Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Toshihisa Motosugi

Hiroyuki Ideyama

Jiro Goto

Yoichi Kurumasa

Shin Ohba

Kana Yamauchi

Kenichi Matsumoto

Akio Nakajima

Takuya Okada

Hironobu Nakata

Mie Kawabata

Kazuyuki Kawabata

Akira Ohhata

Eiichi Yoshida

Yoshiyuki Tamai

Hideyuki Hashimoto

Hiroaki Sugimoto

Taketoshi Yamahata

Tsuyoshi Yoneyama

Shinichi Asai

Masahiro Imamura

Syuji Maruta

Masayuki Ito

Shohei Ichiyama

Yasuyuki Kamai

Katsuaki Wakui

Motoki Kanzawa

Ryotaro Iwase

Youichi Kurumasa

Toru Inoue

An image forming apparatus includes a display and a touch panel, and is provided with a normal mode in which processing is performed every time operation is performed with the touch panel and a play back mode in which processing is performed on the basis of recording of the operation, and the image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a gesture represented by a series of touch events, store gesture log data and touch event log data to a storage unit, and determine display control processing. In the normal mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture or an object. In the play back mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture log data or the touch event log data. The determined display control processing is executed.

Image forming apparatus with playback mode, display method for an operation screen, and computer program

An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming devices connected in data communication with each other via a network. Each of the image forming devices includes a storage unit, an operational unit, and a controller. If one user logs into a first image forming device among the image forming devices, a controller of the first image forming device checks for the existence of a second image forming device into which the user has logged. If the controller of the first image forming device determines the second image forming device into which the user has logged, the controller transmits a logout instruction of the user to the second image forming device.

Image forming system and image forming device for performing control in accordance with user authentication information

An image forming apparatus having a display section to display screens for setting a function; a control section to form an image where alternatives of a function to be set by transiting plural screens are aggregated and arranged on one page of sheet, and to form a composite image where a position detection code for identifying a position on the sheet is combined with the image; a memory section to store a table which correlates each of the alternatives with a position of each of the alternatives on the sheet; and a print section to print the composite image on the sheet, wherein in cases where the control section acquires position information having been identified by the position detection code on the sheet, the control section refers to the table to identify an alternative corresponding to the position information, and sets a function based on the identified alternative.

Image forming apparatus, printing system and function setting method thereof

Provided are an image forming apparatus, a method of indicating the remaining quantity of a consumable material and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for the remaining quantity of a consumable material. The image forming apparatus includes an array of LEDs arranged on a body of the image forming apparatus such that a lighting condition of the LEDs is visible to a user at a remote place from the image forming apparatus; an image forming section; and a control section configured to operate the image forming section to perform image forming processing. The control section is further configured to operate the LEDs to turn on or blink in a first lighting pattern according to a status of an operation of the image forming apparatus, and operate the LEDs to turn on or blink in a second lighting pattern according to a remaining quantity of a consumable material.

Image forming apparatus indicating a remaining quantity of consumable material, method of indicating a remaining quantity of consumable material, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for indicating a remaining quantity of a consumable material

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to improve the maneuverability and usability of the apparatus concerned. The apparatus includes: a display section to display a screen thereon; a controlling section to form a synthesized image in which position detecting symbols are synthesized with an image onto which the screen displayed on the display section is to be arranged; a storage section to store a table in which the keys and corresponding positions of the keys, arranged on the paper sheet, are correlated with each other, respectively; and a printing section to print the synthesized image onto the paper sheet. When acquiring positional information, the controlling section refers to the table so as to specify a specific key correlated with the positional information, and establishes a status of the image forming apparatus, being same as that established by designating the specific key from the screen.

Image forming apparatus and operation controlling method of the same

A user interface device which displays an operation key in a display unit using a predetermined design. The device includes: a history storing unit that stores a history record in which a content of a setting operation carried out by a user for each of past jobs that have been executed is recorded; a history retrieving unit that retrieves the history record in which the content of the setting that is the same as a current content of the setting is recorded; a calculating unit that calculates a total number of operations for each operation key based on the content of the setting recorded in the history record in which the same content of setting is recorded; and an operation key display type determining unit that estimates relative degrees of likelihood to be used by the user of the operation keys based on the total number of operations for each operation key, and determines, based on the estimation, a design to be used to display the operation key out of a group of designs including at least a first design for normal display and a second design for highlighted display.

User interface device

A print system for conferencing includes a plurality of print apparatuses that are provided in a plurality of conference locations and interconnected via a network; a storage that registers in itself, data of conference material and information of prospective attendees from the respective conference locations; and a detector that detects the start of a conference. Each of the print apparatuses obtains and records the registered data of conference material and information of prospective attendees from the conference location where the print apparatus is provided, then prints as many copies of conference material as the number of the prospective attendees, if the start of a conference is detected.

Print system for conferencing and print method thereof

An image forming apparatus is provided with a determination portion that, in response to operation for giving instructions to enhance a security level thereof, determines whether or not a job is kept which is not to satisfy security requirements after the enhancement, an execution portion that, if the determination portion determines that such a job is kept, performs predetermined processing for satisfying the security requirements on the job with execution of the job ensured, and a security mode switching portion that, if the determination portion determines that such a job is kept, enhances the security level after the execution portion finishes the predetermined processing, and, if the determination portion determines that such a job is not kept, enhances the security level promptly.

Image forming apparatus and method for switching between security modes

Information equipment having a memory area for which access restrictions are set is provided. The information equipment makes a determination, in response to operation for turning a security mode into a security level enhanced mode, on data in the memory area, whether or not any one of the following conditions satisfy security requirements after the security level is enhanced: access restrictions set for the data itself; access restrictions set for the memory area; and authentication information for a user who has stored the data, and sends, to the user who has stored the corresponding data in the memory area or a user who has set the access restrictions for the memory area storing the corresponding data therein, a message to prompt one of the users to perform operation for satisfying the security requirements.

Information equipment, method for supporting operation thereof, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

A data transmission system in which a registration server on which recipient information is registered is connected over a network to a data transmission apparatus that transmits data to a recipient, comprising: the registration server, comprising, a database in which information including recipient information is registered, a search portion that searches the registered information using search parameter, and a communication portion that outputs the recipient information resulting from the search by the search portion to the data transmission apparatus; the data transmission apparatus, comprising; a storage portion that deems recipient information sent from the registration server to represent a recipient and stores the recipient information in association with a recipient designation key, a display portion that displays a recipient setting screen that displays the recipient designation keys stored in the storage portion, and a transmission portion that transmits data to the recipient corresponding to a selected recipient designation key; wherein the registration server or the data transmission apparatus has a search parameter value storage portion that stores the search parameter.

Data transmission apparatus incorporating key that specifies recipient and system therefor

In data transmission apparatus, a transmission device transmits data to a destination when a user instructs data transmission. A storage device stores user information to relate destinations to users. The apparatus can communicate with a server having destination information. When the user logs in, automatic retrieval is requested to the server to retrieve a destination related to the user in the user information in the storage device. A result of retrieval executed by the server is received and stored in the storage device.

Data transmission apparatus

An abnormality that has occurred during execution of a job by an image forming apparatus is detected by a detecting means, an attribute of the sender of the job with which the abnormality occurred is identified by an identifying means, and recipients for abnormality alarm information are determined by an alarm information recipient determining means based on the identification result. Consequently, when an abnormality has occurred during execution of a job by the image forming apparatus, even if the user who sent the job is not able to perform the operation required to eliminate the abnormality, swift elimination of the abnormality can be expected by transmitting abnormality alarm information to persons who are near the image forming apparatus, for example.

Abnormality alarm device and abnormality alarm method

Allocation reading is started when an allocation origin image processing apparatus sends an allocation reading start alert. An image processing apparatus which received the allocation reading start alert, i.e., the allocation destination image processing apparatus, displays a continue reading specification key on its own display for user specification to continue reading by the allocation reading function. Continue reading is started by user operation of this continue reading specification key. That is, when a document image is read by the allocation destination image processing apparatus, the image data are transmitted to the allocation origin image processing apparatus. Then, the allocation origin image processing apparatus integrates the received image data with the image data read by the allocation origin image processing apparatus.

Image processing system and apparatus for allocation reading

There is provided a printer management method in a computer system of the present invention, which controls a plurality of printers connected to a network, including acquiring information related to an elapsed time from the time when each printer made a transition to the power save mode, and selecting a printer based on the acquired information related to the elapsed time. According to the present invention, a printer can be appropriately selected even when printers are waiting in the power save mode.

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Okazaki, Japan

Toshihisa Motosugi