Abstract: For a connection from an unspecified communication device, an information processing system, information processing device configuring the information processing system, and communication connection method for between the communication device and the information processing device which are capable of securing communication security while simplifying operation in the communication device. In order to send image data to a multi-function device from a communication terminal device in order to print out the same, the multi-function device generates a one-time password that is limited in period of validity to a period related to the printout so as to display the same together with the SSID of the device itself upon a display unit, whereupon at the communication terminal device, the displayed SSID and the one-time password are input so as to make a connection in order to send image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides, for a connection from an unspecified communication device, an information processing system, information processing device configuring the information processing system, and communication connection method for between the communication device and the information processing device which are capable of securing communication security while simplifying operation in the communication device. In order to send image data to a multi-function device from a communication terminal device in order to print out the same, the multi-function device generates a one-time password that is limited in period of validity to a period related to the printout so as to display the same together with the SSID of the device itself upon a display unit, whereupon at the communication terminal device, the displayed SSID and the one-time password are input so as to make a connection in order to send image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides, for a connection from an unspecified communication device, an information processing system, information processing device configuring the information processing system, and communication connection method for between the communication device and the information processing device which are capable of securing communication security while simplifying operation in the communication device. In order to send image data to a multi-function device from a communication terminal device in order to print out the same, the multi-function device generates a one-time password that is limited in period of validity to a period related to the printout so as to display the same together with the SSID of the device itself upon a display unit, whereupon at the communication terminal device, the displayed SSID and the one-time password are input so as to make a connection in order to send image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides, for a connection from an unspecified communication device, an information processing system, information processing device configuring the information processing system, and communication connection method for between the communication device and the information processing device which are capable of securing communication security while simplifying operation in the communication device. In order to send image data to a multi-function device from a communication terminal device in order to print out the same, the multi-function device generates a one-time password that is limited in period of validity to a period related to the printout so as to display the same together with the SSID of the device itself upon a display unit, whereupon at the communication terminal device, the displayed SSID and the one-time password are input so as to make a connection in order to send image data.

Abstract: In a terminal device connected through a network to an image forming apparatus including a hold print function, the presence of an unprinted hold print job is certainly informed to a user that should print a hold print job. The terminal device includes a hold print job processing unit having a hold print job information managing unit that manages hold print job information sent from the image forming apparatus, an event receiving unit that receives event occurrence information given from an operating system when a predetermined event occurs in a personal computer, and a user interface unit, and displays a message indicating that an unprinted job exists every time the notification of occurrence of the event is sent from the OS if the unprinted hold print job exists in a list of the hold print job information in the hold print job information managing unit.

Abstract: A print control program for controlling execution of a print job, the print job being shared among a main printing apparatus and one or more sub-printing apparatus(es), the print control program allowing a computer to function as: a print requesting section for requesting the main printing apparatus and the sub-printing apparatus(es) to execute the print job in a cooperative manner; an apparatus information acquiring section for acquiring information relating to printing capabilities of the respective printing apparatuses as apparatus information, the apparatus information being stored in the main printing apparatus in advance; an instruction determining section for determining shares of the print job assigned to the respective apparatuses based upon the acquired apparatus information; and a controlling section for generating control instructions to be transmitted to the respective apparatuses.

Abstract: An input of a user ID is accepted upon executing a copying process and the accepted user ID is transmitted to a department-management server, whereby a department ID of a department to which the user belongs is inquired. Then, in case that the department-management server receives the user ID, the department ID is searched based upon the received user ID. In case that it is determined that the corresponding department ID is present and the copying process is allowed, the department ID is replied. An image forming apparatus receiving the department ID executes the copying process, counts the number of copies and registers the number of copies as associated with the department ID.

Abstract: A print apparatus monitoring system is provided that the operation state of a plurality of print apparatuses selected and used by a user can be known by resident display. In the method, prints are made by a plurality of print apparatuses connected through a network according to a print instruction from a terminal apparatus, and the operation states of the plurality of the print apparatuses instructed to make prints are displayed as separate icons respectively corresponding to the print apparatuses on a resident displaying portion of the terminal apparatus. For example, occurrence of an error in the print apparatuses is displayed by changing the display form of the corresponding icon. The display of the icon on the resident displaying portion can be displayed at the start of the printing in each print apparatus and can be erased at the end of the printing in each print apparatus.

Abstract: In a terminal device connected through a network to an image forming apparatus including a hold print function, the presence of an unprinted hold print job is certainly informed to a user that should print a hold print job. The terminal device includes a hold print job processing unit having a hold print job information managing unit that manages hold print job information sent from the image forming apparatus, an event receiving unit that receives event occurrence information given from an operating system when a predetermined event occurs in a personal computer, and a user interface unit, and displays a message indicating that an unprinted job exists every time the notification of occurrence of the event is sent from the OS if the unprinted hold print job exists in a list of the hold print job information in the hold print job information managing unit.

Abstract: A print control program for controlling execution of a print job, the print job being shared among a main printing apparatus and one or more sub-printing apparatus(es), the print control program allowing a computer to function as: a print requesting section for requesting the main printing apparatus and the sub-printing apparatus(es) to execute the print job in a cooperative manner; an apparatus information acquiring section for acquiring information relating to printing capabilities of the respective printing apparatuses as apparatus information, the apparatus information being stored in the main printing apparatus in advance; an instruction determining section for determining shares of the print job assigned to the respective apparatuses based upon the acquired apparatus information; and a controlling section for generating control instructions to be transmitted to the respective apparatuses.

Abstract: An input of a user ID is accepted upon executing a copying process and the accepted user ID is transmitted to a department-management server, whereby a department ID of a department to which the user belongs is inquired. Then, in case that the department-management server receives the user ID, the department ID is searched based upon the received user ID. In case that it is determined that the corresponding department ID is present and the copying process is allowed, the department ID is replied. An image forming apparatus receiving the department ID executes the copying process, counts the number of copies and registers the number of copies as associated with the department ID.

Abstract: An image processing system adapted to measure tool wear by imaging the worn portion of a tool with an ITV to produce images thereof together with surrounding portions, comparing the brightness distributions of the images with each other, and carrying out image processing by use of a brightness threshold value set at a boundary between a region wherein variation of the brightness distribution occurs and a region wherein it does not occur.

Abstract: An automatic rotational cutting edge changer for use with a tool tip having a plurality of cutting edges. When a sensor detects wear or chipping in the cutting edge in use, the cutting edge changer moves this cutting edge of the tool tip out of the cutting position of the cutting tip and brings a new cutting edge of the same tool tip to the cutting position by keeping the tool tip supported in position on a rotating member and causing the rotating member to be urged in its rotating direction by a lever operated by an actuating device for the cutting edge changer.

Abstract: A method for measuring a roughness profile of a surface optically is provided. The method essentially comprises projecting through a converging optical system a pair of light rays on a surface to be measured, the light rays being focused slightly before and behind the measuring surface, receiving reflections of the projected light rays by photoelectric means to produce two different electric signals representing the intensity of the reflections of the two light rays, detecting a roughness profile of the surface on the basis of the difference of the two electric signals, and moving the light rays along the measuring surface to obtain a continuous roughness profile of the surface.