Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a processing circuit having programmed instructions to: determine a cart location of a shopping cart that is moved by a customer and used for transportation of a merchandise purchased by the customer; and provide a notification for promoting a return of the shopping cart to a return area for returning the shopping cart in response to a determination that (i) the shopping cart is located in a place outside of the return area and (ii) a stay time of the shopping cart at the place outside the return area exceeds a threshold length of time.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a processing circuit having programmed instructions to: determine a cart location of a shopping cart that is moved by a customer and used for transportation of a merchandise purchased by the customer; and provide a notification for promoting a return of the shopping cart to a return area for returning the shopping cart in response to a determination that (i) the shopping cart is located in a place outside of the return area and (ii) a stay time of the shopping cart at the place outside the return area exceeds a threshold length of time.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus to perform image forming processing based on a print job, including: a sheet feeding section to feed a stored printing sheet, and a control section to allow the sheet feeding section to feed a pre-punched printing sheet with a previously formed punched hole which corresponds to a punched hole to be obtained by a punching processing specified by the print job, when the image forming processing based on the print job is performed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus to perform an image forming processing based on a print job including: a sheet feeding section to feed a stored printing sheet; a punching section to perform a punching processing in a printing sheet; and a control section to allow the punching section to perform the punching processing to form a punched hole corresponding to a punched hole in a pre-punched printing sheet specified by the print job when an image processing based on the print job is executed.

Abstract: In an image processor for a character image included in an image data to be processed, character codes are recognized, and character sizes of the characters in the character image are recognized. A font data is selected in a plurality of font data of different sizes stored in a storage device, so as to match with the recognized character codes, the recognized font sizes and a magnification of the image data. The selected font data are outputted. Thus, the character image is reproduced by using the recognized character codes. Alternatively, in a saving mode where image data of N pages are outputted in M sheets of recording medium, wherein N is not equal to M, character codes are recognized in a character image included in N pages of image data to be processed. Then, a font data is selected in a plurality of font data, so as to match with the recognized character codes.

Abstract: A composite communication apparatus of the present invention is provided with a facsimile transmission unit and an electronic mail transmission unit, when the size of an image data attached to an electronic mail is larger than a predetermined reference value, the image data is transmitted by use of the facsimile transmission unit instead of the electronic mail transmission unit. As the result, the data amount fed on a network is reduced and the efficiency reduction of the network system is prevented.

Abstract: The printer having the mail-bin feature, at a time when the output for all the print jobs addressed to the same user, an output completion notice is transmitted to the particular user. When, in such a state that the previously discharged printed matter for a certain user (user D) still remains in any bin (bin 1), an attempt is made to process a print job for another user (user A) which designates the same bin as the discharge destination, an output completion notice is transmitted to the user (user D) the printed matter for whom still remains in the same bin before the print job is processed and the output completion notice is transmitted to the other user (user A).

Abstract: In an image processor for a character image included in an image data to be processed, character codes are recognized, and character sizes of the characters in the character image are recognized. A font data is selected in a plurality of font data of different sizes stored in a storage device, so as to match with the recognized character codes, the recognized font sizes and a magnification of the image data. The selected font data are outputted. Thus, the character image is reproduced by using the recognized character codes. Alternatively, in a saving mode where image data of N pages are outputted in M sheets of recording medium, wherein N is not equal to M, character codes are recognized in a character image included in N pages of image data to be processed. Then, a font data is selected in a plurality of font data, so as to match with the recognized character codes.

Abstract: A laser-beam image recording apparatus for recording images on a light-sensitive sheet medium through irradiation of an information-carrying laser beam, comprising a laser beam generator for emitting a laser beam, a polygonal mirror for directing the laser beam toward a linear zone and deflecting the laser beam to swing repeatedly along the linear zone, roller arrangement for transporting a light-sensitive sheet medium to pass through the linear zone, a sensor for detecting an arrival of the leading edge of the sheet medium at the linear zone, and a control circuit for modulating the laser beam to be generated by the laser beam generator, the control circuit being operative to modulate the laser beam depending on the image to be recorded on a leading portion of a light-sensitive sheet medium before the sensor detects that the leading edge of the sheet medium which has been advancing toward the linear zone reaches the linear zone and to modulate the laser beam depending on the images to be recorded on a portio

Abstract: A laser beam control device related to the present invention includes an optical filter in the path of propagation of the laser beam from a laser light source to an image forming surface to form an image with the laser beam transmitted through the filter, and controls the transmittance of the filter based on the result obtained by detecting the intensity of the transmitted laser beam and comparing the detected value with a value of image density set by an operator.

Abstract: A laser recording apparatus for printing multi-tone image data by driving a laser diode according to levels of an analog signal containing the image data thereby to modulate a laser beam output by the laser diode, and causing the modulated laser beam to scan a recording medium in transverse directions. The output of the laser diode is stopped or reduced in level for a certain time in each of periods at predetermined intervals, each period corresponding to each pixel in the printed image. This eliminates mode hopping noise and optical feedback induced intensity noise, and hardly gives rise to the problem of electromagnetic wave disturbance. By elongating or shortening the time for stopping or reducing the emission by the laser diode (which time is shorter than the period corresponding to one pixel), the image density may be adjusted without impairing the above advantage.