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20090046314 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus configured to acquire a content log of a job including image forming processing which is included in a virtual device that can cooperatively utilize functions of a plurality of image processing apparatuses, the image processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, in performing a virtual job including image forming processing which is processed by cooperatively using the functions of the plurality of image processing apparatuses included in the virtual device, whether to acquire the content log on the image processing apparatus, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the content log of the virtual job if the determination unit determines that the image processing apparatus is to acquire the content log, wherein the acquisition unit does not acquire the content log of the virtual job if the determination unit does not determine that the image processing apparatus is to acquire the content log. | 02-19-2009 |
20090204585 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - A document management system includes a registration unit that, for each of a plurality of document data pieces, registers information in a partial area constituting the document data piece and comment information added to describe content of the partial area information, in a storage unit in association with each other, a search unit that searches the storage unit to find partial area information that corresponds to information in a partial area designated in a document data piece being browsed by a user, and a search result display unit that displays, on a display unit, comment information added to the partial area information that was found. | 08-13-2009 |
20090278858 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus, object data based on a part of, e.g., a scan image is extracted and the extracted object data is stored in relation to attribute information of the relevant object data. The object data correlated to the attribute information, which matches with a search condition input by a user, is searched for, and the object data found through the search is merged to another object data depending on a characteristic of the user. The merged object data are displayed as a search result. In such a control process, different search results are displayed when users having different user characteristics input the same search condition. | 11-12-2009 |
20100179960 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND LOG PROCESSING METHOD - A management apparatus executes service processing to job information and content information acquired by a data processing service to generate log information with a plurality of shared folders individually set with access authority for retaining the log information to be acquired from an information processing apparatus secured. Then, the management apparatus allocates and outputs the log information to one of the plurality of shared folders based on attribute information on the generated job log and a folder correspondence table. | 07-15-2010 |
20100332636 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT REGISTERS INFORMATION ON IMAGE PROCESSING JOB IN DATA SERVER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which enables reduction of the capacity of a data server. An intermediate server receives audit information concerning a job executed by an MFP or PC. The intermediate server registers at least one of attribute information and content information contained in the received audit information, in the data server. A registration processing determination section of the intermediate server determines a type of the job which the received audit information concerns. The section causes a job information and content information registration section to register the attribute information and the content information contained in the received audit information in the data server, or a content information registration section to register the content information in the data server without registering the attribute information therein. | 12-30-2010 |
20110051160 | INFORMATION UPDATING APPARATUS, IMAGE HISTORY INSPECTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION UPDATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information updating apparatus compares resolution information and color information acquired from received image data with resolution information and color information acquired from an external apparatus, and, if an amount of information of the resolution information and color information acquired from the received image data is larger than an amount of information of the resolution information and color information acquired from the external apparatus, replaces image feature amount data stored in the external apparatus with image feature amount data acquired from the received image data and replaces text data stored in the external apparatus with text data extracted from the received image data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110161322 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read watermark information including information for search from an electronic document, and a pre-processing unit configured to execute a process for extracting feature amount or text information as information for search from the electronic document if the reading unit does not read the watermark information including information for search, and to skip the process for extracting feature amount or text information if the reading unit reads the watermark information including information for search. | 06-30-2011 |
20140109183 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus for providing at least a service to a service requestor receives a service execution request and authentication information of a service requestor from the service requestor and issues a request for authenticating the service requestor to an authentication service. Also, the image processing apparatus executes the requested service based on an authentication result transmitted from the authentication service. Further, the image processing apparatus manages an execution state of the executed service and an authentication state of the service requestor by associating the execution state with the authentication state. | 04-17-2014 |
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20100303070 | COMMUNICATION RELAY DEVICE FOR TRAIN AND COMMUNICATION RELAY METHOD FOR TRAIN - When data is transmitted from a first communication terminal to a second communication terminal, a communication relay device converts car identification information of a communication source of communication-source identification information included in a communication packet into a car number of a vehicle, and transmits the data to an inter-vehicle communication path. When data is transmitted from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal, the communication relay device converts car identification information of a communication destination of communication-destination identification information included in a communication packet into a “0”-th car indicating own car, and transmits the data to an in-vehicle communication path. | 12-02-2010 |
20110016486 | PASSENGER INFORMATION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO DATA FOR PASSENGER INFORMATION CONTROL DEVICE - A passenger information control device having a video display controller that transmits video data sent from a ground transmission controller to display devices in a train includes: a storage unit that stores a program table and the video data, the program table storing a number of times an advertisement video has been presented, a validity period of the advertisement video, a time period from the last presentation time to the present, and a volume of the video data, being associated with each advertisement; a deletion determining unit that determines whether to designate the video data as a candidate for deletion based on a program table; and a deleting unit that deletes the video data stored in the storage unit based on determination by the deletion determining unit. | 01-20-2011 |
20110280158 | IP-ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND IP-ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A path-information obtaining unit obtains a piece of path information of a communication network by inquiring a port number of an Ethernet switch that transmits a MAC address of a request source of an IP address. An IP-address specifying unit specifies an IP address that corresponds to the piece of path information of the communication network by referring to an IP-address correspondence table, and distributes the specified IP address to the request source of an IP address. | 11-17-2011 |
20110286464 | TRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TRAIN COMMUNICATION METHOD - A train communication system includes a communication relay device that is installed in each vehicle and a communication terminal device that is connected to the communication relay device. The communication relay device acquires vehicle information indicating an in-formation position of a vehicle in which the communication relay device is installed. The communication terminal device refers to a correspondence table that defines a correspondence relationship between vehicle information and communication identification information, and determines communication identification information to be provided to the communication terminal device, based on vehicle information obtained from the communication relay device. | 11-24-2011 |
20130173992 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - A memory control device includes a CPU, a flash ROM that records therein first information having undergone an error-correction coding process and second information not having undergone an error-correction coding process, an address line switch that switches between a first path that connects an address bus to the ROM so that the CPU can read the first information and a second path that connects the address bus to the ROM so that the second information can be erased, written, and read, a decoder that performs error correction on the first information and performs decoding, and a second switch that switches between a third path that connects the decoder to the data bus so that information decoded by the decoder is transmitted to the data bus and a fourth path that connects the ROM to the data bus so that the second information can be erased, written, and read. | 07-04-2013 |
20130211670 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION SYSTEM - An in-vehicle information system that notifies passengers in a vehicle of guidance information, including a display input unit having a display unit that displays the guidance information and an input unit that covers the display unit and detects touch operations by the passengers to be output as input operation information, and an information control unit that switches and outputs the guidance information to the display unit according to driving states of the vehicle and classifies the guidance information into first information to be provided to the passengers according to the input operation information and second information to be provided to the passengers according to the driving states of the vehicle to output the first information to the display unit according to the input operation information. | 08-15-2013 |
20140032734 | IP-ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An IP-address distribution system according to the present invention includes a network formed by a plurality of switching devices, and a plurality of IP-address distribution devices connected to the network, wherein the switching devices are grouped into two or more groups, and the switching devices interrupt an IP-address request signal transmitted from a terminal that requests allocation of an IP address at a physical port to which a switching device in another group is connected. | 01-30-2014 |
20140185619 | NETWORK SYSTEM - To provide a network system including a network constructed by combining a plurality of switching devices. The network includes a first partial network including switching devices and a second partial network that is formed outside the first partial network and includes switching devices. The switching device in the first partial network connected to the second partial network blocks passage of a broadcast signal that is transmitted from a terminal device and that has a specific logical port number as transmission information at a physical port. | 07-03-2014 |
20140222982 | IP ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND IP ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An IP address distribution system according to the present invention includes a network including a plurality of switches, and an IP address distribution apparatus connected to the network, in which each of the switches holds therein arrangement information that indicates a position thereof in the network, and when receiving an IP-address request signal from one of, devices connected thereto, adds the held arrangement information to the IP-address request signal and transfers the IP-address request signal, and when receiving an IP-address request signal, the IP address distribution apparatus selects an IP address from a range corresponding to the arrangement information added to the signal and distributes the selected IP address to a request source device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140347977 | NETWORK SYSTEM - A network system according to the present invention includes a backbone network that is constituted by combining a plurality of switch devices, and a subnetwork that is constituted by a plurality of switch devices connected linearly, where the switch devices positioned at both ends of the linear connection are connected to the backbone network, wherein among physical ports included in the switch devices that constitute the backbone network, a first physical port that is one of two physical ports to which the subnetwork is connected blocks a packet with a specific logical port number having arrived from a specific direction, and passes other packets, and a second physical port that is the other of the two physical ports passes a packet with the specific logical port number having arrived from the specific direction, and blocks other packets. | 11-27-2014 |
20150074277 | TRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a network that is constituted in a train formation; communication relay devices; terminal devices; and a position-information distribution device. The communication relay devices rewrite position information from the position-information distribution device to vehicle information indicating positions of vehicles that are provided with the communication relay devices and transfer rewritten information. The terminal devices include an IP-address correspondence table in which IP addresses that are set so as not to overlap with each other for respective types of the terminal devices and are to be used while corresponding to the vehicle information and connection destination information of the terminal devices correspond to each other. IP addresses to be allocated to the terminal devices are decided on the basis of the correspondence table and the vehicle information from the communication relay devices. | 03-12-2015 |
20150244543 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A network system that comprises a plurality of communication apparatuses, each of the communication apparatuses being capable of performing a VLAN setting by using a VLAN number set for a connection port, that sets a VLAN number for each of the communication apparatuses, and that performs communication among cars of a train, wherein in a case where a specific type of packet that disables a VLAN setting is a packet of a multicast address, when a distribution target apparatus is connected to a communication apparatus that has received the specific type of packet, the communication apparatus transfers the specific type of packet to the distribution target apparatus and, irrespective of a VLAN number set for another communication apparatus, regards a VLAN different from a VLAN of the communication apparatus as a same network and transfers the specific type of packet to the another communication apparatus. | 08-27-2015 |
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20120263179 | IP ADDRESS DELIVERY SYSTEM AND IP ADDRESS DELIVERY METHOD - The present invention provides an IP address delivery system comprising: an IP address delivery apparatus including a path-information reading unit configured to read, from an IP address request signal, path information of a communication network extending to a request source of an IP address, an IP address correspondence table in which a correspondence relation between the path information and the IP address is registered, and an IP-address determining unit configured to determine, based on the path information obtained from the path-information reading unit and the IP address correspondence table, an IP address delivered to the request source; and a path-information granting unit configured to grant the path information to the IP address request signal. | 10-18-2012 |
20140344477 | IP ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND IP ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An IP address distribution system includes a network containing a plurality of switch apparatuses, IP address distribution apparatuses that assign an IP address according to a request from each of devices connected to the switch apparatuses, and a plurality of position information distribution apparatuses that broadcast a position information packet containing position information into the network, wherein a specific physical port of at least one switch apparatus blocks the position information packet to cause only a single position information packet to be delivered to the devices, the devices transmit an IP-address request signal containing the position information and device-specific information, when requesting assignment of an IP address, and the IP address distribution apparatuses select an IP address from a range corresponding to the position information and the device-specific information and distribute the IP address to a request source device, when receiving the IP-address request signal. | 11-20-2014 |
20150195103 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A communication apparatus for performing communication among cars of a train includes two or more connection ports, and two or more VLANs set through VLAN numbers in each connection port. When receiving a specific kind of packet for disabling the VLAN settings, the communication apparatus regards the set two or more VLANs as the same network with respect to the specific kind of packet and transfers the packet to a desired destination apparatus set in any one of the VLANs irrespective of the VLAN settings. | 07-09-2015 |