Abstract: A device which includes a display can provide adjustable light output, based in part on the color of the display screen output, to control the light output of the display screen. An illumination processor can adjustably control light output based on the colors of portions of the display screen. The light output can be adjusted to maintain the light output of the display screen across a range of colors of display screen light output. Controlling the light output of the display screen results in controlling the illuminance of a subject. The device can include a camera which captures an image of the subject and displays the image on a portion of the display screen, where the light output of a portion of the display screen can illuminate the subject such that the captured image has at least a certain level of image quality.

Abstract: Provided are image forming apparatuses, non-transitory recording media each storing a computer-readable program for obtaining paper information, and paper-information obtaining methods. An image forming apparatus includes at least one reflection-type optical sensor that measures a sheet in a sheet path, and at least one backing configured to change optical density of a backing face which is to be placed under a sheet in the sheet path for a measurement of the sheet with each of the at least one reflection-type optical sensor. A hardware processor in a system including the image forming apparatus, causes the at least one reflection-type optical sensor to take measurements of a sheet in the sheet path by using different optical densities of the backing face, and calculates paper weight, which is weight of paper per unit area, of the sheet on the basis of the result of the measurements.

Abstract: A system and method for monitoring telephone calls to detect fraudulent activity and take corrective action is described. The system receives a group of telephone calls having associated call characteristics and analyzes the group of telephone calls to identify and store a first set of distributions of call characteristics that are indicative of normal activity, fraudulent activity, or indeterminate activity. The system receives one or more subsequent telephone calls to be analyzed. The system analyzes the received one or more telephone calls to identify a second set of distributions of call characteristics associated with the received telephone call. The system then compares the second set of distributions of call characteristics to the stored first set of distributions of call characteristics to assess a probability that the one or more received telephone calls represents normal, fraudulent, or indeterminate activity.

Abstract: A print management server provided outside a predetermined LAN includes a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a print output instruction from a communication terminal of a user, the print output instruction being issued to a print output device provided inside the predetermined LAN and being an instruction to print out a print target file. The processor determines whether the print target file is present inside the predetermined LAN. When it is determined that the print target file is present inside the predetermined LAN, the transmitter transmits a generation command to a communication relay device inside the predetermined LAN, the generation command being a command to generate print job data on the basis of the print target file acquired by the communication relay device and a print setting instruction.

Abstract: Provided is a reading module including a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images reflected light of light emitted from the light source to the document, as image light. The sensor converts the imaged image light into an electric signal. The optical system includes a mirror array in which a plurality of reflection mirrors are connected, and a plurality of aperture stops. Neighboring reflection mirrors reflect light at different angles viewed from the main scanning direction.

Abstract: A method for compensating substrate shrinkage during printing on a printing machine includes generating multiple image parts of a digitally available image to be produced, factoring in information on substrate shrinkage by subdividing the image using a computer, subdividing generated image parts into data blocks using the computer, saving actual positions of blocks in the digital image using the computer, calculating target positions of all blocks in the digital image using the computer by shifting the blocks away from one another by one pixel creating single-pixel-wide gaps between blocks in the digital image, copying and rearranging blocks in the digital image according to calculated target positions using the computer, calculating positions of single-pixel-wide gaps using the computer, filling gaps with digital image data of neighboring pixels using the computer to create a compensated digital image. The compensated digital image is printed on the printing machine.

Abstract: A display system that can solve the problem of an inadequate band in a connector or transmission path and that enables processing of a high-resolution image signal, includes a display device and an electronic apparatus that is electrically connected to the display device via a connector. The electronic apparatus receives or generates an original image signal indicating an original image that is to be displayed and supplies a plurality of divided image signals each indicating a respective image of a plurality of partial images into which the original image has been divided. The display device displays the original image on the basis of a combined image signal into which the plurality of partial image signals supplied from the electronic apparatus have been combined.

Abstract: A binary image of an input image is generated, and a character region within the binary image and a region surrounding each character are acquired as character segmentation rectangle information. A thinning process is executed on a region within the binary image which is identified based on the character segmentation rectangle information to acquire a thinned image. An edge detected image of the region identified based on the character segmentation rectangle information is acquired. Whether each character identified based on the character segmentation rectangle information is a character to be separated from a background by the binarization process or not is determined based on a result of a logical AND of the thinned image and the edge detected image.

Abstract: Techniques are provided to rank a set of candidate hologram placement locations based on a defined set of rules or criteria. An environment's spatial mapping is initially accessed. This spatial mapping describes the environment in a 3D representation. By analyzing this spatial mapping, an unordered set of candidate hologram placement locations is generated. These candidate hologram placement locations are locations that are identified from within the environment as being locations that are potentially suitable for hosting a hologram. To be selected, each of the candidate hologram placement locations is required to satisfy certain minimum criteria. Thereafter, these candidate hologram placement locations are then ranked based on a set of pre-defined hologram placement criteria to generate a set of ranked candidate hologram placement locations. This set of ranked candidate hologram placement locations is then exposed by causing the set to be accessible during a hologram placement event.

Abstract: A profile adjustment method includes: accepting first input profile as a first component, accepting at least one of a second input profile and a spot color as a second component combined with the output profile, accepting a first target of adjustment values when color conversion is executed according to the first component and the output profile, accepting a second target of adjustment values when color conversion is executed according to the second component and the output profile, and adjusting the output profile based on the first and second targets. A first output profile may be accepted as the first component combined with the input profile and a second output profile may be accepted as the second component combined with the input profile.

Abstract: Techniques and systems for generating ink effects for an ink stroke are described. In particular, ink gradients for digital ink strokes are provided. The described techniques allow for inking input to be transformed into a structure in which conventional and unconventional graphics techniques can be applied. A digital ink system can receive an ink stroke having ink stroke information. The outline of the ink stroke can be identified, and the ink stroke information can be transformed into surface information within the outline of the ink stroke. A graphic effect can be applied to the ink stroke using the surface information.

Abstract: A data processing device includes a feature specification unit that analyzes document data indicating a print target document to specify a feature of the print target document, an acquiring unit that acquires feature data indicating a feature of at least one document specified by analyzing each document and setting data indicating a print setting corresponding to each document, from a storage device, a selection unit that compares the specified feature of the print target document with the features indicated by the feature data of the documents acquired by the acquiring unit and that selects setting data used for printing of the print target document among the acquired setting data based on a comparison result, and a print instructing unit that instructs a printing device to print the print target document in accordance with the selected setting data.

Abstract: A system that generates a personalized content grouped by type and ordered by relevancy. The system determines relevant data for individual feature groups, determines first feature groups that have relevant data to display and displays a page of content for each of the first feature groups. For example, a first page of content may indicate a clock, temperature, weather forecast or timer, a second page of content may correspond to communications and indicate a recent message, a third page of content may correspond to a calendar and may indicate an upcoming event, a fourth page of content may correspond to shipping notifications and may indicate an upcoming shipment, a fifth page of content may correspond to contacts and may indicate an available favorite contact and a sixth page of content may correspond to trending news. The device may generate synthesized speech corresponding to the display of content.

Abstract: The present image forming apparatus, upon accepting, in accordance with a user input, an instruction for execution of processing for adjusting an image forming condition, forms a predetermined test pattern on a sheet, and detects the density of the predetermined test pattern. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus obtains an area ratio of halftone dots in a highlight region of a formed image from the detected density, and, based on the area ratio of halftone dots, decides a smallest dot size for a screen that represents a halftone of the highlight region by a dither pattern.

Abstract: A controller determines whether a language of an object in display data including the object and a coordinate of a rendering reference point of the object is a right-to-left writing language, and upon determining that the language of the object is the right-to-left writing language, determines an upper-right corner of a display screen of a display panel as a reference point, determines a position of the rendering reference point of the object on the display screen based on the determined reference point and the coordinate of the rendering reference point of the object included in the display data, and drives the display panel to display the object on the display screen based on the determined position of the rendering reference point on the display screen.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus according to the present invention includes: a conveyor which conveys an original in a first direction; a light transmitting member which is provided with coating in a first region of a surface facing the original; a reading unit which reads an image at a reading position of the original through the light transmitting member; and a controller which performs processing on the image and which changes the reading position by moving the reading unit when abnormality is detected in the processing. The coating includes a silicon-containing perfluoropolyether compound. An electrically-conductive member is provided in a second region located on the surface of the light transmitting member, upstream of the first region in a conveyance direction of the original. A contact angle of the coating at a position corresponding to the reading position in the first region is appropriately set.

Abstract: The amount of time for scanning a document that includes plural pages is shortened and information leakage is prevented. A file-storage apparatus (12) stores image data of a document that is scanned before as an image file for which access authority is set. A document-feeding unit (3) feeds a document one page at a time from the starting page. A document-reading unit (2) reads that document that is fed by the document-feeding unit (3), and converts the document to image data. A file-search unit (111) that, when a specified number of pages from the start of a document is read by the document-reading unit (2) according to an instruction from a user, searches, based on respective image data of the specified number of pages at the start that are read and access authority, for an image file from the file-storage apparatus (12) that is accessible by the user and that corresponds to the document as a corresponding image file.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a search processor and a display controller. The search processor searches storage location information corresponding to storage locations storing image data. When multiple storage location information with the same identification information is found by search, the display controller causes a display unit to display representational information collectively representing the multiple storage location information, and causes the display unit to display information related to image data using a different process of displaying information related to image data stored in the multiple locations, according to whether or not attribute information used as supplementary information for identifying storage location information is associated with each of the multiple storage location information corresponding to specified representational information.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for face syncing in a distributed computing environment. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, by a processor, media assets that include faces of individuals; detecting, by the processor of a mobile device, the faces on the media assets; generating, by the processor, faceprints for the detected faces; clustering, by the processor, the faceprints into clusters; generating, by the processor, a face crop image for each cluster; and sending, by the processor, the face crop images to a network-based, distributed syncing service.

Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that detects that viewing is being performed for a book that is provided for reading on which details corresponding to a predetermined story are printed and that is registered in advance; processing that, for a target book for which it is detected that viewing is being performed, identifies a progression position in the viewing in a story corresponding to the book; and processing that starts presentation of binocular stereoscopic content associated with the progression position in the viewing that is identified.