Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080298830 | Image Forming Apparatus and Method of Controlling the Apparatus - When an adjustment mode is set, a designation screen is displayed on a liquid crystal display screen. A part as an object of adjustment is designated by a touch operation to the designation screen. Subsequently to this designation, an input screen for inputting data for adjustment is displayed. | 12-04-2008 |
20090041478 | Maintenance Scheduling System, Maintenance Scheduling Method and Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store actual use information of the image forming apparatus and actual use information of a consumable part, and an information transmitting unit configured to transmit the actual use information of the image forming apparatus and the actual use information of the consumable part to a maintenance scheduling system for creating a maintenance schedule for the image forming apparatus. | 02-12-2009 |
20090057992 | SHEET CARRYING STATE DETERMINING DEVICE AND SHEET CARRYING STATE DETERMINING METHOD - A technique is provided that enables detection of the state of a sheet skew or the like without adding a special sensor or the like in a sheet carrying apparatus if possible. Information about sheet detection timing by two sensors that are arranged at different positions from each other in a sheet carrying direction and arranged at positions different from each other in a direction orthogonal to the sheet carrying direction is acquired. A skew of a carried sheet is determined in accordance with the acquired information. | 03-05-2009 |
20090066016 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING SHEET THEREOF - Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a first sensor which is provided on a transportation path of a sheet and detects a first passage time of the sheet; a second sensor which is provided at a position different from the position of the first sensor in a transportation direction of the sheet and a direction perpendicular to the transportation direction and detects a second passage time of the sheet; a skew determination unit which determines a skew amount of the sheet based on the first passage time detected by the first sensor and the second passage time detected by the second sensor; and a correction control unit which controls correction of a skew of the sheet on the basis of the skew amount determined by the skew determination unit. | 03-12-2009 |
20090128848 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, AND REMOTE DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus sets setting information for forming an image, detects, using a media sensor, characteristic information of a recording medium on which an image is formed according to setting by the setting information, forms an image on the recording medium, the characteristic information of which is detected by the media sensor, on the basis of the setting information, stores, as log data, the setting information for forming an image on the recording medium and the characteristic information of the recording medium detected by the media sensor, and transmits the log data to an image diagnosis apparatus that diagnoses a state of image forming processing in the image forming apparatus. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132321 | MAINTENANCE PLANNING SYSTEM AND MAINTENANCE PLANNING METHOD - A maintenance planning system comprises a counter value acquiring unit to acquire a counter value indicating use results of consumable parts of a plurality of apparatuses that are maintenance targets; an interval information acquiring unit, among information related to a combination of a visit interval to specify a time interval to visit installation places of the plurality of apparatuses that are maintenance targets to perform a maintenance check operation for the plurality of apparatuses that are maintenance targets with a replacement interval specified to replace each consumable part and associated with the visit interval, to acquire a combination of the visit interval and the replacement interval for minimizing a predetermined cost for each consumable part of the plurality of apparatuses that are maintenance targets; a maintenance plan creation unit, on the basis of the minimized visit interval and replacement interval acquired by the interval information acquiring unit and the counter value acquired by the counter value acquiring unit, to identify the apparatus that is a maintenance target to be visited next, timing of next visit, and a consumable part to be replaced at the timing; and a display unit to display information identified by the maintenance plan creation unit on a terminal. | 05-21-2009 |
20090210278 | MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING SYSTEM, MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A maintenance scheduling system that lays out a maintenance schedule for an image forming apparatus includes an actual-use-result acquiring unit that acquires actual use result information of consumables, a failure-probability-distribution estimating unit that estimates failure probability distributions of the consumables, a cost-related-constant acquiring unit that acquires cost related constants of the consumables, a first cost calculating unit that calculates, for each of plural visit interval values, cost per unit time required for the image forming apparatus, a visit-interval calculating unit that calculates the visit interval value giving minimum cost, a second cost calculating unit that calculates, for each of plural replacement interval values, cost per unit time required for the image forming apparatus, a replacement-interval calculating unit that calculates a calculated replacement interval value, and a maintenance-schedule presenting unit that presents the next visit time and at least one of the consumables to be replaced in the visit. | 08-20-2009 |
20090236799 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first sensor that is provided in a conveying path for a sheet and detects a first passage time of the sheet; a second sensor that is provided in a position different from a position of the first sensor in both a conveying direction of the sheet and a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction, and detects a second passage time of the sheet; a skew determining unit that calculates a skew amount of the sheet from a difference between the first passage time detected by the first sensor and the second passage time detected by the second sensor and determines occurrence of skew of the sheet on the basis of the skew amount; and a cause estimating unit that estimates, when the skew determining unit determines that the skew occurs, a cause of the occurrence of the skew. | 09-24-2009 |
20090323104 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a state determination unit configured to determine a state of a machine body, an input determination unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a content delivery unit configured to perform content delivery using a transmission system of terrestrial digital broadcasting based on a request signal from the state determination unit or the input determination unit. | 12-31-2009 |
20100110506 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE READING - An image reading apparatus of the invention includes an auto document feeder to automatically feed an original document along a conveyance path, a first sensor that is provided on the conveyance path and detects a first passage time of the original document, a second sensor that is provided at a position different from a position of the first sensor in a conveyance direction of the original document and also different therefrom in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction and detects a second passage time of the original document, and a skew determination section that obtains a skew amount of the original document from a difference between the first passage time detected by the first sensor and the second passage time detected by the second sensor and determines occurrence of a skew of the original document based on the skew amount. | 05-06-2010 |
20120325101 | ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRIBUTION SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRIBUTION SUPPORTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an environmental contribution supporting apparatus provided for a system including a printing apparatus and an erasing apparatus includes a duplex-reduction calculating unit, an aggregation-reduction calculating unit, a sheet-reduction-ratio calculating unit, a printing-state-character selecting unit, a sheet-reuse-ratio calculating unit, a reuse-state-character selecting unit, a sheet-reduction-message selecting unit, a sheet-reuse-message selecting unit, an advice setting unit, and a report creating unit configured to edit a character selected by the printing-state-character selecting unit, a character selected by the reuse-state-character selecting unit, and a message set by the advice setting unit into a predetermined form. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327487 | 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. | 12-27-2012 |
20130070299 | MAINTENANCE DEVICE AND MAINTENANCE METHOD - According to one embodiment, a maintenance device includes a first interface, a second interface, and a processor. The first interface is configured to acquire setting information read by a reading unit configured to read the setting information from the information processing device. The communication unit is configured to acquire statistical information concerning the setting information from an external device via a network. The processor is configured to compare the setting information to the statistical information and evaluate the setting information based on a comparison result. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073908 | MAINTENANCE DEVICE AND MAINTENANCE METHOD - According to one embodiment, a maintenance device includes a first interface, a memory, and a processor. The first interface is configured to acquire setting information read by a reading unit configured to read the apparatus information including apparatus identification information and error information from an information processing device. The memory is configured to store an apparatus information table including registration error information corresponding to the registration apparatus identification information. The processor is configured to analyze the apparatus information based on the apparatus information table. | 03-21-2013 |
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 |
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 |