Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Otsuka Corporation

Osk Co., Ltd.

Yoshiroh Someya

Minoru Sakai

Minoru Saito

Yasushi Ogawa

Naoki Wakasugi

Toshiyuki Shimizu

Hidenao Ubukata

Nobumitsu Samukawa

Ryosuke Sako

Midori Murayama

Kazumi Hanada

Kentaroh Murakawa

Chikara Kishi

Mitsuru Fukushima

Yasushi Okada

Kohji Kanbara

Junichi Ota

Toshimichi Ooura

Shinji Usami

Mamoru Murata

Kenichi Maekawa

Noriko Asami

A charge managing system including an image forming apparatus and a charge managing server is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural applications each configured for executing a specific process on input data, a counter unit that counts a number of result items output as a result of executing at least one of the applications, a count value storage unit that stores a count value corresponding to the number of result items counted by the counter unit, and a storage area setting unit that secures a plurality of storage areas within the count value storage unit each of which storage areas is configured for storing a corresponding count value obtained for each of the applications. The charge managing server manages charging a fee for using the image forming apparatus based on the corresponding count value stored in each of the storage areas secured for each of the applications.

Charge managing system, image forming apparatus, charge managing server, and image forming method

An image data obtaining system storing image data optically read from a digital compound machine into a database managed by a server connected to the digital compound machine via a network. The digital compound machine includes: a unit configured to generate an input screen based on input screen configuration information received from the server beforehand; a unit configured to send, to the server, the image data, image data information and a DB key value, wherein the image data information is for associating the image data with the input screen configuration information and is input from the input screen, and wherein the DB key value is for associating the database with the input screen configuration information. The server includes a unit configured to store the image data and/or the image data information into the database associating the image data and/or the image data information with the DB key value.

Image data obtaining system, digital compound machine and system management server

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiroh Someya