Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a positional relationship between a subject and the electronic device, a normalization unit configured to normalize posture information of the subject based on a positional relationship acquired by the acquiring unit and a controlling unit configured to perform control to perform predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized satisfies a predetermined condition, and control not to perform the predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized is not the predetermined posture.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a positional relationship between a subject and the electronic device, a normalization unit configured to normalize posture information of the subject based on a positional relationship acquired by the acquiring unit and a controlling unit configured to perform control to perform predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized satisfies a predetermined condition, and control not to perform the predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized is not the predetermined posture.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image processor that performs predetermined processing on image data; and an image former that forms an image of the image data that has been subjected to the predetermined processing, in which the image processor: includes a file memory; when image data has a low resolution, stores the image data in the file memory, and performs detection processing of detecting whether a predetermined pattern is contained on the image data; and when image data has a high resolution, performs resolution processing of converting the image data to have a predetermined resolution in parallel with binarization processing, and performs the detection processing on the image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a processor that performs: compressing target data for printing; decompressing the compressed target data; and when the resolution of the uncompressed target data is higher than the resolution of low-resolution data included in the compressed target data, generating sample data by decompressing only the low-resolution data, the sample data to be used for a process of detecting data of a particular image from the target data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: detects a defect that occurs when an image processor performs an image process on process data; produces verification data when the defect is detected during the image process, wherein the verification data is formed in a case that at least one portion of the process data, to be processed by the image processor, is changed and causes a same defect that occurs during the image process on the process data; and externally outputs the verification data instead of the process data.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image reading apparatus that may include a scan data acquirer that acquires scan data obtained by reading from printed matter output by an image forming apparatus, a magnification acquirer that acquires a magnification used when the printed matter is imaged, a reverse scaling part that generates reverse-scaled data obtained by scaling the scan data at a reverse magnification that is the reciprocal of the magnification acquired by the magnification acquirer, and a determiner that determines whether a predetermined reference image is included in the reverse-scaled data by comparing with the predetermined reference image.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a hardware processor that acquires scan data obtained by reading from printed matter outputted by an image forming apparatus; an acquisitor that acquires print data used for image formation of the printed matter from the image forming apparatus; a first determiner that compares the scan data and the print data and detects whether or not the scan data and the print data match; a second determiner that determines whether or not a predetermined reference image is included in the scan data when a determination result by the first determiner is negative; and a first discarder that causes the scan data to be discarded when a determination result by the second determiner is positive.

Abstract: An image log management apparatus manages image data indicating an execution result of an image processing job on an image processing apparatus, as an image log, and includes: a hardware processor that: performs detection of whether a predetermined reference image is included in the image data related to the image processing job; and restricts storage of an entire image or a partial image as an image log, out of images represented by the image data, in a case where the reference image is detected.

Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first memory used for first rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an input image, and a second memory used for second rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an image obtained by the first rearrangement processing, and performs correction processing that includes the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing on the input image. One of the first and second memories is capable of higher-speed random access than the other memory and has a smaller memory capacity than the other memory. One of the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing is processing for rearranging a group of pixels in each of a plurality of block images generated from the input image, and the other rearrangement processing is processing for rearranging pixel rows among the block images. The one rearrangement processing involves random access to the one memory.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: generates image data in a raster form on the basis of PDL data described in a page description language; stores the image data generated by the hardware processor; and outputs a predetermined signal in a case where an image of the image data stored in the hardware processor is determined as an image including a predetermined pattern, wherein the hardware processor executes pattern recognition with respect to a region, which includes printing data, in the image of the image data, and does not execute the pattern recognition with respect to a region, which does not include printing data, in the image of the image data.

Abstract: A virtual execution device includes a hardware processor, the hardware processor forming a virtual device by simulating an image forming apparatus in operation, in the case where a predetermined allowing condition is unsatisfied by an operation state of the image forming apparatus, acquiring a plurality of respective jobs that have been externally received by the image forming apparatus before the allowing condition becomes unsatisfied by the operation state of the image forming apparatus as reference jobs, selecting one or more reference jobs as exclusion jobs from among the plurality of acquired reference jobs, causing the virtual device to process subject jobs that are not the one or more selected exclusion jobs among the plurality of acquired reference jobs, and in the case where the allowing condition is satisfied by an operation state of the virtual device, specifying the exclusion jobs as cause jobs that have caused errors in the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention is a control method for displaying a list in which a plurality of elements is sorted in accordance with a predetermined rule and includes a determination step of determining one or a plurality of first elements that are part of the plurality of elements and which are targets whose display position is to be changed based on a position specified in the predetermined display area by an operation of a user and a position into which the addition element is inserted in the list and a display control step of displaying the list in the predetermined display area, in which the addition element is added, a display position or display positions of the one or the plurality of first elements determined at the determination step are changed, and display positions of a plurality of second elements different from the one or the plurality of first elements within the plurality of elements are not changed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a receiver that receives image data; a magnification changer that generates each of a plurality of magnification-changed images by magnifying the image data at a plurality of magnifications different from each other; a detector that detects a specific image from the plurality of magnification-changed images; and a hardware processor that restricts printing of the image data under a part of printing conditions in a case where the specific image is detected by the detector.

Abstract: A method includes: associating content with erasure completion information indicating the content has been erased; forming an image of the content and an image at a time of formation indicating the erasure completion information; in a case where an erasure image is formed to be superimposed on at least a part of the image of the content on the recording medium, forming an image at a time of discarding indicating the erasure completion information and the erasure image, where the image at the time of discarding is associated with the content; and in a case where the erasure completion information is identified by the image at the time of formation and the image at the time of discarding included in single image data output when the image capturing device image-captures the recording medium, determining that the content associated with the erasure completion information has been erased.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that has an electronic mail function and is capable of operating in cooperation with a portable terminal includes: a communication unit configured to perform a communication with the portable terminal; a terminal control unit configured to transmit a command of activating an address book application to the portable terminal, and to acquire a transmission destination address and a user address from the portable terminal; a mail creating unit configured to create an electronic mail in which the transmission destination address is set to a transmission destination of the electronic mail, and the user address to a transmission source of the electronic mail; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image to be transmitted with the electronic mail; and a mail transmitting unit configured to attach the image acquired by the image acquiring unit to the electronic mail, and to transmit the electronic mail.

Abstract: A management server communicable with portable information devices includes: a group generating portion that generates a group to which two or more portable information devices belong; an identification information receiving portion that receives the identification information from a transmission source device, which receives from any one of fixed terminals each located geographically at a fixed position, identification information corresponding to related information assigned to the fixed terminal; a group determining portion that, in response to receipt of the identification information from the transmission source device, determines a group to which the transmission source device belongs; and a linked transmitting portion that transmits the identification information received from the transmission source device, in order to allow each of one or more portable information devices which belong to the group determined, to display the related information corresponding to the identification information received

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a buffer memory; and a hardware processor that outputs an image, and executes detection processing for searching for a predetermined image pattern in the image output by the hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor arranges images of a plurality of jobs in a first direction and writes the images in the buffer memory, and advances the detection processing for the images of the plurality of jobs written in the buffer memory along a second direction intersecting with the first direction.

Abstract: A server for providing a plurality of objects made correspond to a marker is provided. The objects have content differing from each other. The server includes a transmitter configured to preferentially send, in response to a request for the objects based on the marker, an object which has not yet been sent to any of “N” (N?2) terminals of the objects to a requesting terminal of the “N” terminals, the requesting terminal having made the request.

Abstract: An image reading device comprises: a feeder that feeds a document along with a predetermined path; a first reading part that reads a first side of the document at a first position in the path and creates a first image; a second reading part that reads a second side of the document at a second position which is located posterior to the first position in the path and creates a second image; a synthesizing part that lays the first image and the second image on top of one another and creates a composite image; and a detecting part that detects a characteristic pattern of a specific document from the composite image created by the synthesizing part.