Abstract: A dryer for use in an aqueous ink printer adequately dries coated substrates printed with aqueous ink images before discharge of the substrates. The dryer has a housing, a plurality of laser diodes, a current source, a variable electrical resistance network having a plurality of resistors, and a controller. The controller is configured to identify a plurality of ink coverage densities for a plurality of areas in an ink image that passes through the dryer, select and vary an electrical resistance of one or more of the resistors in the variable electrical resistance network using the identified ink coverage densities, and operate the plurality of resistors in the variable electrical resistance network to connect the laser diodes in the dryer selectively to the current source through the plurality of resistors using the identified ink coverage densities and a speed of the substrate through the dryer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives customer information of a customer to whom a product is to be delivered, and image information to be printed on the product, an acquisition unit that acquires a state of a recording medium having an image printed thereon from the image information received by the receiving unit, and an associating unit that associates via a print job the state of the recording medium acquired by the acquisition unit with the customer information received by the receiving unit.

Abstract: A display generation apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives instruction information including information for providing an instruction to perform first processing that is performed by a first processing entity which notifies the display generation apparatus of progress in processing over a communication line, and information for providing an instruction to perform second processing that is performed by a second processing entity which does not notify the display generation apparatus of the progress in the processing over the communication line; and a generation unit that generates first progress information indicating progress of the first processing and second progress information indicating progress of the second processing based on the instruction information, in such a manner that the second progress information is displayed on a same screen on which the first progress information is displayed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller performs control to provide a notification of a function interrelated with information in a depth direction of an image being displayed in mid-air.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped article has a sea-island structure including a cured object of a first shaping ink, which contains a hydrophobic resin, and a cured object of a second shaping ink, which contains a hydrophilic resin.

Abstract: An information processing system in which a client uses an information processing apparatus that is managed by an apparatus manager, includes a management unit that manages client information including a contact address of a client; an acquisition unit that acquires a notification content from an apparatus manager; a specification unit that specifies a contact address of a client that uses an information processing apparatus that is managed by the apparatus manager from which the acquisition unit has acquired the notification content, on the basis of the client information that is managed by the management unit; and a notification unit that gives a notification about the notification content acquired by the acquisition unit to the contact address of the client specified by the specification unit.

Abstract: A print control device includes: an extraction section that extracts plural print data items to be included in a print unit, the print unit being a unit of sequential printing by a printing device; an exclusion section that excludes a specific print data item among the plural print data items extracted by the extraction section, from the print unit; and a control section that performs control such that the print unit from which the specific print data item is excluded by the exclusion section is printed by the printing device.

Abstract: A printing system receives a print request containing patterns of marks to be printed on print media to produce printed output. A processor evaluates the print request to identify different printing densities of the patterns of marks. The processor alters the patterns of marks to create hidden features on the printed output by adding different printing densities of fluorescent spots to different areas of the patterns of marks. The different printing densities of the fluorescent spots are based on the different printing densities of the patterns of marks and on the size of the hidden features. A printing device prints the print request on the print media to produce the printed output.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an execution unit that, when a specific execution instruction is received, which specifies that a manual sheet feed section via which a sheet is fed manually is included as a sheet feed source that feeds the sheet, under the condition that the sheet is present in the manual sheet feed section, executes specific printing; and a confirmation unit that, when the execution unit executes first specific printing according to a first specific execution instruction, then receives a second specific execution instruction from an operator different from an operator who has issued the first specific execution instruction, under the condition that the sheet is present in the manual sheet feed section, confirms with the different operator whether the sheet is allowed to be fed from the manual sheet feed section before the execution unit executes second specific printing according to the second specific execution instruction.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a 360 camera configured to image a volume including one or more local users, and generate an output for remote users, and an illumination device configured to generate a visual output for the one or more local users that is indicative of a viewing direction or a number of the remote users, based on a mapping of a region of interest of the remote viewers. The illumination device is associated with the 360 camera.

Abstract: Provided herein is a composition for eutectic metal alloy nanoparticles having an average particle size ranging from about 0.5 nanometers to less than about 5000 nanometers and at least one organoamine stabilizer. Also provided herein is a process for preparing eutectic metal alloy nanoparticles comprising mixing at least one organic polar solvent, at least one organoamine stabilizer, and a eutectic metal alloy to create a mixture; sonicating the mixture at a temperature above the melting point of the eutectic metal alloy; and collecting a composition comprising a plurality of eutectic metal alloy nanoparticles having an average particle size ranging from about 0.5 nanometers to less than about 5000 nanometers. Further disclosed herein are hybrid conductive ink compositions comprising a component comprising a plurality of metal nanoparticles and a component comprising a plurality of eutectic metal alloy nanoparticles.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is connected to the memory and configured to acquire correct recognition rates for frames corresponding to items contained in a form image from statistical data regarding results of recognition of images of contents of the frames, the statistical data including, in association with an attribute of each of the frames, a size of the frame and a correct recognition rate for the frame, the correct recognition rate indicating a percentage of correctly recognized images of contents of the frame; and perform control to change a display style of a frame for which the acquired correct recognition rate is less than or equal to a threshold among the frames on a form definition screen, the form definition screen being a screen on which the form image is defined.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is connected to the memory and configured to accept input of a threshold of a confidence level indicating how confident a recognition result obtained by recognizing an image is; when the threshold whose input is accepted is applied to an actual data group constituted by one or more pieces of actual data that are recognition results accumulated as actual performance results, classify the actual data group by necessity of validation on the basis of a result of comparison between a confidence level in each of the one or more pieces of actual data in the actual data group and the threshold; and perform control to display classification results obtained by the classification.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts, from each sentence included in a document, medicine information identifying a medicine, symptom information related to a symptom, and change information representing a change in a condition of a patient, and a generation unit that, after the medicine is taken by the patient, generates structured information that is used to determine a side effect from the information extracted by the extraction unit.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to: generate a first image including (i) a setting area for receiving a setting of a setting item and (ii) a command area for receiving a command regarding the setting; generate a second image representing the command area; receive an operation on the setting item performed by a user; and display the second image over the first image in a case where the command area is not displayed when the processor receives the operation.

Abstract: A search apparatus includes a receiver and a determining unit. The receiver receives a search term for a search. The determining unit determines suggested terms to be used for refined searches, the refined searches each using the search term and a respective one of the suggested terms. The suggested terms are determined based on (i) an amount of overlap between results of the refined searches and/or (ii) an amount of difference between the number of results of one of the refined searches and the number of results of another one of the refined searches.

Abstract: A printing management apparatus includes a memory; and a processor that is connected to the memory, in which, in a case where a printing apparatus, which performs printing on continuous form paper, processes plural jobs with respect to the continuous form paper in one-time printing, the processor calculates a length, which is acquired by excluding a part used to print the plural jobs from a length determined by a transport start spot, at which transport of the continuous form paper starts and a transport end spot at which the transport of the continuous form paper ends, as an amount of waste paper indicative of a part which becomes a loss of the continuous form paper, and outputs an amount of waste paper for each job of plurality of jobs, which is acquired by allocating the calculated amount of waste paper to the plural jobs.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes image forming units, secondary transfer units, and first and second detection devices. Each image forming unit includes image forming devices, and a primary intermediate transfer body. Toner images formed by the image forming devices are primarily transferred to the primary intermediate transfer body. The secondary transfer units are provided for the image forming units, respectively. Each secondary transfer unit is configured to secondarily transfer the toner images on a corresponding one of the primary intermediate transfer bodies to a transfer body. The first detection device is configured to detect the toner images downstream of the most downstream secondary transfer position. The second detection device is provided in at least one of the image forming units. The second detection device is configured to detect the toner images between the most downstream primary transfer position in the primary intermediate transfer body and a secondary transfer position.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3-D) printer includes build and support material development stations positioned to transfer layers of build and support materials to an intermediate transfer surface. The intermediate transfer surface transfers a layer of the build and support materials to a platen each time the platen contacts the intermediate transfer surface. A sensor detects the thickness of the layer on the platen, and a mechanical planer is positioned to contact and level the layer on the platen as the platen moves past the mechanical planer. Additionally, a feedback loop is electrically connected to the sensor and the mechanical planer. The mechanical planer adjusts the amount of the build material and the support material removed from the layer based on the thickness of the layer on the platen, as determined by the sensor.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for writing to a printed memory device is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes determining, by a microcontroller, a first encoding scheme from among a plurality of encoding schemes to write a first data portion from among a plurality of data portions, wherein the first encoding scheme comprises a first voltage and a first pulse width to be used to write the first data portion; providing, by the microcontroller, the first encoding scheme to an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC); selecting, by the ASIC, a first target memory cell of the printed memory device corresponding to a first word line and a first bit line for the first data portion to be written; and writing, by the ASIC, the first data portion to the first target memory cell using the first encoding scheme.