Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Toyoshi Inoue

Masashi Kuno

Takeshi Nagasaki

Satoshi Watanabe

Yusuke Shimada

Hirokazu Banno

Kazutaka Yamamoto

Katsuaki Ito

A relay apparatus connected to service providing apparatuses respectively providing services and a communication apparatus that includes an additional-information storage unit configured to store additional information associated with the service and identification information, comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive notification including the service and the user identification information from the communication apparatus; a generating unit generating an output command for outputting, to the relay apparatus, the additional information stored in the additional-information storage unit corresponding to the service and the identification information included in the notification; an output commanding unit transmitting the output command to the communication apparatus; an acquiring unit acquiring the additional information output in response to the output command; a first communication unit configured to perform communication with the service providing apparatus using the acquired additional information; and a second communication unit that transmits, to the communication apparatus, information acquired from the service providing apparatus.

Relay apparatus, communication system and communicating method

An image processing device which can be connected to a document management device storing documents to be managed together with status information representing a status of individual document is provided with a connecting unit configured to connect the image processing device to the document management device, a current status information acquiring unit configured to acquire current status information of a target document, which is to be printed, from the document management device, a print condition setting unit configured to set print condition based on the current status of the target document acquired by the current status information acquiring unit, a printing unit configured to print documents according to a print condition, and a print executing unit configured to make a printing unit to print the target document according to the print condition set by the print condition setting unit.

Image processing device

A facsimile apparatus is provided with a scanning unit configured to scan a first image containing a specific image representing information related to a destination of a facsimile transmission, a setting unit configured to obtain and set the destination based on the specific image included in the first image, a generating unit configured to generate transmission data representing second image which is similar to the first image but the specific image is excluded, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the transmission data generated by the generating unit to the destination set by the setting unit.

Facsimile apparatus

This specification discloses a computer program product for creating print data utilized by an ink jet printer. The ink jet printer comprises an ink jet head moving in a predetermined direction with respect to a print medium. The computer program product includes instructions for ordering a computer to perform a reading step of reading image data that includes a plurality of first combinations. Each first combination comprises a position and information concerning whether a dot is to be formed at the position. The computer program product includes instructions for ordering the computer to further perform a print data creating step of creating the print data by creating a second combination for each position at which the dot is to be formed. Each second combination comprises the position at which the dot is to be formed and one nozzle randomly selected from the nozzles of the nozzle unit which corresponds to the position. In the print data creating step, the same nozzle cannot be selected for more than a predetermined number of positions continuously aligned along the predetermined direction.

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Nagoya, Japan

Toyoshi Inoue