Abstract: A finishing system includes a piercing unit, an image reader, and a controller. The piercing unit includes a piercing member that performs piercing processing on a sheet. The image reader reads the sheet on which the piercing processing is performed to acquire a read image. The controller determines abnormality of the piercing member based on the read image.

Abstract: A management system includes: a plurality of network devices that each control communication of a device; and a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory that stores network device information including identification information and an installation area of each of the network devices, the identification information and the installation area being associated with each other. The processor performs receiving device information including identification information and an installation area of the device, and performing a process for changing whether or not to allow communication of the device. The performing a process for changing whether or not to allow communication of the device includes causing the network device corresponding to a same area as the installation area of the received device information to permit communication of the device corresponding to the identification information of the received device information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a sheet; and a hardware processor that: generates, based on setting information of post processing performed on the sheet, adjustment image data that includes identification information identifying each of a plurality of adjustment items of the post processing; and causes the image former to form, based on the adjustment image data, an adjustment image on the sheet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that executes image forming processing; a primary controller; a secondary controller that controls the image former; a sensor that detects a state of at least a unit of the image forming apparatus and transmits sensor data indicating the state to the secondary controller; a first transmission path for duplex communication between the primary and secondary controllers; and a second transmission path. The secondary controller: generates, from the sensor data, diagnostic data for failure diagnostics or life prediction, transmits data other than the diagnostic data to the primary controller via the first transmission path and transmits the diagnostic data to the diagnostic server via the second transmission path, or transmits data other than the sensor data to the primary controller via the first transmission path and transmits the sensor data to the diagnostic server via the second transmission path.

Abstract: An image forming device may comprise: an attaching unit to which a removable toner bottle is attached; a toner storage that stores toner supplied from the toner bottle attached to the attaching unit; a detector that detects an empty state of toner in the toner storage; and a hardware processor that: supplies toner to the toner storage from the toner bottle when the toner bottle attached to the attaching unit is new; and switches a state of the toner bottle to an old state from a new state if the empty state detected by the detector is released.

Abstract: A posture estimation device includes: a processor that: obtains detected information indicating a feature of a subject, wherein the feature is detected based on an image that is captured by an imager from a position where the subject is viewed from above, calculates a feature amount based on the obtained detected information, updates, based on a geometric relationship between the imager and the subject, a model parameter for estimating a posture of the subject by machine learning using the calculated feature amount in a time series, and estimates the posture of the subject using the updated model parameter.

Abstract: A gas-detection image processing device includes first, second, and third processors. The first processor generates a plurality of first images by applying processing to extract a gas candidate region to each of a plurality of infrared images captured in time series during a predetermined period. The second processor generates a second image, while using the first images, by applying processing to extract an appearance region indicating that a gas candidate region has appeared in at least a part of the predetermined period. The second processor generates two or more second images by applying the processing to extract the appearance region to the first images generated in a manner corresponding to two or more of the predetermined periods respectively. The third processor generates a third image by applying processing to extract a common region of the appearance regions while using the two or more of the second images.

Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting a loupe including an eyepiece and a tube framework having a first optical system adjacent to an object and a second optical system adjacent to the eyepiece. At least two zoom lenses in the first optical system shift along an optical axis between a first and a second position to change magnification. The method includes shifting at least one lens in the first optical system such that a distance at which the object is focused when the zoom lenses are shifted to the first position is substantially equal to a distance at which the object is focused when the zoom lenses are shifted to the second position; and then shifting at least one lens in the second optical system along the optical axis such that the object is focused when the zoom lenses are shifted to the first position or the second position.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: a transfer unit transferring a toner image to a sheet; a resistance measurement member disposed on the upstream side in a sheet carriage direction of the transfer unit and for measuring resistance of the sheet; a charge elimination member disposed between the transfer unit and the resistance measurement member in the sheet carriage direction; a first voltage applying unit applying voltage for resistance measurement to the resistance measurement member; and a second voltage applying unit applying voltage of reverse bias of the voltage for resistance measurement to the charge elimination member. The width of a charge elimination region by the charge elimination member is wider than that of a charged region by the resistance measurement member in a direction perpendicular to the sheet carriage direction. The absolute value of the voltage for charge elimination is smaller than that of the voltage for resistance measurement.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus that forms an image to which foil is to be transferred in foil stamping printing, the image forming apparatus including a hardware processor that outputs a calculation result of a total length in a sheet conveyance direction of an image part/image parts formed at time of execution of a print job.

Abstract: A loupe is bonded to a glasses-type holder to be worn around a head of a user. The loupe includes: a tube framework inserted into a hole or a cutout formed in the glasses-type holder and bonded with a UV adhesive; and a lens held in the tube framework. At least a portion at which the UV adhesive is applied in the tube framework is made of a resin not resistant to acetone and is covered with a paint resistant to acetone.

Abstract: A method and system to generate training data for a deep learning model in memory instead of loading pre-generated data from disk storage. A corpus may be stored as lines of text. The lines of text can be manipulated in the memory of a central processing unit (CPU) of a computing system, using asynchronous multi-processing, in parallel with a training process being conducted on the system's graphics processing unit (GPU). With such an approach, for a given line of text, it is possible to take advantage of different fonts and different types of image augmentation without having to put the images in disk storage for subsequent retrieval. Consequently, the same line of text can be used to generate different training images for use in different epochs, providing more variability in training data (no training sample is trained on more than once). A single training corpus may yield many different training data sets.

Abstract: An operation setting selection apparatus includes, a physical property obtainer which obtains physical property information of a recording medium on which an image is formed; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains from first information, in which operation failure information regarding contents of operation failure which occurs when an image forming operation is performed is associated to the physical property information of the recording medium used when the operation failure occurs and the operation setting regarding the image forming, the operation setting and the operation failure information associated to the physical property information obtained by the physical property obtainer. The hardware processor performs operation regarding selection of the operation setting regarding the image forming operation on the recording medium based on the physical property information, the operation setting and the operation failure information which are obtained.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores instructions that cause a computer to execute: confirming whether at least part of first patient information matches at least part of second patient information, wherein the first patient information is obtained from a user terminal used by a patient and the second patient information is obtained from a medical facility; notifying the user terminal of authentication information of the patient, wherein the authentication information is generated upon confirming that the at least part of the first patient information matches the at least part of the second patient information; and associating the first patient information with the second patient information upon reception of related authentication information relating to the authentication information from the user terminal to which the authentication information has been notified.

Abstract: A measuring device, includes a physical property value detector and a push contact member that pushes to bring a sheet material in contact with the physical property value detector; and further includes a first processor that stops conveyance of the sheet material, pushes to bring the sheet material in contact with the physical property value detector, and detects a physical property value of the sheet material; a second processor that, after having detected the physical property value, cancels the pushing by the push contact member, separates the sheet material from the physical property value detector, and starts conveyance of the sheet material; and a physical property value specifier that specifies the physical property value on a basis of physical property values of a plurality of positions within a surface of the sheet material detected by executing the first processing and the second processing repeatedly.

Abstract: An assistance server assists an information processing system, wherein the information processing system includes a management server arranged outside of a firewall and a control subject device arranged inside of the firewall, the assistance server includes a hardware processor, and the hardware processor is configured to establish an assistance connection for communication with the control subject device in response to a request from the control subject device, in the case where being requested by the service provision server to control the control subject device, request the management server to control the control subject device on behalf of the service provision server, and in the case where being requested by the service provision server to control the control subject device, control the control subject device via the assistance connection and cause the control subject device to establish a continuous connection for communication with the management server.

Abstract: A voice operation system includes: an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material; a server that accepts voice information related to an operation on the image forming apparatus, and gives an operation instruction to the image forming apparatus; and a voice input/output device that converts an input voice into voice information, sends the voice information to the server, receives voice information as a response to the voice information related to the operation on the image forming apparatus, and emits a sound of the voice information, wherein the server has a hardware processor that stores information on a part of a function or configuration of the image forming apparatus, and the server determines executability of an operation associated with voice information transmitted from the voice input/output device, and causes the image forming apparatus to execute determination of executability of an operation that is not determinable.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate layer, a first electrode layer, a light emitting layer, and a patterned second electrode layer. The patterned second electrode layer includes a periodic grating structure having a grating period ?g less than or equal to 200 nm and the patterned second electrode layer and the light emitting layer are separated by at most 100 nm.