Abstract: A vehicle is located on a digital map, with objects being stored in the digital map in a georeferenced manner. From a set of these objects stored in a georeferenced manner in the digital map, which are currently being detected by the environment sensor, the object most distant from the environment sensor is identified and a current sensor range of the environment sensor is determined on the basis of the distance of the environment sensor from the object.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of providing a seamless wireless connection in an elevator system of a building. The method comprises receiving an elevator car request from a passenger who is on a source floor, dispatching an elevator car to the source floor in response to the elevator car request, selecting at least one wireless local area network (WLAN) established in the building, and forwarding the selected at least one WLAN via a network node placed in at least one of an elevator hall of the source floor, the dispatched elevator car, or an elevator hall of a destination floor.

Abstract: A plate-making method for manufacturing a printing plate includes: manufacturing the printing plate based on a knockout method in which knockouts of halftone dots in one color are formed, and halftone dots in the other color are overprinted onto positions of the knockouts; for each of pixels, when a sum of a halftone dot area ratio of the one color and a halftone dot area ratio of the other color is smaller than 100%, forming a gap from a knockout in the one color around a halftone dot in the other color; and for each of pixels, when the sum of the halftone dot area ratio of the one color and the halftone dot area ratio of the other color is greater than 100%, forming an overmask such that the halftone dot in the other color penetrates a periphery of the halftone dot in the one color.

Abstract: Method and system that includes receiving an sensed data point from an industrial process; applying a mapping model to map the sensed data point to a respective embedding that has reduced dimensionality relative to the sensed data point; determining, based on a comparison of the respective embedding to prior embeddings, if the mapping model needs to be updated or not. When the mapping model needs to be updated, applying manifold learning to learn an updated set of model parameters for the mapping model. When the mapping model does not need to be updated, applying a classification model to the respective embedding to predict a classification for the sensed data point.

Abstract: A printer includes a cassette or tray for storing a sheet to which a wireless tag is attached, a conveyer configured to convey the sheet for printing, a wireless tag reader/writer configured to read and write information from and to the wireless tag when the sheet is conveyed for printing, a scanner, and a controller configured to: control the scanner to read a symbol, determine whether the symbol indicates an identification code that identifies a type of the sheet, upon determining that the symbol indicates the identification code, acquire parameters used for controlling the conveyer or the reader/writer corresponding to the type of the sheet, and control the conveyer and the reader/writer using the parameters when printing is performed on the sheet.

Abstract: In response to a print instruction instructing a printer to print an image being made with respect to a general-use printing program implemented in an operating system of the information processing device, the information processing device uses a supporting program to obtain an image size of print data subject to printing based on the number of vertical dots, the number of horizontal dots, and print resolution of the print data. Further, the information processing device obtains second size information indicating a sheet size included in a print setting and determines, by comparing the image size the sheet size, whether the sheet size conforms to the image size. When determining that the sheet size does not conform to the image size, the information processing device performs a warning process of displaying a warning message using a user interface.

Abstract: The present invention directs to an inspection apparatus, comprising: an obtaining unit that obtains a correct image for comparison against an inspection target image read from a print sheet; a first extraction unit that extracts a first coordinate group indicating an outside edge of the correct image from a feature point of the correct image; and a second extraction unit that extracts a second coordinate group indicating an inspection region inside the correct image that does not include the extracted first coordinate group of the correct image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus can include a communications circuit, a printer, and a controller. The communications circuit is configured to communicate with a networked image forming apparatus via a network. The printer is configured to form an image on a sheet. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The controller is configured to acquire sensor data from a sensor operatively coupled to the controller; determine, via the network, a relay image forming apparatus, the relay image forming apparatus having an operating rate being relatively lower than an operating rate of multiple image forming apparatuses including the image forming apparatus and the networked image forming apparatus; and transmit, via the relay image forming apparatus, the sensor data to a predetermined recipient apparatus.

Abstract: A control module of a label printing apparatus includes memory configured to store item data and shelf label data indicative of an ID of an electronic shelf label (ESL) for the item, and at least one communication module configured to: receive, from an external device, an update request to make at least one change to the item data and communicate an ESL update request to the ESL to make the at least one change at the ESL. A processor of the control module is configured to: update the item data stored in the memory according to the update request; determine if the ESL has been updated in dependence on whether an acknowledgement is received from the ESL; and if the ESL has not been updated, control the communication module to output an alert signal to indicate that the ESL is out of sync with the label printing apparatus.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an image forming apparatus comprises a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction from a user, an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a server system, print data by accessing the server system in response to the instruction received by the receiving unit, and a control unit configured to display a method of setting a sheet on which the print data is printed on a display unit in a case where the obtained print data by the obtaining unit includes information of a predetermined sheet.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, if an image forming apparatus receives a FAX data, the image forming apparatus posts a message to a chat service indicating that the FAX data has been received, and according to a setting of a forwarding destination of FAX data and scheduled forwarding time, the image forming apparatus posts a message indicating the scheduled forwarding time of the received FAX data. If the image forming apparatus receives an instruction related to forwarding the received FAX data (canceling, changing scheduled time, changing forwarding destination) via the chat service, the image forming apparatus performs processing related to the forwarding the received FAX data (canceling to forward processing, changing scheduled time processing, changing forwarding destination processing) based on the instruction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing having a front section and a rear section opposite to the front section in a front-rear direction, a print engine, a user interface disposed at the front section, a controller and a memory interface having a plurality of ports including a first port disposed at the front section and a second port disposed at the rear section.

Abstract: A system includes at least one physical memory device and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to receive data from a plurality of printing entities, wherein the data received from each of the plurality of printing entities comprises a different data format, process the data associated with each of the pluralities of entities to convert the data to meta-data and combine the meta-data into a functional data format.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a transmission destination corresponding to any one of a plurality of different regions where a predetermined cloud print service is provided, a registration request to register the printing control apparatus in the predetermined cloud print service, and a setting unit configured to set the transmission destination.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a fax function and a communication function includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor executing the instructions causing the image forming apparatus to set a first setting for transfer of data in a case where the data is received using the fax function, perform a transfer process of transferring the data received using the fax function based on the first setting, and transmit, using the communication function, information pertaining to the transfer process to an external apparatus that provides a message sharing service.

Abstract: A multifunction peripheral includes a storage unit configured to store destination book data including a plurality of destination candidates, a display unit configured to display a destination designation screen including a destination candidate display section for displaying a predetermined number of destination candidates among the plurality of destination candidates and a scroll bar corresponding to the destination candidate display section, an operation unit configured to receive operation for pointing a position in the destination designation screen, and a control unit configured to specify, based on the operation on the operation unit, a destination out of the plurality of destination candidates. The plurality of destination candidates can be classified into a plurality of groups. The display unit adds, to the scroll bar, an identification label for identifying a group of the destination candidates and displays the identification label.

Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.

Abstract: Provided is a peer-to-peer industrial printing system that performs distributed processing in variable printing for production printing. The industrial printing system includes a plurality of print servers and performs variable printing for production printing. Each of the plurality of print servers has a variable attribute generation unit, a variable distribution unit, and a processing management unit. The variable attribute generation unit generates variable attribute information including record information, which is information about each record of variable data for the variable printing. The variable distribution unit distributes each record of the variable data to one of the plurality of print servers based on the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generation unit. The processing management unit transmits the job ticket including the record distributed by the variable distribution unit to the other print server that is distributed to request processing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls a plurality of different types of image processing, register a plurality of objects to be arranged in a matrix form within a particular area of a screen, and controls a user interface to display the plurality of objects arranged in the matrix form within the particular area. The plurality of objects include a first object for controlling image processing associated with the first object, and a second object that is not for controlling any image processing. The controller controls the user interface to display a third object different from the plurality of objects arranged in the matrix form, outside the particular area, and when a first user is authenticated, control the user interface to display a user-authenticated screen including a shared object and a first user object within the particular area but not including a second user object.

Abstract: An image forming system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an image distribution device and a printing device. The image distribution device distributes print image data, which includes frame image data including an image applied commonly to a plurality of print materials and variable data including information changed on a print material basis, to an external device via a network. The frame image data is configured to enable a setting that a special color setting is required. When the setting indicating that a special color setting is required is made for the frame image data, the printing device uses a color profile associated with the setting to combine the frame image data and the variable data and form the print image.