Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Tsutomu Kubota

Junichi Tanaka

Satoshi Murata

Taku Sato

Seiji Ichikawa

Tomoaki Kimura

Tomoaki Hirokawa

Takeo Ogihara

Kenji Uchida

Motoki Koshigaya

Tsunahito Nakashita

Tatsuya Ogawa

Hidetaka Tabuchi

Masatoshi Ohara

Kenji Watanabe

Tetsuya Morita

Mamoru Osada

Akitomo Fukui

Manabu Hada

Haruo Ishizuka

Masahiko Sakai

Kozo Toda

Masahiko Murata

Shozo Yamasaki

Yukio Inagi, Isaka

Hiroshi Yamano

Kenji Utida

Tsutomu Noguti

An information processing apparatus includes a sterilization unit that performs sterilization with an ultraviolet light source a part of the information processing apparatus that is operated on, a management unit that manages lifetime information corresponding to a product lifetime of the ultraviolet light source and usage information corresponding to an irradiation time and an irradiation output of the ultraviolet light source, and a control unit that controls the ultraviolet light source in a first control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a first irradiation time and a first irradiation output or in a second control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a second irradiation time shorter than the first irradiation time and a second irradiation output higher than the first irradiation output.

Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus including at least one unit that receives a user operation, the information processing apparatus includes an ultraviolet irradiation device that performs disinfection processing for disinfecting at least a part of the at least one unit, an operation unit including a display that provides notification to a user, and a controller, wherein during the disinfection processing for the at least a part of the at least one unit, the controller causes the operation unit to provide notification to the user not to touch the information processing apparatus.

An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit for receiving an instruction given by a user, and according to receipt of a request of a print-and-delivery job from an external apparatus, performs print processing to produce a print and passes the produced print to a print delivery apparatus that delivers a print to a designated delivery destination. A controller controls an order of execution of jobs. In a state in which a print-and-delivery job has been registered in a job queue of the image forming apparatus, in a case where an instruction for executing a predetermined job which cannot be processed in parallel with the print-and-delivery job is received from the operation unit, the controller performs predetermined job priority control for causing the predetermined job to be preferentially executed.

Image forming apparatus that produces print for delivery, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

Conventionally, an image forming apparatus including a plurality of antennas for detecting for an arrival direction of a radio wave was not invented. In the present invention, a communication board including a plurality of antennas for wireless communicating with a communication terminal is provided on a front side with respect to a front-rear direction of an image forming apparatus including an imager forming unit in a vertical direction.

Image forming apparatus having a communication board with a plurality of antennas

An image forming apparatus performs printing based on a print job and receives a completion notification from an automatic printed material delivery apparatus. Based on receipt of the completion notification, the image forming apparatus transmits a receipt acknowledgement request to a personal computer (PC) corresponding to a user (a requested user or a designated user) based on the job. Further, the image forming apparatus receives, from the PC, an acknowledgement notification based on a user operation performed on the PC in connection with the receipt acknowledgement request. In response to receipt of the acknowledgement notification, the image forming apparatus registers information indicating that the printed material has been received by the user based on the job as a job log of the job.

Image forming apparatus, printer driver, and system for outputting a printed material based on a print job

An apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a user of information, and a controller configured to identify at least one unit based on an operation performed by the user among a plurality of units included in the apparatus, wherein the notification unit can notify the user of first information indicating the identified at least one unit and second information regarding disinfection of the identified at least one unit.

Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus that is capable of securing electric power needed to complete data writing to a nonvolatile memory even if supplied voltage drops. The information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory that caches write data to the nonvolatile memory. A first power supply unit generates electric power supplied to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory by a switching operation. A power source controller lowers a switching frequency of the first power supply unit and controls the first power supply unit to supply the electric power to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory in a case where voltage supplied to the information processing apparatus drops.

Information processing apparatus having volatile memory used to cache write data to nonvolatile memory, power supply method therefor, and storage medium storing program therefor

An information processing apparatus generates a beacon packet including state information indicating an operational state of the self-apparatus, and periodically transmits the packet by a short-range wireless communication. A mobile terminal, when a data packet transmission request to the information processing apparatus occurs, detects the beacon packet transmitted from the information processing apparatus from signals received by the short-range wireless communication. When the mobile terminal detects the beacon packet, it controls the timing of initiating transmission of a data packet in accordance with the operational state of the information processing apparatus which the state information included in the beacon packet indicates.

Communication apparatus, method of controlling communication apparatus, and storage medium, for establishing communication link

A printing system according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of post-processing apparatuses that perform post-processing on a printed sheet, at least one inspection apparatus connected between the plurality of post-processing apparatuses that inspects the printed sheet, and a control apparatus that performs control for receiving a job and executing processing according to the job; the printing system sets an inspection item to be inspected by the inspection apparatus based on configuration information indicating an anteroposterior relationship between the inspection apparatus and the post-processing apparatuses in the job relative to a flow of the printed sheet, and based on the post-processing apparatuses to be used in the job. The inspection apparatus performs the inspection in accordance with the set inspection item.

Printed material inspection system and control method thereof

Tab positions of tab sheets that are inserted between printed pages while a print job is performed are determined to be correct or incorrect using a control method for controlling an inspection apparatus which is connectable to a printing apparatus. The method includes reading tab sheets conveyed from the printing apparatus, detecting positions of tabs of the tab sheets conveyed from the printing apparatus according to the reading result, and determining whether each of the detected positions is correct or incorrect.

Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

A conference system includes a storage unit configured to store electronic data used as conference material, a display unit configured to display electronic data stored in the storage unit, an identifying unit configured to identify an attendee of a conference, and a memory unit configured to store information about an attendee identified by the identifying unit as viewing history information in association with electronic data displayed by the display.

Method of controlling a conference system, program product, and storage medium

A printer configured to communicate with an external information processing apparatus includes a storage device that stores level information representing whether processing required in accordance with data received from the external information processing apparatus is permitted or not, and a processor that performs processing for the received data in accordance with the level information stored in the storage device.

Printer, processing method, program, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus operable to perform functions. The functions include a function involving a printing operation. The apparatus includes an activator for activating a function. A determiner determines whether the activated function is the function involving the printing operation. The apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a print medium. A fuser can fuse the image on the print medium with heat. A controller controls the fuser to start heating if the activated function involves the printing operation.

Image forming apparatus

A print control apparatus which can print and output bit map image data while executing a decompressing process. The print data is directly outputted to a recorder and printed without being written into a frame buffer, or is stored into the frame buffer and outputted and printed, in accordance with the kind of print data.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tsutomu Kubota