According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a printer, a memory, a processor, and a display. The printer forms an image according to the operation of a person. The memory stores contact history information indicating the history of contact of a person. The processor acquires information on contact infection of a virus at a site contacted by a specific person from the contact history information stored in the memory. The display shows information on the contact infection of the virus.

A device monitoring apparatus includes a sensor and a stopping unit. The sensor is configured to detect at least either smoke generation or ignition in a module included in an electronic device, based on at least one of a relative intensity of light generated in the module and a temperature of each module. The stopping unit is installed in the module and configured to stop an operation of the module in response to the at least one of the smoke generation and the ignition being detected by the sensor.

An example printing device comprises: a memory configured to store audio files corresponding to printing device events; a communications interface configured to communicate with an audio device; a processor interconnected with the memory and the communications interface, the processor configured to: responsive to a printing device event, retrieve, from the memory, an audio file corresponding to the printing device event; and transmit via the communications interface, the audio file to the audio device.

An image forming apparatus includes a measurer that measures biometric information of a user, an analyzer that analyzes the measured biometric information, a job accepter that accepts jobs, a job executer that executes the jobs accepted by the job accepter, a hardware processor configured to estimate a job execution time period during which the job executor executes each of at least one of a plurality of jobs accepted by the job acceptor, to estimate a finish time point at which the analyzer finishes the analysis, and, in response to start of measurement of the biometric information by the measurer, to change execution order of a relating job, which relates to the user who is a subject of the measurement by the measurer, among the plurality of jobs such that a period during which the relating job is executed and the finish time point have a predetermined relationship.

An information processing apparatus being communicable with a web server configured to provide a web page being capable of accepting instructions to control a printing apparatus, includes: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a certificate of the web server; a verifying unit configured to verify the certificate; and a communicating unit configured to establish secure communication with the web server in a case where the verifying unit succeeds in verification and to establish unsecure communication with the web server in a case where the verifying unit fails in the verification.

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a position detection unit configured to detect position information of the imaging apparatus, an acquisition unit configured to acquire candidate object information indicating an object which a photographer may desire to capture an image thereof within a search range of position information based on the position information detected by the position detection unit, and a presenting unit configured to present the candidate object information to the photographer.

The present disclosure is directed to a method for generating a visual display of metrics for one or more peripheral devices. The method involves receiving a plurality of data values indicative of a particular metric. The method also involves determining an average value of the plurality of data values and a ratio between the average value and a particular data value. The method further involves generating a bar graph with at least a first bar representative of the average value and a second bar representative of the particular data value. Additionally, the method involves modifying a longer bar of the first bar and the second bar based on a quotient between the average value and the particular data value based on the ratio being greater than or equal to a threshold ratio. The method also involves causing a display device to display the bar graph.

An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, an information acquiring unit, a setting unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicatively connects with a terminal device having a sensor. The information acquiring unit acquires information detected by the sensor from the terminal device communicatively connected via the communication unit. The setting unit sets a preferential terminal device to be preferentially connected with the communication unit. The controller performs control to connect with the preferential terminal device preferentially over a terminal device that is not a preferential terminal device within a capacity range of the communication unit.

An image forming apparatus includes a main CPU, and, in an unused period in which the image forming apparatus is not used, the main CPU detects whether or not a person exists within a human detection range, on the basis of an output of a human detection sensor. When a person has been detected, by outputting a notification voice regarding an intruder, which indicates that the intruder has been detected, from a speaker, the main CPU notifies the surroundings of the image forming apparatus and also transmits an electronic mail including a message indicating that the intruder has been detected to an address that has been registered in advance and thereby notifies a user of a terminal of the address of the detection of the intruder.

A facsimile apparatus includes a first detection unit, a second detection unit, a third detection unit, and a determination unit. The first detection unit detects a line voltage in an on-hook state. The second detection unit detects a line voltage in an off-hook state. The third detection unit detects a line current in an off-hook state. The determination unit determines a line impedance based on the line voltage detected by the first detection unit, the line voltage detected by the second detection unit, and the line current detected by the third detection unit.