Abstract: A reference image generating apparatus includes: a reader that reads a printed matter transported from an image forming apparatus; a reference image generator that generates a reference image for automatically inspecting the printed matter based on a read image generated by reading the printed matter; and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor acquires, from the image forming apparatus, information on whether or not each paper of the printed matter to be transported to the reader is subject to automatic inspection.

Abstract: In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus for performing binary classification on a corpus of objects, having: one or more logic elements providing a classification engine to: access a training set comprising a plurality of binary classified objects, each object including one or more features, and each object designated as belonging to the class or not belonging to the class; build a model comprising a probability that each of the one or more features implies that an inspected object belongs to the class; access a particular object from the corpus; analyze the particular object to identify one or more identified features, the identified features selected form the one or more features; assign the particular object a composite score comprising a sum of the identified features; and designate the particular object as belonging to the class if and only if the composite score is above a threshold.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speech interactive method and device. The method includes: during a process of displaying an interface of an application, detecting a first user operation; in response to the first user operation, querying a speech instruction associated with the application based on the application containing the interface and querying a system general speech instruction; setting the speech instruction and the system general speech instruction as applicable speech instructions for the application; and providing a prompt based on the applicable speech instructions to perform a speech interaction.

Abstract: A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image scanner, causes the information processing apparatus to: display, on a display of the information processing apparatus, a scan result screen formed by alternately arranging a front-side image and a back-side image of a document scanned by the image scanner, the front-side image and the back-side image being received from the image scanner; perform at least insertion of an image of a newly-scanned document into a plurality of images displayed on the scan result screen, or deletion of an image included in the plurality of images displayed on the scan result screen; and in response to determining that the insertion or the deletion is performed, disable file separation, the file separation being separating a plurality of images displayed on the scan result screen into files.

Abstract: A communication system comprising an information processing apparatus and a mobile terminal, wherein when the mobile terminal receives a packet transmitted from the information processing apparatus, it determines whether or not a login condition for transmitting a login request is satisfied based on a received signal strength of the packet, and it transmits the login request to the information processing apparatus in a case where it determines that the login condition is satisfied, and does not transmit the login request to the information processing apparatus in a case where it is determines that the login condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A state of a user operation performed on a mobile terminal is registered in a Web server that can be accessed from the mobile terminal and a multifunction peripheral (MFP) in association with information about the user, and the state of the user operation is handed over to the MFP based on the registered information by the user simply logging into the MFP.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for understanding information using a document analysis technique. An initial corpus of information is formed by identifying a document(s) that match a search criteria. The initial corpus of information is expanded with a set of documents containing statements with a semantic meaning within a threshold degree of similarity to a semantic meaning of statements contained within the document(s) used to form the initial corpus of information. Viewpoint(s) are then extracted from the expanded corpus of information using a natural language processing technique. A new set of documents is analyzed by identifying the subject, assertion and context statements. Assertions in the new set of documents that are within a threshold degree of agreement or disagreement with the extracted viewpoint are highlighted to assist the user in understanding how information aligns with a viewpoint.

Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying cut-out patterns from a scanned raw image file and arranging shapes within a document prior to printing cut-out patterns are described. A printing device may identify and group contents in a page of a print job as shapes to be cut out from the paper after they are printed. The printing device may then detect the grouped page contents as cut-out patterns. For each cut-out pattern, the printing device may detect the white spaces of content of the cut-out pattern and mark them as available for printing other cut-out patterns. Thus, the printing device may print multiple cut-out patterns on a same page based on using the white space within larger cut-out patterns.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments to manage modifications to a document such that the document conforms to requirements of a label. In some aspects, input assigning a label to a document is received. The label indicates requirements for the document. For example, the label marks the document as confidential, and requires the document to be encrypted when leaving a secure environment. The label may include additional requirements, such as particular watermarking or other content modifications to the document based on the confidential label. A device may be capable of modifying the document such that it satisfies only a subset of the label's requirements. The device then generates a message indicating a gap between the label's requirements and the state of the document, and sends the message to a network service. The network service is configured to augment the document as specified by the additional requirements indicated in the message.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a system including a portable hardware device having a radio antenna, the device being operably coupled to a network, where the device includes electronics for scanning ambient radio messages using the antenna, evaluating a message for sentiment (e.g., intent-to-harm) using at least one artificial intelligence technique, and upon determining the presence of intent-to-harm, transmitting an alert signal over the network to a target entity as determined by a set of alert transmission rules based at least in part on the content/context/metadata of the message. In an illustrative example, a portable pack may be preconfigured with automatic language translation and speech detection capabilities. The pack may scan ambient radio signals for specific words/phrases of interest (W/POI).

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a request for a file via a network, determining whether the request for the file is associated with an authorized user for the file, in response to determining that the request for the file is associated with the authorized user for the file, determining whether the request for the file complies with a security policy associated with the network, and in response to determining that the request for the file complies with the security policy associated with the network, providing access to the file to the authorized user.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing section that performs processing of a job relating to image processing, one or more information processing sections that perform processing on one or more information items as processing targets among information items generated by a device group, a permission acquisition section that acquires a collection permission for each of one or more information items used by the one or more information processing sections, from a manager of the device group or the image processing apparatus, and a collection section that collects the information items used by the one or more information processing sections from devices that generate the information items, under a condition in which acquisition of the collection permission for each of the information items from the manager is completed.

Abstract: Common events between layers on a semiconductor wafer are filtered. Common events should contain the majority of defects of interest. Only nuisance events that are common between layers on the semiconductor wafer remain, which reduces the nuisance rate. Defects that are common across layers can be filtered based on, for example, defect coordinates, a difference image, or defect attributes.

Abstract: A CPU of an information processing apparatus (MFP) obtains device information regarding a secondary storage device provided in the MFP, and discriminates, based on the obtained device information, whether the secondary storage device is a type of storage device in which the number of shifts to a power saving state affects the lifetime of the storage device. The CPU determines, as a shift condition for the secondary storage device to shift to the power saving state, a shift time for the secondary storage device to shift to the power saving state, by determining the shift time for the type of storage device in which the number of shifts does not affect the lifetime to be shorter than the shift time for the type of storage device in which the number of shifts affects the lifetime.

Abstract: A text classification method is performed in a computer. The method includes: receiving a plurality of texts. When detecting that a text among the received plurality of texts includes a pause part satisfying a specific condition, dividing the text at the pause part and generating a new plurality of texts. The method may also include classifying texts, among the received plurality of texts, not including the pause part satisfying the specific condition, and the generated new plurality of texts into a plurality of clusters.

Abstract: An image processing system capable of managing image data using a plurality of boxes, comprises a microphone that obtains a sound, an obtaining unit that obtains a user identifier based on voice information of a user obtained via the microphone, a specifying unit that specifies one box among the plurality of boxes based on specification information including at least the user identifier, and an informing unit that informs the user of information related to the specified one box.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured: to obtain a plurality of images taken so as to include a target site of a subject in temporal phases; and to calculate an index indicating a state of an adhesion at a boundary between a first site of the subject corresponding to a first region and a second site of the subject corresponding to a second region, by using classification information used for classifying each of pixels into one selected from between a first class related to the first region and a second class related to a second region positioned adjacent to the first region in a predetermined direction, on a basis of mobility information among the images in the temporal phases with respect to the pixels in the images that are arranged in the predetermined direction across the boundary between the first region and the second region of the images.

Abstract: Transferring (e.g., automatically) an automated assistant routine between client devices during execution of the automated assistant routine. The automated assistant routine can correspond to a set of actions to be performed by one or more agents and/or one or more devices. While content, corresponding to an action of the routine, is being rendered at a particular device, the user may walk away from the particular device and toward a separate device. The automated assistant routine can be automatically transferred in response, and the separate device can continue to rendering the content for the user.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit and a replacement unit. The acquisition unit acquires first level information indicating a level of a function of a first apparatus and second level information indicating a level of the function of a second apparatus. The replacement unit replaces the function of the second apparatus with the function of the first apparatus, in a case where the level indicated by the first level information acquired by the acquisition unit is higher than the level indicated by the second level information.

Abstract: A device for processing a voice command for a vehicle includes: a communication module to transmit a voice command received from a user to a voice recognition server, and to receive a recognized voice command from the voice recognition server; a controller identifying objects displayed on a screen of a touch display, and classifying the recognized voice command into a control command and a touch-based command; a control command processing module to perform a control operation corresponding to the control command; and a touch-based command processing module for selecting an object corresponding to the touch-based command from the touch display.