Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomonobu Hiraishi

Hiroshi Satomi

Daisuke Gunji

Koichiro Tanaka

Atsushi Inoue

Satoshi Watanabe

Yosato Hitaka

Shigeyuki Mitani

Satoshi Igeta

Akihiro Masukawa

Yoichi Matsuyama

Koshi Tokunaga

Kenji Kasai

Kanako Yamakawa

Junko Morikawa

Tomoki Kuroda

Satoko Saito

Tokichi Minami

Chieko Ito

An image providing system capable of quickly providing a plurality of different cropped images is disclosed. The image providing system acquires position information about a position of a user designated by the user. The image providing system determines a range of an image that was captured by an image capturing unit, the range corresponding to the position information as a cropping range, before the image capturing unit starts a series of image capturing in which the image capturing unit captures a plurality of images. After the series of image capturing is started, the system applies cropping that cuts out a part of a captured image based on the cropping range. During the series of image capturing, the system provides a cropped image to which the cropping has been applied in a way in which a user can obtain the cropped image.

Image providing system and method for controlling same

At least one processor of an apparatus functions as a generation unit that identifies at least an outer edge of a specific region in a surface layer of an object and that generates outer edge candidates, and a control unit that selects an outer edge candidate based on an instruction from a user among the generated outer edge candidates.

Image processing apparatus, method of processing image, and program

An information processing apparatus includes: an inputting unit for inputting a text to be placed in a template; a storage unit for saving the text whenever a predetermined condition is detected; and a presenting unit for, when the template is switched, selecting the text from the storage unit based on an amount of a text that can be placed in the template after switching, and presenting the selected text as a candidate.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

An information processing apparatus making it possible for a user to easily realize changes in the whole electronic book accompanying an editing operation performed by the user. Changes in the edited electronic book are extracted and displayed on the display unit. The extracted changes are classified into first changes related to pages before a displayed page and second changes related to pages after the displayed page. The changes are caused to be displayed on the page displayed on the display unit such that the changes can be discriminated as any of the first changes or the second changes.

Displaying changes related to pages located before and after a currently displayed page

The present invention is directed to, even when dividing an image arranged between a plurality of pages constituting facing pages before bookbinding printing, preventing different results of correction processing of images on the facing pages after bookbinding printing. An editing system lays out images on facing pages, divides an image laid out on facing pages to generate division images for respective single-side pages, and inserts the division images into the respective single-side pages to generate respective document data. Then, a printing control system extracts division images from the document data, combines the division images, performs correction processing on the combined image, divides the corrected combined image, inserts the division images into the respective document data to update it, and performs print processing based on the updated document data.

Bookbinding printing system, information processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium

A display controller which displays an electronic book and enables a user to perform intuitive operations when switching between pages to be displayed. A CPU detects a cursor position on the most frontally-displayed one of a plurality of pages in response to a user operation. Further, the CPU extracts respective areas of shapes dependent on the detected cursor position, from an image representing the most frontally-displayed page and an image representing a reverse page with respect to the most frontally-displayed page. Then, the CPU draws the extracted areas on the screen.

Display controller, display control method, and computer-readable storage medium

A data storage system requires no special operation by owner users (who make data available) and provides guest users (who view the data) with ease of management of information required to access the data. For example, a URL providing access to data is issued in association with the combination of an owner user and a guest user. This provides ease of information management since only a single URL is required for a guest user to access a plurality of data made available by one owner user.

Data storage system, data storage server apparatus, control method, and program for storing data on a server apparatus on a network

Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether or not the image data has already been acquired by the second information processing apparatus, and information that pertains to the number of times of acquisition of the image data by the second information processing apparatus is managed, and whether or not unwanted image data is transferred to the second information processing apparatus, and whether or not image data illicitly leaks to the second information processing apparatus are monitored on the basis of the managed information. The first information processing apparatus (photo site) prepares required image data in accordance with the current state of a series of processes to be executed by the second information processing apparatus (print site), and passes it to the second information processing apparatus, thereby preventing the first information processing apparatus that saves image data from passing unwanted image data to the second information processing apparatus that processes image data.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium that stores program for implementing it to be readable by information processing apparatus and that program

This invention allows to control archive of data without any load on the operator of a service by automatically changing the archive condition in correspondence with product information related to the service. When data is to be archived in an apparatus connected to a network, the data archive period is changed on the basis of the information of a product related to the service, which is sent from the user. For example, when the archive condition is the archive period, control is executed to delete data that has expired.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, archive information management method, storage medium which stores information-processing-apparatus-readable program that implements the method, and program

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Tomonobu Hiraishi