Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus configured to form a toner image on a recording material, a varnish application apparatus configured to apply a varnish to the recording material, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to apply a first application amount of varnish to the recording material per unit area in a case of executing the image forming job for forming a varnish layer on a recording material having a first grammage, and is configured to apply a second application amount of varnish to the recording material per unit area in a case of executing the image forming job for forming the varnish layer on a recording material having a second grammage lower than the first grammage, the second application amount being higher than the first application amount.

Abstract: The light-emitting device has: a display region; a peripheral region; a first light-emitting element having a light-emitting region in which a lower electrode, a light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode are laminated; a first laminated section, between the substrate and the lower electrode of the first light-emitting element, in which there are laminated a first high-reflection layer and a first low-reflection layer that has a lower reflectance than the first high-reflection layer; a peripheral laminated section, in the peripheral region, in which there are laminated on the substrate; a peripheral lamination layer in which a peripheral high-reflection layer and a peripheral low-reflection layer that has a lower reflectance than the peripheral high-reflection layer are laminated. For at least a portion of the first laminated section that overlaps in plan view with the light-emitting region, the first low-reflection layer has an opening such that the first high-reflection layer is exposed.

Abstract: A server apparatus that is capable of notifying a user of an execution situation of a print job input to an image forming apparatus from an external apparatus. The server apparatus notifies an application of a communication terminal of information about a print job executed by an image forming apparatus. The server apparatus includes an obtainment unit that obtains status information about a print job that is input to the image forming apparatus from an external apparatus, and a controller that displays a message based on the status information on a display unit of the communication terminal. The controller displays a message, which shows that a predetermined print job cannot be executed because another print job is under execution, in a case where the predetermined print job is input to the image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus is executing the other print job.

Abstract: A projection apparatus according to the present invention, includes: a projection optical system configured to project an input image onto a projection plane, and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a position-detecting unit configured to detect a position pointed to by a pointer on the projection plane; and a control unit configured to perform control so that the projection optical system projects the input image and projects a graphic at the position detected by the position-detecting unit, wherein in a case where an image is scrolled in a specific range of the input image, the control unit performs control so that the graphic corresponding to the specific range moves in a direction in accordance with the scrolling.

Abstract: The image display apparatus includes an image capturing optical system, an image sensor, a display element, and an ocular optical system. An optical axis of the image capturing optical system and an optical axis of the ocular optical system are located on a same straight line. An image capturing view angle of the image capturing optical system is larger than a display view angle of the ocular optical system. The display element is configured to display, of an image generated by using a signal from the image sensor, an area corresponding to the display view angle. When d represents a distance between a position of an entrance pupil of the image capturing optical system and a position of the exit pupil of the ocular optical system, the condition of 20 mm?d?60 mm is satisfied.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image display element, and an eyepiece optical system configured to guide light from the image display element to an exit pupil. The eyepiece optical system includes at least one correction element having different characteristics between a central area and a peripheral area different from the central area. When first light is light emitted from a central portion of the image display element, and second light is light emitted from an outermost peripheral portion of the image display element, the characteristics of the at least one correction element are set such that color drift of the second light after pass through the peripheral area from the first light after pass through the central area is less than color drift of the second light before pass through the peripheral area from the first light before pass through the central area.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a high quality image without conspicuous graininess and density unevenness. An embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for printing a plurality of dot patterns on a printing medium, the dot patterns being formed by substantially same color and substantially same dot diameter, the apparatus including: a first creation unit configured to create, based on a first tone value, a first dot pattern and a second dot pattern printed and superimposed on the first dot pattern; and a second creation unit configured to create, based on a second tone value larger than the first tone value, a third dot pattern having an equal or larger number of dots compared to the first dot pattern and a fourth dot pattern printed and superimposed on the third dot pattern and having an equal or larger number of dots compared to the second dot pattern.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method is provided and includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices that store instructions. When the instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors are configured to perform operations including obtaining a first image which is obtained by capturing based on a first shooting parameter, generating, by image processing on the first image, a second image corresponding to a second shooting parameter which is different from the first shooting parameter and using at least the generated second image as a training image for a model that is used in noise estimation processing for an input image.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first discharge unit to discharge a printing medium on which printing has been performed, and a second discharge unit to discharge a printing medium on which printing has been performed. A determination unit, in a case where the first discharge unit is instructed to be a discharge destination of a printing medium, determines whether to discharge the printing medium from the first discharge unit based on a predetermined condition. An identification unit, in a case where the determination unit determines not to discharge the printing medium from the first discharge unit, identifies alternative processing previously instructed by a user. An execution unit executes the alternative processing identified by the identification unit.

Abstract: A verification apparatus includes a controller to display a screen in which a reference image as a verification target image is user selectable, to set, based on user input and. on the displayed reference image, a feature point of the reference image, and a reference region of a predetermined pattern formed in advance on a recording medium on which the verification target image is to be formed, to extract the set feature point from a read image, to specify, based on a positional relationship between the feature point and the screen set reference region, from an image position of the extracted feature point, a first region on the read image, indicating a region where the predetermined pattern should have been formed, and a second region other than the first, and to perform verification for the first region by a first algorithm, and for the second region by a second algorithm.

Abstract: An electronic device having a cable includes a storage unit and a communication unit. The storage unit stores first authentication information used for an authentication communication directed to the electronic device and second authentication information used for an authentication communication directed to the cable. The communication unit is capable of responding to an authentication communication directed to the electronic device and is also capable of responding to an authentication communication directed to the cable.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus stores held print jobs on a storage apparatus, displays a list of the held print jobs that have been stored on the storage apparatus, and performs a display according to a state of the storage apparatus when displaying the list.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to create an album layout in accordance with the actual time-series in a case the time-series of the images used in the model album and the time-series of the candidate images used in the album to be created are different. One embodiment of the present invention is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of candidate image; and a selection unit configured to select, based on analysis results of each of a plurality of model images used in a model album and analysis results of each of the candidate images, similar images each of which has a degree of similarity to any one of the model images higher than a predetermined value, from among the plurality of candidate images.

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. It concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or FRUC mode. It concerns encoding and decoding improvement which reduce the need for memory accesses when using an encoding mode where the motion information is predicted using a decoder side motion vector derivation method.

Abstract: An image processing system capable of preventing resubmission of a scanned image from being required due to an undesired object which obstructs visibility. The image processing system includes a scanned image generation unit configured to read an original and generate a scanned image of the read original, and submits an image to a management server. A continuous pixel area which includes a plurality of pixels whose pixel values are higher than a predetermined density threshold value and has an area size equal to or larger than a predetermined value is identified from a scanned image. Whether or not the identified continuous pixel area is an area of an undesired object which obstructs visibility is determined. A continuous pixel area determined as the area of an undesired object is notified to a user before the scanned image is submitted to the management server.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a registration unit that registers a speed license for setting an image forming speed, and an image forming unit that performs image formation at an image forming speed corresponding to the speed license registered by the registration unit. In addition, a control unit permits the image formation by the image forming unit in a case where the speed license is registered by the registration unit, and permits the image formation by the image forming unit in a case where an operation mode of the image forming apparatus is a predetermined mode different from a normal operation mode if the speed license is unregistered by the registration unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of switching power state between a first power state and a second power state, which is lower in power than the first power state, shifts from the second power state to the first power state. In a case where the image forming apparatus shifts to the second power state in response to a current time reaching a set time, the image forming apparatus is controlled not to shift from the second power state to the first power state in response to an object approaching the image forming apparatus being detected.

Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a conveyance roller configured to convey a medium, a reading unit configured to read an image of the medium conveyed by the conveyance roller, a detection unit configured to detect a rotation phase of the conveyance roller, a storage unit configured to store index values, each index value being associated with the rotation phase of the conveyance roller and corresponding to a conveyance amount of the conveyance roller per unit rotation angle, and a timing control circuit configured to select the index value based on a detection result of the detection unit and to control a reading timing of the reading unit based on a result of comparing a cumulative value of selected index values with a threshold corresponding to a reading resolution.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that communicates with an image processing apparatus and provides a chat service includes a communication unit that receives image data generated by the image processing apparatus reading an image on a document, an acquisition unit that acquires information for identifying a storage location where the received image data is to be stored, a storage unit that stores the received image data in the storage location based on the acquired information, and a control unit that controls the acquired information to be displayed in a talk room of the chat service.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is communicable with a system including a censorship function, and includes one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories, and the one or more controllers are configured to transmit an image acquired by reading a display medium to the system, receive a censorship result from the system, and control the image processing apparatus to perform a predetermined operation corresponding to the received censorship result, wherein the predetermined operation is a preset operation to be performed by the image processing apparatus based on the received censorship result.