Abstract: There is provided a meeting support system that supports the progress of a meeting, the meeting support system including a hardware processor that: determines a first feature value based on information about a meeting, the first feature value corresponding to a range of a subject of a meeting, the information about a meeting having been registered in advance; stores a weight, the weight corresponding to each type of meeting; extracts a word or phrase from speech of participants in a meeting; determines a second feature value corresponding to the extracted word or phrase; and determines whether a speech is off topic from a subject of a meeting, depending on whether the second feature value is included in an allowable range, the allowable range being specified by the first feature value and the weight corresponding to a type of an ongoing meeting.

Abstract: There is provided a meeting support system that supports the progress of a meeting, the meeting support system including a hardware processor that: determines a first feature value based on information about a meeting, the first feature value corresponding to a range of a subject of a meeting, the information about a meeting having been registered in advance; stores a weight, the weight corresponding to each type of meeting; extracts a word or phrase from speech of participants in a meeting; determines a second feature value corresponding to the extracted word or phrase; and determines whether a speech is off topic from a subject of a meeting, depending on whether the second feature value is included in an allowable range, the allowable range being specified by the first feature value and the weight corresponding to a type of an ongoing meeting.

Abstract: A speaker determination apparatus includes a hardware processor that: acquires data related to voice in a conference; determines whether the voice has been switched in accordance with a feature amount of the voice extracted from the data related to the voice acquired by the hardware processor; recognizes and converts the voice into text in accordance with the data related to the voice acquired by the hardware processor; analyzes the text converted by the hardware processor and detects a sentence break in the text; and determines a speaker in accordance with timing of the sentence break detected by the hardware processor and timing of the voice switching determined by the hardware processor.

Abstract: A considerable amount of time was required for the completion of an objectization process on image data. A time predictor in a processing device predicts the time required for each of a local processing device and remote processing devices to convert image data to objectized data. A device selector selects, based on the predicted time, the local processing device or one of the remote processing devices as a processing device that acquires the objectized data derived from the image data within a short period of time, and instructs the selected processing device to perform the objectization process. A data manager manages the image data that is to be transmitted from a data transceiver to the selected processing device, and the objectized data that is to be received by the data transceiver from the selected processing device.

Abstract: A considerable amount of time was required for the completion of an objectization process on image data. A time predictor in a processing device predicts the time required for each of a local processing device and remote processing devices to convert image data to objectized data. A device selector selects, based on the predicted time, the local processing device or one of the remote processing devices as a processing device that acquires the objectized data derived from the image data within a short period of time, and instructs the selected processing device to perform the objectization process. A data manager manages the image data that is to be transmitted from a data transceiver to the selected processing device, and the objectized data that is to be received by the data transceiver from the selected processing device.

Abstract: An image forming device includes at least one image formation function of copying, scanning, and printing, and a server function enabling reading of data from a storage unit and writing of data into the storage unit, the image forming device being connected to at least one external device having a server function via a network and including a power supply control unit configured to control a plurality of power-saving modes having different settings for supplying power to hardware, to make power consumption smaller than power consumption in a normal mode for enabling the image formation function, wherein: the plurality of power-saving modes include a first power-saving mode, a second power-saving mode, and a third power-saving mode; and the power supply control unit includes: a packet analyzing unit; a determining unit; and a mode control unit.

Abstract: An image forming device includes at least one image formation function of copying, scanning, and printing, and a server function enabling reading of data from a storage unit and writing of data into the storage unit, the image forming device being connected to at least one external device having a server function via a network and including a power supply control unit configured to control a plurality of power-saving modes having different settings for supplying power to hardware, to make power consumption smaller than power consumption in a normal mode for enabling the image formation function, wherein: the plurality of power-saving modes include a first power-saving mode, a second power-saving mode, and a third power-saving mode; and the power supply control unit includes: a packet analyzing unit; a determining unit; and a mode control unit.

Abstract: A printing system includes plural image forming apparatuses and a host apparatus. Each image forming apparatus is configured to work in one of a waiting state and a power saving state. An image forming apparatus as a sub-unit includes a control section configured to, on changing from the waiting state to the power saving state, request another image forming apparatus connected to the wired network to make a proxy response to the host apparatus for the sub-unit. An image forming apparatus as a base unit includes a control section configured to, in response to receiving a request to make the proxy response, receive a packet sent from the host apparatus to the sub-unit through the wireless network, and on determining that a communication error has occurred, instruct another image forming apparatus connected to the wired network to receive a packet sent from the host apparatus.

Abstract: A printing system includes plural image forming apparatuses and a host apparatus. Each image forming apparatus is configured to work in one of a waiting state and a power saving state. An image forming apparatus as a sub-unit includes a control section configured to, on changing from the waiting state to the power saving state, request another image forming apparatus connected to the wired network to make a proxy response to the host apparatus for the sub-unit. An image forming apparatus as a base unit includes a control section configured to, in response to receiving a request to make the proxy response, receive a packet sent from the host apparatus to the sub-unit through the wireless network, and on determining that a communication error has occurred, instruct another image forming apparatus connected to the wired network to receive a packet sent from the host apparatus.

Abstract: A print data receiving apparatus for receiving pint data from an external, equipped with a first arithmetic unit for controlling at least a first storage device for storing the print data, and a second arithmetic unit for issuing an activation command to the first arithmetic unit and controlling a second storage device for temporarily storing the received print data when the print data is received from the external under a power saving mode that stops operation of the first arithmetic unit. The second arithmetic unit consumes less power than the first arithmetic unit and controls receiving speed of the print data in such a manner as to cause a free space of the second storage device to be used up when an activation of the first arithmetic unit is completed.