Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Toshihiko Otake

Kazumi Sawayanagi

Hideyuki Matsuda

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Takehisa Yamaguchi

Masao Hosono

Hiroaki Kubo

Takeshi Minami

Kenji Matsuhara

Atsushi Ohshima

Hidetaka Iwai

Hironobu Nakata

Tsutomu Sekibe

Masaya Hashimoto

Yoshiki Tokimoto

Tomoaki Nakajima

Masayuki Kawamoto

Osamu Shibata

Yoshiyuki Saito

Toshimichi Iwai

Taihei Yugawa

Nobuhiro Mishima

Hisashi Uchida

Daisuke Sakiyama

Takeshi Hibino

Okihisa Yoshida

Hiroyuki Kawabata

Manabu Furukawa

Yosuke Taniguchi

Hideaki Soejima

Takanobu Kuge

Takeshi Morikawa

Teruto Hirota

Kazuya Anezaki

Kazusei Takahashi

Hiroki Tajima

Daisetsu Tohyama

Daisuke Nakano

Yasutaka Ito

Takeshi Maekawa

Takashi Kamada

There is provided an information processing apparatus in which voice operation is enabled, the information processing apparatus including: a voice input device that accepts voice input for voice operation; and a hardware processor that: sets an inputted condition as a job; identifies a content of voice operation based on a voice inputted to the voice input device, and reflects the content of the voice operation in setting of the job; returns the job set by the hardware processor to an initial setting condition; identifies a user by performing voice print authentication; and changes a time until a setting condition of the job is returned to the initial setting condition by the hardware processor, between a case where a user who has uttered the voice inputted to the voice input device is changed in the voice print authentication and a case where the user is not changed.

Information processing apparatus with voice print authentication and program

An information terminal includes: a communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to establish a communication channel with another terminal by using the communication unit, and the communication unit is configured to receive device information containing an address of an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal, and transmit the device information of the image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal to an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the information terminal.

Information terminal with a calling unit configured to enable communication with another information terminal, image processing system, and program

In a communication system, within a first subnetwork, a first image processing apparatus sets a first timeout time serving as a timeout time for communication within the first subnetwork and a second timeout time serving as a timeout time for communication between the first subnetwork and the second subnetwork, and notifies an image processing apparatus within the first subnetwork other than the first image processing apparatus of the first timeout time and the second timeout time and notifies a second image processing apparatus of the second timeout time.

Communications system, image processing apparatus, and recording medium for notifying timeout time

A document generation system which generates, from a first document in which a plurality of text groups constituted by a plurality of lines arranged in a first direction is arranged in a second direction different from the first direction, a second document includes: a ranking unit configured to rank each of the plurality of text groups according to an order in which a person reads the first document; and a generating unit configured to generate, as the second document, a document in which each of the plurality of text groups is arranged one by one in the first direction in ascending order ranked by the ranking unit.

Document generation system for generating a second document from elements extracted from a first document, and document server, document generation method, and computer program

An image forming apparatus includes a main processor, a first memory, a sub processor, and a second memory. The second memory stores a snapshot that includes an executable program obtained by loading one or more programs in the first memory. The main processor switches from a drive mode to a stop mode. The sub processor activates the main processor in response to any one of a plurality of activation factors being detected, cuts off power in response to an operation mode being switched to the stop mode, and supplies power to the main processor and the first memory before the main processor is activated. The main processor reads out a snapshot associated with an activation factor from the second memory and stores the snapshot into the first memory in response to being activated by the sub processor.

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

Portable information devices each include a portable-side communication unit to communicate with an image processing apparatus within a range of a predetermined distance, and a portable-side control unit. The portable-side control unit executes the steps of: specifying a linked process; displaying an operation screen for accepting a setting value corresponding to the linked process in a state in which the portable-side communication unit is unable to communicate with the image processing apparatus; accepting a setting value from a user; in response to the portable-side communication unit becoming able to communicate with the image processing apparatus, transmitting a setting request and receiving a response to the setting request from the image processing apparatus; if the response indicates to start the linked process, transmitting/receiving data in cooperation with the image processing apparatus; and if the response requests a setting value, displaying an operation screen for setting the requested setting value.

Cooperation system including cooperating portable information device and image processing apparatus, and cooperation method

An image processing system where an image processing apparatus that includes an image data transmitting function and a mobile terminal that includes an electronic mail transmitting function operate to link with each other, the image processing apparatus including: a startup instruction transmitting unit; an image data acquiring unit; a transmission destination designation information acquiring unit; and an image data transmitting unit, and the mobile terminal including: an electronic mail function starting unit that starts up the electronic mail transmitting function and causes a predetermined display unit to display address information; a transmission destination designation information transmitting unit that receives an operation of designating a transmission destination address among the address information and transmit the transmission destination designation information to the image processing apparatus; and an attached file output unit that outputs the image data as an attached file of an electronic mail.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, mobile terminal, and program for transmission of image data

A portable information device includes a first display portion in which a parameter that defines a color for displaying an image is set, and a remote operation portion to display a remote operation screen on the first display portion and transmit a remote operation to an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus-side display control portion to display an operation screen on a second display portion, and a remote control portion to transmit a remote operation screen to the portable information device and execute a process in accordance with a remote operation. One of the portable information device and the image forming apparatus acquires a distance between the image forming apparatus and the portable information device and determines an update parameter based on the acquired distance. The remote operation portion updates the parameter set in the first display portion with the update parameter.

Cooperation system, image forming apparatus, portable information device, remote control method, and remote operation method

An image display apparatus includes a storage portion to store application data and reduced image data thereof, in association with each other, a position detection portion to detect a position designated by the user on a display surface of a display portion, an enlargement operation detection portion to detect an enlargement operation, a first image display portion to display a first display image generated from the reduced image data as a preview image, a process target determination portion to determine process target data from the reduced image data and the application data, based on a magnification set based on the amount of operation in the enlargement operation, a second display image generation portion to generate a second display image based on the process target data, in response to the enlargement operation being detected, and a second image display portion to display the second display image as a preview image.

Image display apparatus, display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with display control program

When an image of content reproduced by a first reproduction device is shot, a content display support device obtains the shot image and positional information that specifies the position and orientation of a shooting device. The content display support device generates combination content by visualizing and embedding the positional information in the shot image and transmits the combination content to a second reproduction device. A portable terminal obtains the positional information from an image obtained by shooting the combination content reproduced by the second reproduction device. The portable terminal requests supplementary information by transmitting the positional information to the content display support device. The supplementary information associated with the positional information is transmitted from the content display support device to the portable terminal and displayed at the portable terminal.

Content display support system

A cooperative image processing system comprises an image processing apparatus and a portable information apparatus; the image processing apparatus comprises: a file creator that creates a file; a transmitter that transmits the file to the portable information apparatus; and a log information generator that generates log information of the image processing apparatus which includes a transmission history; the portable information apparatus comprises: a display; one or more processors; a cooperation portion that shows on the display an operation screen; transmits user instructions entered through the operation screen, to the image processing apparatus; receives the file in exchange for the user instructions; and transfers the file to any one of the one or more processors; a log information obtaining portion that obtains: the log information of the image processing apparatus and that of the portable information apparatus; and a log information manager that consolidates the log information of both of them.

Cooperative image processing system, cooperative image processing method, portable information apparatus, image processing apparatus, and recording medium

An image forming apparatus includes a main processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express, a startup control portion to control startup of the main processing portion, and a connection portion connectable with an option board having a sub processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express. The startup control portion includes a detection portion to detect the option board connected to the connection portion, an acquisition portion to acquire ability information about the option board at a stage before the main processing portion starts up, when the option board is detected, a selection portion to select one of the main processing portion and the sub processing portion, based on the acquired ability information, and a switch portion to start one selected from the main processing portion and the sub processing portion as a root complex.

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

An authentication system for an instruction processing apparatus includes first and second authentication portions each for performing user authentication at the time of using the instruction processing apparatus, and a controller which makes the first authentication portion execute the user authentication and switches from the first authentication portion to the second authentication portion when the user authentication by the first authentication portion cannot be established.

Authentication system for instruction processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, authentication control method, and authentication control program

An image forming apparatus comprising: an e-paper storage that loads one or more sheets of e-paper; a first transmitter that transmits a target image to the one or more sheets of e-paper loaded on the e-paper storage; a detector that detects when the target image is seen via any of the one or more sheets of e-paper; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the number of sheets of e-paper via which the target image has been seen reaches the number of copies specified; and a request transmitter that, if the number of sheets of e-paper via which the target image has been seen reaches the number of copies specified while any of the one or more sheets of e-paper still remains in the e-paper storage without being seen, transmits a request to delete the target image to the remaining sheet of e-paper.

Image forming apparatus, print method, and recording medium involving a comparison between the number of sheets of e-paper and number of copies specified by user

A document processing apparatus comprises an image reader for scanning an original manuscript which is not updated to generate first image data on the original manuscript and for scanning an updated manuscript to generate second image data on the updated manuscript, a text information extraction part for extracting first text information from the first image data and extracting second text information from the second image data, an updated portion detector for detecting an updated portion of the updated manuscript on the basis of the first text information and the second text information, an electronic document generator for generating an electronic document of the updated manuscript on the basis of the second image data, and a storage controller for generating display data of the updated portion on the basis of a detection result on the updated portion and storing the display data into the electronic document.

Document processing apparatus for generating an electronic document

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