Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212992 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE FOR IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A process cartridge having a nonvolatile memory for storing prescribed information corresponding to addresses is detachably attached to a main body of an image forming device. The nonvolatile memory stores first destination information of “shipment destination” data to be used to control the printing operation by a control system of the main body of the image forming device and second destination information of “lot No.” data not to be used to control the printing operation by the control system. The nonvolatile memory allows the image forming device to perform an appropriate printing operation without changing a program of the main body of the image forming device even when a new destination is arisen for a reason of production management, marketing etc. after beginning to put the image forming device on the market. | 09-04-2008 |
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 |
20090153901 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - The image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing includes: a communication interface for receiving job data; a job data property deriving unit for deriving a property of the job by referencing data contained in the job data other than data explicitly indicating to execute/not to execute the authentication print printing and outputting the property as job property data; an authentication print setting deciding unit for deciding whether or not to execute the job as the authentication print printing; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit for outputting the result of the user authentication; and a job executing unit for executing the job related to the job data. | 06-18-2009 |
20090158422 | Image Forming Device and Image Forming Program - The present invention is an image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing. The image forming device includes: an authentication print detecting unit which detects whether to execute a job as the authentication print printing by referencing predetermined data; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit which outputs the result of the user authentication; a job executing unit; a user interface; and a user interface input mode switching unit which switches an information input/output mode of the user interface, wherein, an instruction to execute a first process can be received, and wherein the first process includes processes in which: the execution of the authentication print printing starts based on the result of the user authentication output by the user authentication unit; and the result of the user authentication is invoked so that the information input/output mode of the user interface is switched to a login mode. | 06-18-2009 |
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 |
20090316185 | BILLING AND PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND JOB PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Under a contention between a copy job and a print job, it is possible that a general user misunderstands that the payment he has made for the copy job is mistakenly used on the print job requested by another user. One solution to avoid such undesirable possibility is to display information indicating that the billing process is correctly done. Yet, the general user may fail to notice the display. In view of this, a billing and printing system prevents occurrence of job contention as long as the balance of payment made by a general user remains. An MFP included in the system does not accept any print job if a balance of received payment remains, and does not accept any payment if there is a queued print job. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319407 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROHIBITING THE EXECUTION OF A TARGET JOB, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM THAT STORES A PROGRAM FOR PROHIBITING THE EXECUTION OF A TARGET JOB - An image formation apparatus for performing a billing process, by generating billing information of a job after executing the job and transmitting the billing information to a billing apparatus when a connection to the billing apparatus is normal, the image formation apparatus comprising: a storage for storing therein billing information; a judgment part operable to judge whether the connection to the billing apparatus is normal (step S | 12-24-2009 |
20090319443 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, BILLING AMOUNT DETERMINATION METHOD AND BILLING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus that executes a job and determines a billing amount for the job depending on a parameter value given to a parameter that relates to the execution of the job, the image forming apparatus comprising: a storage that stores therein a first table and a second table, the first table defining billing amounts for a plurality of non-overlapping value ranges in one-to-one correspondence, the second table defining billing amounts for a plurality of specific values in one-to-one correspondence; and a determiner operable to refer to the second table before referring to the first table and judge whether the parameter value is identical to any one of the plurality of specific values in the second table (step S402), and if identical (Yes in step S402), determine the billing amount for the job according to the second table (step S403). | 12-24-2009 |
20090319444 | FACSIMILE MACHINE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USED IN THE FACSIMILE MACHINE - An image forming apparatus is provided with a document data storage portion for storing document data, a charge calculation portion for performing a charge operation for calculating communication charges to be made for transmission of the document data, a send/receive portion for transmitting the document data to different image forming apparatuses each of which is at the other end of the communication, and a transmission control portion for controlling the charge calculation portion and the send/receive portion such that the charge operation for one of the different image forming apparatuses that is the current transmission destination is performed within the following period: after start of transmission of the document data to another of the different image forming apparatuses that is the last transmission destination, and, before or concurrently with start of transmission of the document data to the different image forming apparatus that is the current transmission destination. | 12-24-2009 |
20140104648 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPERATIONAL EVENT DETERMINING METHOD - An image processing device comprises: a display part on which various types of screens are displayed; a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen; a grouping part for classifying multiple screen parts contained in the screen into a group as a closed region by the screen part that is capable of receiving the same event and associating the same event with the group as the common event in the group; an event determining part for identifying the closed region where the user's input is detected and running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated with the group of the identified closed region of a plurality of operational event determining routines when the input is detected, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user's input; and a controlling part for controlling operations based on the specified event. | 04-17-2014 |
20140126017 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS REMOTELY OPERATED BY EXTERNAL TERMINAL, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus remotely operated by an external terminal includes a generation unit that generates a first composite image by combining a first image and a second image such that the second image is displayed within and over the first image, the first image being an operation screen image corresponding to an operation screen of the image forming apparatus, and the second screen being an image of an area including hardware key images corresponding to hardware keys of the image forming apparatus, a transmission unit that transmits first image data that is image data of the first composite image to the external terminal as data for displaying a remote operation image for the image forming apparatus, and a reception unit that receives, from the external terminal, first manual input information on manual input to the first composite image displayed as the remote operation image on the external terminal. | 05-08-2014 |
20140325595 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF PERFORMING STATUS MONITORING TO CHECK IF AUTHENTICATION SERVER RECOVERS FROM DOWN STATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: a transmitter that transmits user information input by a user, to an authentication server; a receiver that receives an authentication result from the authentication server; a job execution portion that executes a job if the user is successfully identified as an authorized user; a register storage that stores accumulated information including information about the executed job; an information transfer portion that transfers the accumulated information to the authentication server; a detector that detects an event if the authentication server is down; a time settings portion that specifies either “at a predetermined time” or “when log-on is requested”, as the time to check the status of the authentication server; and a status checking portion that: transmits acknowledgment request data to the authentication server at the specified time; and checks the status of the authentication server if acknowledgment data is received from the authentication server. | 10-30-2014 |