Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yukio Kanaoka

Takashi Matsuda

Kanji Mizusugi

Atsushi Kaseno

Takao Miyake

Masayoshi Kawaishi

Katsuhiro Ishida

Naoki Saito

Fumikazu Shimanuki

Kenzo Yoshida

Hidetoshi Fujimoto

Masaaki Aida

Yasuhiro Nakai

Masao Saeda

Yasutomo Hayano

Kohichi Murakami

Kohji Katamoto

Masaji Sawada

Takahiro Fukunaga

Jinichi Nagata

Maki Tomoike

Osamu Kawata

Kenzoh Yoshida

Hideo Yoshikawa

Yoichi Tanimura

Takaaki Kuwabara

Manabu Hokazono

Seiko Shimanuki, Legal Representative

Kenji Shimanuki, Legal Representative

Copying machine

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

Problem: To be able to reduce manufacturing cost and achieve downsizing of an apparatus. Solution: An image forming apparatusincludes a CPU (), an image former (), and a display panel. The display panelserves as a display portionwhich displays an image, an image readerwhich reads a document placed on a display surface, and an operation portionwhich receives an input operation by a user. The CPU () detects a document area where the document exists on the display surface of the display panel, and causes the operation portionto be displayed at a position according to the detected document area on the display panel

Image reading apparatus comprising display panel which serves as operation portion and image reader, image forming apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, and control method

To enable the content of a printed material to be easily checked and inconvenience when a user collects the printed material to be avoided. An image forming apparatusincludes an image forming part () and a display panel, and the display paneldisplays a preview imagecorresponding to image data for printing an image on a sheet. For example, the preview imageis displayed on the display panelfrom when a print job is started and the first sheet in the print job is fed until the last sheet in the print job is discharged into a sheet discharge part

Image forming apparatus, control program, and control method

An image forming apparatus includes a housing in which an image forming section is contained and a paper output section into which a sheet of paper on which an image has been formed is ejected. The paper output section includes a paper output tray that supports the front side or back side of the sheet of paper, a back-end supporting member that supports a back end of the sheet of paper in a paper ejection direction, and a paper takeout slot through which the sheet of paper is taken out. The paper output section is provided at the outer edge of the interior of the housing. The housing has an external wall whose inner face side is used as the paper output tray. The paper takeout slot opens upward.

Image forming apparatus including a housing used as paper output tray

Copier

An image forming apparatus allowing a user to easily access an operating section even in a large-size apparatus can be provided. An image forming apparatusincludes a main machineincluding an operating sectionand capable of functioning as a multifunction machine by itself, and at least one option machinetoadded to a side-face side of an enclosureof the main machine. The apparatusincludes the operating sectionat a fixed position in the width direction of the enclosure. The enclosure has a unified first color of a same tone at a front face thereof, and an operating position lineis formed at a part of the front face of the enclosure and has a second color that is clearly different from the first color so as to be a guide indicating a position of the operating section

Image forming apparatus

An electronic seal apparatus causing an image displaying/reading apparatus to display an electronic document. The electronic seal apparatus includes (i) a storage section for storing a first identification information of a user's first digit and an associated user's first seal image, (ii) a digit identifying section for determining whether a digit indicated on a subject image is the user's first digit, and (iii) a sealing section for sealing onto the electronic document, when the digit indicated on the subject image is the user's first digit, a seal image associated with the first identification information. Thereby, a seal image can be electronically sealed after finger authentication is performed even if a finger authentication scanner solely dedicated for reading an image from a digit is not provided.

Electronic seal apparatus, electronic seal system, and method for controlling the electronic seal apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a processing unit which performs an image recording process for recording an image on a recording medium based on image data; a movement mechanism which moves the processing unit; a first control section which controls the image recording process performed by the processing unit; and a second control section which acquires a state of progress of the image recording process and controls the movement mechanism so as to move the processing unit to a position according to the progress state.

Image forming apparatus with moveable image processing units

An image forming apparatus includes a scanner section, an image forming section, and a functional unit. The scanner section is configured to read image information by scanning an image bearing side of a document sheet. The image forming section is located above or below the scanner section with a space section provided therebetween and is configured to perform image formation processing on a recording medium based on the image information read. The space section has at least one open vertical side. The functional unit is removably fitted into the space section through the open side.

An operation panel includes a panel surface, a key mounting surface, and a key. The panel surface is exposed to outside of a main apparatus. The key mounting surface is recessed by a predetermined length from the panel surface. The key is mounted on the key mounting surface to protrude beyond the key mounting surface by a length shorter than the predetermined length and configured to set the main apparatus to perform a predetermined operation based on a function previously assigned thereto when depressed.

Operation panel and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising: a document reading section that can read an image of a document; a document-type determining section that can extract, when the image includes a finishing mark or a characteristic form, the finishing mark or the characteristic form as a characteristic portion from the readout document image, and can determine, based on the extracted characteristic portion, a type of the finishing or a type of the document; a processing deciding section that decides, based on the determined type of the finishing or the determined type of the document, a type of finishing to be performed to a medium to be output or a type of image processing to be performed to an image to be output; and a processor that performs finishing of the type decided by the processing deciding section to the medium to be output or image processing of the type decided by the processing deciding section to the image to be output.

Image forming apparatus having a processing deciding section and image formation controlling method

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Nara, Japan

Yukio Kanaoka