Abstract: A plurality of electronic documents utilized in a transaction are automatically managed. For each separate document of the plurality, a custom printer driver receives instructions to a printer for printing the document. Instead of printing the document, the custom printer driver creates a file in a standard format such as PDF containing the document, based on the received print instructions. Content concerning the transaction is automatically added to at least one corresponding field of the file containing the document in the standard format. At least one electronic signature for the document is received, and automatically added to at least one corresponding location of the document in the standard format. The file containing the document in the standard format is saved with the added content concerning the transaction and the at least one electronic signature, and the saved file is associated with the transaction.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating autonomous target selection through neural networks is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a user to select a target from one or more targets for an agent to perform one or more activities and receiving one or more input parameters. The method further includes generating an expected reward value for each of the one or more targets and determining a desired target among the one or more targets based on the generated expected reward or empirical estimation. Further, the method includes generating one or more actions to be executed by the agent corresponding to the desired by using a trained policy network based ANN model and outputting the determined one or more actions to at least one of: the agent and one or more user devices associated with the user for performing the one or more activities.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus may include a processor configured to: obtain an image captured by a camera; obtain a downscaled image by downscaling the captured image, wherein the downscaled image has an image that is less than a critical resolution, identify a region of interest included in the downscaled image by inputting the downscaled image into a first artificial intelligence model, the first artificial intelligence model being trained to identify a region of interest in an image; extract, from the captured image, an object image in the captured image corresponding to the identified region of interest, and obtain information on an object region included in the captured image by inputting the extracted object image into a second artificial intelligence model, the second artificial intelligence model being configured to identify an object region in an input image.

Abstract: Techniques for correcting an overlay misalignment between an external camera image and a system camera image are disclosed. A first system camera image and a first external camera image are acquired. A first visual alignment is performed between those two images to produce an overlaid image. Some of the content in the overlaid image is surrounded by a bounding element. A position of the bounding element is modified based on movements of the system camera and/or the external camera. In response to performing a second visual alignment using new images, an update vector is computed. Relative movement between the two cameras is determined. Based on the movement and based on the update vector, the bounding element is progressively transitioned to a corrected position in the overlaid image. A speed by which the bounding element is progressively transitioned is proportional to the amount of movement.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main memory, and a controller. The main memory stores mode information indicating whether the image forming apparatus is set to a contract mode, an upper limit to which printing can be performed during a prescribed period, and an actual print sheet number actually printed during the prescribed period. The controller performs a printing permission process in a case that mode information indicates the contract mode and the actual print sheet number is less than the upper limit when the controller receives a print job even in a case that a sum of a specific print sheet number specified in advance in the print job and the actual print sheet number is greater than the upper limit. The printing permission process permits printing for the specific sheet number as a permission print sheet number.

Abstract: A server includes a communication interface, a memory in which a shared folder accessible from an external device is provided, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a designation of the shared folder through a user interface of the information processing apparatus, install a setting file on the information processing apparatus, and store a path of the designated shared folder into the setting file.

Abstract: A print system determines whether a setting of a print job meets a condition under which an inspection can be executed, sets information indicating the inspection instruction in a detail of the print job when it is determined that the setting of the print job meets the condition, and executes inspection processing on the basis of a scanned image and a reference image registered in advance according to the inspection instruction. In addition, notification information is output. The inspection processing is not executed when it has been determined that the setting of the print job does not meet the condition, and notification information is outputted indicating that the inspection processing has not been executed.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a company complex machine to be a target for a printing service, a home complex machine not to be the target for the printing service, a number of prints management server configured to manage the number of printable sheets to be printed by the company complex machine, and when printing is performed by the home complex machine, a home print management server configured to perform reduction processing for reducing the number of printable sheets managed by the number of prints management server and point providing processing for providing points in accordance with printing results produced by the home complex machine to an employee.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first acquisition portion acquiring progress of a plurality of processes for print product produced through the processes based on information transmitted from a printer; a second acquisition portion acquiring the progress in response to an operation of a user to proceed with the production; and a display portion displaying in a distinguishable manner on a display, an automatic transition process and a manual transition process included in the processes, the automatic transition process automatically transitioning to the subsequent process based on the information transmitted from the printer and a manual transition process manually transitioning to the subsequent process in response to the operation.

Abstract: A system for choosing a printer based on proximity comprising: a beacon to broadcast a transmission having a beacon ID; a printer to: receive the transmission, determine a received signal strength indicator for the transmission, generate a printer location signal including the beacon ID, the received signal strength indicator, and a printer ID associated with the printer, and transmit the printer location signal to a host server; the host server including a processor and a memory, the server configured to: receive the printer location signal from the printer, determine a printer location based on a predetermined location of the beacon, the beacon ID, and the received signal strength indicator, and associate the printer location with a printer zone; a printer proximity application to: receive a print request, the print request including a print data and a target zone, and transmit the print data to the printer in the target zone.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to communicate with a cloud print service includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions, the instructions, when executed, causing the information processing apparatus to perform operations including determining whether transmission of a print job to a printer associated with a cloud printer not via the cloud print service is allowed in a case where the cloud printer on the cloud print service is selected as an output destination, and transmitting the print job to the printer associated with the cloud printer through a path not via the cloud print service in a case where it is determined that transmission of the print job to the printer associated with the cloud printer not via the cloud print service is allowed.

Abstract: A method for asset routing including receiving a digital asset, determining a set of print partners for the digital asset, determining a set of candidate batches for the digital asset, selecting a print partner for the digital asset, optionally determining a print partner for an unmatched digital asset, and routing the digital asset to the print partner.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to communicate with an information processing apparatus includes a reception unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives information for identifying a print service included in the information processing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits, to the information processing apparatus, a prohibition condition. The prohibition condition represents a condition relating to a print setting that cannot be set depending on capabilities of a printing apparatus and of the print setting. The prohibition condition is for a print service corresponding to the information received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive print data containing quality request data, a generation unit configured to generate a job based on the quality request data received by the reception unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the job generated by the generation unit to a job processing apparatus, and another generation unit configured to generate product quality data indicating a quality of a product generated by processing the job by the job processing apparatus, wherein, in a case where the quality of the product does not satisfy a quality requested by the quality request data, the another generation unit generates the product quality data indicating that the quality requested by the quality request data is not satisfied.

Abstract: The present application discloses a vehicle re-identification method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, which relates to the field of computer vision, intelligent search, deep learning and intelligent transportation. The specific implementation scheme is: receiving a re-identification request from a terminal device, the re-identification request including a first image of a first vehicle shot by a first camera and information of the first camera; acquiring a first feature of the first vehicle and a first head orientation of the first vehicle according to the first image; determining a second image of the first vehicle from images of multiple vehicles according to the first feature, multiple second features extracted based on the images of the multiple vehicles in an image database, the first head orientation of the first vehicle, and the information of the first camera; and transmitting the second image to the terminal device.

Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for estimating ink use by a printer is provided. The method involves receiving, by a computer, a request for a comingled print job comprising a plurality of print jobs to be carried out by the printer. The method also involves traversing, by the computer, pages of the comingled print job and identifying, for each page of the comingled print job, a print job of the plurality of print jobs to which the page belongs. The method also involves for each of the plurality of print jobs, calculating, by the computer, an estimated total amount of ink required for printing the print job. The method also involves communicating, by the computer, to a client terminal, the estimated total amounts of ink required for printing the plurality of print jobs.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor of an information processing device communicable with a printer configured to perform printing until a print permission amount reaches a particular threshold. The instructions are configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to obtain a first number of sheets that indicates a remaining number of sheets printable according to consumable information, in response to receiving, via a user interface, an instruction to add an additional print permission amount, obtain a second number of sheets that indicates an additional number of sheets printable by the printer according to the additional print permission amount, determine whether the second number of sheets is more than the first number of sheets, and when determining that the second number of sheets is more than the first number of sheets, cause the user interface to provide a notification.

Abstract: A printing system restricts printing performed by a printing apparatus in a case where predetermined information, representing a printing amount of the printing by utilizing a consumable part, reaches a set 1st value during printing in a state where communication between a server and the printing apparatus is impossible, and the server outputs a 2nd value, which is different from the 1st value, to the printing apparatus in a state where the communication with the printing apparatus is possible. If the 2nd value is input from the server, the printing apparatus restricts the printing in a case where the predetermined information reaches the 2nd value during printing in a state where the communication with the server is impossible, and in a case where a time period related to maintenance of the server is input, the server outputs the 2nd value to the printing apparatus, based on the time period.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a progress condition of a group printing job constituted by plural printing jobs, and a presentation unit that presents the progress condition of the group printing job in accordance with an item for presenting the progress condition.

Abstract: In an approach to governance of document printing, one or more computer processors receive a request from a user to print a document. One or more computer processors identify a content and a context of the document. Based on the content and the context of the document, one or more computer processors determine whether the request complies with one or more printing policies. Responsive to determining the request complies with the one or more printing policies, one or more computer processors determine one or more format attributes of the document. Based on the one or more format attributes, one or more computer processors determine whether the document format is optimized, where optimization minimizes use of one or more printing supplies. Responsive to determining the document format is not optimized, one or more computer processors provide a recommendation for optimizing the document format to the user.