Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yasuhiro Inoue

Takehiro Katoh

Yasuhiro Takai

Shigeharu Maehara

Kazunori Soda

Yoshifumi Maitani

Noritomo Nakashima

Norihide Momose

Kazuya Iwabayashi

Yoshio Nishimoto

Hiroki Kinoshita

Masayuki Gomi

Hideki Sekino

Yukinari Satou

Masahiro Kitajiri

An image processing device reads a plurality of documents selectively attached with a tag, and processes the read document images with a tag. The image processing device includes a tag information extractor that extracts tag information about a tag from the document images with a tag, and an image processor that separately generates, based on the tag information, document images without a tag in which a tag is removed from the document images with a tag, and a tag information image in which the tag information about the document images without a tag is written.

Image processing device and image processing method capable of reading document selectively attached with a tag

A switch operation erroneous-detection avoidance device includes: an execution control unit that if a prescribed device executes a prescribed process with a portable object when an operation switch transits from a pressed state to an unpressed state, prohibits execution of a process associated with the operation switch and if the prescribed device does not execute the prescribed process with the portable object when the operation switch transits from the pressed state to the unpressed state, permits the execution of the process associated with the operation switch.

Switch operation erroneous-detection avoidance device and multifunctional machine, and switch operation erroneous-detection avoidance method

An operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance device, if an operation on an operation switch is performed by an approaching object to the operation switch, in a case where the operation on the operation switch is detected during a period when an event which occurs in association with the operation on the operation switch occurs, prohibits a process associated with the operation switch from being activated.

Operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance device, operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance method, program for avoiding operation switch press erroneous-detection, operation panel, and multifunctional machine

An additional image is formed on a recording medium by filling a predetermined area including a punched portion or a stapled portion, in addition to an image which is to be formed originally, such as a text document. The additional image is formed with white developer or transparent developer. Since the thickness of the recording medium is increased by the white developer or transparent developer forming the additional image portion, the region around the punched portion or the stapled portion is reinforced and the recording medium is kept from being broken easily. When the image and the additional image are superposed, the superposition of the image and the additional image is avoided by either reducing the image or changing the position of the image to be formed.

Image forming apparatus performing post treatment accompanied with perforation

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, and a control unit for supplying the image forming unit with image data for a plurality of pages so that the image forming unit forms images page by page on sheets transported by the paper transport unit, wherein, when the image data for each page includes data representative of blanks on a leading end side and on a tail end side of the page in a paper transport direction, the control unit deletes the data representative of the blank either on the leading end side or on the tail end side from the image data prior to supplying the image forming unit with the image data, and controls the paper transport unit so that a plurality of sheets are transported sequentially to the image formation unit in a multiple state in which one sheet partially overlaps with another in the paper transport direction by a length corresponding to the deleted data representative of the blank.

Image formation apparatus

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Sakai, Japan

Yasuhiro Inoue