Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a computer executing instructions which, when executed by the computer, cause the information processing apparatus to: detect, from among a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, a first image capturing apparatus a state of which is changed from (a) automatic image capturing in which the first image capturing apparatus automatically tracks and captures a first object to (b) manual image capturing in which the first image capturing apparatus captures a second object different from the first object based on an instruction from a user, and cause a second image capturing apparatus from among the image capturing apparatuses other than the first image capturing apparatus to perform the automatic image capturing in which the second image capturing apparatus automatically tracks and captures the first object, in a case where the first image capturing apparatus is detected.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes first and second rotating members, a heater having a heating element and a substrate, and first and second contact members. A direction of a longer side on a surface of the substrate where the heating element is disposed is a longitudinal direction. A direction intersecting the longitudinal direction is a widthwise direction. The first contact member is disposed in a region outside a region where a maximum size recording material conveyed to a nip portion passes through the nip portion on one end side in the longitudinal direction on an outer circumferential surface of the first rotating member, and the second contact member is disposed in the region outside the region where the maximum size recording material conveyed to the nip portion passes through the nip portion on an other end side in the longitudinal direction on an outer circumferential surface of the second rotating member.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a management apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a variable mechanism, a physical quantity detection unit that detects a change in physical quantity caused when a state of the variable mechanism changes, an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormal condition, and a transmission unit that transmits detection results of the physical quantity detection unit and the abnormality detection unit to the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a determination unit that determines a cause of the abnormal condition, and a notification unit that provides a notification that the abnormal condition is caused by a change in the state in accordance with a determination result. The determination unit determines that the abnormal condition is caused by a change in the state when the abnormal condition is detected after the change in physical quantity exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member and a second unit including a developer bearing member. The second unit is swingable with respect to the first unit. The second unit includes a pressed portion to be pressed by a pressing member of the apparatus body. When viewed in an axial direction, (i) the swing axis and the pressed portion are arranged on opposite sides to each other with respect to a virtual straight line, (ii) the pressed portion, the swing axis, and the first axis are arranged in the named order in an interaxial direction, and (iii) a distance from the pressed portion to the swing axis in the interaxial direction is longer than a distance from the swing axis to the first axis in the interaxial direction.

Abstract: A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit for an image frame, from a bitstream. The method comprises determining a chroma format of the image frame, the chroma format having chroma channels of the image frame being subsampled relative to a luma channel of the image frame; and determining, based on the determined chroma format, a size of a chroma coding block of one of the chroma channels of the coding tree unit, wherein the chroma coding block is collocated with a plurality of corresponding luma blocks. The method comprises determining the chroma coding block is encoded using intra prediction if the determined size of the chroma block is a predetermined minimum chroma block size; and decoding the coding blocks of the coding tree using intra prediction for the chroma coding block and inter prediction for at least one of the plurality of corresponding luma coding blocks.

Abstract: A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.

Abstract: A communication apparatus configured to be able to perform multilink communications compliant with an IEEE 802.11 standard using a plurality of links, receives one or more frames transmitted through one or more links from each of a plurality of external apparatuses, discriminates an external apparatus that is a transmission source of the one or more frames based on a parameter included in each of the one or more frames, the discrimination unit discriminating, when two or more frames are received from one of the external apparatuses through two or more different links, the one of the external apparatus as the transmission source of the two or more frames, and decides a priority, in terms of communication connection, for the plurality of external apparatuses based on communication states of the two or more frames.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the binder resin comprises a first resin and a second resin; the first resin is a crystalline resin having a melting point Tp of 50° C. to 90° C.; the second resin is an amorphous resin; in a cross section of the toner particle observed by a transmission electron microscope, the cross section of the toner particle has a matrix-domain structure composed of a matrix comprising the first resin and domains comprising the second resin; an area ratio of the matrix comprising the first resin in a total area of the cross section of the toner particle is 35 to 70 area %; and where a longest direction of each of the domains is taken as a longitudinal direction, a standard deviation of an angle of the longitudinal direction of the domains is 25° or less.

Abstract: A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit for an image frame, from a bitstream. The method comprises determining a chroma format of the image frame, the chroma format having chroma channels of the image frame being subsampled relative to a luma channel of the image frame; and determining, based on the determined chroma format, a size of a chroma coding block of one of the chroma channels of the coding tree unit, wherein the chroma coding block is collocated with a plurality of corresponding luma blocks. The method comprises determining the chroma coding block is encoded using intra prediction if the determined size of the chroma block is a predetermined minimum chroma block size; and decoding the coding blocks of the coding tree using intra prediction for the chroma coding block and inter prediction for at least one of the plurality of corresponding luma coding blocks.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, a crystalline material A, and a crystalline material B, wherein the binder resin contains a resin M in an amount of 70 mass % or more relative to the binder resin, the crystalline material A has a melting point of 50.0° C. to 100.0° C., and when, the difference between the SP value of the resin M and material A is designated as ?SPAM, the difference between the SP value of the resin M and crystalline material B is designated as ?SPBM, the difference between the SP value of the crystalline material A and crystalline material B is designated as ?SPAB, the peak molecular weight of the crystalline material A and crystalline material B is designated as MpA and MpB each, the formulae (1) to (3) are satisfied: 50?MpB×?SPBM2?MpA×?SPAM2?450??(1) MpA×?SPAM2?800??(2) ?SPAB?0.26??(3).

Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprises an image sensor and an output interface that selectively outputs a main video stream obtained using the image sensor and a sub video stream input from outside. The image capture apparatus changes a resolution of the main video stream to be equal to a resolution of the sub video stream in a case where an output of the sub video stream from the output interface has been set to be enabled.

Abstract: A display control system includes a first wireless device attached to a management target and storing first identification information for identifying the management target, a second wireless device installed at a predetermined position and storing second identification information, a reading apparatus, at least one processor, and at least one memory. The processor and memory are configured to estimate a located position of the management target based on reading results of the first identification information at a first reading time and the second identification information at a second reading time and cause a display apparatus to display an estimated area within which the management target is estimated to be located based on the located position. A magnitude of the estimated area is based on an amount of movement of the reading apparatus between the first reading time and the second reading time.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image sensor configured to output a plurality of images obtained by applying different gains in one exposure where a capacity of a charge accumulation portion for accumulating electric charges is common to all of the images, a first combining unit configured to acquire the plurality of images and perform combining by adjusting brightness of an image other than a darkest image with brightness of the darkest image among the plurality of images, a second combining unit configured to perform combining by adjusting brightness of an image other than a lightest image with brightness of a lightest image among the plurality of images, and a combining method selection unit configured to select the first or second combining unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can perform error notification with ease and at a low cost in a case where falsification of an activation program is detected. The information processing apparatus has a main CPU for executing various programs, a sub CPU for verifying falsification of the activation program of the main CPU and perform recovery processing for the falsification, a FLASH Memory for storing a boot code of the activation program, a hardware sequencer for selectively switching one of the main CPU and the sub CPU so as to be capable of accessing the FLASH Memory, and a LED having three types of notification patterns. The hardware sequencer causes notification of the LED to change one of the three types of notification patterns according to both states of a falsification detection determination signal and an UNDER_RECOVERY signal from the sub CPU.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a printer capability acquiring unit of a general-purpose printer driver acquires, from a printer, definition information (definition for acquisition of apparatus-specific definition) for information acquisition specific to the printer, using definition information for information acquisition (definition for acquisition of apparatus-common information) commonly usable for various printers and independent of vendors or models, acquires, from the printer, configuration information specific to the printer, using the definition for acquisition of apparatus-specific information, and saves the configuration information in an extended information storage unit for each printer. The general-purpose printer driver controls the printer using the configuration information for the printer saved in the extended information storage unit.

Abstract: A control method for an information processing apparatus is provided. The method comprises receiving a designation of a number of divisions of an image; after a designation of a number of divisions equivalent to a first number has been received, executing predetermined processing related to a number of divisions equivalent to a second number different from the first number based on at least one of whether a specific region of the image is divided in the first number of divided images, which correspond to the image that has been divided by the number of divisions equivalent to the first number, and a percentage that a predetermined region in each of the first number of the divided images accounts for in the specific region; and after the predetermined processing, executing processing for printing a plurality of divided images corresponding to the divided.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus controls a display to display a first item and a second item together with a captured image, each of the first item and the second item including a plurality of setting items. The information processing apparatus determines whether the captured image is a dual-lens image that includes a first area and a second area having a parallax with respect to the first area. The information processing apparatus: 1) controls the display to display both the first area and the second area at a first display magnification in a case where the first item is selected; and 2) controls the display to display only one of the first area and the second area at a second display magnification higher than the first display magnification in a case where the second item is selected.

Abstract: In a case where both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address are available in a printing apparatus, a Bluetooth low energy advertising packet including the available IPv4 address but not the available IPv6 address is generated and periodically transmitted.

Abstract: A line-of-sight detection device according to the present invention includes: a lens; an image sensor disposed on an edge of the lens; and a plurality of light sources disposed along the edge of the lens, wherein in a 360° range around an optical axis of the lens, a number of light sources per degree is the maximum in a range on opposite side of the image sensor with respect to the optical axis of the lens.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor component including a first circuit section and an interconnection connected to the first circuit section, and a second semiconductor component including a second circuit section and a third circuit section and stacked on the first semiconductor component. The interconnection is electrically connected to a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion of a plurality of connecting portions for electrically connecting the first semiconductor component and the second semiconductor component. The second circuit section is electrically connected to the interconnection via the first connecting portion. The third circuit section is electrically connected to the interconnection via the second connecting portion.