Abstract: Provided are an information processing program that can efficiently search for an information processing device having a camera function and an information processing device. According to one embodiment, an information processing program causes a computer of an information communication device that communicates with one or more information processing devices to execute information processes, and the information processes include: acquiring device information output from the information processing device; generating a first device list based on first information on the information processing device and second information on an imaging device corresponding to the information processing device, included in the device information; and outputting the first device list to a display unit of the information communication device.

Abstract: A tag writing device includes a conveying unit, an antenna, an acquiring unit, a determining unit, a selecting unit, and a deciding unit. The acquiring unit acquires reception intensities about a plurality of wireless tags. The determining unit determines an intermediate position between a start position and an end position as a position where a sum of reception intensities acquired while a mount is conveyed from the start position to the intermediate position and a sum of reception intensities acquired while the mount is conveyed from the intermediate position to the end position are closest. The selecting unit selects, as a target tag, the wireless tag, the intermediate position of which is determined as a position within a prediction range. The deciding unit decides a relative positional relation between the wireless tag and the antenna at a time when writing is performed.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes an aligning roller and a sheet guide. The aligning roller is configured to rotate in a forward direction along a sheet conveying direction, and stop rotation or rotate in a reverse direction to align a sheet conveyed thereto with a nip formed with the aligning roller. The sheet guide is disposed along a sheet conveyance path extending to the nip in the sheet conveying direction, and movable between a first position at which the sheet conveyance path has a first width in a thickness direction of the sheet and a second position at which the sheet conveyance path has a second width in the thickness direction less than the first width. The sheet guide is at the first position when the aligning roller stops rotation or rotates in the reverse direction and at the second position when the aligning roller rotates in the forward direction.

Abstract: A point-of-sale terminal includes a storage device in which first form data specifying a first image layout of image elements on a paper slip to be printed by the printer is stored, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether or not a promotion is offered, and determine whether or not an electronic receipt is issued. The processor is further configured to control a printer to print an image indicating the promotion on a paper slip with the first image layout, when it is determined that the promotion is offered and the electronic receipt is not issued, and control a communication interface to transmit promotion data of the promotion in a text format, when it is determined that the promotion is offered and the electronic receipt is issued. The promotion data includes a form identifier of the first image layout and does not include the first form data.

Abstract: A toner cartridge comprises a toner container which contains toner, a driving member which rotationally drives a conveying member, an agitating member which agitates a toner in the toner container while being rotated, a driven member which rotates in association with the driving member which is for rotationally driving the agitating member, and a rotational body which rotates according to rotation of the driven member, has a plurality of slits in rotational circumference for identifying a type of the toner cartridge, and has 1/K or more of the slits when a ratio of a rotational speed R1 (rad/s) of the driving member and a rotational speed R2 (rad/s) of the driven member is K=R2/R1.

Abstract: A heating unit includes a cylinder which rotates about an axis parallel to a first direction. A heater has a first surface abutting on an inner surface of the cylinder at a nip position. A support member is on a second surface of the heater and also contacts the cylinder. A first heating element is in the heater at a first position along the first direction. A second heating element in the heater is at a second position spaced from the first position. A first temperature sensor is above the first position. A locking portion of the heater is at a third position along the first direction. The locking portion engages the support member and restricts movement of the heater in the first direction. The first position is near a first outer edge of the cylinder. The second position is closer to a central portion of the cylinder.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a temperature control device stores a fixing device temperature estimation value and a storage time obtained by WAE control in a memory at any time during operation. After an electric power supply to the temperature control device is stopped, the next time the electric power supply is started, an electric power supply stop period until the electric power supply is started is calculated. If the electric power supply stop period is shorter than a set time, the WAE control is started by using the stored fixing device temperature estimation value, and if the electric power supply stop period exceeds the set time, the WAE control is started based on an initial set value.

Abstract: A method is provided for linking Multi-Function Printers (MFPs) and Bar-Code Printers (BCPs). When the BCP is in a non-functional mode and the BCP receives a command file to be printed, the BCP cannot print the command file. In such scenario, the BCP converts the file to a predefined format understandable by the MFP and sends the file to the MFP over a predetermined communication channel. The MFP prints the requested file. When the BCP receives a command file to be printed in a format not understandable by BCP, the BCP cannot print the command file as the command file. Thus, the BCP sends the command file to the MFP and the MFP converts the command file to a data file in a format understandable by BCP and returns it to the BCP. The BCP prints the data file.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and a printer driver unit for printing variable copies of a plurality of pages in a document. In an embodiment, a user input comprising a number of copies of the plurality of pages to be printed is received from a user. Further, the user input is parsed to determine the plurality of pages to be printed and the number of copies that each of the plurality of pages to be printed. Thereafter, the content of each of the plurality of pages is retrieved from a temporary file or a memory associated with the printer driver unit and printed with the help of a printer device. Accordingly, the present disclosure allows users to print variable copies of plurality of pages on a single print action, and thereby enhances speed of printing and ensures optimal usage of resources.

Abstract: A reader apparatus includes a transmission circuit, a cancellation circuit, and a decoding circuit. The transmission circuit is configured to transmit a query wave that is obtained by modulating a carrier wave with a modulation signal representing a command to be transmitted to a first responder. The cancellation circuit is configured to cancel a modulation component corresponding to the modulation signal from a response wave transmitted using a backscattering method from a second responder different from the first responder. The decoding circuit is configured to decode data represented by the response wave from which the modulation component is canceled by the cancellation circuit.

Abstract: A tracking-based point-of-sales (POS) system includes a first sensing device, a second sensing device, and a processing device. The processing device is configured to perform location tracking with respect to the one or more customers around the product display section based on location information, perform a first operation to determine a purchasing customer who has performed a product displacement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product registration. The processing device is configured to perform a second operation to determine a product-returning customer who has performed a product placement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product deregistration. The processing device is configured to, upon the product deregistration causing an anomalous number of product in a purchase list of the product-returning customer, perform an anomaly operation.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a printer includes a thermal head with a plurality of heaters. A memory device stores utilization information indicating a status or cumulative usage amount of the thermal head. A processor is configured to acquire a measured resistance value for each of the heaters in the plurality of heaters and detect whether the thermal head has been changed since a previous use based on differences in the measured resistance values from reference resistance values. If it is detected that the thermal head has been changed, the processor updates the utilization information in the memory device to indicate the thermal head has been replaced.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, a processor, and a memory. The communication interface communicates with an external service including an authorization code flow. The memory stores a front-end application having a UI and a back-end application having no UI and registered in the external service, which are programs executed by the processor. The processor causes the external service to execute the authorization code flow based on the information of the back-end application in response to a request from the front-end application, receives an authorization code from the external service, causes the front-end application to redirect using a URL previously associated with the back-end application on the external service, and acquires an access token from the external service by the back-end application using the authorization code.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a printer, a display, and a controller. The printer forms a desired image indicated by image data on a sheet. The display displays the desired image. The controller receives a first designation, by a user, of a designation region of the desired image displayed on the display. The controller receives a second designation, by the user, of a superimposition position at which an abnormality region containing an abnormality is superimposed on the desired image. The controller transmits user designation information indicating the designation region and the superimposition position to an external device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to one or more embodiments includes a fixing device and a controller. The fixing device includes a first heating source and a second heating source. The second heating source has a heating width greater than that of the first heating source. The first and second heating sources have different heating characteristics in response to temperature increases. The controller selects one of the first heating source and the second heating source according to a size of a sheet on which printing is to be performed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a forming unit, an adjusting unit, a detecting unit, a storage unit and a control unit. The forming unit forms an image with respect to a medium. The adjusting unit adjusts an operating condition of the forming unit when an image is formed. The detecting unit detects approach of an operator toward the image forming apparatus. The storage unit stores setting data that indicates validity or invalidity of the detecting unit. The control unit operates, while the setting data indicates the invalidity, the adjusting unit when a first execution condition determined in advance is satisfied, and operates, while the setting data indicates the validity, the adjusting unit when the approach of the operator is not detected by the detecting unit after a second execution condition is satisfied, the second execution condition being determined in advance so as to be satisfied earlier than the first execution condition.

Abstract: A monitoring device according to an embodiment determines whether an information terminal, which moves together with a purchaser and receives data input regarding commodities for purchase by the purchaser, is present in a second place different from a set first place. The monitoring device detects that the information terminal is left unattended in the second place. The monitoring device activates an alarm in response to the information terminal being left unattended in the second place for a threshold period of time.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device capable of removing a horizontal streak that may show when a document is scanned and made into a file is provided. An image processing device according to one embodiment includes: an image processing unit configured to generate smoothing image data obtained by applying smoothing to image data, and save, as an image file, non-smoothing image data in which smoothing is not applied to the image data when a difference between the non-smoothing image data and the smoothing image data is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and the smoothing image data when the difference is smaller than the threshold value; and a storage unit configured to save the image file.

Abstract: A data writing device includes a roller configured to convey a label including a radio tag along a predetermined path, a reader/writer configured to wirelessly communicate with the radio tag, and a controller configured to control the roller to convey the label and control the reader/writer to acquire a plurality of radio wave intensities from the radio tag at different positions along the predetermined path as the label is conveyed, and determine one of the different positions along the predetermined path at which the radio wave intensities are equal to or greater than a threshold value as a writing position for the radio tag.

Abstract: A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to download a plurality of installation files for different application programs provided on a website at a predetermined download timing, store the plurality of installation files in the memory, recommend, to a user, a function added by installing an application program based on the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit at a predetermined recommendation timing that is a different timing from the download timing, and install a respective application program using a respective installation file selected from among the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit in response to an instruction from the user based on the recommendation.