An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a controller, configured to receive an input image signal captured by a camera device, perform a codec process on the input image signal to generate a processed file. The controller is further configured to perform privacy detection on the input image signal or the processed file. In response to the input image signal or the processed file being detected to include privacy information, the controller is further configured to encrypt the processed file to generate an encrypted file.

An image forming apparatus includes circuitry to scan a first document, dispose an image of the scanned first document at a predetermined location in accordance with a form including an image of a second document and information on the predetermined location at which the image of the first document is to be disposed in the image of the second document, combine the disposed image of the first document and another image different from the image of the second document included in the form to generate an output image, and output the output image.

Examples dis closed herein relate to receiving a first request to begin a first operation on a physical document, receiving a second request to begin a second operation, determining whether the first operation has completed, and in response to determining that the first operation has not completed, delay performance of the second operation.

A supporting program is executable by a controller of an information processing apparatus and corresponds to a printer connected to the information processing apparatus. The supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to perform processing intermediate image data in accordance with a print parameter received in a print parameter editing process, displaying an image indicated by the processed inter mediate image data on a print preview screen. The information processing apparatus does not restrict printing when print continuation is instructed, while restricting the printing when re-edit or print cancel is instructed.

According to one embodiment, an information object identification and discovery server have been presented. A given corpus of information is treated as a ‘unique sequence’ of canonical structures. These canonical structures are called information objects that are categorized into a set of primitive types. In real-life, these information objects may represent a physical object, an imaginary object, a conceptual object, or a data/knowledge object about them. The corpus of information is also expected to contain noise objects—these items are not information objects. The corpus of information is also expected to contain items that are not known to be information objects a-priori but are discovered and classified a-posteriori in the process as new knowledge objects. discovery of new information objects: the process results in the “discovery” of new “types” and “classes” of information objects that were not known a-priori.

An image forming apparatus and a method of operating an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes activating a personal information protection policy corresponding to a country of use set in the image forming apparatus, receiving an execution request of a first application installed in the image forming apparatus, determining whether a first job to be performed by execution of the first application is restricted to the personal information protection policy, and controlling an operation of the image forming apparatus according to whether the first job is restricted to the personal information protection policy.

A method for controlling an electronic device including at least one processor configured to encrypt an image and upload the encrypted image to an external server by using an artificial intelligence neural network model is provided. The method includes receiving a command to upload an image to the external server; acquiring, based on the command, a characteristic value corresponding to the image by inputting the image and a key of the electronic device into a neural network model trained to identify characteristic values based on an input image and an input key; and transmitting identification information of the image and the characteristic value to the external server.

Restricting the printing of sensitive electronic documents. After the client downloads a document (e.g., by viewing the document in a web browser), the client intercepts a print command, pauses the print, and issues a print request to a server. From a server perspective, upon receiving the request, the server determines whether the document is print restricted. If not, the print operation is permitted to proceed. If so, the server responds negatively to the print request and alters the document so that, even if printed, sensitive information is not printed. In another embodiment, the server may restrict printing prior to downloading a document. For example, the server may make the document read-only, or replace the document with another printable document that does not contain sensitive content.

Provided is an image forming apparatus to control capturing of an execution screen displayed. A memory stores at least one application. A user interface device displays an execution screen of an application, to which a user is logged in with an identification (ID) of the user, and receives an input of capturing the execution screen. A processor determines an authority of the ID of the user to capture the execution screen by comparing a security level of the execution screen set based on the data displayed on the execution screen and a security level of the user set with respect to the ID of the user. The processor, in response to the input, controls the capturing of the execution screen, based on the determined authority of the ID of the first user.

A control device includes a processor. The processor obtains multiple setting registrations and permission level information associated with each of the multiple setting registrations, in response to an output instruction for outputting the multiple setting registrations to the outside. In the multiple setting registrations, process settings for functions of a device are registered in advance. The processor generates a list including at least one setting registration associated with permission level information indicating use permission for a user who transmits the output instruction. The at least one setting registration is among the multiple setting registrations.