Abstract: There is provided a technology of realizing adequate management of a version number suitable for the actual contents of each of the documents without imparting respective IDs to a plurality of documents which are management objects.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of printing a document in a secure manner, includes receiving, by a printer, print data that has been encrypted using a printer public key. The printer-public-key-encrypted print data is decrypted by the printer using a printer secret key, to obtain decrypted print data as well as user identification information provided with the print data. Print pre-processing is performed by the printer on the decrypted print data, to thereby obtain pre-processed print data. The pre-processed print data is encrypted by the printer using a user secret key to obtain user-public-key-encrypted print data, and the user-public-key-encrypted print data is stored. The user-public-key-encrypted print data is decrypted and printed by the printer upon receipt of a user secret key, prior to printing the print data.

Abstract: A method of inspecting unevenness of a partition wall surface of a honeycomb structure includes the steps of: allowing a diffusion light to enter from one end face 8 side by a predetermined lighting means 3 and to exit from the other end face 8 side of the honeycomb structure 2 after passing it through the inside of the cells, allowing the exited diffusion light to pass through a translucent screen 4 disposed on the other end face 9 side of the honeycomb structure 2 to act as a transmitted light, projecting a transmitted image 13 by means of the tone of the transmitted light onto the transmitted light side of the screen 4, picking up the transmitted image 13 projected on the screen 4 by an imaging means 5, and analyzing by an analyzing means 6 the gray level of the obtained image to inspect for each cell the degree of the surface unevenness of the partition walls. This method enables easy inspection on the surface unevenness of the partition walls of the honeycomb structure 2.

Abstract: A circuit board mounting electronic components including a heat generating element is accommodated in a casing. A heat dissipation member is disposed between the heat generating element and an inner surface of the casing. The heat dissipation member is thermally bonded to the heat generating element and to the casing. The heat dissipation member is a polymeric material having fluidity. A film for preventing a shifting of the heat dissipation member is disposed between the heat dissipation member and the casing. And, the film is chemically or electrically bonded to the heat dissipation member and to the casing.

Abstract: A technique that improves convenience in accessing data stored in a predetermined memory area is provided. An apparatus includes a storage processing unit 101 configured to store data into a predetermined memory area, an information acquiring unit 102 configured to acquire access information to access the data stored in the memory area by the storage processing unit 101, and an information output unit 103 configured to output the access information acquired by the information acquiring unit 102 to a predetermined recording medium in accordance with execution of data storage processing to the memory area by the storage processing unit 101.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a camera which photographs an operator, an authentication unit to authenticate whether or not facial data indicating an operator's face photographed by the camera indicates a registered person based on a result of searching for the facial data registered in a facial data storage unit in which the facial data indicating the operator's face is registered beforehand, and a control unit to control an only predetermined function executable by a person other than the registered person in a case where that it is judged that the operator is not the registered person by an authentication result of the authentication unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a technique that can make, when a driver program for controlling office equipment from an external apparatus is installed in the external apparatus, work for the installation simple and easy regardless of a positional relation between the office equipment and the external apparatus. Office equipment that is controllable by a predetermined driver program from an external apparatus includes a request accepting unit 101 that accepts an acquisition request for information necessary for processing for installation of the driver program and an information transmitting unit 102 that transmits, when the acquisition request is accepted by the request accepting unit, predetermined information necessary for installation of the driver program in the external apparatus to a storage device capable of communicating with the external apparatus.

Abstract: To allow a user to efficiently select a printer and a printer drive for the printer by providing information on a selection state of printers and printer drives for the printers of users around the user when the user selects a printer and a printer driver for the printer. A printer management apparatus includes a state-of-use managing unit that manages, on the basis of a history of communication with a terminal apparatus, predetermined information concerning a state of use of a printer by the terminal apparatus and a state-of-use displaying unit that transmits, in response to a printer device detection signal received from the terminal apparatus, the predetermined information concerning the state of use of the printer managed by the state-of-use managing unit to the terminal apparatus, which transmits the printer device detection signal, and causes the terminal apparatus to display the predetermined information.

Abstract: When image data is transmitted from an image forming apparatus through a network, advertisement information is added to the image data and transmitted only when a cellular phone on a reception side desires to receive the advertisement information. An advertisement information management apparatus of the invention includes an advertisement-information displaying unit (i.e., a display unit 12 in a touch panel display 11 in FIG. 7) that acquires and displays one or plural kinds of advertisement information, a reading and writing unit (i.e., the cellular phone 6 and a card reader 7 in FIG. 7) that reads information recorded in an IC card built in a cellular phone 6 and writes new information in the IC card, and a transmitting unit (i.e., communicating means between the cellular phone 6 and the card reader 7 in FIG.

Abstract: A technique that can realize efficiency of control of an image forming process corresponding to a motion state of a user is provided. An image forming apparatus that performs a predetermined process according to a motion state of a user includes a schedule-information acquiring unit 101 that acquires information on a schedule of the user, a user estimating unit 102 that estimates, on the basis of the information acquired by the schedule-information acquiring unit, a user who is highly likely to use the image forming apparatus, a state-information acquiring unit 103 that acquires state information concerning a motion state of the user estimated by the user estimating unit 102, and a process executing unit 104 that causes, on the basis of the state information acquired by the state-information acquiring unit, the image forming apparatus to execute the predetermined process for the user, the state information of whom is acquired.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a management apparatus for an image forming apparatus that can automatically determine an installation location of the image forming apparatus on the basis of individual authentication information according to an access to the image forming apparatus by a regular user even if the image forming apparatus is moved. The management apparatus for the image forming apparatus of the invention acquires user information of a user authenticated by an image forming apparatus, acquires apparatus information of the image forming apparatus that have authenticated the user information, and specifies an installation location of the image forming apparatus on the basis of the user information acquired and the apparatus information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a personal information management program are provided in which each user is permitted to perform the processing of user's own personal information while preventing leakage of user's personal information without disturbing the use of the apparatus by an infinite number of users to any substantial extent.

Abstract: A shape-measuring device 1 measures the shape of a object to be measured 1 in which segments are arranged and bonded in rows while relatively moving the object 1 in one direction. The shape-measuring device includes rollers 31 provided corresponding to the rows of segments and displaced to follow unevenness of an end face 1a of the object while being rotated on the end face 1a due to the relative movement, detection means 35 provided corresponding to each roller 31 and detecting the amount of displacement of each roller 31, and calculation means 37 for calculating shape data of the object 1 based on the amount of displacement of the roller 31 detected by the detection means 35. The shape-measuring device 1 can accurately and promptly measure the shape of the object such as a DPF in which segments are bonded in rows.

Abstract: An electronic data storing apparatus includes a data acquiring unit configured to acquire plural electronic data, a data displaying unit configured to display plural electronic data acquired by the data acquiring unit, a signing unit configured to apply, when an instruction for applying a digital signature to plural electronic data displayed by the data displaying unit is acquired, the digital signature to each of the plural electronic data, and a data transmitting unit configured to transmit the plural electronic data and signature data applied to each of the plural electronic data by the signing unit to a transmission destination set.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus acquires, after acquiring a user ID of a user, an input of a criteria button for instructing creation of electronic data of an image quality satisfying predetermined criteria. The apparatus acquires electronic data and checks whether an image quality of the electronic data acquired satisfies the predetermined criteria. The apparatus transmits, on the basis of the image quality of the electronic data checked, a mail to a mail address of the user on a network corresponding to the user ID.

Abstract: The electronic apparatus includes a circuit board on which electronic component is mounted and a chassis housing the circuit board. The chassis is provided with a biasing force applying member applying a biasing force to at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the circuit board to hold the circuit board in position such that the circuit board is allowed to be displaced in a direction parallel to a plane of the circuit board.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs authentication by using first identification information set for a user allowed to use. The apparatus counts a time in which the authentication has been continuously performed since a time when the authentication was performed. Then, the apparatus performs a previously determined processing, which corresponds to the counted time and the first identification information used for the authentication, for a private print job stored in a storage part and corresponding to the first identification information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and performs a private print process according to a request from an authenticated user. When the user requests interruption of the private print which is now performed or it is detected that the user has left a place near the image forming apparatus while the private print is being performed, the image forming apparatus interrupts the private print which is now performed and stores a print state at the interruption time. Further, the image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and re-starts the private print which is interrupted in response to a re-start request from the authenticated user.

Abstract: A shape-measuring device 1 measures the shape of a object to be measured 1 in which segments are arranged and bonded in rows while relatively moving the object 1 in one direction. The shape-measuring device includes rollers 31 provided corresponding to the rows of segments and displaced to follow unevenness of an end face 1a of the object while being rotated on the end face 1a due to the relative movement, detection means 35 provided corresponding to each roller 31 and detecting the amount of displacement of each roller 31, and calculation means 37 for calculating shape data of the object 1 based on the amount of displacement of the roller 31 detected by the detection means 35. The shape-measuring device 1 can accurately and promptly measure the shape of the object such as a DPF in which segments are bonded in rows.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion.