Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yasutomo Hayano

Yasuhiro Nakai

Masao Saeda

Kohichi Murakami

Kohji Katamoto

Emiko Matsuo

Yukio Kanaoka

Kazuhiro Yoshimoto

Masaya Ishihara

Manami Takao

Tetsuji Nishijima

Akira Okuyama

Kazuma Ohwaki

Noriyuki Suzuki

The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system and control method

An output system includes a terminal device, an image-forming apparatus, and a server device. The terminal device includes an acquirer that acquires content from the server device, a generator that generates job data including a setting for outputting the content based on the acquired content, a transmitter that transmits the job data to the image-forming apparatus, and a reception slip outputter that outputs a reception slip including a reception number corresponding to the generated job data. The image-forming apparatus includes a receiver that receives the job data from the terminal device, and an outputter that outputs the content after executing a job based on the job data corresponding to the reception number when the reception number is input.

Output system for outputting content acquired from server device and terminal device for outputting reception slip to be used in output of content

The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system including a display that displays plurality of control screens

An image forming apparatus classifies, among a plurality of pieces of image data, one or more pluralities of pieces of image data into one or more groups, each including a plurality of pieces of similar image data, the one or more pluralities of pieces of image data each satisfying a corresponding predetermined classification condition for grouping similar images, classifies one or more pieces of image data not satisfying the classification condition as one or more pieces of normal image data, generates one or more pieces of similar image display information corresponding to the one or more groups obtained by classification, generates one or more normal thumbnail images corresponding to the one or more pieces of normal image data obtained by classification, and displays the one or more pieces of similar image display information and the one or more normal thumbnail images that are generated in a manner that allows selection operation.

Image forming apparatus, recording medium with image processing program recorded thereon, and image processing method

An information processing apparatus includes a storage that stores operation explanation information for explaining task contents to be performed on the information processing apparatus, an operation explanation display controller that displays operation explanation information related to a specific task to be performed on the information processing apparatus, a task information acquirer that acquires information about a task performed on the information processing apparatus when the operation explanation information is displayed, an erroneous task determiner that determines that an erroneous task is performed on the information processing apparatus when the acquired information about a task differs from contents information of the specific task indicated in the displayed operation explanation information, and a warning processor that notifies warning information indicating that a task different from the specific task indicated in the displayed operation explanation information is performed when it is determined that the erroneous task is performed.

Information processing apparatus that provides operation guidance

In an image processing system, when a user logs in to an image processing apparatus to use a scanning service, the image processing apparatus transmits login information to a relay server, and the relay server transmits scan setup data and destination address data to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus prescans a document to identify a document format, and automatically sets scan setup data (properties), based on the identified format and according to the sent scan setup data, so as to execute scanning.

Image processing apparatus comprising image reader for reading document according to scan setup data, image processing program storing medium, and image processing system

An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.

Information processing device

An image processing system is provided with an image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal, and a chatbot is formed of a server (and a call center terminal). A user asks the server or an operator at the call center terminal a question by means of the chatbot; answer data is returned to the mobile terminal from the server or from the call center terminal by the operator; operation setting data accompanying the answer text is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the image forming apparatus; and the transmitted operation setting data is set as the operation setting data in the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus operation setting method

An image forming apparatus has an office direct print function, and when a non-installed font that is not installed in the image forming apparatus is included in application data, a font substitution guidance screen is displayed on a display. A drop-down list that is an operator for selecting a substitute font is provided in the font substitution guidance screen, whereby a user can arbitrarily select a substitute font. The font substitution guidance screen displays also a sample character group having a typeface according to the selected substitute font.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system and control method of image forming apparatus

This image forming device is capable of providing a plurality of usage services, and requires an operation setting for selecting a usage service at the time of use. The image forming device includes a touch panel that accepts a user operation while presenting an operation screen, and a controller that controls the operation screen of the touch panel. At least some of the usage services provided by the image forming device require operation of a reception device (document reader, media reader, QR code reader, or NFC card reader) provided in the image forming device, or connected to the image forming device. When a reception device is operated before an operation setting for usage service selection is performed on the touch panel, the controller switches to an operation screen that shows a preferential display of a usage service which is applicable to the reception device that has been operated.

Image forming device which is installed in a store or the like, and is capable of providing services as an information terminal

An image processing system includes a server, an image processing device, and a mobile terminal. When a chatbot activation operation is received, the image processing device transmits activation data for activating a chatbot and operation history data up to the time of activation of the chatbot to the mobile terminal. When the activation data is received, the mobile terminal accesses the server to activate the chatbot and transmits the operation history data to the server. When a question is input, the mobile terminal transmits the data on the question to the server. When the data on the question is received, the server generates an answer in accordance with the content of the question and the operation history.

Image processing system includes at least an image processing device, mobile terminal and information processing device that has chatbot function to receive a question, and the image processing device generates activation data for activating the chatbot function

A multifunction peripheral as an example of an image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure has an office direct print function. According to the office direct print function, a print process based on application data generated by predetermined application software or compatible application software compatible with the application software may be directly executed without using a personal computer or the like. When a font is substituted in execution of the print process performed by the office direct print function, a caution message screen and a preview screen are displayed on a display of the multifunction peripheral before the print process is executed.

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Sakai, Japan

Yasutomo Hayano