Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Yoshikazu Ikenoue

Tomonari Yoshimura

Daisuke Sakiyama

Junichi Hase

Shunsuke Takamura

Masazumi Ito

Toshihiro Motoi

Kazuhiro Araki

Masakazu Murakami

Okihisa Yoshida

Keisuke Teramoto

Eiichi Yoshida

Shoji Imaizumi

Syuzi Maruta

Toshiya Shozaki

Eiichiro Kawasaki

Toshiyuki Yamashita

Shinya Ogino

Noriko Hoshino

Kenichi Takahashi

Tomoyuki Atsumi

Yoshiyuki Tamai

Tomokazu Kato

Kimihiko Higashio

Hisashi Uchida

Hidetaka Iwai

Hiroyuki Ideyama

Kenzo Nagata

Hiroki Tajima

Yasuhiko Yamaguchi

Ayumi Itoh

Takao Shudo

Kagumi Moriwaki

Hiroyuki Asai

Hiroharu Tanaka

Toru Okatani

Kenta Hosaka

Hiroaki Ikeda

Takeshi Morikawa

Katsuhiko Akita

Hiroshi Sugiura

Kadotaro Nishimori

Hirokazu Yamada

Satoshi Deishi

Minoru Nakamura

Masahiro Kitamura

Hideo Ito

Kaoru Hashimoto

Akio Kato

Koji Naito

Keiichi Nomura

Kazuma Takeuchi

Akemi Morita

Ikuko Kanazawa

Hiroyuki Kishimoto

Junko Takuwa

Moeko Hagiwara

Ikuko Tsubotani

Toru Kasamatsu

Masaya Hirota

A conference support apparatus includes: a conference management section that stores screen information obtained by the object operation to manage screen transition in the conference; a branch management section that stores branch information for discriminating a branch point in association with the screen on which a branching operation is performed to manage a branch point of the conference when the branching operation is performed to branch the discussion; and a digest creation section that refers to branch information to specify the digest part that connects the start point and the end point from which a branch is excluded when the branch is included between the start point and the end point and extracts screen information about a screen included in the specified digest part to create a conference digest on the basis of the screen information corresponding to the specified digest part when a digest creation operation is performed.

Conference support apparatus, conference support system, conference support method, and computer-readable recording medium storing conference support program

A device for determining interest includes a storage portion configured to store, on a user-by-user basis, a co-occurrence frequency in correlation with a user, the co-occurrence frequency indicating how many times a pair of words is used in a same cluster of a first document, on a pair-by-pair basis, to which the user gained access previously; a designating portion configured to allow a person who is to conduct a search to designate a second document and any one of the users; and a determination portion configured to determine that, among the pairs, a pair which is used in a same cluster of the designated second document and which also satisfies a predetermined condition of the co-occurrence frequency corresponding to the designated user is a particular pair in the second document which is probably of high interest to the designated user.

Device and method for determining interest, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

There are provided an information sharing system, a common terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information sharing program. An information sharing system includes: a common terminal; and one or more personal terminals each configured to transmit an object to the common terminal and perform a remote operation on an object displayed on a common screen. The common terminal includes a receiving section configured to receive an object transmitted from one of the personal terminals, a display section including the common screen and being configured to display the object on the common screen, and a control section configured to determine, upon receiving an instruction to perform a remote operation on an object displayed on the common screen, whether the instruction satisfies a predetermined condition or not, and prohibit performing the remote operation in response to a determination that the instruction does not satisfy the predetermined condition.

Information sharing system, common terminal and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An operation controlling method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and an operation controlling apparatus are provided for controlling operations performed on a common working area in a system, wherein the system includes one or more display sections being configured to display the common working area so as to allow plural operators to perform operations on the common working area. The method includes: determining an operator who has performed an operation on the common working area; storing an operation history in a storage section with the operation and the operator; accepting one or more designated operators, before performing an editing operation using one or more operation histories; and performing the editing operation using one or more operation histories, where the one or more operation histories are obtained by extracting one or more operation histories being associated with the one or more designated operators from operation histories in the storage section.

Operation controlling method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and operation controlling apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a display state data obtaining portion obtaining display state data indicating a state of a displayed image that is an image electrically displayed on electronic paper, a display termination control portion controlling the electronic paper to finish displaying the displayed image, a write image data obtaining portion that obtains write image data that is image data of a write image corresponding to an image written on the electronic paper by reading the image written on the electronic paper after finishing the display, and a storage control portion that controls a storage portion to store, therein, displayed image data that is image data of the displayed image, the display state data obtained by the display state data obtaining portion, and the write image data obtained by the write image data obtaining portion, the displayed image data, the display state data, and the write image data being associated with one another.

Method and system for managing image data for electronic paper, image processing apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

A handwriting input device in which a handwriting input is possible to a touch panel which is superimposed on a display screen including: an inputted contents processing section for recognizing a content by the handwriting input and setting up a area on the display screen based on an recognition result; an application software determining section for determining an application software which should be started up based on the recognition result and starting up the application software; and a result processing section for inserting information acquired by the started application software into the area and displaying on the display screen.

Handwriting input device and handwriting input control program

A data manipulation transmission apparatus including: an object acquisition section for acquiring a display object, generated on display screenof an information input device based on input to the device, from the device manipulated by an individual; a distance information acquisition section for acquiring distance information from display screenof a common display apparatus to a person viewing display screenwhen viewed by plural people; a display ratio determining section for determining a ratio of a display size of an arbitrary display object on display screen, to a display size of the arbitrary display object on display screen, according to the distance information; and a display data transmission section for generating data to display a display object, acquired by the object acquisition section, on display screen, at a ratio determined via the display ratio determining section, and transmitting the data to the common display apparatus.

Electronic conferencing system, electronic conferencing method, and electronic conferencing program

A method for transmitting a plurality of pieces of image data is provided. The method includes causing an image forming apparatus () to perform a process of obtaining a private key (#), a process of generating individual electronic signatures for the plurality of pieces of image data by using the private key thus obtained (#and #), and a process of adding the individual electronic signatures to the plurality of pieces of image data and transmitting the plurality of pieces of image data (#).

Method for transmitting image data, image processing apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

An image processing apparatus includes a display, an obtaining unit obtaining second data containing information for identifying the link information having no image data in a corresponding storage position among the plural pieces of link information contained in the first data, a display control unit making the display selectively display first link information having image data in a corresponding storage position and second link information having no image data in the corresponding storage position in different formats based on the second data, and a transmission unit transmitting image data generated by a scanning unit to the corresponding storage position.

Network system, method, and computer readable medium for image processing apparatus with transmission and storage capability of generated data to specific storage location in data server

A job ticket issuing device includes: a document encryption processing unit for encrypting document data with a document data encryption key; and a job ticket encryption processing unit for encrypting a job ticket, including information about a content of job processing with respect to the document data, with a job ticket encryption key which is different from the document data encryption key.

Job ticket issuing device and job execution device

An MFP stores information of a web service for permitting use with respect to each user, and information for limiting a use of its function. When there is a web service allowed to be used by the logged in user, its list is displayed. When a linked function with the selected web service is not allowed to be used, a massage to the effect that is displayed and when the use of the function is limited, limited contents are displayed to confirm the use of the web service.

Image forming apparatus unifying management for use of image forming apparatus and use of web service

In order to facilitate updating of information on a destination of data, a data communication system includes a server and an MFP capable of communicating with each other. The MFP transmits to the server an update requesting signal including a source address of an e-mail received from another apparatus and related information on the source, transmits an address request to the server and receives user address data from the server, and transmits data to at least one destination address included in the received user address data. The server stores the user address data having destination addresses and related information on the destinations associated with each other, and in receipt of the update requesting signal from the MFP, rewrites the related information associated with the source address included in the update requesting signal by the user address data with the related information included in the update requesting signal.

Data communication system including address management apparatus and data communication apparatus, address management method using address management apparatus, and address management program controlling address management apparatus

In order to prevent a duplicate of a still image from being generated, an MFP includes an image obtaining portion to obtain one or more still images, a moving image generating portion to generate a moving image in which the obtained still images are displayed sequentially, and a distribution portion to perform real-time streaming distribution of the moving image in response to a request from a PC connected to a network.

Image distribution apparatus, image distribution method, and image distribution program

In order to enable a still image to be checked while preventing leakage of confidential information contained in the still image, an MFP includes: an image acquiring portion to acquire a still image; an encoding portion to generate encoded data by encoding the acquired still image using an encoding key stored in advance; a decoding portion to decode the encoded data using the encoding key or a decoding key corresponding to the encoding key; and a transmitting portion to externally output the decoded still image in an electronically non-recordable form.

Image processing apparatus, image outputting method, and image outputting program embodied on computer readable medium

In order to prevent invalid distribution of data, a data managing method includes the steps of inputting a document, extracting, from the input document, a document No. for identifying the document, receiving the input of a user ID for identifying a user, determining whether or not a process for the input document is permitted for the user identified by the acquired user ID by referring to permission data, and forbidding the execution of output processes for the input data in the case where it has been determined in the determining step that the process is not permitted. The permission data is data which associates, for each document No., user IDs with the process names for identifying processes permitted for the document.

Data managing method, data managing device and data managing server suitable for restricting distribution of data

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