Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a reading unit, a document cover and a lock part. The reading unit is provided on an upper portion of the apparatus main body in an openable and closable manner, and readable an image of a document. The document cover is provided on an upper portion of the reading unit in an openable and closable manner, and presses the document placed on the reading unit. The lock part holds one of the reading unit and the document cover in a closed state when the other of the reading unit and the document cover is in an opened state.
Abstract:
In a case where image processing, in which a ratio of the number of color pixels greatly fluctuates, is executed after performing charging determination, an output result might not match a result of the charging determination. There is provided a device for determining a color of an output image in a case where an image to be printed is printed with an additional image attached thereto, the device including: a unit configured to divide the image to be printed into blocks of a predetermined size; a unit configured to calculate an average value of color components of pixels included in the block; a correction value calculation unit configured to correct a calculated average value using a correction value corresponding to the additional image; and a color/monochrome determination processing unit configured to determine, based on the corrected average value, whether the block is a color block or a monochrome block.
Abstract:
In order to prevent a sheet of paper on which confidential information is formed as an image from being taken out, an MFP has a print data accepting portion to accept print data, an image-forming portion to form an image based on the print data onto a sheet of paper having an RFID tag provided with a memory and a data communication portion, an RFID reader/writer control portion to acquire tag identification information for identifying the RFID tag provided by the sheet of paper on which the image is formed based on the print data, a definition data control portion to store definition data including the acquired tag identification information, an external reader communication portion to communicate with a communicable RFID reader, and an abnormal state detecting portion to judge as an abnormal state the case where the external reader communication portion communicating with a communicable RFID reader is detected to be non-communicable with the RFID tag specified by the tag identification information included in the definition data.
Abstract:
Separating the physical sheets outputted from a shared users printer, especially, a facsimile receiver, into separate job sets for separate designed recipients, with an independent "mailboxing" job sorting accessory unit, not requiring any electronic connection to the printer, controlled solely by physical job cover sheets outputted by the printer at the same output in advance of the other sheets of the job, which cover sheets variably encoded with simply and uncritically marked areas indicative of an assigned bin number and the job sheet count. The unit sequentially takes the printer output sheets and feeds them through a sheet input with optical sensing connecting with a control for detecting the marked area encoding of the cover sheet and determining if it corresponds to an assigned bin number, for feeding the subsequent output sheets of the designated sheet count to a designated bin subsequent to such a detection; and for feeding output sheets to another output sheet collection bin if no such encoding is detected. The disclosed unit also desirably has bin locking for restricting access to individual bins with electrical unlocking of a bin in response to entry of a bin access code. Also disclosed is automatic bin recipient telephoning.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus by which an original document in one location may be transmitted by image transmission, facsimile, or the like, to another location, verified as to accuracy, certified as a replacement for the original, and the original then destroyed so that the verified copy becomes, in legal effect, the only original of the document; wherein this is accomplished by placing the original in an enclosed, locked, tamper proof environment from which it is transmitted by image transmission, facsimile, or the like, to a different location in which the copy is maintained in a locked and tamper proof environment; the copy is compared by electronic or optical scanning, or other such arrangement, to the original to verify accuracy; when verified, the copy is coded so as to indicate the only useable, as though the only, original copy of its type and simultaneously the original is automatically destroyed or voided in its locked environment.
Abstract:
An image forming system including: an image reading portion which reads an image of an original; an image forming portion which forms the image on a sheet based on image information read by the image reading portion; and a storing device which stores the original before the image is read, the original after the image is read, and the sheet on which the image has been formed based on the image information, wherein the storing device is detachable from the image forming system.
Abstract:
A scanning device includes a mechanism and/or process for scanning a document and generating scan data that reflects the document. The scanning device is configured with a secure scanning mode of operation that allows scan data to be securely transmitted to one or more recipients and also controls physical access to a document. Secure scanning may be initiated manually by a user or initiated automatically based upon an identification or authentication of the user and/or one more recipients of the scan data. The scanning device may also be configured to generate and provide status data to a user that indicates the current status of a scanning operation and/or the successful delivery of scan data to one or more recipients. The device may also be configured to determine the proximity of a user with respect to the device and use the proximity information to provide various notifications.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to attesting a document that contains encoded data, such as a barcode or DataGlyph. When a document contains encoded data that is not in human-readable form, the document is checked to determine whether content in the encoded data appears somewhere in the document in human-readable form. Based on the amount of content that appears in the document, the document may be marked with a seal that attests to the amount of content in the encoded data that appears in human-readable form. The seal may be visually distinctive to facilitate easy recognition by a user or device.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for transmitting a copy of an original document from a first location to a second location by means of transmitting an electronic image of said document and printing the same at the second location, verifying the accuracy of the transmitted image, validating the transmitted and printed copy and destroying the original document at the first location, and scanning, verifying, printing, comparing accuracy and validation of the transmitted copy.
Abstract:
Separating the physical sheets outputted from a shared users printer, especially, a facsimile receiver, into separate job sets for separate designed recipients, and notifying the recipients, with an independent "mailboxing" job sorting accessory unit, not requiring any electronic connection to the printer, controlled solely by physical job cover sheets outputted by the printer at the same output in advance of the other sheets of the job, which cover sheets variably encoded with simply and uncritically marked areas indicative of an assigned bin number and the job sheet count. The unit sequentially takes the printer output sheets and feeds them through a sheet input with optical sensing connecting with a control for detecting the marked area encoding of the cover sheet and determining if it corresponds to an assigned bin number, for feeding the subsequent output sheets of the designated sheet count to a designated bin subsequent to such a detection; and for feeding output sheets to another output sheet collection bin if no such encoding is detected. The disclosed unit also desirably has bin locking for restricting access to individual bins with electrical unlocking of a bin in response to entry of a bin access code. The remote recipient notification is an integral automatic bin recipient messaging (telephoning) of the pre-designated bin-holder with a recorded message telling that bin-holder is receiving or has received a job in his or her designated bin, by automatically dialing telephone numbers preprogrammed and maintained in non-volatile memory for designated bins, so that only the bin number and not the telephone number need be indicated on the controlling cover sheet.