Abstract: A component supply device includes: a picker base on which a component is to be loaded; a supplier that picks up the component loaded on the picker base and supplies the component to a predetermined position; a detector that detects the component loaded on the picker base; and a hardware processor that determines a state of the component loaded on the picker base, on a basis of information detected by the detector, wherein the hardware processor determines whether the component is a component that is pickable or a component that is unpickable by the supplier on a basis of the state of the component, and calculates an operation amount for adjusting the component that is unpickable to a pickable state and adjusts only a state of the component that is unpickable by an adjuster on a basis of the calculated operation amount.

Abstract: In the first composite step, a plurality of images is superimposed. In the second composite step, a plurality of images of a second surface of the plurality of components is superimposed. In a first detection step, a feature amount of the first surface is detected using the plurality of images superimposed in the first composite step. In a second detection step, a feature amount of the second surface corresponding to the plurality of areas of the first surface is detected using the plurality of images superimposed in the second composite step. A difference in the feature amounts between each area of the first surface and each area of the second surface corresponding to each area of the first surface is calculated. In the determination-area decision step, an area where the difference in the feature amounts calculated in the calculation step is greater than a predetermined value is decided.

Abstract: A posture of a component is to be accurately determined. A posture determination method is to determine, based on an image acquired for a component having a plurality of surfaces, a posture of the component. This posture determination method includes recognizing an outer shape of the component from the image, detecting a feature amount of a surface shape in a determination area being a part of the component based on the outer shape of the component recognized in the recognizing, and determining. In the determining, the posture of the component is determined by comparing a first reference amount indicating a reference feature amount in the determination area of a first surface of the component and a second reference amount indicating a reference feature amount in the determination area of a second surface of the component with the feature amount detected in the detecting.

Abstract: It is intended to allow whether or not a noise included in a read image is a noise due to an ink ejection failure to be more reliably determined. An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image formation surface of paper by using a reducing optical system and a control unit. The image reading unit includes a plurality of read sensors disposed at positions displaced from each other in a main scanning direction. The plurality of read sensors are disposed to be able to read the image formation surface by using at least a local region of the image formation surface as a common region to be read.

Abstract: A picking device includes: a workpiece holder in which a plurality of workpieces is stacked; a light receiver that receives reflected light from a workpiece stacked in the workpiece holder; a mover that relatively moves the light receiver with respect to the workpiece in such a manner that a distance between the light receiver and the workpiece is adjustable; an arm that picks the workpiece; a first hardware processor that calculates a distance between the light receiver and at least one workpiece among the plurality of workpieces; a second hardware processor that specifies a workpiece as a picking target among the plurality of workpieces or a region where the workpiece exists; and a third hardware processor that adjusts a distance between the light receiver and the workpiece calculated by the first hardware processor by controlling the mover in the region specified by the second hardware processor.

Abstract: It is intended to allow whether or not a noise included in a read image is a noise due to an ink ejection failure to be more reliably determined. An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image formation surface of paper by using a reducing optical system and a control unit. The image reading unit includes a plurality of read sensors disposed at positions displaced from each other in a main scanning direction. The plurality of read sensors are disposed to be able to read the image formation surface by using at least a local region of the image formation surface as a common region to be read.

Abstract: An image reading device includes: a scanner glass; photo-sensors arranged at intervals in a main scanning direction to read a document conveyed in a sub-scanning direction; an adjuster that adjusts the size of an overlapping area between a first and second image obtained by neighboring photo-sensors, the overlapping area constituting a first area of the first image and a second area of the second image; a superimposing portion that shifts either one of images of the first and second area to the other one; a judgment portion that judges whether the images having different focal depths exist based on the degree of matching between the first and second area; and a detector that detects a foreign body on the scanner glass platen by detecting a continuous image stretching in a document conveying direction in both of the images having different focal depths, if the images having different focal depths exist.

Abstract: An image reading device includes: a scanner glass; photo-sensors arranged at intervals in a main scanning direction to read a document conveyed in a sub-scanning direction; an adjuster that adjusts the size of an overlapping area between a first and second image obtained by neighboring photo-sensors, the overlapping area constituting a first area of the first image and a second area of the second image; a superimposing portion that shifts either one of images of the first and second area to the other one; a judgment portion that judges whether the images having different focal depths exist based on the degree of matching between the first and second area; and a detector that detects a foreign body on the scanner glass platen by detecting a continuous image stretching in a document conveying direction in both of the images having different focal depths, if the images having different focal depths exist.

Abstract: A display system for displaying a document includes a tablet terminal and a head mounted display device (HMD). The tablet terminal includes a display device which does not display confidential information that a third party is not allowed to browse, but displays non-confidential information that the third party is allowed to browse with regard to the document. The HMD includes a glasses-type display unit which does not allow the third party to browse, but allows a HMD user to browse, a communication unit which receives the confidential information, and a video camera for capturing the non-confidential information displayed on the display device. The glasses-type display unit, based on the captured non-confidential information, displays the received confidential information so that the received confidential information is visually recognized by the HMD user in a state of being aligned with the non-confidential information displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a display section to display screens for setting a function; a control section to form an image where alternatives of a function to be set by transiting plural screens are aggregated and arranged on one page of sheet, and to form a composite image where a position detection code for identifying a position on the sheet is combined with the image; a memory section to store a table which correlates each of the alternatives with a position of each of the alternatives on the sheet; and a print section to print the composite image on the sheet, wherein in cases where the control section acquires position information having been identified by the position detection code on the sheet, the control section refers to the table to identify an alternative corresponding to the position information, and sets a function based on the identified alternative.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores therein a distributed printing control program executed in a system to perform distributed printing by outputting a specified number of sets of paper sheets by using plural image forming apparatuses, where the number of the sets is instructed by a job. The program causes an apparatus belonging to the system to function as a control section. The control section divides the job into plural jobs, where each of the jobs causes one of the image forming apparatuses to eject plural sets of paper sheets shifted in alternate directions such that, when sets of paper sheets ejected by the plural image forming apparatuses are stacked up together, all the sets of paper sheets are shifted in alternate directions to enable each of the sets to be separated from others. The control section further subjects the divided jobs to the plural image forming apparatuses.

Abstract: Disclosed is a document editing apparatus including: a display unit; a page changing unit; an operating unit; an editing unit; an undo and redo memory; an undo and redo instruction unit; a memory management unit to manage an upper limit of number of storable editing history data including the editing history data of the editing operation performed in the displayed part; and an undo and redo performance unit to perform the undo operation by tracing back only the editing history data of the editing operation performed in the part displayed when the instruction to perform the undo operation is received, and to perform the redo operation by tracing back only the editing history data of the editing operation performed in the part displayed when the instruction to perform the redo operation is received.

Abstract: A display system for displaying a document includes a tablet terminal and a head mounted display device (HMD). The tablet terminal includes a display device which does not display confidential information that a third party is not allowed to browse, but displays non-confidential information that the third party is allowed to browse with regard to the document. The HMD includes a glasses-type display unit which does not allow the third party to browse, but allows a HMD user to browse, a communication unit which receives the confidential information, and a video camera for capturing the non-confidential information displayed on the display device. The glasses-type display unit, based on the captured non-confidential information, displays the received confidential information so that the received confidential information is visually recognized by the HMD user in a state of being aligned with the non-confidential information displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a display section to display screens for setting a function; a control section to form an image where alternatives of a function to be set by transiting plural screens are aggregated and arranged on one page of sheet, and to form a composite image where a position detection code for identifying a position on the sheet is combined with the image; a memory section to store a table which correlates each of the alternatives with a position of each of the alternatives on the sheet; and a print section to print the composite image on the sheet, wherein in cases where the control section acquires position information having been identified by the position detection code on the sheet, the control section refers to the table to identify an alternative corresponding to the position information, and sets a function based on the identified alternative.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus 1 to form a panel sheet 100 placed at sections 111 to 113, 115 to 117 and 119 to 121 where operation buttons to be operated by a user are located, having a display 24b to display country setting screen to conduct country setting, operation buttons 24a at the sections 111 to 113, 115 to 117 and 119 to 121 to received operation to select a country in a state where the country setting screen to conduct country setting is being displayed on the display 24b. The panel sheet 100 corresponding to the language selected via the operation buttons 24a at the sections 111 to 113, 115 to 117 and 119 to 121.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus 1 to form a panel sheet 100 placed at sections 111 to 113, 115 to 117 and 119 to 121 where operation buttons to be operated by a user are located, having a display 24b to display country setting screen to conduct country setting, operation buttons 24a at the sections 111 to 113, 115 to 117 and 119 to 121 to received operation to select a country in a state where the country setting screen to conduct country setting is being displayed on the display 24b. The panel sheet 100 corresponding to the language selected via the operation buttons 24a at the sections 111 to 113, 115 to 117 and 119 to 121.