Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a diffuse reflection image of an object surface and a specular reflection image of the object surface, and a reproduction unit that reproduces the object surface such that illumination color is darker as saturation of the diffuse reflection image or a value representing the saturation is higher than of the specular reflection image, by using the diffuse reflection image and the specular reflection image.

Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a robot body, a movement unit, a detector, and a controller. The movement unit moves the robot body to a destination point. The detector detects a state of a person present around the destination point. The controller controls the movement unit so as to make the autonomous mobile robot approach the person present around the destination point along a travel route that differs depending on the state of the person detected by the detector.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, among a plurality of images obtained by periodically capturing one or more lighting devices that repeat blinking according to a determined pattern, a first image and a second image in which a lighted lighting device is captured and in response to a distance from a position of the device indicated by the first image to a position of the device indicated by the second image being within a range corresponding to a period from a time of capturing the first image to a time of capturing the second image, regard the lighting device indicated by the first image and the lighting device indicated by the second image are the same, and specify the pattern of the lighting device that has been regarded the same.

Abstract: A document management apparatus includes a display control unit that performs control to display a first document and a second document, a comment reception unit that receives a comment to be added to a part of the first document displayed by the display control unit, and an association unit that associates a part of the second document that is a basis of the comment received by the comment reception unit with the comment.

Abstract: A data management system includes a first apparatus, a second apparatus, and a connecting device. The first apparatus is installed inside a network and is subjected to a restriction on connection from outside the network. The second apparatus is installed outside the network and is capable of connecting to the first apparatus and to a terminal outside the network. The connecting device is integrated with or separated from the first apparatus. The first apparatus and the second apparatus perform synchronization control to maintain consistency between data retained by the first apparatus and data retained by the second apparatus. In response to a connection request from a terminal inside the network, the connecting device selects one of the apparatuses as a connection destination for the terminal inside the network in accordance with a communication condition between the apparatuses and the separate operating conditions of each.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a task information acquisition section that acquires task information being information on an individual task performed by a tasker, a detection section that detects specific task information being task information indicating a specific task, from a plurality of pieces of the task information acquired by the task information acquisition section, and a selection section that selects task information from the plurality of pieces of the task information acquired by the task information acquisition section, based on the specific task information detected by the detection section.

Abstract: A data management system includes a management apparatus including a processor, and plural storage devices. The processor is configured to generate hash values corresponding to data to be managed according to a predetermined calculation rule, the plural storage devices stores first hash values that are hash values generated by the processor at a first point in time, and the processor is configured to perform determination of invariance related to the plural first hash values or the data by comparing sets including the plural of first hash values read out from the plural storage devices and second hash values that are hash values regenerated according to the calculation rule at a second point in time later than the first point in time.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first apparatus, multiple second apparatuses, and a server. The first apparatus receives authentication information from a user and transmits the authentication information to the server. If the user has been authenticated in accordance with the authentication information, the server transmits, to the first apparatus, permission information that indicates two or more second apparatuses that the user is permitted to use from among the second apparatuses. The first apparatus stores the authentication information while transmitting the authentication information to the second apparatuses. If the authentication information indicates one of the second apparatuses, the one of the second apparatuses performs an operation related to use of the one of the second apparatuses.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a determining unit, and a display controller. The obtaining unit obtains information represented by each of plural thumbnails. The determining unit individually determines a size of each of the plural thumbnails so that the information is identifiable. The display controller performs control so that the plural thumbnails will be displayed in a size greater than or equal to the size determined by the determining unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first generation unit and a second generation unit. The first generation unit generates reduced original image data for forming a reduced image of an original image to be formed on the basis of print data. The second generation unit generates background-emphasized reduced image data for forming a reduced image in which a reduced background region is emphasized in the reduced image, and the reduced background region corresponds to a background region of an object included in the original image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a collecting unit that, when a predetermined transmission condition is established after a start of an operation of the information processing apparatus, collects information related to an operational environment of the information processing apparatus, and a transmitting unit that transmits the collected information to an image forming apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer belt that carries a toner image first transferred and is rotated to transport the toner image to a second transfer position; a second transfer belt that is rotated to come into contact with the intermediate transfer belt and pass through the second transfer position of the intermediate transfer belt; a plate-like cleaning unit that comes into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the second transfer belt to clean the outer circumferential surface; and a dispersion unit that comes into contact with a portion of the outer circumferential surface of the second transfer belt to disperse toner which passes through the portion on a downstream side of the cleaning unit and on an upstream side of the second transfer position.

Abstract: A method and system for visualizing data associated with a search inquiry. The method includes receiving, a data set each data item having associated rank information, and similarity information indicative of similarities between the data item and one or more other data items, sorting the data set into a ranked list based on the rank information, masking a contiguous portion of the ranked list based on a boundary parameter, iteratively clustering a portion of the ranked list other than the masked contiguous portion based op the similarity information to produce a clustered, ranked data list; and generating and displaying a visualization representative of the clustered, ranked data list, the visualization comprising a shaped object representative of each cluster in the clustered, ranked data list.

Abstract: A document management system includes a management device and at least two processing devices. For each of the at least two processing devices, a user to be allowed to register a document by using a corresponding processing device is determined. The management device includes a first storage and an obtaining unit. The first storage stores metadata of a protected document received from any of the at least two processing devices. The obtaining unit obtains information concerning a processing load of each of the at least two processing devices. The at least two processing device include first and second processing devices. The first processing device includes a second storage, a sender, and a receiver. The second storage stores information concerning a user to be allowed to register a document by using the first processing device.

Abstract: A message communication apparatus includes an operating unit that activates a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange a message, the chat bot exchanging a message with a user, a registration unit that registers the chat bot for each user, and a controller that, if a single first chat bot has been activated in a single chat room through operation of the operating unit by a first user, causes the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user by using the registration unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a selector and an instructor. The selector selects an image. The instructor provides an instruction if an aspect ratio of the selected image exceeds a maximum ratio of a range of predetermined aspect ratios. The instruction is an instruction to remove an end portion of the selected image in a width direction so that the aspect ratio of the selected image will be contained within the range of the predetermined aspect ratios. The instructor also provides an instruction if the aspect ratio of the selected image is smaller than a minimum ratio of the range of the predetermined aspect ratios. The instruction is an instruction to add a margin to an end portion of the selected image in the width direction so that the aspect ratio of the selected image will be contained within the range of the predetermined aspect ratios.

Abstract: A status monitoring system includes multiple sensors that detect a status of a monitoring target, a transmission unit that transmits changed detection data when detection data detected by the multiple sensors changes, a storage unit that stores the detection data transmitted by the transmission unit, a prediction unit that predicts, from past detection data stored in the storage unit, a time at which the detection data detected by the multiple sensors is predicted to change, and an instruction unit that instructs a specific subset of the multiple sensors to transmit data for checking operation a preset amount of time before the time predicted by the prediction unit.

Abstract: A controller includes an extractor configurated such that, if plural talk rooms exist where information is portable and viewable by each of plural users and, when instruction information including a file and an instruction to execute processing for the file is posted, the processing associated with the posted instruction information is executable, and if a talk room where the instruction information is posted differs from a talk room where the processing associated with the instruction information is executed, a difference between the file before the processing and the file after the processing is extracted when the processing associated with the instruction information is executed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reception section that receives print data including plural page images and receives data on what type the print data is for selecting attribute information with a degree of importance set for each attribute indicating a feature of the page image; an acquisition section that acquires the attribute information according to the type of the print data; a setting section that sets an evaluation value for each of the page images included in the print data by using the acquired attribute information; and a control section that performs a control to display previews of the page images according to the evaluation values.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a command unit. The acquiring unit acquires positional information of a container containing a contained object from an image acquired as a result of photographing the container by using a display device that displays a virtual-space image and a real space in an overlapping manner and that has a photographing function. The command unit commands the display device to display information related to the contained object stored in association with the positional information as the virtual-space image near the container.