An information processing apparatus of the present invention determines whether or not there is a bias in jobs distributed to a plurality of printers to be used in a distributed printing system. In addition, in a case where there is a bias in distributed jobs, the information processing apparatus decides a color correction target to be applied to a printer having a small number of distributed jobs and resulting in an unused state, applies the decided color correction target to the printer having a small number of jobs, to thereby decide a timing of performing color adjustment on the printer having a small number of jobs. The printer having a small number of jobs and resulting in an unused state is subjected to color adjustment at the decided timing.

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.

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a first storage unit that stores registree information of users registered to work on the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a processor programmed to determine whether or not work needs to be performed on the image forming apparatus by a worker based on a predetermined condition, obtain presence information of a registree from a second storage unit, the presence information indicating the presence state of the registree, identify one or more registrees associated with the work to be done, in a case where work needs to be done on the image forming apparatus by a worker, and upon determining that one or more registrees is present, perform a notification process that notifies one of the present registrees that work needs to be done on the image forming apparatus.

A control method includes transmitting, based on reception of a predetermined operation a first command to cause a communication apparatus to search for a predetermined access point using at least one communication channel including a communication channel used by the predetermined access point among a plurality of communication channels available for use by the communication apparatus and without using at least one other communication channel other than the at least one communication channel among the plurality of communication channels available for use by the communication apparatus, the predetermined access point being connected to an information processing apparatus at least when the predetermined operation is received.

An information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts an input of setting change information of the information processing apparatus, a setting change unit that changes a setting of the information processing apparatus by using the setting change information accepted by the acceptance unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the setting change information accepted by the acceptance unit to other apparatuses through BLE communication which is a communication method in which it is not necessary to specify a communication partner in advance.

A server apparatus providing a cloud print service that receives a print job and causes an image forming apparatus to perform print processing for the received print job, the server apparatus including: a first reception unit configured to receive a print job from a client terminal or another server apparatus that provides another cloud print service; a second reception unit configured to receive instructions to change setting of the print job received by the first reception unit, the instructions being given via the image forming apparatus; and a notification unit configured to notify the other server apparatus of contents of the instructions in a case where the instructions received by the second reception unit are instructions for the print job received by the first reception unit from the other server apparatus.

A server system transmits, to a terminal apparatus, list information of a service list, communication information corresponding to a service in the list and used to communicate with a service providing server system, and authentication information corresponding to an apparatus. The terminal apparatus selects service(s) from the list, and transmits, based on the communication information corresponding to the selected service(s), the authentication information to service providing server system(s) corresponding to the selected service(s). The server system executes a registration process for enabling the apparatus to use the service corresponding to each of the service providing server system(s), if the authentication information is received from each of the service providing server system(s).

A mobile device includes a communication unit configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus; a display configured to display a screen; a memory configured to store a printing list; and a controller configured to search for an adjacent image forming apparatus through the communication unit, check whether there is content to be printed in the printing list stored in the memory, and control the display to display notification information on the screen based on a result of the checking.

The present invention is an information processing device in which a printer driver for causing an image forming device to perform processing according to items is installed, and which is provided with an editable tab on a settings screen of the printer driver such that the items can be selected by a user. The information processing device includes a controller that, in a state where information about the editable tab has been registered in the image forming device by an administrator, and an acquisition request for information about the registered editable tab has been made from the printer driver to the image forming device, causes information about the registered editable tab to be transmitted to the information processing device, and causes the transmitted information to be reflected in the editable tab of the printer driver.