Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a control unit is notified of information in at least one second signal received by one of first and second wireless communication units after the control unit provides the second wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a first signal containing first address information and before a waiting time elapses and when the at least one second signal contains second address information assigned to an authentication apparatus having received the first signal, then the control unit provides the first wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a third signal for a connection request with the second address information set in a destination address.

Abstract: Various example embodiments for supporting safe port removal are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting safe port removal may be configured to support safe port removal for a port of a virtual switch. Various example embodiments for supporting safe port removal for a port of a virtual switch may be configured to support safe removal of the port of the virtual switch such that the port is no longer available for use on the virtual switch. Various example embodiments for supporting safe port removal for a port of a virtual switch may be configured to support safe removal of the port of the virtual switch by performing separate logical and physical shutdowns of the port and performing one or more functions for the port (e.g., rejecting link discovery packets, continuing to handle data packets, and so forth) between the logical and physical shutdowns of the port.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus, having a conveyer, an image recorder, a cutter assembly, a reader, a display device, a controller, and an operation interface, is provided. The controller is configured to control the reader to read the image of the readable medium, the image recorder to record the image of the readable medium read by the reader on the sheet, and the cutter assembly to cut the sheet at a predetermined position in a conveying direction. The operation includes a first receivable portion, through which a selection from the user for causing the controller to control the reader to read the image of the readable medium, control the image recorder to record the image of the readable medium read by the reader on the sheet, and control the cutter assembly to cut the sheet at the predetermined position is receivable in a single action.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is configured to take multiple power states including first and second power states, the electronic device comprising: a first controller controlling a power state of the electronic device; and a second controller connected to the first controller via a serial communication line and a single signal line, wherein the first controller controls the power state of the electronic device into: the first power state in response to a first command being input via the serial communication line; the second power state in response to a second command being input via the serial communication line; the first power state in response to a first pattern signal being input from the signal line; and the second power state in response to a second pattern signal being input from the signal line.

Abstract: The control system includes: a determiner that determines, based on browsing information on browsing using a browsing device, a target device and a browsing relation degree indicating relationship between a predetermined function of the target device and the browsing; a device information obtainer that obtains device information on a target control device that is the target device having the browsing relation degree of the browsing greater than or equal to a threshold; and a control unit that changes an operation mode for executing the predetermined function of the target control device when the device information obtained satisfies a specific condition.

Abstract: A control method performed by an apparatus that communicates with a device and that includes a display screen includes causing the display screen to display a first screen including a scan object used for scanning and a predetermined object different from the scan object, and causing the display screen to display, as a screen corresponding to the scan object, a second screen including a scan setting item. In addition, the display screen is caused to display, as a screen corresponding to the predetermined object, a third screen that does not include the scan setting item and that includes information for prompting a user to put the apparatus close to the device.

Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus having a remote control mode in which a control instruction is received from a terminal device, includes: causing the image processing apparatus to transition to the remote control mode; receiving, by the terminal device, an operation by RPA and giving a control instruction to the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus cancels the remote control mode when a period during which there is no communication with the terminal device reaches a certain period of time, and in the receiving, the terminal device repeats communication with the image processing apparatus at a cycle shorter than the certain period of time after giving the control instruction to the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an identification unit configured to identify a user of the image processing apparatus, and a switching unit configured to perform switching, depending on a number of print jobs associated with the identified user, between displaying a screen for selecting a print job to be executed and executing a print job based on selection of a predetermined button.

Abstract: A server may include: a memory; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: execute a registering process, wherein in the registering process, the controller may receive usage information from a terminal device and store the usage information in the memory, and the usage information may include a first attribute inputted to the terminal device by a user; and execute a starting process, wherein in the starting process, the controller may receive from the terminal device specific information and determine whether the first attribute matches a second attribute of a specific function executing device identified by the specific information and execute a service process for starting a provision of the service to the user using the usage information stored in the memory in a case where it is determined that the first attribute matches the second attribute.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an image reader that reads an image of a first original; a printing unit that prints an image read by the image reader on a recording medium; a touch panel; and a first controller that calculates, based on the image read by the image reader and a set print setting, a first required time period required to form the image of the first original, calculates, based on the first required time period, a second required time period required to form an image of a second original read by the image reader and added to the first original, calculates, based on the first required time period and the second required time period, a completion period for completing the printing by the printing unit, and displays on the touch panel the calculated completion period.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device. The printing device includes a raster image processor (RIP) system that renders pages of a print job for printing. The RIP system processes pages of the print job in parallel. It also processes job is parallel. If an error occurs when processing a page using a standard RIP, then the RIP system activates a failover RIP. The failover RIP uses a different strategy for processing the page than a standard RIP. The failover RIP is configured to implement the strategy. A failover queue is used to store error pages to wait for processing by the failover queue. The processed page is outputted from the failover RIP to a front end of the RIP system.

Abstract: A POS peripheral device includes a storing section configured to store setting information and a control section configured to control the storing section. When a first device is connected as an external device, the control section transmits, to the first device, information indicating that the POS peripheral device operates as a communication device. When a second device is connected as the external device, the control section transmits, to the second device, information indicating that the POS peripheral device operates as a storage that stores information in the storing section.

Abstract: A system includes first and second image forming devices including first and second controllers respectively. The first controller generates a piece of shortcut information specifying an image formation process and a settings value for the image formation process both associated with a shortcut icon. The first controller displays the shortcut icon on the basis of the shortcut information. In response to receiving an operation on the shortcut icon, the first controller performs the image formation process specified in the shortcut information using the settings value specified in the shortcut information. The first controller copies the piece of shortcut information to the portable memory mounted on a first memory interface in the first image forming device. After the portable memory is mounted on a second memory interface in the second image forming device, second controller performs a shortcut process related to the copied piece of shortcut information.

Abstract: Provided is an image reading system that divides, with respect to image data obtained by performing a double sided reading in a state where a booklet is opened, cover sheet image data into two parts corresponding to a pair of cover sheets to arrange the two parts at a front and an end, respectively, and arranges main text image data between the front and the end, and then generates an image file from each of the arranged image data.

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE), operable to generate an enhanced buffer status report (eBSR) is disclosed. The UE can identify packets for uplink transmission. The UE can filter the packets for uplink transmission, to identify a number of small packets pending for transmission and a number of larger packets, relative to the small packets, that are pending for transmission in the uplink transmission. The UE can encode the eBSR for transmission to a next generation node B (gNB), wherein the eBSR includes information identifying the number of small packets pending for transmission. The UE can have a memory interface configured to send to a memory the number of small packets pending for transmission.

Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.

Abstract: A server apparatus that is capable of notifying a user of an execution situation of a print job input to an image forming apparatus from an external apparatus. The server apparatus notifies an application of a communication terminal of information about a print job executed by an image forming apparatus. The server apparatus includes an obtainment unit that obtains status information about a print job that is input to the image forming apparatus from an external apparatus, and a controller that displays a message based on the status information on a display unit of the communication terminal. The controller displays a message, which shows that a predetermined print job cannot be executed because another print job is under execution, in a case where the predetermined print job is input to the image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus is executing the other print job.

Abstract: When an image processing apparatus starts execution of an image output job, the apparatus confirms whether or not to be able to access a server. In a case where the apparatus could not access the server, the apparatus stops the execution of the image output job. In a case where the apparatus could access the server and the image output job started as the first condition is satisfied, the apparatus saves a log relating to the image output job in the server and outputs image data. In a case where the apparatus could access the server and the image output job started as the second condition is satisfied, the apparatus starts generation of image data from a first page of a document, saves the log relating to the image output job in the server after generation of image data of all pages is completed, and outputs the generated image data.

Abstract: Provided is a peer-to-peer industrial printing system that performs distributed processing in variable printing for production printing. The industrial printing system includes a plurality of print servers and performs variable printing for production printing. Each of the plurality of print servers has a variable attribute generation unit, a variable distribution unit, and a processing management unit. The variable attribute generation unit generates variable attribute information including record information, which is information about each record of variable data for the variable printing. The variable distribution unit distributes each record of the variable data to one of the plurality of print servers based on the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generation unit. The processing management unit transmits the job ticket including the record distributed by the variable distribution unit to the other print server that is distributed to request processing.

Abstract: A display screen generation apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring for each of a plurality of print products produced through a plurality of processes, progress of the processes; and a display portion generating a display screen that displays for each of the plurality of print products, the process waiting to be executed, the process being executed, the process already executed, and the process not intended to be executed in a distinguishable manner from each other.

Abstract: A cartridge provision system includes a printer that ejects liquid (recording material) supplied from a cartridge onto a print medium; and a server 10 that manages a provision of the cartridge to a user of the printer, wherein the server 10 manages vendor inventory data 22, which is data that associated an inventory of the cartridge held by a sales company who provisions the cartridge to the user with expiration date of the cartridge, and a location data 33, which indicates the location of the user, and determines, when the sales company provisions the cartridge to the user, which expiration date of the cartridge should be provided from the inventory of the cartridge held by the sales company based on the vendor inventory data 22 and the location data 33.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller capable of generating occurrence of an event to be audited, as log information; a storage that stores the log information; an outputter that reads and outputs the log information stored in the storage in response to an acquisition request for the log information by an information processing apparatus; and an adder that adds, to the log information, identification information indicating that the log information has been stored in the information processing apparatus. The controller stores the log information added with the identification information in the storage. In a case where a storage amount of the log information stored in the storage has reached an upper limit when newly storing log information generated in association with occurrence of the event, the controller deletes the log information added with the identification information from the storage, and stores the generated log information.

Abstract: A printing system comprises a printing apparatus, a printing service, and an information processing apparatus. The printing service registers the printing apparatus and stores a print job received from the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits, to the printing service, a print job of a logged-in user in which a printing apparatus is designated. The printing apparatus stores a user of the printing service in association with a user of the printing apparatus, fetches a print job of a user associated with a logged-in user stored in the printing service, and executes printing. A guest user of the printing service is associated with a guest user of the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus does not execute printing for a print job of the guest user for which a password has not been set.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: specify plural parts for manufacturing ordered product; specify plural processes required from receiving order of product to completion of product using plural parts; for intermediate part generated by processing at least two plural parts, generate intermediate object indicating intermediate part; for each plural parts, generate work objects indicating processes required for manufacturing part; create workflow information that arranges and displays, for each plural parts, work objects indicating processes required for manufacturing part in order of plural processes, and relates and displays, for each plural parts, work objects indicating processes executed continuously, in workflow information, intermediate object indicating intermediate part is associated with work objects for at least two parts used to generate intermediate part; and when processing for intermediate part cannot be started in created workflow information, perform control o

Abstract: An information processing device changes a printer queue generated at the time of USB coupling with a printer to a printer queue corresponding to a predetermined printer driver, when it is detected that the generated printer queue is not a printer queue corresponding to the predetermined printer driver.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first panel, a communication device configured to remotely access image forming apparatuses each including a second panel, and a circuitry configured to when a login from a manager is accepted, display, on the first panel, a management target selection screen for selecting a remote access target apparatus to be a remote access target, from the image forming apparatuses, when the remote access target apparatus is selected, display, on the first panel, a management menu screen including a remote operation start button for executing a remote operation of the first panel of the remote access target apparatus, and when the remote operation start button is operated, superimpose a screen, which is displayed on the second panel of the remote access target apparatus, on the management menu screen displayed on the first panel to thereby display the screen in a remotely operable manner using the first panel.

Abstract: In a method for selecting a print job and displaying the print job on a second window, the print job includes a digital image to be printed on an image receiving medium by a digital printer having a user interface including a first window representing a waiting room for the print job which is selectable to be printed, and the second window for displaying a virtual representation of the image receiving medium. The method includes displaying a corner indication on the second window, the corner indication indicating a location where a top left corner of the digital image of the print job will be placed on the image receiving medium, and selecting the print job in the first window. Upon selection of the print job in the first window, the corner indication is replaced by a canvas item with a size of a layout of the digital image of the selected print job, and the corner indication is moved to a location on the virtual representation where a next to be selected print job will originate.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a processing apparatus that includes a first processor and performs processing of print data; and a management apparatus that includes a second processor, generates print data, transmits the print data to the processing apparatus, and manages the print data, the first processor being configured to: make a request to the management apparatus for registration of first print data with the management apparatus, the first print data serving as a target for processing by the processing apparatus, the second processor being configured to: receive the request for the registration from the processing apparatus, and in response to the first print data not being the print data generated by the management apparatus, newly register the first print data with the management apparatus and manage the first print data.

Abstract: Methods of managing a fleet of devices are provided, as are methods for configuring a standby device for a job in a workflow environment, and methods for performing a job in a workflow environment. Device information is analyzed, such as information pertaining to verification systems. Device instructions are sent to various locations on a device network in response to a deviation from a parameter value having been detected. The deviation from the parameter value may correspond to printed media and/or indicia produced by one or more devices. A workflow device and a standby device are provided, and the workflow device sends configuration data to the standby device. The standby device installs configuration data and is introduced into the workflow environment.

Abstract: Described are visible light absorbing compounds. The compounds have a visible light absorption maximum between 430 and 480 nm and a full width half maximum (FWHM) at the visible light absorption maximum of at least 35 nm and up to 100 nanometers, wherein the compounds are photostable. The compounds substantially mimic the visible light absorbance properties of macular pigment while remaining photostable. The compounds may be used in a variety of articles, including ophthalmic devices.

Abstract: The capability to print to a portable document format (PDF) file is provided in a virtualized computing environment that supports a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Printing-related properties, of local printers coupled to a client device, are provided to a host, so that virtual printers at the host can be configured with the printing-related properties. A simulator may be provided at the host to receive the printing-related properties from the client device and to receive a query from a virtualized computing instance for the printing-related properties, instead of the query being directly sent to the client device.

Abstract: Discussed is a a mobile terminal including a communication device to communicate with a cloud server, a display to output an execution screen of an application, a local memory to store data, and a processor to control the communication device, the display, and the local memory. The processor can synchronize data of the application executed on the cloud server and store the synchronized data in the local memory when connected to the cloud server. Further, the processor can continuously execute the application locally at the mobile terminal using the synchronized data of the application when disconnected from the cloud server.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for encryption and decryption of data. In some implementations, an encryption and decryption system can protect private information of a user in documents with an artificial reality device. The encryption and decryption system can determine the portion of a document containing private information and encrypt that portion of the document. In some implementations, the encryption and decryption system can receive a document and identify the protected (e.g., encrypted) portion of the document. In some cases, the protected portion of the document can contain a security token that the encryption and decryption system can extract. The system can compare the security token to an authentication token associated with the user and determine whether the security and authentication token match. If the tokens match, the system can decrypt the protected portion of the document and display the decrypted data as a virtual object.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of generating image data according to a setting compliant with PDF/A. A reading unit reads an image of a document and generates image data. A registration unit registers at least one setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. A setting unit sets whether to enable or disable a function that prevents a user from setting a setting value that does not comply with a PDF/A standard as a setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. And a change unit changes a setting value that does not comply with the PDF/A standard among the at least one setting value registered so as to comply with the PDF/A standard in enabling the function in a state where the registration unit registers the at least one setting value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a print settings screen for causing an image forming apparatus to print, on a printing medium, a plurality of patches representing colorimetry targets readable by a colorimetric apparatus; a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for the printing via the print settings screen; a print control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to start the printing of the plurality of patches based on the received instruction for the printing; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to calibration corresponding to the printing medium; and a determination unit configured to determine whether calibration has been executed for the printing medium based on the obtained information related to calibration.

Abstract: A control method of a printing apparatus for acquiring a print job from a cloud print service, and performing printing based on the acquired print job includes transmitting, in a case where a notification received from the cloud print service includes information indicating that a fetchable print job exists, a first request related to the print job, to the cloud print service, executing login processing of causing a user to log into the printing apparatus, and transmitting a second request related to the print job, to the cloud print service conditional upon the login processing being performed.

Abstract: The method and system allow a user to launch a client application on an web-enabled device and subsequently to navigate to an image source screen within the client application. After receiving an image source selection from the user, the client application retrieves images from the selected image source. The client application displays the retrieved images available for printing to a user, and in response to receiving a selection of an image, the client application transmits the image to a proprietary server. Moreover, upon receiving print order information, the client application additionally executes a location awareness application that determines a current location of the web-enabled device and subsequently, determines a proximal retail store to the current location of the web-enabled device. Thereafter, the remote printing system creates and transmits a print order that includes the selected image to the retail store for pickup.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a peripheral device with a web browser. A system includes a peripheral device and a user computing device executing a web browser and a device manager, the device manager configured to operate the peripheral device and including a device manager web server. An authentication token can be passed to the web browser from a web server upon coupling of the peripheral device with the user computing device and login by the user with the web browser. The web browser can pass the authentication token to the device manager through the device manager web server. The device manager can transmit the authentication token to the web server to pair the web browser with the device manager.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method to enable printing on legacy devices. The method includes discovering a legacy device that does not have a universal record that enables the legacy device to provide services to a mobile device through a network, appending the universal record for the legacy device, transmitting the universal record for the legacy device to a controller, receiving, at the controller and from the mobile device, a request for services which can be provided by the legacy device, transmitting, from the controller and based on the universal record for the legacy device, data associated with the legacy device to the mobile device to yield transmitted data and transmitting, based on an acceptance of the transmitted data by the mobile device, a service request from the mobile device to the legacy device for providing a service to the mobile device.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a request to initiate a new subscription for an entity, determining whether the entity is associated with an existing subscription, and in response to determining that the entity is associated with the existing subscription, initiating the new subscription with a subscription period coinciding with the existing subscription.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for processing and scheduling print jobs on a plurality of printers. The method includes: collecting job information on one or more past print jobs; collecting job information on a plurality of print jobs currently being processed, each of the plurality of print jobs being assigned to one or more operators from a plurality of operators; generating a process workflow visualization for the plurality of print jobs currently being processed with a processing mining algorithm based on the job information collected on the one or more past print jobs and the job information collected on the plurality of print jobs currently being processed; and displaying the process workflow visualization for the plurality of print jobs currently being processed.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of apparatuses and an information processing apparatus. The plurality of apparatuses includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus includes a first communication unit and a switching unit. The first communication unit is configured to receive screen information about the second apparatus sent from the information processing apparatus. The screen information is displayed on a first application program in the first apparatus. The switching unit is configured to switch a screen of a second application program to the screen of the first application program to display the screen of the first application program in response to receipt of the screen information by the first communication unit, when the first apparatus displays the screen of the second application program. The information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with the plurality of apparatuses.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method and a system to perform the method that includes receiving a request from a client device to execute an application, selecting servers that provide remote desktop environment and host the requested application, determining, based on a priority level for a client session to be established, a capacity of system resources and a current utilization level of each server, that the client device is to be directed to a first server, the first server having an expected utilization level that satisfies a threshold condition, and directing the request to the first server to establish the client session and to execute the requested application as part of the client session.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a medium processing mechanism that processes a medium, a first board configured to communicate with an external apparatus by a first communication method and control the medium processing mechanism, a second board configured to communicate with the first board by the first communication method, a third board configured to communicate with the second board by the first communication method and communicate with the external apparatus by a second communication method different from the first communication method, a switcher that switches a communication destination of the first board to the second board or the external apparatus, and a notification section that makes, when the communication destination of the first board is switched to the second board by the switcher, a notification of communication information based on the second communication method.

Abstract: An image transmission device includes a communicator that transmits image data to an e-mail address set by a user via a network, an operation acceptor that accepts user's settings, a storage that stores, for each predetermined case, a target domain applicable to the case, and a controller that controls the communicator, the operation acceptor, and the storage. When the user sets an e-mail address to which image data are to be transmitted, the controller determines whether a domain portion of the e-mail address matches a target domain of the case, and when the domain portion matches the target domain, the controller accepts settings of the e-mail address, and when the domain portion of the e-mail address does not match the target domain of the case, the controller does not accept settings of the e-mail address.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a display, an authenticator, an image former, a detector, and one or more controllers. The authenticator authenticates a user's login to the image forming apparatus. The image former forms an image based on a job for which an execution instruction has been inputted by the user. The detector performs virus detection at execution of the job. The one or more controllers control display of notification information that notifies a detection of a virus. The one or more controllers control the display of the notification information depending on the user's login status on the image forming apparatus at the time of the detection of a virus.

Abstract: By using the present disclosure, for example, a notification of an error that has occurred in a device can be received even in cloud printing. Some embodiments provide a method performed by executing an application using an information processing apparatus that transmits print data to be transferred to a printing apparatus by a server system, the method including transmitting, to the server system, a request to check a processing status of the print data in the printing apparatus, receiving the processing status of the print data from the server system having responded to the request, and displaying the received processing status on a display unit of the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A portable communication device including a camera; a touchscreen display; a memory storing a camera application; and a processor is provided. The processor is configured to display a user interface of the camera application, wherein the user interface comprises a preview image corresponding to an image being obtained via the camera; while the preview image is displayed in the user interface, determine an area of the preview image in which a text is included; and while the preview image is displayed in the user interface, display a first graphical object corresponding to a function related to the area including the text.

Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first storage unit that stores identification information and storage information with the identification information mapped to the storage information, the identification information identifying a user, the storage information indicating a storage location where image data corresponding to the identification information is stored, an identifying unit that, in response to the identification information input by the user, identifies the storage location indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit with the identification information mapped thereto, a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the storage location identified by the identifying unit, the image data corresponding to the identification information, and an image forming unit that forms an image responsive to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit.