Print Preview Patents (Class 715/274)
  • Patent number: 7760207
    Abstract: An image display adjustment system comprises a display setup application executable by a processor and configured to, in response to detecting at least one characteristic associated with a display device, automatically cause an adjustment image to be displayed on the display device and an image adjustment process to be performed for the display device using the adjustment image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: John W. Frederick, Christopher D. Voltz, Clinton B. Yearwood, Louis E. Leclerc
  • Publication number: 20100171977
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and a printer server connected to the printer. The printer server is installed with a printer driver for driving the printer. The printer server includes a web control module and a print module. The control module provides a user interface (UI) to a connected client. The control module is capable of receiving a first file in an original format from the client and transmitting the first file to the print module. The print module is capable of transforming the first file in the original format to a second file in a format printable by the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HUO-PING FU
  • Publication number: 20100165386
    Abstract: A print control device includes a data acquiring section, a print control section, a preview-image output control section, and a print-ratio acquiring section. The data acquiring section acquires image data. The print control section controls a printing device to print an image based on the image data on a sheet. The preview-image output control section outputs preview images at a plurality of print ratios. The preview images are indicators of print results to be obtained when the printing device prints, on the sheet, the image based on the image data at the respective print ratios. The print-ratio acquiring section acquires print-ratio specifying information through an input device that can be operated by a user, after the preview-image output control section outputs the preview images. The print control section controls the printing device to print, on the sheet, the image based on the image data at a print ratio specified by the print-ratio specifying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kusunoki
  • Publication number: 20100162106
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a whole preview image generating unit that generates a whole preview image, the whole preview image being a print preview image of the entirety of each page, a display unit, a whole preview image display control unit that controls displaying the whole preview image, a divided preview image generating unit that generates divided preview images, the divided preview images being made by dividing the print preview image of each page by a dividing number, a divided preview image enlarging unit that enlarges each of the divided preview images at higher magnification than a display magnification of the whole preview image and generates enlarged divided preview images, and a divided preview image display control unit that controls displaying the enlarged divided preview images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiko IKAZAKI, Tetsuya MATSUSAKA
  • Publication number: 20100153834
    Abstract: Disclosed are a business form creating system that can easily create a business form with an attractive visual form (that is, viewable), a business form creating method, and a program. A business form creating system that creates a business form from information described or created in an electronic format includes: a business form output managing unit that calculates business form output information, which includes layout information of a business form to be output, on the basis of printing control data, which defines an output representation of at least one of data to be described in fields and records of the business form to be output, and print data having data to be described in the fields of the business form to be output; and a form file creating unit that creates a form file of the business form on the basis of the calculated business form output information. The business form is created using the form file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: WingArk Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomo Abe
  • Patent number: 7738132
    Abstract: A computer device including: a loading unit configured to load an updatable stored print option from a predetermined storage unit; a display unit configured to display a user interface based on the loaded print option; a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction from an operator via the user interface, wherein the instruction includes a selected print option; and an executing unit configured to execute the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhongming Yu
  • Publication number: 20100134835
    Abstract: There is provided a printing device including: an inputting unit that is configured to be capable of inputting an image file representing a motion image; a generating unit that is configured to be capable of extracting a plurality of frame images from the image file and generating a first output image in which the plurality of extracted frame images are laid out on a single page; a display unit that is configured to be capable of displaying a plurality of first frame display images that correspond to the plurality of frame images and a first display image corresponding to the first output image, the first display image having a first display size and having a plurality of second frame display images laid out therein in an order the same as the order in which the frame images are laid out in the first output image, the plurality of second frame display images corresponding to the plurality of frame images, each second frame display image having a second frame display size that is smaller than the first display
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiko HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 7724384
    Abstract: One or more adjustable printer driver settings are displayed, and one or more pages of a print job corresponding to the document are displayed in accordance with the adjustable printer driver settings. The user is permitted to adjust the adjustable printer driver settings, such that the pages of the print job are redisplayed based on adjustments made to the adjustable printer driver settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter G. Hwang, Corlene Ankrum, Elizabeth Atwater, Adam F. Page
  • Publication number: 20100123929
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a function of printing pieces of image data to be printed arranging on one printing paper sheet. In a preview display screen of the image processing apparatus, when a specific piece of image data is selected by a user' s operation from a plural piece of image data, the specific piece of image data is displayed being distinguished. Pieces of image data in the same shooting orientation as that of the specific piece of image data are searched for and their display is similarly varied. At this time, when rotation of the images is selected using a dialogue, the orientation of the pieces of image data is rotated at once by 180°. Thereby, the orientations of pieces of image data shot in a portrait-like posture may easily be adjusted to be same and their images may be printed according to this preview display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventor: Kazuhiro YOSHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7721206
    Abstract: A system and methods for remotely viewing a dynamically generated page layout is described. The page layout can represent a reader ordering of pages defined as part of a print production job. Alternatively, the page layout can represent an arrangement of pages based on information defined as part of a print production job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Kodak Graphic Communications Canada Company
    Inventor: Afshin Mirmotahari
  • Publication number: 20100107064
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus having a preview function and an original paper size automatic detection function, capable of displaying a preview of original image data immediately next a detected original paper size has been switched with a simple operation. On receipt of an operation of a next skip button by a user, a preview image display control portion refers to a paper size recording table and displays a preview of image data of a top page in the group (unit) next to the group in which the preview of the image data of the top page is currently displayed, the group being different in a paper size from the other group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Takeshi YAMAGUCHI, Masanori Matsumoto, Syoichiro Yoshiura
  • Publication number: 20100107065
    Abstract: A storage medium has a printer driver program recorded thereon causing a computer to execute functions including a category-based UI information managing function that manages UI information on a display of a user interface to set a print condition, for every category, to which an application program of a print instruction source belongs, a print condition display control function that displays the user interface based on the UI information corresponding to the category, to which the application program of the print instruction source belongs, when printing is instructed, and a UI information editing function that edits the UI information to be managed for every category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Shima, Nobukiyo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7706014
    Abstract: A printing device enables a laid-out and drawn image to be printed without any subsequent rotation. In the presence of an orientation change command, the printing device receives a layout command and determines a layout of each object in each page on the medium with conversion of coordinates at a preset position of the object. In the presence of the orientation change command, the printing device receives a print command, fetches an object according to the stored layout in each page, and draws and prints the fetched object in response to the orientation change command. No subsequent orientation change of drawing data, which has been laid out and drawn in the specified page orientation, is required to generate converted drawing data corresponding to the specified medium orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Narusawa, Satoru Orii
  • Patent number: 7702612
    Abstract: The relationship between an object and a database item, such as a title item, family name item, address item, city name item, and birth day item are displayed with a link line which connects the object with a database item such that the relationship can be readily observed. The display color of each displayed link line is normally the same color as the background color of a connected database item or the object. Because a link relationship between an object and a database item is displayed with a display color and a link line, the linking of the image to be printed print image with the database can be readily observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motonori Tanaka, Chitoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20100095200
    Abstract: A print control apparatus includes a determining unit to search for one or more PrintTickets for each level within an XML paper specification (XPS) file in response to an XPS file print command, and to determine whether the one or more PrintTickets found as a result of searching conflict with each other within the XPS file, a user interface, and a controller to control the user interface to display one or more conflicting PrintTickets if it is determined that the one or more PrintTickets conflict with each other within the XPS file. Therefore, it is possible for a user to easily determine which PrintTickets conflict with each other within the XPS file and to readily control these conflicting PrintTickets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yong-in Eom, Young-soo Han
  • Patent number: 7698471
    Abstract: To enable simple and detailed confirmation of an operation instruction from an operation panel provided to a printer, each time an instruction is given using a preview button in the operation panel of the printer, an interruption event transferred from the printer to a host computer is detected, and in accordance with the detected interruption event, image data read out from a memory card attached to the printer, and a print setting to be set, are obtained. A preview display unit controls a print preview display reflecting the print setting in real time to a display device of the host computer, and also controls an update display of the print preview display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobushige Aoki, Shinichi Yuga, Yurika Kadoi
  • Publication number: 20100085602
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image display portion such as a touch panel for displaying a preview of image data. When image data of the object to output is output with additional information added thereto or when the image data of the object to output is printed on recording paper and post processing is applied to the recording paper, the image forming apparatus combines an additional information image showing additional information or post processing with a preview image at a position corresponding to an adding position of additional information or a position at which post processing is applied in displaying the preview image by enlarging a part where the additional information image is combined to display on the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mikiya Okada
  • Publication number: 20100088594
    Abstract: A thumbnail display method is provided, which includes receiving a selection of an XML paper specification (XPS) file, receiving a preview command for the selected XPS file, analyzing a structure of the XPS file, and displaying thumbnail information regarding a plurality of thumbnails contained in the XPS file according to the analyzed structure. Therefore, it is possible for a user to preview various thumbnails contained in an XPS file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-sim KIM, Joo-duck KIM
  • Publication number: 20100079777
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus sets, on an image to be printed, the print position of attribute information of the image. The information processing apparatus displays, on a display device, the print preview screen of the image to be printed in which an image forming the attribute information is arranged at the set print position. When a region corresponding to the attribute information on the print preview screen displayed on the display device is selected, the information processing apparatus enlarges and displays the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Abe
  • Patent number: 7689933
    Abstract: A display application herein allocates a first region of a display screen for displaying a list of content items such as documents or files. A respective viewer of the display screen can select multiple content items from the list. The display application highlights selected content items. For each of multiple selected content items, the display application displays a preview of corresponding sub-content such as a respective set of thumbnail images associated with a respective content item in an allocated second region of the display screen. The second region of the display screen includes one or more visual boundaries so that a user can identify groupings of related thumbnails associated with selected content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent L. Parsons
  • Publication number: 20100077301
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-executable method for ordering documents for review in response to an electronic discovery request. The method involves determining, by a processor, one or more metrics of the documents, the one or more metrics indicating at least one of privilege and responsiveness of the documents. The method also involves estimating a relevancy of the documents according to the metrics. The method also involves ordering the documents from most relevant to least relevant according to the relevancy, receiving relevance feedback from a first document reviewer, updating the order according to the relevance feedback, and sending a first subset of the updated ordered documents to a second document reviewer for review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: David Bodnick, Eli Gild
  • Patent number: 7685163
    Abstract: The invention pertains to techniques for creating media asset illustrations for media assets are disclosed. The created media asset illustrations are useful for media assets that lack associated media asset illustrations. The techniques can analyze media asset data or media asset metadata when creating the create media asset illustrations. The created media asset illustrations can, for example, be used while playing, browsing or displaying associated media assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Imran Chaudhri
  • Publication number: 20100067048
    Abstract: In a conventional image processing apparatus configured to display a preview image of a representative page of an image file including a plurality of pages and including a plurality of pieces of image data, it is difficult for a user to easily recognize, from the preview image, the content of the image file stored in a storage medium. In a technique according to the present invention, a page having a high evaluation value is detected, and a reduced image of the detected page is produced. The resultant reduced image is displayed as the preview image thereby allowing a user to easily recognize the content of the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7679795
    Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus and method thereof which, in a case where drawing data represented by an RGB space satisfies a predetermined condition, perform a compensation of color that converts a pixel value of image data in an MCYK color space into a predetermined value, and in accordance with information for designating whether or not to use color conversion for each respective object included in the drawing commands, select whether to perform normal conversion processing for converting the drawing data of the RGB color space into a pixel value in the MCYK space or to perform color compensation conversion processing, and convert the pixel data from RGB to MCYK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Joji Oki
  • Publication number: 20100064211
    Abstract: Defect-free printing is achieved by previewing on a display prior to printing, device functions and print specifications. Preview of double-sided faces is concurrently provided when double-sided printing is specified. Display is performed by generation of data which allows print preview that reflects consideration of device information and document data. Data is generated for perspective-reverse-face preview when page-specification information is set for double-sided faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kujirai, Koji Nakagiri, Satoshi Nishikawa, Yasuo Mori
  • Patent number: 7676764
    Abstract: There is provided a document management system capable of displaying indexes indicating input/output devices connected on a network in a manner that an operator can clearly distinguish between devices which are capable of correctly performing processing in accordance with the setting made for an inputted job and devices which are not capable thereof, and a control method therefor. An icon for each processing function which each of several devices connected to a network has is displayed on a screen, several pieces of information being managed in the document management system are listed, and a user-desired piece of information is selected among the listed plurality of pieces of information based on the user's selection operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20100058180
    Abstract: A display control device controls an image display device capable of displaying a preview of an output image that is to be subjected to an output process, before the output image is subjected to the output process. The display control device refers to a storage section in which specific information specifying an image process which a user cannot recognize from a previewed output image is stored, and selects an image process specified by the specific information out of image processes to be carried out on the output image. Further, the display control device causes the image display device to display a setting confirmation image showing a content of the selected image process. This allows a user to correctly understand the content of an image process to be carried out on the output image and the image quality of the output image subjected to the output process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasutaka Hirayama, Makio Gotoh, Takafumi Hosogi
  • Patent number: 7665018
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus for dynamically changing a container layout in accordance with inserted contents data, a user is made to understand a change of layout by explicitly displaying a change before and after the layout change, thereby improving the convenience for the user in layout correction. More specifically, when the container layout is changed by inserted contents data, a container having a standard size before the layout change is explicitly displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinya Honda
  • Patent number: 7659999
    Abstract: A N-up calculator graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for performing N-Up printing. The graphical user interface includes configurable objects for specifying: 1) the size of the page, 2) the dimensions of the image, and 3) the number of images to be printed on each page (N-up). The controls on the GUI can include page size, reduction/enlargement percentage, final image size?height/width, Number up, and other related controls. The manipulation of any one of the controls may affect the others according to a set of rules. These rules determine which objects are held constant and for which values are automatically calculated, and the object automatically configured. The rule-set can be manipulated by selecting from a list of modes or options such as “Conserve Paper,” “Fit as Many Images as Possible” or “Maximize Image size” or by locking certain controls and freeing others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Stoll Karn, Marc J. Krolczyk, Thomas J. Perry
  • Publication number: 20100027056
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that enables to confirm a finish state in a preview reliably so that unnecessary image formation processing due to setting errors by a user is able to be prevented and that processing load for performing a preview display at high speed is reduced. On a preview screen before performing image formation, a preview image showing the entire page of image data is displayed. When a information about finishing such as forming a punch hole, staple, and a paper fold are set to recording paper on which the image data is printed, these as information about finishing are displayed out of a recording paper area of the preview image. In addition, for example, an arrow indicating a position of the actual punch hole to the recording paper is also displayed as a part of the information about finishing together with the punch hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kumiko Ogino, Takaya Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20100027055
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that is capable of, in displaying a preview of image data to be output, confirming a confirmation point in accordance with an operation mode immediately without performing a user operation such as enlarging, reducing or shifting. The image processing apparatus (illustrated as a digital multi-functional peripheral) is capable of operating in each of a plurality of operation modes. The image forming apparatus is provided with an image display portion such as a touch panel for displaying a preview of image data and a set value storage portion such as control memory for storing a display set value in displaying a preview image at first on the image display portion for each operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nami Mori
  • Publication number: 20100027059
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus is provided with a preview image generating portion for generating a preview image of image data to be output in the unit of an output job, and an image display portion such as a touch panel for displaying the generated preview image. The image display portion displays a generation stop key for stopping generation of the preview image during the generation of the preview image so as to be selectable by a user, and displays a different screen in accordance with a generation state of the preview image when the generation stop key is selected by a user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukari Ebi
  • Publication number: 20100023856
    Abstract: In a case where a display unit displays a setting screen having a first display area to display a draft graphical image in accordance with draft setting and a second display area to display a finished graphical image in accordance with sheet setting, and a user designates a position to be stapled, a staple region mark is superimposed and displayed on a region corresponding to the position to be stapled in the draft graphical image in accordance with the draft setting, and a staple position mark is superimposed and displayed on a position corresponding to the position to be stapled in the finished graphical image in accordance with the sheet setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Yuko Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20100017731
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium having a driver program stored may cause a computer to function as an icon display processor, an operation detector, a setting changing processor and/or an icon image switching processor. The operation detector may be configured to detect an operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device. The setting changing processor may be configured, when an operation has been detected by the operation detector, to change a setting value of a setting associated with the icon on which the operation has been performed to a different setting value. The icon display processor and/or icon image switching processor may be configured, according to the change in the setting value by the setting changing processor, to switch an icon image of the icon displayed on the display device from an icon image corresponding to a first setting value to a second setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Taira
  • Publication number: 20100007915
    Abstract: Provided is an image sending apparatus capable of preventing that, in sending image data with additional information such as sending source information added thereto, the additional information is overlaid on a part other than a margin of the image data. The image sending apparatus is provided with an image display portion for displaying a preview of image data and is capable of sending the image data with additional information added thereto. The image sending apparatus is provided with a display control portion for displaying information showing an adding position at which the additional information is added to the image data subjected to a preview display on the image display portion in the preview display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kumiko OGINO, Takaya NAKATANI, Takeshi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 7643187
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which previews a read image is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a preview image processing unit in which a user is allowed to set a processing condition for the read preview image by operating on the read preview image and a preview image processed by the processing condition is displayed together with the setting of the processing condition on a displaying section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Tagawa
  • Publication number: 20090323099
    Abstract: A printing method is described that allows the user to conveniently either print a document, or generate an output file from it in a desired image file format and save the file for late use, or both at once. The user opens a document using an application, and issues a print request. From the print dialog box, the user chooses to set printing preferences. The print preferences dialog box includes an “output file” tab allowing the user to specify whether an output file is to be generated, specify an output file format, specify a destination for saving the output file, and specify whether hard copies of the document are to be printed on the printer. The method may be implemented as a part of a printer driver program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA SYSTEMS LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventor: Xiaonong Zhan
  • Publication number: 20090323105
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a display section for executing display based on image data including a plurality of images; a first image processing section for generating first images respectively corresponding to the images included in the image data, to which an image process based on information of a job is not executed; a second image processing section for generating a second image obtained by executing the image process based on the information of the job to the image data of the first image currently displayed in the display section; and a control section for causing the display section to display the first image corresponding to the image data to which the job is set and to switch the currently displayed first image to the corresponding second image after completing a generation of the second image by the second image processing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Masaru OHTSUKA
  • Patent number: 7640500
    Abstract: A preflight system for analysing an electronic document for possible problems is disclosed. The preflight system has one or more preflight clients and a preflight engine. Each preflight client is provided for an associated output component of the creation application and has testing code for testing one or more warnings relating to the associated output component. The preflight engine determines relevant preflight client, controls preflight process using the relevant preflight clients, and collects information on the test results of the warnings from the relevant preflight clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Pirie, Phil Armstrong, Vincent Bujold
  • Publication number: 20090319890
    Abstract: In order to facilitate processing on page data written in a markup language, an MFP includes an operation control portion to accept a user operation, a display control portion to display data, a data acquiring portion to acquire a Web page, a browsing portion to cause the display control portion to display Web page, an analyzing portion to analyze the acquired Web page, to extract an operation to be performed on the acquired Web page, an assigning portion to assign at least one operation to at least one of a plurality of keys based on a result of the analysis, and an operation display adding portion to cause the display control portion to display at least one set of key identification information for identifying the key to which an operation is assigned and operation identification information for identifying the operation which is assigned to the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Haruna MIWA
  • Patent number: 7633659
    Abstract: The invention provides a printing control apparatus having a function for performing preview displaying prior to printing document data outputted by an application program. The apparatus comprises: a generator for generating a preview image based on the document data in accordance with a print setting; and a preview display controller for displaying, together with the preview image, a user interface which displays an option in a predetermined item of a print setting within a scope corresponding to a current print setting, when the predetermined item of the print setting corresponding to the preview image is to be changed. The printing control apparatus enables printing of the document data in accordance with the print setting changed through the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichiro Uotani, Yoshiaki Tomomatsu
  • Patent number: 7633638
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for processing print data provides that the print data is normalized, or converted, from a first format to a second normalized format, The print data stream in the normalized format is indexed and the indexed data stream is sorted by a predetermined sort parameter. The sorted print data stream is then outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Jose La Rosa Ducato
  • Publication number: 20090300479
    Abstract: A data converting apparatus includes: a display image producing section that receives a file including one or more records in each of which records print data for one or more pages is described so as to produce image data for displaying; a preview displaying section that displays an image based on the image data produced in the display image producing section, and receives a designation by a user operation as to whether or not printing on a record basis or on a page basis is required; and a print image producing section that produces image data for printing with respect to the record or page which is designated to be printed by the preview displaying section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi KURANOSHITA
  • Patent number: 7627819
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and method for viewing electronic documents. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes an electronic viewer application to display contents of an electronic document; and a visual indicator logic configured to display at least one visual indicator on the electronic display, each visual indicator indicating a portion of the contents that are to be subsequently displayed on the electronic display in response to a navigation command. Other systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7620893
    Abstract: A method of aiding a user in using features of a software application comprises receiving from a user a selection of layout. The layout is to be used in creating an informational display for displaying results of a data repository query. At least one input field and an image are displayed to the user. The image is of a sample informational display that is based on the selected layout. The at least one input field is displayed in association with at least one feature shown in the displayed sample image. A user input is received via the input field. The user input is to be used in modifying the at least one feature in the new informational display. That least one input field may be displayed on top of the displayed sample image, in close proximity to the shown feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Gerd Forstmann, Carsten Heuer
  • Patent number: 7619772
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus displays a print setting screen including setting contents related to printing of document data in response to input of information designating initiation of a process to print out document data stored in a storage device. The document processing apparatus has information related to a chapter extracted from document data, and information related to each chapter is displayed on the print setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Fukudome
  • Publication number: 20090265626
    Abstract: A print preview image of structured document data including link information is generated and displayed in a display unit, and location information indicating a position of a linked area in the print preview image is generated. The linked area corresponds to the link information included in the structured document data. If it is determined that a user specifies a linked area in the print preview image, linked data indicated by the link information corresponding to the linked area is acquired and the acquired linked data is displayed. This allows the user to refer to information about the linked data without clearing a print preview mode to switch the display mode to a browsing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoaki Suga
  • Publication number: 20090265625
    Abstract: A display controller displays a page selection menu generated by a page-selection-menu generator for selecting pages having a specific attribute based on contents of setting relating to printing in common.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tamai, Hisashi Uchida, Kazusei Takahashi, Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7603618
    Abstract: This invention returns a page image of a scanned document image to a state before an image correction process by only a simple operation, and facilitates bookbinding work. For this purpose, a plurality of shared folders are set on a network, and attributes in printing are set for the shared folders. A hot folder program supervises the shared folders. When a document image data file scanned by a multifunction apparatus is stored in one of the shared folders, the hot folder program causes an action program to perform a process complying with the attributes set for the shared folder which stores the file, and a bookbinding application to import the file. At this time, when backup in the shared folder is set, an original file stored in the shared folder is backed up in a backup folder. If a bookbinding application designates replacement with a desired page, the page is replaced with a page in the backup folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Mori, Koji Nakagiri, Makoto Tomita, Junko Sato, Wataru Kanaya, Michiko Kanaya, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20090249201
    Abstract: A preview data generating apparatus to generate preview data, which is used to display a preview image representing an image to be printed on a recording medium, in reflection of a color of the recording medium, is provided. The preview data generating apparatus includes a base color input unit to input a base color being the color of the recording medium, a print data input unit to input print data in a printable format, which is used to print the image, a data conversion unit to convert the print data into a displayable format suitable for a display device, and a base color incorporated data generating unit to generate the preview data representing the image to be printed by incorporating the displayable-formatted data and the base color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi WATANABE