Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising acquiring a frame with taking a photograph, acquiring document image data of a document from the frame, detecting shine on the document image data, determining whether the shine is equal to or smaller than a shine baseline, and acquiring a frame with retaking a photograph when the shine is neither equal to nor smaller than the shine baseline.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an input image, calculating a fluctuation range of a gradation value of a pixel within a region corresponding to a document backing in the input image, determining a threshold, based on the fluctuation range, extracting an edge pixel corresponding to a boundary between a document and the document backing from the input image using the threshold, detecting a document region from the edge pixel, and an output device for outputting an image obtained by cutting a region corresponding to the document region from the input image.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory configured to store layout data of a layout of a format, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute first acquiring a captured image that includes a format region, detecting edges that are included in the captured image, second acquiring edge straight lines based on the edges, calculating a correction amount of the format region with reference to the layout based on the edges, selecting, as a selected straight line, an edge straight line that is outermost among the edge straight lines that form a rectangle, third acquiring a reference straight line that forms an outline of the format region based on the correction amount and the selected straight line, and specifying a format coordinate of the format region based on the reference straight line.

Abstract: To improve the efficiency of work for checking an image obtained by imaging by a user, an information processing device acquires a plurality of images obtained by imaging a plurality of subjects, determines, for each of the plurality of images, a certainty factor with which the image has a predetermined attribute, determines, for each of the plurality of images, whether the certainty factor is less than a predetermined reference, and notifies a user of an image of which the certainty factor is determined to be less than the predetermined reference.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an input image of a document and a periphery of the document, extracting first edge pixels from the input image, detecting a document region based on the first edge pixels, detecting a shadow region from within a predetermined range outside of the document region, extracting noise pixels in the shadow region, detecting the noise pixels, a number of which connected with one another is equal to or more than a predetermined number, as a noise line, and correcting the document region of the input image based on a detection result of the noise line.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a plurality of conveyance mechanisms for clamping and conveying a medium, an imaging device for generating an input image in which a medium is imaged, a storage device for storing relative positions of the plurality of conveyance mechanisms with respect to an imaging position of the imaging device, and a processor for dividing the input image into a plurality of regions according to a number of conveyance mechanisms clamping a medium when each pixel in the input image is photographed, based on the relative positions, and setting a reliability level to each divided region in such a way that the reliability level increases as the number of conveyance mechanisms related to each region divided increases, and executing image processing on the input image based on at least a region the reliability level of which is greater than or equal to a threshold value.

Abstract: There is provided an information management system having: a management server device and a client terminal, wherein the management server device includes: a processor programmed to: store information to be managed; and determine whether or not to transmit at least some of the stored information to an outside of the information management system, and wherein the client terminal includes: a processor programmed to: determine whether or not to transfer the information stored by the management server device; and transmit at least some of the stored information to the outside of the information management system based on a result determined by the management server device and a result determined by the client terminal.

Abstract: A medium carrying device includes a first stopper, a second stopper, a lever, and a mechanism that, when the lever is positioned in a blocking area, places the first stopper at a first blocking position and places the second stopper at a second blocking position, when the lever is positioned in a opening area, releases the first stopper to be positioned at a first opening position and releases the second stopper to be positioned at a second opening position. When the lever is positioned at a boundary position in between the blocking area and the opening area, a lever portion of the lever gets positioned in between a first stopper portion of the first stopper positioned at the first blocking position and a second stopper portion of the second stopper positioned at the second blocking position.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute acquiring a captured image including an original document region, detecting a color component value of a predetermined area in the captured image, detecting an edge in the predetermined area to acquire an edge amount indicating any one or both of a density of the edge and an edge intensity, and identifying, based on the color component value and the edge amount, a difference between a background of the original document region and a background of a background region obtained by removing the original document region from the captured image.

Abstract: A document conveyance device includes a feed roller, a separation roller, a first motor for generating a first drive force for driving the separation roller, a planet gear, a drive gear, a second motor for generating a second drive force, and a position switching mechanism for switching a position of the planet gear from a first position in which the planet gear is separated from the drive gear and does not transmit the first drive force to the separation roller to a second position in which the planet gear engages with the drive gear and transmits the first drive force to the separation roller, based on the second drive force. The position switching mechanism includes a support member for supporting the planet gear, and a transfer mechanism for moving the support member so that the planet gear engages with the drive gear, based on the second drive force. The further movement of the planet gear is prevented after the planet gear engaged with the drive gear.

Abstract: The thumbnail image display apparatus includes a display, a detector for detecting an operation including a touch operation and a pan operation performed by a user with the display, a storage for storing a plurality of thumbnail images that can be displayed on the display and identifiers respectively corresponding to the thumbnail images in such a manner that the thumbnail images and the identifiers are associated with each other, and a controller, wherein the controller changes the identifier in accordance with a movement information of the pan operation and displays the identifier on the display, when the detector detects the pan operation upon detecting the touch operation, and the controller reads, from the storage, the thumbnail image corresponding to the identifier displayed on the display and displays the thumbnail image on the display, when the detector detects an end of the pan operation.

Abstract: A medium transfer device includes a swinging member, a hopper in which a setting plate on which a plurality of mediums are placed such that the mediums are moved toward the swinging member by gravitation, and a driving unit configured to swing the swinging member such that the mediums are shaken by the swinging member.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus specifies the phase of activity of a terminal connected to a network by comparing a communication by the terminal with a previously held pattern, specifies the type of behavior of the terminal in relation to a first communication and a second communication, by correlation analysis between a first phase specified based on the first communication of the terminal and a second phase specified based on the second communication which is conducted before or after the first communication, and classifies the unauthorized activity of the terminal based on the specified type of behavior when determination is made that the terminal is used to conduct unauthorized activity.

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including acquiring a frame acquired by image capturing, detecting document position data of a document from the frame, determining a document type of the document, calculating image quality of document image data of the document on the basis of the document position data and the document type, determining whether the image quality is at a character recognizable level, and acquiring a frame acquired by the image recapturing when it is determined that the image quality is not at the character recognizable level.

Abstract: Provided is a document reading apparatus wherein plurality of color reference boards can be flexibly changed. A document reading apparatus includes a document reading module, a document cover provided at a position where the document cover faces against the document reading module, an abutment portion provided in the document cover, a plurality of color reference boards detachably set up relative to the document cover, and a coupling portion that couples the plurality of color reference boards together and that abuts against the abutment portion. Each of the plurality of color reference boards includes a surface that faces against the document reading module and that has different reflectance.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a first roller that is rotatably supported by a frame, a second roller that is supported by the frame in a rotatable and translatable manner and that presses a medium against the first roller, a joint unit that transmits rotation from a drive shaft to the second roller, a drive unit that rotates both the first roller and the drive shaft, and a read unit configured to read an image on a conveyed medium that is conveyed by the rotation of the both of the first roller and the second roller.

Abstract: The document conveying apparatus includes a body, a document tray, a guiding tray, a first support member that supports the document tray movably between a open position where a document is placed on the first document stacking face, and a close position where the document tray is closed, and a second support member that supports the guiding tray. The second support member positions the guiding tray at a first distance from the document tray, when the document tray is at the open position. The second support member positions the guiding tray at a second distance from the document tray, when the document tray is at the close position. The second distance is smaller than the first distance.