Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to query a user about an operation item to be executed by equipment in a case where biological information about the user satisfying a specific condition is acquired, but a single operation item of the equipment to associate with the acquired biological information is not specified, and associate an operation item designated by the user in response to the query with the acquired biological information.

Abstract: An inlet seal, an outlet seal, and a piston are connected to a shaft. The inlet seal seals an ink inlet of an ink reservoir. The outlet seal seals an ink outlet of the ink reservoir. Also, the piston is within a cylinder. The inlet seal, the outlet seal, and the piston all move with the shaft. A biasing member contacts the piston to bias the piston in a first direction. Pressurized air simultaneously provided to the cylinder and to the ink reservoir biases the piston in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and pressurizes ink within the ink reservoir. Moving the shaft in the first direction does not seal the ink inlet but does seal the ink outlet. Moving the shaft in the second direction seals the ink inlet but does not seal the ink outlet, thus allowing the pressurized ink out from the ink reservoir.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to extract a description including a phrase indicating a relation with a second document element from a first document element, and generate relation information corresponding to information on the description extracted from the first document element, by an AI which has learned, in advance, by machine learning to generate the relation information indicating a relation between the first document element and the second document element from the information on the description.

Abstract: A powder transport apparatus includes a housing and first and second transport members. The housing includes first and second transport paths that are separated by a partition wall extending in one direction. The first and second transport paths are connected by first and second connection ports. The first and second connection ports are separated in the one direction with the partition wall interposed therebetween. The first transport member is provided in the first transport path. The first transport member transports powder. The second transport member is provided in the second transport path. The second transport member transports the powder. A transport force of the second transport member at a portion of the second transport member where the second transport member faces the first connection port is smaller than a transport force of the second transport member at a portion where the second transport member faces the partition wall.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes a delivery unit that delivers at least one linear manufacturing material containing resin, and a pressing unit including an irregularity portion that presses the manufacturing material delivered from the delivery unit, against a target object.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to operate equipment according to biological information indicating an operation item of the equipment in a case where the biological information indicating an operation item of the equipment is measured from a user before the equipment runs, and change an operation item of the equipment in a case where biological information not satisfying a condition regarding a running state of the equipment is measured from the user after the equipment runs.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to create a group of jobs to be executed that have a common attribute, acquire, before execution of the jobs, information on materials used for execution of the jobs or a storage place for storing products obtained as a result of execution of the jobs, the information indicating that the materials or the storage place, which is not suitable for execution of the jobs at a time of creation of the group, reaches a state suitable for execution of the jobs after creation of the group, and create an execution plan so that the jobs are executed per group in a time window in which the materials or the storage place reaches the state suitable for execution of the jobs by using the information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform difference extraction processing of extracting a difference between two versions of each of a first document element and a second document element, and perform determination processing of determining a relation between the first document element and the second document element based on a similarity between the difference for the first document element and the difference for the second document element.

Abstract: A recording-material-transporting device includes a suction unit that suctions a recording material included in a recording-material stack from above, the suction unit including a movable member that moves upward when pushed from below by the recording material moving upward with the suction, the suction unit being movable in an intersecting direction intersecting a vertical direction and moving the suctioned recording material in the intersecting direction, at least a part of the movable member serving as an outside advancing part that advances to an outside of a perimeter of the recording-material stack with the movement of the suction unit in the intersecting direction; and a restricting part that restricts a downward movement of the outside advancing part when the outside advancing part is free of support by the recording material from below.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires input information including (i) feature information indicating a feature of similarity of a content between a first document element and a second document element, (ii) an attribute of the first document element, and (iii) an attribute of the second document element, and a generation unit that generates relation information corresponding to the input information acquired by the acquisition unit, by an AI which has learned to generate the relation information indicating a relation between the first document element and the second document element from the input information in advance by machine learning, in which each of the contents of the first document element and the second document element is formed of one or more parts, and the feature information is obtained based on similarity information indicating similarity of a pair of the parts between the first document element and the second document element.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to not operate equipment according to biological information indicating an operation item of the equipment in a case where the biological information not expected to be produced from a user under specific circumstances is measured from the user.

Abstract: Inkjet printhead cleaning methods and systems control an articulation structure (that is connected to a wiper blade) to move the wiper blade to contact an inkjet printhead to wipe the inkjet printhead. These methods/systems further control the articulation structure to move the wiper blade to contact a blade cleaning structure to clean the wiper blade. The blade cleaning structure comprises a fluid manifold and bundles of fibers mounted in brush openings of the fluid manifold, and cleaning fluid is in the fluid manifold. The mounting ends of the bundles of fibers are mounted in the brush openings of the fluid manifold and the cleaning ends of the bundles of fibers are positioned to contact the wiper blade. The blade cleaning structure is positioned so as to gravity feed the cleaning fluid from the mounting ends of the fibers to the cleaning ends of the fibers.

Abstract: A marking color of a marking material (e.g., ink, toner, etc.) within a printer has a marking spectral reflectance property. Print media that has a media color approximately matching the marking color, but a different media spectral reflectance property, is identified (to form a geometric metameric pair). Differently colored calibration patches of the marking material are printed on a test sheet of the print media. A calibration patch, in which the printed color of the marking material most closely visually matches the media color, is used to identify a revised marking color. A watermark is printed on the print media using the revised marking color. The difference between the marking spectral reflectance property and the media spectral reflectance property causes the watermark to be visibly observable on the print media from one angle but prevents the watermark from being visibly observable from a different angle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an instructing unit, a response obtaining unit, and an execution unit. The instructing unit provides an instruction to display an approval request screen to a terminal apparatus operated by a second user. The approval request screen is used for making a request to approve execution of setting changing processing for changing a setting of the information processing apparatus operated by a first user. The first and second users are authenticated by an authenticating unit. The response obtaining unit obtains a response made on the approval request screen from the second user. The execution unit executes the setting changing processing in accordance with the response obtained by the response obtaining unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an utterance, an identification unit that identifies a conversation partner, and a determination unit that determines a communication unit for transmitting a meaning of the utterance or an achieving unit for achieving a conversation goal in accordance with the conversation partner.

Abstract: Described herein is a method of processing location and level changes for managed devices, which includes a child device sensing a move to a new location and level in a tree structure including levels having different permissions and policies, and the child device receiving permissions and policies for the new location and level via a master clone file. Also described is a method of updating policies in a device in a fleet of image forming devices that includes identifying a setting in the device that should not be updated automatically, setting a respective flag associated with the identified setting, thereby indicating that the setting is not to be updated automatically, receiving a file with updated policy values, and updating settings of the device according to the updated policy values except for the identified setting. Also described is a method for processing exemption requests in a fleet of image forming devices.

Abstract: A printing module and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. For example, the printing module includes a plurality of printheads, a transport belt located below the plurality of printheads to transport print media below the plurality of printheads, wherein the transport belt comprises a plurality of vacuum openings, and a positive pressure plenum system, wherein the positive pressure plenum system provides a positive air flow to create an air interface between a top surface of the positive pressure plenum system and a bottom surface of the transport belt, wherein the positive pressure plenum system provides a negative air flow to create a vacuum through the plurality of vacuum openings of the transport belt to hold the print media against the transport belt.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure can involve several work spaces wherein each of the work spaces are associated with a set of activities and wherein each of the work spaces are coupled to one or more radio frequency (RF) sensors. Through RF sensor data detected from interactions with the work surface, example implementations described herein can determine which activity from the set of activities is being conducted through the application of a recognition algorithm that is generated from a machine learning algorithm.

Abstract: A rotary-body support structure includes: a rotary body including a rotary shaft and a contact portion spirally wound around the rotary shaft; and bearing parts that rotatably support the rotary body. The amount of engagement of the rotary body with a contact body that is in contact with the contact portion of the rotary body changes when the rotary body moves toward one side in a rotation axis direction.