Abstract: An image processing system includes first and second devices. The first device converts print data described in a page description language into intermediate data. The second device converts the intermediate data into raster data and supplies the raster data to a printer. The first device includes a shape modifier, a first generator, and an output section. The shape modifier divides plural graphic elements indicated by the intermediate data within a unit of output into groups, and modifies, among the graphic elements in each of the groups, a shape of first-type graphic elements having a specific component into a shape without having an overlapping portion between the first-type graphic elements. A color of the specific component is superimposed on a color of an underlying graphic element. The first generator generates an item of mask information for identifying a logical OR shape of the first-type graphic elements included in each of the groups.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A splitting unit splits an image into a block. A quantization unit performs quantization of the block using a plurality of methods. A calculating unit calculates a distance between the block and a result of the quantization. A selecting unit selects a quantization result of the quantization unit using the distance. An encoding unit performs fixed-length encoding of the quantization result selected by the selecting unit. The quantization unit includes a first quantization unit that preserves texture in the block, and a second quantization unit that represents pixels in the block in a plurality of colors.

Abstract: A mobile robot includes a receiving unit that receives designation of a destination region including a destination, a moving unit that moves toward the destination region, and a seeking unit that seeks a client after movement toward the destination region starts. The moving unit moves toward the sought client.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller controls display of a function of one device if the one device is photographed and controls display of a cooperative function that uses functions of plural devices if the plural devices are photographed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit that emphasizes, in a screen area for a related application program generated from a standard application program, a setting that has been extracted from plural settings to be displayed for the standard application program and whose setting value has been changed from a predetermined state.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a setting unit that makes authentication print settings such that when authentication information is inputted after image data is received, printing is executed based on the image data; and a transfer unit that, when the image data is received with the authentication print settings, in response to input of the authentication information, transfers the image data to a different apparatus, and when the image data is received without the authentication print settings, transfers the image data to the different apparatus regardless of input of the authentication information.

Abstract: A production system acquires a plan of production of plural types of products to he produced through sequential attachment of prints, determines an order of production of the prints to be attached to the plural types of products, respectively, and produces the prints in the determined production order.

Abstract: A service provision system includes an extraction unit that extracts an associated service corresponding to a user of a service provision apparatus from plural services of the service provision apparatus, a storage control unit that stores, in a storage unit, identification information for identifying a transmitter which is carried by the user and which transmits a wireless signal and information regarding the associated service while associating the identification information and the information regarding the associated service with each other, an obtaining unit that obtains the identification information included in the wireless signal transmitted without requiring the user to perform an operation, and a display control unit that receives, from the storage control unit, the associated service corresponding to the identification information obtained by the obtaining unit and that displays the associated service on a display unit of the service provision apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to delete a preregistered user, a storage unit that stores related information that relates to a process that the user executes on the information processing device itself, and a deletion unit that deletes the related information stored in the storage unit corresponding to a user targeted for deletion received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an information processing section that is provided with a housing and an image forming section that is disposed above the housing in a gravitational direction. In the image forming apparatus, a gap exists between the housing and the image forming section, and a ventilation hole is formed in an upper surface of the housing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores a plurality of templates which define different designs from each other with respect to a target object; an acquiring unit that acquires, for individual user, edit information indicating a history of editing performed by the user for the template; and an output unit that outputs information about the template that meets an editing tendency of the user for the template, for the individual user, the editing tendency being acquired from the edit information.

Abstract: A mobile robot includes a receiving unit that receives a request for providing a service, a notifying unit that notifies a client that the request is received by performing an operation oriented toward the client who has made the request, a moving unit that moves toward a user designated as a receiver of the service in accordance with the request, and a providing unit that provides the service.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a network information acquisition unit that acquires network information which includes target nodes and adjacent nodes; a classification ratio calculation unit that calculates a classification ratio, in which the target nodes are respectively classified as a plurality of communities corresponding to a predetermined number in the network information, so as to have correlation according to given resolutions with a classification ratio in which the adjacent nodes are respectively classified as the plurality of communities; a first type community generation unit that generates one or more first type communities; a classification ratio updating unit that updates the classification ratio relevant to the target nodes so as to have correlation with the classification ratio in which the adjacent nodes are respectively classified as the plurality of communities; and a second type community generation unit that generates one or more second type communities.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an archive file generation unit and a deriving unit. The archive file generation unit generates multiple archive files each including one or more pieces of document data and information regarding one or more processing functions. The one or more pieces of document data are each associated with the one or more processing functions. The information indicates one or more processes to be executed on the one or more pieces of document data. The deriving unit derives, from the multiple generated archive files, a common processing function among the processing functions that is common to the archive files and a piece of document data among the pieces of document data that is associated with the common processing function.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a correcting unit and a pasting unit. The correcting unit corrects a dynamic range of a second image in accordance with pixel information of a region. The second image is pasted on a first image serving as a destination for pasting. The region is in the first image and is to be in contact with the second image. The pasting unit pastes the second image on the first image after the correction of the dynamic range. The second image has pixel information. The pixel information is corrected in such a manner that a boundary with the first image is inconspicuously viewed.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquiring unit, a color aid information acquiring unit, and a restoring unit. The image acquiring unit acquires, as a processing target image, an image with modified color information or an image with color information degraded from an original image. The color aid information acquiring unit acquires color aid information to be referred to at the time of restoring the color information of the processing target image. The restoring unit restores the color information of the processing target image on the basis of the color aid information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that includes a developer containing toner particles containing a release agent having a melting temperature ranging from 60° C. to 100° C.

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein present topic-centric visualizations of collaboration data. An example method includes: obtaining a set of topics based on an analysis of collaboration data and displaying an interactive visualization that includes first UI elements that correspond to each topic (first UI elements corresponding to similar topics are positioned close together). In response to receiving a specified time period for the interactive visualization, the method includes: identifying a subset of the plurality of persons that are associated with the specified time period. The method additionally includes: obtaining a first set of connections between the set of topics and the subset and a second set of connections between related persons in the subset. The method further includes: updating the interactive visualization to include second UI elements corresponding to each respective person of the subset and visual representations of each connection in the first and second sets.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotary first fixing unit, a second fixing unit that is formed of an endless belt and is in contact with the first fixing unit at a position other than an uppermost point and a lowermost point in a vertical direction to form a fixing nip, and a lubricant retaining unit arranged at a position including the lowermost point to retain a lubricant to be supplied to an inner peripheral surface of the belt.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a transmitting unit that is capable of transmitting data to a designated destination through any of plural communication interfaces; a storage unit in which plural pieces of destination information are stored; and a registration unit that registers a communication interface used for data transmission in advance for each of the plural pieces of destination information stored in the storage unit.