Abstract: A speech setting system includes a job execution device that executes a job for which a plurality of parameters are set in accordance with the plurality of parameters and a speech setting assistance server, and the speech setting assistance server determines a plurality of parameters based on speech information obtained from a speech, determines utterance order of the plurality of parameters as output order, and outputs speech output information for outputting the plurality of parameters by speech in accordance with the output order.

Abstract: An information terminal includes: a communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to establish a communication channel with another terminal by using the communication unit, and the communication unit is configured to receive device information containing an address of an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal, and transmit the device information of the image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal to an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the information terminal.

Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image processing apparatus that has a virus scan function; a terminal; and an information processing apparatus that has a virus scan function, the image processing apparatus, the terminal, and the information processing apparatus communicating with each other, wherein the image processing apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that: transmits to the terminal information identifying the image processing apparatus and a virus scan substitute request for the job data for executing a virus scan in the information processing apparatus; and causes returning from the power saving state to the normal state, and the information processing apparatus includes: a second hardware processor that: performs the virus scan on the job data; and transmits, to the image processing apparatus, the execution instruction for the job related to the job data with the predetermined information added.

Abstract: A management server disposed outside a firewall and supporting connection of communications between a control target device disposed inside the firewall and a cloud server disposed outside the firewall, includes a server-side session establishing portion to, based on a request from a relay device disposed inside the firewall, establish a session with the relay device, a device information acquiring portion to acquire device information about the control target device from the relay device via the established session, and an update determining portion to, in response to reception of a request of connecting to the control target device from the cloud server, determine whether to update the device information.

Abstract: One information processing apparatus among a plurality of information processing apparatuses performs virus detection processing for detecting a computer virus. When a computer virus has been detected from the one information processing apparatus by the virus detection processing, the one information processing apparatus transmits an execution request to perform the virus detection processing to another information processing apparatus different from the one information processing apparatus among the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a voice collecting device that collects a voice, and an information processing apparatus capable of generating a job, wherein either of the voice collecting device and the information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that specifies a user who has uttered, and the hardware processor of the information processing apparatus generates, as the job, based on information obtained from a voice in which a first user and a second user are individually specified by the hardware processor, a request job that the first user has requested the second user to execute.

Abstract: A multifunction device integrally includes a first device and a second device. The first device has a first system, and the second system has a second system. The second device requests, in response to a predetermined command entered, a first snapshot of the first device from the first device. The first device generates the first snapshot in response to a request from the second device, and sends the first snapshot to the second device. The second device generates a second snapshot of the second device in response to the predetermined command entered, and saves, to a save destination, the first snapshot sent and the second snapshot. The first device starts the first system by using the first snapshot saved in the save destination. The second device starts the second system by using the second snapshot saved in the save destination.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes an firmware of a first version, acquires a set of firmware of a second version and verification state information that indicates progress of verification of each of a plurality of processes defined by the firmware of the second version from a server, and updates the firmware of the first version with the firmware of the second version. The verification state information includes a completed state where the verification of a non-occurrence of an error is completed and an unverified state where the verification of the non-occurrence of an error is not completed, and the hardware professor sets a settability state of an unverified process out of the plurality of processes to a disabled state where a user cannot make settings to allow execution of the unverified process.

Abstract: A multifunction device integrally includes a first device and a second device. The first device has a first system, and the second system has a second system. The second device requests, in response to a predetermined command entered, a first snapshot of the first device from the first device. The first device generates the first snapshot in response to a request from the second device, and sends the first snapshot to the second device. The second device generates a second snapshot of the second device in response to the predetermined command entered, and saves, to a save destination, the first snapshot sent and the second snapshot. The first device starts the first system by using the first snapshot saved in the save destination. The second device starts the second system by using the second snapshot saved in the save destination.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication circuit capable of, in the case where an operation mode is any of a driving mode and a power saving mode, communicating with a remote operation device, a sleep transition portion to switch the operation mode to the power saving mode, a setting portion to set setting information in accordance with a remote operation command received from the remote operation device, a process execution portion to, in the case where the remote operation command received corresponds to an execution instruction operation, execute a process in accordance with the set setting information, and a recovery portion to maintain the operation mode in the power saving mode, and to, only in the case where the communication circuit receives the remote operation command corresponding to the execution instruction operation, switch the operation mode to the driving mode.

Abstract: A document generation system which generates, from a first document in which a plurality of text groups constituted by a plurality of lines arranged in a first direction is arranged in a second direction different from the first direction, a second document includes: a ranking unit configured to rank each of the plurality of text groups according to an order in which a person reads the first document; and a generating unit configured to generate, as the second document, a document in which each of the plurality of text groups is arranged one by one in the first direction in ascending order ranked by the ranking unit.

Abstract: One information processing apparatus among a plurality of information processing apparatuses performs virus detection processing for detecting a computer virus. When a computer virus has been detected from the one information processing apparatus by the virus detection processing, the one information processing apparatus transmits an execution request to perform the virus detection processing to another information processing apparatus different from the one information processing apparatus among the plurality of information processing apparatuses.

Abstract: An MFP sets an access condition for an external device with respect to a cloud box. The access condition is transmitted from the MFP to a relay device, and is registered in a memory of the relay device. When the relay device receives an access request made by the external device with respect to the MFP serving as an internal device, the relay device determines whether to permit or deny access to the MFP by comparing the access request with the access condition. When the access is permitted, the access request is transferred from the relay device to the MFP, whereas when the access is denied, the relay device notifies the external device of it.

Abstract: A data input apparatus can communicate with an imaging unit capturing an image of a subject to output image data, and includes a display unit displaying a screen including data input areas, and a processor. The processor includes: a setting portion setting data input to the data input area; an instruction position acquiring portion acquiring an instruction position based on a relative position between a display surface of the display unit and a recording medium included in image data output by the imaging unit; an information acquiring portion acquiring information stored in the recording medium based on the image data; and an input information acquiring portion acquiring input information available for input to the data input area among the acquired information. If the acquired instruction position is a prescribed position, the setting portion sets the acquired input information as the data input to the data input area.

Abstract: A relay device includes a first session establishing portion to establish a first communication session with a cloud server located outside a firewall, a second session establishing portion to establish a second communication session with a control target device located inside the firewall, a device information acquiring portion to acquire device information about the control target device, and a relay portion to relay a communication between the cloud server and the control target device. The relay portion includes an executability determining portion to determine whether the control target device can execute a process specified by a control command received from the cloud server, a suspending portion to suspend an output of the control command when the determination result is non-executable, and a proxy transmission portion operable, when the determination result becomes executable after the control command was put on hold, to transmit the control command to the control target device.

Abstract: An information terminal includes: a communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to establish a communication channel with another terminal by using the communication unit, and the communication unit is configured to receive device information containing an address of an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal, and transmit the device information of the image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal to an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the information terminal.

Abstract: Continuously after two contacts are made on a touch panel, when a gesture of moving the two contacts in a direction that a spacing therebetween is decreased and then releasing the two contacts after being moved is detected, an image forming apparatus identifies a program presented by an icon displayed in an area defined by the two contacts at least either of before and after being moved, as a program subjected to the gesture, and stores information that identifies the program subjected to the gesture. The image forming apparatus reads the information that identifies the program subjected to the gesture in accordance with a command related to the program subjected to the gesture to execute an operation related to the program, and transmits information depending on the operation to another device indicated by the command.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation accepter that accepts an operation of a user, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor includes a user authenticator configured to authenticate the user who operates the operation accepter, a job executor configured to execute a job having an activation condition in response to satisfaction of the activation condition, a job receiver configured to receive a job, a state detector configured to, in the case where the job receiver receives the job having the activation condition from an information processing apparatus, detect a state of the authenticated user, and an activation condition changer configured to, in response to detection of a predetermined state by the state detector, change the activation condition.

Abstract: A data processing device is provided with a job accepting portion to accept a job to transmit data to a transmission destination defined in relation to a transmission-destination user, a candidate deciding portion to decide on one or more cloud services in which an operating user who inputted the job has an account to be a candidate service, a service deciding portion to decide on a candidate service which is accessible by the transmission-destination user among one or more candidate services decided, to be an accessible service, and a data transmission portion to store the data in the decided accessible service as well as to transmit access information for accessing the data stored in the accessible service to the transmission destination for the transmission-destination user.

Abstract: A controller of a management device managing a plurality of image processing apparatuses acquires ability information and device identification information from the respective image processing apparatuses; determines, based on the ability information of the respective image processing apparatuses, as an in-charge device any one of the respective image processing apparatuses for each of a plurality of protocols predetermined; for the respective protocols, causes the in-charge device determined for the protocol to respond to a packet by multicast of the protocol on behalf of the respective image processing apparatuses; and causes one or more image processing apparatuses other than the in-charge device determined for the protocol to refrain from responding to a packet by multicast of the protocol. The respective image processing apparatuses respond to a packet by multicast of the protocol if the apparatus itself is determined the in-charge device for the protocol.