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20080198397 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus is equipped with a print unit, a recording medium, a recording medium controller, and a power-saving controller. The print unit performs a printing operation. The recording medium temporarily stores an image and information. The recording medium controller controls the recording medium. The power-saving controller supplied independently with power controls a power-saving function of the image forming apparatus, and independently returns functions of the image forming apparatus from a power-saving state to a normal power state. Furthermore, the power-saving controller returns the print unit and the recording medium controller from the power-saving state to the normal power state when receiving data including a print request through the network unit. Alternatively, the power-saving controller returns the recording medium controller from the power-saving state to the normal power state when receiving data including an access request to the recording medium through the network unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20080204786 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An object of the invention is to improve convenience in using a system capable of recording electronic data in association with time information. To achieve this object, an information processing apparatus of this invention includes a display control device which displays, on a display device together with a time line, time information which is obtained from a timer and associated with electronic data recorded by a recording control device, and a processing device which determines on the basis of the time information associated with the electronic data whether a count of the timer was corrected, wherein if it is determined that the count of the timer was corrected, the display control device displays, on the display device together with the time line, information representing correction contents of the time information. | 08-28-2008 |
20080204787 | APPARATUS FOR EMBEDDING INFORMATION AND PERFORMING PROCESSING BASED ON EMBEDDED INFORMATION, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - An apparatus and method that allow a user to copy a copy-protected document where copy-protection information is embedded in the document and copy-protection-cancellation information is embedded in a form different from the document, where the copy-protection-cancellation information is used to cancel the copy protection. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212124 | IMAGE TRANSFERRING APPARATUS - An image transferring apparatus for transmitting image data to a file server has an image input unit allowing input of image as the image data, a memory section for storing the image data, and registration and transmission information of the image data, and a communication controller for transmitting the image data stored in the memory section to the file server. The communication controller has a judgment unit for making a judgment based on the registration and transmission information of the image data as to whether communication condition of the image data is normal or not. The communication controller transmits a request for deleting the image data to the file server in a case where the judgment is made that the communication condition is not normal during transmission of the image data stored in the memory section to the file server. | 09-04-2008 |
20080225324 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system is supplied which is able to prevent the record medium from being taken by other people and to improve the secrecy performance of image data. In the system, an image processing apparatus has an storing section that stores image data to form image, a reading section that reads out the identification information from a carriable medium, an encryption executing section that executes an encryption of the image data based on the identification information, and a transmitting section that transmits the encrypted image data to an image forming apparatus together with the identification information; and the image forming apparatus has a receiving section that receives the image data and the identification information, a reading section that reads out the identification information from the carriable medium, a judging section that judges the received image data based on the identification information, a decryption executing section that executes a decryption of the image data based on the identification information, and an image forming section that performs an image formation of the decrypted image data. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225325 | Method and system for real-time end-user status and quality monitoring of printing operations - A user connected to a remote printer can choose to activate a print-monitoring feature of the printer as part of the submitted print job. As the job begins to print, the output of the printer is monitored for print quality. If an event occurs during the print job that affects the print job, the user receives real-time notification of the status of the print job. The events can be printer related such as paper jam or print job related such as poor print quality. The user can have an option of reviewing various parts of the print job during the printing process. There can also be an automatic print job out evaluation. If the user accepts the print quality, the printer will continue printing the job. If the user is not satisfied with the print quality, the job is halted and sent to a temporary print buffer. While the job is halted, adjustments are made to either the printer to improve print quality or to the print parameters of the print job to improve print quality. | 09-18-2008 |
20080239361 | Printer, Control Program and Printing Device - A printer includes a receiving unit configured to receive a print job; a printing unit which executes a printing process to print an image on a recording medium based on the print job received by the receiving unit; a suspending unit which suspends the printing process based on suspension information added to the print job; an indicating unit which indicates that the printing is in process during suspension of the printing process; and a re-starting unit which re-starts the printing process suspended by the suspending unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239362 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PRINT IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM AND PRINT IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - A print image generating program is capable of printing information that discourages fraudulent distribution of printed documents, irrespective of the type of printer. A print image generating apparatus has an application, a printer driver, a print management unit, and a virtual driver, and is designed to add tracking information that discourages distribution of printed documents when print data is printed. The print management unit monitors print requests from the application. When detecting a print request which was output from the application to the printer driver, the print management unit acquires and interrupts the print request destined for the printer driver. When the virtual driver receives a command from the print management unit, it acquires print data and tracking information, and generates tracking print image data by adding the tracking information to the print data, and gives the generated data to the printer driver. | 10-02-2008 |
20080259378 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of operating in a normal mode and a power-saving mode, and includes a control unit that includes a CPU and a memory, operates, in the power-saving mode, the CPU in a low power consumption state, and operates the memory in a self-refresh mode to hold data, and a power source circuit that supplies a power source voltage to each unit of the image forming apparatus in the normal mode, and stops power supply to a circuit unit whose operation is not required in the power-saving mode. When a return factor to the normal mode from the power-saving mode occurs, the control unit distinguishes whether a return to the normal mode is to be made. | 10-23-2008 |
20080278739 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having: a replacement part that can be replaced; an operation and display section; an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet; a power supply section that supplies power to said image forming section; a storage section that stores a procedure of replacing said replacement part; and a control section, wherein said control section carries out, upon input instruction of said replacement part to be replaced from said operation and display section, a display operation of the replacement procedure of said replacement part on said operation and display section and an ON/OFF control of said power supply section. | 11-13-2008 |
20080297825 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT RESTRICTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system which is capable of preventing print restriction information from affecting the embedding of copy restriction information, thereby being capable of positively performing copy restriction on printed documents. An information processing apparatus includes a print restriction information-receiving section that acquires print restriction information for restricting use of functions concerning printing processing, a copy restriction information-acquiring section that acquires copy restriction information for restricting copying of a document printed based on print data, and a copy restriction information and print restriction information-adding section that adds the copy restriction information and print restriction information to the print data. A management server includes a copy restriction information and print restriction information incompatibility-determining section that determines compatibility between the print restriction information and printing conditions of the copy restriction information, and changes the print restriction information based on a result of determination of the compatibility. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297826 | Printing apparatus - A printing apparatus is supplied, which receives print job; generates print data from the print job; prints the print data; and has an error eliminating method for easily eliminating error when error occurred. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304094 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control unit to set a priority level to operate the audio replay function so that the priority level is higher in an abnormal operation of the apparatus than in a normal operation of the apparatus is provided in the image forming apparatus | 12-11-2008 |
20080304095 | PRINTER MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A printer monitoring apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a display mode of a warning or an error related to a peripheral device, a determination unit configured to determine whether the warning or the error has previously occurred, a display unit configured to display the warning or the error in a case where the warning or the error has previously occurred, and a processing unit configured to continue a process or cancel a process according to the warning or the error based on whether the warning or the error has previously occurred. | 12-11-2008 |
20080316521 | Systems and methods for managing facsimile documents - Systems and methods for managing facsimile documents can be utilized to ensure a faxed document or any portion of a faxed document is not lost. An amount of printing material available to a printing device can be determined. Based on the determined amount of printing material available, an incoming facsimile document can be printed or stored to memory to ensure that data is not lost. Similarly, an amount of available memory within a printing device can be determined to ensure that facsimile data being stored to memory is not lost due to a memory limitation. Utilizing the systems and methods disclosed, facsimile documents can be interactively managed so that information is not lost due to printing material or memory limitations. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316522 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that includes a first system and a second system, wherein the permission/prohibition of access to a storage unit provided in the first system is controlled appropriately based on a signal transmitted from the second system, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus of the present invention includes the first system and the second system, and permits access to the storage unit only when executing a program that includes a predetermined process to activate the apparatus using an external storage apparatus. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316523 | IDENTIFICATION CARD MANUFACTURING SECURITY - In a method of authorizing a supply for use with a printing system, a supply is provided having a memory containing a first and second codes and supply-specific data, which uniquely identifies the supply. The first code, the second code and the supply-specific data are retrieved from the memory of the supply. The first and second codes are translated using the supply-specific data. The translated first code is compared to a third code and the translated second code is compared to a fourth code. Use of the supply with the printing system is authorized when the translated first code corresponds to the third code and the translated second code corresponds to the fourth code. Use of the supply with the printing system is prevented when either the translated first code does not correspond to the third code, or the translated second code does not correspond to the fourth code. | 12-25-2008 |
20090002743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING PACKET IN NETWORK IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of allowing a packet in a network image forming apparatus includes setting user account information corresponding to the plurality of network interfaces, determining allowability of a received packet by using information included in the received packet and the set user account information, and when the received packet is allowable, performing an operation corresponding to the received packet. Accordingly, in an image forming apparatus installing a plurality of network interfaces, not only allowability of each interface to each user but also a type of protocol provided to each user can be setup. Consequently, an environment that can use an interface in various forms according to each user can be provided. | 01-01-2009 |
20090009789 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - With widely-used standard techniques (RSS, HTTP, and Basic authentication), there is realized a function of storing electronic document data via a network, a function of notifying a user of an update status of the electronic document data through the RSS, and a function of printing the electronic document data through a Web browser. | 01-08-2009 |
20090009790 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - There is provided an image forming device, comprising: a print unit configured to form an image on a recording medium in which a memory device is embedded; a detection unit configured to detect a condition of the memory device embedded in the recording medium, the detection unit being positioned on a downstream side in a feeding direction with respect to the print unit; and a notification control unit configured to provide notification concerning the condition of the memory device, in response to a fact that the detection unit detects that the memory device embedded in the recording medium is defective. | 01-08-2009 |
20090009791 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING FORGERY - Conventionally, it is impossible to securely and efficiently implement the judgment of specific images. In order to solve this task, an image processing apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in including an input unit (in these embodiments, this corresponds to, for example, the interface unit in FIG. | 01-08-2009 |
20090015857 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: a display that displays a normal operational screen and information other than the normal operational screen; a personal information acquiring unit that acquires personal information of a user from his or her identification information stored on a storage medium; and a controller that controls post-processing based on the personal information acquired by the personal information acquiring unit and the information other than the normal operational screen to be displayed by the display. | 01-15-2009 |
20090015858 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Image Processing Program - The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a specific pattern detecting unit which detects a background pattern representing additional information from inputted original document image data; an information detecting unit which extracts the additional information represented by the background pattern which is detected by the specific pattern detecting unit; an erase processing unit which erases a prescribed region of the original document image and outputs erase-processed document image data; a re-embedding background pattern generating unit which generates a re-embedding background pattern representing the additional information extracted by the information detecting unit; a background pattern composition processing unit which embeds the re-embedding background pattern into the erase-processed document image data and outputs re-embedded document image data; and a processor which controls the units mentioned above. The apparatus of the present invention is capable of embedding the background pattern again, which has once been lost through the erase function, so as to maintain a background pattern detection rate at a high level. | 01-15-2009 |
20090021763 | Recovery from occurrence of a fault condition in digital printing - A method of digital printing in which each of the page images of a print job with a large number of sequential pages to be printed is classified as to the job or document type. Upon occurrence of a fault in printing, upon fault clearance and resumption of printing, only those pages having the same classification as the pages involved in the fault are reprinted in sequence from the fault. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021764 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF APPROPRIATE SECURITY MANAGEMENT - An MFP receives notification of a power state of a networked client apparatus or PC from the PC and updates user management information in accordance with the power state of the PC. The MFP determines a security level in real time in accordance with the state of the power supply of the networked client apparatus that is stored in the user management information, and sets the determined security level for the MFP. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021765 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes: a combining unit configured to combine a document image and a coded image; a setting determining unit configured to determine whether a setting for combining a document image including a previously combined coded image and an other coded image is made when a reproduction of the document image is instructed; and a prohibiting unit configured to prohibit the combining unit from combining the document image including the previously combined coded image and the other coded image according to the setting when the result of the determination indicates that the setting is made. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021766 | PRINT SYSTEM - A print system is provided that has a plurality of printer units for print processing on a print medium basis and that ejects printed materials, printed by the plurality of printer units, according to a pre-set order. Each printer unit includes peak current calculation means that analyzes a load of received print data, calculates a peak current value that will be required for printing the print data based on the load analysis, and sends the calculated peak current value, as well as a print request, to a controller. The controller compares a total current value of the peak current value, which is sent from the peak current calculation means, and a total current consumption value of printer units in print operation with a maximum current setting value stored in the print system and, based on the comparison result, controls whether or not the print request from the printer unit is permitted. | 01-22-2009 |
20090033974 | Image Forming System and Image Forming Apparatus - In an image forming system, a server includes (a) a transmitting/receiving unit that receives consumable-goods shortage information and consumable-goods stock information via a network and transmits the consumable-goods stock information and stock retrieval information for retrieving the consumable goods via a network, the consumable-goods shortage information indicating a shortage of consumable goods in an image forming apparatus, the consumable-goods stock information indicating an available stock in an image forming apparatus, and (b) a management control unit that causes the transmitting/receiving unit to transmit the stock retrieval information to the other image forming apparatuses than one of the image forming apparatuses that transmits the consumable-goods shortage information to the server, and causes the transmitting/receiving unit to transmit the consumable-goods stock information obtained from the other image forming apparatuses as a result of retrieving the consumable goods via the network. | 02-05-2009 |
20090040546 | PRINTER CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method used by printing apparatus executing a job based on a print setting accepted via an operation unit including accepting a stop instruction for stopping a print operation for the job via the operation unit and displaying a setting screen reflecting a print setting made for the job for which the print operation is stopped, in response to acceptance of a stop instruction. | 02-12-2009 |
20090051957 | INK JET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An ink jet image forming apparatus includes a reset correction unit to restrict a heater driving time so as to prevent a heater from being damaged due to overheating when an error occurs in a system clock. The reset correction unit may determine that an error occurs in the system clock if a discharging voltage of at least one charging circuit, which performs a charging operation using the system clock, is decreased to a reference voltage. In this case, the reset correction unit can generate a reset signal having an initial state such that the heater is no longer driven. | 02-26-2009 |
20090051958 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes an image forming unit, power supplier, power controller, memory, signal transmission unit and transmission timer. The image forming unit forms an image based on image data from a plurality of host devices. The power supplier supplies power to a power system including the image forming unit. The power controller controls the power from the power supplier to the power system. The memory stores a usage amount of each host device. The signal transmission unit transmits a response request to a host device having at least a predetermined usage amount. The transmission timer counts a first time period from a transmission of the response request. The power controller halts the power from the power supplier to the power system when determining, based on the first time period, that a reply to the response request is not transmitted from the specific host device for a predetermined period. | 02-26-2009 |
20090051959 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - There are provided an image forming apparatus which is capable of efficiently performing necessary actions to thereby reduce downtime. At least one job can be registered. Image formation is performed according to the at least one registered job. Action objects are detected on which actions necessary for the image forming apparatus should be taken. | 02-26-2009 |
20090059266 | Method of automatically controlling print quality in digital printing - A method of automatically monitoring and controlling print quality in digital printing with a first and second scanner capturing an image from different locations in the printing engine. In an exemplary embodiment, a first scanner captures an image from a surface internal to the print engine while an external scanner captures an image from a printed sheet. If the external print image quality is acceptable, the internally captured image is saved as a reference. The system periodically compares internally captured images with the saved reference and provides automatic image correction if the variation from the reference is within a correctable range. If the image variation is not within a correctable range, the system runs a new test print and creates a new reference image. | 03-05-2009 |
20090059267 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - An image forming system is provided which controls usage of a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network for each user of the image forming system. Usage of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is permitted or prohibited based on information in a disable flag associated with each user. | 03-05-2009 |
20090059268 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - The image forming apparatus decodes a two dimensional code within an image and obtains a password; stores the image in a storage unit if the password thus obtained matches a password entered through an operating section; and when an instruction is given by a user to display the image stored in the storage unit on a display unit of the image forming apparatus, performs a control to display the image on the display unit of the image forming apparatus without requesting an entry of the obtained password, and when an instruction is given by a user to display the image stored in the storage unit on a display unit of an external device, other than the display unit of the image forming apparatus, performs a control to request an entry of the obtained password for displaying the image on the display unit of the external device. | 03-05-2009 |
20090066989 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether data indicating setting an operation mode of the image forming apparatus to an auto-restart prevention mode is received from an information processing apparatus. If such data is received, a setting unit stores the data in a mode storage unit whereby an operation mode of the image forming apparatus is set to the auto-restart prevention mode. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073481 | Method and system for external preprocessing of service requests directed to a sleeping node - Methods and systems for external preprocessing of service requests to avoid unnecessary wakeup of a sleeping node and improve power savings. An exemplary method comprises receiving from a sleep capable node a redirected service request; and selecting, depending on a service request type of the service request, among transmitting to the sleep capable node a wakeup request and providing to a client node a service requested in the service request without transmitting to the sleep capable node a wakeup request. In some embodiments, the selecting step comprises selecting among transmitting to the sleep capable node a full wakeup request, transmitting to the sleep capable node a partial wakeup request and providing to the client node a service requested in the service request without transmitting to the sleep capable node a wakeup request. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073482 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD - There is provided an image-processing device having a receiving unit that receives first variable print data including a plurality of records and designation information designating a rendering program; an image generation unit that performs the image generation process in which the rendering program is executed with regard to the plurality of records included in the first variable print data to generate output images corresponding to each of the plurality of records, wherein when an error occurs because of a first record of the plurality of records during generation of an output image corresponding to the first record, the image generation unit continues the image generation process by changing a record to be processed from the first record to a record which is to be processed later than the first record; and a variable print data generation unit that generates second variable print data including the first record. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073483 | PRINT INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT INSTRUCTION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The print instruction apparatus is provided with: a reception unit that receives a print request for printing an electronic document; a determination unit that determines whether or not particular information is associated with the electronic document; and an instruction unit that instructs a printing apparatus to temporarily store print information about the electronic document and impose restriction on printing on the basis of the print information until an operation device of the printing apparatus is operated, in the case where the determination unit determines that the particular information is associated with the electronic document. | 03-19-2009 |
20090086251 | METHOD AND ARTICLE FOR DETERMINING USE OF CONSUMABLE ITEMS IN AN IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE - An image-forming device and method for determining use of consumable items therein includes a consumable item memory storing a substantially unique identifier designating the consumable item as one of a starter item and a normal item. A computer program retrieves the identifier from the consumable item memory and determines whether to allow formation of images using the consumable item based on whether the consumable item is a starter item or a normal item. | 04-02-2009 |
20090086252 | Method and system for policy based monitoring and blocking of printing activities on local and network printers - A method and system for data loss prevention controls and protects sensitive data from being printed in an unauthorized manner. A method for controlling printing activities implemented in a computer system comprises intercepting a print job comprising print data intended for a printer driver, delaying performance of the print job, analyzing content of the print data to determine whether to allow or cancel the print job based on a security policy, and resuming or canceling the print job based on the analysis of the content of the print data. | 04-02-2009 |
20090086253 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, PRINTING SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor includes: a resuming unit that allows a printing device to resume an interrupted printing process; and an output processing unit that carries out an output process of resuming information including the reduced image of an image of a page in which the printing process is resumed and the information of the page in which the printing process is resumed. | 04-02-2009 |
20090097051 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In the image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet, an operation time measuring section that measures elapsed time that elapses from the point of time when the image forming apparatus arrives at its operable state and a controller that stops operations of the image forming apparatus when the elapsed time measured by the operation time measuring section arrives at a prescribed time are provided, whereby, a life span of the image forming apparatus influenced by temporal changes can be judged precisely, independently of the hours of operation of the image forming apparatus, and operations can be stopped. | 04-16-2009 |
20090097052 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A halftone screen applicable to an electrophotographic printer is created. Hence, minimum and maximum sizes of a halftone dot and a cluster size are input. When the halftone-dot size reaches the minimum size, the number of blackened pixels in the halftone dot is calculated. When the halftone-dot size is smaller than the minimum size, or when the number of blackened pixels doesn't reach the cluster size, and the halftone-dot size is smaller than the maximum size, the halftone dot is. When the number of blackened pixels becomes equal to or larger than the cluster size or when the halftone-dot size reaches the maximum size, a halftone screen is partitioned into polygons to have centroids of the halftone dots as kernel points. Then, each halftone dot is grown by blackening pixels to have the centroid as the center of growth. | 04-16-2009 |
20090097053 | PRINT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PRINT PROCESSING METHOD - At the time of processing on print data created by a client computer, in a case where a server computer obtains information that should be notified to the client computer, the server computer adds a message to the print data to be sent to a device. In a case where the print data is added with the message, the device creates the message to be sent to the server computer. The server computer sends the message to the client computer. The client computer displays an image based on the message. | 04-16-2009 |
20090116052 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAVING AND RESTORING A SETTING FROM AN INTERRUPTED PROCESS - In one version of a system according to the present invention, an MFP device and a storage server are connected to each other via a network. A user authentication is performed to acquire user information. Job information associated with the user information is acquired from the storage server. When scanning or printing is interrupted, scan or print setting information set before the interruption, and optionally the image data scanned before the interruption, are acquired. The MFP device performs the scanning or printing based on the setting information acquired from the storage server at the time of restart. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122331 | Facsimile machine - A communication rate management section reads out a communication rate at the time of occurrence of a communication error related to a destination machine having been selected by a user, based on stored information in a communication history table, when starting image data communication with the destination machine, the communication rate management section also calculating a communication rate with the destination machine in consideration of having a decrease by at least one level or more from the read-out communication rate, and having a facsimile communication section execute communication processing with the destination machine at the calculated communication rate. As a result, the frequency of occurrence of communication errors can be suppressed as much as possible. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122332 | Image forming apparatus, print control method, and computer-readable storage medium storing program code for executing the control method - An image forming apparatus capable of both normal printing and special-purpose printing includes a first identification unit, a second identification unit, and a selection unit. The first identification unit identifies a type of print data. The second identification unit identifies a type of print material. The selection unit selects a print resource in accordance with a combination of the type of print data identified by the first identification unit and the type of print material identified by the second identification unit. The selection unit selects the print resource so as to prevent unauthorized printing from being performed when the print data is for special-purpose printing. | 05-14-2009 |
20090135443 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit that reads an image formed on a recording medium; a copy-prohibited medium detecting unit that detects whether a recording medium is a copy-prohibited medium; and a controller that controls to disable or inhibit copying of an image formed on a recording medium, when it is detected by the copy-prohibited medium detecting unit that the recording medium is the copy-prohibited medium, before the image on the recording medium is read by the image reading unit. | 05-28-2009 |
20090141301 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device for printing on an image-receiving sheet includes an output unit for outputting printed image-receiving sheets to a finishing device. An interface is configured to connect to the finishing device. The interface is arranged for receiving an error signal from the finishing device. A communication unit outputs an error message to a user of the printing device. A control unit controls, when an error signal is received from the finishing device via the interface, a finisher error recovery procedure, wherein an error message is output to the user of the printing device by the communication unit. The error message contains the information that a number N of image-receiving sheets shall be removed from the finishing device, and the number N of the last printed image-receiving sheets are printed again. The number N is pre-configured in the control unit independently of the error signal received from the finishing device. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147292 | Apparatus, system, and method for image processing - A confidential document is generated by encoding distribution destination information specifying a destination to which the confidential document will be distributed. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153895 | Image Forming Device, Image Forming Device Terminal, and Program - The present invention provides an image forming device terminal for enhancing the productivity of the image forming process such as printing. An image forming device terminal for instructing execution of a printout process on an image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing, includes a selection accepting unit which accepts a selection of an image forming device for executing the printout process from a plurality of image forming devices; a determination unit which classifies the selected image forming device to a first type image forming device or a second type image forming device based on whether or not the selected image forming device is a default set image forming device; and a generating unit which generates job data as a printout process of not the authentication print printing in a case where the selected image forming device is the first type image forming device, and generates job data as a printout process of the authentication print printing in a case where the image forming device is the second type image forming device. | 06-18-2009 |
20090153896 | Image Forming Device, Image Forming Device Terminal, Image Forming System, and Program - The present invention provides an image forming device capable of maintaining a security level of a document constant, and an image forming device terminal. The image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing includes a storage unit for storing a document data file and setting data of the authentication print printing of the document data file; a communication interface for receiving instruction data containing instruction of a process related to the document data file; an authentication print setting determination unit for determining whether to execute as the authentication print printing based on setting data stored in the storage unit; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit for outputting the result of the user authentication; a job executing unit for executing the job; and an authentication print setting registration unit for editing the setting data stored in the storage unit based on the instruction data. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161140 | USER INTERFACE FOR INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL JOB RECOVERY - In response to a printing system fault or controller restart, a printing system print controller may present an interactive graphical job recovery user interface. The user interface may present one or more images that the print controller believes have printed successfully and/or a next page image scheduled to be sent by the print controller to the printing system print engine for printing. The user interface may allow a printing system operator to scroll forward and/or backward through the set of page images arranged in their respective print order until the user interface displays the correct page image that the print operator can confirm has printed correctly, based on an inspection of the print job. The print controller may resume the print job by sending to the print engine the page image from the stored image repository that follows the image confirmed by the printing system operator to have successfully printed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161141 | Printing Management Information Together with Image Data - An image forming apparatus includes an image receiving unit configured to receive image data, a sender identifying unit configured to identify a sender of the received image data, a check unit configured to check whether the identified sender corresponds to a predetermined sender, a management information providing unit configured to provide management-purpose image data obtained by encoding management information for controlling at least one of a transmission operation for transmitting an image scanned from a printout and a copy operation for copying an image scanned from a printout, and a print unit configured to print the management-purpose image data together with the received image data in response to a check result by the check unit indicating that the identified sender corresponds to the predetermined sender. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161142 | Positional Error Detection Method and Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - A positional error detection method forms, on a belt which is transported in a transport direction, positional error detection marks for detecting a positional error between image positions of first and second colors, detects the positional error detection marks on the belt, and computes the positional error based on the detected positional error detection marks. The positional error detection marks include first and second marks which are inclined in mutually opposite directions with respect to the transport direction, and third marks which are perpendicular to the transport direction. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161143 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A monitoring server that monitors an image forming apparatus and detects an error if any has occurred thereon, identifies a type of firmware that has caused the error, and issues an instruction for replacing a version of the identified type of firmware. The image forming apparatus issues, to a transmission server, a request for transmitting a replacement version of the identified type of firmware. The transmission server refers to a firmware version list table to determine another type of firmware whose version is to be replaced in association with the replacement version of the identified type of firmware. The transmission server transmits the replacement version of the identified type of firmware and the determined another type of firmware to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus receives each firmware transmitted from the transmission server and applies the received firmware to the image forming apparatus. | 06-25-2009 |
20090174890 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - The image forming device includes an image data input unit that receives image data of a document; a set password acquisition unit that acquires information regarding a password from the image data received by the image data input unit; an input password receiving unit that starts reception of input of the password before the reception of the image data of all pages of the document is completed by the image data input unit; a password verification unit that performs verification between an input password and a set password; and a job execution unit that cancels execution limit of a job based on a verification result and executes the job, wherein, when the password is set in arbitrary one page of the document, the image data input unit sequentially completes the reception of the image data of the next page of the arbitrary one page of the document, before the input of the password corresponding to the password set in the arbitrary one page is completed by the input password receiving unit. | 07-09-2009 |
20090180134 | DEVICE FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DATA READ WITH IMAGE SENSOR - An image processing device is provided which corrects error pixels without using a line buffer even in the case of using an image sensor with a structure having a plurality of sensors arranged in series. It has a detecting component for detecting the presence or absence of a factor of black line and Kth error pixel correcting processing components each for receiving the Kth pixel signal among the pixel signals output in N divisions, and for correcting error pixels. When the factor of black line is detected at a boundary between Kth and (K−1)th division outputs, the Kth error pixel correcting processing component notifies the (K−1)th error pixel correcting processing component of neighboring pixel information about the error pixels, and the (K−1)th error pixel correcting processing component corrects the error pixels at the boundary in response to the neighboring pixel information notified and the (K−1)th pixel signal. | 07-16-2009 |
20090190155 | Printing system - A personal computer identifies a target of a printing error in a printer. At this time, the personal computer identifies the target of the printing error in the printer as a print file, based on an identification code obtained together with status information which represents error information. The personal computer waits for the printer to restore the error. The personal computer determines whether or not the printer has restored the error based on the status information obtained from the printer on a regular basis or when driven by some event. Next, the personal computer retransmits the print file thus identified to the printer. Alternatively, the printer re-receives the print file. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190156 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a storage unit configured to store print data which is received from a host, a generation unit configured to read the print data which is stored in the storage unit and generate an intermediate code, and an image forming unit configured to form an image according to the intermediate code which is generated by the generation unit. The image forming apparatus also has a restriction unit that is configured not to restrict execution of a specific print function if a processing unit configured to process the print data by interactively communicating with the host is not installed in the image forming apparatus, and is configured to restrict execution of the specific print function if the processing unit configured to process the print data by interactively communicating with the host is installed in the image forming apparatus. | 07-30-2009 |
20090201526 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes an application that encrypts document data using a public key of a spooler and stores the document data encrypted as a spool file. A printer driver decrypts the encrypted document data using a secret key of the spooler and performs rendering to generate print data. Subsequently, the application decrypts the print data using the public key of the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus decrypts the encrypted print data using the secret key of its own. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207434 | IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING OPERATION PROGRAM - An image output system includes a computer and a complex machine connected to the computer. A password generating section of the complex machine, in a case where a user ID transmitted from a transmitting section of the computer is stored in a HDD, generates a password which is different from the user ID, and the transmitting section transmits the password generated by the password generating section. A controller, in a case where the password received by a password receiving section and the password transmitted from the password transmitting section to the computer, controls an image forming section to output image data which is not combined with electronic watermark information by an electronic watermark information combining section. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213410 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A detector detects a first key information piece embedded on one side of one sheet or more than one respective sheets from which image data is read out by a reader, and a second key information piece embedded on the other side thereof or on another sheet. And a comparator | 08-27-2009 |
20090213411 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, COMPUTER, PRINTER AND DATA OUTPUTTING SYSTEM - A data outputting system includes a computer and an output apparatus which outputs data. The computer includes an intermediate file generating unit which converts a file of a processing object into an intermediate file which is in a form not depending on a model of the output apparatus. The output apparatus includes a data generating unit to convert the intermediate file into data which is in a form corresponding to a model of the output apparatus. | 08-27-2009 |
20090213412 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE SUPPLYING APPARATUS - An image processing system is provided in which an image supplying apparatus is connected to a plurality of image processing apparatuses via a network, where at least one image processing apparatus executes processing requested by a user for image data supplied from the image supplying apparatus. The image supplying apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether the image data requests a security condition, a decision unit configured to decide on the security condition, a search unit configured to search the plurality of image processing apparatuses for an image processing apparatus which is capable of executing the processing requested by the user and satisfies the security condition, a display unit configured to display the image processing apparatus detected by the search unit so as to allow the user to select the image processing apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to the image processing apparatus. | 08-27-2009 |
20090219559 | UNIT USING OS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A chip mountable on a customer replaceable unit monitory (CRUM) unit used in an image forming job includes a central processing unit (CPU) to perform cryptographic data communication with a main body of an image forming apparatus, using an operating system (OS) of the CPU. The security of a unit on which the chip is mounted can thereby be reinforced and random changes of data of the unit can be prevented. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219560 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, HARDWARE SELF-DIAGNOSING METHOD, AND HARDWARE SELF-DIAGNOSING PROGRAM - A hardware self-diagnosing method for performing a hardware self-diagnosis of an image forming apparatus includes reading a set value stored in a memory unit of the image forming apparatus; performing the hardware self-diagnosis of the image forming apparatus in a detailed diagnosis mode at intervals determined by the set value stored in the memory unit; and performing the hardware self-diagnosis of the image forming apparatus in a simplified diagnosis mode in between the intervals at which the hardware self-diagnosis is performed in the detailed diagnosis mode. The set value may be a period of time or a number of recording media outputted by the image forming apparatus. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219561 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus reads an original to which a restriction item such as copy restriction is embed to input image data. The image processing apparatus restricts an image processing on the input image data which involves a loss of the embedded information on the restriction item to maintain a state where the restriction item is embedded for the output. Alternatively, the image processing apparatus outputs the image data of a format where the restriction information is added to the input electric data. | 09-03-2009 |
20090237704 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTENT-RECORDED DISK MAKING APPARATUS, KIOSK TERMINAL, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided herein is a printing apparatus having a frame image take-in means which takes in a plurality of frame images at a predetermined interval from a content file as recorded target including image information on an optical disk medium, a frame image discriminating means which discriminates whether each of the taken-in frame images is appropriate for printing on a label face by comparing each of the frame images taken in by the frame image take-in means with prior and following frame images thereof and using a discriminating result whether differences between the taken-in frame images and the prior and following frame images thereof are small, a label print data generating means which generates label print data to be printed on the label face of the optical disk medium based on frame images discriminated as appropriate for printing on the label face by the frame image discriminating means, and a label print means which prints the label print data generated on the label face of the optical disk medium. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237705 | Error notification method, data distribution apparatus, and recording medium - Disclosed is an error notification method of a data distribution system that includes the steps of when detecting an occurrence of an error, referring to an error notification condition table in which an identifier of an error notification condition and an identifier of an occurrence frequency correspond to each other to specify the identifier of the occurrence frequency corresponding to the identifier of the error notification condition of the error; referring to an occurrence frequency table in which the identifier of the occurrence frequency and information on a frequency number and an occurrence interval correspond to each other to acquire the information on the occurrence number and the occurrence interval corresponding to the identifier of the occurrence frequency; and determining whether an error notification is sent based on the information on the occurrence number and the occurrence interval. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237706 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing unit performs an image processing operation and further performs a setting operation causing a power load as a power load operation. A first control unit controls the image processing unit. A second control unit controls an operation of the first control unit by communicating with the first control unit. An interrupting unit interrupts the power load operation at a first timing after the first control unit is activated when the image processing apparatus is turned on. A resuming unit resumes the power load operation interrupted by the interrupting unit at a second timing. | 09-24-2009 |
20090244588 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The communication apparatus including: a communication unit communicating with external apparatuses via a communication line; a notification unit notifying, from the communication unit, the external apparatuses of stop of electric power supply to a controller controlling operation, when electric power supply to the controller is stopped; an identification information memory for storing identification information of one of the external apparatuses when, after the notification unit makes the notification, the notification unit again makes the notification to the one of the external apparatuses upon receipt of a signal from the one of the external apparatuses; and a signal processor processing a signal received from any of the external apparatuses by the communication unit. The signal processor discards a signal, when a transmission source of the signal is one of the external apparatuses having the identification information matching the identification information stored in the identification information memory. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244589 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to reduce influences of showthrough where a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is visualized after printing. In order to attain the above object, the apparatus of the present invention is provided with determination means for determining whether a setting for printing a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image in which a character portion is rendered to a minor dot portion on both sides of a sheet is made and control means for controlling so that a warning screen is displayed where the determination means determines that the above setting has been made. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244590 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus detects whether a sub board, which performs image processing, is in a processing-disabled state. If it is detected that the sub board is in the processing-disabled state, the image forming apparatus activates a virtual environment on a main board, which performs information processing, to allow an image processing unit configured to perform the image processing to run on the virtual environment. The image forming apparatus transfers data processed by the image processing unit to the sub board when the sub board comes into a processing-enabled state and then prints and outputs the data via a print engine. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244591 | Method and Apparatus for Correcting Geometric Errors While Preserving Defined Information - A method and an apparatus are provided for correcting geometric errors during a transfer of a printing image to a printing material. For the purpose of correction, a raster bitmap is fed to a matrix manipulation device, which distorts the raster bitmap. The problem with the distortion is that areas such as edge marks are also distorted. In order to avoid those undesired distortions, a protected area determining device for determining a protected area within the raster bitmap and/or the master print, and a protective element for preserving the content of a protected area within a raster bitmap, are provided. | 10-01-2009 |
20090257076 | Method of document protection - This invention relates to a method for preventing a copy of document, belonging to a technical field of entire copy protection of document. In the prior art, for some important documents, specially the secret ones, the reproduction of this kind of document is usually prohibited by its owner because of the security. But the technique in the prior art can not solve the problem of preventing unauthorized reproduction. The method of the present invention is intended to embed a shading pattern under the original image of anti-copy document by an application program installed in the copy device, and decide whether the document can be copied legally or not. By the method of present invention, it is possible to detect the watermark information of the anti-copy document accurately and quickly, and prevent the reproduction of the anti-copy document thoroughly. Moreover, an additional memory space is no need. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257077 | DEFECT AVOIDANCE IN DIGITAL PRINTING - A method of digital printing in which, upon sensing a defect area in a page image in the marking process or on the printed media, the page image is reconfigured to rotate, translate, change print jobs, or reduce the number of pages printed concurrently to avoid the defect area and continue the printing process without interruption utilizing the available non-defect area. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257078 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - An image forming device which is arranged to execute an authentication print job. The image forming device includes: a communication interface unit which receives print data; a job data holding unit which holds job data for the an authentication print job based on the print data; a job execution unit which executes a job based on the job data; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit which outputs a user authentication result; a control unit which instructs a start of execution of the authentication print job to the job execution unit based on the user authentication result; and an instruction generation unit which outputs to the control unit an instruction to change a setting with respect to the authentication print job based on an input of a user authentication result, wherein: the instruction generation unit outputs the instruction to change the setting with respect to an authentication print job in an execution state or an execution queuing state based on the input of the user authentication result that is received in an after user authentication period; and the control unit executes a process of changing the setting based on the instruction. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257079 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - An information processing method of an information processing apparatus that receives a job ticket, includes performing a function according to the job ticket, and determining whether a notification that the process has normally ended is received. In one embodiment, if it is determined that the notification is not received, a JDF analysis/correction unit may search for a confirmed subsequent function in the system based on a system map, and can determine whether there is another apparatus including the subsequent function in the system based on the search result. If the JDF analysis/correction unit determines that there is another apparatus including the subsequent function, the job ticket is updated and transmitted to the subsequent apparatus, along with input data. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262380 | CONCURRENT IMAGE AND DIAGNOSTIC PATTERN PRINTING - Print image-quality defects are diagnosed by printing an image and one or more diagnostic patterns concurrently. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262381 | Information processing device, multifunction printer, external authentication system for multifunction printer, and storage medium - In an external authentication system for a multifunction printer according to the present invention, a USB device management section, according to an instruction from a USB device management section instructing section, (i) performs a virtualization process for virtually connecting an information processing device to a user information reading device which is locally connected to a multifunction printer, (ii) manages a status of the connection between the information processing device and the user information reading device; and a multifunction printer association management section associates the multifunction printer controlled by the information processing device with the user information reading device which is locally connected to the multifunction printer. This allows providing a system in which an information processing device can control a plurality of multifunction printers, and carry out user authentication by controlling, via a communication network, USB devices for reading user information which are locally connected to the multifunction printers, respectively. | 10-22-2009 |
20090268223 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING CONTENT PROVIDED TO IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO PERFORM THE METHOD - A method of authenticating at least one piece of content provided to an image forming apparatus in which at least one consumable is disposed includes determining whether the at least one consumable includes authentication information of the at least one piece of content, displaying the at least one piece of content on a user interface according to a license policy corresponding to the authentication information, selecting at least one piece of content from the at least one piece of content displayed on the user interface, and executing the selected at least one piece of content. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268224 | AUTHENTICATION PRINTING TECHNIQUE - The authentication printing technique of the invention obtains attachment information regarding attachment of a preset device, such as a hard disk drive, to a printing apparatus. In response to a request for a printing operation with the printing apparatus, the authentication printing technique refers to the obtained attachment information and restricts an authentication printing process according to the attachment information of the preset device. The authentication printing process externally receives print data and prints the received print data on completion of a preset authentication operation. This arrangement effectively reduces the potential for leakage of information from the device attached to the printing apparatus. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268225 | Image Forming System and Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming system includes an information processing unit, an image forming apparatus that communicates with the information processing unit, a first memory unit that stores setting information of printing restriction on the image forming apparatus, a printing unit that executes a printing process of a print job in accordance with the setting information, a detection unit that detects a change request of the setting information, a job judging unit that judges whether there exists a print job in processing when the detection unit detects the change request, and a first permitting unit that permits change of the setting information in accordance with the change request when the job judging unit judges that there exists no print job in processing. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268226 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus that converts image data into print data to print is provided. The apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to generate first print data and second print data from the image data using an error diffusion method, and a printing unit configured to print the second print data. The conversion unit converts the image data into the first print data using the error diffusion method, generates constraint data specifying the non-print pixels in the first print data as non-print pixels in the second print data, and converts the image data into the plurality of pieces of second print data, each piece of second print data being used in one of the plurality of passes, through an error diffusion method that uses the constraint data. The printing unit forms an image by printing, in each of the plurality of passes, the second print data. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268227 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus includes a user authentication function that authorizes a user to operate saved print data with a password without requiring an input of the password while ensuring a security level. When a user is going to operate a document by using the image forming apparatus, and if the user logged in the image forming apparatus is a creator of the document, the image forming apparatus performs control not requiring the user to input an operation password for print data. Moreover, by managing information on users who have unlocked the operation password as document information, the image forming apparatus also performs control not requiring even users other than the creator of the document to input the operation password if the users have unlocked the operation password ever before. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268228 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION OF PRINTING DATA AND PARTICULARLY FOR MIRRORING PRINTING ORDERS - In a method or system for reception from a sender of a print data with a print job by a print server of a first printing system from a sender, with the print server of the first printing system acknowledging to the sender correct receipt of a predetermined data unit of print data according to a predetermined protocol. With the print server of the first printing system copying the print data to a mirror print server of a second printing system separate from the print server of the first printing system before execution of the respective acknowledgement for the predetermined data unit, and automatically using as a print server for continued execution of the print job given problems in storage of the print data on the print server of the first printing system, said mirror print server of the second printing system. | 10-29-2009 |
20090279117 | PRINTING CONTROL SYSTEM, VIEWING TERMINAL, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing control system that comprises a viewing terminal including print request transmission device that transmits content identification information and printing apparatus identification information to the printing apparatuses, a plurality of printing apparatuses including authentication request transmission device that transmits user identification information, the printing apparatus identification information, and the content identification information to the authentication server, and an authentication server including authentication information storage device that stores authentication information associated with a permission condition for printing the content for each combination of the user and the printing apparatus, authentication determination device that determines, whether to permit printing the content identified by the content identification information for the combination of the user and the printing apparatus, the determination being based on the authentication information, and print command information transmission device that transmits print command information to the printing apparatus identified by the printing apparatus identification information. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279118 | PRINTING CONTROL SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS - A printing control system comprises a viewing terminal, an authentication apparatus, and a printing apparatus. The viewing terminal includes an user identification information acquisition device that acquires user identification information, a print command device that issues a command to print the content, a print command transmission device that transmits the user identification information and content identification information to the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus includes an approval request transmission device that transmits the user identification information and the content identification information to the authentication apparatus, the authentication apparatus includes an approval information storage device that stores approval information that is associated with approval conditions for approving printing, an approval determination device that determines whether to approve printing of the content for the user who is identified based on the approval information, and a print data transmission device that transmits the print data for the content to the printing apparatus. | 11-12-2009 |
20090284782 | COPY-FORGERY-INHIBITED PATTERN DENSITY PARAMETER DETERMINATION METHOD, COPY-FORGERY-INHIBITED PATTERN IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING - A primary test printing process of a plurality of copy-forgery-inhibited pattern images generated by changing one or both of print densities of the latent-image and background-image parts in a first pattern on the basis of a predetermined parameter is performed. The user selects one copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image which has the latent-image and background-image parts with approximate print densities from the plurality of copy-forgery-inhibited pattern images generated by the primary test printing process. A secondary test printing process of a plurality of copy-forgery-inhibited pattern images generated by changing one or both of print densities of the latent-image and background-image parts in a second pattern on the basis of the parameter used to determine the print densities of the latent-image and background-image parts of the selected copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is performed. The user selects one copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image which has the latent-image and background-image parts with approximate print densities from the plurality of copy-forgery-inhibited pattern images generated by the secondary test printing process, and the parameter of the selected copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is determined as a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern density parameter. | 11-19-2009 |
20090296128 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SUCH INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention can provide an efficient cancellation of a restriction on a stamp print process without the need for the user to request the manager for a temporary cancellation of the restriction on the stamp print process by phone or orally. The information processing apparatus makes a request for a temporary cancellation of the stamp print process specified in the first policy, and thereby acquires a second policy created outside based on the request. Then, the information processing apparatus temporarily cancels the stamp print process specified in the first policy, based on the second policy. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296129 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system including a printing apparatus and an image processing apparatus executes a job when it is appropriate, by reading a plurality of documents printed by the printing apparatus using the image processing apparatus and performing authentication by checking a plurality of pieces of acquired information against each other. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296130 | IMAGING FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD WITH SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS CONTROL FOR CONTINUOUS OPERATION - An image forming method reads a document by a scanner that is a device, provides image data corresponding to a document image, forms an image corresponding to the image data provided from the scanner by a printer that is a device, and detects operating errors of the scanner and the printer. Further, when any operating error is detected, the image forming method stops the operation of the device generating the error and operates the device not generating the error. | 12-03-2009 |
20090303517 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION CONTROLLING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMING THE IMAGE FORMATION CONTROLLING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including a controller generating image data and a print control signal and outputs the image data and the print control signal together with a print request; and an engine driving print process devices to perform print processing according to the image data. Upon receipt of the print request, the engine initiates the print process devices to print an image according to the image data. When receiving no next print request within a predetermined waiting time, the engine inquires the controller whether there is a next page image to be printed. When receiving a response from the controller such that there are next page image data, the engine sets a predetermined second waiting time while stopping termination of the print process devices for the predetermined second waiting time. | 12-10-2009 |
20090316178 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided with a receiving portion receiving an authenticated print job, a storage portion storing image data of the authenticated print job thus received, an authentication information determination portion performing authentication based on an operation performed by the user, and a printer printing an image based on the image data stored in the storage portion when the user has been authenticated. When the operation mode is set to the power-saving mode, the power controller changes the operation mode from the power-saving mode to the power-saving print mode without changing the operation mode from the power-saving mode to the normal standby mode after the user has been authenticated and before the printer performs printing, and the power controller returns the operation mode from the power-saving print mode to the power-saving mode after the printer has performed the printing. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316179 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to an image formation apparatus that discards a job on elapse of an auto clear time. In the case a job is interrupted due to an insufficient balance to pay the fee for the job, the image formation apparatus judges whether the cause of the interruption can be eliminated in a short time or it takes a long time to be eliminated. If the cause takes a long time to be eliminated, the image formation apparatus extends the auto clear time to prevent the job from being discarded for the reason that the user does not have enough time to pay an additional fee. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316180 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus configured to transmit print data to a printing apparatus to perform printing includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a selected complex print setting including a plurality of setting values requires resolution of a conflict of setting values, and an execution unit configured to execute print processing using the setting values without performing conflict resolution of the setting values, if the determination unit determines that the complex setting does not require the conflict resolution of the setting values, and execute print processing using the setting values that have undergone the conflict resolution of the setting values, if the determination unit determines that the complex setting requires the conflict resolution of the setting values. | 12-24-2009 |
20090323097 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - A printing system and its control method are provided allowing flexible function restrictions during print job execution even with an image forming apparatus incapable of highly advanced functions such as interpreting functional restriction information, etc. The invention is applied to a printing system where an information processing apparatus and a plurality of image forming apparatuses are connected via a network. The information processing apparatus transmits a print job assigned access restriction information, the information indicating whether or not to authorize the execution of the print job, only when an image forming apparatus or output destination of the print job is capable of interpreting such access restriction information. When an image processing apparatus is not capable of interpreting access restriction information, the information processing apparatus deletes access restriction information, but reflects restriction contents of the information in the data for the print job, and transmits the resultant job. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002248 | Print Driver For Printing Policy-Enabled Electronic Documents Using Locked Printing - An approach is provided for printing policy-enabled electronic documents using locked printing. A client device includes a user interface, an application program and a print driver. The application program allows a user to generate an electronic document. The print driver corresponds to a particular printing device and is configured to cause a graphical user interface to be displayed on the user interface. The graphical user interface allows a user to specify one or more access policies to be applied to the electronic document. The print driver is configured to generate print data that includes a plurality of print commands which, when processed by the particular printing device, cause a printed version of the electronic document to be generated at the printing device. The print data includes data that indicates the one or more attributes of the one or more access policies that are to be applied to the electronic document. | 01-07-2010 |
20100002249 | Locked Print With Intruder Detection And Management - A printing device includes a user interface, a print module and a locked print module. The locked print module is configured to examine a plurality of print data received by the printing device to determine whether locked printing is specified for any electronic documents contained in the plurality of print data. If locked printing is specified for any of the electronic documents contained in the plurality of print data, then the corresponding print data is stored on the printing device and not processed for printing. The locked print module is further configured to verify password data with respect to user identification data. If the password data is not successfully verified with respect to the user identification data, then the locked print module causes print data that is both stored on the printing device and associated with the user identification data to be deleted from the printing device. | 01-07-2010 |
20100002250 | MANAGEMENT OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS BASED ON USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus connected via a network with an authentication server for user authentication based on biometric information about a user. The image forming apparatus is also connected with a managing server for managing an operation of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a transmission unit transmitting the biometric information about the user to the authentication server, a reception unit receiving use limit information corresponding to the biometric information about the user from the managing server, and a control unit controlling the operation of the image forming apparatus based on the use limit information. | 01-07-2010 |
20100007907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ATTEMPTED SECURE PRINT JOB RELEASE NOTIFICATION - A method and apparatus for notifying a user of an attempted secure print job release from an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a secure print job and secure print job instructions from a user, wherein the secure print job instructions include at least a pass code and the user's contact information, determining if a pass code has been entered for the user's secure print job, wherein if it is determined that a pass code has been entered for the user's secure print job, determining if the entered pass code is correct, wherein if it is determined that the entered pass code is correct, sending a signal to print the secure print job and notifying the user in accordance with the user's contact information that the secure print job has been printed, otherwise, notifying the user in accordance with the user's contact information that an unauthorized user attempted to print the secure print job. | 01-14-2010 |
20100007908 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of flow easily and efficiently resuming an interrupted processing. The image processing apparatus executes a processing flow for sequentially carrying out a plurality of processes. When execution of the processing flow is interrupted due to occurrence of a power failure, the image processing apparatus creates a recovery processing flow for carrying out yet-to-be-executed ones of the processes included in the processing flow, after restart of the image processing apparatus, and executes the created recovery processing flow. | 01-14-2010 |
20100014110 | Image forming system having use restriction function based on document format to be printed and use restriction method in the system - An image forming system includes: a data receiving unit for receiving data to be printed and an identifier of a user who demanded printing of the data; a determining unit for determining whether or not a document represented by the data received by the data receiving unit is in accordance with a predetermined format; and a print controller for permitting or restricting printing of the data, depending on the result of determination by the determining unit. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014111 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method - In a case where a client user is already registered in a database server, user authentication is executed. Specifically, login to a network with use of a username and a password is executed and an authentication server carries out an authentication process, or authentication with use of a user certificate is executed and the authentication server carries out the authentication process. If the authentication process by the authentication server is completed, image forming apparatus information including position information is displayed on the client user and the client user is permitted to execute network connection. | 01-21-2010 |
20100020345 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method is provided for controlling an image forming apparatus provided in a room managed by a management apparatus capable of managing an entry or exit state of a participant who attends a conference and configured to process a print job received from a client computer. The method includes determining whether the room is used by a participant of a conference relating to the print job transmitted from the client computer, outputting the print job in a case where it is determined that the room is used by the participant of the conference relating to the print job, and restricting an output of the print job in a case where it is determined that the room is not used by the participant of the conference relating to the print job. | 01-28-2010 |
20100027045 | FINGERPRINT SCAN ORDER SEQUENCE TO CONFIGURE A PRINT SYSTEM DEVICE - What is disclosed is a system and method for capturing fingerprint data in an ordered sequence and using the captured sequence to configure a complex multi-function print system device to a set of device specific settings to perform intended workflow processes. Each finger has a unique associated code. A code sequence is associated with each stored set of settings. A user desiring to configure the device scans their fingerprints in a predefined ordered sequence. Settings associated with the entered sequence are retrieved and displayed for user approval. Thereafter, the complex print system device can be easily configured to the displayed settings. Other embodiments are additionally disclosed. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027046 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - Print data including a provisional registration command is received. When the print data including the provisional registration command is received, an authentication code is obtained. The authentication code is stored in a user information DB. Provisional registration data is obtained from the user information DB. Then, a list of provisional registration data is displayed. It is determined whether the provisional registration data is selectively input or not. If the provisional registration data is selectively input, user information in which IC card information or biological information and the authentication code are associated with each other is transmitted to an authentication server. The authentication server executes a process of registering the received user information. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027047 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - When a selection for canceling a security image is input at a client computer, then a password authentication unit causes a display unit to display a password reception screen, whereby an input password is compared with an authentication password stored in a password storage unit. When the passwords are matching, the print data generation unit of the client computer generates print data without adding a security image to the original data, and outputs the print data to a print server. A control unit of the print server transfers the print data to a printer, a print log acquisition unit acquires print log information from the printer, and the print log information and print data are stored in a print information storage unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027048 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a print product and a transmission unit configured to transmit image data of the print product to an external apparatus. The apparatus further includes an inhibition unit configured to inhibit the transmission of the image data based on inhibition information included in the image data. If the image data includes trace information to be used to trace a printer user of the print product in addition to the inhibition information, a control unit acquires the trace information and causes a display unit to perform a display based on the trace information without causing the output unit to transmit the image data. | 02-04-2010 |
20100033750 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting an Inconsistency in Dual Sided Printing - A dual engine printer comprises two print engines, and identical spread data is forwarded to each of the print engines, although each engine prints only one side of the sheet. Each print engine comprises a signature extractor for extracting a signature representative of the spread data it receives, and the printer is able to compare the two signatures to verify that the spread data is identical. The printer is thus able to detect data corruption or alternatively, if the signature extraction is synchronized with the print engage, the printer can verify that both sides are being printed on the same sheet. | 02-11-2010 |
20100033751 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus including: a state indicator which informs of a current system state to an outside; a system state manager which manages the system state; and an alert controller which controls the state indicator according to the system s identified by the system state manager, wherein if the system state manager identifies that the system state is in a power off inhibition state, the alert controller causes the state indicator to inform a user of the power off inhibition state. | 02-11-2010 |
20100033752 | PRINTER CONTROL METHOD AND A PRINTER - A printer and reprinting control method do not reprint when an error accompanied by no damage to the actual printing area or print image on paper occurs so that consumables are not wasted. The printer | 02-11-2010 |
20100039659 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUTHORIZED PERSON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing system includes an authorized person information management apparatus and an image processing apparatus, the authorized person information management apparatus including: a first reception unit; an authorized person information storage unit; an authorized person information acquisition unit; and a first transmission unit; the image processing apparatus including: a reading unit; a second transmission unit; a second reception unit; and an output unit. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039660 | Methods for Universal Data Output - A data output method for rendering at an output device content accessible with an information apparatus, includes obtaining at the information apparatus one or more rasterization parameters corresponding to the output device and conforming at the information apparatus at least part of the data content into one or more output images with said one or more rasterization parameters. An intermediate output data is transmitted from the information apparatus to an output controller that is distinct from the information apparatus and associated with the selected output device, the intermediate output data including said one or more output image. The intermediate output data is converted at the output controller into an output data acceptable for rendering at the output device. | 02-18-2010 |
20100046022 | MARKET-SPECIFIC CREDENTIAL AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A batch of printed credentials each including a polyoptic region including a respective image separately determined during production according to biographic or other information unique to the credential holder, as well as system and a method for producing such credentials. The respective images of the credentials in the batch may convey targeted marketing information. The production process uses credential data retrieved from a data store to print the plurality of customized credentials on a single medium where each credential on the single medium includes an image field based on dynamic data relationships of retrieved credential data. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053660 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention provides an image formation apparatus that reconstructs and prints a document based on document data written in a markup language. The image formation apparatus arranges, by using browser software, text data included in the document data within a page of the document, and acquires image data from servers and arranges the image data within the page of the document. If the image formation apparatus fails to acquire one or more pieces of the image data, it judges whether each of the pieces of image data is important or not according to the attribute information of the image data. If judged negatively, the image formation apparatus executes printing of the document reconstructed based on the text data and/or the acquired pieces of image data. If judged affirmatively, the image formation apparatus cancels the printing of the reconstructed document. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053661 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A job processing apparatus that is capable of recording an execution history of a job appropriately for each user even if a user does not spontaneously instruct a change of a user who operates an apparatus by a key operation etc. A receiving unit receives an operation of a user via an operation unit. A determining unit determines, when the receiving unit receives an operation, whether a user who performs the operation is identical to the user who has operated the operation, without inputting information for specifying the user. A control unit controls, when the determining unit determines that the user who performs the operation is not identical to the user who has operated the operation unit, so as not to keep an execution history of a job that is instructed to execute as an execution history of the user who has operated the operation. | 03-04-2010 |
20100060923 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus which can efficiently perform detection and decode processing carried out in parallel for a plurality of kinds of codes. For achieving the above object, an apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus capable of causing a printing unit to print a first code that can include both of copy prohibition information and copy permission information and a second cod that can include only the copy prohibition information of the copy prohibition information and the copy permission information, wherein the copy prohibition information is included in the first code, when the first code is printed together with the second code by the printing unit. | 03-11-2010 |
20100067036 | BILLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, BILLING CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Before executing a job, a printer performs an estimation of a billing amount with use of a simplified billing table, and if the estimated billing amount exceeds a balance, execution of the job is cancelled, and if within the balance, the job is executed. After the job is finished, the printer judges whether the estimated billing amount is correct according to detailed job information and a detailed billing table. If an error exists, the printer corrects the error and performs the correct billing. | 03-18-2010 |
20100067037 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling an information processing apparatus capable of receiving access from an external apparatuses, the method including: determining whether access from the external apparatus is permitted based on biometric information; instructing a printing unit to print a permit including the biometric information; receiving the biometric information included in the printed permit from the external apparatus; and permitting access from the external apparatus if it is determined that access from the external apparatus is permitted based on the received biometric information in a case where an access request is received from the external apparatus. | 03-18-2010 |
20100067038 | AUTHENTICATION OUTPUT SYSTEM, DEVICE USING APPARATUS, NETWORK DEVICE, OUTPUT DATA MANAGING PROGRAM, OUTPUT CONTROL PROGRAM, OUTPUT SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION OUTPUT METHOD, AND OUTPUT METHOD - An authenticator includes: network devices performing output; and an apparatus communicably using the network devices. The apparatus includes: first storage storing the output data; second storage storing tickets specifying whether to permit or restrict output data use; and a utilization manager managing output data use. When the authentication succeeds, the manager supplies output data stored in the first storage to any network device, and prohibits supplying output data until a print completion notice is received. When the print completion notice is received, the manager updates the tickets stored in the second storage, and when the tickets satisfy predetermined conditions, the manager prohibits supplying output data. Each network device includes: a receiver receiving output data; and a controller performing output control based on the output data received by the receiver. The controller transmits the print completion notice to the apparatus when the network device completely outputs the output data. | 03-18-2010 |
20100073703 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS CONNECTED TO POWER SUPPLYING DEVICE CAPABLE OF SUPPLYING POWER VIA DATA COMMUNICATION LINE, CONTROL METHOD PERFORMED BY SAME IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM EXECUTED BY SAME IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A message displaying area displays a message “DATA HAS BEEN RECEIVED”, which indicates that a print instruction has been received, as well as a message “CONDUCT AUTHENTICATION”, which urges a user to enter identification information. On the other hand, an input area displays a form in which a “username” and a corresponding “password” are to be entered. Specifically, a display presents an entry screen for identification information, including messages indicating that a print instruction has been received and authentication is required. | 03-25-2010 |
20100073704 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device includes a processor configured to process image data, an image forming unit configured to perform image formation based on the image data processed by the processor, a cover configured to, when being opened, allow an external access to the image forming unit therethrough, a detector configured to detect whether the cover is opened, and an interrupting unit configured to, when determining with the detector that the cover is kept opened for a first time period, interrupt the processing of the image data by the processor. | 03-25-2010 |
20100079784 | Dynamic facsimile transcoding in a unified messaging platform - Facsimile transcoding is dynamically invoked for devices that do not support T.38 fax protocol. In this way, a unified messaging platform can process facsimiles from endpoints that are not T.38 capable without using without digital signal processor resources. Dynamic fax transcoding can be performed at a session border controller, allowing transcoding resources to be engaged only for non-T.38 endpoints rather than for all calls on an interface. | 04-01-2010 |
20100079785 | PRINTING SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND PRINTING SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - A client terminal transmits a call request for using a MFP to a call control server. The call control server carries out authentication processing about a user and the MFP in response to the call request. If the authentication processing result is correct, the call control server transfers the call request to the printing service management server. The call request is transferred from the printing service management server to a printing service providing server and then transferred to the MFP via the call control server. Thus, a session of the client terminal and the MFP is established. The printing service providing server carries out processing for providing a predetermined printing service based on the call request from the client terminal. | 04-01-2010 |
20100079786 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND DISPLAYING PRINTER STATUS - A data processor includes a communication unit, a customized data acquiring unit, a storing unit, a status data acquiring unit, and a display unit. The communication unit performs data communication with an electrical equipment. The customized data acquiring unit acquires customized data. The storing unit stores fixed data and the customized data acquired by the customized data acquiring unit. The customized data is correlated with the fixed data. The status data acquiring unit acquires status data from the electrical equipment via the communication unit. The display unit displays the fixed data and the customized data. The fixed data and the customized data are in association with the status data acquired by the status data acquiring unit. | 04-01-2010 |
20100085592 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND WARMING UP METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus having a plurality of operations and a warming up method thereof, the image forming apparatus including: a user interface to receive a setting of a usage right of a user for a plurality of operations of the image forming apparatus and a login of the user while the image forming apparatus is in a power save mode; and a controller to perform a warming up for at least one operation corresponding to the usage right according to the login. | 04-08-2010 |
20100085593 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION POLICY ENFORCEMENT ON FAX - According to a first aspect of the present invention, a method for enforcing a distribution policy with respect to information transmitted from a sending fax machine to a recipient fax machine as fax traffic is presented. The method comprising defining an information distribution policy with respect to the fax traffic, then monitoring the fax traffic in accordance with the distribution policy, where the monitoring comprising: (i) de-modulating the fax traffic being monitored into a digital stream; (ii) reconstructing from the digital stream a graphic image representing at least part of the information within the fax traffic; and (iii) analyzing information within the reconstructed image, and then applying the distribution policy with respect to the analyzed fax traffic. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for configuring an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a signal to scan a document containing one or more coded objects, scanning the object coded document, decoding the one or more coded objects from the scanned object coded document into feature identification data, matching the feature identification data to one or more corresponding image production device features, and enabling the one or more corresponding image production device features on the image production device. | 04-15-2010 |
20100097627 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORING MEDIUM - 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. | 04-22-2010 |
20100097628 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A printing system that enables to recover documents of a recovery target print job easily without forcing a user to do complicated operations. An information processing apparatus transmits a print job. An image forming apparatus prints out the received print job. A management information storage unit stores management information of a print job to be recovered. A management information transmission unit transmits the management information corresponding to user information. An identifying information input unit receives an input of identifying information for identifying a user. A user information transmission unit transmits the user information determined by authenticating the identifying information. A management information receiving unit receives the management information corresponding to the transmitted user information. A display control unit controls a display unit so as to display a no-outputted print job when an output operation is received, and display a no-recovered print job when a recovery operation is received. | 04-22-2010 |
20100097629 | DOCUMENT CREATING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM USED FOR THE SAME - A document creating apparatus includes a creation unit configured to create electric data, a request unit configured to request an input of a password to the electric data created by the creation unit, a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of the input of the password according to the request unit, and a setting unit configured to set an arbitrary character string as the password when the determination unit determines that the password is not inputted. | 04-22-2010 |
20100110468 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING A FAILURE CONDITION IN AN IMAGE PATH OF AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for diagnosing a failure condition of an image processing apparatus. When a failure condition is detected in an image path during output of a document, a fault code is issued. The image processing apparatus is then capable of performing an internal diagnosis to generate a diagnostic report, and send the diagnostic report and fault code to an operator at a remote location. The system and method allows one to diagnose a problem or failure condition more quickly and efficiently, thereby cutting down on service time and costs. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110469 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ON AN IMAGING DEVICE - A method for printing a print ready file transmitted by a print client on an imaging device includes creating a print data file associated with the print ready file, where the print data file includes information pertaining to the print ready file and the imaging device. In the method, the print data file is encrypted and transmitted to the imaging device. In addition, the print data file is authenticated in the imaging device and printing of the print ready file is enabled if the print data file is determined to be authentic and the print ready file is invalidated if the print data file is determined to be inauthentic. Also disclosed is an imaging device configured to perform the aforementioned method. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110470 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus including: a head; a feeding mechanism; an image reading portion; a test recording controller which controls the head such that a test pattern is recorded on a first area of a first surface of a recording medium and is recorded on a second area of a second surface of the medium; a test pattern reading section which reads the test patterns recorded on the first area and the second area respectively from the second surface and the first surface; a determining section which determines allowable recording densities for the first surface and the second surface; and an image recording controller which controls the head such that, in a two-sided recording, the images are recorded on the first and second surfaces at respective densities equal to or lower than the allowable recording densities respectively for the first and second surfaces. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110471 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A communication apparatus connected with an image processing apparatus including a reading unit for reading an image on a document to generate image data based on the read image. The communication apparatus receives from the image processing apparatus a process definition file defining details of reading processing to be performed by the reading unit and details of transmission processing for transmitting the image data generated by the reading unit, and the image data generated by the reading unit according to the definitions described in the process definition file. The communication apparatus transmits the received image data according to the definitions described in the received process definition file. When an error occurs in image data transmission, the communication apparatus determines whether to notify the occurrence of the error to a source of the process definition file depending on details about the error occurring. When the communication apparatus determines that it is necessary to notify the occurrence of the error to the source of the process definition file as a result of the determination, the communication apparatus notifies the occurrence of the error to the source of the process definition file. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118328 | PRINT MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PRINT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND PRINT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - The print management method according to the present invention comprises: (a) recognizing an occurrence of a fault in a printing apparatus which has been designated to print a document; (b) making a judgment as to whether or not a color page is included in the document when the occurrence of the fault in the printing apparatus is recognized; (c) determining a start page for a substitute printing apparatus to start printing the document, which serves as a substitute for the printing apparatus, based on the judgment result of step (b); and (d) designating the substitute printing apparatus to print the document from the start page determined in step (c). | 05-13-2010 |
20100118329 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method - An image forming apparatus includes: a LAN I/F for communication with external devices through a network; a printer engine for executing printing; an HDD for storing file name and transmission source information of printed data; a CPU executing, if the LAN I/F receives a print instruction of data having the same file name and same transmission source as data stored in the HDD, a program for detecting wasteful printing, based on match rate of the received data with respect to the printed data and on accumulated number of printed copies related to the transmission source; and an engine I/F for transmitting data and the like to the printer engine, under the control of CPU. | 05-13-2010 |
20100123919 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which, when storing image data generated from a read original document in a connected detachable storage device, when the storage cannot be continued, associates the image data which is not stored with authentication information and stored the image data in a storage section included in the image forming apparatus. When a detachable storage device is newly connected, and authentication information is entered, the image forming apparatus determines whether image data associated with the entered authentication information is stored in the image forming apparatus. If it is determined that such image data is stored in the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus controls the stored image data to be stored in the newly-connected storage device. On the other hand, if it is not determined that such image data is stored in the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus controls the stored image data not to be stored in the newly-connected storage device. | 05-20-2010 |
20100123920 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a push scan of a web services on devices (WSD) scan service, an information terminal apparatus performs a registration request to receive a service from a reading apparatus. A name of the information terminal apparatus is included in the registration request command, and a user can select the name of the information terminal apparatus as a destination of scan data when executing the push scan from the reading apparatus. However, at this point of time, a user name which is logging on the information terminal apparatus cannot be recognized. For this reason, a requisition command of an operation start request is issued to the information terminal apparatus on a network before the information terminal apparatus as a destination of image data is selected through a display unit of the reading apparatus. Therefore, a log-on user name extracted from a command including the log-on user name transmitted from the information terminal apparatus can be displayed on the display unit. | 05-20-2010 |
20100123921 | PRINTER CAPABLE OF REFUSING RECEIPT OF PRINTED MATERIALS SENT FROM AN UNINTENDED SOURCE - A printer ( | 05-20-2010 |
20100128299 | PREVENTION OF UNAUTHORIZED COPYING OR SCANNING - A method for embedding “no-scan” or “no-copy” information in a document border includes encoding information as a plurality of data carrying dot pair patterns. For each page of a document to be rendered, the method includes determining whether the border area is blank. If found not blank the border area is cleared. Each of the plurality of data carrying dot patterns is embedded in the blank border area of the document page. The document page with the embedded data carrying dot patterns is then rendered, where each data carrying dot is too small to be visually noticeable. | 05-27-2010 |
20100134820 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An accumulating unit accumulates image data of an original read by a reading unit. A combining unit combines the image data accumulated in the accumulating unit in a single printing sheet according to a predetermined copy mode. An output unit prints and outputs the image data according to the copy mode. An input unit receives an input of a read instruction. When a total number of originals read by the reading unit is smaller than a total number of originals specified in the copy mode and when the input unit does not receive an input of the read instruction within a predetermined time, a discard determining unit discards the image data accumulated in the accumulating unit, and finishes a printing process. | 06-03-2010 |
20100134821 | Fiscal Printer - A fiscal printer reliably stores and holds, using a simple configuration, the date and time that a fiscal control circuit board is removed from the printer, and provides excellent security so that improper activities can be reliably discovered. The fiscal printer | 06-03-2010 |
20100134822 | PRINT APPARATUS, PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT METHOD, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - In order to maintain high security of a job that requires a high security level even after a print interrupt factor has been removed, and to achieve both the effect of maintaining high security of a job that requires a high security level even after the print process is interrupted, and the effect of improving the productivity of jobs other than a job of this type, when a print apparatus which can process a plurality of print jobs including a print job of a first type and that of a second type restarts a print operation of a print job, which is interrupted in the print apparatus, and when the print job is a print of the first type, the print apparatus is controlled to execute an authentication process, and then allowed to restart the print operation of the print job. When the print apparatus restarts a print operation of a print job, which is interrupted in the print apparatus, and when the print job is a print of the second type, the print apparatus is allowed to restart the print operation of the print job without executing the authentication process. | 06-03-2010 |
20100134823 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit inputting image data, a memory having a storage region for storing the image data inputted by the input unit, a printer printing the image data in response to an user's instruction of printing the image data stored in the storage region, a transmitting unit transmitting set information indicating setting of the storage region to an other image processing apparatus, and a control unit controlling the transmitting unit not to transmit the set information to the other image processing apparatus when a pass word for accessing the storage region is included in the set information, and to transmit the set information to the other image processing apparatus when the pass word for accessing the storage region is not included in the set information. | 06-03-2010 |
20100141978 | Image processing device and image processing system - An image processing device includes a plurality of printers (Pr | 06-10-2010 |
20100141979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING DOCUMENTS HAVING A COPY DETECTION PATTERN - A method of printing a document includes generating commands in a computing device that include: (i) commands for printing based on document data, and (ii) an identification of a determined portion of the document data that is to be used in generating a printed copy detection pattern. The method further includes sending the printer control commands to an intermediate electronic device that stores a key, generating copy detection pattern data using the determined portion of the document data and the cryptographic key, and generating modified printer control commands that include commands for printing a first document portion based on the document data and a second document portion including the printed copy detection pattern based on the copy detection pattern data. Finally, the modified printer control commands are sent to a printing device. Also, a system is provided for implementing the method. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141980 | WORK FLOW SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus capable of executing a work flow according to setting information indicating a processing content for combining a plurality of functions and executing the functions as a series of processings, includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain function restriction information indicating a function whose execution is restricted among a plurality of functions provided to the image processing apparatus; a function identification unit configured to identify a function executed by the image processing apparatus and a function executed by the other apparatus on the basis of the setting information; and a decision unit configured to decide whether execution of the work flow based on the setting information is restricted on the basis of the function restriction information and the function executed by the image processing apparatus and the function executed by the other apparatus identified by the function identification unit. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141981 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149579 | METHODS AND STRUCTURE FOR AUTOMATED DEVCAPS FILE VERIFICATION - Methods and structure for verifying information in a device capabilities (DevCaps) file associated with a printing system. A job ticket generator generates test job tickets based on the DevCaps file and transmits the generated tickets to a job ticket validator. The validator validates that each received ticket can be correctly executed by the printing system. The generator accesses the DevCaps file to determine features configured on the printing system and possible values for each of the specified features. The validator returns a success or failure signal and the results of each test job ticket may be logged. An error status indicates an error in the DevCaps file relative to the present configuration of the printing system. The validator may be operable within the printing system such as a PostScript program executed by the printer controller or may be operable in a computer system coupled with the generator. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149580 | JOB PROCESSING SYSTEM, JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a job processing system, usage restriction information is managed for restricting user usage of functions of a job processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus acquires usage restriction information corresponding to a first operator instructing generation of job data, and writes the usage restriction information into job data to be transmitted to the job processing apparatus. The job processing apparatus checks whether or not the usage restriction information is written in the job data received from the information processing apparatus, and when the usage restriction information is confirmed, processes the job data in accordance with the usage restriction information, and when the usage restriction information is not confirmed, processes the job data in accordance with usage restriction information of a second operator instructing execution of a job in the job processing apparatus. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149581 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A first information processing apparatus receives file information from a second information processing apparatus when the second information processing apparatus is switched to a power saving state. When the first information processing apparatus receives a file information acquisition request, which is directed to the second information processing apparatus from another apparatus, the file information that has been received from the second information processing apparatus is sent to the other apparatus. The first information processing apparatus acquires by proxy a file that is to be stored in the second information processing apparatus and sends the file acquired by proxy to the second information processing apparatus when the second information processing apparatus is restored to the normal power state. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149582 | Printing on Pre-Tagged Media - A method performed in a telecommunication device is disclosed. Document information is printed onto a plurality of print areas with a printer of the telecommunication device. Each of the print areas is encoded with identity data which differentiates the print areas from each other. The identity data is sensed with a sensor incorporated in a media feed path of the printer. The identity data and the document information are then transmitted to a computer system with a transmitter of the telecommunication device where the document information printed on respective print areas is associated with the identity data of the respective print areas. | 06-17-2010 |
20100157349 | CATEGORIZED SECURE SCAN TO E-MAIL - A document identifier is added to print data sent to a printer connected in a network. Each page of the resulting printed document contains the document identifier, and the document identifier is associated with a security level and added to a database connected to the network. When a user later issues a scanning command to scan the document, the document identifier is obtained from the scan data and transmitted to a server. The server compares both the user and the document identifier to the database and depending on the results, either permits the scan operation to complete or aborts. If the scan operation is completed, the scan data is sent each of a set of one or more destinations that (1) are directed by the user and (2) has an appropriate security level to receive the scan data. | 06-24-2010 |
20100157350 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To detect with high accuracy a particular pattern hardly disturbing eyesight by identifying a pixel where paper fiber cannot be identified, as a particular pattern pixel on the basis of an result of an of paper fiber from a particular color pixels. An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a paper fiber identification unit configured to identify paper fiber from an original read signal, a particular color pixel identification unit configured to identify a particular color pixel from the original read signal, a particular pattern detection unit configured to identify a pixel where paper fiber cannot be identified, as a particular pattern pixel on the basis of an identification result of the paper fiber identification unit from the particular color pixel, and a control unit configured to control the image processing apparatus in accordance with a result of the particular pattern detection unit. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165376 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing system includes an order management server configured to receive printing orders placed from a plurality of order placement location apparatuses via a network and to distribute the received printing orders to the plurality of printing location apparatuses via the network. Each printing location apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a printing order estimated time. The order management server includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of printing orders placed from the order placement location apparatuses, an updating unit configured to update printing order estimated time information from each printing location apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a printing location apparatus or apparatuses to which to distribute the plurality of printing orders according to a content of each printing order and the printing order estimated time information, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the printing orders to the printing location apparatus or apparatuses determined by the determination unit. | 07-01-2010 |
20100171973 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - A client terminal transmits a request to a printing apparatus for a registration web page for registering, in a print server, a printing apparatus used in a print service provided by the print server. The printing apparatus collects configuration information of the printing apparatus in response to reception of the request, and creates link information which contains the collected configuration information and is used to access the print server. The printing apparatus then generates a registration web page containing the created link information, and transmits it to the client terminal. The print server receives the configuration information of the printing apparatus transmitted from the client terminal via the registration web page transmitted to the client terminal. The print server creates printing apparatus information which associates the configuration information with user information of the user of the client terminal, and manages it in a storage medium. | 07-08-2010 |
20100171974 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ERASING IMAGE DATA - An image forming apparatus includes an image data input unit configured to take in image data, an image data memory unit configured to save image data, a data output unit configured to output the image data in a specific format, and an image data erasing unit configured to erase the image data saved in the image memory unit after output processing by the data output unit is completed. The image data erasing unit requests the user to make a selection as to whether or not an erasing manipulation for image data as an erasure object is executed, and erases the image data by an erasing method at a different security level according to the selection in response to a selection request. | 07-08-2010 |
20100188684 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SCANNING/TRANSFERRING OF CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT - A method and system provided for identification of scanning/transferring of confidential documents using digital imaging devices, such as copiers, scanners printers fax machines and the like. When an imaging process is initiated, image of the document is send to a local OCR (scan) or remote server to perform OCR optical character recognition function. Thus converted document will be searched automatically by the system for keywords to determine the confidential nature of the document. In addition the device will store user details, process details (scan, copy, fax, email etc.), destination details etc., when processing of confidential documents occurs. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188685 | Communication Device - A communication device may be provided with a main control unit, a condition storage unit, and a sub control unit. The sub control unit may judge, in a case where data is received while the main control unit is being in the sleeping state, whether the sleeping state is to be maintained by referring to a condition stored in the condition storage unit. The sub control unit may release the sleeping state in a case where a negative judgment is made. When object data is received, at least one of the main and sub control units may register a new condition in the condition storage unit. The registration of the new condition is executed in a case where the sleeping state of the main control unit would be released although the sleeping state of the main control unit should not be released under a presumption of the object data being received while the main control unit is being in the sleeping state. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188686 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus according to the invention has a system control unit provided in a body unit having an image forming unit. The system control unit controls the image forming unit and outputs a power off command to the body unit including the system control unit itself if it is determined that a preset power-saving mode transition condition is met. The image forming apparatus has an authentication data reading device which receives supply of power from a power supply path that is different from a power supply path to the body unit, reads authentication data from an authentication medium, and holds the read data. Moreover, the image forming apparatus has a power control unit which turns off the power supply path to the body unit in accordance with the power off command outputted from the system control unit, and turns on the power supply path to the body unit as the authentication data reading device reads the authentication data from the authentication medium. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195133 | LICENSING METHOD FOR USE WITH AN IMAGING DEVICE - A licensing method includes the steps of establishing a licensing vendor; providing an imaging device that uses an imaging media in forming printed images on print media, the imaging media including an initial supply amount of an imaging substance; associating a usage license with at least one of the imaging device and the imaging media, the usage license defining a first usage threshold at which a consumer is prompted to acquire a new license; and providing a license monitoring mechanism communicatively coupled with the imaging device, the license monitoring mechanism performing the steps of tracking an amount of usage of the imaging media by the imaging device; determining whether the amount of usage of the imaging media by the imaging device has reached a usage threshold; and upon reaching the usage threshold, then prompting the consumer to acquire the new license from the licensing vendor. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195134 | PRINTING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A printing system includes an image forming device and an information processing device configured to transmit print data containing a plurality of pages of images to the image forming device and control the image forming device to print the images on sheets based on the print data. The information processing device includes a first transmitter configured to sequentially transmit, to the image forming device, print data of each of a main page and one or more ancillary pages to be printed in connection with the main page, and a second transmitter configured to transmit, to the image forming device, booking information regarding a number of the ancillary pages in association with transmission of the print data of the main page. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195135 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAMS - An information processing apparatus transmits a job, share user information indicating users who are permitted to access a shared folder, and access permission information defining the users' user authority level to use data stored in the shared folder, which is set for the shared folder, collectively to an image processing apparatus. Receiving these information pieces, the image processing apparatus generates job access authority information defining the users' authority level to use the received job, based on the access permission information, and records the job, the share user information and the generated job access authority information in a memory, with their connections. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195136 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PERFORMING IMAGE FORMATION ON PRINT DATA, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING PLURALITY OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES, PRINT DATA OUTPUT METHOD EXECUTED ON IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PRINT DATA OUTPUT PROGRAM PRODUCT - In order to prevent leakage of confidential information, MFP includes a communication I/F to receive print data, an image forming portion to perform image formation on print data, and a CPU to prohibit the image forming portion from performing image formation on the print data before the print data is subjected to image formation by the image forming portion, when a prescribed time has passed since the print data was received or when an input of an instruction to protect the print data is accepted, and to store the print data in a storage device, and to allow the image forming portion to perform image formation on the print data in response to accepting a log-in instruction. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195137 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a processor configured to divide print data into a plurality of separated data pieces, and generate a transmitting unit for each of the plurality of separated data pieces. Each of the transmitting units is generated by combining a hash value and the separated data piece, and the hash value for a first transmitting unit is generated using an electronic signature and the hash value for each of transmitting units that is not the first transmitting unit is generated using the previous separated data piece. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202006 | Approach for Securely Printing Policy-Enabled Electronic Documents - An approach is provided for securely printing policy-enabled electronic documents. According to the approach, a determination is made at a client device whether policy-enabled printing has been specified for a particular electronic document. If policy-enabled printing has been specified for the particular electronic document, then a determination is made whether a print driver, installed on the client device for supporting printing for a particular printing device, is configured to support policy-enabled printing. Also, a determination is made whether the particular printing device is currently configured to support policy-enabled printing. The particular electronic document is allowed to be processed at the client device for printing only if both the print driver is configured to support policy-enabled printing and the particular printing device is currently configured to support policy-enabled printing. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202007 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The image forming apparatus holds related restriction information associated with function restriction information for restricting the use of a function provided within the network. With the related restriction information, when the image forming apparatus receives a job that executes a reading function and a transmission function, it displays, for a transmission source user, a settings screen for setting job operation settings in which restrictions held in the function restriction information and the related restriction information have been reflected. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus generates and transmits a send file in which the restrictions imposed on the transmission destination user have been reflected by using the job operation settings set via the settings screen, the function restriction information and the related restriction information. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208286 | Image Processing Apparatus and Control Method of the Same - An image processing apparatus for performing a predetermined job, includes: an operation panel; and a panel controller, wherein the panel controller detects whether a user operation received by the operation panel is a job starting operation or a reference/change operation and determines whether or not the user operation is an operation which is an object of user authentication, and the panel controller performs first authentication control of, when the job starting operation is received, requiring the user authentication and permitting starting of the job after authentication success, and performs second authentication control of, when a first reference/change operation is received when not in the authentication permission mode, requiring the user authentication, permitting the first reference/change operation after authentication success, and transferring to the authentication permission mode, and in the authentication permission mode, permitting the first reference/change operation and terminating the authentication permission mode in response to an termination operation. | 08-19-2010 |
20100214589 | Printing System And Program - A printing system and a program ensuring an improved security. A printing system ( | 08-26-2010 |
20100214590 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING CONTENT OF A FAX CONFIRMATION SHEET - What is provided are a system, method, and computer program product for protecting information displayed on a fax confirmation page. Several embodiments are provided. In one embodiment, for example, a Gaussian kernel is used to blur the digitized image to be printed on the confirmation page. In one method, a large enough blur kernel is selected so that text of a certain size will be rendered illegible. A method is also provided wherein a copy of the first page of the faxed document used to provide the content to be displayed on the confirmation page of the faxed document is stored on a storage device. A character sequence which references the stored original content on the storage media is printed on the confirmation page. A new confirmation page can be reconstructed and printed if it is desirable to have the altered content made visibly legible. Various other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100214591 | Image data processing apparatus - A control unit of an image data processing apparatus executes a program including the step (S | 08-26-2010 |
20100214592 | Image Processor Having Function for Writing Data to and Reading Data From Storage Unit Attached on Sheet - An image processing device includes a supply unit, a sheet tray, a conveying unit, an image processing unit, an access unit, and a control unit. A sheet having a storage unit is set in the supply unit. The image processing unit performs an image processing operation for reading an image from the sheet or for printing an image on the sheet. The access unit performs an access operation including at least one of a process for reading data from the storage unit and a process for writing data to the storage unit. The control unit determines whether the access operation for the sheet is successfully performed. The control unit further controls the access unit, based on the determination, to perform re-access operation to the sheet for which the access operation results in failure upon resetting the sheet discharged to the discharge tray onto the supply unit. | 08-26-2010 |
20100214593 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A management apparatus by which one of facsimile apparatuses that externally receives facsimile data is selected based on current power modes of the facsimile apparatuses. Facsimile data can be transmitted from any of a FAX and MFPs on an IP communication network. One of MFPs which are not in a power saving mode is selected by the management apparatus, and a URI of the selected MFP is registered in an SIP server. When facsimile data whose original transmission destination is an MFP which is in a power saving mode is transmitted, the facsimile data is transferred to and alternatively received by the selected MFP. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and performs a private print process according to a request from an authenticated user. When the user requests interruption of the private print which is now performed or it is detected that the user has left a place near the image forming apparatus while the private print is being performed, the image forming apparatus interrupts the private print which is now performed and stores a print state at the interruption time. Further, the image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and re-starts the private print which is interrupted in response to a re-start request from the authenticated user. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225950 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus associates a plurality of pieces of user information with a single user identifier, and furthermore, stores keys corresponding to keys that are used for signing in association with the respective pieces of user information. Furthermore, when a user uses the image forming apparatus, jobs for which user information attached to the jobs matches user information that is identified when the user uses the image forming apparatus are extracted, signature verification is performed on respective pieces of signature data attached to the extracted jobs, using the keys held in a user information table, and jobs that are successfully verified are further extracted and listed. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225951 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which, when an error occurs during communication with a host computer, gives a higher priority to reconnection to the host computer connected at the time of occurrence of the error than to connection to another host computer. A CPU of the apparatus accepts processing requests from the host computers. When accepting a processing request from a host computer, the CPU causes the apparatus to connect to the host computer. If occurrence of an error is detected during communication with the host computer, the CPU controls the connection such that reconnection to the host computer connected at the time of occurrence of the error is given priority over connection to another host computer. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225952 | IMAGE RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND IMAGE RETRIEVAL PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image retrieval apparatus includes: an image storage section that stores two or more photographic images and receives an access for the photographic images; an access detection section that detects an access for the photographic images stored in the image storage section; an access image analyzing section that analyzes a subject of the photographic image detected in the access by the access detection section to determine a word associated with the subject; and an image retrieval section that retrieves a photographic image associated with the word determined by the access image analyzing section, of said two or more photographic images. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231948 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - This invention provides an image forming apparatus to which a distributed control system is applied and which improves error detection accuracy in each control unit. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus includes a master control unit which controls the overall image forming apparatus, a plurality of sub-master control units which control a plurality of functions required to implement image formation, and a plurality of slave control units which control loads required to implement the plurality of functions. Each slave control unit includes a monitoring unit which monitors the operation of the other active slave control unit and performs an error diagnosis when the slave control unit is inactive. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231949 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image input apparatus determines whether an image input apparatus that has sent image data is an authorized sender when storing of the image data to a specific storage area is detected. According to a determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender, the image input apparatus applying one or more processes to the image data. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231950 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus is connected via a network to a terminal device having a recording medium loaded therein, receives a remote login from the terminal device, and executes an image processing job. When an operator who has logged in to the image processing apparatus is the same person as a user who is remotely logged in to the image processing apparatus from the terminal device, the image processing apparatus performs one of operations A and B after the image processing apparatus is granted access permission by the terminal device with use of a network address of the terminal device, which is acquired upon the remote login, the operation A being to acquire an image file stored in the recording medium, the operation B being to cause an image file stored in the apparatus to be stored in the recording medium. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231951 | PRINTING APPARATUS TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A printing apparatus terminal connected to a communication network has a printer, which prints printing contents on a printing medium. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238479 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus is capable of transmitting its status information to a remote apparatus. A job receiving section receives an image outputting job from an external apparatus. An image outputting section outputs an image based on the image outputting job. A notification destination information memory stores notification destination information including a first notification destination for a first output device and a second notification destination for a second output device. A communication section sends status information about the image outputting section to the first and second notification destinations. When the image outputting section is outputting the image, if the status information is outputted from the image outputting section, the communication section sends the status information to the first output device. If job receiving section receives another image outputting job when the status information exists, the communication section sends the status information to the second output device. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238480 | PRINT PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING PROCESSING METHOD, PRINTING PROCESSING PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A terminal apparatus for preparing a print job based on a document file prepared using an application and transmitting the print job to a printing apparatus is devised. The terminal apparatus includes a verification-use information receiving unit, a storage destination control unit, an information retrieval and attachment unit, and a data transmission unit. The verification-use information receiving unit receives verification information to be attached to the print job. The storage destination control unit controls a storage destination of the verification information received by the verification-use information receiving unit. The information retrieval and attachment unit reads out the verification information from the storage destination and to attach the read-out verification information to the print job. The data transmission unit transmits the print job, to which the verification information is attached by the information retrieval and attachment unit, to the printing apparatus. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238481 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus that enables a user who is restricted in use of a function to use the restricted function easily and exactly only for a specific process flow. A function restriction unit restricts execution of a function of the image processing apparatus based on restriction information set for every user. A process-flow generation unit generates a process that is achieved by combining a plurality of functions as a process flow according to an instruction from a user. An authentication unit authenticates the user according to his user account. A storage unit stores a process flow that is generated by the process-flow generation unit according to an instruction from an authenticated first user as a process flow on which a second user who is restricted in use of at least one of functions included in the process flow can issue an execution instruction to an execution unit. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238482 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR PRINTING A PLURALITY OF MANUSCRIPT DATA SETS IN PRESCRIBED ORDER BASED ON COMPOSITION GUIDELINE DATA - An image processing device acquires composition guideline data containing information specifying a plurality of manuscript data sets and the printing order of the data sets. The image processing device accesses an external device based on composition guideline data to acquire at least one of the manuscript data sets from that external device via communication. A print instruction is issued such that the plurality of manuscript data sets specified by composition guideline data, including the acquired manuscript data set, are printed in the order indicated by composition guideline data. Thus, a plurality of manuscript data sets may be easily printed in a prescribed order based on composition guideline data. | 09-23-2010 |
20100245882 | DEVICE FOR IMAGING A FLAT OBJECT AND PRINTING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE HAVING THE DEVICE - A device for imaging a flat object, for example a paper sheet in a printing machine, includes a light source, preferably an LED row, a lens and an image sensor. An observation angle between the object plane and lens axis is flat, that is to say less than 45°. The light source illuminates the flat object in a first, near region with light of a first wavelength and illuminates the flat object in a second, far region with light of a second wavelength. The first wavelength is shorter than the second wavelength, preferably being blue and red spectral regions. The first region is disposed nearer the image sensor than the second region. The device permits the so-called chromatic aberration of the lens to be utilized to advantageously reduce the tilt angle of the image sensor required by the so-called Scheimpflug condition. A printing machine having the device is also provided. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245883 | IMAGE SCANNING SYSTEM, IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image scanning system includes (1) an image scanning device, which includes an input unit configured to acquire an instruction by a user, an image scanner configured to scan an image and generate image data and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the image data; (2) a display lock judging unit configured to judge whether a display lock is necessary based on whether a predetermined instruction is acquired by the input unit; and (3) a data processing device which includes a first reception unit configured to receive the image data transmitted by the transmitting unit of the image scanning device, a first display unit configured to display the image data received by the first reception unit and a display control unit configured to control the first display unit so as not to display the image data if the display lock judging unit judges that the display lock is necessary. | 09-30-2010 |
20100253963 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS,JOB PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When the number of sheets to be used in a job is greater than a limit specified by a user, the user is notified of this fact and is prompted to determine a process associated with the job. When the job is produced, a determination is made as to whether a wasted-printing prevention function is enabled. If the wasted-printing prevention function is enabled, the number of sheets to be used in the produced job is calculated. The calculated number of sheets is compared with the predetermined limit of the number of sheets, and a decision is made as to a process of the job according to a result of the comparison. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253964 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS IN PULL PRINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a pull printing system, it is possible to perform an alternate print with appropriate security and in consideration of loads on a server while securing convenience of the user requesting a third party for the alternate print. An image processing apparatus in the pull printing system comprises a user authentication unit configured to confirm authority of an alternate process to a first user during login, a bibliographic information managing unit configured to acquire bibliographic information of print data stored in a storage server by a second user from a bibliographic information server for displaying the print data corresponding to the second user and a log information managing unit configured to acquire a log of an operation of the alternate process executed by the first user to the print data corresponding to the second user. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253965 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, POWER-SAVING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH POWER-SAVING CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED - The image forming apparatus includes: a sleep control unit which, in a normal operation mode in which power is supplied to a fixing device, if predetermined processing is not executed for a preset time or if an instruction to execute shifting to a power-saving mode with lower power consumption than in the normal operation mode is received, makes a shift to a sleep mode with a lower power consumption than in the normal operation mode, in which at least power supply to the fixing device is stopped; and a super-sleep control unit which makes a shift to a super-sleep mode in which a power source of a processor is turned off if predetermined processing is not executed for a shorter time than the preset time after the shift to the sleep mode is made. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253966 | PRINTING SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING PRINTING CONSUMABLE - A printer system includes a printer and a printing consumable detachably mounted on the printer. The printer has a first integrated circuit which generates a random number, reference information using the random number and a secret key. The printing consumable has a second integrated circuit which generates validation information using the random number and the secret key received from the first integrated circuit. The printer also has processing circuitry configured for receiving the reference information from the first integrated circuit; receiving the validation information from the second integrated circuit; and comparing the reference information and validation information so as to validate the printing consumable device for use with the printer. | 10-07-2010 |
20100259778 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image processing apparatus which imposes a usage restriction on an included function according to access control information for each user, and executes processing for a permitted user, comprises a setting unit which sets a condition required to release the usage restriction of the included function; a determination unit which determines whether or not a processing request from a user to a usage-restricted function satisfies the condition required to release the usage restriction; a generation unit which generates, when the determination unit determines that the processing request satisfies the condition required to release the usage restriction, restriction release information required to temporarily release a restriction of the usage-restricted function; and an execution unit which releases the restriction of the usage-restricted function based on the restriction release information generated by the generation unit, and executes processing by the function. | 10-14-2010 |
20100265529 | CONTROL FOR DISPLAY OF MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF A PRINTABLE DOCUMENT FOR LOCKED PRINT - An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with control of the display of multiple versions of locked print data. The printing device includes a locked print process that determines whether the names of two or more locked print jobs stored at the printing device are the same. In response to determining that the respective names of the print jobs are the same, the locked print process causes to be displayed, on the user interface, a group print job name representing the two or more print jobs, instead of causing to be displayed the names of the print jobs individually. Embodiments also include printing the print data of a selected print job when a user requests that the print data associated with the group print job name be printed, and allowing a user to view the print jobs associated with the group print job name. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265530 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form images based on image data transmitted from information processing apparatus of users including registered users and unregistered users; a setting unit configured to set permission information for each user based on a log of the image forming and limit information; a first judging unit configured to determine whether user identification information is attached to image data; a second judging unit configured to determine, based on the permission information that is set for an unregistered user, whether to permit execution of image forming of the image data, when the first judging unit determines that the user identification information is not attached to the image data. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265531 | SECURE PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTER DRIVER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus at first stores only a process request of a secure print job and authentication information relating to the secure print job which take up only a tiny part of a storage area of a job. Upon receiving operation information indicating the authentication information stored in the job memory, the image forming apparatus receives a print data relating to the secure print job associated with the authentication information from a user terminal and prints it. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265532 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of realizing security improvements without degrading the usability. A user is authenticated, and an operation screen accepting an operation input from the user is displayed. A job is executed according to an instruction of the user authenticated by the user authenticating unit. It is determined whether or not the job of which execution is instructed by the user, is being executed when the user authenticating unit authenticates the user. A first operation screen through which the user inputs an instruction for the job in execution is displayed when the job executing unit is executing the job, of which execution is instructed by the user, whereas another operation screen through which another user inputs an instruction for another job is displayed when not. | 10-21-2010 |
20100271651 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING JOB PROCESSING PROGRAM CODES, AND JOB PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a reading unit, authentication unit, job processing control unit, and output unit. The reading unit sequentially performs reading of low jobs making up a high job. The authentication unit stores a user information table in which user information elements on authorized users are registered and sequentially determines whether each low job is proper or improper by verifying a user information element corresponding to the low job against the user information table to carry out authentication. The job processing control unit controls, if a low job is determined to be improper in the determination, an operation of skipping the low job determined to be improper and sequentially performing the reading and determination on subsequent low jobs. The output unit outputs a low job determined to be proper in the determination. | 10-28-2010 |
20100271652 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus comprises a print section, an accepting section for accepting a print request, and a control section which causes the print section to execute printing on the basis of a print request accepted by the accepting section and judges whether or not the image forming apparatus is busy when a print request is accepted by the accepting section. When the control section judges that the image forming apparatus is busy, the control section prohibits an execution of at least a part of printing based on a print request. | 10-28-2010 |
20100271653 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ERASING DATA THEREOF - In one embodiment of an image forming apparatus according to the invention, an overwrite-block specifying device specifies equal size blocks so that a storage area in a data storage device is divided into consecutive equal size blocks to be overwritten with overwrite data. The data storage device includes an image data storage area configured to store encrypted image data on a page-by-page basis. An overwrite-data specifying device specifies the value of the overwrite-data whose size is smaller than that of the equal size block. A data erase control device overwrites the equal size blocks with the value of the overwrite-data, on a block-by-block basis. | 10-28-2010 |
20100277755 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTED TO A PRINTING APPARATUS VIA A NETWORK AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON A PROGRAM FOR CAUSING A COMPUTER TO EXECUTE GENERATING PRINT DATA IN THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTED TO THE PRINTING APPARATUS VIA THE NETWORK - An information processing apparatus connected to a printing apparatus via a network encrypts print data if identification information is input, and does not encrypt print data if identification information is not input. If identification information is input and the print data has been encrypted, the information processing apparatus sends a print job including the encrypted print data to the printing apparatus via the network; otherwise, the information processing apparatus sends unencrypted print data to the printing apparatus via the network. | 11-04-2010 |
20100284032 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE HAVING OPERATING INFORMATION MANAGING FUNCTION - An image forming device includes a power source unit, motors supplied with and driven by electric power from the power source unit, and a control device for controlling the motors' operations. A CPU in the control device monitors presence/absence of power supply from the power source unit. When power is cut off during image forming, the CPU causes regenerative braking of the motors. The regenerated power is voltage-converted by a second DC-DC converter in the power source unit and supplied to the control device for continuously driving the CPU, which in turn backs up operating information. This eliminates inconsistency between the actual life status and the backed-up information when power is off, with no need of frequent backup during image forming. It is thus possible to provide the image forming device which can reliably manage operating information even if power supply to the motors is stopped during printing. | 11-11-2010 |
20100290073 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS USING A LOCKED PRINT JOB TICKET - A method, apparatus, and system for outputting a locked print job by a printing device connected to a client device over a network. The method includes transmitting, by the client device, a request to print the locked print job, which includes print data that is prohibited from being printed until authentication information is entered into the printing device. The printing device receives the request to print the locked print job. The locked print job and the authentication information are stored in a memory. A job ticket that provides the client device access to manage the locked print job stored in the memory is generated. The job ticket is transmitted to, and received by, the client device. The locked print job is output when the authentication information is entered into the printing device or the locked print job is remotely released by the client device using the job ticket. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290074 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND SIGNAL TRANSMITTING DEVICE - The information processing system includes: an information processor operating in an active state and a power saving state consuming less power than the active state, and recovering to the active state by receiving a signal in the power saving state and processing information in the signal; a signal transmitting device transmitting a signal to the information processor; and a communication line establishing communication between the information processor and the signal transmitting device. The signal transmitting device transmits the signal after appending, to a predetermined region inside the signal, the identification information for identifying a processing content of the signal. The information processor specifies the processing content from the identification information when receiving, in the power saving state, the signal, recovers to the active state where power is supplied to a functional unit to execute the processing content, and starts processing on information stored in a data region of the signal. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290075 | DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM AND DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a document managing system includes a user authentication unit configured to acquire user information of a user, a read unit configured to read a manuscript and read manuscript trace information given to the manuscript, a determination unit configured to determine, in case of copying the manuscript, whether the user is authorized to copy the manuscript based on the user information read in the user authentication unit and the manuscript trace information, and an image output unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that the user is authorized to copy, output an image including new trace information readable in a read unit along with the manuscript read in the read unit. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290076 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a connecting unit configured to be connected with a storage medium that is removable, the electronic device transmitting data with the storage medium that is connected with the connecting unit, a registration unit configured to register information that specifies the media that is permitted to transmit data with the electronic device, and a control unit configured to control whether to permit the electronic device to transmit data with the media that is connected with the connecting unit based on the information that is registered in the registration unit. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290077 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, USER RESTRICTION METHOD AND USE HISTORY GENERATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered, an operation panel for receiving a key operation input, a secure program used for determining whether a user service can be provided on the basis of the user identification information in the user database and another user identification information input by the user. | 11-18-2010 |
20100302573 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus receives from a client apparatus a print request including authentication information of a user, and a judging part judges whether a printing related to the print request is enabled using the authentication information, and a sending part sends to the client apparatus information indicating that printing is prohibited when the judging part judges that the printing is not enabled. A recording part records print data and print attribute information received from the client apparatus in a related manner with respect to the print request if the judging part judges that the printing is enabled, and a sending part sends the print data to an image forming apparatus in response to a request therefrom. | 12-02-2010 |
20100302574 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When it is judged that a predetermined operation for eliminating a cause for stopping a job is being executed, a following job is restricted from being executed prior to a stopped job. A control method for controlling a job processing apparatus for storing received jobs in a storage unit and sequentially executing the stored jobs includes determining, when a cause for stopping the job to be executed is generated, whether a state in which the cause for stopping the job is not eliminated has continued for a predetermined time, executing, when it is determined that the state in which the cause for stopping the job is not eliminated has continued for the predetermined time, a following job that follows the job is executed prior to the job, judging whether a predetermined operation for eliminating the cause for stopping the job is being executed, and restricting, when it is judged that a predetermined operation for eliminating the cause for stopping the job is being executed, the following job is restricted from being executed prior to the job. | 12-02-2010 |
20100309503 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRINTING DOCUMENTS FROM A PORTABLE DEVICE - One embodiment provides a system for printing a document from a portable device. During operation, the system obtains the document to be printed. Next, the system obtains a document optical code that identifies the document. Subsequently, the system displays the document optical code on the portable device in such a way that the document optical code can be scanned and recognized by a scanner associated with the printer. Next, the system allows the printer to retrieve and print the document based at least on the document optical code. | 12-09-2010 |
20100315665 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD - In a system in which a plurality of image forming devices are connected on one or more image processing devices through a network, efficiency of image formation is improved by assigning priority, or by ordering, the image forming devices according to power consumption and wait time. An image forming device is selected according to one of the power consumption and the wait time. | 12-16-2010 |
20100321716 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - This invention provides an image processing system in which upon reception of a predetermined event associated with a job executed by another image processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus that received the event suitably controls subsequent processes. To accomplish this, this invention provides an image processing system where the first and second image processing apparatus are connected to be able to communicate with each other, the first image processing apparatus accepts, when the second image processing apparatus notifies the first image processing apparatus of occurrence of the predetermined event, an instruction for a job in which the predetermined event has occurred, from the user-authenticated user, and can send the accepted instruction to the second image processing apparatus. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321717 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN SECURITY MODES - An image forming apparatus is provided with a determination portion that, in response to operation for giving instructions to enhance a security level thereof, determines whether or not a job is kept which is not to satisfy security requirements after the enhancement, an execution portion that, if the determination portion determines that such a job is kept, performs predetermined processing for satisfying the security requirements on the job with execution of the job ensured, and a security mode switching portion that, if the determination portion determines that such a job is kept, enhances the security level after the execution portion finishes the predetermined processing, and, if the determination portion determines that such a job is not kept, enhances the security level promptly. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321718 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus communicates with an information apparatus through wireless communication. The image forming apparatus determines whether data received from the information apparatus is in an e-mail format. When it is determined that the received data is in an e-mail format, the image forming apparatus displays a letting screen for letting a user select forming an image of the e-mail text or forming an image of an attached file. When it is determined that the received data is not an e-mail format, the apparatus displays a setting screen for setting an image forming condition, upon reception of the data. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328698 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT REALIZES NOTIFICATION APPROPRIATE TO INTENTION OF USER AND USAGE ENVIRONMENT, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A job processing apparatus that enables a user to change conditions for determining whether or not there is a high possibility that a job processing result will not be normal, and thus realizes notification appropriate to user's intentions and usage environment. When a job is to be executed, it is determined whether or not predetermined conditions will be satisfied by executing the job. When it is determined that the predetermined conditions will be satisfied by executing the job, the user is notified that there is a high possibility that an image will not be correctly printed. The predetermined conditions are changed in accordance with an instruction received from the user. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328699 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - In an image processing apparatus, a waiting time until power supply to a storage unit is stopped is suitably set corresponding to a type of input job and a state of power supply to the storage unit when the job has been input. A first waiting time is set if power is not supplied to the storage unit when the job has been input in a case where the input job is a first type of job. A second waiting time is set regardless of whether power is supplied to the storage unit when the job has been input in a case where the input job is a second type of job. Power supplied to the storage unit is controlled to stop when the waiting time has elapsed. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328700 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus having a display unit for displaying a program which can be executed in the apparatus so as to be identified is disclosed. The apparatus has: an input unit for inputting a program into the image forming apparatus; a display control unit for controlling a process for displaying select keys including a plurality of select keys to instruct a selection of a desired one of a plurality of programs stored in the image forming apparatus onto a display screen displayed on the display unit; and a discriminating unit for discriminating whether the select key to instruct a selection of the program inputted by the input unit can be further displayed onto the first display screen to display the select keys corresponding to the programs registered in the image forming apparatus in response to the input of the program from the input unit or not. | 12-30-2010 |
20100328701 | Performing an Action Using a Printed Medium - A method of performing an action is disclosed. The method starts by sensing a print medium to obtain data encoded on a surface of the print medium. The data encodes at least a print media identifier. The print medium has a representation of a document printed thereon. The print media identifier is determined from the data and a digital copy of the document corresponding to the representation is retrieved. The digital copy is associated with the print media identifier and includes one or more hyperlinks. The digital copy of the document is displayed and a selection of one of the hyperlinks is received from a user. A predefined action designated by the selected hyperlink is then performed. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001999 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a control method for controlling a data processing apparatus that can be connected to an external apparatus via a network. The control method includes obtaining and displaying a user interface held in the external apparatus. An instruction from a user is received via the displayed user interface. The received instructions are transmitted to the external apparatus. A session for communicating with the external apparatus is reserved when authentication of the user manipulating the data processing apparatus has succeeded. The reserved session is used to execute control to receive from the external apparatus a processing request that corresponds to the instruction transmitted to the external apparatus. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002000 | ELECTRIC DEVICE AND ELECTRIC SYSTEM - An electric device is capable of transmitting and receiving data relative to an external device. The electric device includes an error detection unit for detecting an error occurred in the electric device; an error restoration command holding unit for holding an error restoration command to restore the error; and an error analyzing unit for analyzing the error occurred in the electric device and retrieving the error restoration command from the error restoration command holding unit according to an analysis result of the error. In the electric device, when the error detection unit detects the error, the error restoration command is retrieved from the error restoration command holding unit according to an analysis result analyzed with the error analyzing unit. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002001 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF EXECUTING CHECK PRINTING - A printing apparatus that facilitate a checking operation of printed matter during printing and can avoid deterioration of quality of the printed matter. A printer unit executes a printing process according to an inputted print job. A determination unit determines, when the print job is interrupted during the printing process of the printer unit, whether the interruption requires a check printing. A control unit controls the printer unit to execute the check printing after removing the interruption of the print job using print data of the print job when the determination unit determines that the interruption requires the check printing. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002002 | UNIT USING OS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A chip mountable on a customer replaceable unit monitory (CRUM) unit used in an image forming job includes a central processing unit (CPU) to perform cryptographic data communication with a main body of an image forming apparatus, using an operating system (OS) of the CPU. The security of a unit on which the chip is mounted can thereby be reinforced and random changes of data of the unit can be prevented. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002003 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus restricts the use of functions on a user-by-user basis as well as easily suppresses the realization of a function that is equivalent to a restricted function by combining other functions. To accomplish this, an image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus that includes function restriction information for restricting, on a user-by-user basis, the use of functions provided by an image processing apparatus. Furthermore, the image processing apparatus acquires function restriction information corresponding to an authorized user, and if a function whose use is restricted by function restriction information can be realized by combining other functions, the image processing apparatus restricts the use of the other functions. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007336 | IMAGE REGISTRATION DEVICE, IMAGE REGISTRATION SYSTEM, IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image registration device includes: an associated image acquisition unit that acquires an associated image associated with a document image read from a medium on which the document image is formed, a predetermined process being to be performed on the document image; and a registration unit that registers the associated image acquired by the associated image acquisition unit with the associated image being assigned to the predetermined process. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007337 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PREDICTING FAILURE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An apparatus, system, and method of predicting failure of a fixing device of an image forming apparatus are provided. Based on a plurality of sheet transfer time values of the fixing device, a first characteristic value that is an average value of the plurality of sheet transfer time values, and at least one of a second characteristics value that indicates the variance of the plurality of sheet transfer time values and a third characteristics value that indicates the maximum value of the plurality of sheet transfer time values are calculated. Using a determination result generated based on the first characteristics value and the at least one of the second and third characteristics values, failure of the fixing device is predicted. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007338 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus stores first setting information included in a received first print job. If a second print job has been received within a predetermined time period since a timing of reception of the first print job, if the second print job is a print job related to the first print job, and if second setting information included in the second print job is different from the stored first setting information, a CPU of the information processing apparatus stores the first setting information as printing error information. The CPU searches for printing error information that is the same as third setting information included in a third print job from among stored printing error information. If printing error information that is the same as the third setting information has been extracted, the CPU displays a screen for prompting a user to verify the third setting information on an operation unit. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007339 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing control apparatus includes a connection unit configured to be connectable to a plurality of networks, a storage unit configured to store a power supply control status corresponding to each of the plurality of networks and indicating either an on or off state, a change unit configured to change the power supply control status for each network, and a control unit configured to control a power supply of an image forming apparatus based on the power supply control status of the plurality of networks. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007340 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus for receiving a variable print job having a plurality of records including page information of a plurality of pages, and based on the page information, outputting an output product including a master object and a variable object includes a reception unit for receiving a print job, an output unit for executing output processing for outputting the received print job as the output product, a detection unit for detecting an error occurring during the output processing, and a control unit, when the print job in which an error is detected is the variable print job, interrupting the output processing of the record, and restarting output processing from a page included in a record following the record in which the error is detected. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013215 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and image forming method - A printer includes a communicating unit that receives a print job being a unit of execution of a printing process of a first printing protocol and a second printing protocol. The first printing protocol contains a series of process instructions and print data that allow the printing process to be performed from an interrupted point when the printing process is resumed after being interrupted. The printer also includes a print processing unit that performs the printing process by executing the print job, and a priority processing unit that preferentially selects a print job of the first printing protocol related to the interrupted printing process when receiving a print job of the first printing protocol related to the interrupted printing process and a print job of the second printing protocol after the printing process of the print job of the first printing protocol is interrupted. | 01-20-2011 |
20110013216 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - The system according to the present invention includes: a portable storage medium which can store data and job data regarding a job to be executed by the image processing apparatus; an information processing apparatus which can record and read the job data in the portable storage medium to be executed by the image processing apparatus; and at least one image processing apparatus which can read and update the job data stored in the portable storage medium. The image processing apparatus reads the job data stored in the portable storage medium and executes image processing based on the job data. In addition, when the job data is interrupted during its execution, the image processing apparatus can add data which indicates that the job is interrupted in the job data or record the data which indicates that the job is interrupted to be related with the job data. The image processing apparatus reads the job data which includes the data indicating that the job is interrupted and resumes the job from the interrupted state. The data which indicates that the job is interrupted may be recorded to be related with the job data separately from the job data. | 01-20-2011 |
20110013217 | METHOD OF EMBEDDING OPTICAL SECURITY FEATURE USING VIRTUAL PRINTER AND SECURITY FEATURE SERVICE - A method for embedding an optical security feature in a digital document with a virtual printer and a security feature service and then sending the digital document to a hardware printer. | 01-20-2011 |
20110019220 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Even when an image output is prohibited, an image forming device, an image forming method and a program are provided that can track an evidence of attempt to perform the image output. Output prohibition information and tracking information for tracking a user are acquired from an image of a scan document. The image output of the scan document is prohibited according to the acquired output prohibition information, and the acquired tracking information is stored as a log. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019221 | IMAGE PROCESS SYSTEM - A image process system is supplied that comprises a printer | 01-27-2011 |
20110019222 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A PRINTER - A method is disclosed to monitor print job status. A list of available printers is determined, and network printers or local printers are determined. The printer status is queried before sending data to a printer. Meta-information is inserted into the print data to know when a document starts to print and when the document finishes printing. The printer is queried regarding status of the print job as well as printer status. | 01-27-2011 |
20110026063 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DETERMINING METHOD - As provided with a first reading section and a second reading section for reading both surfaces of a document, an image reading apparatus respectively calculates gamma correction values in gamma correcting sections and correction factors in color correcting sections, and corrects colors of criteria images being read by the first reading section and the second reading section in accordance with sample data stored on a storing section in order to substantially match the colors of both criteria images. In addition, the image reading apparatus utilizes an distinctive color range common for the both surfaces which defines a color about a distinguishing pattern, in order to determine whether images of both surfaces contain the distinguishing pattern or not. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026064 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image processing system including a user management unit that manages login and issues an authentication ticket to an image forming apparatus; a task request unit that makes an image processing request with an addition of the authentication ticket; a detection unit that detects whether the image processing request is authorized; a task processing unit that makes the image processing request with an addition of user information accompanied by identification information; a task management unit that stores a task in a task queue and receives an inquiry about the task; one or more image processing units that acquire the processible image processing request to perform the image processing; a storage unit that stores image data processed by the one or more image processing units; and an acquisition unit that specifies a location where the processed image data are stored and acquires the image data. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026065 | PRINT JOB MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A printing system includes a job management server and multiple remote print stations. The print stations have user input capability, and a user may enter identification information and request that a document stored by the job management server be printed at the print station. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026066 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ENCRYPTED JOB EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - This is to provide an image processing apparatus and others capable of ensuring security by shortening the connecting time of an external recording medium when a plurality of jobs including target data pieces encrypted with shared keys and the shared keys encrypted with a user's public key are executed. A job including a target data piece encrypted with a shared key and the shared key encrypted with a user's public key are received and stored in a job storage. To execute the plurality of jobs stored therein, the encrypted shared keys included in the respective jobs are decrypted with a secret key by the external recording medium. After completely obtaining all the plurality of decrypted shared keys, the target data pieces are decrypted with their matching decrypted shared keys, and then the jobs are executed. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026067 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An image forming apparatus capable of being used for a longest possible time period without the need for a user to determine the necessity of part replacement. In a case that a conveyance roller or other part whose consumption degree exceeds a prescribed value is used for a job set by the user, an MFP displays to the user candidates for alternative process using an alternative path in which the conveyance roller or other part is not used and a candidate for alternative process to perform a low-speed process (S | 02-03-2011 |
20110026068 | CONFIGURING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - If connection to an output apparatus is detected, a configuring apparatus acquires information about the output apparatus. If disconnection of communication connection with the output apparatus is detected, the configuring apparatus makes various configurations based on the acquired information. If communication connection with the output apparatus is detected again after the configuration, the configuring apparatus transmits the configured information to the output apparatus. | 02-03-2011 |
20110037993 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOTING AN IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - An image reproduction apparatus including a power control unit detecting whether an error has occurred in supplying power to the image reproduction apparatus; and a booting control unit selectively cold-booting the image reproduction apparatus based on the detection of whether the error with supplying the power has occurred. | 02-17-2011 |
20110037994 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a data collecting unit configured to collect, every time each kind of processing of the apparatus is executed by a task, information related to the processing and store the information in a volatile memory, an error detecting unit configured to detect an error during the processing, a determining unit configured to determine whether the error detected by the error detecting unit is an investigation target error, a target-information selecting unit configured to select, if the determining unit determines that the error is the investigation target error, storage target information out of information for investigation stored in the volatile memory including individual information representing processing content for each of tasks and common information representing processing contents among plural tasks, and a storing unit configured to store the target information in the nonvolatile memory. | 02-17-2011 |
20110051170 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF VARIATION WITHIN COMPONENTS TO REDUCE PERCEPTIBLE IMAGE QUALITY DEFECTS - A method and system for synchronizing variations in components or subsystems in an image printing system is provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of image quality defects printed by the image printing system by a controller, said image quality defects each occurring with an associated frequency and each being associated with a component or subsystem of the image printing system; determining a phase difference of the image quality defects by the controller; and adjusting operation of each component or subsystem associated with the image quality defects, such that image quality defects are in phase. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051171 | Image forming apparatus and method thereof - An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes an image forming unit to output print data; a DLNA stack to create a job ID of a print job requested to be executed in response to a print job execution request received from a control point (CP) connected over the DLNA network, and to create a data sink address including a fixed portion and a variable portion to receive a print data of the print job, using the created job ID; a communication interface to transmit the created job ID and the created data sink address to the CP, and to receive print data corresponding to the data sink address from the CP; and a controller to assign the job ID to the received print data and to control the image forming unit to print the print data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051172 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to an aspect of the invention, a document management system includes a document state storage unit, a manipulation control unit, a stamp image storage unit, and a state change unit. The document state storage unit stores document state information representing states concerning document validity of electronic documents stored in a document storage unit. The manipulation control unit refuses a request from a user for manipulating one of the electronic documents when the document state information corresponding to the one of the electronic documents indicates that the one of the electronic documents is invalid at present. The stamp image storage unit stores a plurality of stamp images each corresponding to any one of possible states represented by the document state information. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051173 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, information processing apparatus, program, and storage medium - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive print data including image to be formed, identification information identifying a print-requesting person, personal identity verification information for verifying identity of person, and execution condition information designating priority between readability and productivity when implementing an information-leak proofed printing; an operation-input receiving unit to receive an input by an administrator; a setting unit to set whether the information-leak proofed printing is mandatory; a personal identity verification unit to verify identity of person when the information-leak proofed printing is mandatory and readability-priority is designated; a watermark embedding unit to generate a watermark-embedded image depending upon a result of the personal identity verification; a text synthesizing unit to generate a composite image by synthesizing text data to image data when the information-leak proofed printing is mandatory, and productivity priority is designated; and a print unit to print the watermark-embedded image or the composite image. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058206 | Image forming apparatus and controlling method thereof - An image forming apparatus includes an engine unit to execute an image forming job, a determination unit to repeatedly determine whether the image forming apparatus is in a standby state or not, based on whether the standby state to wait for execution of the image forming job is maintained for a predetermined time or not, and a controller to control the image forming apparatus to operate in a first power saving mode if it is determined that the image forming apparatus is in the standby state, wherein, in the first power saving mode, information stored in a volatile memory is copied to an internal memory and operation frequencies of a CPU, the volatile memory, and an intellectual property are lowered. Accordingly, power consumption in the standby state is reduced in a stepwise manner. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058207 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS DETERMINING A PRINT RESTART TIME AFTER MAINTENANCE - In an image forming apparatus, a setting part sets a first waiting time, which lasts from a completion of an ejecting operation of one sheet of recording paper to a start of supply of a subsequent sheet in a one-side printing or a second waiting time, or a second waiting time, which lasts from a completion of ejecting operation of one sheet of recording paper to a start of resupply of the one sheet of recording paper in both-side printing. A determining part detects a difference in time length between the first or second waiting time, a maintenance time required by a head maintenance operation and a cap timer time, which is a time during which a nozzle of the recording head is allowed to be maintained in an uncapped state, and determines a time of restarting a printing operation after execution of the maintenance operation based on the detected difference. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058208 | PRINT SYSTEM IN WHICH A TERMINAL USES A PRINT DEVICE THROUGH THE INTERNET - A print system, in which a terminal uses a print device through the Internet to cause the print device installed in a local network to print, includes a user checking unit configured to check whether a user is a user authorized to use the print device in the local network, an operation page providing unit configured to provide an accessible operation page to the user upon determining that the user is a user authorized to use the print device, and a print controlling unit configured to cause the print device to print according to access control information associated with the user in response to a print request received through the Internet, the print request being made by the terminal by using a printer driver of the print device, the terminal being situated outside the local network, and the printer driver being installed by use of the operation page. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058209 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A transmission apparatus includes a unit which writes command data indicating a content of a processing to be executed by an electronic device into a first data code, a unit which writes an error detection code of the first data code into a bit string of one bit through (N−1) bits in a second data code having a bit number N which is the same as the first data code, a unit which writes an extension code relating to an operation of the electronic device into another bit string formed of the remaining bits, and a unit which transmits a remote control signal in which the first data code and the second data code are combined to the electronic device. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058210 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When attribute information for a user has been acquired by authentication using an authentication apparatus, a restriction on a useable function is imposed according to the attribute information. When a fee has been collected by a fee collection apparatus, a restriction is imposed on preset functions. In either of these cases, use of the image forming apparatus by another user is prohibited until use by the first user in the useable state is finished. | 03-10-2011 |
20110063649 | PRINTER AND TASK CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a printer includes a direct current power input unit supplied with direct current, a rechargeable battery capable of being charged with the direct current power inputted from the direct current power input unit, and a task priority changing unit capable of determining the operational priority of a charge monitoring task to be higher than the operational priorities of other tasks when the rechargeable battery is being charged with the direct current power inputted from the direct current power input unit, and for determining the operational priority of the charge monitoring task to be lower than the operational priority of at least one of other tasks when the rechargeable battery is not being charged with the direct current power inputted from the direct current power input unit. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063650 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A printing system includes a terminal device and a printer device. The terminal device includes a generation module configured to generate image data, a computation module configured to compute check digit data based on the image data, and a transmission module configured to append the check digit data to the image data and transmit the image data with the check digit data appended. The printer device includes a receiving module configured to receive the image data and the check digit data from the terminal device, a decision module configured to decide whether the received check digit data is valid or not based on the received image data and the received check digit data, and a printing unit configured to print an image on a recording medium based on the received image data if the check digit data is determined to be valid. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063651 | Job management system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method - Disclosed is a job management system having plural information processing apparatuses connected to each other via a network capable of transmitting and receiving information. The information processing apparatus include a job control unit that selects one of the plural information processing apparatuses to execute a requested job based on user's registration information and equipment information recorded in the plural information processing apparatuses and causes the selected one of the plural information processing apparatuses to execute the requested job. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063652 | Image forming device, control method, and program for image forming device - When a control code detection unit detects a control code, an image storage unit stores the image data of pages that are entered after the page with the control code added thereto. A control code decision unit decides the content of control for the output processing of the image data based on all the control codes detected by the control code detection unit. Then, based on the content of control decided by the control code decision unit, a control unit controls the output processing of the image data stored in the image storage unit. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063653 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus of the invention includes a read unit to read an original document, a storage unit to store an image file of the original document read by the read unit, a control unit to control storage and readout of the image file into and from the storage unit, and an image formation unit to print the image file read from the storage unit, and the control unit creates a template including one or plural elements, automatically creates an image file name based on the template when the image file is stored in the storage unit, and stores the image file. According to the image forming apparatus of the invention, when a file is stored, an operation burden is low and an easily identified file name can be created. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069338 | PRINT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE CONTROL PROGRAM - A print system which are capable of inhibiting simultaneous use of the encrypted print and the box storage to thereby increase the security of print data. A host computer has an encryption function of encrypting print data, and issues a print job for the print data encrypted by the encryption function. A print server receives the issued print job, and has a decryption function of decrypting the encrypted print data of the received print job. A printer has a storage function of storing the print data decrypted by the decryption function, and outputs the stored print data. At least one of the host computer and the print server inhibits simultaneous use of the encryption function and the storage function. | 03-24-2011 |
20110075185 | Image Forming Apparatus, Computer Readable Recording Medium, and Method for Improving the Detection of Input Image Data Formats - An image forming apparatus includes data analyzing units configured to respectively interpret image data in accordance with different corresponding data formats, a drawing processing unit configured to execute a drawing process on the basis of a result of the interpretation, a data format determining unit configured to determine the data format of input image data, to cause a particular data analyzing unit corresponding to the data format to interpret the input image data, and to cause another data analyzing unit to interpret the input image data responsive to a format error being generated while the input image data is being processed using the particular data analyzing unit or the drawing processing unit. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075186 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD PERFORMED BY IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a sub communication unit that receives an association process request using wireless communication and executes an association process and includes a main communication unit that performs wireless communication in accordance with association information that is used in the association process and in accordance with setup information that is setting information on wireless communication that can be set for each system of the association process request. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075187 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To delete unnecessary blank page(s) without changing a desired output layout requested by a user, a CPU of a controller unit sets fixed page image data, as image data of a plurality of consecutive pages whose relationship is to be fixed, among image data of a plurality of pages of a document read by a scanner unit. Further, the CPU detects image data corresponding to blank page(s) from the image data of the plurality of pages, and counts the number of pages of image data corresponding to the blank pages existing between the fixed page image data. Then, to determine an output layout of image data, the CPU deletes image data corresponding to all blank pages existing between the fixed page image data if the number of pages is an even number, and the CPU deletes image data corresponding to an even number of blank pages that are present between the fixed page image data if the number of pages is an odd number. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075188 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A print control apparatus includes: a setting unit that sets a determination condition for adding authentication information necessary for performing print processing based on received print data; a determination unit that determines whether or not the received print data matches the determination condition set by the setting unit; and an adding unit that, if it is determined by the determination unit that the print data matches the determination condition, adds the authentication information to the print data. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075189 | Providing Authenticated Communications to a Replaceable Printer Component - A replaceable printer component includes a first memory device and a communication link. The first memory device stores a first secret. The communication link is configured to communicatively link the first memory device to a printer controller when the replaceable printer component is installed in a printing system. The printing system includes a second memory device storing a second secret. The second memory device is communicatively linked to the printer controller. The first memory device is configured to authenticate communications between the first memory device and the printer controller based on the first secret and the second secret. | 03-31-2011 |
20110085194 | LOG INFORMATION PROCESS DEVICE, IMAGE FORMATION APPARATIS, AND LOG INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A log information processing device includes an authentication unit, a memory, and a control unit. The authentication unit authenticates a user. The memory stores a first log information about a job which is requested by the user. The control unit replaces a first data included in the first log information with a second data to form a second log information. The second data is related to the first data. The control unit instructs to transmit the second log information to an external apparatus. | 04-14-2011 |
20110085195 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NETWORK SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus including, a storing section configured to store a user name and a password of an authenticated user, an image processing section configured to execute processing instructed by the user, and a managing section configured to permit operation of the image processing section according to the user name and the password of the accessing user. | 04-14-2011 |
20110090526 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of reliably printing security information even when image data of an original document that is obtained by a reading unit contains security information and an area where the security information is not contained is set as a print area, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, when image data of an original document contains security information, the image forming apparatus extracts image the security information from data, and sets a print target area from an area indicated by the image data of the original document. When an area corresponding to, from which the security information is extracted, is not contained in the set print target area, the image forming apparatus executes printing using the extracted image data corresponding to the security information, and the image data corresponding to the print target area. | 04-21-2011 |
20110090527 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising: an applied amount calculation unit which calculates an amount of applied toner of the print image data and an amount of applied toner of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data; a determination unit which determines, based on the amounts of applied toner calculated by the applied amount calculation unit, whether the sum of the amounts of applied toner of the print image data and the copy-forgery-inhibited image exceeds a predetermined amount of applied toner; and an applied amount control unit which, in a case where the determination unit determines that the sum of the amounts of applied toner exceeds the predetermined amount of applied toner, restricts the amount of applied toner of the print image data to prevent the sum of the amounts of applied toner from exceeding the predetermined amount of applied toner. | 04-21-2011 |
20110096348 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING OPERATION CONDITIONS OF FUNCTIONAL UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit forming an image on a medium based on image data; a first storage storing image forming conditions; an input device storing image forming conditions set by a user input setting the image forming conditions in the first storage; a second storage storing a history of input operations by the user; a registering device registering, if the history stored in the second storage satisfies a predetermined condition, the image forming conditions stored in the first storage as image forming conditions that can be called by a unique identifier; and a calling device, responsive to a user input designating an identifier, the corresponding image forming conditions from the registering device and storing in the first storage. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096349 | Immediate Verification of Printed Copy - Print verification is done by scanning the printed copies, thereby forming a stream of scanned images of the specific pages. Digitized images from the stream are then spatially aligned page by page, line by line and pixel (pel) by pixel (pel) with corresponding digitized images in a stream of source images. The source and scanned images are compared to find pel sequences that are different. These differences represent defects in the printed copies. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096350 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PRINT SYSTEM - In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096351 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An information processing apparatus according to this invention acquires function restriction information used to restrict the use of functions of an image processing apparatus. The apparatus acquires job log data of a job which is processed using the functions of the image processing apparatus. The apparatus changes the acquired function restriction information. The apparatus calculates a cost incurred upon using the functions of the image processing apparatus within a designated period, based on unit price information indicating the unit prices of the resources consumed upon using the functions of the image processing apparatus, the job log data, and the changed function restriction information. The apparatus outputs the calculation result. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A manufacturer or the like provides consumable products used in an image forming apparatus with distribution information including a most recent license code and then markets the consumable products, and the image forming apparatus performs authentication processing by reading the distribution information from such consumable products. Receiving a connection request from an application executed by a personal computer, the image forming apparatus determines whether connection may be permitted or not by comparing the license code of the application included in the connection request with the distribution information provided to the consumable product. | 04-28-2011 |
20110102829 | IMAGE SIZE WARNING - A method of detecting and indicating to a user of an application for image printing that an image is unsuitable for printing. Unsuitability for printing of an image typically will be triggered when print size and image resolution are mismatched. Novel user interface algorithms assist the user to correctly modify an image in order to satisfy suitability requirements. | 05-05-2011 |
20110109932 | POWER SAVING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME - An apparatus and method for saving power in an office machine having a display panel are provided. The method comprises setting the apparatus in an operation standby mode, detecting whether an error exists in the apparatus and turning on the display panel to display the error thereon when the error is detected. Furthermore, the apparatus keeps the display panel in an off state when the error is not detected. Thus, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a power saving method of an office machine which prevents unnecessary power consumption during an operation of an office machine having a display panel. | 05-12-2011 |
20110116121 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - There is provided an image forming system that automatically discharges paper sheets other than poorly fed ones without making an emergency stop, even when poor paper feeding is caused due to a paper jam or the like. At paper feeding, information showing poor paper feeding is transmitted when the poor paper feeding is detected in supplying the paper sheets. At image forming, a determination is made whether the paper conveyance in forming the image is continued or stopped when an instruction, based on the information showing the poor paper feeding. At paper discharging, a determination is made whether the paper conveyance in discharging the paper sheets is continued or stopped when an instruction, based on the information showing the defective conveyance. | 05-19-2011 |
20110128566 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS, AND SECURITY COPY METHOD THEREOF - A security copy method of an image forming apparatus includes generating scan data by scanning a document including predetermined additional information, determining whether to security-print the document by using the additional information of the generated scan data, determining whether the scan data include color information corresponding to the security area, and printing the scan data excluding a security area corresponding to the color information from the scan data according to the determination result. With this, the image forming apparatus minimizes the amount of the security information included in a bar code or mark and enables a simple print process. | 06-02-2011 |
20110128567 | Replacement Printer Cartridge Chip With A Microcontroller With An Encrypted Memory Device - The invention is a replacement printed circuit board or chip that allows a printer to utilize a replacement printer cartridge. The printed circuit board has an encrypted memory device and a microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller is programmed to intercept the request from the printer for the unique lot number data and to provide the appropriate unique lot number data to the printer in response to the request. The encrypted memory device is programmed just like the custom original equipment manufacturer encrypted memory device, and, with the exception of providing the unique lot number data to the printer, communicates with the printer just as the original equipment manufacturer encrypted memory device would. | 06-02-2011 |
20110134458 | Printed matter examination apparatus, printed matter examination method, and printed matter examination system - A printed matter examination apparatus includes a master data acquiring unit configured to acquire master data that is data for printing and contains code information that is converted for printing; a code information acquiring unit configured to acquire unconverted code information; a code information recognition unit configured to recognize the converted code information from the acquired master data; and a code information examination unit configured to compare the converted code information recognized by the code information recognition unit with the acquired unconverted code information and determine that the converted code information is incorrect when the converted code information is not identical to the unconverted code information. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134459 | IMAGE FORMING APAPRATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an address book management application which receives from a client PC an instruction as to address data stored in an HDD of an image forming apparatus. When the instruction is a backup instruction, the address book management application acquires the address data from an address data storage area, creates a backup file from the acquired address data, and stores the created backup file in a backup area of the HDD. When the instruction is a restore instruction, the address book management application restores the backup file stored in the backup area, as the address data in the address data storage area. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134460 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A printing apparatus according to this invention includes a plurality of paper feed cassettes. Upon receiving a print job which designates a paper feed cassette, the printing apparatus determines whether the paper size of the paper feed cassette designated by the print job that is stored in a memory matches the paper size needed for executing the print job. If the printing apparatus determines that these paper sizes do not match each other, it restricts execution of the print job. If a feeding unit is set while execution of the print job is restricted, the printing apparatus decides the set feeding unit as a feeding source of paper used to execute the print job. The printing apparatus feeds paper contained in the decided feeding unit, and executes the print job. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134461 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING RESUMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a printing apparatus capable of solving the problem by including a sheet discharge unit configured to discharge data from the first page of the record including a page where a printing error occurs to the page related to the page where the printing error occurs held on a buffer as output products related to the printing error if the printing error occurs, a display unit configured to display on an operation unit a message prompting the removal of the output products discharged by the sheet discharge unit, and a print resumption unit configured to resume printing from the first page of the record including a page where a printing error occurs if the print resumption unit is instructed to resume printing after the display unit displays the message. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134462 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire data targeted for image processing; a memory unit configured to store the acquired data; an output unit configured to output the data; and an access-right controller configured to provide the data with pre-defined access right when the data are stored by the memory unit, and configured to change the access right when the data are output by the output unit. | 06-09-2011 |
20110149330 | Image forming apparatus and error guide offering method thereof - An error guide offering method of an image forming apparatus which includes a display unit to display a user interface (UI) offering an error guide to an error, the method including: detecting the error from the image forming apparatus; determining whether the error occurs from a plurality of locations; determining whether error guides to the error occurring from the plurality of locations have a common procedure; displaying a first error guide to a first error; displaying a second error guide to a second error instead of returning to a standby mode upon a completion of the processing of the error according to the first error guide; processing the second error according to the second error guide, the displaying the second error guide including displaying a common procedure in the first and second error guides. With this, an error guide integrating a common procedure to a plurality of errors occurring from the image forming apparatus efficiently processes the error and reduces waste of time. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149331 | DYNAMIC PRINTER MODELLING FOR OUTPUT CHECKING - Disclosed is a method ( | 06-23-2011 |
20110149332 | METHOD OF SETTING DISPLAY MODE IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM TO SET THE DISPLAY MODE - A method of setting a display mode in an image forming apparatus connected to an external apparatus via a network includes logging in to the image forming apparatus, authenticating log-in information according to the logging in at the image forming apparatus, displaying a document box and file stored in the image forming apparatus on a display unit according to the set display mode in accordance with a user corresponding to the authenticated log-in information, and selecting one of the displayed document box and file. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157617 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including: a plurality of reception units, wherein at least one of the plurality of reception units receives a printing job; a printing unit that performs printing based on the printing job received by the at least one of the plurality of reception units; a determination unit that determines a difficulty level of reprinting based on which of the plurality of reception units received the printing job; a setting unit that sets a correction-performing condition based on the determined difficulty level of reprinting, wherein the correction-performing condition becomes easier to satisfy as the determined difficulty level of reprinting increases; and a correction unit that performs a correcting process by causing the printing unit to form a pattern and by correcting an image to be printed based on a result of measuring the pattern, if the correction-performing condition is satisfied when the printing job is received. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157618 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS THAT TRANSMITS IMAGE DATA TO DESIGNATED DESTINATION, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image data transmission apparatus that can reliably transmit image data to an archiving destination before transmitting the image data to a set destination. A destination indicative of an archiving destination that manages image data generated by a scanner unit is set, and the image data is transmitted to the archiving destination. A destination to which the image data is to be transmitted is set, and the image data is transmitted to the destination. When the image data has been successfully transmitted to the archiving destination, the image data is transmitted to the destination. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164270 | Image forming apparatus and system and method for charging for printing - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit which stores information regarding the other image forming apparatuses of the same group as the image forming apparatus and quota information of each user which is shared by the other image forming apparatuses, a controller which, if a job command is input, determines whether to perform a job according to whether the number of copies requested by the job command satisfies the quota information of each user, a function unit which performs the job under control of the controller, a quota information administration unit which updates the quota information of each user stored in the storage unit as the job is performed, and a communication interface which transmits the updated quota information of each user to the other image forming apparatuses. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164271 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING JOBS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus including, an authenticating unit configured to specify a user, a determining unit configured to determine a permission level given to the user specified by the authenticating unit, and a managing unit configured to manage, according to the permission level determined by the determining unit, information permitted to be disclosed, notified, or displayed to the user specified by the authenticating unit. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164272 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Feed information is acquired from a server using a URL designated from a user of a PC. The feed information is compared with a print condition designated by the user of the PC, to acquire document information that matches the print condition. Out of a plurality of image forming apparatuses registered for users, the image forming apparatus capable of performing printing is selected. Preview of document information acquired according to print setting set in the image forming apparatus is generated. Feed information having the generated preview and information relating to the image forming apparatus capable of performing printing added thereto are transmitted to the PC. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164273 | PIXEL CLOCK GENERATOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A pixel clock generator includes a frequency divider | 07-07-2011 |
20110170129 | PASSWORD SETTING DEVICE FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PASSWORD SETTING DEVICE - A password setting device for an image forming apparatus includes: an image reading unit which reads image information on a document; an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet based on image data read by the image reading unit; an acceptance unit which accepts setting of a password used for user authentication; a determination unit which determines whether the password accepted via the acceptance unit violates prohibition information of the password or not; and a notification unit which notifies a user of information to prompt the user to change the password when it is determined by the determination unit that the password violates the prohibition information. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170130 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus manages distributed processing by a plurality of devices which are connected to a computer network and have a power-saving mode. The apparatus includes a retriever, arranged to retrieve device information and operation states of the plurality of devices, and a selector, arranged to select target devices of the distributed processing based on at least one of the device information and operation states. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170131 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that executes a waiting print job and charges for the execution of the waiting print job. The waiting print job is inputted by a user and is kept from being executed until an execution instruction is inputted in the image forming apparatus by the user. The image forming apparatus includes: an allocation part that analyzes the waiting print job when the waiting print job is inputted, determines a billing amount therefor based on a result of the analysis and allocates, for the waiting print job, a budget amount equivalent to the determined billing amount; and an execution part that performs the execution when the budget amount has been allocated. When the waiting print job is inputted, the allocation part performs the allocation regardless of whether the execution instruction is inputted. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176159 | ABNORMALITY DETECTING DEVICE FOR ROTATION BODY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An abnormality detecting device for a rotation body includes: a rotation body rotating while coming in contact with a sheet transported at a predetermined speed; an output unit outputting pulses of a number in proportion to a rotation amount of the rotation body; an acquisition unit acquiring periodic information associating a position of the rotation body during a single rotation and a period of each of the pulses corresponding to the position with each other, the periodic information being acquired based on the plural pulses outputted from the output unit along with the rotation of the rotation body at the predetermined speed; a memory storing the periodic information as reference periodic information; and an abnormality detector detecting an abnormality occurred in at least one of the rotation body and the output unit based on the reference periodic information and new periodic information acquired after the reference periodic information is acquired. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176160 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image formation apparatus having a plurality of function units includes: a first power management unit configured to perform power management; a plurality of components under the power management, provided in each function unit and each supplied with power to implement a corresponding function; and a second power management unit provided for each function unit. The second power management unit is configured to determine whether each component has an operational status satisfying a first predetermined condition, to stop supplying power to the component satisfying the first predetermined condition, if the component satisfies the first predetermined condition, to determine whether the plurality of components have a power supply status satisfying a second predetermined condition, and to change the first predetermined condition in content, if the second predetermined condition is satisfied. The first power management unit sets to a power saving mode the function unit of which components are all unsupplied with power. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176161 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND BILLING DESTINATION SETTING METHOD IN THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprises: a controller storing therein a billing destination to which a fee for printing processing is charged, the controller operable to receive, from a user via an operation panel, an instruction for executing the printing processing while the user is logged in and to charge, to the billing destination, the fee for the execution of the printing processing; a card reader operable to receive a new billing destination while the user is logged in, without intervention of the operation panel, wherein when receiving the new billing destination, the controller updates the billing destination to the new billing destination by storing the new billing destination. | 07-21-2011 |
20110181903 | Operating section structure, image processing apparatus, and information processing apparatus - An operating section structure positioned forward of a document scanning unit. The operating section structure includes: an image display surface; and an authentication device placement surface for mounting a detachable authentication device at an angle different from the image display surface. | 07-28-2011 |
20110181904 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - When data for printing and an authentication code are inputted, a CPU of a printer calculates a number of sheets to be used based on the data for printing. The CPU adds the calculated number of sheets to be used to the management table, based on the inputted authentication code, and rearranges the management table so that a user with a smaller number of used sheets is in a higher place. The CPU executes print processing using the inputted data for printing. The CPU acquires a display name, ranking, and the number of used sheets corresponding to the inputted authentication code from the management table in an RAM to transmit to information technology equipment. | 07-28-2011 |
20110181905 | PRINTER AND PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - Described are a printer and a method of controlling it, wherein when an out-of-paper error occurs and printing stops, a control unit clears any data in a receive buffer, and reports the out-of-paper error and print stoppage to a host computer. When a clear buffer command is then received from the host computer, the control unit clears the receive buffer again. | 07-28-2011 |
20110188066 | PROCESSOR SYSTEM WITH PROVISION FOR AUTOMATED CONTROL OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS - The invention relates to processing imaged precursors such as lithographic printing plates. The invention relates specifically to adjusting a processing device for optimal processing performance using a plate recognition system that includes a sensing and authentication subsystem. The processor is automated to make adjustments according to the information provided. | 08-04-2011 |
20110188067 | PRE-PAID DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICES AND OPERATING METHODS - Document processing devices and methods are presented, in which the device stores a remaining print unit value in its memory that represents the amount of print units currently available to enable the device to perform the document processing operations, and a programmable computer of the device selectively performs document processing jobs for users and decrements the remaining print unit value until the value reaches zero and the device provides for expenditure of print units according to color content and/or coverage levels determined for a given job. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194135 | Print View With Easy Page Removal - A computer readable medium having a computer program which when installed on a computer having applications which can be commanded to print and which place pages in a print queue, causes a print command to result in a display of pages and which permits a user to remove any of said displayed pages from said print queue by a sequence of mouse clicks. | 08-11-2011 |
20110199630 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - A printer includes a memory configured to store a message to be displayed in a help display mode to handle an error detected in an execution mode and to store a setting mode in which a setting program associated with the message is performed, a display configured to display the message, an operation unit configured to receive a user's operation, and a mode switching unit configured to switch an operation mode from the help display mode to the setting mode associated with the message if the operation unit receives a specified operation while the message is displayed in the help display mode. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199631 | AUTOGRAPH SYSTEM - Apparatus for use with a plurality of marks and by a user is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a storage facility, an interface facility and a delivery facility. The storage facility, in use, is in receipt of mark data records, each of said mark data records being representative of a respective one of said plurality of marks. The interface facility is adapted to permit said user to identify: a selected one of said plurality of marks; and a destination. The delivery facility is adapted to, using the mark data record of the selected mark, deliver a copy of the selected mark to the destination. The destination can be an e-mail address, the copy can be delivered by means of an electronic file and the mark can be a signature. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199632 | FACSIMILE DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACSIMILE PRINTING - It is intended to provide a facsimile device and a program product for facsimile printing capable of surely making a user know receipt of an irregular e-mail such as an error mail or the like, without requiring extra volume of memory, while preventing waste of paper. When an e-mail is received, there is detected whether a printing mode is set or a not-printing mode is set for a body part of an e-mail in # | 08-18-2011 |
20110205570 | PRINTER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a printer includes a sensing unit configured to detect biometric information of a user, and an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user identified by the detected biometric information. The printer further includes a determination unit configured to determine product-related processes which the authenticated user is authorized to execute, and an execution unit configured to execute the determined product-related processes. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205571 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an acceptance section, an information acquisition section, a generating section, and an output section. The acceptance section accepts image data to be processed. The information acquisition section acquires plural pieces of information relevant to copy-restriction images and corresponding to plural kinds of copying devices configured to detect corresponding copy-restriction images. A target image is prevented from copying when a given piece of the information corresponding to a given kind of the copying devices and embedded in the target image is detected by the given kind of the copying devices. The generating section generates a formation-target image by embedding, in the image data, the copy-restriction images corresponding to the plural piece of information acquired by the information acquisition section. The output section outputs the formation-target image generated by the generating section. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205572 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - More complex processing control is performed based on a plurality of image codes included in an original document. An image processing apparatus wherein if an analysis result of a first image code included in the original document includes information indicating scanning prohibition, a second image code included in the original document is analyzed, and wherein if an analysis result of the second image code includes information indicating conditional scanning prohibition, scanning of the original document is permitted in accordance with the condition. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205573 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SHUTTING DOWN POWER SUPPLY IN SAFE - In an image processing apparatus, a power control part shuts down power supply after a power shutdown condition is established. A prescript safe state transition part performs a prescript safe state transition process to shift previously set prescript parts to a predetermined safe state. A priority safe state transition part performs a priority safe state transition process to shift previously set priority parts to the safe state. A transition process control part causes the prescript safe state transition process to be executed before execution of the priority safe transition process, and causes the priority safe state transition process to be executed when a predetermined transition change condition is established in the prescript safe state transition process. The power control part shuts down the power supply after the completion of the prescript safe state transition process. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205574 | CONTROLLING A CONFIGURATION OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method and system for printing documents based on Java commands. A Java printer receives page layout requests and converts the requests into a rasterized image which is transferred to a recording medium. Page layout can be interactively modified. The Java printer also monitors print requests and is configurable using a World Wide Web interface. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205575 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - When a sheet P is jammed after start of a print job, it is determined whether an automatic resumption mode for automatically resuming the print job is set. When a determination result of this determination is affirmative, the print job is resumed after the jam is released. When the determination result is negative, the print job is stopped. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211215 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When new image data is received by a communication I/F portion, a determination portion determines whether or not a password set to image data stored in the storage portion coincides with a password set to new image data received by the reception portion. A second image forming control portion does not execute image formation based on the new image data with a first image forming control portion when the determination portion determines that a password set to image data stored in the storage portion coincides with a password set to new image data received by the communication I/F portion. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211216 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MEASURING AMOUNT OF MISMATCH STORED THEREON - An image forming device includes an image forming section, a CPU and memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the CPU, cause the image forming device to provide functions including a data acquisition section, a mismatch correction section and a control section. The data acquisition section is configured to acquire a variation in factor that causes a mismatch of a parameter. The control section is configured to estimate an amount of mismatch of the parameter based on the variation and to send a request for measuring the amount of mismatch to the mismatch correction section when the estimated amount is equal to or larger than a reference value. The control section is also configured to alter at least one of calculation factors used for estimating the amount of mismatch and the reference value according to the measured amount. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211217 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - A printing system including plural devices can appropriately stop normally operating devices in a short time when a problem occurs in any one of the plural devices. The printing system has devices that execute processes for printing on printing paper, device control units that control the devices and a central control unit that centrally controls the devices. When a problem is detected in one device, the central control unit sends, as a command for a process to be executed immediately, a stop device command for stopping the other device to the device control unit that controls the device in which a problem is not detected. The device control unit that receives the stop device command executes a process based on the stop device command with priority over processes based on other commands, and stops the device. | 09-01-2011 |
20110216345 | VALIDATION OF PRINT JOBS USING BITMAPPED IMAGE - A method and apparatus capture bitmapped images of pages of a print job that have been raster image processed by a digital front end of a printing device (while they are being printed by the printing device). The bitmapped images are captured from the printing device's buffer using a computerized device potentially positioned within the printing device. The computerized device collects image data from at least one predetermined area of the bitmapped images of the pages and performs optical character processing on the image data to identify characters and numbers within the bitmapped images. The computerized device processes the characters and numbers into accumulated data for the pages of the print job. Then the computerized device compares the accumulated data to expected data to validate whether the print job printed correctly. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216346 | Control Device, Control Method For A Control Device, And Recording Medium - When a communication port is occupied by a recording control unit, the communication port can be released as needed without causing an error or problem. A communication control unit | 09-08-2011 |
20110216347 | PRINTER SERVER, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print server configured to acquire temporary identification information used for uniquely identifying device identification and user identification from temporary identification information stored in a storage area according to a print instruction including device identification information used for identifying a device and user identification information used for identifying a user, and searches for and acquires a print job including the temporary identification information out of spooled print jobs, and provides the acquired print job including the temporary identification information to the device. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216348 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND SERVER - A device control apparatus includes: a usage instruction acceptance unit that accepts a usage instruction for a device; a determination unit that determines whether or not the device is a registered device that has been registered in a server based on registration information obtained from the server, and determines whether or not the device is a loaner device for the registered device based on loaner device information; a notification unit that performs a notification prompting a user to register the device as a registered device in the server; a prohibition unit that prohibits the device from being used in accordance with the usage instruction; and a permission unit that permits the device to be used in accordance with the usage instruction. | 09-08-2011 |
20110222099 | VERIFICATION APPARATUS, JOB TICKET VERIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus for verifying whether or not processing of a received job ticket is feasible in a printing apparatus, comprises: a unit which holds capability information associated with capabilities included in the printing apparatus and verification information associated with verification items respectively for the capabilities; a unit which generates, based on user identification information, which is defined for each user who designates execution of the processing of the job ticket and indicates available functions in the printing apparatus and verification items for the user, and the capability information, printer capability data indicating feasible capabilities of the user in the printing apparatus; a unit which generates verification policy data indicating feasible verification items of the user for the job ticket; and a unit which verifies based on the printer capability data and the verification policy data whether or not the processing of the job ticket is feasible in the printing apparatus. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222100 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, USE RESTRICTION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device includes a display part, a system control part for designating a display target to be displayed by the display part and switch the display target to another display target, a display control part for instructing the display part to display an operation screen corresponding to the display target designated by the system control part, and a receiving part for receiving a request for initiating the exclusive use of the display part from a use restriction application and receiving a request for terminating the exclusive use of the display part from the use restriction application. In a case where the receiving part receives the request for initiating the exclusive use of the display part, the system control part ceases switching the display target to the other display target until the receiving part receives the request for terminating the exclusive use of the display part. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222101 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH POWER CONTROL UNIT - An image processing apparatus includes a platform and plugins installed in the platform to cause devices to perform functions, wherein the platform includes a power control unit to control supply of power to the devices and a first power control interface to transmit to the plugins an advanced notice of shutdown, wherein each of the plugins includes a second power control interface to receive the advanced notice of shutdown and a power processing control unit to make a preparation for shutdown in response to the advanced notice of shutdown received through the second power control interface, and to send information about the preparation to the power control unit through the second power control interface, wherein the power control unit controls supply of power to at least one of the devices based on the information about the preparation received from at least one of the plugins. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222102 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus including a web server configured to generate an operation screen and a browser configured to receive the operation screen from the web server and to display the operation screen includes an identification unit configured to identify, if a connection request is given to the web server, a requestor of the connection request, a web server authentication unit configured to perform authentication of a user to use the web server, and a control unit configured to, if the requestor is identified as the browser of the image forming apparatus by the identification unit, control the web server to transmit the operation screen to the browser of the image forming apparatus without the web server authentication unit performing the authentication. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222103 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANAGING PRINT JOB, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is configured to access a storage that stores, therein, first associating information indicating a first terminal identifier for identifying a terminal and a first user identifier for identifying a user. The apparatus receives data based on which a print job is to be executed and which contains a second terminal identifier. If the second terminal identifier contained in the data matches the first terminal identifier indicated in the first associating information, then the apparatus executes the print job. Otherwise, the apparatus suspends execution of the print job. The apparatus receives an input of a second user identifier. If the second user identifier matches the first user identifier indicated in the first associating information, and, if the print job whose execution is suspended is selected, then the apparatus stores, into the storage, second associating information indicating the second terminal identifier and the second user identifier. | 09-15-2011 |
20110228307 | PRINTER DIAGNOSES USING DISPLAYED CANDIDATE DEFECT IMAGES - Methods and systems receive printing symptoms from a user into a graphic user interface and receive system information from a printing device exhibiting the printing symptoms. The method analyzes the printing symptoms using a diagnostic inference system operating on a computerized device operatively connected to the graphic user interface to produce candidate component defects. The method outputs diagnostic recommendations containing the candidate component defects to the user. The diagnostic recommendations include at least one representative image of a printing defect corresponding to each candidate component defect, and probabilities of correctness of the candidate component defects displayed alongside the representative image. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228308 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A MISALIGNED PAGE - A capability is provided for detecting a misaligned page of a document. A method includes detecting that a page is misaligned and generating a control signal adapted for use in triggering presentation of an alarm indicating that the page is misaligned. A method includes detecting that a page is misaligned and initiating one or more control actions for the misaligned page. These and other methods may be performed on any suitable copy device, such as on a fax machine, a photocopy machine, a scanner, a photograph copying device, a user device, a network device, and the like, as well as devices having combinations of such functionality. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228309 | PRINT JOB INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE, PRINT JOB INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print job information managing device of the present invention has: an authentication request instruction adding section that adds, to a print job, an authentication request instruction that expresses whether or not authentication is needed at a time of printing; a transmitting section that transmits the print job to a printer; and a notification section that, when the authentication request instruction has been added to the print job transmitted by the transmitting section, notifies a printing recipient that the print job has been transmitted. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228310 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND USER INTERFACE GENERATING METHOD - An information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus includes a device information obtaining part that obtains device information from the image forming apparatus; a device information storage part that stores the obtained device information; and a UI control part that generates a user interface for selecting functions of the image forming apparatus. The device information obtaining part transmits a device information obtaining request, to which identification information is attached, to the image forming apparatus, obtains the device information including function use authority information associated with the identification information, and stores the obtained device information in the device information storage part. The UI control part carries out control of displaying selectable icons of the functions on the user interface based on the function use authority information included in the device information stored in the device information storage part. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228311 | Image Forming System and Image Forming Method for Collectively Supporting Output Data Formats and Authentication Methods - A multifunction peripheral (MFP) transmits read data (user identification information) obtained by a reader to a user-manager server device via a network. The user-manager server device specifies a data format of the read data, converts the data format into another data format to specify a user ID corresponding to the read data, performs a user authentication using the user ID, and transmits authorization information corresponding to a logged-in user. Further, the MFP receives the identification information corresponding to the logged-in user by a user authentication method specified by authentication setting data, and transmits the identification information to the user-manager server device. The authentication setting data is updated by the master authentication data stored in the user-manager server device. The user-manager server device performs the user authentication using the identification information, and transmits the authorization information corresponding to the logged-in user. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228312 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus, including: an apparatus body; a cartridge containing a recording material; a cartridge installing section which is provided in the apparatus body and to which the cartridge is removably installed; a first communication section which is provided in the apparatus body; a second communication section which is provided in the cartridge and which communicates with the first communication section by using a near field communication; a light source which is provided in the apparatus body and emits light to illuminate the cartridge installing section; an installation/removal detector which is provided in the apparatus body and detects whether or not the cartridge is installed to the cartridge installing section; and a controller which controls the light source and the first communication section. | 09-22-2011 |
20110235083 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD FOR AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus, including: a system control section that performs control of the apparatus; a functional block that forms a part of the image forming apparatus; and a power control section that is communicably connected to the system control section, that controls power supply to the system control section and the functional block, that is provided with data for power control defining with regard to the power supply to the system control section and the functional block by the system control section, and that controls the power supply to the system control section and the functional block based on the data for power control. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235084 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING PATTERN ADDING FUNCTION - An image forming apparatus includes: a storage unit including unique information identify to an apparatus main unit; a setting unit including setting information of the apparatus main unit instead of the unique information; a pattern addition unit that adds an addition pattern based on a unique pattern generated from the unique information or a setting pattern generated from the setting information to image data that is input to the apparatus main unit; an image formation unit that forms a visual image of the image data and an addition image of the addition pattern which is hardly recognized by eyes on a recording medium; and a control unit that changes the addition pattern formed by the image formation unit from the unique pattern to the setting pattern when an error depending on the unique information occurs. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235085 | PRINTER WITH ANONYMOUS PRINTER REGISTRATION IN A CLOUD-BASED PRINT SERVICE - A printer may include a registration requester configured to receive an initiation request from a user to initiate a registration of the printer, and further configured to send a registration request to a cloud print service over a network. The printer may include a claim facilitator configured to receive a registration response from the cloud print service over the network, the registration response including a claim code, and further configured to provide, using printer functionality, the claim code to the user. The printer also may include an authentication manager configured to request an authentication credential issued by the cloud print service in response to a matching of the printer with a user account of the user within the cloud print service, the matching based on a receipt of the claim code from the user at the cloud print service, and further configured to receive and store the authentication credential at the printer. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235086 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS - The invented image forming apparatus includes an image data production condition production section for producing an image data production condition, an image data output condition production section for producing an image data output condition, and an image data management section for obtaining the image data production condition and the image data output condition in response to an output demand of the image data, for outputting the image data in a case where the image data production condition coincides to the image data output condition, for obtaining a password of the image data in a case where the image data production condition does not coincide to the image data output condition, for outputting the image data in a case where the designated password is entered at a time of image production, and for not outputting the image data in a case where anything other than the designated password is entered at the time of image production. With the invented image forming apparatus, the user's manipulability is much improved as ensuring the security | 09-29-2011 |
20110235087 | Multifunctional Peripheral - A multi functional peripheral device could change between a logout state in which a predetermined process could not be performed and a login state which the predetermined process could be performed. The multi functional peripheral comprises a display unit provided with a screen arranged to display the state of the multi functional peripheral, an accepting unit arranged to accept an entry of an identification information to be used to log into the multi functional peripheral, an controlling unit for control of actions of the multi functional peripheral arranged to cause the multi functional peripheral to change from the logout state to the login state when the controlling unit authenticates the identification information accepted by the accepting unit, a light-emitting unit, which is arranged separately from the display unit, arranged to start a light-emitting action when the multi functional peripheral changes from the logout state to the login state and terminate the light-emitting action when the multi functional peripheral changes from the logout state to the login state. | 09-29-2011 |
20110242574 | HARDCOPY DOCUMENT INTEGRITY - A method for restricting duplication of a hardcopy document, including: displaying, in response to a request to print a document from a user application, a graphical user interface (GUI); receiving, in response to displaying the GUI, a plurality of print settings and a plurality of copy restrictions selected from the GUI by a user; generating a copy code by encoding the plurality of copy restrictions; generating a print job for the document based on the copy code and the plurality of print settings; and sending the print job to a print queue to generate the hardcopy document, where the hardcopy document includes a machine-readable version of the copy code, and where the copy code restricts duplication of the hardcopy document by a copier after the copier identifies the machine-readable version of the copy code on the hardcopy document. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249288 | DELIVERY EXPERT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Embodiments disclosed herein can facilitate delivery of a document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Actions to be taken are based upon input conditions which may include a time-variable set of input conditions such as identifying non-business days and/or hours at the destination. The document can be a fax, an email, or a voice mail. The actions may include resubmitting the document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, sending a request to the source or destination for additional delivery information, identifying the destination as a technical problem, or a combination thereof. | 10-13-2011 |
20110249289 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEMORY MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to solve dissatisfaction of the user who cannot take out the source data in a case where a code image in the original can not be decoded. In order to accomplish the above object, the invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising code image detection unit that determines whether or not an code image is included in the original image data, code image decoding unit that decodes the code image to extract source data if it is determined that the code image is included by the code image detection unit, and synthesizing unit that encodes information obtained by decoding a partial area of the code image and overlaying encoded information on the area where the code image is included, if the code image decoding unit is successful in decoding only the partial area of the code image. | 10-13-2011 |
20110255120 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for printing job data, includes a rendering unit configured to rasterize the job data into bitmap data, a print engine unit configured to print the rasterized job data, and a control unit configured to transmit the job data to the rendering unit, to receive the rasterized job data, to transmit the rasterized job data to the print engine unit. The control unit switches between saving the rasterized job data in a spool space and inspecting the job data without saving the job data to the spool space, depending on free space situation of the spool space. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255121 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system comprises an access control part, a storage part, an extraction part, and an acquisition part. The access control part determines whether to allow or prohibit access to a security image in which a password for access control is embedded. The storage part stores sharing member information which is information on sharing members who are users allowed to share the security image and a check image which is an image for check on the security image, being associated with each other. The extraction part for extracts the check image out of one or more images including the check image on the basis of a determination result on coidentity between the security image and each of the one or more images. The acquisition part acquires the sharing member information associated with the check image. Further, the access control part allows a login user who logs in to the image forming system to have access to the security image without requiring the login user to enter the password on condition that the login user is determined to be one of the sharing members on the basis of the sharing member information. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255122 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises: storage unit configured to store control information serving as information which defines in advance information for controlling a display representing a function for managing a peripheral device, and link information indicating a link destination where each function is provided, and which has an electronic signature to confirm whether falsification has been done; request reception unit configured to receive a request from a peripheral device management unit; link management unit configured to manage link information which is different from the link information contained in the control information and is executed in accordance with a request received by the request reception unit; and execution unit configured to determine a link destination based on the request received by the request reception unit using the link information contained in the control information or the different link information, and executing link processing to the determined link destination. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261386 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - An image transmission apparatus includes a destination setting unit configured to set a transmission destination of image data, a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, an authentication unit configured to perform processing for authentication required for the transmission unit to transmit the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, a storage unit configured to store a destination table in which authentication information required for the authentication unit to perform the processing for authentication is registered in such a manner that the authentication information is associated with the destination, a selection unit configured to select one of a first authentication mode, in which the authentication unit performs the processing for authentication using the authentication information stored in the storage unit when the transmission unit transmits the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, and a second authentication mode, in which the authentication unit performs the processing for authentication using authentication information entered by a user when the transmission unit transmits the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, and a limitation unit configured to limit a number of destinations to which the transmission unit transmits the image data when the selection unit selects the second authentication mode. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261387 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An information processing device includes: a user information obtaining part that obtains user information of users who use an image forming device; and an ID information configuration part that configures an ID for the user information obtained by the user information obtaining part and that configures, for the ID, functional restrictions that are specific for the ID with respect to the image forming device. The ID information configuration part configures, for different user information, IDs that are respectively provided for various functional restrictions. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261388 | AUTHENTICATION SERVER, MULTIFUNCTION APPARATUS, AND MULTIFUNCTION APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM - An authentication server | 10-27-2011 |
20110267636 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - If an MFP has not received setting information from a server at startup, it refers to setting information stored in a nonvolatile storage unit which stores setting information received in the last operation. This enables the MFP to start with some functions available in accordance with the last setting information referred to, while the MFP waits for reception of setting information at startup. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267637 | AUTOMATIC REGISTER CONTROL SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SENSOR AND DRY PRESETTING FACILITY - A print processing system for introducing dry register presetting among a plurality of print stations prior to mounting web on the printing device in all conditions before starting a print job; and also automatically controlling print registration using intelligent sensor(s) for minimizing disturbances caused due to transmission losses and distortion in transfer of analog signals. The intelligent sensor is capable of detecting and evaluating the register errors as well as initiating the correction commands in response to self-evaluated register errors. The print processing system is capable of comprehensively compiling, monitoring and displaying the real-time data including all the local machine parameters, print misregistration values and the performance for each printing station. The method of achieving dry presetting and controlling the print misregistration is also provided. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267638 | FRAUD DETECTION IN A POSTAGE SYSTEM - A method and system for processing and printing shipping labels having postage is described. In one configuration a postage dispensing system allows a shipping label reprint for a relatively short period of time. In another configuration, the system offers a refund after the second unsuccessful print attempt and logs the label identifier as an invalid identifier. If the print is successful, the identifier is logged as a successful identifier. The system occasionally receives identifiers that have been processed in the mail stream and reports fraud if an unexpected identifier is present. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267639 | PRINTER AND PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - Described are a printer and a method of controlling it, in which discarding received data and clearing data from a receive buffer is started when an off-line error occurs and the printer goes off-line. When the printer returns on-line, a control unit causes a data receiving unit to stop discarding said received data and causes sending a clear response as an on-line status report telling the host computer that the printer is returning on-line. | 11-03-2011 |
20110273736 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a decoding unit; a printing unit; an error detecting unit; and a control unit. The decoding unit decodes code data, which is obtained by encoding image data with a variable-length code on a line-to-line basis, into the image data. The printing unit performs a printing process on the basis of the image data which is decoded from the code data by the decoding unit. The error detecting unit compares a decoding amount indicating the amount of code data decoded in a predetermined range by the decoding unit with a predetermined decoding amount and outputs an error signal when the decoding amount is different from the predetermined decoding amount. The control unit controls the printing unit to stop the printing process when the error signal is output from the error detecting unit. | 11-10-2011 |
20110273737 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus manages an upper limit value of the number of licenses that can be issued to total multifunction peripheral (MFP)s provided within the system and the number of already issued licenses. If a request for issuing a license that permits the execution of a job has been received from the MFP, the information processing apparatus executes control for issuing the license if the number of already issued licenses does not exceed the upper limit value of the number of licenses that can be issued, when the license is issued. On the other hand, if it is determined that the number of already issued licenses exceeds the upper limit value of the number of licenses that can be issued, the information processing apparatus executes control for issuing no license. | 11-10-2011 |
20110273738 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that carries out printing an image based on printing data includes a data storing part configured to receive and store the printing data; a change receiving part configured to receive an input of change information that is used to change printing setting information that is included in the printing data and is set for a designated process to be carried out; and an updating part configured to update the printing setting information included in the printing data that is stored by the storing part according to the change information. | 11-10-2011 |
20110279849 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM - An image displaying apparatus includes a control unit and a display unit. The image displaying apparatus is connected to an image reading apparatus that includes a multifeed detecting mechanism. The control unit includes a display control unit that displays (i) an image of a medium which is read by the image reading apparatus and in which multifeed is detected by the multifeed detecting mechanism and (ii) a multifeed detected portion detected by the multifeed detecting mechanism on the display unit. | 11-17-2011 |
20110279850 | RECORDING CONTROL DEVICE, RECORDING SYSTEM, RECORDING CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM EXECUTED BY A CONTROL UNIT THAT CONTROLS THE RECORDING DEVICE - A printer that detects an error when a host computer does not send a timer reset command for a specific time is connected to a host computer. The host computer outputs a timer reset command to the printer using an application execution unit function, and causes the printer to print data processed by the application program. A timer reset command is sent to the printer when the application execution unit outputs a timer reset command and when a print job for printing the data is sent to the printer. | 11-17-2011 |
20110286025 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A PRINT MEDIUM WITH PLURALITY OF CODED DATA PORTIONS - A method of using a mobile device to authenticate a print medium before completing printing onto the print medium, the mobile device including processing means, a printhead and a sensor, the print medium comprising a substrate, the method comprising the steps of: using the sensor to sense coded data provided on a surface of the substrate, the coded data having a plurality of coded data portions; using the processing means to interpret the plurality of coded data portions to authenticate the print medium; and in the event the authentication step is successful, using the printhead to print onto the print medium. | 11-24-2011 |
20110286026 | JOB HISTORY INFORMATION AUDIT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND AUDIT METHOD - An apparatus comprises a unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying a document management server from a cooperation server; a data reception unit configured to receive data including information concerning a job from a printing apparatus, a unit configured to determine; based on the received data and the identification information, whether document data of the received data is document data; a unit configured to store the received data when the determination unit determines that the document data is document data managed by a first document management server; a unit configured to transmit the received data to the cooperation server when the determination unit determines that the document data is carry-in document data which is not managed by the first document management server; a unit configured to receive the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing; and a unit configured to transmit the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing. | 11-24-2011 |
20110286027 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an action part that processes an image; a user interface part; a power measurement part that measures power consumed by the image processing apparatus; and a control part that controls the action part and the user interface part, and controls power supply to the action part and the power measurement part. The control part obtains information of the power measured by the power measurement part and displays the information on the user interface part. | 11-24-2011 |
20110286028 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a printer, a wireless device, an authentication information reader, an authentication device, and a processor. The printer forms an image on an image forming medium. The wireless device receives signals sent from an external device. The authentication information reader reads authentication information from a user operating the image forming apparatus. The authentication device authenticates the user by the authentication information read by the authentication information reader. If the wireless device receives signals sent from the external device, the processor starts warming up of the image forming unit, also, if the authentication device succeeds in user authentication, the processor causes the printer to form an image on the image forming medium in response to the user's request. | 11-24-2011 |
20110286029 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD IN NETWORK SYSTEM CONNECTED WITH IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - When an ID card ( | 11-24-2011 |
20110286030 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An object is to provide a user with various options on a processing method of an original document including a code image. To accomplish the object, the image processing apparatus includes a decoding section for extracting information by decoding the code image contained in the original document image, and a decision section for making a decision according to selection of the user as to whether to output the original document image or the information extracted by the decoding section. | 11-24-2011 |
20110292431 | PRINTER WITH IN-LINE SCANNER - A printing apparatus for variable pre-printed stock stores customer data and two or more different pre-printed stocks. A scanner scans the printed area of the pre-printed stocks and produces tray stock information identifying the stocks. Received electronic customer orders include the customer data and selection data for one or more of the pre-printed stocks. A controller receives the tray stock information and the electronic customer orders for matching the tray stock information to the electronic orders to produce print instructions. A printer receives the print instructions and prints the customer data corresponding to the match onto pre-printed stocks identified by the match. | 12-01-2011 |
20110292432 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR A DISPLAY PORTION OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a connection portion for performing communication with a keyboard; and a display portion for performing displaying of disabled keys when the keyboard is connected to the connection portion, the disabled keys being unusable keys among keys provided to the keyboard. | 12-01-2011 |
20110299108 | Image processing system and image processing apparatus - An image processing system includes a first image processing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus connected to the first image processing apparatus. The first image processing apparatus includes a reader reading image data, a storage storing job information, a request unit transmitting a job request as a job to the second image processing apparatus to execute the job corresponding to the job information based on a job execution scheduling, and an introducing unit introducing the job information to the second image processing apparatus. The second image processing apparatus includes a receiver receiving the job request from the first image processing apparatus as the job, a job executing unit executing the job corresponding to the job information, a determining unit determining whether to acquire the job information based on the job execution scheduling, and an acquiring unit acquiring the job information based on a determined result from the determining unit. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299109 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an error processing unit, a communication unit and an output unit. The error processing unit generates error information corresponding to detection of an error. The communication unit transmits the error information to a management apparatus and receives a diagnosis result from the management apparatus. The output unit outputs the diagnosis result. | 12-08-2011 |
20110310426 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PRINT SYSTEM - In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job. | 12-22-2011 |
20110317200 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING AN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a first control section that, when execution of printing at a printing device connected via a communications section is instructed, performs control to display at a display section a print settings screen for making settings relating to the printing; a calculation section that calculates an estimated value of power consumption that the printing device will consume if the printing is executed on the basis of the settings relating to printing; and a second control section that, when a pre-specified operation is performed at the print settings screen, performs control to display the estimated value of power consumption and display at the display section an energy saving settings screen for making, of the settings relating to printing, settings relating to energy saving. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317201 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING COPY PROHIBITION INFORMATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a copying machine that installs the function of preventing unauthorized copying, when copy prohibition information is extracted, whether output is permitted or prohibited in each of different types of output processing is set, and, when the copy prohibition information is extracted from a document image, if a setting for permitting the output in the output processing in which an output start is instructed is made, the output is performed. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317202 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus to execute, during processing of a job to be interrupted that is currently being processed, interrupt print processing for starting processing on an interrupting job for which an interrupt instruction is issued based on an interrupt printing instruction, the image forming apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate image data by performing RIP processing on a print job including at least one page, a printing unit configured to perform print processing based on image data generated by the generation unit, and a control unit configured to, when the RIP processing of the pages included in the interrupting job by the generation unit is finished, control the printing unit so as to stop the print processing on the job to be interrupted and start print processing of the interrupting job. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317203 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317204 | REMOTE INK SUPPLY - Apparatus and methods are provided. A supply of ink within a flexible bag is located apart from a printer. A fluid conduit couples the supply of ink to the printer by way of a connecting head. The connecting head includes a pump driven by a mechanical actuator of the printer. Operation of the pump causes a flow of ink from the flexible bag to a printhead of the printer. Pump failure is detected and interpreted as an out-of-ink condition, and user notification and/or cessation of printing operations are automatically performed. | 12-29-2011 |
20120002233 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus that allows image forming processes of a more number of apparatuses with limited power. The image forming apparatus includes: a job acquiring unit that acquires an image forming job giving an instruction to form an image; an electricity consumption amount acquiring unit that acquires the sum of electricity consumption amount in a plurality of apparatuses of which the sum of electricity consumption amount including the electricity consumption amount of the image forming apparatus is limited at a predetermined maximum electricity consumption amount or less; a determining unit that determines whether or not the sum of electricity consumption amount that the electricity consumption amount acquiring unit acquires is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value, which is smaller than the maximum electricity consumption amount; and an image forming process control unit that performs an image forming job that the job acquiring unit acquires, when the determining unit determines that the sum of electricity consumption amount is equal to or less than the reference value. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002234 | Approach For Securely Printing Electronic Documents - An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic documents with remote user authentication and secure printing of electronic documents with remote data management. The particular information provided on the portable media varies, depending upon the implementation. Furthermore, the approach provides varying degrees of security and may be used in conjunction with conventional printing of electronic documents. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus of the invention includes a read unit to read an original document, a storage unit to store an image file of the original document read by the read unit, a control unit to control storage and readout of the image file into and from the storage unit, and an image formation unit to print the image file read from the storage unit, and the control unit creates a template including one or plural elements, automatically creates an image file name based on the template when the image file is stored in the storage unit, and stores the image file. According to the image forming apparatus of the invention, when a file is stored, an operation burden is low and an easily identified file name can be created. | 01-05-2012 |
20120008159 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus has the plurality of control units and executes distributed processing in which any one control unit having monitoring execution authority monitors for an abnormal condition in each control unit. Each control unit determines, from its own processing load, monitoring capability information that indicates whether monitoring for an abnormal condition is possible or not. If, in a case where the control unit has the monitoring execution authority, the monitoring capability information does not satisfy predetermined information, then the control unit delegates the monitoring execution authority to another control unit whose monitoring capability information does satisfy the predetermined information. | 01-12-2012 |
20120008160 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A browser unit controls a communication unit in response to an operation to an operating unit, and acquires Web content from a Web server. The Web content is displayed on a display unit under control in accordance with display control information based on the Web content acquired by the browser unit. When a print instruction of the Web content is operated to the operating unit, a print-data generating unit generates print data for performing printing in page units based on the display control information for the Web content. The print data is supplied to a printing unit, where it is printed on a paper. Because the print data is generated based on the display control information for causing the Web content to be displayed, the Web content displayed on a screen can be printed in page units. | 01-12-2012 |
20120013934 | FEATURE ENABLEMENT WITHIN A PRINTER - In one embodiment, an apparatus that removably connects to a first printer is validated, the validating including comparing first data stored within the apparatus to second data stored within the first printer. A first feature is enabled within the first printer utilizing third data stored within the apparatus. The apparatus is restricted such that the apparatus is no longer operable to enable the first feature within a printer other than the first printer. | 01-19-2012 |
20120013935 | IMAGE DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DEFECT INSPECTION SYSTEM, IMAGE DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image defect inspection apparatus includes a supply unit, an acquiring unit, an inspection unit and an adjustment unit. The supply unit supplies a test image corresponding to an inferred image defect regarding an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material, to the image forming unit to form the test image on the recording material. The acquiring unit acquires a scanned image obtained by scanning the recording material on which the test image is formed. The inspection unit compares the scanned image acquired with the test image and inspects as to whether or not the inferred image defect is in the scanned image. The adjustment unit adjusts a value of a setting item which is defined as an adjust target regarding the inferred image defect, so as to enhance detectability of the inferred image defect in the inspection. | 01-19-2012 |
20120013936 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management apparatus is connected to an image forming apparatus via a first network. The device management apparatus includes a sending unit that sends identification information of the device management apparatus; a monitor unit that periodically acquires status information from the image forming apparatus in response to a request to execute a first process sent by the image forming apparatus that has received the identification information, and records the status information in a storing unit; a diagnosing unit that diagnoses fault prediction of the image forming apparatus based on the status information in response to a request to execute a second process sent by the image forming apparatus from which the status information is acquired; and a transferring unit that transfers, to a remote monitor device via a second network, report information including diagnosis results obtained by the diagnosing unit. | 01-19-2012 |
20120019853 | PRINTER RESOURCE SHARING IN A MEDIA EXCHANGE NETWORK - A system providing printer resource sharing in a communication network includes a first communication device at a first location, communicatively coupled to a printer resource and to a second communication device at a second location. The first communication device may authenticate the second communication device, and subsequent to the authentication, may enable printing of information content on the printer resource, at a request of a user of the second communication device. The first communication device may authenticate the second communication device based on a signal received from the second communication device. The first and second communication devices and the printer resource may be communicatively coupled via a communication network. The communication network may include a broadband access headend, a cable infrastructure, a satellite network infrastructure, a digital subscriber line (DSL) infrastructure, an Internet infrastructure, an intranet or wired infrastructure, closed communication infrastructure, local area network, and/or a wireless infrastructure. | 01-26-2012 |
20120026530 | AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE - An augmented reality system and method for diagnosing and fixing a fault in a device. A mobile communication device can be operatively connected with a networked rendering device by reading a two-dimensional bar code associated with the rendering device. An image with respect to the rendering device can be captured by an image-capturing unit associated with the mobile communication device. The image can be augmented with additional information and a target area can be highlighted in order to indicate a fault component. An action to be taken with respect to the target area can be displayed on the mobile communication device. Such an approach permits an end user to address the device issue with increased quality of information and accuracy. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026531 | DECOLORING DEVICE AND FUNCTION MANAGEMENT METHOD - When the presence or absence of a malfunction is respectively determined in a decoloring section or a separation device, and it is determined that either the decoloring section or the separation device is malfunctioning, only the other is executable. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026532 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A power supply device is provided, which includes a first load operating with a first voltage in a normal operation mode, a second load operating with a second voltage lower than the first voltage in the normal operation mode, a third load operating with the second voltage in the normal operation mode and a power-saving mode, and an auxiliary second-voltage generating circuit configured to, when a main supply voltage is supplied from a main power supply circuit and a primary second-voltage generating circuit is forbidden to generate the second voltage with a third-load electric path for carrying therethrough the main supply voltage from the main power supply circuit to the third load without passing through the primary second-voltage generating circuit being broken by a switching circuit, generate the second voltage from the main supply voltage and supply the generated second voltage to the third load. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026533 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF RECORDING USER INFORMATION INTO EXTERNAL RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus capable of recording user information into an external recording medium, while preventing an occurrence of a security problem. The image processing apparatus generates user information about an image processing job, and determines according to predetermined recording medium categories whether security information can be stored into an external recording medium in a case where the user information is recorded into the external recording medium. When determining that the security information cannot be stored into the external recording medium, the image processing apparatus removes predetermined security information from the user information and records the resultant information into the external recording medium. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026534 | JOB PROCESSING METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus capable of processing data of a plurality of jobs that include at least any one of a copy function job, a sending function job and a print function job, when data of jobs currently processed and/or jobs in a waiting state for processing by the image forming apparatus are stored in a storage unit storing a plurality of data at the time an operation relating to powering off the image forming apparatus is performed by an operator, the fact that the jobs currently processed and/or the jobs in a waiting state exist is notified as information that can be confirmed by the operator. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033244 | Data relay apparatus, print control method, and computer program product - A data relay apparatus includes a connecting unit that connects an information processing apparatus to an image forming apparatus; a print control unit that receives output data from the information processing apparatus, produces print data based on the output data, and outputs the print data to the image forming apparatus; an information extracting unit that retrieves, from the output data, trigger data instructing execution of processing and extracts information within a preset data range subsequent to the trigger data; a setting unit that sets the data range according to an instruction from outside; a processing unit that executes the processing based on the trigger data and the information within the data range; a log-information generating unit that generates log information about the processing executed by the processing unit; and a log-information output unit that outputs the log information. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033245 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Provided are an image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus and a mobile terminal, and a control method of controlling the image forming apparatus. Wireless communication is enabled between the mobile terminal and the image forming apparatus owing to receipt of print data and account information, which is for placing the image forming apparatus in a state in which wireless communication is possible, from the information processing apparatus. After wireless communication is enabled, the image forming apparatus receives authentication information from the mobile terminal and, if this authentication information corresponds to the account information, start printing based upon the print data received from the information processing apparatus. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033246 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR SIZE DETECTION - An apparatus includes a size detector configured to detect a size of an original on a contact glass when an angle of a pressing plate is within a predetermined range, a storage element configured to store information of the detected size of original, a reader configured to read the original on the contact glass, using the information of the stored size of the original, after a log-on, and a storage updater configured to update the stored size of the original, along with a log-off. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033247 | SIMULTANEOUS DIGITAL IMAGE AND ASSOCIATED IMAGE METADATA PRINTING SYSTEM - An improved imaging system provides for entering, changing and deleting of information specific to a digital image. The details for a digital picture may be printed onto the front side and/or back side of a picture's printed hardcopy while simultaneously printing the digital picture or simultaneously displaying the digital image with its metadata on electronic media such as televisions, desktop, laptop and tablet computer screens, digital picture frames, cell phone, smart phone and telephone displays, public billboards, Internet web pages and x-ray photographs. Examples of a digital picture's details, also known as metadata, include but are not limited to the picture's file name, the photographer's name, a copyright holder's name and a description of the picture, as well as the picture's technical details such as its image format, date, GPS location, focusing mode, metering mode, shutter speed, flash exposure compensation, resolution, ISO sensitivity, white balance, etc. Additionally, a unique image identification code, password protection and encryption, can be assigned to each image and incorporate therein the image metadata. | 02-09-2012 |
20120044518 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming device provided with a restart unit and a deletion unit. If processing requiring a restart of the image forming device is requested by another terminal device that is connected via a communications circuit, the restart unit causes the image forming device to restart. If the processing requiring the restart is requested by the other terminal device while a service process relating to image processing is being provided by a service process provision device that is connected via the communications circuit, the deletion unit deletes data relating to use of the service process before the image forming device is restarted. | 02-23-2012 |
20120062928 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WITH ADJUSTABLE IMAGE QUALITY - An image forming apparatus accepts input of transfer sheet identification information, forms an image on a transfer sheet based on a control value corresponding to the accepted transfer sheet identification information, and accepts input of a correction value of the control value and stores the correction value in correspondence with the transfer sheet identification information in a storage unit. The image is formed on the transfer sheet based on the control value that is corrected by the correction value when the control value is stored in correspondence with the accepted transfer sheet identification information. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062929 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus is provided with a processing unit that performs a predetermined process, a power-supply shutting unit that shuts off power supply to the processing unit when a predetermined door is opened, a voltage detecting unit that detects a decrease in voltage at a point located posterior to the power-supply shutting unit, and a communication control unit that does not initiate communication with the processing unit if the decrease in voltage is detected by the voltage detecting unit before a start of the communication with the processing unit, and judges the just-ended communication as abnormal if the decrease in voltage is detected by the voltage detecting unit after the end of the communication with the processing unit. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062930 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a plurality of data transfer control units which store image data transferred from an upper level device in a storage unit; a plurality of output control units which are provided correspondingly to the data transfer control units and each of which controls printing of the image data stored by a specified one of the data transfer control units; and a print control unit that, when abnormality has occurred in any of the data transfer control units, transmits a transfer instruction on the image data that is to be transferred originally by the data transfer control unit being at fault, to an alternate data transfer control unit among the data transfer control units in which no abnormality has occurred, and instructs an output control unit corresponding to the data transfer control unit being at fault to print image data stored by the alternate data transfer control unit. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062931 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, USER RESTRICTION METHOD AND USE HISTORY GENERATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered, an operation panel for receiving a key operation input, a secure program used for determining whether a user service can be provided on the basis of the user identification information in the user database and another user identification information input by the user. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069378 | Automatic print failure detection and correction - Automatic print failure detection and correction are presented. An image is produced on media as it passes through a printer, the image produced by a first print head of the printer. The image is then inspected as it appears on the media for a predefined quality level. When the quality level is unacceptable, remote network notifications can be sent from the printer for proactive maintenance to be performed on the printer. In addition, when the quality level is unacceptable, a copy of the image can be automatically reproduced on an opposite side of the media using a different print head of the printer. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069379 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When receiving a notification indicating that the communication is performed using an encrypted communication protocol, a display unit displays a screen based on screen information so as to display a second icon which indicates that a web server uses the encrypted communication protocol to communicate with an external server and is different from a first icon indicating that a browser uses the encrypted communication protocol to communicate with the web server. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069380 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a communication portion to communicate with a portable information device, an operation accepting portion into which an operation by a user is inputted, a display portion to display an image, an operation screen transmission portion to transmit, in response to a request being received from the portable information device, an operation screen corresponding to the request received among a plurality of operation screens for accepting an operation to the portable information device via the communication portion, and a display control portion to display at the display portion in response to transmission of the operation screen an operation unnecessary image which does not require the user to input an operation into the operation accepting portion. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069381 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A printing system, in which a printing job based on a same printing target is registered in each of a plurality of printers and one of the plurality of printers performs printing in response to a print instruction of the printing job thereto, the printing system including; a determination unit that determines, when registering the printing job in each of the plurality of printers, a registration destination of the printing job for each of the plurality of printers such that both a printer having the printing job registered in a volatile memory and a printer having the printing job registered in a non-volatile memory exist. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069382 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS SCREEN ON DISPLAY UNIT USING BROWSER, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus that is capable of, even in a case where browser screens are forcefully changed when the image processing apparatus changes in status during operation by a user, continuing operation through a screen displayed until just before the change of the browser screens when the image processing apparatus is restored. The status of the image processing apparatus is detected, and a screen is created according to the detected status of the image processing apparatus. The screen is displayed as a new tab when the image processing apparatus changes in status. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069383 | Image Processing System and Imaging Object Used for Same - An imaging technology having high reproducibility of a document and making image correction possible, without being influenced by a way of placing the document or a position of a camera, and irrespective of paper color and despite of damage of a corner portion. By printing positioning symbols on document paper in advance when the document is photographed by a digital camera or a portable phone with a camera, such as a smart phone, and by processing the image based on these positioning symbols, image processing having high reproducibility of the document and making image correction (keystone correction) possible can be implemented irrespective of paper color and even when there is damage to a corner portion of the paper. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069384 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENTS ON AN IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method for processing print jobs by an image-processing apparatus includes an output module for receiving output of the print jobs and a control unit configured to maintain a queue of print jobs to be processed. The method includes, for each print job, the steps of printing the print job by the image-processing apparatus, and stacking output of the print job in the output module. The control unit is configured to maintain an output check list and the method further includes the step of, when a recoverable error occurs during processing of the print job, that does not lead to an automatic stop of the processing but is likely to cause faulted pages in the printed output, automatically creating an entry in the output check list, so as to advise an operator to check the possibly faulted pages in the output stack. | 03-22-2012 |
20120075656 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, a paper information storing unit, an initializing unit, a paper information comparing unit, a temporary stopping unit, and a printing unit. The receiving unit receives print jobs. The paper information storing unit stores paper information preset in the printed page. The initializing unit initializes the paper information stored in the paper information storing unit during a certain period. The paper information comparing unit compares the paper information of the page to be printed in the print job with the stored paper information. The temporary stopping unit temporarily stops printing according to the result of the comparison. The printing unit prints the print data of the page to be printed in the case that the paper information of the page to be printed is the same as the stored paper information or the stored paper information has been initialized. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075657 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus, including: a recording device; discharge trays; a discharge mechanism; detectors; an input device through which is inputted authentication information relating to image data; and a controller including: an image-data reception portion; an authentication-information confirming portion to make a confirmation as to whether the authentication information contains specific information; a confirmation-necessity judging portion to judge whether the confirmation by the confirming portion with respect to the image data is necessary; a selecting portion to select one discharge tray on which the recording medium is not placed, wherein, where the judging portion judges that the confirmation is necessary, the controller permits selection of the one discharge tray, controls the recording device to record the image based on the image data after the confirmation that the authentication information contains the specific information, and controls the discharge mechanism to discharge, to the selected one discharge tray, the image-recorded recording medium. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075658 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD THAT CAUSE A JOB EXECUTION SCREEN TO BE DISPLAYED ON A DISPLAY OF A TERMINAL APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that is connected to a network includes a web server, a setting item management unit, and a web server management unit. The setting item management unit is configured to select, when the web server receives a request for job execution screen data from a terminal apparatus that is connected to the network, a job setting item in association with at least one of the terminal apparatus and a user at the terminal apparatus from among all job setting items. The web server management unit is configured to generate the job execution screen data that includes the job setting item selected by the setting item management unit and transmit the job execution screen data to the terminal apparatus via the web server. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075659 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus includes: a receiver that receives, via a network, status data based on control system data for stabilizing image forming from an image forming apparatus formed by image forming units; an inference unit that determines abnormality occurrence symptom, and calculates an index of the abnormality occurrence symptom, of the image forming units based on the received status data; a replacement part information acquisition unit that acquires information including a replacement date from a maintenance management system via the network when receiving a diagnosis request from a terminal of a maintenance person; a judgment table generator that calculates weight information of the symptom determination index value; a integrated diagnostic information generator for the image forming units based on the symptom determination index value and the weight information; and a integrated diagnostic information notification unit transmitting the integrated diagnostic value information to the terminal of the maintenance person. | 03-29-2012 |
20120081734 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an apparatus that includes a generation unit configured to generate image data based on a document read via a scanner unit and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the generated image data to a designated destination. The apparatus includes a transmission server, an instruction unit configured to instruct, according to reception of an uploading request to upload the generated image data to an external server communicable with the apparatus, the first transmission unit to transmit the image data to the transmission server and a second transmission unit configured to acquire the image data transmitted by the first transmission unit according to the instruction from the instruction unit from the transmission server, and transmit the acquired image data to the external server. | 04-05-2012 |
20120081735 | DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A peripheral device configured to be connected to a terminal device, may have a processor, and a memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the peripheral device to configured to provide sections. The sections may include a first supply section configured for supplying setting screen data that includes a first set value field and a first cancel button configured for returning a second value in the first set value field to the first value, and a second supply section configured for supplying error screen data that includes a second set value field and a second cancel button configured to cause the setting screen to be displayed on the terminal device in which the first value is displayed in the first set value field instead of the second value. | 04-05-2012 |
20120086971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL AND REMOTE SIGNING OF AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS - Exemplary embodiments include methods of handling stored electronic original information objects that have been created by electronically signing information objects by respective authorized users and transfer agents, submitting signed information objects to a trusted repository system, validating the submitted signed information objects by at least testing the integrity of the contents of each signed information object and the validity of the signature of the respective transfer agent, and applying to each validated information object a date-time stamp and a digital signature and authentication certificate of the trusted repository system that is an electronic vault. One method includes the remote signing of electronic documents without the trusted repository ever releasing the electronic original documents and other information objects that are controlled and protected by the trusted repository system. Other methods include handling information objects that are transferable records according to specified business and government rules. | 04-12-2012 |
20120086972 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING VALUABLE DOCUMENTS - A system for handling valuable documents is provided that comprises a validator | 04-12-2012 |
20120086973 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes: a combining unit configured to combine a document image and a coded image; a setting determining unit configured to determine whether a setting for combining a document image including a previously combined coded image and an other coded image is made when a reproduction of the document image is instructed; and a prohibiting unit configured to prohibit the combining unit from combining the document image including the previously combined coded image and the other coded image according to the setting when the result of the determination indicates that the setting is made. | 04-12-2012 |
20120092694 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication device includes: a division unit that divides first data to be transmitted to another communication device via a transmission path including a plurality of lanes into a plurality of second data; a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of second data to the another communication device by distributing them to either one of the plurality of lanes; and an error notification reception unit that receives an error notification when an error is detected from one of the plurality of second data received by the another communication device. When the error notification reception unit receives the error notification, the division unit divides second data, in which an error is detected, into a plurality of third data, and the transmission unit retransmits the second data to the another communication device by distributing the plurality of third data to either one of the plurality of lanes. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092695 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT JOB CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - Print processing of a variable print job in which pages having identical finishing settings are grouped as subsets of a plurality of pages to be printed in each record is executed for respective records, and a print error is detected. It is determined whether the print error is detected in the first page in the record or in the subset in that record. The print processing for the record is suspended when it is determined that the print error is detected in the first page in the record. The print processing for the subset is suspended when it is determined that the print error is detected in the first page in the subset. When it is detected that the print error is recovered, the suspended print processing is restarted. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092696 | STORAGE APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS, CIRCUIT BOARD, LIQUID CONTAINER, AND SYSTEM - The storage apparatus includes a controller which performs a communication process with respect to a host apparatus; a storage unit in which data from the host apparatus are written; and a storage controller which performs access control with respect to the storage unit. The controller receives a command packet and a data packet from the host apparatus. In the case where the write enable bit of the data packet is set to be in a writing permitted state, the controller performs the update commanding of the address information and the write commanding of the data of the data packet. In the case where the write enable bit is set to be in a writing non-permitted state, the controller performs the update commanding of the address information and does not perform the write commanding of the data of the data packet. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092697 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a control section configured to acquire job information including a type, quality, and a quantity of a job executed by the image forming apparatus, user information for specifying a user, and location information, which is address information of a server that executes a counter service for the user, calculate, from the acquired job information, a count value to be used in the image forming apparatus, display an input screen which presents the calculated count value to the user to urge the user to input executability of the job, execute the job when an input for instructing execution of the job is acquired, and transmit the calculated count value to the server. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092698 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A data communication device that can communicate with an external device includes a scanner, a log-in processing unit, a sending unit, and a log-out processing unit. The scanner inputs image data. The log-in processing unit enables a user to log in to the data communication device. The user who logs in to the data communication device can submit an instruction to send image data input by the scanner to the external device. The sending unit sends the image data input by the scanner to the external device. The log-out processing unit enables the user to log out of the data communication device even if sending of the image data is not completed. Even if the user logs out of the data communication device after the user has submitted the instruction and before sending of the image data is completed, the sending unit continues the sending of the image data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099136 | LOG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WHICH MANAGES JOB HISTORY PERFORMED BY USER - A log information management apparatus acquires a card ID from an IC card to set a remaining processing flag to the IC card. The log information management apparatus determines whether the remaining processing flag is set to the IC card before the remaining processing flag is set after the card ID is acquired. The log information management apparatus cause an image forming apparatus to perform a job, and causes a storage device to store a job history based on completion of the performance of the job. The log information management apparatus writes a job history relating to the card ID in the IC card in which the remaining processing flag is determined to be set. The log information management apparatus releases the remaining processing flag after writing the job history. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099137 | PRINTING DEVICE - The printing device | 04-26-2012 |
20120099138 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A data processing device transmits a control command and print data to an image forming device. When a main controller causes a communication controller to transmit the print data to the image forming device, the main controller causes a memory part to save a setting data at least until the main controller receives a notification of print process completion, and causes a display part to display, for example, a copy count change screen that displays settings of the print data that is changeable by the input part. | 04-26-2012 |
20120105894 | Avoiding Redundant Printing - A method, system, and computer usable program product for avoiding redundant printing are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An application executing in a data processing system receives a request to print a document. A determination is made whether a valid shared print of the document is available, the valid shared print being a hard-copy of the document that is currently within a validity period and is available for sharing among multiple entities. The shared valid print is requested from a current owner of the shared valid print. If the request is successful, possession of the shared valid print is changed in a prints repository from the current owner to a new owner and a new printing of the document according to the request to print the document is suspended. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105895 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an allowable output amount storage unit that stores allowable output amounts of respective combinations of a user and a predetermined totalization period; a total output amount recording unit that records total output amounts of the respective combinations of a user and a predetermined totalization period; and a processing unit that receives, from a user, an instruction that designates image forming information and an instruction to perform image formation on the basis of the designated image forming information, and performs image-formation-related processing for the designated image forming information if a value obtained by adding together an output amount of the image-formation-instructed image forming information, a sum of total output amounts of the user, and a sum of output amounts of pieces of particular image forming information specified by the user is smaller than or equal to an allowable output amount of the user. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105896 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND THRESHOLD SETTING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects illuminance; a storage unit that stores therein a threshold with respect to the illuminance in accordance with a distance from a light source to the image forming apparatus, the threshold being for switching to an energy-saving mode in which electricity is supplied only to a part of the image forming apparatus or for turning, off a power source; a comparison unit that compares a detected illuminance with the threshold; and a control unit that, if the detected illuminance is equal to or less than the threshold, causes the image forming apparatus to switch to the energy-saving mode or to turn off the power source. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105897 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system that performs printout based on encrypted, submitted data includes a printing apparatus including a decrypting unit that decrypts the submitted data; and an editing apparatus that accepts an editing operation to be performed on the submitted data. The editing apparatus transmits an execution instruction for performing a process of creating an image for editing used for the editing operation, to the printing apparatus. In response to the execution instruction, the printing apparatus performs a process on an image obtained by decrypting the submitted data using the decrypting unit, and thereby creates a non-equivalent decrypted image as the image for editing, and transmits the non-equivalent decrypted image to the editing apparatus, the non-equivalent decrypted image being a decrypted image non-equivalent to a printed material related to the submitted data. The editing apparatus displays the non-equivalent decrypted image as the image for editing. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105898 | CONTROL APPARATUS, STATE DETECTION METHOD OF CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A control apparatus includes a state change detection unit configured to detect a state change of a particular unit and to output a state change information indicating the state change; a state detection unit configured to detect a state of the particular unit; a storage unit operable with electricity supplied by a battery and configured to store information indicating that the state change information was input; and a control unit operable with electricity supplied by a power supply different from the battery configured to determine whether the information indicating that the state change information was input is stored in the storage unit during the off-state of electricity supplied by the power supply and, when it is determined that the information is stored, to acquire the state detected by the state detection unit. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105899 | ELECTRIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION CONTROL SYSTEM, ELECTRIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An electric energy consumption control system that is capable of maximizing convenience to users while controlling the system so that the electric energy consumption of the entire system in a period falls within a target electric energy. An electrical apparatus transmits electric energy consumption of a job with a user name to a control apparatus through the network. A restrictive period setting unit of the control apparatus starts a restrictive period when the electric energy consumption of the entire system is beyond a restriction starting value, and finishes it when the electric energy consumption of the entire system is below a restriction release value. A job restriction unit restricts the job of the user concerned when the accumulated electric energy consumption of the user is beyond the reference value in the restrictive period. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105900 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGES - An image forming apparatus performs a direct printing function. A selecting section selects at least two files from a plurality of files stored in at least one of an internal storage medium and an external storage medium. A human interface receives passwords form a user. A password determining section determines whether the selected files are protected by passwords. A file extracting section extracts the selected files from an internal storage medium or external storage medium. A password verifying section determines whether passwords contained in the selected files and the passwords inputted through the human interface coincide. A printer prints the selected files. A printing controller controls the printer, causing the printer to print at least one of selected files if the password verifying section has determined that the password contained in the at least one selected file and the password inputted by the user coincide. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105901 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION MEDIUM CONTROLLER - According to one embodiment, an information management server apparatus transmits processing result information that includes management register information including a child management ID when traceable duplication request information received from an information medium controller satisfy an access control policy and a permission policy. On the basis of the processing result information, the information medium controller outputs document print data that includes the child management ID tag and an electronic data body, and management register data including the management register information. When a paper document printed by the document print data is collected after being distributed, the information medium controller transmits a collection completion update request including the child management ID read from the paper document by an exclusive reader. On the basis of the child management ID in the collection completion update request, the information management server apparatus updates the status information to “collected”. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING TRANSACTIONS BY MEANS OF PRINT MEDIA THAT INCORPORATE ELECTRONIC RECORDING AND TRANSMISSION MEANS - A system and method for enabling automatic electronic, telephonic, and Internet transactions through print media, as well as providing value that flows to a supplier for the service of enabling such transactions. The transactions can utilize print media that can include electronic recording media and counterfeit protection, where the electronic recording media can identify suppliers of the media, providers of the service promoted by the electronic media, and can set a value for a supplier, such as a print media supplier or facilitator. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105903 | NETWORKED THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING - Three-dimensional fabrication resources are improved by adding networking capabilities to three-dimensional printers and providing a variety of tools for networked use of three-dimensional printers. Web-based servers or the like can provide a single point of access for remote users to manage access to distributed content on one hand, and to manage use of distributed fabrication resources on the other. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113455 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an analysis result reception unit, an inclination reception unit, a date and time reception unit, a date and time extraction unit, a determination unit, an adjustment unit, an information image generation unit, and an output unit. The analysis result reception unit receives an analysis result of an information image scanned by an information image scan unit. The inclination reception unit receives inclination when the information image scan unit scans the information image. The date and time reception unit receives a date and time when the information image scan unit scans the information image. The date and time extraction unit extracts a date and time when the information image scanned by the information image scan unit is printed. The determination unit determines whether or not to adjust a size of a pixel cluster constituting the information image. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113456 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an accepting unit, a memory, a controller, and a switch unit. The accepting unit accepts an identifier and a storage site information item representing a storage site for storing a usage amount information item representing a usage amount. The memory stores one or more identifiers and plural storage site information items in association with each other. The controller performs, if the accepted identifier matches one of the stored identifiers and if the accepted storage site information item matches one of the stored storage site information items, control so that the usage amount information item is stored in the storage site represented by the storage site information item. The switch unit switches, if a different storage site information item is accepted when the storage site is a target, the storage site as the target to the storage site represented by the different storage site information item. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113457 | NETWORKED THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING - Three-dimensional fabrication resources are improved by adding networking capabilities to three-dimensional printers and providing a variety of tools for networked use of three-dimensional printers. Web-based servers or the like can provide a single point of access for remote users to manage access to distributed content on one hand, and to manage use of distributed fabrication resources on the other. | 05-10-2012 |
20120127506 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR MISSING RESOURCES - A method of searching for missing resources associated with an image forming apparatus, which includes forwarding a print job having a resource call-out from a host computer to an image forming apparatus; receiving the print job on the image forming apparatus; checking the image forming apparatus for a resource, which has been called out by the print job, and if the resource is not available on the image forming apparatus, obtaining the resource from a device having the resource by: sending a request for the resource from the image forming apparatus to the device having the resource; receiving a response from the device having the resource indicating that the resource is a secured resource requiring user authentication; and obtaining the secured resource by sending the user authentication to the device having the secured resource. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127507 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR MISSING RESOURCES - A method of searching for missing resources associated with an image forming apparatus, which includes the steps of: forwarding a print job having a resource call-out from a host computer to an image forming apparatus; receiving the print job on the image forming apparatus; checking the image forming apparatus for a resource, which has been called out by the print job, and if the resource is not available on the image forming apparatus, obtaining the resource by: sending a request for the resource from the image forming apparatus to a device having the resource; receiving a response from the device having the resource indicating that the resource is a non-sharable resource and including at least one link to where the non-sharable resource can be obtained; and choosing a link having the non-sharable resource and obtaining the non-sharable resource. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127508 | Mechanism for Controlling Secure Print Jobs - A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job, processing the print job data stream, determining if a condition occurs during processing of the print job data stream that matches one or more pre-defined criteria and inserting one or more secure print command lines if a condition occurs that matches one or more pre-defined criteria. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127509 | Activation Code Provided with Discrete Increment of Paper Substrate for Activating Remotely Accessible Printer Controller Software - A system which has an electronic database for entry of an activation code provided with a discrete increment of a printable paper substrate and printer controller software for use with the printable paper substrate which is remotely accessible and which is activated after entry by a user of the activation code into the electronic database. Also, a method for providing the discrete increment of the printable paper substrate to the user, wherein the discrete increment is provided with the activation code which the user enters into the electronic database to activate code to activate the remotely accessible printer controller software for use with the printable paper substrate, as well as a product including the discrete increment of the printable paper substrate along with the activation code to permit the user to activate the remotely accessible printer controller software. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127510 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus capable of collecting electronic data efficiently and avoiding sharing highly confidential and secure electronic data with an indefinite number of users. The information processing apparatus is connected to an external apparatus through a network. The information processing apparatus receives electronic data from the external apparatus, registers attribute information related to the received electronic data in association with the received electronic data so that the received electronic data can be retrieved by using the attribute information, and controls the registering unit so as to register the attribute information related to the received electronic data when the received electronic data is not confidential data, and so as not to register the attribute information related to the received electronic data when the received electronic data is confidential data. | 05-24-2012 |
20120133969 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus that is capable of controlling electric energy consumption with sufficient accuracy. An execution unit executes a job. A calculation unit calculates electric energy consumption in a period from a start of execution of the job by the execution unit to an end except a period from interruption of execution of the job by the execution unit to restarting, as electric energy consumption at the time of job execution. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133970 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus having a function to cooperatively output, via a cooperative image processing apparatus, document data, including a data sending unit that sends to the cooperative image processing apparatus the document data to be output, for which the total limited number of output times is set, with output setting information including an allocated number of output times for the document data individually allocated for the cooperative image processing apparatus; and a number updating unit that updates the total limited number of output times set for the document data based on the allocated number of output times by subtracting the allocated number of output times from the total limited number of output times, when the data sending unit sends the document data with the output setting information to the cooperative image processing apparatus. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PRINT GOVERNANCE INTERACTION FOR REMOTE RENDERING APPLICATIONS - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing print governance interaction with respect to a remote rendering application via an EIP workflow. A rendering job in association with address information of a desired rendering device can be transmitted from a mobile communications device to a mobile print server via a rendering job submission tool. A print governance module configured in association with the mobile print server provides a confirmation code to the mobile device and the confirmation code can be entered via the EIP application configured at the rendering device in order to retrieve the rendering job. A print governance message can be displayed at a user interface of the rendering device if the rendering job activity bypasses a print governance policy. The EIP application further permits a user to make changes to the rendering job activity that bypasses the print governance policy via an option button in order to provide an effective print governance solution in a wide range of remote rendering applications. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140262 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, PROGNOSIS CRITERION SETTING APPARATUS, PROGNOSIS APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming system includes first and second generation units, a setting unit, and a prognosis unit. For a monitoring item whose detection values, being detected during an image forming operation in an image forming apparatus in which a trouble occurred within a predetermined time period after an operating condition was changed, were changed to an abnormal state, the first generation unit generates characteristic information indicating a variation state of the detection values. The setting unit sets criterion information to predict occurrence of a trouble, based on the generated characteristic information. The second generation unit generates, for the monitoring item corresponding to the set criterion information, characteristic information indicating a variation state of detection values in a target image forming apparatus. The prognosis unit predicts whether a trouble occurs after the operating condition is changed, based on a difference between the set criterion information and the characteristic information generated. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140263 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHODS THEREOF AND PROGRAMS - The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing system that prevent an operation contrary to an operator's intention from occurring due to conflict between instructions from a plurality of input devices, and control methods thereof. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus of the present invention selects an input device to which a preferential use authority of the image processing apparatus is to be assigned from among a plurality of input devices in communication with the image processing apparatus, assigns the preferential use authority, receives an operation instruction transmitted from the input device, and executes a job in accordance with the received operation instruction. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140264 | Approach For Implementing Locked Printing With Unlock Via A User Input Device - An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with unlock via a keypad attached to the printing device via an interface. A user may specify for printing print jobs stored at a printing device using a keypad device to enter a job ID associated with a particular print job or a general ID associated with users to release all print jobs associated with a particular user, all print jobs not yet printed, or all print jobs. Print jobs may alternatively be identified by date. The approach may also include a user viewing a list of available locked print jobs on a user interface of the printing device, along with the associated job IDs. The approach may further include the use of a Web server on the printing device to generate and provide a Web page that lists stored print jobs and their associated job IDs. | 06-07-2012 |
20120147410 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING USER OF SCANNING APPARATUS - A method of operating a scanning apparatus including a transparent platen, a memory, a lid to cover the transparent platen, and a door in the lid, the method includes exposing a portion of the transparent platen through the door in the lid; placing a user identifier into the door in the lid; providing a user identification initiation signal; emitting light from a light source to illuminate the exposed portion of the transparent platen; moving a photosensor array to scan the user identifier through the exposed portion of the transparent platen; providing a digitized image of the user identifier from the scan by the photosensor array; comparing the digitized image to a stored pattern; and authorizing a function of the scanning apparatus if it is determined that the digitized image of the user identifier adequately matches the stored pattern. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147411 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a function validity information storing unit that stores function validity information including identification information of functions and configurations of the functions that are available or valid in the image forming apparatus; a receiving unit that receives identification information of requested functions to be executed on the image forming apparatus and configuration information of the requested functions from a computer; a determining unit that determines whether the requested functions are valid by examining the identification information and the configuration information of the requested functions with reference to the function validity information stored in the function validity information storing unit; and a display control unit that displays, on a display unit, an option corresponding to a valid function determined to be valid such that the option corresponding to the valid function is distinguishable from an option corresponding to an invalid function determined to be invalid. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147412 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AUTHORIZATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus transmits to an authorization apparatus, in executing a job, condition information related to a process to be performed to a 1 | 06-14-2012 |
20120147413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AND INSPECTING PRINTS HAVING STATIC AND VARIABLE CONTENTS - A system for producing and inspecting prints having static and variable contents includes a printing unit, an inspection unit, and a computation unit. The computation unit integrates print-specific information having static and variable contents in the form of print parameters and inspection parameters into a common JobTicket and routes the JobTicket i) both to the printing unit and to the inspection unit or ii) routes the JobTicket first of all to the printing unit and from the printing unit to the inspection unit, or vice versa. The print parameters are extracted from the common JobTicket and the printing unit uses the extracted print parameters to create prints. The inspection parameters are extracted from the common JobTicket and the inspection unit uses the extracted inspection parameters to inspect the prints. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154846 | DATA FILTERING FOR PRINT SERVICE PROVIDERS - Systems and methods of data filtering for a print service provider (PSP) are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of print service parameters. The method also includes filtering the plurality of print service parameters, wherein a portion of the received plurality of print service parameters are retained in machine readable format. The method also includes saving the filtered print service parameters for enhancing automatic and manual print production processes. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154847 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, UNAUTHORIZED USE PREVENTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store comparison data; an analysis unit configured to analyze a print job sent by a requesting user from an information processing apparatus to obtain user information of the requesting user; a comparison unit configured to compare the obtained user information with the comparison data to determine whether registered user information corresponding to the obtained user information is present in the comparison data; and a registration unit configured to register the obtained user information as the comparison data of an authorized user if the registered user information corresponding to the obtained user information is not present in the comparison data. The comparison unit is configured to control execution of a printing process and/or an error process if the registered user information corresponding to the obtained user information is present in the comparison data. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154848 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - The print server includes: a registration portion to register the image forming apparatus; a spool portion to store a set of print data and user identification information; a virtual data transmitting portion, and a print data transmitting portion. The registered image forming apparatus includes: a distribution control portion to cause the image forming portion to form an image of the print data, and store the received set, and further, when the virtual data is received, store the received virtual data; an authenticated printing portion to, cause the image forming portion to form an image of print data that makes a pair with the user identification information of the authenticated user; and an acquisition request transmitting portion to transmit an acquisition request to the print server. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided that receives data for an authentication print job from an external terminal connected thereto via a network, receives a user authentication request from a user, and executes the job when the user authentication is successfully performed. The image forming apparatus comprises: a display unit; and a display control unit displaying information related to an amount of time expected to be required for the execution of the job on the display unit when the user authentication is successfully performed prior to completion of the reception of the data for the job. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162689 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A customer PC receives running status information regarding the running status of print processing from a print device, refers to setting information regarding the division of the print job, and determines whether or not a setting for the division of the print job is made based on running status information. When a setting for the division of the print job is made based on running status information, the customer PC collects the records of variable data based on running status information, and divides the print job for each division unit corresponding to the number of records of the collected variable data. Then, the customer PC transmits the divided print job to a print device. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162690 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an operation accepting means for accepting an instruction, and a display controlling means for controlling a display section. The display controlling means controls the display section to display at least environmental information, which has been obtained by the image forming apparatus, at predetermined timing at which no instruction corresponding to a job is accepted by the operation accepting means. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162691 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, a print accepting unit, an image forming unit, a determination unit, a display control unit and a print control unit. The determination unit determines whether any print data accepted by the print accepting unit include both print data retaining print setting information and print data not retaining any print setting information. The display control unit causes a display message about invalidation of the print setting information retained in the print data, upon a determination that the accepted print data include both print data retaining the print setting information and print data not retaining any print setting information. The print control unit invalidates the print setting information retained in the print data accepted by the print accepting unit and causes the image forming unit to print based on the print data, after the message is displayed by the displayed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162692 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming machine transitions into a sleep mode at a preset time of day, and keeps the sleep mode for a prescribed interval. The image forming machine includes an I/O interface, a printer, a memory, and a controller. The interface inputs a print job. The printer executes a printing of the print job. The memory stores therein an entirety or part of the print job overlapping the interval of the sleep mode, as a hold job. The controller works to have the memory store the hold job therein, and to have the printer operate after an end of the interval of the sleep mode to execute a printing of the hold job stored in the memory | 06-28-2012 |
20120162693 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER ACCESSIBLE STORAGE STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image recording device is provided with a first memory which is a volatile memory, a second memory, an input unit through which authentication information is input, an authentication judging unit. The recording unit is controlled to print an image on the printing sheet based on the drive data, which is converted from the image data stored in the first memory or the second memory and is stored in the first memory or the second memory. The drive data or the image data is stored in each of the first memory and the second memory is transmitted therebetween. The image recording device further includes a restricting unit capable of restricting power supply to the converting unit and the first memory in a sleep mode. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162694 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a conveyer system, a liquid discharge head with a plurality of nozzles arranged in rows in different positions from one another with reference to a conveying direction at least within a part, a transmitter unit to transmit the image-forming data to the liquid discharge head, a receiver unit to receive the image-forming data, an image-forming data storage unit to store the image-forming data, an error detecting unit to detect a transmission error in the image-forming data, and a controller unit to manipulate the transmitter unit, the liquid discharge head, and the conveying system. The image-forming data with the transmission error detected therein for forming dots in pixel areas in liquid discharged from the nozzles, which are arranged in one of the rows closer to an upstream position with reference to the conveying direction, is transmitted preferentially. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162695 | DELIVERY EXPERT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Embodiments disclosed herein can facilitate delivery of a document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Actions to be taken are based upon input conditions which may include a time-variable set of input conditions such as identifying non-business days and/or hours at the destination. The document can be a fax, an email, or a voice mail. The actions may include resubmitting the document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, sending a request to the source or destination for additional delivery information, identifying the destination as a technical problem, or a combination thereof. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162696 | Print Job Management Based on Energy Pricing and Load - An approach is provided that prints print jobs based on energy demand data. The print job manager, which is a software application running on an information handling system receives a print request, the print request including a print job. The print job manager retrieves energy demand data. The energy demand data corresponds to a power grid that is a power source for a printer accessible from the information handling system. If the energy demand data indicates a a non-elevated energy demand, then the print job is printed on the printer. On the other hand, if the energy demand data indicates an elevated energy demand, then the print request is stored in a storage and the process waits until the energy demand is not elevated, at which time the print job is printed on the printer. | 06-28-2012 |
20120176639 | INTERNET PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An Internet printing system includes a server computer for maintaining information concerning printers that are registered in the server computer and a client computer for accessing the server computer over the Internet. The server computer provides the client computer with a list of registered printers when responding to a printing request from the client computer. The server computer determines a target printer from among the list of registered printers according to a selection of the client computer. The server computer accepts a print job from the client computer, and then sends the print job to the target printer to print the document. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176640 | IMAGE-FORMING SYSTEM, CRITERION-SETTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image-forming system includes a determining section that, for each type of malfunction in image-forming apparatuses, determines a reference number of occurrences of the type of malfunction based on at least one of ( | 07-12-2012 |
20120176641 | PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus which implements a printing control function for generating printing control information for causing an image forming apparatus to execute printing outputting is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a core unit and an extension unit which can be added after the core unit is installed. The information processing apparatus further includes a launch processing unit which launches the extension unit; an extension function operation information requesting unit; an extension function operation information encrypting unit; an extension function operation information decrypting unit; and a printing control information generating unit. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182571 | CONTENT-AWARE IMAGE QUALITY DEFECT DETECTION IN PRINTED DOCUMENTS - A method has been developed for detecting defects in printed images. The method includes operating a printer to print a first printed image and a second image, where the second image is a duplicate of the first printed image. The method further includes generating image data that correspond to the first printed image and the second printed image, and identifying image defects using differences between the image data generated for the first image and the image data generated for the second image. | 07-19-2012 |
20120188580 | INSERTION OF PRINTER OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS ONTO SEPARATOR PAGES IN A PRINT SHOP ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided for notifying operators of tasks to perform on printers by inserting operator instructions onto separator pages that are placed between print jobs. One embodiment is a print server that includes a control system and a page generator. The control system is operable to identify a print job, and to identify an operator instruction for the print job indicating a physical task for an operator to perform on a printer before the print job is printed. Also, the control system holds the print job responsive to identifying the operator instruction. The page generator generates a separator page comprising the operator instruction that indicates the physical task to perform on the printer, and transmits the separator page for printing to inform the operator of the task before the print job is printed. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188581 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING OUTPUT OF ENCODED IMAGE-ADDED DOCUMENT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a digital multifunction peripheral having a function of preventing unauthorized duplication, a situation is prevented in which a document to which encoded images having contradictory contents are added is created. An apparatus having a control unit configured to perform detection processing of an encoded image for a document image and add a different encoded image to a document image form which an encoded image is detected by the detection processing and output the document image, characterized in that the control unit does not perform output of a document image to which the different encoded image is added upon receipt of an instruction not to perform the detection processing from a user. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188582 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In order to vary a threshold value for performing an error diffusion process depending on a pixel position, a threshold value matrix configured to have pluralities of rows and columns is prepared. In this case, pieces of data in the threshold value matrix are arrayed such that average values in the respective rows and average values in the respective columns are almost the same value. If such a threshold value matrix is used to perform the error diffusion process, the dot sparseness and denseness do not occur with a period of the matrix, and therefore the pattern or sweeping phenomenon specific to the error diffusion can be suppressed. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRINTING - According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a system for printing from a first network to a printer connected to a second network comprising a first server on the first network for receiving a print job, the print job including print code data and user identification data identifying the user on the first network who initiated the print job, the first server configured to transmit the print job over a communication link, a second server on the second network for receiving the print job and user identification data through the communication link, a print server on the second network comprising a database mapping the user identification data of the user on the first network to a user identifier on the second network, and configured to: receive the print job from the second server, receive a request from a printer on the second network to print a print job, the request including an identifier of a user on the second network, identify a received print job associated with the user identifier in the request, and send the identified print job to the printer. | 07-26-2012 |
20120194846 | IMAGE READING SYSTEM AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading system and an image reading apparatus are provided. The system or apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a still original, a selecting unit configured to select one of a plurality of image data of a first area acquired by reading the first area a plurality of times, the first area being a partial area of the original, and a generating unit configured to generate a file storing a first image data which is the image data of the first area selected by the selecting unit, and a second image data which is image data acquired by reading a second area of the original different from the first area by the reading unit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194847 | IMAGE TESTING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An image testing apparatus compares output image data of an image which has been output onto a recording medium and original image data which has been read from an original and is used to output the image onto the recording medium, and determines an output state of the image. The image testing apparatus includes an output mode obtaining part configured to obtain an output mode designated by a user; a testing item setting part configured to set, according to the output mode obtained by the output mode obtaining part, an item for which the output state of the image is changed, as a testing item; and a testing part configured to test the output state of the image for the testing item which is set by the testing item setting part. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194848 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of performing more appropriate control of access to files which grant different access rights on a versions basis. The image forming apparatus is communicably connected to a file server. In a system controller of the image forming apparatus, a reading control section reads an original to thereby generate image data. The reading control section extracts version information on the original from the generated image data. Then, the system controller identifies, out of at least one version of an original file stored in the file server as electronic data corresponding to the original, a version that permits the image forming apparatus to perform image formation, based on the extracted version information on the original. | 08-02-2012 |
20120200880 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising, a detector unit configured to detect an event that a user logged in to the image processing apparatus logs out, an query unit configured to be operable when said detector unit detects the event, to query the user whether or not to change a setting of a job under execution, and a control unit configured to be operable when the setting of the job is to be changed as a result of the query made by said query unit, to change the setting of the job and then perform a logout, and, when the setting of the job is not to be changed as a result of the query made by said query unit, to restrict the logout. | 08-09-2012 |
20120206754 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, an executing unit, a log information generating unit, a holding unit, and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives and installs one or more program information items for executing a preset process. The executing unit executes the preset process on the basis of at least one of the installed one or more program information items. The log information generating unit generates log information regarding the preset process based on the one or more program information items executed by the executing unit. The holding unit holds a transmission destination of the log information in association with each of the one or more program information items. The transmitting unit transmits the log information to the transmission destination associated with the executed one or more program information items. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206755 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including an ASIC provided with two functional modules that are reset together by a reset signal. The image forming apparatus stores data used for processing by the functional modules, detects errors in the functional modules, and monitors an execution state of the functional modules. When detecting an error in one of the functional modules, the image forming apparatus acquires the execution state of the other functional module in which no error is detected. When the other functional module is not currently operating, the image forming apparatus resets the ASIC by a reset signal, and when the other functional module is currently operating, the image forming apparatus suppresses resetting of the ASIC until the other functional module finishes operating and then resets the ASIC by a reset signal. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206756 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus determines one of a plurality of parameters as a parameter used for line width correction of an image based on a comparison between the images of the straight lines obtained by reading printed straight lines subjected to line width correction using the plurality of parameters and an image of a straight line as a reference image which is to be obtained by reading the straight line printed in a predetermined line width. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206757 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR BEING ABLE TO UTILIZE APPLICATION IN WHICH WEB BROWSER IS USED - An image forming apparatus registers a Web application provided by a server. When receiving an instruction to select the registered Web application, the image forming apparatus acquires information for performing the Web application in response to the received selection instruction, and stores the information as cache information. When receiving an instruction to cancel the registration of the Web application, the image forming apparatus cancels the registration of the Web application in response to the received instruction, and deletes the cache information corresponding to the Web application in which the registration is cancelled in the stored pieces of cache information. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206758 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING AUTHENTICATED DOCUMENTS - The present invention is an apparatus, system and computer program for generating documents that may be validated and authenticated. A hand-writing system may be utilized to produce a replica of handwriting. Such handwriting system may be capable of generating a replica of handwriting that is biometrically accurate in accordance with a specific person's handwriting. The handwriting system may facilitate the integration of a replica of handwriting with one or more documents. The handwriting system may be linked to a printing output device whereby a replica of handwriting may be applied to a document printed by the printer. The handwriting system may incorporate a handwriting tool that may be integrated with the printer so that a replica of handwriting may be facilitated by the handwriting tool during the course of printing a document. Security may be incorporated in the integration of the printer and handwriting system whereby the integration of the handwriting and the document may be unalterable. | 08-16-2012 |
20120212766 | PRINT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A print processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units configured to deal with a plurality of printing processes, a storing unit configured to store a table in which processing start conditions in the plurality of printing processes are defined based on a distance between a user and the print processing apparatus, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a distance between a position of the user who has issued a print job and the print processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the plurality of processing units for the print job based on the table and the acquired distance. | 08-23-2012 |
20120212767 | DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD CONTROLLING UPDATE OF DOCUMENT DATA - An image forming apparatus is equipped with a scanner for scanning a paper document to thereby convert it to document data; a document memory for storing the document data; and a history memory for holding a history of user operations on the document data in association with whether or not the user operations are being managed as an object of control processing. A user operation upon document data is accepted from a operating unit. If this user operation is being managed as an operation that is not an object of control processing in the history memory, then the document data is processed based upon this user operation. | 08-23-2012 |
20120218587 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus that can process, as a single job, a plurality of records each including a plurality of pages determines whether error information is included in an inspection result acquired from an inspection apparatus, before terminating print processing of each record. Then, if a job control unit determines that the error information is included, the printing apparatus does not perform print processing for a record that follows a print processing completed record and displays a print instruction screen that includes record information generated from the inspection result on a display unit. | 08-30-2012 |
20120218588 | PRINTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PRINTING MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to this invention, a printing management system which manages a log of a print job includes a creation unit which creates log information for specifying a print job on the basis of issued print job data, a save unit which saves the log information created by the creation unit in a save location corresponding to the log information in a storage unit, a determination unit which determines, in accordance with a request to access the log information saved in the save unit, whether to permit or reject the access request, and an access unit which reads log information subjected to the access request when the determination unit determines to permit the access request. | 08-30-2012 |
20120224213 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In a case of deleting a two-dimensional code for personal information protection, job control information within line two-dimensional code is deleted together, leading to being incapable of obtaining tracking information or performing job control. A control unit deletes tracking information within the extracted additional information, that is, in a case where the tracking information includes first tracking information and second tracking information, deletes the second tracking information. The control unit changes the job control information within the extracted additional information to job prohibition. An encode unit encodes the additional information to generate a two-dimensional code. When the control unit detects that a memory receives the two-dimensional code including the updated additional information and a document image, in a memory the two-dimensional code and the document image are combined to generate a document image to which the two-dimensional code is added. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224214 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a web browser which receives screen data from a web server on a network and display a screen based on the screen data, and a storage unit which stores a script used to acquire information stored in an external apparatus on the network. The information processing apparatus determines whether the screen to be displayed by the web browser is an information input screen for receiving an input of information from a user, and executes the script stored in the storage unit in response to the determination in which the screen to be displayed by the web browser is the information input screen. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224215 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PHOTO-DIRECT PRINTING APPARATUS - In a printing system in which a digital camera (DSC) and PD printer apparatus are directly connected via a USB, and image data is transmitted from the DSC to the PD printer apparatus and printed, Capability of the PD printer apparatus is transmitted from the PD printer apparatus to the DSC after communication procedures are established by an application (NCDP) installed in the PD printer apparatus and DSC. The PD printer apparatus is caused to execute print operation in accordance with print conditions set by the DSC on the basis of the transmitted Capability. | 09-06-2012 |
20120229838 | PRINT SERVER, PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A print server comprises: unit configured to acquire an owner name of a user for specifying the user in an output apparatus, the owner name being set in advance in correspondence with user information of the user who issues the print instruction in the print server and being to be set in a print job to be processed by the output apparatus; and unit configured to, when the acquisition unit has acquired the owner name, generate a print job in which the acquired owner name is set as an owner name of the print job, and when the owner name has been neither set nor acquired, generate a print job in which a user name designated in the user information of the user in the print server is set as the owner name of the print job. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229839 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of controlling an image forming unit and operating in any one of a plurality of power modes including a first power mode and a second power mode which consumes less power than the first power mode. The image forming apparatus includes an activation unit configured to activate the image forming apparatus, an adjustment unit configured to adjust the image forming unit when the activation unit activates the image forming apparatus, a shift unit configured to shift the image forming apparatus to the first power mode or the second power mode after the activation unit completes the activation of the image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the adjustment unit not to adjust the image forming unit when the shift unit shifts the image forming apparatus to the second power mode. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229840 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus, which is capable of preventing increase in power consumption and operating normally in a first electric power mode even when returning to the first electric power mode from a second electric power mode by an unknown return factor. A storage unit stores a destination setting of the image processing apparatus. A shift unit shifts the apparatus from the second electric power mode to the first electric power mode, when a shift factor is detected in the second electric power mode. A set unit sets a re-shift time for re-shifting the apparatus from the first electric power mode to the second electric power mode, according to the destination setting. A re-shift unit re-shifts the apparatus from the first electric power mode to the second electric power mode, when a predetermined event does not occur in the re-shift time in the first electric power mode. | 09-13-2012 |
20120236355 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device connected to at least another electronic device, the electronic device including a reception unit configured to receive an obtaining command, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain device data retained in at least one of the electronic device and the other electronic device. The device data includes log data indicating a process performed by at least one of the electronic device and the other electronic device, scan data indicating data scanned by at least one of the electronic device or the other electronic device, and setting data indicating data set to at least one of the electronic device and the other electronic device by a user. The device data obtained by the obtaining unit includes at least the scan data and the setting data. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236356 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A user-interface unit receives a request from a user. A control unit performs an execution control in response to the request received by the user-interface unit, and during an execution process, performs an interruption process and an authentication process. An application-logic unit provides a plurality of functions related to an image forming process. A device-service unit provides a shared service for the application-logic unit. | 09-20-2012 |
20120250063 | RASTER OUTPUT SCANNER WITH BEAM DELAY COMPENSATION TO COUNTERACT JITTER AND WIPER-INDUCED BANDING - Methods and raster output scanner (ROS) systems are presented in which beam delay values are set for an array of ROS light sources based on wiper error and jitter error with column alignment achieved at an alignment location spaced from a center of scan (COS) location toward an end of scan location (EOS) along a fast scan range of operation of the ROS. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING PREMATURE OR UNNECESSARY REPLACEMENT OF A CONSUMABLE USED IN AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for preventing premature or unnecessary replacement of a consumable used in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include sensing the removal of the consumable from the image production device, determining if the removed consumable's life span is greater than a predetermined threshold, the predetermined threshold relating to the consumable's expected life span, wherein if it is determined that the removed consumable's life span is not greater than the predetermined threshold, sending a notification to a user at a user interface for the user to enter an identification code, receiving an identification code at the user interface, determining if the correct identification code has been entered, wherein if it is determined that the correct identification code has been entered, permitting operation of the image production device, otherwise, preventing operation of the image production device. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250065 | METHOD FOR GENERATING OPTICAL CODES FOR A PRINT-CONTEXT - One embodiment provides a system for printing a document from a portable device. During operation, the system captures an image of an optical code that identifies a printing device, wherein the optical code is displayed on a panel of the printing device or is printed by the printing device. Next, the system transfers information identifying the printing device to a remote printing service, thereby allowing the remote printing service to print a document at the printing device. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250066 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image forming system includes an information management unit, a determining unit, and at least one image forming unit. The information management unit stores and manages print information. The determining unit determines whether or not execution of a printing process regarding the print information is allowed. Each image forming unit prints and outputs print information acquired from the information management unit on a recording medium in accordance with a determination result of the determining unit. The determining unit includes a first authenticating unit and a second authenticating unit. The first authenticating unit performs authentication to determine whether or not execution of processing before printing and outputting the print information on a recording medium is allowed. The second authenticating unit performs authentication after completion of the authentication performed by the first authenticating unit to determine whether or not printing and output of the print information on the recording medium is allowed. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250067 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image forming system includes an information management unit, at least one image forming unit, an authenticating unit, a determining unit, an adding unit, a notifying unit, and a controller. The information management unit stores and manages print information. Each image forming unit forms an image on a recording medium in accordance with the print information. The authenticating unit authenticates a recipient of an output result of the image forming unit. The determining unit determines whether or not the print information requires authentication. The adding unit adds authentication information about the recipient to the print information when the print information requires authentication. The notifying unit notifies the recipient of information regarding the print information with the authentication information added. The controller controls the information management unit to transmit the print information to the image forming unit to form an image when the recipient has been successfully authenticated. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250068 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a memory, an image forming device, an authentication device, and a control device. The authentication device performs user authentication. The control device determines whether the stored job requires user authentication. The control device permits the image forming unit to form an image based on the stored job when the job requires user authentication and the authentication device successfully performs user authentication for the job. The control device permits the image forming unit to form an image based on the stored job without user authentication when the job does not require user authentication. The control device selectively supplies power to the authentication device based on whether the stored job requires user authentication. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250069 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND ERROR PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - When a simple error for which power off is unnecessary for the error resolution is generated, a movement process is executed without waiting to receive the button operation of the user, when conditions including a paper jam possibility condition are satisfied in a case where a motor error in which the CR motor is generated, a movement process is executed after waiting to receive the button operation of the user, and when the conditions including the paper jam possibility condition are not satisfied even when a motor error is generated, an error display process for a fatal error is performed. In this manner, when the process for a simple error with respect to the generated motor error is executed, the user may perform, for example, removal of the paper that is the cause of the paper jam or the like before the movement process is executed by the button operation. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250070 | Image Forming System, Image Forming Apparatus, and Information Processing Device - An image forming system may include an image forming apparatus, an information processing device configured to send print data to the image forming apparatus, and a destination device configured to receive error information sent from the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus may include a control device configured to determine whether the destination device is available to provide notification of the error information. The control device may be further configured to enforce print restriction controls to start the printing operation of the print data received from the information processing device when the destination device is available to provide notification of the error information and to not start the printing operation of the print data when the destination device is not available to provide notification of the error information. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257239 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF EXPIRATION OF AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE THAT IS CURRENTLY IN USE BY A CUSTOMER - A method and apparatus for automated determination of expiration of an image production device that is currently in use by a customer is disclosed. The method may include retrieving values related to a currently used image production device, determining an existing life value based on the retrieved values, retrieving values related to a replacement image production device, determining a replacement value based on the retrieved values comparing the determined existing life value to the determined replacement value, determining whether the currently used image production device should be replaced based on the comparison, and sending a notification that the currently used image production device should be replaced if it is determined that the currently used image production device should be replaced. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257240 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A plurality of licenses included in a package license and respectively corresponding to a plurality of applications is stored in a first storage unit, the plurality of applications is stored in a second storage unit, and a product information table associating product information with application information for identifying each of the applications is stored in the second storage unit. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257241 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a constitution of an image processing apparatus which holds a job to be received to a volatile memory and processes the held job, comprising: a non-volatile memory; a setting unit configured to set a transition condition for transitioning a power supply for the volatile memory to an off state and a holding condition for holding a specific job in the non-volatile memory; and a controlling unit configured to save, before transitioning the power supply to the volatile memory to the off state according to the transition condition, the specific job held in the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory so as to satisfy the holding condition, and then transition the power supply for the volatile memory to the off state according to the transition condition. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257242 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus and method includes determining whether print data is limited in a number of times of printing, determining whether a setting of storing the print data in the information processing apparatus is valid, and stopping transmission of the print data in a case where it is determined that the print data is limited in the number of times of printing and it is determined that the setting is valid. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257243 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An issue is solved by determining whether print data includes identification information indicating that there is a target content to which a restriction on a number of times of printing is set, storing determination information for authorizing a reprinting process to be performed when an error occurring in printing the print data as authorization information of the reprinting process, and changing, if it is determined that the identification information is included, the determination information to information indicating not authorizing the reprinting process. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257244 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a printing apparatus, control is performed such that, among buttons displayed by a display means, if while a first button for inputting a setting with respect to a job to be executed by the printing apparatus is in the touched state, a touch operation is furthermore performed on a second button for inputting another setting with respect to the job, the setting indicated by the second button is not performed, and if while the first button for inputting the setting with respect to the job to be executed by the printing apparatus is in the touched state, a touch operation is furthermore performed on a third button for interrupting a print job being executed by the printing apparatus, the print job that is being executed is interrupted based on the touch operation performed on the third button. | 10-11-2012 |
20120262748 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DOCUMENTS PROTECTED UNDER A DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SCHEME - A method of printing a document may include receiving a print stream including a document to be printed and a license associated with the document that may include one or more digital rights management (DRM) privileges. The method may include identifying output management operations associated with printing the document, and, for each output management operation determining whether the output management operation violates any of the DRM privileges, in response to the output management operation violating a DRM privilege, assigning a first status to the output management operation, and in response to the output management operation not violating one or more of the DRM privileges, assigning a second status to the output management operation. The method may include assigning the document to a print device that is DRM-compliant and capable of printing the document in accordance with each print attribute, and instructing the print device to print the document. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262749 | IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM - An authentication processing portion of an MFP requests user authentication to a server based on user information including at least a user ID input from a mobile terminal apparatus or an operation panel. The server has a user authentication portion which performs the user authentication and a UI instruction portion which specifies, when the user authentication succeeds, a UI image displayed on a display panel of the apparatus for operating the MFP depending on the user ID, and instructs the MFP to display the UI image on the apparatus. The MFP executes image output in accordance with a user operation received from the apparatus through the wireless communication portion in a state where the UI image is displayed on the apparatus. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262750 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING IMAGE - An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units of plural colors, each including a print head including plural LED chips aligned in a main scanning direction; a screen angle selecting unit that selects screen angles for the plural colors respectively based on the amounts of skew of the plural image forming units; an image processing unit that performs image processing on input data to be expressed by pixels of the plural colors such that the pixels of the colors have the corresponding screen angles selected by the screen angle selecting unit; a correction amount determining unit that determines a total amount of skew correction based on the amount of skew detected by the skew detection unit, and determines the amounts of skew correction in the sub-scanning direction for predetermined groups of the pixels, based on the total amount of skew correction, for each of the colors. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262751 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus equipped with a sleep function and for forming an image using an image forming unit and a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that controls the image forming unit. When a job is received in a sleep state, a port number of the received job is discriminated, whether or not to perform initialization processing of the image forming unit is determined based on the discriminated port number, and in a case that it is determined that initialization processing of the image forming unit is necessary, initialization processing of the image forming unit is started and thereafter the control unit is controlled to start processing of the job. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262752 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, APPLICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH APPLICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus having a plurality of application programs installed therein includes a related application starting portion and an integrated display portion. The related application starting portion is operable, in response to a start of a reference application program which is an arbitrary one of the plurality of application programs, to start any related application program that is of the same type as the reference application program among the remaining application programs. The integrated display portion displays, in a selectable manner, a first screen which is output as the reference application program is executed and a second screen which is output as the related application program is executed. | 10-18-2012 |
20120268769 | PRINT RELAY SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A print relay system determines whether a printing function (capability) of an image forming apparatus corresponding to user authority setting has been registered in a printing service. Having determined that the printing function has been registered, the print relay system enables other users having the same authority to share the printing function (capability) of the image forming apparatus registered in the printing service. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268770 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY OF AUTHENTICATION PRINT DATA - An image forming apparatus includes a print administration unit for printing authentication print data; a server unit for providing a service; an authentication unit for controlling the server unit; and a notification transmission unit for transmitting a notice. The authentication unit obtains individual identification information. The server unit controls the external operation unit to display the authentication print data and an input screen. The print administration unit rewrites the identification information. The notification transmission unit transmits a first notification to the authority transferred person. After the authentication print data is printed, the notification transmission unit transmits a second notification to the authority transferred person and the print data creating person. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268771 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL PRINTER DEVICE DISPLAYING FAULTED SHEETS - An image processing apparatus has a control section, at least one sheet conveying system, at least one image conversion section and a user interface section having an associated display. The image conversion section includes a scanning function and/or a printing function, wherein the sheet conveying system is for conveying a sheet from an input section, past the image conversion section to an output section. In reaction to a paper jam in the sheet conveying system, resulting in sheets remaining in that conveying system after the same has come to a stop, the control section determines those sheets remaining in that conveying system, and shows thumbnail images thereof on the user interface display as an aid for an operator to remove those sheets. The last sheet correctly processed or the first sheet to be processed after clearance of the jam may be shown on the display. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274969 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONICALLY AUTO-FILING AND RETRIEVING REVERSIBLE WRITE ERASEABLE PAPER DOCUMENTS - An embodiment generally relates to systems and methods for electronically auto-filing and retrieving erasable paper document documents configured for ultraviolet (UV) imaging. A device can automatically generate an electronic version of the erasable paper document and store the electronic version in a database. A user can search the database for the electronic version with identification information associated with the erasable paper document, upon which the systems and methods can retrieve the electronic version of the erasable paper document for the user. The electronic version of the erasable paper document can be re-rendered either as a new erasable paper document, for display to the user, or other renderings. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274970 | PRODUCING AN IMAGE AND OPTICAL FILE - A method of making a digital image file from a visible first digital image and from a visible second digital image of a machine-readable optical code, wherein the machine-readable optical code encodes information associated with or derived from the first digital image includes using a scanner to scan the visible first digital image and using the scanner to scan the visible second digital image and using a processor to make the digital image file by storing in a memory the scanned first digital image in an image portion and storing the scanned second digital image in retrievable association with the first digital image in an information portion. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274971 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an authentication unit, a communication unit, a function availability data obtaining unit, a usage authorization data obtaining unit, and a display controller. The authentication unit authenticates a user. The communication unit communicates with an external device connected thereto. The function availability data obtaining unit obtains, from a memory, function availability data that defines whether or not a function related to the external device is available. The usage authorization data obtaining unit obtains usage authorization data indicating whether or not the user is authorized to use the function. The display controller causes, when the external device is connected to the communication unit, a display to display a screen related to authentication of the user, an image related to the function, or an image for notifying the user that the function is unavailable, in accordance with the function availability data or the usage authorization data. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274972 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit; a power supply controller controls the image forming apparatus to operate in a normal mode and a power saving mode, in which supply of power to the image forming unit is cut off; and a plurality of interfaces that receives a transition command for transitioning from the power saving mode to the normal mode. The power supply controller performs an interface-power supply process of supplying power to at least one interface; a first change process of changing power supply destinations in the interface-power supply process so as to reduce an amount of power supply in the interface-power supply process; and a second change process of changing the power supply destinations in the interface-power supply process after the first change process so as to further reduce the amount of power supply. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274973 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit; a power supply controller controls the image forming apparatus to operate in a power saving mode, in which supply of power to the image forming unit is cut off, and a normal mode; and a plurality of interfaces that receives a transition command for transitioning from the power saving mode to the normal mode. The power supply controller is configured to perform: an interface-power supply process of supplying power to at least one interface; a determining process of determining whether availability is high or low for an operating interface receiving power supply in the interface-power supply process; and a changing process of changing a power supply target from the operating interface to an idle interface when the availability of the operating interface is determined to be low. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274974 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A printing system comprising a printing device and a server configured to perform data communication with the printing device. The printing device comprises a printing unit configured to print an image on a printing sheet, an attachment unit to which a removable medium is removably attached, a first communication interface configured to communicate with the server, and a first controller configured to acquire at least part of data in the removable medium attached to the attachment unit, control the first communication interface to transmit the acquired data to the server, delete the data in the removable medium corresponding to the acquired data. The server comprises a second communication interface configured to communicate with the printing device, a server-side storage configured to store the acquired data, and a second controller configured to store the acquired data received by the second communication interface in the server-side storage. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274975 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT DATA GENERATOR, PROCESSOR, PRINTING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing system, including a plurality of printers, a print data generation section for generating print data printable by one or a plurality of the printers, and a decision section for deciding, based on information concerning printing functions of each of the plurality of printers, whether to generate shared print data printable by a plurality of printing functions or to generate dedicated print data printable by a single printing function, wherein the print data generation section generates the shared print data or the dedicated print data based on a result of the decision made by the decision section. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281248 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTE PRINTING OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS - In a method of printing a negotiable instrument remotely, a request for the negotiable instrument is received at a host computer system. The request includes at least the monetary amount of the negotiable instrument. Identification information is generated, and information about the negotiable instrument is recorded in a database, including at least the identification information and the monetary amount. A digital file is constructed, including content formatted for printing directly on negotiable instrument stock, and the digital file is sent via an electronic communication interface to a remote location for printing. In some applications, the host computer system may retrieve jurisdiction-specific information from a database for inclusion in the digital file. Such as system may facilitate remote payments such as, for example, for the timely termination of a remote employee in a state that places strict requirements on how final earnings are paid to terminated employees. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281249 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device comprises an image data input means | 11-08-2012 |
20120287457 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS DISPLAYING OPERATING PROCEDURE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus that is capable of displaying a user's operating procedure to a user appropriately. A first acquisition unit acquires, when a detection unit detects an error, operating procedure data that shows a user's operation required to release the errors and an operating position at which the user's operation is performed corresponding to the detected error. A second acquisition unit acquires, when a user position differs from the operating position acquired by the first acquisition unit, applicable movement data that urges a user to move to the operating position from the user position. A display unit displays, when the second acquisition unit acquires the movement data, the operating procedure data acquired by the first acquisition unit after displaying the movement data, and displays, when the second acquisition unit does not acquire the movement data, the operating procedure data acquired by the first acquisition unit. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287458 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes uninterruptible power supply apparatuses; image processing apparatuses each connected to a corresponding one of the uninterruptible power supply apparatuses; and a management apparatus that issues, when a fault has occurred in one of the uninterruptible power supply apparatuses, a stop instruction to an image processing apparatus connected to the uninterruptible power supply apparatus. The image processing apparatuses include a first image processing apparatus that develops print information into image information, stores the developed image information, and outputs the stored image information to an image forming apparatus, and a second image processing apparatus that develops the print information into image information and outputs the developed image information to the first image processing apparatus. The management apparatus issues, when the first image processing apparatus is connected to an uninterruptible power supply apparatus in which a fault has occurred, stop instructions to all the image processing apparatuses. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287459 | LOCATION-BASED PRINT AUTHORIZATION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS - Three-dimensional fabrication resources are improved by adding networking capabilities to three-dimensional printers and providing a variety of tools for networked use of three-dimensional printers. Web-based servers or the like can provide a single point of access for remote users to manage access to distributed content on one hand, and to manage use of distributed fabrication resources on the other. | 11-15-2012 |
20120293824 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET JAM TREATMENT METHOD FOR THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus according to the embodiment includes a display section configured to display information or an inquiry, an input section configured to receive an input from the operator; and a control section configured to display, when the sheet jam occurs, an inquiry concerning a situation of the occurrence of the sheet jam on the display section and a method to eliminate a cause of the sheet jam estimated on the basis of input in response to the displayed inquiry. | 11-22-2012 |
20120293825 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, A COMPUTER, AND A COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH A CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus connected to a first network has a log notification part that transmits a communication failure log in response to a connection from a computer connected to a second network. The communication failure log contains status information planned to be transmitted by an image forming apparatus that is connected to the first network, to a computer to which the image forming apparatus failed in a connection, or location designation data for designating a location in the first network where the status information is stored. The computer has a log receiving part for receiving the communication failure log transmitted from the image forming apparatus, and a status information notification part for transmitting the status information or the location designation data contained in the received communication failure log to other computers connected to the second network. | 11-22-2012 |
20120300245 | INDUCTIVE CHARGING AND DATA TRANSFER BASED UPON MUTUAL DEVICE CAPABILITIES - Illustrated is a system and method to use a printer with inductive charging and data exchange capabilities with a mobile computing device to determining the protocol to be used to automatically wirelessly transmit document data to the printer. The system and method includes identifying a mobile computing device that is proximate to a printer with inductive charging and data exchange capabilities, the mobile computing device including document data to be printed. The system and method further includes establishing an inductive link between the mobile computing device and the printer with inductive charging and data exchange capabilities, the inductive link used to establish mutual communication capability. Additionally, the system and method includes selecting the mutual communication capability common to both the mobile computing device and the printer with inductive charging and data transfer capabilities. Further, the system and method includes transmitting the document data using the mutual communication capability. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300246 | Token Generation From A Printer - A printing device accesses a certificate stored on the printing device based on validation information obtained from the user. The printing device generates a token based at least in part on the certificate. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300247 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING TOUCH PANEL - A first terminal device indicates a file based on a first gesture on a touch panel, and upon receipt of a search instruction by a second gesture on the touch panel, transmits search information including the indicated file and user information to an image processing device. The image processing device stores the search information. A second terminal device obtains search information from the image processing device, executes a search operation using the search information, and transmits information that identifies retrieved data to the first terminal device as a search result. | 11-29-2012 |
20120307281 | INFORMATION SECURITY FOR PRINTING SYSTEMS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system for managing use of a printing system. During operation, the system obtains a request for print job information associated with the printing system and/or subscription information associated with subscriptions to events in the printing system. Next, the system obtains an access control policy associated with the request. The system then filters the print job and/or subscription information based on the access control policy and responds to the request with the filtered print job and/or subscription information. As a result, the system may facilitate information security in the printing system. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307282 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS - A sheet feeding apparatus, including: a sheet feeding mechanism; a sheet sensor for detecting, as a detection value, a physical quantity related to a fed sheet; a physical-quantity judgment section for judging whether the detection value falls within a predetermined range; an another-sheet judgment section for judging whether there is another sheet after a sheet to be judged by the physical-quantity judgment section; and a double-feeding judgment section for judging that double feeding has occurred when the physical-quantity judgment section judges that the detection value does not fall within the predetermined range and when the another-sheet judgment section judges that there is another sheet, and judging that the double feeding has not occurred when the physical-quantity judgment section judges that the detection value does not fall within the predetermined range and when the another-sheet judgment section judges that there is no another sheet. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307283 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When a user uses one of a plurality of image forming apparatuses from one of a plurality of terminals, an authentication server determines, on a user by user basis, whether he/she is permitted to use each image forming apparatus, and detects if any of the image forming apparatuses is in a troubled state and incapable of executing a prescribed function. If one image forming apparatus is in a troubled state and the user requests another, trouble-free image forming apparatus to execute a job utilizing a function of the trouble-free image forming apparatus, the authentication server permits execution of the job if the user is permitted to use the image forming apparatus in the troubled state. Thus, the user can get a print even if a usually used image forming apparatus is unavailable. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307284 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SECURE PRINTING - A printer is communicatively connected to a terminal and a slave. The printer creates a secure printing group, and allows the terminal and slave to join the secure printing group. The terminal generates a print job, and sends the print job to the printer. The printer generates a first inspection message according to the print job, and sends the first inspection message to the terminal. The terminal selects the slave as a printing delegate, and sends a message that is derived at least in part from the first inspection message to the slave. The slave sends a second inspection message to the printer, wherein the second inspection message is derived at least in part from the message sent from to the terminal to the slave, and requests the printer to execute the print job. The printer executes the print job when the second inspection message matches the first inspection message. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307285 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a server apparatus, includes a receiving unit configured to receive a packet from the server apparatus, a determining unit configured to determine whether a packet received by the receiving unit is a specific packet, a power supply control unit which, when the determining unit determines that a packet received by the receiving unit is the specific packet, brings the image forming apparatus into a first power condition which enables the image forming apparatus to start quickly using data stored in a volatile memory, and a start control unit configured to start the image forming apparatus quickly using data stored in the volatile memory. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307286 | ADMINISTRATION SERVER AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An administration server is capable of authenticating a user. The administration server includes a communication unit for receiving a user authentication request including user identification information and apparatus identification information from an external device; and a server control unit for authenticating the user according to the user identification information to obtain a first result. The server control unit is provided for determining a usage permitted function according to the user identification information to obtain a second result, and for determining whether an apparatus corresponding to the apparatus identification information can be used according to user identification information and the apparatus identification information to obtain a third result. The communication unit is configured to transmit the first result, the second result, and the third result to the external device. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307287 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming devices connected in data communication with each other via a network. Each of the image forming devices includes a storage unit, an operational unit, and a controller. If one user logs into a first image forming device among the image forming devices, a controller of the first image forming device checks for the existence of a second image forming device into which the user has logged. If the controller of the first image forming device determines the second image forming device into which the user has logged, the controller transmits a logout instruction of the user to the second image forming device. | 12-06-2012 |
20120314238 | AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HOLDING AND AUTHENTICATING A DEVICE CONFIGURATION CHANGE PAYLOAD JOB - A method and system for automatically holding and authenticating a configuration change payload job. An upgrade payload file can be transmitted to a rendering device as a rendering job via a print submission protocol. The upgrade payload file can be detected by a configuration change detection and hold module configured in association with the rendering device upon receiving the rendering job. The rendering job can be automatically held at the rendering device until an authenticated user releases the rendering job. The held rendering job can be also automatically deleted after a predetermined time period. The configuration change detection and hold module can be enabled and/or disabled by the authenticated user in order to prevent an unauthorized and accidental system upgrade and configuration change. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314239 | PROTECTING SCANS USING REMOTE SCAN INITIATION MODE AND AUTHORIZATION - Systems and methods allow remote computerized devices to control the scanner of an apparatus through the communications port of the apparatus. Additionally, systems and methods provide a user-selectable remote start option on the graphic user interface of the apparatus and require input of user credentials through the graphic user interface when a user selects the remote start option. The scanner is placed into private mode when a user selects the remote start option, which restricts scanner control to only those of the remote computerized devices that provide the proper user credentials. Further, a user-selectable private mode release option is provided on the graphic user interface, which requires input of the user credentials through the graphic user interface. When scanning, the scanner produces scanned images, which are released through the communications port to only those of the remote computerized devices that provide the proper user credentials. Additionally, in said private mode the user's original documents can, optionally, be protected via a lockable cover controllable by the remote start option. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314240 | SERIAL RASTER IMAGE PROCESSORS USED FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN A PARALLEL RASTER IMAGE PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided for error correction in a parallel RIP environment. The system is operable to receive a print job comprising logical pages, to separate the logical pages into segments, to distribute the segments to parallel RIPs for interpretation and rasterization, and to transmit the segments to a serial RIP for interpretation. The system is further operable to determine that a parallel RIP has encountered a dependency error that prevents the parallel RIP from rasterizing one of the segments, and to instruct the serial RIP to rasterize the one segment responsive to detecting the dependency error. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314241 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image processing apparatus that dynamically changes the display priority of a web browser in accordance with a user authentication state, a method of controlling the same, and a program. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus sets the display priority of the web browser when it is determined that a user has not been authenticated to be higher than the display priority when it is determined that the user has been authenticated. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314242 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to a device having a first determining unit configured to determine whether version information included in a two-dimensional code included in an input image is version information that is supported by the device and a second determining unit configured to determine to prohibit printing of the input image when the included version information is determined to be version information that is not supported by the device or to determine whether to permit or prohibit printing of the input image based on information other than the version information included in the two-dimensional code when the included version information is determined to be version information that is supported by the device. With this arrangement, it is possible to execute processing in accordance with version information included in a two-dimensional code. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314243 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH BACKED-UP MEMORY, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An electronic device is provided that is capable of dealing with data loss from a volatile memory that can be caused when power supply from a device power source is disconnected. Even if there is a setting to retain received data in the volatile memory until a printing instruction is given by a user, the electronic device, e.g., an image forming apparatus, prints received data without waiting for the user's printing instruction in a case where a backup battery voltage is less than a predetermined value. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320401 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication device may receive a first signal from an external device, the first signal being a signal for establishing a wireless connection between the wireless communication device and the external device according to a specific wireless communication scheme. The wireless communication device may judge whether the first signal includes a first type of information or a second type of information. The wireless communication device may cause a display unit to display a displaying screen indicating the authentication information in a case where it is judged that the first signal includes the first type of information, and cause the display unit to display an inputting screen in which the authentication information is to be inputted in a case where it is judged that the first signal includes the second type of information. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320402 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT SHIFTS TO STATE WHERE QUICK ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of shifting to a state where quick activation thereof can be performed in a shorter time period when a power switch is turned off. When the off operation of the power switch is detected, a first state is stored, and when the on operation of the power switch is detected next, the state of the image forming apparatus is shifted to a second state from which the image forming apparatus can return to the first state. When the state of the image forming apparatus is shifted to the second state, time starts to be measured. When the on operation of the power switch is detected in the second state, the value of the measured time is acquired. The image forming apparatus is caused to return to the stored first state depending on the value of the measured time. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320403 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF READING PLURAL DOCUMENTS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a device that prevents unauthorized copying of a document to which copy inhibition information is added. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327450 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SECURING AND AUTHENTICATING DOCUMENTS - A method for securing a document, includes:
| 12-27-2012 |
20120327451 | Method of Transforming an Imaging Machine - An electronic circuit for use with a consumable imaging unit comprises information configured to transform the electronic circuit from a communicated state to a non communicated state, and also transform information in an imaging machine. Additionally, the information of the circuit is configured to alter an identifier of the circuit. The information of the circuit is also configured to point an imaging machine to communicate with a second element of the circuit after the information determines that a first element of the circuit has been altered from its original state. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327452 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND MONITORING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a control unit to perform control and a communication control unit to operate as a normal mode for transmitting and receiving information concerning the information processing apparatus. At a time of startup of the information processing apparatus, the control unit executes a plurality of processing, and writes information indicating that processing has been completed each time processing is completed. At the time of startup, an operation mode of the communication control unit is shifted to a monitoring mode wherein the communication control unit monitors occurrence of abnormality based on presence/absence of information indicating that processing has been completed. In response to abnormality having occurred, the communication control unit outputs occurrence of the abnormality. In response to certain information being written into the predetermined storage area, the operation mode of the communication control unit is shifted to the normal mode from the monitoring mode. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327453 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - This invention provides an image processing apparatus which can be connected to an information processing apparatus via a communication unit and a control method for the apparatus. The apparatus registers identification information of the information processing apparatus in association with authentication information for authenticating a user. The apparatus acquires, upon reception of a job from the information processing apparatus via the communication unit, the identification information of the information processing apparatus which has transmitted the job and determines whether or not the acquired identification information is registered. The apparatus authenticates the user by using the authentication information registered in association with the identification information when determining that the identification information is registered. The apparatus executes the job when the authentication succeeds. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327454 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - State information about whether a printing apparatus can store print data for confidential printing is acquired. When the print data can be stored, secure information and print data are transmitted, and when the print data cannot be stored, the print data is transmitted after performing authentication based on the secure information. | 12-27-2012 |
20130003103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THIRD PARTY AUTHENTICATION OF WEB-BASED PRINT-ON-DEMAND REQUESTS - A system and program implement a process for allowing users of third party vendors to access print shop applications without separate authentication. The process includes the steps of creating a query-string having identification information of a third party vendor and authentication information of a user of the third party vendor. The query-string is created in response to the user's access to the third party vendor's web-site, and is contained in an inline frame and encrypted. Upon receiving the encrypted query-string sent from a third party vendor server to a print shop server, the query-string is decrypted. It is then determined whether the user has an existing account on the print shop server. If the user has an existing account, the user is automatically logged into the print shop server so that the user may access and use any print-on-demand applications on the print shop server without manually inputting user authentication information on the print shop server. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003104 | USER INTERFACE FOR A CUSTOMIZED PERSONALIZATION DOCUMENT PRINTER OF AN INSTANT ISSUANCE SYSTEM - A remote user interface (RUI) for a personalization document printer of an instant issuance system is provided. The RUI includes a printer functionality component and a server functionality component. The server functionality component is configured to allow, for example a user to control user authentication to use the printer, control print queues of the printer, control print workflows of the printer, control RUI configuration, control remote access to printer user functions and a print preview displaying an image of the customized personalization document with image data and personalization account data, control storage and rendering of data to be placed on a customized personalization document, lock and unlock access to supplies and/or personalization documents in the personalization document printer, access administrative functions, and provide quality assurance functions. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003105 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing apparatus is provided including: a storage section which stores the print jobs, a printing section which performs printing to execute the print jobs by accepting a print instruction for the print jobs stored in the storage section, a priority determination section which determines a print priority for the print jobs stored in the storage section when the amount of free space in the storage section is not more than a threshold value, a transmission section which transmits a print job to an external device if the priority determination section has determined that print job to be lower in the print priority than other print jobs, and a deletion section which deletes the print job transmitted by the transmission section from the storage section. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003106 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print control device manages a print job and a printer based on an instruction from a client terminal. The print control device accepts a print instruction to the printer from the client terminal and authentication information about the client terminal, confirms the validity of the authentication information to an authentication unit configured to issue and manage the authentication information, registers the print job as an execution job together with the authentication information if the authentication information is valid, and accesses the authentication unit during registration of the execution job to thereby update the expiration date/time of the registered authentication information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003107 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR USE OF SHARED RESOURCES IN A NETWORK - A method for controlling and monitoring, from a server, transfers of jobs from clients connected in the network to shared resources connected in the network. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010322 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - If a change is made in configuration information, an image forming apparatus transmits a configuration data generation request, including the configuration information which has been changed, to a setting value management service. If the image forming apparatus receives an error notification indicating the failure of the configuration data generation request from the setting value management service, the image forming apparatus multicasts a search packet on a network and searches an image forming apparatus storing address information of the setting value management service. Based on a response from the searched image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus transmits a configuration data generation request to the setting value management service that manages the image forming apparatus. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010323 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, USER RESTRICTION METHOD AND USE HISTORY GENERATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered, an operation panel for receiving a key operation input, a secure program used for determining whether a user service can be provided on the basis of the user identification information in the user database and another user identification information input by the user. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016388 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMAANM Amano; HiroyukiAACI Yokohama-shiAACO JPAAGP Amano; Hiroyuki Yokohama-shi JP - A printing apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to issue a print instruction for printing print data stored in a storage device or a print server, a determination unit configured to determine whether authentication information is included in the print data, and a printing unit configured to, when the instruction unit issues the print instruction without performing authentication operation for authenticating a user and when the determination unit determines that authentication information is included in the print data, print the print data in response to an input of the authentication information by the user, and when the instruction unit issues the print instruction after performing authentication operation for authenticating a user and when the determination unit determines that authentication information is included in the print data, print the print data without prompting the user to input authentication information. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021636 | RESOLUTION OF OUT OF MEMORY CONDITIONS FOR SHARED MEMORY IN A PRINT CONTROLLER - Methods and systems herein provide for efficiently resolving how a rasterizer responds to out of memory conditions when attempting to write raster data to a solid state memory. In one embodiment, a print controller determines that the solid state memory is no longer available for storing raster data. The print controller determines that a process is utilizing the shared memory to complete an operation, where completing the operation frees up a portion of the solid state memory. The print controller suspends the rasterizer from writing raster data to a hard disk, and waits for the process to complete the operation. The print controller then instructs the rasterizer to resume writing raster data to the solid state memory. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021637 | SPECIFIC PRINT DEFECT DETECTION - An apparatus and method detect defects in a captured image of output from a printing device. The captured image is filtered using a source image for the output, wherein specific defects of interest are detected using the filtered image. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021638 | Printer Identification and Mobile Printing - Techniques are provided for displaying encoded data that represent a) features and options currently supported by a printing device, b) a printer identifier for the printing device, and c) network service interface data for a network service, wherein the network service interface data allow a mobile device to send print settings selection data and electronic document identification data to the network service; and processing print data and causing a printed version of an electronic document reflected in the print data to be printed by the printing device. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021639 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - There is provided a printing apparatus including: a storage section configured to store printing data; an accepting section configured to accept an issuance instruction to issue a password corresponding to the printing data; a password generating section configured to generate a password; an obtaining section configured to obtain a destination corresponding to the printing data; a transmission section configured to transmit the generated password to the destination, on condition that the accepting section accepts the issuance instruction; an input section configured to accept an input of a password by a user; a judgment section configured to judge as to whether or not a password accepted by the input section is coincident with the transmitted password; and a printing section configured to start printing in a case that the judgment section judges that the accepted password is coincident with the transmitted password. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021640 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus communicable with a server via a network and a control method for the image processing apparatus. A comment including a request to transmit image data to a particular user is monitored, and upon detection of registration of a comment, authentication data of the image processing apparatus, necessary to transmit the image data to the server, is obtained. The image data is transmitted to the server using the obtained authentication data, and setting is made for sharing with the particular user with respect to the image data. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021641 | HOST DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND METHOD OF SOLVING ERROR OF IMAGE FORMING APPARTUS - A host device includes a communication interface unit to receive status information from an image forming apparatus, an error processing unit to control the communication interface unit to transmit error information including the status information to the management server if it is determined that the image forming apparatus has an error according to the received status information, and a user interface unit to display a video manual if a URL address providing a video manual to solve an error of the image forming apparatus is received from the management server. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021642 | COST RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WALK-UP OFFICE EQUIPEMENT - A cost recovery system for a multi-functional photocopier device comprising a plurality of workstations interconnected by a communications network, and a controller adapted to control the operation of the device, the controller being connected to the network. The cost recovery system further comprises at least one broker unit operative to communicate with the controller via the network. The broker unit being responsive to requests to reserve the device received from users at the workstations to authenticate the users and to establish temporary cost recovery relationships between the controller and the workstations. Accordingly, a user can reserve the device from any one of is the plurality of workstations and then walk up to the device and perform a job on the device on a basis of a specific cost recovery relationship established by the broker unit between the controller and the respective workstation. | 01-24-2013 |
20130027736 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a screen information storage part to store, on a user basis, the screen information of an operation screen containing a shortcut for calling an application; a shortcut creating part to, in response to receiving a request for a job of the application, create a job shortcut for executing the job based on the information of the requested job, and make a request for updating the screen information of a user having requested the job; a screen management part to, in response to receiving the screen information updating request, add information of the created job shortcut to the screen information of the user; a user management part to authenticate and manage the user; a screen creating part to create the operating screen containing the job shortcut based on the screen information of the managed user; and a display part to display the created operating screen. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027737 | IMAGE-FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE-FORMING SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - An image-forming system comprising an image-forming device and a portable terminal. The image-forming device has a state-detecting part and a panel part that includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, the panel part adapted such that a turned-on/turned-off pattern of the plurality of light-emitting elements is switched, and optical signals destined for the portable terminal and including information on the state of the image-forming device. The portable terminal has an image-capturing part, a storage part for storing an application, a display part for displaying an image and a screen, and a processing part a processing part for identifying, based on the application, the information on the state of the image-forming device included in the optical signals from image data obtained as a result of the image-capturing part capturing an image of the panel part, and for displaying, the state of the image-forming device on the display part. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027738 | Network scanner for global document creation, transmission and management - A network scanner, communication protocols, and client and server programs and are provided which provide an improved way to transmit legally binding documents, obviating the need for outmoded, legacy fax transmissions. Using the network scanner, a document may be scanned and transferred directly into any shared folder inbox residing on any computer attached to the Internet. Enhanced server systems and network communications and messaging protocols are provided that are more practical to use than email for sending documents such as executed legal documents or other documents requiring robust integrity and authenticatability. Similarly, the inventive network scanner, server systems and communication protocols provide improved ways to perform large file transfers and to manage bandwidth to minimize problems associated with uploading/downloading large files as attachments to/from email servers and for enabling user control over VoIP quality during file transmission sessions. | 01-31-2013 |
20130033719 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power supply control device includes a photoelectric conversion unit to convert light energy to electricity, and a power supply control signal output unit driven by power converted by the photoelectric conversion unit and configured to detect a change in lighting intensity at an installation environment of the power control device based on an output voltage of the photoelectric conversion unit to output a power control signal which causes power of an external device to start up or shut down to the external device. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033720 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - The effort required to develop a device object is reduced. A host computer | 02-07-2013 |
20130033721 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BUTTON PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register a library, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the image forming apparatus to generate a button for accessing the registered library when the registration unit registers the library. The image forming apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate the button for accessing the library from the image forming apparatus according to an instruction from the instruction unit, and a control unit configured to display the button generated by the generation unit on a display unit, and to access the library in response to selection of the displayed button. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038891 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE PULSE SIGNALS, TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT, RECEPTION CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A communication system includes a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter includes a detector configured to detect an error amount of an edge position of a pulse signal caused by sampling; and a multiplexer configured to include a value indicating the detected error amount in a multiplexed signal. The receiver includes a demultiplexer configured to demultiplex the multiplexed signal and output a value indicating an amplitude of the pulse signal and the value indicating the error amount of the pulse signal; and a corrector configured to correct an edge position of the pulse signal using the error amount of the pulse signal, where the edge position is obtained from the value indicating the amplitude of the pulse signal output from the demultiplexer. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038892 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device analyzes a drawing command read from a memory and performs a halftone processing function to image data. In the image processing device, a drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command, a full set of drawing commands is registered in a drawing command table, and an error processing command is stored in an error processing command storing unit. When the drawing command analysis unit detects a command error indicating that a drawing command read from the memory is not registered in the drawing command table, an error processing executing unit executes the error processing command stored in the error processing command storing unit and performs an error processing function. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038893 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a request-frequency calculating unit, an acceptable-frequency calculating unit, and acceptance/rejection determining unit. The request-frequency calculating unit calculates a request frequency corresponding to a processing request relating to image formation with reference to any one of multiple pieces of frequency information, which is broken down by process category of an image forming process and stored in a predetermined storage unit, selectively. The acceptable-frequency calculating unit calculates an acceptable frequency corresponding to the processing request from acceptable-processing-amount information stored in a predetermined storage unit. The acceptance/rejection determining unit determines whether or not to accept the processing request by comparing the request frequency with the acceptable frequency. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044343 | SERVER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A server system comprises acquisition unit that acquires print data from a document management server based on information for acquiring the print data using received first authorization information without executing the authentication processing based on authentication information; transmission unit that issues second authorization information which permits an access to a cooperation server by executing authentication processing based on the authentication information transmitted from the printer management server, and transmits the second authorization information to the printer management server; and providing unit that provides, to the printer, the print data acquired by the acquisition unit or another print data generated based on the acquired print data without executing the authentication processing based on the authentication information in response to reception of a print data acquisition request from the printer which receives the second authorization information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044344 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Upon receiving an instruction to execute a function from a user, it is determined whether the user who issued the execution instruction has logged in in the case where the function needs data that is set on a user-by-user basis, and if the user has logged in, data that has been set for the logged-in user is given to the corresponding function processing unit, and the instructed function is executed. In the case where the use who issued the execution instruction has not logged in, once the user has been authenticated, the data that has been set for the user is given to the corresponding function processing unit, and the instructed function is executed. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044345 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus controls a processing apparatus that executes predetermined processing. The control apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether when executing the predetermined processing, the processing apparatus is in a state in which the processing apparatus has been powered on again after power supplied to the processing apparatus has been stopped, an input unit that, when the determination unit has determined that the processing apparatus has been powered on again, performs notification to cause a user of the processing apparatus to input authentication information to authenticate the user and inputs the authentication information in accordance with a user instruction based on the notification, and a permission unit that permits execution of the predetermined processing by the processing apparatus in accordance with the authentication information input by the input unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044346 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus that executes a job in accordance with an instruction from a web application of a web server and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. Error screen information and the web application and/or the job that is received from the web application are associated and stored in a memory. Information in the memory is updated for association of error screen information that indicates an error during job execution with another application other than the web application, and the error screen information that indicates the error is displayed in front of a screen for the other associated application based on the information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044347 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF INSPECTING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INSPECTION CONTROL PROGRAM - An inspection apparatus, inspection system, inspection method, and inspection control program stored in a recording medium, each of which sets a reference point in a master image and a read image read from a printed image, which is to be used for detecting the positional shift between the read image and the master image, based on determination whether a pattern previously added to the printed image for detecting the positional shift is available or can be used to effectively detect the positional shift. | 02-21-2013 |
20130057894 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM - Disclosed is a power supply control apparatus including plural processing units, a mobile body detection unit, a determination unit, a transition unit, a mobile body confirmation unit, and a controller that controls the transition unit such that states of all of the processing units transit to the powered-off state when a result of confirmation in the mobile body confirmation unit represents absence and controls the transition unit such that the states of the plural processing units selectively and individually transit to the powered-off state when a result of confirmation in the mobile body confirmation unit represents presence. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057895 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SECURE NETWORK SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR UPDATING CERTIFICATE INFORMATION - An image forming apparatus registers, when certificate information has been updated, the updated certificate information in an authentication server, and after the registration has been finished, transmits an event notification indicating that the certificate information has been updated to a printer server. The printer server re-acquires cached certificate information in response to this notification, and then again caches the certificate information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057896 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital MFP includes a dual I/F storage unit including two different interfaces: an external interface (RFID) and an internal interface (bus). When the power of the digital MFP is turned ON, in steps S406 and S407, if a main controller of the digital MFP determines that license information has been written in the dual I/F storage unit from a portable terminal while the power of the digital MFP was OFF, then in step S5408, the main controller validates a function of the digital MFP corresponding to the license information, by using the license information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057897 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SUPPORTING PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTION AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGES BY AUTHENTICATING USER THEREOF - A method of performing an image forming operation through a user authentication of an image forming apparatus that supports a peer to peer (P2P) connection includes: receiving and storing user identification information and an image forming operation by the image forming apparatus; receiving a P2P connection request from an external wireless device by the image forming apparatus for a user authentication; receiving device information from the wireless device by the image forming apparatus that is P2P connected to the wireless device, and performing the user authentication by using the received device information and the stored user identification information; and when the user authentication is succeeded, performing the image forming operation by the image forming apparatus. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057898 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SUPPORTING PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTION AND METHOD OF MANAGING SECURITY BASED ON SIGNAL INTENSITY THEREOF - A method of managing security of an image forming apparatus that supports a P2P connection based on a signal intensity includes: measuring an intensity of a signal transmitted from an external wireless device by the image forming apparatus; and controlling an access of the wireless device by the image forming apparatus based on the measured signal intensity. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057899 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an operation input acquiring section which acquires operation input instructing temporary data of an image process object generated temporarily to be overwrote and erased with predetermined data; a temporary data erasing section which performs an erasing process in which the temporary data to be overwrote and erased with predetermined data; a temporary data management section which manages in a predetermined storage area temporary data management information including at least information of whether or not the temporary data is erased; a temporary data management information acquiring section which acquires from the predetermined storage area the temporary data management information; and a display control section which displays on a screen the information of whether or not the temporary data is erased in the temporary data erasing section, correlated with history information of the job corresponding to the temporary data, based on the temporary data management information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057900 | DEVICE COOPERATION SYSTEM, FUNCTION PROVIDING METHOD - A first device includes a determining unit for determining a first number allocated to the first device and a second number allocated to a second device, a first storage for storing a first possible amount that the user can output with the first device, a first output unit for outputting an object of the first number, when the first number is less than the first possible amount, and a first update unit for updating the first possible amount according to an output number output by the first device. The second device includes a second output unit for outputting an object of the second number, when the second number is less than a second possible amount, and a second update unit for updating the second possible amount according to an output number output by the second device, only when authentication of the user is successful. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057901 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus which makes it possible to realize a configuration for processing a plurality of print jobs efficiently without waste while meeting needs for performing a glossing process on prints. When a sheet printed in a first process is fed from a sheet feeder, the printing apparatus executes a second printing process for processing the fed sheet. When an interrupting factor occurs during execution of the second printing process to cause interruption of the processing, the interrupted processing is resumed on condition that the interrupting factor is removed. A resuming method of resuming the processing is determined based on contents of the processing in the second process. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063756 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING PRINTING DEVICE ENERGY SAVINGS - A system and method for determining and displaying energy saving information associated with a printing device, including a processor and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium operably connected to the processor. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium contains a set of instructions that, when executed, instruct the processor to determine a first energy usage by the printing device in a normal operating mode, determine at least one second energy usage for the printing device in at least one energy saving mode, compare the first energy usage and the at least one second energy usage, determine at least one energy savings based upon the comparison, and cause the at least one energy savings to be displayed. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063757 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESS - An information processing apparatus includes a transmission component that transmits transmission target information to a transmission destination, a generation component that generates a transmission result screen based on a result of a transmission by the transmission component, a storage component that stores relation information between the transmission result screen and a transmission history performed by the transmission component, and a transmission result screen display component that specifies the transmission history corresponding to the transmission result screen based on the relation information, and displays the transmission result screen along with the specified transmission history. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063758 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a readout unit that reads out an image, a grant unit that grants a right to receive image information provided to a communication destination through a wireless communication, in response to a request from the communication destination, the image information representing the image read out by the readout unit, and a providing unit that provides the image information by transmitting the image information to the communication destination through the wireless communication, when the communication destination exercises the right granted by the grant unit in a state where a wireless communication connection to the communication destination is established. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063759 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A service providing apparatus includes the following elements. A communication unit communicates with an external terminal apparatus. An operation unit is used by a user for performing an operation. A notification unit notifies a user of information. A login controller receives a login request of a user from the operation unit or from an external terminal apparatus via the communication unit, and determines whether to permit the login. Upon receipt of a login request from a second user when a first user has already logged in, the login controller notifies the first user of occurrence of the login request via the communication unit or the notification unit, and permits the login of the second user in accordance with a notification received from the first user via the communication unit or an operation performed by the first user with the operation unit. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063760 | NETWORK PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, DATABASE DEVICE AND NETWORK PRINTING METHOD - In a system including a client, a print server, an image forming device and a database, when the print server verifies a certificate transmitted from the image forming device upon performing TLS communication, verification of certificates that are registered in advance with the database is accelerated. A search key, which is for acquiring information of a desired image forming device from data stored in the database, is set in the print server. Certificate information is registered with the database in association with the search key. In this way, the certificate information can be searched for using the search key and verification can be accelerated. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063761 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION SETTING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores setting information for operating the image processing apparatus; and an updating control unit that sends a request for obtaining predetermined differentiated setting information, which is a part of a set of setting information stored in a data processing apparatus in a differentiated manner in accordance with a predetermined differentiating criterion, to the data processing apparatus via a network, obtains the predetermined differentiated setting information from the data processing apparatus via the network and controls to update the setting information stored in the storing unit by the obtained predetermined differentiated setting information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A FAX CONVERTED INTO ELECTRONIC FORMAT - A fax conversion system for determining a measure of the number of pages transmitted by fax to or from a plurality of users, comprising: means for converting the transmitted pages into a format that can be output electronically rather than in hardcopy, means for counting the number of pages within an individual fax transmission, means for associating said fax transmission with a respective one of said plurality of users, and means for determining a measure of the total number of pages transmitted by fax to or from each of said plurality of users. The system may determine a measure of an equivalent number of trees saved, or the number of carbon credits gained, by not producing hardcopies of transmitted pages. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070277 | DETECTION OF IMAGE QUALITY DEFECTS IN GLOSS - A method for detecting gloss non-uniformities on printed documents is provided. The method includes printing a test pattern using a print engine, the test pattern having gloss; directing one or more light beams, using an illuminator, onto the test pattern to produce at least generally specular reflectance; scanning the test pattern, using a linear array sensor, to obtain image data, the image data corresponding to the generally specular reflectance from the test pattern; and enhancing contrast of the image data to facilitate detection of image quality non-uniformities in the gloss in the test pattern. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070278 | PRE-AUTHORIZATION OF PRINT JOBS IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for pre-authorizing print jobs. The system detects that a printer has entered a secure printing mode that prevents incoming print jobs from printing until credentials have been entered at a console of the printer. The system also receives a print job, receives credentials associated with the print job that identify a user, and determines from the credentials that the user is authorized to use the printer. Additionally, the system is able to transmit the print job to the printer along with a bypass instruction directing the printer to disregard the secure printing mode for this print job. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070279 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A first memory section stores secret keys that are identical to secret keys stored in a cartridge. A second memory section stores history information relating to a history of usage. A secret-key selecting section performs a secret-key selecting operation of selecting, based on the history information, a specific secret key from among the secret keys. A first-authentication-information generating section encrypts a random number based on the specific secret key, thereby generating first authentication information, which is stored in a third memory section. A transmitting section transmits first identification information for identifying the specific secret key and the random number to the cartridge. A receiving section receives second authentication information generated at the cartridge by encrypting the random number based on a secret key identified by the first identification information. An authenticating section compares the first and second authentication information, and authenticates the cartridge if the both authentication information match. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070280 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - Print data is always stored securely in printing to prevent printing of the print data by another person in reprinting without being aware by the user of whether to storage it securely. To accomplish this, print data received from a data processing apparatus is stored, and print processing is executed. When reprinting of the stored print data is instructed after printing, input of authentication information for reprinting is requested. When authentication information input in accordance with the request and authentication information of the stored print data coincide with each other, print processing based on the stored print data is executed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070281 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - It is determined whether a password for a secure print function has been appended to print data, which is to be reprinted, that has been stored in a memory for storing this print data received from a host computer. A prescribed period of time up to the moment of data deletion regarding the print data for which it has been determined that the secure print password has been appended thereto is set to be different from a prescribed period of time up to the moment of data deletion regarding the print data for which it has been determined that the secure print password has not been appended thereto. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070282 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD PERFORMED IN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - When, during execution of a job, an operation/display control unit detects a job execution stop command given by an operation display unit, and receives a command to display a list of jobs in an execution standby state from the operation display unit, the operation/display control unit displays a job list screen on the operation display unit, without accepting an input of authentication information from the operation display unit and without passing authentication conducted by an authentication control unit. When the operation/display control unit accepts a command to delete a job in the execution standby state from the operation display unit, the operation/display control unit accepts an input of authentication information, and a job control unit executes deletion of the job in the execution standby state or change of setting of the job in the execution standby state after successfully passing authentication with the authentication control unit using the authentication information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070283 | Image Forming Apparatus Which Controls the Number of Jobs that can be Executed Simultaneously - An image forming apparatus includes: a job control unit configured to impose an execution restriction on a job if the number of simultaneously-executed jobs on a function-to-function basis reaches an upper limit value; a guaranteed job count setting unit configured to set a guaranteed job count, wherein the guaranteed job count provides a guaranteed number of simultaneously-executable jobs on a function-to-function basis; and a shared job count setting unit configured to set a shared job count that can be allocated in common to respective functions, which provides the number of simultaneously-executable jobs. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070284 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING USAGE OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A management apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus for managing usage of the image forming apparatus is disclosed. The management apparatus includes a user data storage part for storing user identification data and use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data, and a use restriction data acquiring part for acquiring the use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077124 | Secure mobile printing method and system - A secure mobile printing method and system allow a user to unlock remotely submitted print jobs without having to remember job identifiers and without imposing onerous barcoding requirements on printer firmware or requiring the user to scroll through a list of print jobs on a printer's front panel display screen. An exemplary method, performed on a mobile device, comprises initiating a print job, assigning a job identifier for the print job, selecting a printer for the print job, sending to the selected printer the print job and the job identifier whereby the print job is locked on the selected printer, imaging a printed printer identification code (PIC) on an exposed surface of the selected printer, resolving the printed PIC image to the job identifier, and sending to the selected printer the job identifier whereby the print job is unlocked. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077125 | PRINT RELAY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print relay system includes a confirmation unit configured to check, in response to reception of a print instruction from a user apparatus, whether print information associated with second printer information that corresponds to a user who operates the user apparatus, of the second printer information included in printer management information, has been received from the print service, or whether a print job has been generated based on the print information. The print relay system further includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, in response to the confirmation unit confirming that the print job has been generated based on the print information associated with the second printer information that corresponds to the user, information including location information of the print job via the user apparatus to the image forming apparatus that executes the generated print job. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083347 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHYSICALLY SECURING A HOST DEVICE - A method for physically securing a first host device upon a detection of a change in an external environment. The method includes initializing the first host device, the first host device having an application, which performs the following steps: creates a neighbor cache table for monitoring a network connection between the first host device and one or more second host devices; monitors the external network connections between the first host device and the one or more second host devices; and upon determining a change in an external environment between the host device and the one or more second host devices, securing the host device from processing jobs and/or requests from the one or more second host devices. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083348 | PRINTING DEVICE - A first acquiring section acquires, at first timing after a print job is received and before a print instruction is given, first print data located at a reference location indicated by reference information of data included in the print job, and stores the first print data in a storage section. A second acquiring section acquires, at second timing when the print instruction is given, second print data located at the reference location. A difference determining section determines whether the second print data are different from the first print data. A necessity determining section determines whether the second print data are necessary, when the second print data are different from the first print data. A printing section prints the second print data when the second print data are necessary, and prints the first print data when the second print data are unnecessary. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088738 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes plural image forming apparatuses that form images, and a second memory that stores user identification information for identifying a user and apparatus identification information for identifying an image forming apparatus storing image data corresponding to the user identification information so as to be correlated with each other, wherein each of the image forming apparatuses includes a first memory, a reception component, a first acquisition component, a second acquisition component, a storage controller, and an image forming component that forms an image corresponding to image data acquired by the first acquisition component or the second acquisition component. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088739 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING PRINTING OPTION - A method of setting printing options at a host apparatus using a LINUX-based operation system (OS), the method including displaying at least one printing option providing text input for a user from among printing options provided by an image forming apparatus connected to the host apparatus; receiving setting information regarding printing options selected by a user from among the at least one printing option as text input; and storing the setting information with the corresponding printing options. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088740 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - When a nongenuine product is used as a replacement part of an image forming apparatus, addition of specific image information to recording paper is prohibited, thereby preventing leakage of an important document. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an image, and a nongenuine product judging portion for judging whether or not a toner cartridge as a replacement part of the image forming portion is a nongenuine product. A printer driver of an information processing apparatus prohibits, when the toner cartridge of the image forming portion is judged as a nongenuine product, addition to recording paper a watermark, copy prohibition information or trace information that is purposely added as the specific image information on a print condition input screen with recognition of an important document by a user. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088741 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In a system including a communication apparatus having a facsimile function and a relay apparatus connected to the communication apparatus via a communication network, a user directly operates the communication apparatus, thereby preventing the communication apparatus from executing inefficient processing in the entire system. The relay apparatus controls the facsimile function of the communication apparatus that has established communication with the relay apparatus to enable transmission and reception of image data. Furthermore, the relay apparatus restricts execution of the facsimile function of the communication apparatus other than facsimile transmission of the image data transferred from the relay apparatus. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088742 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - A power supply control apparatus to control a power supply to each unit disposed in an image processing apparatus has a primary power supply unit to supply primary, a primary power detector, a transformer to convert the primary power to secondary power for each unit in the image processing apparatus, and a comparing unit that compares the detected primary power and a threshold value for the primary power set in advance and to output a signal corresponding to a comparison result. The comparing unit outputs a signal indicating that a power plug connectable to the external power source is incompletely inserted when the detected primary power is less than the threshold value. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088743 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that operates according to given operational conditions, comprising: a target power consumption receiving unit configured to receive a target value for power consumption; an option receiving unit configured to receive options selected by a user from among a plurality of options defining the operational conditions; a basic data storage unit storing therein basic data for each of the options; a calculation unit configured to calculate the estimated power consumption from the basic data according to the options selected by the user; an excess informing unit configured to inform the user when the estimated power consumption is greater than the target value; and an alternative option informing unit configured to inform the user of an alternative option when the estimated power consumption is greater than the target value, the alternative option reducing the estimated power consumption to be equal to or less than the target value. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088744 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has at least one measurement unit, disposed on a respective power-supply line extending from a first power source to a respective at least one operation module disposed in the image forming apparatus, configured to measure power consumption at the at least one operation module; and a power-saving unit configured to shut down the power supply from the first power source to the at least one operation module to set the image forming apparatus to a power-save mode, wherein the image forming apparatus is configured to shut down power supply to the at least one measurement unit, when the power-saving unit sets the image forming apparatus to the power-save mode. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088745 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus includes an engine unit to execute an image forming job, a determination unit to repeatedly determine whether the image forming apparatus is in a standby state or not, based on whether the standby state to wait for execution of the image forming job is maintained for a predetermined time or not, and a controller to control the image forming apparatus to operate in a first power saving mode if it is determined that the image forming apparatus is in the standby state, wherein, in the first power saving mode, information stored in a volatile memory is copied to an internal memory and operation frequencies of a CPU, the volatile memory, and an intellectual property are lowered. Accordingly, power consumption in the standby state is reduced in a stepwise manner. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094046 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MONITORING APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A monitoring apparatus monitors a job processing status of an image forming apparatus. If it is determined that the image forming apparatus is not processing a job, creation of a snapshot of a sub-set (minimum required charging counter values for charging) is requested from the image forming apparatus. When charging information is transmitted to a management server, if it is determined that a usual full-set (department counter values and charging counter values) of data has not been acquired, the created sub-set is transmitted. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094047 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING DOCUMENTS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - A method of printing a document using a mobile device includes establishing a first connection between a mobile device and a printer using NFC to identify the mobile device to the printer; establishing a second connection between the mobile device and the printer using WiFi; transferring a document from the mobile device to the printer over the second connection using the WiFi; and printing the document using the printer. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094048 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING DEVICE - In a system in which printing is performed by attaching electronic data to an electronic mail and transmitting the electronic mail to a printing device, the system includes a terminal, a printing device, and a server. The terminal includes a search-request transmitting unit to transmit a printing-service search request to a network. The printing device includes a search-response transmitting unit to transmit a printing-service search response including an authentication token in a case where the printing device has received the printing-service search request. The terminal further includes a mail transmitting unit to, in the case of transmission of print data using an electronic mail, also transmit an authentication token. The printing device further includes a determining unit to determine whether the authentication token transmitted by the terminal and the authentication token that the printing device holds match, and give, in accordance with a result of the determination, permission for printing. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094049 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image input apparatus determines whether an image input apparatus that has sent image data is an authorized sender when storing of the image data to a specific storage area is detected. According to a determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender, the image input apparatus applying one or more processes to the image data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094050 | PRINTING APPARATUS WHICH IS CAPABLE OF EDITING PRINTING DATA, AND A PRINTING METHOD FOR USE WITH THE PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus, including a user input unit which receives a first user command to initiate a printing operation, a display unit which displays information relating to the printing operation, a printing unit which performs printing with respect to printing data, and a controller which controls the display unit to display reference information of the printing data before the printing, and which controls the printing unit to perform the printing according to a second user command. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100478 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING SECURE PRINT FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of solving a problem that printing cannot be performed due to a shortage of a storage area for image data after rendering of a secure print job, and reducing a wait time from authentication to start of printing. A first storage unit performs rendering on a received secure print job, and stores image data in a storage area. A first transition unit makes the secure print job transit to waiting-for-authentication state. A first suspending unit suspends rendering when a stored image data amount reaches a full capacity during rendering in the waiting-for-authentication state. A second transition unit makes the secure print job transit to a successfully-authenticated state. A second storage unit performs printing on the stored image data, erases the printed image data, starts rendering on a subsequent page, and stores image data obtained by converting the subsequent page. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100479 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic apparatus includes an information presenting part that obtains the job information of a stored first job of a first user who has logged on to the electronic apparatus and the job information of a stored second job of a second user who has authorized the first user to execute the second job from a computer connected to the electronic apparatus, and presents the obtained job information to the first user; and an execution control part that, when one of the first and the second job is selected and instructed to be executed by the first user, obtains the job data of the one of the first and the second job from the computer and execute the obtained job data. The first user and the stored first job are correlated and managed and the first user and the second user are correlated and managed in a predetermined storage area. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100480 | PRINTER, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printer performing printing for a cloud print server that provides a print service includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, a flag enabling unit, a request unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a job list from the cloud print server. The determination unit determines presence/absence of a job including a valid PIN code. A valid PIN code indicates that the job is to be secure printed. The flag enabling unit does not enable a suspension flag in response to determining the absence of the job, and enables the suspension flag in response to determining the presence of the job. The request unit requests input of a PIN code if the suspension flag is enabled when the acquisition unit acquires the job list again. The control unit controls printing of the job to be secure printed based on the input PIN code. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100481 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND WARMING UP METHOD THEREOF - A controlling method of an image forming apparatus includes receiving a wake up command for the image forming apparatus in a power save mode; confirming prestored authority of a user to use a plurality of operations of the image forming apparatus; and selectively performing warming up for at least one operation of the image forming apparatus according to the authority of the user. | 04-25-2013 |
20130107307 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | 05-02-2013 |
20130107308 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
20130107309 | JOB MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANAGING JOBS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 05-02-2013 |
20130107310 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 05-02-2013 |
20130114100 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus, which is configured to communicate with a server apparatus and an image forming apparatus, comprises a receiving unit configured to receive AR information that includes AR guidance for a first operation of an image forming apparatus, wherein the AR information superimposes the AR guidance on an image that was captured by the information processing apparatus; a display control unit configured to command the information processing apparatus to display the AR guidance to guide a user to operate the image forming apparatus, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain information that originated from performance of the first operation by the image forming apparatus, wherein the receiving unit is further configured to receive AR information that includes additional AR guidance that presents operations for recovering from the error. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114101 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This image forming apparatus determines, when a user authentication function of the image forming apparatus is set to be valid and a re-execution function of re-executing an executed job is set to be valid, that the re-execution function can be executed, and determines, when the user authentication function is set to be invalid, that the re-execution function cannot be executed. The apparatus stores job information of an executed job when determining that the re-execution function can be executed. The apparatus permits an authenticated user to handle stored job information when determining that the re-execution function can be executed, the user authentication succeeds, and the authenticated user has execution authority for the job. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114102 | INSPECTION APPARATUS, INSPECTION METHOD, INSPECTION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an inspection apparatus. When the inspection apparatus inspects a printed product, whether positional alignment of a print image obtained by reading the printed product and a reference image is to be performed is determined, and in a case where it is determined that the positional alignment is to be performed, the positional alignment is performed and an inspection based on a comparison of the print image and the reference image is executed, and in a case where it is determined that the positional alignment is not to be performed, an inspection based on a number of feature points of the print image is executed. | 05-09-2013 |
20130120784 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A system comprises an image forming apparatus and a server, the image forming apparatus including: a receiving unit which receives the series of data from the server; a transfer unit which transfers a plurality of print jobs included in the series of data to a printing unit; and an accepting unit which accepts a cancel instruction for the series of data from a user, wherein when the receiving unit accepts the cancel instruction while receiving the series of data, the receiving unit discards the plurality of print jobs until termination data is received, and when the transfer unit accepts the cancel instruction while transferring the series of data, the transfer unit cancels transfer of the plurality of print jobs to the printing unit, and instructs the printing unit to cancel printing of a transferred print job. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120785 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING USER LOGIN FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of improving ease of operation for users and also improving security when destinations are made public. The image processing apparatus is shared by a plurality of users and capable of selecting a destination from a plurality of address books and carrying out file transmission to the destination. It is determined whether or not a user has logged in, and when it is determined that the user has logged in, only personal addresses for the logged-in user are displayed on a display unit. The personal destinations displayed on the display unit are switched to destinations other than the personal destinations according to selection by the user. When it is determined that the user has not logged in, all destinations which are registered in the plurality of address books are displayed on the display unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEMORY MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to solve dissatisfaction of the user who can not take out the source data in a case where a code image in the original can not be decoded. In order to accomplish the above object, the invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising code image detection unit that determines whether or not an code image is included in the original image data, code image decoding unit that decodes the code image to extract source data if it is determined that the code image is included by the code image detection unit, and synthesizing unit that encodes information obtained by decoding a partial area of the code image and overlaying encoded information on the area where the code image is included, if the code image decoding unit is successful in decoding only the partial area of the code image. | 05-16-2013 |
20130135658 | PRINTING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FUNCTION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus enabling prevention of unauthorized access from an external apparatus. The printing apparatus receives print data from an external apparatus through wireless communication, and determines whether or not the received print data has authentication information added thereto. When it is determined that the print data has authentication information added thereto, the image data is printed depending on reception of the authentication information from a user. Further, it is determined whether or not the level of security of an encryption method employed in the wireless communication is lower than a predetermined security level. When the print data does not have authentication information added thereto and when the level of security is lower than the predetermined security level, the printing apparatus restricts printing based on the received print data. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135659 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING ENERGY SAVING MODE LEARNING FUNCTION AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR - An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135660 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus | 05-30-2013 |
20130135661 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Image forming apparatus and system include a searcher and a search responder, wherein the searcher transmits a first search-message notifying first identification-information and first group-confirmation-information to other image forming apparatuses, receives a search-response-message notifying second identification-information, and to store the second identification-information notified by the received second search-response-message in the storage. The search responder receives a second search-message notifying third identification-information for identifying any of the second image forming apparatuses and second group-confirmation-information for confirming a second apparatus-group to which any of the second image forming apparatuses belong from any of the second image forming apparatuses, and to transmit a first search-response-message for notifying the first identification-information to a transmission originator of the received second search-message, when the second apparatus-group confirmed by the second group-confirmation-information notified by the received second search-message is the same as the first apparatus-group to which the first image forming apparatus belongs. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135662 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus of the present disclosure includes a print queue, a job writing unit, a print execution unit, a connected-state detection unit, and a maximum-number-of-storable-pages changing unit. The print queue stores print jobs on a page basis. The job writing unit writes the print jobs into the print queue. The print execution unit executes print on a recording medium based on a page from the print queue, and suspends execution of the print in a case in which a print job other than a print job of currently executed printing is cancelled. The connected-state detection unit detects a connected state of extension devices affecting a length of a conveyance path of the recording medium. The maximum-number-of-storable-pages changing unit changes a maximum number of storable pages, that can be stored in the print queue, and changes the maximum number of storable pages, based on the connected state detected. | 05-30-2013 |
20130141746 | AD-HOC DISCOVERY AND SELECTION OF PRINTERS FOR PRINT JOBS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs a print job. During operation, the system detects a printer in proximity to a portable electronic device associated with the print job. Next, the system establishes a peer-to-peer connection between the portable electronic device and the printer and uses the peer-to-peer connection to obtain a set of printer attributes from the printer. If the printer attributes match the print job, the system establishes a direct connection between the printer and the portable electronic device and sends the print job to the printer over the direct connection, wherein the print job is executed using the printer. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141747 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND MOBILE PRINT APPLICATION - Apparatuses, systems and methods that operate to print information and documents stored on a mobile terminal device. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141748 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an accepting unit, and a controller. The accepting unit accepts an instruction to execute an image forming process. The controller controls the accepting unit so as to prohibit the accepting unit from accepting an instruction to collectively execute multiple image forming processes when a billing device is usable which bills a user for execution of an image forming process and which is incapable of acquiring user identification information for identifying a user. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141749 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT PREVENTS UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which is capable of preventing unauthorized access from an external apparatus, such as a PC, and improving user-friendliness. A wired communication section and a wireless communication section receive requests for acquiring screen data from external apparatuses. When a request is received via wireless communication, a CPU determines whether or not a security method used for the wireless communication is a predetermined security method. When the CPU determines that the security method is not the predetermined security method, the CPU and an operation panel cause screen data responsive to the received request to be transmitted to the external apparatus on condition that a predetermined input operation is performed on the operation panel. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141750 | CHECKING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF CHECKING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - After printing has been normally performed, a printed product which has been divided into small portions and discharged to each output tray are stacked in a page order, so that a normal printed product including one set of pages is acquired. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141751 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH ABNORMALITY DETECTING FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus capable of preventing a controlled object from being controlled based on an error signal. An image forming apparatus is provided with one or more processing units for performing processes concerning image formation and a control unit for controlling the processing units by communicating with the processing units via serial communication or parallel communication. A detection unit detects errors in the serial communication. A count unit counts the number of errors detected by the detection unit. A specifying unit specifies cause of the detected errors when the count value showing the number of errors counted by the count unit is not smaller than a predetermined diagnostic threshold value. A general control unit controls the image forming apparatus to operate or stop the image forming apparatus based on the cause specified by the specifying unit. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141752 | JOB CONTROL APPARATUS, JOB CONTROL SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROCESSING JOB DATA - A job control apparatus for controlling processing of job data by a job processing unit, includes a job control unit that determines whether stored job data which is in correspondence with a user is to be processed by the job processing unit upon a log-in of the user to use the job processing unit as a trigger based on a previously set predetermined condition that allows the stored job data to be processed by the job processing unit upon the log-in of the user. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141753 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FUNCTION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that is wirelessly connectable with an external device receives a processing request from the external device via wireless communication, and performs processing corresponding to the processing request. A determination is made whether security settings used in the wireless communication satisfy a predetermined condition, and if the security settings do not satisfy the condition, a security level in the image forming apparatus is set to a predetermined level. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141754 | Image Forming Apparatus And Authentication Method - An image forming apparatus including applications and system side software for providing system side services to the applications is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: an authentication module for displaying an authentication screen on an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, wherein the authentication module allows the image forming apparatus to display a screen for using the image forming apparatus instead of the authentication screen if authentication data input from the authentication screen satisfies an authentication condition, and wherein the authentication module is provided in the image forming apparatus separately from the system side software. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148152 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING FAX RECEPTION WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF SECURITY - Methods and systems for handling fax reception with a high degree of security are provided. The system's components include a fax machine, an optical character recognition (“OCR”) component, a database, a radio-frequency (“RF”) reader configured to detect associated RF transmitters, a processor, and memory. The OCR component, database, RF reader, processor and memory are all in or around the fax machine. The RF transmitters are each associated with a fax recipient. The database stores information regarding fax recipients. The memory comprises instructions that cause the processor to execute a method. The method involves selectively printing incoming faxes based on one or more of a number of factors. The factors include the recipient of the fax, the location of the recipient with respect to the fax machine, and the degree of confidentiality of the fax. Recipients may also be notified of incoming faxes as well. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148153 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - When a print stop instruction is input in accordance with a user's operation, a stage to stop print is decided among a plurality of stages in accordance with the print condition for print and the print by the print apparatus is stopped at the decided stage. Thereby, print by the print apparatus can be canceled appropriately. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155441 | SCHEDULED AND SECURED CLOUD PRINT SERVICES - Techniques are provided for processing scheduled and secured print requests. In one embodiment, a printing device receives a notification form a network service that a request to print an electronic document has been received. The printing device determines whether the request indicates secure printing of the electronic document. In response to determining that the request indicates secure printing of the electronic document, the printing device prompts, through a user interface, a user for a release code. In response to receiving the release code, the printing device sends the release code to the network service. The printing device receives, from the network service, access data that allows for retrieval of the electronic document. The printing device downloads the electronic document based on the access data received from the network service and generates print data for the electronic document. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155442 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICES - The present disclosure describe a remote management system for a multi-function device (MFD). The system employs a monitoring module, a cellular interface, and a control. The monitoring module monitors parameters of the multi-function device. The cellular interface provides cellular data connection between the MFD and an administrator or a service centre that is remotely located. In addition, cellular interface offers transfer of monitored information to a remote location, and further receive instructions from a remote location. Moreover, the control module executes the instructions received from the remote location from the remote location. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155443 | Content-Based Security Processing Using Distributed Scan Management Protocols - A method and apparatus is provided for processing acquired document data, using distributed scan management protocols, according to a security classification of the data. A scanning device through which the document data is acquired includes a distributed scan management service that implements a distributed scan device protocol and a distributed scan processing protocol. In embodiments of the invention, the distributed scan device protocol and the distributed scan processing protocol are implemented using Web services. The distributed scan management service is configured to receive information for post scan processing instructions. The scanning device also includes a scan service configured to scan a document and generate scan data based on the document scan. The scanning device further includes a security handler service that is configured to identify a security classification for the scan data, and perform one or more actions, associated with the security classification, for the scan data. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155444 | METHOD OF PERFORMING IMAGE FORMING OPERATION USING USER INFORMATION AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of performing an image forming operation using user information, the method including receiving domain information of a user and performing user authentication using the received domain information; receiving a request for the image forming operation after successfully performing the user authentication; querying a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) server using the domain information used for the user authentication to acquire user information necessary for performing the image forming operation; and performing the image forming operation using the user information acquired by querying the LDAP server. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155445 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PERFORMING ERROR NOTIFICATION AND ERROR RECOVERY FUNCTIONS IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of performing error notification and error recovery functions in an image forming apparatus includes detecting by one or more sub-processors an error of a main processor for controlling the sub-processors; controlling an interface function of the image forming apparatus if the error is detected; outputting information about the detected error; and recovering the detected error by controlling an operation of the main processor. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155446 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprises a recording medium conveying mechanism configured to feed a recording medium, an image forming unit configured to form an image on the fed recording medium, a communication interface configured to communicate an information with a client computer and a control unit configured to receive a command code defined by expanding an undefined command code and control a printing job in accordance with the command code defined by the expansion. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155447 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic device system, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided that prevent processing by a control program stored in a non-certified storage medium. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163027 | SECURE FEDERATION OF CLOUD PRINT SERVICES - A method and system are disclosed for federation among cloud print services. Based upon identification data and location data received from a user device, a primary cloud print service determines the best document processing device for output of a document. The primary cloud print service uses trusted relationships with other cloud print services, established via secure sharing of information, to allow for transparent printing across clouds to any device registered by the user or available and proximate to the user's location. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163028 | ACCESSING CURRENT DATA BY USING CODE IMAGES - Techniques for accessing current data by using code images are described herein. In one aspect, a unique reference is generated in a computer system to a set of report parameters, and transformed to a scannable code image embedded in a document. In further aspect, the code image embedded in the document is captured at a smart device. A scanned copy of the code image or the extracted reference contained by the code image is sent to the computer system. A data report created based on the set of report parameters is executed in response to the receiving of the reference. In yet another aspect, the result from the execution of the data report is exposed to a consumer through an indicated output channel. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163029 | DEVICE-RESIDENT WEB SERVICE USING LIMITED OPERATIONAL CONDITION DATA TO PRODUCE CORRECTIVE SOLUTION TO OPERATIONAL PRINTER ERROR - Methods and systems detect an operational error of a printing machine and execute a printer device-resident web service to cause a processor of the printing device to send trap data to an external computerized device through a network. The processor responds to a limited request made by the external computerized device with operational condition data only from identified ones of printing device sensors. The external computerized device provides a corrective solution to prevent the operational error from recurring. The processor alters at least one setting of the printing machine as directed by the corrective solution. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163030 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL FOR PRINTED MATTER SECURITY - Disclosed are a system and a method for printed matter security. A method for printed matter security according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving policy information, information of a monitoring application program, and pattern information of personal information from a security server; inserting a printing interruption module in the monitoring application program when the monitoring application program corresponding to the information of the application program is executed; storing a content of a printing request by interrupting the printing request of the monitoring application program by the printing interruption module; verifying whether the personal information is included in the content of the printing request, using the pattern information; and performing an information protection function corresponding to the policy information when the personal information is included in the content of the printing request. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163031 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an authentication processor, a registration unit, and a print unit. The authentication processor performs a process for user authentication with respect to a user in response to an authentication request from the user. The registration unit registers the image forming apparatus with a print service system on a network as a printer to be used by the user by transmitting, to the print service system, a registration request including user information of the user and information about the image forming apparatus in the case where the user authentication has been successfully performed. The print unit receives, from the print service system, a print instruction to print an electronic document and executes printing in response to the print instruction. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163032 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus comprises: a detection unit which detects the abnormal condition of the image forming apparatus; a storage unit which stores, as history information, information about a type of the abnormal condition and an occurrence situation of the abnormal condition in a case where the detection unit detects the abnormal condition; a determination unit which determines whether an occurrence frequency of the abnormal condition which has newly occurred is higher than a predetermined frequency; and a notification unit which, in a case where an abnormal condition has newly occurred and the determination unit determines that the occurrence frequency of the abnormal condition which has newly occurred is higher than the predetermined frequency, stops the image forming apparatus and notifies the user of trouble information for making a repair request by the user. | 06-27-2013 |
20130169989 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - An information transmission system includes a first image processing device and a second image processing device. The first image processing device includes a memory for storing information associated with each user. In the information transmission system, an authentication unit authenticates a user. A receiving unit receives an instruction for identifying information to be transmitted to the second image processing device, from information associated with the user authenticated by the authentication unit. A transmission unit transmits the information identified by the instruction received by the receiving unit, from the first image processing device to the second image processing device. The authentication unit authenticates a second user with a first user having been authenticated. The receiving unit receives an instruction for identifying the information from information associated with the first user authenticated and information associated with the second user authenticated. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169990 | POWER SUPPLY UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power supply unit includes a first power supply configured to supply electric power to a load using electric power supplied from an external power source; a second power supply configured to store the electric power supplied from the external power source and supply the stored electric power to the load; a no-power detecting unit configured to monitor a voltage of the external power source and detect no electric power from the external power source; and an output switching unit configured to switch the electric power to be supplied to the load to the electric power supplied from the second power supply when the no-power detecting unit detects no electric power. A first setting value that is a target output voltage of the first power supply is larger than a second setting value that is a target output voltage of the second power supply. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169991 | Approach For Implementing Locked Printing With Unlock Via A User Input Device - An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with unlock via a keypad attached to the printing device via an interface. A user may specify for printing print jobs stored at a printing device using a keypad device to enter a job ID associated with a particular print job or a general ID associated with users to release all print jobs associated with a particular user, all print jobs not yet printed, or all print jobs. Print jobs may alternatively be identified by date. The approach may also include a user viewing a list of available locked print jobs on a user interface of the printing device, along with the associated job IDs. The approach may further include the use of a Web server on the printing device to generate and provide a Web page that lists stored print jobs and their associated job IDs. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169992 | SECURE UPGRADE SUPPLIES AND METHODS - Example secure upgrade supplies and methods are disclosed. A disclosed example secure upgrade method includes receiving a request at an imaging supply ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130176588 | PRINTER CONTROL METHOD AND A PRINTER - A printer and reprinting control method do not reprint when an error accompanied by no damage to the actual printing area or print image on paper occurs so that consumables are not wasted. The printer reprints the label on which the print image was being formed when a specific error occurs if the error occurred while the inkjet head was forming the print image in the actual printing area of the label. When the non-printing area of the label is passing the printing position of the inkjet head, the print image in the actual printing area that was printed immediately before an error occurs is reprinted only if a specific error is detected, such as a paper jam error or mechanical error with the possibility of damage to the paper or label. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There are provided an information processing apparatus which enables a mobile terminal device to send a print instruction to a printer without adding a dedicated arrangement to the printer, a control method for the information processing apparatus, and a program. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus communicable with a mobile terminal device and an image forming apparatus receives e-mail from the mobile terminal device, analyzes the e-mail received by the reception unit, and transmits, if the e-mail has an attached file and a print instruction is described in the body field of the e-mail in accordance with an analysis result, image data attached to the e-mail while sending a print instruction to an image forming apparatus designated in the subject field or body field of the e-mail. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182278 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND JOB CONTROL METHOD - In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a display unit, an input unit, a reading unit and a control unit. The reading unit scans an original sheet. The control unit detects whether or not there is a specific pattern image in the scanned image acquired by the reading unit, prohibits the execution of a job related to the original sheet if the specific pattern image is contained in the scanned image, displays a screen for prompting a specific user to input a password on the display unit and accepts no instruction of the user before acquiring the password from the input unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182279 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND APPARATUS - An authentication system includes an apparatus and an authentication apparatus configured to perform authentication of a user of the apparatus. The apparatus includes an identification information obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information of the user and an authentication requesting unit configured to send the obtained identification information and group information indicating a group to which the user belongs to the authentication apparatus to request authentication of the user. The authentication apparatus includes an authentication unit configured to search records of identification information associated with the group information to find matching identification information matching the obtained identification information of the user. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182280 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form images based on image data transmitted from information processing apparatus of users including registered users and unregistered users; a setting unit configured to set permission information for each user based on a log of the image forming and limit information; a first judging unit configured to determine whether user identification information is attached to image data; a second judging unit configured to determine, based on the permission information that is set for an unregistered user, whether to permit execution of image forming of the image data, when the first judging unit determines that the user identification information is not attached to the image data. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182281 | DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There are cases where an OS running on an information processing apparatus cannot automatically prompt the user to enter user input information at the time of an output operation. In such cases, where the user cannot enter user input information at the time of an output operation, a device cannot acquire user input information necessary to output print data. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182282 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic apparatus including: a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a screen based on screen information, obtained via a network, for executing a function of the electronic apparatus, wherein the display control unit stores, in a storing unit, identification information of a program corresponding to the screen information according to execution of the function of the electronic apparatus based on definition of the screen information. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188212 | Data Server, Network System, and Upload Method - A data server is connected to an image scanning device via a network. The data server performs the steps of: acquiring location information indicating a location of a service providing device in the network. The service providing device is operated in the network via a web page and the web page includes operating information for instructing the image scanning device to execute a scanning process. The data server also performs the steps of determining an image scanning device to which an operation signal for executing an image scanning process is transmitted, transmitting the operation signal to the determined image scanning device to cause the determined image scanning device to execute an image scanning process, storing scanned data obtained from the image scanning process, and instructing the service providing device indicated by the acquired location information to acquire the scanned data. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188213 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING RECENT EXPERIENCE COMMENT AND RECENT ACTIVITY LOG FEEDBACK IN IMAGE FORMING AND MEDIA HANDLING DEVICES - A data centric, cloud architecture for managing image forming device information through interactive communication with customer replaceable unit monitors (CRUMs) associated with customer replaceable units (CRUs) installed in image forming devices is provided. CRUM identifiers and a cloud data objects containing the same unique identifiers are used to aid a supplier or manufacturer in keying individual CRUs to particular installations in printers and/or other image forming devices. This association strengthens the ability to logistically control the CRUs. A cloud administration system is used to track an identifier for a CRU installed in a particular image forming device such as, for example, a printer, to determine whether the CRU identifier matches an associated cloud object identifier for that printer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188214 | SYSTEM FOR SCALABLE PROCESSING OF FILES IN THE CLOUD - A system for transmission of files, which files are generated by a first user at a first client station, which first client station is connected by a first computer network such as a Local Area Network (LAN) to one or more local servers, which first server performs communication to a number of computer systems connected to the first LAN. Worldwide net scalable files transferring processes without the need for transferring the files over the wide area net, but to retain the user's full access to any file are achieved and storage of large files at a plurality of servers during and after data transmission prevented. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188215 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus which communicates with a first terminal device includes a first display unit which displays display data, a storage unit which stores first ability information relating to a display ability of the first display unit, an operation panel management unit which is provided at the first terminal device, obtains second ability information relating to a display ability of a second display unit which displays display data, and compares the obtained second ability information to the first ability information which is stored in the storage unit; and a control unit which determines whether to display display data as a display target on the first display unit, or on the second display unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188216 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - When an error occurs in communication between an access point and an image processing apparatus, it is determined whether a setting of the access point has been changed. When an error occurs in communication between the access point and the image processing apparatus, the error is notified to a user. If it is determined that the setting of the access point has been changed, resetting of a wireless LAN by a user is awaited, and then, connection between the access point and the image processing apparatus is started. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE COUPON PRINTING - A method and system that facilitates a coupon aggregator website that receives coupon objects corresponding to one of a plurality of distinct plug-ins stored on a plurality of remote servers. Each distinct plug-in is used in printing the coupon object corresponding to the plug-in. The method and system also facilitate hosting a batch installer. The batch installer corresponds to the distinct plug-ins stored on the remote servers. The method and system send the batch installer to the client computing device in response to a request from the client computing device. The batch installer causes one or more remote servers to send its plug-in to the client computing device, causes the installation of each sent plug-in on the remote computing device; and sends a coupon object to the client computing device in which the sent coupon object corresponds to one of the plug-ins installed on the client computing device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130194607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING RECENT EXPERIENCE COMMENT AND RECENT ACTIVITY LOG FEEDBACK IN IMAGE FORMING AND MEDIA HANDLING DEVICES - A feedback scheme is provided in which a combination of function specific firmware and hardware are used to capture a greater representation of issues experienced by a group of end-users specific to particular product with which the combination of function specific firmware and hardware is associated. Product-resident hardware stores record of product usage, faults, interventions and maintenance associated with a particular time window so that product-generated data can be coupled with user-generated experience feedback. A digitally-recorded description of the issue with which the user was confronted that prompted the feedback, and pertinent time frame product operating data is combined and transmitted to a product monitoring center for compilation, analysis and review. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194608 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A power management apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive information on a price of power and communicate with image forming apparatuses, and a control unit configured to control image forming apparatuses to operate at a normal mode and/or a power saving mode by comparing the information received on the price of power with information on a standard price of power. A user may conduct a printing at a desired time to minimize inconvenience. A mode of the power management apparatus is determined according to the price of power such that a plurality of image forming apparatuses are operated at a normal mode when the price of power is low, and at least one image forming apparatuses is operated at a normal mode when the price of power is high, thereby reducing cost and enhancing the efficiency in managing the power. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194609 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A printing apparatus, and a control method thereof, stores received print data into a first memory and prints the print data stored in the first memory. The printing apparatus and method, in a case where the print data is job data for which authentication is necessary before printing, store the print data stored in the first memory into a second memory and, and delete the print data stored in the first memory after the print data has been printed, and in a case where the print data is not job data for which authentication is necessary before printing, retain the print data stored in the first memory even after the printing. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194610 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an environment under which there are mixedly an output destination that requires authentication for extracting a printed product and an output destination that does not require the authentication for extracting the printed product, a printed product is subjected to post-processing. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194611 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A power management apparatus determines whether or not a power usage amount is in a state in which printing by an image formation apparatus is to be prohibited, and transmits a printing prohibition command to the image formation apparatus based on a result of the determination so as to prohibit the printing. The image formation apparatus includes a job execution management unit configured to set a printing-prohibited state, in which the printing is prohibited in accordance with the printing prohibition command, and configured to suspend execution of a print job received by the receiving unit during the printing-prohibited state and a printing necessity inquiring unit configured to inquire a transmitting source of a print job, which is suspended by the job execution management unit from being executed, as to whether to perform printing thereof after cancellation of the printing-prohibited state. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194612 | APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A JOB STORED IN STORING PART, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - An apparatus that carries out a job which is stored in a storing part, the storing part storing therein one or more jobs and the jobs stored in the storing part being associated with user identification information, the apparatus includes a specifying information obtaining part configured to carry out a process of obtaining specifying information that is stored in a recording medium and specifies the user information; a carrying out part configured to carry out the job which is associated with the user identification information specified by the specifying information that is obtained by the specifying information obtaining part; and a carrying out process control part configured to carry out control to stop carrying out the job carried out by the carrying out part, when the specifying information can no longer be obtained by the specifying information obtaining part. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201514 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus which stores a table in which a destination group and a user having a browsing right to browse the destination group are associated with each other refers to the table based on user information, and displays a list of destination groups for which the user has the browsing right. The apparatus accepts, from the user, selection of a destination group from the displayed list, and displays destinations included in the selected destination group. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201515 | MOBILE DEVICE ACTUATION OF A MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL DEVICE USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - There is disclosed a method of, mobile device for and apparatus for using a mobile device to actuate a multifunction peripheral device using near field communication. The mobile device includes a user interface for receiving a selection of an electronic document and instructions regarding a selected document processing operation to be performed by the multifunction peripheral and for receiving a selection of an electronic address to which the electronic document is to be directed by the multifunction peripheral. The mobile device also includes a first near field communications transceiver for receiving input indicating that the mobile device is within range of a second near field communication transceiver, for receiving communication, at the first near field transceiver from the second near field communication transceiver, indicating that the first near field communication transceiver is ready to accept the electronic document, instructions pertaining to the selected document processing operation, and the electronic address. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201516 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus configured to enter in a first power state and a second power state, a reception unit configured to receive a power down command, an operation unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a control unit configured, if the reception unit receives the power down command, in a case where an elapse time without operating the operation unit is less than a preset time, to execute shift processing for shifting the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state after elapse of a predetermined time after receiving the data, and in a case where the elapse time without operating the operation unit is equal to or more than the preset time, to execute the shift processing before the elapse of the predetermined time after receiving the power down command. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208295 | PREDICTIVE FAULT RESOLUTION - A method for predicting failure in an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is provided. The method may include using a database to store information relating to the performance of a component function by an ATM component. The information may include normal performance information and fault information. The method may further include using a computational module to calculate a fault rate for the ATM component. The method may also include using a processor to compare the calculated fault rate to a threshold value associated with the component function. In the event that the fault rate exceeds the threshold value, the processor may initiate a request for service of the ATM component. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208296 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores prohibited combination information, a display control unit that displays a user interface screen on a display unit, based on web page data that is received from a web server in the server apparatus, using a web browser that communicates with the web server, a first determination unit that determines, based on the prohibited combination information, whether or not the two or more settings that are prohibited from being combined are included in a plurality of current settings that include a content of change of settings received using the user interface screen, and a storage information control unit that stores a fact that the two or more settings prohibited from being combined are included in the current settings, in predetermined data. The display control unit, via the predetermined data, acquires the fact, and updates the user interface screen. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208297 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In the case where all print jobs are stored in a nonvolatile storage area such as a hard disc to protect the print job at power-off, normal printing time becomes long. In the case where a power-off request is received, the print job that is executing print processing is stored in the nonvolatile storage area. At this time, the print job and authentication information capable of identifying a print-instructing person are associated with each other and stored. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208298 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING PRINT DRIVER MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS - An information processing apparatus connected to a printing apparatus includes a database configured to associate and manage a command identifier and a maintenance command, an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the database the maintenance command corresponding to a command identifier designated by an application and acquired via a spooler according to a port monitor that functions based on an expansion file, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired maintenance command to the printing apparatus according to the port monitor that functions based on the expansion file. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208299 | PRINTING DEVICE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A printing device includes an authentication unit, a job input unit configured to receive input of a print job, a printing processing unit configured to perform printing processing for the print job, and an instruction input unit configured to receive input of an instruction on output of a printed matter of the print job. The printing processing in the printing processing unit is controlled in accordance with an instruction from a user successfully authenticated by the authentication unit. The printing device further includes a proxy registration processing unit capable of setting, for the print job, a user different from an issuer of the print job as a user who instructs output of the printed matter, and causes the printed matter to be output when the instruction on output is made by the user set as the user who instructs output of the printed matter. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208300 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image output apparatus includes a display unit configured to display on an operation unit a screen including an object indicating that printing is to be performed from a portable terminal apparatus, a generation unit configured to, when the object included in the screen is selected, generate an information code indicating address information and function information of the image output apparatus or an information code indicating the address information and status information of the image output apparatus, a reception unit configured to receive a print job from the portable terminal apparatus having read the information code, and an output unit configured to output the print job received by the reception unit, wherein the display unit displays the information code on the screen. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208301 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF A CONTROL DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM - A feature of the recording device is used to shorten the length of time that a wireless communication link with a recording device is not established for a control device that communicates wirelessly with a recording device when a wireless communication link can be established. A communication control unit | 08-15-2013 |
20130215449 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus operates in a first power state, a second power state returnable to the first power state by a return instruction, or a third power state power-saved as compared with the second power state. The image forming apparatus comprises: a controlling unit to transition the power state of the image forming apparatus to the first power state, the second power state or the third power state; and a power-supply switch to cut off power supply to the image forming apparatus by being turned off by an internal mechanical relay driven by a manual operation or controlling from the controlling unit, wherein the controlling unit controls to turn off the power-supply switch after transitioning the power state from the second power state to the third power state. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215450 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a first designation unit configured to designate a power-off task of shutting down the image forming apparatus in a designated period, a second designation unit configured to designate a setting task of executing a setting process for setting a setting item of the image forming apparatus in a designated period and a restart process for restarting the image forming apparatus after the setting process, and a task control unit configured to control execution of the designated power-off task and the designated setting task. The task control unit is configured to, if the power-off task is designated, perform control to change processing of the power-off task and the setting task according to which of the processes of the setting task a period that an end of the designated period of the power-off task reaches corresponds to. | 08-22-2013 |
20130222835 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING USE OF AN IMAGING DEVICE - Systems and methods for managing access to a device configured to capture images store trust information that is generated in response to the creation of a trust relationship with an identity provider, capture an image of indicia on the device configured to capture images, wherein the indicia are provided to a user by the identity provider in response to a user authentication operation with the identity provider, determine if the indicia are valid based on the trust information, and allow operation of other functions of the device configured to capture images in response to determining that the indicia are valid or not allowing operation of the other functions of the device configured to capture images in response to determining that the indicia are invalid. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222836 | MAINTAINING SECURITY OF SCANNED DOCUMENTS - A method for maintaining security of scanned documents which monitors read operations and output operations of documents containing proprietary or confidential information. For example, every time it is determined that a scanned document includes proprietary or confidential information, unique identification data corresponding to the read operation is generated and stored in a secured storage unit. The unique identification data can later be used to trace the scanned document and retrieve the information regarding the particular read operation (e.g., user, time, machine used, etc.). | 08-29-2013 |
20130222837 | CLOUD PRINT SERVICE - Systems, apparatus and methods are provided to allow users to print to a printing device from their computers or portable devices through a cloud print service a cloud print service. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222838 | MECHANISM THAT ALLOWS INITIATING PRINT WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF THE PRINTER EMAIL ADDRESS - In one implementation, a request for a print job for a printer having an email address is received. An identifier value for the requested print job is provided to a user. An identifier value input by the user is received. The user-input identifier value is verified, and the print job is released for printing based on the identifier value received from the user being successfully verified. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222839 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENTERPRISE SHARING OF A PRINTING DEVICE - Systems and methods for sharing a printing device in an enterprise read information from a tag, wherein the information includes a printing device identifier and a refresh token, the printing device identifier is associated with a printing device, and the refresh token was issued to the printing device by a printing service; retrieve a printing service user identifier from a computer-readable medium; send the refresh token to the printing service; receive an access token from the printing service; send the access token, the printing device identifier, and the printing service user identifier to the printing service; receive an invitation associated with the printing service user identifier to access the printing device via the printing service; and send an acceptance of invitation associated with the printing service user identifier and a credential associated with the printing service user identifier to the printing service. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222840 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Local operation of an image forming apparatus is permitted from a tablet terminal only in a case where the tablet terminal is in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus. To achieve this, the position of the tablet terminal is determined by GPS. Alternatively, the position of a user holding a tablet terminal is determined using a local authentication unit of the image forming apparatus. Local operation is permitted if the user of the tablet terminal is within a predetermined range with respect to the image forming apparatus. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222841 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS CONTINUED PROCESSING OF JOB WHEN POWER IS RESTORED, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print control apparatus which is capable of performing continued processing of a job upon power restoration of the print control apparatus, according to the status of the job before power-off of the apparatus. A job management section cancels jobs in progress according to a power-off instruction. A job analysis section determines the status of each cancelled job. The job management section sets discrimination information for a job to be processed after power restoration of the print control apparatus, according to the determined status of the job. The job analysis section | 08-29-2013 |
20130229678 | OPERATION PANEL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Disclosed is an operation panel including: an operating unit to receive an operation from a user; a detecting unit to detect whether the operation panel is attached to a predetermined device; a communication unit to be wirelessly communicable with the predetermined device; and a control unit to switch a function of the predetermined device, which can be operated from the operating unit, so that the operation relating to a first function of the predetermined device can be carried out from the operating unit and the operation relating to a second function of the predetermined device cannot be carried out from the operating unit when the operation panel is not attached to the predetermined device, and so that at least the operation relating to the second function can be carried out from the operating unit when the operation panel is attached to the predetermined device. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235411 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - A printing apparatus that conveys printing paper via a conveying path and performs printing stops the printing if a paper jam on the conveying path is detected. If the printing is stopped and it is determined that predetermined paper with sequentiality exists on the conveying path, the printing apparatus waits for an instruction from a user and then resumes the printing after the paper jam is resolved. If the printing is stopped and it is determined that the predetermined paper with sequentiality does not exist on the conveying path, the printing apparatus resumes the printing without waiting for the instruction from the user after the paper jam is resolved. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235412 | Secure Management of 3D Print Media - A system for printing 3D objects protects a 3D object file from being copied by separating the file into a series of instructions for printing the 3D object and sends those instructions piecemeal to a printing facility. The system enforces a methodology that forces the print facility to delete a previous set of instructions before the print facility can receive the next set of instructions to print a 3D object. By using such a system, the print facility never has the entire 3D print file in memory, preserving the rights of the creator of the 3D print file. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235413 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SENDING IMAGE DATA - An image processing system includes a reception unit configured to receive an input of authentication information from a user, an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the authentication information received by the reception unit, a setting unit configured to set a destination of image data, an operation key configured to set a folder of the user as a destination of the image data, and a transmission unit configured to send the image data to a destination set by the setting unit. The image processing system performs control not to allow a destination setting using the operation key, in the case where a destination to be set by the setting unit is limited to a destination to be set using the operation key and a folder to be set in response to an operation of the operation key is the one to be registered by the user. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235414 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMMUNICABLE WITH REMOTE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) receives, from a remote terminal, information on a first operation to request the MFP to execute processing. The MFP transmits, to the remote terminal, information on a screen in accordance with the information on the first operation, and receives, from the remote terminal, a report that a screen in accordance with the transmitted information is displayed on the remote terminal. The MFP receives, from the remote terminal, information on a second operation to request the MFP to execute processing, after receipt of the information on the first operation and before receipt of the report, and decides whether to execute or cancel the processing in accordance with the information on the second operation, depending on the type of the information on the second operation. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235415 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ISSUING INSTRUCTION TO SKIP ERROR, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which improves its usability. A receiving unit receives, from a user, an instruction to skip an error that has occurred in the image forming apparatus. A setting unit sets whether a specific error that is occurred in the image forming apparatus is set as an error that can be skipped according to the instruction received by the receiving unit. A notification unit notifies, in a case where the specific error which has been set by the setting unit as the error that can be skipped occurs, a user that the specific error can be skipped. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242333 | DENSITY DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A density detection apparatus includes the following elements. A storage unit stores therein image information. A measuring unit measures amounts of light components reflected by an image carrier or density detection images represented by the image information. A light amount obtaining unit obtains a variation in amounts of light components reflected by each region in which the associated density detection image is formed, and obtains, as a reference value, a representative value of the amounts of light components. An image correcting unit corrects the image information by changing an arrangement order of the density detection images. An image forming unit forms the density detection images on the image carrier on the basis of the corrected image information. A density obtaining unit obtains density levels of density detection images corresponding to their area ratios by using the amounts of light components reflected by the density detection images and the reference values. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242334 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a setting unit and an identification information extracting unit. The setting unit obtains first identification information that is identification information of a user in an information system that performs first authentication, the identification information being input by the user for user authentication to an image forming apparatus connected to the information system, sends setting information including the first identification information to a print service system that performs second authentication, thereby establishing a logical printer in which the setting information is set in the service system, and sets, as identification information of a person who uses the logical printer, second identification information that is identification information of the user in the service system. The extracting unit receives, from the service system, print data to be printed by the image forming apparatus, and extracts and outputs the first identification information set in the received print data. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242335 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF SHARING DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DATA SHARING CONTROL PROGRAM - A service provider system obtains, from a request for registering a job to process electronic data, first user information regarding a first user who sends the request, location information indicating a data storage area at which the electronic data to be processed is stored, and second user information regarding a second user, and allows the second user to execute the job being registered. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242336 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, ERROR NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - An email requesting an attached file to be printed is received from an email server. In the case where printing of the attached file of the received email has not been completed, an error notification indicating that the printing has not been completed is sent to the email server as a reply to the received email. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242337 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A user has manually registered expenses generated due to use of an MFP, which causes a problem of burdensome registration work. An image processing apparatus for registering expense information in an expense management apparatus, includes a requesting unit configured to request authentication of a user to the expense management apparatus, an acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of matter information of the user authenticated by the expense management apparatus, a selection unit configured to select one of the pieces of matter information acquired by the acquisition unit, a job execution unit configured to execute a job using hardware resources included in the image processing apparatus, and a registration unit configured to register expense information based on the job executed by the job execution unit as expense information of the matter information selected by the selection unit in the expense management apparatus. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242338 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information processing system includes an information management apparatus that accepts image generation requests and an image generation section that generates image data, which is provided independently of the information management apparatus. The information management apparatus issues a job ID in response to a print request from a client, and transmits the job ID and a URL of the image generation apparatus to the client. Based on the URL, the client directly requests the image generation apparatus for image data corresponding to the job ID. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250339 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING AND PROCESSING RECEIVED FAX DOCUMENTS TO REDUCE UNNECESSARY PRINTING - A method implemented in a fax machine for analyzing and processing received fax documents to identify unwanted faxes. The method applies a content based analysis to textual contents extracted from the fax by OCR, and applies an image pattern analysis to the image of the fax, as well as a statistical analysis based on past analysis results and user actions of faxes from the same sender. An overall relevance value is calculated based on the above analyses and is used to determine whether the received fax is unwanted. For unwanted faxes, the fax machine either prints the fax using a low quality printing mode, or save the fax in a memory without printing it. The user may subsequently perform various actions on the fax document, such as printing, reprinting, forwarding, deleting, etc. Such user actions are recorded as a part of the statistical information used in the statistical analysis. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250340 | DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A detection apparatus includes the following elements. Plural terminals are connected to plural contact points in a one-to-one correspondence, the plural terminals and the plural contact points being arranged in a predetermined direction. A power feeding unit feeds power to a substrate via, among the plural terminals, a first terminal positioned at one end in the predetermined direction and a contact point connected to the first terminal. A detector detects a signal which is supplied from the substrate as a result of feeding power thereto and which is received by, among the plural terminals, a second terminal positioned at the other end opposite the first terminal, via a contact point connected to the second terminal. A determining unit determines whether there is a connection abnormality between the plural terminals and the plural contact points on the basis of whether the signal detected by the detector satisfies a predetermined condition. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250341 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Compressed data transmitted to a print control apparatus includes break data having information on a compressed size and a decompressed size for each page. When the compressed data is transferred to a decompressing unit, the break data is converted to NOP data. Information on the decompressed size included in each break data is provided to a checking unit. During a period in which a decompression process is performed, a decompression flag is turned on. The checking unit obtains the actual decompressed size by counting a period in which the decompression flag is turned on, to check whether the decompression process has been normally performed. During a period in which the decompressing unit and the checking unit perform processes for a certain page, a reading unit reads compressed data for the next page. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250342 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus being capable of executing a plurality of functions comprises: an entry portion which allows a user to issue a request for using any one of the functions and enter user authority information; a display portion; an authenticator which: requires user authentication via a user authentication screen displayed on the display portion; and judges whether or not the user authority information entered via the entry portion is appropriate for an authorized user for the function; and a function execution controller which executes the function as requested, if the authenticator judges that the user authority information entered via the entry portion is appropriate for an authorized user for the function, wherein the authenticator resets the result of the user authentication if the function execution controller successfully finishes executing the function. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250343 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO TRANSMIT IMAGE DATA AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register a destination of file transmission, a selection unit configured to select whether to require a user to input, at time of transmission, authentication information required for the file transmission for each destination registered by the registration unit, a transfer unit configured to transfer received image data, and a control unit configured to prevent a destination for which it is selected to require the user to input the authentication information at time of transmission from being set as a transfer destination of the image data. | 09-26-2013 |
20130258386 | Bitmap Compare Mechanism - A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes performing an exact comparison between a first bitmap and a second bitmap, calculating a number of miscompared pixels that occurred during the comparison and calculating a quantity value representing a characteristic of the miscompared pixels. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258387 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a receiving unit configured to receive a job from an external apparatus; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the basis of the job received by the receiving unit; and a control device. The control device configured to perform: an establishing process of establishing an allowance status in which the image processing apparatus is allowed to be designated as a job input destination from a user, with respect to the external apparatus; and a restricting process of restricting the image processing apparatus from being in the allowance status in a case where the image processing apparatus is in a restriction status in which the image processing is restricted. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258388 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus (printing server) of one aspect of the present invention generates print data from a print target file attached to the electronic mail received from a mobile terminal via a network, and causes a printer designated in the electronic mail to execute printing based on the print data. In a case where a printer notifies a printing server of the occurrence of an error during the execution of printing based on print data, the printing server instructs the printer to automatically skip an error which has occurred, if it is designated in received electronic mail that the error should be automatically skipped. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258389 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing device that processes data including a rendering resource, a first page rendering command including a link to the rendering resource, and a second page rendering command including a link to the rendering resource. The information processing device includes a first transmitting unit configured to transmit the rendering resource and the first page rendering command to an image forming device; a registering unit configured to register a copy of the rendering resource in a storage area other than the image forming device when the first transmitting unit transmits the rendering resource and the first page rendering command to the image forming device; and a second transmitting unit configured to transmit the second page rendering command to the image forming device by setting a link to the copy of the registered rendering resource to the second page rendering command. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258390 | Function Executing Device - In a case where a first information including an execution request of a specific function via a first type of interface is received, a function executing device may execute a change process for changing an interface for communicating with a terminal device from the first type of interface to a second type of interface in a case where a state of the function executing device is determined as a non-error state. The function executing device may not execute the change process in a case where the state of the function executing device is determined as an error state. The specific function may include a communication process for communicating object data with the terminal device. The function executing device may execute the specific function including the communication process via the second type of interface in a case where the change process is being executed. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258391 | PRINT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINT SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print system is provided which can execute, in a case that a jam occurs in a sheet processing apparatus, recovery processing of a job in which the jam occurred without wasting a sheet that has been already used in a subsequent job. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258392 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus, a usage state of a setting item that is set to execute a job is stored for each user. Another setting item corresponding to a setting item having a high usage frequency by the authenticated user is notified to the user. Further, a determination is made regarding whether to notify the user of a new function added to the image processing apparatus based on the usage state of the user. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258393 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND SECURITY LEVEL MANAGEMENT METHOD - An electronic apparatus includes a security storage unit, a security information acquisition unit, a calculation unit, a determination unit, a notification unit, and an operation control unit. The security storage unit is configured to store a plurality of securities together with respective security levels associated with the securities. The security information acquisition unit is configured to acquire security information concerning the apparatus. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a total of the security level or levels of the security or securities applied to the apparatus, using the security levels of the securities stored in the security storage unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the calculated total has reached a predetermined threshold. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258394 | PRINTING APPARATUS - When a power switch key is operated to turn off a printing apparatus currently set in power-on state and voltage value of a battery in this situation lowers 6.9 V, a display of LCD is turned out and operation keys except for the power switch key are locked so that the printing apparatus is placed in seeming power-off state. If the operation key is thereafter operated under seeming power-off state and voltage value of the battery in this situation lowers 6.9 V, the display of LCD is turned on and the operation keys are unlocked so that the printing apparatus is placed in power-on state from seeming power-off state. Accordingly, even if the printing apparatus is set in seeming power-off state due to significant drop in voltage of the battery, the printing apparatus can be placed in power-on state immediately upon operation of the power switch key. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus receives from a client apparatus a print request including authentication information of a user, and a judging part judges whether a printing related to the print request is enabled using the authentication information, and a sending part sends to the client apparatus information indicating that printing is prohibited when the judging part judges that the printing is not enabled. A recording part records print data and print attribute information received from the client apparatus in a related manner with respect to the print request if the judging part judges that the printing is enabled, and a sending part sends the print data to an image forming apparatus in response to a request therefrom. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265602 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING A PRINT JOB - An approach is provided for securing a print job. The approach involves determining a source of content of a requested print job. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, the requested print job to be designated as a secure print job based, at least in part, on the source of content of the requested print job. Examples of a source of content may include any of an application or a website. | 10-10-2013 |
20130265603 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONNECTOR-CONNECTION-STATE DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An electronic apparatus includes a connection-state detection circuit. The circuit includes a first circuit board; a plurality of second circuit boards that each exchange a signal with the first circuit board; a plurality of connectors that connect the first circuit board and each of the second circuit boards, respectively; a transmitting unit that transmits a connection-state detection signal from the first circuit board to each of the second circuit boards via the connectors; a control unit that causes the second circuit boards to return response signals to the first circuit board in response to the received connection-state detection signal via the connectors at different times that are shifted from each other and are respectively allocated to the second circuit boards; and a detecting unit that detects whether the response signal returned from each of the second circuit boards is received to detect a connection state of each of the connectors. | 10-10-2013 |
20130265604 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a first volatile storage unit storing information for returning the image forming apparatus to a normal startup state, a second non-volatile storage unit storing the information for returning the image forming apparatus to the normal startup state, and a control unit configured to, if the image forming apparatus being performing normal job processing is shifted to the power-saving mode, switch between a hibernation mode and a quick mode depending on a shift time to the hibernation mode, the hibernation mode in which the control unit causes the second storage unit to store information for performing the normal job processing to shift the image forming apparatus to the power-saving mode, the quick mode in which the control unit causes the first storage unit to store the information for performing the normal job processing to shift the image forming apparatus to the power-saving mode. | 10-10-2013 |
20130271782 | ADAPTIVE FACSIMILE REDUNDANCY - Forward error correction is implemented in a facsimile transmission using adaptive redundancy. The depth of redundancy can change based on a number of factors, including lost packet counts, transport type, facsimile modulation type, call history or facsimile engine state changes. Separate redundancy depths can be implemented for image and for control phases of the facsimile call. Redundancy depth can be increased or decreased during a facsimile call, and may be maintained at an increased level once encountered transmission impediments are overcome. Variable redundancy can be provided for specific portions of the call, such as temporarily increased redundancy during control phases. Adaptive redundancy may be implemented at one or more endpoints or nodes in a packet-switched communication network through which the facsimile call passes. The adaptive redundancy contributes to improving successful facsimile call completion in communication networks that may be prone to error losses. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278959 | Method and apparatus for determining trap/event information via intelligent device trap/event registration and processing - Methods and systems are disclosed comprising a trap/event registration mechanism wherein a management system in a device network registers each trap/event type on a separate unique listener port. Each unique port number has intelligent binding of the kind of trap/event that can be received thereat. Each trap/event type is tightly bound to the special unique listener port so that the management system will know by virtue of receiving the trap/event at the unique port what kind of trap/event occurred on the device. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278960 | Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control method, and storage medium storing program - Selection of a send job by a user is accepted in an execution history which displays the execution history of a send job for sending data to a destination. It is determined whether the user has an authority to execute the send job displayed in the execution history. If it is determined that the user has the authority, an item for reusing a destination used when the selected send job was executed is displayed in a screen including the execution history. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278961 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING DISPLAY OPERATION PORTION, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING DISPLAY OPERATION PORTION - Display operation portion of electronic apparatus includes screen on which information is displayed, and accepts touching operation. Control portion executes predetermined function. Option image display portion treats, as one set, plurality of option images corresponding to plurality of options that can be setting content of function, and displays one set of option images on screen so as to be arranged along first direction set in advance on screen. Selecting operation accepting portion accepts selecting operation of selecting one of plurality of option images. Determining operation accepting portion accepts determining operation of moving selected option image from display position of one set of option images to determination area which is provided, on screen, separately from display position in second direction different from first direction. Function setting determining portion performs determination processing of determining, as setting content of function, option corresponding to option image moved to determination area by determining operation. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278962 | System For Monitoring And Modifying Operation Of An Electrical Energy Consuming Device Corresponding To Electrical Energy Consumption - A system adjusts at least one operational parameter for at least one electrical energy consuming device. The system monitors electrical energy consumption measurements for operational activity periods, identifies an electrical energy consumption measurement difference between an electrical energy consumption measurement for an operational activity period and an electrical energy consumption measurement for a corresponding operational activity period, and modifies an operational parameter for the electrical energy consuming device in response to the difference being greater than a predetermined threshold. The modified operational parameter is sent to the electrical energy consuming device to enable modified operation of the electrical energy consuming device. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286426 | PRINTER MANAGEMENT - A request for printing or print-management is received at a centralized location. Access rights related to the request are determined. A printer associated with the access rights is displayed. Printing on or print-management for the printer is permitted according to the access rights. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286427 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTER, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A printer includes a storage portion, a printing portion, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the printer to cause the storage portion to store job identification information and device identification information that have been received from the device, cause the printing portion to perform printing based on the printing data that have been received from the device, specify a printing result for the printing job and transmit a result information record to the device that has transmitted a request command. The result information record includes the specified printing result and also includes the job identification information and the device identification information that are stored in the storage portion, to the device that has transmitted a request command. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293918 | Fiscal Printer - Tampering with fiscal information written to memory can be detected without reducing the write speed. When fiscal information is written to first memory unit | 11-07-2013 |
20130293919 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USER AUTHENTICATION - An apparatus storing data for which a password is set. A determining unit determines whether a password input by a user who has already logged in to the apparatus matches a password set for the data. A unit displays the data on a displaying unit in response to a determination that the password input by the user matches the password set for the data. A setting unit automatically performs a setting so as not to require another input of the password by the user to display the data again, in response to the determination that the password input by the user matches the password set for the data. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293920 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, USER RESTRICTION METHOD AND USE HISTORY GENERATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered, an operation panel for receiving a key operation input, a secure program used for determining whether a user service can be provided on the basis of the user identification information in the user database and another user identification information input by the user. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293921 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When attribute information for a user has been acquired by authentication using an authentication apparatus, a restriction on a useable function is imposed according to the attribute information. When a fee has been collected by a fee collection apparatus, a restriction is imposed on preset functions. In either of these cases, use of the image forming apparatus by another user is prohibited until use by the first user in the useable state is finished. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293922 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO CONTROL A POWER SUPPLY, AND METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus for controlling power supply is provided. An image forming apparatus includes at least one cover unit to be mounted in the image forming apparatus, at least one replaceable unit to participate in an image forming operation of the image forming apparatus, a sensing unit to sense whether the at least one cover unit is opened or closed, and a main board unit to cut off the power supply to the at least one replaceable unit for a predetermined period of time when the at least one cover unit is opened or closed. Accordingly, stable operation is enabled. | 11-07-2013 |
20130301073 | MANAGING ACCESS TO DATA BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION - Techniques are provided for determining whether to allow certain operations to be performed with respect to a device based on a location of another device. One technique involves receiving a request from a first device over a network; in response to receiving the request: determining a location of the first device; based on the location of the first device relative to a second device that is different than the first device, determining whether to allow one or more operations to be performed on particular data with respect to the second device; in response to determining, based on the location of the first device relative to the second device, to allow the one or more operations to be performed on the particular data, allowing the one or more operations to be performed on the particular data. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301074 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing section, a power source section, a power source operation section, and a controller. The controller may be configured to perform determining whether or not a state of the image processing apparatus is a special state when a power control operation is started, determining whether or not the power control operation is the special power control operation, and controlling the power source section to carry out an operation according to the power control operation when the state is not the special state, or when the state is the special state and when the power control operation is the special power control operation, but controlling the power source section not to carry out the operation when the state is the special state and when the power control operation is not the special power control operation. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301075 | DELIVERY EXPERT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An automated rule-based system for facilitating delivery of a fax document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Rules may be stored in a database. The database may include rules based on past delivery information or new delivery instructions. When an input condition is determined, the database may be traversed to determine an action based on the set of rules. The actions may include one or more of resubmitting the fax document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, and identifying the destination as a technical problem. The input conditions may include an identification of non-business days and non-business hours. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308152 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Power supply device and an image forming apparatus having the power supply device are provided. The power supply device includes an input unit to input alternating current (AC) power, a converter to convert the input AC power to direct current (DC) power having a preset level and to output the DC power, and a sensor to be connected to the input unit in parallel and to sense whether the AC power has been input. The sensor includes a transformer to receive the AC power and to output a sensing signal having a level reduced more than a level of the AC power, and a resistor unit connected to the transformer in series so that a current of the AC power input into the transformer is lower than or equal to a preset current. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308153 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device functions as a print data acquisition unit which acquires print data including first page data, second page data, and third page data, and a print control unit which executes a print control using the print data to control a print execution section. The print control unit cancels the printing in response to a user instruction while the printing is performed. The print control includes a period control of controlling a first period from a start of printing using the first page data to a start of printing using the second page data and a second period from the start of printing using the second page data to a start of printing using the third page data, wherein the first period is determined by using a first delay period and longer than the second period. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308154 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A multi-function peripheral (MFP) receives authentication information and permits use of the MFP when authentication of a user based on the authentication information succeeds. The MFP inhibits timer transmission setting of image data when a password included in the authentication information is used continuously for transmitting the image data. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308155 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit configured to accept entry of a user ID, a setting unit configured to, if authentication of a user based on the user ID is successful, set a remaining portion after deletion of domain information from the user ID as a portion of path information of a folder, which becomes a destination of image data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to the folder indicated by the path information as the destination. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308156 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data, an operating unit which receives a print instruction from a user, a display unit which displays a password entry screen for receiving a password entry from a user, and a printing unit which receives a print instruction from a user through the operating unit and prints print data without accepting a password through a password entry screen if a password added to the print data is matched with a fixed password and print data to be printed if a print instruction from a user is received through the operating unit, if the password added to the print data is matched with the fixed password, and if the password received through a password entry screen is matched with the password added to the print data. | 11-21-2013 |
20130314735 | SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SERVER, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A system includes an image forming apparatus and a server connected to the image forming apparatus via the Internet. The image forming apparatus establishes in response to login of a user, a push type communication method for allowing the server to transmit an instruction, and the server transmits, to the image forming apparatus, an instruction relating to setting information corresponding to the logged-in user by using the established push type communication method. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314736 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION SERVER, CLIENT PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for use in an image forming system that includes the image forming apparatus, a client PC, and an authentication server is disclosed. The image forming apparatus may include a cryptographic communication unit configured to perform secure communications, a parameter setting unit configured to set parameters for performing encryption in the image forming apparatus itself, an access right setting unit configured to set an access right of the image forming apparatus itself, a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameters according to an authentication result of the access right, and an automatic setting unit configured to automatically set the parameters by an operation from the client PC. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314737 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATION USER USING SERVER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE METHOD - A method of authenticating a user using a server and an image forming apparatus using the same, the method including: transmitting, from an image forming apparatus to a first server that functions as an authentication server, user authentication information; determining if the first server authenticates the user based on the user authentication information; and transmitting, to a second server that processes image data, the user authentication information if the first server authenticates the user, wherein the second server authenticates the user based on the transmitted user authentication information authenticated by the first server. Thus, the user of the image forming apparatus can be automatically authenticated by the second server by authenticating the user on the first server. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314738 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a communication system, an image forming apparatus sends an address of a receiving section to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal receives a selection of an image data among plural thumbnails displayed on a display section, and wirelessly sends the selected image data to the image forming apparatus with the address. The image forming apparatus receives the selected image data sent with the address by the mobile terminal, and prints an image based on the selected image data. A communication between the mobile terminal and the image forming apparatus is performed wirelessly with an IEEE 802.11 standard. The image forming apparatus keeps the address of the mobile terminal without deleting the address of the mobile terminal when the communication with the mobile terminal through the receiving section is finished. | 11-28-2013 |
20130321846 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - The advantage of the invention is to prevent the efficiency of printing from being deteriorated due to execution of an authentication process during a print process by arranging an authentication process not to be conducted during a print process. The multi-purpose device is connected to the authentication switch through the LAN. The authentication switch conducts an authentication process of a device connected to the LAN, and disconnects a connection between the device and the network in a case where the device cannot be authenticated. The multi-purpose device has the authentication requesting section that requests the authentication process with respect to the authentication switch; and the printing mechanism that prints print data. In a case where the printing mechanism conducts the print process, the authentication requesting section requests the authentication process before the printing mechanism starts the print process. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321847 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a detector that detects a user near the image forming apparatus, an authentication device controller that controls an authentication device that the user owns, an authentication unit that authenticates the user, and a power supply controller that controls supplying electric power to component devices of the image forming apparatus, and the power supply controller supplies electric power to component devices of the image forming apparatus in stages upon detecting the user, determining the validity of the authentication device, and authenticating the user. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321848 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having a plurality of storage units, capable of staring in any of a plurality of activation modes including a first activation mode and a second activation mode operable with a faster activation time than the first activation mode. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PRINT SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321850 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a job receiving part that is configured to receive a job for image formation, an image generating part that is configured to perform an image generation process based on the job received by the job receiving part, a restriction information holding part that is configured to hold restriction information to restrict the image generation process, and a restriction information judging part that is configured to execute an analyzing/judging process in which whether or not the image generation process is allowed is determined by analyzing whether or not specific information is contained in the job based on the restriction information held in the restriction information holding part. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321851 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is directed to an information processing apparatus operable in any of a plurality of power states including a first power state and a second power state in which power consumption is lower than power consumption in the first power state. The information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a shift instruction to shift to the second power state, and a control unit configured to shift the information processing apparatus to the second power state in a case where the reception unit receives the shift instruction while an application that does not support the second power state is not running, and not to shift the information processing apparatus to the second power state in a case where the reception unit receives the instruction while an application that does not support the second power state is running. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321852 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a communication system, an image forming apparatus sends an address of a receiving section to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal receives a selection of an image data among plural thumbnails displayed on a display section, and wirelessly sends the selected image data to the image forming apparatus with the address. The image forming apparatus receives the selected image data sent with the address by the mobile terminal, and prints an image based on the selected image data. A communication between the mobile terminal and the image forming apparatus is performed wirelessly with an IEEE 802.11 standard. The image forming apparatus continuously performs a second printing, when the receiving section receives a selected image data again in a condition that the communication with the mobile terminal is continuously established by the receiving section after the printing of the received image data is finished. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321853 | CRUM CHIP AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE FOR AUTHENTICATION AND COMMUNICATION, AND METHODS THEREOF - A Customer Replaceable Unit Monitoring (CRUM) chip, an image forming apparatus, and a method of authenticating are provided. The apparatus includes a main body that includes a main controller controlling operations of the apparatus, a consumable unit mounted on the main body to communicate with the main controller, and a CRUM chip that is provided in the consumable unit and stores information regarding the consumable unit. The main controller and the CRUM chip transmit and receive signals that include data and integrity detection data between each other. The integrity detection data is generated by using previous integrity detection data. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321854 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - A client terminal transmits a request to a printing apparatus for a registration web page for registering, in a print server, a printing apparatus used in a print service provided by the print server. The printing apparatus collects configuration information of the printing apparatus in response to reception of the request, and creates link information which contains the collected configuration information and is used to access the print server. The printing apparatus then generates a registration web page containing the created link information, and transmits it to the client terminal. The print server receives the configuration information of the printing apparatus transmitted from the client terminal via the registration web page transmitted to the client terminal. The print server creates printing apparatus information which associates the configuration information with user information of the user of the client terminal, and manages it in a storage medium. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329245 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes at least one information processor, an output data reception part configured to receive output data or output target data via a network, a determination part configured to determine whether user identification information, which is to be correlated with the received output data or output data generated based on the output target data, is specified from user information stored in a user information storage part, a storing part configured to store data identification information and the received or generated output data in correlation with each other in a data storage part when the user identification information is not specified; a notification part configured to give notice of the data identification information via the network; and a transmission part configured to transmit, via the network, the received or generated output data correlated with the user identification information or the data identification information received via the network. | 12-12-2013 |
20130335769 | CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control device includes an apparatus controller that is connected to at least one apparatus and includes a first memory which stores data for controlling the driving of the apparatus and data indicating a state of the apparatus and a reading and transmitting unit which reads each data item stored in the first memory and transmits the read data, a main controller that includes a central processing unit, a second memory, and a writing unit which writes the data transmitted from the apparatus controller to the second memory, and a full-duplex serial bus that connects the main controller and the apparatus controller. The reading and transmitting unit and the writing unit operate such that each data item stored in the first memory is read, transmitted, and stored in the second memory in a cycle equal to or less than a count cycle of a system timer. | 12-19-2013 |
20130335770 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A job history that has stored therein an executed job in a reexecutable format is searched for a reexecutable job associated with/accompanied by image data. If there is no reexecutable job, the job history is displayed in a mode in which a reexecution operation is prohibited. On the other hand, if there is a reexecutable job, user authentication is performed when an operator is a user who has not been authenticated, and a reexecution instruction of the job is received. If the executing user of the job for which the reexecution instruction was received and an authenticated logged-in user are the same user, the reexecution of the job is permitted and performed. | 12-19-2013 |
20130335771 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, comprises: a receiving part for receiving an email at a predetermined time; a print outputting part for producing a printed output of data contained in the received email; a stop controlling part for temporarily suspending the receiving process by the receiving part or the process to produce the printed output by the print outputting part; a determining part for receiving an input of instruction information specifying a processing to process the received email and determining the processing to process the received email in accordance with the input instruction information while the stop controlling part is temporarily suspending the process; and an email processing part for performing the processing determined by the determining part to process the received email while the process is being temporarily suspended by the stop controlling part or after the temporary suspension by the stop controlling part is cancelled. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342864 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING DEVICE, SERVER, AND PRINTING METHOD - The advantage of the invention is to prevent malicious use of a leaked e-mail address. A printing system has a printer, and a server device which causes the printer to conduct printing of print target data included in an e-mail when receiving the e-mail that designates the printer as a printing place. The printing system has an expiration date setting section that sets an expiration date in an e-mail address that uses the printer as the printing place, a mail address registering section that registers the generated e-mail address and the set expiration date by being associated with each other, and an expiration date managing section that manages the registered expiration date and disables the e-mail address whose expiration date has expired. | 12-26-2013 |
20130342865 | DEVICE DISCOVERY THROUGH A MACHINE READABLE USER INTERFACE - Systems and methods for device discovery through a machine readable interface are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a uniquely identifying network address for the multifunction peripheral, generating a machine-readable symbol embodying the uniquely identifying network address and associated authentication credentials, and displaying a machine-readable symbol on a display associated with the user interface of the multifunction peripheral. The method further includes accepting a document processing request sent via a network to the uniquely identifying network address associated with the machine-readable symbol, the document processing request including the authentication credentials and beginning the document processing request using the multifunction peripheral. | 12-26-2013 |
20130342866 | MOBILE DEVICE DIRECTED MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE SCANNING TO CLOUD STORAGE - Systems and methods for mobile device directed multifunction peripheral scanning to cloud are disclosed. The method includes receiving a document processing request at a multifunction peripheral including instructions on performing a document processing operation, a cloud storage request identifying a document to be stored in a remote cloud storage location and credentials sufficient to authenticate a user to the cloud storage location and accessing the cloud storage location using the multifunction peripheral to confirm that the credentials are sufficient to authenticate a user to the cloud storage location before beginning the document processing request. The method further includes completing the document processing request using the multifunction peripheral to thereby generate a processed document and storing the processed document in the cloud storage location directly from the multifunction peripheral device using the credentials. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002845 | SECURE PRINTING IN A CLOUD-BASED PRINT SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140002846 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 01-02-2014 |
20140002847 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 01-02-2014 |
20140002848 | Printing System and Method for Obtaining a Desired or an Alternative Pull-Printing Result | 01-02-2014 |
20140002849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WIRELESS CONNECTION SETTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 01-02-2014 |
20140002850 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL (MFP) AND A METHOD FOR RESTRICTING USE THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
20140009780 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus having a wired interface configured to communicate with another communication apparatus via a wired communication includes a switching unit configured to switch between a first mode enabling a power-saving function in the wired interface and a second mode disabling the power-saving function, a processing unit configured to perform predetermined processing using data received via the wired interface from the other communication apparatus, and a limitation unit configured to limit the switching performed by the switching unit when the processing unit is performing the predetermined processing. | 01-09-2014 |
20140009781 | System And Method for Secure Printing - Secure printer operation using a traditional card reader located at the printer. A print job is requested at a computer remote from the printer, the print job is stored at a server, and when a user scans an access card or fob at the reader, a signal is sent to the server, which then commands the printer to start printing. | 01-09-2014 |
20140009782 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Each of controllers includes an error management section that generates an error command including an error code indicating the content of an error when the controller detects the error. A host apparatus includes a host controller. If the error command from the master controller and the error command from the slave controller are identical to each other, the host controller displays a single piece of error information on a monitor. Specifically, the single piece of error information includes the error code included in the error command and an error message corresponding to the error code. | 01-09-2014 |
20140016156 | VERIFICATION OF A PRINTER CALIBRATION UTILIZING HAND-HELD MOBILE DEVICES - Methods and systems herein provide for verification of a calibration of a printer utilizing a hand-held mobile device. In one embodiment, a mobile device includes a camera that captures image data of a calibration target printed by a printing system. The image data is captured in an uncontrolled environment. The mobile device further includes a processor that determines a difference between the uncontrolled environment where the image data was captured and a controlled environment, and adjusts the image data based on the difference. The mobile device then determines whether the printing system is out of calibration based on the adjusted image data. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016157 | ISOLATED HOLE DETECTION AND GROWTH - The present disclosure relates to a method and system for processing isolated holes in an image to be printed or displayed. The method includes detecting whether pixels corresponding to an isolated hole in the image are in an off state, determining a sum of pixels that are in an on state in a first pixel ring surrounding the pixels corresponding to the isolated hole when the one or more pixels in the isolated hole are detected to be in the off state, comparing the sum of pixels in the pixel ring that are in the on state with a threshold sum, turning off a number of pixels in at least another pixel ring either comprising of or surrounding the pixels when the first sum of pixels in the on state is greater than the threshold sum, and outputting the isolated hole including the turned off first number of pixels. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016158 | MANAGEMENT OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS BASED ON USER AUTHENTICATION - An image forming apparatus connected via a network with an authentication server for user authentication based on biometric information about a user. The image forming apparatus is also connected with a managing server for managing an operation of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a transmission unit transmitting the biometric information about the user to the authentication server, a reception unit receiving use limit information corresponding to the biometric information about the user from the managing server, and a control unit controlling the operation of the image forming apparatus based on the use limit information. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016159 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, USE RESTRICTION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for restricting use of an electronic device including a display part includes the steps of a) designating an application identification data (ID) of a display target to be displayed by the display part, b) switching the display target to another display target by designating another application ID, c) instructing the display part to display an operation screen based on screen data corresponding to the application ID designated in step a), d) receiving a request for the switching of step b) from a use restriction application, e) determining whether the switching of step b) is possible, and f) instructing the display part to display another operation screen based on another screen data corresponding to the another application ID in a case where the switching of step b) is determined to be possible in step e). | 01-16-2014 |
20140022584 | Print Driver Expediency Selection - A printer includes a control system configured to receive an expediency selection signal when the printer is in a low energy state indicating that a print job can be performed prior to completion of a warm-up process. Upon receiving an expediency selection signal, a controller selectively performs an expedited printing process to enable faster printing when print image quality can be compromised. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTABLE DOCUMENT JOB SUBMISSION - In some embodiments, a method which includes receiving an indication of the presence of a first message from a first client device, the first message including a first specification file and a first network address associated with a first print data file. The method includes retrieving the first print data file from the first network address. The method includes processing the first specification file and the first print data file by a raster image processor. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022586 | Method for Enforcing Document Privacy Through Third Party Systems - The application discloses systems and methods for securing a document while routing through native or third party infrastructure. A process resident on the user's platform generates a three-part secure document from the user's original document. The first part is public and contains document metadata such as a public key. The public key is used to encrypt the second part of the document's metadata which includes a user supplied password. The third part contains the original document that has been symmetrically encrypted using the user supplied password. The result is that only the first part of the new document is visible to unsecured transmission channels or third party infrastructure. | 01-23-2014 |
20140029038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A SUPPLIES FULFILLMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR NON-MANAGED DEVICES - A system and method are provided to implement an automated scheme by which a vendor can advantageously employ remotely-monitored information on a status of non-managed office devices, gathered as part of the vendor's customer support effort regarding the office devices that the vendor manages for a customer organization under a managed service agreement or the like, to the benefit of the customer organization and the vendor. The vendor remotely monitors a status of non-managed office devices, including a status of consumables in the non-managed devices, at a customer organization's site, and upon being made aware of a change in status on one of the non-managed devices, including pending exhaustion of one or more consumables on a non-managed device, immediately offers assistance in correcting a problem with the non-managed device to include replenishment service of the nearly-exhausted consumable in the non-managed device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029039 | OFFICE MACHINE SECURITY POLICY - An example system can comprise a memory to store machine readable instructions. The system can also comprise a processing unit to execute the machine readable instructions. The machine readable instructions can comprise a service layer to generate an office machine security policy for a heterogeneous fleet of office machines. The heterogeneous fleet of office machines can comprise two different office machines. The service layer can also generate a security configuration for each office machine of the office machine fleet. The security configuration for a given office machine of the heterogeneous fleet of office machines can comprise a security setting for the given office machine. The machine readable instructions can comprise can also comprise a device layer to translate the security configuration of the given office machine into security instructions that are executable by the given office machine. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029040 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk unit, a control unit configured to output an instruction to retract a head of the hard disk unit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of the control unit and output, in a case where the monitoring unit determines that the control unit cannot issue the instruction, an instruction to retract the head of the hard disk unit, and a hard disk controller configured to receive the instruction from the control unit or the monitoring unit and to issue a command for retracting the head of the hard disk unit to the hard disk unit. The hard disk unit retracts the head of the hard disk unit in a case where the hard disk unit receives the command. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029041 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an user's input, a display configured to display a status of the image processing apparatus, and a controller configured to limit an operation of the input unit. The controller is configured, if the image processing apparatus is not in progress of any image processing when a certain condition is satisfied, to display information of the limitation of the operation of the input unit at the display. The controller is configured, if the image processing apparatus is in process of an image processing when the certain condition is satisfied, to display a status of the image process at the display, and then to display the information of the limitation at the display after the image process is completed. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029042 | Printing System Including an Image Forming Apparatus and a Management Server that Manages a Print Allowance of a User, and Printing Method Performed by the Printing System - A printing system includes a management server and an image forming apparatus connected to each other via a network. The management server executes an authentication of a logged-in user of the image forming apparatus, manages a remaining quota and a temporary allowance, reserves the temporary allowance of the logged-in user, and provides a notification to the image forming apparatus of the reserved temporary allowance. The image forming apparatus provides a notification to the management server of a requested sheet count, executes printing within a range of the temporary allowance notified of by the management server, and provides a notification to the management server of a printed sheet count. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029043 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes an input/output unit which performs an input operation and/or an output operation, a supply unit which supplies power from a primary power source to the input/output unit, a storage unit which stores therein a state of power supply to the input/output unit before the power supply from the primary power source is interrupted, and a controller which, when the power supply is started from a state where the power supply from the primary power source is interrupted, determines whether to supply power to the input/output unit based on the state of power supply stored in the storage unit, and when determined to supply power to the input/output unit, controls the supply unit to supply or not to supply power to the input/output unit based on the determination. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029044 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit, a switch which receives an input of a power supply-off command, a first controller which supplies power to at least the image processing unit, and a second controller. The first controller detects an input to the switch, and when an input to the switch is detected at a state where the apparatus is supplied with power, performs power supply-off processing of switching the apparatus to a state where the apparatus is not supplied with power. The second controller detects whether the first controller is at an abnormal state, and when it is detected the first controller is at the abnormal state, performs vicarious processing of performing at least a part of the power supply-off processing of the first controller. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029045 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE CAPABLE OF READING A USER-IDENTIFYING IMAGE - An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a scanner to scan an image formed on a sheet, a first image obtainer to read and obtain a first image being a processible image formed in a first area, the first area being allocated on the sheet, a second image obtainer to read and obtain a second image formed in a second area, the second area being allocated on the sheet separately from the first area, a judging unit to judge as to whether the second image obtained by the second image obtainer is qualifies a predetermined authentication criteria and is identical to a predetermined identifying image, and a function controller to activate a predetermined function of the image processing device, which processes the processible image obtained by the first image obtainer, when the judging unit judges that the second image is identical to the predetermined identifying image. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036296 | CONSTRAINT PRINT SETTING VALIDATION AND RESOLUTION FOR CLOUD-AWARE PRINT DEVICE - Systems and methods for printing in a cloud environment, wherein a second cloud service assists a printer and a cloud-print service with the user interaction required to update an invalid print ticket to a valid print ticket. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036297 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF PRINT JOB - An image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a print job received from outside is a normal print job or an authentication print job, and a control unit. When the determination unit determines that the received print job is the authentication print job, the control unit executes authentication print processing based on the received authentication print job. When the determination unit determines that the received print job is the normal print job, the control unit executes authentication print processing based on the received normal print job instead of executing normal print processing. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036298 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an output prohibition control unit that performs output prohibition control that prohibits outputting a registered job in a preset time period; a system administrator account information storage unit that stores account information of a system administrator who has an authority of temporal release of the output prohibition control; a temporal release control unit that performs the temporal release according to an instruction of the authenticated system administrator; a log information storage unit that stores temporal release information that identifies the system administrator who performs the instruction of the temporal release; a device administrator account information storage unit that stores the account information of a device administrator who has an authority to access the temporal release information and; a log information outputting unit that outputs the temporal release information only if an instruction is received from the authenticated device administrator. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036299 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF THE SAME, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A display apparatus includes a display device, obtains first information indicating an error occurring in an electronic apparatus from the electronic apparatus; transmits, to an external information processing apparatus, the obtained first information and second information indicating a display capability of the display device, and obtains third information indicating a manner of dealing with the error occurring in the electronic apparatus. The third information has been transmitted by the external information processing apparatus based on the first information and the second information. The display control part then displays the obtained third information on the display device. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036300 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of reliably printing security information even when image data of an original document that is obtained by a reading unit contains security information and an area where the security information is not contained is set as a print area, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, when image data of an original document contains security information, the image forming apparatus extracts image the security information from data, and sets a print target area from an area indicated by the image data of the original document. When an area corresponding to, from which the security information is extracted, is not contained in the set print target area, the image forming apparatus executes printing using the extracted image data corresponding to the security information, and the image data corresponding to the print target area. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043642 | READING SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, READING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A reading system includes a reading apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The reading apparatus includes following components. An identification unit identifies a first user. A reading unit reads an original document. A reception unit receives, from the terminal apparatus, authentication information of a second user and an instruction. An authentication unit performs authentication using the authentication information. A permission unit permits, if authentication is successful, the reading unit to read an original document in accordance with the instruction. The terminal apparatus includes following components. A first acquisition unit acquires, from the reading apparatus, identification information of the first user. The acceptance unit accepts an operation of the second user. The second acquisition unit acquires identification information of the second user. The transmission unit transmits, if the pieces of identification information satisfy a certain condition, an instruction corresponding to the accepted operation and the authentication information to the reading apparatus. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043643 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PRINTING PARAMETERS OF A PRINTING MACHINE, PARTICULARLY WITH A PLURALITY OF CONSECUTIVE PRINTING PROCESSES - A device and method for the control and management of the printing parameters of a printing machine, particularly with a plurality of consecutive printing processes, is presented. The device and method include at least one video camera associable with a printing and conversion assembly and movable along a motorized guide in order to acquire a print medium. An image processor is functionally associated with the video camera to search, recognize and measure on the image of the print medium acquired by the video camera the printing values of at least one reference register mark reproduced on the print medium. The image processor is functionally connected to a unit for the actuation of the printing and conversion assembly to correct and restabilize the printing values according to the difference between the printing values measured by the image processor and the desired theoretical printing values. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043644 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a control apparatus, which has a recording unit and executes processing in accordance with a command written to the recording unit, an accepting unit configured to accept selection of a command by a user, and a writing unit configured to write the selected command to the recording unit, and the communication apparatus comprises: a sensing unit configured to sense connection to the control apparatus via the communication unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether the recording unit has been set to a write inhibit state if the connection has been sensed by the sensing unit; and a notification unit configured to notify the user of the fact that the recording unit has been set to the write inhibit state, if the determination unit determines that the recording unit has been set to the write inhibit state. | 02-13-2014 |
20140055804 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with a server that provides a microblogging function authenticates a user and acquires, in accordance with an authentication of the user, a message registered on the server by the authenticated user. The image processing apparatus determines whether or not the acquired message requests processing of image data, and in a case where the acquired message requests processing of the image data, the image processing apparatus processes the image data designated by the message. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055805 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - An image processing apparatus that communicates with a server that has a microblogging function performs user authentication processing and follows a user authenticated by the user authentication processing in accordance with the performing user authentication processing succeeding. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055806 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printing system includes following components. Each printing apparatus prints print document information and outputs a document. A terminal transmits print document information stored therein and location information. A print server receives, from the terminal, the print document information and the location information, generates authentication information in association with the print document information, identifies one printing apparatus in accordance with the received location information and location information of the printing apparatuses, and transmits the generated authentication information to the identified printing apparatus. The identified printing apparatus displays authentication reference information in accordance with the received authentication information. The terminal receives input of information based on the authentication reference information and transmits the input information to the print server. If the input information matches the authentication information, the print server transmits the print document information associated with the authentication information to the identified printing apparatus. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055807 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately replaying movies to be displayed to the user. The image forming apparatus stores combinations of a plurality of movies for a plurality of maintenance procedures of the image forming apparatus and orders of replay for the plurality of movies according to each type of the plurality of maintenance procedures, specifies a type of the maintenance procedure to be executed to the image forming apparatus, and acquires a plurality of movies corresponding to the type of the specified maintenance procedure based on the stored information and replays the acquired movies as a series of movies according to the orders of relay. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055808 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PRINTING IMAGE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH PRINT RIGHT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of providing security for print right-associated image data. An image forming apparatus is capable of communicating with a management server that manages print rights. When printing image data stored in the storage section, a CPU determines whether a print right is associated with the image data. Whenever it is determined that a print right is associated with image data, the CPU makes an inquiry of the management server about print permission of the image data associated with the print right. A printer section prints an image represented by the image data when a response from the management server indicates that the image data associated with the print right is permitted to be printed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055809 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OUTPUT OF DATA - An apparatus includes a data receiving part that receives output data from an information terminal; a data recording part that records the output data received by the data receiving part in a storage part in association with user information identifying a plurality of users; an information accepting part that accepts user information identifying a user; a first control part that controls output execution of output data included in the recorded output data that is associated with the user information accepted by the information accepting part; and a second control part that implements a control measure after the output data associated with the user information identifying the plurality of users is executed based on user information identifying one user of the plurality of users. The control measure is implemented to prevent output execution of the executed output data. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055810 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A LAN control unit receives print data from a client device or the like. An input job storage unit registered on a hard disk a series of PDL commands included in the print data received. An input job queue management unit registers print job specifying information specifying a print job represented by the print data received to the end of an input job queue. A PDL interpretation/execution unit successively executes from the head of the series of PDL commands stored on the hard disk device. When it is determined that the PDL command that has been executed is a re-execution unnecessary command, the PDL interpretation/execution unit overwrites the PDL command stored on the hard disk with a NOP command. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055811 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus including, a light source for reading for applying light onto an original to read, a light source for erasing for applying light of specific wavelength onto the original to decolorize image area, having been printed with color-changing agent having characteristic to become colorless by the light, a reading section for receiving reflected light from the original, an output section for outputting image data of the original, and a control section configured to compare first image data obtained by applying light from the light source for reading to the original, and second image data obtained by applying light from the light source for reading again to the original after applying light from the light source for erasing to the original, to determine whether the agent has been used in the image, and control at least either the reading operation or the output operation based on that determination. | 02-27-2014 |
20140063531 | CONFIGURING AN IMAGING OR PRINTING DEVICE BACKGROUND - An imaging or printing device has a storage medium storing a hostname of a configuration server and sends a DNS request for the hostname to a DNS server. After receiving an IP address corresponding to the configuration server from the DNS server, the printing or imaging device uses the IP address to contact the configuration server and receives configuration settings from the configuration server. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063532 | MULTI-RESOLUTION SEGMENTED IMAGE SENSOR - A method of detecting and correcting imaging defects in a media printed on a high-speed multi-color printer includes providing a multisensory imaging device ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140063533 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a reason why to input a setting other than a predetermined print setting when printing is performed, and a calculating unit that, using a print log, collects a total print sheet count of sheets printed for each print requester, a print sheet count of sheets printed at the predetermined print setting, and a print sheet count of sheets printed for the reason, and calculates a reducible print sheet count of the print requester in accordance with calculated information of the print sheet counts. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063534 | PRINTING SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING RELIABILITY OF TEMPORARY AUTHENTICATION IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A printing system includes an image forming apparatus and a management server that are connected to the network each other. The image forming apparatus 1) transmits the accepted first authentication information to the management server, 2) stores the first authentication information in a storage unit if a result of authentication performed by the management server is success, and 3) authenticates the user based on second authentication information of the user that is newly accepted and the first authentication information stored in the storage unit if the authentication result is not transmitted from the management server. The management server performs the authentication based on the first authentication information transmitted from the image forming apparatus. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063535 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an input-operation accepting unit configured to accept an input operation by a first user currently logged in the image forming apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive an authenticated printing job from a second user different from the first user; a storing unit configured to store the authenticated printing job in association with the second user; an authenticating unit provided separately from the input-operation accepting unit, and configured to authenticate the second user in parallel with acceptance processing of the input operation by the first user using the input-operation accepting unit; an extracting unit configured to extract the authenticated printing job associated with the second user from the storing unit upon authentication of the second user by the authenticating unit; and a print control unit configured to execute and print the authenticated printing job extracted by the extracting unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071475 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND FUNCTION LIMITING SERVER - A document management system includes an image forming apparatus, an acquisition section, a document information management server, and a function limiting server. The acquisition section receives identification information of a document to be printed. The document information management server maintains an attribute information table that has identification information and attribute information of different documents stored therein, and retrieves attribute information of the document corresponding to the identification information received by the acquisition section. The function limiting server limits print functions of the image forming apparatus when printing the document having the identification information received by the acquisition section according to a printing policy that is based on the attribute information of the document retrieved by the document information management server. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071476 | SERVER SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PRINTING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The server system changes a state of a printer object to a shared state to cause a second user different from a first user to be able to use the printer object upon receipt of a sharing instruction with respect to the printer registered on a print service by the first user, and deletes at least printer authentication information within the printer object in a shared state upon receipt of a deletion instruction for deleting the printer registered on the print service. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071477 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A CPU of a multifunction peripheral which stores unprocessed data (e.g., untransmitted facsimile transmission data, unprinted facsimile reception data etc.) in a RAM is configured not to perform auto shutdown processing if unprocessed data is stored in the RAM, even if an auto shutdown has been set. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071478 | CLOUD-BASED CREDENTIAL PERSONALIZATION AND ACTIVATION SYSTEM - We disclose herein a system and method to submit, personalize and activate a physical identity credential via the internet. This product is a new process and an improvement over existing products that either allow a user to (a) submit data and photos to an online service to personalize a physical identity credential or (b) utilize installed software to personalize and activate a physical identity credential by utilizing a local or network printing device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071479 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a prohibition timer that prohibits shutdown when the image forming apparatus returns from a power saving state, and a control unit configured, when a shutdown time set in advance has passed, to control the shutdown of the image forming apparatus to be delayed until a time of the prohibition timer set by the setting unit is up, and to control the shutdown of the image forming apparatus to be forcibly performed when the time of the prohibition timer has been up. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078541 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTENT PRINTING SYSTEM - If printing from an external print service is disabled in a print relay service, the external print service is instructed to disable the status of a printer associated with the print relay service, and disables the status of the instructed printer. Hence, the user of the external print service can easily recognize the unavailable disabled printer. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078542 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - To prevent printing of a print content based on a print request from an unauthorized requestor, information for identifying a requestor who has made a print request for printing a print content is received, notification of the requestor is provided based on the received information, designation is made whether to permit the printing based on the print request from the requestor, and determination of whether to perform the printing based on the print request from the requestor is made in accordance with the designation. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078543 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A control apparatus is disclosed that may communicate with a wireless terminal and an information processing device. The control apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain position data of the wireless terminal; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain state information about the information processing device; a determining unit configured to make a determination that the position data obtained by the first obtaining unit indicates a predetermined location and the state information obtained by the second obtaining unit indicates a predetermined state; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the information processing device a control signal causing the information processing device to execute predetermined processing in response to the determination made by the determining unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085658 | ADDING FUNCTIONALITY TO A PRINTER - A system and method of adding a new printer function to a printer is disclosed herein. The system includes the printer. The system also includes a general purpose computing device communicatively coupled to the printer. The system further includes an upgrade module communicatively coupled to the printer, wherein the upgrade module includes a processor and computer-readable instructions to direct the processor to communicate with the printer to add the new print function to the printer | 03-27-2014 |
20140085659 | PRINTING CONTROL TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A printing control terminal apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a method of controlling the same. The printing control terminal apparatus includes a communication interface to receive job log data from the image forming apparatus, a storage device to store the received job log data, and a controller to extract job accumulation amounts and job quantities, which belong to the same job type, from the job log data in a time order, and to determine whether the job log data has been lost based on the extracted job accumulation amounts and job quantities. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A system for managing an information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to calculate a range of appropriate values of a processing parameter of the information processing apparatus based on a range of values of substantially the same processing parameter currently or previously set in one or more information processing apparatuses, a display unit configured to display the range of appropriate values, and an input unit with which one or more values of the processing parameter of the information processing apparatus can be input. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085661 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD - A communication terminal device is connected to an information processing device in a communicatable status and includes a display unit, a storage unit, an acquiring unit that acquires display image data displayed on the display unit and stores the acquired display image data in the storage unit, a transmitting unit that transmits the display image data stored in the storage unit to the information processing device in response to a request from the information processing device, a deciding unit that decides whether the communication terminal device is maintained in a preset specific status or not, and an inhibiting unit that inhibits the display image data displayed on the display unit from being transmitted to the information processing device when the deciding unit decides that the communication terminal device is maintained in the preset specific status. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092416 | DETECTING DEVICE, PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is a detecting device including an emission unit that emits first detection waves in order to detect presence of an object, a first receiving unit that receives reflective waves of which the first detection waves reach the object and are reflected thereon, and outputs a signal representing a value corresponding to a distance from the object based on the reflective waves, a determination unit that determines a threshold corresponding to a predetermined second distance based on a value of a first signal output by the first receiving unit when the first detection waves reach a reference plate and are reflected thereon, and a first detecting unit that compares a value of a second signal output by the first receiving unit with the threshold, and detects whether or not the object is within a first range where the distance to the first receiving unit is shorter than the second distance. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092417 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A power supply control device includes a monitoring controller, a moving body detector, and a power supply controller. The monitoring controller controls a processor, an interface part, and an identification information acquisition part. The moving body detector detects whether or not a moving body including a user who intends to use the processor exists within a specific region. The power supply controller individually allows objects to be controlled including the processor, the interface part, the identification information acquisition part, and the monitoring controller to enter a power supply state or a power interruption state in an independent manner, in accordance with detection information by the moving body detector, and first controls the identification information acquisition part to be shifted from the power interruption state to the power supply state in a case where all the objects to be controlled are in the power interruption state. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092418 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming device including an information processing device and an NIC is provided. Upon receipt of a shift to a sleep state, the information processing device disconnects each WebSocket connection established with the server device by a plurality of applications in operation in the information processing device, and the NIC establishes a WebSocket connection with the server device. Also, upon receipt of an establishment request for a WebSocket connection of an application from the server device, the NIC instructs the information processing device to establish the WebSocket connection corresponding to the application. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092419 | IMAGE EVALUATION DEVICE, IMAGE EVALUATION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image evaluation device includes: a reading unit that reads a sample image included in a sample printout recognized as a non-defective printout and that reads an inspection object image included in an inspection object printout obtained by printing an image corresponding to the sample image on a recording medium using a printing device based on image data representing the image; an extraction unit that extracts a line defect including a linear pattern formed in a specific direction from the inspection object image represented by inspection object image data, based on a difference value between sample image data obtained by reading the sample image and the inspection object image data; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a visibility of the line defect extracted by the extraction unit. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092420 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE PRINTING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A printing system having a print portion is provided. The printing system includes a storage portion configured to store job data based on which a plurality of first print jobs is executed, the first print jobs being instructed by a specific user; an obtaining portion configured to, in response to a request made by the specific user, obtain group information on a group of the first print jobs; and a job execution portion configured to, after the print portion starts the first print jobs, leave a second print job other than the first print jobs unexecuted and execute all of the first print jobs based on the group information, and after that, execute the second print job. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092421 | Communication Apparatus - A communication apparatus includes a processor to perform determining whether a current state of the communication apparatus is a master station state or a slave station state; controlling to perform, in a first case where it is determined that the current state of the communication apparatus is the master station state, a first type communication with the target apparatus to enable the target apparatus to participate in the specific wireless network, and controlling to transmit, in a second case where it is determined that the current state of the communication apparatus is the slave station state, transmits a communication request to perform a second type communication to enable the target apparatus to participate in the specific wireless network between the master station apparatus and the target apparatus. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092422 | Printing System and Printing Device - A first printer | 04-03-2014 |
20140092423 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, USER RESTRICTION METHOD AND USE HISTORY GENERATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered, an operation panel for receiving a key operation input, a secure program used for determining whether a user service can be provided on the basis of the user identification information in the user database and another user identification information input by the user. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098395 | ACTIVATION CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ACTIVATION CONTROL METHOD, AND ACTIVATION CONTROL PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An activation control apparatus includes a voltage fluctuation obtainer to obtain voltage fluctuation amplitude of an external power source at a given voltage, the voltage fluctuation caused when activating an apparatus using the external power source; a voltage fluctuation detector to detect the voltage fluctuation of the external power source at the given voltage; an activation controller to determine whether the voltage fluctuation amplitude obtained by the voltage fluctuation obtainer at the given voltage of the external power source, detected by the voltage fluctuation detector, is within a preset allowable voltage fluctuation range, and to control activation of the apparatus using the external power source based on a result of the voltage fluctuation determination made by the activation controller. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098396 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus capable of performing calibration includes a storage unit configured to store a calibration job for performing calibration and a normal job for performing image processing in order of reception, a judgment unit configured to judge whether to interrupt the normal job during execution of the normal job and to perform the calibration job, and a control unit configured to interrupt processing of the normal job to be in a state where the processing can be resumed and perform the calibration job if it is judged that the calibration job is to be performed, and to perform the calibration job after the stored normal job is completed if it is judged that the calibration job is not to be performed. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098397 | EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE, EQUIPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD - Provided is an equipment control device capable of performing more appropriate equipment control in accordance with detection by a user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140104635 | Information Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - An image processing system may be configured to perform communications using multiple communication protocols. The system may further obtain and transmit, to an information processing apparatus, connection information for one or more other image processing apparatuses or devices. In one example, communication between the information processing apparatus and a first image processing apparatus may be performed according to a first communication protocol while the connection information for the one or more other image processing apparatus may correspond to communications using a second communication protocol. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104636 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - A power supply control apparatus includes a transition unit, a detector, a first image capturing unit, a command unit, a second image capturing unit, and an identity recognition unit. The transition unit makes a control target enter a power supply state or a power shutoff state. The detector detects a moving object while the control target is in the power shutoff state. The first image capturing unit captures images of a specific area at the time when the detector detects a moving object. The command unit commands the transition unit to make the control target enter the power supply state in a case where it is determined that the moving object is approaching the control target. The second image capturing unit captures a characteristic image of the moving object that is approaching the control target. The identity recognition unit performs identity recognition in accordance with the characteristic image. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus. A reception unit receives user identification information for identifying a user of the information processing apparatus which outputs display information to a display device which displays the display information, and the display information which is output to the display device. A transmission unit, in a case where it is authorized that the user is permitted to use the information processing apparatus based on an authorized result of the user identification information received by the reception unit, transmits the user identification information and the display information to the display device when it is unclear whether or not the user is authorized to output the display information received by the reception unit to the display device and a predetermined condition about the user for outputting the display information to the display device is satisfied. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104638 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PERIPHERAL DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREFOR FOR MANAGING DEVICE INFORMATION OF A PERIPHERAL DEVICE - The present invention relates to a device management system including a peripheral device, a management server configured to manage device information of the peripheral device, and a terminal communicable with the management server. In the device management system, the management server registers key obtaining information received from the terminal while associating the key obtaining information with device identification information of the peripheral device and an authentication key managed by the management server. The management server determines whether the key obtaining information, from the terminal, that is registered while being associated with the device identification information contained in an obtaining request received from the peripheral device matches the key obtaining information contained in the received obtaining request. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104639 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PRINT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In the case that a plurality of users execute output reservations while looking at targets to be output together, the necessity for an operation to sort the output materials by user after output is eliminated. The plurality of users are classified, the plurality of targets to be output selected in a scattered manner by the plurality of classified users are bulked together as selected targets to be output for each user, and those bulked targets to be output are output for each user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104640 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF READING PLURAL DOCUMENTS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a device that prevents unauthorized copying of a document to which copy inhibition information is added. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104641 | Printing Apparatus - A printing apparatus includes a storage section which stores printing jobs to be printed on a recording paper sheet; a transport section which transports the recording paper sheet; a printing section which performs the printing on the recording paper sheet transported by the transport section based on one of the printing jobs stored in the storage section; an occurrence rate judging section which calculates an occurrence rate of a jam of the recording paper sheet in the transport section during the printing based on each of the printing jobs stored in the storage section, and which compares a first occurrence rate which is the occurrence rate of a first printing job stored first in the storage section with a second occurrence rate which is the occurrence rate of a second printing job stored second in the storage section; and a control section which controls the printing section. | 04-17-2014 |
20140111825 | DATA PRINTING METHOD AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A data printing method adapted for a control end device and a system using the data printing method are provided. The data printing method includes steps of: receiving an operation command; splitting printing data into a plurality of split files; sequentially transmitting the split files to a printing device through a main transmission interface; determining whether the main transmission interface is disconnected; if the main transmission interface is disconnected, transmitting the split files that are not yet transmitted through one of at least one substitute transmission interface. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111826 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a switching unit configured to switch a power supply source from a main power source to a power storage unit according to shifting to a power failure state, a calculation unit configured to calculate a power amount to be consumed by a received job if the power supply source is the power storage unit when the job is received, a detection unit configured to detect a power amount stored in the power storage unit, a determining unit configured to determine whether the received job can be executed based on the detected power amount and the calculated power amount to be consumed for the received job, and a control unit configured to start processing the job if it is determined that the received job can be executed and to perform control during the processing of the job so as not to accept a subsequently received job. | 04-24-2014 |
20140118772 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit which is connected to a server where on-line output quota information set for each user is stored, a storage unit which stores off-line output quota information received from the server, a controller which, when a job command is input in an on-line state where communication with the server is available, determines whether to perform a job based on on-line output quota information stored in the server, and when the job command is input in an off-line state where communication with the server is cut off, determines whether to perform a job based on the off-line output quota information stored in the storage unit, and an image forming unit which, when job performance is determined by the controller, performs an image forming job corresponding to the job command. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118773 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes: a generating unit that generates a print job including one or more print data, first information indicating the one or more print data divided into multiple units for which respective print conditions when printing is executed are set, and second information indicating the print conditions; an accepting unit that accepts designation input which designates a print range of a specified job indicating a print job specified from among one or more print jobs; a determining unit that determines whether a unit is included in the print range with respect to each of units indicated by first information included in the specified job; and an output control unit that performs control, as for a unit determined to be partially included in the print range by the determining unit, so as to output options to set a print condition for the unit. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118774 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INSTRUCTION EXECUTION METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that connects to a device. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores, for each types of page description languages for describing printing data, permission information indicating whether execution of a control command described in the corresponding page description language is allowed; a receiving unit that receives the control command transmitted from the device; a determination unit that determines whether the execution of the control command is allowed for the image forming apparatus, based on the permission information being stored in the storage unit; and a controller that controls the image forming apparatus. When the execution of the image forming apparatus is disallowed for the image forming apparatus, the controller prevents the image forming apparatus from executing the control command. | 05-01-2014 |
20140126009 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - It aims to improve user's convenience by, while keeping a printing electricity charge low by executing a print job under a low electricity charge, executing a print job for a user aiming at certain print job execution without waiting until time of the low electricity charge. In order to do so, an image forming apparatus acquires information related to the electricity charge, and restricts execution of the input print job based on the acquired information. Thus, in case of restricting the execution of the input print job based on the information related to the electricity charge, if the input print job is a first print job configured to be executed on a priority basis, the first print job is executed, and, if the input print job is a second print job not configured to be executed on a priority basis, the execution of the second print job is restricted. | 05-08-2014 |
20140132975 | NETWORKED PRINTING SYSTEMS - A system and method provide third party content to a local client printing system through a local client printing system; a content provider server operatively connected to the local client printing system; and a third party content provider server operatively connected to the content provider server. The content provider server provides printable content to the local client printing system, the printable content being specified by the local client printing system. The content provider server retrieves, from the third party content provider server, the printable content being specified by the local client printing system. The local client printing system prints the printable content received from the content provider server. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132976 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PRINT JOBS - A method and system for managing print jobs is disclosed. A received print job is compared with pending print jobs and executed print jobs, wherein the pending print jobs and the executed print jobs are stored in one or more print queues associated with one or more printing systems. Thereafter, one or more pending print jobs are suspended if the one or more pending print jobs are found similar to the received print job based on the comparison; or the received print job is suspended if the received print job is found similar to one or more of the executed print jobs, based on the comparison. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132977 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes control units that are booted up in parallel after reset, and further includes: a display unit displaying, in multiple stages, overall boot-up progress that is boot-up progress of the entire apparatus; a display control unit controlling the display unit to display the overall boot-up progress, wherein the display control unit includes: an estimation subunit making estimation of the overall boot-up progress based on period counted after the reset; and a reception subunit receiving boot-up progress of each control unit, and until receiving the boot-up progress of each control unit or the boot-up progress of the latest control unit in terms of boot-up completion, the display control unit performs control based on the estimation, and after receiving the boot-up progress of each control unit or the boot-up progress of the latest control unit, the display control unit performs control based on the received boot-up progress. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132978 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT PREVIEW DISPLAYING METHOD AND TANGIBLE COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a print system including: a client terminal; and a print server to create a print data in accordance with a file received from the client terminal and to transmit the created print data to a printer; and to instruct the client terminal to display a print preview for the file and a print setting UI on a Web browser of the client terminal in a display mode selected from a plurality of display modes, wherein the client terminal determines the display mode and notifies the print server of the determined display mode, and wherein the print server selects the display mode in which the print preview and the print setting UI are displayed on the Web browser of the client terminal, in accordance with a notification relating to the determined display mode from the client terminal. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132979 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprising: a reception unit adapted to receive a packet containing first data to be stored in a storage unit, a first address indicating an address of second data held in the storage unit, and a second address indicating an address at which the first data is to be written in the storage unit; an access unit adapted to read out the second data from the storage unit based on the first address, and write the first data in the storage unit based on the second address; and a transmission unit adapted to replace the first data of the packet received by the reception unit with the second data read out by the access unit, and transmit the packet. | 05-15-2014 |
20140139863 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An image processing device that executes a job based on instruction operation by a user authenticated as a result of user authentication, comprises a human body communication controller that makes human body communication with a human body communication terminal held by a user through at least one human body communication antenna arranged around a device body, and an authenticating unit that performs user authentication based on user information the human body communication controller acquires from said human body communication terminal. The human body communication controller makes the human body communication terminal shift from a communication mode to a power-saving mode in response to authenticating a user by the authenticating unit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140146339 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF MACHINE FAILURE DATA ON A PRINT SHOP - A method of analyzing failures of a print device may include receiving failure information associated with a print device in a print shop. The failure information may pertain to a plurality of failures experienced by the print device over a period of time. The method may include generating, by a computing device, failure distribution information by, for each pair of consecutive failures in the failure information, determining a time to failure between the pair of consecutive failures, determining a repair time associated with each failure in the pair of consecutive failures, and setting the determined times to failure and the determined repair times as the failure distribution information. The method may include performing, by the computing device, a simulation of processing of one or more print jobs by the print device using the failure distribution information, and displaying one or more results of the simulation to a user. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146340 | PRINT MANAGMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print management apparatus includes a print management unit, a storage unit, and a print controller. The print management unit acquires print information of printing processing performed by an image forming apparatus and performs management of the processing. The storage unit temporarily stores print information acquired by the print management unit. The print controller performs control such that print information that is temporarily stored is transmitted sequentially to the image forming apparatus. Even in a case where the print controller has generated, by mistake, a notification indicating completion of transmission, even though the print controller has not completed transmission of print information, the print management unit detects that there is a page that has not been printed by the image forming apparatus, on the basis of information on the progress of printing from the image forming apparatus. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146341 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus that can start up with an engine unit being in a non-power-distributed state and a control method for the same are provided. Information indicating the error in an engine unit is stored in a non-volatile memory, the engine unit based on the information stored in the non-volatile memory is power-distributed in a case where the image forming apparatus starts up, and if the error is detected in the engine unit that was power-distributed, notification of the error in the engine unit is made. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146342 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - When an event requiring maintenance in an apparatus has been detected, moving image reproducing, for starting reproducing of a moving image indicating a procedure of maintenance in response to a user instruction and reproducing, is executed. Then, when it is determined that the procedure indicated by the moving image is executed, reproducing of a moving image indicating a procedure for clearing the event is executed. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146343 | PRINT JOB MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A print job management apparatus includes a print job storage unit that stores print jobs with respect to each user, a stored time counter that counts each stored duration time of the print jobs, a threshold value setting unit that sets a warning judgment threshold value, a stored time comparator that judges whether or not the each stored duration time exceeds the warning judgment threshold value by comparing the each stored duration time of the print jobs with the warning judgment threshold value, and a warning unit that provides a warning to a user of a print job when it is judged by the stored time comparator that a stored duration time of the print job exceeds the warning judgment threshold value. According to the print job management apparatus, it can be prevented to erroneously print out a print job(s) stored in a printer for a long time. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146344 | DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A device includes a notification unit configured to notify an information processing apparatus of an execution instruction for accessing the device, a reception unit configured to receive a fax address corresponding to drawing data from the information processing apparatus as a response to the notification of the execution instruction by the notification unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a fax data based on the fax address and the drawing data. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146345 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - If an information processing apparatus detects that a shift condition for shifting from a normal power mode to a power saving mode has been satisfied, the information processing apparatus determines whether a session with an external apparatus has been established. If it is determined that the session has been established, the information processing apparatus shifts to a first power saving mode while maintaining the session. On the other hand, if it is determined that the session has not been established, the information processing apparatus shifts to a second power saving mode in which less power is consumed than in the first power saving mode. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146346 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Pauses in Printing - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling pauses in printing. The method includes: transmitting imaging data to an imaging unit, and transmitting one printing signal whilst transmitting the imaging data of each page which are printed when the imaging unit receives the printing signal; generating a command of pausing printing when receiving a cause of pausing; stopping transmitting the printing signal to the imaging unit according to the command of pausing printing, printing the imaging data is stopped when the imaging unit cannot receive the printing signal. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146347 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes first through third control units, with the first for processing input image information and each of the second and third for controlling an operation of an image forming unit by communication with the first. In a first mode, in which power is supplied to the first through third control units, the first and third control units communicate via the second control unit. In a second mode, in which the first control unit does not communicate with the second control unit, the first and third control units communicate via a communication line without communicating via the second control unit. The power consumption of the second mode is lower than that of the first mode. In the second mode, the first and third control units can transmit information for transition from the second mode to the first mode to each other via the communication line. | 05-29-2014 |
20140153024 | DATA PRINTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROTECTION METHOD THEREOF - A data printing system and data protection method thereof are provided. The system includes a data output device and a data printing device. The data output device transfers data into a printing file that includes a plurality of file blocks. Also, the data output device sequentially classifies the file blocks into a plurality of sections with a preset number, and respectively generates a plurality of checksums according to the file blocks in each section. The data output device respectively appends the checksums to the sections and sequentially transmits the sections. The data printing device is connected to the data output device through a connecting interface, receives the sections and examines whether the file blocks in each section are correct according to the checksum of each section respectively. When the file blocks of each section are correct, the data printing device executes a printing job corresponding to the section. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153025 | METHOD OF SENSING CONNECTION OF USB DEVICE IN POWER SAVE MODE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes a main controller, a universal serial bus (USB) interface to which an external USB device is connected, a voltage bus (VBUS) power supply to supply power to the USB interface through the VBUS line, a voltage change detector to output a wake-up signal to the main controller if a voltage change occurs on the VBUS line, a USB host controller to perform data communication with the USB device connected through the USB interface, and an image forming job performing unit to perform an image forming job according to control by the main controller. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153026 | ETHERNET AND USB POWERED PRINTERS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLYING ETHERNET AND USB POWER TO A PRINTER - Communication port powered printers and methods of powering of printers that support high speed printing and/or data intensive printing are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a power storage unit within the printer device that is able be charged during non-printing periods and provide for necessary energy bursts to support such higher powered processes. Some embodiments may provide for devices and methods that allow for printers to operate with main power provided by conventional power mains and for back-up or secondary power to be supplied by the communication port. Some embodiments may further provide for configuration settings in printer control electronics based on available power from the communication port. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153027 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus that detects a maintenance event required for the maintenance thereof and displays video data on a screen by reproducing the video data which indicates a maintenance procedure for resolving the detected maintenance event. Then, the image processing apparatus displays a specific scene included in the video data on the screen after completion of reproduction of the video data. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153028 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A status information communication port for notifying a host apparatus of an error that has occurred during initialization of a printer engine, and a print data communication port for receiving print data sent from the host apparatus are respectively opened at appropriate timings. For example, the status information communication port is opened in response to completion of initialization of an interface, and the print data communication port is opened in response to completion of the initialization of the printer engine. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153029 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A specific sheet is prevented from being erroneously used in a job other than a job to use the specific sheet. A method for controlling a printing apparatus including a plurality of sheet storage units for supplying a sheet and a holding unit for storing jobs in order of reception. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153030 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus detects a failure that has occurred, and determines whether or not the location at which the failure has been detected is in an accessory device attached to the body of an image processing apparatus. When the location at which the failure has been detected is in an accessory device, the image processing apparatus receives video data that shows a handling procedure for eliminating the failure that has occurred in the accessory device from a video distribution server and stores the data in a storage unit, and reproduces and displays the video data on a screen. Then, when the image processing apparatus detects that the above described failure has been eliminated, it erases the video data displayed on the above described screen from the storage unit. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153031 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING USER AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - The information processing apparatus includes first authentication portion, human body detecting portion, de-authentication portion, and second authentication portion. The first authentication portion shifts the state of the information processing apparatus to a login state in accordance with a predetermined first login operation. The human body detecting portion detects a human body within a predetermined range from the information processing apparatus. The de-authentication portion cancels the login state when a human body is not detected by the human body detecting portion during the login state. The second authentication portion shifts the state of the information processing apparatus to the login state in accordance with a second login operation involving less operation steps than the first login operation after the login state is canceled by the de-authentication portion. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153032 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device, a printing system, a program, and a printing method for improving security and user-friendliness are disclosed. The printing system ( | 06-05-2014 |
20140153033 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXTRACTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to a device having a first determining unit configured to determine whether version information included in a two-dimensional code included in an input image is version information that is supported by the device and a second determining unit configured to determine to prohibit printing of the input image when the included version information is determined to be version information that is not supported by the device or to determine whether to permit or prohibit printing of the input image based on information other than the version information included in the two-dimensional code when the included version information is determined to be version information that is supported by the device. With this arrangement, it is possible to execute processing in accordance with version information included in a two-dimensional code. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153034 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device comprises an image data input means | 06-05-2014 |
20140153035 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device comprises an image data input means | 06-05-2014 |
20140153036 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device comprises an image data input means | 06-05-2014 |
20140160510 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises: a processing unit which performs a predetermined process on input data, and outputs the input data on which the predetermined process has been performed; a measurement unit configured to measure an output amount of the output data from the processing unit; a specifying unit configured to specify a period in which the predetermined process is performed by the processing unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether the output amount measured by the measurement unit in the specified period satisfies a predetermined condition; and an output unit configured to output a log associated with the predetermined process by the processing unit on the basis of the determination result. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160511 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, a method of controlling it and a storage medium. The apparatus detects an error, reproduces moving images corresponding to operations of an operation procedure for cancelling the error, and detects user operations. When the apparatus detects an operation during reproduction of a corresponding moving image, and the operation is not a last operation, the apparatus reproduces a next operation moving image. When the operation is not detected during reproduction of the corresponding moving image, the apparatus ends reproduction of the moving image. In a case that the operation is detected during reproduction of the corresponding moving image, and the operation is the last operation, the apparatus executes error recovery processing. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160512 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A first service in a system in which a plurality of services cooperatively perform processing, comprises: a generation unit which generates authorization information to use a function provided by the first service and link information to call an input window of the authorization information; a holding unit which holds the link information and the authorization information in association with each other; a providing unit which provides the link information to a second service; a notification unit which notifies a user of the authorization information; a displaying unit which displays the input window corresponding to the link information when the user has designated the link information obtained from the second service; and a permission unit which permits use of the function provided by the first service when the user has input the notified authorization information to the displayed input window. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160513 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention aims to, even if a job for which there is a strong possibility that necessary power exceeds maximum power consumption is requested, process the job in an operation mode in which necessary power does not exceed the maximum poser consumption. Thus, in case of performing a copy function of printing an image on a paper based on read and acquired image data, an image forming apparatus performs control not to simultaneously perform a reading operation of reading an image of an original and a printing operation of printing an image on a paper, when information for restricting an amount of power that the image forming apparatus can use has been received, and performs control to simultaneously perform the reading operation of reading the image of the original and the printing operation of printing the image on the paper, when the information is not received. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160514 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a storage unit; a multiple programs executing unit configured to execute multiple programs; a log file recording unit configured to record pieces of log information output by the respective multiple programs as multiple log files, respectively, in the storage unit; and a collected log file recording unit configured to integrate the multiple log files into one collected log file and record the collected log file in the storage unit in a chronological order. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160515 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus can achieve power saving while preventing documents from being incorrectly placed upside down. A control method for controlling the image processing apparatus includes processing, by a first image processing unit, image data, read by a first reading unit, on a first side of documents, processing, by a second image processing unit, image data, read by a second reading unit, on a second side of the documents, determining whether the first reading unit or the second reading unit has read a predetermined number of blank pages, and if it is determined that the first reading unit or the second reading unit has read the predetermined number blank pages, performing power control to shut off power supply to the first image processing unit or the second image processing unit before reading the documents is completed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160516 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEMORY MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM - In an image forming apparatus having a power button for shifting the apparatus to either a power shutoff state where power supply is shut off or a power-saving state where power supply is limited, the image forming apparatus is shifted to the power-saving state when the press continuing time of the power button is shorter than a threshold, and shifted to the power shutoff state when it is longer than the threshold. When the press continuing time is shorter than the threshold, information indicating that the shift will occur is displayed on a display unit before the image forming apparatus is shifted to the power-saving state. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160517 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS - A printing system includes a printing control apparatus including a reception unit that receives a print job transmitted from an external apparatus, a first storage unit that stores the print job, and a transmission unit that transmits the print job to a printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus including a reception unit that receives the print job, a printing unit that performs printing in accordance with the print job, and a notification unit that notifies the printing control apparatus that the printing is completed in a case where the printing unit completes the printing in accordance with the print job. The transmission unit transmits information indicating that the printing apparatus is permitted to be shifted to the power saving state upon reception of the printing completion notification. The printing apparatus further includes a control unit that shifts the printing apparatus to the power saving state upon reception of the information. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160518 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus including applications and system side software for providing system side services to the applications is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: an authentication module for displaying an authentication screen on an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, wherein the authentication module allows the image forming apparatus to display a screen for using the image forming apparatus instead of the authentication screen if authentication data input from the authentication screen satisfies an authentication condition, and wherein the authentication module is provided in the image forming apparatus separately from the system side software. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160519 | PRINTER - In one example a media authorization code may be authenticated in a printer to authorize the colorant supply to print when a counter does not exceed a predetermined amount of authorized media units. | 06-12-2014 |
20140168685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEASING PRINT JOBS BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION - A system and method that provides a user interface on a mobile network terminal for operation with a printer resource access system wherein the user interface is modified for releasing a print job from a nearby printer resource. Since printer resources may include any number of print job release mechanism each requiring different authentication information, the user interface must be modified appropriately. The mobile network terminal obtains location information from a location service, such as GPS or an internet based location service, and provides the location information to a punter directory service in a printer resource access system. The printer directory service then consults the database of printer resource information and provides connection and configuration information for printer resource located nearby the mobile network terminal. The mobile network terminal modifies its user interface to accept the appropriate type of authentication and configuration information specified by the printer directory service. The authentication information may then be provided over a secure network connection to the printer resource to release the print job. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168686 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit which reads an image on a document while being conveyed, a cover movable between an opened position where the reading unit is opened and a closed position where the reading unit is covered, a metal pressing member held by the cover and configured to face the reading unit and press the document toward the reading unit when the cover is at the closed position, a metal frame supporting the conveyor and configured to face the pressing member when the cover is at the closed position, and a ground member directly connected to the frame and configured to be separated from the pressing member when the cover is at the opened position, and to be in contact with the pressing member when the cover is at the closed position. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168687 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SUPPORTING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTHENTICATION OF NFC DEVICE THEREOF - An image forming apparatus supporting a near field communication (NFC) function and a method of performing authentication of an NFC device in the image forming apparatus is provided. The method includes receiving identification information by tagging an NFC device and determining whether the NFC device is authenticated or not, by using the received identification information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168688 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, EXTERNAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - In an image forming system including an image forming apparatus that notifies an external apparatus of detection of a failure and the external apparatus that transmits solving information for solving the failure to the image forming apparatus, a type of media associated with the detected failure is decided on, and the solving information is transmitted to the image forming apparatus by using the type of media that was decided on. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168689 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select a mode of processing to be executed when a power supply state of the information processing apparatus is shifted from a first power supply state to a second power supply state, a determination unit configured to determine time necessary for executing the processing based on the mode selected by the selection unit, an execution unit configured to execute the processing in the mode selected by the selection unit, and a control unit configured to control the execution unit to execute the processing again when the processing has not been completed within the time determined by the determination unit. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168690 | Methods and Apparatuses for Creating Authenticatable Printed Articles and Subsequently Verifying Them - A printer with integral scanner obtains a digital signature from an article as it is printed. The integral scanner has a coherent source which directs a light beam to illuminate the article and a detector arrangement to collect data points from light scattered from many different parts of the article to collect a large number of independent data points. The digital signature derived from the data points is stored in a database with an image of what was printed on the article. The authenticity of an article purported to be the originally printed article can be verified by scanning the purported genuine article to obtain its digital signature. The database is then searched, to establish whether there is a match. If a match is found, the image is displayed with the matched digital signature to allow a further visual check that the article is genuine. | 06-19-2014 |
20140176982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PRINT STOCK INFORMATION USING A CLOUD ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM - A cloud administration system for managing stock information in a network printing context may include a processing module in communication with a plurality of print devices. The processing module may be located remotely from the plurality of print devices. The cloud administration system may include one or more storage modules in communication with the processing module. The processing module may be configured to receive stock information from at least one of the plurality of print devices, store the stock information in at least one of the storage modules, and enable a remote system to access at least a portion of the stock information from the storage module. The remote system may be located remotely from the processing module. The cloud administration system may operate as a shared resource for each of the plurality of print devices and the remote system. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176983 | PROTOCOL FOR BIOMETRIC DEVICE CAPTURE AND QUALITY ANALYSIS - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a computer-implemented method for communicating with peripheral devices comprising loading, by a computer, a configuration file specifying supported peripheral devices and defining commands for each supported peripheral device; receiving, by a computer, a selection of one of the supported peripheral devices from a list of peripheral devices presented in an interface; calling, by a computer, a device handler for the selected peripheral device; invoking, by a computer, protocols for the selected peripheral device that are specified by the device handler corresponding to the selected peripheral device; and sending, by a computer, commands entered through the interface to the selected peripheral device using the invoked protocols of the device handler corresponding to the selected peripheral device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176984 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROXY RESPONSE METHOD - 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. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176985 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a replaceable component. The main body includes a first storage unit storing first authentication informations for authentication with the replaceable component, a data storage unit storing authentication data for choosing the first authentication information. The replaceable component includes a second storage unit storing second authentication informations corresponding to the first authentication information. Authentication data is set to be different among different image forming apparatuses. The main body attempts authentication with the replaceable component using the first authentication information chosen based on the authentication data. When the second authentication information corresponding to the chosen first authentication information is stored, a control unit establishes connection between communication units of the main body and the replaceable component. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176986 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A power supply apparatus switches between normal operation mode and power saving mode, to supply power to the loads. Power supply apparatus includes first power supply, second power supply, current detection portion, determination portion, and supply control portion. First power supply is configured to supply power to plurality of loads. Second power supply has an output current capacity which is less than that of first power supply. Current detection portion is configured to detect current consumption of first load that is operating. Determination portion is configured to determine whether or not the current consumption detected by current detection portion is less than or equal to the output current capacity of second power supply. Supply control portion is configured to supply, based on a result of determination made by determination portion, power to the first load from one of first power supply and second power supply in the power saving mode. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176987 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information. | 06-26-2014 |
20140185078 | PRINT JOB DISTRIBUTION WITHIN A PRINTING SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method, computer program product, and system for print job distribution. An amount of available consumable resources for each of a plurality of printers is determined. An estimated usage of the consumable resources for the plurality of printers for one or more printer jobs in a printer queue is determined. A maintenance schedule related to the maintenance of the consumable resources for each of the plurality of printers is accessed. A print distribution plan for each print job in the printer queue is determined, based at least in part on the amount of available consumable resources for each of the plurality of printers, the estimated usage of consumable resources for the plurality of printers for each printer job in a printer queue, and the maintenance schedule related to the maintenance of the consumable resources for each of the plurality of printers. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185079 | Process Enablement in Network Downtime Condition - It is a first aspect of the present disclosure to provide a computer implemented method of enabling, by a mobile device, a peripheral device connected to a network that includes establishing a connection with the peripheral device when the peripheral device fails to communicate with the network; querying the peripheral device for a document; receiving a document from the peripheral device; processing the document; and sending the processed document to the peripheral device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185080 | POWER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A power supply management system includes an off-operation register configured to hold a situation of reception of an off-operation of a power supply and a power control unit configured to turn off the power supply upon receiving a power-off request from a server via a network. The server includes a server control unit that serves as an off-operation situation grasping unit for grasping, via the network, the situation of reception of the off-operation held in the off-operation register and serves as a power-off request transmitting unit for transmitting the power-off request via the network to the entire image forming devices belonging to a group in which the entire image forming devices have received the off-operation. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185081 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A print control apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus has a first power mode and a second power mode, and power consumption of the second power mode is lower than power consumption of the first power mode. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185082 | SYSTEM INCLUDING OPERATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION STORING APPARATUS, METHOD PERFORMED BY THE SYSTEM, AND THE INFORMATION STORING APPARATUS - A system includes an operation device and an information storing apparatus, which are connected via a network. The operation device determines, based on information input from the outside of the operation device in response to an operation performed on the operation device, an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the system, for causing the electronic device to input electronic data to the information storing apparatus, and sends, to the information storing apparatus, a first request to cause the determined electronic device to input the electronic data to the information storing apparatus. The information storing apparatus sends, to the determined electronic device, a second request based on the first request sent from the operation device, and stores the electronic data that has been sent from the determined electronic device based on the sent second request. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192377 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRINTING SERVICES AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A KEY TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZED PAGES AS NEEDED - A vendor provides, and an operator obtains a method dedicated printer bundle. The printer bundle includes a printer having a key interface, an ink supply, and a key for association with the printer through the key interface. The key is provided with key data pertaining to an authorized page count. The printer operator is allowed to acquire additional authorized pages as needed. When the printer ink supply becomes depleted, the printer operator is provided with additional ink at no or insignificant cost. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198335 | SECURING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN A DOCUMENT - Provided is a method of securing confidential information in a document. A user input is received to identify confidential information in a document. The confidential information is encrypted wherein encryption results in greeking of the confidential information. A password is associated with the encrypted confidential information, wherein the password is required to decrypt and ungreek the confidential information. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198336 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management system totals print result information for each customer user. The device management system receives a request including customer information from a client terminal, and responds to the client with a redirect URL for causing the client to access an image forming apparatus installed in an environment corresponding to customer information included in the request in order for user authentication of the client terminal. When the image forming apparatus accessed by the client terminal has succeeded the user authentication, the print result information relating to the user is provided to the client terminal. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198337 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The power supply apparatus includes a first power supply unit for outputting a first voltage; a second power supply unit for outputting a second voltage different from the first voltage; a switch unit operating with the first voltage, which is disposed in a power supply path connecting to the second power supply unit, for supplying and shutting down power to the second power supply unit; a detection unit for detecting that a predetermined voltage or higher is supplied to the first power supply unit; and a control unit for controlling the switch unit to stop the output of the first voltage from the first power supply unit, when the detection unit detects that the predetermined voltage or higher is supplied to the first power supply unit. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198338 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A power supply apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display external devices allowed to receive power from the power supply apparatus, an input reception unit configured to receive, from a user, an input for selecting an external device as a power supply target from among the displayed external devices, and a power supply target device identification unit configured to identify the selected external device as a power supply target. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING STATUS MONITOR CAPABILITY TO PRINTING DEVICES - Methods and systems are described for providing status monitor capability to a networked printer. The methods and systems, upon receipt of a print job, embed status monitor instructions in print data of the print job, send the print data from an information server to the printer while monitoring the status of the printer, and return status monitor information regarding the printer. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLOADING A REJECTED PRINT JOB REQUEST TO AN ALTERNATIVE LOCATION - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for uploading a rejected print job request to an alternative location are disclosed. For example, the method receives a print job request in a managed print environment, determines that the print job request violates a rule for printing in the managed print environment, displays a print job pop-up dialogue that indicates that the print job request has been rejected, wherein the print job pop-up dialogue provides one or more alternative locations to upload the print job request, receives a selection of one of the one or more alternative locations to upload the print job request, converts the print job request into an electronic document and uploads the electronic document to the one of the one or more alternative locations that was selected. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204405 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THICK PAPER IMAGE BORDER OPTIMIZATION - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for optimizing printing of an image on a non-optimal medium are disclosed. For example, the method analyzes one or more characteristics of a medium, determines that the medium is a non-optimal medium based upon the one or more characteristics that are analyzed, determines if an alternate medium having optimal medium characteristics is available, determines if a print parameter modification is available, increases a minimum border width of the non-optimal medium such that a sum of the minimum border width of each side of the non-optimal medium is greater than a pre-defined percentage of a width of the non-optimal medium if the alternate medium and the print parameter modification are not available, and prints the image on the non-optimal medium using the minimum border width. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204406 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which receives image data, a detection unit which detects a printing concentration of the received image data, an image processing unit which composes a copy protection pattern and the image data so that the copy protection pattern is printed with a concentration corresponding to the detected printing concentration, and an image forming unit which prints image data composed with the copy protection pattern. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204407 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus and image forming system for communicating with a network via a server are disclosed. The server responds to an inquiry about device information of the image forming apparatus based on device information stored in a memory in a case that the server is in a power saving mode, and also updates device information in the memory upon receiving device information from the image forming apparatus. In addition, the server updates device information in the memory by requesting the image forming apparatus for the device information of the image forming apparatus in a case where the server shifts to the power saving mode. In a case that the device information of the image forming apparatus has changed, the image forming apparatus transmits the changed device information to the server. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204408 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM WITH CREATING PROGRAM STORED THEREON - An information processing apparatus includes: a package holding section; a package designation receiving section; and a program creating section. The package holding section holds a plurality of packages each containing: a command to output to an image forming apparatus an instruction to perform an operation performable by the image forming apparatus or a designation of a setting value for an item adjustable in the image forming apparatus, the setting value indicating an operating level of an operation shown by the item; and image data showing the operation for which the command instruction to perform is intended or the item for which the command designates the setting value. The package designation receiving section receives a designation of packages and an order of execution of the packages. The program creating section uses the designated packages to create a program for executing the commands in the packages in the designated order of execution. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204409 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRASITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM - A power supply control device includes a power conversion portion to convert AC power from a commercial power supply to DC, a control portion, a first communication portion connected to a network, a second communication portion connected to an image forming apparatus, and a device power supply switch arranged between the commercial power supply and the image forming apparatus. The control portion includes a mode decision portion to decide between a normal mode and a power-saving mode, a positional information acquisition portion to acquire positional information of the image forming apparatus, a sleep switch portion to open the device power supply switch, an activation portion to close the device power supply switch in response to a packet including the positional information of the image forming apparatus, a temporary storage control portion to temporarily store the packet, a packet transmission portion to transmit the packet, and a connection portion. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204410 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus configured to execute print processing, includes an information storage configured to store print-limit information and notification-destination information set for each user. The print-limit information includes at least one of a print condition and a limit on a printable amount. A user-information acquisition unit is configured to acquire print-instructing-user information, which is information on a print-instructing user instructing a print-executing user to execute printing. An information-acquisition unit is configured to acquire, from the information storage, the print-limit information and the notification-destination information corresponding to the print-instructing-user information acquired by the user-information acquisition unit, and a notification unit is configured to notify the print-instructing user of a result of print control by the print controller, based on the notification-destination information acquired by the information-acquisition unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140211232 | CUMULATIVE CONSUMABLE USAGE IN CLOUD-BASED PRINTING SERVICES - In one example, a cloud-based printing service that calculates cumulative usage data of a consumable. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211233 | CONFIDENTIAL-SENDER EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR PRINTING - In one example, an email address of a network-connected printer is stored. A print authorization code is stored. A confidential-sender email address is received and stored. After the receiving and storing of the confidential-sender email address, an email is received. The email is an email sent to the printer address, and includes a print job. Responsive to determining the email was sent from the confidential-sender address, the print job is stored. Responsive to receiving the print-authorization code, the print job is sent to the printer for printing. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211234 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING OVER A NETWORK - Systems and methods for printing a document over a network are described. In one implementation, the printing system ( | 07-31-2014 |
20140211235 | Printing Control Device, Printing Control Method, And Printing System - A printing control device that sends print data to a printer can automatically configure the driver corresponding to the printer, and enables using a single printer driver to drive printers of the same model. A printing control device that sends print data to and controls printing by a printer includes: a storage unit that stores settings information for generating the print data; a configuration unit that acquires information set in the printer at a specific time, and stores the acquired information as the settings information in the storage unit; and a generating unit that generates the print data based on the settings information stored in the storage unit when printing by the printer is requested. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211236 | Printer, Printing Control Method, And Recording Medium Storing A Printing Control Program - A printer that receives requests to print on plural different media enables efficient system maintenance and system changes. A printer connected in a daisy chain to a host device or a first printer on one side and to a second printer on the other side has a communication unit that receives print request data from the host device or the first printer, and sends the print request data to the second printer; a print unit that interprets the received print request data and executes a printing control process based on the result of data interpretation; and a response unit that generates individual response data for the printer based on the result of the printing control process, generates unified response data from response data received from the second printer and the individual response data, and sends the unified response data to the host device or the first printer. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211237 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus that facilitates management of information security policy even for an extended application installed from exterior. A scanning unit scans an original to generate image data of the original. A printing unit prints an image based on image data. A management unit manages applications dynamically installed. At least one of the applications executes a job using at least one of the scanning unit and the printing unit. A setting unit sets an operation mode for the image forming apparatus, based on security settings that are received from an external apparatus. A determination unit determines whether each of the applications supports the security settings. A control unit restricts an operation of an application that the determination unit determines that the application does not support the security settings. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211238 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXCHANGING PRINT DATA WITH ANOTHER IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming device capable of acquiring to-be-printed data from any of external image forming devices, without making inquiries about the presence or absence of the to-be-printed data to all the external image forming devices. An image forming apparatus receives, from another image forming apparatus that has received print data, bibliographic information containing identification information that identifies the another image forming apparatus, and registers the received bibliographic information. When receiving a bibliographic information acquisition request, the image forming apparatus transmits bibliographic information, among pieces of bibliographic information registered in the image forming apparatus, to the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the bibliographic information acquisition request. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211239 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a power supply apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a power supply system including a power supply unit configured to wirelessly supply power to an external device, a received power information reception unit configured to receive received power information representing the power received by the external device, and a power supply control unit configured to control the power supply unit to turn ON/OFF the power supply based on a set power set on the power supply unit and the received power represented by the received power information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211240 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SECURE PRINT FUNCTION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of flexibly controlling whether or not to perform user authentication when a user performs operations related to functions of the apparatus. When a user instructs the apparatus to perform any of operations related to a secure print job which is a print job executed by using a secure print function, when the apparatus is operated in a function-based authentication mode, it is determined whether or not a user-selected function of a plurality of functions including at least a secure printing function for printing data in response to an input of a password requires user authentication. When the secure printing function is specified as the user-selected function and it is determined that the user-selected function does not require user authentication, the user is allowed to use the secure printing function, even if the user is not authenticated. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211241 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an embodiment, an authentication system includes a supply device having a data storage chip with identification (ID) bit memory cells. The ID bit memory cells comprising a measured cell, pointer cells to store address information that points to the measured cell, and analog cells that store factory-measured analog information about the measured cell. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218756 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus, in a case where determination whether resource data can be added and registered in a printing control apparatus is made, and if it is determined that the resource data cannot be added and registered, without transmitting a resource registration job, performs control so that the print job is transmitted to the printing control apparatus, and when the print job arrives at the top of a print queue, performs control so that the resource registration job is transmitted, and after registration of the resource data, performs control so that output of the print job being stopped in the printing control apparatus is started. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218757 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In an image forming apparatus that includes a plurality of processing units configured to perform predetermined image processing and a connection unit configured to connect to an external storage unit, a CPU identifies, in response to the connection of an external storage unit, a read/write state of data in the external storage unit. The CPU specifies the processing units to supply power to among the plurality of processing units based on the identified read/write state, and supplies power to the specified processing units. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218758 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE WHICH, WHEN AUTHENTICATION MEDIA ARE READ BY AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, EXECUTES JOBS STORED IN STORAGE MEDIUM ON THE BASIS OF RESULT OF AUTHENTICATION - When a plurality of authentication cards are read by an authentication device and the authentication cards are authenticated in an image output device, a binding and printing process is carried out. The image output device combines (binds) jobs associated with the authenticated cards into one job. The order of combining the jobs and the print mode for the combined job are set in accordance with the order in which the authentication cards have been authenticated or the priorities assigned to the respective jobs. The image output device prints the combined job to obtain a set of printouts. It is thus possible to provide the image output device which can output a plurality of jobs collectively, without the need of complicated operations, while maintaining a high level of security. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233053 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store print data including a password upon receipt of the print data, a receiving unit configured to receive a print instruction for the stored print data from a user, an authentication unit capable of performing user authentication, and a printing unit configured to perform printing without causing an authenticated user to enter a password in a case where an owner of the print-instructed print data matches the authenticated user, and to perform printing in response to a match between a password received from a user and the password included in the print data in a case where the owner of the print-instructed print data differs from the authenticated user, or in a case where a print instruction is received without user authentication by the authentication unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233054 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The storage section of the multifunction peripheral stores location information containing a storage location of software which transmits a control command whose execution is permissible. The execution permission judging section of the multifunction peripheral includes (I) a storage location detecting section which detects a storage location of software which has participated in a transmission of a received control command and (II) a command permitting/prohibiting section which (i) prohibits execution of the received control command when a storage location indicated by the location information is not detected by the storage location detecting section but (ii) permits execution of the received control command when the storage location is detected by the storage location detecting section. | 08-21-2014 |
20140240745 | ERROR HANDLING FOR PRINT WORKFLOWS - Methods and systems resume workflow processing of a print job at intermediate steps of a print workflow. In one embodiment, a control system initiates processing of a print job based on steps in a print workflow, where the steps identify print shop activities to perform for the print job. The control system identifies an error in executing a step of the workflow, and identifies an intermediate step in the workflow that has executed in processing the print job. The control system identifies an updated file for the print job to correct the error, and resumes the processing of the print job at the intermediate step using the update file. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240746 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing System - A receiver is configured to receive input of authentication information of a user. A communicator is configured to perform communication with a server that performs user authentication. An image processor has at least one image processing function. A memory stores authentication information of the user and stores instructions. A processor performs: a selection process of selecting which of the server and the image processing apparatus itself performs the user authentication, based on the authentication information received by the receiver; an authentication process of causing an apparatus selected in the selection process to perform the user authentication based on the authentication information received by the receiver; and a permission process of permitting the image processor to perform image processing if the user authentication by the authentication process is successful, and of prohibiting the image processor from performing image processing if the user authentication by the authentication process is failed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240747 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS USER AUTHENTICATION BY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of returning from the power saving state and performing user authentication by one action of holding an authentication card over a card reader even when the apparatus is in the power saving state. The apparatus performs short-distance wireless communication with an external device. A controller performs control processing including at least authentication processing. When short-distance wireless communication with the device is started, a short-distance wireless communication section delivers a return-starting interrupt, to the controller, receives authentication data from the device to thereby store the authentication data during returning of the apparatus. The controller performs authentication processing based on the stored authentication data after returning of the apparatus from the power saving state, and notifies the device of an authentication processing result by a different channel. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240748 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print service server of a printing system manages information included in the print job to be transmitted and that is specific information required for specifying a user ID, and a user ID that has been registered with the print service server, an image processing apparatus transmits, to a counting server, the number of printed sheets used upon printing based on the print job and the specific information included in the print job, and the counting server queries the managing unit based on the transmitted specific information of the user ID that has been registered with the print service server and saves a user corresponding to the user ID acquired as the result of the query by the query unit, and the number of printed sheets transmitted by the transmission unit by associating them with each other. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240749 | Image Forming Apparatus Capable of Changing Internal Environment Settings, and Method of Changing Internal Environment Settings of Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes an internal environment setting, a setting changing unit, an operation invalidation unit, and a change prohibition unit. The setting changing unit changes an item of the internal environment setting in response to an operation input performed on an operation input unit or in response to an external input. The operation invalidation unit receives an invalidation instruction and invalidates the operation input performed on the operation input unit. The change prohibition unit prohibits the external input from changing an item of the internal environment setting that is locked at the operation input unit in response to the operation invalidation unit receiving the invalidation instruction. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240750 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, in which a first port, through which a communication is permitted, and a second port, through which a communication is permitted when a specific condition is satisfied, are set, includes a reception unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The reception unit receives data transmitted from an external apparatus. The determination unit determines whether the data satisfies the specific condition when the second port is used to receive the data. The control unit permits processing of the received data when the reception unit receives the data by using the first port or when the determination unit determines that the data satisfies the specific condition, and prohibits the processing of the data when the reception unit receives the data by using a port that is not the first or second port, or when the determination unit determines that the data does not satisfy the specific condition. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240751 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When transmitting print data to a printing apparatus by using a specific communication method, such as Wi-Fi Direct, and causing the printing apparatus to print the print data, if the print data is print data of a specific type, the printing apparatus performs error termination without performing printing. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240752 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a motor unit configured to give a rotary drive force to rotary members for conveying a recording medium; a switch circuit provided in a power supply line connecting a power source and the motor unit to supply electric power, connecting the motor unit to the power source upon closure of the body cover, and disconnecting the motor unit from the power source upon opening of the body cover; a power-off detecting section; a rate-of-voltage-change calculating section; and a control section. The control section deactivates each of mechanisms in the image forming apparatus when the power-off detecting section detects shutoff of power supply from the power source, and reactivates each of the mechanisms, provided that the rate of change of voltage calculated by the rate-of-voltage-change calculating section has reached a predetermined threshold, when the power-off detecting section detects electric power is supplied from the power source. | 08-28-2014 |
20140247458 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus configured to utilize a storage area to store an image includes a receiving unit configured to receive print job data for which a predetermined print method is designated. The predetermined print method is configured to enable a stored image to be printed according to a print instruction given for the image by a user after the image is stored in the storage area. A storing unit is configured to store the generated image of the page into the storage area so that the stored image of the page is printed according to the print instruction, and is configured to, if the generating unit fails to generate an image of a page from the print job data, control an image of another page that the generating unit successfully generates from the print job data so that the image of the another page is not printed. | 09-04-2014 |
20140247459 | PRINTER - A printer may receive a predetermined notification from a print mediation server. The predetermined notification may be a notification to be sent to the printer by the print mediation server when the print mediation server has stored specific print data and specific condition data indicating a specific print condition to a storage unit according to an instruction from a terminal device. The printer may acquire the specific print data and the specific condition data from the storage unit in a case where the predetermined notification is received. The printer may cause a print executing unit to execute printing of an image represented by the specific data according to the specific print condition indicated by the specific condition data. | 09-04-2014 |
20140253941 | DISTRIBUTED PRINT MANAGEMENT - Approaches are provided for processing scan data based on a scan process definition (SPD) that defines a set of instructions for acquiring image data based on one or more printed documents. An SPD may include extension data that is used to store additional data in association with the scan data. An SPD may include rights management data that is used to provide security to the scan data that is generated based on the SPD. An SPD may be used as a print process definition for dictating how print operations are to be performed. An SPD may be associated with data that identifies one or more scan devices that are prohibited from using the SPD. An SPD may be associated with access delegation data that indicates one or more users who have been delegated access to the SPD. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253942 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED SCAN SYSTEM - Approaches are provided for processing scan data based on a scan process definition (SPD) that defines a set of instructions for acquiring image data based on one or more printed documents. An SPD may include extension data that is used to store additional data in association with the scan data. An SPD may include rights management data that is used to provide security to the scan data that is generated based on the SPD. An SPD may be used as a print process definition for dictating how print operations are to be performed. An SPD may be associated with data that identifies one or more scan devices that are prohibited from using the SPD. An SPD may be associated with access delegation data that indicates one or more users who have been delegated access to the SPD. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253943 | SECURE PRINTING - Systems and methods for securely printing an electronic document. The electronic document is received as a print job at a secure print service system from a user device. The secure print service system generates a job name and a password for the print job by the secure print service system. The secure print service system then transmits the job name for the print job to a network printer communicatively coupled to the secure print service system. At the network printer, a recipient password is received from the network printer. Then, the secure print service system authorizes the printing of the document at the network printer based on comparison of the recipient password received from the network printer and the password generated by the secure print service system. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253944 | VIRTUAL PRINTER INTERFACE NODE - A virtual printer interface node enables a non-cloud-ready printer to communicate with a cloud-based service, residing on an internet. The virtual printer interface node includes a housing; a communication interface to provide communication directly to the network router; and a microcontroller operatively connected to the communication interface. The microcontroller converts commands, received through the communication interface, from the cloud-based service, residing on the internet, to native protocols of the non-cloud-ready networked printer and communicates the converted native protocols to the non-cloud-ready networked printer. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253945 | A SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A NON-CLOUD READY NETWORKED PRINTER AND A CLOUD-BASED SERVICE THROUGH A VIRTUAL PRINTER INTERFACE DEVICE - A virtual printer interface node enables a non-cloud-ready printer to communicate with a cloud-based service, residing on an internet. The virtual printer interface node includes a housing; a communication interface to provide communication directly to the network router; and a microcontroller operatively connected to the communication interface. The microcontroller converts commands, received through the communication interface, from the cloud-based service, residing on the internet, to native protocols of the non-cloud-ready networked printer and communicates the converted native protocols to the non-cloud-ready networked printer. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253946 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CONTROL OPERATION TO DISCONNECT POWER SUPPLY, POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a disconnect request receiving unit that receives, from a management apparatus which manages power, a disconnect request to disconnect a supply of power, a notification receiving unit that receives a notification of an occurrence of a predetermined event, and a controller that performs a control operation so as to disconnect the supply of power after the printing unit prints predetermined data if the disconnect request receiving unit has received the disconnect request to disconnect the supply of power and the notification receiving unit has received the notification of the occurrence of the predetermined event. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253947 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A transmission control system, which includes one or more devices for transmitting transmission data based on a transmission job received from an external device, includes an image processing unit configured to create, based on the received transmission job, the transmission data by performing image processing on image data included in the transmission job; a determining unit configured to determine whether the transmission job includes an instruction to make a confirmation whether to transmit the transmission data before transmitting the transmission data; a confirming unit configured to confirm with a user whether to transmit the created transmission data before transmitting the transmission data, when the instruction to make the confirmation is included in the transmission job; and a transmission control unit configured to transmit the transmission data when the user has confirmed to transmit the transmission data as a result of the confirmation by the confirming unit. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253948 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a first processing unit configured to execute a first type function, a second processing unit configured to execute a second type function different from the first type function, and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the first processing unit and the second processing unit, wherein a storage unit stores a first guaranteed time during which a power supply to the first processing unit is maintained and a second guaranteed time during which a power supply to the second processing unit is maintained, and a control unit configured to stop the power supply to the first processing unit when the stored first guaranteed time elapses and to stop the power supply to the second processing unit when the stored second guaranteed time elapses. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253949 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication apparatus includes: a communicating device configured to communicate with a mobile terminal according to a short distance wireless communication standard; at least one input receiver each configured to receive an input; and a controller configured to execute a processing related to the input received by the at least one input receiver. The controller is configured to execute: an approach detection processing in which the controller detects an approach of the mobile terminal to the communicating device; and a disabling processing in which the controller disables at least a portion of the at least one input receiver in response to detection of the approach of the mobile terminal in the approach detection processing. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253950 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a first wireless communication unit that receives data from a mobile phone, and a reader-writer that transmits an address of the first wireless communication unit to the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a contact/non-contact IC card that receives the address, and a second wireless communication unit that transmits image data to the first wireless communication unit utilizing the address. When communication is made between the mobile phone and the image forming apparatus, the address of the first wireless communication unit is transmitted to the contact/non-contact IC card through the reader-writer, and the second wireless communication unit transmits data to the first wireless communication unit utilizing the address. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253951 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 09-11-2014 |
20140268205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LAUNCHING AN APPLICATION PROGRAM UPON ASSOCIATION OF A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH A LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A system and method for launching an application program stored in a memory of a mobile computing device when the mobile device is associated with a local area network (LAN) is provided. The method may be programmed for execution in a computing environment, wherein the method comprises: providing a local area network; allowing the mobile computing device to associate with the local area network; providing a web page for display on the mobile computing device including terms and conditions of use of the local area network; allowing for the acceptance of the displayed terms and conditions of use of the local area network using the mobile computing device; providing for the detection of the application program in the memory of the mobile computing device; and if the application program is detected in the memory of the mobile computing device, launching the application program on the mobile computing device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268206 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT JOB CREATING DEVICE, PRINT JOB CREATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory recording medium stores a print job creating program, which when executed by a processor causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes generating with a first print job generator a temporary print job based on a change of a setting value associated with printing received from a user, determining with a line breaking rule check unit whether execution of a post-process recorded in the temporary print job is acceptable in a printer, based on a definition of a line breaking rule representing acceptability of the post-process according to a combination of setting values that are not processed by the printer, presenting with a line breaking rule check result presenting unit a result of the determination to the user, and generating with a second print job generator a print job based on determination of a setting value associated with the printing received from the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268207 | IMAGE EXAMINATION APPARATUS, IMAGE EXAMINATION SYSTEM, AND IMAGE EXAMINATION METHOD - An image examination apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate an examination image for examining a read image; an extraction unit configured to extract, from the examination image, multiple reference points used for alignment between the examination and read images; a calculation unit configured to calculate information on misalignment between positions of the reference points and positions corresponding respectively to the reference points in the read image; an excluding unit configured to exclude a reference point from the multiple reference points, based on the information on misalignment; an alignment unit configured to perform alignment between the examination and read images based on the reference points other than the excluded reference point; and an examination unit configured to perform examination for determining whether there is a defect in the read image on the basis of a difference between the read and examination images. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268208 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A data processing apparatus connected to a terminal device and providing a service in response to a request from the terminal device, includes a processable condition storing unit that stores one or more services providable by the data processing apparatus and a position of a terminal device to which provision of the service is permitted in correspondence with each of the services; a receiving unit that receives a service request of requesting provision of a service and positional information of the terminal device sent from the terminal device; and a control unit that controls the data processing apparatus to provide the service requested by the service request when the position indicated by the positional information received by the receiving unit is included in the position that is in correspondence with the service requested by the service request received by the receiving unit in the processable condition storing unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A user touches an information processing apparatus with a contactless IC card, thereby storing information required for handing over a process in the card, and then touches, with the card, an information processing apparatus to which the process is to be handed over. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268210 | DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD - A method of transmitting data from an image forming apparatus, the method including: receiving identification information of a destination of the data; determining whether to transmit the data to the destination corresponding to the received identification information based on a security policy of the image forming apparatus; and transmitting the data to the destination in response to the destination being determined to be a destination to where the data is allowed to be transmitted, based on the security policy. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285834 | Printing Apparatus, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Used for Printing Apparatus, and Method of Controlling Printing Apparatus - A printing apparatus includes a job receiver, a printing unit, a command receiver, a processor, and a memory. The printing apparatus is caused to determine whether the printing apparatus is in a secure mode when the command receiver receives a cancel command, perform a secure cancellation process when the command receiver receives the cancel command and the printing apparatus is in the secure mode, and perform a non-secure cancellation process when the command receiver receives the cancel command and the printing apparatus is not in the secure mode. The secure cancellation process includes analyzing a print job received by the job receiver and whose analysis is not finished, determining whether an analyzed print job is a secure print job or a normal print job, maintaining printing of the analyzed print job that is the secure print job, and cancelling the printing of the analyzed print job that is the normal print job. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285835 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PRINT E-MAIL ACCORDING TO PRINTING ENVIRONMENT SETTINGS CORRESPONDING TO EACH USER - A method and apparatus to print an e-mail according to printing environment settings corresponding to each user includes receiving a user profile stored in the outside, setting an e-mail printing environment by using the received user profile, and printing an e-mail received from an e-mail server according to the set e-mail printing environment. By doing so, users can print an e-mail according to a printing environment desired by a user in an image forming apparatus such as a Multi Function Printer (MFP), a printer, or the like which supports printing of an e-mail. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293313 | Printing of Confidential Documents - Systems and methods for printing a document over a network are described. The system may include an authentication code generation module coupled to a processor to receive a document to be printed from a user. Further, the authentication code generation module ascertains whether the document is confidential, based on a confidentiality determination criterion. On ascertaining that the document is confidential, an authentication code corresponding to the document is generated to provide print control to a predefined set of authorized users. The authentication code is provided to the predefined set of authorized users including the user. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293314 | SECURE PRINT JOB THROUGH MOBILE DEVICE ID - In an example implementation, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to request a mobile device ID (identification) from a mobile device, generate a secure key from the mobile device ID, attach the secure key to a print job to create a secure print job, and send the secure print job to a printer. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293315 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a usage request acquiring part, first and second setting parts, a determining part, and an executing part. The first setting part sets first restriction information that shows whether the prescribed function is executable in response to a usage request that includes the authentication information. The second setting part sets second restriction information that shows whether the prescribed function is executable in response to a usage request that does not include the authentication information. The determining part determines whether the prescribed function is executable based on the first restriction information in response to the usage request that includes the authentication information when user authentication is conducted corresponding to the authentication information and the user authentication is established, and determines whether the prescribed function is executable based on the second restriction information in response to the usage request that does not include the authentication information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293316 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AN ABNORMALITY - An image forming apparatus capable of selectively executing a plurality of functions includes a first control unit for transmitting an image forming job, a second control unit for receiving the image forming job transmitted from the first control unit and controlling an image forming operation, an abnormality detection unit for detecting an abnormality of the image forming apparatus, a function restriction unit for restricting a function corresponding to the detected abnormality, and an execution unit for executing a first preparation operation if a power of the second control unit is turned on while the function is not restricted by the function restriction unit, and for executing, if the power of the second control unit is turned on while the function is restricted by the function restriction unit, a second preparation operation in which a preparation operation corresponding to the restricted function is excluded from the first preparation operation. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293317 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes: at least one container, a recorder, a communication unit, an input device, a memory, a display, and a controller. The controller performs: receiving a recording command via the communication unit; storing the recording command in the memory; and detecting a remaining amount of the consumables in the container. And the controller further performs: calculating a consumption amount of the consumables in accordance with the stored recording command; receiving authentication information; authenticating the stored recording command and comparing the detected remaining amount of the consumables with the calculated consumption amount to be consumed for the image of the authenticated recording command; and displaying information of a first authenticated recording command with a first indication indicating the first authenticated recording command is executed, when the calculated consumption amount is equal to or less than the detected remaining amount. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293318 | IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM - An authentication processing portion of an MFP requests user authentication to a server based on user information including at least a user ID input from a mobile terminal apparatus or an operation panel. The server has a user authentication portion which performs the user authentication and a UI instruction portion which specifies, when the user authentication succeeds, a UI image displayed on a display panel of the apparatus for operating the MFP depending on the user ID, and instructs the MFP to display the UI image on the apparatus. The MFP executes image output in accordance with a user operation received from the apparatus through the wireless communication portion in a state where the UI image is displayed on the apparatus. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293319 | PAPER PROFILE AND READING SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, computer readable media and other means for generating a profile for a particular type of media are provided. The profile represents a set of preferred printing parameters to be used to achieve a target print quality for a reference printing device. The profile may be used by other non-reference printing devices in order to optimize printing for that type of media. For each non-reference printing device, an offset may be established that represents the differences between the non-reference and the reference printing devices. A processor of the non-reference printing device may identify the type of media and the profile for that media and then adjust the printing parameters for the non-reference printing device based on the profile and the offset in order to optimize the print quality. The profile may also include a parameter that is based on a temperature coefficient associated with the type of printer. | 10-02-2014 |
20140300916 | PRINT RECOVERY FOR PRINTING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods delay a print job from being automatically rescheduled to a backup printer in response to an error at a printer scheduled to print the job. In one embodiment, a control system determines that a printer scheduled to print a job has an error condition, and identifies the error condition at the printer. The control system calculates a time delay based on the error condition before initiating a rescheduling process for the job to a backup printer. The control system initiates the rescheduling process if the time delay has expired, and cancels the rescheduling process if the error condition has ended before the time delay expires. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300917 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object, a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a shifting unit configured to shift, if the detection unit detects an object, a power state of the image forming apparatus from a first power state to a second power state different from the first power state, and shift, if the reception unit receives an operation of a user, the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300918 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet and a control section configured to control image formation at the image forming section and is connectable to a reading apparatus and a sheet processing apparatus. The control section includes a function to compare image data for image formation at the time of forming an image on the sheet at the image forming section with read-out image data produced from an image read out from the sheet at the reading apparatus; a function to detect an image abnormality from a comparison result; and a function to change a control state of an image forming action in accordance with sheet processing executed at the sheet processing apparatus at the time of having detected the image abnormality. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300919 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a first storing device; a second storing device in which consumed power is low as compared with the first storing device; and a control unit configured to start up the image forming apparatus by a program stored in the second storing device, and to execute the job by using one of the storing devices as a storing area for the image data, wherein the control unit controls the image forming apparatus in a first operation mode in which the image forming apparatus is started up without supplying electric power to the first storing device, and in which when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the job is executed by using the second storing device and when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the job is executed by supplying the electric power to the first storing device and using the first storing device. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300920 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING INITIAL SCREEN BASED ON PAST SETTING INFORMATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus improved in user-friendliness of operation for making settings concerning the operation of applications. A storage control section stores personal settings in a HDD, on an application-by-application basis. An authentication section authenticates a user. A display control unit is configured to, in response to selection of an application by the user authenticated by the authentication section, read from the HDD personal settings associated with the application, and display the personal settings on a console section. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300921 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a reception part that receives, from a request part connected via a network, a power supply stop request that designates at least one of a plurality of power supply stop modes for stopping power supply in the image forming apparatus; a selection part that selects, when stopping the power supply in the image forming apparatus is not allowed in the designated power supply stop mode, power supply stop modes from the plurality of power supply stop modes in each of which stopping the power supply in the image forming apparatus is allowed; and a notification part that notifies the request part of the power supply stop mode selected by the selection part. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING AND IMPLEMENTING REAL-TIME FACSIMILE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL - Systems and methods are provided for real-time communication (e.g., fax, voice, video) via an IP Network even if a firewall or other restriction element is present or encountered. The real-time nature of the communication is ensured by preestablishing a communication session between a transfer client and a transfer server, between which the firewall or other restriction element is located. Following the preestablishment of the communication session, transmission control messages are exchanged between the transfer server and the transfer client via the preestablished communication session. The preestablished communication session prevents the firewall or other restriction element from blocking or delaying traffic (e.g., fax, voice, video traffic). The preestablished communication session establishes a full duplex communication link without restriction of or by the firewall or other communication restriction element. Accordingly, the firewall or restriction element considers traffic originating from outside of the portion of the IP network where the firewall is located to be in response to a request from the inside the IP Network. Thus, the firewall or restriction element will not act to block or delay the traffic from entry. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300923 | RENDERING PERMISSIONS FOR RENDERING CONTENT - A print request is received via network connection from a registered user. Content from the print request is rendered according to the registered user's rendering permissions. The rendered content is then provided to a device associated with the registered user. | 10-09-2014 |
20140307282 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The communication unit of an information processing apparatus can perform a wireless communication with a terminal apparatus. A state identifier indicating the state of the information processing apparatus is obtained, and a device identifier for identifying the information processing apparatus and the state identifier are transmitted to the terminal apparatus through the communication unit. The terminal apparatus holds additional information corresponding to a state of an information processing apparatus which can be identified by the device identifier, and can display the additional information. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307283 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - A system in an embodiment includes an image forming apparatus, an erasing apparatus, a first apparatus, and a display unit. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet using a decolorable color material. The erasing apparatus decolorizes an image. The first apparatus computes, from a reduction in the number of sheets achieved by a setting for image formation in the image forming apparatus, the amount of a reduction in environmental burdens achieved by use of the image forming apparatus and computes, from the number of sheets erased by the erasing apparatus, the amount of a reduction in environmental burdens achieved by use of the erasing apparatus. The display unit simultaneously displays the amount of the reduction in environmental burdens achieved by the image forming apparatus and the amount of the reduction in environmental burdens achieved by the erasing apparatus. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307284 | DELIVERY EXPERT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An automated rule-based system for facilitating delivery of a fax document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Rules may be stored in a database. The database may include rules based on past delivery information or new delivery instructions. When an input condition is determined, the database may be traversed to determine an action based on the set of rules. The actions may include one or more of resubmitting the fax document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, and identifying the destination as a technical problem. The input conditions may include an identification of non-business days and non-business hours. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313536 | PROCESSING CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD - A processing control apparatus includes a processor, a setting unit, and a delay unit. The processor operates by using power supplied from a main power supply, and executes a process on the basis of received information. The setting unit restricts power supply from the main power supply to the processor, and sets a restricted period in which a process is prohibited from being executed in the processor. In the case where a specific process which is being executed when the restricted period is to start will be completed within a predetermined allowed time period, the delay unit delays the time when the restricted period is start at least until the specific process is completed. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313537 | PRINTING APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A power supply control apparatus directs a switching device to stop power supply from a first power source to a main body when a power supply disable condition is satisfied in a first state where the main body is powered by the first power source. The power supply control apparatus also directs the switching device to supply power from the first power source to the main body when a power supply enable condition is satisfied in a second state where the power supply from the first power source to the main body is stopped. The power supply control apparatus is powered by a second power source different from the first power source when the main body is in the second state. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313538 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF INSPECTING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INSPECTION CONTROL PROGRAM - An inspection apparatus, inspection system, inspection method, and inspection control program stored in a recording medium, each of which sets a reference point in a master image and a read image read from a printed image, which is to be used for detecting the positional shift between the read image and the master image, based on determination whether a pattern previously added to the printed image for detecting the positional shift is available or can be used to effectively detect the positional shift. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313539 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus | 10-23-2014 |
20140320883 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus performs printing processing using first identification information in a first system in a particular organization that performs first authentication, the first identification information being information that identifies a user in the first authentication. The image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains print data from a logical printer in a second system that is a cloud service system that performs second authentication. Setting information including the first identification information is set in the logical printer, and the image forming apparatus is set as an output destination in the logical printer. The controller controls printing processing of the print data obtained by the obtaining unit using the first identification information included in setting information set in the obtained print data. Identification information of the user, which is temporarily issued in the first system, is used as the first identification information. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320884 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes: a first receiving unit that receives pieces of user information on a plurality of users from a plurality of information processing terminals used by the users; an authentication processing unit that performs authentication processing of the users based on the pieces of user information; a first generating unit that generates screen information on a screen used to operate the information processing apparatus for each of the authenticated users; and a first transmitting unit that transmits the screen information to the information processing terminals used by the users corresponding thereto. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320885 | Power Supply System and Image Forming Apparatus - A power supply system includes a switching power supply configured to rectify and smooth an AC voltage of an AC power to generate a DC voltage, a controller configured to control the switching power supply to start or stop operating, and a low-capacity power supply comprising a power supply capacity smaller than that of the switching power supply. The low-capacity power supply is configured to supply power to the controller. The power supply system can further include a detecting circuit configured to detect an output voltage of the low-capacity power supply, and a permission circuit configured to permit a startup of the switching power supply when the output voltage detected by the detecting circuit is greater than or equal to a predetermined value. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320886 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a communication partner of wireless communication is identified, a user is prompted to ascertain whether to execute wireless communication with the identified communication partner. When the user has given an instruction to execute wireless communication, connection processing of wireless communication with a communication apparatus identified as the communication partner is executed. Furthermore, if the identified communication partner is a permitted device, connection processing of wireless communication can be executed without requiring the user to confirm. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320887 | Image Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Storage Medium Storing Instructions for Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing device; a processor configured to control the image processing device; a reading device configured to read a piece of identification information on a reading medium and to output the identification information to the processor; and an operation device configured to accept an operation. The processor is configured to perform: a registration process for registering the identification information read by the reading device in a predetermined storage device based on the operation accepted by the operation device; and a login process for making the image processing device available in a case that the identification information read by the reading device has been registered in the storage device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320888 | Apparatus and Method for Securing Confidential Information of Printed Document in Cloud Computing Environment - The present invention provides a client terminal for receiving a cloud computing service from a cloud server that provides the cloud computing service. The client terminal includes a character string information extractor configured to extract character string information from document data requested to print in a printer that is connected to the client terminal, a confidential information detector configured to detect confidential information from the extracted character string information and a controller configured to prohibit printing of the document data including the character string of the detected confidential information or to mask at least one or more characters of the character string of the detected confidential information, with predetermined specific characters. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320889 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE DOCUMENT PRINTING - A secure document printing system is provided. A policy server is used to define access rules for a document, and select individual users and/or groups that will have access to the document. The policy server stores the access rules along with a document decryption key. The policy server's name and address are packed in the document, and then encrypted and sent to a print server which stores it for later access. A recipient is notified that the document resides on a particular print server. The print server retrieves the specified document, contacts the policy server named in the document, and requests the document decryption key and access rules for the user, print server, and document from the policy server which replies with the related decryption key and access rules. The print server decrypts the document and prints the document based on the access rules. | 10-30-2014 |
20140327924 | WORKFLOW TO ALLOW CONTINUED PRINTING IN PRESENCE OF SEVERE PRINTER ERROR - Exemplary apparatuses herein comprise, for example, a printing apparatus that includes processing elements, such as printing elements, a media path positioned to supply sheets of media to the printing elements, a media storage device maintaining the sheets of media and providing the sheets of media to the media path, a processor device operatively connected to the media storage device and the media path, and a graphic user interface operatively connected to the processor device. The processor device monitors operations of the media storage device and the media path to detect media path faults. The processor device evaluates the media path faults to determine the severity of the media path faults. The processor device performs the bypass operation based on a combination of at least one of the media path faults exceeding a previously established severity level and the user-selectable bypass option on the graphic user interface being selected. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327925 | PAPER CONVEYING APPARATUS - There are provided a paper conveying apparatus that can precisely determine the presence of occurrence of a jam by a jam sound. The paper conveying apparatus includes an analog sound signal generator for generating an analog sound signal corresponding to a sound generated by the paper during conveyance of the paper, a corrected signal generator for generating a signal acquiring the peak hold of the analog sound signal or a signal detecting the analog sound signal as a corrected signal, a digital converter for sampling the corrected signal and converting the corrected signal to a digital format to generate a digital sound signal, and a sound jam detector for determining whether a jam has occurred based on the digital sound signal. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327926 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a top panel member that is arranged on an operator stand side of a main body of the image forming apparatus, that includes a recess having a bottom surface located below a level of a top surface of the top panel member, and that allows an authentication device configured to read information stored in an information recording medium to be mounted on the bottom surface of the recess; and a detachable cover that includes a protruding part, the protruding part protruding upward and defining, together with the recess, a space for housing the authentication device. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327927 | MOBILE PRINTER NETWORKING AND INTERFACING - Provided herein are devices, methods and other means, including those related to printers, as well as computer readable media for storing code to execute instructions for a device, and other systems for providing and supporting mobile printing and other types of devices. The printer, for example, can be coupled with one or more docks and/or other accessory devices, examples of which are also discussed herein. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327928 | APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING, CONVERTING, AND TRANSMITTING A VISUAL IMAGE SIGNAL VIA A DIGITAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An image capture, conversion, compression, storage and transmission system provides a data signal representing the image in a format and protocol capable of being transmitted over any of a plurality of readily available transmission systems and received by readily available, standard equipment receiving stations. In its most comprehensive form, the system is capable of sending and receiving audio, documentary and visual image data to and from standard remote stations readily available throughout the world. | 11-06-2014 |
20140333952 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes plural information processing apparatuses and a management apparatus. A first information processing apparatus includes a first notifying unit that notifies the management apparatus of a storage location associated with updated authentication information. The management apparatus notifies the first information processing apparatus of apparatus identifying information concerning the received storage location. A second notifying unit notifies an information processing apparatus identified by the apparatus identifying information of the storage location and the updated authentication information. A third notifying unit notifies the management apparatus of apparatus identifying information concerning an information processing apparatus to which the second notifying unit has failed to supply the information. The management apparatus notifies this information processing apparatus of the storage location and apparatus identifying information concerning an information processing apparatus in which the authentication information is updated. An updating unit of this information processing apparatus updates authentication information. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333953 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, an information processing apparatus, a printing system, a method of controlling the same, and a storage medium. An image forming apparatus authenticates a user, transmits a request for a list of print jobs, and receives a list of print jobs transmitted in response to the request. The image forming apparatus displays on a display unit the list of print jobs received in the receiving, and in the displaying, a list of the print jobs, for which a user name of the user authenticated in the authenticating and a job owner name of the print job match, and a list of print jobs for which a job owner name is unknown is displayed. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333954 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising, a detector unit configured to detect an event that a user logged in to the image processing apparatus logs out, an query unit configured to be operable when said detector unit detects the event, to query the user whether or not to change a setting of a job under execution, and a control unit configured to be operable when the setting of the job is to be changed as a result of the query made by said query unit, to change the setting of the job and then perform a logout, and, when the setting of the job is not to be changed as a result of the query made by said query unit, to restrict the logout. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333955 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333956 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a printing system capable of supplying a sheet of a job having undergone print processing by the printing unit of a printing apparatus to a post-processing unit capable of executing at least a specific type of post-processing among a plurality of types of post-processes, when the target job requires the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is inhibited from executing print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by a user using a user interface unit. When the target job does not require the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is permitted to execute print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by the user using the user interface unit. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333957 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY USING A SECURE DEVICE AND SIMPLE OUTPUT WITHOUT THE USE OF A PERSONAL COMPUTER - Communication systems and methods for enhancing communications between users featuring a central service which formats messages into a printer-friendly format. The format of the delivered message is based on preference settings established by the recipient or an authorized agent of the recipient. The messages are delivered to a device, such as a printer. Messages can be sent to the service in any format and can include text, photographs, URLs, and/or a variety of file types. The messages are then parsed by the service and formatted for delivery to the device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140340701 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A technology is provided for, when an error occurs in a communication apparatus (image forming apparatus), notifying a user of information relating to the error using NFC without a decrease in the user's convenience. A communication apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an NFC device (NFC controller) which can operate in either a reader/writer mode or a card emulation mode. The communication apparatus, when an error occurs, obtains information relating to the error, and sets, into the NFC device, the obtained error information as information which an external mobile terminal can read from the communication apparatus via NFC in the card emulation mode. The communication apparatus also sets the operation mode of the NFC device to the card emulation mode. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340702 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive print data from an external apparatus, a storage unit configured to store the print data, an operation unit configured to receive an operation to be performed on the print data, a printing unit configured to print the print data when the received operation is print operation, a charging unit configured to start charging in response to the printing of the data when the printing apparatus is operating in charge mode, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that the print data is deleted when the received operation is cancel operation. When the printing apparatus is operating in the charge mode, the control unit performs control in such a manner that the print data is not deleted even when the cancel operation is instructed, until print operation is received. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340703 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - In a method of controlling an image processing apparatus having a rechargeable secondary battery, in response to reception of a job, an amount of electricity stored in the secondary battery is detected and, whether the detected amount of electricity exceeds a specified value is determined. If it is determined that the stored electricity amount exceeds the specified value, a volatile memory is selected as a storage destination of information to be stored when the job is executed. On the other hand, if it is determined that the stored electricity amount does not exceed the specified value, a nonvolatile memory is selected as the storage destination of the information to be stored when the job is executed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340704 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, STARTUP CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH STARTUP CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a main processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express, a startup control portion to control startup of the main processing portion, and a connection portion connectable with an option board having a sub processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express. The startup control portion includes a detection portion to detect the option board connected to the connection portion, an acquisition portion to acquire ability information about the option board at a stage before the main processing portion starts up, when the option board is detected, a selection portion to select one of the main processing portion and the sub processing portion, based on the acquired ability information, and a switch portion to start one selected from the main processing portion and the sub processing portion as a root complex. | 11-20-2014 |
20140355029 | Marking Agent Subscription Credits - In one example of the disclosure, credit data indicative of a subscription credit is received at a printer via a first network. The printer is connected to a marking agent supply. The subscription credit is to authorize the printer to at least one of dispense or consume a credit quantity of marking agent from the supply according to a subscription. Job data is received at the printer via a second network. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355030 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A non-transitory computer readable recording medium records a job transmission program for transmission of a job to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a job executable state and an energy saving state. The job transmission program includes the followings as processes that the computer executes: receiving a transmission instruction of a job; determining whether or not the job is set as an energy saving job that can save power consumption in the electronic device; acquiring a state of the electronic device; queuing, when the job is an energy saving job and the acquired state of the electronic device is the energy saving state, transmission of the energy saving job; and transmitting, when the state of the electronic device is changed from the energy saving state to the job executable state, the queued energy saving job to the electronic device. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355031 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CHANGING EXECUTION ORDER OF JOBS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus capable of changing the execution order of jobs to thereby suppress occurrence of downtime caused when an operator cannot replenish or replace a consumable. A print queue manages the execution order of jobs. A paper-out prediction section predicts a time at which replenishment or replacement of a consumable to be consumed by the execution of the jobs becomes necessary. An operator absence schedule input section receives an input of a time period during which an operator who is to replenish or replace the consumable cannot replenish or replace the consumable. A job order automatic changing section changes the execution order of the jobs such that the predicted time will not come during the time period, when possible. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355032 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image-forming apparatus to process a job includes volatile memory, non-volatile memory, a judging unit, a calculating unit, a defining unit, and a controller. The volatile memory stores a generated error log using a memory area. The non-volatile memory stores information for identifying an overwrite restricted error. The judging unit judges whether a generated error is a particular error. The calculating unit calculates remaining memory which is changed by a subsequent error log being written secured, with a position where a particular error log is written in the volatile memory as a reference, where the error is the particular error. The defining unit defines an acquisition level of an error log in a stepwise manner based on the calculated remaining memory. The controller outputs an error log to an apparatus according to the defined acquisition level being a particular level at which an error log has to be output. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355033 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus that is capable of coping with both a high power saving effect and a quick response. A reading unit reads an image of an original. A printing unit prints out image data. A control unit controls units including the reading unit and the printing unit. A detection unit detects an original placed in the reading unit. A power control unit restores the control unit and the reading unit from a sleep state when the detection unit detects an original, and further restores the printing unit from the sleep state before receiving a job when a sheet of the same size as the original concerned is stored. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355034 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes first and second token request transmission units, first and second token reception units, a storage unit, and a device resource request transmission unit. The first token request transmission unit transmits a first token acquisition request containing device credential information. The first token reception unit receives a first token corresponding to the device credential information. The storage unit stores the received first token. The second token transmission unit acquires the stored first token and sends a second token acquisition request containing the acquired first token and identification information for identifying a management unit that manages a device resource. The second token reception unit receives a second token corresponding to the identification information. The device resource request transmission unit transmits a request for a process related to a device resource, the request containing the received second token. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355035 | Non-Transitory Storage Medium Storing Instructions, Information Processing Device, Image Processing Apparatus, and Image Processing System - A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions which, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the processor to: transmit, to an image processing apparatus, identification information for identifying a login requestor; acquire account information transmitted from the image processing apparatus when the identification information is registered in the image processing apparatus; cause the information processing device to log in to a server using the account information; and perform at least one of: acquiring image data from the server and transmitting the image data and the identification information to the image processing apparatus; and transmitting an image reading request and the identification information to the image processing apparatus, acquiring image data from the image processing apparatus, and transmitting the image data acquired from the image processing apparatus, to the server. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355036 | PRINTING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PRINTING PROGRAM - The printing apparatus which performs printing by replacing print content for each record, generates image data for printing corresponding to one record among a plurality of records based on print data, prints an image corresponding to the one record based on the generated image data using a printing unit, and lists values of the one record on a display unit until an image corresponding to a record following the one record is printed by the printing unit, after an image corresponding to a record prior to the one record is printed by the printing unit. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355037 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SHARED DATA, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A shared data managing device is provided which manages shared data by setting an access right on a first user account basis. The first user account has a first identifier and first user information on a first user receiving a first service. The device includes an obtaining portion for obtaining, from a service providing system for a second service, a second identifier of a second user account used for the second service and second user information on a second user; a pairing portion for making a pair of the first identifier and the second identifier of the first user account and the second user account that are common in the first user information and the second user information; and a transmission portion for sending, to the service providing system, the shared data, the pair made, and the access right on a first user account basis. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355038 | Low-Capacity Power Supply and Image Forming Apparatus - A low-capacity power supply is described in which an input capacitance may be adjusted. In one example, input capacitors may be located between an AC power supply and a rectifier. Additional adjustment capacitors may be located on one or more input lines to the rectifier. The adjustment capacitors may be added in series to at least one of the input capacitors to decrease the input capacitance of the rectifier. In this example, the power provided downstream of the rectifier may be adjusted to increased or reduced as needed. In other examples, additional switches are provided for the input capacitors to selectively add their capacitance to or remove their capacitance from the input of the rectifier. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355039 | IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - An information processing terminal transmits, to an authentication server, information obtained by imaging a code pattern of multifunction device information, and authentication information inputted by a user. The authentication server performs user authentication based on the received authentication information and specifies a multifunction device based on the received information of the code pattern. If the user has been authenticated, the authentication server transmits print data corresponding to the user to the multifunction device and prescribes the execution of print processing to the multifunction device. The multifunction device executes print process based on the obtained print data. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355040 | METHOD FOR RECORDING CHIP USAGE STATE INFORMATION, CHIP OF IMAGING BOX AND IMAGING BOX - The present invention provides a method for recording chip usage state information, a chip of imaging box and an imaging box. The chip of imaging box includes: a substrate, and an information storage unit and a control unit which are provided on the substrate, the information storage unit includes a write-prior area and a normal read-write area, the method includes: when the chip receives a read/write operation command sent by an imaging device or when the control unit on the chip monitors a communication interference signal, the control unit on the chip updates a chip usage state parameter stored in the write-prior area, the chip usage state parameter is used for fault analysis of the chip. The chip usage state parameter recorded can represent the usage state information of the chip itself, which provides powerful information to find and solve communication problems between the chip and the imaging device. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355041 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - An image transmission apparatus includes an original document reading unit, an operation unit, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The original document reading unit reads an original document, and produce image data. The operation unit receives an input of a first password. The receiving unit receives request information including a second password from an information processing apparatus. The control unit controls the original document reading unit to read the original document based on the request information, and transmit the image data to an external device, the control unit restricts transmission of the image data to the external device if the first password does not correspond to the second password. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362397 | Messaging Service System And Method To Be Performed In Such A System - The invention relates to a method and a Messaging Service system which includes one or more Messaging Service terminals and a control means being adapted for communication with a printing means. The Messaging Service terminal is adapted to send a message to the control means, which message contains a print-related information section and a message content section representing the message content. The print-related information section contains print-related information and designates the delivery of the message content section to the printing means or to a second Messaging Service terminal. The system is preferably implemented as a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) system. The message content section may represent one or more images. The print-related information section is preferably contained in a header of the message, and may contain authorization information related to printing or copying rights for printing or copying the message content, preferably the image or images represented by the message content section, by the second Messaging Service terminal. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368859 | VIRTUAL PRINT QUEUE FOR ROVING PRINTING IN A CLOUD-BASED PRINT SERVICE - An application manager may receive, from an application utilized at a device at a first location, a print job, the print job identifying a virtual print queue and application content to be printed, the application manager being further configured to store the print job in association with the virtual print queue. A print job router may receive, after the storing, a print initiation identifying a printer at a second location, the print initiation identifying the print job, including print properties thereof, and originating from the second location. A format converter may generate, from the application content and using the print properties, a printable file in a format printable by the identified printer, for sending to the identified printer by the print job router. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368860 | DUPLICATION-PROOF PAPER USING SPACED APART LINE SETS WITH HORIZONAL AND EXPANDED LINE PORTIONS - A duplication-proof paper with alerting effects includes a paper proper and line sets arranged on an external surface of the paper proper. The line sets are spaced apart by a preset distance and each include an upper line and a lower line. The upper line has a preset width and comprises a horizontal line portion and an upward expanded line portion extending upward and outward from the horizontal line portion. The lower line has a preset width and comprises a horizontal line portion and a downward expanded line portion extending downward and outward from the horizontal line portion and corresponding in position to the upward expanded line portion. The horizontal line portions are spaced apart by a preset distance. The upward expanded line portion and the downward expanded line portion have an expansion zone defined therebetween and are spaced apart by a preset distance. The expansion zones form a pattern. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368861 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires, as a first mode, a security mode of a first execution process regarding a print preview application called from a first application; a second acquisition unit that acquires a security mode of a printer driver as a second mode, when a print preview is executed through the printer driver, based on a print preview instruction given in a second application; a determination unit that determines identity of security levels regarding both the modes of the first mode and the second mode; and an operation control unit that, when the security levels of both the modes are different from each other, activates a second execution process which is different from the first execution process and is an execution process of the print preview application, to execute the print preview. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides an image processing controller which can, even if the image processing controller is in a power saving state, return from the power saving state in response to data transmitted from an image forming apparatus, transfer the data to a network, shift to the power saving state without wasted motion after termination of the transfer of the data, and thus achieve power saving without impairing convenience. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368863 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus is capable of wirelessly communicating with a communication partner apparatus in a peer-to-peer mode. A state of supplying electric power to the communication apparatus is determined, and a group owner intent value indicating the degree of intent to operate as an access point in wireless communication is changed from a default value to a value depending on the state of the supplying electric power. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368864 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes a transmitter apparatus that transmits, to a predetermined storage location of multiple storage locations, identification information identifying a user and image data associated with the identification information, and multiple image forming apparatuses. Each of the image forming apparatuses includes a first storage unit that stores storage information indicating the storage locations, a storage location that is included in the storage locations and stores the identification information and the image data associated with the identification information, a retrieval unit that accesses the storage locations, indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit, when the identification information is inputted by the user, and retrieves the image data from the storage location, and an image forming unit that forms an image corresponding to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376023 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus, and a method of controlling the same, holds a job for which execution of printing is not instructed and stores a job for which execution of printing unit is instructed in a storage unit. It is determined whether or not a sheet necessary to complete the held job is set in a sheet feed source, and if there is a print job that uses a sheet being to be used by the job for which it is determined that the sheet necessary to complete the job is set in the sheet feed source, it is notified that the print job is stored in the storage unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376024 | IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROLLER FOR PERFORMING IMAGE PROCESSING IN COOPERATION WITH IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROLLER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing controller capable of preventing an image forming apparatus from being caused to return from a power saving state inefficiently, and wastefully consuming electric power. The controller acquires the status of the apparatus. When the apparatus has received a job in the power saving state, the controller determines whether or not to cause the apparatus to return from the power saving state based on the acquired status of the apparatus. The controller stores the job when there is no need to cause the apparatus to return from the power saving state, and transmits raster image data generated based the stored job to the apparatus when it has returned from the power saving state. When there is need to cause the apparatus to return from the power saving state, the controller transmits raster image data generated based on the received job to the apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376025 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A CPU of an image forming apparatus acquires a transmission instruction for a log, destination information on a WebDAV server, authentication information, and the like from a management server in accordance with a schedule set by the management server, determines whether or not special log information is to be transmitted to the WebDAV server in accordance with a link speed with respect to the WebDAV server, and notifies the management server of an error when it is determined that the special log information is not to be transmitted. Further, when it is determined that the special log information is to be transmitted, the CPU transmits the special log information to the WebDAV server by using the destination information and the authentication information. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376026 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a printing apparatus that, if information on sheets held by sheet holding unit for holding sheets is set, prints images based on the set information on sheets, and a method for controlling the printing apparatus. In a case that a job that uses the sheet holding unit has been interrupted when sheets are placed on the sheet holding unit, printing is performed based on information on sheets that was designated by the job. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376027 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF MAKING USER AWARE OF SECURITY POLICY VIOLATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of making a user aware of a violation of an information security policy. A network communication unit receives data having a user ID attached thereto from an external apparatus. A printing unit prints an image based on the data. A control unit executes user authentication using the user ID attached to the data and determines, when the user authentication is successful, whether or not a password expiration date of the user has passed. When it is determined that the password expiration date has passed, the control unit restricts printing of the image to be printed based on the data having the user ID attached thereto. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376028 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to a print control apparatus and a method of controlling the same of the present invention, when the printing apparatus is in a power saving state, when an instruction for registering in the printing apparatus sheet information stored in a storage unit in association with a sheet feeder of the printing apparatus is received, the sheet information is registered in a list, and when the printing apparatus returns from the power saving state, control is performed so that sheet information registered in the list is transmitted to the printing apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376029 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus that is in a logged-on state, if a user detection sensor unit changes from a detecting to a non-detecting state, the image processing apparatus retains its current state while displaying a re-authentication screen. The re-authentication screen prohibits operations other than authentication while requesting user authentication. If a currently logged-on user is authenticated, the image processing apparatus returns to its retained state. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376030 | INPUT DEVICE, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An input device includes a display section, an input section, and an authentication section. The display section has a display area and displays a plurality of symbols in respective first regions of the display area. The input section receives an input indicating which of the plurality of symbols displayed on the display section is selected by a user by specifying a position in the display area. The authentication section authenticates the user based a result received by the input section. The input section receives an input indicating which of the plurality of symbols is selected, by receiving an input indicating which of a plurality of second regions allocated to each first region is selected. The authentication section authenticates the user based on the first region corresponding to the selected symbol from among the plurality of first regions and the second region selected from among the plurality of second regions. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376031 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF A CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control device suppresses modifying a program related to printer control when a connected printer is replaced with a printer having a different structure. A host computer has a print controller that can execute processes based on status data; a virtual second printing device that outputs response data when a control command output from the print controller is input; and a data processing unit that converts the input control command to a control command compatible with an inkjet printer and outputs to the inkjet printer when a control command output from the print controller is input, and when status data from the inkjet printer is input, converts the status data to data compatible with a thermal printer based on the structural differences between the inkjet printer and the thermal printer, and outputs to the print controller. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376032 | PRINT SERVER, PRINT SYSTEM, AND PRINT METHOD - A print server includes a storage portion, a login control portion, an exclusive control portion, and a notification control portion. The storage portion is configured to store image data. The login control portion is configured to make a user be logged in in accordance with a login request from each of image forming apparatuses configured to form images based on the image data read from the storage portion. The exclusive control portion is configured to restrict execution of printing and deletion of the image data by a user whose login order is second or later among the users who have logged in. The notification control portion is configured to notify the user whose login order is second or later that printing and deletion of the image data are restricted. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376033 | IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM - An image formation system includes an image forming apparatus | 12-25-2014 |
20150009520 | TILT ANGLE CORRECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE READER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Provided is a tilt angle correction apparatus including a deriving unit that based on pixel values of plural pixels corresponding to a predetermined side of an original document of image information obtained by reading the original document, derives a tilt angle of the side relative to a predetermined reference and derives a degree of reliability of the derived tilt angle, and a correction unit that corrects a direction of an image shown by the image information, based on the derived tilt angle when the degree of reliability is over a predetermined threshold. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009521 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus A adds a user ID of a user, who has requested a job, to job information about the job to be processed in linkage to store it. The image forming apparatus A receives a user's linkage instruction together with the user ID of the user. When the received user ID matches the user ID added to the job information, the image forming apparatus A transmits a request message including the user ID and for establishing linkage with other image forming apparatuses B and C. The image forming apparatus B receives the request message, and receives a user's linkage instruction together with the user ID of the user. When the user ID included in the received request message and the user ID received from the user match each other, the image forming apparatus B transmits a reply message permitting linkage to the image forming apparatus A. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009522 | SELECTION OF A CONFIGURATION LINK TO RECEIVE ACTIVATION DATA - Examples disclose a processor to launch an application based on a selection of a configuration link associated with a token. Further, the examples provide the application to receive the token which is associated with a server and a unique identifier. Additionally, examples disclose the application transmits the unique identifier to the server associated with the token and based on an authentication of the unique identifier at the server, the application receives activation data. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009523 | MOBILE AUTHENTICATION FOR ENABLING HOST DEVICE FUNCTIONS - A system for adding value to a host device via a mobile communication device is described. The system includes: a host device configured for providing additional value to be utilized, wherein the additional value includes at least one printing device function and is provided in response to receiving an authentication code; a central system configured for providing the authentication code for inputting into the host device to authorize the at least one printing device function to be utilized; and a mobile communication device configured for negotiating the additional value to be applied to the host device. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009524 | SCREEN PRINTING APPARATUS - A screen printing apparatus is provided with a control unit for obtaining a residual quantity of a consumable consumed by a cleaning unit prior to starting printing on a plurality of print substrates. The control unit predicts a print executable number based on an obtained residual quantity a display/operation unit provides a prediction-result of a processable quantity. The screen printing apparatus enables preferred consumption prediction of consumable supplies such as a cleaning sheet of a cleaning unit and a cleaning agent at a required timing, thereby contributing to improvement of an operating ratio. | 01-08-2015 |
20150015908 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus that performs printing processing using first identification information for identifying, in a first system in a particular organization that performs first authentication, a user in the first authentication, including an obtaining unit that obtains print data from a logical printer in a second system that is a cloud service system that performs second authentication, wherein information for identifying a user in the second system is second identification information, and the print data includes the second identification information; a reference unit that refers to relationship information between the first and second identification information when the obtained print data includes the second identification information; and a controller that controls printing processing of the obtained print data obtained using the first identification information. Identification information of the user, which is temporarily issued in the first system, is used as the first identification information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015909 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the present invention, an image management apparatus includes: an authentication processing unit which authenticates access according to an authentication request; an information-displayed-on-apparatus receiving unit which receives displayed-on-apparatus information acquired based on information transmitted to and displayed on an image recipient apparatus in association with transmission of the authentication request; a ticket processing unit which generates ticket link information by generating ticket information for identification of the authentication and linking a user identifier of an authenticated user and a device identifier, which is acquired using the displayed-on-apparatus information received in association with the authentication, of the image recipient apparatus to the ticket information; and an image providing unit which, upon receiving an image request from the image recipient apparatus, acquires the device identifier of the image recipient apparatus and checks an authentication status of the user based on the ticket information linked to the device identifier. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015910 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING PRINT PROCESSING USING A PASSWORD - There is provided an information processing apparatus, in which a purpose of a password can be selected from a plurality of purposes, and a print job, in which the password is used for the selected purpose, is generated. | 01-15-2015 |
20150022844 | USER CREDENTIALS FOR PERFORMING MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE WORKFLOW ACTION - A user profile includes user credentials that are accessible from a multifunction device. A user credential is selected from the user profile using the multifunction device. The selected user credential is used to perform a workflow action at the multifunction device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022845 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING LOCATIONS OF PRINTING DEFECTS WITHIN PRINTED ROLLS - Methods and systems print markings on a web of media using a printer to produce a printed roll of media. During the printing, the printer automatically analyzes the internal printer conditions, and automatically identifies printing errors based on the internal printer conditions during the printing. Further, such methods and systems automatically record the printing errors in an error log file using a computerized device that is operatively connected to the printer and store the error log file in a network storage element within a computerized network. Also, such methods and systems transmit the error log file from the computerized device (or the network storage element) to a post-printing processing device using the computerized network after receiving a request for the error log file. The post-printing processing device unwinds the printed roll and automatically stops the unwinding process at locations of the printing errors based on the error log file. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022846 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system, which includes one or more computers connected to an apparatus via a network, includes a reception part configured to receive a request addressed to a predetermined destination, a generation part configured to generate authority identification information for identifying operation authority to operate the apparatus, in response to reception of the request, a storage part configured to store the authority identification information generated by the generation part, and a transmission part configured to transmit the authority identification information to the transmission source of the request. The apparatus is configured to limit a value settable with respect to a setting related to a function of the apparatus, when the authority identification information stored in the storage part is input to the apparatus. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022847 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system including at least one computer including a receiving unit that receives a request to a predetermined destination, a generating unit that generates authority identifying information for identifying operation authority of an apparatus in response to the request, and a sending unit that sends the authority identifying information to a destination different from a transmission source of the request. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022848 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming devices connected in data communication with each other via a network. Each of the image forming devices includes a storage unit, an operational unit, and a controller. If one user logs into a first image forming device among the image forming devices, a controller of the first image forming device checks for the existence of a second image forming device into which the user has logged. If the controller of the first image forming device determines the second image forming device into which the user has logged, the controller transmits a logout instruction of the user to the second image forming device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029532 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) DEVICE SUPPORTING NFC FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTHENTICATION THEREOF CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS - An image forming apparatus for authenticating a near field communication (NFC) device, which receives information about an application being executed on an NFC device when the NFC device is tagged, determines an authentication method based on the received information, receives and authenticates a log in information corresponding to the determined authentication method from the NFC device, and allows the use of the image forming apparatus based on a result of authentication. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029533 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS BUTTON FOR ACCESSING SERVER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that makes it possible to easily create an access button on a Web browser, for accessing a server from the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus is capable of communicating with the server via a network. The image forming apparatus requests the server to perform authentication of the image forming apparatus, and receives a result of the authentication from the server. When the received result of the authentication indicates success, favorite information including a URL of the server is registered. A button for accessing the server is displayed based on the favorite information. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029534 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a first receiving unit receiving a print request; a first specifying unit specifying user identification information stored in a first memory unit in association with first identification information related to a transmission source of the print request; an acquiring unit acquiring second identification information from the print request when the user identification information is not specified by the first specifying unit; a second memory unit storing data related to the print request in association with the user identification specified by the first specifying unit or the second identification acquired by the acquiring unit; a second receiving unit receiving the user identification or the second identification information from an apparatus connected with the information processing system through a network; and a sending unit sending the user identification received by the second receiving unit or the date stored in the second memory unit to the apparatus. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029535 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing system that provides a service to a service using apparatus includes a management information storage unit that stores management information associating service identification information of the service, user identification information of a user using the service, and device identification information of the service using apparatus; an authentication unit that authenticates user authentication information for user authentication and/or device authentication information for device authentication acquired from the service using apparatus; a service identification unit that identifies the service associated with the authentication information based on the management information and the authentication information that has been authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a use request for the identified service acquired from the service using apparatus. The execution unit determines a content of a predetermined output request acquired from the service using apparatus and controls output of data according to the output request. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029536 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION GATHERING METHOD - A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - If an event that requires reboot of an image forming apparatus has occurred, a time remaining until a shutdown time set for an automatic shutdown function is compared against a threshold value, and if the time remaining is shorter than the threshold value, the image forming apparatus shuts down without rebooting. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029538 | FACSIMILE DEVICE - A multifunction peripheral includes: a facsimile communication section, an image memory, a job management section, a transfer instruction reception section, a password creation section, a data transfer control section, and a delete instruction reception section. When the delete instruction reception section has received a delete instruction, the job management section compares a password indicated by the delete instruction with a password created in correspondence with facsimile data of a fax job targeted for deletion by the delete instruction, and deletes the fax job indicated by the delete instruction under condition that the passwords agree with each other. | 01-29-2015 |
20150036165 | Media Processing Device, Media Processing System, and Control Method of a Media Processing Device - After processing a medium B with a processing unit based on control data received from a host computer | 02-05-2015 |
20150036166 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREFOR - This invention provides a technique in which even if a job by a processing apparatus is interrupted during execution, another apparatus continues the processing using completely the same function without further billing the user. Upon receiving a print job, a printing apparatus executes billing processing for the job, in which the printing apparatus communicates with a billing server. The printing apparatus writes, in the memory of an NFC unit, setting values about the received print job, the identification information of the printing apparatus itself, and the identification information of another alternative processing apparatus. While executing the print job, the printing apparatus writes progress information about an unprocessed portion of the job in the memory of the NFC unit every time a preset processing unit is executed during execution of the job. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036167 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing system includes an information processing device and provides a service to a service usage device connected via a network. The service providing system includes a storage unit for storing management information, in which service identification information, user identification information, and service usage device identification information are associated; an authentication unit for performing authentication, by using authentication information of the user or the device acquired from the service usage device; a service specification unit for specifying the service associated with the authentication information, based on the authenticated authentication information and the management information; and an execution unit configured to execute a process according to a usage request to use the service, when the usage request specified by the service specification unit is acquired, and to execute control of output, based on contents of an output request from the service usage device instructed by the user. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036168 | STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer of a communication apparatus connected to a network including a plurality of image processing apparatuses, the computer program, when executed by the computer, causing the communication apparatus to perform operations including searching the plurality of image processing apparatuses, obtaining processing information, determining a plurality of executable image processing, which can be executed by the plurality of searched image processing apparatuses, by using the processing information, the plurality of executable image processing including complex processing that is configured to be executed by a first image processing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus, and displaying support information, which is for selecting an image processing from the plurality of executable image processing, on a display unit of the communication apparatus. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036169 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING AUXILIARY STORAGE PART LIMITED IN THE NUMBER OF TIMES REWRITING, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image forming apparatus that speeds up starting. The image forming apparatus is provided with a main storage part and an auxiliary storage part. A boot loader that is stored in the auxiliary storage part is expanded to the main storage part. The boot loader that has been expanded is executed to generate a defective area table for the auxiliary storage part. When a kernel of an OS that is stored in the auxiliary storage part is expanded, the kernel is caused to be referred the defective area table that has been generated. When the kernel is executed, the defective area table is not generated. Thereby, the defective area table generated by the boot loader can be used by the OS, which allows the boot time to be shortened. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036170 | Terminal Device and Printer - A terminal device may send authentication information to a printer, obtain, from a print intermediation server by using the authentication information, M pieces of file identification information for identifying M files in a case where M pieces of file related information and the authentication information are being registered in association in the print intermediation server, control a display unit of the terminal device to display a first selection screen causing a user to select first file identification information from among the M pieces of file identification information, and send, to the printer, a print instruction including the first file identification information. The authentication information and the first file identification information may be used by the printer, in order to obtain, from the print intermediation server, print data created from a first file identified by the first file identification information. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036171 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - When a printing apparatus starts job processing by acquiring a job in which an execution order is set thereto, the printing apparatus generates printable image data by analyzing the acquired job. In this period, the printing apparatus determines whether an error has occurred in a job processing period. In a case where the printing apparatus determines that the error has occurred in the job processing period, the printing apparatus stops the processing of the started job, and controls the processing of a subsequent job to stop or continue according to an instruction of a user. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036172 | PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold an envelope having a flap, a detection unit configured to detect a guide width between two guides provided in the holding unit, an acceptance unit configured to accept information about envelope size and flap length from a user, and a display control unit configured to determine whether to perform an error notification display based on the guide width detected by the detection unit as well as based on the envelope size and the flap length accepted by the acceptance unit. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043023 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes a randomness feature information acquiring section that acquires randomness feature information from an individual object having randomness unique to an outward appearance of the individual object, the randomness feature information representing a feature of the outward appearance, a coded information attaching section that attaches coded information of the acquired randomness feature information to the individual object corresponding to the coded information, and a verifying section that verifies whether the randomness feature information corresponding to the coded information of the individual object attached with the coded information is the randomness feature information acquired from the individual object attached with the coded information. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043024 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A processing apparatus includes following components. Processing units each operate when being supplied with power. A first detector detects an object entering a first detection area. A second detector detects an object entering a second detection area. A first controller controls power supply to the processing units and the first and second detectors. At a start of a power-saving mode, the first controller stops supplying power to the second detector and at least one processing unit and supplies power to the first detector. After the start of the power-saving mode, the first controller restarts supplying power to the second detector when the first detector detects an object entering the first detection area. When the second detector detects an object entering the second detection area in the power-saving mode, the first controller restarts supplying power to the at least one processing unit so as to cancel the power-saving mode. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043025 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DOCUMENTS AND/OR INFORMATION WITH PERMANENT AUTHENTICATION - A method for authenticating a document comprising the following steps:
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20150043026 | JOB PROCESSING SYSTEM, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A job processing system, including: a job accepting unit which accepts a job; a job registering unit which registers the job accepted by the job accepting unit; a job processing unit which performs processing of the job registered in the job registering; a stopping command accepting unit which accepts a processing stopping command for the job; and a control unit which performs control in which registering is postponed for the job which is in a process of being registered in the job registering unit when the stopping command accepting unit accepted the processing stopping command. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043027 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a job input unit; a job execution unit; a job storing unit; a start-up cost calculation unit to calculate a start-up cost which is a cost for start-up of the image forming apparatus, when the job is input from the job input unit; a total sum calculation unit to calculate a total sum of investable amount of the input job and the stored jobs; a job control unit to instruct the job storing unit to store the input job in case that the total sum is less than the start-up cost, and instruct the job execution unit to collectively execute the input job and the stored jobs in case that the total sum is not less than the start-up cost; and a charging unit configured to allocate the start-up cost to the jobs, and charge the allocated start-up cost for each executed job. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049356 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on a job; a sheet conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet through a conveyance path; and a control unit configured to control conveyance of a sheet, in which, when a jam has occurred in a sheet of during conveyance, the control unit sets order information of dischargeable sheets among unusable sheets remaining inside the apparatus after occurrence of the jam based on whether there is an unusable sheet on which image formation has been completed in the image forming unit, and discharges the unusable sheet to an outside of the apparatus through the conveyance path based on the set order information. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049357 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR - An image forming system with an information processor and an image forming device includes a memory that pre-stores user identification information, an input that accepts an entry of delegation identification information, a data creation part that creates transmission data using the delegation destination identification information as first authentication information when the entry of the delegation destination identification information is accepted, and that creates transmission data using user identification information as first authentication information when the entry of the delegation destination identification information is not accepted, a transmission part that sends the transmission data to the image forming device including a reception part that receives the transmission data, an authentication part that performs authentication using the first authentication information, that permits image formation based upon the transmission data when the authentication is successful, and an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium based upon the transmission data. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049358 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a communication system, an image forming apparatus sends an address of a receiving section to an external device. The external device receives a selection of image data through plural thumbnails displayed on a display section, and wirelessly sends the selected image data to the image forming apparatus with the address. The image forming apparatus receives the selected image data and prints an image. The image forming apparatus accepts a selection indicating whether a communication between the external device and the image forming apparatus is performed either by a first or second communication system method. The image forming apparatus performs sending and/or receiving the image data with the address by the first communication system method when the first communication system method is selected, and performs sending and/or receiving the image data with the address by the second communication system method when the second communication system method is selected. | 02-19-2015 |
20150055164 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING ERROR MESSAGE AND NOTIFICATION METHOD USING THE SAME - A management apparatus according to the embodiment comprises a memory, an interface and a control section. If a device determined itself to be in a predefined first state, the interface receives the alert information transmitted from the device. The control section carries out no notice notifying the first state of the device to the external apparatus if a first information representing a state the same as the state represented by alert information is contained in the memory, and stores the first information in the memory based on the alert information and carries out the notice to an external apparatus if the first information is not contained in the memory. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055165 | REMOTE SUPPORT APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, REMOTE SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus including a plurality of processing units capable of performing different support processing for a user asking for support, and a remote support apparatus operated by an operator are connected via a communication path. The remote support apparatus transmits to the image forming apparatus a request to perform the support using the selected processing unit, or a request to switch the processing unit to a selected specific processing unit and a request to perform the support. The image forming apparatus allows the processing unit which follows the request to perform the support, to perform the support, and switches the processing unit according to the request to switch the processing unit to allow the switched processing unit to perform the support. Further, the image forming apparatus returns a result which should be returned, among results of the performed support, to the remote support apparatus. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055166 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, OPERATION SUPPORTING METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of providing effective guidance on operation procedures for fixing a failure such as a paper jam when the failure occurs. The image forming apparatus displays operation contents for fixing the jam and operations to be performed to resume the stopped job are displayed on a simple maintenance screen. When the jam is fixed according to the operations of the contents, the screen is switched to a reread standby screen. In a case where detailed guidance is necessary, the screen is switched to a detailed maintenance screen. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055167 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data, an operating unit which receives a print instruction from a user, a display unit which displays a password entry screen for receiving a password entry from a user, and a printing unit which receives a print instruction from a user through the operating unit and prints print data without accepting a password through a password entry screen if a password added to the print data is matched with a fixed password and print data to be printed if a print instruction from a user is received through the operating unit, if the password added to the print data is matched with the fixed password, and if the password received through a password entry screen is matched with the password added to the print data. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062612 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE FOR USER AUTHENTICATION AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - A user authentication device provided on an apparatus as an object of operation acquires feature data representing notable portion of the user, using a camera device, after user authentication. Based on the acquired feature data, the user authentication device tracks the user by the camera (step S | 03-05-2015 |
20150062613 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PREVENTING DATA LEAKAGE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of preventing leakage of data held in a nonvolatile main storage memory by a malicious program or the like even if a shutdown process was not normally performed last time. If it is judged, when the image forming apparatus is started, that the shutdown process was not normally performed last time, a whole or a partial area of the main storage memory is refreshed before starting the information forming apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062614 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image forming apparatus in which a first board including a first central processing unit (CPU) and a second board including a second CPU communicate with each other to control image processing, a monitoring unit monitors whether processing executed by the second CPU is normal. If the monitoring unit determines that the processing executed by the second CPU is not normal, a notification unit notifies the first CPU. The first CPU resets the second board according to the notification. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062615 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB SETTING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, if a setting content of a preset second setting item of a plurality of setting items included in pre-registration information selected by a selection portion is outside a range of use authority, a change portion changes the setting content of the second setting item to a content within the range of the use authority. In addition, a sequential display portion sequentially displays a setting screen for setting the setting content of the second setting item, in accordance with a setting operation on the setting screen. Furthermore, a second display control portion displays an authentication screen if the setting content of the second setting item is set on the setting screen so as to be outside the range of the use authority. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062616 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB SETTING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, if the number of specific items of a plurality of setting items included in pre-registration information selected by a selection portion is equal to or less than a threshold, a change portion changes a setting content of the specific item to a content within a range of use authority. A setting screen display portion displays a setting screen for setting the specific item whose setting content has been changed by the change portion. A second display control portion displays an authentication screen if the setting content of the specific item is set on the setting screen so as to be outside the range of the use authority. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062617 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes a job executing portion, a preview executing portion, and a log image obtaining portion. The job executing portion executes a job based on an image. The preview executing portion executes displaying a preview of the image before the job is executed. The log image obtaining portion obtains a log image as a history of the image and store the log image in a storage portion. The log image obtaining portion obtains a log image of the preview. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062618 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER TO CONTROL UNIT OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a power-on control unit configured to instruct a first voltage generation unit to generate a first voltage in accordance with a power-on instruction, determine whether or not the first voltage generated by the first voltage generation unit has become a predetermined voltage or higher, and instruct a second voltage generation unit to generate a second voltage when the power-on control unit determines that the first voltage has become the predetermined voltage or higher; and a power-off control unit configured to instruct the second voltage generation unit to stop generation of the second voltage in accordance with a power-off instruction, and instruct the first voltage generation unit to stop generation of the first voltage after a predetermined time period has elapsed from the power-off instruction. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062619 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - In an image forming apparatus which includes a first memory configured to store a program for executing a specific process, and a second memory configured to store a program read from the first memory, in a case in which the image forming apparatus shifts to a specific state, a content of the program stored in the second memory is verified. In accordance with the verification result, control is made to write the program read from the first memory in the second memory. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062620 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND POWER-SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a first unit and a second unit supplied with power that can be interrupted individually, a power supply switch configured to be operated by a user, to turn off a power supply of the information processing apparatus, a controller configured to perform shutdown processing of the information processing apparatus thereby interrupting supply of power to the first unit and the second unit, upon turning off of the power supply switch, a first timer unit configured to interrupt the supply of the power to the first unit, after a lapse of a first predetermined time after turning off the power supply switch, and a second timer unit configured to interrupt the supply of power to the second unit, after a lapse of a second predetermined time after turning off the power supply switch. The second predetermined time is longer than the first predetermined time. | 03-05-2015 |
20150070720 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF - In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises an interface, a storage section configured to store identification information, and a control section. The interface is configured to carry out data transmission/reception with an external device. The control section is configured to control the interface, generate the identification information, store the identification information in the storage section, and send the identification information to the external device. In addition, when the identification information which is stored in the storage section exists in information received from the interface, the control section carries out an image forming operation, and does not carry out the image forming operation when the identification information does not exist. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070721 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is connected to an image forming apparatus that operates at least in a standby state and in a power saving state requiring less power consumption than the standby state. The image processing apparatus, which is configured to perform image processing on an externally received print job and to input the print job to the image forming apparatus, includes a determination unit configured to determine a power state of the image forming apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a reserved print job to the image forming apparatus at a reserved time if the determined power state of the image forming apparatus is the power saving state, and to transmit the reserved print job to the image forming apparatus prior to the reserved time if the determined power state of the image forming apparatus is the standby state. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070722 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus which can prohibit any users but a user who has made a deposit from operating the image forming apparatus for a chargeable process. A communication controller of the image forming apparatus obtains pieces of proper information of cell-phones. An ID management section issues IDs for the respective pieces of proper information, and the communication controller sends the IDs to the corresponding cell-phones. At an input section, a user of one of the cell-phones inputs the ID sent thereto. Thereafter, the communication controller receives an access from a cell-phone and receives proper information of the cell-phone. In this moment, it is judged whether the cell-phone which has made an access is identical with the cell-phone of which ID was inputted at the input section. Only when the communication controller identifies the cell-phone, the communication controller permits the image forming apparatus to communicate with the cell-phone. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077785 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING SECURE PRINTING FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of further improving safety and reliability of a secure printing function. Print data, which is received from an external apparatus, is stored as print data using the secure printing function in a storage unit. It is determined whether or not, during execution of a printing process started for the stored print data, a print aborting factor that aborts the printing process has occurred. The printing process is aborted when it is determined that the print aborting factor has occurred. When the printing process is aborted, the print data is stored once again as print data using the secure printing function in the storage unit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077786 | SELECTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM INCORPORATING SAME, AND SELECTION METHOD - A selection device, an image forming system incorporating the same, and a selection method are provided. Each of the selection device and the selection method obtains defect information of defect on an output result of image forming, from each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, receives an image formation instruction, generates defect rate information based on the obtained defect information and the image formation instruction, the generated defect rate information indicating a rate of occurrence of a defect by category of defect for each of the image forming apparatuses, and specifies a category corresponding to the image formation instruction, and selecting one of the image forming apparatuses that is to perform image forming based on the image formation instruction, according to the defect rate information corresponding to the specified category. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077787 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH REMOTE CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: a path establishing portion to establish a communication path with a remote operation device; an active device setting portion to set the remote operation device with which the communication path is established to be an active device; a process execution portion to execute a process in accordance with a remote operation received from the active device; and a standby device setting portion to, in response to a communication path being established with another remote operation device, set another remote operation device to be a standby device. The active device setting portion includes a sequential setting portion to, in response to detection of an end state in which no remote operation is received from the active device, set the standby device to be an active device. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085312 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for switching its state between a first state and a second state includes: a processing unit; a communicator for communicating with a mobile terminal; a storage storing a terminal identifier, first orientation information, and second orientation information; and a controller. The controller successively receives orientation information indicating an orientation of the mobile terminal from the mobile terminal through the communicator. When the controller successively receives the first orientation information and the second orientation information from the mobile terminal identified by the terminal identifier, the controller switches the state of the image processing apparatus from one of the first state and the second state to another of the first state and the second state. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085313 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus includes a first control unit, a detection unit configured to detect a person, a generation unit configured to, when a person is detected by the detection unit, generate power to be supplied to the control unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether the person detected by the detection unit is a user of the information processing apparatus, and a second control unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the person detected by the detection unit is a user of the information processing apparatus, perform control to supply the power generated by the generation unit to the first control unit. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085314 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A print job storage portion configured to store a received print job and to store its reception time and a print job execution portion configured to determine whether or not the print job stored in the print job storage portion is executable, and if the print job is inexecutable, set a printing order of the inexecutable print job to after an unprinted print job which is executable and in standby are provided, and when the print job determined to be inexecutable and in standby is changed to an executable state, a print job execution control portion rearranges the printing order of the print job changed to the executable state and the print job which is executable and in standby on the basis of their reception times and develops them into image data in a development memory and has them printed by a printing portion. | 03-26-2015 |
20150092217 | PRINT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - Provided is a printing management apparatus including an assignment unit that assigns portions to be interpreted among respective pieces of print data, to plural interpreters that interpret print data, so as to be interpreted, a failure detector that detects a failure of the interpreters, and a reassignment unit that reassigns portions, among the print data, assigned to a failed interpreter which is detected by the failure detector to a remaining interpreter other than the failed interpreter, among the plural interpreters, so as to be interpreted, wherein the plural interpreters transmit interpretation result data obtained by interpreting the portions assigned by the assignment unit to one printing control apparatus, and the printing control apparatus causes a printing apparatus to perform printing in accordance with the interpretation result data corresponding to each portion of the print data which is received from the plural interpreters. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092218 | PRINT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - Provided is a print management apparatus including a failure detector that detects a failure of a printing control apparatus and a printing apparatus in a printing system, and a printing continuation control unit that performs a control for requesting, when the failure detector detects the failure of any one of the printing control apparatus and the printing apparatus, an another printing system to lend an apparatus corresponding to the apparatus of which the failure is detected among the printing control apparatus and the printing apparatus, and for continuing, when the apparatus that is a request target is lent in response to the request, printing by the lent apparatus instead of the apparatus of which the failure is detected. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092219 | PRINTING SYSTEM UPLOADING JOB STORED ON PRINTER TO SERVER - The present invention provides a server including: a communication unit; a storage unit; and a controlling unit. The communication unit is configured to communicate with a printer. The controlling unit is configured to store a job in association with error data in the storage unit upon receiving the job and the error data from the printer via the communication unit. The error data indicates details of an error that has occurred when the printer is executing the job. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092220 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes: a platen on which to place a document; a scanner unit configured to scan the document placed on the platen; a document detection unit configured to detect the document placed on the platen; an authentication information input unit configured to receive input of a piece of first authentication information; and a control unit configured, when the document detection unit detects the document before use of the image formation is permitted on the basis of the piece of first authentication information received by the authentication information input unit, to cause the scanner unit to start to scan the document in accordance with a predetermined scan condition if the use is permitted on the basis of the piece of first authentication information received by the authentication information input unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092221 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming system includes a server, a first image forming apparatus, and a second image forming apparatus. The server includes: a registration unit that stores identification information for the first image forming apparatus in the first memory; a job obtaining unit that obtains a print job; and a job transmission unit that, upon receiving a request including the identification information stored in the first memory, transmits the print job. The first image forming apparatus includes: a second memory that stores the identification information; and a first job reception unit that transmits the request including the identification information stored in the second memory to the server and receives the print job. The second image forming apparatus includes: an identification information obtaining unit that obtains the identification information; and a second job reception unit that transmits the request including the obtained identification information to the server and receives the print job. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092222 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS TO WHICH SECURITY POLICY IS APPLICABLE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus that is capable of appropriately applying security policy data based on an information security policy. Security policy data containing a policy name of a security policy and a security policy setting value corresponding to the policy name is applied to the image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains updating security policy data for updating the security policy data. An application version determination unit determines whether the updating security policy data obtained by the obtaining unit will be applied according to a predetermined application version setting value, when a version of the updating security policy data differs from a version of security policy data that is being applied actually. An application unit applies the updating security policy data when the application version determination unit determines that the updating security policy data will be applied. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092223 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system including at least one information processing apparatus includes a first memory unit that stores information indicative of a necessity of an authentication to a print request with respect to each candidate of a transmission source of the print request; a receipt unit that receives the print request through a network; and a control unit that authorizes a print for the received print request, of which authentication information is received, in a case where the authentication is successful based on the authentication information, and authorizes the print for the received print request, of which authentication information is not received, in a case where the authentication is determined by the transmission source of the print request to be unnecessary based on the information stored by the first memory unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092224 | SCANNING DEVICE AND OPERATIONS THEREOF - A scanning device includes: a reading unit; a communication unit; a storage unit configured to store identification information for identifying a external apparatus; an operation unit, and a controller configured to perform operations comprising: generating an image file from read signal received from the reading unit, transmitting the image file generated to the external apparatus through the communication unit, and determining whether a size of the document on which the image read by the reading unit is recorded is equal to or smaller than a preset setting size. When the controller receives a signal corresponding to a scan command from the operation unit, the controller, in the generating, generates an image file having a password added, in a case where it is determined that a size of the document is equal to or smaller than the setting size. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092225 | FUNCTION EXECUTING DEVICE - A function executing device includes a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with an external device; a specific function unit configured to execute at least one specific function; a storage configured to store function execution restricting information; and a controller. The controller receives external receiving information, which is information including at least user authentication information. When the received external receiving information includes the specific function instruction information, the controller causes the specific function unit to execute the one of the at least one specific function. When the received external receiving information does not include the specific function instruction information, the controller determines whether an authentication target user is included in the at least one registered user. The controller sets the authentication target user as a current-authenticated user when it is determined that the authentication target user is included in the at least one registered user. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098105 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, a management apparatus of image forming apparatuses includes a calculation unit and a setting unit. The calculation unit calculates a power consumption amount of each image forming apparatus based on log information acquired from a plurality of the image forming apparatuses and compares the calculated power consumption amounts with reference power consumption amounts. The setting unit sets a sleep timer value for each image forming apparatus based on a result of the comparison. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098106 | Imaging System with Reduced Function Mode, and Methods Therefor - A system and method for operating an imaging device is shown. The method includes detecting the malfunction when the imaging device is in a normal mode of operation; causing the imaging device to enter a reduced function mode following the detecting; enabling only one or more functions of the imaging device when in the reduced function mode, the one or more functions being less than all of the functions available when the imaging device is in the normal mode of operation. The one or more functions have operating points when the imaging device is in the reduced function mode that are different than the operating points of the one or more functions when the imaging device is in the normal mode of operation. | 04-09-2015 |
20150103370 | TERMINAL DEVICE, OUTPUT SYSTEM, AND OUTPUT METHOD - A terminal device to which an information processing device and an output device are connected, includes a substitute user setting unit configured to set a substitute user as an executor capable of executing output of output data specified by a user requesting the output of the output data, the substitute user being different from the user requesting the output of the output data; an output information transmission unit configured to send, to the information processing device, the specified output data and output data relevance information including substitute user information identifying the substitute user; an output data acquisition unit configured to acquire the output data, of which the output is set as being executable by the executor, from the information processing device; and an output data transmission unit configured to send the output data acquired by the output data acquisition unit, to the output device connected to the terminal device. | 04-16-2015 |
20150109633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SECURING PRINTING - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for securing printing. The present invention performs a print security action with respect to outputted data in accordance with a printing policy, when a security pattern is included in the outputted data of an outputted product. According to the present invention, by performing the print security action with respect to the outputted data in accordance with the printing policy, when the security pattern is included in the outputted data, printing of personal information and similar which is included in the outputted data can be prevented. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109634 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE - An image forming apparatus comprising a main body housing an image forming unit, and a control panel mounted on the main body and including a display unit and an operation unit, the display unit being configured to display a document template and the operation unit being configured to receive a user input related to an image to be added to the document template. The image forming unit is configured to form an image including the document template and the image added to the document template. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109635 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus that has first to fourth power modes in which power consumption becomes larger in this order, and is capable of changing into a mode selected and set by a user. A receiving unit receives the instruction for bringing the data processing apparatus into the third power mode or the fourth power mode. A first transition unit brings, when the apparatus is working in the second power mode, the apparatus into the first power mode in response to the receiving unit receiving the transition instruction. A determination unit determines which mode the apparatus is to be brought into between the third power mode and the fourth power mode in response to the first transition unit bringing the apparatus into the first power mode. A second transition unit brings the apparatus into a power mode determined by the determination unit. | 04-23-2015 |
20150116752 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes a security level determining unit that determines a security level, the security level indicating a level of security related to leakage of information in an image processing device, and an instructing unit that changes an output method to an output method having a high security level and gives at least one of two instructions, in a case where the security level does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the two instructions including an instruction for outputting information notifying the output method that has been changed, and an instruction for outputting information prompting for change of the security level in the image processing device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116753 | MOBILE TERMINAL, PRINTING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A mobile terminal establishes a long distance wireless communication with a printing device in accordance with identification information communicated between the mobile terminal and the printing device using the near field communication. The mobile terminal transmits a print command to the printing device using one of the near field communication unit and the long distance communication unit. The mobile terminal determines, after the print command was transmitted, and transmits, to the printing device, using the long distance communication unit, a print termination command, when the mobile terminal is spaced from the printing device by the first distance. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116754 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DELETING PRINT REQUEST, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus that performs a print process based on a print request for data to be printed includes a detecting unit that detects an occurrence of an error by which the print process is ceased; and a deleting unit that checks print request deletion setup information when a request of a user to end a usage and the occurrence of the error ceasing the print process is detected by the detecting unit, and deletes the print request in a case where a setup of deleting the print request is provided at a time of requesting to end the usage. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116755 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention transmits first data to an external information processing apparatus after receiving an instruction for printing from a user, downloads second data obtained by converting the first data from the external information processing apparatus, transmits the second data to an image forming apparatus, and performs a delete request of the second data held by the external information processing apparatus if the download performed by the communication unit is canceled by the user. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116756 | OUTPUT SYSTEM, OUTPUT METHOD, AND OUTPUT APPARATUS - An output system includes a terminal apparatus, an output apparatus, and an information processing apparatus that are interconnected via a network. The output system includes a unit that registers an output request for output data received from the terminal apparatus that is operated by a registering user, a unit that displays information on the registering user that has designated an outputting user operating the output apparatus as a delegate user and receives a selection of the registering user from the outputting user, a unit that receives from the output apparatus an acquisition request for the output request of the selected registering user and provides the requested output request to the output apparatus, and a unit that receives a selection of the output request from the outputting user, acquires the output data of the selected output request, and outputs the acquired output data at the output apparatus. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116757 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS FUNCTION RESTRICTION, IMAGE FORMATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image forming apparatus that can prevent, when brought out from a setting location, outputting inaccurate image data illegally. An image forming apparatus includes an image output device, a communication device, and a master controller. The master controller includes a nonvolatile memory circuit and a CPU that can perform a plurality of processing capabilities. The plurality of storage areas where the nonvolatile memory circuit includes the area that memorizes the image data are provided. The processing capability includes function converting image data into an image, forming, and outputting it to the recording medium. An auxiliary equipment includes a positioning circuit that computes a geographic coordinates of a reception point by receiving a radio wave signal for positioning. Only if located in a designated range memorized in the nonvolatile memory circuit, performing of the plurality of processing capabilities is permitted. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116758 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, USER RESTRICTION METHOD AND USE HISTORY GENERATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered, an operation panel for receiving a key operation input, a secure program used for determining whether a user service can be provided on the basis of the user identification information in the user database and another user identification information input by the user. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a log of use of the information processing apparatus by a user, and a display that displays the log of the information processing apparatus stored on the memory together with a face image of a face of the user. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124278 | PRINTING WITH PAYMENT VALIDATION - In one embodiment, a request to print content at a network connected printer is received from a requestor computer system via a network. Upon receipt of the request, a release code is created to authorize printing of the content when provided at the printer, and job information for the request and data associating the information with the code are stored in memory. The code, and a network address to connect the requestor system to a web site hosted by a payment validation computer system, are sent to the requestor system via the network. The code is received from the validation system, the code previously provided to the validation system by the requestor system. The job information is sent to the validation system. A payment validation is received from the validation system. The content is sent to the printer, for printing upon provision of the code at the printer. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124279 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, having a main controller for controlling access to a main memory, and a method of controlling the apparatus, determine whether the main memory is a non-volatile memory or a volatile memory, and store the result of the determination in non-volatile memory, and, erasing data stored in the main memory when transition is made to a power off state or a sleep mode when it is determined that the main memory is a non-volatile memory. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124280 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING REPORT PRINTING FUNCTION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus that is capable of performing report printing in a language desired by a user in either manual report printing or autonomic report printing. A storage unit stores information on the image processing apparatus. A touch panel receives input from a log-in user A control unit controls execution of the automatic report printing in which the information is printed by the printing unit as a report when predetermined conditions are satisfied, and execution of the manual report printing in which the information is printed by the printing unit as a report based on an instruction from the log-in user. The control unit performs the automatic report printing in a predetermined language and performs the manual report printing in a language for the log-in user. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124281 | INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION STORAGE METHOD - An information storage system including information processing devices; an information storage device connected to the information processing devices; an access information generating unit configured to generate, based on a request from a first information processing device, access information for accessing a storage area in the information storage device to which access is restricted from the information processing devices other than the first information processing device; a display unit configured to cause the first information processing device to display the access information; a sending unit configured to cause a second information processing device to acquire the access information displayed on the first information processing device and to send the access information to the information storage device; and an access unit configured to cause the information storage device to allow the second information processing device to access the storage area based on the access information that has been sent. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131115 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving portion, a print control portion, a first detection portion, and a transmission control portion. The receiving portion receives, from an information processing apparatus, print data to which predetermined transmission destination information has been added. The print control portion executes a print process based on the print data. The first detection portion detects a mobile terminal that exists in a predetermined communication range and is identified based on the transmission destination information added to the print data. The transmission control portion, when the first detection portion detects the mobile terminal, transmits the print data, which is associated with the mobile terminal, to the mobile terminal. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131116 | INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INSPECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an inspection apparatus including a pause control unit which, when a defect is detected in a page of a printed product while the printed product is continuously printed, causes printing to pause, a predictor unit which, when printing is paused, predicts whether a defect will be detected again in restarting printing by using a master image of a not-yet-printed page, a master image of the defect-detected page, and a predetermined defect prediction criterion, and a resumption control unit which permits to restart printing the defect-detected page and pages following the defect-detected page if the predictor unit predicts that a defect will not be detected again in restarting printing, and prohibits from restarting printing if the predictor unit predicts that a defect will be detected again. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131117 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing system includes a computer programmed to execute a process. The process includes receiving operation information indicating an operating state of a device at a predetermined time interval from the device through a network. The received operation information is stored in a first storing part. With respect to the device from which the operation information indicating that the operating state is abnormal is received, elimination information indicating elimination of the abnormality is received in asynchronization with the predetermined time interval. When the elimination information is received within a period from a reception of the operation information indicating that the operating state is abnormal and until a subsequent reception of the operation information, information is added to the first storing part, which indicates that the abnormality indicated by the operation information lasts from the reception of the operation information to the reception of the elimination information. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131118 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING USER LOGIN FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of improving ease of operation for users and also improving security when destinations are made public. The image processing apparatus is shared by a plurality of users and capable of selecting a destination from a plurality of address books and carrying out file transmission to the destination. It is determined whether or not a user has logged in, and when it is determined that the user has logged in, only personal addresses for the logged-in user are displayed on a display unit. The personal destinations displayed on the display unit are switched to destinations other than the personal destinations according to selection by the user. When it is determined that the user has not logged in, all destinations which are registered in the plurality of address books are displayed on the display unit. | 05-14-2015 |
20150138584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING CUSTOMER COST/CONTRACT AVOIDANCE IN OPERATION OF IMAGE FORMING DEVICES - A system and method are provided for methods for automatically detecting certain incidents in which customers attempt to circumvent costs associated with their managed service contracts for operations of image forming devices. Current monitoring capacities associated with fielded image forming devices are expanded to provide device manufacturers or suppliers with an opportunity to detect attempts at customer cost avoidance through printing on larger paper sizes. User actions that contravene certain requirements of the managed service agreement are detected. At a point of detection, the user is provided with certain alternatives for remediation or contract compliance. These alternatives include, but are not limited to, offering the user the opportunity to cancel the print job, print the print job on “right” sized paper, or otherwise to accept a calculation of the actual printing costs involved in, for example, printing two pages on a single larger sheet, when detected. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138585 | PRINTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A printing management system comprises a count value calculation unit configured to, when a request for printing data of the specific user is received, read out the printing data and calculate a count value based on a number of sheets to fog printed in the printing data, a determination unit configured to determine whether a sum of the calculated count value and a previous cumulative count value is equal to or less than a limit value, and a printing data transmission unit configured to transmit the printing data when the sum is equal or less than the limit value. The count value is the product of the number of sheets to be printed in the printing data and one of a plurality of coefficients, and the one of the plurality of coefficients corresponds to a current one of a plurality of time zones. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138586 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - On detection of the occurrence of an error, an image forming apparatus compares a location of an operator that is indicated by a procedure for recovering from the error with a sensed location of the operator, and issues a warning in a case where the location of the operator that is indicated by the procedure and the sensed location of the operator do not match. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138587 | PRINTING SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND PRINTER - A printing system includes a printer and a terminal device. The terminal device is provided to be able to communicate with the printer and transmits a job relating to print processing for a file which can be supported by the printer. The terminal device includes a controller determining whether or not print preview can be displayed on a display of the printer and a communication controller communicating to the printer, a print job including an indication for print preview in response to an indication when the controller determines that print preview can be displayed on the display of the printer. The printer displays on the display, print preview in accordance with the print job including the indication for print preview transmitted from the terminal device. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138588 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including an image forming unit configured to form an image includes a storage unit configured to store a reference feature quantity acquired using a result of measuring a first chart by a measurement device, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first feature quantity using a result of measuring a second chart by the measurement device, the second chart being created by the image forming unit, and an estimation unit configured to estimate a defective point generated in the image processing apparatus, by acquiring a second feature quantity from the reference feature quantity stored in the storage unit and the first feature quantity acquired by the first acquisition unit and using data in which the second feature quantity is associated with information about a defect generated in the image processing apparatus. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138589 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus displays a print setting screen based on configuration setting information of a selected device type. The printing setting information set via the print setting screen is used along with print data to generate a print job that is sent to a selected printer. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138590 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - There is provided an image forming apparatus that can form an image by ensuring security and that can reduce a waiting time for image forming. The image forming apparatus includes a communication processing unit that receives an image forming request through a predetermined communication network and that controls reception of image forming data corresponding to the image forming request, and an image forming unit that forms an image according to the image forming data. The communication processing unit restricts reception of the image forming data when a start operation of a secure image forming is received. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146230 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A management apparatus includes a device-information acquiring unit that acquires device identification information for identifying a user-designated device from multiple devices; a processing-status-information acquiring unit that acquires processing status information of each device; a commanded-processing-information acquiring unit that acquires commanded processing information related to a content of processing to be commanded to the designated device; a commanding unit that gives a command to the designated device based on the commanded processing information so as to set the designated device in an occupied state; a cancellation-condition-information acquiring unit that acquires cancellation condition information indicating a condition for cancelling the occupied state; and a cancellation-condition determining unit that determines whether the acquired processing status information satisfies the acquired cancellation condition. The commanding unit further gives a command for cancelling the occupied state in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determining unit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146231 | COMPUTER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING UNTRUSTED CONTENT - A computer system and method are provided to intercept a task from a primary user account | 05-28-2015 |
20150146232 | IMAGE READING SYSTEM, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present image reading system, an information processing apparatus notifies any image reading apparatus on a network of connection information, and permits transmission of image data only in a case where the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information accesses the information processing apparatus. The image reading apparatus transmits image data that is read from an original, to a transmission destination conforming to the connection information is notified by the information processing apparatus. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146233 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes a server device and an image processing device connected to the server device via a network. The image processing device includes a reading unit that reads out a document to obtain document information; and a print unit that prints the document information. The server device includes a storage unit that stores the document information and first positional information in association with each other, the first positional information indicating a position of the reading unit that has read out the document information; a communication unit that receives a print request including information for identifying the document information and second positional information that indicates a position of the print unit that prints the document information; and a determination unit that permits printing of the document information when at least a part of the first positional information matches with at least a part of the second positional information. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146234 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming device includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image based on a job including image data and ticket information; a storage unit configured to store a stored job; an operation display unit configured to be operated and display; and a control unit configured to control at least the storage unit and the operation display unit, wherein, when the job is selected from the stored jobs stored in the storage unit, the control unit compares contents of current machine setting with the ticket information of the selected job and displays function display for changing the machine setting on the operation display unit together with warning when the ticket information includes setting which makes output with the contents of the current machine setting impossible. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus operable at least in a first power state and a second power state includes a control unit configured to update firmware, and a power source control unit configured to stop supplying power to the control unit in the first power state if a power source switch is operated by a user, and stop supplying power to the control unit in the second power state if the power source control unit receives a request sent from the control unit for turning off a power source, where the control unit performs control so that the image forming apparatus transitions to the second power state when the control unit updates the firmware. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146236 | Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, and Recording Medium That Facilitate Management of Blank Sheets for Preventing Leakage of Confidential Information - An image forming apparatus includes an image-log creation unit, a document blank sheet page skip scan function setting unit, a blank sheet page image registration setting unit, and a blank sheet page image image-log output setting unit. The image-log creation unit creates an image of an image-log from image attribute information and image data of a read document. The document blank sheet page skip scan function setting unit sets whether to use a skip scan function of a blank sheet page of a document. The blank sheet page image registration setting unit sets whether to register a blank sheet page image of the document. The blank sheet page image image-log output setting unit sets whether to output an image-log of the blank sheet page images. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146237 | Simulation Apparatus, Simulation System, and Simulation Method That Ensure Use of General-Purpose PC - A simulation apparatus includes a status-transition-frequency input, a job status unit, a job-status simulating unit, an error-occurrence-rate input unit, and a device alert unit. The status-transition-frequency input unit receives an input of a status transition frequency of a job executable by a device. The job status unit simulates a status transition of the job based on the status transition frequency. The job-status simulating unit makes a transition of a status of the job based on the status transition by the job status unit as a simulation. The error-occurrence-rate input unit receives an input of an error occurrence rate of the job. The device alert unit makes a transition of a status of the device based on the error occurrence rate as a simulation. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146238 | Power Saving Control Method and Apparatus Employing the Same - An apparatus and method for saving power in an office machine having a display panel are provided. The method comprises setting the apparatus in an operation standby mode, detecting whether an error exists in the apparatus and turning on the display panel to display the error thereon when the error is detected. Furthermore, the apparatus keeps the display panel in an off state when the error is not detected. Thus, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a power saving method of an office machine which prevents unnecessary power consumption during an operation of an office machine having a display panel. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293723 | SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A system includes an image processing apparatus that generates a print image based on a print job received from an external apparatus and an image output apparatus that prints using the print image. The image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether the image processing apparatus can communicate with the external apparatus and a transmission unit that, if it is determined that the image processing apparatus cannot communicate with the external apparatus, transmits to the image output apparatus an instruction to cause the image output apparatus to transition to a power saving state. The image output apparatus includes a reception unit that receives the instruction and a control unit that, if the reception unit receives the instruction, causes the image output apparatus to transition to the power saving state. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293724 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object, a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a shifting unit configured to shift, if the detection unit detects an object, a power state of the image forming apparatus from a first power state to a second power state different from the first power state, and shift, if the reception unit receives an operation of a user, the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293726 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus that facilitates management of information security policy even for an extended application installed from exterior. A scanning unit scans an original to generate image data of the original. A printing unit prints an image based on image data. A management unit manages applications dynamically installed. At least one of the applications executes a job using at least one of the scanning unit and the printing unit. A setting unit sets an operation mode for the image forming apparatus, based on security settings that are received from an external apparatus. A determination unit determines whether each of the applications supports the security settings. A control unit restricts an operation of an application that the determination unit determines that the application does not support the security settings. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293732 | Image Forming System, Service Providing Server, Information Processing Terminal, Image Forming Device and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Recording Medium - An image forming system comprises a service providing server and an image forming device. The service providing server includes a managing part configured to manage user registration information with which a service user who uses a service with the image forming device and the image forming device associated with each other are registered, a ticket issuing part configured to issue an application delete ticket to delete an application installed in advance on the image forming device when the service user terminates the service, and a ticket sending part configured to send the ticket to a device which has accessed the service providing server when the access from the service user is detected. The image forming device includes a ticket receiving part configured to receive the ticket from the service providing server, and an application deleting part configured to delete the application based on the ticket. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294201 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - When a printing apparatus of the present invention receives an instruction for stopping printing in a case where printing of a number of copies is performed based on print data for a plurality of pages, if printing is performed by a first print method that performs, for each copy, processing of consecutively printing the plurality of pages and there is a page for which print processing is not started out of pages included in a copy for which print processing is started, the printing apparatus stops the printing after continuing printing until that page, and if printing is performed by a second print method that performs, for each page, processing of repeatedly printing the same page for the number of copies, the printing apparatus stops printing without starting printing processing of a new sheet. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294206 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a state in which an authentication screen in any one display language of a plurality of display languages is displayed, every time a predetermined number of characters are input to an ID input field, an ID including the characters input to the ID input field in order from a first-input is retrieved from user data. Ids, obtained as a result of the retrieval, are set as candidate IDs. When all display languages selected by users having the candidate IDs are the same, the display language selected by the users having the candidate IDs is set as a first display language. When a display language of an authentication screen, which is being displayed, does not coincide with the first display language, an authentication screen in the first display language is displayed in place of the authentication screen, which is being displayed. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296090 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT MAKE MISCELLANEOUS AFFAIRS ABOUT USE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SETTLE APPROPRIATELY - Provided is an image forming system that makes operations to various miscellaneous affairs complete appropriately and certainly. Various miscellaneous affairs are settled by the miscellaneous-affairs information screen, which is a miscellaneous-affairs demand request circuit, in MFF, which is an image forming apparatus. The miscellaneous-affairs supporter list is stored in the memory, which is a memory circuit. If the request to another person is needed, a miscellaneous-affairs demand request is performed to a client terminal of a person chosen from the miscellaneous-affairs supporter list. In the case, the response to a miscellaneous-affairs demand request is obtained from the miscellaneous-affairs demand response screen, which is a miscellaneous-affairs demand response circuit of the client terminal. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296099 | MOBILE DATA PROCESSING HAVING SECURED ASSOCIATION WITH MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE - A mobile data processing method, in which a request for performing a data processing job by a data processing device is initiated from a user of a mobile device. A device code of the mobile device in association with the user is transmitted to the data processing device. The user is authenticated by the data processing device. Whether the device code of the mobile device is identifiable by the data processing device is determined. An entry of the data processing job in association with the user and the device code of the mobile device is created in the data processing device if the device code of the mobile device is identified by the data processing device. The data processing job is executed if the entry of the data processing job is created and stored in association with the user and the device in the data processing device. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296100 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a login request from a wireless terminal apparatus and an execution unit that executes different login processing according to whether the wireless terminal apparatus from which the login request was received has a display. | 10-15-2015 |
20150312440 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTERIZED AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317111 | MULTI-TIERED CONSTRAINT CHECKING FOR MANAGING PRINT JOBS - A method implemented in a print job management apparatus for processing print jobs in a multiple-printer print shop environment is described. When an operator manually assigns a print job to a printer, the print job requirements are compared with capabilities of the printer to detect any constraints (i.e. incompatibilities between printer capabilities and print job requirements). The job is printed if no constraint is detected. If a constraint of a first category is detected (e.g. incompatible color capabilities, paper size and type, layout, etc.), printing will not proceed and an error message is displayed. If a constraint of a second category is detected (e.g. inadequate finishing capabilities.), a warning message is displayed with a request for operator instruction regarding whether to proceed with printing. If the operator chooses to proceed, the job will be printed, and a banner page containing instructions regarding uncompleted job requirements is generated. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317551 | OUTPUT SYSTEM, OUTPUT METHOD, AND OUTPUT APPARATUS - An output system includes a terminal apparatus, an output apparatus, and an information processing apparatus that are interconnected via a network. The output system includes a unit that registers an output request for output data received from the terminal apparatus that is operated by a registering user, a unit that displays information on the registering user that has designated an outputting user operating the output apparatus as a delegate user and receives a selection of the registering user from the outputting user, a unit that receives from the output apparatus an acquisition request for the output request of the selected registering user and provides the requested output request to the output apparatus, and a unit that receives a selection of the output request from the outputting user, acquires the output data of the selected output request, and outputs the acquired output data at the output apparatus. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324673 | PRINTING APPARATUS SYSTEM, AND CONNECTION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - A printing apparatus system, comprising: a printing apparatus; and connection devices connected to the printing apparatus in multistage, wherein a device side controller is configured to: execute an authentication process in cooperation with an apparatus side controller when a signal is input thereto, the signal corresponding to a start command signal output from the printing apparatus and input to an electric resistance; and execute a level process where a voltage level of the start command signal passed the electric resistance is set to be higher than or equal to a predetermined level when the authentication process is finished, wherein the apparatus side controller is configured to store identification information assigned to each of the connection devices and number-of-stage information indicating, for each of the connection devices, which stage a connection device associated with the identification information is connected to, wherein the identification information is associated with the number-of-stage information. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324675 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that dynamically and suitably switches login processing between a user who selects an icon and a user who is identified by reading of a card. The image forming apparatus searches user information of a user who logs in by selecting a user icon displayed on a display unit and a user who logs in using a card, and performs the login processing on a searched user. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324676 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SENDING IMAGE DATA - An image processing system includes a reception unit configured to receive an input of authentication information from a user, an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the authentication information received by the reception unit, a setting unit configured to set a destination of image data, an operation key configured to set a folder of the user as a destination of the image data, and a transmission unit configured to send the image data to a destination set by the setting unit. The image processing system performs control not to allow a destination setting using the operation key, in the case where a destination to be set by the setting unit is limited to a destination to be set using the operation key and a folder to be set in response to an operation of the operation key is the one to be registered by the user. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326751 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING IMAGE DATA TO AN OUTPUT DESTINATION - A data processing system comprising a device and a data processing apparatus that is connected to the device via a network and that stores screen data in association with identification information of the device, the screen data including an image processing condition and output destination data for each of one or more operation components, the data processing apparatus comprising a reception unit configured to receive image data and identification data transmitted from a device, an authentication unit configured to obtain authentication data corresponding to an output destination, and receive an authentication of the output destination using the authentication data, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the image data to an output destination indicated by the output destination data corresponding to the identification data of the device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331639 | CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A control system that monitors a calibration status of a printer includes the following components. An obtaining unit obtains information that identifies a common media type to be used in calibration by a monitoring-target printer. A first determining unit determines whether a calibration status of the printer satisfies a first condition in accordance with a printing amount of the printer. A second determining unit determines whether a recording medium corresponding to the common media type is held in the printer by using the obtained information. A control unit causes the printer to perform calibration by causing the printer to perform printing on the recording medium corresponding to the common media type in a case where it is determined that the calibration status of the printer satisfies the first condition and that the recording medium corresponding to the common media type is held in the printer. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331640 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, an input unit configured to input, in response to detecting an abnormality in the formed image, a plurality of pieces of information about a feature of the formed image via an operation unit, and a chart forming unit configured to form, by the image forming unit, a chart for determining an abnormality in an image, wherein the chart is decided according to a combination of the plurality of pieces of information input by the input unit via the operation unit. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334109 | Communication Device, Control Method of a Communication Device, and Printer - A communication device having time information that may not be correct can efficiently and accurately authenticate a server certificate. The communication unit of a printer processes server authentication that inspects a server certificate when connecting to an external network. Server authentication includes a first authentication that verifies the validity period of the server certificate based on status information and time information stored by the communication unit. The communication unit cuts the connection to the external network if the time information stored by the communication unit is after the validity period (the validity period is clearly expired). The first authentication reliably succeeds if the communication unit has the correct time information and a valid server certificate. If the time information is before the validity period, the time information may be old, and processing proceeds based on the status information. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334253 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION DEVICE - An information management apparatus for managing information about information devices connected to the information management apparatus via a network. The information management apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about current setting from the information devices, a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose setting of the each information device based on the acquired information, a generation unit configured to generate a diagnosis result report containing findings about setting based on a diagnosis result associated with a management area where the information devices are arranged, and an output unit configured to output the diagnosis result report generated by the generation unit. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334260 | IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - An information processing terminal transmits, to an authentication server, information obtained by imaging a code pattern of multifunction device information, and authentication information inputted by a user. The authentication server performs user authentication based on the received authentication information and specifies a multifunction device based on the received information of the code pattern. If the user has been authenticated, the authentication server transmits print data corresponding to the user to the multifunction device and prescribes the execution of print processing to the multifunction device. The multifunction device executes print process based on the obtained print data. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334261 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus, when a receiving unit receives data from an external device, a power control unit returns a power state of the apparatus from a power saving state and a transmitting unit transmits a start instruction to a connected image forming apparatus, and when a power supply switch becomes on according to a user's operation, the power control unit returns the power state of the apparatus from the power saving state but the transmitting unit does not transmit the start instruction to the image forming apparatus. Thus, it is possible to achieve both a linkage start and an individual start for an external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus, in an image processing system including the information processing apparatus, the external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus capable of performing an image process in cooperation with others. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339560 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, and a method of controlling the same, determine whether or not a second reader for authentication is connected, and, in a case where it is determined that the second reader for authentication is connected, control the information processing apparatus to use the second reader for authentication rather than a first reader for authentication. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339561 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a case where a plurality of users share the use of one mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus has performed authentication printing also on image data to which the previous owner of the mobile terminal has sent a printing instruction. According to the present embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a data reception unit configured to receive data having a device ID of a mobile terminal and user information for identifying a user of the mobile terminal, and includes an authentication information reception unit configured to receive authentication information including the device ID and the user information from the mobile terminal. The image forming apparatus also includes a print control unit configured to control, in response to the reception of the authentication information, a printer to print the data received by the data reception unit. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341516 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that shifts to a power saving state, includes a printing unit, a printing control unit configured to control the printing unit, and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the printing control unit when the image forming apparatus returns from the power saving state, wherein the printing control unit, to which power is supplied by the power supply unit, executes initialization of the printing unit in a case where a printing screen for performing a printing function is set as a initial screen to be displayed when the image forming apparatus returns from the power saving state, and wherein the printing control unit does not execute initialization of the printing unit in a case where a selection screen for selecting the printing function is set as a initial screen to be displayed when the image forming apparatus returns from the power saving state. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347059 | IMAGE DEFECT DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGE DEFECT DETECTION METHOD, AND IMAGING UNIT - Disclosed are an image defect detection device, method and an imaging unit capable of reliably detecting image defect, such as stripe unevenness or scratches, even if a comparatively inexpensive and low resolution imaging unit is used. An image reading unit has a plurality of read pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting a first direction and reads an image recorded on a recording medium by a single-pass recording head, which is relatively moved in the first direction. A birefringent plate shifts and duplexes the image at least in the second direction by performing birefringence of image light of the image. The birefringent plate makes the width of image defect in the second direction on the read pixels greater than the pitch of the read pixels. A detection unit which detects image defect included in the image and extended in the first direction based on the reading result of the image. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347060 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a print processing part that executes print processing of print data on a continuous print medium; an operation part to which an instruction is input and that displays information; a storage part that stores page IDs for identifying pages of the print data and characteristic image data of the pages; and a control part that controls recovery printing after a restoration from a print processing error. When the control part executes the recovery printing, the operation part displays the page IDs of pages in a selectable manner and the characteristic image data of the page which corresponds to at least one of the page IDs, when one of the page IDs is selected, the recovery printing is initiated from the page that is designated by the selected page ID. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347068 | Printing Method, Arrangement for the Realization of the Printing Method, and a Corresponding Computer Program and a Corresponding Computer-Readable Storage Medium - A printing method, an arrangement, a computer program, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided to increase a number of printing devices used by a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal communicates with a server via a wireless communication interface and sends via the server data to a printing device including information identifying the printing device and a key assigned to the printing device. The method includes establishing a communications link, determining printing devices, transmitting information about the usable printing devices, selecting a usable printing device, transmitting the data intended for printing or information that enable the server to retrieve the data intended for printing from a remote storage location in a data network, checking the validity of one or more of the keys transmitted from the mobile terminal transmitted, and transmitting, depending on the validity of the key(s), the data intended for printing to the selected printing device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347071 | PRINT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print management apparatus includes an acquisition section, a detecting section, an error job generation section, and a print job management section. The acquisition section acquires print information on plural print jobs to be performed by an image forming apparatus. The detecting section detects types of recording materials to be used in units of the plural print jobs on the basis of the acquired print information. The error job generation section generates a first error job including information that is not printable by the image forming apparatus when the detected types of the recording materials are different between successive print jobs. The print job management section manages the plural print jobs, and inserts the first error job between the successive print jobs when the first error job is generated. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347883 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a first retrieval unit that retrieves a table of document data, an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium in accordance with the document data, a second retrieval unit that retrieves a cumulative amount of images formed by the image forming unit, a third retrieval unit that retrieves a threshold value of the cumulative amount of images formed by the image forming unit, and a display unit that displays a selection screen that allows a user to select document data forming an image from the document data included in the table. If the cumulative amount does not exceed the threshold value, the display unit displays a screen including a batch selection screen. If the cumulative amount exceeds the threshold value, the display unit displays an individual selection screen. | 12-03-2015 |
20150355869 | NETWORK DEVICE, NETWORK PRINTER, AND CONTROL METHOD OF A NETWORK DEVICE - A network device that can be used without requiring a device driver dependent upon the environment of an external device, a network printer, and a control method of a network device are provided. A file server has a management unit configured to manage a folder and information; a folder creation unit configured to create on the file server the folder to receive a process request from a client terminal; a process execution unit configured to execute a specific process when the process request is received in the folder; and a process result reporting unit configured to report the process result of the process execution unit to the folder. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355872 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a printing data storing unit and a printing order adjusting unit. The printing data storing unit stores received printing data. The printing order adjusting unit adjusts an order of printing of printing data received through short-range radio communication to be higher than an order of printing of printing data stored in the printing data storing unit. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356390 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to perform image processing, a storage unit configured to be capable of storing an application program installed in the image processing apparatus, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the application program had ever been installed in the image processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to selectively control the image processing unit to be operable and control the image processing unit not to operate according to the determination by the first determination unit if an error has occurred in the storage unit. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358289 | PRECONFIGURED TRANSPARENT FIREWALL WITH STATEFUL INSPECTION FOR EMBEDDED DEVICES - An apparatus comprises a first network interface unit, a second network interface unit, and a preconfigured firewall unit. The first network interface unit is configured for communicating with a local network of a user. The second network interface unit is configured for communicating with a designated embedded device of the user. The preconfigured firewall unit is configured for transparently filtering packets of network traffic from the first network device to the second network device. The filtering at least in part is accomplished in a stateful manner without configuration by the user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358490 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - It is determined that the multi-function peripheral operates according to a first mode in which user authentication is available and department authentication is not available or operates according to a second mode in which both of the user authentication and department authentication are available. In a case that the multi-function peripheral operates according to the first mode, user authentication information is transmitted to the multi-function peripheral. In a case that the multi-function peripheral operates according to the second mode, authentication information is transmitted to the multi-function peripheral. The authentication information is used to causing the multi-function peripheral to perform selection authentication before performing a job. The selection authentication is one selected from the user authentication and department authentication by a user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image processing apparatus which keeps energizing some loads to reduce next startup processing at the time of power OFF operation via a switch of the apparatus while stopping power supply to all the loads at the time of power OFF operation by remote control, a control method for the apparatus, and a program. To accomplish this, this image processing apparatus is shifted to the power OFF state upon, for example, receiving an instruction for decreasing power consumption from an external apparatus, and is shifted to the quick OFF state upon receiving an instruction for decreasing power consumption from the external apparatus. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358493 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - In an image forming apparatus, when an instruction to supply power in a power-off state of the image forming apparatus is detected, control is performed such that the image forming apparatus is started by shifting from the power-off state to a standby state or is started by shifting from the power-off state to a sleep state based on transition setting information of a power supply state. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358505 | Imaging Device-Based User Authentication System and Methods - A method for authenticating a user for operating at least one imaging device from a network of imaging devices without using an authentication server is disclosed. The method includes configuring a first imaging device from the network to store a registry of users authorized to access the imaging device. Another imaging device from the network receives log-in information from the user which is sent to the first imaging device for authentication. If the log-in information is authenticated at the first imaging device, the user is provided access to one or more functions of the imaging device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363138 | PRINT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND PRINT INSPECTION METHOD - A print inspection apparatus according to the present invention obtains an object for variable printing which is stored in a storage and generates a combined image by combining the obtained object. If the combined image is normally generated, the combined image is set to both of a print image and a collation image. Whereas if the combined image is not normally generated, a different image is set to each of the print image and the collation image. The print inspection apparatus generates a print product by printing the set print image. Then, the print inspection apparatus inspects the print product by comparing image data generated by reading the print product with the set collation image. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363139 | PRINT SERVER SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a print server system which suitably performs control of registration of a printer in accordance with a result of a determination as to whether an environment in which the printer is used corresponds to an enterprise environment. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363680 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - This image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a charging unit, an error detection unit, a determination unit, and a charge-condition changing unit. The image forming unit creates printouts. The charging unit charges for printouts created by the image forming unit. The error detection unit detects errors that occur during the creation of printouts by the image forming unit. The determination unit determines whether or not the error that occurred in the image forming unit is an error made intentionally by the user based on the detection results from the error detection unit. The charge-condition changing unit changes the charge conditions under which the charging unit makes a charge when the determination unit determines that the error is an error made intentionally by a user. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365542 | MOBILE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MANUAL - A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes an imaging unit configured to generate an image, a communication interface configured to receive status information from an image forming apparatus corresponding to the generated image, a controller configured to control the communication interface to receive manual information on the image forming apparatus according to the received status information, and a display configured to synthesize and display the generated image and the received manual information. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371116 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus, including an image forming unit that forms a test image for correction of a position of an image on the recording medium, a reading unit that reads an image from the recording medium on which the test image is formed, a transport unit that transports the recording medium, and a correction unit that corrects the position of the image, wherein the test image includes a first mark that is provided at a distance determined from the first reference line, a second mark that is provided at the distance from a second reference line set with respect to a second side, and a code image that is provided at a position determined with respect to the first mark and the second mark, and that indicates information for correction of the position of the image by the correction unit. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371126 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a detector, an avoidance process memory, a print data memory, and an acceptor. The image forming unit receives a print instruction including print data and a print setting and forms an image on a sheet. The detector analyzes the print data and/or the print setting in the print instruction, and detects an error that is an unprocessable or invalid instruction. The avoidance process memory stores an error avoidance process of avoiding the error and enabling execution of image formation, in association with the print instruction including the error. The print data memory stores the print data in the print instruction including the error. The acceptor accepts an instruction to avoid the error and to execute image formation, in accordance with the stored error avoidance process and the stored print data. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373215 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first setting unit that sets a setting value of individual setting information for a login user, and a second setting unit that sets, in a case where a logout request is received, a setting value of common setting information, wherein the second setting unit omits, in a case where a login request of a new user is received while the user is logged in, a process for setting the setting value of the common setting information based on the common setting information, and the first setting unit sets a setting value of individual setting information for the new user based on individual setting information associated with user identification information for identifying the new user. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373216 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CUSTOMIZING OPERATION SCREEN BASED ON PERSONAL SETTING INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains personal setting information about a user who logs into the image forming apparatus from a server apparatus and a display control unit that controls a display unit to display a customized operation screen customized for the user based on the obtained personal setting information. If the personal setting information has been obtained from the server apparatus within a predetermined time, the customized operation screen is displayed. If the personal setting information has been obtained from the server apparatus after the predetermined time elapses, the customized operation screen is not displayed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150378647 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD SUITABLE FOR CHANGING BETWEEN THE NORMAL MODE AND SLEEP MODE - Provided is an image forming apparatus that is coping with the response and the energy-saving effect. The image forming apparatus has a host system and a proxy response system. The host system transmits response data for information request data in a normal mode. The proxy response system transmits the response data for the information request data in a sleep mode. The memory part of the proxy response system memorizes information of the response data from the host system, and sleep mode transit time. The sleep control part makes the host system shift from the normal mode to the sleep mode based on the sleep mode transit time. The sleep control part changes the sleep mode transit time according to quantity of the information of the response data memorized in the memory part. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378648 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS - A system includes storage and control units in a printing apparatus, obtainment and first transmission units in a first computer, and a second transmission unit in a second computer. The storage unit stores print restriction information defining a setting content to permit or restrict printing for each user. The print restriction information of a first computer user is obtained. A first print job including the obtained print restriction information, a first print setting, a second print job including identification information of a second computer user and a second print setting are transmitted. The control unit determines whether to permit or restrict the first print job based on the first print setting and the first print job print restriction information, and determines whether to permit or restrict the second print job based on the second print setting and print restriction information specified by using the second print job user identification information. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379385 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a situation in which an error detecting section detects occurrence of consumable exhaustion during execution of a print job involving multi-page printing and the consumable exhaustion is resolved, a job managing section specifies a user who has resolved the consumable exhaustion. Upon determining that a print job of the specified user is to be executed using a consumable of the same type as the consumable of which exhaustion has occurred, the job managing section inserts the print job of the specified user at an error pause point to cause the printer to perform printing of the print job of the specified user directly after resolution of the consumable exhaustion. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381828 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus has a display for an operation operated by an application program. The apparatus includes an operation screen displayer that displays an operation screen in the display. The application program is an object to be operated in the operation screen. The apparatus also includes a rule violation displayer that displays that a rule violation has occurred in the display, the rule violation occurring when a processing request from the application program exceeds a predetermined allowable range of an operation condition. A manager switches the display, by the rule violation displayer, from the operation screen to a screen showing a rule violation notice that the rule violation has occurred, in response to the processing request, if it is determined that the processing request is the rule violation based on information as to an operation authority permitted to the application program. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381838 | IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image reading device includes a document conveyance section, a reading section, a determination section, an operation control section, a reading instruction request section, and a reading instruction reception section. The determination section determines whether a document sheet is an identifier sheet indicating identification information for identifying an information processing device that is a communication target. The reading instruction request section communicates with the information processing device identified by the identification information, thereby requesting the information processing device for an instruction pertaining to document reading. Upon the reading instruction reception section receiving the instruction, the operation control section causes the reading section to perform document reading in accordance with a reading setting indicated by the instruction in order to generate image data for document sheets from a document sheet directly after the identifier sheet through to a document sheet directly prior to a next identifier sheet. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381840 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a determination section, an acquisition section, a generation section, a notification section, and a management section. The determination section determines, when receiving a print job from a predetermined terminal apparatus via a network, whether or not the print job is a private print job. If the print job is a private print job, the acquisition section acquires, from another image forming apparatus coupled to a self-apparatus to communicate with the self-apparatus, information regarding the another image forming apparatus. The generation section generates a one time password on the basis of the acquired information. The notification section notifies the terminal apparatus of the generated one time password. The management section manages the generated one time password in association with the private print job and, when receiving the one time password from a user, executes the private print job associated with the one time password. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381841 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381842 | DEVICE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE - A device administration system includes a device and a first server. The first server transmits restriction information, for restriction on use of a function of the device, and first destination information, indicating a destination of transmission of authentication information for cancel of the restriction, to the device without a request of the device. The device is configured to: upon receiving the transmitted restriction information, restrict the use of the function corresponding to it; upon receiving the transmitted first destination information, store it; accept the authentication information that is input for removal of the restriction; upon accepting the authentication information, transmit the accepted authentication information to a destination indicated by the stored first destination information; and upon receiving permission information from the destination of transmission, cancel the restriction of the use of the function. The permission information permits the use of the function. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004482 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To prevent a printing apparatus from performing unnecessary processes, there is provided an image processing apparatus which is communicable with the printing apparatus and comprises: a determining unit configured to determine whether or not authentication information of the printing apparatus has been set in a print job; and a controlling unit configured to control to not transmit the print job to the printing apparatus in a case where it is determined by the determining unit that the authentication information has not been set in the print job, and control to transmit the print job to the printing apparatus in a case where it is determined by the determining unit that the authentication information has been set in the print job. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004483 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To promptly perform printing even if authentication information for printing by a printing apparatus is not set to a print job, a printing system which includes an image processing apparatus and the printing apparatus is provided. In the printing system, the image processing apparatus comprises; a setting unit configured to set authentication information of the image processing apparatus to the print job stored in the image processing apparatus, as authentication information of the printing apparatus; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job to which the authentication information has been set, to the printing apparatus: and the printing apparatus comprises; an authenticating unit configured to perform authentication based on the authentication information set to the print job; and a performing unit configured to perform printing of the print job in a case where the authentication by the authenticating unit is successful. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004491 | FUNCTION PROVIDING SYSTEM THAT PROCESSES A REQUEST TO USE THE FUNCTION PROVIDING SYSTEM - A function providing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a use request to use the function providing apparatus, the use request including identification information identifying an operation unit to be operated to use the function providing apparatus, and a user using the function providing apparatus, a denial unit that, if the use request is intended to use the function providing apparatus in an unauthorized mode, denies use of the function providing apparatus in the unauthorized mode, and a providing unit that, if the use request is intended to use the function providing apparatus in the unauthorized mode, provides information that limits use of another function providing apparatus responsive to the use request including the identification information. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006885 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: a hard disk configured to store data; a hard disk malfunction detecting unit configured to detect malfunction of the hard disk; a partition confirmation unit configured to determine as to whether a malfunctioning portion of the hard disk is in a preliminary determined partition; and a partition formatting unit configured to format the partition, wherein, when the malfunctioning portion of the hard disk detected by the hard disk malfunction detecting unit is determined as being in the partition preliminary determined by the partition confirmation unit, the partition formatting unit formats the partition. | 01-07-2016 |
20160011820 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, AND METHOD FOR POPULATING PRINT JOB | 01-14-2016 |
20160011822 | IMAGE SENDING APPARATUS AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD IN IMAGE SENDING APPARATUS | 01-14-2016 |
20160011827 | RESOURCE AUTHORIZATION QUANTITIES | 01-14-2016 |
20160011829 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING LEAKAGE OF PRINTOUT USING SECURITY PAPER | 01-14-2016 |
20160011831 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 01-14-2016 |
20160014303 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | 01-14-2016 |
20160021271 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH GENERATES IMAGES OF WEB PAGES - An image forming apparatus has a function to perform imaging of a web page provided by an external web server and provide a user with the web page. The image forming apparatus acquires contents information of the web page which is information related to the web page, and determines whether a predetermined discrimination condition is satisfied or not for each area of the web page, based on the acquired contents information. The image forming apparatus transmits the information related to the web page to an external server apparatus which differs from the web server in response to the determination result, and acquires information sent from the server apparatus after the transmitting. The image forming apparatus executes imaging of the web page based on the information which was sent from the server apparatus. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021276 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD THAT REDUCES RESTRICTION OF FUNCTION EVEN IN CASE WHERE FAILURE HAPPENS IN STORAGE DEVICE - Provided is an image forming apparatus that enables use in a state even in a case where failure happens in a first storage device. The first storage device has a plurality of partitions that store data for each various function in connection with image formation. A second storage device stores an application program for executing the various function in about image formation. The second storage device has the same partition as the partition of the first storage device. A control part performs mounting process for each partition of the first storage device at the time of a start process. Next, the control part reads the application program in the second storage device. Also, control part performs mounting process for the same partition of the second storage device as the failed partition when the mounting process either of partitions fails. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021279 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING USAGE OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A management apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus for managing usage of the image forming apparatus is disclosed. The management apparatus includes a user data storage part for storing user identification data and use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data, and a use restriction data acquiring part for acquiring the use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021280 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING USAGE OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A management apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus for managing usage of the image forming apparatus is disclosed. The management apparatus includes a user data storage part for storing user identification data and use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data, and a use restriction data acquiring part for acquiring the use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026413 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH PROTOCOL SHARING PROGRAM, AND PROTOCOL SHARING METHOD - A controller of a management device managing a plurality of image processing apparatuses acquires ability information and device identification information from the respective image processing apparatuses; determines, based on the ability information of the respective image processing apparatuses, as an in-charge device any one of the respective image processing apparatuses for each of a plurality of protocols predetermined; for the respective protocols, causes the in-charge device determined for the protocol to respond to a packet by multicast of the protocol on behalf of the respective image processing apparatuses; and causes one or more image processing apparatuses other than the in-charge device determined for the protocol to refrain from responding to a packet by multicast of the protocol. The respective image processing apparatuses respond to a packet by multicast of the protocol if the apparatus itself is determined the in-charge device for the protocol. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026414 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT REQUIRES AUTHENTICATION OF USER, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which allows execution of NFC touch-to-print printing on condition that user authentication is successful, thus preventing NFC touch-to-print printing from being performed by every user. The information processing apparatus is equipped with an NFC (near-field communication) unit which has a memory. When authentication of a user is successful, connecting information for an external device to connect to the information processing apparatus is written into the memory. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028914 | Imaging Device, Medium Transporting Apparatus, and Printing Apparatus - An imaging device includes an imaging unit that includes an imaging element for imaging a lower surface of continuous forms paper, an image processing unit that image-processes an image of the lower surface of the continuous forms paper captured by the imaging unit, a cable that electrically connects the imaging unit and the image processing unit with each other, and an electric box that covers the imaging element, the image processing unit, and the cable and functions as an electromagnetic shield. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028923 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having a browser function and a method of controlling an information processing apparatus. A button to be displayed on a menu screen, a function associated with the button, and information regarding whether the button has an attribute of the bookmark information are stored as button information. If the button information of a button included in the menu screen is the bookmark information when displaying the menu screen, it is determined whether or not the function category information of the bookmark information corresponds to a function that is restricted to a user who has logged in. If it is determined that the function category information of the bookmark information is restricted to the user, the menu screen is displayed such that a button corresponding to the bookmark information cannot be operated. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028924 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus operated by a remote operation device includes a log-in managing part and a display controlling part. When log-in operation inputting log-in information is carried out, if a log-in user to the electronic apparatus does not exist, the log-in managing part logs-in the user to the electronic apparatus. When log-out operation logging-out the user from the electronic apparatus is carried out, the log-in managing part logs-out the user from the electronic apparatus. If the log-in managing part logs-out the user from the electronic apparatus, the display controlling part displays a re-login key for re-login of a log-out user on the remote operation device without inputting the log-in information. If operation of the re-login key is carried out, the log-in managing part logs-in the log-out user to the electronic apparatus by using the log-in information used when the log-out user is precedingly logged-in to the electronic apparatus. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034232 | PRINTING FOR-PAY CONTENT - In one embodiment, an email communication is received via a network. The email communication includes a content identifier identifying for-pay content hosted at a provider computing system, a sender identifier identifying a sender of the communication, and a printer identifier identifying a network-connected printer. The sender identifier is compared to a database that associates sender identifiers with payment subscriptions authorizing printing of the content. Responsive to receipt of data indicating the sender identifier is associated with a payment subscription, the content is obtained from the provider system, rasterized, and sent to the printer for printing. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034801 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprises a receiving section, an input section and a print section. The receiving section receives print data and a user ID of a near who sent the print data to the image forming apparatus. The input section accepts inputs from the user including a user ID. The print section prints the print data that was received by the receiving section within a given period from the current time and is associated with the user ID accepted by the input section. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034802 | SECURE UPGRADE SUPPLIES AND METHODS - Example secure upgrade supplies and methods are disclosed. A disclosed example upgrade supply cartridge structured includes a chamber to store a material useable by the imaging forming apparatus to form an image on media; a security device to provide an authentication credential to an image forming apparatus, the authentication credential useable to authenticate an identity of the upgrade supply cartridge; and a tamperproof data storage including upgrade data useable by the image forming apparatus to activate a capability included but disabled in the image forming apparatus, the tamperproof data storage structured to store an identifier of the image forming apparatus after the upgrade supply cartridge has been utilized by the image forming apparatus to activate the disabled capability. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037009 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling a job processing apparatus includes determining, when an instruction is issued to input a job by a voice that is input via a voice receiving unit, whether there is another job being executed. If the determining determines that the other job is being executed, an inquiry is made of a user about whether to interrupt the other job to execute the input job or to execute the input job without interrupting the other job. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037015 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus determines whether or not administrator authority of a user is set, and whether access is made locally or from the network. When the access is made locally, even if the user has the administrator authority, folders of all users are not displayed. The folders of all users are displayed only when the user having the administrator authority accesses from the network. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041797 | PRINT JOB MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A print job management apparatus includes a storage unit in which a plurality of print jobs are stored, a holding condition managing unit, and a print controlling unit. The holding condition managing -unit determines whether any of the print lobs satisfy a holding condition. The print controlling unit transmits each print job that is determined to satisfy the holding condition through a communication unit to an image forming apparatus. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041801 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS SYSTEM FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING SETTING INFORMATION - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an authentication unit that authenticates a user and logs in the user when the user is authenticated. An input unit receives an input from the user indicating a setting of a function of the image processing apparatus. A setting management unit causes a storage unit to store setting information corresponding to the setting indicated by the input from the user, while the user is logged in, and to store the setting information when the user logs out. A setting state control unit retrieves the setting information of the user and sets a setting state of the image processing apparatus according to the retrieved setting information when the authentication unit logs in the user. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042259 | CREDITS TO USE A DEVICE AND ATTACKER RESISTANT COUNTER - Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory readable medium, and method to manage license to use agreements. The maximum number of credits a device is allowed to consume is determined. An attacker resistant counter is increased using an atomic write. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044185 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN IMAGE - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a readlng unit that reads an image from a sheet to generate image data. A code generation unit generates a code representing an email address of the image processing apparatus. A display unit displays the code. A control unit receives an email transmitted from a transmission source to the email address of the image processing apparatus and transmits an email with the image data attached to an email address of the transmission source. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048360 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit, a use authority information acquisition unit, and a transmission controller. The image processing unit processes an image in accordance with an instruction from a terminal apparatus. The use authority information acquisition unit acquires use authority information in which, for each user, use authority is set for a resource that the image processing apparatus has. The transmission controller transmits, in a case where a change has occurred in a state of the resource, resource-state information, which is information regarding the state of the resource, to a terminal apparatus of a user who has authority to use the resource, in accordance with the use authority information acquired by the use authority information acquisition unit. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050340 | DEVICE HUB SYSTEM WITH RESOURCE ACCESS MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A device hub system includes: a control unit configured to: generate a workroom for providing access to a workroom accessible resource, including an enterprise multifunctional printer, protected by a network firewall; provide authentication for a participant device to access the workroom; receive a workroom request through the workroom; generate a workroom sharable information from the workroom request; and a communication unit, coupled to the control unit, configured to distribute the workroom sharable information within the workroom. | 02-18-2016 |
20160054955 | PRINTING SYSTEM PROCESSING DATA ACCORDING TO AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION, PRINTING APPARATUS AND PORTABLE TERMINAL CONSTITUTING THE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHODS THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAMS THEREFOR - A printing system that is capable of saving time for inputting authentication information at the time of instructing job process from the portable terminal. A printing system comprises a printing apparatus and a portable terminal. The printing apparatus comprises an NFC tag, an authentication unit, a writing unit that writes data including user information about a user whose authentication succeeds into the NFC tag when the user authentication succeeds, a reception unit that receives print data, and a processing unit that processes the print data based on the user information included in the print data received. The portable terminal comprises a reading unit that read data from the NFC tag, an extraction unit that extracts the user information from the data read, a generation unit that generates print data using the user information extracted, and a transmission unit that transmits the print data generated to the printing apparatus. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055402 | Dynamic Address Change Optimizations - Component circuitry for a replaceable printer component, including a dynamic address generator which selectively generates component addresses, wherein substantially immediately following an event, the component circuitry performs in succession a plurality of sets of operations, each set of operations including receiving an address change request from a master and generating a new component address by the dynamic address generator in response, a last one of the new component addresses generated being available as the component address for the component circuitry in one or more subsequent communications with the master. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057295 | SERVER, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A server includes: a storage; and a control device which determines whether the server is permitted to collect data of the image forming device when receiving inquiry information; transmits to the image forming device first permission information for checking whether a user permits data collection; transmits active information when receiving second permission information representing that data collection is permitted; when the server receives device identification information for identifying the image forming device of which data collecting function is activated, stores the received device identification information in the storage, and transmits instruction information for instructing the image forming device to transmit the data which should be collected, to the image forming device; and when receiving the collection data for generating the notification data from the image forming device, stores the received collection data in the storage in association with the device identification information. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057303 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A main power source portion generates a primary DC power from an input AC power, and a first sub power source portion generates a power source control secondary DC power from the primary DC power. Each of a plurality of second sub power source portions, upon input of an activation signal, generates an equipment secondary DC power from the primary DC power. A sub-power-source control portion starts to operate upon receiving the power source control secondary DC power. The sub-power-source control portion outputs the activation signal to a display-related second sub power source portion with higher priority when the detection result of a power state detection portion satisfies a predetermined unfavorable condition, than when the detection result does not satisfy the unfavorable condition, and outputs an alarm signal to cause display-related equipment to output an alarm. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057304 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ACTIVATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH ACTIVATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a main processor, a first memory, a sub processor, and a second memory. The second memory stores a snapshot that includes an executable program obtained by loading one or more programs in the first memory. The main processor switches from a drive mode to a stop mode. The sub processor activates the main processor in response to any one of a plurality of activation factors being detected, cuts off power in response to an operation mode being switched to the stop mode, and supplies power to the main processor and the first memory before the main processor is activated. The main processor reads out a snapshot associated with an activation factor from the second memory and stores the snapshot into the first memory in response to being activated by the sub processor. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057313 | AUTHENTICATION UTILIZING ENCODED DATA - A system tor authenticating a user is disclosed herein. An example includes a printer and a printer states code. The example also includes a processor and a support center. Other features of the system are disclosed herein, as are an example of authentication method and a non-volatile storage medium. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062713 | PROCESSING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SERVER AND PROCESSING MANAGEMENT METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is a processing management method including: causing a management server to execute Step (S | 03-03-2016 |
20160063366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus and a control method that, when a print job to be re-executed is stored, deletes authentication information required for an authentication function in a printing system from among print attributes included in the print job, and then stores the print job in the printing system. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065752 | Device Management Apparatus, Device Management System, Recording Medium, and Device Management Method That Reduce Obstruction When Solving Failure Caused by Skill of Operator - A device management apparatus includes a communication processing circuit and a service support processing circuit. The communication processing circuit receives device state information transmitted from a first operator. The device state information indicates device state information of the electronic device. The first operator performs solution work to a failure of the electronic device. The service support processing circuit determines a category into which the device state information is classified from the received device state information. The service support processing unit searches a database for a second operator or a candidate for the second operator. The second operator has solved a failure belonging to the determined category. The database stores operator information including a solution result of a failure of each operator. The service support processing unit decides the searched second operator or the searched candidate for the second operator to assist or complement the solution work by the first operator. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065753 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Control in consideration of the type of a sheet to be used as a cover sheet in a case where a book bound product is generated by switching back sheets each having an image printed, inverting the sheets and folding the inverted sheets. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065760 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus connected to a managing apparatus that manages display information via a network, the information processing apparatus comprises: a communication unit that transmits apparatus identification information and apparatus information to the managing apparatus and receives the display information and the apparatus information from the managing apparatus; a reading unit that reads user identification information from a storage medium; an authenticating unit that authenticates a user by the user identification information; a display controller that, when the user is authenticated, displays publicly-available first display information among the received display information on a display unit; and a determining unit that determines whether the storage medium is within a certain distance, wherein the display controller, when the storage medium is determined to be present within the certain distance, displays, on the display unit, second display information available to a specific user including an authenticated user among the received display information. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065772 | PREVENTION OF EMPTY MEDIA TRAYS IN A PRINT SYSTEM - System and methods for prevention of empty media trays in a print system. In one embodiment, a system includes a print controller configured to receive a print job, and to initiate collection of media from a media tray based on information in the print job. The system also includes a supply detection module configured to detect a low supply of the media in the media tray, and to generate an error responsive to detection of the low supply before the media tray is empty. The print controller is configured to stop the collection of the media based on the error signal so that at least one sheet of the media remains in the media tray. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065774 | IMAGE FORMING APPRATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD CAPABLE OF PREVENTING PRINTED MATTER FROM BEING TAKEN AWAY BY OTHER USERS - Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing a printed matter from being inadvertently taken away by other users. The image forming apparatus mainly includes a first determination part, a second determination part, and a job control part. The first determination part determines whether there exists a second printing job to be executed subsequent to the first printing job. The second determination part determines whether the time measured by the timer part has passed a predetermined period if it is determined that there exists the second printing job. The job control part performs interval control for causing the printing part to execute the second printing job after the predetermined period has passed if it is determined that the predetermined period has not yet passed. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065787 | Read Image Capturing System That Captures Read Image in Association with User, Read Image Capturing Device, and Recording Medium - A read image capturing system includes a reading device, a read image capturing circuit, and a signature managing circuit. The reading device reads an image from an original document. The read image capturing circuit captures the read image read by the reading device. The signature managing circuit manages a signature image for causing the read image capturing circuit to capture the read image as a signature capturing image for each user. The read image capturing circuit that captures the read image in association with a user who is associated with the signature capturing image by the signature managing circuit, the signature capturing image having a similarity degree with the signature image included in the read image equal to or more than a similarity degree for capture. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070510 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus remote control system in which an information terminal device and an image forming apparatus are connected with each other via a network, the system capable of displaying an operation screen on a terminal operation unit of the information terminal device via the network based on operation unit image data corresponding to an operation screen displayed on an apparatus operation unit of the image forming apparatus, and capable of operating the apparatus operation unit of the image forming apparatus by remote control on the terminal operation unit side, the system includes a control unit that controls the remote control, wherein the control unit displays warning screens each including a display cancel function on the operation screens when a use action of the remote control system and a use action of the apparatus operation unit overlap with each other. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070511 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses. The information processing system includes an output data reception part that receives, via a network, output data or output target data; a storage process part that associates data identification information with the output data and stores them in a data storage part when the output data reception part receives the data identification information for the output data or output data generated based on the output target data or a request to issue the data identification information; a notification part that notifies of the data identification information via a network; and a transmission part that transmits, via a network, the output data associated with the user identification information received via a network. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070512 | PRINT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT SERVICE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR AUTHORIZING ACCESS TO PRINT DATA HELD BY A PRINT SERVICE SYSTEM - A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication. The image forming apparatus includes an authorization information acquiring unit that acquires the access authorization information by the proximity communication, and a print data acquiring unit that sends the acquired access authorization information to the print service system, is authorized to access the holding unit, and acquires the print data. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070514 | MARKING AGENT CREDIT ADJUSTMENTS - In one example of the disclosure, account data that is indicative of marking agent credits attributed to a printer is stored. The printer is a printer connected to a supply of marking agent. A marking agent credit is to authorize consumption of a credit amount of marking agent from the supply according to a subscription. A print job is received from a sponsor computing device. The account data is adjusted to add credits in an adjustment amount that is a function of marking agent consumption to print the job. The job is sent to the printer for printing. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070521 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT RESTRICTS RECEPTION OF PRINT JOB, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of efficiently executing print jobs. The image forming apparatus receives a second print job after receiving a first print job and prints a plurality of copies of print data corresponding to the first print job. Whether or not the print data is to be printed by sort printing is determined, and when the print data is to be printed by sort printing, reception of the second print job is restricted until printing of the print data is completed, and when the print data is not to be printed by sort printing, reception of the second print job is not restricted even before printing of the print data is completed. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072975 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management system includes a device management apparatus, a first electronic device, a second electronic device, and an intervening apparatus. The device management apparatus includes a memory storing authorized user identification information, a receiver receiving user identification information from the first electronic device, and processing circuitry determining whether it is allowed to use at least the first electronic device. If so, third device identification information is stored. The intervening apparatus includes a receiver receiving the user identification information from the second electronic device and processing circuitry determining whether it is allowed to use at least the first electronic device. If so, the third device identification information is received. The second electronic device includes a receiver receiving a request and processing circuitry determining whether the third device identification information in the request matches the third device identification information received from the device management apparatus, and accepts the request. | 03-10-2016 |
20160077767 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD IN CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT, AND PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A print job is submitted from a client terminal | 03-17-2016 |
20160077771 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device comprises: a screen data generating unit that generates, in a plurality of formats, screen data to be transmitted to an external device to cause the external device to display a screen; a notification unit that notifies the external device of the formats of the screen data generated by the screen data generating unit; and a screen data transmission unit that transmits, in accordance with specification of a format, out of the formats, that is transmitted from the external device in response to notification of the formats by the notification unit, the screen data generated by the screen data generating unit in the specified format to the external device. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077776 | PRINTING COMPOSITE DOCUMENTS - A printer includes an access module to control access among different participants, one participant at a time, to at least some encrypted parts of a composite document print job located at the printer. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078331 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING MAINTENANCE METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a conveying unit conveying a paper, an image forming unit forming an image on an image carrier and printing the image on the paper being conveyed by the conveying unit, and a control unit controlling the image forming apparatus, and when a progress state of the image forming apparatus reaches a first reference according to the progress state, the control unit can perform maintenance operation of performing maintenance by forming an image for maintenance on the image carrier, after interrupting printing based on a job if the job is being executed, and when a job using continuous paper is to be executed, the control unit determines whether the progress state exceeds a second reference before the job is completed prior to the maintenance operation, and if the progress state exceeds the second reference, issues an alarm regarding the interruption. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078332 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, METHOD OF SWITCHING MODES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming device comprises: a receiving unit that receives a request from an external device; an acquiring unit that acquires a port number indicated by the request received by the receiving unit and an information amount of the request; a first determining unit that determines whether or not the port number coincides with a specific port number; a second determining unit that determines whether or not the information amount is equal to or greater than a specific threshold; and a system control unit that switches an operation mode from a power-saving mode to a normal mode when the first determining unit determines that the port number coincides with the specific port number and the second determining unit determines that the information amount is equal to or greater than the specific threshold. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080596 | IMAGE-READING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE - An image-reading device: detects, after a starting operation for starting a job has been performed on an operation part, the size of a document loaded on a document-loading tray; and when there is a difference between the size of the document detected before the starting operation and the size of the document detected after the starting operation, temporarily stops the job without resetting a setting received by the operation part prior to the start of the job. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080600 | INCOMPATIBLE SETTING PROCESSING APPARATUS, INCOMPATIBLE SETTING PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An incompatible setting processing apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting options of setting items; an extracting unit that extracts, for each of the options of each of the setting items, a first option that is an option of a setting item satisfying an incompatible setting condition on a basis of incompatible setting condition information associating incompatible setting conditions for the options of the setting items with display character strings indicating the respective incompatible setting conditions; an input unit that selects an option of each setting item in the setting screen in accordance with a received operating input; a prohibiting unit that prohibits selection of the first option by the input unit; and a display control unit that displays a display character string associated with the incompatible setting condition corresponding to the first option, which is acquired from the incompatible setting condition information. | 03-17-2016 |
20160082740 | Communicating a Classification of a Consumable Product - A non-volatile memory includes a mechanism that communicates a classification of the consumable product to a device. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085487 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing system includes an information receiving unit, a document obtaining unit, an identifying unit, and a processing unit. The information receiving unit receives, from a user terminal, authentication information for obtaining document data, the authentication information being generated in response to registration of the document data on a server, and user identifiable information. The document obtaining unit obtains the document data from the server by using the authentication information. The identifying unit identifies user identification information by using the user identifiable information. The processing unit processes the document data and the user identification information in association with each other. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085488 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a first receiving unit that receives authentication information from software that functions as a web client through a first communication path using a first communication protocol; a transmitting unit that, if authentication using the received authentication information is successful, permits communication through the first communication path, and transmits access permission information to the software through the first communication path; a second receiving unit that receives an establishment request for a second communication path using a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, from the software; and an establishing unit that, if the transmitted access permission information is included in the received establishment request, establishes the second communication path to the software. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an operation estimation unit, a calculation unit, and a control unit. The operation estimation unit estimates an amount of operation from an operation history of an apparatus. The calculation unit calculates a degree of environmental deterioration of an internal environment of the apparatus caused when an update is performed for the apparatus. The control unit sets an inappropriate time frame or an appropriate time frame for the update using the amount of operation and the degree of environmental deterioration. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088191 | INFORMATION PROCESS APPARATUS - An information process apparatus includes a memory part that records original information relating to an image, a conversion process part that converts the original information into concealed information in which at least a piece of the original information is concealed, a concealed information providing part that provides the concealed information to an outside the information process apparatus, and a corresponding information providing processing part that creates corresponding information in which the original information corresponds to the concealed information, and provides the corresponding information to the outside the information process apparatus. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092145 | AUTHORIZING OR PRINTING NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT - A method of authorizing a negotiable instrument includes automatically receiving a request for the instrument, identity data identifying a requester, and a location of a requester. If the location is within location range for the identity data, a verification code is transmitted to the client. An input code is received from a personal mobile device at a location. If the input code matches the verification code and the device is near the requester, a reference code of the negotiable instrument is transmitted to the client and is stored. A method of performing a financial transaction indicated by the instrument includes automatically receiving the reference code, receiving identifying data of a bearer of the negotiable instrument; determining whether the received identifying data correspond to a request for the instrument; and, if so, producing a transaction record corresponding to the request and invalidating the reference code. Systems are also described. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092146 | Image Processing Apparatus, and Method and Computer-Readable Medium for the Same - An image processing apparatus including a reader, a storage configured to store identification information, one or more setting operations, and one or more pieces of state information in association with each other, each setting operation being a previously-set operation of operations executable by the image processing apparatus, each piece of the state information indicating a predetermined apparatus state of apparatus states in which the image processing apparatus is allowed to be, and a controller configured to control the reader to read the identification information from a recording medium, acquire particular state information indicating a particular apparatus state of the image processing apparatus, and when determining that the acquired particular state information is coincident with a specific piece of the state information, perform a particular operation of the one or more setting operations that is stored in the storage in association with the specific piece of the state information. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094740 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An information processing device includes a first unit that is a base of the information processing device, a second unit that is disposed above the first unit and rotates around a first rotation shaft which is horizontally arranged, an input part that accepts an operation input by a user, and a wireless reading unit containing part that is disposed next to the input part and contains a wireless reading unit. The wireless reading unit containing part is provided with a containing part to contain the wireless reading unit, and an open/close lid that opens and closes the containing part. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094745 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A sheet size determining portion determines, upon start of execution of a print job, whether or not a sheet size corresponding to raster image data to be printed in the print job matches a sheet size of a sheet conveyed in the print job. A size error detecting portion determines, in a case where the sheet size corresponding to the raster image data does not match the sheet size of the sheet, whether or not a print pixel to be printed exists in an excess region of the raster image data that is outside the sheet size of the sheet. A printing portion continues execution of the print job in a case where no print pixel exists in the excess region and stops the print job in a case where the print pixel exists in the excess region. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094757 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - An electronic equipment includes a storage device and a transmission processing unit. The storage derive stores transmission prohibited component data designating, among components forming a screen, a component transmission of a component image of which is prohibited. The transmission processing unit transmits, when a change of screen image data is detected by a screen change detection unit, if a component in which the change of the screen image data is detected is not a component designated in transmission prohibited component data, image data of the component in which the change of the screen image data is detected to a predetermined monitoring apparatus, and does not transmit, if the component in which the change of the screen image data is detected is a component designated in transmission prohibited component data, the image data of the component in which the change of the screen image data is detected to the monitoring apparatus. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098232 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH SECURITY FUNCTION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing occurrence of a security hole. A first receiving unit receives user information selected from a screen that is displayed by an operation unit of the image forming apparatus. A second receiving unit receives user information from an external apparatus via a network. An execution unit executes a login process based on user information received by the first or second receiving unit. A determination unit determines whether a password is set in the user information. A control unit restricts the login process based on the user information that is received by the second receiving unit and is determined that a password is not set. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098233 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses. The system receives, via a network, mail data including output data or output target data; and determines user identification information to be associated with the received output data or output data generated based on the received output target data from user information stored by using address information of a sender of the mail data or address information in transmission destinations of the mail data. When the user identification information is not determined from the address information of the sender but is determined from the address information in the transmission destinations, the system associates data identification information with the output data and stores them; notifies of the data identification information via a network; and transmits, via a network, the output data associated with the user identification information or the data identification information received via a network. | 04-07-2016 |
20160100073 | PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING PLURALITY OF POWER STATES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus which is capable of selecting power states that suit user's intention for a low-power state and a job executable state. A first power-saving state or a second power-saving state in which a smaller amount of power is consumed than in the first power-saving state is set as a power-saving state to which the printing apparatus is shifted when a shifting factor is detected. A first returning method for returning the printing apparatus from the power-saving state when a returning factor that causes the printing apparatus to return from the power-saving state is detected, or a second returning method for returning the printing apparatus from the power-saving state when a function to be used is selected on a function selecting screen displayed in response to detecting the returning factor is set. When the first power-saving state has been set, the first returning method is set. | 04-07-2016 |
20160100074 | Authentication Device for User Authentication and Image Forming Apparatus Including the Authentication Device - A user authentication device provided on an apparatus as an object of operation acquires feature data representing notable portion of the user, using a camera device, after user authentication. Based on the acquired feature data, the user authentication device tracks the user by the camera (step S | 04-07-2016 |
20160103640 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes an interface section, a data storage section, an input section, an authentication section, and an image forming section. The interface section receives a print job from a terminal device. The print job is assigned terminal identification information that identifies the terminal device. The data storage section stores the print job. In accordance with whether or not the authentication section positively authenticates a user before a specified time elapses from the interface section receiving the print job, the interface section outputs the print job stored by the data storage section to the image forming section or the terminal device, and the data storage section deletes the print job stored. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105568 | IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing unit includes a first memory unit configured to store a first setup value which is set for each of groups including a user and indicates an upper limit of a usage amount, within which the user included in each group can use a function; a second memory unit configured to store a second setup value which is set for each user and indicates the usage amount enabling each user to use the function in addition to the first setup value; a third memory unit configured to store a current value which indicates the usage amount of the function used by each user; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the current value exceeds a predetermined first threshold determined using the first setup value set for the group and the second setup value set for each user. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105581 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - When an image forming apparatus satisfies a condition to shift it to a power saving state, if a specific function that needs to respond to an inquiry from an external apparatus within a predetermined time is set, a power control unit shifts the image forming apparatus to a first power saving state in which power is supplied to a control unit configured to respond to the inquiry, and if the specific function is not set, shifts the image forming apparatus to a second power saving state in which no power is supplied to the control unit. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105587 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus including a controller configured to accept image data identification information, an image forming instruction, and first user information, store the image data identification information, the image forming instruction, and the first user information, in response to acceptance of the image data identification information, the image forming instruction, and the first user information, transmit a reply request to an image forming apparatus, the reply request requesting the image forming apparatus to return second user information to the information processing apparatus, after transmission of the reply request, in response to receipt of the second user information, determine whether the first user information is in a particular relationship with the second user information, when determining that the first user information is in the particular relationship with the second user information, transmit image data identified by the image data identification information to the image forming apparatus. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105588 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data, an operating unit which receives a print instruction from a user, a display unit which displays a password entry screen for receiving a password entry from a user, and a printing unit which receives a print instruction from a user through the operating unit and prints print data without accepting a password through a password entry screen if a password added to the print data is matched with a fixed password and print data to be printed if a print instruction from a user is received through the operating unit, if the password added to the print data is matched with the fixed password, and if the password received through a password entry screen is matched with the password added to the print data. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110137 | Print Control Device, Printing System, And Control Method Of A Print Control Device - An interface board | 04-21-2016 |
20160110141 | ETHERNET AND USB POWERED PRINTERS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLYING ETHERNET AND USB POWER TO A PRINTER - Ethernet and Universal Serial Bus (USB) powered printing devices are provided. In particular, Ethernet and USB powered printers and methods of Ethernet powering of printers that support high speed printing and/or data intensive printing. Such high-speed and/or data intensive printing operations are able to be Ethernet or USB powered by providing for a power storage unit within the printer device that is able be charged during non-printing periods and provide for necessary energy bursts to support such higher powered processes. In addition, the present invention provides for devices and methods that allow for printers to operate with main power provided by conventional power mains and for back-up or secondary power to be supplied by Ethernet or USB power. Additionally, the invention provides for Ethernet or USB powering, both primary and back-up, of the data and configuration settings in the printer control and image generating electronics. In the back-up power mode, the Ethernet or USB power insures that data and configurations are not lost during periods of main power outage. The invention also provides a printer and method that can optimize a printing operation, e.g., by adjusting the speed of the printing operation according to the power required for the operation and/or the power available. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110143 | US SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND DISPLAYING PRINTABLE ELECTRONIC FILES - Disclosed is a system and method for operating a virtual printer. The disclosed method enables a user to use a user interface to create images of viewable files and store the images on a central repository or share the images with other users. The images are created using print commands from an information viewer application. The disclosed method also verifies the identity of users by using encrypted tokens. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112602 | ABNORMAL NOISE OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ABNORMAL NOISE OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An abnormal noise operation control device includes an abnormal noise storage device to store an abnormal noise at the time of a fault of an apparatus in advance, an operation noise acquisition device to acquire an operation noise of the apparatus, an audible sound determination device to determine whether or not the operation noise acquired is audible sound, discomfort noise determination device to determine whether or not the audible sound is a discomfort noise, a fault determination device to determine whether or not the operation noise is abnormal by comparing the operation noise with the abnormal noise, an abnormal noise cause determination device to identify a part causing the operation noise determined as at least one of the discomfort noise and the abnormal noise, and an abnormal noise countermeasures device to restrict operations that use the part and allow operations that do not use the part. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORYCOMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data, and a transmitting unit that, if a first destination specified as a destination of the image data by a user is not safe, transmits the image data to a second destination different from the first destination, and transmits information indicating the second destination to the first destination. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119497 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires internal information of an information processing apparatus, an acquisition unit that acquires, from a user, an execution request for a process to be executed, and a process executing unit that executes the process in accordance with the execution request. In a case where the acquired internal information indicates a symptom of a malfunction occurrence in the information processing apparatus, and where the requested process is determined to affect the malfunction occurrence, the process executing unit executes a restriction process in which execution of the requested process is restricted. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119505 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD HAVE PRINT FUNCTION TO PREVENT SEE-THROUGH - Provided is an image forming apparatus that can keep the character of a concealing area secret certainly even if it makes low the printing rate of a see-through preventive image. A concealing area specifying part specifies the concealing area that includes a concealing character string in the print data. A character discriminating part discriminates character attribute of the concealing character string. A see-through preventive image generation part sets the see-through preventing area where shape and a size are the same as the concealing area. Also, see-through preventive image generation part generates a see-through preventive image where multiple characters having the character attribute discriminated by the character discriminating part are generated at random. A printing part prints the see-through preventive image in the position piled up by the same direction for the concealing area at the time of enclosure. | 04-28-2016 |
20160124686 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an image processing system including a plurality of MFPs, it is assumed that a terminal apparatus accepts a request for connection to an MFP from a user. When a remote operation of the MFP through the terminal apparatus cannot be performed, the terminal apparatus requests of another MFP different from the MFP for connection and receives transfer of representation information for displaying an operation screen from another MFP. The terminal apparatus transfers operation information representing an operation by the user onto the operation screen to another MFP. When the processing based on the operation information is processing of a print job by the user in the MFP, another MFP transfers the print job to the MFP. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124689 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores an account management program. The account management program causes a computer in a mobile terminal apparatus to perform the steps of: receiving service table data from an image forming apparatus and storing the service table data in the mobile terminal apparatus; receiving account information required to use a service from a user; storing the account information in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the account information with the service; receiving an identification code of the service when the user logs in the image forming apparatus, and storing the identification code in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the identification code with the account information associated with the service; and receiving the identification code from the image forming apparatus when performing the service, and transmitting to the image forming apparatus the account information associated with the received identification code. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125280 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus configured to: set, when an error occurs, a user who has a shorter take-away time than a user of a data transmission source as an additional notification destination; and transmit an error occurrence notification to the additional notification destination as well, and further configured to, when the take-away time of the user of the additional notification destination has elapsed since the error occurrence notification is transmitted to the additional notification destination without an error elimination operation being conducted: set a user who has a shorter take-away time than a time obtained by subtracting the take-away time of the user of the additional notification destination from the take-away time of the user of the data transmission source, as a new additional notification destination; and transmit the error occurrence notification to the new additional notification destination. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127577 | PRINTING MANAGEMENT SERVER, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTING MANAGEMENT METHOD - A printing management server includes an identification information management unit that manages identification information uniquely associated with an email address assigned to a printer, a print request receiving unit that receives a print request that is a request to print content and that accompanies the identification information, and a print instructing unit that designates an email address, corresponding to the identification information accompanying the print request specified by the identification information management unit, to an email printing server that causes a printer corresponding to a designated email address to execute a print, and instructs the email printing server to cause the printer corresponding to the designated email address to print content included in the print request. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127582 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a camera, a document sheet image determining portion, an operation determining portion, and an image processing portion. The document sheet image determining portion determines whether or not document sheet image data is contained in photographic image data that has been obtained by photographing with the camera installed on the image processing apparatus. The operation determining portion determines whether or not operation image data is contained in the photographic image data, the operation image data showing a pattern of user's hand and corresponding to an operation for processing the document sheet image data. The image processing portion executes the processing of the document sheet image data based on the operation corresponding to the operation image data when it is determined that the document sheet image data and the operation image data are contained in the photographic image data. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127601 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - An image-forming apparatus includes a paper jam detection portion, a paper jam processing portion, an image rereading control portion, and an image re-forming control portion. When images are formed based on image data on documents, the paper jam detection portion detects whether a paper jam occurs or not during the forming of the images. When the paper jam is determined to occur as a result of the determination, the paper jam processing portion prompts a user to cause reading of image data on printed matters. The image rereading control portion reads pieces of the image data on the printed matters placed in an automatic document feed portion. The image re-forming control portion checks the pieces of the image data on the printed matters against corresponding pieces of the image data on the documents and to re-form an image based on an unmatched piece of the image data on the document. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127609 | Approval Device, Approval System, and Recording Medium That Ensure Simplified Approval Operation of Electronic Document - An approval device includes a storage circuit, a document acquiring circuit, an imaging circuit, a face recognition circuit, an approval circuit and an editing circuit. The storage circuit stores a face image database, the face image database registering face image data of at least one user to be an approver for approving a document. The document acquiring circuit acquires the document. The imaging circuit images a face of the approver for approving the document. The face recognition circuit analyzes an imaged face image of the approver and searches the face image database stored in the storage circuit using the analysis result. The approval circuit approves the document based on the search result. The editing circuit attaches one of an electronic stamp and an electronic signature to the approved document. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127611 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive print data from an external apparatus, a storage unit configured to store the print data, an operation unit configured to receive an operation to be performed on the print data, a printing unit configured to print the print data when the received operation is print operation, a charging unit configured to start charging in response to the printing of the data when the printing apparatus is operating in charge mode, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that the print data is deleted when the received operation is cancel operation. When the printing apparatus is operating in the charge mode, the control unit performs control in such a manner that the print data is not deleted even when the cancel operation is instructed, until print operation is received. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132276 | COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT PREVENTION - In an approach for determining printability of an electronic file, a computer electronically receives a file for printing. The computer parses the file for one or more of text, images, and formatting indicative of potential copyrighted material. The computer, in response to identifying any text, images, or formatting indicative of potential copyrighted material, identifies potential copyrighted material within the file. The computer determines whether the file may be printed based, at least in part, on the identified potential copyrighted material. In another approach for determining printability of an electronic document, a computer electronically receives a document for printing. The computer locates attributes associated with the document and stored in a separate database, which includes one or more of the following: ownership, licensing information, printability, and number of prints allowed. The computer determines the document is printable based on the attributes and prints the document. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134764 | Pull Printing System That Reduces Communication Traffic Volume Relative to Server Computer and Management Burden of Device - A pull printing system according to one aspect of the disclosure includes a server computer, a manager image forming apparatus, and a client image forming apparatus. The manager image forming apparatus includes a manager-side print execution unit that executes a print job received to a first port number, a job management unit that manages the print job received to a second port number different from the first port number in association with the user, and a job transmitting unit. The job transmitting unit transmits the print job associated with a user authenticated by the server computer to the client image forming apparatus among the print job managed by the job management unit. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134771 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL METHOD - An image forming system includes an image former; a reader that executes reading a document or a sheet; a post processor that applies post processing to the document or the sheet; and a controller. The controller controls the image formation, the reading and the post processing, judges the requested degree of importance of reading for a reading target on the document or the sheet, judges existence or nonexistence of an overlap between an execution timing of the reading and a timing of generation of vibration at the post processing, judges the necessity of a countermeasure to prevent the overlap from occurring with reference to the degree of importance of reading and the existence or nonexistence of the overlap, and controls the execution timing of the reading and the post processing to prevent the overlap from occurring when the controller determines that the countermeasure is necessary. | 05-12-2016 |
20160139860 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes: a master controller that generates a packet; and plural slave controllers that accept the packet generated by the master controller, wherein the plural slave controllers are serially connected via a serial communication line, a first slave controller of the plural slave controllers is connected to the master controller via the serial communication line, and each of the plural slave controllers, upon obtaining the packet generated by the master controller, converts a part of the packet from a serial signal into a parallel signal, and if the packet is not addressed to the slave controller itself, discards the packet or transfers the packet to a later-stage slave controller connected via the serial communication line. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142560 | INSPECTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CHANGING THRESHOLD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An inspecting device includes a read image acquirer configured to acquire a first read image that is obtained by reading a printed matter; a reference image generator configured to generate a reference image based on a source image from which the printed matter has been generated; an inspector configured to inspect the printed matter based on threshold information containing one or more types of thresholds and based on a difference image indicating a difference between the first read image and the reference image; an identifier configured to identify, on the printed matter, an area having a discrepancy between an inspection result and a result of visual check by a user; and a changer configured to change the threshold information to resolve the discrepancy in the area. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142585 | ELECTRONIC ARRAPATUS AND USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is an electronic apparatus (EA) and a user authentication method thereof both can prevent information leakage and disadvantages caused by an unauthorized access to the EA. The EA is configured to store a combination of a recognizing-code and a key-code correlated therewith, the combination being in relationship with each of plural users, and to give a user an exclusive authority for executing a specific process if an inputted combination of a recognizing-code and a key-code=the stored combination of the recognizing-code and the key-code. In case of a request for accepting the specific process, if the inputted combination of the recognizing-code and the key-code is # the stored combination of the recognizing-code and the key-code, the EA notifies, without executing the specific process, initiating a receipt of instructing the specific process to user of the inputted combination. | 05-19-2016 |
20160150097 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: a facsimile portion that transmits and receives data through a telephone line with an outside; a power supply portion that supplies power to the facsimile portion; and a power-saving control portion that is connected to a communication line other than the telephone line and that controls a power supply mode of the power supply portion. When the power supply mode is an off mode, the power supply portion stops the supply of power to the facsimile portion. When a connection state determination portion determines that the connection to the telephone line is disconnected, the power-saving control portion controls a transfer to the off mode based on whether or not a notification of information for making a determination on the transfer to the off mode is provided from an information output device connected to the image forming apparatus through the communication line. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150125 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus for providing a predetermined function, the information processing apparatus including a usage restriction unit configured to restrict usage of the information processing apparatus in a time period defined in advance; a receiving unit configured to receive application information for applying to use the information processing apparatus in the time period defined in advance; an approval unit configured to perform an approval process on the application information received by the receiving unit; and an outside hours authentication unit configured to authenticate a user of the information processing apparatus by using outside hours authentication information based on the application information approved by the approval unit, in the time period defined in advance. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154615 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
20160154616 | PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 06-02-2016 |
20160154617 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 06-02-2016 |
20160156798 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | 06-02-2016 |
20160156809 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL | 06-02-2016 |
20160162225 | Locked Print In Cloud Printing Environments - An approach is provided for managing locked printing requests in cloud printing environments. In a cloud printing environment, a cloud printing service provider provides a platform that enables client devices to send print requests for processing by any printing device that is configured to communicate with the cloud printing service provider over a network, such as the Internet. A printing device comprises a cloud print agent that is configured to manage locked printing requests received from client devices via a cloud printing platform. The cloud print agent may be further configured to notify a user when print job data for a print job submitted by the user is approaching expiration. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162230 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF A PRINTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Terminating a wireless connection is simplified. A printer has a print unit that prints on recording media; a wireless communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly; and a control unit. When print data with a specific command appended is received from the external device unit, the control unit executes a terminate communication process that cuts the wireless connection based on the specific command after controlling the print unit to print based on the print data. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162233 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic apparatus includes an information presenting part that obtains the job information of a stored first job of a first user who has logged on to the electronic apparatus and the job information of a stored second job of a second user who has authorized the first user to execute the second job from a computer connected to the electronic apparatus, and presents the obtained job information to the first user; and an execution control part that, when one of the first and the second job is selected and instructed to be executed by the first user, obtains the job data of the one of the first and the second job from the computer and execute the obtained job data. The first user and the stored first job are correlated and managed and the first user and the second user are correlated and managed in a predetermined storage area. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165070 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control apparatus includes a first determining unit that determines whether a defect has occurred in an image based on print data printed on a sheet by a printing unit having print heads including a row of nozzles aligned in a direction crossing a sheet conveyance direction. A first instructing unit instructs printing of a test pattern to a print control unit configured to control the printing unit if the first determining unit determines that a defect has occurred in the image. A second determining unit determines whether a defect occurs in a test pattern printed on the sheet by the printing unit based on the instruction from the instruction unit. A second instructing unit instructs stoppage of printing to the print control unit if the second determining unit determines that a defect has occurred in the test pattern. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165083 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD THAT ADJUST FAINT CHARACTER AND THIN LINE WHEN FUNCTION IS SET TO OFF - Provided is an image forming apparatus that adjusts a thin character, a thin line, or the like, which are read in a manuscript, to become identifiable. The blank paper removing part, when the function is set to ON, removes the image data corresponding to the manuscript detected as a blank paper by the blank paper detecting part. The faint character mode part extract a character from the image data and performs faint character adjustment for the data of the extracted character. The control part, in case that the blank paper removing part is set as OFF, if detected a blank paper by the blank paper detecting part, makes perform image processing accompanied with the faint character adjustment by the faint character mode part to the image processing part. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A PRODUCTION SYSTEM | 06-16-2016 |
20160170693 | METHOD FOR RECORDING CHIP USAGE STATE INFORMATION, CHIP OF IMAGING CARTRIDGE AND IMAGING CARTRIDGE | 06-16-2016 |
20160171352 | Printing Device and Method | 06-16-2016 |
20160171354 | DIGITAL RIGHTS AND INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTING | 06-16-2016 |
20160173706 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS | 06-16-2016 |
20160173721 | SCANNING DEVICE WITH OVERHEAD REFLECTING MIRROR | 06-16-2016 |
20160173728 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 06-16-2016 |
20160173729 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM THAT PERFORMS READING AND TRANSMITTING PROCESS OF ORIGINAL IMAGE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 06-16-2016 |
20160173730 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 06-16-2016 |
20160173731 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA REGISTRATION METHOD, AND DATA REGISTRATION PROGRAM | 06-16-2016 |
20160179443 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | 06-23-2016 |
20160179448 | Repository-Based Print Services | 06-23-2016 |
20160182755 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | 06-23-2016 |
20160182760 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING USER AUTHENTICATION USING A CODE | 06-23-2016 |
20160182761 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 06-23-2016 |
20160182762 | Method of Establishing Connection Between Mobile Device and Image Forming Apparatus, and Image Forming Apparatus and Mobile Device for Performing the Method | 06-23-2016 |
20160188271 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires face information, the face information indicating a face of a user captured by an image capturing unit, a memory that stores an identifier of a user permitted to log in to the information processing apparatus, in association with first face information indicating a face of the user, a writing unit that, if a predetermined condition is satisfied during a period from login to logout of a user on the information processing apparatus, writes the face information acquired by the acquiring unit into the memory as second face information in association with an identifier of the user, and a restricting unit that, if the second face information satisfies a predetermined condition with respect to the face information acquired by the acquiring unit, restricts login as the user of the identifier associated with the first face information. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191735 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191746 | APPARATUS THAT PRODUCES GUIDANCE DISPLAY FOR LOGIN, CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the case where a user in the login state exists, the control unit: controls, on a condition that the multi-login is set to be ineffective, the guidance display unit to turn its light off regardless of whether or not a person is detected by the human sensor; and controls, on a condition that the multi-login is set to be effective, the guidance display unit to turn its light on when a person is detected by the human sensor and controls the guidance display unit to turn its light off when that no person is detected by the human sensor. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196483 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 07-07-2016 |
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20160205286 | Information Processing Apparatus, Method for Calling Input Portion, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Computer Program | 07-14-2016 |
20160253136 | Image Processing Apparatus Configured to Perform Image Processing Using Setting Information | 09-01-2016 |
20160253137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PRESENTATION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | 09-01-2016 |
20160253138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 09-01-2016 |
20160255211 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER | 09-01-2016 |
20160255230 | FACSIMILE APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD FOR FACSIMILE APPARATUS | 09-01-2016 |
20160255242 | Hard-Copy Signatures using a Cloud-Connected Printing Device with a Workflow Service | 09-01-2016 |
20160255243 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING | 09-01-2016 |
20160255244 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD THEREIN | 09-01-2016 |
20160255245 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | 09-01-2016 |
20160378409 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing. The process includes determining a risk of information leakage by a user having indicated image processing, and controlling character recognition, the character recognition performing character recognition processing on an image subjected to the image processing, such that recognition accuracy of the character recognition processing that is performed on the image increases as the risk of information leakage determined in the determining increases. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378584 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND FAILURE DIAGNOSIS METHOD - An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores and associates a cause of a failure that has occurred in an electronic device, state information of the electronic device at the time the failure has occurred in the electronic device due to the cause of the failure, and a measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure. The information processing system further includes at least one processor that performs an acquisition process for acquiring the state information of the electronic device, and a failure diagnosis process for determining the cause of the failure that has occurred in the electronic device and the measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure based on the acquired state information of the electronic device. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381239 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a power supply switching unit, a switching unit, a switch detecting unit, and a controller. The image forming unit forms an image. The power supply switching unit switches the image forming unit between a power supplied state and a power shut-off state. The switching unit outputs a signal when operated by a user. The switch detecting unit detects the signal output by the switching unit, and transmits a power off signal to the power supply switching unit. The controller receives the signal output by the switching unit, and if normally operating, transmits a signal that invalidates the power off signal or a signal that prevents the transmission of the power off signal. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381242 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus recognizes a requesting user who has requested execution of a printing job stored in a memory portion, and in a case where a distance between a mobile terminal owned by the requesting user and the image forming apparatus has become not more than a first threshold value, the image forming apparatus performs control so that interrupt printing is performed in which the printing job of the requesting user is started, and so that another printing job is not resumed until a prescribed time length has elapsed after completion of the printing job of the requesting user. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381250 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING PREPARATION OF APPLICATION FORM - An image forming apparatus includes a user interface, circuitry, and an image forming device. The user interface receives, from an applicant, an instruction for selecting a desired application form having an entry field in which personal information is to be entered, and receives an input of individual authentication information of the applicant. The circuitry unlocks an IC card based upon the individual authentication information of the applicant to acquire personal information of the applicant from the IC card, and generates an application form for output from a template of the selected application form and the personal information acquired from the IC card. The image forming device outputs the generated application form. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381251 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An authentication system includes a terminal apparatus, and an information processing apparatus configured to acquire authentication information from the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes an operation determination part configured to determine whether values of one or more sensors included in the terminal apparatus fall within predetermined ranges, and a code display controller configured to display a code including authentication information on a screen of the terminal apparatus when the one or more values of the sensors fall within the predetermined ranges. The information processing apparatus includes an authentication processor configured to extract the authentication information from the code. | 12-29-2016 |
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20180027146 | SHARED TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 01-25-2018 |
20190146725 | METHOD FOR SHARING ACCOUNT OF CLOUD PRINTING SERVICE, AND CLOUD SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME | 05-16-2019 |
20190149681 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM | 05-16-2019 |
20190149683 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | 05-16-2019 |
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20220137895 | POLICY-BASED PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHODS USING LIST FOR DOCUMENTS - A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. A list is generated from the private server storing the documents based on the policy or other criteria. The list is provided to the user so that an approved listed document can be selected for printing. | 05-05-2022 |
20220137896 | POLICY-BASED PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHODS USING LIST FOR DOCUMENTS - A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. A list is generated from the private server storing the documents based on the policy or other criteria. The list is provided to the user so that an approved listed document can be selected for printing. | 05-05-2022 |
20220137901 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - In a case of performing test print of a specified print job, an information processing apparatus displays information on a print property to be changed from the specified print job in the test print and causes an operator to confirm the information, generates a test print job obtained by changing the print property of the specified print job, and transmits the generated test print job to an image forming apparatus. | 05-05-2022 |
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