An image forming apparatus includes a display, a detector, and a controller. The display communicates a setting screen for setting a function of the image forming apparatus. The detector detects an operation of a user that the user executes on the setting screen. The controller is configured to communicate guidance regarding the setting screen based on the operation detected by the detector. For example, such guidance may be communicated when the number of operation times of the operation executed by the user on the setting screen exceeds a first threshold and the number of execution times of the function executed by the user previously is less than a second threshold.
A printer including thermal head, a platen including a shaft, a pair of bushing, a bracket, a pair of frames, and a pair of supports. The bushings are positioned proximate opposing ends of the shaft. The bracket is configured to support the thermal head. The bracket defines a groove at opposing ends thereof. The frames are positioned proximate the opposing ends of the bracket. Each of the frames defines an aperture that cooperates with the groove to define a passage through which a portion of the shaft extends. Each of the supports is positioned to engage with the aperture of a respective one of the frames. The supports are rotatable within the apertures about an axis of rotation. The supports are positioned to support the opposing ends of the shaft such that the shaft is eccentric from the axis of rotation.
An optical scanning device deflects light for scanning in a main scanning direction and includes a plurality of light sources, a plurality of photodetectors, a plurality of optical element groups, and a polygon mirror. The plurality of light sources emit laser lights. The plurality of photodetectors detect beams formed by the laser lights. The plurality of optical element groups guide the beams to the photodetectors. The polygon mirror deflects the beams for scanning in one direction of the main scanning direction from one end to the other end on the opposite side of the one end. The plurality of optical element groups cross a crossing axis parallel to the main scanning direction, cross a rotation axis of the polygon mirror, and are rotationally symmetrical with respect to an axis of symmetry parallel to the rotation axis of the polygon mirror.
G03G 15/043 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material with means for controlling illumination or exposure
G02B 26/12 - Scanning systems using multifaceted mirrors
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
4.
MERCHANDISE REGISTRATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR MERCHANDISE REGISTRATION DEVICE, AND MERCHANDISE REGISTRATION SYSTEM
According to one embodiment, a merchandise registration device includes a processor. The processor is configured to register merchandise to be purchased by a customer in a sales transaction and receive a designation of services to be applied to the registered merchandise after settlement of the sales transaction. The processor stores the designation of services in association with the registered merchandise and outputs a list of the registered merchandise associated with the designated services to be applied after settlement of the sale transaction. In some examples, the list may be output as a printed receipt, a service request receipt, or the like to be presented at a service counter or the like to permit more efficient service request handling.
According to one embodiment, a liquid ejection head includes a nozzle plate, pressure chambers, actuators, and a drive circuit. The nozzle plate includes nozzles for ejecting liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzles. The actuator varies the volume of the pressure chamber according to a drive signal. The drive circuit generates the drive signal for driving the actuator. The ejection waveform in the drive signal includes an expansion potential difference changes that changes in stages and a contraction potential difference change that changes in stages. The drive circuit set the timing of the stages to cancel the vibration of an acoustic resonance frequency in a frequency range higher than a main acoustic resonance frequency of the liquid in the pressure chamber.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
6.
PRINTER FOR PRINTING ON A LONG SHEET AND METHOD THEREFOR
A printer for printing on a long sheet includes a print data divider and a verification processor. The print data divider outputs a plurality of segments of divided print data divided at the boundary of areas from standard print data containing print contents in each of the areas obtained by dividing a standard sheet into a plurality of the areas. The verification processor compares the size of the long sheet with the size of the area included in the standard sheet and rotates the divided print data if it is determined from a result of the comparison that the rotation is necessary.
An information processing apparatus includes an acquirer, an evaluator, a generator, and an adjustment instruction transmitter. The acquirer acquires an image of a print pattern printed by a printer. The evaluator evaluates a print quality of the printer based on the image of the print pattern acquired by the acquirer. The generator generates a command for adjusting the print quality of the printer based on an evaluation result of the evaluator. The adjustment instruction transmitter transmits the command generated by the generator to the printer.
A self-service point-of-sale (POS) terminal for a customer to register a commodity to be purchased in a store, includes an input device, a reading device configured to read a symbol on a commodity, a network interface configured to receive, from an external device operated by a store clerk or the like, instruction information that instructs output of caution information, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire commodity information about a commodity based on the symbol read by the reading device and register the commodity using the commodity information. Upon receipt of an input of completion of registration via the input device, the processor determines whether to proceed to payment processing for the registered commodity based on whether the instruction information has been received from the external device.
A commodity registration device in a POS system including a self-service payment device for payment processing, includes a scanner configured to read commodity information from a code attached to a commodity, a tag reader configured to read tag information from a wireless tag attached to a container for storing commodities, a communication interface configured to communicate with the payment device or a server that can communicate with the payment device, and a processor configured to control the reader to read tag information from a wireless tag attached to a container, upon receipt of commodity information by the scanner, store the commodity information in association with the tag information, and control the communication interface to transmit, to the payment device or the server, the commodity information and the tag information so that the payment device can associate the second commodity information with the first or second tag information.
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus forms an image on paper on the basis of image data. A processor of the image forming apparatus performs authentication and authorization with an authorization server to acquire a token and then stores the token in a storage device. When transmitting and receiving an e-mail, the processor of the image forming apparatus transmits and receives an e-mail to and from a mail server by using the token read from the storage device.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
Rodriguez, Adrian
Darden, Zachary Mccain
Blanck, Lucas
Waite, Jonathan
Abstract
A system allows users to dynamically manipulate an orchestration flow to eliminate deprecated functionality and/or to include new or modified functionality. The system provides multiple layers configured to combine the functionality provided by a graphical user interface (GUI) with fixed software code associated with the orchestration flow. With the system, users can quickly and easily configure and/or re-configure various Point-Of-Sale (POS) devices to execute the functions of the modified orchestration flow.
A liquid ejection head for ejecting a liquid, includes a base plate extending along a first direction, an actuator unit on the plate and including first piezoelectric elements and one or more support elements arranged along the first direction, a flow path member on the actuator unit and including: pressure chambers each for storing the liquid and having volumes that can be changed by a corresponding one of the first piezoelectric elements, and one or more first openings at positions corresponding to the support elements, and a nozzle plate on the flow path member and including: nozzles through which the liquid in the corresponding pressure chambers are ejected in response to a change in the volume of the corresponding pressure chambers, and one or more second openings connected respectively to the first openings and through which the support elements corresponding to the first openings are visible.
A communication apparatus includes an antenna, a driving unit, a reading control unit, an acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The driving unit is configured to move a relative position of the antenna relative to one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit is configured to control measurement of tag data of the one or more wireless tags based on reception of radio waves from the one or more wireless tags by the antenna. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire the number of the one or more wireless tags based on the measurement of the tag data of the one or more wireless tags that is accompanied by the movement of the relative position at a first moving speed. The setting unit is configured to set a second moving speed of the relative position based on the acquired number of the one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit controls measurement of the tag data of the one or more wireless tags that is accompanied by movement of the relative position at the set second moving speed.
H01Q 3/02 - Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system using mechanical movement of antenna or antenna system as a whole
H01Q 1/22 - Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
A printer includes a printer head configured to operate in a normal mode for printing print data on a medium with at least one of a designated size or a designated thickness of a character, and a size change mode or a thickness change mode for printing the print data on the medium with a size or thickness of the character being greater than the designated size or the designated thickness, respectively. The printer also includes a sensor configured to detect a printing density of a printing pattern. The printer also includes a processor configured to acquire print data, print the printing pattern, the printing pattern being set in advance, and set an operation mode of the printer head to one of the size change mode or the thickness change mode.
According to one embodiment, a management apparatus manages a plurality of image forming devices, such as printers or multi-functional peripheral devices in different usage environments. The management apparatus includes a processor to acquire usage history information from each of the image forming devices and generates, based on the acquired usage history information, a bill including a total of usage charges for use of the image forming devices by a user group during a billing period. The management apparatus includes a communication interface to transmit the generated bill to a billing destination.
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus, includes a transfer belt onto which toner images are transferred during an image forming operation, and a sensor that emits light towards the transfer belt and detect an amount of light reflected by the transfer belt. A processor adjusts the amount of light emitted towards the transfer belt based on the detected amount of the reflected light, and stores, in a memory, light level information indicating an output level for the amount of light emitted towards the transfer belt by the sensor. The processor provides an instruction for outputting warning information when the light level information indicates the output level exceeds a threshold value.
According to one embodiment, a control unit of a printing system determines a printing region on an object to be printed being conveyed by a conveyance machine, the printing region being provided to be printed any write information therein as printing information, determines whether or not the printing information having a specified character size can be printed in the printing region, and performs adjustment of a printing format of the printing information, the adjustment including at least changing the character size, so that the printing information can be printed in the printing region when determining that the printing information cannot be printed in the printing region. A printing unit prints the printing information having the adjusted printing format in the printing region of the object to be printed according to a timing at which the printing region of the object to be printed being conveyed by the conveyance machine passes through the printing unit.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
G06F 40/109 - Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
A printer for printing an image on a sheet stored in a rolled shape, includes a sheet holder by which the sheet in the rolled shape is rotatably held and including at least one side plate movable in a width direction of the sheet and contacting a side surface of the sheet, a printing head by which an image is printed on the sheet that has been conveyed from the sheet holder, a buffer unit between the sheet holder and the printing head and including a plate-shaped member that is connected to an elastic member that generates an elastic force by which the conveyed sheet is pressed, and an adjusting unit by which the movable side plate and the buffer unit is connected such that the elastic force varies depending on a location of the side plate.
According to one embodiment, a server device for a retail stamp card service includes a communication interface connectable to a network and a storage unit for storing electronic stamp cards for a plurality of purchasers and stamp issuance conditions for a plurality of stores. A processor of the server device is configured to acquire purchaser identification information and receipt data indicating details of a purchase by a purchaser at a store and determine, based on the receipt data, whether a stamp issuance condition has been satisfied. The processor then issues stamp data if the stamp issuance condition has been satisfied and updates stamp card data according to the issued stamp data. The stamp issuance conditions can be set on an individual store basis, a brand basis, or an operating company basis based on operator input to the server device.
A print head includes a first memory, a second memory, and a plurality of light emitting elements. The first memory stores a first light amount correction data set for causing the plurality of light emitting elements to emit light with a first light amount, and stores a first difference data set showing a difference between a second light amount correction data set for causing the plurality of light emitting elements to emit light with a second light amount and the first light amount correction data set. The second memory stores the first light amount correction data set, or the second light amount correction data set obtained from the first light amount correction data set and the first difference data set. The plurality of light emitting elements emit light based on the first or second light amount correction data set stored in the second memory.
G03G 15/043 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material with means for controlling illumination or exposure
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
Brosnan, Susan W.
Snead, Jessica
Hogan, Patricia
Goins, Daniel Robert
Abstract
A system and method for identifying different types of produce at checkout based on an odor emitted by the produce is provided herein. An olfactometer is used to detect chemical compounds contributing to an odor of the produce at checkout. Based on the detected odor, an odor profile is constructed and compared to one or more baseline odor profiles stored in memory. Based on the comparison results, a freshness date for the produce is determined provided to a device associated with the shopper. So informed, the shopper is aware of how long the produce will be considered fresh. Additionally, one or more reminder messages may be sent to a device associated with the shopper reminding them of the freshness date for the produce they purchased.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
Johnson, Brad Matthew
Steiner, David J.
Wood, Kimberly A.
Crockett, Timothy W.
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a directional radio frequency identification (RFID) system, which provides directional RFID tag scanning using RFID enclosures and moveable radio signal blocking components. The RFID systems herein also prevent unwanted RFID tag activation and focuses RFID readers on specific scan areas. The directional RFID systems may be implemented in any type of system that utilizes RFID tag reading, such as a point of sale systems and other related systems, which utilize RFID scanning.
A sheet processing apparatus for processing sheets each with a wireless tag, includes a roller, a wireless tag reader/writer, and a controller configured to control the roller to convey a first sheet with a first tag along a path, control the reader/writer to acquire first strengths of radio signals received from the first tag during the conveyance and second strengths of radio signals received from wireless tags of sheets not being conveyed, determine a threshold value of signal strength for distinguishing a wireless tag being conveyed from wireless tags not being conveyed based on the first and second strengths, and control the roller to convey a second sheet with a second tag and control the reader/writer to write to the second tag when a strength of a radio signal from the second tag is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
B65H 43/00 - Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable
B65H 29/48 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by tables arranged to be tilted to cause sliding of articles
H04N 1/32 - Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver
A belt drive device includes a drive unit, a detection unit, a blade, and a control unit. The drive unit rotates an endless belt. The detection unit detects a position of a connection portion in which both ends of a reinforcing tape, which is provided on an outer surface of an edge of the belt in a width direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the belt, in a longitudinal direction along the edge of the belt are overlapped and connected. The blade comes into contact with an outer surface of the belt and an outer surface of the reinforcing tape and is provided to extend in the width direction. The control unit controls driving of the drive unit based on a detection result obtained by the detection unit such that when the drive unit rotates the belt by a constant length in a reverse direction from one end of the reinforcing tape overlapped inside toward the other end of the reinforcing tape overlapped outside at the connection portion from a state in which the belt is stopped, the drive unit rotates the belt in a forward direction to a rotation position where the other end of the reinforcing tape does not come into contact with the blade by a reverse rotation and stops the belt before the belt is reversely rotated.
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
B65H 5/02 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains
G03G 15/00 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
25.
STORE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD
According to one embodiment, a store system includes an access point to connect to an information terminal that is operated by a customer on a sales floor, a settlement terminal to process payments for merchandise registered by the customer for purchase using the information terminal, and a mobile controller. The mobile controller is connected to the access point and configured to acquire sales data for the merchandise registered by the customer for purchase using the information terminal and preprocessing data from the information terminal. The mobile controller outputs an accounting code to the information terminal. The accounting code causes the settlement terminal to begin a settlement process when read by the settlement terminal. The mobile controller provides the sales data and the preprocessing data to the settlement terminal after the reading of the accounting code by the settlement terminal.
G06Q 20/36 - Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices using electronic wallets or electronic money safes
G06Q 20/10 - Payment architectures specially adapted for home banking systems
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
Johnson, Brad Matthew
Brosnan, Susan W.
Khaitas, Andrei
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system and method for identifying items. The method includes scanning a first item using a first barcode scanner and a second barcode scanner and determining, based on signals from the first barcode scanner and the second barcode scanner, a first two-dimensional light grid indicating where the first item broke beams of the first barcode scanner and the second barcode scanner. The method also includes predicting, using a machine learning model and based on the first two-dimensional light grid, a first category for the first item, receiving, from a camera, an image of the first item, and comparing the image of the first item to a first set of images assigned to the first category to determine an identity of the first item.
G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
G06V 10/74 - Image or video pattern matching; Proximity measures in feature spaces
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage receptacles configured to store a sheet. The image forming apparatus also includes a fixing device having a heating belt and a pressure roller configured to heat and fix toner on the sheet conveyed from one of the plurality of sheet storage receptacles. The image forming apparatus also includes a processor and a memory configured to store temperature information associated with each sheet storage receptacle and related to temperature control of the fixing device, acquire type information of a sheet to be printed, in response to a predetermined condition, specify the sheet storage receptacle storing the sheet to be printed, and perform a first heating control that controls a temperature of the fixing device based on the stored temperature information associated with the specified sheet storage receptacle.
A wireless tag communication device includes an antenna, a communication control circuit, a camera, a sensor, and a processor. The antenna has directivity. The communication control circuit communicates with a wireless tag via the antenna. The camera captures an image in which a direction in which the directivity of the antenna is maximized coincides with a capturing direction. The sensor detects brightness in a first image captured by the camera. The processor calculates a detection position of a wireless tag as a search target in the first image and displays on a display the first image and a second image in which the first image is masked with a mask density according to a sensor value detected by the sensor in an area other than an explicit area with the detection position of the wireless tag as a base point.
There are provided a reader that receives tag information transmitted from a wireless tag attached to an article; a first engagement portion provided in the reader; and a handle portion detachable from the first engagement portion.
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus installs various application programs according to an installation application program. Further, the information processing apparatus installs, when installing an installation application program, an installation application program according to a proxy installation application program.
A device configured to fix toner to a sheet including a tubular body, a heater, and a heat conduction section. The tubular body is configured to be in contact with a sheet moving in a first direction. The heater includes a heat generator. The heater includes a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface. The first surface of the heater is in contact with the inner surface of the tubular body. The heat conduction section is in contact with the second surface of the heater. The heat conduction section includes a first heat transfer section and a second heat transfer section. The first heat transfer section is in contact with the second surface of the heater. The second heat transfer section is in contact with the surface opposite to the heater with respect to the first heat transfer section.
A wireless tag communication device for communicating with a wireless tag conveyed in a conveyance direction includes an antenna with a plurality of radiation regions from which a polarized radio wave is emitted and including a first radiation region extending along a first direction crossing the conveyance direction and having a first length in the first direction, and a second radiation region extending parallel to the first radiation region and having a second length that is different from the first length in the first direction, and a controller configured to cause at least one of the first and second radiation regions to emit a polarized wave towards the wireless tag.
A power converting device includes a totem pole type power factor improving circuit that includes a coil connected to a first terminal of an AC power supply, a first half-wave switch in which a source terminal is connected to the coil via a first current detector, a second half-wave switch in which a drain terminal is connected to the coil via a second current detector, a first diode in which a cathode is connected to a drain terminal of the first half-wave switch and an anode is connected to a second terminal of the AC power supply, a second diode in which an anode is connected to a source terminal of the second half-wave switch and a cathode is connected to the second terminal of the AC power supply, and a smoothing capacitor connected between the cathode of the first diode and the anode of the second diode.
H02M 1/42 - Circuits or arrangements for compensating for or adjusting power factor in converters or inverters
H02M 3/335 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output with intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode to produce the intermediate ac using devices of a triode or a transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only
A digital signage device for outputting a guidance message in response to an inquiry from a user, includes a display including a touch panel and configured to display a guidance screen, an input device through which the user can make speech inputs, an output device through which a guidance message is output, and a processor configured to, when the guidance screen is operated and the speech is input, convert speech data generated by the input device from the speech input into text data, search the text data for one or more particular words and determine a politeness level based on the particular words found in the text data, determine a plurality of response messages based on the text data, select one of the response messages corresponding to the determined politeness level, and control the output device to output the selected response message as a guidance message.
According to an embodiment, a controller of an image forming apparatus collects data relating to maintenance of the image forming apparatus. If failing to collect data, the controller confirms a cause of the collection failure and sets, if the cause of the collection failure is an interruption of a print job, an image forming job as a held job. Subsequently, the controller resumes the collection of the maintenance data that the controller has failed to collect.
The order management apparatus includes units for acquisition, management, extraction, generation, and transmission. The acquisition unit acquires, from the order reception system, first order reception data containing a plurality of items of data relating to an order for a product. The extraction unit extracts a data element relating to a predetermined item from among data elements included in the first order reception data acquired by the acquisition unit. The generation unit generates second order reception data including the data element extracted by the extraction unit. If the first order reception data acquired by the acquisition unit includes timing information that designates a future time point as the provision timing of the product, the transmission unit waits until a time point determined according to the provision timing indicated by the timing information, and transmits the second order reception data generated by the generation unit to the shop system.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
Brosnan, Susan W.
Snead, Jessica
Hogan, Patricia S.
Goins, Daniel R.
Abstract
Techniques for auditing purchases are provided. An item for purchase is scanned to determine a first identity of the item. The scanned item is added to a transaction. A first image of the scanned item is captured using a first camera. A second identity of the scanned item from the first image is determined using a trained machine learning (ML) model. Responsive to determining the first and second identities of the item do not match, an audit of the transaction is performed.
G06V 10/764 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using classification, e.g. of video objects
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
Hawk, James I.
Hogan, Patricia S.
Griep, Suzanne M.
Abstract
Techniques for generating a window of effectiveness are provided. A region of effectiveness for a scanner at a checkout kiosk is provided, wherein the region of effectiveness defines a volume where successful scans occur. It is determined that a first path of an item is outside the region of effectiveness. Feedback to change a path of the item to be within the region of effectiveness during a rescan of the item is outputted, using the checkout kiosk.
According to one embodiment, an image forming device includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store an execution history of image processing and an adjustment history of the image processing. The processor is configured to detect an occurrence of an event based on a correlation between the execution history and the adjustment history, and to execute instructing to output information according to a detection result.
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixer, first and second temperature sensors, and storage and control units. The fixer fixes an image formed on the sheet by pressing. The first temperature sensor is disposed away from the image forming unit and the fixer, and measures an ambient temperature. The second temperature sensor is disposed closer to the image forming unit than the first temperature sensor, and measures an ambient temperature. The storage unit stores one or more difference values between first and second temperatures measured by the first and second temperature sensors when a switching condition is satisfied. When a difference between the one or more difference values in the storage unit and a latest difference value is equal to or larger than a threshold, the control unit stores information indicating that a reference value for determining an abnormality is exceeded.
A system and method for addressing distracting ambient noise during online collaborative meetings monitors when an online meeting is entered by a user at their computer. Smart devices are automatically powered down, paused or otherwise controlled during the online meeting. Devices are returned to their former state once the user leaves the meeting.
G10K 11/178 - Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general using interference effects; Masking sound by electro-acoustically regenerating the original acoustic waves in anti-phase
H04M 3/56 - Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities
A self-service checkout device in an embodiment includes a first antenna capable of moving in a predetermined distance and configured to read tag information from a wireless tag attached to a commodity, a first processing unit configured to, if receiving a trigger signal, move the first antenna and perform commodity registration processing for the commodity based on the read tag information, and a second processing unit configured to perform other processing relating to operation in parallel to the commodity registration processing performed by the first processing unit.
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet storage, a sheet feed roller, an image forming device, a fixing device, a motor, a sensor, and a controller having a processor. The sheet storage is configured to store a sheet. The sheet feed roller is configured to feed the sheet stored in the sheet storage into the conveyance path. The image forming device is configured to form an image on the sheet. The fixing device includes a fixing belt and a pressure roller abutting on an outside of the fixing belt, and is configured to fix the image formed on the sheet. The motor is configured to drive and rotate the fixing belt by rotating the pressure roller. The sensor is configured to measure the drive current in the motor. The processor is configured to control a conveyance speed of the sheet based on the measured drive current.
A system and method for cloud based blacklisting of public email services from scan to email operations includes a cloud server where a blacklist is created and maintained by an administrator for one or more multifunction peripherals having IP addresses in a selected subnet. When a multifunction peripheral receives a scan to email instruction with an associated email address from a user, it requests a copy of the blacklist from the cloud server. The cloud server sends the blacklist to the multifunction peripheral if it has an IP address in the authorized subnet. The multifunction peripheral checks the destination email address and completes the scan to email operation if a domain associated with the email address is not in the blacklist. If the domain is in the blacklist, a copy of a scan file from the document scan, along with information about the multifunction peripheral being used, and time and date of the scan is sent to the administrator without informing the user that the email with the scan file is unsent.
An image forming apparatus, temperature control method, and temperature control device are provided. The apparatus includes the device, which acquires a first temperature difference between a temperature estimation value of a fixer, which is obtained by simulating a member temperature of a temperature control target serving as a heat capacitor-resistor circuit at an initial stage of operation of the fixer, and a detected temperature detected by a temperature sensor, and acquires a second temperature difference between a temperature estimation value of the fixer, which is obtained during an operation after the first temperature difference is acquired, and a detected temperature. The device calculates a difference between the first temperature difference and the second temperature difference, determines that the detected temperature is abnormal in response to the difference being equal to or greater than a threshold value, and performs temperature control for correcting a target temperature of the member temperature.
An image forming apparatus includes a scanner configured to read an image of a document and generate image data of the image according to a reading mode, a storage device configured to store the image data and the reading mode used when reading the image of the document, and a processor. The processor generates a combined image that includes the image of the document and a reading direction image that indicates a reading direction of the scanner and has a shape indicating the reading mode, and store data of the combined image in the storage device. The processor determines a position of the reading direction image in the combined image and a size of the reading direction image in the combined image, based on a reading resolution of the scanner and a resolution of the image data stored in the storage device.
An image forming apparatus includes a wireless tag communication device to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet. An image forming device in the apparatus is configured to form an image on the sheet. A controller in the apparatus is configured to determine whether a writing of data to a wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag communication device and generate investigation support information if the writing was not successful and control the image forming device to form an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information if the writing was not successful.
G06F 11/07 - Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
B41J 3/50 - Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means
B41J 29/393 - Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
According to one embodiment, a mobile sales device has a storage unit configured to hold items to be sold, a driving unit configured to move the storage unit from location to location, a communication interface configured to connect to a server device, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire position information indicating a call position designated by a call requesting user from the server device, control the driving unit based on the position information, acquire authentication information from a user at the call position to determine whether the user at the call position is the call requesting user, and permit execution of sales processing relating to items in the storage unit only if the acquired authentication information indicates that the user at the call position is the call requesting user.
G06Q 20/40 - Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check of credit lines or negative lists
According to one embodiment, a mobile sales system includes a mobile sales robot and a server. The robot includes a first processor that acquires user identification information from a user, detects when an item is removed from the robot and acquires a corresponding commodity identification, and transmits the user identification information and commodity identification to the server. The server stores the user identification information and the commodity identification in correlation with each other. Each commodity identification is associated with a settlement flag indicating whether the item has been paid for. The server transmits the commodity identifications stored in correlation with the user identification information to an external device that sends the user identification information to the server when the settlement flag indicates the corresponding item has not yet been paid for and executes settlement (payment) processing using user settlement information when a request is sent from the external device.
G06Q 20/40 - Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check of credit lines or negative lists
A registration server in a POS system including a weighing device for weighing a commodity sold by weight in a store and a mobile terminal operated by a customer for managing registered commodities, includes a network interface connectable to the weighing device and the mobile terminal, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to, upon receipt of identification information identifying the weighing device from the mobile terminal, control the network interface to establish a connection with the weighing device, acquire commodity information indicating the weighed commodity and a weight thereof from the weighing device, register in the memory the weighed commodity as a commodity to be purchased by the customer, control the network interface to output the commodity information to the mobile terminal, and maintain the connection with the weighing device until an instruction for disconnecting the connection is received from the weighing device.
According to one embodiment, there is provided a printer including a print head, a platen roller, a sheet position sensor, an antenna, and a movable portion. The print head is configured to print on a strip-shaped sheet. The platen roller is configured to move the sheet pinched between the platen roller and the print head along a longitudinal direction of the sheet. The sheet position sensor is provided on a substrate disposed on an upstream side of the print head in a conveyance direction of the sheet, and is configured to detect a position of the sheet. The antenna is provided on the substrate and is configured to write information to a wireless tag provided on the sheet. The movable portion is configured to move the substrate along a width direction of the sheet.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 3/50 - Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means
B41J 11/46 - Controlling by marks or formations on the paper being fed
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ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, RECEIPT PROCESSING DEVICE, RECEIPT PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM
A receipt processing device includes a determination unit, a digitization unit, and a transmission unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether receipt data generated by a receipt generation unit is receipt data of a transaction receipt indicating contents of a commercial transaction or receipt data of a non-transaction receipt indicating contents of a non-commercial transaction. The digitization unit is configured to digitize, if the receipt data is receipt data of the transaction receipt, the receipt data with an addition of first classification information and digitize, if the receipt data is receipt data of the non-transaction receipt, the receipt data with an addition of second classification information different from the first classification information. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the receipt data digitized by the digitization unit to a server.
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a motor that drives a fixing device; and a controller. The motor outputs a signal corresponding to a driving current value of the motor. The controller performs a first operation where a magnitude value of the signal has fallen out of a first range while driving the motor in a first operation mode. The controller performs a second operation where the magnitude value of the signal has fallen out of a second range while driving the motor in a second operation mode.
There are provided a product placing portion provided for placing a product; a scanner that is provided on a downstream side of the product placing portion in a movement direction of the product and that reads a symbol attached to the product removed from the product placing portion; a bagging portion that is provided on a downstream side of the scanner in the movement direction of the product and that is provided for bagging the product whose symbol has been read by the scanner into a bag that has been set; an article placing portion including a placing portion provided for placing an article related to sale of the product on an upper surface, provided below an installation position of the scanner; and a regulating portion that regulates protrusion of the product placed on the product placing portion to the article placing portion.
A system and method for persistent presentation of cloud print user account information across multiple multifunction peripheral applications includes a user allowance appliance within a print management system that presents the user's status, considering all print management functionality of the multifunction peripheral regardless of which application is issuing a status, to maintain a persistent presentation of the user's status globally that includes functional permissions, allowance, job cost, and funds remaining. This status region is independent of any one application and is updated in real time to keep the user informed of the current state of their account information. The presentation is context sensitive such that status relevant to an active application is also shown.
An image forming apparatus includes a developing case, a developing sleeve, a doctor blade, a first engaging section, and a second engaging section. The developing sleeve is supported by the developing case at both ends. The doctor blade includes both end portions in a longitudinal direction and a straight end face. The first engaging section is provided in the center in the longitudinal direction of the doctor blade. The second engaging section is provided in the developing case and engages with the first engaging section. One of the first engaging section and the second engaging section includes a shaft member having a predetermined axis. The other of the first engaging section and the second engaging section includes a recess including a pair of guide sections inclined with respect to the end face of the doctor blade.
A system and method directs promotional information, such as coupons of possible interest to a user, when they release their cloud-stored print job from a multifunction peripheral at their selected location. The user is identified, along with their location, and promotional information of possible relevance to the user is displayed on the multifunction peripheral touchscreen. Information selected by the user will be printed out along with their released print job. Businesses register and store their promotional information with the cloud print server, and may be assessed a fee when their literature is printed.
A heating device according to an embodiment generally includes substrate, blocks, and temperature sensors. The blocks are arranged on the substrate with a gap therebetween in a first direction. The temperature sensors are provided for each of the blocks and detect the temperature of the blocks. The block includes a plurality of first blocks on at least one side in the first direction, and the first block is adjacent to two blocks in the first direction, and the temperature sensor detects temperature of a temperature detection region on the first block, which is closer to the one of the adjacent two blocks being longer in the first direction of the two blocks.
According to one embodiment, a mobile sales device includes an accommodation unit to hold commodities to be purchased by a user, an operation display unit to display information to the user when purchasing a commodity held in the accommodation unit and to receive an input operation performed by the user during the purchasing of the commodity, and a commodity information display unit. The commodity information display unit is configured to display information about the commodities in the accommodation unit. A display controller is provided to cause at least one of the operation display unit and the commodity information display unit to display an advertisement during movement of the mobile sales device.
According to one embodiment, a mobile sales system includes a terminal device and a mobile sales device on which items to be sold can be mounted. The terminal device is used to designate a customer call position for the mobile sales device and is configured to transmit position information indicating the customer call position. The mobile sales device is configured to acquire the position information transmitted by the terminal device, move to a location corresponding to the acquired position information, and execute payment processing for an item removed from the mobile sales device by a customer.
A system and method for PIN authentication issuance from a MFP QR Code includes a QR code presented on an authentication screen of multifunction peripheral display. A user requiring a personal information number to access a multifunction peripheral printing system managed by a print server scans the QR code with their secure smartphone or tablet. The scanned QR code opens a web portal to the sever on the user's device where they can select a new PIN. The new PIN is stored on the server for the user' account and access to the MFP is then granted when the user enters their new PIN.
A system and method for generation, validation assembly and deployment of software packages provides validation as files are selected for inclusion. An web user interface employs a file browser that allows a user, from a single location, to select more than one file in succession from one or more location and while validating integrity of the single file and batch of files in combination, allowing the user to remove and add files until the set is valid to create a deployable single software package.
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a housing, a first sensor configured to detect a user in front of the housing, an illumination light configured to emit light in an illumination direction, and an opening and closing element configured to open and close a portion of the housing. A second sensor is configured to detect the opening and the closing of the opening and closing element. An adjuster is configured to change a detection distance of the first sensor and the illumination direction in conjunction with each other by physical movement. A controller is configured to turn on the illumination light when the opening and closing element is open, and turn off the illumination light when is closed.
A multifunction peripheral (MFP) includes user selectable functions that call home applications on the device that direct it to work cooperatively with cloud service providers. To avoid requiring users to login to each cloud service each time they use it, they are registered with an authorization server to establish and grant identity and authorization tokens. When a user logs in to an MFP, they are redirected to login to the authorization server which then sends tokens to the MFP identifying the user and their permissions and licenses. Home applications associated by the tokens are displayed for selection. Each time a home application using a cloud service is selected, a background application sends the user's session tokens with a service request to an associated cloud service resource server. The resource servers processes authenticated requests and return the result to the MFP which completes the selected home application function. Therefore, the user is able to use multiple cloud services without need to login to them.
An image processing apparatus includes a scanner configured to read an image formed on a sheet along a reading direction and generate image data thereof, and a processor. The processor is configured to select a first region of the generated image data into which a first image indicating the reading direction is to be combined, set a pixel value of the first image in accordance with a pixel value of a pixel around the first region, and combine the first image having the determined pixel value into the first region of the image data and output the combined image data.
A payment machine has a processor connected to a display. The processor receives settlement data relating to a sales transaction and controls the display to show a first screen for selection of a payment method when the settlement data indicates the customer cannot use a member-specific payment method. The processor shows a second screen for accepting a designation to use the member-specific payment method or not if the settlement data indicates the customer can use the member-specific payment method and a third screen for accepting the member-specific payment method if the customer selects the member-specific payment method or the first screen if the customer does not select the member-specific payment method.
A liquid ejection head includes actuators spaced along a first direction between a first edge and a second edge of a substrate in a second direction. Individual wirings are connected to a first terminal of an actuator and has a terminal portion at the first edge of the substrate. A common wiring has a first portion and a plurality of second portions. Each second portion is branched from the first portion in the second direction and individually connects to a second terminal of an actuator. The first portion extends along the first direction on the substrate and has a first end terminal and a second end terminal spaced from each other. A monitor terminal is at a position between the first and second end terminals. The monitor terminal extends in the second direction from the first edge of the substrate toward the first portion to which it is electrically connected.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
According to one embodiment, an unattended (automated) vending apparatus includes a communication interface configured to connect to a server device, a container section for storing items of merchandise to be purchased, and a sensor device configured to detect a removal or return of an item of merchandise from or to the container section. A first display screen is provided to display information to a user. A second display screen is also provided to display information to the user. A processor is configured to identify the item of merchandise removed from the container section based on output from the sensor device, register the identified item of merchandise on a transaction list, cause the first display screen to display information relating to the registered item, and receive an indication that registration of items has been completed by the user and then display information relating to payment processing on the second display screen.
A sheet conveying apparatus of an embodiment includes a conveyance path along which a sheet can be conveyed, and a plurality of conveyance rollers configured to move a sheet along the conveyance path. A wireless tag reader/writer is configured to read information from, and write information to, a wireless tag of a sheet on the conveyance path. A controller is configured to detect a phase change in response waves received by the wireless tag reader/writer from a wireless tag. The controller is also configured to identify whether a wireless tag is moving along the conveyance path based on the detected phase change in response waves from the wireless tag. The controller controls the wireless tag reader/writer to write information to the wireless tag identified as moving along the conveyance path.
In one embodiment, a log-in control apparatus has a processor which controls an operation for log-in to an information terminal moving along with a carrier for carrying a commodity to be purchased. The processor detects a state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, in cooperation with a sensor attached to the carrier. The processor detects the operation for log-in to the information terminal, in cooperation with an input device included in the information terminal. When the processor detects the operation for log-in, in a case in which the processor detects the state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, the processor judges that the operation for log-in is ineffective.
A heating device includes a rotatable film, a heater disposed inside the film and including a substrate that extends along a first direction and having two surfaces opposite to each other, and a heater element on one of the surfaces of the substrate, and a heat conductor including a first portion contacting the other surface of the substrate, and a second portion that is adjacent to the first portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and does not contact the other surface of the substrate. A width of the second portion is wider than the heater element in the second direction.
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus, includes a transfer belt onto which toner images are transferred during an image forming operation, and a sensor that emits light towards the transfer belt and detect an amount of light reflected by the transfer belt. A processor adjusts the amount of light emitted towards the transfer belt based on the detected amount of the reflected light, and stores, in a memory, light level information indicating an output level for the amount of light emitted towards the transfer belt by the sensor. The processor provides an instruction for outputting warning information when the light level information indicates the output level exceeds a threshold value.
G03G 15/02 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for laying down a uniform charge, e.g. for sensitising; Corona discharge devices
G03G 15/00 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PIN AUTHENTICATION ISSUANCE FROM MFP QR CODE
A system and method for PIN authentication issuance from a MFP QR Code includes a QR code presented on an authentication screen of multifunction peripheral display. A user requiring a personal information number to access a multifunction peripheral printing system managed by a print server scans the QR code with their secure smartphone or tablet. The scanned QR code opens a web portal to the server on the user’s device where they can select a new PIN. The new PIN is stored on the server for the user’s account and access to the MFP is then granted when the user enters their new PIN.
G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM
According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a format data acquisition unit, a measurement data acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a record processing unit. The format data acquisition unit is configured to acquire format data including a measurement item. The measurement data acquisition unit is configured to acquire measurement data of a biological body relating to the measurement item from an electronic apparatus relating to measurement of the measurement item based on communication with the electronic apparatus. The generation unit is configured to generate measurement result data including the measurement item and biological information based on the measurement data. The record processing unit is configured to record the measurement result data.
A transaction processing system for retail stores includes a content management apparatus storing content files and a transaction processing apparatus. The transaction processing apparatus is configured to register a commodity in a transaction based on registration input received from a user terminal device and select a content file to be displayed on the user terminal from the content files stored on the content management apparatus. The content file is selected based on a user attribute associated with a user of the user terminal device or a commodity registered in the transaction. When a length of time since a registration input was last received without another registration input or user instruction being received exceeds a timeout period, the transaction processing apparatus causes the user terminal device to display information corresponding to the selected content file.
A checkout apparatus in one embodiment includes a control unit that causes a display unit to display a selection screen on which a payment method can be selected from a plurality of payment methods. The control unit receives privilege presence information from an input unit, such as a touch panel, barcode scanner, or the like. The privilege presence information indicates whether or not a customer intends to pay with a specific payment method with which a privilege is associated. If the received privilege presence information indicates the customer intends to pay with the specific payment method, the selection screen permits only the specific payment method to be selected.
G06Q 20/40 - Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check of credit lines or negative lists
A display processing apparatus includes a communication interface configured to connect to a plurality of transaction support apparatuses and a processor. The processor is configured to receive an event signal related to an event at a transaction support apparatus via the communication interface and display an object corresponding to the transaction support apparatus on a display. If a plurality of objects corresponding to transaction support apparatuses are displayed on the display, the plurality of objects are displayed in a format indicating priority ordering of the transaction support apparatuses set based on the events at the transaction support apparatuses.
A monitoring apparatus includes a camera interface, a terminal interface, a communication interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to recognize actions of a settler at a point-of-sale terminal based on images from a camera, recognize input operations performed at the point-of-sale terminal by the settler based on information from the point-of-sale terminal and detect fraudulent acts based on a recognized action and a recognized input operation at the point-of-sale terminal. The processor outputs a fraud detection image corresponding to a detected fraudulent act to at least one of the point-of-sale terminal and an attendant terminal.
G06Q 20/40 - Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check of credit lines or negative lists
An image processing apparatus includes a display device and a processor. The processor is configured to generate a first screen for display on the display device and on which one of a plurality of malfunctioning part candidates of the image processing apparatus and one of a plurality of timings at which a particular sound was output by the image processing apparatus that malfunctioned, are selectable, when a first malfunctioning part candidate and a first timing are selected on the first screen, generate a second screen for display on the display device and on which one or more reference sounds corresponding to the particular sound are selectable, and when one of the reference sounds is selected on the second screen, generate error information indicating the first malfunctioning part candidate and the selected reference sound.
An image forming apparatus includes a paper feeding cassette, a first conveying unit, a lift mechanism, a motor, a second conveying unit, and a control unit. The controller drives the motor and, if a value indicating a movement amount of the tray moving from when the lift mechanism starts the lifting of the tray until when a position of the top part reaches a first position is a first value, matches a position of the first conveying unit, which comes into contact with the top part to thereby rise together with the tray, with a second position and, if the value indicating the movement amount is a second value larger than the first value, matches the position of the first conveying unit, which comes into contact with the top part to thereby rise together with the tray, with a third position lower than the second position.
B65H 1/14 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device comprising positively-acting mechanical devices
G03G 15/00 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
B65H 1/18 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device controlled by height of pile
An image reading device includes an image reading unit and a control unit. The image reading unit reads the image information of the reading target as target image information. The control unit controls the image reading unit. The control unit detects whether or not the image information of the streak not included in the reading target is included in the target image information each time the target image information is read by the image reading unit, and performs the process related to suppression of streak occurrence based on the number of times of streak appearance in which the image information of the streak is included in the target image information.
A conference server includes a processor configured to acquire a response voice signal according to a command voice signal included in a first input voice signal transmitted from a first communication device that participates in an online conference and output a first output voice signal including a command-excluded voice signal obtained by excluding the command voice signal from the first input voice signal; and a communication interface configured to receive the first input voice signal transmitted from the first communication device, transmit the response voice signal to the first communication device, and transmit the first output voice signal to the other communication device that participates in the online conference.
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus performs, in a case where an information processing program specified as an activation target is not an information processing program allowed in advance to be executed and included in a white list, execution restriction of the specified information processing program. Moreover, the information processing apparatus stops the execution restriction in accordance with a determination that the specified information processing program is an information processing program for forced stop.
G06F 21/51 - Monitoring users, programs or devices to maintain the integrity of platforms, e.g. of processors, firmware or operating systems at application loading time, e.g. accepting, rejecting, starting or inhibiting executable software based on integrity or source reliability
A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to download a plurality of installation files for different application programs provided on a website at a predetermined download timing, store the plurality of installation files in the memory, recommend, to a user, a function added by installing an application program based on the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit at a predetermined recommendation timing that is a different timing from the download timing, and install a respective application program using a respective installation file selected from among the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit in response to an instruction from the user based on the recommendation.
G06F 15/16 - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs
According to one embodiment, an image reading device includes an image reading unit, a control unit, and an output unit. The image reading unit reads an image formed on a document to generate read image data. The control unit extracts at least one predetermined area from the read image data to generate extracted image data, compares the extracted image data and reference image data determined for each of the predetermined area, for each of the predetermined area, and generates an aggregated image obtained by aggregating the extracted image data and information indicating a result of the comparison. The output unit outputs the aggregated image.
According to one embodiment, a printer includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface inputs a distance signal output from a distance sensor opposite to a rotating surface of a roll around which a sheet material is wound in a roll shape. The processor detects an amount of change in a distance from the distance sensor to the rotating surface of the roll based on a plurality of distance signals input at different timings, detects a vibration convergence state of the roll from the amount of change in the distance, and detects a diameter of the roll based on the distance signal input in the vibration convergence state.
A fixing device includes a fixing belt formed of a tubular film, a heater configured to heat the fixing belt and including an insulating layer, a roller positioned such that the fixing belt extends between the roller the heater, and a heat conductor in contact with the heater. The heater is positioned such that the insulating layer of the heater extends between the fixing belt and the heat conductor to prevent the heat conductor from contacting the tubular film.
An image forming device and a sheet conveyance method are provided. An image forming device includes a feeder, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, and a conveyance controller. The feeder aligns a sheet and feeds the sheet to a transfer system that transfers an image to the sheet. The first conveyor is arranged at a first position on an upstream side of the feeder in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet to the feeder. The second conveyor is arranged at a second position on an upstream side of the first conveyor in the sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet to the first conveyor. The conveyance controller performs high-speed control for causing a conveyance speed of the second conveyor to exceed a conveyance speed of the first conveyor when a specific sheet different from a normal sheet is fed by the feeder.
A sheet cassette includes a sheet mounting unit, a first side guide, a second side guide, and a biasing unit. The first side guide comes into contact with the sheet at one end in a sheet width direction. The sheet width direction is a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction in which the sheet is conveyed out from the sheet mounting unit. The sheet width direction is parallel to the mounting surface . The second side guide comes into contact with the sheet at the other end in the sheet width direction. The biasing unit has a biasing member. The biasing member biases at least the first side guide in a direction approaching the second side guide. The first side guide can rotate around a rotation shaft intersecting the mounting surface in a direction in which the first side guide approaches and separates from the second side guide.
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
B65H 1/26 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with auxiliary supports to facilitate introduction or renewal of the pile
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SHEET CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WRITING TO A WIRELESS TAG
A sheet conveyance device has a sheet conveyance path with a first path and a second path. A wireless tag communication device can write information to a wireless tag on a sheet on the first and second paths and receive responses from the wireless tag. A controller controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while on the first path, then determines whether information has been written to the wireless tag on the first path according to a response received from the wireless tag. The controller switches a conveyance destination for the sheet to the second path if the information has not been written or to a discharge location if the information has been written. The controller then controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while the sheet is on the second path.
H04N 1/32 - Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
B65H 29/60 - Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
91.
System and method for automated device onboarding to a cloud based printing system
In a system and method for automated device onboarding to a cloud based printing system, and administrator logs in to a selected one of a group of networked multifunction peripherals and registers it to a company in accordance with a device registration code. The selected multifunction peripheral registers itself with a cloud server, and discovers other candidate multifunction peripherals for registration. The selected multifunction peripheral sends the device registration code to each discovered multifunction peripheral with an instruction to perform self-registration with the cloud server. Each discovered multifunction peripheral then registers with the cloud server. A registered user may send a document processing job to the cloud server and release from any registered multifunction peripheral.
According to one embodiment, there is provided a monitoring device for a terminal including a connection unit to which at least one device is able to be connected and mounted with a container file storing application software for controlling a business to be performed by using the device connected to the connection unit. The monitoring device includes a detection unit, an acquisition unit, and a processing unit. The detection unit detects an abnormality in the terminal. The acquisition unit acquires the container file mounted on the terminal in which the abnormality is detected. The processing unit installs the acquired container file on an alternative terminal.
A reading device includes a first support member extending vertically, a scanner attached to the first support member and including a window facing a first direction and through which an item can be scanned by an operator, an extension member attached to an upper portion of the first support member and extending in the first direction above the scanner, a camera attached to an end of the extension member in the first direction and configured to capture an image of the operator, and a controller configured to issue a notification signal when the controller detects from the captured image that the operator is carrying out a predetermined operation.
An information processing device in an embodiment includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying a commodity placing table moved from a setting position, an updating unit configured to update a position-information storing section that stores the identification information and position information indicating the setting position of the commodity placing table in association with each other, and an output unit configured to, if the acquiring unit acquires the identification information, output alert information concerning the update of the position-information storing section.
According to one embodiment, a server for a store introduction system includes communication interfaces to connect to a member site server and a plurality of store servers. A control unit with a processor and memory collects customer information of a customer provided to the member site server and sales transaction related information from a store server. The control unit also collects store information from the store servers indicating commodities sold at each store and the customers of each store and performs a matching process between the customer and the stores based on purchase preferences of the customer indicated in the customer information and characteristics of stores indicated in the store information. A result of the matching process is transmitted to the member site server.
An information processing device for a retail merchandise registration system includes a communication interface configured to connect to product scanners and processing requests and image data from the scanners. The processor compares a present device load value to a threshold and sends a positive response when the present device load is less than the threshold and a negative response when the present device load is equal to or greater than the threshold load. An image processing unit is configured to perform recognition processing on the image data from the scanner devices to detect an object depicted in the image data. The processor sends a recognition result to the scanner after the recognition processing has been performed by the image processing unit.
An image forming apparatus includes a first generation unit to determine a density in each of a plurality of regions of a first image formed by the forming unit, and generate first correction data for correcting a density of an image to be formed by the forming unit for each of the plurality of regions based on the density. The first correction unit corrects the density of the image to be formed by the forming unit for each of the plurality of regions based on the first correction data stored by the first storage unit. The second generation unit determines a density of a second image formed by the forming unit, and generate second correction data based on the density. The first determination unit determines an amount of unevenness in the main scanning direction of formation density by the forming unit based on the density determined by the second generation unit. The second determination unit determines that the first correction data is to be generated, based on the amount of unevenness determined by the first determination unit.
To provide an image forming device that can effectively predict a replacement timing of a photoconductor drum. A toner image is to be formed on the photoconductor drum. The charger is configured to charge the photoconductor drum. The potential sensor is configured to measure a charge potential of the photoconductor drum. The memory stores a manufacturing date of the photoconductor drum and a failure threshold value of the charge potential related to a failure of the photoconductor drum. The processor is configured to calculate an elapsed time from the manufacturing date based on the manufacturing date, update the failure threshold value based on the elapsed time, and predict a replacement timing of the photoconductor drum based on the updated failure threshold value.
According to an embodiment, a wireless tag communication device includes a first antenna that emits radio waves towards a first region of a conveyance path for wireless tags and a second antenna that emits radio waves towards a second region of the conveyance path on downstream of the first region along the conveyance path. A shield prevents the radio waves emitted from the first antenna from reaching a first portion of the first region while permitting the radio waves to reach a second portion of the first region. A controller is configured to select a tag ID read via the first antenna as a target tag ID, designate the target tag ID by communication via the second antenna, and then write tag information via the second antenna to the wireless tag corresponding to the designated target tag ID.
According to one embodiment, a device control apparatus includes a communication interface connectable to several client terminals via a network and a local device interface connectable to several peripheral devices. The device control apparatus functions as registration unit configured to receive an occupation request for a peripheral device from a client terminal and then register the peripheral device for which the occupation request has been received as occupied by the client terminal if the peripheral device is not registered as occupied by another client terminal. A setting unit sets a release time for releasing the occupation of the registered peripheral device, and an update unit updates the release time whenever communication occurs between the registered peripheral device and the client terminal. A release unit releases the registered occupation of the peripheral device once the release time elapses.
