Ricoh (RICOY) Inactive USPTO patentsUtility application

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a body side connector and a removable unit removably inserted in the apparatus body.

A system to is described.

A person counting method and a person counting system are provided.

An information providing apparatus for providing information of a user who uses a bed placed in a facility, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: collect image data indicating temperatures on the bed and temperatures around the bed from an acquisition device, the image data being acquired by the acquisition device, detect a location of the user by detecting, based on the collected image data, a given temperature within a predetermined range of temperature in consecutive subareas provided by dividing one or more detection areas preset on the bed and around the bed, and send the information of the user to a predetermined notification destination, upon detecting a preset pattern of a change of the given temperature in the detected consecutive subareas.

Specified equipment that communicates with a plurality of apparatuses to transmit execution information for executing a job of a user to an management server on a side of cloud including a circuitry that performs receiving the execution information of the job which is created by the plurality of apparatuses as a result of executing the job by the user who is successfully authenticated in an authentication server, and transmitting the execution information received from the plurality of apparatuses to the management server every predetermined time period.

A maintenance management apparatus for managing maintenance on one or more devices, includes: circuitry to: obtain self-maintenance information indicating time at which self-maintenance has been performed on a device; obtain maintenance information indicating maintenance scheduled to be performed on the device from a memory, the maintenance information including time information indicating scheduled execution time of maintenance; update the time information indicating scheduled execution time of maintenance based on the self-maintenance information; and send a notification for prompting maintenance of the device when the time indicated by the time information having been updated is reached.

An image processing apparatus includes a memory holding image data generated by an image reader; a memory controller for accessing the memory; first and second image processors for executing image processing on the image data one line at a time, the second image processor being added when implementing functional expansion; a connector for connecting the first and second image processors by a transfer path of the image data when implementing the functional expansion; first and second generators for respectively generating first and second allowance signals for allowing reading of a next line of the image data from the memory, according to the image processing times taken by the first and second image processors; and an allower configured to output, to the memory controller, a third allowance signal for allowing reading of the next line of the image data from the memory, based on the first and second allowance signals.