Konica Minolta, Inc.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Yukinori Matsumoto

Yoshinori Sugahara

Shuji Nakao

A remote operation device capable of remotely operating an image processing apparatus includes a display, an operation acceptor that accepts an operation by a user, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor displays any of a plurality of operation screens in the display, detects a position relative to the image processing apparatus, stores an operation state indicating an operation accepted by the operation acceptor in a current state before the current state is switched to a non-current state, based on a position detected after activation at which the non-current state is switched to the current state and an operation state last stored, determines an activation screen, and, in response to the non-current state being switched to the current state, displays the activation screen determined in the display.

Remote operation device, remote operation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with remote operation program

An image forming apparatus comprises: a controller storing therein a billing destination to which a fee for printing processing is charged, the controller operable to receive, from a user via an operation panel, an instruction for executing the printing processing while the user is logged in and to charge, to the billing destination, the fee for the execution of the printing processing; a card reader operable to receive a new billing destination while the user is logged in, without intervention of the operation panel, wherein when receiving the new billing destination, the controller updates the billing destination to the new billing destination by storing the new billing destination.

Image forming apparatus, and billing destination setting method in the image forming apparatus

An image processing system includes an information processing apparatus and one or a plurality of image processing apparatuses that can be connected to the information processing apparatus via a network. A function whose function set value is to be displayed on a function setting screen is identified from identifying information included in screen information made by the information processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes an identifying information storage part in which identifying information of a function is stored, and of the functions whose identifying information is stored, all function set values of the identified function are displayed on a display part in a mode that can be selected by a user.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, method for controlling display of function setting screen, and recording medium

A computer readable recording medium bearing a printer driver program for controlling a print device, which is installed in a print job data processing apparatus constituting a printing system together with the printing device, the printer driver program comprising computer executable instructions of; receiving a print job data from an application program which has a print command; analyzing the received print job data from the application program to identify respective objects included in the page description language data; calculating a position where each object is arranged on a printable area designated depending on output paper size; and modifying the object to allow the object to be accommodated within the printable area, thereby accomplishing a correct print operation such that a print region designated by a user is accommodated to a predetermined output paper size without depending on a function of an application.

Computer readable recording medium bearing a printer driver program and print data processing apparatus

An image forming apparatus is provided with a writing-present document reading processing portion that executes processing for reading a plurality of page images that are images of pages constituting a document, a writing page determining portion that determines whether or not there is a writing in each of the pages based on each of the input page images, and a writing image extracting portion that extracts a writing image that is an image of the writing only from the page image of a page for which it has been determined that there is a writing.

Writing image acquisition apparatus, writing information extraction method, and storage medium

In order to facilitate setting of a printer's function, a computer program product executed in a server computer connected to a printer and a client computer includes computer instructions for transmitting an HTML file to the client computer, wherein the HTML file is used for displaying a screen on the client computer for prompting to input characters, and editing a printer function description file, in which a function of the printer is described, based on the characters inputted on the client computer when the inputted characters are transmitted from the client computer.

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Amagasaki, Japan

Yukinori Matsumoto