Abstract: A printing system includes an administrator terminal, a user terminal, and a processor that provides a printing service related to a printer configured to be used by the user terminal, in which the processor transmits, based on an expiration date of a contract for the printing service, request information for requesting response information to the administrator terminal and transmits notification information to the user terminal when continuation processing for the contract is not executed based on the response information from the administrator terminal, the user terminal transmits, based on the notification information, inquiry information for inquiring about continuation of the contract to the administrator terminal, the administrator terminal transmits, based on the inquiry information, continuation information for continuing the contract to the processor, and the processor executes, based on the continuation information, the continuation processing and grants permission to use the printing service to the

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores log data generated by an execution of a process. The processing circuity stops the execution of the process in a state where the process is being executed and when an amount of the log data in the memory is larger than a first threshold, and restarts the execution of the process in a state where the execution of the process is stopped and when the amount of the log data in the memory is smaller than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a secure copy of content associated with a non-fungible token (NFT) are disclosed. The system will receive a print request to print digital content that is associated with an NFT, access a blockchain to identify a current owner of the NFT, and generate a print job that with instructions to print the NFT content. If and only if the current owner of the NFT is the requesting entity, the system will print a unique authentication code with the digital content. The system will cause a print engine to print the digital content on a substrate or as a 3D object. In some embodiments, the system may be included in a print device that includes the print engine. Other aspects include a system that verifies whether a printed copy of content is an authorized copy, using the unique authentication code and the NFT described above.

Abstract: A method and a system for measuring morphological parameters of an intracranial aneurysm image, the method comprises: segmenting an intracranial parent artery image from three-dimensional DICOM data of DSA (S101); segmenting the intracranial aneurysm image on the intracranial aneurysm image (S102); and measuring morphological parameters of the intracranial aneurysm image (S103). The method and the system for measuring the morphological parameters of the intracranial aneurysm image as disclosed may implement automated measurement of the intracranial aneurysm image, quickly measure morphological parameters of the intracranial aneurysm image, and guarantee consistency between measurements of morphological parameters of the aneurysm image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a setting history storage that stores a setting history being a history of a setting value when a job is executed; a list displayer that displays a list of the setting history; a setting screen displayer that displays, in a case where the setting history is selected, a setting screen on which the setting value included in the selected setting history is input; and a job executer that executes a job, based on the setting value input on the setting screen. The list displayer displays a list including the setting history for which authentication information is required, in a case where a job based on the setting value is executed.

Abstract: A system can include a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including receiving data to be stored on the memory device, storing a first copy of the data in a first set of memory cells of the memory device, and storing a second copy of the data in a second set of memory cells of the memory device. The operations can also include reading the first copy of the data and determining whether a threshold voltage of a cell in the first set of memory cells is within an overlapping range of voltage distributions, and reading the second copy of the data and determining whether the threshold voltage of a cell in the second set of memory cells is within an overlapping range of voltage distributions. They can also include using the second copy of the data.

Abstract: A method comprises acquiring print setting information related to printing of image data, and, in a case where the print setting information specifies printing using at least special ink, which is ink other than ink for a process color, during printing of the image data, determining a first method as a method of processing for reducing a data size of the image data and, in a case where the print setting information specifies printing using ink for the process color without using the special ink during printing of the image data, determining a second method different from the first method as a method of processing for reducing the data size of the image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs processes of reducing read data in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, wherein the image reading apparatus includes a plurality of line image sensors having a longitudinal direction as the main-scanning direction, the plurality of line image sensors are displaced in the sub-scanning direction, and the image reading apparatus relatively moves the plurality of line image sensors and an original in the sub-scanning direction, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises: a sub-scanning direction processing unit configured to perform reduction processing in the sub-scanning direction; and a main-scanning direction processing unit configured to connect data after the reduction processing is performed by the sub-scanning direction processing unit in the main-scanning direction and reduces the connected data in the main-scanning direction.

Abstract: Even in a case where a failure has occurred in a relay system or a cloud service, image data transmitted from a multi function peripheral is prevented from being lost. In an image processing apparatus that performs transfer setting of image data, at the time of a user designating a transfer destination, display control of a user interface screen is performed so that a storage server or the like other than the relay system is set as another transfer destination.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer products as described herein are directed to a Live Listing Engine. Live Listing Engine sends a live video stream to a viewer computer device and a host computer device. The live video stream includes a view of an item from a perspective of the host computer device. The Live Listing Engine receives an upload of an image of the view of the item captured from a preview window rendered on the host computer device. The Live Listing Engine receives listing information associated with the image from the host computer device. The Live Listing Engine generates a listing thumbnail based on the image and the listing information and inserts the listing thumbnail into the live video stream for display at the viewer computer device and the host computer device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a job executor which executes a job regarding image processing; a storage in which a setting history related to execution of the job is stored when the job is executed; and a controller which controls a storage timing to store the setting history, in which the controller decides on the storage timing on the basis of an execution condition for the job, thereby storing the setting history.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relates to an SD card hot plugging identification method, an SD card identification module and an electronic device. The SD card identification module includes: an interrupt generation unit configured to trigger an interrupt message according to an SD card inserting or ejecting behavior; a message parsing unit configured to determine an SD card status according to the interrupt message during operation of a device; and a device operating unit configured to perform a corresponding SD card operation according to the SD card status determined by the message parsing unit and a device node search unit.

Abstract: A method for classifying a printable image to be printed comprising: receiving, at a printing device, print data representing the printable image to be printed; generating an image of the printable image based on the print data; classifying the image to obtain a format associated with the printable image; printing the printable image according to the print data; and updating a counter associated with the format.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing a character string included in image data, a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to store the image data in a folder including a name containing the character string acquired by the character recognition processing, and a reception unit configured to receive an instruction from a user. In a case where a result of the character recognition processing by the character recognition unit does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the transmission unit does not transmit the image data until the reception unit receives the instruction from the user. In a case where the result of the character recognition processing by the character recognition unit satisfies the predetermined condition, the transmission unit transmits the image data without receiving the instruction from the user by the reception unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording material based on image data; a fixing portion that includes a heater having a plurality of heat generating members arranged in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of a recording material, and that fixes the image to the recording material using heat of the heater; a storage portion that stores history information on the recording material when image forming operation is performed in which the image forming portion forms the image and the fixing portion fixes the image, a control portion that sets power to be supplied to the heat generating members based on the history information before a type of the recording material on which the image is formed or content of the image data of the image to be formed on the recording material is determined.

Abstract: An information processing system for controlling usage of a service to be provided to a user via a device, obtains information on an amount of resource usage by a server in providing the service, determines whether the amount of resource usage satisfies at least one condition of a plurality of conditions previously set, and when the amount of resource usage is determined to satisfy at least one condition of the plurality of conditions, performs, in accordance with the at least one condition, at least one of a plurality of control operations including a control operation for changing a screen displayed by the device and a control operation for restricting accumulation of the jobs in the second server.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second sheet discharge portions to which recorded products each recorded with an image are discharged, an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a reception unit. The recording unit records the image by imparting recording materials. The acquisition unit acquires a recording job instructing recording of the image. The determination unit determines, in a case where sheet discharge destination information included in the recording job indicates the first sheet discharge portion, whether a recorded product of an n-th page is dischargeable to the first sheet discharge portion, wherein n is greater than or equal to one. The reception unit receives, in a case where a result of the determination by the determination unit is that recorded product is not dischargeable to the first sheet discharge portion, an instruction about recording of the n-th page from a user.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a memory device. A memory device according to the present technology may include a plurality of planes, individual operation controllers configured to respectively control read operations on the plurality of planes, a common operation controller configured to control a program operation or an erase operation on any one of the plurality of planes, a command decoder configured to provide a read command among the plurality of commands to an individual operation controller that controls a plane that is indicated by an address that corresponds to the read command among the individual operation controllers, and configured to provide a program command or an erase command among the plurality of commands to the common operation controller, and a peripheral circuit configured to generate operation voltages that are used for the read operations, the program operation, and the erase operation.

Abstract: A computer system configured to perform operations for validating memory access patterns of a static variant of a program instruction stream, the operations including randomizing a first set of input arguments, generating an address translation list for virtual addresses based on memory access patterns and storing memory accesses in a first table, and executing the static variant of the program instruction stream on the accelerator processing unit. During execution, the virtual addresses may be discarded and replaced by the addresses provided in the address translation list. The operations may include recording and storing every memory access of executing the static variant of the program instruction stream in a second table and comparing the memory access patterns stored in the second table to memory accesses patterns stored in the first table. Memory access patterns may be validated or discarded.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for handling print data. One embodiment is a system that includes an interface that receives rasterized print data, a memory that stores the rasterized print data; and a print controller that compresses each scanline of the rasterized print data by culling a region of leading whitespace, culling a region of trailing whitespace, compressing a data region disposed between the leading whitespace and the trailing whitespace, and inserting a tag having whitespace offset information for the data region within the scanline.

Abstract: A system that appropriately synthesizes output data and a code provided by an external settlement service is provided. The system comprising a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for generating a code used for paying a amount of money to an external settlement service, a receiving unit configured to receive the code generated based on the information transmitted by the transmitting unit, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the code received by the receiving unit and output data.

Abstract: An operating method of a memory device, which includes a first memory region and a second memory region, includes reading first data from the first memory region and storing the read first data in a data buffer block, performing a first XOR operation on the first data provided from the data buffer block and second data read from the second memory region to generate first result data, writing the first data stored in the data buffer block in the second memory region, performing a second XOR operation on the first data and the first result data to generate the second data, storing the generated second data in the data buffer block, and writing the second data stored in the data buffer block in the first memory region.

Abstract: A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a control unit (a) sets an ink residual estimation value of a subtank as a first reference value corresponding to a tank capacity of the subtank when ink empty is detected on an ink container, and determines whether the ink residual estimation value is less than the ink consumption estimation value of a subsequent page in a print job or not, and (b1) stops the print job if the ink residual estimation value is less than the ink consumption estimation value of the subsequent page and (b2) continues the print job if the ink residual estimation value is equal to or larger than the ink consumption estimation value of the subsequent page.

Abstract: A job processing system includes a host computer and an image forming apparatus connected via a network with each other, the host computer includes a job register acceptor that accepts a job register and a communication device that sends the job register to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus includes a display controller and a job execution controller, the job execution controller controls sequential execution of a plurality of jobs shown in the changed job register in accordance with an execution order of the plurality of jobs, and the display controller keeps from making an update to cause a display of the changed job register immediately after a network interface device receives the changed job register, but makes an update to cause a display of the changed job register when a predetermined display updating condition is achieved after the receipt of the changed job register.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a job entry unit, a link setter, an association setter, an additional item setter, and a controller. The job entry unit enters jobs. The link setter associates the jobs entered by the job entry unit. The association setter associates one or more items common to the associated jobs. The additional item setter adds an additional item to one of the jobs, the additional item being for entering correction item information for correcting item information of a predetermined item among the one or more items associated by the association setter. The controller performs the jobs based on (i) item information of the one or more items associated by the association setter and (ii) additional item information of the additional item added by the additional item setter.

Abstract: A method for operating a printing machine having a processor and a device for detecting features of printing substrates includes storing print jobs with the printing substrates appropriate thereto in a database. Features of at least one printing substrate are detected by using the device. The detected features of the at least one printing substrate are compared by the processor with the printing substrates of the print jobs from the database. The processor selects at least one print job in which the printing substrates of the print jobs from the database correspond to the at least one detected printing substrate or attain a predefined similarity. The at least one print job selected by the processor is subsequently executed on the printing machine.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a plurality of transmission queues includes a selection unit that selects a target transmission queue from among the plurality of transmission queues, and a change unit that changes port setting information of the selected target transmission queue to port setting information with which communication with a printing device corresponding to the target transmission queue is possible. The change unit changes port setting information of another transmission queue with which the same identification information as identification information of the target transmission queue is associated, to the port setting information with which communication with the printing device is possible.

Abstract: In a computer system (1), generated (S2) is a visual code which encodes reference information for identifying a data object linked to a person. Using a camera of a mobile communication device (2), the reference information encoded in the visual code is captured from a visual representation of the visual code and stored (S5) in the mobile communication device (2). In the mobile communication device (2), generated (S8) is a data package which includes the captured reference information and an image (23) of a document (4) of the person. The data package is transferred (S9) from the mobile communication device (2) to the computer system (1). In the computer system (1), the image of the document (4) is stored (S11) linked to the data object (10), defined by the reference information received in the data package.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit (NNIC) for executing a neural network that includes multiple computation nodes at multiple layers. Each of a set of the computation nodes includes a dot product of input values and weight values. The NNIC includes dot product cores, each of which includes (i) partial dot product computation circuits to compute dot products between input values and weight values and (ii) memories to store the weight values and input values for a layer of the NN. The input values for a particular layer of the NN are stored in the memories of multiple cores. A starting memory location in a first core for the input values of the layer stored in the first core is the same as a starting memory location for the input values in each of the other cores that store the input values for the layer.

Abstract: A method for classifying a printable image to be printed comprising: receiving, at a printing device, print data representing the printable image to be printed; generating an image of the printable image based on the print data; classifying the image to obtain a format associated with the printable image; printing the printable image according to the print data; and updating a counter associated with the format.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a drum cartridge to which one of a first toner cartridge and a second toner cartridge is attachable; a frame including a first slot and a second slot; and a controller including a control memory and a processor. The drum cartridge to which the one of the first toner cartridge and the second toner cartridges is attached is attachable to one of the first slot and the second slot. The control memory stores first color information allocated to the first slot, and second color information allocated to the second slot. In a state where the drum cartridge is attached to one of the first slot and the second slot and when the drum memory does not store any color information, the processor is configured to perform: writing, into the drum memory, one of the first color information and the second color information which is appropriate.

Abstract: An information processing system, a data transfer method, and a recording medium. The information processing system transfers data to storage that is a transfer destination and in response to a data transfer request from a device, the information processing system transfers the data with reference to distribution settings information that designates a storage location of the data in the storage.

Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display panel that includes a light-emitting unit and that displays image data, the display control device comprises a light-emission control unit that controls a light-emission timing of the light-emitting unit; and an image-data update control unit that controls an update timing of the image data independently from the control of the light-emission timing.

Abstract: A memory management method of a computer including a memory and a processor connected to the memory, the method includes, by the processor, executing an OS and executing a plurality of processes on the OS. The plurality of processes include a virtual storage device and an application. The processor provides the application with a physical area of the memory, which is managed by the OS, controls the virtual storage device to use a physical area of the memory, which is mounted on the computer, but is not managed by the OS, secures continuous physical areas from the physical area of the memory, which is managed by the OS, to be used by the virtual storage device, and performs DMA transfer between the virtual storage device and the application by using the secured continuous physical areas.

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 print a first indicia at a first region on a first side of a print medium. The instructions may also cause the processor to print a second indicia at a second region on the first side of the print medium, in which the second region may be spaced a prescribed distance from the first region along a first edge of the print medium. In some examples, a relative position of the first indicia to the second indicia may correlate to a skew correction value for the first edge of the print medium.

Abstract: A printing system is provided. The system comprises a first print service that acquires and stores a print job from a client terminal; a second print service that acquires the print job from the first print service; and an image forming apparatus configured to acquire the print job and perform printing. The first print service, upon receiving a first completion notification indicating that printing has been completed, responds to a query for status from the client terminal with a second completion notification indicating that printing has been completed. The second print service, when having acquired the print job, neither store the print job acquired from the first print service, nor respond to the first print service with the first completion notification, in accordance with the acquisition.

Abstract: A terminal device may display a designation screen on a display unit, store designation item information indicating a designation item in a memory, and send a restriction item request to a target printer. The terminal device may, in a case where the restriction item request is sent to the target printer, receive the restriction item information from the target printer, and determine whether the restriction item indicated by the received restriction item information includes the designation item indicated by the designation item information stored in the memory. The terminal device may, in a case where it is determined that the restriction item includes the designation item, send a print request that requests execution of printing according to the IPP to the target printer, wherein in a case where it is determined that the restriction item does not include the designation item, the print request is not sent.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses methods and systems for keyword-based printing. The method includes receiving a request for printing a document from a user. Upon receiving the request, a user interface including a keyword-based printing option is provided to the user. The keyword-based printing option allows the user to input one or more keywords. Based on the one or more input keywords, one or more pages from the document having the one or more matching keywords are identified. The pages identified to include the one or more keywords are excluded and the remaining pages of the document are printed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing method causes a computer to function as an image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data. The control unit performs a control process of detecting a character string of each color included in the image data and associating the character string with the color using the character string of the color.

Abstract: A workflow method for creating a printed sheet from a graphics file and an associated job description. The graphics file and an associated job definition are received in a digital front end (DFE), and a raster imaging processor (RIP) in the DFE converts the graphics file from a native format to RIPped data and stores the RIPped data in digital storage. A print controller retrieves the RIPped data from the digital storage and streams the RIPped data as an output. A communication interface, connected to a screening engine processor, receives the streamed RIPped data and the job definition from the DFE and converts the streamed RIPped data to converted RIPped data having a format readable by the screening engine processor, and to pass information from the screening engine processor to the DFE.

Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) memory that stores image data acquired by reading a document is connectable with an image reader. The image reader includes a storage capacity detector that detects storage capacity capable of storing information in the USB memory at a time point of reading a document, a capacity comparison section that compares size of the image data acquired by reading the document with the storage capacity of the USB memory, a data extractor that extracts the data to be moved to another storage medium from data that has already been stored in the USB memory, and a data mover that moves the data extracted by the data extractor to the other storage medium.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicates with a server via a network, the server configured to manage a plurality of job logs on which encryption processing is executed by an image processing apparatus using a first key. The information processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor executing the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to encrypt a value used for searching for a job log using another first key being a duplicate of the first key, transmit a search request including the encrypted value to the server via the network, acquire an encrypted job log based on a response from the server, and execute decryption processing for decrypting the encrypted job log. The server executes search processing using the encrypted value included in the search request without decrypting the plurality of job logs managed.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus that transmits print data including image data and a print setting with respect to the image data to a printing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a change of the print setting with respect to the image data transmitted to the printing apparatus and a control unit configured to place a restriction that prevents print data based on a first setting value indicating that predetermined identification information is combined with image data when the image data is generated by the printing control apparatus and a second setting value indicating that the image data is stored in the printing apparatus in a re-printable state from being transmitted to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus which is able to be operated by communication from a higher-level device includes a printing head that ejects ink, a communication unit which is able to perform communicating with the higher-level device, a program storage unit that stores a program, and a printing control unit that controls the printing head, and the program storage unit includes a communication program storage area in which a program corresponding to a predetermined communication protocol is stored in advance, and the program storage unit includes an extension area in which a program corresponding to a communication protocol different from the predetermined communication protocol is installable.

Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to job handling by an information handling system. In an example method thereof, a timeout mode is provided for a job to be processed by the information processing system. A plurality of jobs including the job are queued in a buffer queue of the information processing system. The job is timed out. The job is moved down in the buffer queue in response to the timing out thereof. In an example of another method thereof, the job is canceled in response to the timing out thereof, rather than being moved down in the buffer queue.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus includes a control unit. Provided that n is an integer equal to or greater than one, the control unit configured to perform printing control processing including a plurality of types of processing configured to be performed simultaneously is configured to, in the printing control processing performed for an n-th time, write, to a first storage medium of the storage unit, n-th print data that is the print data generated in the printing control processing performed for an n-th time, and, in the printing control processing performed for an n+1-th time, write, to a second storage medium of the storage unit, n+1-th print data that is the print data generated in the printing control processing performed for an n+1-th time, and also read the n-th print data from the first storage medium and supply the n-th print data to the printing unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus receives print data including quality requirement data, generates a print job including instruction information for instructing at least one of a quality check and an adjustment operation for satisfying a quality requirement requested in the quality requirement data, sets an execution order of generated print jobs in order of the highest quality requirement down, and controls, in accordance with the set execution order, an execution order of print jobs to be performed in a production system and of checking jobs for checking whether products of the print jobs satisfy a required quality.

Abstract: A method for digital printing to reduce a printing image file size. The method may include receiving a plurality of printing orders, a printing order including a base image and printing size information; generating a plurality of raster image processor (RIP) orders corresponding to the printing orders; obtaining a plurality of printing jobs corresponding to the plurality of RIP orders; modifying the plurality of printing jobs such that a printing size of each printing job of the plurality of printing jobs is adjusted based on a size of the base image of the printing order corresponding to a respective printing job of the plurality of printing jobs and the base image of the printing order is repeated based on the printing size information of the printing order; and transmitting the modified plurality of printing jobs to one or more printers. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for scheduling print jobs on a plurality of printers. The method includes: collecting job information on each of a plurality of print jobs; obtaining a predicted success rate for each of the plurality of print jobs with each of the plurality of printers based on the job information on the each of the plurality of print jobs, the predicted success rate being a likelihood that a print job can be successfully completed by a printer; and assigning each of the plurality of print jobs to one or more printers of the plurality of printers with the predicted success rate for each of the one or more printers of the plurality of print jobs being greater than a predicted success threshold.