Abstract: Provided is an information display system including plural situation grasping devices that are provided in an office room, each of which grasps surrounding situations, and an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus being provided in the office room and including a display which displays location related information of the situation grasping devices in the office room.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including a provided device information acquiring section that acquires provided device information which is information on a device provided in an office room, and an output section that outputs information on a service which is providable to a user in an office room, based on the provided device information acquired by the provided device information acquiring section.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a reading unit that reads information from a recording medium on which information on a situation grasping device is written, an acquiring unit that acquires specific information for specifying the situation grasping device from the information read by the reading unit, and a setting unit that sets association with the situation grasping device using the specific information acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit that forms an image, a user interface unit that delivers information with a user, a communication unit that communicates with a target device to be managed, a determination unit that determines an operation state of the target device based on the communication with the target device, and an output controller that causes information on the target device to be output through the user interface unit, the operation state of the target device being determined not to be normal by the determination unit.

Abstract: A system includes at least one controlled device that is controlled based on control information output from an external device, and an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and communicate with the external device and the controlled device, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a transceiver that receives the control information from the external device and transmits the control information to the controlled device, and a transmission controller that stops the transmission of the control information by the transceiver or changes contents of the control information to be transmitted by the transceiver.

Abstract: Provided is a device management system including plural situation grasping devices that are provided in an office room, each of which grasps surrounding situations, and an image forming apparatus that is provided in the office room, includes a storage unit storing information on the plural situation grasping devices, and forms an image on a recording material.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a detector, a setting unit, an approaching display unit, and an element processor. The display displays an image including one or more elements on a display region of the display. The detector detects an operation in the display region. In response to detection of a first operation including specifying a specified point in the background, the setting unit sets a first region that is the entirety or a portion of the display region in accordance with the first operation. The approaching display unit displays element information relating to a first element displayed in the first region at a position closer to the specified point than the first element prior to detection of the first operation. In response to detection of a second operation on the element information, the element processor executes a process corresponding to the second operation on the first element.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display controller. The display controller displays an operable image if a predetermined first operation is performed on a margin of a screen displayed in a display area displaying a portion of a display target, and if it is determined that the operable image included in the display target that appears or disappears in accordance with a second operation of moving the screen is not displayed on the screen on the basis of a relationship between a distance to a position of the image in the display target including the screen, an operation amount of the second operation, and a size of the display area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus having an operation panel and capable of accessing a network by operation of the operation panel, comprises a determination unit that determines whether or not an operation performed on the operation panel is a control operation relating to the image processing apparatus; a print job receiving unit that receives a print job from the network; and a job control unit that executes the print job received by the print job receiving unit if the determination unit determines, when the print job is received by the print job receiving unit, that the operation panel is being operated and that the operation performed on the operation panel is a control operation relating to the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a detector, a setting unit, an approaching display unit, and an element processor. The display displays an image including one or more elements on a display region of the display. The detector detects an operation in the display region. In response to detection of a first operation including specifying a specified point in the background, the setting unit sets a first region that is the entirety or a portion of the display region in accordance with the first operation. The approaching display unit displays element information relating to a first element displayed in the first region at a position closer to the specified point than the first element prior to detection of the first operation. In response to detection of a second operation on the element information, the element processor executes a process corresponding to the second operation on the first element.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a detector, a moving unit, an extracting unit, an approaching display unit, and an element processor. The display displays an image including elements on a display region of a display apparatus. The detector detects an operation in the display region. In response to detection of a first operation of moving a first element in the display region, the moving unit moves the first element in the display region. The extracting unit extracts a second element positioned in the direction of movement of the first element. The approaching display unit generates a third element relating to the second element and displays the third element at a position closer to the first element than the second element. In response to detection of a second operation on the third element, the element processor executes a process corresponding to the second operation on the second element.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that has a display control unit that causes, when one or more of setting items for specifying a processing are sequentially specified by a manipulation made by an operator, a display unit to display processing information sets each including setting items in a predetermined order on the basis of the sequentially specified setting items, and has a processing execution unit that executes a processing specified by setting items included in a processing information set specified by a manipulation made by the operator among the displayed processing information sets.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a memory that stores a plurality of units of correspondence information each indicative of a correspondence between a display region of a display for displaying a message, and a type of the message, with at least one of a number, an arrangement, and a size of the display region differing among the plurality of units of correspondence information; a selection unit that selects a unit of correspondence information stored in the memory; and a display controller that, when display of a message is requested, designates a display region corresponding to the type of the message requested to be displayed based on the correspondence information selected by the selection unit, and displays the message requested to be displayed in the designated display region.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that has a display control unit that causes, when one or more of setting items for specifying a processing are sequentially specified by a manipulation made by an operator, a display unit to display processing information sets each including setting items in a predetermined order on the basis of the sequentially specified setting items, and has a processing execution unit that executes a processing specified by setting items included in a processing information set specified by a manipulation made by the operator among the displayed processing information sets.

Abstract: An image forming device having an adjusting mode for making settings related to image formation, using a setting unit that sets whether change to the adjusting mode is inhibited, as well as a change unit that inhibits the change to the adjusting mode when it is set to do so by the setting unit.

Abstract: An image forming device having an adjusting mode for making settings related to image formation, comprising a setting unit which sets whether change to the adjusting mode is inhibited or not; and a change inhibit unit which inhibits the change to the adjusting mode when it is set by the setting unit that the change to the adjusting mode is inhibited.

Abstract: An image processing device, comprising: an image reader that reads an image of an original according to a start request operation made by a user; a blank sheet detection unit which detects whether the original to be read by the image reader is a blank or not; and a display controller which causes a display to display a selection screen for processing the blank original when it is detected by the blank sheet detection unit that the original is a blank.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus having an operation panel and capable of accessing a network by operation of the operation panel, comprises a determination unit that determines whether or not an operation performed on the operation panel is a control operation relating to the image processing apparatus; a print job receiving unit that receives a print job from the network; and a job control unit that executes the print job received by the print job receiving unit if the determination unit determines, when the print job is received by the print job receiving unit, that the operation panel is being operated and that the operation performed on the operation panel is a control operation relating to the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing device which executes prescribed processing according to a key operation on an operation panel, comprising an operating state detector which detects an operating state of the device, a key operation detector which detects the key operation on the operation panel, and a notifying unit which notifies the operation state of the device detected by the operating state detector according to a detection output by the key operation detector.

Abstract: When a power supply of an image forming apparatus is turned on and also a power save function is released, the image forming apparatus initialize modules with respect to each of the modules. For example, when initializations of a communication control unit and a modulating/demodulating unit are accomplished, even when initializations of other modules are not yet ended, a facsimile service is provided. Also, when initializations of an image reading control unit and an image reading unit are accomplished, a scanner service is provided. In this manner, the services provided by such modules whose initializations have been accomplished are sequentially providable irrespective of states of the other modules.