Abstract: Provided is a quick-responsive voice control technique even in use in a planetarium. A control device of a projector of a planetarium includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of commands for controlling the projector, flags indicating whether or not the respective commands can be executed, and keywords associated with the respective commands; a voice acquisition unit that acquires voice data; a control unit that controls the control device; and a communication unit that communicates with the projector.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a communication interface that receives instructions including a command to control an instrument; a storage that stores a rule of an execution procedure of the command; a CPU that verifies the instructions; and an output interface that outputs a verification result of the instructions. The CPU acquires the instructions through the communication interface, reads the rule from the storage, and detects a defect of the instructions by comparing an execution procedure of the command included in the instructions with the rule. The output interface outputs a detection result of the defect.

Abstract: Provided is a quick-responsive voice control technique even in use in a planetarium. A control device (100) of a projector (308) of a planetarium includes: a storage unit (304) that stores a plurality of commands for controlling the projector (308), flags indicating whether or not the respective commands can be executed, and keywords associated with the respective commands; a voice acquisition unit (301) that acquires voice data; a control unit (201) that controls the control device; and a communication unit (207) that communicates with the projector (308).

Abstract: A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.

Abstract: An information device having a touch-sensitive panel for displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region is provided. The information device includes sets of data classified into at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order; a list display control portion for displaying, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which the sets of data classified into any one of the groups are listed; a scroll control portion for, when the data list is displayed, scrolling through the data list in accordance with touch operation of touching a position in the scrolled display region; and a support display control portion for displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction. The icons function as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of the three groups.

Abstract: A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The system includes a hardware processor; and an output device configured to output an image or audio; wherein the hardware processor determines a completed step of the steps based on a change in state of a target on which the task is to be performed, the completed step being a step which has been completed, and the hardware processor causes the output device to reproduce an unfinished part in a first form where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the output device to reproduce the unfinished part in a second form different from the first form where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the unfinished part being a part corresponding to an unfinished step which is not determined to have been completed among the steps.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display; a memory that stores multiple key frames of a video guide on how to recover from an operating error; an error sensor that detects the operating error; and a display processor that allows the display to display at least one of the multiple key frames as a still frame for a digest along with an operation button for video playback, when the error sensor detects the operating error, the multiple key frames being stored on the memory, and that further allows the display to play back the video guide by serially displaying the multiple key frames, when the operation button is pressed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.

Abstract: A manipulation panel that is a user interface includes a display unit that displays a screen, a touch panel that detects a tap performed to the display unit, and an abnormality detector that detects a situation, in which a message is displayed on the display unit, until the touch panel detects a second tap constituting a double tap since detecting a first tap. Manipulation panel displays a warning message about the situation detected by the abnormality detector on the display unit after the touch panel detects the second tap.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a hardware processor configured to: execute a process according to a received remote operation in response to reception of the remote operation from a master device registered in advance among a plurality of mobile information devices; confirm to a duplicate login device other than an own device among the plurality of image processing devices that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device in a case where a remote operation of instructing connection with a sub device different from the master device is received from the master device; and execute a process according to a remote operation received from the sub device in a case where it is confirmed by a confirmation unit that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device.

Abstract: A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The system includes a hardware processor; and an output device configured to output an image or audio; wherein the hardware processor determines a completed step of the steps based on a change in state of a target on which the task is to be performed, the completed step being a step which has been completed, and the hardware processor causes the output device to reproduce an unfinished part in a first form where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the output device to reproduce the unfinished part in a second form different from the first form where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the unfinished part being a part corresponding to an unfinished step which is not determined to have been completed among the steps.

Abstract: A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.

Abstract: An information converter includes an acquisition part for acquiring execution information of a specific function mode, the specific function mode being included in customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user and not being installed in a specific image forming apparatus; and a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in the specific function mode into a plurality of jobs which can be executed in the specific image forming apparatus and converting the execution information of the specific function mode into converted execution information described by using combination of the plurality of jobs.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display; a memory that stores multiple key frames of a video guide on how to recover from an operating error; an error sensor that detects the operating error; and a display processor that allows the display to display at least one of the multiple key frames as a still frame for a digest along with an operation button for video playback, when the error sensor detects the operating error, the multiple key frames being stored on the memory, and that further allows the display to play back the video guide by serially displaying the multiple key frames, when the operation button is pressed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a hardware processor configured to: execute a process according to a received remote operation in response to reception of the remote operation from a master device registered in advance among a plurality of mobile information devices; confirm to a duplicate login device other than an own device among the plurality of image processing devices that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device in a case where a remote operation of instructing connection with a sub device different from the master device is received from the master device; and execute a process according to a remote operation received from the sub device in a case where it is confirmed by a confirmation unit that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a display that displays a first screen including one or more than one first key for setting a mode to execute a function of the apparatus, and then, if one of the first keys is pressed, displays a second screen including one or more than one second key, which is a lower-class screen under the pressed first key; and a customizing portion that hides at least one of the first and the second keys on the first screen, according to a user operation, and wherein if a user changes to non-display, the setting of at least one of the first keys on the first screen, while there exists a second key preliminarily prohibited from being hidden, on the second screen that is a lower-class screen under the first key to be hidden according to the changed setting, the customizing portion doesn't hide the first key.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a switching operation unit switching a display mode of a setting screen between first and second display modes. A first display screen in a first display mode includes an icon display area displaying icons arranged in a predetermined direction and corresponding to function buttons for setting each function, and a first function button display area displaying some of the function buttons corresponding to some of the icons specified by a range specification unit. The function buttons are classified into groups according to their function attribute. A second display screen in the second display mode includes a group display instruction area provided with group specification buttons for receiving input of a group display instruction to display function buttons belonging to a specific group among the groups, and a second function button display area displaying the function buttons belonging to the specific group among the function buttons.

Abstract: A remote control device remotely controlled by a remote operation device includes an operation screen transmission portion to transmit an operation screen to the remote operation device; and a changed area decision portion to decide on an area in a second operation screen that is different from a first operation screen, as a changed area, in a stage before the operation screen transmission portion transmits the second operation screen subsequently to the first operation screen. The operation screen transmission portion includes a supplemental information transmission portion to transmit supplemental information including a command to display the changed area in full screen, together with the second operation screen.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a display and a touch panel mounted on a display surface of the display. The apparatus includes a storage portion that stores, thereinto, data showing operation made on the touch panel in a normal mode; a determination portion that determines, in the normal mode, processing of displaying an operating screen on the display based on the operation made on the touch panel, and to determine, in the reproduction mode, the processing based on the data; and a control portion that performs, in the normal mode, the determined processing in a manner to end at a first timing, and, in a reproduction mode, if the determined processing corresponds to predetermined processing, the determined processing in a manner to end at a second timing which is later than the first timing.