Abstract: An identification apparatus uses a sensor to sense a sheet, thereby obtaining a parameter concerning a characteristic of the sheet, and identifies a type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the parameter obtained by the sensor to an estimation model obtained by machine learning using a parameter of a sheet as input data and a type of a sheet as supervised data, the type used as supervised data corresponding to the parameter used as input data. The apparatus performs re-learning such that the identified type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the parameter obtained by the sensor as the input data to the estimation model becomes the type of the sheet represented by input information if the identified type of the sheet and the type of the sheet represented by the input information are different.

Abstract: A method and system for maintaining privacy in private postal mail, such as privileged or other legal postal mail or medical mail, at a correctional facility comprising a privacy verification system to verify a privacy status of a sender and generate privacy status identifiers to be used on the legal postal mail. The privacy status identifiers when scanned or observed at a mail processing facility that processes incoming mail sent to inmates who are incarcerated in a correctional facility provides an indication to the mail processing facility that the mail is private so that appropriate measures can be taken to maintain privacy status.

Abstract: An application apparatus includes a removal controller, a selection controller, and a recovery controller. The removal controller performs, in a case where a removal event occurs, control for storing an operation state of an active application as an original operation state and removing the application from an operation target. The selection controller performs, before causing the removed application to be recovered as the operation target, control for allowing a user to select a specific recovery method from among plural recovery methods including a method for reproducing the original operation state. The recovery controller performs, in accordance with the selected specific recovery method, control for causing an operation of the removed application to be recovered.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for facilitating device discovery. During operation, the system detects, by a computing device, a first message which is broadcast from a source device based on a network communication protocol. The system determines a classification which is a type for the source device based on a MAC address of the source device extracted from the first message. The system generates a second message which indicates the MAC address, an IP address of the source device obtained based on the first message, and the classification. The system sends the second message to a device management system, which causes the device management system to add the source device as a managed device. The system enhances device discovery by eliminating a direct scan of all devices on a sub-network by the device management system for devices of a same type as the type for the source device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives, from another apparatus, data for replication of a function of storing data in a preset storage area; a validation unit that validates restriction information for controlling execution of the function if the data for replication received by the reception unit includes information indicating that plural networks are set in the storage area in which the data is to be stored by the function; and a restriction unit that restricts execution of the function if the execution of the function is instructed and the restriction information is validated.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, device, and computer program product for managing printing of content on a printing device is provided. The method operates under control of one or more processors configured with specific executable program instructions. The method includes analyzing a request to print content to determine one or more characteristic of interest (COI) associated with the request. The method identifies types of printing attributes associated with the request. The types of printing attributes include printing settings and a duplex setting to be implemented at the printing device in connection with generating printed output. The method determines a user duplex expectation (UDE) status with respect to the one or more COI. The method manages addition of a duplex indicia (DI) to the printed output based on the determining and processes the request.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a printing device, an image reading device, a job management unit, and a document detection processing unit. The image reading device reads an image in a predetermined range in which a document can be arranged, as a read image. The job management unit acquires a front side image and a back side image of a card document, and prints the front side image and the back side image on both sides of a print sheet using the printing device. The document detection processing unit specifies a document image area of the front side image and a document image area of the back side image. The job management unit selects a larger size as the common image area size when a difference in size between the document image areas of the front side and the back side exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes one or more processors, at least one of the one or more processors operating to: monitor an occurrence of an abnormality; identify, in a case where an abnormality is detected, a failed part that has caused the abnormality, a parent component including one or more child components, a notifier configured to notify failure information indicating a failed part that has caused an abnormality; and a storage configured to store display setting information indicating whether notification of failure information is performed in unit of a child component and in unit of a parent component. The at least one of the one or more processors operates to control, in a case where the display setting information is set so as to notify the failure information in unit of the parent component, when the failed part is a child component.

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: There is provided a color matching method including: step of, for each of segmented regions obtained by dividing a region of an entire color chart into a plurality of regions so that boundaries of the segmented regions are parallel to the feeding direction of the base material, determining average color difference between colorimetric values of a color chart outputted from the reference device and colorimetric values of a color chart outputted from the adjustment target device; a step of, taking a segmented region whose average color difference is minimum as the reference region, calculating difference values of the average color differences between the reference region and each of the segmented regions other than the reference region; and a step of specifying a segmented region whose difference value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value as an abnormal region in which abnormality of a head is occurring.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus using an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and a display unit configured to display information includes at least one controller, the at least one controller configured to function as a management unit configured to manage print data in association with user information, the management unit configured to discriminably manage information about previously-printed print data and information about imprinted print data, and a unit configured to display on the display unit a user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the user information is arrangeable and on which the selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the unprinted print data is arranged while no selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the previously-printed print data but not associated with the unprinted print data is arranged.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for decoding data streams are provided. A computing device can receive a decoder-input data stream encoded in a decoder-input format. The decoder-input data stream can include one or more pages of content. The decoder-input data stream can be initiated by an identifier identifying the decoder-input format (which may be the same as an encoder-output format) and a lookup table. The lookup table can reference objects within the decoder-input data stream and can specify locations of each of the one or more pages within the decoder-input data stream. The computing device can generate an output based on the decoder-input data stream.

Abstract: A control method includes outputting an estimated feature value based on first layout data generated by a user, generating an album creation parameter based on the output estimated feature value, generating layout data based on the generated album creation parameter and an image used for second layout data generated by a user, and updating the album creation parameter based on a feature value based on the generated layout data and a feature value based on the second layout data. The first data and the second are uploaded to a server. When a number of pieces of layout data uploaded to the server is fewer than a predetermined number, data in units of album double-page spreads is used as the first layout data. When the number of layout data uploaded to the server is greater than the predetermined number, data in units of albums is used as the first layout data.

Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device having a plurality of task queues and a processor to receive print data including a plurality of sheetside images, process one or more of the plurality of sheetside images in parallel via nested task queues, the nested task queues including a first task queue associated with a first set of processing threads and second set of task queues, each associated with a second set of processing threads, each task queue in the second set of task queues corresponding to a thread within the first set of processing threads, wherein execution of tasks via the second set of task queues has a higher priority designation than execution of tasks via the first set of processing threads, which are in the first task queue.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of a simple operation and is capable of executing a function in an action pattern corresponding to a changeable user's request. A registration unit registers a function in association with an action pattern. A selection unit designates a function registered by the registration unit and to select one of a first mode and a second mode. A controller controls so as to execute a function designated by the selection unit according to the action pattern registered in association with the designated function when the selection unit selects the first mode, and to execute a function designated by the selection unit according to an action pattern designated by a user irrespective of the action pattern registered in association with the designated function when the selection unit selects the second mode.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an extraction unit that extracts a document on which reading is unsuccessfully completed in a surface unit in a case where a bundle of a plurality of documents including written information are optically read one by one in order; and a generation unit that generates a list of summary results in which a number indicating in what number the document including a surface is read from the bundle of documents is added to a record corresponding to the surface on which reading is unsuccessfully completed.

Abstract: An example of an apparatus including a memory to store a plurality of print profiles and sample page data. The apparatus includes a selection engine to select a first print profile and a second print profile from the plurality of print profiles. The apparatus includes a printing device to generate a first print sample in accordance with the first print profile and to generate a second print sample in accordance with the second print profile. The apparatus includes an input device to receive input to identify a preferred print sample. The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the memory and the input device, wherein the processor is to direct the selection engine to select a third print profile based on the first print profile, the second print profile, and the input to generate a third print sample for comparison with the preferred print sample.

Abstract: An information processing device includes control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store, in a first memory, record information formed each time a predetermined event occurs in a device and perform an update process of successively updating an old piece of record information with a new piece of record information in the record information stored in the first memory; transmit the record information stored in the first memory via a first signal line; transfer communication abnormality record information stored in the first memory to a second memory, which is configured not to update record information, and store the communication abnormality record information in the second memory when a communication abnormality signal of the first signal line is supplied via a second signal line; and transmit the communication abnormality record information stored in the second memory via the first signal line when communication of the first signal line is restored.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an analysis image generation unit configured to generate an analysis image in such a manner that the size of an image selected by a user is reduced in a client, an analysis image upload unit configured to upload the analysis image generated by the analysis image generation unit from the client to a server, and a print image upload unit configured to upload a print image to the server after uploading of the analysis image by the analysis image upload unit is completed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an assignment unit that assigns plural associated execution instructions to a first group and a second group; and an order setting unit that sets an order of second execution instructions assigned to the second group in accordance with an order of first execution instructions assigned to the first group.