Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a forming unit, a storage, and a selector. The forming unit receives print jobs and forms a group print job constituted by print jobs that satisfy a certain condition. The storage separately stores some of the print jobs forming the group print job as a subgroup if an amount of paper required for the group print job exceeds a total amount of specified continuous-form paper. Based on information stored in the storage, the selector selects, from among plural output devices, an output device that is able to output cut sheets which satisfy an execution condition for executing the print jobs forming the subgroup.

Abstract: It is determined whether the number of second probe apparatuses in the vicinity of a first probe apparatus satisfies a volume threshold requirement. Responsive to determining that the volume threshold requirement is satisfied, an instance of individual probe data is generated and provided. Responsive to determining that the volume threshold requirement is not satisfied, it is determined if a first instance of collaborative probe data corresponds to a portion of a trajectory of the first probe apparatus. Responsive to determining that the first instance of collaborative probe data corresponds to the portion of the trajectory, a contribution is added to the first instance of collaborative probe data and the updated first instance of collaborative probe data is provided. Otherwise, a first instance of collaborative probe data is generated that comprises a partial representation of probe data corresponding to the portion of the trajectory of the first probe apparatus.

Abstract: Techniques for interactively determining/visualizing the color content of a source image and how the corresponding image data is mapped to device colors are described herein. For example, the color content of a digital image can be converted between different color spaces to identify gamut limitations of an output device (e.g., a printing assembly), discover color(s) that cannot be accurately reproduced, etc. Color space conversions enable the transformation of the color content of the digital image from device-specific colorants to a device-independent representation (and vice versa). In some embodiments, these transformations are facilitated using lookup tables that are implemented in graphical processing unit-resident memory.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes a completion condition obtaining unit and a management unit. The completion condition obtaining unit obtains, when executing a print job for printing one or more pages satisfying a predetermined condition, a completion condition of the print job. The management unit manages the print job as uncompleted until the obtained completion condition is satisfied even when a recording material on which the one or more pages are printed is ejected.

Abstract: In an image processing device, a controller is configured to perform: selecting; generating; and outputting. The selecting selects a target partial image one by one from a plurality of partial images. The target partial image is represented by target partial image data. The generating generates partial print data for a partial print by executing an image process on the target partial image data. The partial print forms the target partial image while moving a print head in a printing direction. The partial print forms the target partial image while moving a print head in a printing direction. The image process includes a color conversion process. The color conversion process is executed on the target partial image data using one of a first profile and a second profile selected in accordance with the printing direction set for the partial print. The outputting outputs the partial print data to the printer.

Abstract: In a server authentication process, a controller (a) transmits identification information of a consumable unit to an authentication server, and causes the authentication server to determine whether the consumable unit is a genuine product or not on the basis of the identification information and (b) receives the genuine product determination result from the authentication server. Further, (a) upon detecting replacement of the consumable unit, the controller reads identification information from a storage device of the consumable unit, performs the server authentication process based on the read identification information, and stores the received genuine product determination result into the non-volatile storage device, and (b) when powered on, the controller determines whether the consumable unit currently mounted is a genuine product or not on the basis of the genuine product determination result stored in the non-volatile storage device, without performing the server authentication process.

Abstract: Multiple pipelines are used for image and video processing. In a first image processing pipeline, an image is retrieved from a buffer and processed using one or more image processing units. An altered image produced using the first image processing pipeline replaces the earlier version of the image stored in the buffer. The altered image may also be immediately output for display or encoding. In the second image processing pipeline, the altered image is retrieved from the buffer and processed according to image processing control statistics collected at the first image processing pipeline. The resulting processed image may then be encoded. A processed image output from the second image processing pipeline has a higher resolution than the altered image output from the first image processing pipeline.

Abstract: A method is disclosed in which a lookup table (LUT) that maps chromatic and achromatic device color space vectors into Neugebauer primary area coverages (NPacs) is obtained. According to the method, a LUT that maps chromatic device color space vectors into NPacs is combined with a LUT that maps achromatic device color space vectors into NPacs.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that has multiple developing units, arranged in series for basic colors in a rotational driving direction of a transfer body, for developing toner images of the basic colors based on input image data and forms the overlapped toner images on a surface of the transfer body in a state in which the toner images are aligned; a transferring unit that transfers the toner images onto a sheet; and a controller that calculates a difference between color information of an image obtained by reading the toner images and color information of the input image data, calculates a color change direction of the toner images with respect to a color of the input image data based on the difference, and refers to a table and determines a shape of a surface of the sheet based on information of the color change direction.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisition section configured to acquire first still image data obtained through imaging and having a brightness range defined in a first dynamic range and performance information indicating a printing performance of a printing device, a converter configured to convert the first still image data acquired by the acquisition section into second still image data defined in a second dynamic range having a smaller brightness range than the brightness range of the first dynamic range depending on the printing performance indicated by the performance information acquired by the acquisition section, and an output section configured to output the second still image data converted by the converter to the printing device.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein utilize a color transform that maps input colors in print jobs to output colors of a printing system. The color transform defines colorant limits that vary based on where the input colors are represented within a color space. When a print job is processed using the color transform to generate rasterized image data, input colors in the print job are converted into output colors of the printing system where a colorant amount for printing each of the output colors is within the colorant limit defined by where its respective input color is represented in the color space.

Abstract: Color correction methods relate device dependent sensor responses (RGB) to device independent color values (XYZ). The present invention discloses a new approach to Hue Plane Preserving Color Correction (HPPCC) using weighted constrained 3×3 matrices. Accordingly, the methods of the present invention employ hue angle specific weighted matrixing. Given a device RGB from which a device hue angle is derived, a corresponding transformation matrix is found as the normalized weighted sum of all pre-calculated constrained white point and training color preserving matrices. Each weight is calculated as a power function of the minimum difference between the device and the training color hue angle. The weighting function provides local influence to the matrices that are in close hue angle proximity to the device color. The power of the function can be further optimized for global accuracy. The methods of the present invention are termed HPPCC-WCM for Hue Plane Preserving Color Correction Weighted Constrained Methods.

Abstract: An adaptive color grade interpolation method is disclosed. The method comprises interpolating from a first color graded version of a picture adapted to first viewing conditions and a second color graded version of said picture different from the first color graded version and adapted to second viewing conditions in order to obtain a third color graded version of the picture adapted to third viewing conditions wherein said interpolating is obtained from said first color graded version, a first mapped color version of said first color graded version adapted to said third viewing conditions and to a second mapped color version of said first color graded version adapted to said second viewing conditions such that said first color graded version and second mapped color version are interpolated into said first mapped color version.

Abstract: An image processing device capable of assigning a basic function and a server function to hardware resources and operating the basic function and the server function, includes: a hardware processor that: detects occurrence of a failure related to the basic function or transition to a power saving mode; releases a specific hardware resource corresponding to a function that has become inoperable due to the occurrence of a failure or the transition to a power saving mode, of the basic function assigned to the hardware resources, in a case where the occurrence of a failure or the transition to a power saving mode has been detected by the hardware processor; and additionally assigns the server function to the specific hardware resource released by the hardware processor, of the hardware resources, to operate the server function.

Abstract: Recording data for recording an achromatic color image having a high lightness is generated as follows. A first color material and a second color material which has a hue complementary to that of the first color material are used to record the image. Recording data is generated such that a recording amount of the first color material and a recording amount of the second color material are larger than a recording amount of another color material, and such that a pixel where it is determined that the first color material is to be recorded and a pixel where it is determined that the second color material is to be recorded are at positions different from each other.

Abstract: Techniques for interactively determining/visualizing the color content of a source image and how the corresponding image data is mapped to device colors are described herein. For example, the color content of a digital image can be converted between different color spaces to identify gamut limitations of an output device (e.g., a printing assembly), discover color(s) that cannot be accurately reproduced, etc. Color space conversions enable the transformation of the color content of the digital image from device-specific colorants to a device-independent representation (and vice versa). In some embodiments, these transformations are facilitated using lookup tables that are implemented in graphical processing unit-resident memory.

Abstract: A color integration system for medical images includes: first and second profile setting sections configured to set first and second profiles, respectively, for color reproduction; a storage section configured to store a plurality of pieces of conversion information for converting the first profile to the second profile; and a control section, wherein if conversion information corresponding to an output environment for using a medical image for a second time is not stored, the control section acquires a profile for color reproduction in the output environment, generates the conversion information based on a profile in the storage section and one or more pieces among the plurality of pieces of conversion information stored in the storage section, and uses the generated conversion information to convert the first profile to the second profile.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that monochromatizes a gray pixel included in bitmap image data into black pixel includes: a detection unit configured to detect, in the case where a pixel of interest in the image data is a pixel constituting an edge, a pixel that exists in the vicinity of the pixel of interest and whose color is different from that of the pixel of interest; and a determination unit configured to determine a ratio of the processing to monochromatize into black for the pixel of interest that is a pixel constituting the edge based on the distance from the detected different color pixel.

Abstract: A color estimation system provided with a correlation memory unit storing a correlation model that accepts an image or information of image, and outputting an ink-color set that is a color combination of inks used in reproducing the image by printing; and a color combination extracting unit that extracts the ink-color set corresponding to a print image, which is an image to be printed, by providing an input of the print image or image information of the print image to the correlation model. The correlation model is generated by performing machine learning that generates a correlation between the image information and the ink-color set such that the ink-color set is outputted based on the image information, using a reference image of which the ink-color set necessary for a printing is known in advance.

Abstract: A method for painting with a plurality of colors at least an article of manufacture, preferably a thermoplastic article of manufacture for the perfumery and cosmetic field, each color of said plurality of colors being that of a respective paint of a corresponding plurality of paints, said method comprising at least the operating steps of: a) providing said at least an article of manufacture in a condition suitable for painting; b) providing a plurality of painting guns arranged in a succession in a painting tunnel and each being adapted to apply a paint of a said respective color of said plurality of colors; c) orienting said at least an article of manufacture with respect to said plurality of painting guns.

Abstract: In order to solve the problem that information indicating three or more points on a contour of a figure drawn by an electron beam writer cannot be more precisely acquired, an information processing apparatus includes: an accepting unit that accepts pattern information indicating a pattern figure, and actually observed contour information acquired using an image obtained by capturing an image of a figure drawn by an electron beam writer; a transforming information acquiring unit that acquires transforming information, which is information that minimizes the sum of squares of differences between convolution values corresponding to three or more corrected contour points of a given point spread function in a region indicated by the pattern figure indicated by the pattern information and a threshold regarding the convolution values; a corrected contour point acquiring unit that acquires corrected contour point information, which is information indicating three or more corrected contour points respectively correspo

Abstract: In order to solve the problem that information indicating three or more points on a contour of a figure drawn by an electron beam writer cannot be more precisely acquired, an information processing apparatus includes: an accepting unit that accepts pattern information indicating a pattern figure, and actually observed contour information acquired using an image obtained by capturing an image of a figure drawn by an electron beam writer; a transforming information acquiring unit that acquires transforming information, which is information that minimizes the sum of squares of differences between convolution values corresponding to three or more corrected contour points of a given point spread function in a region indicated by the pattern figure indicated by the pattern information and a threshold regarding the convolution values; a corrected contour point acquiring unit that acquires corrected contour point information, which is information indicating three or more corrected contour points respectively correspo

Abstract: Color images designed to be displayed, for example, with a projector such as a laser pico projector, are subjected to gamut extension in respective iso-hue paths in the CIE1931xyY color space, operating for example, as follows: a plurality of iso-hue curves in the CIE1931xyY color space is determined; for the points subjected to gamut extension, the closest iso-hue curves are identified; and extension paths to be used for the operation of gamut extension are interpolated from said closest iso-hue curves.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for providing color consistency on a same digital printing device at different points in time or on multiple digital printing devices. Measured spectral color values, which correspond to a particular calibration set of a printer-ink/toner-media combination, are stored as target values. Spectral color values are measured subsequently for the same printer or for other printers and compared to the target values to determine whether the output data of both printers will be consistent. Optimization processes may be performed to ensure or improve consistency.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of reducing the printing time when printing data saved and is capable of two-color printing. A raster conversion unit generates raster image data by developing image information that shows an image expressed in arbitrary colors. A storage unit stores the raster image data converted by the raster conversion unit and a color mode that is specified from among “full color”, “single color”, and “two-color” when the raster image data is printed. A color conversion unit generates output image data by processing the raster image data according to the selected color mode. A control unit makes a printer unit print the output image data that is generated by processing the raster image data stored in the storage unit by the color conversion unit when being instructed to print the image.

Abstract: A blended image is created as follows. An overlay image frame is received in a device implemented by electronic circuitry. The overlay image frame has multiple pixels. A blending factor is determined with the device for each pixel in the overlay image frame. The blending factor is based on the color saturation surrounding the pixel such that an amount by which the pixel contributes to a blended image of the overlay image frame with an underlying image frame is based on the blending factor.

Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus including: a photosensitive drum; a substrate including multiple formable regions in each of which corresponding one of multiple light emitting elements is formable; and a lens array, in which the substrate is arranged in a manner that a longitudinal direction of the substrate is parallel to a rotary shaft of the photosensitive drum, in which the substrate includes m formable region rows, where m is an integer number equal to or greater than 2, each of the m formable region rows including n formable regions, where n is an integer number equal to or greater than 1, arranged in a line along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and in which one of the multiple light emitting elements formed in any one of m formable regions that are located in a predetermined column of the m formable region rows is turned on.

Abstract: There is described a device (1) for offline inspection and color measurement of printed sheets for the production of banknotes and like printed securities, comprising (i) a console (10) having a supporting surface (10a) for supporting a sample printed sheet (S), (ii) a multipurpose measuring apparatus (20), which multipurpose measuring apparatus (20) comprises multiple sensors (22, 23) including at least one camera (22) for taking images of selected portions of the sample printed sheet (S) and a color measurement sensor (23) for performing spectrophotometric, colorimetric, and/or densitometric measurements at selected locations on (22, 23) the sample printed sheet (S), (iii) a display (30) for displaying the images taken by the camera (22) and the measurements performed by the color measurement sensor (23), and (iv) a control and processing unit (40) coupled to the multipurpose measuring apparatus (20) and the display (30).

Abstract: The invention relates to an image forming method and an image forming device using at least four color toners of yellow, magenta, cyan and black, and having a fixation step of fixing a toner image on a recording medium using a fixing unit, wherein the total of a dust emission amount from each toner is controlled to be not more than a specific level, and wherein just before the fixation step where the three color toners of yellow, magenta and cyan are laminated on the recording medium, a dust emission amount from the toner to be the outermost layer on the recording medium and a dust emission amount from the toner to be the lowermost layer thereon are controlled to be in a specific relationship therebetween.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that corrects a gradation of an image to be formed by detecting a gradation pattern. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that transfers a correction toner image corresponding to the gradation pattern on a surface of an intermediate transfer medium and forms a correction image corresponding to the gradation pattern on a surface of a recording medium, a detection unit that detects the correction toner image and the correction image, and an image processing unit that corrects the gradation based on the detected correction toner image and the detected correction image.

Abstract: In a case where a first information including an execution request of a specific function via a first type of interface is received, a function executing device may execute a change process for changing an interface for communicating with a terminal device from the first type of interface to a second type of interface in a case where a state of the function executing device is determined as a non-error state. The function executing device may not execute the change process in a case where the state of the function executing device is determined as an error state. The specific function may include a communication process for communicating object data with the terminal device. The function executing device may execute the specific function including the communication process via the second type of interface in a case where the change process is being executed.

Abstract: A print controlling apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives input data including: gloss control plane data indicating a surface effect type to be achieved on the recording medium with certain density information; and table identifying information for identifying a surface effect selection table indicating a corresponding relation between the surface effect type and the density information used to generate the gloss control plane data; an acquiring unit that acquires an independent data portion indicating a portion corresponding to the surface effect type capable of being achieved independent from competence of the printing apparatus, out of the surface effect selection table identified by the table identifying information included in the input data from an external device; and a generating unit that generates the clear toner plane data using the independent data portion acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes generating a Continuous Tone Image (CTI) with all pixel values same as the first gray level and an initial Half Tone Image (HTI) with all pixel values equal to minimum absorptance level, computing a change in pixel error by toggling with all the possible output states and swapping with all neighbor pixels only if the stacking constraint is satisfied, updating the HTI with the maximum error decrease operation and continue to next pixel location till the end criteria is met. Once the end criteria is met, the updated HTI is saved as a final halftone screen for that gray level and copied as the initial HTI for the next gray level along with CTI pixel values updated to the next gray level till the final gray value is reached.

Abstract: An image sensing and printing digital camera device includes a housing defining a slot for receiving a printed instruction card having printed thereon an array of dots representing a programming script, the housing further storing therein a roll of print media; an area image sensor for sensing an image and generating pixel data representing the image; a linear image sensor for scanning the array of dots on the card and converting the array of dots into a data signal; a microcontroller provided in the housing, the microcontroller for decoding the data signal into the programming script and applying the programming script on the pixel data; and a printing mechanism for printing the pixel data, having applied thereto the programming script, on the roll of print media. The microcontroller integrates on a single chip a VLIW processor, a printhead interface, and an output buffer effecting communication between the VLIW processor and the printhead interface.

Abstract: A handheld imaging device includes an image sensor for sensing an image; a multi-core processor for processing the sensed image; and a program memory provided external to the multi-core processor, and communicating therewith via a communication bus. The multi-core processor includes a bus interface for interfacing with the communication bus, and further includes an image sensor interface for interfacing with the image sensor separately from the communication bus and the bus interface. The multi-core processor includes a plurality of parallel processing units connected by a crossbar switch to form the multi-core.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same, the method including: determining whether the extension of a data file is registered as a printable extension in an image forming apparatus; analyzing header of the data file to determine whether the data file is printable, if the extension is not registered as a printable extension in the image forming apparatus; and registering the extension in the image forming apparatus as a printable extension, if the data file is determined to be printable.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an input part for receiving image data; an image processor for image-processing the input image data; an output part for outputting data processed at the image processor; and a controller for controlling the image processor to process the image using one of a plurality of image processing modes having a toner consumption lower than a toner density to use when the toner density to use for outputting the input image data exceeds a preset reference density. The plurality of the image processing modes includes a boundary image processing mode which outputs only boundaries of objects in the image data. Thus, the toner used for the image forming can be saved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs a direct printing function. A selecting section selects at least two files from a plurality of files stored in at least one of an internal storage medium and an external storage medium. A human interface receives passwords form a user. A password determining section determines whether the selected files are protected by passwords. A file extracting section extracts the selected files from an internal storage medium or external storage medium. A password verifying section determines whether passwords contained in the selected files and the passwords inputted through the human interface coincide. A printer prints the selected files. A printing controller controls the printer, causing the printer to print at least one of selected files if the password verifying section has determined that the password contained in the at least one selected file and the password inputted by the user coincide.

Abstract: A print relay system determines whether a printing function (capability) of an image forming apparatus corresponding to user authority setting has been registered in a printing service. Having determined that the printing function has been registered, the print relay system enables other users having the same authority to share the printing function (capability) of the image forming apparatus registered in the printing service.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first color value registration list generating section that generates a first color value registration list, on a basis of color values of individual pixels of inputted image information in a case where a predetermined number or more of consecutive pixels have color values that match each other, the first color value registration list registering, for each of the color values that match, first color value information that includes the color value and a frequency of the color value.

Abstract: A first RIP processing unit reads cache data from a first cache unit. The first RIP processing unit transmits first RIP-processed variable part data to a printer. Since an identifier read by the first RIP processing unit is not a transmitted identifier, the first RIP processing unit transmits RIP-processed reuse part data to the printer. A second RIP processing unit reads cache data from a second cache unit. The second RIP processing unit transmits second RIP-processed variable part data to the printer. Since an identifier read by the second RIP processing unit is a transmitted identifier, the second RIP processing unit does not transmit the RIP-processed reuse part data to the printer.

Abstract: A method is provided for processing a rasterized relief image, comprising customary color channels for indicating a color of each pixel and a height channel for indicating a height of each pixel into several pass images that are printed using a printer with several colorants including a white colorant. For each pixel a relief part, a white part and a skin part are discriminated in order to combine the demands for height and color variation across the surface of the image. The skin part comprises pixels for which a colorant composition based on the color channels of the rasterized relief image is established. In order to print a color in the skin part that is independent of a height of the pixel and independent of the colorant composition of a neighboring pixels, pass images are composed that include only neighboring pass pixels that do not disturb the color forming of a pass pixel contributing to a skin part.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus may include multiple detection portions including a first detection portion and a second detection portion. The first detection portion and the second detection portion may be configured to distinguishably detect the insertion of media from one of a first opening and a second opening. In one example, the first detection portion may be disposed along a first conveyance path corresponding to the first opening while the second detection portion may be disposed along a second conveyance path corresponding to the second opening.

Abstract: A document reading device includes a reading table, an openable member, a detection member, an open and close movement member, a reading member, a reading movement member, and a controller. The reading table, which allows a document to be placed thereon, is covered or uncovered by closing or opening the openable member. The open and close movement member is moved as the openable member is opened or closed. The open and close movement member positioned at the detection position is detected by the detection member. The reading member reads the document on the reading table while being moved by a drive force controlled by the controller. The reading movement member is moved as the reading member is moved. The reading movement member positioned at the detection position is detected by the detection member.

Abstract: A preflight check unit in a printing control apparatus includes a sub-preflight check unit, an object page determination unit, a main preflight check unit, and a preflight result output unit. The sub-preflight check unit obtains resource use information and part use information. The object page determination unit determines object pages to be subjected to the preflight check, based on the resource use information and the part use information, and writes object page information indicating the object pages in a storage unit. The main preflight check unit reads the object page information from the storage unit to perform preflight check on the object pages indicated by the object page information. The preflight result output unit outputs a preflight result.

Abstract: A handheld digital camera device including: a digital camera unit having a first image sensor for capturing images and a color display for displaying captured images to a user; an integral processor configured for: controlling operation of the first image sensor and color display; decoding an imaged coding pattern printed on a substrate, the printed coding pattern employing Reed-Solomon encoding; and performing an action in the handheld digital camera device based on the decoded coding pattern. The decoding includes the steps of: detecting target structures defining an extent of a data area; determining the data area using the detected target structures; and Reed-Solomon decoding the coding pattern contained in the determined data area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that is capable of very accurately and efficiently reducing uneven color caused by variation in ejection characteristics among nozzles that eject ink and that occurs in a color image that is formed by mixing a plurality of different kinds of ink. A patch is printed by ejected ink from a plurality of nozzles, a region is specified so as to perform color correction in a test color image that is printed on a printing medium, a plurality of different color correction processing is performed on color signals that correspond to a color correction region, a plurality of color correction patches are printed, a color correction patch to be used is selected from among the plurality of different color correction patches and table parameters that correspond to the nozzles are created based on the selected color correction processing.

Abstract: A print control method for an information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus via a network, includes acquiring print data and print settings corresponding to the print data from one or more applications; determining whether a process related to a scaling process is included in the print settings; comparing, when determining that the process related to a scaling process is included in the print settings, a processing capacity of the image forming apparatus with a processing capacity of the information processing apparatus; and determining whether the process related to the scaling process is to be performed by the image forming apparatus or by the information processing apparatus based on the comparison result.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which can rotate input image data in a compressed state, comprises a storage unit which stores a rotation angle of the image data; a holding unit which holds, for each tile including blocks each including a predetermined number of pixels in the image data, information on a color arrangement in the block obtained by compressing the image data, color information corresponding to the color arrangement, and information on a position of the tile in the image data; and a rotation unit which converts the color arrangement in the block in accordance with the rotation angle of the image data stored in the storage unit to form rotated image data based on the converted color arrangement, color information corresponding to the color arrangement, and information on a position of the tile.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of facilitating synchronization of a maintenance moving image between an image processing apparatus and a mobile information terminal, thereby making it possible to more efficiently show the moving image to a user who performs a maintenance operation. The mobile information terminal is registered as a distribution destination of the moving image. The moving image for current reproduction and display on the apparatus and information of the reproduction position of the moving image are distributed to the terminal to thereby cause the terminal to reproduce and display the moving image from the position. The position is changed based on information of a change in the reproduction position received from the terminal. When the position is changed on the image apparatus, information of a change in the position is transmitted to the terminal, to thereby cause the terminal to change the position.