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| 20100150583 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a copier having an image data converter that sets the C density, the M density and the Y density to a density obtained by multiplying the density of black in the RGB system by a CMY mixture ratio and sets the K density to a density obtained by multiplying the density of black by a K mixture ratio when black in the RGB system is converted into the CMYK system, the image data converter sets the K mixture ratio to a K reference mixture ratio when TK≧PHK, and sets the K mixture ratio to a K high mixture ratio that is higher than the K reference mixture ratio when TK PHK. Here, TK is a K toner amount of consumption insufficiency which is a K toner amount to be consumed to prevent toner deterioration at the driving amount of the developing unit, and PHK is a K high predetermined value. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110135325 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The present invention realizes an image forming system wherein an efficient cleaning of plural fixing apparatuses by using a blank sheet is attained, the system includes: an image forming section; a sheet feeding apparatus; a plurality of fixing apparatuses; a temperature control section controlling the temperature of the fixing apparatuses; a sheet retention determination section determining whether there is a sheet retained in any of the fixing apparatuses during a jam; and a control section controlling cleaning of the fixing apparatuses by a blank sheet fed from the sheet feeding apparatus, wherein the control section carries out cleaning of the fixing apparatus in which it has been determined that a sheet is retained based on input from the sheet retention determination section, when the temperature of the fixing apparatus has been determined to have reached a prescribed temperature based on input from the temperature control section. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110219250 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE WHICH PERFORMS POWER SAVING CONTROL UPON AUTHENTICATION PRINTING - An image forming device can operate in a print mode, a first power saving mode, and a second power saving mode. In the print mode, a first circuit having a unit to acquire the state of the image forming device and a second circuit are both activated. In the first power saving mode, neither the first circuit nor the second circuit is activated. In the second power saving mode, only the first circuit is activated. When a secure print instruction is received in the first power saving mode, the operation mode is switched to the second power saving mode. When the identity of the user is authenticated in the second power saving mode, the operation mode is switched to the print mode. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the image forming device which can restrict power consumption and also reduce the time required for printing out after the identity authentication. | 09-08-2011 |
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| 20090262203 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication system includes an image pickup device and an information processing apparatus. The image pickup device is connectable to a printer, and the information processing apparatus is connectable to a server device. The image pickup device includes an acquiring unit that acquires printer information indicating information on the printer if the image pickup device is connected to the printer and a transmitting unit that transmits the printer information acquired by the acquiring unit to the information processing apparatus if the image pickup device is connected to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus also includes a display control unit that displays, on a display unit, an indication that the printer indicated by the printer information can be registered with the server device, based upon the printer information transmitted from the transmitting unit. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100223451 | BOOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A boot control method of a program in an information processing apparatus to which a device can be connected, the method including a search step of searching for a running program that is running on the information processing apparatus when the device is connected, a determination step of determining whether the running program found in the search step includes a program unfit for concurrent running that is unsuited for concurrent running with preset device-corresponding software that is booted in response to connection of the device, and a boot step of booting the device-corresponding software if the running program does not include the program unfit for concurrent running and performing control so as not to boot the device-corresponding software if the running program includes the software unfit for concurrent running. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100289808 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS - The present invention is directed to a technique which can display many images in such a manner that these images are easily compared and allow a user to easily select a desired image from among the images. During successively switching and displaying a plurality of images onto a display area, an image processing apparatus adds and displays a new image display area when an instruction to maintain display of a first image is issued, and maintains the display of the first image on the new image display area. Further, when an instruction to cancel maintaining of the display of the first image is issued, the newly added image display area is hidden or removed. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110302639 | SERVER APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A server apparatus capable of preventing unauthorized use of services by a third party through an electronic appliance that stores information used for user authentication by the server apparatus. The server apparatus receives, from an information processing apparatus, pieces of user identification information, pieces of appliance identification information, and pieces of use permission/prohibition information representing on a per service type basis whether uses of services are permitted or prohibited, and stores them so as to be associated with one another. When determining based on use permission/prohibition information, which is associated with a combination of user identification information and appliance identification information that are accepted from an electronic appliance, that use of a service represented by service type information accepted from the electronic appliance is permitted, the server apparatus transmits screen information for use of the service to the electronic appliance. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120001940 | DIGITAL DOCUMENT EDITING METHOD, DIGITAL DOCUMENT EDITING PROGRAM AND DIGITAL DOCUMENT EDITING APPARATUS - The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page. | 01-05-2012 |
