Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Tsuyoshi Nagao

Yasuhiko Kida

Masayuki Kakuta

Yoichiro Irie

Yoshiyuki Takeda

Takeshi Yoshida

Takeshi Matsuo

Tsugio Nakanishi

Yukio Hashimoto

Yoshio Sugishima

Yasushi Kamezaki

Toshinori Nishimura

Minami Sensu

Toshinori Muraoka

Yousuke Ohata

Hidekazu Sakagami

Kazuyoshi Yamamura

Toshiyuki Nakade

Noboru Fukuoka

Katuhide Yamaguchi

Mitsuhiro Ao

Hideki Endoo

An image processing device including: a controller; a device information generator that generates device information including identification information of a device; and a job executor that is capable of executing a job with predetermined setting on the basis of an external command transmitted from a terminal device, wherein the controller displays the generated device information on the terminal device, and is capable of outputting the job with predetermined setting by controlling the job executor on the basis of the external command transmitted from the terminal device that has read the displayed device information, and the controller determines propriety of display of the device information according to setting of propriety of external command operation for a user who is authenticated as an authenticated user in an operation mode requiring user authentication.

Image processing device, output system, and output method

An image processing device includes a controller, a device information generator that generates device information including identification information of the image processing device, and a job executor that executes a job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from a terminal device, wherein the controller displays the generated device information on the terminal device and, based on the setting information for job execution sent from the terminal device that read the displayed device information, controls the job executor to output the job at the predetermined setting.

Image processing device for displaying device information and executing jobs based on received setting information

An image processing apparatus includes a controller, a display, and a job executor that executes a job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from a terminal device, wherein the controller starts up an application in response to a startup instruction, generates apparatus information including identification information on the image processing apparatus based on the started application, displays the generated apparatus information on the display for the terminal device, and controls the job executor to output the job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from the terminal device having read the displayed apparatus information, and terminates the application when a termination determination time has elapsed after startup of the application.

Image processing apparatus and job output method

Image processing apparatus that displays device information and that executes jobs based on received setting setting information

An image processing apparatus includes: a processor that executes a script and a native instruction sequence; a controller that instructs execution of an image processing function selected by a user; an operation manager that receives an instruction from the controller and manages progress of plural procedures constituting the image processing function; and a processing module that executes processing according to each of the procedures. The processing module is written as a script, the controller assigns an identifier corresponding to each of different image processing functions and provides a common instruction to the operation manager, and the operation manager calls and executes the processing module corresponding to the assigned identifier via common calling processing to the image processing functions.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for adding and changing image processing

An image processing apparatus includes a list acquirer that acquires a display object that is at least one of a folder and a file including a name and a type serving as an attribute; a display name decider that decides whether a name relating to a display object is named according to the type, on the basis of predetermined rules for displaying a list, and if not a name according to a type, adds an identifier to the name according to the type; and a list generator that displays the display object in the list by utilizing the name for an acquired display object or the name having an identifier added based on a decision by the display name decider.

Image processing apparatus, list display generator, and list display method

An application folder associated with a client PC and an application software of the client PC is generated in a storage section of a station PC. Scan data stored in the application folder is then moved to an application data folder of the client PC, which folder corresponds to the client PC and application software associated with the application folder. As a result, in a network scanner system in which a scanner apparatus is connected to the client PC over a network, it is possible to efficiently store scan data read out by the scanner apparatus and perform data processing to the scan data by an application software.

Image readout system, server apparatus, image readout apparatus, and terminal apparatus

An automatic document feeder feeds documents placed on a document table to a document exposure position, and has a document discharge means having a discharge roller for discharging the document after exposure onto the document table, the document discharge means being movable in the document conveying direction. The automatic document feeder includes a drive pulley mounted on an end portion of the discharge roller; a pair of transmission pulleys disposed outside the moving range of the drive pulley in the document conveying direction, and rotatably supported at a stationary part; a timing belt looped between the pair of transmission pulleys and the drive pulley; and a drive source transmittingly connected to one of the pair of transmission pulleys and disposed at a stationary part.

Automatic document feeder

A recirculating document feeder for use with an image forming machine having a transparent platen. This recirculating document feeder includes a document support disposed above the transparent platen and adapted to have a stack of documents placed thereon, with a selected side of each document facing down; a feed-out path extending from one end of the document support; a first switchback path having an upstream end connected to the downstream end of the feed-out path; a send-in path extending from its upstream end, which is connected to the upstream end of the first switchback path, to one end of the transparent platen; a send-out path extending from the other end of the transparent platen; a second switchback path having an upstream end connected to the downstream end of the send-out path; and a return path extending from its upstream end, which is connected to the upstream end of the second switchback path, to the other end of the document support. The bottom-most document of the document stack placed on the document support is fed out to the feed-out path, fed to the first switchback path through the feed-out path, and then sent onto the transparent platen through the send-in path in a reversed direction of feeding. Then, the document is fed from the transparent platen to the second switchback path through the send-out path, and then returned onto the document stack on the document support through the return path after the direction of its feeding is reversed again.

Recirculating document feeder

An automatic document conveyor for an image processing machine having an endless belt with a driven roller and a follower roller. The endless belt mechanism includes a front frame and a rear frame which are coupled together a distance apart in the direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the endless belt. First and second movable frames are coupled to first ends of each of the front frame and the rear frame and support the follower roller. A third movable frame is coupled to the second end of the front frame. The driven roller is supported by the third movable frame and the second end of the rear frame, and a drive source is coupled to the end of the driven roller adjacent the rear frame. Springs urge the three movable frames in directions tensioning the endless belt. The first and second movable frames can be moved against their springs to release the tension of the follower roller on the endless belt. The third movable frame can be moved against its spring to release the tension of the driven roller on the endless belt while retaining the coupling of the endless belt with the drive source.

Document conveyor belt release mechanism

An automatic document feeder for an image processing machine. The document feeder includes a main frame to be pivotally mounted on the image processing machine, a paper feeding unit, a paper discharging unit, and a conveyer belt for conveying papers from the paper feeding unit, across the image processing machine for image processing, to the paper discharging unit for discharge. A document discharging tray is positioned above the conveyer belt for receipt and stacking of papers discharged from a discharge port of the paper discharging unit. In the direction of document discharge, the document discharging tray has an ascending inclination, followed by a descending inclination. The ascending inclination and the descending inclination define a vertex spaced from the discharge port in the document discharging direction by more than one-half the length of the maximum-length document to be processed by the image processing machine.

Document discharging tray for an automatic document feeder

An automatic document feeder for an image processing machine. A main frame is so mounted as to be pivoted with respect to a platen glass provided on the housing of the image forming machine. A paper feeding unit is provided at one end of the main frame, and a paper discharging unit is provided at the other end. A conveyer belt mechanism is disposed between the paper feeding unit and the paper discharging unit. A document-placing table is attached to a table support means provided for the paper feeding unit, and is allowed to move in the back-and-forth direction of the image forming machine, so that its position can be adjusted, thereby permitting adjustment of any deviation between the optical axis of the image forming machine and the center line of the document fed by the automatic document feeder. The paper feeding unit is further provided with an open/close frame pivotally mounted on the main frame by at least one hollow split-bearing. An electrical wire is inserted within the hollow cylindrical portion of the split-bearing in order to eliminate the need to adjust the movement of the electrical wire with the rotation of the open/close frame.

An automatic document feeder for an image processing machine. A main frame is so mounted as to be pivoted with respect to a platen glass provided on the housing of the image forming machine. A paper feeding unit is provided at one end of the main frame, and a paper discharging unit is provided at the other end. A conveyer belt mechanism is disposed between the paper feeding unit and the paper discharging unit. A document-placing table is attached to a table support means provided for the paper feeding unit, and is allowed to move in the back-and-forth direction of the image forming machine, so that its position can be adjusted, thereby permitting adjustment of any deviation between the optical axis of the image forming machine and the center line of the document fed by the automatic document feeder.

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Tsuyoshi Nagao