Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication based on a first wireless communication method, a second wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication based on a second wireless communication method different from the first wireless communication method, and a prioritized control unit that performs a control based on information related to a communication destination of the first wireless communication unit and information related to a communication destination of the second wireless communication unit such that one wireless communication unit of the first wireless communication unit or the second wireless communication unit is operated in a prioritized manner over another wireless communication unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring target image data representing a target image including a plurality of pixels, the target image data including a plurality of sets of component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of component images; smoothing the plurality of component images to generate respective sets of a plurality of sets of smoothed component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of smoothed component images; enhancing an edge in each of the plurality of smoothed component images to generate corresponding one set of a plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; generating single-component image data including one type of component value corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels by using the plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; and specifying a plurality of edge pixels using the single-component image data, the plurality of edge pixels constituting an edge in the target image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU, and receives print information transmitted from an information processing device via a network. The image forming apparatus generates an output image according to the print information, and if a non-matching character which a user recognizes with difficulty is included in the output image, generates a corrected image in which all or a part of the non-matching character is corrected.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a transmission request for image data from an image processing apparatus to which a user provides an instruction to execute image processing, an acquisition unit that acquires a security policy corresponding to attribute information related to an attribute of the image processing apparatus in a case where the reception unit receives the transmission request, and a control unit that performs control for transmitting the image data to the image processing apparatus and executing the image processing in the image processing apparatus in accordance with the security policy acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is used in contact with a user includes a detection unit and a control unit. The detection unit detects a motion of the user in a real space performed without contacting an object that is present in the real space. The control unit instructs the object to execute a specific function in the case where plural motions by users for a common object are detected. The specific function is correlated with the plural motions.

Abstract: Provided is an image reading apparatus capable of eliminating the need for a user to correct a character portion that cannot be recognized by OCR and improve the operation burden on the user. A non-word detecting unit detects a non-word that is not considered to be a word among a plurality of words constituting the text in a document. A determining unit determines whether or not a compound word obtained by combining the non-word with at least one of the word immediately before the non-word and the word immediately after the non-word in that arrangement order is a word. A character correcting unit identifies the text portion corresponding to the compound word in the text in the document as a failed character recognition portion, and corrects the text of the failed character recognition portion to the text of the compound word.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction section that extracts delayed processing having a waiting time which is longer than a predetermined time, from a use history of each of plural users using plural processing devices, the waiting time being a time from performing of an instruction to perform processing to starting of performing the processing, an analysis section that analyzes a cause of the delayed processing, and a notification section that notifies the user who has performed an instruction to perform the delayed processing, of at least one of an analysis result obtained by the analysis section or a countermeasure based on the analysis result.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit and a setting unit. The acquisition unit acquires a selection result indicating whether a print processor is used for a process related to a print layout. The setting unit sets, in accordance with the selection result and as a print processor used for a printer driver associated with a printer device, a print processor associated with the printer driver.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a data processing part that performs image processing of image data, a setting part that sets multiple wireless communication identifiers and functions related to image processing that are respectively associated with the multiple wireless communication identifiers wherein these wireless communication identifies are stored in a storage part, a communication part that establishes a communication with at least one of the external devices using one of the wireless communication identifiers such that the established communication is related to the one of the wireless communication identifiers, wherein the one of the external devices is defined as a connected external device, and the one of the wireless communication identifiers is defined as a related ID, when an image processing job is acquired via the communication part, the control part controls the image processing at the data processing part based on the function associated with the related ID.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for an information processing apparatus is provided. The computer-readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to obtain a width of an image-formable area, having a first side and a second side, on a sheet and object image data composing an object image; define a first partial image and a second partial image in the object image; and generate composite image data composing an image, in which the first partial image and the second partial image are arrayed in an arrangement such that a third side of the first partial image and a fourth side of the second partial image align along the first direction.

Abstract: An information processing device according to aspects of the present disclosures configured to determine whether a managed device is a mobile device or a stationary device. When it is determined that the managed device is the mobile device, a first threshold value is set as a threshold value, and when it is determined that the managed device is the stationary device, a second threshold value is set as the threshold value. When it is determined that the remaining amount of the consumable is equal to or less than the threshold value, the information processing device issues a notification regarding the remaining amount of the consumable associated with the managed device. The notification is issued earlier in a case where the threshold value is the first threshold value than in a case where the threshold value the second threshold value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet; a mounting portion on which an IC card reader which includes a lighting portion where light indicating an operation state comes on and which is used for user authentication is mounted; a reader cover mounted on the mounting portion and covering the IC card reader, wherein the reader cover is provided with a plurality of openings, either one of the openings opposing the lighting portion of the IC card reader; and a light transmission sheet provided on the reader cover and covering the openings, wherein transmittance of visible light for the light transmission sheet is 5% or more and 25% or less.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which is capable of preventing decrease in user convenience with respect to enlarged display of a previewed image. The image processing apparatus generates preview images based on document data. Based on completion of generation of a first preview image based on the document data, a display device is caused to display a screen through which an instruction to start generation of a second preview image based on the document data can be issued.

Abstract: A management apparatus receives a data set from a target device that is one of a plurality of devices, the data set including a data type, a data body, and identification information of the target device; each time the data set is received, calculates scheduled transmission time for the target device based on reception time of the data set and on the identification information and the data type; estimates a load of the management apparatus at the scheduled transmission time based on the scheduled transmission time and on next transmission time of the data set for the plurality of devices other than the target device; and in a case where the load is higher than a particular level, transmit, to the target device, corrected transmission time as next transmission time for the target device, the corrected transmission time being obtained by adding a correction value to the scheduled transmission time.

Abstract: An image scanning apparatus that is capable of executing control about an interrupt scan without using another apparatus. The image scanning apparatus includes a scanner and a controller. The scanner scans a document. The controller determines whether interrupt execution of a second scan that is different from a first scan is permitted based on a setting relevant to the first scan that is being executed. The scanner executes the second scan after suspending the first scan in a case where the interrupt execution of the second scan is permitted, and the scanner restarts the first scan after executing the second scan.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a usage history of using an image forming apparatus by a user and a number of times of viewing report information by the user; and circuitry configured to determine an arrangement of the report information relating to a function of an application and display the report information, based on the usage history and the number of times of viewing the report information by the user.

Abstract: In a data generating apparatus, a processor acquires offset information indicating a deviation in a colorant usage used by a specific print execution unit from a standard amount of usage. The standard amount of usage is a standard quantity concerning colorant used by print execution units. The processor controls the specific print execution unit to print a first patch image and generates first control data using first read data based on the first patch image. The processor generates corrected first control data using the offset information. The processor controls the specific print execution unit to print a second patch image using the corrected first control data and generates second control data using second read data based on the second patch image. The first and second control data is for common use in the printing processes performed on the print execution units.

Abstract: An estimation unit provides an estimation result using a trained model generated by machine learning which is trained using training data that includes input data representing document data about documents read from a plurality of MFPs and teaching data representing collected setting data about each of the documents read from the plurality of MFPs. A setting unit transmits, for a particular document read by the MFP, an estimation request to the estimation apparatus along with document data about the document read by the MFP, and receives the estimation result, and sets an output setting of the document based on the received estimation result.

Abstract: A method for scanning a document a single time on a multi-function device (MFD) to generate a scanned image in different resolutions is disclosed. For example, the method is executed by a processor of the MFD and includes receiving the document, causing a scanner to scan the document, generating a plurality of scanned documents, wherein each one of the plurality of scanned documents have different resolutions, and outputting the plurality of scanned documents.

Abstract: A color conversion method for performing color conversion on print data includes a color conversion process of converting a color of a pre-conversion color system used to express a color in the print data before the color conversion is performed to a color of an ink color system corresponding to inks of multiple colors, and in the color conversion process, a position selecting process of selecting some positions from the positions in the print data, a profile using process of converting the color of each position in the print data according to a profile associating the colors before and after the conversion, and a color correcting process of performing correction on results of color conversion in the profile using process with respect to the selected position selected in the position selecting process to obtain a color expressed using ink of the predetermined number of colors or less.