Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes a display device, a document reading device, a controller, an information acquirer, and a word extractor. The document reading device reads an image of a document. The controller saves a file of image data, obtained through reading operation by the document reading device, in a storage device, with a file name assigned to the file. The information acquirer acquires information having high relevance to the document image, through a search engine using the document image represented by the image data as search criterion. The word extractor extracts, on a basis of character information included in the information acquired by the information acquirer, a prospective word for the file name out of a character group indicated by the character information. The controller assigns the prospective word for the file name extracted by the word extractor, to the file of the image data, as the file name.

Abstract: A sheet storage device includes first and second frames, a cover, and a torque retention mechanism that includes a shaft to rotate in conjunction with pivoting of the cover, and generates a resistance torque against rotation of the shaft when the cover pivots to a closed position. The torque retention mechanism includes a first torque retention mechanism and a second torque retention mechanism. A shaft of the first torque retention mechanism is attached to a first support part disposed on a first frame side, while a shaft of the second torque retention mechanism is attached to a second support part disposed on a second frame side.

Abstract: An estimation system provides consumable use estimations, such as for ink or toner, in printing operations. The estimation system uses a classification-based consumable use process to estimate the consumable use. A print job is assigned a classification category according to an arbitrary job category selected for the print job and a job property defined for the print job using job settings. An estimate is provided using the classification category and the distribution of the consumable use for print jobs in the category. The estimate is adjusted by a consumable use adjustment factor that reflects the amount of ink or toner disposed of during container replacement or wasted during printing operations.

Abstract: Management of spot colors and spot color adjustments includes associating these color printing resources with print conditions, customer accounts, or projects for a printing device. A spot color adjustment is associated with a print condition, a customer account, or a project used for printing operations. A print job is received that specified a selected print condition, a selected customer account, or a selected project. The associated spot color adjustment is determined using these attributes. The spot color adjustment is applied during color printing operations for a document using the spot color. The spot color is printed within the document according to the specified spot color adjustment.

Abstract: The processor of an information processing apparatus includes serves, by executing an information processing program, as: a function determiner; a morpheme analyzer configured to analyze a message input by a user in morphemes; a word detector configured to detect a predetermined time-representing word indicating temporal nearness or farness and a predetermined keyword which is modified by the time-representing word and which indicates settings associated with the function from the message analyzed in morphemes by the morpheme analyzer; a setting selector configured to select a newest set value when the word detector has detected the time-representing word indicating temporal nearness and to select a set value used when the user used the function in the past when the word detector has detected the time-representing word indicating temporal farness; and a function executor configured to execute the function determined by the function determiner using the set value selected by the setting selector.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a resistance heating element, and a power supply control portion. The fixing member fixes a toner image transferred onto a sheet. The resistance heating element is used for heating the fixing member, and an electrical resistance thereof increases as a temperature increases. The power supply control portion gradually increases, when a heating timing of the fixing member arrives, input power to be input to the resistance heating element toward a predetermined upper limit value.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating rotating body, a pressure rotating body, and a fixing frame. The fixing frame supports the heating rotating body and the pressure rotating body. The fixing frame includes a pair of side plates and a plurality of stays. The side plates are disposed to face each other, and supports both axial end portions of the heating rotating body and both axial end portions of the pressure rotating body. The stays are disposed between the side plates. In a XYZ coordinate in which an axis along a direction in which the side plates face each other is defined as the X-axis, and axes perpendicular to the X-axis and perpendicular to each other are defined as the Y-axis and the Z-axis, each of the stays is fastened to the side plates at least two axial directions of the three axial directions of the XYZ coordinates.

Abstract: An inkjet ink contains at least a first carbon black, a second carbon black, and water. The first carbon black has a DBP oil absorption of less than 130 mL/100 g and a BET specific surface area of less than 300 m2/g. The second carbon black has a DBP oil absorption of at least 130 mL/100 g and a BET specific surface area of at least 300 m2/g.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a chatbot module which receives an image sent from a terminal apparatus to a chat system, and a message indicating that the image is to be edited; a message determination module which extracts a key value from the message; a database which registers a plurality of different key values, and a plurality of different parameter sets corresponding to each of the key values; and an image editing module which reads, from the database, a plurality of different parameter sets corresponding to the key value extracted from the message, and edits the image in accordance with each of the plurality of different parameter sets, thereby generating a plurality of different edited images. The chatbot module sends the plurality of different edited images to the chat system, and determines the edited image selected on the chat system by the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: Printing operations may use a hot folder. The hot folder includes printing instructions that are applied to print jobs within the hot folder. A file for the print job is stored in the hot folder. More than one file can be retained. Modifications to the file are made while it is within the hot folder, if allowed. Once processing of the file for printing operations is complete, the file is removed from the hot folder.

Abstract: A device management system includes a frontend and a backend. The frontend includes a first domain. The backend includes a domain of a relay system as a relay backend domain that is a domain of the backend. The frontend accesses the relay backend domain when an access that uses a URL including the first domain as a domain name is received from a client via the relay system, and a request for an API is thus received from the client. The backend generates a relay Cookie including the relay backend domain as a domain used for establishing the session. The frontend transmits the relay Cookie to the client via the relay system.

Abstract: A degassing device removes air dissolved in a liquid under a pressure decreased atmosphere, and includes one or more liquid tanks, a pressure decreasing device, and an inflow pass. One or more liquid tanks store the liquid. The pressure decreasing device decreases pressure in the liquid tank. The inflow pass allows the liquid to be flowed into the liquid tank due to a negative pressure in the pressure decreased liquid tank.

Abstract: A belt driving mechanism rotates a rotating body provided in a rotating device around a transmission shaft, and includes a driving device provided adjacent to the rotating device and a bearing structure supporting the transmission shaft extending from the rotating device to the driving device through the support frame. The driving device includes a housing, a fixed frame, a driving pulley, a driven pulley, a belt and a circumference correction part. The housing is fixed to the support frame. The fixed frame is fixed in the housing. The driven pulley is fixed to the transmission shaft. The belt is wound around the driving pulley and the driven pulley. The bearing structure includes a first bearing part provided in the fixed frame and the second bearing part provided in the housing on an opposite side to the first bearing part with respect to the driven pulley.

Abstract: An ink supplying mechanism includes an ink container, an ink tank, a decompressing part and a degassing channel. The ink container contains ink. The ink tank stores the ink supplied from the ink container to a recording head. The decompressing part decompresses the inside of the ink tank. The degassing channel circulates the ink flowed out from the ink tank and flowing the ink into the ink tank. To the recording head, a plurality of the ink tanks are arranged in parallel. When one ink tank among the plurality of ink tanks is used for printing, in a state that the inside of the other ink tank is decompressed by the decompressing part, the ink inside the other ink tank is circulated by using the degassing channel to perform degassing operation of degassing the ink inside the other ink tank.

Abstract: In a reservation management system, a controller of an information processing apparatus of a meeting room writes that an occupied meeting room has become vacant in a timetable, and causes a display device to display the timetable, when a communication device receives information that a manager of the meeting has logged out from the information processing apparatus, and a predetermined time has elapsed after the time of the log-out, in a state where exit from the occupied meeting room has not been inputted to the operation device.

Abstract: A two-component developer includes a carrier containing carrier particles and a toner containing toner particles. The carrier particles include carrier cores and coat layers covering the surfaces of the carrier cores. The coat layers contain silicone resin. The carrier particles have surfaces with a static friction coefficient of at least 0.10 and no greater than 0.22. The toner particles include toner mother particles and an external additive attached to the surfaces of the toner mother particles. The external additive includes resin particles. The resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 35 nm and no greater than 160 nm. The resin particles have a blocking rate of at least 17% by mass and no greater than 42% by mass, as measured using a mesh sieve with an opening of 75 ?m after 5-minite pressure application at a temperature of 160° C. and a pressure of 0.1 kgf/mm2.

Abstract: A job command generation device includes a control device that acts as a job command generator that manages error correction information for correcting an error in voice recognition committed by a voice reception device that converts voice data representing a received voice into text data, through the voice recognition, corrects the error in the text data received from the voice reception device, using the error correction information, and generates a job command that an image forming apparatus can interpret, on a basis of the text data in which the error has been corrected.

Abstract: A toner container includes a container body, a cylindrical portion and a cap. The container body has a toner filling port. The cylindrical portion is provided around the filling port. The cap is detachable and closes an opening of the cylindrical portion. The cap includes: claw parts provided deformably and insertable into the cylindrical portion to be engaged with an edge of the filling port; a link piece connecting tip ends of the claw parts; a disk part having an opening; a closing plate capable of closing the opening of the disk part; and a fixing member which fixes the closing plate to the disk part. The closing plate is fixed to the disk part with the fixing member and the claw parts are engaged with the edge of the filling opening, so that the opening of the cylindrical is closed by the closing plate.

Abstract: A wireless communication section wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal present in a target space. An information acquiring section acquires a value representing congestion of a target space. A learned model is a model that has been trained using training data including a value representing the congestion of a target space used for learning, a bandwidth, a channel, and throughput. An AI processing section inputs the value representing the congestion of the target space acquired by the information acquiring section to the learned model and acquires a bandwidth and a channel output by the learned model. A bandwidth controller causes the wireless communication section to perform wireless communication using the bandwidth acquired by the AI processing section. The channel controller causes the wireless communication section to perform wireless communication using the channel acquired by the AI processing section.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for real-time dynamic web page display enhancement and a computing apparatus configured to implement said method. The method includes requesting at least one web page code file using a web browser, extracting the at least one style tag and the at least one variable attribute from the at least one web page code file using an extraction module, sending a request signal from the extraction module to an attribute database, returning from the attribute database to a user interface controller a response signal, sending a present user interface signal from the user interface controller to the web browser, accepting at least one selection signal from the web user through the at least one display control of the user interface to the web browser, and generating an enhanced web page.