Abstract: In a receiver computer 100, a transmission controller 111 transmits user interface data 171 to a transmitter computer 200. In the transmitter computer 200, a display processing unit 213 causes a user interface for inputting print settings information to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 250, based on the transmitted user interface data 171. When the print settings information is input via an input device 240, a transmission controller 211 transmits color image data 271, color-correction source data 272, and the input print settings information to the receiver computer 100. In the receiver computer 100, a print processing unit 114 carries out a variety of processing operations with respect to color image data, based on the print settings information. A color correction element 118 in the print processing unit 114 carries out a color correction of the color image data using the color-correction source data 272 and color-correction destination data 172 read from a hard disk 170.

Abstract: Device abstraction units 28a and 28b respectively transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from devices 34a and 34b, and carry out abstraction of the devices 34a and 34b (that is, abstraction of the hardware) with respect to upper constituents. Interface units 22a and 22b transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from the device abstraction units 28a and 28b, and provide an application unit 20 with an identical interface. Communications path abstraction units 24a and 24b carry out abstraction of communications paths 26a and 26b in the process of transmission of various pieces of control information and data via the communications paths 26a and 26b across a process boundary or a network boundary. This arrangement of the present invention enables a substantially fixed control according to an applications program, regardless of the type of the device or the type of the communications path.

Abstract: In an image data server 200, a preview data generation unit 218 generates preview data corresponding to image data, and a transmission controller 211 transmits the preview data to a computer system 100 in an image receiver apparatus. In accordance with another possible application, the preview data is not generated by the image data server 200, but is generated by a computer system 300 in an image transmitter apparatus, which transmits the image data to the image data server 200, and transmitted to the image data server 200. In the computer system 100 in the image receiver apparatus, a display controller 113 causes the contents of the preview data to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 150. The user determines whether or not the image data corresponding to the displayed preview image is required. In response to an instruction for transfer of the image data input from the user, a transmission controller 111 transmits a request for transfer of the image data to the image data server 200.

Abstract: In a receiver computer 100, a transmission controller 111 transmits user interface data 171 to a transmitter computer 200. In the transmitter computer 200, a display processing unit 213 causes a user interface for inputting print settings information to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 250, based on the transmitted user interface data 171. When the print settings information is input via an input device 240, a transmission controller 211 transmits color image data 271, color-correction source data 272, and the input print settings information to the receiver computer 100. In the receiver computer 100, a print processing unit 114 carries out a variety of processing operations with respect to color image data, based on the print settings information. A color correction element 118 in the print processing unit 114 carries out a color correction of the color image data using the color-correction source data 272 and color-correction destination data 172 read from a hard disk 170.

Abstract: In an image data server 200, a preview data generation unit 218 generates preview data corresponding to image data, and a transmission controller 211 transmits the preview data to a computer system 100 in an image receiver apparatus. In accordance with another possible application, the preview data is not generated by the image data server 200, but is generated by a computer system 300 in an image transmitter apparatus, which transmits the image data to the image data server 200, and transmitted to the image data server 200. In the computer system 100 in the image receiver apparatus, a display controller 113 causes the contents of the preview data to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 150. The user determines whether or not the image data corresponding to the displayed preview image is required. In response to an instruction for transfer of the image data input from the user, a transmission controller 111 transmits a request for transfer of the image data to the image data server 200.

Abstract: A carrier information terminal 300 includes a tracing module 302 that detects the current position of a transportation medium. In a physical distribution information server 100, an information management module 112 registers and occasionally updates the detected current position in a database 102 as part of physical distribution information. The information management module 112 also registers cargo information input by a shipper into a shipper information terminal 200 and freight information input by a carrier into the carrier information terminal 300 as part of the physical distribution information. The information management module 112 retrieves the physical distribution information to find an address of the shipper with regard to a cargo that satisfies a predetermined condition allowing delivery by the carrier, as well as the current position of the transportation medium by the carrier.

Abstract: An image displayed in a scanner home page is dragged and dropped in a printer home page (S100). The URL of a device service unit of the scanner side is transmitted from a web browser unit of the scanner side to a web browser unit of the printer side (S102). The URL is transmitted from the web browser unit of the printer side to the device service unit of the printer side via a web server unit in the printer side (S104). The device service unit of the printer side, based on the URL, accesses the device service unit of the scanner side and acquires the image data (S106). The image data is transmitted from the device service unit of the printer side to the printer (S108).

Abstract: An electropneumatic positioner includes a data processing control section and an electropneumatic converter. The control section includes first and second position determining sections and a signal setting section. The first position determining section obtains the valve opening degree positions of a regulating valve as the minimum and maximum valve opening degree positions which are set when a driving signal for conversion from an electrical signal into an air pressure is set to the minimum signal and the maximum signal. The second position determining section obtains the valve opening degree position of the valve which is set when the driving signal is the minimum signal on the basis of the relative positional relationship between the obtained minimum and maximum valve opening degree positions and the valve plug form of the valve.

Abstract: In a printer driver 11, a source code for an image processing procedure called out by an application program 12 is generated. A grain size detection process 48 counts the number of procedures which have been called out and a parallelization position detection process 49 checks whether each procedure called out is attended with pixel generation or not and whether the procedure depends on the preceding procedure or not. While calling-out of procedures not dependent on the preceding procedure is continued, source codes for those procedures are accumulated in a buffer 60. Whenever a procedure attended with pixel generation is called out, the printer driver 11 outputs a set of source codes accumulated in the buffer 60 in a description of a complex sentence indicating a parallel processing unit in accordance with the grammar of a parallel sentence structure as long as the aforementioned count value reaches the grain size of a preliminarily set unit of parallel processing.

Abstract: The rasterize processing for obtaining printing picture element information from a source file described in a page-description language is distributed-processed by a plurality of information processing units (6a, 6b, 6c) loose connected via a network (7). A client process (210) converts a source file (19) into an intermediate code file (10) and further divides the intermediate code file into a plurality of partial files executable in the rasterize processing, independently. A part of these plural partial files is given to a rasterizer (212) which generates a printing request, so as to be rasterized into picture element information. In each of other information processing units (6b, 6c), the distributed partial file is received by a server process (211), transmitted to the rasterizer (212) to form partial picture element information. These partial picture element information are returned to the information processing unit (6a) which generates the printing request.

Abstract: The rasterize processing for obtaining printing picture element information from a source file described in a page-description language is distributed-processed by a plurality of information processing units (6a, 6b, 6c) loose connected via a network (7). In the information processing unit (6a) which generates a printing request, a client process (210) converts a source file (19) into an intermediate code file (10) and further divides the intermediate code file into a plurality of partial files executable in the rasterize processing, independently. A part of these plural partial files is given to a rasterizer (212) of the information processing unit (6a) which generates a printing request, so as to be rasterized into picture element information. The remaining part of the plural partial files are distributed to the other information processing units (6b, 6c) via the network.