Abstract: A network printing system includes user devices, printing devices, a print server, and a logon server. The print server includes a print queue arranged to store print jobs received from the user devices and to send stored print jobs to the printing devices. The logon server is arranged to store logon details for users of the user devices and to store printer information for the users. The print server is arranged to select a printing device to which to send a print job stored in the queue based on the printer information stored in the logon server for the user of the user device from which the print job originated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which issues a print instruction when a dragged file is dropped on a print object, the apparatus comprises: a layout unit configured to lay out the print object at a first position; and a display control unit configured to display, when the file is dragged, the print object at a second position which is closer to the dragged file than the first position by moving the print object from the first position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a standby mode in which the image forming apparatus is ready for executing image processing and a low power consumption mode which consumes lower electric power than the standby mode. The image processing apparatus includes the following four units. The communication unit is connected to a network and communicates with other devices connected to the network. The request frequency monitoring unit acquires information indicating the frequency of requests for image processing received by the communication unit. The start-up schedule-generating unit generates a start-up schedule of the communication unit according to the information acquired by the request frequency monitoring unit. The power control unit switches, when the image processing apparatus is in the low power consumption mode, power supply modes for the communication unit in accordance with the start-up schedule that is generated by the start-up schedule-generating unit.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a computer and an image forming apparatus. The computer includes a print data generating circuit to generate print data of an image. The image forming apparatus includes a rendering circuit to execute rendering of the image based on the print data. The computer includes an image generating circuit generates an image object to indicate a state where the objects are overlapped in the image with a reduced resolution at least partially. The print data generating circuit generates the print data including the at least one object included in the image and the image object generated by the image generating circuit. When the rendering circuit processes the image object, the rendering circuit enhances the resolution of a part corresponding to the object in the image object based on a shape of the object overlapped at upper side in the image object.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with USB sockets on front and back sides, and includes a determining unit for determining whether or not a USB device inserted to a front side USB socket 184 is a function enhancement device, and a control unit making, when it is determined by the determining unit that a function enhancement device is inserted to the front side USB socket 184, the USB device unusable and making, when it is determined that a USB device other than the function enhancement device is inserted, the USB device usable. Thus, it is possible to prevent a USB wireless LAN adapter or the like from being used constantly connected to the front side USB socket and thereby to reduce possibility of USB wireless LAN adapter of being damaged or removed.

Abstract: In scenarios involving the capturing of an environment, it may be desirable to remove temporary objects (e.g., vehicles depicted in captured images of a street) in furtherance of individual privacy and/or an unobstructed rendering of the environment. However, techniques involving the evaluation of visual images to identify and remove objects may be imprecise, e.g., failing to identify and remove some objects while incorrectly omitting portions of the images that do not depict such objects. However, such capturing scenarios often involve capturing a lidar point cloud, which may identify the presence and shapes of objects with higher precision. The lidar data may also enable a movement classification of respective objects differentiating moving and stationary objects, which may facilitate an accurate removal of the objects from the rendering of the environment (e.g., identifying the object in a first image may guide the identification of the object in sequentially adjacent images).

Abstract: An image display device includes a microcomputer and LUTs which are tables of correction data used to correct color balance of images. The microcomputer sets LUT extensions and calculates the LUTs based on: (1) the normalized values GainLn of the L conforming adjustment values GainL and the normalized values GainHn of the H conforming adjustment values GainH; (2) the normalized values Lin of the input values Liref of the image data of the L adjustment image and the normalized values Hin of the input values Hiref of the image data of the H adjustment image; (3) the correction data of the LUTs; and (4) the correction data of the LUT extension units.

Abstract: In a case where a conveyed document is a first page, printing is started before a result of determination as to whether the document is a blank page is output, whereby a time until a first sheet is output can be shortened.

Abstract: A method for simulating a behavior of a spooler (220), comprising: receiving (305) an output file (405) produced by the spooler as a result of the execution of a unit of work in a data processing apparatus, the unit of work being submitted to the spooler by a data processing automation program running on the data processing apparatus; extracting (310, 315) from the received output file at least one collection of data (260, 265, 270), wherein the at least one collection of data includes data necessary to the data processing automation product (205) for performing a data processing automation function; causing (330-350) the data processing automation product receive said at least one collection of data instead of retrieving the necessary data from the spooler.

Abstract: An image reading device includes: an image reading section configured to read an image of an original document; a document size detecting section configured to use image data acquired by the image reading section with an original cover open to detect a size of the original document in a main scanning direction; and a control section configured to allow the document size detecting section to perform a detection of the size of the original document by lighting a light source of the image reading section at an initial light intensity, subsequently allow the document size detecting section to perform another detection of the size of the original document by lighting the light source at a reduced light intensity, and set, when the same size has been detected in the two detections of the size of the original document, the reduced intensity as a document size detection light intensity.

Abstract: A scene point cloud is processed and a solution to an inverse-function is determined to determine its source objects. A primitive extraction process and a part matching process are used to compute the inverse function solution. The extraction process estimates models and parameters based on evidence of cylinder and planar geometry in the scene. The matching process matches clusters of 3D points to models of parts from a library. A selected part and its associated polygon model is used to represent the point cluster. Iterations of the extraction and matching processes complete a 3D model for a complex scene made up of planes, cylinders, and complex parts from the parts library. Connecting regions between primitives and/or parts are processed to determine their existence and type. Constraints may be used to ensure a connected model and alignment of its components.

Abstract: There is provided a graphic meter device which improves the visibility of a needle and which allows for easy determination of the kind of indicator. The graphic meter device includes a dot matrix display (8) for displaying a needle indicator image (9) provided with a dial (10a) and a needle (10b) pointing to the dial (10a) in accordance with a measured quantity and a CPU (1) for controlling a display state of the dot matrix display (8), the CPU being arranged to display a colored region (10f) of the needle (10b) of the dial (10a) with a color different from the rest of the region in the dial (10a).

Abstract: Approaches are provided for processing scan data based on a scan process definition (SPD) that defines a set of instructions for acquiring image data based on one or more printed documents. An SPD may include extension data that is used to store additional data in association with the scan data. An SPD may include rights management data that is used to provide security to the scan data that is generated based on the SPD. An SPD may be used as a print process definition for dictating how print operations are to be performed. An SPD may be associated with data that identifies one or more scan devices that are prohibited from using the SPD. An SPD may be associated with access delegation data that indicates one or more users who have been delegated access to the SPD.

Abstract: An image display device includes: a projection port that projects image display light generated based on an image signal; and a combiner that presents a virtual image by reflecting the image display light projected from the projection port. With respect to a specific direction along a reflection surface of the combiner, the curvature of the combiner in the specific direction becomes smaller as a distance from the projection port becomes larger. The reflection surface of the combiner may be formed by a biconic surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of executing authentication processing improved in security of a command including authentication information, which is received over a network from an external apparatus. A CPU receives a command including authentication information via a network. The CPU determines whether or not authentication information included in the received command is a hash value. The CPU causes processing in accordance with the received command to be executed depending on authentication performed based on the authentication information when it is determined that the authentication information is a hash value, and causes the processing not to be executed when it is determined that the authentication information is not a hash value.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a shutdown request unit controls the image forming apparatus to perform shutdown at shutdown execution date and time included in schedule information, which is set beforehand and managed by a schedule management unit. A function restriction management unit restricts at least part of a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus stepwise at timing earlier than the shutdown execution date and time, and a message management unit notifies a user of a message whose content is differentiated in each of steps.

Abstract: For calculating a zooming ratio for a scanned image of an original document that includes a handwritten object, in each of the primary and the secondary scanning direction, the zooming ratio calculating unit generates projection images of black objects in an original image of the original document and the scanned image, identifies the smallest and largest pixel positions in the projection image of the original image, identifies the corresponding smallest and largest pixel positions in the projection image of the scanned image, and calculates the zooming ratio on the basis of a two distances between the smallest and the largest pixel positions of the original image and the scanned image. After zooming the scanned image by the zooming ratio, an image of the handwritten object is extracted on the basis of the zoomed scanned image and the original image.

Abstract: Method and system for presenting a lesson plan having a plurality of keyframes is provided. The method includes initializing a fixed variable for a first keyframe; detecting an input from a user at an interactive display device; correlating the input with a gesture from a gesture set and one or more of database domains from among a plurality of database domains; displaying an image at the interactive display device when all mutable variables for the first keyframe content are determined based on the input; manipulating the image using a gesture associated with the displayed image and any associated database domains; and transitioning to a next keyframe using animation.

Abstract: We present a technique that utilizes a motion blur (three dimensional) rasterizer to augment the PCS culling technique so that it can be used for continuous collision detection, which to the best of our knowledge has not been done before for motion blur using a graphics processor.

Abstract: An ultrasound system which is capable of biplane imaging is able to display, store and export independent image frames of only the reference image (90) or only the variable orientation image, or the standard display of both images. The system is also able to sweep through a range of image plane orientations and to automatically acquire a sequence of images (92) comprising an image in each orientation over the range of plane orientations. The system is preferably operable in the biplane tilt mode, the biplane rotate mode, or the biplane elevation tilt mode.