An image processing method for processing a display image includes using an image forming apparatus which includes a position detector detecting a position of contact with a display screen and forms an image on a recording medium based on a display image displayed on the display screen. The display image includes an object image indicative of an object for an image formation and a medium image indicative of the recording medium, and the image processing method includes modifying magnification of the object image with respect to the medium image, without modifying the medium image, based on contact positions of two points detected by the position detector.

A braille tactile sensation presenting device includes a tactile sensation presenting unit, a camera, a finger location specifying section, a braille conversion section, and a control section. The tactile sensation presenting unit applies ultrasonic stimulation to a finger of a user and causes the user to feel a tactile sensation. The camera shoots the user. The finger location specifying section specifies, from an image shot by the camera, a position of the finger of the user being held out in the air. The braille conversion section converts given character string into braille. The control section performs control of automatic scrolling on the braille converted by the braille conversion section and control of causing the tactile sensation presenting unit to output, to the position of the finger of the user specified by the finger location specifying section, ultrasonic stimulation representing each character of the braille to be automatically scrolled.

An image processing system includes a reception unit that receives an image forming instruction from a user, a retaining unit that retains the image forming instruction in association with the user, an acceptance unit that accepts an execution instruction from the user; an authentication unit that performs authentication of the user, and an image forming unit that executes the image forming instruction retained by the retaining unit in association with the authenticated user. The image forming unit executes the image forming instruction without accepting the execution instruction by the acceptance unit in a case where the authentication unit completes the authentication and cancellation of execution by the user is not present within a holding time.

Embodiments of the disclosed innovations provide systems and methods for locating data associated with rendered documents. Some embodiments support the use of a handheld document data capture device.

An information processing device includes: a display section displaying a setting screen receiving change in a setting candidate of a plurality of respective setting items; and a control unit including a processor and functioning as a display control section, gesture receiving section, and setting candidate receiving section when the processor executes a control program. The setting screen includes a setting item list in which images respectively indicating each of the plurality of setting items are listed, and a shortcut button associated with a predetermined setting candidate of a predetermined setting item. In the setting item list, information representing the setting candidate set at present is shown in the images respectively indicating each of the plurality of setting items. When the gesture receiving section receives a selection gesture performed on the shortcut button, the setting candidate receiving section receives change to the setting candidate associated with the selected shortcut button.

An information processing apparatus includes: a display that displays an overlapping image including plural images which are partially overlapped and are mutually deviated; a gaze detection unit that detects a gaze of an operator, which is fixed on the overlapping image; a motion detection unit that detects a specific motion that is made when the operator performs an operation on the overlapping image; and a display control unit that changes an arrangement of the plural images included in the overlapping image in a case where the gaze fixed on the overlapping image is detected and where the specific motion is detected.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a specific noncontact operation performed by a user on an operation surface; and display, if the specific noncontact operation is detected, an operation object for achieving a gesture operation based on movement of the user with respect to the operation surface.

An image captured by a camera can be processed by a scanning application to identify one or more regions within the image that are suitable for scanning. One or more of these regions can be selected for scanning automatically based on user-input such as a fingertip touch to a particular portion of the display screen. Users may also select multiple regions and submit multiple quadrangular regions for scanning to PDF from a single image.

A data processing apparatus includes a display portion, a control portion including a display control portion for causing the display portion to display a preview image of output target data, a touch sensor for receiving, on the display portion, a user operation for performing output setting for the output target data concerning the preview image, an output portion for outputting the output target data based on the output setting, and a control portion for, in a state where the display control portion arranges objects in page unit sequentially to be displayed as the preview image, when the touch sensor receives a predetermined pinch operation for the objects, performing page setting concerning the objects to be operated.

On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.