In a case where an image capturing device is in a first state and, in a state where the image capturing device is attached to a communication apparatus, it is judged that a first operation is performed, wireless communication with the communication apparatus is maintained and an operation state of the image capturing device is caused to make a transition to a second state; in a case where, in the first state and in a state where the image capturing device is not attached to the communication apparatus, it is judged that the first operation is performed, the wireless communication with the communication apparatus is not maintained; and in the first state, image capturing by the image capturing device and communication of data by the wireless communication are possible, and in the second state, power consumption is less than that of the first state.

A system and method is provided for automatically identifying a vehicle and facilitating a transaction related to the vehicle. The system includes a first mobile apparatus with an image sensor that captures an optical image of a vehicle license plate and convert the optical image into an electrical signal, a license plate detector that identifies the vehicle license plate information, and an interface that transmits the vehicle license plate information. The system further includes a remote server that automatically identifies vehicle configuration information based on the vehicle license plate information, automatically transmits the vehicle configuration information to the first mobile device, and automatically provide for access vehicle sales information in response to a posting request from the first mobile apparatus. Moreover, a second mobile apparatus displays the vehicle sales information and automatically initiates the transaction related to the vehicle in response to a user input.

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives print instruction information to print data, a memory that stores the print instruction information received by the receiving unit, a management unit that manages an output order of the print instruction information, an execution unit that executes a printing process according to the print instruction information in the output order, and a near field communication unit that performs near field communication. In a case where a connection via the near field communication is established, where the receiving unit receives the print instruction information through the near field communication unit, and where there is a print instruction information previously stored in the memory, the management unit gives priority to the print instruction information in the output order over the print instruction information previously stored in the memory.

The present disclosure is directed to a system, a method, and an apparatus that manage an image forming apparatus using test page data. In example embodiments, when a client computing device requires verification of the functionality of an image forming apparatus, the client computing device can initiate a request with a managing server. Through the transmission of a test page print request to the image forming apparatus, a scanning of a test page that is printed by the image forming apparatus, a transmission of data from the printed test page to the managing server, and the managing server verifying the data transmitted by the client computing device, the client computing device and managing server can verify the image forming apparatus.

A method for recognizing faces including providing image/s in which a face is to be recognized; using a processor for constructing biometric feature set/s, including a statistical distribution thereof, from a multiplicity of N facial images (samples); generating template/s, using a processor, from a multiplicity of M facial images which is at least partly disjoint to the N facial images; computing scores, using a processor, to quantify an extent to which at least some of the templates match one another, pairwise; and testing whether an enroll image and a test image match by using plural feature extraction technologies to generate plural respective templates for the enroll image and for the test image and comparing therebetween thereby to generate score/s indicating an extent to which the enroll and test images match.

According to one embodiment, a maintenance system includes an image pickup unit and a control unit. The image pickup unit picks up images of respective regions of a target apparatus defined beforehand. The control unit acquires image data picked up by the image pickup unit and calculates parameters of the target apparatus on the basis of the image data.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a data capture application of a computing device that receives image data for an image of a document and uses the image data to capture content on the document while minimizing glare at the document. The data capture application receives user input for positioning an image token provided for display to a user of the data capture application. Positioning the image token causes adjustment of an attribute value of the image data. In response to receiving the user input the data capture application determines whether the attribute value of the image data satisfies a predefined attribute value. Based on the attribute value satisfying the predefined attribute value, the data capture application generates a composite image of the document using the image data received by the data capture application.

An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a touch panel, a document transport path, a feed tray, a feed roller, a separation unit, a reader, a discharge roller, a discharge tray, and a mounting table. The mounting table is provided on an upper side of the main body and includes an upper surface. The mounting table is located at an outer face of the main body, the upper surface serves as a mounting surface on which the source document to be fed or the source document that has been read is mounted. The mounting surface is located at a position higher than an upstream end of the feed tray when the source document is mounted on the mounting surface.

Provided are a content provision device, a content provision method, a program, and a recording medium capable of appropriately displaying content provided by reading a printed matter of an image acquired via a network.

In the present invention, at least a part of a target image provided by a first user is set as a first image, content displayed on a display screen of a terminal of a second user is stored in association with the first image, data for printing is transmitted to the terminal, a read image is received from the terminal in a case in which a printed matter generated by printing a target image and a second image on a designated medium in accordance with the data for printing is read by the terminal, a storage destination is specified from a portion corresponding to the second image in the read image, and display data for displaying the content stored in the storage destination at a position in the display screen in accordance with a portion corresponding to the first image in the read image is transmitted to the terminal.

A cassette connectable to a printer includes a housing configured to house a recording sheet, a connector that is connected to a feed port of the printer for supplying the recording sheet to the printer, and a sensor group including sensor modules that measure a state in a space surrounded by the housing.