Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image on a surface thereof while rotating, from which the toner image is transferred to a transfer member; a scraper that comes into contact with an area of the surface of the image carrier from which the toner image has been transferred and that scrapes residue off the image carrier; and a flattening device that flattens a pile of residue that has been scraped off by the scraper and has accumulated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generation part that generates plural documents of different quality from an input document input in a process in accordance with each of plural attribute values in a case where the plural attribute values designating quality of a document to be generated by the process are set for an attribute regulating operation of the process included in a preset process procedure, a control part that performs a control for retaining the plural documents generated by the generation part in a storage device, and an output part that outputs any one document as a representative document among the plural documents generated by the generation part and, in a case where an output request for a document different from the output document is received, outputs a document having quality designated by the output request among the plural documents retained in the storage device by the control part.

Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that controls a notification of a linkage function which is executable by using at least one object to be linked when a user transmits information of the object to be linked to a conversation partner on an interface for making a conversation with the conversation partner.

Abstract: A particle collecting device includes a vent pipe having a channel space through which air flows, a first air blower that delivers air including a particle at a first end of the vent pipe into the channel space, a collector that is disposed to block a channel in the channel space at an intermediate part of the vent pipe and that collects the particle included in the air delivered by the first air blower, and a second air blower that collects the air traveling through the collector at a second end of the vent pipe and that delivers the air outward from the channel space. The first and second air blowers operate such that a first pressure in a first channel space extending from the first air blower to the collector and a second pressure in a second channel space extending from the collector to the second air blower are maintained to have a relationship in which the second pressure<the first pressure?atmospheric pressure. The first and second channel spaces are included in the channel space of the vent pipe.

Abstract: An image output management apparatus includes a determination unit and a generating unit. The determination unit compares, with one another, pieces of request information for requesting image output, and thus determines pieces of request information satisfying a predetermined similarity condition. The generating unit generates presentation information as prior information. The presentation information indicates the pieces of request information satisfying the similarity condition. The prior information is presented to a user before execution of image output according to the pieces of request information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation display device that includes an operation display device body, a front light emission portion and a rear light emission portion, the operation display device body including an operation display provided in one face of the operation display device body, the front light emission portion being provided on an upper side of the face of the operation display device body where the operation display is provided, the front light emission portion emitting light in accordance with a processing status, the rear light emission portion being provided on an upper side of an opposite face of the operation display device body to the operation display, the rear light emission portion emitting light in synchronization with the front light emission portion, wherein the operation display device is attached to an upper portion of a body of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a latent image, a developer holder that holds developer for developing the latent image carried by the image carrier, and a layer-thickness restriction member that restricts the layer thickness of the developer held by the developer holder. When the developer holder approaches the layer-thickness restriction member, the layer-thickness restriction member moves away from the developer holder and then toward the developer holder.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport member that transports a medium; a storage that is disposed below the transport member in a gravitational direction, and that stores the medium which is delivered by the transport member and falls into the storage; a supporter that is provided in the storage, and that has an upper end disposed below the transport member in a gravitational direction, and that allows the medium to be stored with a front end of the medium in a discharge direction matching a lower end of the medium in a gravitational direction; and a guidance member that is disposed in the supporter with the medium interposed between the guidance member and the supporter, and that guides the medium which falls to the supporter.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: a fold unit that folds an adjustment sheet in which a first adjustment pattern including at least one line segment, and a second adjustment pattern filled in with black are formed, based on a predetermined reference fold position to across the first and second adjustment patterns; an image reader that reads an image of the first adjustment pattern and an image of the second adjustment pattern of the adjustment sheet with the adjustment sheet unfolded; a position identifying unit that identifies a position of a fold line based on distortion of the line segment on the image of the first adjustment pattern, or a fold line on the image of the second adjustment pattern; and a position adjusting unit that adjusts a fold position of the fold unit based on a difference between the position of the fold line and the reference fold position.

Abstract: A notification apparatus includes a registration unit that registers plural participants for each work, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires pieces of positional information of the participants, and a notification unit that notifies at least one participant out of the participants when a positional relationship between the participants is a predetermined positional relationship based on the pieces of positional information of the participants.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires recycle information regarding a recycle process of a product, a change recognition unit that recognizes change information regarding a design change of the product, and an output unit that outputs non-copable information in a case where a recycle treatment on a product after the design change is not able to be coped with by the recycle process on the basis of the recycle information and the change information.

Abstract: Provided is a solution for forming a surface protective resin member. The solution contains: an acrylic resin selected from: (i) an acrylic resin having a hydroxyl value of 40 to 280 and having a structure in which a silane coupling agent (a) having a functional group reactive with a hydroxyl group is bonded to a side chain; or (ii) an acrylic resin having a hydroxyl value of 40 to 280 and having a structure in which a silane coupling agent (b) having a vinyl group is polymerized as a monomer; and a polyol that has hydroxyl groups that are linked by a chain having 6 or more carbon atoms.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit changes between a first setting and a second setting of a collaborative function, the second setting being different from the first setting, at least one of a display position of an image and display of connection between images, the image and the images each being associated with a function to be used for the collaborative function.

Abstract: An emotion estimation system includes a feature amount extraction unit, a vowel section specification unit, and an estimation unit. The feature amount extraction unit analyzes recorded produced speech to extract a predetermined feature amount. The vowel section specification unit specifies, based on the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit, a section in which a vowel is produced. The estimation unit estimates, based on the feature amount in a vowel section specified by the vowel section specification unit, an emotion of a speaker.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit that registers an entity and an executable function in association with each other, the entity being an entity in real space identified by sensing, the executable function being a function executable in response to the entity being identified again.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section that makes display of an image of a configuration different between a case where the image of the configuration used for a cooperation function is displayed in a region for setting a cooperation function and a case where the image is not displayed in the region.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting section that detects a difference in degrees of involvement in communication in a community in which plural users participate or a product in the community, between users in the community, and a notification section that notifies, in a case where a predetermined event occurs in the future, based on the difference detected by the detecting section, a first user related to the event or a second user having the difference from the first user of an action request.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solution set for forming a surface protective resin member, the solution set containing a first solution and a second solution. The first solution contains: an acrylic resin having a hydroxyl value of 40 to 280 and having a fluorine atom-containing group on a side chain of the acrylic resin; and a polyol having a plurality of hydroxyl groups bonded via a carbon chain having 6 or more carbon atoms. The second solution contains a multifunctional isocyanate. In the solution set, a content ratio of the fluorine atom to a total amount of a solid content in the first solution and a solid content in the second solution is 0.5 mass % to 15 mass %.

Abstract: Described is a way to steer speaker array or microphone array based on direction outputs of tiny light sensors attached to TV viewers, noisy-environment workers, or AR/VR system users. More specifically, a light projector is disposed on a ceiling, which sends out different sequential on/off signals for each pixel. Two light sensors are attached to each speaker array or microphone array, and one or more light sensors are attached to each user. Because each projector pixel corresponds to a specific direction, when a light sensor receives sequential signal from the projector, the light sensor can determine its direction corresponding to the projector and report that to the central station. With the speaker/microphone array direction and user direction known, the system can generate proper phase shifts for different speaker signals and generate directional sound for each individual. Similarly, the central station can determine phase shifts for combining audios from different microphones.