Abstract: A data communication device capable of facilitating file management compared to conventional methods is provided. The data communication device includes an image file storage portion for memorizing an image file to be sent to a user at the other end, a transmission information setting portion for setting transmission information necessary for sending the image file to the user at the other end, a file combining portion for generating a composite file by adding the transmission information to the image file and an e-mail message transmission portion for sending the generated composite file to the user at the other end.

Abstract: An image forming device 1 is provided with: a setting information storage portion 1K1 that stores root processing setting information DTR indicating a method by which each piece of RSS data is to be used after being obtained; a download processing portion 102 that downloads RSS data from a server; and a post-processing portion 107 that executes post-processing, which is processing for using the downloaded RSS data, based on the root processing setting information DTR of that RSS data, stored in the setting information storage portion 1K1.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided which enable a user using a plurality of terminals to obtain information in a convenient manner compared to conventional systems. An image forming apparatus includes a notification setting database 1K1 that stores, for each piece of RSS data designated by a user, individual notification setting data 8 indicating an attribute relating to a destination and a notification method designated by the user, an RSS data obtaining portion 105 that downloads and obtains the piece of the RSS data designated by the user from a Web server, and a notification control portion 106 that performs, every time when the piece of the RSS data designated by the user is obtained, a process for notifying a destination indicated in the individual notification setting data 8 of the piece of the RSS data by a notification method indicated therein.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising: a test data generator that generates test data instead of actual data entered for executing a workflow consisting of a plurality of unit works, if an instruction is given to test the workflow; a test process executor that executes a test process by processing the generated test data according to parameters for executing the unit works; a test process suspender that suspends the test process if a trouble happens during the test process; a notifier that notifies a user of a trouble if it happens during the test process; a parameter modifier that is capable of modifying the parameters if the test process is suspended due to the trouble; and a test process resuming portion that resumes the test process after the parameters are modified.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a server apparatus controlling the image forming apparatus are interconnected via a network. The image forming apparatus comprises: an executor that executes at least one from the image reading function, the copy function and the print function; an operation portion; and a communicator that exchanges information with the server apparatus. The server apparatus comprises: a communicator that exchanges information with the image forming apparatus; and a virtual image forming apparatus that is set up by software, as a controller portion dominantly controlling the entire image forming apparatus including the executor. In the virtual image forming apparatus on the server apparatus controls the image forming apparatus by commands, and thereby the image forming apparatus performs operations as if acting on a voluntary basis, in response to an instruction given by a user via an operation portion of the image forming apparatus itself.

Abstract: An image display system is provided that has a plurality of compact, easy to carry, and easy to use display devices. The image display system having the feature of transmitting image data and also supplying power successively for every prescribed number of display apparatuses from a host machine to a plurality of display devices provided with a reflection type display device having a memory effect.

Abstract: In the processing of image data, image data are analyzed to determine a characteristic of the image, and the characteristic and a first correction parameter in correspondence to the characteristic are displayed in a screen of a display device. A second correction parameter may be set in the screen of the display device by a user. The image data is corrected with the first correction parameter, but when the user sets a second correction parameter, the image data are corrected with the second correction parameter. Alternatively, The image data are corrected automatically with the first correction parameter, and the characteristic of the image data is displayed in a screen after the image data have been corrected.

Abstract: A portion identifying a file attribute identifies an attribute of an unconverted file (e.g., a name of an application used to create a document). A file format converter converts the file in a selected format. A portion adding a file attribute and writing it to a file provides the identified file attribute in the form of text and adds it to the file. After a file is converted in format, an original file attribute can still be referred to. A file attribute, such as an application used to create a document, can be used to sort and search for a file.

Abstract: When a color image is corrected on data of lightness, saturation and hue, contrast is corrected based on lightness, and maximum saturation is determined at least based on lightness. Change in saturation is calculated according to the determined maximum saturations for the lightness before and after correction, and saturation is corrected with the change in saturation. Alternatively, saturation correction factor is set, and maximum saturation is determined at least based on lightness. Saturation correction quantity of each pixel is calculated such that a ratio thereof to the maximum saturation becomes the same by considering the saturation correction factor and the maximum saturation. The image is corrected with the saturation correction quantity.

Abstract: A data communication device capable of facilitating file management compared to conventional methods is provided. The data communication device includes an image file storage portion for memorizing an image file to be sent to a user at the other end, a transmission information setting portion for setting transmission information necessary for sending the image file to the user at the other end, a file combining portion for generating a composite file by adding the transmission information to the image file and an e-mail message transmission portion for sending the generated composite file to the user at the other end.

Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, in image processing on contrast, an image is divided into rectangles, and a histogram of value data of the image is generated for each of the rectangles. It is discriminated whether the histogram generated by said histogram generator has a plurality of peaks. Then, contrast is enhanced in the unit of rectangle according to histogram. When the histogram of the rectangle is discriminated to have a plurality of peaks, a rectangle is divided into sub-areas and contrast is enhanced in the rectangle in the unit of sub-area. Alternatively, the contrast enhanced above is suppressed in the unit of rectangle on a rectangle on which the histogram thereof is discriminated to have a plurality of peaks.

Abstract: This invention relates to image correction device and image correction method for compensating both the contrast and the brightness of the original image, suppressing the contrast enhancement, improving the lightness, and transforming an image with extremely bright areas or extremely dark areas into an image with correct contrast and lightness. To correct the contrast, the original image is divided into a plurality of areas, a histogram fabricated to show the frequency distribution for the pixel lightness in each area and a lightness mapping curve made for the accumulated value. The pixel lightness for each area within the image is converted based on the lightness mapping curve. To correct the lightness of the original image, the average lightness is compensated when determined to be extremely bright or extremely dark.

Abstract: This invention relates to image correction device and image correction method for compensating both the contrast and the brightness of the original image, suppressing the contrast enhancement, improving the lightness, and transforming an image with extremely bright areas or extremely dark areas into an image with correct contrast and lightness. To correct the contrast, the original image is divided into a plurality of areas, a histogram fabricated to show the frequency distribution for the pixel lightness in each area and a lightness mapping curve made for the accumulated value. The pixel lightness for each area within the image is converted based on the lightness mapping curve. To correct the lightness of the original image, the average lightness is compensated when determined to be extremely bright or extremely dark.

Abstract: During photography using a digital camera, a monitor image and a frame image representing an ideal region of a main object are superimposed and displayed on a display unit. FIG. 6A shows a single person as a main object, with a frame F1 superimposed on a monitor image of the object. When this object is photographed and the image data are saved to a memory card, “large-single-person” as an object name, and two angle coordinates (x11,y11) and (x12, y12) of frame F1 as object region coordinates are associated with the image data and recorded. Thereafter, when the image data are read from the memory card and subjected to image correction, the associated and recorded object name and object region coordinates are referenced to set special correction parameters for the object region in order to accomplish image correction.

Abstract: In an information processor which stores and manages objects with attribute information added to the objects, an object is selected and attribute information of the object is stored in a storage medium. Then, in response to a command issued for copying the selected attribute information, the attribute information stored in the storage medium is added to another object. Thus, the same attribute information can be added to a different object easily. When the same attribute information is added to a plurality of objects, the attribute information selected are added to each of the objects at the same time and stored in a relation to each of the objects in the storage medium. Thus, the load for adding attribute information by a user is reduced largely. Beside. a main dictionary which registers attribute information, a sub-dictionary registers data for identifying attribute information for a part of the attribute information registered in the main dictionary.

Abstract: In an information processor which stores and manages objects with attribute information added to the objects, an object is selected and attribute information of the object is stored in a storage medium. Then, in response to a command issued for copying the selected attribute information, the attribute information stored in the storage medium is added to another object. Thus, the same attribute information can be added to a different object easily. When the same attribute information is added to a plurality of objects, the attribute information selected are added to each of the objects at the same time and stored in a relation to each of the objects in the storage medium. Thus, the load for adding attribute information by a user is reduced largely. Beside a main dictionary which registers attribute information, a sub-dictionary registers data for identifying attribute information for a part of the attribute information registered in the main dictionary.

Abstract: In image data retrieval, image data that becomes the base of search is specified. When the search is to be carried out according to the distance from the image data on an image map, an automatic setting process of retrieval information is carried out. Here, a keyword, icon, chromaticity and the like of that image data are automatically set as retrieval information. The position of that image data on the image map becomes the center of a range when the ambiguity is set. By setting the ambiguity of the image map, keyword, icon, chromaticity, and the like in this state, the range of ambiguity is displayed, and image data within that range is automatically retrieved. As a result, analogous image data can be searched for according to subtle and ambiguous information or information that cannot be quantified.