Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080204796 | Image Processing System, Image Processing Apparatus and Control Method of the Same, and Computer Program - An image processing apparatus includes a request information reception portion that receives a request to execute an image-related process relating to an image from another image processing apparatus and obtains limited functions information from another image processing apparatus relating to a right of a user that specified the request to use a function, a substitute allowance determining portion determining whether the user has the right to use the function necessary to execute the image-related process of the request, based on the obtained limited functions information, and a substitute process command portion controlling each portion of the image processing apparatus to execute the image-related process when it is determined that the user has the right, and not to execute that image-related process when it is determined that the user does not have such right. | 08-28-2008 |
20080291489 | Image Processing System - After a print request is made from a personal computer to a multifunction peripheral, when a user who logs into the multifunction peripheral instructs an execution of the print request in the multifunction peripheral, the multifunction peripheral requests the personal computer to transmit image data. Then, the personal computer transmits the requested image data to the multifunction peripheral. The multifunction peripheral executes the printing using the received image data. When the printing is completed, the multifunction peripheral transmits a completion notification indicating that the printing is completed to the personal computer. When receiving the completion notification, the personal computer transmits a completion notification having the same content as the received completion notification to the multifunction peripheral. | 11-27-2008 |
20090070451 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DESTINATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, ADDRESS BOOK ACQUISITION METHOD AND PROGRAM - When a destination management device requests an address book of each user, a data transmission device transmits the address book to the destination management device. The destination management device stores the address book received from the data transmission device. If location information of destination information is included in the address book, the destination management device transmits the location information to the data transmission device. The data transmission device transmits the location information to an LDAP server to request the destination information. Upon receipt of the destination information, the data transmission device transmits the destination information to the destination management device. | 03-12-2009 |
20090237326 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH TRANSMITS DATA FOR DISPLAY TO EXTERNAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, AND DATA OUPTUT PROGRAM - In order to easily display data on a display device, an MFP connected to a plurality of television conference terminal devices each displaying data stores device information in an HDD for a respective one of the television conference terminal devices, to store a format in which the corresponding terminal device inputs data. The MFP includes a data acquiring portion to acquire data, an output destination accepting portion to accept an output destination of data, a conversion portion, when one of the television conference terminal devices is accepted as an output destination device which is the output destination of data, to convert a format of the acquired data to the format stored corresponding to the output destination device in the device information, and a communication control portion to output the data converted by the conversion portion to the output destination device. | 09-24-2009 |
20090307575 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In order to reproduce the content output before, an MFP includes an HDD to store data which includes a plurality of page data having corresponding page numbers, an instruction accepting portion to accept a page number of one of the page data to be displayed on a projector, a display control portion to cause the page data of the accepted page number to be displayed on the projector, a history storing portion to store, for each of the page data displayed, history information in which the page number of the page data, the actually displayed time of the page data, and the actually displayed order of the page data are associated with each other, and a redisplay control portion to cause the plurality of page data to be displayed on the projector based on the history information on the condition that the history information is designated. | 12-10-2009 |
20100057458 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Regarding audio data related to document data, an image processing apparatus pertaining to the present invention generates text data by using a speech recognition technology in advance, and determines delimiter positions in the text data and the audio data in correspondence. In a keyword search, if a keyword is detected in the text data, the image processing apparatus plays the audio data from a delimiter that is immediately before the keyword. | 03-04-2010 |
20100091987 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DATA ON THE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND DATA ACQUISITION METHOD - In order to restrict a destination of data for security and facilitate acquisition of the data at the destination, a conference system includes an MFP and a projector, wherein the MFP prestores data for display in an HDD and includes an access key generating portion to generate an access key for an access to the display data and a data transmitting portion to transmit the display data on the condition that the access key is received from a PC, and the projector includes a wireless communication portion to wirelessly communicate with PCs within a predetermined distance, a projecting control portion to display the data stored in the HDD in the MFP, an access key acquiring portion to acquire the access key, and an access key transmitting portion to cause the wireless communication portion to transmit the access key when receiving a request from the PC via the wireless communication portion. | 04-15-2010 |
20110066435 | IMAGE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND IMAGE TRANSMITTING PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An MFP includes an accepting portion to accept an image and a speech, a speech recognition portion to recognize the accepted speech, a display screen generating portion, in response to an event that a keyword included in a predetermined output setting is recognized by the speech recognition portion, to generate a display screen in accordance with the output setting, the display screen including at least one of the accepted image and an image of object data that is stored in advance independently from the accepted image, and a transmission control portion to transmit, in accordance with the output setting, the generated display screen to at least one of a plurality of PCs operated respectively by a plurality of users. | 03-17-2011 |
20110102843 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The above object is achieved by an image forming apparatus connected to a network and used for forming an image on a sheet, comprising: a 1st obtaining unit operable to obtain via the network, with respect to each of one or more image files related to an authenticated user, (i) a corresponding identification information piece and (ii) a corresponding storage-destination information piece indicating a storage destination; a display unit operable to display the obtained identification information pieces; a receiving unit operable to receive a specification of, among the displayed identification information pieces, an identification information piece for an image file that the authenticated user desires to obtain; and a 2nd obtaining unit operable to obtain, via the network, the desired image file corresponding to the specified identification information piece from a storage destination indicated by a storage-destination information piece of the desired image file. | 05-05-2011 |
20110219301 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: an information taker that obtains information of a key selection screen previously customized on the image forming apparatus itself or information of a key selection screen customized on a different image forming apparatus; and a comparison portion that compares second features currently installed on the image forming apparatus to first features installed on the image forming apparatus originally before the customization or to first features installed on the different image forming apparatus. And if it is judged based on the comparison results that the second features include one or more than one feature of the print function, not included in the first features, a controller makes a display portion indicates that there is a new feature having been installed on the image forming apparatus while displaying a preview image of print data to be outputted. | 09-08-2011 |
20120120259 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH EASE OF OPERATION - When a shot is taken by a portable terminal, the position and orientation at the time of shooting is transmitted to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus, which stores information including the position of equipment, detects the equipment included in the shot image by the portable terminal, based on the position and orientation of the portable terminal and the position of the equipment, and transmits information about the equipment to the portable terminal. The portable terminal obtains an operation history on an image processing apparatus in the equipment based on the received information, and displays an operation screen presenting the operation history in a selectable manner on a display unit. Then, when a selection of operation history is accepted, a control signal for allowing the image processing apparatus to execute image processing indicated by the operation history is transmitted to the image processing apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
20120224206 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming device that operates in one of power-saving mode and normal mode by switching therebetween comprises: an automatic response unit configured to perform control to switch from the power-saving mode to the normal mode in accordance with a protocol on which a request issued by an information terminal device is based; an analysis unit configured to analyze whether or not the information terminal device has issued a request based on a protocol that requires the switching from the power-saving mode to the normal mode without a job execution; a message generation unit configured to, when the result of the analysis by the analysis unit is affirmative, generate a message for causing the information terminal device to change the protocol; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated message. | 09-06-2012 |
20130019178 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM, PRESENTATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMAANM MORIKAWA; TakeshiAACI Takarazuka-shiAACO JPAAGP MORIKAWA; Takeshi Takarazuka-shi JPAANM OZAWA; KaitakuAACI Itami-shiAACO JPAAGP OZAWA; Kaitaku Itami-shi JPAANM MINAMI; TakeshiAACI Amagasaki-shiAACO JPAAGP MINAMI; Takeshi Amagasaki-shi JPAANM SAKIYAMA; DaisukeAACI Kawanishi-shiAACO JPAAGP SAKIYAMA; Daisuke Kawanishi-shi JPAANM ANEZAKI; KazuyaAACI Amagasaki-shiAACO JPAAGP ANEZAKI; Kazuya Amagasaki-shi JP - A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation for distributing presentation material, based on a detail of detection of the gesture. | 01-17-2013 |
20130201511 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION STANDARDIZATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH OPERATION STANDARDIZATION PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an operating portion to output operation identification information in response to acceptance of an operation designated by an operation user, an application portion operative, in response to reception of one of process identification information items, to perform a process of the type corresponding to the received process identification information item, an association portion operative, at the stage when an application program is installed, to associate a plurality of types of processes determined by the application program respectively with sets of one or more operations among a plurality of types of operations, a process specifying portion to specify a process associated with the set of one or more operations specified by the operation identification information item(s) output from the operating portion, and an operation notification portion to output the process identification information of the specified process to the application portion. | 08-08-2013 |
20130246509 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system comprises a user terminal and an information processing device. A remote operation screen image for remotely operating the information processing device is displayed with the user terminal so that the information processing device is operated by remote control via the user terminal. The information processing device includes: a screen image controlling part for receiving operation information from the user terminal; a contents determining part for determining if contents accessed by a browser are internal contents of the information processing device when the operation information is a process request requiring start up of the browser; and a browser controlling part for starting up a first browser on the information processing device when the internal contents are to be accessed, and sending a browser start up instruction to cause start up of a second browser installed on the user terminal when external contents are to be accessed. | 09-19-2013 |
20140214957 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DATA TRANSMISSION PROGRAM PERFORMED BY COMPUTER - A data processing device is provided with a job accepting portion to accept a job to transmit data to a transmission destination defined in relation to a transmission-destination user, a candidate deciding portion to decide on one or more cloud services in which an operating user who inputted the job has an account to be a candidate service, a service deciding portion to decide on a candidate service which is accessible by the transmission-destination user among one or more candidate services decided, to be an accessible service, and a data transmission portion to store the data in the decided accessible service as well as to transmit access information for accessing the data stored in the accessible service to the transmission destination for the transmission-destination user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218765 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM PERFORMING COMMUNICATION THROUGH VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION MODE DIFFERENT FROM VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION - An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus having a light emitter and an information terminal performing visible light communication and normal communication with the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a visible light output unit outputting information stored in the image forming apparatus through visible light communication using the light emitter, and an output control unit controlling operation of the visible light output unit. The information terminal includes a light receiver, and an information acquisition unit acquiring visible light communication information based on information obtained by receiving visible light with the light receiver. The information acquisition unit gives a light emission communication start request to the output control unit through the normal communication with the image forming apparatus. When the light emission communication start request is received and the visible light output unit is stopping outputting information, the output control unit allows output of information. | 08-07-2014 |