Abstract: An information processing device including: a connection setting retaining unit which retains a connection setting of a connection to an access point that relays communication to a network for each access point; an access permission retaining unit which retains a token for using a service provided by a server on the network; a determining unit which determines whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting having been set using a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting of the service to be set in a series of procedures; and a service using unit which uses the service using the token in a communication relayed by an access point related to a connection setting determined to be a connection setting having been set using the tool.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an image-processing apparatus acquires horizontal black hat image data by taking a difference between source image data and horizontal closing image data obtained by performing closing processing on each pixel row of the source image data, acquires vertical black hat image data by taking a difference between the source image data and vertical closing image data obtained by performing the closing processing on each pixel column of the source image data, and acquires logical conjunction image data where a logical conjunction of the horizontal black hat image data and the vertical black hat image data is taken.

Abstract: The document conveying apparatus includes a separation roller, a conveying roller, a driving force generation module configured to be capable of generating a first driving force with a rotation in a first direction, and capable of generating a second driving force with a rotation in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a driving force transmission module, a determination module for determining whether a document has passed the separation roller, and a control module for switching a driving force from the first driving force to the second driving force in accordance with a determination result. The driving force transmission module performs separation operation by transmitting the first driving force to the separation roller, and conveys the documents by transmitting the second driving force to the conveying roller and cuts off transmission of the second driving force to the separation roller, in accordance with the switching.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an image-processing apparatus acquires scan information of the read images read by the image-reading apparatus, generates temporal change data based on the statistical information and the scan information, determines whether the temporal change data satisfy a threshold, and outputs notice information when the temporal change data are determined as failing to satisfy the threshold.

Abstract: The document conveying apparatus includes a document tray, a butted part with which leading edges of a plurality of documents stacked on the document tray are butted, a roller for conveying a document stacked at a lowermost position, a pressurizing module for pressurizing, from above, the documents stacked on the document tray, a separator, a first detector, provided between the butted part and the separator in a document conveying direction, for detecting a conveyed document, and a control module for causing the pressurizing module to pressurize the documents stacked on the document tray and causing the roller to rotate with a first speed until the first detector detects a document. In a case where the first detector detects a document, the control module reduces a force with which the pressurizing module pressurizes the documents and causes the roller to rotate with a second speed slower than the first speed.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a document mounting board, in which a downstream end of the document mounting board in the feeding direction of the documents in the feed mechanism is connected to a scanner body so as to be rotatable about a first turning shaft parallel to a rotation shaft of a pickup roller, the first turning shaft is located downstream from the feed mechanism in the feeding direction of the documents in the feed mechanism, a mounting surface of the document mounting board on which the documents are mounted is located above the pickup roller when the documents are mounted on the document mounting board, and the document mounting board turns about the first turning shaft such that the mounting surface moves downward and the mounting surface moves downward from a contact portion of the pickup roller with the document when the documents mounted on the document mounting board are fed.

Abstract: In a sheet feeding device, a document mounting board includes a first member that includes a first mounting surface and is located on the feed mechanism side in the feeding direction of the documents in the feed mechanism, the first mounting surface being inclined to a lower side toward the feed mechanism, and a second member that includes a second mounting surface on which the documents are mounted and is disposed on a side opposite to the side of the first member on which the feed mechanism is located, and the second member is connected to the first member to be rotatable about a second turning shaft and turns about the second turning shaft depending on the weight of the documents detected by the weight sensor to change an angle with respect to the first member.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image capturing module, a reference member, a light source for emitting light to the reference member, a foreign object determining module for determining whether or not a foreign object appears in a specific image, and a position determining module for determining whether the foreign object exists on the image capturing module side or on the reference member side, based on an absolute value of a difference between a gradation value in a region included in two images and corresponding to a region where the foreign object appears when the foreign object appears in the specific image. One image is an image of the reference member captured under illumination of light with a first light quantity from the light source, and other image is an image of the reference member captured under illumination of light with a second light quantity from the light source.

Abstract: In an information processing device in which analysis of a received packet is distributed to a plurality of cores, each core determines whether or not the core is appropriate as a core for analyzing the distributed packet, and when it is determined that the core is not appropriate, the core records request information for requesting another core to analyze the packet in a shared memory.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, edges of a document image contained in a read image read by an image-reading apparatus including a paper path are detected, a candidate edge-skew occurrence position is detected, a candidate content-skew occurrence position is detected, an accumulated-skew occurrence position is detected based on the candidate edge-skew occurrence position and the candidate content-skew occurrence position, skew of a document rear-part image rearward from the accumulated-skew occurrence position in the conveyance direction is corrected, and image data corrected for accumulated skew is acquired.

Abstract: A communication block apparatus that blocks communication by an information processing apparatus connected to a network. The communication block apparatus includes a guide unit that guides information transmitted from the information processing apparatus, an identification information acquisition unit that acquires identification information for identifying a notified party of a message from the message of a predetermined protocol higher than a transport layer, the message including information guided by the guide unit, a permission determination unit that determines whether to permit communication by the message at least based on the identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition unit, and a communication permission unit that forwards the message to permit the communication by the information processing apparatus when the permission determination unit determines to permit the communication, regardless of the block of the communication by a communication block unit.

Abstract: An image-reading auxiliary apparatus includes a housing that shields a medium from environmental light, an external device holding unit that holds an external device that captures an image of the medium, a light source that illuminates the medium, an illuminance sensor that detects whether the external device is held by the external device holding unit, a housing control unit that controls the light source so as not to emit light when the illuminance sensor detects that the external device is not held by the external device holding unit, and an opening/closing interlocking switch that activates the housing control unit to start to control the light source when the housing is opened from a folded state.

Abstract: In order to control communication in an IPv6 environment, a network monitoring apparatus includes a communication data acquisition unit that acquires communication data in a network, a target terminal determination unit that determines whether a terminal included in a source or a destination of the acquired communication data is a target terminal meeting a predetermined condition, and a communication guiding unit that, by notifying the target terminal of a physical address of a predetermined terminal as a physical address of a terminal other than the target terminal, guides the communication data sent from the target terminal, to the predetermined terminal.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a master decoder acquires a generator synchronization signal for synchronization of video data based on a reference signal supplied from a synchronization signal generator, selects the generator synchronization signal as a selected synchronization signal to transmit the selected synchronization signal to the slave decoder via an internal bus, and outputs the video data based on the selected synchronization signal, and the slave decoder outputs the video data based on the selected synchronization signal transmitted from the master decoder.

Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, region definition data, which defines a touch region, is stored such that the touch region is associated with a display region that is displayed, as an input item to which a touch input can be made, on a display unit, the touch region being a region in which it is recognized that a touch input is made to the input item, the touch region is dynamically changed in accordance with a priority of the input item, control is performed such that at least the input item is displayed on the display unit and a touch input is made to the input item via a touch input unit by a user, and, when a position to which a touch input is made is within the changed touch region, it is determined that an input is made to the input item.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a unit to acquire position information on a first user and a second user; a display control unit to cause a display device capable of varying display contents according to display directions to display first contents so as to be viewable from a position of the first user and to display second contents so as to be viewable from a position of the second user; a unit to detect that the first user and the second user are in a predetermined positional relationship; and a unit to judge whether or not a user has viewing authority with respect to contents, wherein when the predetermined positional relationship is detected, the display control unit causes the display device to stop display of contents, for which at least one of the first user and the second user does not have viewing authority.