Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor is provided. The processor is configured to output a warning to a user upon detection of a possibility of occurrence of harm on the user in a case where a device that covers user's vision is used in a closed space that accommodates at least one user.

Abstract: A sheet-member guide structure includes a first guide member that guides a sheet member from a fixing unit to a transport roller unit, the fixing unit fixing an image formed on the sheet member to the sheet member by heating the sheet member that is transported, the transport roller unit transporting the sheet member; and a second guide member that comes into contact with the sheet member to which the image has been fixed by the fixing unit and guides the sheet member to the transport roller unit, the second guide member being disposed downstream of the first guide member in a transporting direction in which the sheet member is transported and being made of a material having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of a material of the first guide member.

Abstract: A relay system includes a first relay device, a second relay device, a controller, and a route advertisement unit. The second relay device receives route advertisement from the first relay device. If an excess of a number of pieces of routing information registered in a routing table of the second relay device over a maximum number of pieces of routing information registrable in the routing table is predicted, the controller controls a number of pieces of routing information that are to undergo the route advertisement from the first relay device to the second relay device. The route advertisement unit performs the route advertisement to the second relay device after excluding, from pieces of routing information registered in a routing table of the first relay device, a piece of routing information set not to undergo the route advertisement as a result of the control of the number of pieces of routing information by the controller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains environment information concerning a user terminal when a service request is received from the user terminal. Providing of a service to the user terminal has previously failed. The controller performs control to store the environment information obtained by the obtaining unit in a storage device. Data is read from and written into the storage device without operating the user terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit that performs first wireless communication, which is long-distance wireless communication with a terminal, a second communication unit that performs second wireless communication, which is short-distance wireless communication with the terminal, and a control unit that, if notified from the terminal that an amount of information accumulated in the terminal is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, switches from the first communication unit to the second communication unit.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display section that displays an image provided on an apparatus main body, a detection section that detects a location of a user with respect to the apparatus main body, and a change section that changes an image to be displayed on the display section from an image for a first location to an image for a second location, the image for the first location and the image for the second location being images having an identical attribute, in a case where the location of the user, which is detected by the detection section, is changed from the first location to the second location.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device and a controller. The fixing device includes a heating unit and a pressurizing unit. The heating unit is configured to come into contact with a recording medium, onto which an image is transferred and which is transported, so as to heat the recording medium while rotating. The pressurizing unit is configured to press the recording medium against the heating unit. The fixing device is configured to fix the image to the recording medium. The controller is configured to control switching between a first mode for fixing the image to the recording medium and a second mode for making a transport speed of a sheet member that passes through the fixing device slower than a peripheral speed of the heating unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor is provided. The processor is configured to perform control so that a device that covers user's vision becomes available in a closed space that accommodates at least one user, in a condition that a door of the closed space is closed or locked.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section that in a case where a user who uses a specific place is a user who has reserved the specific place, changes communication contract information of a terminal apparatus used by the user, and causes the terminal apparatus to perform communication using the changed communication contract information, during a period of the reservation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first controller that controls an overall operation of the apparatus, and a second controller that outputs an image stored in a specific area of a storage medium to a display device if a predetermined time has elapsed from activation. The second controller generates a second image and writes the second image in the specific area. If a first image is received from the first controller after the second controller writes the second image, the second controller overwrites the second image in the specific area with the first image.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an application program causes a computer to execute a function of generating a file including both or one of information related to an individual function of the application program and information dynamically changing in accordance with an execution of the application program or the individual function, and a function of notifying a software agent residing on the computer of a place where the file is stored.

Abstract: A powder storage height detection device includes: a main body that has a transport path along which powder is transported; a powder transport unit that is disposed to rotate in the transport path and includes a transporter provided spirally around a rotational shaft; a swinging unit that comes into contact with a surface of the powder transported in the transport path, and swings by following at least a storage height of the surface; and a detection unit that detects a state of swinging of the swinging unit. The transport unit includes a non-transport portion in which the transporter is not present, and the swinging unit is located and disposed to swing in the non-transport portion, and an upper portion located above a contact portion to be in contact with the powder is configurated by an upward convex curved surface.

Abstract: A method of converting a document from a first structure to a second structure, includes extracting data of the document to associate a field and a label in the first structure to generate a field/label association, receiving operator input indicative of associating a field/label association with one or more other field/label associations to generate a grouping, and based on the operator input and a spatial arrangement of the first structure, providing the grouping in the second structure as a natural conversational unit.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer carrier configured to carry a developer to be supplied to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed, a conveying unit configured to convey the developer containing a toner and a carrier, a regulating member configured to regulate the developer carried by the developer carrier to a specified amount, a developer accumulating member disposed upstream of the regulating member in a rotation direction of the developer carrier, the developer accumulating member forming an accumulating portion in which the developer accumulates, and a rotation member disposed between the developer accumulating member and the developer carrier, the rotation member being rotated to allow the developer to pass through a space between the developer accumulating member and the rotation member.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate; and an undercoating layer that is provided between the conductive substrate and the photosensitive layer and includes a charge transport material containing at least one of imide compounds represented by Formula (1) or (2): (in Formulas (1) and (2), R10, R11, R20 or R21 independently represents a group represented by Formula (3) or (4) where X represents a monovalent organic group having at least one of an alkyl group, an alkylene group, an ether group, an ester group, and a keto group, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group, Y represents a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom, n represents an integer of 0 to 2, and when n represents 2, two X's may be the same or different), and an imide compound is represented by Formula (1A) where Ar represents an aromatic group having 6 to 18 carbon atoms except for a tetravalent perylene group, X1 and X2 each independ

Abstract: A receiving device includes a display, a communication unit, and a protrusion portion. The display displays an image and receives an operation corresponding to the image in such a manner that a user comes into contact with the image. The communication unit communicates with a wireless communication apparatus performing near-field wireless communication. The protrusion portion is disposed at least between the display and the communication unit and protrudes from a surface on which the display is provided.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first information processing apparatus connected to first network; a second information processing apparatus connected to second network different from the first network; a user terminal connectable to the first network; and a storage apparatus communicable with the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus receives a processing request from the user terminal via the first network, and then transmits the processing request to the storage apparatus when connection of the user terminal to the first network is terminated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a notification unit, and a controller. The acquisition unit acquires input information including (i) information on a user and (ii) information that the user conveys to an interaction partner. The notification unit notifies information. The controller causes the notification unit to notify output information corresponding to (a) response information, to the input information, from the interaction partner and (b) the notification unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a non-volatile semiconductor storage device including a flash memory, a write buffer memory that stores data that is to be stored onto the non-volatile semiconductor storage device, and a controller that performs control to write in a batch onto the non-volatile semiconductor storage device the data stored on the write buffer memory when an amount of the data stored on the write buffer memory reaches a predetermined amount of data.

Abstract: A fixing member includes: a substrate layer including a resin; a first metal layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the substrate layer and includes Cu; a second metal layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the first metal layer so as to be in contact with the first metal layer and includes Ni, and has crystal orientation indexes of from 1.0 to 1.8 for a (111) plane, from 0.5 to 1.3 for a (200) plane, and from 1.0 to 1.6 for a (311) plane; and an elastic layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the second metal layer.