A multifunction peripheral (MFP) has a function of receiving print data from a cloud print service. The MFP displays a screen related to the cloud print service to be displayed, and consequently sets a share range where a printing apparatus is shared on the cloud print service based on a user operation via the setting screen. The MFP then requests the cloud print service to change the share range where the printing apparatus is shared based on the set share range.

According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus transmits, where a shake sensor has detected a shake of a predetermined magnitude or more, response request information to a destination indicated by destination information stored in a storage device. The image forming apparatus stores, where a response has been received from the destination, information regarding the received response in the storage device.

An image forming apparatus includes a first control circuit, a second control circuit, and a third control circuit. The first control circuit communicates with an information processing device. The second control circuit is configured to communicate with the first control circuit. The third control circuit is configured to communicate with the second control circuit and control a printer. The first control circuit is configured to receive print information from the information processing device during a power-saving mode and control the start of the second control circuit based on the print information. The second control circuit is configured to control a power supply to the third control circuit based on the start by the first control circuit and transmit, to the third control circuit, a warm-up start instruction for the printer based on the print information acquired from the first control circuit after communication with the third control circuit becomes possible.

The present disclosure is directed, among other things, to automated systems and methods for analyzing, storing, and/or retrieving information associated with biological objects having irregular shapes. In some embodiments, the systems and methods partition an input image into a plurality of sub-regions based on localized colors, textures, and/or intensities in the input image, wherein each sub-region represents biologically meaningful data.

The present disclosure is directed, among other things, to automated systems and methods for analyzing, storing, and/or retrieving information associated with biological objects having irregular shapes. In some embodiments, the systems and methods partition an input image into a plurality of sub-regions based on localized colors, textures, and/or intensities in the input image, wherein each sub-region represents biologically meaningful data.

A controller of an electronic device starts a setup procedure according to a first method. In the setup procedure according to the first method, the controller notifies a start of the setup and attempts to obtain connection information from an external device. When the connection information is obtained, the controller stores the connection information and attempts to connect to an access point using the connection information. When the connection information is not obtained in the setup procedure according to the first method, the controller starts a setup procedure according to a second method to display a message requesting input of the connection information, obtain the connection information through an input interface, and attempt to connect to the access point of the wireless network using the obtained.

A server includes a server storage that stores a print job related information record in which a print job ID is associated with network information, a first acquirer that acquires a print request, a transmitter that transmits a print instruction to a terminal device based on the stored network information associated with the print job ID included in the print request acquired by the first acquirer, a second acquirer that acquires print job information from the terminal device, and an updater that updates, based on the acquired print job information, the stored print job related information record including the print job ID included in the print job information acquired by the second acquirer.

A terminal device includes a first acquisition unit acquiring identification information of a target terminal device in a communicable state with a printing apparatus, a second acquisition unit acquiring respective pieces of identification information of one or more search terminal devices searched based on transmission of one or more search signals for searching for the target terminal device, a third acquisition unit acquiring respective pieces of distance information indicating distances to the one or more search terminal devices, and a notification controller. The notification controller causes a notifier to provide a notification of the distance information indicating a distance to the search terminal device identified by a target identification information, that is identification information identical to the identification information of the target terminal device acquired by the first acquisition unit, among the respective pieces of distance information acquired by the third acquisition unit.

An image reading system includes a server device and a first scanner communicably connected to the server device. The server device includes a distributed scanning storage unit that stores distributed scanning setting information defining a setting item of distributed scanning and including identification information. The first scanner includes a first receiver that receives, from a user, a command that includes the identification information and is a command to perform the distributed scanning, a first acquirer that acquires the distributed scanning setting information from the server device when the first receiver receives the command to perform the distributed scanning, a first reader that reads a first document sheet stack to generate first read data based on the distributed scanning setting information, and a first transmitter that transmits the first read data to the server device.

The present invention offers a system including a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of predetermined information, first notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to a printing apparatus, and second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message.