Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a controller configured to control a communication device to transmit, to an information processing terminal device, image processing information indicating a specific one of image processing operations that has been selected at a time when the controller starts establishment of communication with the information processing terminal device, control the communication device to receive execution instructing information from the information processing terminal device, and control a specific one of image processing executing devices that corresponds to the received execution instructing information to execute the specific image processing operation in accordance with the received execution instructing information.

Abstract: A system and method for multifunction peripheral data collection includes a network data connection with one or more multifunction peripherals and at least one peer data collector. A memory stores address data identifying each of a set of multifunction peripherals tasked for data collection. A processor initiates data transfer sessions in accordance with stored address data with each of the plurality of multifunction peripherals to retrieve device report data. Device report data from each successful data transfer session is retrieved and each device with an unsuccessful data transfer session is identified. A collection report is generated from retrieved device report data and this report is sent to an associated networked server. A generated problem list is sent to at least one other one networked device for further data collection and processing.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a linker that links respective identification information of one or more persons and an object involved in a transfer established using a network, and an updater that updates the respective identification information for a subsequent transfer transaction.

Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a management computer, and a management server. The plurality of image forming apparatuses are arranged inside a common network. The management computer is arranged inside the network to manage the image forming apparatus. The management server is arranged outside the network to manage the image forming apparatus. The management computer transmits information on the image forming apparatus obtained from the image forming apparatus to the management server. The management server manages the information on the image forming apparatus received from the management computer.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes an input unit to read out data of a first area of image data from an external memory, sequentially interpret commands included in a command list, and transmit the data of the first area to an image processing unit according to the command, and an output unit to receive data obtained by performing a image processing on the data of the first area and write the received data in the external memory, whereon, based on a control signal, the input unit controls readout of a following command to a command indicating suspension from the external memory and continuation, etc., of transmission of the data of a second area, and based on a control signal, the output unit controls, in a case that the command indicating suspension is received, continuation, etc., of writing of the data of the second area to the external memory.

Abstract: An image data processing method includes: allocating a storage region for at least one of a plurality of planes including a first color plane, a second color plane, and a third color plane configured for respective colors of three primary colors; dividing into a plurality of image regions having identical regions that mutually correspond between the plurality of planes; analyzing a variable indicating an identicalness of images in the image regions that correspond between the plurality of planes to determine the identicalness; and executing a sharing process between the plurality of planes based on the determined identicalness so as to generate image data representing an image constituted of the plurality of planes.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving Final Form presentation document data and inserting one or more alternate Mark-Up formats at each of one or more document components identified in the document data.

Abstract: A device for supporting a cloud print service includes a control unit configured to control so that print data generated in a first area is acquired in a second area, a user interface unit configured to provide a user interface for performing user authentication according to the acquisition of the print data and receive authentication information from a user through the user interface, and a communication unit configured to transmit the acquired print data to a cloud print server if the user authentication succeeds by using the received authentication information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of configuring interrupt settings of a NFC tag by taking into account the direction of data transfer. An information processing apparatus includes an NFC tag. A user selects either a first function in which a mobile terminal writes data into the NFC tag or a second function in which the terminal reads data held by the NFC tag. The NFC tag is set to one of a first interrupt setting for generating an interrupt signal when data is written into the NFC tag by the terminal, and a second interrupt setting for generating an interrupt signal when data held by the NFC tag is read by the terminal. When the first function is selected, the NFC tag is set to the first interrupt setting, and when the second function is selected, the NFC tag is set to the second interrupt setting.

Abstract: An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information.

Abstract: A computer system is disclosed, which includes a non-transitory memory configured to store in the non-transitory memory, a universal printing software and a vendor original printing software, the universal printing software being configured to support printers from two or more vendors, and the vendor original printing software being configured to support a printer from a vendor from the two or more vendors, the universal printing software being configured to support a limited number of features of the printer from the vendor; and a user interface of the vendor original printing software configured to display features of the printer from the vendor and to highlight features which are not supported by the universal printing software but supported by the vendor original printing software when a property of the vendor original printing software is selected at a time of printing on the user interface of the vendor original printing software.

Abstract: A device includes a first processing portion configured to keep a memory region to perform a first process; a second processing portion configured to perform any one of a plurality of second processes by using a memory region provided by the first processing portion; and a predicting portion configured to predict a first size of a first memory region to be required next to a second memory region which is required at present by the second processing portion. The second processing portion requests, from the first processing portion, a memory region having at least a larger size of the first size and a second size of the second memory region. In response to the request, the first processing portion provides the second processing portion with a memory region which is a part of the memory region kept and is of a size requested by the second processing portion.

Abstract: A device management apparatus configured to manage a managed device connected thereto via a network, the device management apparatus includes circuitry configured to: present use change information that allows a use change instruction of a function provided in the managed device; determine set values corresponding to the use change instruction for set values of various setting items required to execute the function to which the use change is instructed; and change the set values of the setting items related to the function to which the use change is instructed, for each of managed devices, from the set values before the use change instruction to the determined set values.

Abstract: A system and method for aligning concurrently scanned documents, such as receipts, is accomplished on a suitable digital computing device such as a multifunction peripheral. An intelligent controller having a processor and memory operates a scan engine. One or more documents are placed, character side down, on a scanner platen. Axis data is stored and corresponds with a defined orientation of the platen, and thus a defined orientation of a scan image. The controller isolates two or more image portions from the scan image with each image portion defined by a boundary corresponding to a document. The controller detects a linearly oriented image component associated with each document image portion and reorients each image portion to generally align in accordance with each linearly oriented image component and the axis data.

Abstract: A printer performs a method for correcting density irregularity that includes: acquiring imaging data by imaging, using an imaging device mounted in a printer, a correcting pattern that is used to correct density irregularity, which contains a strip region (first pattern) with first density and a strip region (second pattern) with second density different from the first density; and correcting the density irregularity based on the imaging data.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprising a printing unit configured to print an image, and a controlling unit including a processor and a memory storing a program which executed by the processor, the controlling being configured to act as a receiving unit configured to receive print data generated by an external apparatus, and a causing unit configured to cause the printing unit to print user information described in the received print data on a sheet together with an image of the print data, and configured to cause the printing unit to print user information described in setting information received by the receiving unit together with the received print data on a sheet together with an image of the print data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes plural communication interfaces, a request receiving unit, and a restricting unit. The request receiving unit receives, by using a communication interface, a request for system information including management information concerning the image processing apparatus from a communication device. The restricting unit restricts at least part of the system information to be sent to the communication device if an IP address assigned to the communication interface used for receiving the request is a global IP address.

Abstract: A system comprises a server, a mobile device and an image forming apparatus. The server includes a storage manager for managing storage of documents and associated document identifiers, an image forming apparatus interface for receiving a set request identifying a user from the image forming apparatus and for providing associated document identifiers to the image forming apparatus, and a mobile device interface for receiving from the mobile device a document request containing a document identifier and for providing in response a document associated with the document identifier to the mobile device, the document identifier received by the mobile device from the image forming apparatus as a graphical code image. The mobile device includes a camera for capturing a snapshot of the graphical code image from the image forming apparatus, and a server interface for sending the document request to the server and for receiving the document.

Abstract: A terminal device performs operations includes: a file information receiving process to receive M pieces of file information for identifying M image files from a printer storing M image files; a specific signal receiving process to receive a specific signal from the printer; a determination process to determine whether an inter-device distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance by using a received radio field intensity of the specific signal; a selection process to select N pieces of file information, which is a part of the M pieces of file information when it is determined in the determination process that the inter-device distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance; and a print instruction transmission process to not transmit the print instruction to the printer when it is determined that the inter-device distance is not equal to or less than the predetermined distance.

Abstract: An MFP (an image forming apparatus) includes a main CPU that performs a predetermined process before switching the MFP to a power supply stop state, in response to a turn-off operation on a main power switch of the MFP, and a sub CPU that controls supply of power to individual units of the MFP in response to a command from the main CPU by a power relay and a power control IC. The sub CPU monitors the operating state of the main CPU after the turn-off operation on the main power switch. After the turn-off operation, even if a power supply stop command from the main CPU is not received, if a predetermined condition related to the result of the monitoring of the operating state of the main CPU is satisfied, the sub CPU performs forced turn-off control for forcibly stopping supply of power to the individual units.