A device is provided that includes an operation unit having a program installed therein and including a processor that is configured to execute a first monitoring process of monitoring an arrival of a first time that is set up in advance, and a setting process of setting up the first time to be monitored in the first monitoring process in response to a request from the program. When the arrival of the first time is detected in the first monitoring process, the setting process causes the program to recover from a transitioned state to which the program transitions when the operation unit is in a power-saving mode.

A controller for a printing device includes print mode controller to determine whether a first or second print mode is to be used for a print job, and temperature controller to control a printhead temperature at least one of prior to and during printing the print job, the temperature controller to activate a printhead heater to cause the printhead temperature to be raised to a first temperature if the print mode controller determines that the first print mode is to be used, and the temperature controller to activate the printhead heater to cause the printhead temperature to be raised to a second temperature if the print mode controller determines that the second print mode is to be used, the second temperature different from the first temperature.

A system and method for paper jam prediction includes a processor, memory and a network interface. Ongoing paper jam data is received from an identified, networked multifunction peripheral. Service call data for the multifunction peripheral indicative of prior service calls is stored in the memory. A sampling window of the paper jam data prior to a service call date is defined and a point in the sampling window when no symptoms of a forthcoming paper jam were present is determined so as to define a prediction window. A relationship between paper jam data in the prediction window of the sampling window and paper jam data outside the prediction window in the sampling window is determined and incoming paper jam data is monitored relative to the relationship data. A paper jam warning is generated when monitored incoming paper jam data indicates a forthcoming paper jam on the multifunction peripheral.

In a case where a partition mode in which luma signals are partitioned horizontally and vertically is set when an intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of minimal coding blocks set in advance, an intra prediction unit is configured to make an intra prediction of a chroma signal in units of prediction blocks of the intra prediction of chroma signals within the minimal coding block set in accordance with a chroma format. A second bitstream constructing unit constructs a bitstream of information relating to a luma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of luma signals and information relating to a chroma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of chroma signals.

A monitoring apparatus manages a device that is a management target to be monitored, based on a list obtained from a management system. The apparatus periodically obtains from the target device, a state of registration of the device to the management system, the state being managed by the device. The apparatus specifies the target device as an unmatched device in a case where the state of registration obtained from the device indicates that the device is not registered, and instructs the unmatched device to transmit, to an authorization service, a request to register the unmatched device to the management system. The apparatus manages whether the state of registration of the unmatched device has changed to indicate that the device is registered after the instruction to transmit the request has been given.

An image processing method includes: (a) displaying a plurality of candidate image processes to be performed on image data, the plurality of candidate image processes including a color modification process; (b) receiving an instruction indicating the color modification process selected from among the plurality of candidate image processes; (c) displaying a display image corresponding to the image data on the display; (d) designating a display image; and (e) displaying a processed display image that represents a result of the selected color modification process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated display image before the selected color modification process on the image data corresponding to the designated display image is performed.

A storage unit stores therein registered data about image forming devices connected to each other via a network. An acquisition unit refers to the registered data to acquire the number of the image forming devices. A consumption ratio monitor unit monitors a consumption ratio of consumables in at least one of the image forming devices. A prediction unit predicts a predicted time for replenishment or replacement of consumables for each image forming device monitored by the consumption rate monitor, based on the consumption ratio of consumables thereof, and corrects the predicted time based on comparison between a number that the acquisition unit has acquired and another number that the acquisition unit previously acquired. A requisition unit issues a request for replenishment or replacement of consumables at the predicted time.

A system and method for multifunction peripheral data collection includes a network data connection with one or more multifunction peripherals and at least one peer data collector. A memory stores address data identifying each of a set of multifunction peripherals tasked for data collection. A processor initiates data transfer sessions in accordance with stored address data with each of the plurality of multifunction peripherals to retrieve device report data. Device report data from each successful data transfer session is retrieved and each device with an unsuccessful data transfer session is identified. A collection report is generated from retrieved device report data and this report is sent to an associated networked server. A generated problem list is sent to at least one other one networked device for further data collection and processing.

An image reading device, an image reading method, a non-transitory recording medium, and an information processing system. The image reading device includes a scanner to read a document into an image, determines a document type of the document based on the image, determines whether to confirm the predetermined destination based on a frequency with which an image of the determined document type is transmitted to the predetermined destination, displays on a display, a screen to confirm the predetermined destination based on a determination indicating that the predetermined destination is to be confirmed, and transmits the image to the predetermined destination based on a confirmation.

An information processing apparatus capable of running monitoring software configured to execute monitoring processing for monitoring a printer driver executes at least either one of first processing and second processing by using the monitoring software, the first processing including, if installation processing of the printer driver occurs, obtaining information about an image processing apparatus corresponding to the installed printer driver from the image processing apparatus, the second processing including, if uninstallation processing of the printer driver occurs, deleting a file related to the uninstalled printer driver.