WESER & Kollegen Patentanwälte PartmbB

An information processing apparatus (102) receives a job history from an image forming apparatus (101) that performs a job to form an image on a recording medium. The job history includes information on a printing job that has been normally completed and information on a related job related to the normally completed printing job. The information processing apparatus (102) includes first and second calculation units (601), an addition unit (361), and a storage unit (363). The first and second calculation units (601) calculate the carbon dioxide emissions generated when the normally completed printing job is performed and the carbon dioxide emissions generated when the related job is performed. The addition unit (361) adds up the amounts calculated by the first and second calculation units (601). The storage unit (363) stores the sum of the amounts as a total amount of carbon dioxide emissions associated with the normally completed printing job.

An optional device connectable to a printing apparatus in multi-stage connection in one direction, comprising an auxiliary function unit configured to assist a function of the printing apparatus, and a control unit, the control unit includes an arithmetic processing unit which performs arithmetic processing for controlling the auxiliary function unit based on power received from the printing apparatus, in a case where the printing apparatus is connected to an upstream side, and a power transmission unit configured to transmit power received from the printing apparatus to another optional device connected to a downstream side, and in a case where another optional device is connected to the upstream side, the arithmetic processing unit does not perform the arithmetic processing.

A unit (100) includes a first component (1) and a second component (2). One of the first component (1) and the second component (2) is movable with respect to the other. A first surface (101) of the first component (1) includes a first region (111), a second region (121), a third region (131), and a fourth region (141). The second region (121) is provided between the first region (111) and the third region (131), and the fourth region (141) is provided between the first region (111) and the second region (121). An arithmetic mean roughness (Ra3) of the third region (131) is smaller than an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra2) of the second region (121). An arithmetic mean roughness (Ra4) of the fourth region (141) is smaller than the arithmetic mean roughness (Ra2) and larger than an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra1) of the first region (111).

Provided is an optical measurement method capable of achieving determination of presence of a target substance using particles in a short time. The optical measurement method includes: a preparation step of preparing an optical measurement device (110), a reaction tank (112) in the optical measurement device (110) accommodating a sample containing magnetic particles on each of which a substance that specifically binds to a target substance is immobilized; a magnetic field application step of applying a magnetic field to the magnetic particles by a magnetic field application unit (113); an inspection value acquisition step of acquiring an inspection value based on an amount of light detected by a light detection unit (114) under a state in which the magnetic field is applied; and a determination step of performing determination of one of presence or absence of the target substance in the sample based on the inspection value.

The optical measurement method includes: a preparation step of preparing an optical measurement device (110), a reaction tank (112) in the optical measurement device accommodating a sample containing magnetic particles on each of which a substance that specifically binds to a target substance is immobilized; a magnetic field application step of applying a magnetic field to the magnetic particles by a magnetic field application unit (113); an application stopping step of stopping the applying of the magnetic field after a first time has elapsed from initiation of the applying of the magnetic field; an inspection value acquisition step of acquiring an inspection value based on an amount of light detected by a light detection unit (114) after the application stopping step; and a determination step of performing determination of one of presence or absence of the target substance in the sample based on the inspection value.

A print server (130) that provides a cloud print service manages a comprehensive logical printer (1501). The print server registers both a second print server (140) providing a second cloud print service and a physical printer (1501a, 1501b) having a pull printing service license as pull-print-capable printing apparatuses associated with the comprehensive logical printer. A print job submitted to the comprehensive logical printer is stored in association with it (S1521). Upon receiving an instruction to execute the print job from an associated printing apparatus (S1543), the print server determines if the instructing apparatus is a pull-print-capable apparatus. If it is, the stored print job is transmitted to that pull-print-capable apparatus for execution (S1548).

The present disclosure is directed to an information processing apparatus (310, 320) comprising: interaction means (311, 321) for providing an interaction using generative Al to a user of an apparatus providing a service; determination means (311, 321) for inputting at least one item of information among an interaction history of interactions with the user, user information, and product information to the generative AI and cause the generative Al to determine whether a current time is an appropriate time to propose an order of a product; and proposing means (311, 321) for responding to the interaction and propose the order of the product in a case where the generative AI determines that the current time is an appropriate time to propose the order of the product.

An image processing method includes acquiring a plurality of second images (21 to 24) by dividing a first image (10), acquiring a plurality of third images (31 to 34) by increasing a resolution of each of the plurality of second images at a first magnification using a machine learning model, and acquiring a fourth image (40) by combining the plurality of third images with each other. The fourth image corresponds to an image acquired by increasing a resolution of the first image at a target magnification. The image processing method further includes converting a resolution of any one of the first image, at least one of the plurality of second images, at least one of the plurality of third images, or the fourth image, at a second magnification based on the first magnification and the target magnification.

An information processing apparatus is connected over a communication network to a printer and a cloud printing service holding a print job received. The information processing apparatus obtains, from the cloud printing service, first device identification information for linking with the cloud printing service; and installs a program that transmits, to the cloud printing service, a print job output by a printer driver corresponding to the printer, based on the first device identification information.

The present disclosure is directed to an information processing apparatus comprising: one or more memory devices that store a set of instructions; and one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to: read, from a product, a first data carrier for accessing Digital Product Passport (DPP) information of the product managed on a blockchain, using a reading unit; acquire first DPP information and second DPP information using information of the read first data carrier, the first DPP information being DPP information of a product body of the product managed on the blockchain, and the second DPP information being DPP information of a component mounted in the product and being managed in association with the first DPP information on the blockchain; and output the first DPP information and the second DPP information that were acquired.