Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a transmission unit that transmits remaining amount information indicating a detected remaining amount of a consumable; a reception unit that receives a scheduled date of delivery of the consumable notified based on the transmitted remaining amount information; and a request unit that, when the remaining amount of the consumable is detected again upon reception of the scheduled delivery date and when a first value corresponding to the remaining amount detected again differs from a second value predicted, in correspondence with the first value, from information on a history of consuming the consumable, makes a request to change the scheduled delivery date in such a way that the second value approaches or matches the first value.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a pair of pressure members that nip and apply pressure to a recording material having an unfixed image thereon; multiple pressure mechanisms that transmit a force to at least one of the pair of pressure members to generate the pressure; and multiple elastic members that apply elastic forces to a common portion in each pressure mechanism to generate the pressure.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a migration part and a change part. The migration part migrates content data of one or more files at a migration source to a migration destination in a predetermined sequence after migrating identification information to identify the one or more files at the migration source. The change part changes the predetermined sequence so as to prioritize an object in migration if the object satisfies a predetermined condition and has been subjected to an operation to use a folder, a file, or another file relating to the file. The operation is performed at the migration destination while the content data is being migrated by the migration part.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit that obtains update data for a common control program capable of controlling plural apparatuses whose models are different from one another and a model information file including maintenance information indicating a current maintenance state of each of the plural apparatuses, a second obtaining unit that, when updating the common control program using the update data obtained by the first obtaining unit, obtains information regarding a model name from a connected apparatus to be controlled, and a display control unit that, if the maintenance information regarding the connected apparatus from which the second obtaining unit has obtained the information regarding the model name indicates that a maintenance period has expired, displays a selection screen for asking a user whether to delete the model name from a model list displayed to the user by the common control program.

Abstract: A tubular metal body includes a tubular part having an opening at one end in an axis direction; and a bottom part disposed at another end of the tubular part in the axis direction. The ratio (Rz1/Rz2) of a surface roughness Rz1 of an outer peripheral surface of the bottom part to a surface roughness Rz2 of an outer peripheral surface of a center portion of the tubular part in the axis direction is in a range of 2 or more and 4000 or less. A Vickers hardness HV1 of the outer peripheral surface of the bottom part is 5 HV or more and 27 HV or less smaller than a Vickers hardness HV2 of the outer peripheral surface of the center portion of the tubular part in the axis direction.

Abstract: An information control apparatus controls a printer apparatus. The printer apparatus includes a loader which stacks and loads sheets fed from a sheet feeder and then printed. The information control apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which printing performed by the printer apparatus is stopped and is then restarted, the controller performs control so that a sheet which will protrude from other sheets when being loaded in the loader will be fed from the sheet feeder and be loaded in the loader as a sheet to be inserted to indicate a restart position.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first, second and management apparatus. The first apparatus stores an encrypted document, notifies the management apparatus of a first state of the first apparatus regarding information security requirements, sends information for specifying the first apparatus as a transmission source and information for specifying the second apparatus as a transmission destination to the management apparatus, requests transmission permission to the management apparatus, and transmits the encrypted document to the second apparatus when transmission permission is granted. The second apparatus notifies the management apparatus of a second state of the second apparatus regarding the information security requirements, and receives the encrypted document from the first apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sensor, an output unit, and a controller. The sensor senses a person. The output unit outputs a notification sound. The controller controls a volume of the notification sound. The controller controls the output unit to reduce the volume of the notification sound.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a display and a controller. The display displays a setting screen containing a display element representing a setting item. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is not introduced in the information processing device, the display element is displayed in a first manner, and exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is introduced in the information processing device and where the setting item is not a setting item to be set for use of the service, the display element is displayed in a second manner. The second manner is different from the first manner.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to: accept, from a mobile terminal device carried by a user, identification information that enables identification of the user, positional information of the mobile terminal device, and an image forming instruction; generate sound authentication information for authenticating the accepted image forming instruction and cause an image forming apparatus that is present within a predetermined range of the accepted positional information to output a sound representing the sound authentication information; and cause the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming operation if the sound authentication information and authentication information that is input by using the mobile terminal device satisfy a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an annular and rotatable fixing member, a contact member, at least one temperature sensing unit, and a processor. The fixing member has an outer peripheral surface that comes into contact with a recording medium. The fixing member fixes an image on the recording medium onto the recording medium. The contact member is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and extends in an axial direction of the fixing member. The at least one temperature sensing unit senses a temperature of a lubricant adhering to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member. The processor controls rotation of the fixing member on a basis of a temperature sensed by the at least one temperature sensing unit.

Abstract: A transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer belt including a resin and in which in a spatial distribution of conductive carbon particles that are present in an evaluation region of 6.3 ?m×4.2 ?m on an outer peripheral surface, an integrated value of a statistic L(r) in an interparticle distance r of 0.05 ?m or more and 0.30 ?m or less is 0 or more and 0.1 or less; and a cleaning component including a cleaning blade which contacts the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt and in which a value of M100/Re is 0.25 or more and a value of Re is 25 or more where M100 represents a 100% modulus (MPa) of a contact portion of the cleaning blade contacts the intermediate transfer belt, and Re represents a rebound resilience coefficient (%) of the contact portion: L(r):=?{square root over (K(r)/?)}?r??(1) K ? ( r ) := ? i ? j N ? 1 ? ( ? X i - X j ? ? r ) / s ? ( ? X i - X j ? ) ? 2 .

Abstract: An information processing device includes a computation unit that computes a similarity between character strings among plural character strings which express a content of electronic information and which are generated from the electronic information, and an association unit that associates a dissimilar character string that is not similar to another character string among the plural character strings with the electronic information as a representative character string that expresses the electronic information.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a graphical user interface (GUI) tool that provides representations of generated charts on a map, wherein distances between representations are provided based on similarity between charts. Similarity is determined through machine learning techniques that are applied on a vectorized form of charts. Example implementations described herein encode charts into vectors using deep learning techniques, which facilitates machine learning techniques such as nearest neighbor to be utilized to determine similarity between charts based on their corresponding vectors.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first drawing information acquiring unit that acquires first drawing information used for design, a second drawing information identifying unit that identifies second drawing information associated with the first drawing information, a basic policy information acquiring unit that acquires basic policy information associated with the second drawing information, the basic policy information representing a basic policy for at least one of design and production, and an output unit that, in response to acquisition of information instructing that a design change be made to the first drawing information, outputs a basic policy corresponding to the design change from the basic policy information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to process an image; a reading direct memory access controller (DMAC) configured to read data from the memory; a writing DMAC configured to write data to the memory, each DMAC configured to control direct memory access to a memory; an upper first-in first-out (FIFO) unit connected to the reading and writing DMACs and includes FIFOs of the number equal to the number of channels of each of the reading and writing DMACs and a lower FIFO unit connected between the upper FIFO unit and the processor and includes FIFOs that correspond to the FIFOs of the upper FIFO unit at a ratio of 1 upper FIFO unit to F lower FIFO units (F being an integer equal to 2 or larger).

Abstract: A cleaning device is provided with: a cleaning component that cleans waste toner from an image holder, the image holder holding, on a surface thereof, a toner image formed by an image forming component and moving in a circulating manner; and a waste toner conveying component that conveys the waste toner toward a waste toner storage unit. The cleaning device has a receiving opening through which waste powder recovered from the image forming component is received, and the waste powder received through the receiving opening is conveyed to the waste toner storage unit by being passed through inside the cleaning device.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor that performs control, in the case where plural print jobs with different allowable values of a transport speed are consecutively scheduled on one roll of rolled paper, so as to increase and reduce the transport speed of each print job in such a range that the transport speed of the print job does not exceed the allowable value of the transport speed of the print job during execution of print operation corresponding to the print job.

Abstract: A presentation control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform first control for presenting a first respiratory cycle longer than a natural respiratory cycle for a respiratory cycle presentation device in a case of preferentially increasing a degree of relaxation, the respiratory cycle presentation device being a device that presents a respiratory cycle, and perform second control for presenting a second respiratory cycle for the respiratory cycle presentation device in a case of preferentially decreasing a degree of physical-mental activity, the second respiratory cycle being a cycle for which a difference between the second respiratory cycle and the natural respiratory cycle is smaller than a difference between the first respiratory cycle and the natural respiratory cycle.