Abstract: There is provided an information processing system comprising: an information processing device; and a terminal management device that manages the information processing device, wherein: the information processing device has: a transmission section that transmits notification data denoting at least an operating state to the terminal management device; and a switch section that switches a notification destination of the notification data transmitted from the transmission section, based on return information for the notification data; and the terminal management device has: a return section that sends back the return information in response to the notification data transmitted from the information processing device; and a notification destination information insertion section that inserts notification destination change information for changing the notification destination of the notification data into the return information sent back by the return section.

Abstract: An image data processing including a storage unit for storing a first pixel block and a second pixel block taken from image data in which pixels are arranged in a first direction and a second direction, and a writing module for writing the first pixel block and the second pixel block stored in the storage unit into a memory, wherein the first pixel block and the second pixel block are arranged one adjacent to the other along the first direction, and the number of pixels arranged in the first direction in each block is equal to an access unit data length of the memory multiplied by a natural number m1, and the writing module writes pixel data equal in length to the access unit data length, and representing pixels contiguously arranged along the first direction across the first and second pixel blocks, into the memory in a single access operation.

Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus, line detection method and a computer-readable, non-transitory medium that can precisely detect boundaries of a document from a read image. The image processing apparatus includes an edge pixel extractor for extracting edge pixels from an input image, a line candidate detector for extracting a line candidate from the extracted edge pixels by using Hough transformation, and a line detector for detecting a line from edge pixels within a predetermined distance from the line candidate by using the least square method.

Abstract: An image processing method comprising, dividing an input image into a plurality of divided images, calculating a difference image between a divided image before noise removal and a divided image after noise removal for each of the plurality of divided images, calculating a relative value between a pixel intensity in the divided image before noise removal and a pixel intensity in the difference image for each of the plurality of divided images, detecting a frequency distribution of relative values in a background area of the input image, contained in frequency distribution of relative values calculated with respect to the plurality of divided images, and estimating an intensity of noise in accordance with the frequency distribution of the relative values in the background area.

Abstract: An information output system for tampering detection 100, including: a digital image acquiring unit 15 for acquiring a digital image including target information for tampering detection as an image; an encrypting unit 11 for converting the digital image based on an encryption key to generate an encrypted image; and an output unit 18 for outputting the encrypted image generated by the encrypting unit 11 so that the encrypted image is recorded on a paper medium on which the image of the target information is to be recorded or on which the image of the target information is recorded.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device having: a request acceptance portion that accepts a content access request from a mobile terminal; a location identification portion that identifies a location where the mobile terminal exists; a template identification portion that identifies a template configured to be accessed by the mobile terminal; and an authentication portion that decides whether to allow the accepted content access request based on the identified location, the identified template, and a time zone in which the access request from the mobile terminal is accepted.

Abstract: A document feeder includes a feed roller provided in a feed path for a document, a conveying roller provided on a downstream side of the feed roller in the feed path, and a protruding portion provided between the feed roller and the conveying roller in the feed path and protruding from a lower side of the feed path.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input image acquiring module for acquiring a first input image generated by reading one side of a document and a second input image generated by reading the other side of the document, a binarized image generator for generating a first binarized image by binarizing the first input image and a second binarized image by binarizing the second input image, an expanded image generator for generating an expanded image containing an expanded pixel obtained by expanding a valid pixel contained in the first binarized image, and a show-through position identifying module for identifying a show-through position in the second input image, based on the second binarized image and the expanded image.

Abstract: An image capturing system includes a portable image capturing device and a lighting apparatus. The portable image capturing device includes, an image capturing unit, a display unit that displays a photographed image and a control unit. The lighting apparatus includes, a base unit including an image-capturing-device mounting face on which the portable image capturing device is mounted to photograph the medium installation face, a mirror to reflect the image displayed on the display unit, and a mirror detector that detects that the mirror is arranged. The control unit corrects a distortion in the image displayed on the display unit when the mirror is not detected by the mirror detector, and corrects the distortion and performs vertical inversion of the image on the display unit when the mirror is detected by the mirror detector. Corrected image is displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, image processing method and a computer-readable, non-transitory medium that can accurately detect document edges from a readout image. The image processing apparatus includes a first edge pixel detector for detecting a plurality of first edge pixels from an input image, a straight line detector for detecting a straight line from the first edge pixels, a classifying module for classifying the first edge pixels into on-line edge pixels and non-on-line edge pixels, a second edge pixel detector for detecting second edge pixels located between two of the on-line edge pixels, when there is any one of the non-on-line edge pixels between two of the on-line edge pixels, and a determining module for determining whether the non-on-line edge pixel represents a document edge, based on whether the two on-line edge pixels are connected by the second edge pixels via the non-on-line edge pixel.

Abstract: A medium supply device includes a feeding unit that feeds a medium among one or more media placed on a placing table, a separating unit that is arranged to come into pressure-contact with the feeding unit, and a blocking portion that is movable and blocks a space formed between the feeding unit and the separating unit in an upstream side of a nip region in a conveying direction of the medium. When one of the media placed on the placing table is fed by the feeding unit and the one or more media are placed on the placing table, the space is formed by the medium fed by the feeding unit, the separating unit, and the one or more media placed on the placing table.

Abstract: An image reading device includes an information storage unit that stores, in an associated manner, error information on errors occurred due to a previous scan operation and operator information on an operator who produced errors, and an error analyzing unit that determines whether an error occurred due to a scan operation of a specific operator is an operator-dependent error, based on the error information and the operator information stored in the information storage unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input image acquiring module for acquiring a first input image generated by reading one side of a document and a second input image generated by reading the other side of the document, a binarized image generator for generating a first binarized image by binarizing the first input image and a second binarized image by binarizing the second input image, an expanded image generator for generating an expanded image containing an expanded pixel obtained by expanding a valid pixel contained in the first binarized image, and a show-through position identifying module for identifying a show-through position in the second input image, based on the second binarized image and the expanded image.

Abstract: A medium feeding apparatus includes a rotating unit, a fixed unit, a separating roller and a conveying roller that are installed in the rotating unit and convey a medium present on a conveying path in a conveying direction, a braking roller and a driven roller that are installed in the fixed unit and come into press contact with the separating roller and the conveying roller on the conveying path, respectively, a lock arm that is installed in the rotating unit, a lock shaft that is installed in the fixed unit and keeps the position of the rotating unit relative to the fixed unit by locking the lock arm, and a position changing unit (a link member and a rotating member) that changes the position of the rotating unit relative to the fixed unit by the movement of the lock shaft in a up-and-down direction.

Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, a region determining method and a computer-readable, non-transitory medium that can appropriately determine a cutting off region from a read image. The image processing apparatus includes an edge pixel extractor for extracting edge pixels from an input image, a region detector for detecting a subject region surrounded by connected edge pixels among the edge pixels, a straight line detector for detecting a plurality of straight lines within the subject region, a rectangle region detector for detecting a rectangle region formed of four straight lines where two straight lines each are substantially at right angles to each other among the plurality of straight lines, and a region determination module for determining the rectangle region as a cutting off region from the input image when the rectangle region and the subject region are substantially the same.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a first conveying unit that sequentially feeds a plurality of media placed in a tray one by one in a conveying direction, a second conveying unit disposed downstream of the first conveying unit in the conveying direction and conveys a medium among the plurality of media fed by the first conveying unit in the conveying direction, and an imaging unit disposed downstream of the second conveying unit in the conveying direction. The imaging unit captures an image of the medium conveyed thereto and generates image data of the medium. The image reading device detects the medium conveyed based on the image data, and stops conveying a next medium subsequent to the medium conveyed before the first conveying unit starts conveying the next medium. The image reading device resumes conveying the next medium when the medium conveyed is no longer detected based on the image data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with: a comparison unit that compares a communication by a terminal connected to a network with a pattern held in advance; a specification unit that specifies an evaluation value indicating an extent to which it is inferred that the terminal is used to conduct unauthorized activity, and a phase of unauthorized activity, in accordance with a comparison result; a holding unit that holds a maximum value of the evaluation value, for each phase, and for each terminal; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the terminal is used to conduct unauthorized activity, based on the maximum value of the evaluation value for each of the phases.

Abstract: In a scanner system comprising a portable terminal and a scanner device, the scanner device has a mounting portion on which the portable terminal is mounted and electrically connected to the scanner device. The scanner device acquires identification information of the portable terminal when the scanner device detects mounting of the portable terminal on the mounting portion, and transmits a connection request to the portable terminal having the identification information. The portable terminal activates an application for establishing communication with the scanner device in response to the connection request from the scanner device when the mounting of the portable terminal on the mounting portion is detected. Thus, the communication between the portable terminal and the scanner device can be established without operation of a user.

Abstract: An image capturing system includes an image capturing unit to photograph a medium placed on a medium installation face, a lighting unit disposed in a top unit to irradiate the medium installation face, a lighting control unit to perform driving control of the lighting unit, a scan instruction unit to issue an instruction to perform scanning to photograph the medium and to generate image data of the medium, and a non-readable area determining unit to determine whether or not there is a non-readable area based on an image of the medium obtained by photographing the medium with in a turned-on state of the lighting unit. When there is the non-readable area, the scanning is performed by turning off the lighting unit when the lighting unit was in a turned-on state, and when there is not the non-readable area, the scanning is performed in the turned-on state of the lighting unit.