remotely operated by an external terminal comprises a touch panel for displaying various information and receiving an operation input from an operator, a status detection part for detecting an apparatus status of the image forming apparatus, a status display part provided separately from the touch panel, for displaying the apparatus status detected by the status detection part, a generation part for generating data of a first image representing a display content on the touch panel and a second image representing a display content on the status display part, and a transmitting part for transmitting the data of the first and second images to the external terminal as display data for a remote operation screen on the external terminal.

Image forming apparatus remotely operated by external terminal, image forming system including the same, and recording medium

A print control device, comprises: a receiving part for receiving an email; an address extracting part for extracting an address designated as a recipient of the email received by the receiving part; and an output controlling part for controlling production of a printed output based on the email when the receiving part receives the email. The output controlling part does not produce the printed output based on the email received by the receiving part if the multiple addresses are extracted by the address extracting part.

Print control device, email transmission device, print controlling method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

An image forming apparatus includes a setting screen displaying portion to display a setting screen having a setting value setting area, an input screen displaying portion, responsive to designation of a position within a prescribed area determined by the setting area in the setting screen while the setting screen is being displayed, to display an input screen including input key images to be overlaid on the setting screen, a first setting value accepting portion to accept a value corresponding to the input key image designated by the user in the input screen, an operation accepting portion including hard keys, a second setting value accepting portion to accept a value corresponding to the hard key designated by the user, and a display terminating portion, responsive to acceptance of an operation of enabling the operation accepting portion while the input screen is being displayed, to terminate the display of the input screen.

Image forming apparatus with setting screen, setting method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with setting program

An image forming apparatus comprises: an image data obtainer that obtains image data by a Web browser from a Website via a network; a printer that prints out the obtained image data and other image data; and a billing portion that bills a usage fee if the Web browser is used, meanwhile discounts the usage fee to be billed if the Web browser is used and also the image data obtained by the Web browser is printed out by the printer.

Image forming apparatus, billing method thereof and recording medium

An information processing device prints a link source webpage and a link target webpage so that (i) it is easy to grasp, from a printout of these webpages, that these webpages are associated with each other, and (ii) the printout can be easily organized. MFP displays a webpage using a web browser, stores image data of the webpage currently displayed, and detects whether this webpage has been switched to another webpage upon a user operation (e.g., a click operation). Upon this page switch, MFP stores image data of the other webpage, which is now currently displayed. When a print instruction is issued, MFP enlarges/reduces images of the webpages previously and currently displayed so they can be printed on the same sheet in proper sizes, generates a print image showing the enlarged/reduced images of these webpages, and prints the generated print image.

Information processing device for printing images of a webpage, and recording medium having program for printing images of a web page

In a print system including a server holding an application program connected to a network. In a client computer, when a print request for data obtained by the application program is received, client information and a request to make print data for the data are requested to the server. In the server, print data are made according to print control information according to the received client information, the print data is sent.

Print system

In a print system, an application server holds an application program. A client computer uses the application program, and data obtained by the application program is printed by a printer. The server acquires a printer driver according to the client information. The application program obtains print data by using the printer driver and sends the print data to the client computer or the printer. Thus, the application program automatically changes the printer driver according to the client information or user.

Print system including application server to select printer driver for client specific print information

The present invention provides a method of printing application data. In this method, a print request and ASP certification data for accessing an application server are transmitted from a client computer to a printer of a print shop connected to the client computer and the service provider via a network capable of providing an application service, such as the Internet available for unspecified users. The printer is operable to access the application server directly according to the ASP certification data so as to receive print data from the application server and output the print data. The present invention can solve problems caused when the client computer issues a print request to the printer of the print shop via the network, so that the requirement for the client computer to acquire application software from the application server is eliminated to provide a reduced time-period of a printing operation.

Method of printing application data

A printing system includes multiple image forming apparatuses connected over a network. The multiple image forming apparatuses are printers, copying machines or the like, and carry out printing based on print data. The printing system has a substitute printing function or a printing task distributing function. When print data is printed out using a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus via the printing substitution function or the printing task distributing function, the number of pages printed by the second image forming apparatus is counted and kept track of by the first image forming apparatus. Consequently, regardless of whether group management is in place at the second image forming apparatus, the number of pages printed may be centrally maintained by the first image forming apparatus.

Printing system, image forming apparatus and print management program

An image forming apparatus has an image forming section for forming an image in a plurality of operational modes and a display device for executing display in a plurality of colors. Color information corresponding to the plurality of operational modes is stored in a memory. A CPU reads color information corresponding to an operational mode to be executed from the memory and controls the color to be displayed on the display device.

Image forming apparatus having a display changeable in color according to operational mode

Image data transmitted from an image reading portion or a personal computer is once stored in an image storage portion. Then, an image region determining portion performs region determination of the stored image data. In addition, a toner consumption calculating portion calculates an amount of toner to be consumed required for outputting the image data. Image correction is performed in an image correcting portion according to a determined image region based on a result of comparison between the amount of toner to be consumed calculated and the remaining amount of toner measured. Image output is performed in an image printing portion based on the corrected image data. As a result, image degradation can be minimized and an output operation can be completed even when a remaining amount of a recording material becomes less than an amount required for image output.

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and image forming method that allow forming of an appropriate image with small amount of recording material remaining

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Toyokawa, Japan

Tomokazu Kato