Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a print settings screen for causing an image forming apparatus to print, on a printing medium, a plurality of patches representing colorimetry targets readable by a colorimetric apparatus; a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for the printing via the print settings screen; a print control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to start the printing of the plurality of patches based on the received instruction for the printing; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to calibration corresponding to the printing medium; and a determination unit configured to determine whether calibration has been executed for the printing medium based on the obtained information related to calibration.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of generating image data according to a setting compliant with PDF/A. A reading unit reads an image of a document and generates image data. A registration unit registers at least one setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. A setting unit sets whether to enable or disable a function that prevents a user from setting a setting value that does not comply with a PDF/A standard as a setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. And a change unit changes a setting value that does not comply with the PDF/A standard among the at least one setting value registered so as to comply with the PDF/A standard in enabling the function in a state where the registration unit registers the at least one setting value.

Abstract: The method and system allow a user to launch a client application on an web-enabled device and subsequently to navigate to an image source screen within the client application. After receiving an image source selection from the user, the client application retrieves images from the selected image source. The client application displays the retrieved images available for printing to a user, and in response to receiving a selection of an image, the client application transmits the image to a proprietary server. Moreover, upon receiving print order information, the client application additionally executes a location awareness application that determines a current location of the web-enabled device and subsequently, determines a proximal retail store to the current location of the web-enabled device. Thereafter, the remote printing system creates and transmits a print order that includes the selected image to the retail store for pickup.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a peripheral device with a web browser. A system includes a peripheral device and a user computing device executing a web browser and a device manager, the device manager configured to operate the peripheral device and including a device manager web server. An authentication token can be passed to the web browser from a web server upon coupling of the peripheral device with the user computing device and login by the user with the web browser. The web browser can pass the authentication token to the device manager through the device manager web server. The device manager can transmit the authentication token to the web server to pair the web browser with the device manager.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method to enable printing on legacy devices. The method includes discovering a legacy device that does not have a universal record that enables the legacy device to provide services to a mobile device through a network, appending the universal record for the legacy device, transmitting the universal record for the legacy device to a controller, receiving, at the controller and from the mobile device, a request for services which can be provided by the legacy device, transmitting, from the controller and based on the universal record for the legacy device, data associated with the legacy device to the mobile device to yield transmitted data and transmitting, based on an acceptance of the transmitted data by the mobile device, a service request from the mobile device to the legacy device for providing a service to the mobile device.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for processing and scheduling print jobs on a plurality of printers. The method includes: collecting job information on one or more past print jobs; collecting job information on a plurality of print jobs currently being processed, each of the plurality of print jobs being assigned to one or more operators from a plurality of operators; generating a process workflow visualization for the plurality of print jobs currently being processed with a processing mining algorithm based on the job information collected on the one or more past print jobs and the job information collected on the plurality of print jobs currently being processed; and displaying the process workflow visualization for the plurality of print jobs currently being processed.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a request to initiate a new subscription for an entity, determining whether the entity is associated with an existing subscription, and in response to determining that the entity is associated with the existing subscription, initiating the new subscription with a subscription period coinciding with the existing subscription.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for encryption and decryption of data. In some implementations, an encryption and decryption system can protect private information of a user in documents with an artificial reality device. The encryption and decryption system can determine the portion of a document containing private information and encrypt that portion of the document. In some implementations, the encryption and decryption system can receive a document and identify the protected (e.g., encrypted) portion of the document. In some cases, the protected portion of the document can contain a security token that the encryption and decryption system can extract. The system can compare the security token to an authentication token associated with the user and determine whether the security and authentication token match. If the tokens match, the system can decrypt the protected portion of the document and display the decrypted data as a virtual object.

Abstract: A control method of a printing apparatus for acquiring a print job from a cloud print service, and performing printing based on the acquired print job includes transmitting, in a case where a notification received from the cloud print service includes information indicating that a fetchable print job exists, a first request related to the print job, to the cloud print service, executing login processing of causing a user to log into the printing apparatus, and transmitting a second request related to the print job, to the cloud print service conditional upon the login processing being performed.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method and a system to perform the method that includes receiving a request from a client device to execute an application, selecting servers that provide remote desktop environment and host the requested application, determining, based on a priority level for a client session to be established, a capacity of system resources and a current utilization level of each server, that the client device is to be directed to a first server, the first server having an expected utilization level that satisfies a threshold condition, and directing the request to the first server to establish the client session and to execute the requested application as part of the client session.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of apparatuses and an information processing apparatus. The plurality of apparatuses includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus includes a first communication unit and a switching unit. The first communication unit is configured to receive screen information about the second apparatus sent from the information processing apparatus. The screen information is displayed on a first application program in the first apparatus. The switching unit is configured to switch a screen of a second application program to the screen of the first application program to display the screen of the first application program in response to receipt of the screen information by the first communication unit, when the first apparatus displays the screen of the second application program. The information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with the plurality of apparatuses.

Abstract: An image transmission device includes a communicator that transmits image data to an e-mail address set by a user via a network, an operation acceptor that accepts user's settings, a storage that stores, for each predetermined case, a target domain applicable to the case, and a controller that controls the communicator, the operation acceptor, and the storage. When the user sets an e-mail address to which image data are to be transmitted, the controller determines whether a domain portion of the e-mail address matches a target domain of the case, and when the domain portion matches the target domain, the controller accepts settings of the e-mail address, and when the domain portion of the e-mail address does not match the target domain of the case, the controller does not accept settings of the e-mail address.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a medium processing mechanism that processes a medium, a first board configured to communicate with an external apparatus by a first communication method and control the medium processing mechanism, a second board configured to communicate with the first board by the first communication method, a third board configured to communicate with the second board by the first communication method and communicate with the external apparatus by a second communication method different from the first communication method, a switcher that switches a communication destination of the first board to the second board or the external apparatus, and a notification section that makes, when the communication destination of the first board is switched to the second board by the switcher, a notification of communication information based on the second communication method.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a display, an authenticator, an image former, a detector, and one or more controllers. The authenticator authenticates a user's login to the image forming apparatus. The image former forms an image based on a job for which an execution instruction has been inputted by the user. The detector performs virus detection at execution of the job. The one or more controllers control display of notification information that notifies a detection of a virus. The one or more controllers control the display of the notification information depending on the user's login status on the image forming apparatus at the time of the detection of a virus.

Abstract: By using the present disclosure, for example, a notification of an error that has occurred in a device can be received even in cloud printing. Some embodiments provide a method performed by executing an application using an information processing apparatus that transmits print data to be transferred to a printing apparatus by a server system, the method including transmitting, to the server system, a request to check a processing status of the print data in the printing apparatus, receiving the processing status of the print data from the server system having responded to the request, and displaying the received processing status on a display unit of the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.

Abstract: An information processing system is provided for supporting trust printing that prints a document to be printed by registering the document in a document assurance system that assures authenticity of the document. The system obtains information of usable image formation apparatuses, and provides a setting screen of an image formation apparatus selected from the usable image formation apparatuses based on the information, and causes the selected image formation apparatus to print the document to be printed in accordance with setting on the setting screen. The information contains information indicating whether the selected image formation apparatus is capable of the trust printing, and, in the providing, if the selected image formation apparatus is incapable of the trust printing, the setting screen is displayed such that a setting item for the trust printing cannot be selected.

Abstract: A portable communication device including a camera; a touchscreen display; a memory storing a camera application; and a processor is provided. The processor is configured to display a user interface of the camera application, wherein the user interface comprises a preview image corresponding to an image being obtained via the camera; while the preview image is displayed in the user interface, determine an area of the preview image in which a text is included; and while the preview image is displayed in the user interface, display a first graphical object corresponding to a function related to the area including the text.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus transmits a login request for logging into an external device to the external device, based on a short-range wireless communication being established between the information processing apparatus and the external device in a state where an application is operating in a background state on the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus configured to communicate with a content processing system, the electronic apparatus includes a communication controller configured to control transmission of a processing instruction for content to the content processing system and control acquisition of a remaining content amount available for the processing from the content processing system via a communication unit, and a display controller configured to control display of a numerical value indicating the acquired remaining content amount in a specific display area, and in a case where a predetermined condition about communication is satisfied, control performing of a specific display related to the specific display area based on satisfaction of the predetermined condition, the specific display being different from the numerical value indicating the remaining content amount.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires at least one of attribute information of image data to be image processed and setting information related to the image process on the image data, and a prediction unit that predicts, based on a machine-learned model that accepts input of at least one of the attribute information and the setting information to output a period required for the image process, a period required for the image process on the image data from information acquired by the information acquisition unit.

Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling an image processing apparatus capable of controlling album data for a first subject containing a common page and an individual page for the first subject, and album data for a second subject containing the common page and an individual page for the second subject. The method includes specifying a change target for a page contained in the album data for the first subject.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a printing section; a first USB port; a second USB port; and a control section, and the control section is configured to set a state where the printing apparatus operates as a USB device when an device coupled to a USB port is a USB host, set a state where the printing apparatus operates as a USB host when the device coupled to the USB port is a USB device, set a state of supplying a first power amount of energy to the device coupled to the USB port, set a state of supplying a second power amount of energy, which is greater than the first power amount, to the device coupled to the USB port, and perform setting for giving priority to at least one of the states over another state when the printing section is not performing printing.

Abstract: A printing system that enables a user to determine the number of sheets that a printing apparatus can print, the number of sheets corresponding to a power supply source that supplies power to the printing apparatus, in any power mode. The printing apparatus performs printing in any of a plurality of power modes including (i) a first power mode in which the printing apparatus is supplied with power from the battery, and (ii) a second power mode in which the printing apparatus is supplied with power supplied from both the battery and an external power supply. In the second power mode, the number of sheets that the printing apparatus can print is calculated based on the remaining battery level of the battery and an amount of power supplied from the external power supply.

Abstract: A computer determines whether PDL data contained in a print job, which is obtained via a communication interface or an external interface, matches pre-conversion PDL data stored in a conversion rule in a non-volatile memory. When a type of converted PDL data associated with the pre-conversion PDL in the conversion rule matches a type of PDL data determined in a PJL converting process, PJL data that conversion is held is converted to the converted PDL data associated with the pre-conversion PJL data that matches the held PDL data in the conversion rule.

Abstract: A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store print workflow manager and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory devices to execute the print workflow manager receive a print job including print data to be printed, wherein the print data comprises a first presentation format, convert the received print data from the first presentation format to generate second print data in a second presentation format, duplicate the second print data to generate third print data, process the second print data to generate data to be printed to a first page size and process the third print data to generate data to be printed to a second page size.

Abstract: Coordinated application processing includes obtaining a plurality of images and distributing them to processing engines to perform image processing. The plurality of images cover an image area, with different sub-areas, in which a biological sample to be sequenced is present. The image processing proceeds across multiple cycles to process a respective set of images, of the plurality of images, of each sub-area of the different sub-areas, and therefore of the respective area, of the flow cell, to which that sub-area correlates. The distributing the plurality of images includes, for each sub-area of the different sub-areas, distributing, across the multiple cycles of the image processing, the images of the respective set of images of that sub-area to a respective processing engine, of a plurality of processing engines, associated with, and selected for, processing images of that sub-area.

Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to maintain client presence information that is received from a client and maintain printer presence information that is received from a printer. The client presence information may include a client network property and the printer presence information may include a printer network property. In some examples, the processor may receive print job information for a print job from the client and may determine a recommended print job delivery path for the print job based on the print job information, the client presence information, and the printer presence information. The processor may cause the print job to be routed to the printer based on the recommended print job delivery path.

Abstract: An information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing system receives from a communication terminal that requests a device to output information related to the output by the device, and stores in one or more memories, a determination result indicating whether the output of the information by the device is subject to processing in association with the information related to the output by the device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communicator to communicate with a terminal device; and a controller to control the communicator, wherein the controller transmits an acquisition request for address book information to the terminal device via the communicator, and the controller performs control to retransmit the acquisition request when the address book information cannot be obtained in response to the acquisition request and a given time period does not elapse since transmission of the acquisition request is initiated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain setting information regarding print settings for first printing employing a plate and output information based on the setting information with respect to whether second printing that does not employ a plate and that is based on the print settings for the first printing is possible.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a job acquirer that acquires a job; a function executor that executes a function requested for the acquired job; and a completion notification selector that selects a timing for transmitting, to an information processing apparatus, a process completion notification indicating normal termination of execution of the function after the function is executed. The timing for transmitting the process completion notification to the information processing apparatus includes a job execution completion time that is a time when the execution of the function normally terminates and a job acquisition completion time that is a time before the execution of the function starts. In a status where there is a function currently being executed and no new job is acquirable, the completion notification selector selects the job acquisition completion time as the timing for transmitting the process completion notification to the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: Methods and computer readable medium for queue management are disclosed. The method includes displaying a queue panel including two or more queue categories of queues. A queue is configured to include items that have at least one parameter is common. The queue panel is further configured to display activity data corresponding to queues in at least one of the two or more queue categories. The method also includes determining whether the activity data needs to be refreshed, identifying a list of queues belonging to the at least one queue category; generating a refresh request for the identified list of queues; communicating the refresh request to a remote server; receiving updated activity data from the remote server for the identified list of queues; and updating the activity data displayed in the queue panel based on the received updated activity data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus gives an update notification of a firmware of the image printing apparatus and an update notification of a printer driver necessary for the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus having a driver that causes the image printing apparatus to execute image printing, includes: a driver information obtaining unit configured to obtain information on firmware update of the image printing apparatus and information on a required version of the driver; an information analysis unit configured to compare a current version of the driver and the information on the required version obtained by the driver information obtaining unit; and a display controlling unit configured to display an update notification screen based on a result analyzed by the information analysis unit and the information on the firmware update obtained by the driver information obtaining unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus detects a signal transmitted from an external communication apparatus and displays information of the communication apparatus corresponding to the detected signal. If a first signal is detected, a notification screen for prompting a user to perform a specification operation on the communication apparatus is displayed, and if a second signal is detected after displaying the notification screen, when the second signal corresponds to the specification operation, information of the communication apparatus corresponding to the second signal is displayed. If the first signal and the second signal are both detected, a second notification screen for prompting the user to perform a different second specification operation is displayed, and if a third signal is detected after displaying the second notification screen, when the third signal corresponds to the second specification operation, information of the communication apparatus corresponding to the third signal is displayed.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a sub-system that receives, from a wireless LAN module, incoming data including wireless LAN packets according to plural communication methods and a main system including a processor that process the incoming data. The sub-system includes an interface circuit and a sub-processor. The interface circuit acquires a data length of each of the wireless LAN packets from a header of the wireless LAN packet. Based on MAC addresses included in the wireless LAN packet, the interface circuit identifies a communication method of the wireless LAN packet. Based on the data length and the communication method of the wireless LAN packet, the interface circuit transfers the wireless LAN packet to one of different storage areas respectively corresponding to the communication methods. The sub-processor transfers the wireless LAN packet from the one of the different storage areas to the main system.

Abstract: A hardware security module (HSM) client processes a request to store data in a set of HSMs. The HSM client determines a property of the data indicative of a sensitivity classification of the data. As a result of determining the data lacks a classification as sensitive, the HSM client transmits the data to a data store outside the set of HSMs and updates a database used by the HSM client to associate an identifier of the data with a reference to a location in the data store.

Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device and a data processing server. The printing device includes a first controller. The data processing server includes a second controller. The first controller acquires a print job from an external device and transmits the print job to the server. The second controller receives the print job and stores the print job in a server memory. The first controller receives designation of the print job subject to printing and transmits a print request for printing the print job subject to printing to the server. After a fee payment approval to approve a payment for execution of the designated print job is transmitted, the second controller transmits to the printing device the print job. The first controller receives the print job and performs printing the print job on a print medium by controlling a printing member.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that executes a job using a destination, and a storage that stores a setting value of the job, as history information. The controller applies the setting value to execution of the job, when the history information of the job in which a destination acquired from a terminal device is a transmission destination is stored in the storage.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer, which reproduces a color tone of a printed matter and displays the color tone on a screen before printing, to realize a function of acquiring a density value of a color material that develops a color by absorption of a specific wavelength component and a property of paper related to the absorption of the specific wavelength component, and a function of displaying an image that reproduces the color tone of the printed matter based on the density value and the property of the paper.

Abstract: A board work machine includes a backup plate, a backup member disposed on the backup plate to support a board from below, a movement device configured to move the backup member, a movement control section configured to control an operation of the movement device based on a position program indicating a position of the backup member disposed on the backup plate, a display section configured to display the position of the backup member indicated by the position program in a superimposed manner on a board image indicating the board, and an editing section configured to edit the position program in response to a request for increasing or decreasing the number of the backup members and changing the position of the backup member from an operator.

Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, at a hot folder that processes print job files according to default print instructions associated with the hot folder, a submitted file selected from (a) a submitted print job file or (b) a submitted print ticket, where the submitted print ticket includes at least one submitted print instruction. The method further includes starting a delay timer upon receiving the submitted file, waiting to process the submitted file until the delay timer has expired, and, upon expiration of the delay timer, processing the submitted file. Also described are a non-transitory computer-readable medium and a printing device.

Abstract: A user interface corresponding to a startup environment of a paper management application is provided. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to execute a process that controls a printing apparatus including at least one sheet storage unit, the process comprising in a case that an application for operating the printing apparatus, which is installed in a printing control apparatus capable of communicating with the printing apparatus, is running, causing a display unit to selectably display an object, which accepts an instruction for opening the sheet storage unit, via an operation unit of the printing control apparatus, and in a case that the application, which is installed in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the printing apparatus via the printing control apparatus, is running, restricting accepting selection of the object via an operation unit of the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that performs peer-to-peer distributed processing of production printing. The industrial printing system performs production printing and includes a plurality of site servers. A plurality of site servers performs distributed processing of print jobs. Each site server has a storage unit, a processing determination unit, and a processing management unit. The storage unit stores a capacity table showing the capacity that can be processed in the print process and the post-processing process. The processing determination unit determines other site servers that can process jobs from a plurality of site servers based on the capacity table stored in the storage unit. The processing management unit sets a schedule for processing jobs by other site servers determined to be processable by the processing determination unit and sends jobs to other site servers to request processing according to the schedule settings.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes establishing, by a host server running an application, a connection to a client device; obtaining, based on an identifier of the client device, a profile of the client device comprising an identifier of a local device that was associated with the client device during a prior connection of the client device to the host server; and causing, based on the identifier of the local device, a driver for the local device to be available for execution on the host server, wherein the driver for the local device is to convert data between a data format accessible to the application and a data format accessible to the local device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect first information related to a physical property value of a sheet, the sheet to have an image formed thereon; and a processor configured to: obtain second information related to a brand of the sheet; and store the first information and the second information in a memory, the first information being detected by the sensor, the second information being obtained by the processor.

Abstract: The application provides an electronic system and an image aggregation method thereof. The electronic system includes a plurality of image pickup devices and an image aggregation device coupled to the image pickup devices. The image aggregation device controls trigger of the image pickup devices. When the image pickup devices are triggered, the image pickup devices pickup a plurality of images and send to the image aggregation device. The image aggregation device flexibly selects the images pickup by the image pickup devices to flexibly aggregate into an aggregated image.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is provided. A fleet management computing system receives telemetry information from a plurality of UAVs. The fleet management computing system generates a map interface having a plurality of UAV icons based on the telemetry information. The fleet management computing system receives a selection of an initial group of UAV icons via the map interface, wherein the initial group of UAV icons includes two or more UAV icons. The fleet management computing system receives a de-selection of one or more UAV icons from the initial group of UAV icons to create a final selected group of UAV icons. The fleet management computing system transmits a command to UAVs associated with the UAV icons of the final selected group of UAV icons.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first storage unit that stores identification information and storage information with the identification information mapped to the storage information, the identification information identifying a user, the storage information indicating a storage location where image data corresponding to the identification information is stored, an identifying unit that, in response to the identification information input by the user, identifies the storage location indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit with the identification information mapped thereto, a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the storage location identified by the identifying unit, the image data corresponding to the identification information, and an image forming unit that forms an image responsive to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit.