Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080204787 | APPARATUS FOR EMBEDDING INFORMATION AND PERFORMING PROCESSING BASED ON EMBEDDED INFORMATION, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - An apparatus and method that allow a user to copy a copy-protected document where copy-protection information is embedded in the document and copy-protection-cancellation information is embedded in a form different from the document, where the copy-protection-cancellation information is used to cancel the copy protection. | 08-28-2008 |
20090116067 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ACTIVATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THAT CAUSES COMPUTER TO PERFORM THE METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an apparatus main unit control software storage unit configured to store new apparatus main unit control software used to control a main unit of the image processing apparatus on a non-volatile storage device, a combination appropriateness determination unit configured to determine whether a combination of the new apparatus main unit control software and post-processing apparatus control software that currently operates on a post-processing apparatus is appropriate based on version information about the post-processing apparatus control software used to control the post-processing apparatus, which is operable in combination with the new apparatus main unit control software, and version information about the post-processing apparatus control software that currently operates on the post-processing apparatus, a determination result storage unit configured to store a result of the determination by the combination appropriateness determination unit, and an activation unit configured to activate the apparatus main unit control software according to the determination result. | 05-07-2009 |
20090296135 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus to which a composite service that can cause a plurality of devices to collaborate can be set, and in which a currently used control program and an upgraded control program can be stored, includes a determination unit configured to determine whether the composite service is available with a combination of a control program for the image forming apparatus and a control program for another device, and an activation unit configured to activate the control program for the image forming apparatus if the determination unit determines that the other device is usable for the composite service. | 12-03-2009 |
20100161837 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A license issue system includes a user terminal and a license information issue server that are connected to a network. In the case in which there is a transfer source device in which license information issued by the license information issue server has been installed, and there is a transfer destination device that is to take over the license information installed in the transfer source device, the license issue system has the feature that the user terminal transmits, to the license information issue server, information regarding the transfer source device and the transfer destination device, and a license period during which the license can be used simultaneously in the transfer source device and the transfer destination device, and the license information issue server issues time-restricted license information to the transfer source device. | 06-24-2010 |
20120019857 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus may include an executing unit, a cancelling unit, and a control unit to form an image on a sheet by executing a job. The executing unit interrupts a first job and executes a second job in a state that a first job is interrupted. If the executing unit executes an interrupt job, then the cancelling unit cancels sheet feed reservation of a sheet for the first job. The control unit controls to execute the second job after the cancelling unit cancels the sheet feed reservation of the sheet. | 01-26-2012 |
20130058694 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The number of circulatable sheets and the conveying speed of a sheet are decided by referring to a storage unit which stores the number of circulatable sheets and the conveying speed of a sheet in correspondence with the type and size of a sheet, and the resolution of an image to be printed. It is determined whether the conveying speed of the feed surface of a sheet to be fed next to the printing unit and that of a feed surface to be refed next to the printing unit coincide with each other. It is determined whether the conveying speed of the feed surface of the sheet to be fed next to the printing unit and that of the feed surface or the refeed surface of a sheet immediately previously fed to the printing unit differ from each other. | 03-07-2013 |
20130135630 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention includes an assigning unit configured to assign the original images of a plurality of pages to the obverse surfaces and reverse surfaces of a plurality of sheets in the page order. The printing apparatus further includes a printing control unit configured to, when reverse order output of the original images of the plurality of pages is instructed, control to print the original images of the plurality of pages from a sheet to which the assigning unit assigns the original image of the final page out of the plurality of pages. | 05-30-2013 |
20140160506 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet, execute post-processing for the sheet, changes a mode of the image forming apparatus from a first mode of permitting formation of an image to a second mode of restricting formation of an image and permitting the post-processing unit to execute post-processing, setting, as a condition for changing the mode from the second mode to the first mode, a first condition for changing the mode without a user instruction for changing the mode from the second mode to the first mode or a second condition for changing the mode in accordance with the user instruction, and controls to change the mode from the second mode to the first mode in accordance with the set condition. | 06-12-2014 |
20150036158 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus has first and second sheet storage units, where a second sheet conveyance path is longer than a first sheet conveyance path, and includes a determining unit and a permitting unit. When a sheet stored in the first sheet storage unit is for printing of a Nth page included in a first job and a sheet stored in the second sheet storage unit is for printing of a N+1th page included in the same first job, the determining unit determines a feeding schedule in which the N+1th page sheet feeding is initiated before the Nth page sheet feeding is initiated. When an issued instruction is issued to perform a second job by interrupting the first job after determining the feeding schedule, the permitting unit permits printing of a page included in the second job before the printing of the N+1th page included in the first job. | 02-05-2015 |