Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a housing having an opening through which a medium bundle including media is inserted in an insertion direction, a crimp binding device to crimp the medium bundle inserted through the opening on one side in a main scanning direction orthogonal to the insertion direction, an input device to receive an input on a medium size of the media and a binding position of the medium bundle to be crimp-bound by the crimp binding device, processing circuitry to determine an insertion orientation of the medium bundle to be inserted into the opening, an image orientation of an image on at least one of the media, and a front-rear orientation of the medium bundle, based on the medium size and the binding position received by the input device, and a notifying device to provide notification of the insertion orientation, the image orientation, and the front-rear orientation.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a tray, a conveyor, a reader, and circuitry. The tray stacks a document. The conveyor conveys the document from the tray. The reader reads an image on the document conveyed by the conveyor. The circuitry is to acquire processing information including a conveyance setting to set a conveyance condition of the document by the conveyor or a reading setting to set a reading condition of the document by the reader, estimate, based on the processing information acquired, magnitude of a sound generated by a conveyance of the document by the conveyor or a reading of the document by the reader and a reading number of sheets of the document processable per a given period of time, and change the conveyance setting based on the magnitude of the sound and the reading number.

Abstract: A propulsion strengthening member attached to a surface of an object existing in outer space, the propulsion strengthening member includes: a transparent member that transmits an emitted laser; and an opaque member that is provided between the transparent member and the object and absorbs the laser such that at least a part thereof is evaporated by energy of the laser.

Abstract: A processing system including a post-processing apparatus, a document reader, and circuitry. The post-processing apparatus includes a housing, a processing device, and an ejector. The housing has an opening. The processing device performs a post-processing on a medium on which an image is formed. The ejector ejects the medium subjected to the post-processing by the processing device, from the opening. The document reader reads an image on a document of multiple documents. The circuitry is to detect a binding mark on the document from the image read by the document reader, and move the processing device to a binding position facing the binding mark on the document, when the multiple documents is manually fed through the opening of the post-processing apparatus.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions for an information processing apparatus including a controller and a memory. The set of program instructions, when executed by the controller, causes the information processing apparatus to perform editing label data, the label data being printable by a label printer, storing the edited label data in the memory, controlling the label printer to perform printing based on the edited label data or the stored label data, in response to storing the label data or performing printing based on the label data, suggesting posting of the stored label data or the printed label data, and posting the label data, the posting the label data including uploading the label data to a server. The server is configured to store the uploaded label data.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a tray on which a document is to be placed; a conveyer to convey the document from the tray; a sensor to read an image of the document while the document is conveyed by the conveyer; and circuitry to acquire processing information including at least one of a setting for conveying the document by the conveyer and a setting for reading the document by the sensor and estimate, based on the processing information, sound pleasantness which a person feels for sound produced in conveyance or reading of the document in a case where the document is conveyed or read.

Abstract: A media conveying apparatus includes: a pair of first defining members defining an upstream part of a conveyance path in a conveyance direction; a pair of second defining members defining a downstream part of the conveyance path in the conveyance direction; a first conveyor to convey a medium in the upstream part in the conveyance direction; a second conveyor to convey the medium in the downstream part in the conveyance direction; and a tray disposed downstream from the pair of second defining members in the conveyance direction. The tray stacks the medium ejected from the conveyance path. The pair of first defining members and the pair of second defining members are movable relative to each other in the conveyance direction to lengthen and shorten the conveyance path including the upstream part and the downstream part.

Abstract: A set of computer-readable instructions, when executing by a computer of a server, causes the server to perform: when a font suggestion request is received from an information processing device and a user has been identified: a determination process; and a suggestion process. The determination process includes: extracting one or more related sets of label data related to the user from among a plurality of sets of label data recorded in a label database; and determining one or more languages based on one or more text objects contained in the one or more related sets of label data. The suggestion process includes: extracting one or more recommended sets of font data supporting the one or more languages from among a plurality of sets of font data recorded in a font database; and suggesting the one or more recommended sets of font data to the information processing device.

Abstract: A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller, causes a server to perform: in response to receiving, from a first information processing apparatus, a download request specifying one of a plurality of label data stored in a label database, transmitting specified label data and a label ID to the first information processing apparatus; acquiring print logs including a print log output from the first information processing apparatus when a label printer performs printing based on the label data received from the server, the print log including time information and the label ID; counting, based on the acquired print logs, a number of prints within a particular period for each label data; and in response to receiving a suggestion request from a second information processing apparatus, suggesting label data having a high print frequency based on the counted number of prints for each label data.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a stacker, a first direction aligner, a second direction aligner, a binder, a drive source, and a switch. The stacker stacks media conveyed in a conveyance direction. The first direction aligner aligns a position of the media in the conveyance direction. The second direction aligner aligns a position of the media in a main scanning direction. The binder binds a media bundle of the media on the stacker. The drive source moves the second direction aligner in a first-side direction and a second-side direction. The switch switches the first direction aligner between a first state where the first direction aligner is allowed to move in the first-side direction by the second direction aligner and is restricted to move in the second-side direction and a second state where the first direction aligner is allowed to move in the second-side direction.

Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a hole puncher and circuitry. The hole puncher includes a punching member, a motor to drive the punching member to perform a punching process as a post-processing on a sheet, and a sensor to measure a number of rotations of the motor to measure an actual punching time of the punching process on the sheet. The circuitry is to acquire the actual punching time, and sheet processing information and sheet information of the sheet; generate a trained model through machine learning using the sheet processing information and the actual punching time as training data; input the sheet processing information to the trained model to estimate an estimated punching time; calculate a time difference between the actual punching time and the estimated punching time; and compare the time difference and a threshold value to determine deterioration of a part member of the hole puncher.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a stacker, a conveyance-direction mover, a binder, and processing circuitry. The stacker stacks a medium. The conveyance-direction mover moves, in a conveyance direction, a medium bundle that is a plurality of media including the medium stacked on the stacker. The binder moves in a main scanning direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction and bind the medium bundle stacked on the stacker. The processing circuitry controls an operation of the conveyance-direction mover and the binder. The processing circuitry causes the conveyance-direction mover to move the medium bundle stacked on the stacker in the conveyance direction and causes the binder to move in the main scanning direction, face a binding position on the medium bundle, and bind the binding position of the medium bundle.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: an ejection tray; an internal tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first direction in which the sheet medium is ejected to the ejection tray; a second conveyor to come into contact with and separate from sheet media stacked on the internal tray to convey the sheet media in a second direction different from the first direction; a crimp binder downstream from the internal tray in the second direction to execute crimp binding on the sheet media stacked on the internal tray; and control circuitry. When a subsequent sheet medium, which is subsequent to a preceding sheet medium of the sheet media stacked on the internal tray, is conveyed in the first direction while contacting the preceding sheet medium, the control circuitry causes the crimp binder to press a downstream end of the preceding sheet medium in the second direction.

Abstract: One embodiment of a method for controlling a robot includes computing, using a trained machine learning model and based on sensor data, one or more costs associated with one or more trajectories; determining an action based on the one or more costs; and controlling the robot to move based on the action.

Abstract: A thickness detection device for detecting a thickness of an object includes a thickness-direction moving member and a thickness detector. The thickness-direction moving member is held to be movable in a direction of the thickness by the object inserted into a cavity having an opening that opens in a plurality of directions. The thickness detector detects the thickness-direction moving member moved by the object inserted into the cavity to detect the thickness of the object. The thickness-direction moving member has a portion to face the object inserted into the cavity. The portion has a shape inclined relative to an insertion direction of the object.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes an upstream device, a downstream device, and a controller as circuitry. The upstream device includes multiple rollers to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction and perform a sheet processing. The downstream device is downstream from the upstream device in the conveyance direction. The downstream device includes a sheet sensor to detect the sheet. The controller controls a timing to rotate the multiple rollers of the upstream device to perform the sheet processing in response to a detection of the sheet by the sheet sensor.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes conveyors, a skew detector, a mover, and circuitry. The conveyors convey a sheet medium in a first direction. The skew detector detects an amount of skew of the sheet medium conveyed by the conveyors in the first direction. The mover moves the skew detector in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The circuitry is to control the mover to move the skew detector in the second direction to detect, multiple times, an end of the sheet medium in the second direction at a detection interval, and change the detection interval of multiple detections according to a size of the sheet medium, to detect the amount of skew of the sheet medium.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a shift roller pair, a shifter, multiple roller shafts, and a coupler. The shift roller pair includes first shift rollers, and second shift rollers facing the first shift rollers. The shift roller pair is conveyable a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction and movable in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction. The shifter moves the shift roller pair in the width direction to shift the sheet in the width direction as a shift operation. The multiple roller shafts support the first shift rollers. The coupler couples the multiple roller shafts and is rotatable with respect to the multiple roller shafts.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a drive circuit with a drive element for switching power to a motor, and either a circuit or a processor with memory storing executable code. The circuit or processor causes the motor control device to the motor control device to acquire the motor's drive state and calculate a reference temperature using a temperature sensor's detection value. The circuit or processor causes the motor control device to estimate the drive element's temperature and predict temperature changes: a rise when the motor is active and a drop when it is not. The circuit or processor causes the motor control device to update the estimated element temperature based on these calculations.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a sheet stacker, a width-direction conveyor, and circuitry. The sheet stacker stacks multiple sheets including a sheet to form a sheet bundle on the sheet stacker. The width-direction conveyor conveys the sheet bundle on the sheet stacker in a width direction of the sheet. The circuitry is to control the width-direction conveyor to convey the sheet bundle on the sheet stacker to a given position in the width direction at a first speed or a second speed slower than the first speed, based on sheet information including a length of the sheet and a processing condition related to forming the sheet bundle.