An intermediary device includes circuitry to: transmit, to a server, device information on a device to be monitored acquired from the device via a network; monitor a state of another intermediary device, the another intermediary device being configured to acquire from another device to be monitored device information on the another device and transmit the acquired device information to the information processor; and take over monitoring of the another device, which the another intermediary device kept monitoring, based on setting information for monitoring the another device monitored by the another intermediary device, when the state of the another intermediary device indicates that the another intermediary device has an abnormality.

The present invention has disclosed a multifunctional automatic quality inspection machine and a control method thereof. The machine comprises a frame, an unrolling device provided at the frame, an inspection mechanism, a button operating platform, a slitting mechanism, a main controller, a display device, and a rolling device; a paper movement route is provided between the unrolling device and the rolling device; the inspection mechanism and the display device are respectively electrically connected to the main controller; the rolling device includes a first rolling airshaft, a second rolling airshaft, and a rolling drive device; the first rolling airshaft and the second rolling airshaft are provided on the rolling drive device; the first rolling airshaft and the second rolling airshaft swap their positions via the rolling drive device. The machine has a number of functions including automatic unrolling, high inspection precision, discharging waste materials, splitting and quick rolling.

A method to diagnosis an electro-mechanical part on an image forming device comprising: determining an incident count for a first time interval for the electro-mechanical part; determining a first threshold level for the first time interval; monitoring the electro-mechanical part for a second time interval, wherein the second time interval is a plurality of first time intervals; determining if the incident count for a first portion of the second time interval for the electro-mechanical part equal to or less than the first threshold; determining if the incident count for a second portion of the second time interval for the electro-mechanical part is equal to or less than the first threshold when the incident count for the first portion of the second time interval fails to exceed the first threshold for the electro-mechanical part; determining a maximum incident count for the second portion of the second time interval when the incident count for the second portion of the second time interval exceeds the first threshold for the electro-mechanical part; calculating an error ratio between an average incident count of the first portion of the second time interval and the maximum incident count of the second portion of the second time interval; and marking the electro-mechanical part as needing to be one of repaired or serviced when the error ratio exceeds an error ratio threshold level.

An information distribution system includes an electronic device; and a server system including at least one information distribution apparatus that communicates with the electronic device via a network. The electronic device includes an information requester configured to transmit, to the server system, a request to distribute information, the request being transmitted together with identification information of the electronic device; and an information displayer configured to display, on a display device, the information transmitted from the server system. The server system includes a contract information acquirer configured to acquire contract information relating to a contract for a service provided to the electronic device; an information generator configured to identify the contract information of the electronic device based on the identification information, and generate the information according to the contract information; and an information distributor configured to distribute the information generated by the information generator, to the electronic device.

An image reading apparatus comprises a driving control part which detects a driving abnormality of a motor which drives a moving unit configured to be movable. Further, the image reading apparatus comprises a HP sensor an output of which changes in accordance with a position of the moving unit, and a CPU(A) which moves the moving unit by controlling operation of the motor based on the output change of the HP sensor. The CPU(A) determines that a driving abnormality occurs in a case where the driving control part detects an abnormality while moving the back surface glass unit. The CPU(A) determines that a position detection abnormality occurs if the output of the HP sensor does not change even when the moving unit is moved by a predetermined distance (ON reference moving amount and OFF reference moving amount) or more in a state where no abnormality is detected by the driving control part.

Provided is a device for monitoring printer-related data on USB cables. The USB-compatible device comprises a first USB connector, a second USB connector, a processor, and a non-volatile memory. The device stores printer-related data, reports stored printer-related data to a server, and removes the stored printer-related data from the non-volatile memory.

A monitoring device includes circuitry to compare a printed output with a reference representing a target output and to determine potential defects in the printed output based on the comparison. The monitoring device further includes and circuitry to implement a convolutional neural network to classify each potential defect as a true defect or a false alarm.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a first sheet or a second sheet. The controller controls the image forming section. The first sheet is a blank sheet. The second sheet is a reused sheet. The controller refers to reference images each belonging to any of a plurality of categories to determine whether or not the image belongs to any of the categories. The controller directs the image forming section to form the image on the second sheet when determining that the image does not belong to any of the categories. The controller directs the image forming section to form the image on the first sheet and stores the image as a reference image when determining that the image belongs to any of the categories.

The present invention provides systems and methods for the virtualization, aggregation, and distributed processing of facsimile communications. The Remote FAX Interconnect known as etherFAX is a system and method that allows for the reception and delivery of information based on cloud computing infrastructure to or from one or more facsimile systems using Internet/web based communication protocols such as HTTP(S) as the transport between a facsimile capable application or hardware and the remotely accessible etherFAX services.

An information processing apparatus configured to manage operation log information about an external apparatus and communicate with a communication apparatus communicating with the external apparatus, includes at least one controller configured to acquire the operation log information about the external apparatus and to transmit, upon receiving a notification from the communication apparatus, state information based on the operation log information, to the communication apparatus. The notification indicates a communication error in communication between the external apparatus and the communication apparatus, wherein a message based on the state information is displayed on the communication apparatus.