Abstract: An image forming apparatus, an information processing system, and a method for configuring the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes circuitry configured to read setting data stored in a storage medium, determine whether the read setting data is first setting data available for another image forming apparatus or second setting data available for the image forming apparatus, configure the image forming apparatus using the second setting data, based on a determination that the read setting data is the second setting data, and configure the image forming apparatus using the first setting data, based on a determination that the read setting data is the first setting data and the another image forming apparatus is the same as the image forming apparatus. The information processing system includes the image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus to which a telephone is connectable. While the telephone is disconnected from a telephone line, the communication apparatus shifts to a power saving mode. If an incoming call is detected in the power saving mode, the communication apparatus is returned from the power saving mode, and then controls to switch connection between the telephone and the telephone line in accordance with preset setting of an operation at the time of an incoming call.

Abstract: A color conversion device includes a receiving unit receiving colorimetric values obtained by measuring plural target-color images of different tones from plural directions; a memory storing a color conversion model associating a combination of colorimetric direction and color material amounts of respective colors and actually measured color values; and a converter converting the colorimetric values into color values including values indicative of amounts of glittering color material and other color materials, wherein the converter calculates, for each target-color image, a weighted average of color differences between colorimetric values of the target-color image in colorimetric directions and color values in the colorimetric directions obtained from the model by using preset weighting coefficients and selects a combination of weighting coefficients that makes tone characteristics closest to tone characteristics of the target-color images by changing the weighting coefficients when a combination of color mat

Abstract: A recording control apparatus for recording a captured image obtains an image to be recorded and analysis information based on a distance to an object in each portion of the image. When causing a recording control unit to execute recording of the image, the recording control apparatus selects, on the basis of a value of each pixel of the image and the analysis information, a dot layout pattern that is used to record each pixel of the image and that indicates a layout of recorded dots included in dots constituting the pixel.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image scanning unit that is provided with a holding portion holding a flexible flat cable. The holding portion is protruded toward an upstream side in a sub scanning direction, and provided with a second wall part. The flexible flat cable that is extended from a connector is brought into contact with the second wall part. As for the flexible flat cable, a downward movement is regulated by a lower holding portion and an upward movement is regulated by an upper holding portion. Accordingly, the flexible flat cable does not rise.

Abstract: An implementation method of a virtual print-out system is provided. The method includes setting the number of printing module step; each of the printing modules being in information linking with each of the print-out devices step; inputting rule information step; triggering to print out document logic step; and changing the pointing of the print-out device step, and wherein the virtual print-out system can be simultaneously connected with a plurality of physical print-out devices at different work stations, and the virtual print-out system has plural pieces of rule information preset therein. In this way, the output content of the work station in trouble can be moved quickly to the other work station for printing. Therefore, new store operation or division of labor mode can be achieved by this rapid change of print-out location.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, including a receiver that receives a setting of a job; a reader that optically reads an original; a memory that stores the image data; and a hardware processor that instructs the external device to store the image data to be edited, and edits the image data page by page by using the page edit function of the external device, wherein when a temporary storing job for temporarily storing the image data in the memory is executed, the hardware processor judges whether a setting of a setting item for an edit of the image data page by page is changed, and in case that the setting of the setting item is changed, the hardware processor carries out a preceding transmission process in which the image data stored in the memory is transmitted to the external device and is stored in the external device.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer of a portable device, the computer program, when executed by the computer, causes the portable device to perform operations including: receiving a user operation of designating operation specifying information; instructing an image processing apparatus to execute the image processing operation of a content specified by the operation specifying information; storing history information indicative of an execution history of the receiving and the instructing; extracting, from among a plurality of program identification information, program identification information associated with the extraction condition information coinciding with the stored history information; and displaying the extracted program identification information.

Abstract: A print management device includes a queue managing unit, a wireless communication unit, a data storage unit, and a data transmitting unit. The queue managing unit manages queues related to image forming apparatuses. The wireless communication unit communicates with a user terminal in a common wireless printing protocol. The wireless printing protocol does not require a driver individually corresponding to the image forming apparatuses. The data storage unit stores print data received by the wireless communication unit from the user terminal over the communications in the queues managed by the queue managing unit. The data transmitting unit takes out the print data from the queue to transmit the print data to the image forming apparatus related to the queue.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a reading unit that can read both sides of an original in parallel has a processing unit that processes image data obtained by the reading unit reading an original. The apparatus controls to execute processing by the processing unit on image data of a first surface of the original and reading of a second surface of the original in parallel. The apparatus determines whether or not to start processing by the processing unit on image data of the second surface of the original when processing by the processing unit on the image data of the first surface of the original completes, and in accordance with the determination result, the apparatus controls of a start of processing by the processing unit on the image data of the second surface of the original.

Abstract: When a problem occurs in a subset of devices, another device appropriately executes a process instead of the problem device. A printer has a decision unit that determines whether or not a request for specific information was received at a specific time from a specific printer; an information collection device that, when the request is not received at the specific time, collects the specific information of each printer from other printers capable of communicating; and an information transmission device that transmits the specific information that was collected and the specific information about the printer of which it is part to an external server.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an extraction unit configured to extract a written image additionally written on printed matter on which a document is written from a read image read from the printed matter; and a generation unit configured to generate additionally written document data by writing written image information about the written image into document data that is the document described in a mark-up language.

Abstract: A printing machine includes a scanning unit, a storing unit, a determination section, and an editing section. The scanning unit reads a set of original images from an original composed of a plurality of pages and reads a set of editing images from an original-for-editing for editing the original. The storing unit stores the read set of original images and the read set of editing images in units of pages. When an editing mode is set, the determination section determines whether or not there are original images that correspond to a first editing image which is a first page and a last editing image which is a last page of the original-for-editing stored in the storing unit, among the set of original images stored in the storing unit. The editing section edits the set of original images using the set of editing images based on a result of the determination.

Abstract: A system and method for transmitting screenshots from a multifunction peripheral to detail pages for downloadable applications on an application store includes a selectively enabled key on the multifunction peripheral that allows a user to capture a screenshot of an application that is executing on the multifunction peripheral, and a controller of the multifunction peripheral that is configured to generate the screenshot and metadata identifying the executing application associated with the screenshot. The controller sends the screenshot and the metadata to the application store which uses the metadata to determine which detail page is associated with the executing application. The application store then adds the screenshot to the identified detail page.

Abstract: A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes: scanning and signal lines; a two-dimensional array of detecting elements defining a detecting part; a control unit that reads image data from all detecting elements in a reading area of the detecting part by repeating a cycle of a readout process at N-line intervals, wherein the scanning line subjected to the readout process is shifted every cycle, where N is an integral number of at least 1; and a communication unit for external communication. The control unit detects a radiation emission start of a radiation irradiating apparatus, and if the readout process starts with an N+1th or any subsequent scanning line and then starts with any of first to N+1th scanning lines in a certain cycle, the control unit transfers the image data read in the certain cycle as preview image data substantially concurrently with the readout process.

Abstract: A system and method for performing confidential scanning of a document are provided. Initially, a request from user for a confidential scan of a document through a scanner device associated with the confidential scan system may be received. Further, a first credential may be received from the user. The user may be authenticated based on the first credential data. Upon the authentication, the document may be stored as a hidden document in a predefined path for the confidential scan of the document.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a controller, an adjustment unit configured to adjust an image forming condition based on an adjustment condition corresponding to a profile of a toner adhesion amount in a sheet conveying direction, and an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet with the adjusted image forming condition while conveying the sheet.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a printer driver and a device service associated with the printer driver as an output port of a print job generated by the printer driver. The printer driver receives data in accordance with a print instruction from an application operating on the information processing apparatus, generates a print job based on the received data, and outputs the print job to the output port. The print job is sent to the device service by an operating system using internal loopback. The device service connects to a print apparatus via a port that is different from the output port of the information processing apparatus, receives the print job from the printer driver, transmits a first control command for obtaining status information to the print apparatus, obtains the status information of the apparatus, and accepts print data received through a receiving port.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a specific-type data storage device, a startup-mode determining unit, and a device startup unit. The specific-type data storage device ensures storing specific type of data. The startup-mode determining unit determines a startup mode of the electronic device. The device startup unit starts up the electronic device in the startup mode determined by the startup-mode determining unit. The startup mode includes an ordinary startup mode and a data-transfer startup mode that transfers the specific type of data to the specific-type-data storage device. The data-transfer startup mode is a mode where among the processes executed in the ordinary startup mode, at least a part of the processes unnecessary for transferring the specific type of data to the specific-type-data storage device is unexecuted.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an authentication apparatus comprises an image capturing device, a memory and a controller. The image capturing device photographs a person to acquire a captured image. The memory stores the captured image. The controller generates a determination reference of authentication on the basis of a plurality of the captured images and carries out the authentication of the person in the captured image on the basis of the determination reference.